[There is load of bad news coming down the pike on Obamacare in 2016. Most widely read people know the travesty that new entitlement has been, and the worst is yet to come. Our progressive readers have excused their happy dancing in the streets about Obamacare while citing how bad our healthcare system is in the eyes of the WHO. The siren song for all socialists is the vaunted 'nationalized single payer healthcare system' of which all the fine exemplars are said to be doing just fine in the EU. However, that is not the case, and already in 2008 Cato published their compendium of these single payer systems in Policy Analysis #613. And since then things have gotten considerably worse in the lands of 'free health care'. Worth a look before we order the confetti for the next Obamacare celebration. gjr]

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235 responses to “Sandbox – 5sep15”
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Not my favorite internet scribbler but she addresses the lefts latest “suffer porn” photo-op in a fair degree of detail!
Enjoy!
http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/story-told-by-father-of-drowned-toddler-aylan-kurdi-is-full-of-holes.html/LikeLike
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Phillip Noe is arguing with me on the Hren post on AGW on the Uniuon. Go see what a true believer (paid for) thinks. Here is his Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/phillip.noe.3LikeLike
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ToddJ 406pm – your comment is under the wrong post.
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A gentleman sporting a purple SEIU t-shirt said he supports Hillary because of her experience. “She knows a lot more being under Bill Clinton,” he said.
Of course using this rationale there are numerous women “qualified” to be president!
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-union-members-turn-on-hillary-i-just-dont-trust-her/LikeLike
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Todd
Lets see, you support Gov Walker, the incredible shrinking man who opposes birthright citizenship and would have sent my mother back to Greece. Has Walker cracked 5% in the polls yet Todd? You of all people shouldn’t be making predictions. Oh yeah, you were off by 12% on Romney in 12. The Sierra Soothsayer you are not.LikeLike
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No Paul Emery, I am really much more on the mark than you. You think there is a grassy knoll shooter for goodness sake. It appears you are a poor reader or missed my earlier response to your grand mama status. You said she made it through Ellis Island. Therefore I assumed she was legal. Is that the case? If not, yes, she should have been deported.
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If Romney by 8% was really on the mark Todd I stand corrected.
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So was your grand mama legal?
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Ah yes, we ALL remember the sheer confidence of Todd and Co. on Nov.3, 2012, licking his chops for a Republican landslide. LOL.
After 4 years of a liberal destroying the USA, the nation was ready to throw out Obama and the Tea Party would reign supreme in Congress and the Senate.
NONE of that happened.
Sounds very familiar in 2015.LikeLike
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Jon 525pm – One recalls the admonishments of our Founders re democracy that was brought into focus by Jefferson’s ‘A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.’ Anybody check the recent growth of the US Code?
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Shilling you are a hoot!
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Paul, two things. First, that Kentucky gal is a life long Democrat. You must be getting your bombshells from KVMR.
Second, your Dem scenario is a good one and quite possible. But first you have to knock off Ms Inevitable, either by hook or by crook. She does not plan to go quietly into the still night. Good plan. Anything is better that what the Dems have now. But, you are not a Dem, just a Repub hater, so why do you care? Brother Ben is not on the ballot, and neither is Amy Goodman. You, being an independent thinker, are screwed. Who will you vote for? Uncle Joe or the woman who became Harvard’s Law first female of color to hold a position?? You got a liar in Tin Lizzy and a dumb shit in Uncle Joe. Put them together and you got a lying dumbshit or a stupid liar if you prefer. You got yourselves another Clinton. Bill or Hillary, take your pic.
All in all, this race on the Dem side (which you never ever would waste your vote on) sure needs something to wake up their discouraged troops. Onward to 2016!!!LikeLike
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I like Paul’s idea. Finally Obama got out the bolt cutters are unchainted Valerie. A rather nasty person, she will do her master’s bidding. Poor Hillary, sitting pretty on a 30 point lead being the most powerful female politician in the land.
Finally, we have a choice!! Good news. This whole campaign is coming down to a bumper sticker slogan, as it should be.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/pb.217926015008110.-2207520000.1441762357./723228494477857/?type=3&theater
You are too late, Rodham. You really did not think Obama would stand by and watch you take him down and ruin his rewrite of his own legacy, did you? You have been thrown under the bus.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/pb.217926015008110.-2207520000.1441762357./723228494477857/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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Oops, a mistake was made. Here is the link to Rodclam’s apology. Now I have to say I am sorry. Hmmm. My, my, what to do now?? Yes, I got it By Jove! I will just take a page out of the Dem playbook. Hmm, must clear throat first. Ok, here goes my contrite “I am sorry” confession of a grievous error coupled with my apology:
“The I-Pad I was typing on posted the wrong pic of Hillary.” There, all better now, I have already apologized for that and end of story.
http://patriotpost.us/cartoons/22389LikeLike
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Todd
My Grandmother was illegal by your vision in that she never spoke English because she didn’t want to and did not assimilate into American culture or have a job other than raising children.
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” If accepted, they must take the tests of our history and and pledge allegiance. Speak the language and have a job.”
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 03 September 2015 at 11:04 AMLikeLike
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We had a small rumbler down here in PV about 2 hours ago. Heck. I didn’t even know what it was at the time. We heard it, more than feeling it. just a 2 and change..
Yup, let everything break of just West of here, and my property values will triple.
Beach front property, and plenty less LIBS.LikeLike
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Yes Paul Emery, that is the criteria of today. I am sure George Washington would have let yor Grand mama stay. He is much nicer. Jeeze, are you ever in the now?
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This is too much fun.
There’s a feeding frenzy of Pubber candidates flocking to Ms Davis like flies on poop..
Huckabee got the inside track and blocked Cruz from getting any action with the press
“When Mr. Cruz, who met with Ms. Davis, exited the Carter County Detention Center, a throng of journalists beckoned him toward their microphones, but an aide to Mr. Huckabee blocked the path of the senator, who appeared incredulous.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/kim-davis-same-sex-marriage.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0LikeLike
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A Dem gets jailed for her religious beliefs. WOW,, one of their own?
Funny S.F. LIBS did’t get the same when marrying gays when it was ILLEGAL.
How come Eric Holder didn’t get canned for defying the defence of marriage act?
Great double standard there Paul. “the law, is the law”.
She was doing what any good LIB would do. Only following laws one feels like.LikeLike
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BTW Paul,, your an “anchor” Grand kid.
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Think it is wise not to engage Mr. Paul about his grandma. Too emotional. Requiring immigrants to learn some conversational English is not far fetched. After all, how can they prepare for taking the citizenship test if they can’t read nor comprehend what’s on the quiz.?? Maybe it was a non issue back in the days of taking the boat to Ellis Island to be greeted by the fumigator’ hoses. We just don’t let certain lice and bugs into our country for health reasons.
Nowadays the immigrants (at least I am told) have to take tests, civics lessons, and how our Constitution works. No immigrant is guarenteed citizenship, period. At least that has not changed. It’s called the path to citizenship, which requires some basic English language understanding. Like reading the 4 big letters on a stop sign and knowing what STOP means is helpful.
Ok, given only one choice in a hypothetical situation and no other choices, should The USA let in a Greek or a Syrian Christian….. or a Greek or a Syrian Muslim? Hmmm. Not an easy answer for sure. Zero is a nice round number. Besides, Syrian refugees are initially Greece’s problem, not ours. Then the olive pickers hire boats to ship them out to Northern Europe ASAP. If the Greeks don’t want them, that should tell us something about the Greeks and the Syrians. Maybe the Syrians took a look around and figured any place is better that “the islands” of the birthplace of democracy. :).LikeLike
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No more immigrants for say twenty five years. We need to assimilate thee ones here already. The illegals get a Dwight D. Eisenhower bus pass back to their home country. As far a R’s heading to Kentucky, two out of 16 is a small percentage but you all see the glee in Paul’s eyes trying to make it all 16. And he is a “journalist”! Another lesson on why no one believes the media.
Regarding speaking English. Paul Emery did you say your Grand mama was legal or illegal? If illegal yes, she should have been sent back to the Cradle of Democracy and I bet she would have helped Greece stay solvent. I also thank your ancestors for defeating the Persians at the “Hot Gates” in 480 BC. Without their sacrifice we would be speaking Farsi.LikeLike
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Oh Paul, you can’t control your glee. Miss Smith is a life long Democrat and Hucklebee does not have a popcorn fart’s chance for the nomination. Cruz will definitely stick around. I will say that Michael Hucklebee is a good man of moral convictions, as is Ms. Davis the Democrat. Both believe in their values to a fault. This whole thing is unfortunate. Under the laws of Bowand County, only her signature on the marriage license makes it valid. A substitute signature does not fly. Wonder how this will all work out. We all know this is a “very very sticky situation” as Trump put it. Geez, how can 1.2% to 1.6% of the population create such a big stink everywhere they go?
At 80 grand a year being a clerk, Ms. Smith might be willing to sell out her moral compass. Might, but unlikely.LikeLike
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So how was Burning Dude Paul? Get that nasty taste out of the kisser yet?
If you took your cell phone, it’s dying a slow miserable death.LikeLike
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Well, the Judge made it quite clear. Somehow, I believe a compromise will be reached to accommodate the Lifelong Member of the Democrat Party, ie, the Kentucky Woman. Lord knows all the years of toil our friends from the left have struggled to achieve fairness in the workplace. A reasonable workplace accommodation is needed and is the law of the land. Otherwise, the struggle for workers’ rights will be for naught! Still, the Judge minced no words. “A very, very, sticky situation”, as Trump put it.
http://patriotpost.us/posts/37423LikeLike
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Perhaps there is another explanation about The Kentucky Woman’s notoriety
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296.63999.217926015008110/725688254231881/?type=1&theater.LikeLike
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What the heck are you talking about Walt?
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Your silence here is equal to the BM event. (burning dude) Didn’t they tell you?
electronics go to crap in that dust.
I can’t see you missing loon fest.LikeLike
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Walt I think it is that nut MA that goes to BM. So he can run around in a loin clothe and hunt lions. LOL!
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Are you talking about burning Man Walt ? I’ve never been there have you ? You seem to know a lot more about it than I do
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Ah, the old loin cloth and eating locus and wild honey. Quite Bibical. I sure hope Mr. Anderson had a fantastic time in the alkaline soil. Hmm. It was breezy here the last few days, so maybe he has some sand grit stuck in his teeth for show and tell. All in all, I bet that festival is getting fairly tame considering its crass commercialism.
They spent over a quarter of a million dollars just building the BM main pavilion/pedestal. The good news is that no one lit The Man prematurely this year. That was a bummer when he was torched before the closing cermrmony by some disgruntled Santuary City by the Bay lawyer. Bet that lawyer became one unpopular dude.
I think we should all celebrate the arts and the jaw dropping creativity displayed at BM. Look, some of the things they come up with a great ideas. Teenage Enema Nurses gone militant and blood soaked bigger than life Barbie Dolls serving Bloody Mary’s…er…Bloody Barbies was right down my alley before I put the plug in the ole moonshine jug. If I was a young vagabond gypsy again, I would find a way to sneak in. 800 clams to sleep in the drifting sands is a bit to highbrow for me, then and now.
Michael, post pictures, Pleazzzzzzze.
Todd, if and when Mr Anderson posts some great pics of decadence, please try to be nice and maybe I will get to see some good drone shots of what gravity does to an aging bod. Or, maybe not. Strike that request.LikeLike
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Walt is curiously obsessed with Burning Man. Why does Burning Man bother you so much, Walt? Its quintessential American Freedom.
Too much fun that he’ll never experience I can only presume. No college, no city life, no hiking, kayaking, river fun, lake fun, SUP, surfing, etc. Now no Burning Man. Walt, you’re old and you missed out. You’re one of the 94 million people that are not working. I can understand the frustration.LikeLike
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Oh Jon, people do change. Back in the day, Walt was at BM in his Dale Evans one piece torquise bathing suit that got soiled beyond repair. Learning from that year, he came appropriately dressed in his Farmer John’s hot pink wetsuit that held up much better in the terrain.
Remember, Jon, we all came from somewhere. Plus, unemployment is no fun. You have time off with no money. Then you work and have money but no time off. Story of my life since I belatedly decided to settle down and become an upstanding citizen. Remember Walt is the dude that grew hooch so powerful that his buddies would forget their girlfriends’ phone numbers. And that was before you entered middle school.
Life is not a competitive sport, albeit I doubt Walt would ever even for a millisecond want to swap his life for your apartment. See, that last sentence was mean. We are are in flux, life brings constant change, and we are all works in progress and current situations are fleeting.
I am a mean sumbitch, but putting Walt or Kesti down in hard or slow times is something I would never stoop to. That was too low for even a snake like me. You are indeed an arrogant hater. Have you lost your way lately? Remember all the hours you spent working on yourself and vowing to make the world a better place? You are heartless, but it does no good trying to shame a psychopath. I know. Takes one to know one.
Walt can speak for himself. But, you need to ask yourself where does all this hate come from? You must have been abused as a child. Sad sad things happen to us all, I suppose.LikeLike
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Changing gears, this is why I am taking a gander at Carson. Feel he is real. Video is better than the article. An introduction if you will.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ben-carson-brought-tears-donor-why-hes-surgingLikeLike
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Bernie is speaking the truth. While not an outsider by any stretch of the imagination, he is honest about the economy and the true unemployment numbers. Got to give credit where credit is due. And to Biden as well. Joe is pissed as hell that the workers have been getting screwed during his 7 years of being the VP in the Obama/Biden Administration. Run Joe run.
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Oh, the link. I am warming up to Bernie’s candor, not his solutions. Give em hell, Bernie.
http://nypost.com/2015/09/08/democrats-seem-to-forget-who-owns-this-sad-economy/LikeLike
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tripe!
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Man it sucks to be right so often…….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/11854084/China-leading-world-towards-global-economic-recession-warns-Citi.htmlLikeLike
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Thanks for digging up that skeleton Bill. Yup,, ” I was thererrrrr….” once,,,
About #3 or 4..( and no admission fee) Back before it got high jacked. That was when it was about putting a torch to the guy that stole your woman.
Again Bill is right about my growing abilities back in time. Then I wised up. Nope,, never sold one bit of it. There are some lines never to be crossed.LikeLike
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Sorry, Walt, my ire arose as I was defending the empowered. I was overcome with passion.
I know there has been a lot of water under the bridge since you came home in that Dale Evan swimsuit, but what happened to all the sequins? They were to die for. You know only two women ever wore that bathingsuit, Dale and you for one tiny weekend. Now it is ruined. Cut deep at the time and frankly it still hurts a bit. Best to let bygones be bygones. Later. .LikeLike
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Oh my!
Echoing a downward trend in test scores nationwide, most California students have fallen below grade level and are not ready for college, according to results from new, more rigorous standardized tests.
This is not a nation or state on a path to a secure future.LikeLike
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But it is if the language is Spanish.
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Burning Man News: a nice young fella from Nevada County stopped by today, about 23 years of age and just got back from BM. 70,000 souls and 29,000 vehicles. He and his buddies went well prepared, had a great time, and has been invited back to play at the center stage anytime. He and his buds change places and they are 5 bands, lol.
2 highlights.
Walt, seems the old hippies come unprepared with a blanket and a couple of granola bars only. Place gets 80 mph gusts. So the old hippies hangout and sleep around the center stage, which most of the younger/other crowd does not appreciate. So, this young man was sitting in his camp with generator and Christmas light strings and all the comforts of home with his tent secured with 2 and a half feet long rebar by tentstakes pounded in when a guy asks if he could play the drums and he brought his buds along. They got up on the stage and pounded out heavy metal and anything they wanted, but heavy metal was preferred by the mysterious dude from The BM organization. Guess they were fed up with the old unprepared hippies playing the homeless around that area, so the heavy metal woke their butts up and eventually drove them of, lol. Old hippies ain’t as cool as they once were.
2). Seems our Nevada County young bucks weren’t very politically correct either. They joined with a group of people from Idaho and Michigan and one guy from West Virginny and formed the White Trash Camp, and put on stupid garb and improv the roll. Said that guy from West Virginny really was over the top.and natural White Trash leader. Oh, he said a lot of people walked by and you could tell they did not like that name or the Camp one bit, lol I am proud of the young bucks, I tell y’all.
They will be back next year on the house to drive away old hippies that come without tents.LikeLike
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The good news tonight is that the draconian gasoline reduction law that Jerry Brown wanted, a 50% reduction from current use, is out. Gone. No more. Sorry Charlie.
Good news for Jeff; that gas hog monster truck will still get fuel.LikeLike
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Now this should warm the cockles of Ben and Joes anti-billionaire hearts……..
“Al Qaeda Mag Urges Attack on Koch Brothers, Buffett, Bloomberg”
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/al-qaeda-mag-urges-attack-koch-brothers-buffett-bloomberg-n424386
I guess you take your allies where you find them….. eh boys?LikeLike
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Hey, if you did not pay attention in class and cannot meet the graduation criteria, fear not the libs will protect you:
Senate sends high school exit exam suspension to Jerry Brown — Thousands of students who failed the California High School Exit Exam over the past decade may finally be able to graduate under a bill now awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.
And we wonder why we are sinking in to economic chaos.LikeLike
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In the waning hours of this legislative session there have been a number of surprises such as the draconian global warming gas rationing failing when it had such momentum. The biggest surprise so far was the United Food and Commercial Workers Union flipping on the pot growers this week and siding with the Police Chiefs and League of Cites on the pot bill AB266 in a letter to the Gov. asking him to go with the language they agreed to and not change anything. On the other side now are the growers groups and today we had the NAACP with Wille Brown lobbying for easier licensing requirements for felons. They were rebuffed and complained that ‘they have language they like and they are too far down the road now.’ We shall see if the Gov. can keep herding the cats and close the deal. It will be interesting to see how this impacts the 13 pot legalization ballot props that are floating right now.
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Heidi declared!
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Food for thought. Nice piece for you guys to ponder.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-yankovich/is-this-the-end-of-the-go_b_8112020.htmlLikeLike
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Huffington Post! Pleeze! trash.
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