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[Dr Anna Haynes appears to have done a revamp of NC Voices.  It's humorous composition and structure viz Right and Left are stronger than ever – actually it admits to no leftwing content even though the site literally overflows with it under headings like 'General', 'Climate/H2O', 'Pelline', 'Personal Growth', … .  And now the off page 'Right Wing' column has its listed posts per blog reduced to the last three.  Oh well, even though it's nice to still be listed, I'm having a hard time understanding why Dr Haynes even tolerates our presence at all since without us all of her content can be represented as the heartfelt outpourings of a politically correct, consistent, and harmonious middle.  gjr]

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101 responses to “Sandbox – 22dec16”

  1. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    She has my stuff under a new header called “Rightwing ll. Cracks me up.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What, no Hillary? Darn, I was hoping for another do over. Well, you never know what the future brings. I remember when Edmond Musk was the hands down front runner by the polls looking ahead into the future. Edmond who?, you ask? Exactly.
    . Looking at the polls at this place in time, I gather that most Americans want the 2016 election in the rear view mirror and move on to the next thing coming down the pike. Think it will be best to start to commence to look ahead and see what our new President can or cannot do in his first 2 years. Limbo time, as one President has yet to vacate public housing and another yet to move in. The waiting room. Good time to clean out the closets and finally going through the clutter. Oh, what to leave in, what to leave out.
    Still about jobs, jobs, jobs. Pocketbook issues. No surprises here.
    http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/poll-democrats-independents-no-hillary-clinton-2020-232898

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  3. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Dr Haynes need to do a little more clean up.
    [Pruett CABPRO Report Light on Nevada County NC Media Watch Rebanes Ruminations RS-NextGrandMin RS-SFoothillComm Sherman Sierra Env Studies Fndn]
    Pruett’s last post was March 2015.
    CABPRO Report last post was April 2012.
    Light on Nevada County last post was February 2014
    NC Media Watch last post was October 2013
    Sierra Environmental Studies Foundation last post was October 2010.
    I am not sure NCVoices readers appreciate being sent to the history pile, when they were looking for the lastest in conservative thinking. A clean up would allow RR more space.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    All these attacks by Trump supporters are starting to get out of hand……

    IVANKA TRUMP
    ACCOSTED BY PASSENGER ON JETBLUE FLIGHT

    ….wait wut…..
    http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/22/ivanka-trump-flight/

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You could see this coming. It’s just keeps getting longer and longer. They added a Q and now have added an I and an A. I just can’t keep up. What does the IA in LBGTQIA represent? NA would be Native American, I reckon, but IA?? Soon the acronyms will be longer than the alphabet.
    https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8559

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  6. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    What does the IA in LBGTQIA represent?
    Intersex and Asexual. I don’t have the slightest idea what ‘intersex’ means.

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Newsflash from the Swamp
    “President-elect Donald Trumpโ€™s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, became one of Exxon Mobil Corp.โ€™s fiercest defenders this year as the oil giant battled legal probes into its funding of climate science deniers.
    Exxon Mobil, meanwhile, served as a major donor to the Republican Attorneys General Association, of which the Oklahoma attorney general served as chairman in 2012 and โ€˜13 and remains a member.”
    Not an insider right?

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 December 2016 at 02:39 PM
    Should we expect an endless series of open ended questions from the host of “Uncle Paul’s Question Time” about Secretary Pruitt?
    I think we should!

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    My evil plan is working……slowly rubs hands together in extremely evil fashion….perfectly!

    EXCLUSIVE: Pity the husbands of Los Angeles – sex therapist claims city’s Hillary-supporting women have lost their libido over Trump victory

    Their husbands can thank me at a later date!
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4059800/Pity-husbands-Los-Angeles-sex-therapist-claims-city-s-Hillary-supporting-women-lost-libido-Trump-won.html#ixzz4TbzCDf9V

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Why not Fish? Is it not the time to question?

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  11. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Paul@02:39
    Who did you thnking Trump should have picked to dismantle the EPA, a member of the Sierra Club?

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Russ | 22 December 2016 at 03:22 PM
    Not even a case of dismantling it….just make it conform to the intent of its original charter….and not declare every post football urine filled puddle a “wetland” and it’s probably good! I don’t think anybody has a problem with the EPA running down “Midnight Dumpers”….declaring parcels already zoned for development protected wetland habitat not so much!

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Paul’s pick would be that Chad Hanson prick.

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  14. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Uber’s autonomous vehicles experiment in San Francisco has come to an end. [CalTrans Competition?]
    Following Uber’s decision to pull its self-driving cars off San Francisco streets yesterday, the ride-hailing company today said those cars are on the way to Arizona.
    โ€œOur cars departed for Arizona this morning by truck. Weโ€™ll be expanding our self-driving pilot there in the next few weeks, and weโ€™re excited to have the support of Governor (Doug) Ducey,” Uber spokeswoman Chelsea Kohler said today.
    Gov. Ducey responded with his statement, welcoming Uber’s cars with “open arms and wide open roads.”
    โ€œWhile California puts the brakes on innovation and change with more bureaucracy and more regulation, Arizona is paving the way for new technology and new businesses,” he said in a statement.

    Sacramento submitted a request to CalTrans to have the self-driving cars tested in Sacramento. Denied? Apparently CalTrans does not want any Uber self-driving vehicles in California, they have funded their own version through the UC Berkeley automated driving laboratory called PATH.
    UC Berkeley PATH is pleased to announce the creation of the Berkeley DeepDrive (BDD) Industry Consortium. This research alliance will investigate state-of-the-art technologies in computer vision and machine learning for automotive applications.
    PATH is a partnership with Uber’s competitors. Could the banning of Uber self-driving cars have anything to do with the fact CalTrans is funding a competitive team? Oh, by the way PATH has been working on self driving cars for over 30 years. I used to visit PATH in the 1990s and worked to make TRW a partner. It appears that private industry has surpassed 30 years of PATH research effort with actual self driving products. Competition is producing selfdriving cars, PATH is producing research. Interesting.

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  15. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse
  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How about them Frisco values?? Well, I guess he won’t be moving Nevada City.
    http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/12/23/metallica-singer-leaves-bay-area-because-elitist-attitude.html

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    There have been millions of words written this past campaign season. One quote stood out to me head and shoulders above the rest. It explains a lot, including our Green Libertarian’s head spinning like a top.
    Written in Sept, 2016 on The Atlantic.com:
    “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”
    Another take:
    “And then she hit on the other point which won Trump the election โ€“ one which Glenn Beck echoed just yesterday. Zito said that โ€œthe press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.โ€ Beck put it a slightly different way, but made the same point. He said that we all took him literally, but not figuratively, while his supporters took him figuratively, but not literally.”
    http://minutemennews.com/26897-2/

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey…..I know at least one Chinese guy who is having a Christmas miracle!

    One user wrote: “Why would a friend gift him a bomb?”
    Another said: “It’s more stable than a Samsung phone.”

    http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/villager-in-china-uses-grenade-to-crack-open-walnuts-for-25-years

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 11:54 AM: Well Fish, this is the Sandbox is it not…..
    https://www.facebook.com/LaughOrCroak1/photos/a.289033751155764.69115.288992101159929/1313961498662979/?type=3&theater
    A more thoughtful thesis on misognity in America (Tranny Tiolets, Kellyanne) is forthcoming when I get back in a more serious mood. But not today. Until the, how about my chuckle of the day!! Featuring my new My Gal. Oh goodie goodie.
    She’s mine Fish, so keep your mitts off.
    “this is not what my body has ever looked like or will ever look like.”
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/style/lena-dunham-accuses-spanish-magazine-of-photoshopping-her-cover/
    Opps, it was never retouched. That’s my new My Gal!

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    0 sat back and let the FDIC get hacked by Chinese military in an ongoing basis since 2010, 159 major hacks in FY2015 alone.
    Funny how madam liar liar pantsuits on fire and her fans are mute on all of the cyber crime allowed by 0. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Can any of you act as an interpreter on this tweet from Trump:
    “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes”
    I don’t have a clue what he means when he says “coming to it’s senses”
    Some of you seem to understand his rhetorc so helpme out if you can. Not a question, just asking for a translation from those in the know.

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Your on your own from here on out Paul. Yup,, most of us know what he means. Someone as “enlightened” as you should be fully aware of what is meant by that.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Get an education PE, go google 0’s nuke modernization plan to start. Happy to help a friend in need during the holidays. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Don’t have a clue Walt what threshold he considers reasonable senses.

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Sorry Paul Emery, we are not interested in what you are interested in.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George, can you be of assistance in this matter?

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Princess Leia had a heart attack on a flight 15 from landing at LAX. A EMT on board saved her and she is now in hospital. I hope she is OK!

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Didn’t you get the news PE, there was a UN resolution to have a moratorium on answering any PE questions. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George, hoping you can help with the translation.

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  30. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    God Bless Carrie!

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    May the Force be with Carrie.
    This is going beyond getting old, it’s downright pathetic. And to think the world was once his oyster.
    http://finance.yahoo.com/video/obama-blames-fox-news-tarnishing-201905873.html

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Te world is still his oyster. He’s finishing up his 8 years with the highest approval ratings in recent history and Trump is starting up with the lowest in recorded history. Presidents generally start at the top and work down. In this case Trump is starting at the bottom and , we’ll see.

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  33. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Don’t care.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Putin writes to Trump:
    โ€œI hope that after you assume the position of President of the United States of America we will be able โ€“ by acting in a constructive and pragmatic manner โ€“ to take real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation in different areas as well as bring our level of collaboration on the international scene to a qualitatively new level.โ€
    Putin signed the letter โ€œV.Putin.โ€ He also included a holiday message and asked Trump, โ€œPlease accept my sincere wishes to you and your family of sound health, happiness, wellbeing, success and all the best.โ€
    No doubt his view of “bilateral cooperation ” means lifting sanctions imposed after his invasion of sovereign baltic states. Ironic that this crew (RR’s chest thumpers) were all over Obama for his weak response to Putins aggression’s. Better watch out for your home turf George (Estonia) After sanctions are lifted the rest of the Baltics will be up for grabs especially with such a chummy relationship between billionaires.

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Pen pals

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump on Ukraine. No wonder Putin likes him over Clinton
    Trump says
    “And very importantly if you use Ukraine as an example and thatโ€™s a great example, the country surrounding Ukraine, I mean, they donโ€™t seem to care as much about it as we do.” So there has to be at least a change in philosophy and there are also has to be a change in the cut out, the money, the spread because itโ€™s too much.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    3:24 pm
    Two ships passing in the night

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  38. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/david-axelrod-on-trump-when-you-press-send-on-a-nuke-theres-no-deleting-it/
    Say Paul – maybe you can enlighten us. Trump the Russian puppet, is also Trump the war monger.
    So Putin has told Trump to nuke Russia.
    Is that the story?
    Help us out here Paul. What story are we supposed to believe?

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    PE @ 250- That must be some fine ganja there PE. Perhaps the big 0 will invite you for a round of golf in Rancho Mirage. 0 is the Nero of Presidents, the world is in flames because of him and madam liar liar pantsuits on fire. Boy that bs popularity number is diametrically opposed to everyone’s view of the results and direction of the Country under 0. 0 is diplomatically impotent and the biggest bungler in diplomatic history. 0 makes Chamberlin look good. He set the stage for a world war, but hey, he got a peace prize for doing nothing so all’s good right? ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    PE @ 315- I would much rather the Russians are sucking up to our president than have our president sucking up to Putin’s lackeys as 0 did. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Two ships passing in the night. Good one BT! I suggest the rest follow.

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’;; gladly answer your question Scott
    Trump is the Russian puppet, here’s why.
    Trump is one confused puppy. You can NEVER believe a word he says. Because he is an accomplished liar nobody takes anything he says seriously especially someone as crafty as Putin. Putin will play him like a spider to a fly. He’ll get what he wants out of Trump and then chomp off another bit of the Balkans knowing that Trump will be helpless in stopping him just like Obama was. Obama did impose sanctions which was irritating to Putin but Trump and his Exxon puppet Sec of State will reverse that for the profit of both Trump and Exxon.
    Scott, what other playing card will Trump have if Putin makes a move on the Balkans or worse. What’s he gonna say-“Putin my friend, I thought we had a relationship??”
    Trump has no idea what he’s getting himself into. He’s willing to publicly bargain with NATO over bills due while Putin plays him like a chump. There is no way Trump is as smart as Putin in this game. Putin has been at it all his life while Trump was building hotels and sponsoring beauty contests.
    Hope that answers your question about how I see the situation.
    Also in my view Putin did intentionally try to influence the election which Trump denies. What a simple blackmail card Trump can play if he wants to get nasty with Trump. Who knows what other goodies he has on Trump if he decides to play that game. I fear that Trump will be helpless in any negotiations with Russia because he’s already so compromised.

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    that’s-“for the profit of Putin and Exxon “

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    RUN FOR YOUR SAFE SPACE PE! Will PE become a prepper and start buying guns? I would love to see what you wrote about Saint Ronnie. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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