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« Reply #9855 on: August 26, 2024, 05:43:56 PM »

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« Reply #9856 on: August 26, 2024, 05:46:34 PM »

A journalist just posted on Facebook that the average life span in the USA has fallen, and now Middle Age is 38 instead of 50, and she was trying to encourage people to make the most of life because life is short.

I told her a story of a homeless man I met who spent 16 years out there homeless on the street, and he did not accomplish anything, no family, no home, no job, nothing, he just wasted his life, and I told her that we have 175,000 homeless people in California who are just wasting their lives out there homeless on the streets.

She is Italian-American, and she has often talked about how Italians love people more than money, and about how Italy is so warm and loving, and that is true, I tried to move to Italy in 2003, I spent 6 weeks in Rome trying to get a job so that I could move to Italy, but I could not get hired so I had to come back to America.

I suggested that Education is the answer for America, and we need to strive to be more like Athens, who our foundation was built on, and we need to seek to love people more than money like in Rome, and we need to appreciate the arts, etc.

People can waste their whole lives trying to get the Lamborghini and the big house in Beverly Hills, but it is all bullshit if we have 175,000 homeless people on the streets of California.

I lived in Malibu for one year, and worked as a Limousine Driver, we were the official Limousine Service for the Jay Leno Show, Gemstar, and I lived in a beautiful house on the beach in Malibu with the daughter of a Chinese General as one of my roommates, it was great. We had a maid from El Salvador who did my laundry and made my bed, and who cleaned our house, etc, it was great. So, I lived the good life for 1 year. Then, after that I spent 2 years homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, life is a roller coaster.

As I get older my dreams seem more and more unachievable, and maybe I need to just be grateful for food and shelter, I wish I could have stayed in Rome. And I like all of the leaders in Rome, I like Prime Minister Meloni, and I like Pope Francis. Rome is great.

And Athens seems like a nice peaceful place and you can just sell stuff to tourists to make money.

Anyhow, I guess the Life Expectancy is falling in the USA, and I feel bad for all of the homeless people who are wasting their lives out there homeless on the street.

And Mexico can be nice, they need to turn Mexico into a resort, and Americans can escape to Mexico to get away from the Greed and Bullshit of America. Instead of being homeless in Los Angeles I would rather be a chef at a restaurant in Acapulco, and I could marry a beautiful Mexican waitress, and we can work together, and we could have a family, etc. I will send President Claudia Sheinbaum every good idea that I can think of to help Mexico. And for instance, they can use Tariffs to help to fund Education in Mexico, they can put Tariffs on Coca Cola and Budweiser, etc, in order to pay for Education in Mexico, and to build libraries, etc. I will keep sending her ideas. I would love to go to Mexico and help Mexico as an adviser like Rudy did, Rudy did a lot of great things before Trump fucked him up. Anyhow, I want Mexico to be nice like Hawaii and Costa Rica, etc.

On the issue of a life well lived, life is all about Love, and also as a Christian then life is about serving the Lord as it says in Matthew 25;31-46. I could have a good life in Acapulco with a beautiful Mexican woman and be happy, life for me is not about money. Money is just a tool to be used to make life better.

And here in California I would love to have a Bungalow Office at Universal Studios and produce movies and television shows, etc, and maybe own Universal someday, but those dreams seem more and more unattainable.

We will see what happens. I still have my poetry book that I wrote, and I have my movie script that I wrote, and I have lots of ideas.

Meanwhile Warner Brothers is going to build a film and television studio in Las Vegas, they are getting incentives from the Government. So Vegas will have a few movie and television studios soon, and they can produce movies and television shows, etc.

Peace.

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« Reply #9857 on: August 26, 2024, 06:01:09 PM »

My Grandmother who worked at the Gold Mines in Battle Mountain, Nevada, and who opened Gold Mines in Mexico, etc, was named Louise, Mary Louise Verley, her maiden name was Clark and she was born in Oregon, she said she descended from William Clark the Explorer. She did a lot of great things in Nevada, and in Mexico. She was very smart and she had an incredible work ethic. She died in Oregon about 10 years ago. She was an incredible woman, and I loved her a lot.

Both of my Grandmothers were great, on both sides of my family.

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« Reply #9858 on: August 26, 2024, 07:27:35 PM »

Trump is a sick and fucked up guy, with his Trump Tower, and Private Jet, and Mira Lago in Florida, flaunting his wealth, while we have homeless people all over the streets and while the average life expectancy is falling in the US. If fucking Trump wanted to help the poor, then he could do it right now, for $1 Billion he could send everyone in Kentucky to Community College, but Trump uses his wealth to fuck porn stars and to pay hush money. Trump is not the kind of person who we want to run America.

The best world leader right now is Pope Francis, and he made a vow of poverty. Trump could learn a lot from Pope Francis. The most powerful man in the world, Pope Francis, is poor and alone, and I love Pope Francis.

Of note, we need for our companies to be locally owned and to be altruistic, and we need for the companies to spend money helping the homeless in America instead of being foreign companies that send the wealth home to Japan, etc. Instead of helping the people of Japan, then instead we need to help our own people who are homeless on the streets here. If the companies were Christians then they would all donate 10% at least to help the poor.

George W. Bush seems way more humble and better than Trump, Bush was a way better leader than Trump.

We have Musk and the Japanese trying to buy all of our companies, while we have homeless people all over the streets, and while Bill Gates and others send all of the new jobs to Asia. We need real Americans to own our companies who are altruistic and who care about America.

We have foreign companies buying all of our real estate and raising rents in order to increase profits while we have 175,000 homeless on the streets of California. People are using real estate to get rich, and they do not give a fuck about the people, it is just business they say. It sucks. Our families have been in the USA since the beginning, and they expect us to pay high rent to foreign owned corporations, while we have 175,000 people homeless on the streets in California. I should not be paying rent to the fucking Japanese corporations, they want for us to work 90 hours per week to live in poverty while we pay rent to a Japanese corporation, it is all Bullshit. I would rather have an acre of land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, for $1,000 per acre and live in a travel trailer than pay rent to a fucking Japanese corporation. And I like China more than I like Japan, and I love the Philippines.

Rich people from the Philippines have been coming to America and they have been helping the homeless here. One person was Rose, who was a cousin of Gloria Arroyo who was the President of the Philippines, they helped to house and feed and take care of a lot of homeless people here in America. And I invited the San Miguel Corporation from the Philippines to come do Business here in California and to be altruistic and to help the poor, they are a good Christian corporation.

Trump is an asshole, and if I was starving then he would not feed me, he does not care about the poor, he exploits the poor and he turns the women into prostitutes, and he short-changes the workers who work for him, Trump is an asshole.

I do not like Trump.

But, I do like George W. Bush, and we will see if Bush supports Kamala Harris.

Salute,

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« Reply #9859 on: August 26, 2024, 08:59:36 PM »

We need to have options for the poor homeless people who are good honest people who want to work in order to get off of the streets and to get some food. For instance, when I was homeless I tried to join the Peace Corps to go to Mexico to help Mexico, and I could have had food and shelter while I was doing good service for humanity. Back then it was during a recession and the Peace Corps already had enough volunteers, and they were only accepting people who had a Master's Degree, so they would not accept me, but if they would have accepted me then I would have joined the Peace Corps.

And when I worked for the Burbank YMCA as a teen at a summer camp, we received a bed and meals free while we worked there.

If you are a good, honest person, who is just homeless because you are a Foster Child, or whatever, then there needs to be some kind of charity that you can join to do work in exchange for food and shelter while you do service to help other people. The homeless orphans need to have some kind of charity they can join to do work in exchange for food and shelter should they need it.

Maybe Kiwanis International can help to invent some new charity that the homeless people can join to serve the poor in  exchange for food and shelter. They can work at a food bank, or whatever, in exchange for food and shelter.

We also need to have Hostels for $15 per night for a bed and a shower, and we need to have Sober Living Homes for $450 per month, etc.

Peace.

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« Reply #9860 on: August 26, 2024, 09:24:28 PM »

But, I do like George W. Bush, and we will see if Bush supports Kamala Harris.

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Zero chance. Even if he votes for her.
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« Reply #9861 on: August 27, 2024, 03:32:48 AM »

Bill Gates said that in 2025, next year, two thirds of the new jobs in America will require more than a high school diploma, we need to educate and train our people for the jobs of the future, and for the price of the Space Shuttle Program we could send everyone in the USA to Community College to get an Associate in Arts Degree and training, etc. For $1 Billion we could send everyone in Kentucky to Community College. And we can feed the people free meals in school to help to motivate people to go to school.

As more people become educated then more people will respect an education, and more people will attend school. Educated people believe in educating their children.

We need to build schools instead of prisons and we need to have higher standards and higher expectations for our people. And we need to destroy the prison in Lancaster, California, and we need to replace it with a giant medical school on that property. We need to have higher standards and higher expectations for our people.

Education is the way forward, in America, and in Latin America, and in the Philippines, etc.

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« Reply #9862 on: August 27, 2024, 03:53:08 AM »

Candace Owens doesn't seem to understand.

Sydney Morning Herald;    (smh dot com dot au)

Far-right US commentator Candace Owens is on a collision course with Immigration Minister Tony Burke, vowing to push on with her Australian tour in defiance of calls to reject her visa application.

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« Reply #9863 on: August 27, 2024, 04:19:11 AM »

Ms Owens can't continue with her tour unless she gets a visa...and it looks like there's no way she's going to get one approved.

Why not?
Well, the Labor Party [Left-Far Left] govt doesn't want her here.
The 'Coalition' [Liberal Party, Centre-Right...sometimes referred to as 'Conservatives' , and National Party [rural folk, farmers, 'country'] doesn't want her here.

ie, both sides of Parliament.

And, Jewish groups don't want her here.

What's the problem?


smh;  Owens, who has 18 million followers on her social platforms, has previously made mendacious claims that Israel was founded by a "cult", spread misinformation about "secret Jewish gangs" operating in Hollywood, and minimised Nazi atrocities.

She has also made claims about a range of minority groups including trans people, whom she falsely said suffered "clinical insanity" and claimed without basis could be responsible for a rise in mass shootings.






 

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« Reply #9864 on: August 27, 2024, 05:47:30 AM »

So I guess you are no longer a fan of hers.
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« Reply #9865 on: August 27, 2024, 06:20:50 PM »

So I guess you are no longer a fan of hers.

That would be correct.
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« Reply #9866 on: August 27, 2024, 06:32:13 PM »

When I went to France, and to Italy, then I did not not need a visa, I just got my passport and went. I went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 in France, and I spent 6 weeks in Rome, Italy, in 2003, it was awesome, and no visa needed, just my passport was all I needed. It is great that the USA has a good relationship with France and Italy so we are free to travel without any hassles.

On the issue of Free Speech, people are free to squash lies. And for the Jews we have the Anti Defamation League. And we have rules against slander, etc.

Here is a cool story, my Mom and her ex-husband who was the Boss of the Space Shuttle Program with Rockwell, spent a whole day at the Pieces of 8 restaurant in Marina Del Rey here in California having cocktails with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, my Mom said it was a wonderful day. Mel Brooks is a very cool Jew, and I attended the same acting school as Anne Bancroft, the AADA, Anne was great. That is a cool thing about living here in Southern California is all of the great people who we get to meet here at the clubs and restaurants, etc. I am glad that my Mother has that great memory as she is in her golden years now.

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« Reply #9867 on: August 28, 2024, 02:45:40 AM »

We have a problem, only 40% of our Public School Teachers are happy, that means that 60% of our Teachers are unhappy. So we need to fix it, and education is more important now than ever.

Some suggestions are higher pay, tax breaks, housing subsidies so that they can live in the area where they teach, better security at the schools, and more Aids for the Teachers.

We can also give scholarships to train more Teachers, we can train poor people to become Public School Teachers, etc.

We need to improve education globally, including here in the USA, and in Latin America, and in the Philippines, etc.

And Mexico can put tariffs on imports to help to fund education in Mexico, etc, they can put tariffs on Coca Cola and on Budweiser, etc.

Shakira is helping with education in Colombia, and we have made huge gains in Colombia.

We need to build schools instead of prisons, and we need to raise our standards and we need to raise our expectations.

We can also have educational programming on Television, and good shows on the History Channel, etc.

Dolly Parton is donating libraries all over for the children, and that is great, we all love Dolly.

And the Catholic Church can help with education, and Kiwanis International is global.

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« Reply #9868 on: August 28, 2024, 03:37:54 PM »

Trump is a sick and fucked up guy, with his Trump Tower, and Private Jet, and Mira Lago in Florida, flaunting his wealth, while we have homeless people all over the streets and while the average life expectancy is falling in the US. If fucking Trump wanted to help the poor, then he could do it right now, for $1 Billion he could send everyone in Kentucky to Community College, but Trump uses his wealth to fuck porn stars and to pay hush money. Trump is not the kind of person who we want to run America.

The best world leader right now is Pope Francis, and he made a vow of poverty. Trump could learn a lot from Pope Francis. The most powerful man in the world, Pope Francis, is poor and alone, and I love Pope Francis.

Of note, we need for our companies to be locally owned and to be altruistic, and we need for the companies to spend money helping the homeless in America instead of being foreign companies that send the wealth home to Japan, etc. Instead of helping the people of Japan, then instead we need to help our own people who are homeless on the streets here. If the companies were Christians then they would all donate 10% at least to help the poor.

George W. Bush seems way more humble and better than Trump, Bush was a way better leader than Trump.

We have Musk and the Japanese trying to buy all of our companies, while we have homeless people all over the streets, and while Bill Gates and others send all of the new jobs to Asia. We need real Americans to own our companies who are altruistic and who care about America.

We have foreign companies buying all of our real estate and raising rents in order to increase profits while we have 175,000 homeless on the streets of California. People are using real estate to get rich, and they do not give a fuck about the people, it is just business they say. It sucks. Our families have been in the USA since the beginning, and they expect us to pay high rent to foreign owned corporations, while we have 175,000 people homeless on the streets in California. I should not be paying rent to the fucking Japanese corporations, they want for us to work 90 hours per week to live in poverty while we pay rent to a Japanese corporation, it is all Bullshit. I would rather have an acre of land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, for $1,000 per acre and live in a travel trailer than pay rent to a fucking Japanese corporation. And I like China more than I like Japan, and I love the Philippines.

Rich people from the Philippines have been coming to America and they have been helping the homeless here. One person was Rose, who was a cousin of Gloria Arroyo who was the President of the Philippines, they helped to house and feed and take care of a lot of homeless people here in America. And I invited the San Miguel Corporation from the Philippines to come do Business here in California and to be altruistic and to help the poor, they are a good Christian corporation.

Trump is an asshole, and if I was starving then he would not feed me, he does not care about the poor, he exploits the poor and he turns the women into prostitutes, and he short-changes the workers who work for him, Trump is an asshole.

I do not like Trump.

But, I do like George W. Bush, and we will see if Bush supports Kamala Harris.

Salute,

Tony V.

Saw an official of LA on my tv speaking about the homeless crisis in LA.
She said that they could spend billions building housing, and nothing would change.
Why not?
I forget the word she used, but she meant migratory homeless arriving in LA from elsewhere.
Simple solution, build a wall around LA, with checkpoints.
Only authorised persons allowed in.
Must show your papers or you can't get in.
Which is not really practical.
She said, basically, that the situation is hopeless...so they're going to clear the streets of encampments, and the homeless will just have to do their best with what the city can provide financially, or move on to somewhere else.
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« Reply #9869 on: August 29, 2024, 05:24:35 PM »

Trump is a sick and fucked up guy, with his Trump Tower, and Private Jet, and Mira Lago in Florida, flaunting his wealth, while we have homeless people all over the streets and while the average life expectancy is falling in the US. If fucking Trump wanted to help the poor, then he could do it right now, for $1 Billion he could send everyone in Kentucky to Community College, but Trump uses his wealth to fuck porn stars and to pay hush money. Trump is not the kind of person who we want to run America.

The best world leader right now is Pope Francis, and he made a vow of poverty. Trump could learn a lot from Pope Francis. The most powerful man in the world, Pope Francis, is poor and alone, and I love Pope Francis.

Of note, we need for our companies to be locally owned and to be altruistic, and we need for the companies to spend money helping the homeless in America instead of being foreign companies that send the wealth home to Japan, etc. Instead of helping the people of Japan, then instead we need to help our own people who are homeless on the streets here. If the companies were Christians then they would all donate 10% at least to help the poor.

George W. Bush seems way more humble and better than Trump, Bush was a way better leader than Trump.

We have Musk and the Japanese trying to buy all of our companies, while we have homeless people all over the streets, and while Bill Gates and others send all of the new jobs to Asia. We need real Americans to own our companies who are altruistic and who care about America.

We have foreign companies buying all of our real estate and raising rents in order to increase profits while we have 175,000 homeless on the streets of California. People are using real estate to get rich, and they do not give a fuck about the people, it is just business they say. It sucks. Our families have been in the USA since the beginning, and they expect us to pay high rent to foreign owned corporations, while we have 175,000 people homeless on the streets in California. I should not be paying rent to the fucking Japanese corporations, they want for us to work 90 hours per week to live in poverty while we pay rent to a Japanese corporation, it is all Bullshit. I would rather have an acre of land in Battle Mountain, Nevada, for $1,000 per acre and live in a travel trailer than pay rent to a fucking Japanese corporation. And I like China more than I like Japan, and I love the Philippines.

Rich people from the Philippines have been coming to America and they have been helping the homeless here. One person was Rose, who was a cousin of Gloria Arroyo who was the President of the Philippines, they helped to house and feed and take care of a lot of homeless people here in America. And I invited the San Miguel Corporation from the Philippines to come do Business here in California and to be altruistic and to help the poor, they are a good Christian corporation.

Trump is an asshole, and if I was starving then he would not feed me, he does not care about the poor, he exploits the poor and he turns the women into prostitutes, and he short-changes the workers who work for him, Trump is an asshole.

I do not like Trump.

But, I do like George W. Bush, and we will see if Bush supports Kamala Harris.

Salute,

Tony V.

Saw an official of LA on my tv speaking about the homeless crisis in LA.
She said that they could spend billions building housing, and nothing would change.
Why not?
I forget the word she used, but she meant migratory homeless arriving in LA from elsewhere.
Simple solution, build a wall around LA, with checkpoints.
Only authorised persons allowed in.
Must show your papers or you can't get in.
Which is not really practical.
She said, basically, that the situation is hopeless...so they're going to clear the streets of encampments, and the homeless will just have to do their best with what the city can provide financially, or move on to somewhere else.

The problem in California with homelessness is GREED, they want to charge people high rent, they want for you to work 90 hours per week and to pay high prices for rent, instead of being like Rome where you can get a bed and a shower for $15 per night at a cheap hostel. We also need to have cheap Sober Living Homes for $450 per month, etc.

And we have people here in Los Angeles who are NOT Christians, they only worship MONEY, and that is what the problem is here. If we all helped the homeless and the poor like Jesus asked us to do in Matthew 25; 31-46, then everything would be cool, and if everyone donated 10% to the church to help the poor, etc.

Rome does not have homeless people all over.

And we need to make people legal so that we can bring them out of the shadows, and so that they can join Labor Unions and we can connect all of the refugees up with jobs working at a Union job.

Of note too, Los Angeles is expensive, while Battle Mountain, Nevada, is cheap, so we can build nice high density housing in Battle Mountain like in Santorini, Greece, complete with swimming pools, and libraries, and tennis courts, etc, and we can send the poor people to Battle Mountain, and they can do trade with San Francisco to create jobs, etc.

It is not hopeless here in California, we just need to learn from Rome, Italy, and have cheap hostels for $15 per night for a bed and a shower, etc, and we need to allow the churches to help, etc. And we need to make our immigrants legal and put them to work with the United Farm Workers and with the Teamsters, etc.

Mayor Bass is doing a good job, and at least people are taking action. And we need to train lots of Psychiatrists, and San Diego State University is the best at training Psychiatrists, etc. We also need to train doctors, and nurses, and pharmacists, etc.

Kiwanis International can also help, and others can help. And the San Miguel Corporation and the people from the Philippines can help, etc, they are good Christians. The French, Italians, Spaniards, and Greeks, can all help too, etc. And we can improve education in Latin America, etc. Los Angeles is a Global City, and people from all around the world can help to save Los Angeles.

Also, we need for our movie studios to be locally owned and operated so that we can be altruistic and help the people here locally in Hollywood.

Education is also vital, etc, and job training, etc. And we could build new Space Shuttles in the desert, etc, and we can build new water dropping aircraft in the desert to fight fires, and we can build new high speed supersonic passenger planes in the desert, etc. We can create a lot of new jobs.

And the Basques can have herds of sheep, cattle, and goats, etc, all over grazing to control fire dangers, and to produce Filet Mignon and Mexican Goat Cheese Tamales, etc.

It was so much better back in the 1980s when Reagan was President. The desert had the Space Shuttle Program which was an over $100 Billion program, and California was rich, Reagan made all of the immigrants legal, and the economy was great.

Now, the jobs have left, and we have homeless people all over the sidewalks. We need to bring the jobs back, and we need to help the homeless, and we need cheap hostels for a bed and shower for $15, and cheap Sober Living Homes, etc. And we need to fund education and job training, etc.

It can get better.

Salute,

Tony V.
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