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Sandbox – 15jun14

14 June 2014

[Time for a fresh sandbox. The inaugural sandbox appears to have been a success. My own special interest for this one is to include a discussion of the Bergdahl case, specifically what impact readers believe it will have on future foreign policy in the mideast. And fold into that discussion the impact of ISIS' gains in Iraq and its demands on how should the US react – specifically, should we abandon Iraq to devolve into it pre-churchillian ethnic regions of Shiite, Sunni, and Kurdish control that may give rise to new nation-states or absorption by Iraq's current neighbors. Or whatever else comes to mind or piques interest. gjr]

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83 responses to “Sandbox – 15jun14”

Walt

14 June 2014

A dose of “socialized” medicine.
Soon to come to an authorized Obummercare clinic near you.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/14/british-man-with-chainsaw-wound-was-refused-medical-attention-twice/

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fish

14 June 2014

Walt,
Watch stuff like that spawn a whole series of “under the table” medical practices some good some bad but all subject to….no regulashunz………oh noes!
Useless proggie idiots….there’s nothing they can’t fuck up!

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fish

14 June 2014

Progressive Helpful hint:
If progressive grifter Barry Obama uses the term “folks” in a sentence you can be sure he’s lying to you!
Carry on.

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Scott Obermuller

14 June 2014

The only military action the US should engage in right now would be a putsch. Seriously. Seize all govt data centers and server farms. Go through with a fine tooth comb extracting all data going back as far as you please. Turn it all over to the public. We can redact medical records. Put the current admin under house arrest and announce elections will be held on schedule.
Anybody that even starts to believe they really ‘lost’ Lerner’s emails is a certified idiot. You absolutely can not lose backed up data due to a ‘computer crash’. It was erased. They dug up Rose Mary Woods and had her do another oopsie! For those too young or stoned to know the story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mary_Woods

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Walt

14 June 2014

It’s another crappy day here at the house. A some know, Mamma left us a few months ago, now our family protector is being called home as well.
Yes, all dogs go to heaven too. Nope, not a good day.

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fish

14 June 2014

Bleah…..don’t make me cry Walt! I like dogs more than people!

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fish

14 June 2014

Thank god this a progressive nation…founded on progressive ideals.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/14/border-agents-lament-mexican-gang-members-entering/
Now I know what you’re thinking…fish you’re crazy….thuggish gang bangers being given a free pass into the country by a progressive president and ignored by the progressive presidents progressive Attorney General and progressive Homeland Security secretary….what’s the upside for society??
Government jobs…..what else could it be….a covert plan to eliminate unemployment…..more border guards, more paper pushing clerks, more social workers, more criminologists, more grant money to find out why crime has spiked and test scores are down!
More, more, more……

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Scott Obermuller

14 June 2014

Walt – been there too many times. But we still have a family pooch (number 5). We miss them all.

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George Rebane

14 June 2014

Condolences Walt, give it some time and get a new one that doesn’t look like your dear departed. We too have gone through buckets of tears when their times came.
fish 556pm – you overlooked ‘inspectors’; every new reg needs enforcement, and that begins with inspectors that today have the right to go wherever they want to ‘do their duty’ for the good of society.

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fish

14 June 2014

…you overlooked ‘inspectors’; every new reg needs enforcement, and that begins with inspectors that today have the right to go wherever they want to ‘do their duty’ for the good of society.
Excellent George….!
I also neglected to include an “auditor” position. Every new reg not only needs, “…inspectors that today have the right to go wherever they want to ‘do their duty’ for the good of society”. But every group of inspectors really should have an auditor who makes sure that they are fully in compliance with their programs regulatory requirements.
Seamless eh?

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George Rebane

14 June 2014

I stand addended 😉

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Bill Tozer

14 June 2014

Walt. Saddened to hear about Rover heading on to Doggie Heaven. Sad indeed. They say God spelled backwards is Dog and both express unconditional love.
Scott: “The only military action the US should engage in right now would be a putsch.” I agree totally, except in one aspect. Remember the Daisy Cutters, Bunker Busters, and those great names of which I find endearing? Well, take some Daisy Cutters and some Down Wind Chili and bomb the living daylights out of the ragheads in Iraq, be they Sunni or Shite. Won’t do any good, but at least I can have some good entertainment watching clips while wolfing down pickles and sardines over kraut. Burp. That was a Sandbox burp, or belch if you prefer.
Perhaps we could have a drawing for the best new name of one of our new toys. Street Sweeper has already be taken by the South African Riot Police (semi auto shotgun, can fire slugs, buckshot, teargas, and an assortment of delightful treats in about 4 seconds).
Did like the “Greetings from Grass Valley” one of our fine airmen down at Beale painted on some bombs during Desert Storm or Desert Shield (or was it Shock and Awe)? Help Osama, dynamite fall from sky!

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Bill Tozer

15 June 2014

Here is one of the fine gentlemen that Obama released from Gitmo. Another peace lubber following the Yellow Brick Road with a bluebird on his shoulder. He promised to be good for a year, but the Koran allows someone to deceive the enemy, aka, LIE. Strike that. The peace lubbing Koran encourages people to deceive the enemy. Must be some kind of moral relativism. There are no absolutes, right lefties?
BTW, Hagel was set up as the fall guy for trading a deserter for the fine gentlemen. However, even Hagel ain’t no dummie. He has pushed back, saying the Commander in Chief gave the order.
https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10458017_10152199413147297_3606488205207379776_n.jpg
Now boys and girls, feel safer now? As Sec of State Kerry said, I am full of baloney thinking this guy is a danger.

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George Rebane

15 June 2014

BillT 722am – You make an important point to revisit. Please see the post and this comment. http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2010/08/pincer-movement.html?cid=6a00e54f86f2ad88330133f3186fec970b#comment-6a00e54f86f2ad88330133f3186fec970b
And then Larry Wirth’s comment here
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2011/05/war-for-national-survival.html?cid=6a00e54f86f2ad8833015432226bf2970c#comment-6a00e54f86f2ad8833015432226bf2970c
To my knowledge Islam’s ‘dhimmitude’ is the only practice of fraud scripturally taught to its adherents by a religion in order to promote its domination of the world. Islam allows all things on earth as long as it result in a greater fraction of people among the survivors following the Prophet to Allah.

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George Rebane

15 June 2014

Oh BTW, did anyone notice all the irregularities that occurred during Nevada Couny’s latest election earlier this month? The Grand Jury did. Mr Greg Diaz continues to put his professional stamp on voting in these foothills. See in The Union or go to this page and click on Nevada County Elections –
http://www.nevadacountycourts.com/cgi/dba/gjreport/db.cgi?uid=default&sb=11&so=descend&switch=2&view_records=1&term=2013-2014&category=*

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fish

15 June 2014

Perhaps our reluctant semi resident bomb thrower will enlighten us as to how we are all so selfish?
Fish,
You are inflicted with the same illness as the rest of the neo fascist crew at rebanes, pure unadulterated selfishness.
I won’t deny this charge out of hand but I’m interested to know how Ben has reached the conclusion based on the general tenor of my (and the rest of your) posts over the last year. I’m not sure, other than a general rejection of his general political philosophy what he bases this on?
Anyone want to weigh in?
(Gotta go do 1%er stuff…..me and my selfish rich buddies like to get together and mock the poor while performing auto maintenance on our high dollar rich dude vehicles…..in my case that most elite ride of all….the 2010 Toyota Corolla! Admit it….you’re all jealous!)

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Bill Tozer

15 June 2014

I am jealous!! I drive a 2000 Mitsubishi sedan, well, I was driving it until I let one of the girls take it to college and (hoping)she maybe come visit her old man now and then because of the great gas mileage. Another plan of mice and men has failed again.
The other is 1992 Toyota 4 runner I use to make those speedster punk gangsta wannabees slow down and get all annoyed. They certainly get animated while tailgating me.
But, my best vehicle is my 84 Ford short bed p/u with under 85k original on it. Bought it from an old blind man who was a pauper and, for some unknown reason, he too directed profanity my way. What a potty mouth. Like, what does a blind man need with a truck anyway. Haul around dark sunglasses? He used profanity right after I made the observation about hauling around dark sunglasses. But, money talks and canes help you walk. People are strange creatures I tell ya.
I be selfish and rich, rich, rich. There ought to be a law against owning 3 fine vehicles, one of which still has some shine to it. Like, how many vehicles does one need anyway? How many land yachts can one drive at one time? I b greedy, selfish, self centered, self seeking, and self absorbed. Guilty as charged your Honorable Discharge, Your Excellenceass, Your Most Assholiness. I am a worn Your Highnass.
Thus, Bro Ben is right again. 3 vehicles and no garage is the very definition of the rich being selfish. Ok, tonight I will send my left over refried beans and half eaten rice to the starving children in India. Along with half a candy bar with my tooth marks on it. Guess the dog will go hungry tonight but I FEEL I am making the world a better place.
Whew, I have been cleansed. Thank you Bro Ben for showing me the light and the road less traveled.

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fish

15 June 2014

But, my best vehicle is my 84 Ford short bed p/u with under 85k original on it.
I’m truly sorry Bill but this is simply not 1% enough to hang out with the “cool kids”. Try again when you have upped your social status a bit. I suggest just before cotillion season next year.

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Walt

15 June 2014

Well 911 worked really well,, ( “when seconds count”.. Hell.. you know the rest..) Seems there was a break-in over on S. Ponderosa, good description of the perp,( and the gun he has) but it took a good 10 minutes for the cops just to get there. By the time they arrived the thug was long gone.
Even the CHP helo was no use by the time it showed up.
This news should make the anti gun folk in the aria pucker up a little. There is an armed bad guy or two running loose in the aria as I write.
And this right on the heals of the shootings yesterday. Seems our local cops need some extra range time. They didn’t kill the somebitch that opened fire for no reason.

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fish

15 June 2014

Wow….. I sure used “general” a lot in my 1:08 post. I hate it when I do that!

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Barry Pruett

16 June 2014

Hey…Lois Lerner’s computer crashed and her emails were lost! Can you believe that. Now Congress is asking the NSA for the metadata for Lerner’s email! Speaking of Greg Diaz, I wonder if the IRS “scrubbed” Lerner’s hard-drive “to a defense department standard.”

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Bill Tozer

16 June 2014

Oh, I am stuck on the Great Divide again. Better than being stuck on stupid. I’ll let you guys discuss the Islamic Republic of Trans Syria Iraq or hostage we can’t get out of Mexico. Or that deserter. He was such a nice young man, the typical kid next door.
San Fransisco is leading the way!!….the way to the fastest growing divide in the USofA.. $15 bucks an hour ain’t going to cut it when a standard one bedroom apartment in the Sanctuary City by the Bay is renting for over $2,700/month. They are stuck on stupid when it comes to solutions. SF does, however, win the prize for worthless feel good measures. Welcome to the land of 4 dollar toast. Blame Climate Change or Bush or the free market.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-minimum-wage-20140616-story.html

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Walt

16 June 2014

Barry.. Seems the IRS didn’t lose these records in that “computer glitch”.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/us/thousands-to-be-questioned-on-eligibility-for-health-insurance-subsidies.html
That “honor system” where “O” changed the rules for sign-ups, worked out well….

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Bill Tozer

16 June 2014

Mr. Pruett, Lerner’s computer taking a dump is quite the coincidence, is it not? But no worries. All one has to do is root around Hilliary’s office. That’s where the missing Rose Law Firm’s hard copies were found.

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Joe Koyote

16 June 2014

The problem in Iraq is difficult to solve and it is probably too late to do anything other than watch a formerly semi-modern country totally self destruct and descend into complete chaos. It is unfortunate for the Iraqi people that George Bush totally decimated their country and destroyed their society to advance his family’s oil portfolio. Sadam might have been an evil dictator, but what is going on there now is far worse. The larger question might be who was the more evil, Sadam or George and Dick.

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Walt

16 June 2014

Just like the Sun comes up in the East, Leave it to Joe to ” Blame Bush”.
At Least when Bush was in charge, It was safer to vacation in downtown Bagdad than anywhere in Mexico.
With “O” running scared, anyone and everyone are targets for abduction.
Just for Joe.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/16/american-teen-kidnapped-by-terrorists-in-west-bank/

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Russ Steele

16 June 2014

JoeK@09:27
Would “what is happening today” be happening if Obama has been serious about negotiating a Status of Forces agreement?. He did not even try according to retired Diplomats. If US forces were still in the country, the current government would have access to the US intelligence assets, plus they would have had an opportunity resist the replacement of the experienced Iraq Army leadership with political hacks. The troops lost confidence in their own leaders, who were not professionals, but political hacks of the President. We are seeing the results Obama’s political hacks, as the nation foreign policy collapses.
Only a person with a serious Bush Derangement Syndrome would claim that Bush went to war just for his own benefit. On the other hand Obama went to war in Libya for his own purposes to curry favor with the EU Elites, who were about to lose access to their cheap oil.

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Walt

16 June 2014

Maybe Joe can explain the virtues of this.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248996/This_IT_worker_had_to_train_an_H_1B_replacement
Isn’t it wonderful? Training those that will take your job. They will be working, while your applying for UNEMPLOYMENT.

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Bill Tozer

16 June 2014

No worries Walt. By Obamas own figures, 9 million people have signed up for Medicaid….er..the Affordable Nocare about You Act. About 2.4-2.7 million were erroneously given subsidies of wrongly signed up (illegals, etc). So doing the math, the goof ups minus the 6 million who lost their insurance as a direct result of the Unafforable Care Act and had to get on Obamacare means we are back at square one.
All this hassel and tossing cancer patients off their local hospitals and doctors for what? 300 million folks going thru the wringer to insure 15 million does not seem proportionately fair. Plus, illegals still clog our hospitals.
Never heard of such foolishness as deductibles until Obamacare came out. Deductibles, whatz up with that?
Two people I know well (both female, both over 50) have been paying cash for health insurance for years. Usually they paid 200-2,000 clams a year out of pocket at the doc of their choice, including those expenses when they got really sick. One paid 4k for dental work one time only. When they found out that had to get Obamacare and have a 5-6 grand deductible, they said that is exactly like having no insurance. Paying cash as you go (with the deductibles). Both are good law abiding citizens and did not want any trouble with the IRS seizing their assets. Had to explain to the fine ladies that the IRS will only take their refunds, which they don’t get anyway cause they are self employed and file once a year cause they make so little and not required to file quarterly.
So, Obama, add two more to the rolls in two different states. They be on Medicaid now. They did not qualify to pay for the Bronze plan cause their income was too low to even qualify, even through they wanted to pay!, AND both feel guilty for being on “welfare.” They do not like that guilty feeling one bit I can assure you. Messes with their independence and fierce self reliance. Back to square one, plus two on Medicaid.

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Bill Tozer

16 June 2014

Mr. Joe K. Don’t blame Bush. Blame Climate Change. Its making people wacky, crazier than a hoot owl caught in a barn fire. Crazier than ants on hot pavement I tell ya. Sometime you act like an ole coot who is “blind in one ear and can’t see out of the other one”.
We live just fine without Iraqi oil and have been. Problem is our alley and close personal friend China needs Iraq’s fossil fuels. Strange alliances forming, eh? US and Iran joining forces to squash the Sunnis’ evil plan of Islamic World Domination. Wonder if Iraq will chair the human rights commission. Inquiring females would like to know.

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Scott Obermuller

16 June 2014

Joe checks in with his usual blame-Bush-for-everything-bad routine. We did not ‘decimate’ Iraq. We ‘decimated’ his military. We spent billions (bad idea) building up their infrastructure while the Mohammedans did their level best to destroy it.
Advance his families oil portfolio? Provide some proof, Joe.
I’d like to hear Joe’s views on being told the IRS lost the emails due to a computer crash. Oh – I know, it was Bushes fault!

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Joe Koyote

16 June 2014

Walt — As much as folks try, you can’t blame Obama for Iraq or Afghanistan. He didn’t start those wars. He may have fumbled the handoff but he did not call the play, Bush and Cheney did.
Russ — You miss the point with your automatic ‘attack Obama’ response… What is going on in iraq today would not be happening at all without the American invasion, which did more to destabilize the area in a decade than Al Queda could have done in 50 years. Comparing Libya to Iraq is like comparing Grenada to VietNam, not too relevant but a good attempt at grasping for straws. According to Alan Greenspan it is naive to think Iraq was about anything but oil. But you are correct in the assumption that Bush lied to make money for himself, Cheney, the Kochs, and all kinds of oilmen also made a ton of money now and in the future as a result of the de-nationalization of Iraqi oil.
Maybe Walt can explain the relevance of his 10:27 post to the discussion of Iraq.

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Joe Koyote

16 June 2014

My apologies Walt. I forgot this was Sandbox and other topics are fair game.
Scott– you must live in an alternate universe to think that Iraq was not decimated. Any factual account of infrastructure destruction and replacement will tell you that in most places in Iraq, they still do not have the same level of electrical power as before, not to mention the thousands of destroyed buildings, roads, and families. On the IRS computer crash: I really don’t know anything about it and really don’t give a crap.

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Walt

16 June 2014

Now come on Joe,, just where have you been? Selective memory loss again?
Forget the fact that “O” stated ” We need to BE in Afghanistan! That’s where the war needs to be! NOT Iraq.” You can find that real easy Jr.
So just how much ” free oil” did we get? you know,,, “war for oil” BS from the peanut gallery.
Now mass executions by the new terror treats?
So when you going on that “out of country” vacation? Bagdad is pretty this time of year. ( tours 70% off)
There is always Israel,,, How bout it? Be sure to have ” I “Heart” the USA” T-shirt on when near the boarder…. How many GIMO guys are you worth? “O” wants to know.

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Walt

16 June 2014

Poor Joe… Try boning up on the current events and news before you really make a fool of one’s self. ( I know…. TOO late…)

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Todd Juvinall

16 June 2014

JoeK, tell us the parts of Iraq that were devastated please. Seems Scott has it right. Regarding Obama and you giving him a pass and blaming Bush. Seems you have personalized the Presidency and parsed it into terms. Americans vote for a Presidential office and if you think differently then you arer quite naive. When Obama was elected did he not carry on all the other aspects of government from the previous four and eight years? Of course he did. But the libs can’t deal with that reality so they personalize and parse the term of office. I find that very short sighted.
Obama embraced the Afghan war and pledged to get the troops out of Iraq on a Bush timeline. Now the place is being blown up by Al Queda thugs and terrorists with no care for human life. Obama must have seen this coming but did nothing. All those females will now be wearing the shawl and return to being chattel because of his inaction. Jow do you suppose all those women feel about that JoeK?
The problem with the left is they always blame someone else, just like little kids on the playground. Never accept responsibility. That is a very unhuman approach to living on the planet.

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Walt

16 June 2014

I now know where Joe gets his bullet points and top notch info.
( Damn! ,,, and almost word for word BS!)
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/16/msnbc-just-cant-get-reporter-to-agree-that-iraq-is-all-bushs-fault/

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Walt

16 June 2014

Todd.. One of us needs to shave. Pretty soon, Joe may accuse us of being brothers.
You know,,, ” Ya’ll looks alike” may be the next distraction.

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Gregory

16 June 2014

Walt 10:27AM, maybe George R. will comment on the H-1B story, as he’s been a big booster of the program, “STEM” being the only job category where a supposed shortage will result in stagnant to lower wages.

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George Rebane

16 June 2014

Re Gregory 346pm – Yes, I have been a proponent of the H1-B visa program – have both hired such engineers and worked with them as colleagues. My support has been for such workers to 1) add to the STEM workforce that a US company cannot fill with American workers, and 2) entice experienced (and US educated) foreign workers to remain here and become US citizens so as to bolster our STEM workforce and (as they often do) to become entrepreneurs adding to America’s rich landscape of technology companies. I have never supported H1-Bs being imported to replace in-place and productive US STEM workers on American soil. In fact, I didn’t know that such a practice was even legal. (As an employer of H1-Bs I always had to show cause that I was not able to hire Americans of similar skill sets. This I did with evidence of unanswered want ads, head hunter failure histories, and interview records.)

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Gregory

16 June 2014

George, maybe you needed to offer a higher salary or some other inducement to attract domestic talent, but I don’t begrudge those trying to follow the intent of the law getting a hire through the program. You have been led to evidence of H-1B hi-jinks in the past, I am at a loss that you are still surprised by such reports.
If you read the Chronicle, their jobs section(in conjunction with Monster) is an eye opener… a large percentage of the supposed classified ads have practically no information about the job other than title and the address to send a resume via snail-mail. Guaranteed, they just wanted proof they’d advertised the position without the hassle of anyone with half a brain investing 50 cents on the off chance the job would actually be a match, and the company wanted the resume.

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Walt

16 June 2014

I have mixed feelings over the program, but I would rather see good, skilled labor immigration and other guest workers, ( those here just to make a buck, to those learning our (maybe)proven( and safer) methods to take home. ( key words.. take home)
But it sure rubs the wrong way when they actually replace the current worker.
That’s just wrong on SOOO many levels.
Now we have this new open boarder issue to deal with. All that cheap undocumented labor to exploit. It’s sure going to be a bitch for me to get a job. It’s not just
unskilled labor jobs these people are taking. ( and not just the construction world)
They operate heavy equipment El Southa’ Of the Boarder too.
They will work for less than what it would cost me just to drive to the job.
For some reason, several generations of our society have been taught that getting your hands dirty, and doing manual labor as a living made them a second class person.
And without a sheepskin in hand, your life will be meaningless, and will “never” amount to anything.
Yes, it is hard work. But look at the gym membership dues they save.
Seems to me, all those collage grads are now cubicle drones. My office was (and hope to be again)the great outdoors.
No,, ” dirty jobs” don’t make anyone a second class person.
People need to understand that no job should be beneath them. That’s what the problem really is.

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Bill Tozer

16 June 2014

Mr. Walt, you do indeed look like Mr. Todd, thus I have to read who posted the link just to figure out who to respond to. Separated at birth? Dynamic Duo?
Mr. Walt, first I found this little gem on the link you posted. Short and sweet.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/13/former-obama-administration-official-destroys-obamas-foreign-policy-in-one-tweet/
Second, I too eek out a living getting my hands dirty. A high school buddy who later became one of Southern Cal Edison highest paid non white collar dudes (and still is, working in some underground bunker in case of the Apocalypse with the controls in his hand)put it to me this way. Planners and architects and engineers can design all the cities, but we blue collar types are the ones who build them. Without us, there are no cities and without us, the lights don’t stay on.
Be of good cheer my man. I met many young bucks who have gone into welding, HVAC, etc, who are so busy they are rarely home for supper. I also meet others with degrees who are sponging off some girl they met who has a job. The former are much happier and more pleasant to be around than the latter.
That is not to say there is not enough room here for the Dr. Rebane, Mr. Steele, and Mr. Gregory types. But, I hear ya. The illegals got into the trades then expanded from being painters and sheetrock dudes and masons to more highly paid semi-skilled positions in the construction fields.
Heck, I work with a dude from Ukraine…I called him the Mad Russian and he used to correct me with mild irritability saying he is not Russian. “I am Ukrainian.” I told him same difference as you guys all look the same, lol. He has gotten used to it so lately I call him Chicken Kiev and he laughs. Good hard worker and very helpful and moving up the blue collar ladder. Maybe someday I b as smart as he.
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Walt

16 June 2014

Yes,,, speaking of “without us”,, (True story my Back when one of my daughters
was in the 5th grade, the teacher was lecturing one of her friends, about smarting off and not taking school seriously. Then the teacher made a comment that really
teed of my kid. Teach said,” What do you want to do? wind up digging ditches for a living?” Without missing a beat, my darling child piped up ” MY DADDY digs ditches for a living,, and without him, you would be peeing out a window!” ( Mine all mine…)
Ya’ think I got a call from the school?
She is still the same fist full of dynamite.

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Todd Juvinall

16 June 2014

Why is everyone insulting Walt saying we look alike. He is obviously much more handsome.

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Scott Obermuller

16 June 2014

“On the IRS computer crash: I really don’t know anything about it and really don’t give a crap.”
Perfect – Joe doesn’t know anything about it. And doesn’t care.
Since he knows nothing about it, how does he decide he doesn’t want to care about it? Great line of reasoning. See how the lefty brain functions?
Joe is gleefully ignorant and has no plans to educate himself.
“I don’t give a crap” – Put it on his tombstone.
But you do care about Bush’s financial portfolio – what do you know about that? Oh – that’s right – you don’t know anything about that either. But you do care about it. What is the difference?

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Walt

16 June 2014

You may have to wait till after ten in the morning for an answer Scott, It’s way past li’l Joe’s bed time.

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bill tozer

16 June 2014

Walt, so you have a daughter that is a little firecracker, full of piss and vinegar, while being the sweetest thing this side of paradise. Good for you. Good Daddy, good! Raised mine to be polite yet firm, tough yet kind, pragmatic and they don’t no take outright BS, even from me (and a few teachers as well).
Since this is the sandbox and I don’t feel like kicking sand at anybody at the moment (even Mr. Todd the Homely) and since you, Dr. Rebane, Mr. Steel Extraordinaire and others have been blessed with “the sweetest things this side of paradise” and survived the teenage wars, how about a belated Father’s Day video for y’all. Its long but made me smile. Take it or leave it. Even those with strong handsome sons, like Mr. Gregory.
The world’s problems will still be waiting for you all day and all night long.
http://skitguys.com/videos/item/fatherhood

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George Rebane

17 June 2014

Gregory 602pm – The salaries offered were commensurate at the high end of industry scales at the time – I made no difference between domestic and H1-B talent. The problem in my sector of systems engineering has always been the scarcity of talent.
Don’t know what evidence of H1-B “hi-jinks” I have been “led to in the past”, and I wouldn’t equate “surprise” to being merely ignorant of the reported hi-jinks. Apparently most of the nation was so disposed, otherwise revelation of the practice would not have made national news.

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Joe Koyote

17 June 2014

“JoeK, tell us the parts of Iraq that were devastated please. ” — Todd, are you kidding me? This is the most absurd statement I have ever heard. Do you not get the news? We blew the country to pieces and killed tens of thousands of civilians in the process. Of course, I forgot you cons live in an alternate universe where facts are invented to support your twisted point of view. Todd, tell me what parts of Iraq were not devastated, it might be a shorter list than the places that were.
Scott– why do I have to give a crap about every story that comes across the wire, you don’t. You righties pick and choose what facts to ignore and not ignore, like the devastation of Iraq, which seems to me to be significantly more important than some conspiracy theory about emails. It’s just another story whose significance is blown way out of proportion like Bundy and of course, the stock right wing answer to everything: Benghazi. Ask a conservative what the weather is and the answer is Benghazi. Ask a conservative what day of the week it is and the answer is Benghazi. Ask them when their birthday is and the answer is Benghazi. Let’s all make mountains out of mole hills for political gain, who cares about the truth. Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi, get a life.
Walt – I need my beauty sleep, and unlike some people, this blog is strictly for entertainment purposes, it is not my life.
It appears as though I am the only person left who is willing to engage you folks in any kind of dialogue. Am I just a glutton for punishment or did you all just gross everyone else out?

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