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Holly Martins

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Re: News in General
« Reply #1725 on: October 20, 2022, 12:00:04 PM »

Makes me wanna holler! Throw up both my hands!


https://www.today.com/parents/family/texas-parents-schools-dna-kits-identify-kids-bodies-rcna52769

If you look at the number of mass shootings in 2022, so far, it seems possible that needle is going to shift on gun control legislation.  This kind of stunt will help. 

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« Reply #1726 on: October 20, 2022, 12:12:05 PM »

Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.

Edit: after seeing Truss called the shortest serving PM in British history I looked a bit beyond looking at a Wikipedia list. It appears the Iron Dukes second PM stint was as a place holder for three weeks while the person appointed returned from abroad. That person was Robert Peel who was the PM when the potato famine hit, which has always kind of amused me.

Do not think the People of Ireland found it amusing.  See Charles Trevelyan.

Thomas Malthus also played some role in the thinking of various politicians who espoused compassion-free positions on Ireland.  Some of my ancestors fled before they starved - they had already fled Yorkshire, for reasons unknown, so that branch  of the family were seasoned flee-ers.  (it also calls into question any self-identification as being truly Irish, but I kept that on the DL when we lived in Boston)
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« Reply #1727 on: October 20, 2022, 12:13:33 PM »

I like the process.  Too bad in the US you get your full 4 years.  She very happily stepped aside for the good of the nation.  See that, Joe?

KAMALA Harris - 47th US President, 2022-2024.  Let it be so.
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Holly Martins

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« Reply #1728 on: October 20, 2022, 01:00:33 PM »

...But Robert PEEL. POTATO famine. POTATO. PEEL. I am easily amused.

I have a similar affliction.  As do copy editors, apparently, when it comes to Liz Truss.  I saw too many headline in the past six weeks with "Truss loses support...." or "collapse imminent of Truss coalition..." or, today, "Truss Falls..." 

We can be grateful, maybe, that there was no failure of olive or prune harvests during the tenure of William Pitt. 

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« Reply #1729 on: October 20, 2022, 01:17:42 PM »

I like the process.  Too bad in the US you get your full 4 years.  She very happily stepped aside for the good of the nation.  See that, Joe?

Our favorite intellect strikes again.  Thanks, Kid!!!!
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« Reply #1730 on: October 20, 2022, 01:34:45 PM »

The reason why Florida is nicer than California is because everyone in California wants to be a gangster, and California has a ton of gang violence, and there is no reason for it. The illegal drugs, and gangs, are what is ruining California. And we have prisons all up and down the state of California when we should have more schools and movie studios and scientific laboratories, etc.

And while the people of California are wasting time with drugs and gang violence, the Canadians and other countries are coming to California and they are taking our jobs away. Our General Motors plant from Van Nuys was closed and moved to Canada, and the Californians did not even fight to keep the jobs here, the Californians just let the jobs go to Canada without a fight. And all of the movie jobs are going to Canada, etc.

I do not want to deal illegal drugs nor do I want to be a gangster. And I sure as hell do not want to be a criminal and waste my life in prison.

California has many positive things, we have good weather, and good soil, and we have the movie studios, and we have Disneyland, and we have good colleges, and we have aerospace and defense jobs, etc, and we can do great things.

It is a waste if people just want to join gangs and deal illegal drugs, I do not want to be a part of any of that. And I do not even like tattoos.

We need to be able to have honest lives and success.

Salute,

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« Reply #1731 on: October 20, 2022, 02:19:57 PM »

And now...there's
"Charger rage"!   LOL

..at the electric vehicle charging stations.

People "camping" ...hooking up their vehicle to the charger then going shopping or having a meal.
And my guess would be...given my many decades using petrol/service stations, "servos" in bambuworld speak (gas stations)...where the "I'm more important than you" lot get very annoyed with you if you're not super fast filling the car, paying, and moving off so they have a good experience...that the same thing woukd be happing at EV charging stations.
I would imagine you'd need Heaven to help you if you were new to the process and were trying to figure out what to do...
...help save you from the 'important' people in a hurry.

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« Reply #1732 on: October 20, 2022, 03:04:39 PM »

We need to stop teaching the youth that fast food jobs are bad jobs, any honest job is a good job, and the lady who owns In N Out Burger in California is a BILLIONAIRE, and she pays her managers $120,000 per year. And my Grandmother worked at the original McDonald's in San Bernardino and she loved it, and McDonald's is world-wide now. Fast food jobs are good jobs. And you can make a fortune by selling hamburgers to the tourists here.

And I had a maid in Malibu who was a butcher back home in El Salvador, she knew how to butcher cattle, people here can raise their own cattle and they can butcher their own beef and then they can sell their own beef at their own restaurants. I could have raised cattle and had my maid, Consuela, butcher the cattle, and I could have turned the cattle into hamburgers to sell to the tourists and I could have made a fortune.

Jody Maroni makes his own sausage, and he sells sausage sandwiches to tourists in Venice Beach and at Universal Studios, and he makes a fortune.

And Carl Karcher made a fortune from Carl's Jr.

Fast food jobs are good jobs, and there is a lot of money to be made from selling hamburgers, especially if you raise your own beef.

Salute,

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« Reply #1733 on: October 20, 2022, 03:32:47 PM »

Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.

Maggie sucked. She drove that dwindling empire straight into a ditch. Only the EU and Labour have done anything to improve the English situation.

Everything else is vacant right wing jibber jabber, the senseless farts of dying animals.
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« Reply #1734 on: October 20, 2022, 03:35:23 PM »

The reason why Florida is nicer than California is because everyone in California wants to be a gangster, and California has a ton of gang violence, and there is no reason for it. The illegal drugs, and gangs, are what is ruining California. And we have prisons all up and down the state of California when we should have more schools and movie studios and scientific laboratories, etc.

And while the people of California are wasting time with drugs and gang violence, the Canadians and other countries are coming to California and they are taking our jobs away. Our General Motors plant from Van Nuys was closed and moved to Canada, and the Californians did not even fight to keep the jobs here, the Californians just let the jobs go to Canada without a fight. And all of the movie jobs are going to Canada, etc.

I do not want to deal illegal drugs nor do I want to be a gangster. And I sure as hell do not want to be a criminal and waste my life in prison.

California has many positive things, we have good weather, and good soil, and we have the movie studios, and we have Disneyland, and we have good colleges, and we have aerospace and defense jobs, etc, and we can do great things.

It is a waste if people just want to join gangs and deal illegal drugs, I do not want to be a part of any of that. And I do not even like tattoos.

We need to be able to have honest lives and success.

Salute,

Tony V.

When was the last time you were personally in any part of Florida, Tony?
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« Reply #1735 on: October 20, 2022, 04:04:26 PM »

The reason why Florida is nicer than California is because everyone in California wants to be a gangster, and California has a ton of gang violence, and there is no reason for it. The illegal drugs, and gangs, are what is ruining California. And we have prisons all up and down the state of California when we should have more schools and movie studios and scientific laboratories, etc.

And while the people of California are wasting time with drugs and gang violence, the Canadians and other countries are coming to California and they are taking our jobs away. Our General Motors plant from Van Nuys was closed and moved to Canada, and the Californians did not even fight to keep the jobs here, the Californians just let the jobs go to Canada without a fight. And all of the movie jobs are going to Canada, etc.

I do not want to deal illegal drugs nor do I want to be a gangster. And I sure as hell do not want to be a criminal and waste my life in prison.

California has many positive things, we have good weather, and good soil, and we have the movie studios, and we have Disneyland, and we have good colleges, and we have aerospace and defense jobs, etc, and we can do great things.

It is a waste if people just want to join gangs and deal illegal drugs, I do not want to be a part of any of that. And I do not even like tattoos.

We need to be able to have honest lives and success.

Salute,

Tony V.

When was the last time you were personally in any part of Florida, Tony?

That is true, maybe our whole country has been in decline, maybe Florida declined too, I do not know, it has been a long time since I have been to Florida.

I lived in Florida in the summer of 1979 when I was 12 years old, it was a great summer, we lived right on the beach in Cape Canaveral, it was great, and the women were beautiful. It was awesome. I had to leave when Hurricane David hit, that is a bad thing about Florida is the storms. It was a great summer.

Then, as an adult I tried to move back to Florida, I traveled on New Year's Eve on a Greyhound Bus, I left Nevada in 1990 and I arrived in Florida in 1991, and I tried to get a job at Walt Disney World. I was 23 years old. I did not have very much money and I needed to find a job and go to work quickly in order to survive. I applied for jobs all over Orlando, including at a Roy Rogers Restaurant, and no one would hire me, the economy was bad and it was hard to get a job. Then I went to Cocoa Beach to apply for work. The coolest part was when I went to a night club on the beach in Cocoa Beach to apply for a job, I had a cappuccino with the last of my money and I filled out a job application. While I was filling out my job application Jimmy Page from the band Led Zeppelin walked in with his guitar in a case, and he pulled out his guitar and he plugged in and he played with the band, The Groove Monsters, all night long, it was great. Then, I slept on the beach, and the next day I got on a Greyhound Bus and I went back to Nevada where I had a job waiting at a casino.

So 1991 was the last time I was in Florida, and as I went across the country on the Greyhound Bus I saw all of the closed factories, etc. The United States was in a depression then. And I met a guy who I think was Bruce Willis on my way to Florida, we had Big Macs at the McDonald's at the Greyhound Bus station by the Arch in Saint Louis in the middle of the night, and after we were done eating he told me not to leave the Greyhound station, he told me that Saint Louis was dangerous. So, Saint Louis was already in decline then. It was already dangerous in Saint Louis.

I am getting old now, I am 54, and as far as I can remember the USA has been in decline. So, maybe Florida declined too, maybe Florida is bad now. I do not know.

I am thinking about retiring and moving to Rome, or to Greece, and just selling stuff to tourists for the rest of my life. I am tired of being poor and alone while the USA just continues to decline.

Meanwhile, I need to smarten up, we receive 50,000 new tourists here in Anaheim everyday, so every new day is a chance to sell stuff to the tourists. And then, when you are really smart, you hire beautiful young women to work for you.

One bright spot here too, is the film school, eventually I need to go visit there, it is just too far, I have to take a bus. California has great schools, we are lucky in that regard. That is where our hope is for the future is in our schools.

Salute,

Tony V.


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« Reply #1736 on: October 20, 2022, 04:29:09 PM »

Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.

Maggie sucked. She drove that dwindling empire straight into a ditch. Only the EU and Labour have done anything to improve the English situation.

Everything else is vacant right wing jibber jabber, the senseless farts of dying animals.

She did inspire some terrific music across the spectrum from Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg to The Specials.

My favorite though was the English Beat and Stand Down Margaret!

RIP Ranking Roger
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« Reply #1738 on: October 20, 2022, 04:40:21 PM »

Liz Truss or a head of lettuce?

Which will wilt first?

Truss wins!
45 days in office, the shortest PM term since the Duke of Wellington in the 1830s. The current UK economy is what happens when you let conservatives run your country for a dozen years.
The Margaret Thatcher years notwithstanding.

Maggie sucked. She drove that dwindling empire straight into a ditch. Only the EU and Labour have done anything to improve the English situation.

Everything else is vacant right wing jibber jabber, the senseless farts of dying animals.

She did inspire some terrific music across the spectrum from Elvis Costello and Billy Bragg to The Specials.

My favorite though was the English Beat and Stand Down Margaret!

RIP Ranking Roger

Maggie was like old mother ray gun in that respect.

Tony, I have been to Florida more than twenty years more recently than you have. While republican influence has instigated a big decline all across the country, not to mention much of the world, Florida and Texas, and many states in their corridor have fallen farther and faster than the rest. This both makes all aspects of life more terrible there while eroding whatever intrinsic good these places had before republican takeover, while muting the influence of republicans in other places that loser republicans leave to move to Florida where they can freely fuck each other up without restraint.

Food, services, traffic, roads, and power are all fucked in states under republican control as crime and disease run rampant and unchecked within them.

This is why republicans only win when they get away with their cheating and why they no longer have the capacity to do anybody any good.
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« Reply #1739 on: October 20, 2022, 08:06:45 PM »

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