[Apologies; it’s past the time for fresh sand. A correspondent sent me this one-liner seen on a t-shirt: "liberalism: moochers electing looters to steal from the producers!" Now some of our readers are of the zero-sum variety and maintain that it’s the 1% who steal from the 99%. And that keeps the country destitute, causes foreigners to spurn coming here, and gives rise to the long lines of Americans clamoring to emigrate to greener and socially more just pastures. gjr]
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170 responses to “Sandbox – 16apr16”
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Maybe I’ve been too harsh towards Ted……..
“Peter King: “I Hate Ted Cruz, I’ll Take Cyanide If He Gets The Nomination”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-19/peter-king-i-hate-ted-cruz-ill-take-cyanide-if-he-gets-nomination
If he provokes this degree of angst in a wanker like Peter King I might need to give him another look.LikeLike
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So, Mr. Fish, are you saying your dog ate your homework? Bet you stayed home and crashed for two weeks. Ok, ten days. Sure, you bought some stuff at the Home Depot for the Pete to do those projects. Still stilling there on the garage floor? Without proof, I will have to lauch into The Giant Leap of Faith and take your world or it. Oh, smiley face.
No real topic today, so here is some filler.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/831634416970597/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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Sorry Walt – the EPA is not giving up it’s newly found powers. The only reason they dropped the proposed rule was because it was completely unenforcible. They still believe that once a vehicle is manufactured for use in the US they have the right to oversee it’s use and compliance with emission laws no matter how old it is or what it’s current mode of operation. They are gunning for the aftermarket manufacturers of high performance accessories for cars and other motor vehicles. This isn’t the end of the story. As is the case with most idiotic govt regulators, they do not understand the long term ramifications of their rule making nor do they care. They don’t care if their rules mean an increase in unburned hydro carbons. The important thing is to maintain control over the population and increase their power and scope of operations. If this means a bigger budget and higher salaries, they are only too happy to go along with that coincidence.
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My congratulations to The Union for the 10 awards it is slated to receive from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. It’s always good to see the efforts of our neighbors recognized and honored.
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MichaelK 1028am – Well said Mr Kesti. I echo your senitments.
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Buy’m now before you can’t.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/04/20/gunmeggedon-underway-gun-bans-mag-bans-ca/
Ca. is going full Commie bastard.
Now. think the criminals will abide by the law? But the state is looking to make criminals out of law abiding citizens. Putin and “little Kim” will be so proud.LikeLike
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Oh boy, Walt believes Breitbart again! LOL. The commies are a comin’!
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Walt, this was for Jon, but I am afraid d’t is something he cannot comprehend. It’s too radical, much too extreme.
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10153666394480914/?type=3&theater
Walt, this too, is over Jon’s capacity of understand:
The first CIVIL RIGHT is: The Right of THE PEOPLE to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed.
But, Jon might understand just fine. Obama has created good jobs! Better than flipping burgers and trying to remember to put the straw in the bag.
http://patriotpost.us/posts/42053LikeLike
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A good read. Favorite quote:
that “all lives matter and discrimination should be fought against,” but she feared “that the group brought more division, hostility and discrimination than that one man [yelling racial slurs] could have.”
http://heatst.com/culture-wars/internal-emails-show-safety-fears-were-rampant-during-missouri-protests/LikeLike
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That’s right “jon” ignore the message because you don’t like the messenger.
I guess because you say so, the same news from the NRA is just as bogus.
Hummm…. How bout the LIB rag known as the sac bee?
Man your one idiot of a troll.LikeLike
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So the ‘jon’ thinks we should believe the dark lord of liberal lament land as his source? 😉
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Very interesting attacks on moi on the NC Peeps today. My goodness the potheads are in a fog. LOL!
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San Francisco values indeed….
UPDATE: San Fran 4/20 Revelers Leave Behind 10K Pounds Of Trash…
“…..“Not exactly a leave no trace moment out there,” San Francisco Recreation and Park Department manager Phil Ginsburg told KPIX 5.”
I guess they thought it was “Earth Day” when the same crowd will leave another 10,000 lbs of trash behind.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/04/21/420-marijuana-smokeout-trash-golden-gate-park-hippie-hill/LikeLike
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fish 317pm – I think America can use the mountains of trash left behind as a litmus test to tell the ideology of the “revelers”.
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I don’t think there’s a whole lot of political ideology going on with those masses of wasted, careless heavy drug users. But nice try anyway.
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Jon 513pm – Agreed. But it really doesn’t take “a whole lot of political ideology” to be in the pocket of one socialist or another. All you have to do is take away from your most recent union school that ‘the rich have it, they took it from me, and (fill in name) promises to get it back’.
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Of course there were a few kids likely “Feeling the Bern” as they got high. But every one of the progressive/enviro folks I’ve ever met would call that group of people what they are- irresponsible, lawless pigs that need to grow up.
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The “jon” should see the “protest” grounds after any Tea Party event.
Seems Conservatives have a whole different respect for “public” places.
If there was a cig. butt on the ground before they showed up, it would not be found after the event.
LIBS talk a good game, “save the planet” yet are the worst offenders of trashing it.LikeLike
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@ 5:22 PM
Lawless pigs? You would have thunk pigs should have evolved further up the ladder by now. Alas, it’s not to be. Just look at the mountains of plastic trash the illegals and human smugglers leave in our protected wetlands on our southern border or the mountains of trash the illegal campers leave leave right here in our beautiful local towns. I sure hope that fire they started yesterday on Sutton Way burned up some of their piles of discarded garbage. Time to call them what they are-irresponsible, lawless pigs that need to grow up.LikeLike
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MR. Fish, I saw another report that it was 15k lbs. of stoner trash that abused SF’s Golden Gate Park on 4/20. Why is it that people in the weed culture say they are all such environmentally friendly, sustainable good neighbors who are only saving peoples lives in spite of all the evidence to the contrary everywhere we look?
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Hay Walt, we just pointed out that the idiotic, immature weed users have no interest in politics. Liberal/conservative doesn’t translate to them. Try as you may, pinning something political on a bunch of young druggies ain’t going to fly. Young morons are apolitical. Let me know if you need a definition for that.
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Walt, bigger question is why you would care about what goes on in Golden Gate Park? When was the last time you tred on its soil? LOL. You should be happy the Lib City is paying big bucks to clean up that mess.
..on another note and much more importantly…one of the 3 most important, and iconic, musical figures of the last 50 years passed away today.LikeLike
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Actually,, I was in Frisco not long ago. And even in Golden gate Park. It was an even better place before LIB riff raff got their sticky dope fingers on it.
Dad moved us out of there when he saw his first hippy. He knew it was all down hill for the city from that point on. He sure called that one.
Now how bout answering that question you dodged? You know,, “Name one thing “O” has improved on?” (now for the disappearing act)LikeLike
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Wonder if Prince got ahold of some of Michael Jackson’s milk. Oh, he loved his milk. So did Joan Rivers. Got milk?
Also was wondering what K-Mart will do for The Artist Formerly Named Prince’s passing. Probably another great sale like they had when Michael Jackson kicked the bucket: all boys pants and underwear half off.LikeLike
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The ‘jon’ should take some time and see who the local comrade Bernie fans are, give you a hint, they are all the leaders of the local pot profiteer front groups and their crews. 😉
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Sad news. Today we lost a true icon.
“On her official website a statement posted Wednesday night reads, “Today we lost a true icon, a real life superhero. Joanie Laurer aka Chyna, the 9th Wonder of the World has passed away. She will live forever in the memories of her millions of fans and all of us that loved her.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/1990s-wwe-star-chyna-dies-46-california/story?id=38562834LikeLike
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Good one Tozer. Not quite at the same historical level as Prince, but for some of the WWE persuasion it may have hit home equally hard.
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Hay Walt, I can only imagine your anguish in being in the City these days…nary a right winger to be found anywhere you went. One of the great joys in life is to grab a bite at the Whole Foods on Haight, and find a good spot on a perfect Spring day. GG Park is one of my favorite places in the western world.
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Since you refuse to answer , we can safely believe that you can’t answer the question.
Despite your vaug reference of “DOME plenty to improve things”.LikeLike
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So its now being reported that Prince did not go to the hospital for the flu a few days ago. They are saying now that it was to get an emergency opioid overdose shot. Heroin? The flood of incredibly cheep heroin is proof of the lie that drug gangs would go away if we legalized weed. All the cartels did was rip up the low end weed fields in mexico and plant opium poppies. I was at a DEA event 2 years ago and the satellite pictures told us the flood was coming and it hit will full force by 2015. Legal weed is not going to make the scum bag drug dealers go away and abandon their distribution networks, it just made them shift products so new we have heroin going for 5 bucks a bag.
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I be remiss if failed to give 0 credit for his version of secure boarders being a contributing factor in the heroin flood.
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Hear the latest from “O”? “Sovereignty is over rated.” Now he’s sticking his nose into the Brit’s business.
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“Despite your vaug reference of “DOME plenty to improve things”. So says Walt
Dum Dee Dum Dum.. Walt, you may want to review your own scribes for spelling faux pas and note my use of such; ie. DOME, HAY, ARIA, etc.etc.LikeLike
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“jon”, try reviewing your own damned post from the other thread. What did you do Smoke your homework? Looks like you attended dope day by the bay.
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Re Bessee’s 4/21 at 9:22 p.m.:
Atta boy, just latch onto any half-assed rumor floating around out there so you make a political point. You can at least wait until the autopsy is completed and the coroner files his report.
Care to speculate on how much staff time–i.e., taxpayer dollars–went into the research and writing of the article “co-authored” by Miller and Weston in today’s edition of The Union? It reads like something that would come out of the county manager’s office–this is to say, devoid of life and any spark of creativity.LikeLike
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Most “rumors” are started by the press.
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George B. – Yes, it reads like cut and paste from previously generated county communications.
• Uphold the current ban on outdoor cultivation and associated commercial marijuana activities. Indoor cultivation of up to 12 plants at a time would still be permitted in legal, non-residential structures. There is no limit on the size of the plants or the number of crops that can be grown in a year.
Q: Why do we need to put it on the ballot if we already have an ordinance?
My answer: Because they want to set it in “stone” since a voter initiate is much harder to amend or modify (except with another expensive ballot initiative).
• Help reduce the environmental damage from large outdoor grows such as discarding of trash, human waste, illegal use of pesticides, illegal grading, poisoning of wildlife, unauthorized diversion of water from streams and substandard storage of hazardous materials.
Comment: all of the above are problems common to many land uses in the rural neighborhoods. Trash dumps used to be in any convenient ravine on a quiet road. You still see old sofas, etc. on the sides of roads. Only MJ growers perform illegal grading, poison wildlife, leave haz waste lying around the yard?
Measure W is strictly about controlling nuisance, environmental and public safety impacts from outdoor grows. It is not about whether marijuana has medicinal properties or who should have access to it.
Comment: these things are enforceable with ordinances already on the books.
• Reduce neighborhood impacts such as traffic, odor, and criminal activity.
Q: traffic, seriously? When MJ is legal “criminal” won’t be criminal.
• Relieve pressure on County social services programs such as mental and behavioral health, adult/child protective services and welfare.
Q: Huh? Maybe concentrate on meth, booze.
• Re-define Nevada County’s legacy as safe and welcoming for families and new businesses.
Comment: Re-define? What is this area, the hillbilly South Central LA?LikeLike
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Come on Boardman,, you have access to the same info all of us do.
http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/22/prince-od-percocet-death/
Do a little looking before being so quick on the trigger. Ya’ just shot off your pinky toe.LikeLike
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Agree with George Boardman, as I often do. An attempt to somehow connect the Prince rumors to some twisted justification to implement Measure W is surely the work of a desperate politico. I take the same position as SYRCL on Measure W.
However, one thing that will never fly with rationale thinking Americans is to connect the tragic national opiod epidemic to small time MJ use.LikeLike
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I know there are plenty on the Left that like the 2ND Amendment.
Now take a look see at what the spawn of Clinton has to say.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/22/chelsea-clinton-gun-control-is-possible-because-scalia-died-video/
We have always said, we are one judge away from losing the 2ND.LikeLike
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MJ is a gateway drug isn’t it “jon”? I bet you know all about needles and opiates, right?
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Really, Walt, TMZ? No wonder you believe Trump.
By the way, The Donald says it’s okay for transgender people to use any bathroom they want. Do you agree with your guy Trump?LikeLike
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Walt. Such a scholar with his Breitbart, Daily Caller, TMZ links…par for the course. Next up- Newsmax.
Hay Walt, Drumpf stands with the transgender community. Sounds like a RHINO to me, and to many in the Evangelical and Tea Bag community.LikeLike
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It has puzzled me that since most of the heroin in our country is coming across our southern border, then why not secure that border??. Sure, you can’t plug all the leaks, but maybe a few dozen breaches. Already the cartels and smugglers are making plans to get narcotics into the US should Trump build the Great Wall. Plan B is on the drawing board. Drones might be the new mules.
It just shows us that we have no political will to stem the flow of smack, aka, H, aka, Horse, aka, heroin. No political will.LikeLike
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Todd, Steve Frisch always said it best when describing you- The Village Idiot.
With your last commentary at 10:10AM, you have once again confirmed his observation.LikeLike
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Sorry “jon” I am much smarter than Frisch and when a tax cheat like him (liened by local fed and state agencies) disses me I use that as a badge of honor. I would say you did not answer my question because you are guilty. That is you style. Sort of fifth grade stuff you post here all the time.
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GeorgeB, what is your opinion of the National Enquirer on the Edwards expose”?
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Todd, it must GALL you to no end to know every school in America is celebrating EARTH DAY today, and celebrations will be taking place everywhere in the country and world this weekend. The Paris Accord is being signed today! The debate about environmentalism is over. The environment has won.
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No “jon” I actually admire the ability of the commies to have generated this emotion from the great unwashed like you. You and the fifth graders you emulate are in need of a reality check.
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Tozer, perhaps the House Republicans might wanna consider passing the (94-1 approved Senate bill) to actually put some serious money toward the opiod problem in America.
Then again, the House is being run by illogical, ideological half-wits.LikeLike
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