220 responses to “Sandbox – 22nov15”

1. 

   Russ Steele

   22 November 2015

   Here are some interactive maps using data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement from the US Department of Health and Human Services. You can see the source and destination of the refugees.
   http://patilv.com/USRefugees/
   Hover over items for definitive numbers by state. Or, use the pull-down menus to select specific states. This is only data for 2014. Note that California is at the top of most destination lists.

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   George Rebane

   22 November 2015

   First Amendement and free speech. The younger they are, the more willing they are to ‘fundamentally transform’ America. Pew Research has found that huge percentages of the younger generations are willing to have government “prevent speech offensive to minorities”. Now does that ever open the gates of hell. More here –
   http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/18/where-the-world-sees-limits-to-free-speech/

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   Don Bessee

   22 November 2015

   Argentina has thrown out the ruling leftist party in a major shift from the post Peron left in the land of gauchos. The real problem is that its reported the outgoing government emptied the treasury for free stuff to influence the election their way. Either way its going to feel odd to think of an Argentinian President as business friendly.;-)

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   Don Bessee

   22 November 2015

   Hillary is still down to a number of R’s. Latest has her down to Rubio, Trump, Carson, Cruz and even Christie!LOL

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   Todd Juvinall

   22 November 2015

   JFK, 52 years ago today.

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   jon smith

   22 November 2015

   Bessee- If you are going to announce stats, please, at least link to your source. I can PROVE the sun revolves around a flat earth simply by pointing to the bible. You can then look at the source and form an informed opinion. As Mark Twain kind of said, “If you don’t follow the internet you are uninformed. If you do follow the internet, you are misinformed. “

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   Don Bessee

   22 November 2015

   The internet is changing the way we communicate, go google yourself to refute Smith. While the cut and paste crew feels their positon can not hold without the perceived 90 percent back up I am fine with my positon. Prove me wrong sir. 😉

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   jon smith

   23 November 2015

   Bessee- When you sober up, please restate your 7:40 so we can figure out what in hell’s name you attempted to say. As you did say, “the internet is changing the way we communicate”, and it appears you are demonstrating that by pounding out alphabet soup while pounding down your cheap booze. I THINK you tried to say you can’t back your stats with a legit source and that the position you “are fine with” is one of ignorance and idle tongue flap.

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   jon smith

   23 November 2015

   Awakened at 3:00 am by a herd of coyotes wailing outside my window. To kill time read Tater Pig’s blog alleging that his “good friend” Herb Caen (who I’m certain was never darkened by the vast shadow of The Pig) penned the phrase “car strangled spanner” to describe the SF-Oakland Bay Bridge. In fact, Caen plagiarized that phrase from a cop in Florida describing the Howard Frankland Bridge that connects Tampa with St. Petersburg. Small-town blogger clueless about “Ess Eff” media scene.

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10. 

    Todd Juvinall

    23 November 2015

    The greatest threat to the planet is not ISIL, it is not even “climate change” according to the Kenyan, it is the Republicans! LOL!

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11. 

    Bill Tozer

    23 November 2015

    Sandbox time! Breaking news, mystery solved.
    http://www.theonion.com/article/conductor-fatigue-blamed-massive-model-train-crash-51879?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Default:1:Default

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    Bill Tozer

    23 November 2015

    Ah, the centuries old dogs vs cats international war heats up, again.
    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2015/11/23/brusselslockdown-request-for-social-media-blackout-prompts-flood-cat-pictures.html

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    Don Bessee

    23 November 2015

    The ‘jon’ at 3am LOL, we know its ok. The polls have been well publicized and you do seem to channel he whos name we will not utter at odd times. You have yet to prove me wrong. 😉

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14. 

    Bill Tozer

    23 November 2015

    jon smith @ wee 3:30ish in the am.
    What makes you think those were coyotes howling outside your humble abode? They have new ways to achieve sleep deprivation and they know where you live and are watching you. They know when you’ve been sleeping, they know when you are awake, they know if you’ve been good or bad, so be good for goodness sake.
    PS:, my foreigner friend. In these parts of Nevada County, California, North America and the vast majority of the two hemispheres on Earth, they prefer to be called “a pack”, not a herd. They are easily angered and become aggressive when somebody drops the “flock” bomb on them. May the unaware sleep in blissful slumber…until

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15. 

    Bill Tozer

    23 November 2015

    Well, well, well. Seems to the Parisians that Radical Extremist Jihadist Islamic Terrorism (is there any other kind from the Religion of Peace?) is the most urgent matter before the nation.. They even declared War on the ragheads. Interesting role reversal. They declare War on IS and we dish up disinterested No Drama Obama.
    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2015/1123/For-Obama-war-against-Islamic-State-is-a-tough-sell

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16. 

    Bill Tozer

    23 November 2015

    More sandbox stuff:
    http://patriotpost.us/posts/39046
    http://patriotpost.us/posts/39042

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17. 

    jon smith

    24 November 2015

    I love coyotes. Several years ago while perched in a deer stand I watched a mom teach her pups to catch gophers. In under twenty minutes she had caught 3 gophers and one of her pups caught a fourth. Coyotes are welcome guests at any time in my yard. Even if the herd wakes me up. A flock of deer were out last night jousting with one another and clacking their antlers loud enough to easily be heard above the wind. I have a pack of sand in my yard too. But they are pretty quiet.

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18. 

    George Rebane

    24 November 2015

    Coyotes are easy to love when they are in their own habitat. But in cities, towns, and built up areas they are something else, extremely smart predators who keep pushing in until they are pushed back. In soCal they are a common feature in cities that abut their mountains, regularly taking small pets right in front of their owners. They have also attacked small children (Glendale and Burbank) playing in their own walled back yards. (Yes, they easily jump up on a six-foot cement block wall and then use such popular adjoining walls as their private road network to visit and hunt in any enclosed yard they choose. We lost over 30 cats in 25 years to coyotes living in the Santa Monica Mtns. They are a great species balancing out the rodent populations, but they should not be coddled in human habitats.

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    jon smith

    24 November 2015

    No wonder you had so many coyotes at your house. You were feeding them cats. If I were a sheep rancher or cat lover I’d probably not be so welcoming. The coyotes around here get shot at enough that they make themselves pretty scarce in the presence of humans. It’s a healthy balance.

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    George Rebane

    24 November 2015

    joss 732am – Actually, when you live in the mountains, cats are your best defense against rattlesnakes which are territorial. Cats compete for the same food supply which keeps the snakes away. Yes, we did lose cats (owls took some of the smaller ones also), and the solution to that was to fence the property which kept the deer and coyotes away. But you did have to patrol the fence line because coyotes easily dug under the fence to get at those tasty cats. It was a battle which we finally mastered and won. The only one we did not was against the ground squirrels which kept pressing in from all sides as we trapped and poisoned them.

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21. 

    fish

    24 November 2015

    Looks like another closeted progressive stalwart has been smoked out after being shielded from earned criticism all these years!
    

    “Wilson even wrote a book that served as the foundation for the infamous movie The Birth of a Nation.
    Princeton should rescind every honor given to this vile man.
    But to be consistent, the university must also make an effort to explain to the Black Lives Matter students that Wilson’s racism was intrinsically linked to his Progressivism. The dangerous political ideology believes all individuals are servants to the state; I don’t expect that correcting this side of the Wilson story will be prioritized over there anytime soon.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/11/23/black-lives-matter-gets-one-right-woodrow-wilson-was-a-terrible-racist

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22. 

    Bill Tozer

    24 November 2015

    Hmm, Dr. Rebane, did you know cats are immune to rattlesnake bites? But, let’s get to the great mystery of losing 30 cats. Did your lost of Morris the Cat coincide with the influx of Koreans and other peoples from Southeast Asia during that time period? I remember well the sign at the Chinese-Thai take out that said “we no have your cat, stop asking.” Blame the coyotes? Shameless. Sure, cop to one owl as a red herring.
    Fish @ 8:45 am
    Wilson, the inventor of the Great and Mighty League of Nations, was a progressive and a racist no doubt. Somehow, that seems a bit redundant. Progressive says it all. On a historical note, Wilson lived in an era before White Guilt. So, progressivism has evolved to atone for Wilson’s errant thinking about being cool with living without White Guilt. But, they still worship at the United League of Nations.

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23. 

    George Boardman

    24 November 2015

    I suppose I should be flattered that Jeffy took a break from his vacation half way around the world to take a shot at my latest column in The Union, even though he put words in my mouth.
    I never mentioned CNBC when I noted the cable networks are starting to give some love to the Bay Bridge, but he had to mention its new studio to show I know nothing. Of course, that doesn’t explain why CNN, Fox News and other cable outlets are following the trend I noted. Heck, even “Face the Nation” showed a background picture of the Bay Bridge when it interviewed Dianne Feinstein Sunday.
    Jeffy’s obsession with The Union, even when on vacation, can create unhealthy amounts of stress. He can relieve some of that stress in Japan by taking up sumo wresting. At least he won’t have to bulk up.

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24. 

    Todd Juvinall

    24 November 2015

    Jeeze that’s funny Boardman. Sumo. LOL!!!

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25. 

    Todd Juvinall

    24 November 2015

    By the way, doesn’t the FUE’s trip prove he is part of the 1%? I say yes.

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26. 

    jon smith

    24 November 2015

    Bill 11/24/15 10:02-
    It is an oft repeated urban legend that cats are immune to rattlesnake bites. Herpetologist Raymond Ditmars routinely fed cats to his larger rattlesnakes (these were stray cats destined to be euthanized by animal control). There is a 15% to 20% mortality in cats treated for Western rattlesnake bites. One citation of many: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/vec.12051/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage= The presumption would be that there is an even higher mortality in non treated cats.

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    George Rebane

    24 November 2015

    BillT 1002am – Mr Smith’s 135pm is correct. Several of our cats were bit by rattlesnakes. We lost a couple, but the more funny thing happened when one of our kitty’s decided to play with a baby rattler and got nailed on top of the nose (the bony part) that admitted just a bit of venom. Their heads would swell up to twice normal size, and they would hunker down in one place for a couple of days that usually told the difference between recovery or the Pearly Gates. The experienced cats addressed the snake by the other end, but they never lost fascination with those critters.
    As a footnote, readers may recall that we also had Annabelle (red tailed boa constrictor) for 23 years. Annabelle was regularly out of her terrarium on ‘walks’ around the house and yard when we could watch her. Somehow no cat ever addressed or messed with Annabelle’s business end, they showed a healthy respect for something that could obviously eat them.

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28. 

    larry wirth

    24 November 2015

    FWIW, coyotes don’t run in packs (or herds for the illiterate), but are usually solitary animals, occasionally teaming up for “ambush” predation. When they howl, collectively, they are usually at different locations, communicating as it were. I see them in our desert yard daily, never packs, always individuals. Our larger dogs get along with them just fine.
    In re: snattlerakes, they, like cobras, have the ability to strike without automatically injecting venom. Venom is metabolically expensive, so if a simple, painful bite from rather long fangs will get the job done, no venom is involved. Approximately 25% of rattlesnake bites are “dry;”
    Threaten its life, yeah sure, it’ll waste the venom, but the venom is usually reserved for prey it intends to eat.

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29. 

    Walt

    24 November 2015

    Speaking of Coyotes,,, Ol’ Joe must have migrated to more plentiful gopher grounds.

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30. 

    Todd Juvinall

    24 November 2015

    His sock died Walt.

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31. 

    jon smith

    24 November 2015

    Larry- Our school of coyotes number usually three to five and we see them probably once a week come spring well into fall. We have large rock outcrops on our property that both coyotes and bobcats use as denning sites. These schools of coyotes are family aggregates that start to disperse about this time of year. Only in the winter do we see them hunting as solitary animals. I’m not saying that your observations are incorrect, they are simply different than ours. Coyote behavior and social structure run the gamut. When I worked in Yellowstone we would watch coyotes and badgers hunt to together in a symbiotic flock. The badger would send the dirt flying as it dug out Richardson ground squirrels and coyotes would stand guard waiting for any errant squirrel that tried to make a break for it over open ground. For a really cool coyote hybrid video google PBS’s “Meet the Coywolf”
    Your observations regarding snake envenomation are well accepted.

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32. 

    Bill Tozer

    24 November 2015

    Howllllling this time of year. Guess they run out of water and prey which brings them closer this time of year, coyotes I mean. Scaly ones aren’t sunning themselves in the back per the calendar. I feel safe steppin’ over logs this time of years. Man and snakes are natural enemies, IMHO.
    Ok, you guys win, I lose. Heads you win, tails I lose. I am, besides a lowly worm, grossly inaccurate.
    Well, I tell the grown girls that cats are immune to rattlers so I don’t have bring the feline in at night if I don’t have to. They worry about those kinds of things, even from afar. Lost 9 or so in 3 years, thank goodness. The lone survivor of the feral cat’s 3 litters out the back deck is a keeper. Knows how to survive and he was the most skiddish one as well as the runt of the litter with no personality. My cuddle bug. Oh, he is so soft and sweet and only likes me and hates every other human on earth. Just to prove once again that there is a wrench for every nut.
    Ok, more cat talk. Saw a video on YouTube. The neighbor kept loosing her cats and started blaming neighbors’ dogs or the neighbors themselves. Bad blood was growing until the next door neighbor videoed a grey fox killing and eating a cat in the neighborhood, you nature lovers you. No, I don’t have your cat, stop asking.

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33. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 November 2015

    Boy, Princeton students countering with a petition that all students take a course in Western Civ? That studies of minorities do not have to include just certain disenfranchised minorities? That black dorms are segregation?? That removing Wooddrow Wilson’s name is revisionism? What is going on here on today’s campus?. Sounds too extreme to me. Sounds part of the Great Right Wing Conspiracy to keep the black man down.
    http://nypost.com/2015/11/24/princeton-students-fight-back-against-absurd-political-correctness/

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34. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 November 2015

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease, the others get the hammer.
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/24/madison-gesiotto-reports-threat-after-pro-life-col/

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    Bill Tozer

    25 November 2015

    All hail our outstanding educational system. Well, Hillary failed the bar exam as well the first time around in Arkansas, so maybe it is much ado about nothing. She had to go to DC to pass their bar, considered at the time the easiest bar exam in the USofA.
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/law-school-grads-bombing-bar-205900313.html

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36. 

    Walt

    25 November 2015

    SNOW is falling in PV!!! AGW is over!

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37. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 November 2015

    Walt, you see snow?? Darn, I guess it passed too quickly for me to notice.
    Here is a story about Sweden and the new immigrants. No, it’s not about murders, rapes, or terrorism. It’s about the new arrives in Sweden and how sometimes is appears to be working, sometimes not working as planned in the villages outside the big cities. A human interest story if you will. No political points to be had, just interesting.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315739/The-tranquil-Swedish-village-living-hell-refugee-invasion-locals-migrants-throw-stones-children-aged-five-need-POLICE-ESCORT-school.html

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38. 

    fish

    25 November 2015

    As we approach this day of thanks I find myself grateful for a free and independent press.
    https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/25/cnn-correspondent-collaborated-with-hill

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39. 

    Walt

    25 November 2015

    Yes, Bill.. we actually had a full blown snowflake. By the time I hit the post button, it stopped. So AGW is back on. As for my Nordic Cousins, seems they don’t care to work their butts off to pay for ungrateful transplants.
    And Fish… We don’t call it the “Clinton News Network” for nothing.

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40. 

    Walt

    25 November 2015

    Someone almost had to cancel the holidays.
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/4631583385001/demolition-fail-falling-smokestack-buries-excavator-driver/?intcmp=hpff#sp=show-clips
    Talk about testing the cab protection!

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41. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 November 2015

    Walt, the operator was in the right place at the right time.
    Ah, how did I miss this during the first reading??? Mystery solved.
    “The problems are said to have begun in September when migrants started throwing stones at locals’ cars, and residents retaliated by throwing them back.”
    Poor peaceful Islamics.

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42. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 November 2015

    I have a sudden appreciation for our grammar extraordinaire, the one…the only….. the Kesti of Michael.
    There is no “r” in dignity. A serious spelling mistake with grave consequences.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/23/us-britain-poisoning-lambrini-idUSKBN0TC1QQ20151123#6eqXoesrv8Qy26eb.97

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43. 

    Michael R. Kesti

    25 November 2015

    Bill Tozer 25Nov15 05:26 PM
    That’s “Grammarian Laureate” as authorized by our host, Dr. Rebane on the 24th of February this year.
    This seems a fine time to point out that I very rarely bother with others’ spelling errors. It is grammar and usage that concern me. That said, the referenced article does present a somewhat compelling reason to make efforts to spell correctly!

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44. 

    Walt

    25 November 2015

    Our ECO bast….”friends” are going to LOVE this.
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democrats-rise-in-opposition-to-obamas-climate-agenda/article/2577114
    “The group joined with hundreds of Democratic officeholders and state, local and party officials in telling Obama that the Environmental Protection Agency’s emission rules for power plants pose “serious and overriding concerns,” representing the wrong approach to the problem of climate change.”
    Some sanity has infected some DEMS!!!
    “we cannot begin by implementing policies that have no hope of succeeding outside of the United States, or possibly even within the United States,”
    Did Hell just freeze over?

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45. 

    Bill Tozer

    25 November 2015

    Yep, the year of rebellion, and not just on the R side of the aisle. Think there is a lot of shared sentiments from perhaps a good majority of American of voting age that our country is being hijacked by a minority that is pushing too far…too far for a center right or center left country at heart. Dems have a whole bunch of their worries as well. Some are acting like the Democrat Party will be relegated to the dustbin of history. Both parties’ constituents are pissed at their respective Party Machine. Either this will be the year of stick it to the man or the year the spoiled brats had their pants pulled down and spanked over the knee.

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46. 

    Todd Juvinall

    25 November 2015

    And we thought Obama was talking about the transformers on the telephone poles. He was talking about transformers in government and education.

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47. 

    Walt

    25 November 2015

    Someone needs to introduce a bill that makes ECO groups who have hand outstretched, justify their greedy existence. Maybe some DEM will pull that off. One thing is certain,, it would get bipartisan support.

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48. 

    Bill Tozer

    26 November 2015

    Finally, finally. Warning and trigger warnings:
    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/11/26/oklahoma-wesleyan-president-rebukes-whiny-safe-space-students

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49. 

    fish

    26 November 2015

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 26 November 2015 at 09:23 AM
    Now to be fair William I can understand why “Top Flight” colleges need to cater to the whims of the precious snowflakes that pass their time there…..65K a year for deep knowledge of “The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender, and Media” and “Demystifying the Hipster” makes for a hell of a retirement for the administrators who peddle this bilge.
    If I had a venue if which to sling this POMO bafflegab to the assembled masses of vacant skulls at that price you can bet your ass I would agree with their every grievance….at least until the checks cleared!

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50. 

    fish

    26 November 2015

    The foreign policy blunders continue…….
    http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/11/pardoned-white-house-turkey-defects-isis/?utm_content=buffer87b5f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

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