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[I am reminded by fellow blogger and pundit NC Scooper that a fresh sandbox has not been provided for the widely read, erudite (often in their own special way), and opinionated readers of this humble blog.  So let us again come together for “The time has come,” the Walrus said,”to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings.  And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings.”  So I pose a question often asked by astute observers like cartoonist Ramirez, ‘Is our President a Muslim or a communist, or (insert plausible answer here)?’  gjr]

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  1. Russ Steele Avatar
    Russ Steele

    The UK Telegraph: We are facing an unprecedented age of terror.
    The ethnic cleansing of Christians around the world is one of the great crimes of our age.
    The aim of Isil is political: to re-establish the Caliphate and make Islam once more an imperial power. But there is another aim shared by many jihadist groups: to silence anyone and anything that threatens to express a different truth, another faith, a different approach to religious difference. That is what lay behind the attacks on the Danish cartoons; on Catholics after a speech by Pope Benedict XVI; the murder of Theo van Gogh; and the attacks on Charlie Hebdo. The calculation of the terrorists is that, in the long run, the West will prove too tired to defend its own freedoms. . . .

    Where is Obama’s outrage over this ethnic cleansing? What are he views on ethnic cleansing? More importantly, what are his actions to protect Christians who are facing “an unprecedented age of terror?” Oh?

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The worst school in the county (by the only objective measure we’ve had, the discontinued STAR/API/Similar School lists) is effectively shut down for a couple weeks because 70% of the student body claimed exemption for the measles vaccine and the inevitable happened… one of them caught the measles and came to school with it. It will be longer if more come down with it.
    Here’s hoping these fresh measles cases remain uncomplicated.

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  3. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Absolute disgrace with the measles situation at Yuba River Charter. Agree 100% Gregory.

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  4. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Greg, your wet dream of the destruction of unions decided by the Scalia Court had a really frustrating ending today ha? LOL. Damn Scalia- couldn’t stop eating steaks every day!

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  5. Walt Avatar

    I see “jon” is all for legalized extortion.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    As for the question, “Commuslim” If he can’t take from you, he will ruin it, and make it worthless. Need an example? Reliable cheap power.(coal) Then imports those that hate us, and demand we change our way of life to make them happy.

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  7. Russ Steele Avatar
    Russ Steele

    Quote of the day:
    “When nations are run by a ruling class that doesn’t take pride in the nations it rules, the outlook is poor.” Glenn Reynolds
    Hummm. We have a ruling class problem in the United States, but Europe has a real problem with the European Union.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Jon” 9:22 is even more lacking in intellectual honesty than usual. Public employee unions in half the country already operate with the rules the plaintiffs had sought for California and a few other states. They once were the rule in California, too, before Jerry Brown V1.0 gave us California Public Employee Unions Gone Wild, contrary to the wise counsel of FDR.
    Guaranteed kickbacks to the Democratic Party from public employee’s paychecks… what’s not for a Jon to love?

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, this might be fit for the Sandbox.
    https://www.facebook.com/LmfaoAdultFunnies/photos/a.433362843426612.1073741828.433361506760079/952537421509149/?type=3&theater
    As far as what Obama’s ideology is, it is safe to say by his words, actions, and deeds past and present that President Obama is a Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer and advocate. Nothing I see counters this fact.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Another “green” company is going under.And a BIG one.
    ” SunEdison – the world’s largest green energy company – you would have made a killing as its shares plunged further this week, amid rumours that it now faces imminent bankruptcy.
    SunEdison, valued at $10 billion in July 2015 is now worth just $400 million today. This represents a catastrophic loss for the investors gulled into this sector in the mistaken belief that “clean” energy is the future and that it’s possible to make lots and lots of money and polish your environmental conscience at the same time.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/30/curse-of-delingpole-worlds-biggest-green-energy-company-collapses/
    When “other people’s money” runs out, solar and wind go in the same grave.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Former UN climate official Ottmar Edenhofer-
    One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.
    We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.
    So says the Co-Chair of the UN intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change 2008-2015

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    DonB 109pm – Another piece of evidence that makes it hard to dispute that both governments and progressive ideology are intrinsically evil. (see also Walt’s 913am)

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  13. Russ Steele Avatar
    Russ Steele

    More evidence of progressive malice: Last year, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, made a similar statement.
    “This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said in anticipation of last year’s Paris climate summit.
    “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    RussS 340pm – Her outlandish observation was covered last year on RR –
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2015/11/the-other-paris-tragedy.html#more
    Probably a good time to again remind readers of the intrinsic evil that is afoot regarding ‘climate change’.

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  15. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Eh, a 6 foot rise in sea levels and permanent loss of Antarctica ice…we’ll adjust.
    Front Page NYT. Greg, Russ, et al, Time to discredit with your usual MO…ready begin!
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/science/global-warming-antarctica-ice-sheet-sea-level-rise.html

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    jon 723pm – Mr jon, you really should read the piece more carefully, at least with care equal to the wordsmithing that went into it to convince the lightly read that the latest ‘ice models’ were really predicting something more reliable than the demonstrably unreliable GCMs have been able to do. Hint: what meat there is in the article comes in the last half which presumably the intended audience will never have the fortitude to wade through.

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Well “jon”,, that would take care of a little problem called, Frisco.
    Since most of the valley farmers will be regulated right out of business before that happens, no real loss. But plenty of new beach front property. So buy it all up at the current 10 foot elevation line.

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  18. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    “jon” represents the bulk of the idiot class who can’t read well and comprehend worse. No wonder he supports Bernie. Anyway I am quite familiar with the meaning of certain words since I was involved in many of them in the Nevada County General Plan. Would, could, shall, will, etc. are very important. So I went to the “jon” link and saw this headline copied to here.
    “Climate Model Predicts West Antarctic Ice Sheet Could Melt Rapidly”
    The word “predicts” jumps out first. “Could” is right there too. Really wimp ass words for a strong scientific finding eh?

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Now, just what has worried me. Political correctness along with overzealous promotion of an individual’s race ahead of everything under the sun run amok is heading in one direction and one direction only: Seperate but equal. Or, sometimes is Seperate and not equal. I usually mock the liberals on college campuses with their silly ridiculous notions. Not no more. They carry these idea so straight into government where it becomes Standard Operating Procedure. Dangerous and heading back to segregation. Bad.
    The college students that demanded and received a co-equal student government (one for blacks, one for every else) along with black only dorms equates to segregation and racism in its full shame.
    The libs today are moving more to the likes of Malcom X and Rev. Jeramiah Wright and farther away from the words of Dr. Martin King.
    Libs see everything through tthe tunnel vision of race.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/san-francisco-state-probes-dispute-over-mans-dreadlocks/2016/03/30/88eb8f22-f6ec-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_story.html
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/820455298088509/?type=3&theater

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  20. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Walt, kudos for your 8:44. A pretty clever post. A-, marked down slightly for your term- Frisco. It’s THE CITY. Check out the old school Warriors jerseys. You familiar with Steph Curry?

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now the ‘jon’ is really channeling the dark lord of liberal lament land again. As if anyone cares about your affirmation or superior posturing with your grading the opposition in a debate forum. Just another attempt to modify others speech. What a maroon. LOL 😉

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey, we a a king the big time. Soon, we might be as newsworthy as Frisco fatty.
    https://gma.yahoo.com/measles-detected-california-school-high-number-unvaccinated-children-184715420–abc-news-health.html

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Speaking of Frisco Values, looks like cash is king. Money talks, Frisco Fatty walks.
    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scathing-audit-says-californias-biggest-165435216.html

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What a way to start a day in Nevada City.
    6:12 a.m. — A caller from the 10000 block of Boulder Street reported he was getting no respect.
    http://patriotpost.us/posts/41598

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  25. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Bill,
    Your boy Drumpf is toast, done, cooked, finished as a serious candidate. Cruz is disliked by most Republicans, who will stay home in droves regardless of who the GOP Boy is.
    What are you going to talk about during Hillary or Bernie’s presidency?

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It does appear that “Jon” has been channeling the FUE as of late. His fawning over Caen and self-appointment to the task of eradicating Frisco from polite discourse is a desperate but in the end futile effort to be accepted into Frisco society.
    “Adolescence is believing that ‘Frisco’ is a racy nickname for a city; senility is automatically saying ‘don’t call it Frisco,’ maturity is figuring it doesn’t matter all that much …”-Herb Caen, 1993
    My grandfather, a San Francisco native and Lowell High class of 1922, always called it Frisco, and I claim my rights to do so are grandfathered in.
    Jeff, a fat Angelino you were and a fat Angelino you will remain, even if you did bring Caen his coffee once or twice.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that’s interesting, the ‘jon’ goes from light blue box then mid thread goes dark green in the middle of the night with the 3 dark lord of liberal lament land links and immediately back to light blue. Too many hands in the sock at one time there the ‘jon? LOL 😉

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No need to hit the panic button there little buddy. This is called a lull in the action and the press has too much time on their hands. I am riding the Bull known as the The Donald into the dirt and then some. One of us will have the last giggle, but not in March.
    My Gal has some headwinds coming by May, but let’s wait and see. Yes, my Man the Trump is in a rough spot right now, but he is still around after every PAC and politician and foreign government has opened up the bays and are carpet bombing him. Gee Whiz, is that all the entire globe has?? Taking a good haymaker and a few roundhouse swings from you and the Whole Wide World, but taking it like a man. Heck, this ain’t no whimpy Olympic Boxing 3 round contest. Nope, this is a 12 round bare knuckle title fight and My Man Trump is still stretching and playing with y’all. Once he gets all limber like and into his rhythm, this should get a lot more exciting.
    BTW, every headliner today and ALL last night is lead by Trump. I know, I woke up at 2:00 am and nothing but Trump, Trump, Trump all night long. That’s all I heard, except one small blip about My Gal still is unable to light up a small crowd. Have a good one, my dear jon.
    Hey who last last laughs best. No Sunshine Patriot here. Builds character and might I say you are quite the character recently. Jon, you are too gloomy. Everything is doom, doom, doom. Ok, throw in some hee here hee hee hees if you must. The flowers are getting ready to explode into a great bloom. They like El Niño. No gloom or doom on this fantabolous day. It takes more muscles to frown than smile. Cheer up and get well soon.

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  29. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    You boys catch the god fearing GOP Christian Governor of Alabama this week?
    OH MY! As my best friend always used to say, there are no people sexually wilder than a bunch of bible thumping southerners. Very true. Donald Drumpf country.

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  30. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Tozer, BTW, I’m happy to have the last giggle today. The Drumpf fairytale has ended. ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE. High Water Mark and such..
    Mark the Tape.
    ..still I hope he limps through and gets the nomination! Perhaps he will have to sue the GOP to get it, but that’s the MO of a sleazy real estate developer.

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  31. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Greg, I see you remain clueless as ever.:) Its hilarious and quite bizarre to watch you go back and forth with your assumptions about me.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Ca. LIBS are starting to go “Muslim” on the state.
    http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/31/california-dem-proposes-law-targeting-global-warming-skeptics/
    Since AGW is nothing but a religion,(and a bad one at that) let the persecution begin.
    “Convert!!,, or face state law!!” I guess you can look at the bright side,, they are not throwing us off the Golden Gate Bridge. (yet)

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  33. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    hey Walt, more whining about the values of CA? Whine, whine, whine. Get action oriented and do something! I understand Idaho is beautiful in the Spring. I’m sure Scotty can confirm. Better wildflowers than even the South Yuba/ Bridgeport trails.

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  34. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Back to the deranged circus that is the GOP, I happily lift this quote from someone observing the train wreck today. Tell me what isn’t spot on here..
    “Of course the TP/GOP convention will be cotested and turn into a mad house of conflicting views. Trump has done the majority of Americans an enornmus favor by cracking open the TP/GOP and exposing its parts. They all hate him but hate Cruz a little less. So they will probably select their nominee by “default” and not because he or she is the most qualified candidate representing a set of party values. Today’s TP/GOP is a political soup made up of hawks in love with the defense department, wild eyed evangelicals who are waiting for Jesus to burst thorugh the door, and starched collar rich guys who just want things to be like the days of the robber barons.”

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    “joN’ of Pike, Yuba County. Why do you support a communist and a socialist in this race? Please explain.

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  36. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Like the moniker…Jon of Pike..even though have no idea where the hell Pike is.:) Sounds like an old English landowner.
    I’m supporting Democrat Bernie or Hillary. Like the hundreds of millions of Americans will do in November! One will be your next President. Which communist is running this year- there’s always one crank on the ballot for kicks?

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  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Jon”, I have no assumptions about you, only suspicions. If the folks you seem to be channeling are happy to have your personae linked to them, so much the better. They’re all documented liars, so there really is no need to listen to their denials.
    If you ever want to come out of the shadows and, at least once, stand up as who you really are, the charade will end. As a tragically flawed comedic genius once said, “Reality… what a concept”.

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  38. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    First name remains Jon. Yours is Gregory.
    What a concept.

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Regarding the NYT article the “Jon” is taken by, George’s 8:35PM hits the nail but doesn’t drive it far. Let me give it a few whacks:
    folks had been writing models for a few years but couldn’t get them to fit past data describing Antarctic ice.
    Dick Alley, warming alarmist scientist (one of the better ones) suggested a different approach. Voila! Using the new approach, they refined their models and by jiggering constants, generally called parameterization, they got it to fit the past.
    Now, they hope it will have predictive value about the future. Accent on “hope”. However, until the new ice models are verified, there is no valid model to base public polity upon, and the modeled temperatures that are the inputs have already been shown to exaggerate temperature rise to double or more what is actually being measured by satellites and radiosonde (aka weather balloons).
    Richard Alley, who figures in the story, gave an hour’s talk at an AGU Fall meeting a few years ago, and famously said CO2 has to be the culprit because there isn’t anything else to pin the famous Permian-Triassic extinction, aka The Great Dying, upon… that is, if you keep ignoring the link between galactic cosmic rays and temperatures over the past 540 million year.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “First name remains Jon”, until you have someone here knowing what your last name is and that it does link to Jon as a first name, you can easily be a fabulist just like Michael P. Anderson, Steven Frisch or the FUE himself.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Do not mention the FUE, pretty please. It’s a gorgeous day and I am getting ready to eat lunch. Thankyou.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/821222681345104/?type=3&theater

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  42. Walt Avatar

    I believe the “jon” will not be affected by the bending over of the Ca. small business man.(employers) He routinely sounds like anyone who already lives off OPM.(other people’s money) He’s out of luck in PV. Most of the EBT readers ain’t working.
    Yup, when the prices of everything go up to pay for labor, just wait for the “jons” of the state to demand (whine and snivel) that those EBT cards have more money on them. Then what will the state raise taxes on to make up the diff.?,, Dope?

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  43. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Damn Walt, what am I going to do? :)…
    And yes, for various and obvious societal and fiscal reasons, the State will legalize and regulate pot for additional revenue and reduced law enforcement and incarceration expenses. Sounds logical to thinking adults living in the modern world.

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  44. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    “jon” lives near North San Juan bu the border with Yuba County. Up by Bear Court. Has to be a grower.

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  45. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    That’s right Todd. Give or take about 30 miles…:)

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Long drive to the nearest laundromat. He’s probably watching his security cameras as we speak.
    “Paranoia runs deep. Into your life it will creep. It starts when you are always afraid. Step out of line and the man comes and takes you away.” Very Sixties I might say.
    Hey, look what is happening in our Blue Blue Golden State. Just good friends having a circle jerk.
    http://pamelageller.com/2016/03/muslim-open-fire-on-calif-hikers-and-campers.html/

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  47. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    LOL. Damn right that would be a long drive.. Way too long a haul from Briar Patch and yoga class for my wife.

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