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Sandbox – 27sep14

27 September 2014

[A refreshingly new sandbox is filled and ready for your divers thoughts, ideas, and repartees. I would be interested in a thread that discusses the 'Ring of Fire' rumblings going on. What really concerns me is that not much is being said about the really big one under Yellowstone. When that one goes we will all be wishing we had more emergency food and … ]

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105 responses to “Sandbox – 27sep14”

RL Crabb

27 September 2014

When that one goes, we can kiss our ash goodbye.

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Michael R. Kesti

27 September 2014

FYI:
On Friday evening, October 3, 2014 at Nevada City’s St. Canice Center, Common Core Concerns, a local group concerned about the problems with the Common Core State Standards, are sponsoring an event featuring Krisanne Hall, a constitutional attorney who travels the country to teach the history and meaning of the United States Constitution. Her talk is titled, “The Constitution and State Sovereignty.”
The next day Hall will present her 5-hour Constitution class at Church of Glad Tidings in Live Oak, CA.
For more information link to http://www.commoncoreconcerns.com/events.html
Also, check out Hall’s inspiring and informative talk titled, “The Genealogy of the U.S. Constitution” on You Tube.
For the record, I am in no way affiliated with any of the people and organizations mentioned in this article.

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Russ Steele

27 September 2014

The linked chart has always intrigued me, leading me to wonder about the potential connections between declining solar sunspot activity and increased volcanic activity on the planet.
http://www.seafriends.org.nz/books/harris_mann.gif
When you look at this linked graphic one is left wondering is there is a connection, is there a highly complex communication path between the the earths inner pool of molten lava and the reduced energy of the magnetosphere due to the declining number of sunspots? We are experiencing a very low sun spot cycle and vulcanism seems to be increasing. Seems is the key word, I do not have any data.
Why are there so many large eruptions listed on the graphic during cold periods on the earth? The cold seems to be linked to fewer sun spots. Yet, during the periods of low sun spots, there are more major volcanic eruptions that impact the climate.
This might be a chicken and egg problem, which produced the cold, the reduced sunspots or the extensive volcanism? Looking at the graphic, one might conclude the cooling started before the increased number of major volcanic eruptions. That brings us back to the question, are they linked by some highly complex communication process, like other complex communication paths in nature. Does fewer sunspots and a cooler climate signal increase vulcanism? Look at the chart again.

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Russ Steele

27 September 2014

Long Valley Caldera rattled by more than 1059 earthquakes in latest seismic swarm
September 2014 – CALIFORNIA – The Long Valley Caldera is experiencing a large seismic swarm. As magma moves through the earth, it displaces and fractures rock along the way. This movement causes earthquakes that can be recorded with seismometers at the surface of the earth. Seismic monitoring is the most used technique for volcano surveillance. Volcanic earthquakes often provide the initial sign of volcanic unrest. Their signals differ from typical, tectonic, earthquakes because they tend to be found at depths shallower than 10 km, are small in magnitude (< 3), occur in swarms, and are restricted to the area beneath a volcano. Harmonic tremor, or volcanic tremor, is the name for the continuous, rhythmic seismic energy associated with underground magma movement. At Long Valley Caldera, there are currently 61 seismometers that make up the seismic network used to determine earthquake location and energy of movement with time.
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/long-valley-caldera-rattled-by-more-than-1059-earthquakes-in-latest-seismic-swarm/

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Bill Tozer

28 September 2014

If you dig a big deep hole in your yard straight thru the center of the Earth, you would end up in the Indian Ocean, not China. Surprise, Surprise!, as Gomer Pyle would say. File this comment in the encyclopedia of worthless information.

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Michael R. Kesti

28 September 2014

Bill Tozer 28Sep14 07:02 AM
The information provided is not only worthless, it is also moot. Digging such a hole would take many lifetimes. Even if this hapless, hypothetical, hole digger lived long enough, he would encounter temperatures as high as at the surface of the sun and be vaporized before reaching Earth’s center.
It simply does not matter where such a hole would end up!

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Bill Tozer

28 September 2014

Well, Mr. Kesti, guess it would be hell on Earth for the poor soul who tried such an endeavor. But, it the hapless chap managed to punch a hole through the rather warm center, imagine what pressure he would bear when he punched through the bottom of the Indian Ocean. That, my dear fellow, is the definition of a bad day. 🙂
Speaking of having a bad day, this one ranks right up there. After firefighters were mopping up a forest fire back East, they came upon a body in a wet suit. Puzzled by why the deceased was wearing a wet suit in the middle of a burned up forest, the answer came to them. The poor chap was skin diving and snorting about in some body of water when he got scooped up by a water helicopter and was dropped right on the burning inferno. Wonder what was going through his mind when he was plucked from the water, lifted high in the sky and the last thing he saw as either the belly of the aircraft or the fast approaching ground fully engulfed in fire. That is a bad day that started off so nice.
Have a nice day.

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George Rebane

28 September 2014

Re supply of STEM graduates. Over the past years we have had the debate about America’s supply of STEM graduates. Recently reports have surfaced claiming that we have a surplus of STEM workers while corporations experience shortages in the kinds of STEM workers they require. My response has been that the shoreline of knowledge has become so long and convoluted (read specialized) that having just a STEM degree is no longer sufficient to guarantee employment. The STEM student needs to be aware of what specialties do the STEM job markets demand, and then tailor his study areas accordingly. Simply citing the number of STEM degree holders having to take non-STEM misses the point. You can no longer shotgun your STEM education, you have to rifle shoot it. Here’s more (H/T to a reader for this link).
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/are-we-producing-too-few-or-too-many-science-and-technology-grads/

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Walt

28 September 2014

Our global warmists have been strangely quiet. Too much factual evidence against their
trumped up beliefs?
Ya’ gotta love the photos of the aftermath of the earth lovers uh, “gatherings”.. Trashed beyond belief. Ever hear of a garbage can? Or did they have a contract with the garbage cleanup union? Even the 5 gallon buckets used in their drum circles are left for others to deal with.

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Walt

28 September 2014

While I’m on a role,, again,, where are the illegal war gang? ( Paul the chief loudmouth)
They (he) wanted Bush’s head on a plate and charged with a crime. But now that it’s”their” guy,,, crickets… Not a peep.

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Walt

28 September 2014

To keep watch on the goings on in Mammoth lakes, this is the self updating USGS map I frequent. ( it good for where ever you care to keep tabs on.)
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
It’s worth bookmarking.

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Walt

28 September 2014

Russ. Last year there was a similar swarm of quakes near Hawthorn. Some believed ” Mt. Harry Reid ” was going to emerge. Yet nutt’n… Those kept the security cops there more than busy, as sensitive as all those storage bunker bugler alarms are.

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Bill Tozer

28 September 2014

Mr. Walt, suffer me to attempt to answer one or more of your questions. The Global Warming crowd has not gone anywhere. Why are they quiet today? Elementary my dear Watson. They are still sleeping it off. You will hear the bongo drums as soon as they recover from their last street party. After all, it’s only been one week today and these events are 9 months in the planning before giving birth.
Cannot speak for our dear close personal friend Mr. Paul, but I hazard to guess he got too wet in the rain last night at the Celtic Festival moving his feet to the Screaming Orphans and getting down with the peaceful laid back West Coast crowd. Over the moon as the say, followed by under the weather. What goes up must come down.

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Walt

28 September 2014

Good point Mr. B. I don’t keep track of their medicated get togethers.
( I wonder if they cleaned up after themselves this time after all the bad press from other events)

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Bill Tozer

28 September 2014

No need to wonder there Mr. Walt. In nothing else, that crowd is consistent. Bad press? surely you jest. They be the good guys and when you are on a mission from God, there is no time to clean up trash while you are cleaning up the planet. Bad press? Nay, it is just the negative extremist flat earth whack sacs like moi being a naysayer. They be consistent, so no cleaning up. Name one time they did such a task beneath the dignity of being the self appointed saviors of a very saddened Mother Earth. Name one.
Bad press you say? Horsie puckie. You cannot shame a sociopath.

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Walt

28 September 2014

Got it… LEAVING it upon the earth from which it came. It’s OK…. When THEY do it.

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Walt

28 September 2014

What’s up with NSJ and accidental gunshot wounds? Another just happened.
Let’s hope things turn out OK.

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Bill Tozer

28 September 2014

Firearms and chemistry do not mix.

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Russ Steele

28 September 2014

Quote of the Day on 60 Minutes:
Obama says “the country is definitely better off than we were when I came into office.” But the people “don’t feel it.”
What is wrong with you people, why do you keep disappointing our poor confused President, he is trying so hard to make the real world fit his socialist model and you just keep failing him. How sad. /sarc off

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Bill Tozer

28 September 2014

Mr. Steele. You are about the only one who listens to what Obama says anymore. Must say from your report that his comedy has improved.

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Bill Tozer

28 September 2014

http://www.westernjournalism.com/ebola-doctor/. Ok, I still tune in to what Zerobama says and give him the one finger salute.

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fish

29 September 2014

Posted by: Russ Steele | 28 September 2014 at 08:12 PM
Indeed Russ….if only you people weren’t such reactionary clods you to could recognize his beneficence!
/now sarc is really off!
…and now the news from the Eastern Sierra Front…..
Looks like Steve gets to live in Truckee for another few years….
Sierra Business Council chosen to help small businesses in our region
“In addition, free workshops and classes will be offered in a variety of topics including Lean Start Up, business model generation, energy efficiency and social media strategies. SBC will also provide counseling and access to capital advisory services for start-up, small business expansion and entrepreneurial ventures.”
This service provided in addition to the myriad other reasons why Steve is simply too busy to enjoy the “jousting” here in “Hells Little Half Acre”!
I would reply to George but we are too busy over here on the eastern side of the hill working on high speed broadband, installing an electric charging network, building a community scale biomass facility, doing 8,000 acres a year of forest thinning, writing a Climate Action Plan, installing millions of dollars worth of energy efficiency improvements, streetscaping Kings Beach and Truckee, installing water quality improvements, building a high Sierra local food network, starting up co-working spaces, building bike trails, building pocket parks, and seeing the highest occupancy rate in retail in more than a decade, all while enjoying a 20% higher per capita income.
Isn’t “streetscaping”, building bike trails, and building “pocket parks” the kind of thing the Junior League used to do back in the day….sans grant money? And isn’t “installing an electric charging network, building a community scale biomass facility” what they do in all those post apocalyptic movies (nukes, plague, zombies) to try and re-establish society? “Hey….it looks good on you” /Dangerfield
…and of course jeffy will be in attendance!
We are working extra hard to clear our workload to attend the “Peak Innovation Conference” on October 8-10 in Tahoe City. Meanwhile, here’s the press release on the honor to help small businesses in our region. Good going:
Streetscaping….Pocket Parks = “Peak Innovation”. This country might as well just hold its “Going Out of Business” sale now while there are still assets that have some value. The popping sounds aren’t “heads exploding” Michael it’s the sound of jaws hitting desktops watching you guys jerk each other off over this silliness!

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Todd Juvinall

29 September 2014

SBC has no “business” in the true sense. It is government and tax money that passes through. Also land trusts. So he is simply a contract government employee making 100K a uear to oversee our tax money. Nothing more.

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Bill Tozer

29 September 2014

Mr. Fish, the only popping I want to hear (and have a slim chance of ever hearing) is the distinct POP! of when little jeffie finally removes his swollen head from his buttocks.

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Bill Tozer

29 September 2014

We should all be more understanding. I have been trying to see things from manchild jeffie’s point of view, but I just can’t seem to get my head that far up my ass.

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Russ Steele

29 September 2014

I have some thoughts on Socialist Economics Development Coming to the Region here:
http://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2014/09/29/socialist-economic-development-comes-to-the-region/

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Russ Steele

29 September 2014

Those interested in global warming my find this article on the Maunder Minimum and the impact of cosmic rays at the Next Grand Minimum worth a read, especially since scientist are predicting one of the lowest solar activity periods over the next 20 years. Details at the Next Grand Minimum:
http://nextgrandminimum.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/new-paper-influence-of-solar-cycles-on-climate-change-during-the-maunder-minimum/

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Todd Juvinall

29 September 2014

SBC is a joke.
Frisch is a prime example of the goblet-gook that socialists use regarding language. There is nothing that he will do that will make any private sector business and/or jobs. He is simply a leech on the economy of pass through from the taxpayers and a double whammy on the economy. Jyust like a welfare queen, nothing real is produced it is just an illusion. Covered over with fancy words.

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Gregory

29 September 2014

Checking, a new record at Peeline’s… as of moments ago, 8 of the last ten comments are by a Pelline (Jeff and the Annie Fox sox).
Yes, SBC is collecting more rent. I wonder if they will be using Frisch’s failed restaurant and his misappropriation of taxes withheld from his payroll as an example when “servicing” whatever small businesses come to their door for this new program?

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George Rebane

29 September 2014

What remarkable good news indeed for SBC. I had no idea that what was keeping our local economy in the dumps was the lack of having a Small Business Development Center to serve all those would be entrepreneurs and struggling small businesses that have been standing around with their thumbs up their … well, you know. So now we have the ability to import more government money into the area as a measure of economic success. Unlike a defense contract from which the government gets a product/service that it cannot provide at lower cost or at all, this kind of money coming into the Sierra will just create dependency on more such money coming later. But the real question is from where does the SBC get the business acumen to actually serve as a competent SBDC helping to bolster or set up for-profit businesses? But then again, I suppose they could hire a bevy of new business savvy consultants.
Finally, I wonder if there is any metric that lets taxpayers evaluate the performance of a SBDC after the local progressives are done with their happy dancing. One thing is for certain though, Mr Frisch is very good at what he really does.

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fish

29 September 2014

Finally, I wonder if there is any metric that lets taxpayers evaluate the performance of a SBDC after the local progressives are done with their happy dancing.
I can only assume that the beauty and majesty of the dance itself will need to suffice~!

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Russ Steele

29 September 2014

Sierra College use to be the regional SBDC for Nevada County, now they are not even answering the phone.

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George Rebane

29 September 2014

Any comments on the long-awaited resignation of AG Eric Holder? I have long considered him to be rogue in his duties, a racist in his belief system, and a full supporter of Obama’s goal to fundamentally transform America into a second rate nation giving rise to the chaos that our withdrawal has already created. A more complete litany of Holder’s racial politics is provided by Edwin Meese and Kenneth Blackwell here –
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ed-meese-and-j-kenneth-blackwell-holders-legacy-of-racial-politics-1411945138?mod=hp_opinion

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fish

29 September 2014

Any comments on the long-awaited resignation of AG Eric Holder?
Some talk about bringing Big Sis back from the UC system. We’re I her I’d tell them “thanks but no thanks” if Team Stupid takes the senate being AG might get depressing real fast.

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George Rebane

29 September 2014

fish 102pm – You’re a hard man Mr fish.

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Gregory

29 September 2014

The Holder situation may be an October surprise in the making, anticipating bad news as the long refused info demanded by a judge is produced before the election.

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George Rebane

29 September 2014

Gregory 148pm – Wow, never thought of that gambit. In that case he sure is keeping a stiff upper lip in his pledge to stay in “public service” after being AG. Can you do that from jail? 😉

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Walt

29 September 2014

The demise of LIBS in Nov. is shining brightly. Iowa is a lost cause as of today
Yup, the domino effect has begun. Even in other states Lefties are losing ground by the day. In some cases LIBS are trying to hide behind the cloak of “independent”. But it seems the voters are seeing through that curtain of BS.
Yes, Holder is jumping ship because he knows damned well the Right is going to clean house.
The last thing he wants is to face Senate investigators who can and would toss his ass in jail. Expect plenty other LIBS to flee the sinking SS. Obummer before it goes under.
Hell! “O” might pull a Nixon to escape criminal liability.

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Bill Tozer

29 September 2014

Eric holder started his AJ tenure by calling us a bunch of cowards. He has politicalized the Justice Department to its current unrecognized form and is proud of that fact. He has ordered every school district in the nation not to expel troublemaker students if they are students of color under the threat of inadvertent racism charges. He has ordered school districts not to ask an illegal immigrant student’s age, even if they have wrinkles and gray sideburns. What grade do you place them then? And that was just in the last 60 days.
He has been held in contempt of Congress and all investigations concerning the Administration’s various departments he has blocked. All scandals die in Eric Holder’s Justice Department.
But it is intentional crafting of turning the Justice Department into a liberal activist wing of the Administration with 600,000 employees is what troubles me the most. Planned it that way. We are a nation of cowards and Eric has an ax to grind with Whitie. And he is making the whole nation pay.

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George Rebane

29 September 2014

And now to put a bow on his gift of national chaos, he has vowed to make illegal all profiling by the nation’s police departments and investigative agencies to include – wait for it – national security agencies and units. If followed, this removes possibly the most powerful tool that such governmental units have for preventing crime, catching bad guys, and defending the nation. The name of the tool is Bayesian decision theory.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/30/doj-to-ban-religious-racial-profiling-in-national-security-probes/

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fish

29 September 2014

…stay tuned as local scold reads Theodore the riot act!
Todd,
I cleared your comments because they do not cross a line. But your own blog is an unmoderated mud pit. Get your own house in order before you invite yourself into someone else’s. Didn’t mommy Juvinall teach you that? Your sister went to Stanford and your brother is a damn good tile man (so I hear). So what’s up with you and not moderating your blog? Grow up man. You’re into your late sixties now.
STANFORD Dammit……she went to Stanford!
I rather like your mud pit Todd…so much more fun than “jeffys house of being overly impressed with Stanford”. Not to denigrate Stanford….but the FUE boys do bring a certain charm to the intertubes!

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Bill Tozer

29 September 2014

Paul would not like this. Let’s blame Bush, the sequel:
http://www.examiner.com/article/dems-start-the-blame-game-again

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Bill Tozer

29 September 2014

Little brother Ben will not like this: Blame the progressives:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/29/3572974/blue-slip-voter-id/

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Gregory

29 September 2014

Fish, my kid spells it Stanfurd.

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Walt

29 September 2014

Better get a lawyer to hang a shingle just up from the Forest Hill bridge.
He will need plenty of last will and testaments, and release of liability forms on hand.
LIBS who just knew that they would never lose power, or “their guy” would get re-elected
will be trying to jump from center span. Liberalism is walking that “green mile”.
Social justice has hit the skids, Global warming hysteria isn’t working, and the U.S. is now becoming the leading producer of OIL!! ( by and on private land alone)
People are choosing prosperity over poverty, no matter what the current government has tried.
Word is out LIBS will be handed their walking papers wholesale in this election, and many may just wind up in jail. The new Repub Senate will be looking for a well deserved payback.
Oh Yes.. There will be gloating. It’s our turn to say ” sit down and shut up. WE won.
The adults will be back in charge.

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Bill Tozer

30 September 2014

The adults will be back in charge. It’s a dirty job but somebody has to do it. Remember to be tolerant and understanding as the libs’ frontal lobes have not fully developed.
http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/new_watch.htm

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Todd Juvinall

30 September 2014

I received this from the FUE this morning via private email. Is this guy creepy?
” When you talk to him, don’t forget to mention your lawyer told me he knows your sister and my friend told me your brother is a good tiler, because he’s been a customer.
Oh, and let’s not forget this: http://sierradragonsbreathe.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-sisters-experience-with-obamacare.html ie, you even wrote about your sister.
And tell the Sheriff I said “hello,” since we spoke four days ago. His cell number is plugged into my iPhone now.
My advice is that you give your keyboard a rest Todd. No need to respond.
Have a great day!
-Jeff “

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Russ Steele

30 September 2014

Mother Jones has story about communities attempting to return their MRAPs HERE.
But some agencies have found the process of getting rid of unwanted military gear next to impossible. Agencies can’t return or trade equipment without Defense Department approval, and because the Pentagon technically still owns the equipment, they can’t sell it.
According to interviews with state officials running point between the Pentagon and police, the Defense Department prefers to leave equipment in circulation whenever possible. “It’s a low-cost storage method for them,” says Robb Davis, the mayor pro tem of Davis. His town is trying to shake its MRAP. “They’re dumping these vehicles on us and saying, ‘Hey, these are still ours, but you have to maintain them for us.’”
I told Sheriff Royal that he would rue the day he accepted his MRAP. There was no logistic support chain procured for MRAPs, yet he has to maintain the vehicle for the military. He cannot sell it, he cannot scrap it. He is stuck with it until he can find another community to take it off his hands.

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Russ Steele

30 September 2014

Quote of the day:
SO I GUESS NOBODY’S LAUGHING AT CLINT EASTWOOD’S “EMPTY CHAIR” BIT ANYMORE: Report: Obama Has Missed over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings
He wanted the job, he just does not want the responsibility of the job.

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Todd Juvinall

30 September 2014

I think Obama has some clinical depression going on. He is unable to get his agenda fully implemented as he did when he was a professor teaching law with a cloistered group of students. He is also bored. He has no passion in his canned speeches and his body language is something you might see in a ward of inmates cowed by the gusrds.

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