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[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”

  1. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gregory, Pelline is twice the man you are. But only in size. He cannot defeat you in any arguments as he is driven by hate and you are driven by logic. He and Frisch are the dregs and unfortunately liberals like them are around. Anyway, you have proven your smarts here and Pelline/Frisch have proven their maladies.

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  2. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Todd, thanks for the kind words but I think the hyperbole is best toned down.
    I don’t think the FUE is driven by hate as much as he’s driven by narcissism and insecurity.

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    A day and a half without “Robert Cross” or “Jon” dropping in to share a bit of snark. Can we stand the silent treatment? 😉
    It’s a shame they can’t take it with the aplomb with which they dish it up. Yes, gentlemen, you are akin to the illiterates who, because they can’t read, have to rely on others to read patient warnings on medicine packaging or the priest on Sunday for interpretations of the books they find holy. Personally, I don’t know how the unwashed can live without introductory holy books like Apostol Calculus or Halliday & Resnick Fundamentals of Physics, but that’s just me.
    Yesterday I found a website with a teacher at a local charter school claiming physics is the study of energy but, that doesn’t quite touch the core and it’s just a bit scary that they actually teach a class called physics. From the wiki:

    “Physics (from Ancient Greek: φυσική (ἐπιστήμη) phusikḗ (epistḗmē) “knowledge of nature”, from φύσις phúsis “nature”) is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through space and time, along with related concepts such as energy and force. One of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, the main goal of physics is to understand how the universe behaves”

    “The main goal of physics is to understand how the universe behaves”. Damn, if that doesn’t encapsulate the subject. Now, Jeff and Steve, you spent years learning how to bullshit; try not to take it personally when you get called on it.

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  4. George Boardman Avatar

    Now that the minority of malcontents supporting the State of Jefferson failed to get 3,840 valid signatures on a petition to force a vote on the issue, I hope we’ve heard the last of this nonsense.

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  5. George Rebane Avatar

    GeorgeB 638pm – “minority of malcontents”, sounds like words from the good King George III’s mouth. Somehow, I think this “nonsense” will go on for as long as people remember what it was like to have their interests represented by their government.
    However Mr Boardman, since apparently you are among the contented, I give you the joy of today’s California.

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The State of Jefferson, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love a One Party California.
    While they were misguided, it’s essentially unfair to just dismiss The Jeffersonians (wasn’t that a sitcom?) as “malcontents”. It takes a willful blindness to be content with the state of the one party state, from the public pension bomb that will eventually blow up Sacramento to the bullet train to nowhere.
    The good news for Republicans is that their DNA will not be on the corpse, once it stops moving.

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  7. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I have not supported the SOJ and preferred to return the Counties of the State to the old Senate per county which has as much chance as SOJ. But what it shows is discontent. When the people who benefit from a one party dictatorship speak I know they do for their personal well being and income.

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Hey what happened to the Frisch and Pelline sock puppets here? Anyway here you go. A poll on Hill-Billy v Trump fr November. Dead heat
    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-voters-split-between-clinton-trump-hypothetical-november-matchup-n554306
    Scroll down a ways.

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  9. Russ Avatar

    Jon COAL is rising from your liberal crib:
    Developing countries that already have a high share of renewable energy in their power mix are unlikely to grow this share further due to skyrocketing demand for cheap electricity, a report warns. The study by intergovernmental organisation the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) says that many developing countries made huge strides towards deploying renewable technologies over the past decade — but this rise is now levelling off. Instead, these countries are turning towards fossil fuels to meet the energy demands of their citizens, IRENA says. Renewables formed nearly 50 per cent of Indonesia’s energy mix in 2000, but this had dropped to under 40 per cent by 2013, the report found. China, India and Mexico have also seen their renewable share fall over this period. –Claudia Caruana, Sci Dev Net, 11 April 2016
    It will return in the US also once the next great minimum brings unrelenting cold, making renewable unreliable energy

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  10. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/04/11/if-trump-doesnt-understand-156-year-old-rules-how-will-understand-presidency.html
    This article makes a very good case as to why Trump’s rhetoric does not match up with the facts. Trump plainly does not have the experience to get elected or be president.

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump is a result of a portion of people who are fed up with the status quo. We will see what the electorate wants. I personally am having a great time watching an listening to all the yapping this go around. Good fun!

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It is easy for me to consider Trump knew the rules all along, that the rules in this case are the rules of a private organization and as such, are not cast in Constitutional stone.
    Another day has passed without a “Cross” or a “Jon”, hoist with their own petars. I guess their fun got ruined,

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  13. George Boardman Avatar

    Apparently Trump’s kids don’t know the rules either. Two of them can’t vote for him in the primary because they didn’t register. Duh.

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    There are a lot of voters who only wake up in time to register for the Presidential main events.

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  15. George Boardman Avatar

    I think I could make an effort to register to vote in the primary if my father was on the ballot.

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It’s still a tempest in a teapot and its BS to claim they ‘didn’t know the rules’. They knew the rule about voter registration and got bit by the deadline, and so the non-story gets the pundits’ panties into a knot for a news cycle.
    I don’t care for Trump, I also don’t care much for gratuitous Trump bashing.

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  17. George Boardman Avatar

    What? People taking cheap shots at Trump?
    You reap what you sow.

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The problem with trying to stop Trump is that the Establlishmnt and foreign entities are trying to stop the wishes of majority of voters who cast their ballots so far in the Republican primaries.

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  19. George Boardman Avatar

    Dr. R: Since Todd apparently doesn’t have a clue, perhaps you would like to speculate on why the Nevada County Republican Party isn’t endorsing Doug LaMalfa for reelection?

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  20. Brad C. Avatar
    Brad C.

    Bill T. – Hmmm, are you talking about a vast right-wing conspiracy? Where have I heard that before…?

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    GeorgeB 316pm – An excellent question about which I don’t have to speculate Mr Boardman. As a matter of policy the NC Republican Party along with the NC Republican Women Federated will not endorse any specific candidate when multiple Republicans are running for the same seat, except when their memberships vote overwhelmingly – at least 75% – for a given candidate. This year State Senator Ted Gaines and Congressman Doug LaMalfa have both asked our NC organizations not to endorse any Republican candidates for the House and state legislature. In fact, Congressman LaMalfa made the same request of all the county Republican parties and affiliated organizations in his congressional district.

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  22. George Boardman Avatar

    Re Dr. R’s 4:25:
    They should have included your explanation with their latest round of endorsements. If Todd doesn’t know the policy, I’ll bet plenty of other people don’t know it either.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Correct Dr R. Doug could have had the endorsement if he wanted, but he chose not to in the primary.

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    GeorgeB, I was not aware another R was running so I apologize for my ignorance. We set a policy in place years ago if there are two or more R’s running for the same partisan office, the NCRCC stays out.

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Lot’s of kitty krunchies in the sandbox today.
    Another red letter day… Pelline is once again talking to himself. All the listed comments left on his blog are by… Jeff Pelline.
    You just can’t make this stuff up
    LOL!

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  26. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Did enjoy the Union’s smackdown on the climate denier campaign money today, and the association with Mr. Strawser. Best of luck being tied to one of these local climate deniers in District 1…

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  27. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Whats’s really distressing lately is to see Mr. Winning, Donald Drumpf, whining and whining about the GOP and his delegates. The moron has virtually no staff to do political work in the states and he’s whining about everyday political dealings? Pathetic. Bizarre. Word is starting to spread that the Drumpf candidacy is really a publicity stunt, and its is finally being exposed. The guy doesn’t really want to win or actually be President.

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    “jon”, climate de4nier? No we are all about climate change being real. It changes every minute of every day. Heidi I am informed believes in chemtrails and the government using them to take out people. So I would say a fellow who takes a campaign check from someone who thinks the weather changes is a better bet than someone who thinks those white trails from jets in the air are a weapon.
    My goodness “jon” you are sp ridiculous. The Union did not make a political statement on Strawser, you did on your blog.
    Regarding Trump. On a politcal level he is rather naive. The Colorado issue does stink for the voters though and I think it is a strategy for the general election. But to call him a “moron” is over the top. He seems to have a few billion dollars and employes many people. I think you are jealous since you can only get so much growing on your land.

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  29. Brad C. Avatar
    Brad C.

    Jon, Trump will be so presidential you won’t believe it.
    (Breitbart ) During a town hall Sunday on Fox News Channel with GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, Trump said that he will be “more presidential” and change his tone once he wins, but he said that does not mean he will not hit back harder if attacked first.
    “Tone to me matters. Being presidential matters,” Trump told host Greta Van Susteren. “If somebody hits me, I have to hit them back. I have to. I’m not going to sit there and say, ‘I’m wonderful, I’m a president.’ I want to win. I will be so presidential you won’t believe it.”
    Van Susteren asked him to expound on being “presidential.”
    Trump responded, “It means maybe not be so aggressive, maybe not get so personal. But when people get personal with me, they say, oh, they don’t like my hair, okay? If I ever said I don’t like their hair it would be a headline. They’re allowed to say whatever they want to about me. My hair is not that bad is it? And it is my hair. But you know what happens? What happens is they hit me and I hit them back harder and, usually in all cases, they do it first. But they hit me and I hit them back harder and they disappear. That’s what we want to lead the country.”
    He then added, “I will be so presidential, Greta, you will be so proud of me.”
    It kind of sounds like he thinks it is just a big game called “playing President”.

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  30. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    My blog?..whatever. A blogger from the far reaches Yuba County I guess..:)
    Fact is that the Union piece was a shot to Strawser’s prior reputation for moderation and pragmatism. He’s so pragmatic he’s willing to take money from far right groups. Miscalculation of the highest order. To be tied to that Climate Denier is a bad thing in his District. Heidi’s in good shape. 🙂
    Drumpf is either a moron, or intentionally trying to save face right now before he gets humiliated and ravaged at the convention, never intending to get that far in the first place. This whining allows him to play the victim card, the victim of that establishment..the same establishment that Ted Cruz is more than happy to work with now!
    Not sure at this point, but the latter theory about Drumpf has a lot of merit.

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  31. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Far right groups? You mean those veterans and little old ladies of the Tea Party? I suppose when you are as far left as you “jon” the veterans and and little old gray haired women do look extreme. How is that grow up there on Ridge Road and Bear Court anyway?

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  32. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    LOL. Are you embarrassed to be called Far Right? Kinda sensitive. God, even liberals got over that moniker and no longer care about that term. Hey, you can be a nice person and far right. One of my friends is a prominent Tea Man in another county. Super nice guy, severely warped politics.
    Bear Court? WTF is that?

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The master of BS, Jeff Pelline (aka the FUE) believes the two poles of political discussion are “Far Right” (meaning an unapologetic Republican) and “Moderate”, meaning anyone on the left who didn’t actually work for the Sandinistas.

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    “jon” I am not embarrassed at all. You can call me whatever you want, that is your gig not mine. I unlike many on the “hard left” like you and Pelline and Frisch should hide your heads in shame for your anti-American screeds. I like being a patriot for America.

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  35. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Wow you’re real talking, walking 4th of July parade Todd. Thank you so much for your service to our country.
    ..oh wait..:)

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And you were in what service the ‘jon’?

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The liberals became so comfortable with their disparaging moniker they rushed in haste and unison to call themselves progressives. Where have all the liberals gone? Fled to the new moniker and more palatable moniker “progressive”….until they make that label a dirty name. What comes after progressive? Time will tell.

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  38. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Jon | 14 April 2016 at 04:26 PM
    LOL! And what jail were you in “jon”? San Quentin? What a hoot!

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    In the leaving as good friends category, a fine first step to being on the same page. If prodding and gentle coercing had not worked, then hit them in the pocketbook. Old method that still works like a charm. If you want the mula, ask for it in the giver’s native tongue. Otherwise go back to your Stone Age culture and praise your raping pedophile Prophet. I think perhaps money talks and BS walks. Decisions, decisions.
    If Islam bans the consumption of adult beverages, then who can have a few drinks and become good friends? Guess we will have to wait until some Germans speaking Islamcs explain it to us.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-coalition-leaders-agree-counter-terror-plans-sources-010424185.html

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Ask a simple question of a Sanders socialist,,,
    http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/14/watch-neil-cavuto-spar-over-capitalism-with-a-socialist-who-thinks-its-illegitimate-video/
    Love it. So she wants free college, yet has no clue who will pay the tab. But blame it on Capitalism…

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ah, just a predicted to my wobbly-kneed friends. It’s only mid April and DNC Debbie has her plate full. Things are not going according to the Dem’s plans. Mrs. Clinton needs to wrap this up quick. Meanwhile, its Trump vs. who??
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/04/14/fox-news-poll-trump-widens-lead-in-gop-race-clinton-sanders-tightens.html?intcmp=hpbt1

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    These students are creating a hostile work enviroment, a direct violation of FEDERAL LAW. Title 7 (or is it Title 9?) mandates that any action in the work place that makes an employee feel threatened, uncomfortable, or experience appreshion is a hostile work enviroment.
    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/ohio-state-turns-the-concept-of-safe-space-against-student-protesters/478221/?utm_source=yahoo

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  43. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    not going to be Drumpf. The entire GOP and big money will see to it.

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  44. Walt Avatar

    Good catch Bill..It’s always fun to watch when those doing the bitching, and demanding get their own words and actions used against them. Kind of like when a “jon”, barks at the moon and a yaps, “that’s offencive,, you can’t say that!”,, and the one a “jon” is barking at comes back with “uh,, your the one who is actually being offencive….” Then watch the doggy head cock and stone silence of ???????

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jon, that ain’t nearly enough to stop Citizen Trump. Even the entire RNC, the DNC, and every Mr. Moneybags (foreign and domestic) can’t stop the will of the voter who says within his breastplate “Give me liberty or give me death.” There are some things money can’t buy. Go ahead, send the giant Goliath at us shepherd boys. We will watch your mighty armies flee in terror. Trump up 19 over Hillary head to head in New York yesterday. Oh, how can that be?, lol.
    Glad to see you are back with a new wrinkle. That wrinkle is a good sense humor. You are even more endearing now that you are not so humorless and bland. Still predictable, but I like your last joke. Keep the chuckles coming. Those wrinkles are not wisdom lines. They are wise cracks. Either way, glad to see you shed that humorless persona.

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  46. Walt Avatar

    Poor “jon”.. back in 5th grade?(or ya’ never left) If anything else, Trump is exposing
    the rigged system for what it is. Those in Colorado who woke up to see their vote has no real say are madder than a raped ape. Bad move by the GOP. It’s a bad idea to keep moving the goal posts in mid game. Yet you Progressive Commies shrug your shoulders and go like sheep to the slaughter. Sanders may “win” more elections, but Hillary gets the votes that count.
    OK,, so Hillary gets the LIB nod.. But those that got “Burned”,, will never show up to vote for the hag.

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  47. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Dumb dee dumb dumb… can someone translate that last bit of slop from Dirtmover?

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  48. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Tozer, very dramatic with the Patrick Henry stuff there. Gotta keep you impressed, as you never know…
    Perhaps some day fate will place you and I next to each other at Three Forks beer bar.

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