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175 responses to “Sandbox – 19dec17”
OOPS. The House Parliamentarian said they screwed the vote p and have to do it again tomorrow. Our government at work.
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It wont change the outcome @205. 😉
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Here is one for the po’ ol’ fakenewsman-
http://news.gallup.com/poll/224330/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating-new-low.aspx
😉
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This will keep bobbie as cross as ever-
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/19/nine-million-men-pushed-out-of-workforce-by-government-low-wage-policies-obama-economist/
😉
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Ooooppsie. Good luck to the House and Senate going forward. They seem to think it’s nearly a done deal. But the wolves are circling, frantically, looking for a weak member of the herd to take out
Now… what to say… ?
Hmmm… should I? Why not. Apologies to my fellow ruminators.
You may remember that Jeff, spiraling out of control on his blog scaring people away, recently decided to pick at my resume and checked the bona fides of Loyola Marymount University. Lo and behold, he checked a list of grad schools … and it didn’t appear on it!!! Anywhere!
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
No, Jeff, that isn’t what I wrote, stop making stuff up. I wrote here that “I would not expect LMU to make a list of top grad schools for Electrical Engineering… because it doesn’t offer a PhD. Nonetheless, it’s a highly ranked regional university …”
Being a “top school” wasn’t on my list of things to check before walking in their door, mainly because there really weren’t such lists readily available before the internet I helped drag into place after earning that MSEE.
It is ranked #3 for Regional Universities West
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/regional-universities-west
Now, LMU does show up on this list, of engineering schools that don’t grant PhD’s, topping out at Bachelors or Masters… it’s in the top 10%, sharing the 19th spot of 200:
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-overall
Sorry I couldn’t get a link that put LMU showing #19 at eye level, so you’ll just have to see the #1 college on that list tbefore scrolling down.
There were things I needed to learn, and LMU seemed to be a place that could teach me a bunch of what I needed. My wife Teri and I were both pleased.
What we have in “Cartman” is a fellow who will twist anything to tear down the people that don’t love and adore him. And given his degrees in Rhetoric and Journalism not exactly being held in high regard, even he, on his own website, only identifies UC Berkeley and Northwestern as the schools that, at one time, let him walk the halls as if he belonged.
Oh, and Jeff, try searching the internet using an engine of your choice with the following term: “engineering calculus” site:berkeley.edu
Please, let us all know what the search returned. LOL!
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Bill Clinton is way more popular at 45 percent than trump at 36. Same poll
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But the President is giving us tax cuts for Christmas ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. 😉
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But Trump is President. Your guy is a pedophile rapist.
Gregory, Pelline is truly losing what little grey matter he ever had. He is talking to himself now and that cannot be a good thing. You don’t have to worry about defending yourself as we all know and respect your intelligence and veracity. Pelline is a loon, and it must be caused by his obesity or some other malady we don’t know about.
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Why aren’t you here at the CAG meeting Don? I thought you were representing the concerns of the neighborhoods
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 December 2017 at 04:53 PM
Yeah but Bill was a serial sexual predator and probable rapist……I thought you were pro woman Punch?
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Posted by: Gregory | 19 December 2017 at 04:48 PM
Being a “top school” wasn’t on my list of things to check before walking in their door, mainly because there really weren’t such lists readily available before the internet I helped drag into place after earning that MSEE.
IIRC LMU was close to where you were working and your employer was picking up the tab. Really is there anything else more that needs be said.
I guess jeffy went to a top school…..can’t say for sure because I haven’t checked and I don’t really care…..what I do know is with all that education he is a terrible writer! Just an embarassingly bad writer.
As an example:
jeffy writes like the teenaged girl writing the “Opinion” column for the high school paper because mom fancied herself a feminist and didn’t want her daughter taking the Home Economics elective with her idiot girlfriends!
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Checking, fish, it was exactly 1.0 miles from the orifice to the classroom. And, comparing notes with Teri who had started a Master’s program at CalState Los Angeles that was only a couple miles from our house in Alhambra, she chose to join me at LMU despite it being a 60 mile round trip, and she was working a further 20 miles away to the east.
Another little lie from Pelline is putting me in his thoughtworld, “The State of Jefferson”, despite my being a longtime detractor to the SoJ effort. To summarize, yes, the state needs REFORMING, but until a state equivalent to bankruptcy wipes the books clean, a “SoJ” would be saddled with crushing debt. Better to have CalPERS and STRS accounts payable whittled down to what its current funds will support.
They’re back to their old tricks, allowing the CalSTRS fund be managed expecting 7% returns until the cows come home or until more cities and counties refuse to pay the shortfalls. It’s already happening.
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Not my opinion I was just quoting the polll number So according to you fish a probable rapist and sexual predator is 10 points more popular than your guy Trump.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 December 2017 at 05:42 PM
Then I guess America shouldn’t complain about the Billy Bush episode any longer. To quote Clinton apologists from the 90’s….it’s time to move on!
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“And here’s more B.S. from Goodnight: “CalState Los Angeles was only a couple miles from our house in Alhambra.” No, Greg, it’s 5 miles. This is typical of Mr. Science”
Get this: Not knowing the address we lived at, Jeff, at his fact checking best, just put in Alhambra as the starting point.
You can’t make this shit up!
Putting in the address of the house my father grew up in, where I was living with my wife, it is in fact
(drum roll, please)
2.1 miles away.
Jeff, you really are a f-ing moron, and adrenaline does not make you smarter. Give up, you already have much to explain to St.Peter, assuming you see him someday.
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“Fish” fancies himself as an intellect and a writer. What do you think? http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2011/tle603-20110116-02.html “Fish” never publishes his curriculum vitae.”
Intellectual….!? Hardly!
That’s why this is all so hysterical…..that a person with far less “education” than you can so easily see what a talentless hack you are.
Sorry Stay-Puft your credentials carry no weight here!
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“Oh look. Mr. Science’s vocabulary has deteriorated to “fk” and “st” What an intellect! Small towns are a hoot!”
Such words can be effective, Jeff, and both were used correctly. You are a f-ing moron.
And you were so very happy to have found I didn’t have a clue how far the house was from CalStateLA.
You really can’t make this shit up. You really thought you had me, didn’t you, didn’t you? Drinking the two buck chuck early today, Jeff?
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Also Fish, since you brought up polls, the same Gallup poll shows Obama with a favorable polling of 63% compared to Trumps historically low 36%. That’s a 27% difference at this time.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 December 2017 at 07:19 PM
I didn’t bring up polls Punch. You did.
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Hee hee… I wonder how many of Jeff’s advertisers read his blog?
He’s now just pretending he’s not melting down…
“jeffpelline says:
December 19, 2017 at 7:24 pm
One of the fools on Todd’s blog claims we’re having a “meltdown” over here. Huh? We’re just having a lot of fun. More to come!”
What you mean “we” Pudgy White Man? It’s only you at your blog, or haven’t you noticed?
And then there’s his prior missive, “Oh, and no link (AKA citation) from a scientist, no less. lol.”
To give you a link would require me to divulge the address my wife and I lived at. That’s a big F U Jeff. Try suing me, and I’ll be happy to provide your lawyer the full address when I’m deposed. Expect it to be exactly 2.1 miles from CalState LA, substituting the address for Alhambra in the link you used to deliver your coup de grâce.
Really, Jeff, step back from the computer. Give it a rest. You won’t win this one. You truly are a f-ing moron.
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Trump is doing fine. The economy is humming, business is expanding unemployment lowest in many years for whites, blacks Hispanics. My goodness, we have it great!
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Good catch Fish. It was Bessee. My error
Rewrite:
Also Bessee, since you brought up polls, the same Gallup poll shows Obama with a favorable polling of 63% compared to Trumps historically low 36%. That’s a 27% difference at this time.
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Who cares except you Paul Emery. You are a troll.
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“jeffpelline says:
December 19, 2017 at 8:12 pm
Gregory is having a meltdown! Step away from the computer Gregory! We are praying for you.”
Now Jeffie is plagiarizing from my 744pm here. Very sad.
Kids, that’s why you should stay away from mommy and daddy’s cases of two buck Chuck.
No melt down here… I’m just counting down. What I’m counting down, you’ll all have to wait for.
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0 is not the president any more ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. 😉
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TAX CUTS!! One procedural vote away, no worries! JOBS JOBS JOBS! 😉
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51-48 on the House in the morning. Proud of my party today!
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The FUE is hallucinating and is the only one chatting with him=self on his blog. Get the white coats@!
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Now Jeff is denying he’s been guzzling 2 buck chuck. Can you believe it?
And he is still delusional enough to think I owe him the address we were living at in the late 70’s, to prove we were living a couple of miles (2.1mi by google maps) rather than the five miles to the geographic center of Alhambra he used to show how I was lying about the distance from the house to CalStateLA.
Jeff, do you really think your customers won’t be reading your words today?
What a maroon.
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Its a scandal that neither the Dark Lord nor the po’ ol’ fakenewsman made the cut-
https://news.grabien.com/story-montage-10-most-mortifying-media-moments-2017
😉
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“That’s why this is all so hysterical…..that a person with far less “education” than you can so easily see what a talentless hack you are.”
-fish on Nevada City Fats
fish, he went to a couple of big name schools. UC Berkeley (they had lower standards in the ’70’s) where he majored in Rhetoric. Then he earned a Masters in Journalism from Northwestern. Or so he claims, I suspect we won’t know for sure unless he posts images of his degrees and his transcripts.
“Talentless hack”? No, I’d say he is a malevolent hack, skilled at misuse of the language of persuasion.
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I’ve also been told by someone who should know that Jeff just can’t get enough Chateau Cash Flow… white Zinfandel, in a bottle with the ever popular screw top. A best seller for much the same reasons Coors is still popular in certain populations; it is the wine that goes best with cheeseburgers.
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“jeffpelline says:
December 19, 2017 at 11:28 pm
Greg claims he graduated with a bachelor’s’ from Harvey Mudd with a master’s from LMU. Either way, I suspect we won’t know for sure unless he posts images of his degrees and his transcripts.”
I know you are, but what am I?
Really, Jeff, although it is true there is more value in my degrees in physics and electrical enginnering… what’s the point of claiming degrees you didn’t earn in rhetoric and journalism. Oh, but you typically hide the BA Rhetoric, don’t you, Jeff?
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jeffpelline says:
December 19, 2017 at 11:33 pm
Goodnight writes: “I’ve also been told by someone who should know that Jeff just can’t get enough Chateau Cash Flow… white Zinfandel, in a bottle with the ever popular screw top.” No Greg, I have never had a bottle of white Zinfandel, let alone a glass. Liar, liar, pants on fire. Best you cut your losses and go to bed. lol.
Oh come off it, Jeff. It’s white zin, Muscatel and peppermint schnapps on your table..
Bingo!
Jeff successfully drove all of the other posts from his blog’s list of comments. He’s run the board… everyone else is gone. It’s just Jeff. All fifteen.
Thanks for playing the game, Jeff: fighting fire with fire.
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Mr Emery:
“So according to you fish a probable rapist and sexual predator is 10 points more popular than your guy Trump.”
You do have to wonder why people with such obvious bias are allowed anywhere near a news desk, but the last year or so has cured me of that notion. Obviously Paul should read an editorial missive on-the-air every once in a while like this blog’s proprietor. An unlikely thing, but really the best for everyone.
Cartman Wars and Paul’s inability to view the world dispassionately aside, it’s worth considering these polls for a sec:
Trump
https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/inlineimage/2017-11-15/11.15-1.png
Clinton (go down a page and rescale the chart in your head to match the Trump one)
http://news.gallup.com/poll/224330/hillary-clinton-favorable-rating-new-low.aspx
What exactly are you seeing there? It probably isn’t the economy pushing those numbers down. Is it purely the Fourth Estate running 24/7 investigative propaganda and editorials disguised as news? Perhaps the masses are just in an uproar in a cyclical fashion? I honestly don’t know.
It’s funny to think about how het up people are in these cases where the political machinations of the last year have had so little effect on their personal lives…with the possible exception of the stock market (which has it’s own mind I’m afraid).
If all that comes of our current situation is a complete distrust of news organizations by the average individual, well, that’s enough. News now appears to consist of those with little personal experience in much of anything, a chip on their shoulder, and the politics of a boorish drunk. My guess is that Pelline and mini-P are unsurprising members of their class.
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Gregory had Pelline wringing his hands until after one AM last night. Good job!
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Just for a quick change of subject.
Considering this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5197747/AI-detects-expressions-tell-people-lie-court.html
an absolutely not surprising application of current technologies. Just imagine the fun you could have pointing a version of that software at a couple of decades of C-SPAN Congressional hearings. Seriously, someone should do this.
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Posted by: Gregory | 19 December 2017 at 11:00 PM
“Talentless hack”? No, I’d say he is a malevolent hack, skilled at misuse of the language of persuasion.
“Malevolent Hack” negative connotations aside is still a term of merit…..you have to earn it! jeffy is not good enough at it to wear the title!
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Scenes, the numbers are the numbers when it comes to polls. Bill Clinton is more highly re guarded than Trump by around 10 % and Obama by nearly 30 points. You can talk reasons all you like but that doesn’t change the results which are factual and comparable because they are from the same poll.
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jeffpelline says:
December 20, 2017 at 12:41 am
God Bless western Nevada County. It has so much potential but is dragged down by a hard right contingent that is out of step with California, an intellectual mecca and economic engine for our nation. This outlandish behavior makes it hard for the rest of the state to take our community seriously. But until community leaders stand up to this group, we will forever be labeled “backwater.”
Greg, Todd, Don……jeffy has mobilized the Nevada City Emergency Response Action League…..you should all expect a stern talking to when the squad drops by….which should be in mere moments……sorry but its for the good of “our communities™” so you won’t have to remain labeled an….umm….”backwater” and Nevada City can reclaim its rightful place as the “Paris” of the foothills! Or something…..
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Paul 9:12- “Bill Clinton is more highly regarded than Trump by around 10 % and Obama by nearly 30 points.”
Obama and Clinton spent 8 years in the White House, Trump only 1. History shows that the longer in office, the lower the rating. Second term presidents rank lowest (usually). I wonder how low Trump will get after 4 years (if he survives that long)?
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Now jon. History doesn’t allow your claim to hold water.
But it helps when the LIBERAL media is still lined up to blow “O”.
Media hasn’t given Trump the credit he’s due. ANYTHING to sabotage
his Presidency is the name of the game today.
I hope you don’t subscribe to the weaponizing of government agencies for political use. ( “O” did a fine job of that)
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Well Jon Trumps is the lowest in history at this point so who knows how low he can go. Especially with the passage of so called tax cuts that will make the rich richer and add to the deficit.
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Hay Paul.. Think about it this way. Your not going to see another Progressive elected in your lifetime.
Since when did “your side” worry about deficits? They sure did their best to run them up as much as possible. HELL! Not even a budget in 8 years. ( but bitch about Trump)
Reduction in regs!(OH the horror!) Obummercare in now DOA!( another TAX shot to shit)
When things REALLY get rolling, LIB will not be a good thing to be.
Facts will win out over horse shit news.
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Walt 10:04- “History doesn’t allow your claim to hold water.”
Actually it does. Since WWII only two presidents have been as popular the 2nd term as the first. Billy and Ronnie.
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Jon.. Billy and Ronnie! What a comparison…Reagon was the most popular one during my time voting, but the media started undermining him towards the middle of his second term. I thought it was funny when democrats started bailing out of their party during Clinton’s time, but wondered if they’d move into the Republican Party and change it to their same o same o mentality cuz I noticed old habits are hard to break. Too bad there isn’t a Rhino party.
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…..as so closed l’affaire Bundy!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-20/judge-declares-mistrial-bundy-case-says-government-willfully-withheld-evidence
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OK jon,, “according” to LIB media.
No care to explain why the Left has changed their monicor so many times over the years? Paul won’t or can’t answer that.
Democrat is a term of the past, Then Liberal became a dirty word, now well on the way to bastardizing Progressive. Before Trump is out of office, the Left will come out of the closet like a prancing Frisco “flamer” and proclaim they are full blown Socialists, maybe even Commie. “Communists are for the people”. Just ask Nancy.
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I understand fish don’t see well out of water. They probably can’t read either.
“. . . .as so closed l’affaire Bundy!” except that isn’t what your link says. Charges have NOT been dropped against the defendants and a new trial likely begins in February.
This is the government’s case to lose, and unfortunately, I bet they will manage to lose it.
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Posted by: jon smith | 20 December 2017 at 12:27 PM
I would expect that this quietly goes away by mid next year! Even without the government misbehavior it was going to be difficult to get a conviction in this venue!
Tell you what …..this still a thing next year I owe you a Coke!
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