[Check out what is happening to our (and all?) economies with the advent of the giga-corporations – Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook – that have created oligopolies in several markets. And the commentary on what these companies know about the dark sides of human affairs – e.g. sources and distribution of fake news – is more than a bit disturbing. More here. gjr]
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210 responses to “Sandbox – 15jul17”
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re: Gregory in some prior sandbox sez: “liberals who posture as defenders of science” and then speaks of biology studies.
It has hit in more places than that. I hate to imagine the carnage done in university anthropology departments, but it’s hard to beat geography as a place for craziness.
http://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-core/472-faculty-carrie-mott
“My interests sit at the intersection of identity and the political. As a feminist political geographer, I work to understand the ways that the ordinary realities of everyday life intertwine with processes that stem from the nation-state. Specifically, I am very interested in how racial identities are shaped and disciplined through nation-state policies and, more importantly, how resistance movements mobilize to fight against state-sponsored violence and marginalization.”
Honestly, I don’t blame these folks. It’s probably a pretty good life. Whatever committee is doing the hiring has a special place reserved in Dante’s favorite spot, though.
It has to be an attractive concept. What went through this person’s mind on changing research areas? It’s a serious question.
https://feministstudies.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=kbaradLikeLike
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There’s just no pleasing some people.
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Dr.R.. I haven’t heard the Left slam the likes of Amazon or Google, For “being too big”, like they have with “big oil” or “big banks”.
Heck. Amazon Prime has their own cargo aircraft, yet the Postal service gives them a cut rate to deliver. Nope, no gripes.
I see when it’s LIB owned “Big Corp.” it’s just fine.LikeLike
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 15 July 2017 at 03:51 PM
….yes….the perils of being a “public intellectual”.LikeLike
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The hacks that no Lib will talk about.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/15/house-dems-it-administrator-a-charming-cunning-con-artist-associates-say/LikeLike
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Modern political reality.
https://i.redd.it/b64ev2okqu9z.jpgLikeLike
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I see that Doctor President-For-Life Trump has a good idea here, dunno how it will turn out.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/26/donald-trump-pull-feds-out-k-12-education/LikeLike
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Old news
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/ex-soviet-officer-who-attended-trump-tower-meeting-connected-to-pro-clinton-organization?utm_source=FBLC&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=LC
New news
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1129041733896529/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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The news reports another “brave” ISIS killer murdered two German female tourists in Egypt this week. After being chased by security forces he fled into another hotel and sliced four more women tourists. My aren’t these Islamic terrorists brave? Of course not. They murder women, unarmed and trusting. This killer sat and chatted with the two German women before pouncing and using a kitchen knife.
So I am unsure why people travel to these places for rest and pleasure as the ISIS killers are there too! The countries in the Middle East must protect the tourists or the billions of dollars they spend will go elsewhere. The article in the SACBEE today was a small one way inside at the bottom. Maybe to keep it from being noticed?
Killers who take a knife and are that up close to their victims have a bloodlust. They want to see that look in their victim’s eyes and the gasps as they plunge the weapon into their bodies. Somehow this is pleasant for the killers. And there are millions of them. Yet here in America we have a loony Federal Judge in Hawaii that says “Hey, forget the travel ban, come on into America and do your deeds”. Do we really want these kinds of Judges? I say impeach the bastard and get someone in charge who will protect us.
We must weed out these kinds of leftist Judges and boot them out. What good are they? Or maybe put a refugee encampment next to their mansions and see how they like it. The terror is around us and across the planet. What I see is we must eradicate it by a no holds barred attitude. These killers are no better than a virus and should be shown no quarter., The poor women this killer murdered were just enjoying the seaside pool. Now dead. Justice for these women must be sought. Go!LikeLike
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PHIL DONAHUE: Darkest political moment in history…
Well…we’ve officially reached the bottom of the pundit barrel! I mean Phil Donahue hasn’t been relevant in 30 years.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/342195-phil-donahue-trump-era-darkest-political-moment-in-historyLikeLike
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re: Fish@8:12AM
I like the current first comment in that story:
” ‘the darkest political moment in American history.’
That’s a bit hysterical, but it is true that the last time Democrats got this angry and crazed over an election it was 1860.”LikeLike
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I am constantly debating with this Richard Sciaroni on the Union articles. I thought you might like to read a true liberal view of this one issue. The Electoral College. It is a prime example of the divide. Here is his response to a gal on our side of the political spectrum. I truly enjoy smacking them down. LOL.
“Richard Sciaroni
Kathleen Jones Amatangelo The Electoral College was established by wealthy, white males to avoid having all of the people instead of some of the people select the president. The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College because they feared real democracy, i.e, a country in which all of the people had the vote. When they established the Electoral College was set up, the Founders restricted tthe vote t white, property-owning males. Women, people of color, and those who did not own real property could not vote. In truth, the so-called American Revolution was no revolution at all. It simply replaced one elite ruling class based in London with one based in America. The real American Revolution occurred over generations when ordinary folk wrested suffrage from the white male upper class.”LikeLike
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 16 July 2017 at 08:16 AM
Well that was Donahues schtick…….terrifying suburban housewives with the issues of the day!
Really though….they just need to put him back in his box!LikeLike
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Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 16 July 2017 at 08:19 AM
I wonder how vigorously Richard would be attacking the Electoral College if things had gone his way? I guess he could implement Plan Frisch and….you know….work to change it!LikeLike
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Ooooh….now this is interesting! We may actually get to see a woman sell her soul to Satan in near real time!
KAMALA GETS READY: Meets with Clinton inner circle…
This should be exciting…….
http://pagesix.com/2017/07/15/kamala-harris-meets-with-democratic-elite-in-hamptons/?_ga=2.135270648.83988435.1499904591-1273024653.1499904591LikeLike
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Under the heading of “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”
Hmmm. Whether this is fakenews or not, , whether he offed himself or not, he sure as heck won’t be testifying next Tuesday.
“According to Eberwein, a paltry 0.6 percent of donations granted by international donors to the Clinton Foundation with the express purpose of directly assisting Haitians actually ended up in the hands of Haitian organizations. A further 9.6 percent ended up with the Haitian government. The remaining 89.8 percent – or $5.4 billion – was funneled to non-Haitian organizations.”
“The Clinton Foundation, they are criminals, they are thieves, they are liars, they are a disgrace,” Eberwein said at a protest outside the Clinton Foundation headquarters in Manhattan last year.
http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/clinton-foundation-witness-found-dead/LikeLike
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The polling agencies under poll Republicans by 7-10 percent so sure he will see diminished numbers. It appears in this poll the R’s are sticking by him. I bet the Reagan dems are too.
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Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 16 July 2017 at 09:10 AM
Oh yes…..all sorts of chicanery when it comes to these things Todd!
Nevertheless a poll is a poll damnit! BECAUSE NUMBERS!LikeLike
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Fish @ almost 10 in the a.m.
“Oh yes…..all sorts of chicanery when it comes to these things Todd!”
How true, how true!, my aquatic friend.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1130521857081850/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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For your reading pleasure Trump polls historic lows:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/donald-trumps-approval-rating-plummets-to-36-percent/LikeLike
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1526787584008606&set=p.1526787584008606&type=3&theater
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/15/democrats-spooked-by-drop-in-colorado-voter-registration-amid-trump-probe-into-voter-fraud/
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/886965368120353/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 July 2017 at 12:16 PM
….for you reading pleasure……still President Punchy.LikeLike
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I dunno. Maybe we stop using the term “bi-sexual” and remove it from the English language. After all, bi-sexual by its definition infers there are only two genders, but I ain’t a scientist. It will save the typing finger one letter when you have to type out that every expanding long acronym LBGTQiAO. Always a silver lining. Oh, A is for android, O is for other nowadays.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/50191
An old man was it the park sitting on a bench when a 20 something young man sat down on the bench. They shared pleasantries and talked about their lives and problems. The young man confided that he was bi-sexual and the old man took immediate interest and replied, “By Golly, so am I. At my age if I want sex, I buy it.”
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/886952331454990/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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Paul. I have a different poll. ” 4 out of 5 don’t give a cra* about Trump polls.”
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Late breaking news.
Paul Emery reports on a new top secret poll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YraqQabax8A&t=0m47sLikeLike
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Link walt to your 1:10?
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So what’s it like to be a tool of the fake news industrial complex @ 424 ya po’ ol’ pollhead? 😉
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Link? Don’t need no stink’n link. Your the “1” in said “poll”. “your” the only one here that gives that “cra*”. Don, Todd, Bill, and myself, DON’T. You do the math.
Pretty damned accurate if you ask me.LikeLike
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Punchy palooka polling Paul E…
The last poll of any consequence was the special election in Georgia. Four of four House specials went GOP. I understand why you keep harping on public opinion polls, you want Trump to lose the horserace and so you keep coming back to meaningless public opinion polls. It’s a photofinish, Pinocchio wins/loses by a nose and that will be in 3+ years.
Take a deep breath. Stop thinking horse race. Make the case for the GOP intentionally wanting for the proles to die without health care, or something.LikeLike
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more on the feminist geographers.
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/886664229662728192
Takimag discusses these folks and finishes up with:
“What does this have to do with geography? Nothing. What does American education have to do with education these days? Less than nothing.”LikeLike
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Too bad you can’t call me by my name Gregory I thought you rose above the pack on this blog. Sometimes I actually agree with you By the way
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Funny how touchy the tools of the fake news industrial complex are. Too bad they don’t have any journalistic standards, but that’s why people don’t listen to them anymore. Be careful when they suggest they agree because there is usually an ulterior motive involved. 😉
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It really is DonB. Those lovelies of the press get to call anyone whatever pops into their heads and alledge anything but when they get blowback we see what wimpasses they are. Funny how they have rules for the use of the word “alledge” and use it even for killers caught red handed. Yet they fail to us that word on Trump and his Admin. Why is that?
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There were a lot of prognosticators who warned that foreign travel to the USA would tank if President Trump was elected.
Instead its up and hotel occupancy rates are “higher than they have ever been before”. All of that in the context of a very strong dollar making everything more expensive here for foreign tourists. 😉LikeLike
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UH OH bad news for the resistance. The Trump campaign committee had a significant bump in fundraising, Q1 was 10 Million, Q2 14 million. Still lots of small donations from the solid base. 😉
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Where is our poll dude?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/17/kassam-approval-ratings-public-polling-and-the-junk-journalism-from-the-propaganda-press/
“The representative element comes from projecting this data out using pollster voodoo. This is what you’re really paying for when you commission a poll. Anyone can survey 1,001 people, but these guys claim to know the “right” people, and then be able to project their views out onto the whole nation.
Then we go into the data tables. Since this time last year they have over-represented Democrat voters in their studies. For this latest one, 35 per cent of their respondents were Democrats, 23 per cent were Republicans, 35 per cent were Independents (who in turn lean towards voting Democrat), six per cent said ‘Other’, and two per cent had no opinion on the matter. ”
And Paul has ate it up, like cheap lobster tail at Boomtown.LikeLike
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I saw that Walt but isn’t it updated old news since we knew that in the 90’s? The last year or so has really been the acme of manipulation by the fake news industrial complex and their po’ ol’ lackeys.
I heard those lobsters were made with soylent green @540. 😉LikeLike
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Hey……enjoy your “insurance”!
REPEAL DEAD
OBAMACARE REMAINS LAW OF THE LANDSuckers…….
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/17/senators-mike-lee-and-jerry-moran-oppose-senate-health-care-bill.htmlLikeLike
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The only ones who like and love “O”care are the ones not paying a dime.
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re: Fish@6:18
“Hey……enjoy your “insurance”!”
You can argue that any state is perfectly capable of paying their own subsidies and throwing enough chips on the table that the insurance companies stay in place. Heck, they could be their own insurance company. Of course, no states appear to be willing to go for it.
I do have to admit that Doctor Cowboy President-for-Life Trump is looking pretty good in that hat.
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re: DonB@5:16PM
I’m not so sure you even need much in the way of contributions when you are on the news 24/7. Heck, he’s on BBC about 1/4 of the time so far as I can tell.
Even The Paul is doing his part. Just the incessant broadcast of the name ‘Trump’ is helping the brand along, and the man is no fool at marketing himself.LikeLike
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Well, what have we here. A judge rules that smoking marijuana makes ya a handicapped person. Failing a drug test on the first day of work is kinda frowned upon in some unenlightened circles. Guess that is what handicapped people do.
“Barbuto had accused Advantage Sales and Marketing of firing her after her first day of work because she tested positive for the drug, which she had been prescribed by a doctor to treat low appetite, a side effect of her Crohn’s disease.
Chief Justice Ralph Gants wrote that if a doctor concludes medical marijuana is the most effective treatment for an employee’s debilitating condition, “an exception to an employer’s drug policy to permit its use is a facially reasonable accommodation.””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/massachusetts-court-rules-woman-fired-medical-marijuana-173516649.htmlLikeLike
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@640 The biggest expenditure was for tech ops. 2M, think what that supports? He kept the analytics team in place as part of one of his pacs. Lots of cash in the bank AND FREE brand promotion with the hated ones attacking the most. Priceless. 😉
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re: Fish speaking about Ms. Harris
Clinton Donors Have Picked Their 2020 Democratic Presidential Nominee
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-donors-have-picked-their-2020-democratic-presidential-nominee/ar-BBEBhcw?li=BBmkt5R
Well now.LikeLike
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A tax that’s actually justifiable. And not done by Ca. first? Someone is stoned on the job.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/17/first-bicycle-tax-nation-deflates-oregon-riders/
Now how come the “pay your fair share” crowd is bitching the most?LikeLike
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 17 July 2017 at 07:09 PM
If you could only see me right now……”shocked face”.LikeLike
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Oregonians wishing to dodge the $15 tax on bikes with 26″ or larger wheels costing $200+ can buy one of these, built in Oregon:
https://www.bikefriday.com/folding-bikes/bikes/pocket-llama/LikeLike
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I can’t help but wonder if you’ll see a series of bicycles with 25.9″ wheels come pouring out of China.
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