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123 responses to “Sandbox – 29aug14”
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Hey….all you closet Romney fans…..why should I get off my fat ass and vote republican instead of waiting for Hillary and the end?
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While the Repubs have trouble bringing up the ‘i-word’, I am not so encumbered. In an ongoing exchange with correspondents on the unbelievable utterances coming out of the White House, yesterday’s hubristic announcement by Obama was brought up (how in hell could you keep it down?). I replied to a question of whether we had seen it – “No, we saw Obama’s proud pronouncement yesterday that 1) he had no Mideast strategy, and 2) that it was “too early” to develop one. We went slack-jawed. I think that such a statement in time of a national security crisis is an impeachable act, if for nothing else, then prima facie evidence of clinical incompetency.
And to add insult to injury, this administration’s fetish with attempting to pass more crippling climate change legislation was highlighted by John Barrasso’s ‘Six Threats Bigger Than Climate Change’ this morning in the 29aug13 WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/john-barrasso-six-threats-bigger-than-climate-change-1409270527LikeLike
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They won’t. Not with statesman like the honorable Orange Julius, R-Ohio. The rest of them aren’t any better!
I’d leave president empty suit just where he is. Each day he tarnishes Team Proglodyte further…and there’s much to be said for the Menckenesque “…the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Here’s a Sandbox dropping for young lurker Ben Emery.
‘I didn’t want to appear racist’ is the ‘I was only obeying orders’ of our age…
Because not appearing racist trumps even protecting the innocent. Proggie logic in a sentence.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/08/i-didnt-want-to-appear-racist-is-the-i-was-only-obeying-orders-of-our-age/LikeLike
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OK , back in my designated corner…
Fish just had to go spell’n police on me. ( blame it on my outcome based edumication, courtesy of LIB school’n)
In other news, since the definition of marriage was rewritten by the LIBS, polygamy laws have just been shot down in Utah.
How many wife’s can you afford? ( Watch the fun when a woman wants more than one hubby.)
Now didn’t some judge go off the deep end and say incest laws should be scrapped as well?
The domino effect has begun.LikeLike
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George,
Obama’s reply to the Mideast is beyond ridiculous, and 100 years from now, archaeologists viewing footage of this interview will have no choice but to assume they are watching archives of Saturday Night Live. His response was so elementary, its hard to even believe that anyone out there (short of the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz) still has faith in the man. Incompetence can no longer be the answer to such ineptitude, it must be an ulterior agenda to further undercut the pedestal built for America on the backs of previous generations. I am sure our lack of leadership will benefit us in future calamities, as evidenced today by the bold statements issued by Putin:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/putin-urges-release-ukrainian-soldiers-russia-denies-invasion-article-1.1921211
Fish, good “catch” (sorry, terrible pun) on the UK scandal that clearly shows the hidden benefits of being politically correct. PC speech is a form of censorship.LikeLike
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Sept 11 is in two weeks. Good day to stay home.
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fish 1112am – Well, as the astute reader can quickly figure out, I’m not a “closet Romney fan”, and I can advise you to vote for him if he runs again just for the reason you outline – to avoid “waiting for Hillary and the end.” But I’m most interested in hearing your vision of the end that Hillary’s reign would usher in.
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I think that a Hillary administration would double down on Obamacare….with the slogan…..with your help we can make it work for all Americans…or something similarly empty and nonsensical! I also think that a Hillary administration would be more bellicose than president empty suits admin has been.
I don’t really think it matters if Romney is elected. The glideslope that the nation is on might flatten out a bit but in either case the end result is the same. At some point you auger in (sovereign insolvency, with all the associated unpleasantness).
I dropped the Romney topic because he seems to be back in the news these days. I’m wondering if the republicans are thinking of offering him up as a sacrificial lamb again in 2016.LikeLike
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That famed non-partisan, El Jefe, is carrying water for Jim Firth again, repeating Firth’s campaign call for local governments to come together to build a high class destination resort.
“Firth believes the planning concept is too big for any one entity to undertake and said it will require a joint effort involving engineers, contractors, financial consultants, chambers of commerce, government representatives and others. Firth said the expertise for planning and designing such a facility is available locally and that people will volunteer to help if asked.”
Isn’t that special? Nowhere in Firth’s (or Pelline’s) words is there a mention of actually trying to get a company that knows the resort business to be involved. Maybe even develop and operate.
“If elected on November 4, Firth said he would introduce an item under New Business at his first meeting aimed at getting the planning process started.”
Ah, the chuzpah of central planners. They do think they know better.LikeLike
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I always thought Nevada City wanted to be the center of our little universe (who cares if the courthouse is inconvenient to everybody else?), but apparently Firth wants Grass Valley to seize the title.
But Gregory is right: Firth’s just spinning wheels and wasting time until a big bucks developer steps up. (How about the Donald? That would get everybody excited.)
As far as Obama playing golf while the Middle East burns, every president has this image problem (the trendy term today is optics.)
Bush II took a lot of heat for flying around in Air Force 1 after the 9/11 attack, and Cheney dropped a few rungs on the macho scale by going into hiding. Then there was Bush bypassing New Orleans while Katrina was drowning the place.
Of course, sitting in the White House wouldn’t have changed any of these outcomes, but that doesn’t matter. People need to perceive that you’re taking your responsibilities seriously.LikeLike
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Gregory. They may be actually on to something. A resort? Usually those are built on the local history. How about a resort that gives the “mining experience”. People pay big bucks to play “miner” for up to a week or so. free labor in disguise, plus, they PAY to do it!
A win win concept. And do it old school. Picks, shovels, ore carts they have to push.
Even the meals will be of the period. Beans and bread, with the famous pasties for that high class dinner. No power, just oil lamps.
There is a gold prospectors association that does the same thing, and draws a good crowd.
People even go to Nome Alaska for the “experience”.
hey can always pitch the joint as ” see and do the evil,dirty job we had the courage to exterminate”.
There are plenty of city suckers that would sign up.LikeLike
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George B. As I recall, Those guys and their ilk, have always bitched about those nasty get rich quick,, DEVELOPERS… Now they “look” for one?
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Didn’t our recent attempt to open up a level of the Empire Mine to tourists for the ‘mining experience’ fail because of some lawyer related factor?
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If developers wanted to build a resort here, they’d be knocking on the doors.
Real manufacturing is slowly hemorrhaging out of Nevada County to elsewhere, and that’s how wealth and steady income is generated; build stuff that goes out on trucks, and money is wired back in return. With that money, you can ship food and merchandise (like medicine, fuel, cars, appliances, paint… you know, all that stuff we don’t make here as efficiently as people do elsewhere) back in. An amazing concept.
A resort provides a few real jobs while it is built, then a bunch of low paying service jobs, which, I have to admit, to which most of the local schools are targeting their curriculums to, as science, math and engineering aren’t beckoning many local grads.
Sixth grade girls in Nevada County… how do you think their math scores compare to girls in the Los Angeles Unified School District, a typical poster child for all that is wrong with education? That’s when the arithmetic of fractions tends to have been solidified, the main precursor to algebra readiness. “STEM” readiness, if you will. Any guesses?LikeLike
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Did anyone see the Judicial Watch terror threat report today? They are saying they have multiple senior officials confirming that ISIS in in Juarez Mexico from electronic intercepts. Word is the Army Base in El Paso is prepping. All Law Enforcement along the border has been warned of potential car bombs and vehicle borne improvised explosive devices based on the ISIS chatter. At least the Brits ramped up their threat level while the obamanation says he has no strategy and is not raising the threat level as we approach 9/11. This all backs up the prior CIA reports of jihaddies and the cartels coordinating something. You have to wonder if they will fill a car or truck with a bunch of 17 year old gang bangers who ‘are fleeing the violence in their home country seeking asylum’. Well maybe Gov moonbeam will welcome them at the border. Starting to really feel like the lefty inmates are running the asylum in the democrat asylum in DC. We already know they are in the State Capitol.
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Yes,, I read that Don. But don’t count on “O” and Co. to heed that warning. ( They sure didn’t in Benghazi, and still deny it was terror related,) “O” even said when elected the first time that ” some attacks we will just have to absorb” . LIBS are in denial that attacks will happen, or believe that ” we deserve it, and have it coming.” 9/11 has become
thump on the U.S. day, and “go for it. They won’t do anything about it!”. See my Benghazi
statement above.
The thing is, (in my opinion) the next attack may be in “small town” USA. Be it Ca. AZ. NV. TX. Just a few hundred miles from the boarder, where “everyone” feels immune from such atrocities.( Nope,, it can NEVER happen here.) That’s where they would want to hit next. Right where we feel safest.
Then of course it would never be labeled a terror attack. ( not on “O”‘s watch)
Then watch the apologist in action once again.LikeLike
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 29 August 2014 at 04:36 PM
I find you incredibly myopic Don….discussing this when Jim Firth is working on bringing a “destination resort” to your area.
Not just a resort….a destination resort!LikeLike
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Walt, your second paragraph nails it. Hit the soft targets like the substation in Silicon Valley that just got hit for the second time. PG & E reacted fast to prevent a power disruption to production facilities. These are the exact circumstances why there is a program to distribute surplus protective vehicles to law enforcement. I recall the opposition to cops in SF,LA,NY over the years about having larger cal. guns, SWAT teams and now protective vehicles that we already paid for. Remember the power of the Boston IED’s, consider them being set up to deny access to an area in layers as in Iraq. How about the setting is a chem. plant, refinery, reactor facility and so on. Our best and bravest from local jurisdictions would be the first to respond. They should not have to go into that in soft skinned vehicles. As a victims advocate I am fine with them being used to root out a wife beater with a big cal. gun who is barricaded with his victim and is too smart to expose himself to a head shot.
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Concerning the spelling police.
1) It’s never as much fun when your [sic] on the receiving end.
2) Blaming one’s educators for one’s poor spelling boarders [sic] on liberal characteristics.
With my compliments although others and their wife’s [sic] may not concur.LikeLike
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Posted by: George Rebane | 29 August 2014 at 01:21 PM
I am interested in hearing yours as well.LikeLike
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As an occasional spelling vigilante, I try to keep it to a minimum because, Zarquon be praised, most of us are human and I have made my share of typos. But sometimes, after the n-th misspelling or grammatic gaffe in the same post… well, everyone has a breaking point.
Currantly, the one that gets my groat the most is “loose” instead of “lose”, but I realize there is no raisin to get upset and hope a word to the wise is efficient.LikeLike
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Walt misspells bt design to smoke out the anal types. He has done this for years. I have been chastised for spelling and it usually means the chastiser has no answers to the comment itself. Too funny!
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Currantly, the one that gets my groat the most is “loose” instead of “lose”, but I realize there is no raisin to get upset and hope a word to the wise is efficient.
You are a funny man……LikeLike
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Well, we know who didn’t win any spelling bees in grade school.
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I actually hit the enter key before my spelling brain does a double take. I actually was a good speeler in screwl.
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Not this time Todd, I got caught fair and square.
That’s OK,,, “someone” will have an episode of digital dyslexia soon enough.
I got my ruler at the ready this time.
RL,, is that aimed in my direction? If so,, you know why I got into the dirt business. Guilty as charged.LikeLike
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It would appear, Walt, that you also learned punctuation at the hands of liberals. Please accept my compliments, none the less, on your gentlemanly admission.
Oh, and your mild threat should have begun, “I have my ruler…”LikeLike
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Yup,,, close is good nuff. Grammatically challenged. Is there a government check I can get for that?
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Seems Iceland isn’t alone with “acid reflux”. Many “dormant” volcanos that haven’t shown signs of activity for eons are awakening around the globe. Now the Cannery Islands are rumbling.
Just how ugly can things get?LikeLike
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“Grammatically challenged. Is there a government check I can get for that?”
All of them fit that bill.LikeLike
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Concerning 0bama (that’s zero bama for the spelling pulice) and this kissing up and bending over and taking it where the sun don’t shine by camel dongs with ragheads riding on the hump , why o why don ‘t people get it? 0bama ain’t friggin black and nothing under the sun will ever change that. His pappy was Arab, his mommie was a full blown cracker, and that makes him about 7% black, and the lion’s share white Ahab.
Didn’t you ever wonder why 0bama had the head of NASA spend our dollars figuring out ways to make the Ahabs feel good about themselves and their numerous pioneering scientific discoveries and contributions to the wonderful world of STEM? One of the first things he did. Shoot howdy, they have the crescent moon on their Muslum flag, what more can we do?
Fast forward to 3 days ago when the FBI released its report on domestic terrorism and threats and every friggin raghead group was omitted. What does that tell ya?
Too many recently converted Islums in the cabinet and National Security team. Heck, they used to say commies have infiltrated the government and now Islums have infiltrated the government and the friggen Oral Office. Makes me long for the simpler less threatening days where interns were gobbling the goop. Can’t even utter the phrase Islumic terriorists or friggin radical Islums if you work for 0.
Big Zero puts his heritage of Ahabhood first and foremost and serving the best interests of us Gun clinging Bible thumpers way down the list. Vets, gun owners, Christians, and Tea Party types are called Terriorists by Big Zero’s directives and friggin baby killing women stoning Ragheads are not called terrorists.
I’d fly 10,000 miles to smoke a camel and it’s jockey. Meanwhile, Big Zero walks around with a camel dongs hanging from his poop shute. Sad times, bro-in-laws.LikeLike
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No plastic bags tonight? Anyone hear if Moonbeam signed the stupid law?
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Bill. That’s why ALL his records were sealed, and anyone who questioned his past was marginalized.
We are in the midst of a Constitutional crisis.
When “O” is gone, and real investigators dig up the facts that his birth cert. was a fake, or actually non existent,, count on the LIBS to say ” What the Hell DIFF. does it make now? We pulled one over on you… Get over it.”
I’m sure “O” has a prayer rug neatly roled up in the bottom left hand drawer of the desk.LikeLike
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Time to save the Polar bears again. There is just TOO much sea ice. They will starve because it’s so thick.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2738653/Stunning-satellite-images-summer-ice-cap-thicker-covers-1-7million-square-kilometres-MORE-2-years-ago-despite-Al-Gore-s-prediction-ICE-FREE-now.htmlLikeLike
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“People need to debate the issues, not resort to personal attacks.”
-Jeff Pelline
I stand corrected… Pelline does have a fine sense of humor. According to Jeff, the new Publisher of The Union is a, a… a conservative. I think the conservatives in town aren’t buying that howler. From what I can see, I can’t tell for sure what his politics are, which probably means he’s doing his job and pissing everyone off.
Backatcha Jeff, one of your brilliant ad hominems of the past…what a boob.LikeLike
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Hey George, here is the latest from Michael Anderson on you. Those Burning Man people sure are nutty.
Michael Anderson says:
August 31, 2014 at 12:27 pm
George Rebane refuses to moderate his blog. He says his no-moderation policy is due to his reverence for the First Amendment, but that is a lie. Rebane is a neo-fascist, and uses his blog to libel and demean people who don’t kow-tow to his sick, sociopathic belief system. I am at a loss as to why an organization like Rotary allows him continue as a member. It’s a local scandal.
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ToddJ 1248pm – “neo-fascist”, “libel and demean people”, “sociopathic belief system” ?? Wow! Perhaps these accusations would deserve some attention were it the case that Mr Anderson ever understood anything that has been posted on RR. Since there is no evidence of that, we will have to leave it there.
Re my Rotary involvement, perhaps Mr Anderson could take up the matter with Ms Robin Milam, the current president of the Nevada City Rotary Club. Thanks Todd.LikeLike
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Wow… If George had “moderated” what Marxist Mike posted, he would be the first to whine about censorship.
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Wow, it looks like Jeffie let one of his Lickspittles get out of hand at 12:27.
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Just took a look at Jeffy’s cesspool of BS. From so-called “racism in the county” ( ya,,, sure thing.. don’t buy it one bit.) to bitching about Ackerman.( again.)
Off to the showers to hose off the stench of that outhouse hole of a blog.
( speaking of moderation,,) how that site is allowed to stay on the net is beyond me.( Using LIB logic)LikeLike
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Lickspittle! Too funny. The Michael Anderson’s of the world have just had too much fun with the “substances” and the “debauchery” of the alternative lifestyles. They are so out there that we should have had them be out Mars astronauts. Anyway, MA to my knowledge has never served the military needs of his fellow countryment so he deserves simply a big fat turd for lunch. That might be too good for the ingrate **itc!
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“George Rebane refuses to moderate his blog. He says his no-moderation policy is due to his reverence for the First Amendment, but that is a lie. Rebane is a neo-fascist, and uses his blog to libel and demean people who don’t kow-tow to his sick, sociopathic belief system. I am at a loss as to why an organization like Rotary allows him continue as a member. It’s a local scandal.”-Michael P. Anderson, owner of Clientworks of Nevada City.
Personally, I’m at a loss why an organization like the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce would let Mike continue as a member. Mike has been pulling crap like the above for years, and I write that as the “climate brownshirt” he was threatening at the old TheUnion blog.LikeLike
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George Rebane refuses to moderate his blog. He says his no-moderation policy is due to his reverence for the First Amendment, but that is a lie. Rebane is a neo-fascist, and uses his blog to libel and demean people who don’t kow-tow to his sick, sociopathic belief system. I am at a loss as to why an organization like Rotary allows him continue as a member. It’s a local scandal.
Oh Michael…..I thought you knew….the brown acid is bad!
Thought a veteran burner like yourself would have known better!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKoLlKmQSHULikeLike
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Regarding the charge of “racism” at Edwards crossing,, that’s the “all inclusive” North San Juan LIB territory. Only the “ridge rats” infest that part of the river.
Dose “he who shall not be named” know that?LikeLike
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“People need to debate the issues, not resort to personal attacks.”
-Jeff Pelline
Checking, the ugly and defamatory personal attack by Michael Anderson of Clientworks on Rebane is still on Pelline’s blog. Cue the Final Jeopardy theme while we wait to see if Jeff gets around to scooping his own sandbox.LikeLike
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By definition….if manboobs approves….it can’t be defamatory.
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Now you all listen up. Mr. Anderson is my BFF forever….er…was, until he got sweet on Fish for awhile which saddened the cockles of me weary heart. Then he told Fish that he hadn’t chosen between the two which of us is truly his BFF. What a harlot.
Fish, I may not be the smartest dude on these here pages, but I have an inkling that your recent comments may have sunk your chances for being his BFF. However I may be loose but I ain’t easy. Hell hath no fury like a mangina scorned.
I will take into consideration the chain of unfortunate events that led to the delay of Burning Manboobs and it’s devasting physcological effect it had on Sky Piolet. Caused him to play lose with his anger and almost loose it. (That last sentence was for Mr. Gregory).
Oh, manboobs is recylcling the old RacisLikeLike
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Manboobs has a Nightstalker! Proof that he has found one adorning fan. Or has he? Most likely it was one of his sock puppets that emerged from his Multiple Personality Disorder and is stalking Manboobs in the wee hours after the sun goes down. Manboobs needs a large areola to house so many evil spirits. That last sentence was for Mr. Walt.
Hmmmm, let’s look under the hood, shall we? Burning Man gets delayed and Nightstalker emerges on the scene. Coincidence?LikeLike
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 August 2014 at 04:33 PM
While I eagerly await Michaels decision as to whom the rose will be offered I was interested to know what pricked up his ears this afternoon. Scoopy must have sprinkled something in his “Lefty Chow”.LikeLike
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