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LarryB!

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Re: News in General
« Reply #8715 on: May 24, 2024, 08:53:46 PM »

Sky News Aust...best place to find the truth.

"China is practicing "seizing power" as it carries out drills near Taiwan."

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Won't be long now.
Wonder what the good guys will actually do when the invasion starts.
You will be holed up in your basement, curled up in a ball and shitting bricks like a wombat.

China has been doing this shit since Chaing Kai-shek scarpered off to the island 75 years ago. Calm down and go change your diaper.
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« Reply #8716 on: May 24, 2024, 10:47:50 PM »

I love the Italian Business Model, and the French Business Model.

One time I was homeless, and I was living in my pick-up truck, and I was sending out headshots and resumes trying to get acting work, and I went out looking for any honest job. So, I showed up at a job site where an immigrant from Italy was running a job to remodel a home. I showed up and asked for a job, and he asked how much money I wanted, so I told him $100 which was the average going rate at the time for Mexican day laborers, and he told me that he would give me more than that, and he paid me $200 per day, he paid me twice as much as I asked for. So that is the Italian Business Model, and I love the Italians.

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« Reply #8717 on: May 24, 2024, 10:53:14 PM »

Bambu, China is great, they are your friend. Worry about Japan, if you want someone to worry about. We need to send Las Vegas Casinos to Japan, and a Hard Rock Hotel and Casino owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and we need to send McDonald's to Japan, etc. And we need to sell them oil from Chevron, and Arco, and all American oil companies, etc. I would rather be allies with China instead of Japan. I like China better.

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Re: News in General
« Reply #8718 on: May 25, 2024, 02:00:41 AM »

Wombats seem to love doomscrolling.

A cross-Strait war would fuck the Chinese economy.   Xi isn't going to risk his hold on power with a gamble that could cost millions of his people their jobs.

Wombats don't have nukes or anything much with which to defend themselves...that's why they're concerned for their well-being and future.
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« Reply #8719 on: May 25, 2024, 03:33:46 PM »

What we have to worry about is our once beautiful cities turning into wastelands and ghettos devoid of jobs and full of homeless people and drug addicts and mentally ill people. Like San Bernardino and Oakland.

And we have mother fuckers giving free drugs to our people to get them addicted, and they turn the women into prostitutes, it is all bullshit.

San Bernardino was great from the 1940s to the 1980s, now it is a wasteland. I would rather live in Battle Mountain, Nevada, than San Bernardino. Battle Mountain is nice for families and they have low crime there, and there are jobs working at the Gold Mines and at the Casinos, etc.

I am not sure how to save San Bernardino, I know cops and prisons are not the answer. The answer is to bring in Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries to help San Bernardino, and Kiwanis International, and the Catholic Church, etc.

It is a distraction to point to some far away land as being something we should worry about, while our own cities such as San Bernardino and Oakland are ghettos that are in deep decline. And 25% of the adults in Kentucky do not know how to read and write.

We need for our youth to be kind and compassionate problem solvers as well as good Business leaders and job creators, etc. There is the Key Club for the youth, and there is Youth For Christ, and there is the YMCA, and there is Scouting, etc, and the youth can keep their minds busy with ideas from NASA, etc. And there is Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries, etc.

Also of note, I took a course in community college pertaining to helping the youth to open their own small business with help from the Small Business Administration, it was a Small Business Management Consulting Class, led by Professor Berry, and Professor Berry went into the poor parts of Compton, California, and he helped the poor young Black men in Compton to open their own small businesses with help from the SBA, and then when they were all successful then they all took a trip to Africa together to celebrate their success. We need more people like Professor Berry to help the youth to start their own small businesses and to create jobs.

We need to give our Youth good healthy positive attention and help, versus neglect, and allowing them to live in poverty. We need for the good people to guide our youth, and not the fucking drug dealers and criminals.

And we can expand exports to China to create more jobs for our youth in San Bernardino and in Oakland, etc.

I also support UNIONS for the workers, and fair pay, and good treatment, and good lives.

Salute,

Tony V. 
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« Reply #8720 on: May 25, 2024, 04:43:35 PM »

I have a friend who is a rock star, and he has been a mentor, and he is a Christian and he went to Bible school, and he studied Leadership training all of his life, etc, he was in The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and other bands, and he is trying to guide me so that I can make the most out of however much life I have left and try to live up to my full potential. He believed in my dreams along with me for the last 20 years, he has always been on my team and has always been a positive force. So, he could see that I have been kind of down, and so to lift me back up he invited me to one of his shows, he is going to play at the Whisky in Hollywood in September, and we are going to go in a limousine, with dates, and then after the club then we can go eat at Norm's. And I might even get laid, if I can find a good date, I would love to find a wife and have her for all of my dates, we will see, I have until September to find a date. So that is cool. When I was a teen I loved the clubs in Hollywood, it will be a fun night, and it is good to have fun activities to look forward to, instead of just doctor's appointments and colonoscopies, etc. Of note, the Whisky is right by Empire West, I wonder if there will be people from Empire West at the Whisky when I go? It is going to be a fun night, and I also need to buy a new outfit to wear that night, etc. Gotta have fun stuff to look forward to.

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« Reply #8721 on: May 25, 2024, 04:58:14 PM »

What we have to worry about is our once beautiful cities turning into wastelands and ghettos devoid of jobs and full of homeless people and drug addicts and mentally ill people. Like San Bernardino and Oakland.

And we have mother fuckers giving free drugs to our people to get them addicted, and they turn the women into prostitutes, it is all bullshit.

San Bernardino was great from the 1940s to the 1980s, now it is a wasteland. I would rather live in Battle Mountain, Nevada, than San Bernardino. Battle Mountain is nice for families and they have low crime there, and there are jobs working at the Gold Mines and at the Casinos, etc.

I am not sure how to save San Bernardino, I know cops and prisons are not the answer. The answer is to bring in Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries to help San Bernardino, and Kiwanis International, and the Catholic Church, etc.

It is a distraction to point to some far away land as being something we should worry about, while our own cities such as San Bernardino and Oakland are ghettos that are in deep decline. And 25% of the adults in Kentucky do not know how to read and write.

We need for our youth to be kind and compassionate problem solvers as well as good Business leaders and job creators, etc. There is the Key Club for the youth, and there is Youth For Christ, and there is the YMCA, and there is Scouting, etc, and the youth can keep their minds busy with ideas from NASA, etc. And there is Father Boyle and Homeboy Industries, etc.

Also of note, I took a course in community college pertaining to helping the youth to open their own small business with help from the Small Business Administration, it was a Small Business Management Consulting Class, led by Professor Berry, and Professor Berry went into the poor parts of Compton, California, and he helped the poor young Black men in Compton to open their own small businesses with help from the SBA, and then when they were all successful then they all took a trip to Africa together to celebrate their success. We need more people like Professor Berry to help the youth to start their own small businesses and to create jobs.

We need to give our Youth good healthy positive attention and help, versus neglect, and allowing them to live in poverty. We need for the good people to guide our youth, and not the fucking drug dealers and criminals.

And we can expand exports to China to create more jobs for our youth in San Bernardino and in Oakland, etc.

I also support UNIONS for the workers, and fair pay, and good treatment, and good lives.

Salute,

Tony V.

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Re: News in General
« Reply #8722 on: May 25, 2024, 07:54:03 PM »

A Zionist is someone who strives for an independent Jewish state.

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What's wrong with that?
Answer; Nothing.
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« Reply #8723 on: May 25, 2024, 08:04:36 PM »

A Zionist is someone who strives for an independent Jewish state.

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What's wrong with that?
Answer; Nothing.
What is wrong with someone who strives for an independent Palestinian state?
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« Reply #8724 on: May 25, 2024, 08:05:37 PM »

I guess seeing world in black and white has worked for you.
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« Reply #8725 on: May 25, 2024, 08:21:43 PM »

President Biden statement at the beginning of Memorial Day Weekend.

George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death. He changed the world. Now, let us act in his memory.
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« Reply #8726 on: May 25, 2024, 08:38:08 PM »

President Biden statement at the beginning of Memorial Day Weekend.

George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death. He changed the world. Now, let us act in his memory.

No mention of his long crimInal record, 8 jail terms, including armed home invasion?

See they're still letting Joe make unscripted speeches.
Many found amusing his speech in which he recalled being Vice President during the pandemic.
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« Reply #8727 on: May 25, 2024, 09:04:44 PM »

President Biden statement at the beginning of Memorial Day Weekend.

George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death. He changed the world. Now, let us act in his memory.

Civil rights movement his death inspired?
What, all the riots, *burning down* of cities, looting, anarchy on the streets, etc?
Some people seem to believe all that set civil rights back decades and didn't show Black communities in a very good light.
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« Reply #8728 on: May 25, 2024, 09:13:46 PM »

President Biden statement at the beginning of Memorial Day Weekend.

George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death. He changed the world. Now, let us act in his memory.

No mention of his long crimInal record, 8 jail terms, including armed home invasion?


Bambu is staunchly against the death penalty, admirably.  But when the police apply it extrajudicially, especially in light of the recipient having a "long criminal record", it doesn't seem to bother him quite as much.  I guess the "long criminal record" gives the police, by definition "good guys" (in a simpleton's world ), a license to kill.
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« Reply #8729 on: May 25, 2024, 09:27:47 PM »

A Zionist is someone who strives for an independent Jewish state.

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What's wrong with that?
Answer; Nothing.
What is wrong with someone who strives for an independent Palestinian state?
Because no one ever has.
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