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07 June 2014

George Rebane

The Republicans were nowhere nearly as bad off as the national lamestream and the local lefties have been making out. Yes, they did hold the funeral after the 2012 election, and even assured all that the casket had enough room for the tea parties as they lowered it with some glee eighteen months ago.

Nevada County’s and my favorite middle roader RL ‘Bob’ Crabb sums up nicely what’s visible from his patch of pavement (filched from the 7jun14 edition of The Union). Now I’m not saying that any of this is yet apparent to those who make their home in the weeds somewhere off the left shoulder. ‘Nuff said.

Posted in Current Affairs, Nevada County, Our Country

72 responses to “‘Nuff said”

fish

07 June 2014

As bad as TEAM EVIL is, it’s hard for me to be terribly happy about the resurgence of TEAM STUPID.

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RL Crabb

07 June 2014

A win is a win, but keep in mind your 50+ win is only 50+ of 25+. Not great numbers.

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George Rebane

07 June 2014

fish 1035am – Pray, for which resurgence then do you counsel we should reserve our joy?
RLCrabb 1118am – Actually, NC Republicans have the plurality with its voters representing just under 40% of the county’s total registered voters, and about 5% more than are registered Democrat.

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fish

07 June 2014

George,
I’m not terribly sanguine about “republicans” reasserting themselves. Loathe the deems….dislike the repubs. Not a big deal a the county level.
Huge deal at the John Boehner/Mitch McConnell level.

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fish

07 June 2014

Loathe the deems..
Loathe the dems…..the aforementioned TEAM EVIL.

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Walt

07 June 2014

I will settle for the lesser of two evils.. Anyone that has a “right” leaning is still far better than ANY Leftist.
Look at the bright side. Homeland Insecurity isn’t dumping illegals by the bus load in Nevada County…( yet)
But they sure are, right down the street from my kid in AZ.
Give “O” and Co.a little time. They will “spread the wealth” of cheap labor to these parts too.

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Todd Juvinall

07 June 2014

For those that are unhappy with the results. Yes, the turnout is crappy but what is more important is 50% plus one get you the seat. That is in any turnout. If dumbass Americans want to stay home and make excuses why they could not fill out the ballot or drive to the polling place, then tough shit. They get what they get and I have ZERO sympathy for them and their whining.
The Tea Party has only been around a few years and they have had quite an electoral impact. The reason is because they TURNOUT when they want to win. Unfortunately they did not help Romney and by staying home allowed the O to get four more. I think there is now a push to be more pragmatic about winning. I urge people to vote even if they don’t get their signature issue becasue it is a PROCESS and I am educating the stay at homes that when they don’t vote the get really bad people from the opposite camp. It is starting to take hold across the land. Get some wins but keep the EVIL ones on the left out of power. LOL!

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Russ Steele

07 June 2014

The surge in Republican turn out in Nevada County can be attributed to the grass roots efforts of the Republican Women Federated. When they decide to get something done it is best to get out of their way or get run over. They decided that Dan Miller should be elected and and Hank Weston would be reelected and worked hard to make that happen. Even the Purple Man recognized their handy work. “Local GOP organizers outgunning Dems in last two races”

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Walt

07 June 2014

“Black and blue” may be the new color code. ( at least as the LIBS are concerned.)The “purple gang” got thumped.

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Ben Emery

07 June 2014

15% of the vote wins the election. Nothing to celebrate and actually something to be very concerned about. When 15% of registered voters are a majority we have some serious problems in our democratic republic. To me what it shows is how little faith the American/ Nevada County electorate has in the two parties that control our government at every level. In return what happens is representation of a small few and the misrepresentation of the vast majority.
As Bob put it a win is a win but it is the people who are actually they losers.

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Bill Tozer

07 June 2014

As Mark Twain quipped, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
From 2/23/09:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/02/23/700728/-Republicans-being-relegated-to-regional-status#
From 11/11/12:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-republican-party-the-death-of-americas-angry-white-man-8303846.html
From10/10/13:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115134/gop-death-watch-final-days-republican-party
Why o why won’t they die? Coming soon “Ten thousand links to the Death of The Tea Party Part 2”.
Funny and odd how the progressive regressive mind thinks. When times are good, they think it will always be that way. No need to sunset taxes and lets spend, spend, spend. Money grows on tress. And when things go south for the other guy, the progressive regressive always think the other guy is much much worse off than he really is. They just can’t wrap their echo chamber heads around the fact that politics and finances and their scared beliefs in moral equivalency/relativity can turn on a dime.

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Russ Steele

07 June 2014

Well then Ben at 09:16PM, why did those “losers” fail to drag their lazy butts down to the polls and vote? Or, vote by mail, which takes even less energy. I have one theory, they were happy happy, happy with their government hand outs and did not feel any need to change the system as it exists today. People vote when they are seeking change, when they are angry about their lot in life, and seek to find some transforming leverage by selecting new leadership. Some new goods and service dispensers who are more attuned to their needs. So, no anger, no need for change, no voters.

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Todd Juvinall

08 June 2014

A couple of things.
One. Ben Emery, as long as that 15% are my voters, I am a happy camper.
Two. Get off your ass and go find out why the rest stayed home. Do something useful. Inquiring minds want to know.

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Bill Tozer

08 June 2014

Brother Ben, please do not become discouraged. These little off season elections for local dog catcher have always been won by 1/2 of 1/2 of 1/2 of the eligible voters since I can remember. But take heart. Alpine County had the highest voter participation in the State last Tuesday with 63% voter turnout, albeit Los Angeles County had 11%, the lowest. If you want to run for something and win, pick a small rural county or move to a big city and coddle the very poor with promises of 2 chickens in every garage. I am certain you can make lemonade out of these lemon results.
Heck, Terry Lampert got a lot of votes, but Miller got 100% of the office. Is Terry still telling his neighbors to clean up their yards or how to live their lives? Read ’em and weep or go celebrate. There is another yawner election coming to a township near you.
Please don’t turn into an angry white man.

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fish

08 June 2014

fish 1035am – Pray, for which resurgence then do you counsel we should reserve our joy?
Sorry George. It dawned on me that I hadn’t answered your question. I reserve my joy for the politician or party that is successful in tangibly reducing the size and cost of government until it better reflects that which I believe the framers intended.
I don’t believe that I will need to express “joy” any time soon.

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George Rebane

08 June 2014

Fish 713am – well said; we await the same sunrise.

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Ben Emery

08 June 2014

Russ,
The less government officials represent the needs and wants of the people the less people feel it is their government. This produces an apathetic mentality that their vote doesn’t matter. Very understandable reaction. Even at the local non partisan level those who have ambitions for higher office play the partisan games of protecting the interests of their preferred R or D party.
We have two parties at the moment that represent the interests of big business who have abandoned the people of the US outside of sucking up their money that is based on credit. The abandonment has left the manufacturing blue collar middle class without living wage jobs and dependent on credit to maintain a lifestyle that was created with the progressive era policies.

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Ben Emery

08 June 2014

Don’t worry Bill I won’t get angry. I understand this is a conservative area and expect conservative reps just as conservatives do in the bay area and liberals. I think on the local micro level conservative principles are actually better but have the tendency to cow tow to business and ignore the interests of the people a bit to much. That is where the liberals come in to put some checks on pro business runamuk. Grass Valley and Nevada City are perfect examples. Grass Valley has slowly been chipping away at anything authentic of the city’s history. Chain stores and fast food has now taken over GV and it is sad to see that GV looks the same as Lincoln, Roseville, and every other commercialized small to mid size town in America.
I would have stopped voting years ago but respect the history of sacrifice of all those people around the world that fought for the right for average everyday people to have the ability to participate in the government through their votes. I don’t want all that sacrifice, blood, sweat, and tears to be in vain. I have never missed a vote in my 25 plus years of voting.

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Scott Obermuller

08 June 2014

Good ‘ol Ben – “the needs and wants of the people”
I wonder if Ben and his fellow travellers have ever considered for even one second that ‘the people’ don’t all want the same thing.
Some of us can make our own decisions and blow our own noses. We ‘need and want’ a Constitutional federal govt.
Others want big brother to take care of them.
The unions and the fed and state govts drove the jobs out of the country. The jobs will return when we return to a sane tax policy and freedom.
I know Ben will say it’s a ‘race to the bottom’, but if he would pay attention he will see the countries gaining jobs are going up.
The US is racing to the bottom.

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fish

08 June 2014

…..but have the tendency to cow tow to business
Not to be a pedant Ben but it’s “kowtow”.

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George Rebane

08 June 2014

re BenE’s 736/755am – We again see that different cohorts in the country expect widely different roles of government in their lives – one wants more, the other less. The best proxy for government’s role in my life is how much money it sucks out of the economy and then redistributes according to the ideology at the wheel. Today US governments vacuum almost 50% of our earnings to satisfy their spending programs and the expenses they incur in monitoring and corralling us.
And wishing to return to the business structure of yesteryear is an aspect of economics which is totally unaffordable, especially to the low earners. The wish also illustrates the huge blind spot progressives have in economics and other endeavors that require understanding human nature. It is implementing the economies of scale that has kept lowering prices so that the most can afford the most.
It was NOT progressive principles that established the post-war QoL in America, but the war itself that unleashed America’s entrepreneurial spirit and industry. One has to give Truman the credit of shutting off in 1946 FDR’s progressive alphabet soup agencies that prolonged the depression. Without that Depression1 would have continued where it left off in 1940. But again, that history is invisible to the Left.
It was free market capitalism, not government programs, that employed the millions returning from war so that they could have jobs to rebuild America’s economy and thereby the war-torn world. To be fair, the GI Bill was a big help over the remainder of the 1940s and into the 1950s, illustrating again that government can beneficially redistribute wealth when it does so without getting into the services business and allows the dispensed monies to be spent on the open (in this case educational) market.

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Ben Emery

08 June 2014

Scott,
You are correct, I will say it is a race to the bottom. Those countries on the way up are coming up from what, abject poverty. It has nothing to do with taxes or labor unions. Those same companies were worth tens to hundreds of millions $ making good profits when they met the regulations and paid a living wage. The execs used to make around 20-40 to 1 over their employees. Now these same companies are worth billions with the execs being compensated tens of millions of dollars and the ratio over employee compensation in the 100’s to 1. What changed were our tax and trade policies nothing else. Here is the funny part the leadership of the Democratic Party are in agreement with the Republican Party and both are eager to sign onto more and more free trade agreements that absolutely screw American workers and exploits emerging developing nations labor, which are now in the process of mass protest for the right to unionize.
Same old story in a different era.

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fish

08 June 2014

What changed were our tax and trade policies nothing else.
Well there was that other “Elephant in the Room”…..the fact that a fair percentage of those “abject poverty” locales started to develop their own industrial capabilities. Many of those jobs would have fled for these low labor cost regions had the regulatory environment remained static. What the ever growing regulatory burden has prevented is the return of those jobs.

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Ben Emery

08 June 2014

Here is a clip from a billionaire on this very subject. It was NAFTA that got me to leave the Democratic Party in the 90’s. If I remember correctly Perot received my vote in 1992 election.
Ros Perot Presidential Debtate 1992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls
This was the last time the corporate Republican/ Democratic controlled Comission of Presidential Debates allowed a candidate independent of the big two on the same stage. Perot got 19% of the vote and Nader would have done even better in 1996 or 2000 if he were allowed to debate. The big two understand this and do whatever they can to suppress and oppress third parties from participating in our so called democracy.

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Ben Emery

08 June 2014

Fish,
Your correct on the kowtow and wrong on the regulations. You guys seem to lose sight of the forest due to all the trees. China is now moving towards stricter regulations, there are protests daily about work conditions and pay, and factories are moving to other poor nations to exploit the people until they get wise to the fact their air, water, soil, and souls aren’t for sale.

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Ben Emery

08 June 2014

George,
I will use the same hammer to bludgeon you over the head. Progressive want a check on big business that is it. If big business paid a living wage with benefits those government assistant programs in large part go away. There is a level of responsibility we have to one another as Americans. When the private sector fails to meet these responsibilities we (our government) picks up the pieces, which big business loves.
In the 1960’s GM was the largest US employer, how many of those workers were on government assistance? GM was a powerhouse and worth hundreds of millions despite paying workers equivalent to $30 plus an hour with benefits.
Compare that to Walmart who now is now the largest US employer.
The average wage is $8 an hour with no benefits. They are encouraged to apply for food stamps and to use government assistance at every turn.
The difference has nothing to do with what the companies wanted. GM would have loved to move to foreign lands to manufacture and make their cars in the 60’s but the policies in place wouldn’t allow them to do it. Today the policies allow them to do it and the Walmart’s of the US bribe the two parties that control the policies that allow them to get away with these horrible private sector policies.
Big business is all about the bottom line, if they can make a nickel more but moving their factory to Vietnam they will do it. It is up to the people through their government to make sure Big Business doesn’t control the rules of the game. We have failed miserably over the last 40 years at doing this and we are now living in a corporatocracy. The funny thing is you support our current government without even realizing it by the policies and ideology you promote. Government is impossible to avoid the question is what type of government do we want? A private sector cut throat corporate agenda government where the people have no say or a government that is responsive to the people who actually have a say in how it is run? We are currently more on the side of the former moving further and further away from the latter.
How McDonald’s snd Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/how-mcdonald-s-and-wal-mart-became-welfare-queens.html

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Todd Juvinall

08 June 2014

Ben Emery, please go help those damn Chinese get more regulations would ya pleased? You and your pals have locked down American progress and exceptional ism and made us a third rate economy. Please go so the same for them!
I was watching the local channel this morning for a bit and the USGS was making a presentation on methyl mercury from the gold rush days in regards to the rivers and streams. These people use the words, “maybe” and “possibly” interchangeably with proven and “is”. They used their shit science to shutdown our lands and yet people like defend them to the death. That is why we are in deep doo-doo. Ben and his band of regulators have wrecked the place. This proves out in the voter turnout.

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George Rebane

08 June 2014

The most effective “check on big business” is to cut government subsidies to them, return to less regulated markets, and let competition take down those who government (with the unions’ help) considers too big to fail.
Another of the many progressive blind spots is that technology enhanced productivity gains have permanently reduced the number of jobs required to make all the things and provide all the services we need to maintain the current pace of QoL. To mandate the employment of the redundant or those who can’t produce would require the return to the Soviet era of building dams with thousands of wheelbarrow pushing workers, and then brag that your socialist system delivers ‘full employment’. We have all seen how that works out.

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fish

08 June 2014

Your correct on the kowtow and wrong on the regulations. You guys seem to lose sight of the forest due to all the trees. China is now moving towards stricter regulations, there are protests daily about work conditions and pay, and factories are moving to other poor nations to exploit the people until they get wise to the fact their air, water, soil, and souls aren’t for sale.
A scene common in countries emerging from their initial industrial phases….. yes China now outsources its lower cost manufacturing to Viet Nam and others. The Vietnamese guy who was making….nothing per hour now makes $1.85 an hour….the horror.
China now looks around much like the US did following its rapid industrial growth phase and recognizes that it’s fouled it’s own nest. I never said that their shouldn’t be any regulations Ben….but the point of diminishing returns in the US has long been passed….you’re sowing the seeds for the undoing of your regulatory structure because you have no sense of proportionality. Every company in business today is in violation of regulations each and every operational day. This encourages government caprice…..you complain about business and government being in bed together…..well this is how it starts. Once you buy a regulator to keep him off your back why not bribe a congressman to do something for you instead of to you.
There is your “forest for the trees”.

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fish

08 June 2014

To mandate the employment of the redundant or those who can’t produce would require the return to the Soviet era of building dams with thousands of wheelbarrow pushing workers, and then brag that your socialist system delivers ‘full employment’. We have all seen how that works out.
Not the biggest Uncle Miltie fan but I’ve always appreciated this.
While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so many laborers, his host told him it was to keep employment high in the construction industry. If they used tractors or modern road building equipment, fewer people would have jobs was his host’s logic.
“Then instead of shovels, why don’t you give them spoons?” Friedman inquired.

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Russ Steele

08 June 2014

Ben,
If business owns the Ds and Rs, why have businesses not been able to control and dampen the growing regulatory burden in California? The Environmental movement seem to be in control using bad science to stop fracking, flush stored water down our rivers during a drought to save a bait fish, while drying up CA largest business – agriculture. CARB regulations are driving up the cost of energy driving business from the state, demanding low carbon soot free fuel that is putting trucking companies out of business, and the list goes on. If as you claim, big business owns the D’s which are currently in control, how come big business cannot get some respit from this regulatory friction to business growth in the state? Those business that have tried, have given up and are leaving the state. It seems to me that the Ds are ignoring their business owners. Maybe your views need to be reexamined in the light of reality.

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fish

08 June 2014

Big business is all about the bottom line, if they can make a nickel more but moving their factory to Vietnam they will do it. It is up to the people through their government to make sure Big Business doesn’t control the rules of the game.
So you are saying, in essence, that a person or corporation can’t operate their business as they see fit. Nothing illegal or even inherently wrong with choosing to operate in an environment where you make the most profit. The proglodyte whine of you’re just offshoring your pollution…”externalizing your internalities” as a well known hysterical local woman likes to say…or moving there “so you don’t have to pay decent wages and benefits”…..well you yourself just said that there is a corrective mechanism….”exploits emerging developing nations labor, which are now in the process of mass protest for the right to unionize.” or “there are protests daily about work conditions and pay, and factories are moving to other poor nations to exploit the people until they get wise to the fact their air, water, soil, and souls aren’t for sale.”
Just what argument are you making?

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fish

08 June 2014

Hey Ben…while I have your attention would you take a flyer at answering the question I posed yesterday regarding this statement made over at jeffys.
Steve,
Tell that to those who experience the difference between Hoover and FDR. It is the type of economy that is shaped through budgets and laws that determine. It is way more cost effective to go green for many businesses but they don’t because it is not mandated.
If it’s “way more cost effective to go green” why don’t they?

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Gregory

08 June 2014

Thank you, fish, for the classic quote from my Uncle Milty. Why not give them spoons, indeed.
Regarding the ultimate safety valve, we have Uncle PJ, who wrote “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” Ben may huff and he may puff and he may try to blow away the folks who own and control productive capacity from using their money to keep legislators from ruining them, but money will find its way into the political process when the political class is actively deciding who wins and who loses, while skimming off the top with a gusto that would cause any mafiosi in Vegas to get whacked were they to be so greedy.

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Gregory

08 June 2014

“If it’s “way more cost effective to go green” why don’t they?” -fish
Fish, drink the kool-aid.

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George Rebane

08 June 2014

Re the shovels/spoons quote – my first encounter of it was about 50 years ago about the experiences a delegation FDR formed in the depths of the Depression, and sent to the USSR to study how Stalin was able to claim that the whole country was fully employed. One delegation member was a civil engineer who asked the famous question of the local commissar extolling the virtues of communism at a dam construction site in the Urals. That was later sanitized because criticizing communism before 1948 was politically incorrect. The encounters and subsequent quotes have since then enjoyed wide dispersal with attributions to follow. In China city busses still have two operators, one sits in the back and operates the doors.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
Gregory 1021am – “Fish, drink the Kool-Aid.” Huh?

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Walt

08 June 2014

Local LIBS,, pro business?? My ass….. Local business needs to “look” historical.. Ya’ gotta love that line of crap. ” Welcome to the gold country… just don’t you dare look or dig for it.”
Remember IMM?? PLENTY of people could have done well if that mine opened up.
But lies, fabrications ,and fantasy prevailed.
Remember what was “supposed” to take the mine’s place? Uh,,, where is it today?
( you know,, tourism to tech. and all the businesses from the bay that would come here,, just if the mine didn’t open..)
Yup,, your Lefty clan sure were masters of fear and BS..
Let’s fix things here LIB style. Local minimum wage at say,,, 17 bucks an hour? We need to beat Seattle to look good.
The business owners will be in fits. Who to hire.. Grandma? ( who needs to supplement her new healthcare plan, of the nose picking, know nothing punk rocker.. ( Grandma may sue for age discrimination… and win.) Then JR. will throw a fit and claim ” looks” discrimination.( Sue because of “self expression rights are being violated..)
Yes,, Lefties have done well screwing with employment.

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Gregory

08 June 2014

‘”Fish, drink the Kool-Aid.” Huh?’
I’ll expand that a bit for you, George.
Fish, drink the enviro Kool-Aid. Ben has. So has Frisch. It makes perfect sense to cult members that the folks desperate to make a buck from their businesses refuse to go green for all the wrong reasons, and need to be forced to do this thing that would make them even more money, in the long run. To start on this path of green enlightenment, here, drink this Kool-Aid.
Then there’s this line that describes the use of the term:
“”Drinking the Kool-Aid” is a figure of speech commonly used in the United States that refers to a person or group holding an unquestioned belief, argument, or philosophy without critical examination. It could also refer to knowingly going along with a doomed or dangerous idea because of peer pressure.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid

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fish

08 June 2014

Re the shovels/spoons quote – George Rebane | 08 June 2014 at 10:53 AM
Thanks George….I had no idea it went back so far.

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Bill Tozer

08 June 2014

Brother Ben, my fine lily white Brother from another Mother. Except for that Portagee blood you inherited you would be thinking straight.
I will definitely say the income gap will and does create headaches for many a nation. The smart verses the not so smart. The underachievers and the overachievers, or as you would say in simplistic terms, the rich verses the poor.
I hope we can agree that not all the successful, bright, creative, industrious achievers were born with a silver spoon in their chops or shot in the gluteus maximus with diamonds at birth. That is the American Dream I embrace and I am free to follow my heart’s desire or not, depending upon the various and sundry circumstances I currently PLACED myself in which of course transcends my station in life (race, creed, pocketbook, and initiative) since graduating from high school at 17. It does help to be one of the beautiful people which seem to land better jobs I will concede. And a nice rack never hurts. But I have digressed once again. Bad boy, bad.
You and that squaw senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts both strongly believe the game is rigged. Of course it is, duh. It is rigged because things are not the way you want them to be. You can join the ranks of mankind who thought the exact way you do since one caveman had a bigger club than the other, could drag more women around by their hair and could throw a hand made spear farther with more accurately while pulling out the teeth of a furious saber tooth tiger just for kicks.
Remember when Japanese junk started hitting our markets? Cheap tools that would break off in your hand and skin the knuckles. Well, Japan has China making their cheapo crap. Problem is when you are making a living and doing life, sometimes the wallet is just too thin to kick down for genuine Craftsman or Snap-On tools. I know, I know, just raise my wage so I can buy a better quality tool for 2x as much.
China is facing the same problems we have here. The skilled versus the unskilled, or as you would call it “The Income Gap.” The poor peasant and the rising upper middle class. In reality, those that have the skills to met a changing world/domestic economy and those who don’t.
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130314162925768
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/chinas-labour-market-faces-tough-challenges-ahead
And my almost white Brother Ben, even Walmart is facing the same problems here in its campaign to re-shore American made companies. We just do not have any Shear & Sow machine operators in the USA, nor even a single manufacturer of them machines here.
http://www.acceleratedbuysell.com/best-made-america-rollback-giant/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/04/walmart-made-in-america_n_5443811.html
C-U-Y-T

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George Rebane

08 June 2014

Gregory 1116am – as RR posts testify, am familiar with the figure of speech, but had trouble understanding its specific use in your admonition to Mr fish. Thanks for the clarification.

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Bill Tozer

08 June 2014

Good news for Brother Ben, my sista from anotha mista: The giant financial brokers are going to take a hit. They will be yelling like a ho that got ripped off. Now, finally, they will get their just desserts.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/eccee892-ecbf-11e3-8963-00144feabdc0.html#axzz344wrx5Jj
Now, all they need is a cry baby machine. I bet they get one as part of the package.
“Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.”–Stanley Bing

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Walt

08 June 2014

Ben,, See the news on all the new lib voters? Seems deportation has stopped.
Those that have been caught, are now getting dumped by the bus load, and now by the plain load onto our streets. How many will you feed and house? Get your Progressive pals to join in on the fun.
Catch them at the boarder,, then a free bus ride even farther into the interior.
So… coming soon to a bus stop in Grass Valley. All the Illegal Mexicans a bus can hold.

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Bill Tozer

08 June 2014

Ben, hope I have not offended your sensibilities. I know lots of portagee ladies. Heck, a strong pretty Portagee is of good stock. I can look beyond their facial hair and see their inner beauty. I am grateful you are not hot tempered and high spirited like that one I was shacked up. When I tossed her on the street and threw her belonging out the window, she directed profanity my way. I think she was calling down curses upon my head as well. Most unladylike of her I must say. Oh, to the point:
Capitalism: A Love Story
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/06/08/director-michael-moore-enmeshed-in-vicious-divorce/?intcmp=features
Another roly poly defender of “the people” demonstrates that money talks and BS walks.
Who are the people? Are they the majority who oppose the Unaffordable Poor Care Act? Who speaks for them?
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/1622077_10152105201690911_590675477899511719_n.jpg
And this is just for you, my good friend and brother in arms against tyranny, Mr. Ben Emerey.
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/t1.0-9/10172752_10152024425480911_5307251210416870283_n.jpg

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Walt

08 June 2014

Damn Bill,,, kicking a good woman to the curb? Ruthless to say the least..
Usually it’s the other way around! Those stilettos are tough to dig out of one’s
backside.
The news of “big” Mike splitting the sheets is out. He may now get the meaning of “the screwing you get, for the screwing you got.. Now fork over HALF!…(plus this, plus that)”
He may need to make a new documentary on the “evil” side of divorce. ” The Progressive women of war”. Victory is measured by dollar signs.

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Bill Tozer

08 June 2014

Mr. Todd. I am well aware of the effort and pain it takes to pull a stiletto out of one’s backside. Not fun. Try digging them out of your temple. Again not fun, especially since they were the perfect pair I bought for myself and looked absolutely marvelous wearing them to liberal cocktail parties. Now that is the definition of ruthless. Darn, I hate a broken heel.
A wee bit absurd that Mr. Moore has made a fortune mocking and ridiculing (is that redundant?) the filthy rich while living in a lakefront mansion beyond the 99%ers’ wildest dreams. He is a true 1%er’s 1%er. Sure, New York condo’s are very pricy and only the well to do can afford one, but to take 3 and combine them into a single oplulent condo is something that makes Imelda Marco’s legendary 3,000 shoe collection pale by comparison.
I am not an envious man nor a greedy lout. I just wish I could get my hands on just one pair of Imelda’s stilettos for one night. Is that too much to ask?
Mrs. Moore want half? Half? Nay, my good fellow. She wants half plus enough alimony to keep her in the lifestyle she has been accustomed to, aka; half plus the ability to spend tens of millions of dollars per year. And they say fat people are jolly. I think not in this case.
I believe Mr. Moore’s next film will not be titled “The Progressive Women of War.” Maybe, maybe not. I offer this title for your consideration, Mr. Todd. How about “Michael Moore’s War on Women” or simply “War on Progressive Women”? I bet he trashes the female 1%ers. Hey Michael, Occupy this!

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Bill Tozer

08 June 2014

Opps, sorry Mr. Walt. My reply was to you. Since you have donned your bushman hat and discarded the brain bucket and put on them cool shapes, I don’t know if I am really taking to you, Mr. Walt.
Appears that leaving US soil and going off to Hawaii to smell volcanic sulfur gas was a life changing experience. Is it really you? Be thinks you have gone native on us.

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Michael Anderson

08 June 2014

Hey Walt…love your new look. Next stop Burning Man!
Hey Greg, June 10th at 7 pm, I expect a full report:
http://www.gvsd.k12.ca.us/Common/News2/HomePagePopUps/Default.asp?ItemID=64988&ISrc=District&Itype=News

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Bill Tozer

09 June 2014

Darn, who was representing the people for these millions of clams down the rat hole? Who was watching out for the people as we now have to eat grunt sandwiches and take it in the shorts? Any idiot could foresee investing in a pricey go cart preferred by the Hollywood Elite and a handful living near the coast with taxpayer monies was a bad idea. Gives me no pleasure to say I told you so.
Candidate Obama said during the debates (concerning his lack of foreign policy experience) that he would turn to the well seasoned Joe Biden. Joe Biden? Joe Biden received a high of 3% in the Presidential Primaries in ’08 in his home state and less in other states. Usually 1%. Joe Biden was the one who proposed dividing up Iraq into 3 nations….he should have asked the Iraqis how they felt about that first, but I digress.
Then Obama said about his total lack of economic/financial expertise that he would call on Senator Jon Corzine first and foremost, aka, the smartest man on the planet concerning such matters. MF Global would have been perfect on the Gong Show if it were still around.
Brother Ben is right. Who is watching out for “the people”? Of course in a nation of 300 million souls, there are sundry opinions to who the “people” actually are and who does not count as being “the people”.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/22/taxpayers-lose-139-million-on-fisker-automotive-loan/
Of course the promised jobs never materialized. We were hornswoggled again.
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Finally to my dear friend and Brother against tyranny whenever and wherever it rears its ugly head. Here is the simplest way to effect the change you yearn for. Simple, but not easy.
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Indeed, I am feeling better as recent history proves me right again. But I refuse to say I told you so because I am looking out for “the people” as well. Nuff said.

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Walt

09 June 2014

I guess I may need to go back to my original mugshot. Some things just shouldn’t
be changed.
No BM for me Mike,, Been there LONG before it was high-jacked by the “strange brigade”. ( all of maybe 50 people) Don’t remember much of that weekend,, and having the taste of chewing on a battery for days, doesn’t sound all that inviting anymore.
Besides. Isn’t Nevada City trying to get a BM franchise? About the only thing missing will be the saggy boobed wanabe, aged hippy chicks,, and dudes hangys
that look like they got left on the hotdog cooker, WAY too long.

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