188 responses to “Sandbox – 3may15”

1. 

   Bill Tozer

   03 May 2015

   Ok, how about some optimism from The Big Apple.
   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-california.html?_r=0

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   Bill Tozer

   03 May 2015

   First Amendment push back. Very non PC.
   http://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-vicinity-texas-community-center-hosting-draw-prophet/story?id=30777312

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   Russ Steele

   03 May 2015

   Two gunmen ‘carrying explosives’ attack anti-Muslim art contest in Texas: Suspects dead and security guard wounded at ‘draw Muhammad’ event that offered $10k prize
   Two suspects were gunned down after shooting the guard in the leg outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland
   Building and surrounding area was placed on lockdown by a SWAT team with around 100 attendees still inside
   Reports suggest the pair were carrying explosives at the time, and another two bombs were discovered nearby
   The American Freedom Defense Initiative event offered a $10,000 prize for the best caricature of the prophet
   Involved a keynote speech from far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who has linked the Koran to terrorism
   Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3066779/Police-officer-suspect-said-injured-shooting-outside-art-anti-Muslim-exhibition-art-depicting-prophet-Muhammad.html#ixzz3Z8TIRFGS

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   Don Bessee

   03 May 2015

   Where is the ACLU?

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   Bill Tozer

   04 May 2015

   Mr. Bessee. I don’t know where the ACLU is on this matter, but I do know Hillary Rodclam has valiantly served with them in the past. She was been rather busy lately, but still has found the time to be quite the disorganized opportunist. Like watching a jayhawk getting a big acorn stuck in its throat. Greedy little thing she is.
   http://www.livetradingnews.com/former-clinton-adviser-dick-morris-on-hillary-rodham-clinton-103897.htm#.VUcx8XBHaK0

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   MikeL

   04 May 2015

   Russ, the winner in the art contest in Garland had a piece called “Pissed Prophet”. A really mad looking likeness of Mohamud was placed in a jar of pig urine. Oh the horror..que the religon of peace.
   This reminds me of similar incident when the two heavily armed Christian gunmen stormed the art exhibit in New York and shot up the place…oh wait this didn’t happen…never mind.

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   George Rebane

   04 May 2015

   RR reader and commenter George Boardman’s latest (4may15)Union column is worth a read and discussion. Mr Boardman is the latest community voice to point out the idiocy practiced in Nevada City by its tin-eared city council, planning commission, and other do-gooders of known ideological hue. I think you can read it here –
   http://www.theunion.com/opinion/16131348-113/george-boardman-real-world-economics-and-western-nevada

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   Patricia Smith

   04 May 2015

   I realize this is off topic, but i would like to extend an invitation to all of you to attend an informational seminar this Thursday, May 7, at the Empire Grange, from 1:00 – 3:00pm. The Grange is located at 11283 Grange Ct. off La Barr Meadows. Sue Taylor, the only person licensed by the State of CA to teach seniors about the benefits of medical marijuana, will host a workshop, Aging with Grace.
   The purpose of the seminar is to inform seniors how cannabis can oftentimes replace harmful pharmaceutical drugs, improve the quality of their lives, and how to nagivate the requirements to obtain medical marijuana legally and sfaely.
   This is a free event and is open to the public. I know some of the RR readers are MMJ users (and others could definitely benefit from cannabis) so I hope you will take this opportuity to educate yourselves.

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   Walt

   04 May 2015

   Now that a good Texas cop bagged his limit of radical Muslims, maybe we can send their heads back marked “return to sender”, with a note, “Here in the U.S.,, we shoot back”.
   Seems the event had a good suspicion that some nuts would show up. They hired their own SWAT team. Looks like the event was some good bait.
   Someone’s First Amendment rights were protected by another’s 2ND Amendment rights.

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10. 

    Walt

    04 May 2015

    Here we go again with the attack on “air attack” of wild fires. KCRA is running the teasers for their “in depth” report.

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11. 

    Todd Juvinall

    04 May 2015

    NBC News justt carried the water for Clinton’s foundation. My goodness their noses are right up his tookus. Disgusting.
    Also, the two Jihadists ran into a straight shooting cop in Texas. He had a service piece, they had automatic weapons. That Second Amendment works!

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    Don Bessee

    04 May 2015

    Forbes had an eye opening analysis that showed if you get the average American welfare benefit you are in the top 20% of world incomes. Add the illegals and you are really talking redistribution. Walt- Had not considered the bait angle, interesting. Hilarious they called them former jhihadis after an 0 appointed judge gave one a pass ( $600 fine, 3 yrs probation) in spite of 1500 hrs of phone taps full of jhihadi planning. These now really former jihadis were 2 of the low hanging fruit for picking TX. We all know that whole TX audience was packing heat too and the jhihadis would have also lost the fight if they got in!

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13. 

    Walt

    04 May 2015

    Don. It was possible that other radical nuts had the same idea, but those two fools got there first. Upon seeing their fellow idiots assuming ambient air temp., tucked tail and ran. Anything is possible.
    If I had my way, I would have those dead bodies propped up in the town square with dimes on their eyes.(in good ol’ Texas fashion)
    A good pork BBQ is in order for winning this small battle. A pig carcass is appropriate to fill in as pine boxes.

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14. 

    Russ

    04 May 2015

    Global Labor Glut Sinking Wages Means U.S. Needs to Get Schooled
    The long-sought rise in American wages is being suppressed by a global labor glut that is undermining policy makers’ efforts to wring slack from the U.S. job market.
    The most effective way of combating this oversupply is to promote increased training and education of U.S. workers so they can provide skills unavailable elsewhere to employers, according to experts who have studied the problem.
    Who is going to do this training, the Union controlled teachers in our K-12 schools? The liberal college professors, who are more interested in creating more low information voters then training thinkers who have “skills unavailable elsewhere”? If you train thinkers, they will see through the liberal brain dead mash. No, we are all screwed by a broken education system.

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15. 

    Walt

    04 May 2015

    News on the Ca. pro pot game. Now the Union wants in on the action. Yup unionizing “trmimmigrants”, and the pot industry in general. That should keep the price of weed good and high. Just wait till local 420 strikes for higher wadges. If you grow your own, will you by law need to have union labor “harvest” it for you?
    Union thugs going door to door just to see who has a plant or two? ( unions have those special rights where no warrant is required. You can bet Ca. will give them that.)
    yup,, things WILL get interesting.

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    Don Bessee

    04 May 2015

    SEIU is late to the game. United Food and Commercial Workers claim over 1000 pot workers already. I wonder how many they lost in the LA voters crackdown on hundreds of pot shops and delivery services? Do they take street corner workers for a cut? You can find their testimony at the BOS here when the BOS put measures S on the Ballot here. The shake out of who is on which side in 16 is getting clear and the geometry for the legalizers is very very complicated. 36% water reduction gang. Nothing is inevitable, didn’t they say Hillary was going to Prez the last inevitable time?

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17. 

    Bill Tozer

    04 May 2015

    Oh, the water reduction gang is none too happy with Starbucks ruthlessly getting water for free as humanoids and pretty flowers are begging for a mere drop of H2O on their parched tongues. Looks like another factory will soon be shuddering their doors and heading off to greener pastures. But, but, but it is all for the thirsty chilledrun in Tanzania.
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/people-furious-where-starbucks-ethos-193500963.html
    More stuff fit for the Sandbox:
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/102645955
    But, but, but, the libs and like minded folks assured us there would be enough doctors in the house. Yep, I told ya so. Why wait weeks for an appointment when the local ER is open 24/7, especially considering we all got health care insurance now. Exactly what happened in the Commonwealth of Mass. Longer wait time to see “your” physican and more folks opting for the short quick trip to the Memorial Hospital.

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18. 

    George Rebane

    05 May 2015

    Apologies to PatriciaS for the late posting of her 134pm comment(above). I just discovered that TypePad in its wisdom had stuck it into the spam folder from where I rescued it.
    Administrivia – If any reader’s comment does not immediately post, please tell me in another short comment and I will rescue it ASAP. Thank you.

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19. 

    Don Bessee

    05 May 2015

    Sounds like the spam filter was just doing its job considering the content! lol 😉

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20. 

    Ben Emery

    06 May 2015

    Todd,
    NBC wants access to the Clinton’s, especially if Hillary becomes President. Don’t you know that the news is now under a for profit business umbrella instead of a public service to gain rights to the public airwaves? Profit motive doesn’t always make for the best product/ service.

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21. 

    Todd Juvinall

    06 May 2015

    I think the NBC lovefest was all about being simpatico with their favorite people. One must be very naive to forget the liberals own most of the press and have all my 64 years. Now they have to make a profit to stay alive but if they were going to be concerned with money making they should or would all become conservative organizations. Liberals fail at making money and are usually inheriting it or getting freebies from grants from the government.
    As Bill Clinton said the other day, ” We did not “knowingly” cheat on our taxes” or something like that. I mean come on, Hill and Bill have never had real jobs but are worth a gazillion bucks. How is that possible?

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22. 

    fish

    06 May 2015

    Posted by: Ben Emery | 06 May 2015 at 08:02 AM
    Concur……if history has shown us anything it’s that a “state owned” press does a far better job at bringing the masses fair and unbiased news.

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23. 

    George Rebane

    06 May 2015

    fish 844am – careful now; there is clinical evidence that tongues placed over forcefully in cheek have been known to penetrate.

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24. 

    fish

    06 May 2015

    Posted by: George Rebane | 06 May 2015 at 08:53 AM
    Whaaat? Ben bills himself as a student of history he knows that the Pravdas, Isvestias, and Xinhuas do a far more credible job of delivering news…..
    ….sorry……a moment……snort…..sniffle…..
    Sorry George…..couldn’t get through it a second time.

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25. 

    fish

    06 May 2015

    I didn’t dare try and work “the masses” in twice lest I bathe the computer monitor in coffee!

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26. 

    fish

    07 May 2015

    Douglas Keachie says:
    May 7, 2015 at 1:37 am
    Hell hath no fury like an editor scorned.
    Reply
    jeffpelline says:
    May 7, 2015 at 7:14 am
    More po-dunk from our local newspaper.
    Reply
    Wonder if he was referring to you jiffy…….

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27. 

    Patricia Smith

    07 May 2015

    Don Bessee, you should be front and center for the Aging with Grace seminar. You might actually learn something useful and truthful about medical marijuana.

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28. 

    Polly Parrot

    07 May 2015

    Maybe Don, you should tell us all where you’ve been buying your pot? I supposed you have a recommendation? LOL!!!

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29. 

    fish

    07 May 2015

    Posted by: Polly Parrot | 07 May 2015 at 01:48 PM
    Worst Sock Puppet evah!

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30. 

    fish

    07 May 2015

    WE NEED TO ACCPET GLOBAL WARMING DATA WITHOUT QUESTION…….BECAUSE SCIENCE!

    “Signals that baffled astronomers for 17 years traced to observatory’s microwave oven”

    http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Source-of-interference-that-baffled-astronomers-6249454.php

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31. 

    George Rebane

    07 May 2015

    fish 402pm – It’s not nice to gratuitously trammel the faith of True Believers Mr fish.

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32. 

    Walt

    07 May 2015

    Great way to get sued there Patrica. Con the old folks to ditch their meds for pot.
    There are always a few in the crowd that would take that “advice”, and soon drop dead.
    Then their families will come looking for just who gave them that “advice”.

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33. 

    fish

    08 May 2015

    fish 402pm – It’s not nice to gratuitously trammel the faith of True Believers Mr fish.
    Gratuitous……I’ll give you gratuitous…..just to show I’m not above kicking “the religious” when they’re down…..

    Australia PM advisor says climate change a U.N.-led ruse to create new world order

    http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/05/08/asia-pacific/politics-diplomacy-asia-pacific/australia-pm-advisor-says-climate-change-u-n-led-ruse-create-new-world-order/#.VUy9A87rN5y
    As an aside I think that this is a shocking display of just how bad internal discipline has become…..I expect a little better from my NWO!

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34. 

    Barry Pruett

    08 May 2015

    Liberals get trounced in UK…
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/08/british-prime-minister-david-cameron-on-track-for-narrow-majority-exit-poll/

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35. 

    fish

    08 May 2015

    Posted by: Barry Pruett | 08 May 2015 at 06:35 AM
    Yeah….unfortunately “conservative tea” in England is served with a generous dollop of socialist “cream”.
    I think the Brits have decided to vote themselves out of existence…….a cautionary tale!

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36. 

    Patricia Smith

    08 May 2015

    Walt, no one has ever died from using marijuana and I’m not telling seniors to ditch their pharmaceuticals for pot! In fact, I didn’t tell them anything as I wasn’t the speaker, but Sue Taylor started her talk by warning seniors to discuss using MMJ with their primary care giver first and to NEVER stop taking medications without their instruction and approval.
    I was very happy with the turnout as over 100 seniors showed up to learn about MMJ despite that we only had four days to promote the event. In fact, we are scheduling another follow-up workshop as they had more questions than we could answer in one session.
    Maybe if you had attended you could make an intelligent comment rather than talking through your hat.

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37. 

    Don Bessee

    08 May 2015

    On this 70th VE day I wish to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to the few remaining WWII vets! Truly the Greatest Generation.

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    George Rebane

    08 May 2015

    Seventy years ago on this VE I was a little boy in Liederberg, Germany just having been liberated by a combined arms unit of Patton’s 3rd Army. Although I spent WW2 with a target on my back, I was happy that my parents had the good sense and fortune to get us to southern Germany so that we could welcome America’s greatest generation into the ruins of the Third Reich.
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2010/05/the-war-ends-in-liederberg.html
    But pretty much overlooked by the whole country, on this same day tens of thousands more GIs and Marines were fighting the greatest battle of the Pacific War on Okinawa, having just executed the world’s largest (bigger than D-Day on Normandy) amphibious landing. They too need to be remembered more on this day than they were in 1945. In that 10-week battle alone we lost over 14,000 killed; over 77,000 Japanese died defending Okinawa. That was war.

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39. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 May 2015

    When I was Chairman of the Nevada County Republican Central Committee in 1996 I invited a Iwo Jima veteran to be a Keynote Speaker to the Spring Dinner at the big building at the Fairgrounds. By the time this hero was finished there was not a dry eye in the place. What those men (boys really) went though is unimaginable.

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40. 

    Walt

    08 May 2015

    Patricia. I am well versed on the subject of weed. Been there,, done PLENTY of “that”.
    So it’s not like have no clue. Have has to deal with MDs, both pro and con. Yes, even had a “script”. So I’m no idiot when it comes to weed. I also know the down side as well.
    Sorry woman,, I don’t “talk out of my hat”.
    Does weed have some benefits? For some,, yes. I have no issue with honest MMJ, and the “non profit” way. It’s the profiteers I take issue with. I have been a “victim” of those profiteers. So yes. I have an ax to grind. Thank the good Lord “S” went up in smoke.

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41. 

    Don Bessee

    08 May 2015

    Dr. R. you are so right, lest we forget. That operation was a taste of what we were going to see when the full invasion took place. The navy took a beating, especially the radar picket ships from the kamikazes. When a lefty guilt tripper starts talking about the immorality of dropping the bomb they display their lack of understanding. The use of the bomb in fact saved Japanese lives when you consider the civilian casualties (including suicides) on Okinawa. My step-dad managed to survive a number of Marine operations in the pacific as a mud Marine. God Bless em all!

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42. 

    Don Bessee

    08 May 2015

    Another 0 foreign policy success. On the ground tests show sarin and vx chem traces at an undisclosed military site in Syria. The traces are very recent and show they did not give it all up. This confirms the reports from the field that had been discounted and then toss in the chlorine gas and you have another gift to scumbags by 0. So how do you think that 0’s ongoing gifts to the mullahs is going to work out?

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43. 

    George Rebane

    08 May 2015

    DonB 814pm – You are exactly right. To date the nuclear bomb has been an overwhelming life saver ever since we dropped them on Japan – there it literally saved millions of lives. And without nuclear induced MAD during the years since 1945, we would undoubtedly have had another European war as the USSR sought to bolster its failing economy through conquest of western Europe.

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    Patricia Smith

    09 May 2015

    Walt, you say you have no problem with people who honestly need medical marijuana and then you denigrate ASA for educating them how to use it safely and legally. Can’t have it both ways dude.

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45. 

    Joe Koyote

    09 May 2015

    Interesting article on Yubanet comparing Nevada County to the other proposed Jefferson counties. It appears that Nev. Co. has very little in common with the others and would probably have to carry the economic load for the rest. Many of those counties are bottom feeders and would fold without government employment, unemployment, benefits, etc.
    http://yubanet.com/regional/Nevada-County-vs-State-of-Jefferson-Comparison.php#.VU4zmEvX_wI

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46. 

    Todd Juvinall

    09 May 2015

    JoeK, yes it appears the feds have wiped out most private employment in the area and replaced them with bottom feeders working for them.

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47. 

    Russ Steele

    09 May 2015

    Elections have consequences. The lefty global warmers were soundly defeated in the latest UK election.
    The Conservative Party’s victory in the UK General Election means that it will be able to put its own man in at the top of the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The result of the election should help to move forward the establishment of an onshore shale gas industry in the UK as the Conservatives are fully behind drilling for shale gas in the country.
    —David Cameron, 10 Downing Street, 13 January 2014
    A key part of our long-term economic plan to secure Britain’s future is to back businesses with better infrastructure. That’s why we’re going all out for shale. It will mean more jobs and opportunities for people, and economic security for our country.
    How if we could get a similar regime change in California.

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48. 

    George Rebane

    09 May 2015

    JoeK 927am – ‘stasism’ is the belief that tomorrow is revealed through the extrapolation of current practices kept rigidly unchanged. Corollary – if it hasn’t been done, it can’t be done.

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49. 

    Joe Koyote

    09 May 2015

    so George, if I am decoding your cryptic message correctly, what you are saying is that somehow the low employment and poverty that afflicts most of the Jefferson counties will be taken care of and all the “government” jobs that now pretty much supports those counties will somehow be replaced by the new regime? Just how will that occur especially in the transitional phase from counties to statehood after the funds from CA are discontinued?
    Todd–I sense that you are somehow blaming “government” for the lack of jobs, etc., and while this is the typical conservative response, the timber and mining industries that previously supported those counties depend on infinite resources for long term success. That is not the case. While timber is renewable, it is no longer as plentiful and would soon be gone as clear cutting would probably be the MO due to no gov’t regulations. And what about national forest lands? How would Jefferson get around those regulations? Mining is a bust because it too will eventually (if not already) be exhausted and then what? Maybe Jefferson could legalize prostitution and become the “hooker state.” That would require very little infrastructure investment other than seizing a few fleabag motels via imminent domain.

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50. 

    George Rebane

    09 May 2015

    JoeK 1027am – A good question which I have already answered in these pages, and which I will answer again this coming Tuesday.
    “imminent domain”, say what??!!

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