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210 responses to “Sandbox – 15jul17”
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I see that Alan Dershowitz is running up against the shoals of reality.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/alan-dershowitz-new-york-times-ignoring-me-because-i-dont-have-the-right-point-of-view/article/2628922LikeLike
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scenes… no chance of a new wheel diameter… 20″ was viable for folding bikes only because kids bikes already meant some tires were widely available.
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gregory@7:25AM
Bummer. I see that sub 26″ leads you to exotic/obsolete sizes pretty quickly.
Oh well, just another tax that will slightly nudge people from their local bike shops and towards used bikes.
I wonder what the cost of collection and enforcement is for a tax like that. $10 / bike?LikeLike
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I rather liked this statement due to shortness and sweetness.
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Some GOOD news you won’t find.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/california-struggles-implement-new-gun-control-measures/
The magazine ban has been shot full of holes.
” The first trouble came when the California Department of Justice (DOJ) attempted to draft their plan to register all of the rifles in California which have “bullet button” reloading devices and other rifles that would fall under the state’s expanded assault weapons ban. On June 26, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) determined that the DOJ had improperly sought to avoid the public comment period on the plan. That caused the deadline for registration to be pushed back six months.”LikeLike
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Thanks for the link, Walt.
What’s the current status of the Stupid Magazine Control Act of 2017?LikeLike
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Can still own them Scenes.(as I read it) We are not criminals(over night) yet.
And I don’t need to register my evil “black gun” yet either.
I guess the state thought if you have no one who can sell bullets, no one can buy them.
The state didn’t even follow through with the “special licence to sell” licencing either.LikeLike
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Scenes: Gregory might be correct concerning the difficultly of readily available 19.5″ wheels and rubber. Oregon has been trying to implement their master plan for taxing miles driven (electric cars) and even hybrids. New cars to have chip to keep track of miles driven and hybrids to have some tracker put in a the gas pump, connected via your plastic of course, so they can figure out how many miles it took to go from point A to point B, how much is that is gas tax and how much electric miles driven not taxed. They know where you go and when you went there. Nobody ides the roads for free!!!!!
The reason put forth is they built all those expensive recharging filling stations and lost millions as they ran deep in the red since conception. You gonna play, you are going to pay. 🙂
Oh boy. One county rules the State of Portlandia. Told ya’ll the wackos are the new Kings of Mount Big Bro Socialist Tyranny Most violent city in America when it comes to protests. Gee, that is a no brainer. Seattle got knocked to 2nd, Berkeley holds at 3rd place but slipping to 4th, as another West Coast locale rears its ugly head. They all at one time were the biggest, shiniest turd in the kybo. The biggest ones always float to the top.
Word of the day from Bill’s Encycopedia of Worthless Information: Kybo.
“Finally, kybo, a Scouting term for an outhouse, is an acronym that stands for either Keep Your Bowels Open or Keep Your Bowels Operating.”
Example: The Deplorables had to move out of the Kyoto because the Lefties were making too much noise in the basement.
http://theweek.com/articles/580173/brief-history-lavatory-languageLikeLike
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Downsizing wheels would be a breeze. China could have them there in no time.
The hard core gun lovers did the same thing when “Lizard nuts” Arnold signed the law banning the .50 BMG. (.50 cal rifle) Those who had the bucks bought the new .458 . Your shoulder couldn’t tell the difference.
Bill can still hear those go off from his place.LikeLike
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re: Walt@12:34PM
I expect that tires are the problem. Large, super high volume, low margin business. Hard to change for low cost.
4chan pipes up.
https://twitter.com/polNewsForever/status/887334419396218880LikeLike
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What gets me, is the bitch about getting taxed. Somehow they think their special? “Tax the shit out of the other guy! I’m GREEN!” These are the same folk that believe that traffic laws don’t apply to them either.
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Now boys and girls,. If you live in Mommie’s basement after getting a worthless degree in Contemporary Media or Comminications, or Art History, are you going to kick down for a $1,400 bicycle or are you going to pay the 15 dollar tax, hmmmmm? Riddle me that, Batman.
RE: Ore-gun. I used to have a shirt that read Ore-gun across the front In the Oregon Duck green and yellow colors. It was for the then Krazy Kaliforicators to teach them how to pronounce the name of the State. Needless to say, I did not purchase the tee shirt anywhere near Portlandia…..and many moons ago at that.
Nowadays, a good Oregon shirt would have the logo Ore-Gone across the front.
Memory lane. Once Reagen was doing the ole unfair trade practices with Japan. In a shocking move of retaliation that had the bedwetters and exploding heads going off, It was announced that Reagen was banning Japanese TV and jacking up tariffs. Trade War! Reagen starts trade war with Japan! The sky is falling!!! I want my Miami Heat.
Come to find out, the ban/ high tariff was for some odd size TV that wasn’t readily available in the USA. It was sold for the European market and Asia. Only one to two hundred sets a year were ever sold in the good ole USA.
Trade war! Media going unhinged. Pundits running to the shrink’s couch and hiding under it. Nothing new under the sun.LikeLike
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Bill. It’s not the amount that’s important here,(or up there if you will) it’s the principal of the matter. “How dare you tax US!” And did you notice all the excuses
why NOT to tax “them”?LikeLike
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Walt, good buddy @ 1:27 pm.
Yeah, I know, I know. As Bernie Sanders economics goes, “I have one dollar and you have twenty dollars. Give me your twenty and I will have $21.00.”
Fun time! Pick meme, pick meme!
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1132053966928639/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1132054226928613/?type=3&theater
Oldie but goodie:
Love this one. Forget the dude’s name, but his death at the hands of LE triggered the drums and war dance, followed by the full blown War Patch on the mean streets. Much smoke emitted into the environment, not to mention all the garbage tossed about everywhere during the rioting. The fakenews mantra was he was such a kind, gentle, loving family man. The cops are out of control! Somebody is ordering the cops to kill darkies on sight! Rightttttt.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1131291513671551/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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Ok, 3 more for the day and I will stop with the memes. Pinky promise.
For Scenes and his aquatic friend, Fish.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/888788284604728/?type=3&theater
For Punchy:
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10154901404860914/?type=3&theater
For Punchy again: You are doing great! What an unbelievable strategy. You really got ”em on the ropes now. Almost there, just one more punch and you will taste victory po o pollin’ fakenews man.
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10154901639010914/?type=3&theaterLikeLike
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Here’s a question that has nothing to do with the posts so far.
Whatever happened with the non-TSA compliant California driver’s licenses? I seem to remember that states with bad licensing requirements had them turn into pumpkins on Jan. 1, 2018…which is coming up.
There’s no way that a California license is going to pass muster since the state runs it’s own federal immigration policy. Do you have to start carrying a passport to get on an airplane in 6 months?LikeLike
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I have mine Scenes, Just like the news blackout on those gun laws that the state got spanked on. Ca. travelers will get a rude surprise when they show up to fly out.
Think the FEDS are going to remind us? The “new” FEDS are not happy with the problem child known as Ca. (Screw FED laws.we like our illegals)
The FEDS might remind us at some last minute midnight news break, just so they can say “we warned ya’.”LikeLike
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Rebane Ruminations favorite judge tough on the Trumplet
“Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano suggested on Monday that Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had put themselves in legal jeopardy by seeking opposition research from Russians during the 2016 election.
“If I could have advised the president or Donald Trump Jr., I would have said, ‘Go to [Trump attorney] Don McGahn,’” Napolitano opined. “He would have said, ‘You want to talk to a an ex-KGB-GRU agent and a person represented as a Russian government lawyer — even though we now know she wasn’t — tell the FBI, don’t bring those guys in here.’”
Napolitano pointed out that “it is a crime to receive something of value when you are a campaign official from a foreign person or foreign government.
According to the Fox News analyst, Trump officials could be guilty of a felony if they received information about Hillary Clinton from Russians.
“Often these non-violent criminal events don’t happen all at once, they happen in stages,” he continued. “Is this enough to commence a criminal investigation? Answer: yes. Because it is suspicious that they met with these people, that they didn’t consult a lawyer, that one of these people is former KGB-GRU — that’s the Russian intelligence arm.”
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“Why didn’t Jared Kushner tell the FBI about it unless he was trying to hide something?” Napolitano observed. “Donald Trump would be better served if he weren’t related to the people serving him.””LikeLike
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Another day and more fakenews. I loved the newsflash claiming there were 2 COUNT EM 2 Tump Putin meetings @ G20. Then I find out the second secret meeting was at the big banquet when Trump walked over to Putin for a minute.
While they were pearl clutching and smashing stoli bottles what else was in the uncovered news today?? Hmmmm, lets play illegal immigration for 100 Alex.
Today the Army Corps of engineers was drilling for soil/rock samples at the sites that are getting the first phase of the wall.
The bids for the wall proposals have been down selected to a group of prototypes that will be installed in the areas that are priorities (think San Diego and Rio Grand valley) for evaluation. There is money in the budget for the wall folks.
Immigration is going to surge ICE agents to sanctuary cities. They still are in process for hiring those 10,000 agents.
For the po’ ol’ pollhead- Madam liar liar pantsuits on fire is the least popular ever! 😉LikeLike
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 18 July 2017 at 06:06 PM
I find it delightfully hypocritical that you refer to the presidents son as the “Trumplet”….and this after a full weekend whining about the use of correct names.LikeLike
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Looks like Mr Emery’s favorite agency, the folks that gave us the Shah, are up to something.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cia-plans-to-destroy-some-of-its-old-leak-files
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/887308574623485953
https://twitter.com/snowden/status/887349362841575424LikeLike
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Trumpcare-total flop. Biggest news off the week. Flop.
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Well punchy its still a week before McCain is back in DC and I for one am more interested in repealing 0 care. Oh, and still President ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. 😉
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That’s a nice job of party parroting ya po’ ol’ tool of the fakenews industrial complex @616. Calling the story of the week on Tuesday, how prescient of you. 😉
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Correct names only applies to participants on this Blog Fish
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For newer readers of RR and recent arrivals to our community Don Bessee is someone who truly knows what a FLOP is. He was the chief architect and public spokesman for Measure W, a ballot measure banning all outdoor cannabis cultivation in Nevada County. It was a landmark FLOP losing 60-40. It was also a major contributing factor in the election of Progressive Heidi Hall to District 1 Supervisor in Nevada County. Don B certainly knows about what a FLOP is.
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So he is already flippin on his promise to not talk to us unless we genuflect. Flip flopper. It was a low turnout by R’s and I can’t lay claim to writing measure W. We also beat measure S by a bigger raw vote thank W lets remember. Prop 64 passed with about 1200 votes in Nevada County, there is still controversy about a lot of those ‘new’ voter registrations last year. 😉
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@ 640 is a great example of the fakenews industrial complex, those po’ ol’ pollhead rules only apply to you and not the fakenewsman. Typical double standards. 😉
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Measure W FLOP no excuses when you lose by 20%
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Facts that we discussed on your news show ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. I don’t need no stikin fakenews rules from the fakenews industrial complex, thanks for the offer though. 😉
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 18 July 2017 at 06:40 PM
Correct names only applies to participants on this Blog Fish
NICE! I didn’t know you played Calvinball!LikeLike
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re: Fish@7:48PM
lol. Perfect analogy.
A small story on a slow news day.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/wow-republican-delta-employee-reveals-ann-coulter-targeted-purpose-seat-fiasco/LikeLike
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Flop Don Lost by 20%
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Conservatives blast Trumpcare Flop :
‘An epic fail — seven years gone down the drain’: Fox’s Krauthammer shreds GOP and Trump for health care flop
“This is an epic fail,” Charles Krauthammer declared. “This is historic. This is seven years of arguing gone down the drain. And I think we’re at the end of the road, at least in this phase.”
‘The idea that they are going to get a repeal bill standing alone, when repeal and replace was meant to mitigate the effects of repeal, is ridiculous and it is not going to pass,” he added.
The longtime Fox commentator went on to place blame on President Donald Trump, saying, “There was no presidential leadership … You put all of those together and you get an epic fail.”LikeLike
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If I was Jamie I wouldn’t know what to make of this……given Barrys predilections!
Diller Wants Dimon…
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Here you go Punchy…..my gift to you!
Former Vice President Joe Biden defeats Trump 54 percent to 39 percent
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders defeats Trump 52 percent to 39 percent
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren defeats Trump 49 percent to 42 percent
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker defeats Trump 45 percent to 40 percent
California Senator Kamala Harris defeats Trump 41 percent to 40 percent
You can leave the Viagra in the nightstand tonight!
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/2020-poll-Harris-beats-Trump-but-others-beat-11297401.phpLikeLike
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With what happened in PV today, get ready for the next anti gun rants. What really sucks, is that they were our friends.
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Looking at the poll it proves once again the bias This is from the text.
“The sample group itself leans Democratic. 836 registered voters participated in the poll between July 14 and 17 and of those 836 participants, 42 percent of them identify as Democrats, 31 percent of them identify as Republicans, and 27 percent of them identify as “independent/other.”
Forty six percent of this poll’s participants voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and 42 percent voted for Donald Trump. Harris’ 41 percent total may signal that the freshman senator isn’t yet well known by some reliable Democratic voters. ”
Other than some internal polls I have never ever seen a poll weighted towards the right. ever.LikeLike
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Posted by: Walt | 18 July 2017 at 08:24 PM
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Where was the Nevada County Booth?
It has been 25 years since Ellen, and I attended the State Fair. We were regulars when the kids were growing up, but once they went off to college, we stopped going to the State Fair. When we did go, the County Booths were on the top of our list to see. Today, we went to the State Fair, looking forward to the County Exhibits, especially the Nevada County exhibits which have been an award winner in the past.
Walking into Building B, we spotted an information booth and asked, “where is the Nevada County Booth.” The man behind the counter looked at a map of the booths and said, “Nevada County does not have a booth this year.” Showing our disappointment we continued our tour. As we viewed the booths, the central theme was to attract visitors to come to the host County and enjoy its history, unique food, wine, and entertainment. The winning booth was from Mendocino County, our favorite County to visit.
Walking to the other exits and chatting over a Fair food lunch we wondered why Nevada County no longer exhibited its unique history, climate, food, wine and entertainment at the State Fair? Why were they not competing with the other Counties for tourism dollars?
If readers have a good explanation, I hope they will share it in the comments.LikeLike
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Sorry Fish, I forgot some don’t read the local rag. There was a shooting here in PV, and it turns out to be close friends. I went over to say hi, and nothing but cops and police tape.
It still hasn’t sunk in yet.LikeLike
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Russ when I was elected in 1985 we started the booth up that year. Dennis Cassella our able bodied Purchasing dude took control and made it happen. We won the gold. And all the year until I stopped paying attention in 1995 or so, we had a booth. But I think the Gang of Four stopped it. I could be wrong. But it has not been there for many years. We used CofC money allocations and many volunteers. It looks like it is of no concern to the BOS and has not for many years.
Now though we should have a Ganja theme with Paul Emery in charge. I bet he’d do a great job!LikeLike
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“Correct names only applies to participants on this Blog Fish”, ROFLMAO!
There goes Punchy bestowing upon commentators the great honor of being addressed by no other than our local Fakesnews man himself. Geeze, a boiling water enema sounds better.. Oh, you can’t make this stuff up.
Keep searching, keep trying, keep faking it until you make it, Putang Punchy. There has to be some redeemable qualities like integrity in that duplicity bubble from whence you have your being. You really don’t see it, do ya? Odd. All this time I thought you were joking or pulling our leg. Now I am starting to believe that you just don’t have a clue.
Green liberation. That’s a good one. Talk about an oxymoron, Green Libertarian takes the cake.LikeLike
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Business as usual:
http://freebeacon.com/issues/elizabeth-warren-attends-marthas-vineyard-dinner-hosted-by-big-bank-executive/
It’s funny how all it took was some political will:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/18/ice-director-hundreds-of-immigration-agents-will-deploy-to-sanctuary-cities/
The takeaway from the second story is the the US Left never ever had any intention of enforcing the national borders, regardless of the rhetoric through the years. Kinda hard to build a welfare state when you invite the world, but double-entry bookkeeping is not most peoples’ strong suit.
Next up is just how much healthcare you can give away for free, especially in a world where there is no political will to drop costs via either fiat or free market.LikeLike
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Trumplet?,,,are you talking about lyin’ L’il Donnie? A chip off the ol’ block as us old timers like to say.
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A nice little story:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/19/watchdog-postal-service-broke-law-by-letting-employees-do-clinton-campaign-work.html
Yes, I know that Clinton isn’t President and that it’s OLD NEWS. The thing is, we wouldn’t have heard a bit about this if the close-run election had gone the other way.
The Democratic Party is charmingly crooked in that old-school way. It isn’t like people give up power willingly.LikeLike
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 19 July 2017 at 06:03 AM
Morning chatbot!LikeLike
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Must be the same person trying to post on mine. Loony!
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Hey just saw on SCS{PAN-2 the Senate will maybe vote on REPEAL next week. I have been inundating them with Tweets. Kind of fun. Anyway, I said “see, you thought you would not be attacked by the media” for doing nothing since the media was against repeal and replace. But they are being excoriated as we all knew they would be regardless. So I encouraged them to do what their bas voters want or they will lose them. What is worse? If they do not repeal they will be losing the Senate and the House as that is why the people gave them both. Could they be that stupid?
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the Democrats are the gift that just keeps on giving.
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/07/19/yes-bill-clinton-asked-russia-to-interfere-in-a-us-presidential-election/LikeLike
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