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[This morning on NPR they had a Dem senator telling us why the Dems didn't show up at another committee hearing to vet one of President Trump's cabinet nominees.  He said they had to do it because "we have few remaining levers to pull" to exert their influence in Congress.  No one asked nor did he wonder why the Dems wound up with so few levers in Congress, in the governors' mansions, in state legislatures, … .  It was as if the Dems had nothing to do with this act of God.  But I know the real answer – the goddam voters didn't check all those polls (as cited here) before casting their ballots. gjr]

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79 responses to “Sandbox – 1feb17”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    One handed claps for PE! 😉

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So Don are you willing to write to our supervisors to support our medical marijuana growers in Nevada County ? Yes or no

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Paul. What does drinking bong water help?

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  4. Walt Avatar

    Morn’n Bill…… Uggg. Hate the weather change. Can’t dance, and it’s too wet to plow, so I wake up to watch Berkeley burn the 1ST Amendment, and see Trump burn the LIBS.

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  5. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1009pm – Oh my, such a precious example of liberal thought. Paul, can you connect any logical dots between DonB’s 956pm and your conclusion?? You have given a textbook example of the tagline to ‘Calexit and the Great Divide’.
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2017/01/calexit-and-the-great-divide.html

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Not at all George it’s a logical conclusion. Don is supporting Trumps wishes that medical drugs be produced in this country. MMJ is legal in California and there are many who would legally like to grow and process it in our community. so it’s logical to assume Don would lobby for that in Nevada County. He hasn’t responded yet but I’m confident he will do so in support of his position.

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bong Water Walt. You date yourself.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Humm.. Overthrow the Gov.? LIBS are REALLY looking to start a civil war. “O” did a fine job of making us more divided than ever.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/02/ex-obama-official-suggests-military-coup-trump/

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Paul. Do show where dope lowers cholesterol. Controls heart conditions? Toenail fungus?
    Im sure in Paul’s book, dope is the only drug you need.
    Me? dated??? Walk into any smoke shop and bongs line the store. I doubt they call them “Hippie nebulizers”.

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    7:45 am: Proof some have no sense of humor. Bongwater!
    You guys got Paul all wrong. He cares less about smoking weed, mmj, or recreation marihuana than he cares about GROWING the plant. Heck, some folks never touch the stuff but really really are screaming grow it.
    It’s all changing, boys. Real estate agents were reporting a few months ago calls coming in from Germany, Sweden and other European countries looking for raw land in Nevada County. They never set eyes on our neck of the woods but got the bucks to buy up some good cropland here. The yet to be settled outdoor growing regs and county licenses is being closely watched from near and far.
    Makes sense. The small time miners and prospectors did not build the Pine Street Bridge or fund the capital outlay for the mines and equipment. It was the international bankers in London and Munich. Be careful what you wish for.
    Yo Paul, how’s that plant in your closet doing? Looks rather puny.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Bill.. Paul REALLY needs to use that “medication” he prescribes. I hear it’s the best for mental constipation. Judging by his posts,, the gray matter is plugged up but good.

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  12. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    What happened to the Republican party? The viewpoint has radically changed since 1980. Their heros would be ashamed!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixi9_cciy8w

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Brad. “we” have never been “anti” immigration. But the LEFT has become pro illegal immigration. The Left would just let the flood of whoever,from wherever come charging across the boarder, by foot, train, plane, and automobile, then have the gov. give them free housing and healthcare, and a welfare check, and at the same time let them continue to practice whatever hostilities and or oppressions they fled.

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 916am – OK, put on your seatbelt. It may come as a complete shock to you that promoting the notions in DonB’s 956pm in no way implies the promotion of MMJ or any other specific drug – these are orthogonal concepts. Your habitual binary (1 or 0, all or nothing) thought process always gets you in trouble with logical developments. Promoting the return of pharma manufacturing to the US in general in no way implies blanket support for the domestic production and distribution of ALL possible drugs, especially any specific pharmaceutical (if we may so label the controversial MMJ).
    Why it is hard differentiating between DonB’s well-stated position and your leap into a logical non-sequitur, is beyond my ken.

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 1021am – Purposely confusing illegal entrants cum illegal aliens with the notion of ‘immigration’ is extremely successful. Even the numbnuts on Fox News can’t tell when they play into the hands of those who want open border migrations to destroy what once was known as American culture and soon America’s sovereignty as a nation-state. The illogic of such appellations by the Left is of a piece I responded to in my 1042am above. But then, you knew that 😉

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s all about the hoochie hoochie plant. Nice reprieve, however temporary, from Trump is a Madman….and the polls to prove it.
    Walt, that ain’t gray matter. That’s brown matter. The main color of bong water. They got hookahs at the cig store that are 5 feet tall, lol.

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Okay. In your view does Walt’s accusing me of being a supporter of the Berkeley rioters and his (and others) accusing me of having a marijuana smoking problem, impairing my judgement, fall in the same category you put me in in regards to Don ?

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1122am – Yes.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Hummmm Now how does that go?? Oh.. Yes. Ya’ walked right into that one, and held the door open Paul.
    Now I did’t even say “you have a smoking problem” now did I paul? As you said, you don’t.
    I’m saying maybe you should START. Give it a try Get a new perspective. HELL dude,, your promoting it, practice what you preach.
    I, on the other hand KNOW the effects of said “pharmaceutical”. Probably smoked my weight, yours, and Bill’s combined over the years. Grew some stuff that would make you lose your way home if it was across the street. (or dirt road) Then I wised up.
    Yes, Mmj has it’s place. Never disagreed with that. But I do disagree with all the horse shit miracle remedies pushed by the pro anything goes crowd that got it legalized in the states. Just wait. It WILL come back to bite us in the ass. Like Ca. doesn’t have enough problems to pay for.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    PE you got my response to your flights of fancy at 1026pm. 😉

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Damn Paul,,!! Miss this poll? Or do you only bring up the ones you thing spell bad news for Trump?
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_feb2
    53% in favor Paul,, It goes up every time the Sun does.

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  22. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Trump’s developer buddy thinks he is ‘cray’,
    http://fortune.com/2017/02/01/jorge-perez-donald-trump-border-wall/

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wow…..rarely does one stumble on an expression of ones political thoughts vis a vis the last election exposed so eloquently.

    “Hell’s Skylight, Or The Official Rollin’ Like Sisyphus Endorsement For President Of The United States Of America
    Posted in RLS PANIC DESK by Huckleberry on October 20, 2016
    So here it is, a little on the plus side of four years since the Rollin’ Like Sisyphus Panic Desk endorsed its first-ever living-and-breathing major-party candidate for President of the United States of America, and now we’re going to do it again.
    Back-to-back!
    While I’d expect this endorsement to come as a surprise, as El Borak noted, I quite enjoy ripping the stitches out with a pitchfork, and the esteemed members of the RLS Panic Desk even more so. Since you all know that already, maybe this won’t be much of a surprise to the six of you who still read this blog.
    The formulae used to determine the endorsement is much the same as the one the RLS Panic Desk uses to determine the current Apocalypse Watch, which astute observers will note hasn’t changed from Roman Holiday in 459 days. The formulae used are wholly proprietary, but I can tell you that it involves ambivalent magics, belligerent clerics of various faiths, stolen alien technology, a minor prop from the set of Paint Your Wagon and one .308 Winchester round tethered to a weather vane by a string of dental floss.
    The dental floss is cursed, the bullet less so.
    Endorsement below the fold.
    —————————————————————————————————————————
    Yes, yes, I know.
    “What the fuck?” I hear you say.
    “Just what kind of sick fucking joke is this, you cuck piece of shit?” you reply.
    “You’ve been in that faggot state of California too fucking long!” you insist.
    Probably all true, yes.
    But allow me to explain.
    In the broad view, this isn’t much of an election. Every choice available is some form of liberal democrat with a basketful of disqualifying concerns and few if any actual merits, for the office or for even being a decent human being. That being said, I admire several of Trump’s qualities, but to all the Trump supporters tearfully insisting we need to make America Great Again, sorry sister, we passed that off-ramp quite some time ago. For all those that insist a chief problem with our civic decline is shortening time preferences, Trump as a political option is itself a preference to satiate an immediate need for a win, any win, against the rising tides of civilizational destruction. If the man did everything he (sometimes) said he would, sure, we’d maybe tread water for a very brief amount of time, staving off the inevitable for maybe a handful of years.
    Or, not.
    Look. I hate Hillary Clinton with the white hot rage of 10,000 suns. In addition to the corruption, the criminality, the lies, and the fact that she, to a tee, is the perfect embodiment of everything that is wrong with our government and with our culture, she’s also an awful, pathetic waste of a human life. Her drug-induced shit-eating grin throughout each of the debates is so perfectly punchable I cannot believe it to this day remains un-punched.
    That being said, I have no interest in splashing about the fetid ruins of a once great civilization any longer than I have to. There’s work to be done. Sure, it’d be an incredible jolt of schadenfreude to see Trump win and witness the misery and despair and the emotional outbursts of my enemies.
    But schadenfreude doesn’t put the food on my table, and such emotions are great but fleeting. A Trump victory would very likely release a lot of the pressure from the anger valve in this country, stalling momentum on the much-needed path through the bottom of this horrible husk of a civilization and onward to the summit of the next. No matter what the man does in office, his election would fracture the already fraying coalition of alt-n and impede the long game.
    Hillary motherfucking Clinton, who stands a very real possibility of pulling a William Henry Harrison, will continue to fester and foment the necessary anger, distrust, and disillusionment necessary to tear down the last tatters of our once-great civilization so that the Men of the West may get to work on creating a better world.

    Alas…..twas not to be!

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    I always figured the Feds would lose the Bundy case because it’s getting harder to find juries who trust the government enough to get convictions…..

    BLM misconduct probe may derail Bundy Ranch standoff trial

    http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2017/02/04/blm-misconduct-probe-may-derail-bundy-ranch-standoff-trial/97488696/

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  25. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    People like Betsy would never use their office for financial gain.. even though Betsy already does business with the department she will now head up. The same can be said for the prez…even though the membership costs in his places like MiraLago have doubled and tripled since he was elected. Access to the prez isn’t cheap anymore.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-attacks-nordstrom-for-dropping-ivanka-trumps-clothing-line_us_589b4c41e4b09bd304bf2c7b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
    Of course it’s not because her stuff was overpriced, under styled, and not selling. Not to mention why it was not selling. People can vote with their dollars Donald… even if they didn’t bother to vote in the voting booth. In your own words Donald, “You’re fired Ivanka.”

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