226 responses to “Sandbox – 15dec15”

1. 

   jon smith

   15 December 2015

   According to the US Forest Service an armed illegal Mexican felon living on federal land growing thousands of marijuana plants is officially described as a “displaced foreign traveller”. http://www.redding.com/opinion/a-pot-grower-no-a-displaced-foreign-traveler

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   Todd Juvinall

   15 December 2015

   I guess we need to ban the calendar month August since it was named after Augustus, the first Roman Emperor and conqueror of millions of fellow Europeans in 1 AD.

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   Paul Emery

   15 December 2015

   Yet another anecdotal example by our host to further his argument of the decline of our education system.

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   Bill Tozer

   15 December 2015

   Like him or not, Mr. Paul has had a couple of comebacks lately that made me laugh. That last one was a good one, and used “anecdotal example” to boot. Gotta give credit where credit is due.

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   George Rebane

   15 December 2015

   PaulE 823am – Indeed Paul, but the reports of examples in a similar vein that come in across the country are legion. And the cultural behavior of our newer generations attest to it. Now that is synoptic and not anecdotal.

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   Bill Tozer

   15 December 2015

   Well, this is how it used to be. Guess things have changed.
   https://www.facebook.com/armslist/photos/a.10150151249996601.280428.152548881600/10153052406541601/?type=3&theater

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7. 

   George Rebane

   15 December 2015

   Liberty retreated another step yesterday in Seattle. I just have to get this report off my chest. Their city council passed an ordnance that requires Uber and Lyft to give unions the names of their drivers. A small klatch of drivers showed up demanding the companies supply them benefits and also pay a minimum wage.
   The ability of an individual to contract his services to another without the state intervening is rapidly disappearing. It is the socialists who decry corporations, then tax and regulate them heavily, making the cost of labor soar, then dunning them for reducing or offshoring their workforce. And to put a ribbon on it, it is the socialists who do everything possible to make it difficult to start a small business or independently sell your services or produce.
   The message is clear, make the workforce feel that their job is there only through the mandates of government, or that government will send you a check if you don’t work. So the easy exit question is ‘who you gonna vote for?’ Class dismissed.

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   jon smith

   15 December 2015

   In the Christmas spirit I just put another faggot on the fire. Certainly some would think this is homophobic, but tell that to a bundle of twigs.

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   Paul Emery

   15 December 2015

   George writes:
   ” And to put a ribbon on it, it is the socialists who do everything possible to make it difficult to start a small business or independently sell your services or produce.”
   So I guess you can blame the Socialists for making it illegal for Marijuana cultivation to be a legitimate cottage industry giving self employment opportunities to thousands of rural families.

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10. 

    fish

    15 December 2015

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 December 2015 at 09:22 AM
    So I guess you can blame the Socialists for making it illegal for Marijuana cultivation to be a legitimate cottage industry giving self employment opportunities to thousands of rural families.
    Even the Sovs knew that the small garden plot holders were the only thing keeping “Workers Paradise” from sinking into cannibalism. That was why they looked away.
    You guys botch the big stuff in spectacular fashion….but who the fuck wants another Peoples Revolution after just being assigned his Dacha.

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11. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Paul, they also blocked the franchising plans of Murder,Inc. So many needed whack jobs, no easy way to find a professional to get ‘er done.

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    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    The 9:16 reminds me of an old music joke… What’s the difference between a bassoon (fagotto in Italian) and an oboe?
    Bassoons burn longer.
    Also works for violin vs. viola.

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13. 

    fish

    15 December 2015

    MSNBC reminds you that you are all racists…..not that we needed to be reminded.
    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2015/12/14/melissa-harris-perry-brings-parody-to-life-calls-star-wars-racist
    Jedi….shit….that might as well just be Jed……a racist name if I’ve ever heard it! Just trying to keep the Vader down bitch!

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14. 

    Bill Tozer

    15 December 2015

    Hey Paul, if the Socialists were in charge here, all the pot from our cottages industries who flourish just enough to pay the special exhorbent taxes. Just close enough to almost slay the Golden Goose, yet leave her breathing. If only the socialist would be taken seriously, then life would be splendid indeed. Stupid rednecks. I hope they die off sooner than later, or at least soon than you so you can outlive them all.

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15. 

    Bill Tozer

    15 December 2015

    Well, to be fair to Jon and Ben,, the international community did not like us under Bush. Disliked but feared. Now we have nations liking us again, but no fear or respect. Alas, we can’t win.
    http://observer.com/2015/12/vulgar-and-racist-anti-obama-rhetoric-inundates-russian-pop-culture/

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16. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    effie and the Lickspittles are all a-twitter over a local chapter of Girls Who Code Club opening up.
    I’ll type quietly so Jeffie can’t hear, but the comparatively recent low participation rates of women in computer science nut was cracked a few years ago by Maria Klawe, the current President of Harvey Mudd College. Rather than special classes only for women (how sexist is that, Jeff?) they revamped their intro to computer science class so newbies of both sexes wouldn’t be overwhelmed by those who were self taught (including bad habits) in high school or earlier.The result? CS declarations (something Mudders are allowed to do as Sophomores, after they’ve all taken the solid introductory classes in mathematics, chemistry, computer science, physics, engineering and biology) have gone from 10% female to about 40% female at a top undergraduate computer science school. (also at or near the top in mathematics, chemistry, physics, engineering and probably also biology).
    I wish the politically correct locals setting up the girls only club well; it will be interesting to see how they handle the wide age range (6th thru 12th grade) and even wider range of mathematics preparation; Mudd’s entering classes have near perfect College Board scores in mathematics so all have profound understanding of elementary mathematics when they sit down in the lecture hall chair, and that makes teaching computer science topics all that much easier.
    For Nevada County boys who are barred from Girls Who Code, and girls who don’t need their instruction in pink, the Mudd intro classes are available in MOOC form. See https://www.edx.org/school/harveymuddx
    CS001x and CS002x use and teach Scratch, a simple language from MIT… I think Girls Who Code also uses Scratch. Meant for middle school and early high school. CS005x is patterned after Mudd’s CS 5 Introduction to Computer Science, and uses Python, a widely used real world language.
    The lack of women in silicon valley is more a statement on the often dysfunctional and misogynist (not to mention ageist and family-unfriendly) culture of silicon valley than it is about not enough girls from Kansas choosing to “code”; they’ve been largely unable to hold onto the women who’ve ventured there.
    [disclaimer: I married one of Mudd’s Women who coded, they’re nothing new. Teri was Math ’77 and was an adjunct math professor at Sierra College when she passed away]

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17. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Make that “Teri was [Mudd] Math ’78”.

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18. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Jeffie was right on it…. took about a half hour:
    “December 15, 2015 at 2:26 pm
    For someone who’s resume reads “independent software engineer at my place,” Gregory sure has a lot of “expert opinions.” ROFLOL.”
    Golly, Jeffie, I think you mean “whose”, not “who’s” (looks like you’re still the candidate for bonehead English), and I expect you’ve never seen my resume which most decidedly does not include that title. I put that on my LinkedIn page because it’s more honest than some fantasy company which is the preferred LinkedIn dodge that you’re doing what you’re doing at home. As part of my MSEE I also passed the comprehensive Master’s exam in computer science and all three of my inventor patent citations (US Robotics and Cisco Systems) involve computer science. In the case of the Mudd intro to computer science class referred to above, I took the ’70’s version of that, too.
    I expect your resume pretends Sierra Food Whine Art is a real magazine, and probably includes what your LinkedIn page does not, that your BA was in Rhetoric; I guess you’re still a bit embarrassed about that choice. Just couldn’t get into a good law school and settled for “journalism”?

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19. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Jeff broadcasts that snippet from my LinkedIn page whenever he doesn’t have any substantive criticism of what I’ve written; I suspect he’s used it upwards of ten times now.

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20. 

    Paul Emery

    15 December 2015

    So the so called freedom loving free trade get the government out of my life types have no interest when it comes to growing something in your farm that has commercial value and selling it in a free market.. that’s beyond the scope of freedom to that crowd. Guns to those on FBI watch lists no problem but certain plants in your back yard no way.

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21. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Paul, I have no problem with someone growing forbidden plants but your concept that growing pot is a path to wealth for Nevada County gentleman farmers (ie farmers who don’t want to work too hard) is unrealistic… the ONLY reason there’s a decent profit margin is BECAUSE of the quasi-(il)legality.
    If it was legal, it wouldn’t be any more profitable than tomatoes and just as much work per dollar of profit.

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22. 

    Scott Obermuller

    15 December 2015

    “Guns to those on FBI watch lists…”
    Owning a firearm is a Constitutional right.
    What other Constitutional rights should be taken from a person who is on the ‘watch list’?
    If they are so darn dangerous why are they out walking around?
    What kind of due process does a citizen deserve after they find out they are on the list?
    If a person is on the list, do they still get to drive motor vehicles and buy gasoline?
    If the FBI wants to ‘watch’ some one I guess we can’t stop them, but it’s completely illegal to deny a person their rights without due process.
    And they can still go buy all the weapons they want on the black market anyway, so the whole darn idea is just feel good blather for the Gruberized like Paul.

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23. 

    Jon

    15 December 2015

    “If a person is on the list, do they still get to drive motor vehicles and buy gasoline?”
    Yes they do. I think that a gun serves a slightly different purpose there, Scotty.:) Are you concerned about ending up one day on a terrorist watch list and being unable to hoard even more guns and ammo in your Idaho bunker?

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24. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    The first link in the due process changes required for the “gun safety” advocates to use the No-FLy list would be notification that some nameless bureaucrat has revoked your 2nd amendment rights and the ability to travel without challenge on commercial air transports. The FBI refuses to do that.
    Tom Sullivan, the radio talk show guy, was once on the No-Fly list because an IRA terrorist shared the same name… but he’s a pilot and could still buy and fly any airplane he wanted. I heard him talking in the pattern at Marysville just west of Beale AFB, he was flying a Beech Baron at the time, capable of taking off with nearly a ton of explosives if one didn’t want a legal round trip. Senator Ted Kennedy had a similar IRA problem and it took him and his staff three weeks to get him off the FBI list.
    The No-Fly list use to revoke gun rights will backfire if it isn’t dropped; I suspect it will be moot once the primary silly season is over and DEMs aren’t so focused on getting the party rabble to support Clinton and to cough up some cash to help make it happen.

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25. 

    Paul emery

    15 December 2015

    Gregory
    Why not let the marketplace decide that.

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26. 

    Walt

    15 December 2015

    I hear there is a “jon” on the “no fly” list. Going to fork over yours?
    So “jon”,,, Those on the same list can still vote? That’s just as dangerous as having a gun. All it takes is one vote to elect the wrong LIB.

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27. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Now we have Jeffie wanting to compare his income to mine. LOL:
    “December 15, 2015 at 3:01 pm
    Gregory,
    Want to compare business income forms?”
    Jeff, if you want to make your tax filings public, be my guest. Maybe someday you’ll even be able to charge for your “magazine”.

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28. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    PE 3:35
    It already did… growing pot is what poor Mexican farmers did for years in order to make some money on the side to buy tequila. In the meantime, I’ve already stated that I’ve no problem with people growing but it’s not worth fighting over. A moot point, your friends will be the first to give it up when it becomes legal and serious industrial growers take the market.

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29. 

    Bill Tozer

    15 December 2015

    In 2011, Russian intelligence warned us about some radical Islamic terrorist from Georgia (not e thhe peanut farmer’s Georgia, the USSR one). It’s a mystery why the lad was not put on our no fly list, being an Islamic and all after the Ruskies alerted us.
    Well, that lad never did get put on the no fly list. He did not use a gun, either, as his weapon of choice used by that rascally refugee was a crock pot to mess up a perfectly good Blue State Marathon.
    His mamma said he was such a nice boy.
    See, no guns, no being on the no fly list, Nothing to see here. Them Russians have some messed up Intel alerts I hear.

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30. 

    Jon

    15 December 2015

    hay “walt”, what’s life really like walking around your rural fortress all day in absolute fear of the world?

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31. 

    Walt

    15 December 2015

    Winter is just getting started… AGW my ass.
    http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/12/15/biggest-storm-this-season-breaks-daily-snowfall-record-in-denver/

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32. 

    Bill Tozer

    15 December 2015

    Walt, AGW has already begun.. Buy heavy jackets and wool beanies. Man caused this and expect more. And feel guilty for not being part of the solution, you carnivore you. Shame, shame on the NRA for causing the 118 year old record snowfall to be smashed by more than double. It would have been worse if not for the Paris accord.

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33. 

    Walt

    15 December 2015

    Now that’s original “jonnie” boy. Yup, the Ca.(barely legal) .468(the 50 cal. is illegal) belt fed, FLIR, motion sensing, laser ranging, computer (Big Blue surplus) managed pre-fab defence towers show up on Friday.
    Life is GREAT! Now you should see my up-armored jeep! The Bradly gets here on the 1ST.
    Man. Those open carry permits are even harder to get than the CWPs. People like the “jon” wet their girly undies at the first sight of a gun exposed to sunlight. They run screaming down the street. Why is that?
    But they have no problem letting the same kind of people vote.

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34. 

    Bill Tozer

    15 December 2015

    Fish @ 1:18pm.
    Delayed reaction. Oh, please, please, remind me again that I am a racist.
    Now, let us reason together.
    Come and let me tell you about a man named Jed. Poor mountaineer barely keep his family fed. Then one day he was shooting like a fool, and up from the ground came a bubblin’ crude. Oil that is, Texas Tea.
    Jed, West Virginnie hillbilly, gun toting fool, fossil fuels, coal state, and Granny clutching her Bible. It’s all there, my good fellow. I liked Emimy Mae as well. See, proof that conservative Americans are racists, crazy gun lubbers, gross polluters, and a whole bunch more unspeakable violations than being a mere racist. I offer no defense. I even like Dr. Drysdale, the money grubbing banker. May God have mercy on my wretched soul.

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35. 

    Walt

    15 December 2015

    Come to think of it “jon”,, it’s the “jons” of the U.S. that “live in fear” of the likes of the freedom loving “me”s of the place. All you guys want to do is ban, and outlaw things and make life rough.
    Yup,, “weening off oil”. Sure thing. And replace it with what? How will planes fly?
    how will goods get to market? Heating in the Winter? Nope,, the green weenies never have a viable solution to that. Talk and “feelings” are cheap.
    Just like Dizzy Izzy and the SBC. “BAN DREDGING!!! IT causes mercury to spread!”.. then spends big bucks (and receives it) for doing the same damned thing. ( It’s OK,, when they do it.)

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36. 

    Jon

    15 December 2015

    Walt, 65 degrees in Manhattan over the weekend. Never happens in December.

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37. 

    Jon

    15 December 2015

    Walt, jesuschrist, what’s your obsession with quotation marks? I see a dozen in your last rant. Not normal.

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38. 

    Bill Tozer

    15 December 2015

    I once posted here that there is absolutely nothing in Obama’s background to prepare him for the likes of Putin. Nothing.
    An old WW2 story is a perfect example. Closing days of the war in Betlin. East meets West. There were GIs and British troops outside a building waiting. A Russian came up and asked what was the hold up? The Americans explained that there were women and children in the building along with the penned down German soldiers. The Russian said “Give me that”‘ grabbed the flame thrower from the GI ‘s arms and torched everyone inside. Get er’ done, Russian style.
    This link might just be wishful thinking, but there are some places where our reputation proceeds us. And the Russian’s reputation as well.
    http://www.truthandaction.org/isis-fighters-cut-off-beards-tucks-tail-runs-russia-iran-close/2/

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39. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    This is for Jon 5:09
    You’d have peed your pants listening to All Things Considered today; global warming has been a solid fixture in the coverage for years and when they interviewed one for the New England warm temps he correctly noted that El Niño conditions have always been related to warmer than normal winter temps, as is a strong polar vortex that keeps cold air at the pole. Not getting the answer they wanted, the NPR interviewer asked about the global warming effect… and their chosen expert gave a scientifically valid answer… without AGW the high of 70 might have been 69 but no one knows.
    What is the world coming to when not even NPR can vet their experts to follow the party line.

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40. 

    Walt

    15 December 2015

    That’s all you can come back to bitch about? ” ” marks?????
    Get with the program… son… Yup,, leave that oil tit question alone. You need that black “mamma’s milk” as much as the rest of us. Let us know when your all “weened” off it.

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41. 

    Walt

    15 December 2015

    “jon” is like a chew toy here in a room full of doggies. ( watching my two Shepherds take turns grinding on the same chew stick gave me the analogy.)

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42. 

    Don Bessee

    15 December 2015

    Gee the ‘jon’ blue. It happened so you can not say it never happens. Not even going to bother with the blasphemous 512. Its his birthday so its two words etc. I would engage in debate rather than noting what you are about but you never bring anything worthy of debate, just bernie sanders talking points and your bankrupt knowledge bank. LOL

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43. 

    Jon

    15 December 2015

    Hey “Don”, time for the Climate Denier in you to come out. Here’s an obvious chart to try to rip apart. Good luck:) Deniers—-ready, begin!
    http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/15/3732080/nasa-2015-hottest-year

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44. 

    Jon

    15 December 2015

    Hay Greg, that chart is open for your perusal and critique as well…sorry for error of omission. Don is only about half the Denier you are.

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45. 

    Don Bessee

    15 December 2015

    It would seem the global warming wanna be profiteers and wealth redistributors did more than I could ever do to make my point in Paris. Thanks! 😉 LOL

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46. 

    Walt

    15 December 2015

    You can do better than that “jon”. The NASA crap is known already for book cooking, right along with the NOAA scandal. Your pal’s altered the real facts and OMIT the parts where they ADDED “readings” where there ARE NONE. (adding “red” boxes in the data)
    This “news” of yours is old news. Just new to you.
    http://notrickszone.com/2015/11/20/german-professor-examines-nasa-giss-temperature-datasets-finds-they-have-been-massively-altered/#sthash.cJYeZ1Oe.dpbs
    http://www.climatedepot.com/
    http://realclimatescience.com/2015/11/record-crushing-fraud-from-noaa-and-nasa-ahead-of-paris/
    Damn “jon”,, that was easy to rip to shreds. Made of rice paper?
    And from a lot more reputable places than from LIB central, office of Chicken Little.

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47. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Jon, the answer can be found in Gavin Schmidt’s (the director of NASA-GISS) twitter where he did a little oopsie a day or so ago, accidentally letting out the truth when it contradicted his official story:
    https://mobile.twitter.com/7Kiwi/status/676530541500481537?p=v
    Yes, the troposphere, in order to be the driver of a warming climate as predicted by the coding of the general circulation models, needs to lead the surface warming, but the satellite record, and the radiosonde record, is flat.
    Let’s recall the words of Richard Feynman:
    “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong”

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48. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    Now, Jon, I’ve been in the same small room with Feynman at a physics colloquium, and I’m quite sure he’d repeat that for you if he wasn’t dead.

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49. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    “Walt, 65 degrees in Manhattan over the weekend. Never happens in December.”
    Jon 5:09
    Jon, the record high in Manhattan for December was 75 degrees in 1998 and it also was the first year in an El Nino couplet. It’s what El Nino does to weather… remember that thing weather that’s not climate?

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50. 

    Gregory

    15 December 2015

    More for the education of “Jon”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt7gPCioqTg

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