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jmmengel

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Re: News in General
« Reply #7605 on: February 15, 2024, 11:35:20 AM »

So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.

Confusing, given this is a discussion site.  You posted that the Superbowl had several religious themed ads which did well by some metric and that religious advertizers were pleased.  So why did you post this?  As information, it doesn't seem relevant to a political news thread unless you see some political issue there.  So what do you want to discuss or at least draw our attention to?
I already did.
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« Reply #7606 on: February 15, 2024, 12:39:52 PM »

Looks like the AUKUS nuclear subs deal could be in trouble...US having to increase production for its own use.
Fair enough, 'charity begins at home'.
Maybe US could rotate some thru Asia/Pacific, Indian Ocean, South China Sea...and ports in Australia instead.
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« Reply #7607 on: February 15, 2024, 02:27:10 PM »

So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.

Confusing, given this is a discussion site.  You posted that the Superbowl had several religious themed ads which did well by some metric and that religious advertizers were pleased.  So why did you post this?  As information, it doesn't seem relevant to a political news thread unless you see some political issue there.  So what do you want to discuss or at least draw our attention to?
I already did.

Why?
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jmmengel

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« Reply #7608 on: February 15, 2024, 02:50:04 PM »

So what were you wanting to discuss?
The post was informational.

Confusing, given this is a discussion site.  You posted that the Superbowl had several religious themed ads which did well by some metric and that religious advertizers were pleased.  So why did you post this?  As information, it doesn't seem relevant to a political news thread unless you see some political issue there.  So what do you want to discuss or at least draw our attention to?
I already did.

Why?
I already posted my reason
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« Reply #7609 on: February 15, 2024, 03:33:22 PM »

Looks like the AUKUS nuclear subs deal could be in trouble...US having to increase production for its own use.
Fair enough, 'charity begins at home'.
Maybe US could rotate some thru Asia/Pacific, Indian Ocean, South China Sea...and ports in Australia instead.

The USA has no better ally than Australia, and our people benefit from building defense equipment for you.

We build the Submarines in Newport News, Virginia, and they love to work, the folks in Virginia love to have jobs, and they love to make Submarines for Australia, the USA is grateful for the jobs and money.

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

And we build the top secret fighter planes and bombers in the Antelope Valley, in California, and we love to build planes, we love to supply Australia with bombers and with fighter planes.

When the USA sends Australia defense equipment then it creates jobs in Virginia, and in California, and we are grateful for the jobs. Keep buying defense equipment from the USA, we are happy to supply you with defense items.

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« Reply #7610 on: February 15, 2024, 04:14:17 PM »

Bambu, we can build you defense satellites too if you want, and we will launch them into space for you. Or if you want a satellite to tell you where the Gold and other Natural Resources are in Australia then we can build the satellite for you and we can launch it into space for you.

Whatever Australia wants on the issue of defense then the USA will help Australia.

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« Reply #7611 on: February 15, 2024, 07:40:37 PM »

54% of the modern Services Economy is Streaming Services for Movies and Television Shows.

Universal needs to buy the Playboy Channel and they need to create content, such as by producing the Slocum Westerns, etc. The Playboy Channel will always be successful. Universal needs to buy Playboy and they need to bring back a new and improved Playboy Channel.

And we can have Beach Blanket Bingo Movies in Malibu, and we can have Fun in Acapulco movies in Acapulco.

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« Reply #7612 on: February 15, 2024, 09:25:40 PM »

We need to bring in Lockheed to help to finish the California high speed train from San Francisco to San Diego. And Richard Branson is building a train between Las Vegas and California.

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« Reply #7613 on: February 16, 2024, 09:38:05 AM »

RIP Navalny.  A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.


 
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« Reply #7614 on: February 16, 2024, 12:15:56 PM »

IMPORTANT NEWS BULLETIN

Joe Manchin announces he is not doing what many of us thought he was not doing!

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« Reply #7615 on: February 16, 2024, 12:34:41 PM »

Manchin acknowledges that President Biden is the best Chief Executive he has ever experienced in his life.

This view is spreading rapidly among staunch conservatives, the center right, the center, and the center left.
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« Reply #7616 on: February 16, 2024, 12:54:09 PM »

Biden might be old, but he is doing a great job, no one can deny the fact that the USA is doing good right now. I just worry, and we need to elect a younger leader soon.

On the issue of Mexico...

In New York they are right by Canada, so they love the Canadians; while here in California we are right by Mexico and so we love the Mexicans.

If I was rich then I would be doing charity work in Mexico right now, to help the poor children in Mexico. I went to Mexico as a teen with Youth For Christ and it was great, I went with a group of students from Quartz Hill High School, we had some of the cheerleaders with us, we had a great group of people, and we went and gave money and gifts to some orphans in Mexico and to people living in a garbage dump.

Instead of complaining about how bad it is in Mexico, then we need to team up with the Mexicans and help them. And we have Kiwanis International in Mexico, along with the Christians, and the Catholic Church is huge in Mexico.

And here we are sending billions of dollars to Ukraine, Taiwan, and we are even sending money to the Palestinians; but for some reason with Mexico they just want to build a fence instead of working together with the Mexicans to turn Mexico into paradise. Mexico can be a beautiful country, and they are investing in new high speed trains, and new resorts, and new airports, and they are investing in their ports, and we need for the Mexican Truck Drivers to be able to join the Teamsters Union, etc. Mexico can be great.

Mexico can be a tourist destination, and a retirement destination, etc. And Mexican Truck Drivers can deliver goods from the ports in Mexico to the USA, and we can have trains carrying goods, etc.

New Yorkers love Canada, while in California we love Mexico. Things will get better in Mexico if we work together as a team to help Mexico. We do not need any fences.

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« Reply #7617 on: February 16, 2024, 01:11:50 PM »

On the issue of Putin, Vice President Harris is saying that we must stand up against Putin...

That is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA, is so that we can deal with problems when they are small, and so that we can stop evil leaders. The United Nations needs to vote to remove Putin, with China on our team, we need to go into Russia and remove Putin, and then we need to put our allies in Russia in charge of Russia. We have allies in the Space Program in Russia, and we have allies in the Arts in Russia, we need to find allies who we can support in Russia after we remove Putin.

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« Reply #7619 on: February 16, 2024, 06:45:32 PM »

The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

Two minors are in custody after a shooting spree following the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Leaving one dead,many injured.
Keep in mind a few facts reported by intelligent News Sources

By definition, the suspects were not legally allowed to buy, possess, or carry firearms.
A juvenile is a person who is not yet eighteen.
Under federal law, one cannot purchase a firearm until one is 18 (if the gun is a long gun) or 21 (if the gun is a handgun), and one cannot possess a handgun until one is 18 (unless one is hunting or target shooting, neither of which apply here).
In Missouri, it is illegal to recklesslysell, loan, or transfer a firearm to a minor without parental consent, and it is illegal to carry a firearm either openly or concealed until one is 19 (18 if a veteran or in the military).
This was not a  mass shooting in the way that that term is typically used, but was an argument between two illegally armed minors that turned violent.
This is not pedantry,it matters. When determining what to do about crime, it is important to understand the nature of the crime in question.
There is no evidence the aim of the two alleged shooters was not to hurt or kill those around them,  they just did not  care if they did.
That does not describe most mass shooters.
Every single thing that happened here was already illegal
It is illegal for juveniles to possess handguns. It is illegal for them to carry those handguns. It is illegal for them to shoot at each other in a public place.


But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
He should have stuck to thoughts and prayers for the victims
That would have been genuine , not empty political blather.
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