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Re: News in General
« Reply #9015 on: June 10, 2024, 01:22:07 PM »

Freak wave washes people off rocks south of Sydney...

If they were Australian then the key word there is "washes."

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« Reply #9016 on: June 10, 2024, 02:45:03 PM »

Kentucky makes 95% of the world's bourbon and 100% of the bourbon worth drinking! This #NationalBourbonMonth, let's raise a glass to America's native spirit and all of the special people in this booming industry!

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I wonder if the Bourbon / Capetian Royal Family came to Kentucky during the French Revolution? My Grandmother said we had a French Princess in our family who came to America to escape the French Revolution, and we had ancestors who lived in Carrollton, Kentucky.

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« Reply #9017 on: June 10, 2024, 02:50:44 PM »

Freak wave washes people off rocks south of Sydney...two women deceased, others injured.

Yes, add "freak waves" to the list of killers from which to protect yourself.
Guns are no help for this one.
Life jackets sure are though.
When I was up to The Canyon a few years ago, a female newbie tourist approached a park Ranger and, noting the lack of guardrails or walls, asked him, what is to stop people from falling in. The ranger looked over at the tourists at the rim looked back, shrugged his shoulders and said, "common sense". Pity that is a characteristics so many people from Australia lack.

That is a nice thing about Cocoa Beach, Florida, is that the ocean is mellow there, the water is nice and warm and the waves are small with no rip currents or anything, it is safe, and plus they have porpoises which keep the sharks away. I saw Jimmy Page play all night at a club on the sand at Cocoa Beach with a Blues band named The Groove Monsters, it was great, I applied for a job at the club and I wanted to stay and live and work there, Cocoa Beach is a great spot. And it is a short drive to the movie studio at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

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« Reply #9018 on: June 10, 2024, 06:07:28 PM »

Florida beaches are a great place to feed the sharks.
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« Reply #9019 on: June 10, 2024, 06:19:45 PM »

My recollections of my two visits to Cocoa Beach, 42 years apart, involve, first, a college woman who was drunk but sufficiently so to fulfill a request I prefer to leave implied, and second, being threatened with arrest because my car's mapping feature, which I never updated, did not know a formerly main road had been closed for security reasons. Fuck Cocoa Beach.
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« Reply #9020 on: June 10, 2024, 06:42:40 PM »

Freak wave washes people off rocks south of Sydney...two women deceased, others injured.

Yes, add "freak waves" to the list of killers from which to protect yourself.
Guns are no help for this one.
Life jackets sure are though.
When I was up to The Canyon a few years ago, a female newbie tourist approached a park Ranger and, noting the lack of guardrails or walls, asked him, what is to stop people from falling in. The ranger looked over at the tourists at the rim looked back, shrugged his shoulders and said, "common sense". Pity that is a characteristics so many people from Australia lack.

These latest victims, and so many of the other drownings, appear to be of 'Indian appearance' and the appearance of people from SE Asia, South America, Middle East etc.
I believe there should be more education videos on planes, in schools etc.

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« Reply #9021 on: June 10, 2024, 07:43:18 PM »

The guy who does the travel shows for PBS is Rick Steves, he can help to show things to promote safety on his shows. He even went to Iran, you can probably find the episode on You Tube.

For here in Anaheim, I sent a post to Universal that they can open the shops from the Universal City Walk here on Anaheim Blvd, now that they have cruising again, etc, and we have lots of tourists. And there is also Sunset Blvd, Hollywood Blvd, Lancaster Blvd, Van Nuys Blvd, etc, they all need fun shops like the Universal City Walk.

Right now is a time of great prosperity in Anaheim, billions of dollars are being invested here, it is going to really get nice. And beautiful women are moving into the neighborhood. I also have some tough guy neighbors who work as Security Guards, and there are a couple of young Boxers, I have some tough neighbors. Beautiful women, and tough men.

By the way, George Lopez had to cancel a show because the crowd was over-served and unruly without enough security, and that would never happen in Hollywood, in Hollywood the clubs all have lots of Security Guards. The Casinos in Nevada all have security too. Security is important, especially for stars like George Lopez. You gotta protect your stars.

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« Reply #9022 on: June 10, 2024, 08:38:34 PM »

4 million households...in Australia...struggled to put food on the table in the last 12 months....radio news today.

There's plenty of food, just that an increasing number of families don't have much money left to spend on food after they pay all their bills.
Mortgage, car...almost impossible for a family/anyone to exist in Australia without a car/vehicle.
Ridiculously expensive electricity thanks to the 'climate change'/'renewables now' brigade.

Australia now has a record number of people working in coal mines...to provide enough baseboard  power to run the country 24/7/365....and to send record...that's record...amounts of coal to China for it to burn in the new coal-fired power stations it's opening every other week.


A large multi state furniture retailer went into administration the other day, citing "declining sales".
Yes, no money for food, no money for new furniture.
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« Reply #9023 on: June 10, 2024, 08:40:48 PM »

Freak wave washes people off rocks south of Sydney...

If they were Australian then the key word there is "washes."

Best not to let the reputation of one Hollywood star confuse you.
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« Reply #9024 on: June 10, 2024, 08:43:48 PM »

My recollections of my two visits to Cocoa Beach, 42 years apart, involve, first, a college woman who was drunk but sufficiently so to fulfill a request I prefer to leave implied, and second, being threatened with arrest because my car's mapping feature, which I never updated, did not know a formerly main road had been closed for security reasons. Fuck Cocoa Beach.

Not the beach's fault.
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« Reply #9025 on: June 10, 2024, 08:47:10 PM »

My recollections of my two visits to Cocoa Beach, 42 years apart, involve, first, a college woman who was drunk but sufficiently so to fulfill a request I prefer to leave implied, and second, being threatened with arrest because my car's mapping feature, which I never updated, did not know a formerly main road had been closed for security reasons. Fuck Cocoa Beach.

Drunk college girls/women?
Run away at express pace, is the best idea.
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« Reply #9026 on: June 10, 2024, 08:51:19 PM »

The guy who does the travel shows for PBS is Rick Steves, he can help to show things to promote safety on his shows. He even went to Iran, you can probably find the episode on You Tube.

For here in Anaheim, I sent a post to Universal that they can open the shops from the Universal City Walk here on Anaheim Blvd, now that they have cruising again, etc, and we have lots of tourists. And there is also Sunset Blvd, Hollywood Blvd, Lancaster Blvd, Van Nuys Blvd, etc, they all need fun shops like the Universal City Walk.

Right now is a time of great prosperity in Anaheim, billions of dollars are being invested here, it is going to really get nice. And beautiful women are moving into the neighborhood. I also have some tough guy neighbors who work as Security Guards, and there are a couple of young Boxers, I have some tough neighbors. Beautiful women, and tough men.

By the way, George Lopez had to cancel a show because the crowd was over-served and unruly without enough security, and that would never happen in Hollywood, in Hollywood the clubs all have lots of Security Guards. The Casinos in Nevada all have security too. Security is important, especially for stars like George Lopez. You gotta protect your stars.

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Tony V.

Rick Steves is great, I tour the world with him on YouTube.
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« Reply #9027 on: June 10, 2024, 08:57:12 PM »

4 millions households...in Australia...struggled to put food on the table in the last 12 months....radio news today.

There's plenty of food, just that an increasing number of families don't have much money left to spend on food after they pay all their bills.
Mortgage, car...almost impossible for a family/anyone to exist in Australia without a car/vehicle.
Ridiculously expensive electricity thanks to the 'climate change'/'renewables now' brigade.

Australia now has a record number of people working in coal mines...to provide enough baseboard  power to run the country 24/7/365....and to send record...that's record...amounts of coal to China for it to burn in the new coal-fired power stations it's opening every other week.


A large multi state furniture retailer went into administration the other day, citing "declining sales".
Yes, no money for food, no money for new furniture.

The world needs hippy communes to grow food and to make cheese, etc, the Franciscan Monks and others can teach the hippies how to farm and how to make wine and how to make cheese, etc. The goods can be sold with other goods at the Northgate Markets, and at Trader Joe's, and at Von's, and at Stater Brothers, etc. They can raise pigs in Battle Mountain, Nevada, to sell pork in San Francisco, etc. And if Australia has homeless people then you can teach the homeless people in Australia about Jesus, and they can farm and they can grow grapes for wine, and they can make cheese, etc. They can have farming communes with peace, and with love, and they can study Euclid, and they can worship God, etc. The problem with the food shortage is a lack of food, and the law of supply and demand states that as more food enters the market then the prices will come down. And we are getting lots of cheap coffee from Colombia so coffee prices are cheap in Anaheim, which is a blessing, I love coffee. Anyhow, we need to turn the homeless people of the world into Farmers to feed the poor. And the farms can be fun "Farming Resorts" type places with libraries, and with tennis courts, and with swimming pools, and with housing like Santorini, Greece.

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« Reply #9028 on: June 10, 2024, 09:38:27 PM »

Rick Steves is awesome, I have seen his shows from all over the world. That is cool that you are able to enjoy his shows while in Australia.

And the Pope loves the world wide web and the Vatican is on Facebook, so I will ask the Vatican to train more Farmers in Australia and I will tell the Pope about the "Farming Resorts" idea with Libraries, and with tennis courts, and with swimming pools, and housing like Santorini, Greece, etc.

Also, I told the main stores here that they need to export to open stores in Australia; Trader Joes, Northgate Market, Stater Brothers, and Von's. We can send giant ships full of goods from California to Australia, and we can put all of the homeless people and refugees to work on the Farm Resorts. ( The housing for the farmers is much better now than in the past, though much of it is travel trailers and RVs. Here in California the housing has swimming pools, etc, on a lot of farm worker housing. ) Anyhow, I posted a message to them on Facebook to expand operations with Australia, and to send more food to Australia, etc.

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« Reply #9029 on: June 10, 2024, 09:47:44 PM »

Rick Steves can find pot and hash in some truly tricky places. He has built a nice career for himself.

I have had a negative energy bill here in San Diego the last two months and am building up a credit surplus with SDGE, the local electric and gas company. Newsom and Biden really know how to take care of their people. A good breakfast is between 8 and 12 bucks here depending on how much you want to stuff yourself. Of course if you want to spend more you can.

The stain of rightwing government and the chaos it causes has created deep wounds in Australia that will take decades of center left governing to heal.
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