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Sandbox – 5apr16

05 April 2016

[The NCAA championship, Trump’s latest follies, Hillary’s ongoing lies and impending (or not!) testimony, Bernie’s heartfelt exhortations to a socialist future, Muslim ragheads killing and colonizing, global cooling, Obama’s political revelations, another shot at economic development, …; so much to sort out and inform each other about the error of their ways. Where to start? gjr]

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181 responses to “Sandbox – 5apr16”

Todd Juvinall

05 April 2016

The NCAA game last night was awesome! I love basketball.

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

The championship game was indeed awesome basketball. With game tied and 4.7 secs to go NC and everyone else knew the game would go into overtime. NC’s tactic was to prevent anyone getting a shot off in the paint, so they all sauntered down to defend as Nova brought the ball down court. But with nothing to lose, Nova’s tactic had to be the long shot, there wasn’t enough time to make it to the paint, and that’s what they did with their best 3-point shooter Kris Jenkins. Unguarded, Jenkins loosed the ball with less than a second before the buzzer that went off as the ball was sailing into the basket. The rest is history.
What I kept coming back to as I fell asleep last night was Isaiah Hicks, the guy on the NC team assigned to guard Jenkins. Had he been even close enough to pressure Jenkins a tiny bit, the game would have gone to overtime with who knows what result. Both teams played man-to-man with an almost full court press for the entire game, and then when it really counted for those last couple of seconds, Hicks cut Jenkins some unwarranted slack. And that was that.
This is one game that poor Isaiah Hick will relive in his private thoughts for years to come.

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Todd Juvinall

05 April 2016

Yes he will. The man that brought the ball up the court for the assist should also be honored.
The greatest game in these playoffs was in 1992 semi. Duke V Kentucky. When Kentucky scored with only 2.7 seconds left. A long toss to Christian Lightner a turn around jumper and the winning basket. Unbelievable!

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Gregory

05 April 2016

George, did you ever run your use of “raghead” past your old Sikh friends?

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

Gregory 1041am – Yes I did. They appreciated the directed pejorative and that it did not apply to them. However, they wished that more people understood the difference between the tidy and tightly wound turbans of the Sikhs and the haphazard head wrappings of the Islamists. As I said years ago about the appellation, no doubt a better one exists, but I have yet to find it and still invite readers to suggest alternatives that are as directed, compact, and pejorative as ‘raghead’.

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Don Bessee

05 April 2016

Best wishes to Jim Hemig as he moves on from the Union to work at his dads real estate office.

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

DonB 1102am – Where did you hear that??

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Don Bessee

05 April 2016

The Union on Facebook Dr R.

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Brad C.

05 April 2016

Islamowacko, eh, not quite as compact…

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

Here is Jim Hemig’s resignation on The Union website –
http://www.theunion.com/news/21440582-113/jim-hemig-everything-has-a-beginning-and-an
BTW, I answered Messrs Emery and Croul in the 5apr16 update to ‘MJ – the numbers game’.

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Jon

05 April 2016

Drumpfian trumbles abound. Rats fleeing the ship..
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/donald-trump-campaign-staff-disarray-221557

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

Jon 1245pm – The Lord works in mysterious ways 😉

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rl crabb

05 April 2016

I’ll be replacing Hemig as the paper’s new publisher.

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

rlcrabb 1259pm – Congratulations Bob, is this news for broad dissemination? I’ll buy a round of drinks all around at the celebration.

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Don Bessee

05 April 2016

The dark lord of liberal lament land will be envious crabbman. 😉

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2016

Mr. Crabb, you don’t need the grief. Isn’t there some way to impart your expertise to us knuckledraggers without ruining your golden years? Think man, think. But then again, I don’t have a say in the matter. Whatever you choose, I will stand by your decision. Throwing rotten tomatoes at you just doesn’t seem right. In fact, it is sooo wrong. 🙂
Incoming!

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Russ Steele

05 April 2016

Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann endorses Heidi Hall for District One Supervisor
More details here:
http://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2016/04/05/michael-mann-endorses-heidi-hall-huh/

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rl crabb

05 April 2016

APRIL FOOL! (a few days late…I just thought it might cause certain parties to have a stroke, or at least soil themselves.)

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

rlcrabb 257pm – Bullshit Bob! I just ordered five cases of the bubbly; now I’ll have to sabrage and drink the whole thing meself. Maybe I’ll invite you over and we can drink and talk about the days that could have been 😉
RussS 242pm – Boy, that snake oil ‘scientist’ sure keeps track of where his double dummy constituents are hiding out.

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2016

RL Crabb: take a face shield with you in case the good doc plays with his special bottle opener. And make sure you got enough gas to drive him to the ER. Then leave him there and consume mass qualities of the bubbly and take a couple cases home to the little lady.

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2016

rlcrabb @ 2:57pm.
Soil themselves? It’s more like the elephant who had diarrhea. It’s all over town.

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George Rebane

05 April 2016

BillT 455pm – Mr Tozer, that was a heartless recounting of a day that I’ve been doing my best to forget.

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Bill Tozer

05 April 2016

The Lord works in mysterious ways. 🙂

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Robert Cross

06 April 2016

A recent study at Harvard states that fracking releases more pollution, in the form of methane, and is thus more harmful to the environment, than coal fired electrical generation. While CO2 levels have decreased because of the switch to natural gas fired generation, the levels of methane released into the atmosphere as a result of fracking operations has increased 30-60% making the problem worse rather than better. Methane is ten times more effective as a pollutant than CO2 in terms of reflecting heat back to the planet.

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Gregory

06 April 2016

Sorry, Robert Cross, but the effect of IR absorbing gasses is not to reflect heat (photons in the infrared spectrum) down but to re-radiate it omindirectionally, and slightly more goes towards space than towards the ground. Like Barbie might say, “Physics is hard!”.
There is no danger in AGW without positive feedbacks in the climate system as a whole and as the science gets filled in by the adults in the academy, it looks more and more that the response of the climate to a perturbation is pretty damned close to neutral.
IPCC brand alarmism calls for the planet to heat 2 to nearly 5C for a 1C kick. It appears the planet actually warms about 1C for a 1C kick. AGW is real, just small compared to natural variations. And for gases like CO2 and Methane, the sensitivity to a given amount of gas goes down the more you emit… in other words, we’ll have the first 1C from CO2 when (and if) we first get from 300ppm CO2 (accepting this as the pre-petrol economy number) to 600ppm CO2, and the second degree of CO2 warming would arrive were we actually able to dig up and burn enough fuels to get to 1200ppm CO2 before someone gets rich beyond the dreams of Avarice by developing the next generation of power generation. Fusion, maybe? Time will tell, but in the meantime there is little risk of Armageddon in heating your home, driving to the market or turning lights on at night.

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Brad C.

06 April 2016

The newest tax haven,
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-emerging-tax-haven-alongside-switzerland-caymans-38193149

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Bill Tozer

06 April 2016

Two things, both concerning Mr. Cross’s two comments.
1) LA forecasting blackouts this summer directly due to the loss of natural gas storage.
2) The Bill and Hillary’s 2nd home in New York is tax sheltered through an offshore trust in the Cayman Islands. Yep, they done bought themselve two mansions in NY.

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Walt

06 April 2016

Uhh,, Robert C,….
https://in.news.yahoo.com/climate-forecasts-may-flawed-says-170007812.html
Translation:
“We don’t know what the hell we are talking about.”

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Robert Cross

06 April 2016

Gregory 10:47 — I am not a science person so I don’t get what you are saying, but I do know that I wouldn’t go to a proctologist for open heart surgery.

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Don Bessee

06 April 2016

I am somewhat surprised at how many people are coming into the Republican HQ here to register Republican specifically to be able to vote for Trump. Primarialy decline to state but Dems too. Its gonna be an interesting ride! 😉

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George Rebane

06 April 2016

DonB 641pm – Do not discount the perfidy factor. Many pro-Hillary folks firmly believe that the best way to guarantee her win is to have Trump as her opponent.

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Don Bessee

06 April 2016

We at the HQ have been around the block Dr. R, there was one who chickened out who fit that bill but the many others were serious. Most sound like real Reagan non-R’s. Interestingly the Republican unscientific bean in the jar poll at the last Nevada County fair was Trump, Carson, Cruz. Today we still have 2 of those guys in the new bean poll at the R HQ. Bernie is blowing up the dems and everything is a question going forward. Gonna be fun. 😉

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Don Bessee

06 April 2016

May we take a geopolitical shift? Today Putin announced a new ‘National Guard’ that is specifically charged with special break up the protest powers. The ministerial level boss is Vlads former head of personal security. It sounds like Vlad is afraid of the fallout from the Panama Papers on top of all the ‘convenient’ murders. Coup fears might make a tyrant want a Pretorian guard. Now who took a stage prop Staples reset button to a news conference with people who had no cultural understanding of an American Staples commercial joke? OH, YA, Madam Liar Liar Pantsuits on fire. 😉

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Mikel

07 April 2016

But Robert Cross we had two heart surgeons making hundreds of unnecessary heart surgeries at a hospital in Redding several years ago. When the data doesn’t fit with what the so called experts are saying then the experts are wrong.
George.. I love the new word ‘pretzellated’.

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Russ Steele

07 April 2016

Robert Cross this is for you:
http://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2016/04/06/the-climate-change-scam-brilliantly-summed-up-in-one-cartoon/

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George Rebane

07 April 2016

DonB 948pm – When we heard about this yesterday, Pretorian Guard immediately came to mind. Such personally loyal protective units are a litmus test of weak(ening) tyrants.
I am reminded by a correspondent that neither our CinC nor his lamestream media acknowledged that in four days of fighting in Afghanistan the ‘Dark Horse’ 3Bn, 5th Marines lost twelve men to the ragheads they are fighting for our sake. May they rest in peace and God’s grace to their families.
Justin Allen, 23
Brett Linley, 29
Matthew Weikert, 29
Justus Bartett, 27
Dave Santos, 21
Chase Stanley, 21
Jesse Reed,26
Matthew Johnson, 21
Zachary Fisher, 24
Brandon King, 23
Christopher Goeke 23
Sheldon Tate, 27
Meanwhile, at an anti-terrorist conference in Geneva, the UN declared that global terrorism has no basis in any religion. Idiots or evil, or evil idiots?

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Robert Cross

07 April 2016

“When the data doesn’t fit with what the so called experts are saying then the experts are wrong.” Wouldn’t that depend upon just what data is being used? In the case of climate change it seems to be most of the entire globe’s scientific community versus data from the energy companies hired hands. Personally, I don’t trust multinational corporate anything. A simple perusal of the headlines on any given day reveals yet another illegal/questionable/greedy scam or another perpetrated by the uber-rich and their corporate minions.
There seems to be a conundrum at work. While many of the posters here seem to not be great fans of large multinational conglomerates and their self-serving trade agreements and organizations like WTO, those same people seem to buy into the corporate point of view on many issues like climate change, GMOs, fracking, clean coal, regulatory issues and so on. It makes no sense to me. Can someone explain how this works? How does disdain turn into unabashed support?

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George Rebane

07 April 2016

RobertC 1024am – Do you ever consider that some of us here have the training, knowledge base, and experience to read and understand the scientific literature on the matter? We don’t need to shape our conclusions based on who else agrees or disagrees. Your point seems to be that just because some corporations also take the same point of view, that this invalidates further consideration of the information sources or contained conclusions. Don’t know of anyone here who is in favor of corporatism; however, on the basis of your rejection we should also reject limited access freeways just because Hitler invented and built them, and Jefferson’s insights on liberty and governance just because he was a slave owner.
As a professional in the relevant sciences, I can say with some confidence that the entire issue of preventable global warming is misunderstood by 99.44% of Americans. And mostly by those who believe that unbiased science comes with the government imprimatur.

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Jon

07 April 2016

The 99% should put all their trust in the 1% with the really, really, really “true knowledge” of climate science. Expecially when virtually everything included in that 1% are political conservatives favoring lower taxes and the status quo of current fossil fuels.
Oh yeah.

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Todd Juvinall

07 April 2016

The 99% are losers according to all you liberals. Why do you call them that “jon”? I think they are pretty damn lucky to live in America and if you interview them, they do too. So where is this 99% coming from? And if you can’t tell us, why do continue to use it?

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Jon

07 April 2016

“The 99% are losers according to all you liberals”. TJ
Say what?

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Jon

07 April 2016

“So where is this 99% coming from?” Todd
answer:
“I can say with some confidence that the entire issue of preventable global warming is misunderstood by 99.44% of Americans.” Dr. George Rebane

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Jon

07 April 2016

Todd, you have proven once again incapable of understanding irony/saracasm. Nothing new.

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George Rebane

07 April 2016

As a point of reference, the 99%+ of their day were opposed to everything from the heliocentric solar system, through the germ theory of disease, to the acceptance of relativity. If ever there was a constant in science, it was that the current consensus ALWAYS stood in the way of advancement of knowledge and scientific progress. But what history shows should definitely be ignored (feared?) is the second tier echo chamber that adulates consensus while being totally ignorant of the underlying science.

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Todd Juvinall

07 April 2016

Jon | 07 April 2016 at 07:20 PM
So you don’t believe the 99% theory and you are just pulling or leg? Oh, gee, how plebeian.
So why are the 99% losers in life “jon”. Your ilk made it up when you were doing the Occupy crapola. So one can deduce you think the 1% have everything and are denying the 99% something. What are they being denied? Of course crickets or some smart ass retort from you is expected.

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Don Bessee

07 April 2016

Nice show at the Rood Center for the Stawser v Hall forum. Sound system sucked tonight. As we roll into the election season lets talk voter fraud. Philly just got sued for having more registered voters than eligible resident citizens. Hmmmmmmm, so if you have x eligible resident citizens and you have x +++ registered voters you have either illegal aliens or a boat load of dead people still on the rolls or both. Either way Philly has people voting who should not. We don’t need no stinking identification they say. What, is Philly trying to overtake Chicago as the voter fraud capitol of the world? 😉

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Gregory

08 April 2016

“In the case of climate change it seems to be most of the entire globe’s scientific community versus data from the energy companies hired hands.” R Cross 10:41AM
Absolutely none of the papers that turned my head from warmist to scoffer were from scientists funded by energy companies… in fact, the one Danish physicist that probably had the biggest impact on me had his landmark experiment funded by the Carlsberg Foundation (“Carlsberg, the best beer on the planet, due to science”)… a bargain at $600k.
“It seems” is one of those weasel phrases that lets one substitute feelings for facts. I doubt that even 1% of the entire globe’s scientific community has been asked what they think and when the American Meteorological Society surveyed their professional membership (which includes the likes of alarmists such as Michael Mann at UPenn and skeptic Richard Lindzen from MIT) a couple years ago only half thought the warming of the last century was primarily man made.
That’s about half, Robert Cross, not 98%, not 99%. Half. This invented meme of climate skepticism being akin to the tobacco big lie is not because of any evidence of “energy companies” funding disinformation campaigns but because the useful idiots gone wild! want to believe it.
The facts are that the IPCC vision has been railroaded through academia and through the popular press, with virtually all journalists, being as scientifically infantile as Robert Cross, presenting warmista science as settled fact to a gullible public. It isn’t, and the evidence (what little there was) for a warming catastrophe is slowly unraveling.
It might surprise RC that warmista Michael Mann, skeptic nonpareil Richard Lindzen, George Rebane and I all have something in common… a baccalaureate in physics. It is the mother of all the physical sciences and while GR and I have never desired to perform and publish research concerning climate we do have the tools to read and understand the research that is published, so regarding RCross’s “I am not a science person so I don’t get what you are saying, but I do know that I wouldn’t go to a proctologist for open heart surgery” at 06:29 PM … no, you wouldn’t but considering where it’s been, you might go to a proctologist for neurosurgery.

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Jon

08 April 2016

I will say, I do enjoy seeing the ultra elitism and the old “Father Knows Best” philosophy again on display in regard to climate change! Only a few right wing skeptics with advanced degrees know best. The vast majority of climate science is part of a vast left wing conspiracy to intentionally stick it to the Man and raise their taxes. Love it. Meanwhile, nearly every nation and institution in the world forges ahead non-stop to a world less dependent on fossil fuels. The trend is not going away. Coal is not coming back.
And Todd, no one has any idea WTF you’re continuing to babble about.

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George Rebane

08 April 2016

A known RR tenet is that ‘Government is an intrinsically evil collective, cynically organized, incompetently operated, and staffed by people not all of whom are evil. For this reason alone, citizens must keep their governments small and always on a short leash.’ This sentiment in its various forms is held by millions of Americans, contrary to the local know-nothing lackeys of Leviathan who instantly rise to protest any such expressions as ranging from immoral to seditious. I want to share one of several letters on the topic that appears in the 8arp16 WSJ, this one written by Bruce N. Shortt.
Regarding your editorial “Why Americans Hate Government” (March 28): Americans don’t hate the government because regulators aren’t held accountable; they hate the government because every branch and operation at every level have become fundamentally lawless.
Congress exercises and delegates powers it doesn’t have, while refusing to exercise its power to prevent lawlessness in other branches; the executive branch legislates, tries to punish political enemies and tries to gain political advantage by refusing to enforce some laws. State and local governments have followed suit. As a result, citizens increasingly recognize that government refuses to recognize virtually any limits on its power and that the American constitutional republic today is as dead as the Roman Republic in the days of Augustus Caesar.
Should we be surprised that compliance with what passes for “law” these days no longer is grounded in a sense of political obligation based on the legitimacy of government? Rather, citizens comply with various government ukases because those who call themselves “the government” have overwhelming force at their disposal. Our polity is broken beyond repair.

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Todd Juvinall

08 April 2016

“jon” is rea;;y not too bright is he. Well. libs are lacking the common sense gene. We see the crickets from him on my simple questions of him. SOP for a lefty extremist like “jon”.

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