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[Apologies for the belated opening of the new sandbox. Sure would like to hear a discussion about the relative merits of Heidi Hall and Cheri West, candidates for District #1 Supervisor. Also, what can our BoS do to slow down the drain of liberties and our loot to Sacramento? gjr]
Was watching European news channel and the commentators were talking about Russia on the march. One of the commentators spoke of the convenience for 0 to be able to talk about a shooting while the world is on fire with Iran on the ground in force in Syria and Russia in Iraq. Frankly surprised 0 didn’t say we could solve isis with good gun control laws in the middle east. They already said a good jobs program would take care of isis. ^#%*(%!
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Paul Emery | 01 October 2015 at 03:10 PM
Grave dancer? I have never said that.
Hoping to see evil people’s obits is quite a refreshing thing to say. A elixir of sorts. I like the one a few years ago Zawahiri I think. The head chopper of that American. The first on camera beheading. I enjoyed that piece of sh*** obit tremendously.
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Don,
That works even more against your argument since tax payer dollars are prohibited to be used for abortions. Odd isn’t it, tax payer dollars not allowed to be used towards a legal medical procedure.
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Exactly Ben. I would ask- why haven’t multiple people been arrested and convicted if infanticide is running rampant? Seems would be easy to catch and convict if that’s whats going on at PP.
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Clinton has come around to my way of thinking. Hillary in 2016! Nobody gores my ox.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/democrats-begin-long-tortuous-retreat-093000257.html
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 01 October 2015 at 05:22 PM
I heard the guy from The Beacon interviewed and I did not hear him say what you said he did Don. Can you source it?
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Posted by: Steve Frisch | 01 October 2015 at 10:56 PM
Well it is sourced all over the place, that is the question is, not the motivation, so no need to source Don.
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Todd
Who are the local people whose obits you would rejoice in seeing, thus grave dancing. You write:
” They were scum then and they still are today. Unfortunately our county has many of them. I can’t hardly wait for their obits in the Union.”
Quite simply are you referring to me or my friends? Exactly who are you talking about?
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George, exactly what law has been violated by PP?
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Paul you might have to explain to Todd what dancing on someones grave means. Kind of like I had to explain cherry picking to George. These guys seem to have a hard time with colloquialisms.
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PaulE 1144Pm – Huh?
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the “out of work” #’s are out. A new record again. As I recall “someone” just can’t handle the truth.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/02/record-94610000-americans-not-labor-force/
“The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that a record 94,610,000 people (ages 16 and over) were not in the labor force in September. In other words they were neither employed nor had made specific efforts to find work in the prior four weeks.
The number of individuals out of the work force last month — due to discouragement, retirement or otherwise — represented a substantial 579,000 person increase over the most recent record, hit in August, of 94,031,000 people out of the workforce.
While the prior two months saw a labor force participation rate of 62.2 percent, September’s participation rate dropped to 62.4 percent, matching the lowest level seen since October 1977.
The civilian labor force in September clocked in at 156,715,000, declining by 350,000 people, compared to August’s 157,065,000 labor force level.”
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Steve Frisch | 02 October 2015 at 05:11 AM
Your reading comprehension is as bad as your ideas. I said I never said the phrase not that I did not know what it means. You are truly an idiot Frisch.
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Walt 808am – You’re on the mark Walt. There is no real recovery going on, and systemic unemployment continues to rise as has been covered in these pages for years. It is only the Left that has no choice than to continue happy dancing in the streets, else they too join us in calling out that the Big O is naked in both his domestic and foreign policies.
What recovery? As an innumerate nation, we don’t even comprehend basic arguments such as –
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2014/06/the-recovery-rigmarole.html
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“They were scum then and they still are today. Unfortunately our county has many of them. I can’t hardly wait for their obits in the Union.”
That meets the definition of the colloquialism ‘dancing on the grave’ Todd.
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Steve Frisch | 02 October 2015 at 08:45 AM
You libs live in a alternative world. No ideas in your noggin so you put words in other people’s mouths. What a idiot.
Oh and I stand by my statement about the scum from the hippy life running our country and education.
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Here is a “taxation without representation” issue the Tea Party should take up:
According to “Consumer Reports” no less than 85% of consumers want products that contain GMOs labeled so they can choose whether or not to buy them. The House of Representatives passed legislation in July prohibiting states from requiring such labeling. In other words, despite the fact that an overwhelming supermajority of people want GMO labeling, states will not be able to require such labeling. Do these representatives serve the public or corporate lobbyists and campaign contributors? Our taxes pay their salaries and we elect them to represent us so why don’t they pass legislation that 85% of people want?
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George
My 11:14 refers to Planned Parenthood ONce again I ask what, if any, laws has Planned Parenthood violated?
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Joe, why do you think there is a political revolution happening in both parties? Our elected “representatives” promise the moon to get elected, but forget about the people the minute they cross the threshold in Congress. Problem is, there usually isn’t a decent candidate to choose from.
On that note, Geogrge started this sandbox asking for an rational critique of Cheri West vs Heidi Hall. Sorry, I can’t add to the comparison because I don’t know anything about West other than her press release. Heidi has immersed herself in our community to try to help solve problems. She is on the board of NEO, works for Hospitality House, contributes her time to raise money for good causes like when she volunteered for Dancing with our Stars. Actions speak way louder than words in my book.
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PaulE 1002am – Still don’t understand your question which strongly implies that I made that assertion, which I did not.
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So if no laws were violated what’s the big fuss? All that’s legal is not pretty.
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Can’t sell baby parts from a baby that can live on its own. Those Frankenstein PP monsters were stopping a birth to suck out its brain so as not the crackle the sell-able parts.
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PaulE 1057am – There are lots of laws and regulations on the books that reprehensible, unenforceable, and simply insane. In a liberal society citizens should always be active in purging such laws and regulations (see Charles Murray’s ‘By the People’). Lots of people consider trafficking in baby parts (government subsidized or not) to be reprehensible, so they’re putting up a “big fuss”. Kinda like pot proponents are doing re insane, contradictory, and unenforceable MJ laws. Next question?
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Paul, 01 October 2015 at 11:42 PM
Todd J. is a real piece of work and from everything I have read from him on the blogosphere the antithesis of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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George,
There are plenty of laws that are disgusting and immoral. That is when the action of civil disobedience needs to take place. Our foreign military aide and policies for one are disgusting and immoral but we seem to find around $1 trillion annually to keep them going.
So let me get this straight
You are for-
– War (state sanctioned mass murder and destruction)
– Capital Punishment
– Torture
– Drone Warfare
– Rejecting refugees and immigrants who are trying to escape possible deadly circumstances
You are against-
– Planned Parenthood
– Universal Health Care
– Welfare
– Food Stamps
– Head Start
– Paid Paternity Leave
– Tuition Free Higher Education
– Social Security
– Medicare
Hmmmmmm some pretty F-ed up values
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BenE 1245pm – My goodness Ben, how ever do you muster such incisive insights about other people without demonstrating that you have understood a word they have written? Remarkable!
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Hay Ben. There are laws against holding up businesses at gun point. Did that stop the two shops getting robbed over the weekend? Maybe another law is in order?
Again Ben,, a WOW is in order. Your against capital punishment yet pro unborn child snuffing. The heinous criminal who has taken a life or three, is supposed to be spared,
yet snuffing the life of an unborn child who’s only crime was that it existed..
Yes, some real “F-ed up values”.
I do believe some counseling from a professional is REALLY needed for that Socialist mind.
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Ben Emery is truly the anti-christ.
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Walt,
Going off of your comment, my guess you don’t know a whole lot about women’s reproductive health, pregnancy, fetuses, development stages, ect… Therefore your opinion is just that, an opinion. An uneducated and ignorant opinion to boot. Take a break from the Authoritarian-Corporatist blog for the night and go read up on women’s reproductive systems/ health and the different stages of pregnancy.
By the way, wanting to use Government to force women to bring pregnancies to full term is an Authoritarian position.
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George, 02 October 2015 at 12:51 PM
My observation of your positions have come from way to many hours conversing with you on this blog. At one time or another you have taken the position mentioned on those specific issues. Please correct my list so all can see how I was wrong.
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Todd,
I am starting to believe you have never seen a bible, let alone read one.
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WE the taxpayers who don’t care for the practice shouldn’t be forced to pay for them.
So YOU donate to the cause.
PP has been caught selling those body parts.. That’s against the law. Yet no one has gone to jail.
“Woman’s heath”? Yaaa…. Sure. Nice excuse. It’s 90% anti preggers.
Too bad LIBS haven’t aborted themselves out of existence yet.
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BenE 154pm – You have it all backwards (a progressive mindset?) since you are making the charges, it’s up to you to provide the proof that’s a little more convincing than citing your recollection of my having adopted those simplistic positions “at one time or another”. My credo is published on this blog (upper right panel). Dig in and contend against something real, instead of unfounded insinuations.
BTW, would you consider sharing an equivalent version of your credo. No other leftwinger either here on RR or on the national scene would dare do that. Wanna make history and be the first?
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Ben Emery, believe what you want about me. I believe you are the anti-christ.
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Not sure is anyone wasted their time on 0’s news conf. but I have to note his incredible strategic ignorance. Russia has Syria and iran, we have the rest of the world says 0. WHAT!??! 0 obviously can not read a map or an order of battle list. They have created the Persian crescent iran has dreamed about since the times of the shahs. There are no Arab boots on the ground in Iraq or Syria and Russia has a state of the art air defense system 50 odd miles from incerlick turkey, our air hub in that end of the world. If putin wants to he can shoot down our jets as soon as they lift off the ground. This is a strategic disaster that has exponentially increased the chance of a real high tempo shooting war. He again says they were caught off guard. How can that be when even I was able to note the unusual air bridge activity?
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re DonB’s 333pm – please see 2oct15 update to Ruminations.
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The employment numbers are another disaster. Native born Americans had a 1,000,000 decrease in employment in the last 3 months. In the same time the foreign born employed pool rose 218,000. The Washington examiner observed that the 1 million job figure was what 0 promised to create in his 2012 campaign. The question now is who was he really making that promise to?
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For the next time someone tells you the democrats are the party of the little guy…the party that thinks outside of the box….the party that wants to eliminate the corrupting influence of money from the political process!
“Like Clinton and Sanders and O’Malley, I believe America needs urgent and important reform: it needs a minimum wage that is a living wage, it needs climate change legislation, it needs to respect the equality of citizens and end—finally—the second class status that too many Americans know. It needs a health care system that Americans can afford. It needs to stop subsidizing oil companies, and stop tolerating their pollution. It needs the courage to stand up to the banks, it needs to restore safety to the financial system, it needs an immigration policy that promises some of the hardest working Americans that they can become citizens and it needs sane gun laws that keep machine guns away from the sorts who would massacre school children.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/lessig-lawrence-democrats-debate-2016-213215#ixzz3nSi0AeY3
The Democratic Party – Standing Strong for the Status Quo
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from Ben – “Going off of your comment, my guess you don’t know a whole lot about women’s reproductive health,…”
Maybe Ben could explain what is ‘reproductive’ in an abortion.
also – “By the way, wanting to use Government to force women to bring pregnancies to full term is an Authoritarian position.”
I suppose wanting the govt to make sure parents feed and care for their children is an ‘Authoritarian’ position.
If a woman is pregnant, another human life is involved. The govt has a responsibility to protect that life. If a govt will not, first and foremost, protect the most vulnerable – it has no reason to exist.
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ScottO, excellent points. I am sure if the parents were abusing their “lottery” winning children, Ben would be the first on the phone to CPS to have them removed from the home under government edict. But he could care less the child is almost out of the birth canal reaching for its first breath. Sell that baby part Ben, yippee!
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Oh yes, my gal is red hot. Sizzling. Keep listening to your campaign staff, not them high falutin’ fancy pants lawyers who wear collared shirts to hide their foreskins.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/03/hillary-clintons-legal-adviser-warns-her-time-to-lawyer-up/
My gal is high spirited. Some might call that working under the Psycho Nut from Hades, but that is only because she doesn’t show her infectious side in public.
http://nypost.com/2015/10/02/secret-service-agents-hillary-is-a-nightmare-to-work-with/
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Gregory is correct again. We really need desperately to hire teachers with more than half a brain. Talk about good money going down the rat hole.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/03/national-education-association-endorses-hillary-clinton
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NPR reminded us all again this morning that ‘international law’ (whatever that is) prohibits returning fire on combatants who fire at you from mosques, hospitals, and schools. The Taliban in Kunduz, as Muslim fighters have done for decades (forever?), fired on the Afghani forces from the hospital in which Doctors Without Borders were working. The Afghanis apparently called in an airstrike on the facility used as a fire base in the fight to retake Kunduz.
Our pro-Islam progressives are the only ones in our midst who back such clearly idiotic ‘laws’, and it appears that only the adherents of the ‘religion of piece’ habitually use school children, the sick/wounded, and other innocents as shields in their brave fight against the enemies of radical Islam. But we must never forget that all cultures are of equal worth, and we must never judge a culture, especially in comparison to western culture.
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Doctors Without Borders working in a war zone without borders. Collateral damage drives our progressive friends bonkers. We must have no non-combatants injured in war and everybody must be 100% guaranteed safe on US soil from the mentally ill murderers (only those with guns, mind you). That is now it looks from the nosebleed seats.
Must not judge. Here is a little man that judges and he made the correct judgement on us,
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/pb.217926015008110.-2207520000.1443986706./735828893217817/?type=3&theater
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Serious political question to those of the far right, conservative GOP base- Is brother GW Bush a positive or negative for the floundering, so-far- pathetic campaign of Jeb ? Not sure this is going to bring up Jeb! from the middle rung of single digits in GOP polls.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/us/politics/a-struggling-jeb-bush-may-lean-on-george-w-in-south-carolina.html
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Nothing to see here, just move on. Weather only. 500 year/1000 year floods, just weather. Climate change caused by human activity a total fraud.
Move on- time to arm all good Americans in America, drill baby drill for all sources of US oil, and get coal moving again. God bless America! Jesus loves you.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/04/flooding-sweeps-east-amid-mind-boggling-rains/73330716/
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Posted by: Jon | 04 October 2015 at 06:54 PM
Wow…..I want some of what you’re smokin!
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Administrivia – 4oct15 sandbox is open for business and awaits your contributions.
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Scott and Todd,
You guys realize a fetus at 12 weeks weighs about an once and 24 weeks or 2/3 through the pregnancy the fetus weighs around 1 1/2 to 2 pounds. I get the feeling you guys believe from conception the fetus looks and is developed like a full term baby, it is not. Also you realize a huge number of pregnancies don’t make it to term for number of reasons. In your world of Big Government what authority should the government have over pregnant women? Should it be mandated a woman should have her cervix sewn shut if there is a chance of premature labor? Or a woman should be forced by our government to continue a pregnancy after learning by week 12 the fetus’s organs are developing on the outside of the body and the risk of other birth defects are very high?
These are two examples of a women in my direct family and my wife’s family.
Facts about Omphalacele
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/omphalocele.html
Cerclaje Cervical
http://americanpregnancy.org/pregnancy-complications/cervical-cerclage/
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