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Sandbox – 14jul14

14 July 2014

[Hopefully fresh sand will motivate fresh ideas. gjr]

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Barry Pruett

14 July 2014

This weekend and I do not think that it is even in the national news yet, Kim found out from her boss that Obama actually ordered the buses for the border in January. Further, Sheila Jackson Lee was caught brining voter registration forms to these people. This emergency is no emergency. It is a coordinated plan to harm the USA in order to achieve a goal. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” And if there is no crisis, create one. I feel as though we are living in such dark times…like a cloud hanging over the USA. I pray that the cloud will be lifted in my lifetime.

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George Rebane

14 July 2014

BarryP 719am – That appears directly sourced to the White House. When you connect that with pulling back the Border Patrol from the border (inhibiting entry) and make them just man check points already almost a mile inside the US, aren’t we overflowing with impeachable offenses for this president? This guy makes the sins of Nixon truly negligible in comparison, yet we have regressed to the point of having a rogue federal government that considers the biggest threat to its existence the potential ire of returning veterans.
The rot doesn’t stop at the Beltway when you consider what kind of electorate put these people into office, and will again. We are truly past the tipping point, and it will indeed take a long life to see this cloud lifted. May you have it.

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Bill Tozer

14 July 2014

This illegal immigrant/children thing cannot be ignored by the main stream media anymore. Thus, a silver lining. It has all the delicious topics the media loves. Children, poor people, homeless, and now called “the flood”. The flood? Obama said there is no border problem. More like a tsunami than a flood. And the media suddenly finds out what we have known for a long, long time, aka, the Administration is not being forthright, honest, nor candid. Not what I would call the most transparent Administration in the history of the entire human existence.
Oh, this Administration is transparent all right. Even the casual observer can see what they are up to. Don’t take a rocket scientist to see right through them and see their motives. Last thing Obama and his handlers need is a photo op down on the border.
A glance at the headlines today reveals that Nebraska is being targeted for the next bus load of illegals and the governor (among many governors) ain’t too pleased….oppps…strike that about the media…only Fox news has boots on the ground.
My my, next thing you know they will be classified as homeless with little vouchers in their poor hungry hands and released into the general population from sea to shinning sea….oppps again! Its already happening. Love the fact that all kids are not from Central America, just told to say that. Love the fact that our Administration cannot verify whether they are from Mexican or not but classifies them as Central American. Love the fact that illegal immigrants already here and going down and “leasing” a kid claiming to be Uncle Pablo or sister momacita Rosa just so they (the adults) can stay here forever and ever amen. Rent a kid is a rewarding venture.
Papers? We don’t need no stinkin’ papers.

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Russ Steele

14 July 2014

Wall to wall Cloward-Piven, yet again. Cloward-Piven is now a staple of leftist electoral campaign strategy, overwhelm the existing institution to create an atmosphere for transformational change. We were warned, America is going to be transformed. The crisis was planned.

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George Rebane

14 July 2014

RussS 833am – agreed.

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Bill Tozer

14 July 2014

Had to Google Cloward-Piven to keep up with you brainiacs. And I thought Glen Beck was crazy or at least paranoid 6 years ago when he kept talking about Van Jones and destroying the system (burning it to the ground with an invented crisis) and raising up a new social order. Seems Mr. Beck was on to something too big for my unbelieving eyes and closed ears.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/crush-system-cloward-piven-stategy-u-s-border/
So, all this time I though Obama was just an inept oddball totally out of his league, known more kindly as The Amateur. He really really is a wily one and more dangerous than ever with the big bucks coming in as a direct result of his hopping from one closed door fat cat fundraiser to another. Guess this is our payback for them bad British colonists treating his grandpappy rudely. Heard another 2 week vacation at Martha’s Vineyard is on the immediate White House schedule. Plenty of time for him to shoot hoops. No worries, the border is sealed, the Senate via Harry Reid is blocking all bills, and nothing to see here. Everything is going according to plan. Its all Israel’s and talk radio’s fault for causing all our problems today.

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fish

14 July 2014

jeffy….still in there slugging. I got to hand it to him….the “stick to it” spirit.
“Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly, and often amusingly, from the one uttered by the first.”
As opposed to your blog where the posts are “pre-errored”.
How’s that word search going jeffy……still stuck for a term to describe 90% of your posts this weekend? First letter….”L”……four letters again….the middle two are vowels…sounds like….”pies”!
C’mon jeffy a even a simpleton like you should be able to puzzle this one out! Call Steve he can probably help you through it!

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Gregory

14 July 2014

When the “Annie Fox” sock puppet comes out to stroke El Jefe at the Citadel, you know he really needs a hug.
Just a note for regular readers… I never bring out where I went to college, but I do defend it when the likes of Jeffie, Stevie and Dougie use it as a cudgel. Dougie was the first, apparently still pissed at his Stanford EE brother, willing and able to lash out at anyone who got into a more demanding school and major than he did. It is interesting to hear that Jeffie has lorded his Berkeley years over people who attended lesser schools… let’s just say I doubt a distinguished Cal physics professor would try to convince Jeff to change his major to physics as happened to a local Cal alumni I know. Rhetoric is wonderful when used honestly, but it isn’t rocket science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNnzi4NcKKY

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Gregory

14 July 2014

Regarding Cloward-Piven, the Watts Riots they patterned their strategy after so damaged the neighborhoods affected, they were still visibly scarred 40 years later, and economic development lags even now.
Destroying the village in order to damage it in perpetuity isn’t a moral path.

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Bill Tozer

14 July 2014

Non-breaking news. The Border Patrol in Texas has been moved back 40 miles from the border. No longer paroling the border at the border. Anyone caught is gleeful that they won’t be turned back because they made it inside our Nation.
!50 million smackers have been poured into our Border Patrol….to build detainment centers and housing for the illegal aliens WithOut Papers. Spending hundreds of millions for housing instead of 100s of millions to stop them at the border.
Think it is cheaper and more humane to stop the tsunami at the border and repair our broken flood gates than it is to turn our Border Patrol officers into quasi Red Cross volunteers. Need housing, food, medical exams?, come to our shelters. They are brand spanking new. Three hots and a cot if you can make to across the border plus a couple of miles.
We are being sold down the river and aren’t even allowed to use the term wetback. Can’t demean lawbreakers now can we. Smugglers and Traffickers Paradise on our southern borders. Racist comments? You bet your lily white ash. Open your eyes. We don’t seem to have the same problems on our Northern Border now do we? Montezuma’s Revenge.
The ones in charge of protecting us are following orders to make us less safe, less secure, more lawless as our President and HIS administration is committing dereliction of duty to the oath they swore. Very sad day. Lo, woe am I.

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fish

14 July 2014

When the “Annie Fox” sock puppet comes out to stroke El Jefe at the Citadel, you know he really needs a hug.
Well he had a tough night!
Imagine…a place where his every utterance isn’t treated like holy writ….well sir….not in my America!
We need a policy that balances jeffys need for constant adulation with the real worlds need for reason and sanity.
Because fairness…..

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George Rebane

14 July 2014

BillT 246pm – Hope to see you lend your powerful body to the throng at Gateway Park on 2 August Mr Tozer.

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Barry Pruett

14 July 2014

The funny thing is thatwe are traveling so much this summer that I will only be at Gateway for meetings and softball!

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Bill Tozer

15 July 2014

Dr, Rebane: what time?

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Bill Tozer

15 July 2014

Oh Dr. Rebane, you made me blush, you silver tongued devil you. I am just a sliver of a man now being older and uglier. I better bring the Thai houseboys and donate them to the cause. I may not be perfect, but a few old parts of me still are.
Back to my current angst, i.e., illegal immigration “reform”.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mrz071114dAPR.jpg

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fish

15 July 2014

From a very senior citizen…..
107-Year-Old: ‘I Didn’t Drink Liquor, I Didn’t Dance’…
Maybe it just felt like 107 years.

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fish

15 July 2014

It’s starting….
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/outbreak-on-the-border/

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fish

15 July 2014

Another gift from a progressive administration.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/dead-immigrant-boy-found-floating-in-rio-grande/

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Russ Steele

15 July 2014

While the local left is having a small cow over the State of Jefferson initiative coming to Nevada County, a plan backed by venture capitalist Tim Draper to split California into six states has gained enough signatures to make the November 2016 ballot, the plan’s backers say.
A Twitter account belonging to the nonprofit Six Californias tweeted on Monday that “#SixCalifornias will be submitting signatures in Sacramento tomorrow for placement on the November 2016 ballot. Stay tuned for coverage!”
Roger Salazar, a spokesman for the campaign, said it’s gathered more than the approximately 808,000 signatures needed to place the measure on the ballot, Reuters reported.
My guess is that the libs in State government will find a way to toss out enough signatures to disqualify the initiative. Stay Tuned.

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Bill Tozer

15 July 2014

Fish, from your 0818 link:
“President Barack Obama has not dealt directly with the crisis. During a recent visit to Denver, the president was photographed drinking beer and playing pool while declining to visit the border or facilities where the children are being held in crowded, refugee-camp-like conditions.”
Duh, add 10 other things to the list Obama hasn’t dealt with.
I remember Clinton’s first month as President. He made a unscripted remark about Haitian refugees being allowed in. That very night hundreds of Haitians made makeshift rafts and headed across shark infested waters. The next day hundreds more. The rafts fell apart, were swamped by waves and hundreds died at sea. A day or two later, Slick Willy did is standard backtrack and pooh-poohed the remark. You know his MO…”I didn’t mean that when I said that.”
Point is, Mr. President, a President is the most powerful voice on the planet and when you telegraph a message, people listen. We Americans nod off when you speak lately, but Latin America, the Middle East, and parts between hang on your every word. Words have friggin meaning and a President of the United States words are like the shot heard around the world.
Now, YOU caused this and man up and deal with it. Quit blaming Congress for balking at the billions you seek to house and feed poor folks that hung on to your very words and actions.
Deal with it, Mr. B Hussein O, its your job classification.

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Russ Steele

15 July 2014

Bill@0p:18AM
Well up to a point. You wrote:
President is the most powerful voice on the planet and when you telegraph a message, people listen.
Well, it is just words unless the President can follow them up with action. How many “Red Lines” did Obama draw?
I content that there are not many people who are paying any attention to Obama these days other than the adoring left, the poor and the uninformed, as he has squandered his moral authority, including in the current crisis as more children pour into the country.
In the end actions are more powerful than words and we have a leaders that cannot lead and abhors action. His only skill is reading a teleprompter loaded with words that someone one on this lefty socialist staff wrote.

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Bill Tozer

15 July 2014

Mr. Steele. Yes, I have tuned out to what Obama says. Problem is that when I tune back in, it is already too late. Homeland Security was already putting bids out for buses in the private sector to transport illegals from the border into our cities and sundry states since January.
I was being too kind if I insinuated that this was a crisis that suddenly appeared on the horizon like Katrina and he is reacting slowly. Shame on me for giving the Mo Fro that much benefit of the doubt. That A-hole planned this all along. Yep, just as soon as he won reelection the restraints came off and now he is running amok with the sole purpose to destroy American Exceptionalism. We now have opened a gateway for terrorists and evil doers to hide among the civilians coming across our southern border. Just like the Red Chinese Army did in Korea.
Ah, this one really gets my feathers ruffled. Sticks in my caw big time. Guess I will let visual aides do the squawking for me:
http://www.westernjournalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mrz071414dAPC.jpg
http://www.westernjournalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/150794_600.jpg

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George Rebane

15 July 2014

re BillT 1130am – The first comment in this stream, BarryP’s 719am highlighted the pre-ordered buses, to which my 805am suggested that as further proof of an impeachable offense. This garnered a ho-hum from the other readers. Now we are lapping that barn again, this time apparently with ruffled feathers. Maybe the fuse on the initial comments were just a bit long, at least as far as our feathers were concerned 😉

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George Rebane

15 July 2014

Fed Chair Yellen’s testimony – after 5+ years our “recovery is not yet complete”. This economic slump has passed all the tests to be called a bona fide depression. When we plunged in 2008-09 and then were told how our new socialist president (yes, he was called that in major news outlets, and by fellow world leaders) planned to architect the recovery, I dubbed the faulty labeled ‘Great Recession’ for what it was – Depression2. As each week passes, this assessment is vindicated, especially when we compare it to FDR’s failed efforts in the 1930s. I believe that history will record this as Depression2 when more enlightened voices in the lamestream and academe are unfettered. And not to worry, there will yet be plenty of time to for lesser lights to discover this depression.

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Gregory

15 July 2014

“BarryP’s 719am highlighted the pre-ordered buses, to which my 805am suggested that as further proof of an impeachable offense. This garnered a ho-hum from the other readers.”
A well-earned ho-hum I might add. The chance that there are any actual Obama fingerprints on this are about the same as Ronald Reagan having actually ordered Ollie North to sell arms to Iran to fund Contras.
Try again after there is something that can pass the smell test.

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Gregory

15 July 2014

BTW El Jefe is still talking to himself at The Citadel. The sock puppet Annie Fox, which I suspect is His Nibs himself, replied twice to a Pelline reply to his own post, the last one asking if “Greggy or Fishy” will be attending either of the Penn Valley park events Jeffie has been trying to raise his rabble over.
http://sierrafoothillsreport.com/2014/07/11/western-gateway-park-becoming-a-home-to-hard-right-political-activists/#comment-95436
Jeff, since I’ve never been a Republican, have never attended a Republican rally (whether TP or not) and have never written anything approving of the “Tea Party”, the chances are small I’d show up for the coming events. However, since free food is apparently a feature at both, I wouldn’t put it past Pelline or even Annie Fox attending.
Perhaps someone can photoshop a wig and a mu-mu on that great photo of Pelline on Broad Street as a possible artists rendering of Ms. Fox looking for a free lunch.

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fish

15 July 2014

…..the last one asking if “Greggy or Fishy” will be attending either of the Penn Valley park events Jeffie has been trying to raise his rabble over.
No. fishy shan’t be in attendance.
I think “Annie” also was curious to know the following, “My question is would they expect the same respect shown if Move On paid the fees and hosted a gathering there?”
Yes sockpuppet I would fully support the right of the….oooooh….HARD LEFT™….Move On..to conduct a political rally if they paid their fees and received the necessary permits. I certainly wouldn’t be whining about it like the man with his chubby mitt up your ass,

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RL Crabb

15 July 2014

Regarding ‘Great Depression 2’…Although I would credit Obama and the Democrats with willfully impeding the recovery by keeping businesses guessing what their future tax obligations will be and keeping the price of gas high, the real culprit is the technological advances that have eliminated so many once-profitable endeavors. It’s certainly devastated my profession as an illustrator.

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George Rebane

15 July 2014

RLCrabb 146pm – most certainly tech advances are a great contributor to systemic unemployment, but I maintain that Obama’s policies have put that factor on steroids as companies to survive have become hyper-active in substituting technology for ever more cumbersome labor.
Gregory 1258pm – sorry to be so obtuse. My point was not to establish Obama’s “fingerprints”, as to comment on the belated reintroduction of this thread. As to finding such fingerprints, I agree that it’s a low prob event (unless an administration spurned whistle blower emerges).

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Todd Juvinall

15 July 2014

Tens of millions in construction and related occupations have gone by-by. The 100 million people not working contain many of them. And they were jigh paying jobs. But good old Fed Reserve keeps pumping billions into Wall Street while Main Street get little or nothing except more regulations killing middle class jobs.

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Bill Tozer

15 July 2014

Better late than never. Call it being sociably tardy for the party. Yes, I read Barry’s comments but it was not until I found collaborating evidence in print that my hackles became unshackled. Can’t fault a man for being slow to anger can you? Had a tooth pulled very recently so that is as good of an excuse as any for having a longer fuse than ever before and, yes, that is soooo out of character for this lowly firecracker.
I just refused to believe it. I refused to even consider that an American President would ever do anything to violate his sworn duty to protect the citizens and security of The United States of America. Too far out there to even give it but a passing thought. Like a bird flying across one’s view. You see it briefly, but it leaves no trail. Just a passing thought. This sinister plot to collapse (implode)our homeland is the stuff for Hollywood, not any non fictional Commander-in-Chief. Hell, one major grievance in the Declaration of Independence was King George did not protect our forefathers from those “savages”.
The first step forward in recovery is to admit I have a problem. That means overcoming denial. This will be a long process with perhaps some set backs and maybe a grieving process…. Ah, forget that crap and Impeach the Bastard!!!
Holy smokes, am I the only one in the room that did not see this??? I thought we had a crisis, but noooo. We don’t have a friggin crisis and Obama ain’t going to deal with the “crisis” because he don’t see any of this as a crisis. He sees it as his creation.
Time to wipe the egg off my face and get angry. Screw that. No time to wipe the egg off. He done this on purpose. A patriot’s first duty is to protect his country from his government.—Teddy Roosevelt.

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Bill Tozer

15 July 2014

In other newsy, I noticed one of this blog’s purple visitors has an lawn that looks too green. Too green for times of drought. Has he been sneaking out at night and doing the bad thing?? This drought is the perfect time to rat on people you don’t like.
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/14/california-residents-rat-out-neighbors-for-water-use/20930841/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058

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Todd Juvinall

15 July 2014

My lawn is crfoaked. So is the purple lawn in Nevada City?

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Bill Tozer

15 July 2014

How about this topic. Its July and RECORD TEMPS are forecast from the Great Lakes down into the south. “Is it Global Warming Mommie, is it?”
“No, Johnnie, its the weather. Now wash behind your ears.”
http://www.weather.com/video/polar-air-invasion-in-depth-51137?collid=/news/top-stories

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Al

15 July 2014

Greg, how ’bout this RFP?
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c6d7c0050b912fbc917a46d6709d38bd&tab=core&tabmode=list

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Gregory

15 July 2014

Not only his Purpleness have a green lawn and is known for his unwavering Global Warming activism, but the tidy inheritance that enabled him to buy the place was earned by his father who worked at Humble Oil, better known as Exxon. Oh! the pathos and the guilt.
I had confused him with another jerk from Berkeley, and Barry misremembered his parents being in Marin, but it was apparently Sebastopol… not a big difference when it comes to home values or cache, is it?

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Al

15 July 2014

Greg, further:
http://www.libertynews.com/2014/07/exclusive-hhs-bankrolled-catholic-and-baptist-church-from-2010-to-2013-to-prepare-for-obamas-2014-invasion/?Ref_ID=27068#!

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Todd Juvinall

16 July 2014

I listened to testimony this morning on the illegal alien kidlets from the 5th Congressional District Rep. He said if Obama would sign the proposed change to the immigration bill making Central American kids return the same as Mexico’s, the cost to return would be about 20 million in airline charges. Obama wants 4 billion! And of course the cost of the ink to sign the bill is zip. We are being run by an insane man.

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Todd Juvinall

16 July 2014

Fox/Murdoch wants to buy Time Warner
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/rupert-murdoch-said-to-have-made-offer-for-time-warner/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

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George Rebane

16 July 2014

Here’s an interesting puzzle – what is the public’s bandwidth for news items? I’ve thought about this for some time – is it 3 or 4 or 5 or … major news items? We know that issues that could make news don’t just disappear and reappear when the media decides about what to report. What tickled this enquiry again is the recent and sudden silence about Hillary, Ukraine, and China’s territorial expansion. All the media seem to be exercised about the illegal entry of kids from central America, and the progress of ISIS in the middle east. Maybe the bandwidth limits also apply to the news media; how many copy writers can they employ? How do they decide what items will maximize the number of eyeballs watching and reading? Or do they themselves decide to what items we should now switch our interest?

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Barry Pruett

16 July 2014

Well…the FUE did not make it to our park board meeting today to discuss his idea to censor speech at the park. Is anyone surpirsed? In any event, I discussed the matter at length with the board during the directors’ comment section.

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Todd Juvinall

16 July 2014

Only allow the FUE to choose the speech allowed. Everything will be just fine. LOL!

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fish

16 July 2014

FUE is in Europe. I have no doubt he’s thinking about park issues though…..and pasta…lots and lots of pasta.

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Al

16 July 2014

George, The “news” is an Owner’s directive Chef’s Special each day. Give a rich buttered buffet for the low in-formation voters.

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George Rebane

16 July 2014

AI 858pm – By “a rich buttered buffet” I presume you mean everything tasty, easily digestible, and not too filling.

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Al

16 July 2014

G – I mainly wanted to introduce the term, “low in-formation voters”, which is the cynical
majority presumed to prevail herein.

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George Rebane

17 July 2014

AI 1000pm – so noted.

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Gregory

18 July 2014

Just wondering… might Jeff P. share whether the cutrate Norwegian Airlines carrier forced him to buy two seats for his trips, or a hefty fee for a seat belt extension?

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Barry Pruett

18 July 2014

Kim and I went to see “America” tonight. It was like a damn Tea Party rally. It took us 15 minutes to make it past the fourth row from the back. Great movie…the video clip of Bono was the best part, I think.

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fish

20 July 2014

Just wondering… might Jeff P. share whether the cutrate Norwegian Airlines carrier forced him to buy two seats for his trips, or a hefty fee for a seat belt extension?
These carriers ship cargo as well. Perhaps our FUElish friend went cargo netted to a shipping pallet?

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