212 responses to “Sandbox – 26dec17”

1. 

   Bill Tozer

   27 December 2017

   Opps. Forgot one thing.
   Oh ya, the link for the Doubting Thomases. So many to choose from, what to pick. This one is close enough.
   http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/24/heres-how-the-song-baby-its-cold-outside-caused-the-september-11-terror-attacks/
   I really have a problem with the morally pure goat humpers at times. At least I recognize it and am working on it.

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   Gregory

   27 December 2017

   Regarding cord cutting… anyone else watch “Bright” on Netflix? Cost them 90mil to make, including whatever Will Smith and Noomi Rapace cost them? Critics hate it, viewers think it’s great. Mirror image of the new Star Wars movie. We’ve loved it, including my son and his fiancee visiting for the holidays.
   I hadn’t seen science fiction-fantasy used so effectively to comment on race relations since the “You half-white!”/”You half-black!” episode of the ’60’s Star Trek with the late and great Frank Gorshin playing one of two warring beings whose only difference was one was black on the right side, and the other was white on the right side.
   “Bright” is a standard cop movie, except the LAPD Rampart cops were a black guy (Smith) and an Orc who was the department’s diversity hire. The elf district (the rich assholes who make money off people and orcs) is Beverly Hills.
   I won’t do a big spoiler, but one of the funniest lines inspired from the news of today was “Faerie’s Lives Don’t Matter Today” as Smith’s character is doing the unpleasant task of dispatching the little flying f*** who was raiding their bird feeder and the neighbor’s dog’s food.

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   Don Bessee

   27 December 2017

   I am shocked, absolutely shocked!

   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/12/27/china-spotted-illegally-selling-oil-to-north-korea-report-says.html

   Winning!
   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/27/how-trump-is-rolling-back-obamas-legacy.html
   😉

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4. 

   Gregory

   27 December 2017

   It’s f-omg cold in Chicago, but temp extremes are not indications of climate unless it’s a heat wave.
   Remember, if it’s cold, it’s weather!

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   Don Bessee

   27 December 2017

   Hey it was only some white girl who got bumped damn it –
   https://nypost.com/2017/12/27/lawmaker-who-booted-woman-from-flight-once-named-meanest-member-of-congress/
   Go Sheila, go Sheila, go Sheila! 😉

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   Walt

   27 December 2017

   Back to reality folks. There are are few here that were for the legalization of weed. Well,, you got your wish.
   And like I said, employers and insurance companies still have a big say.
   http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/california-weed/article152918329.html
   ( Hope you can get past the paywall.)
   Who is looking forward to having people on the job who smoked weed last night?
   Listening to where and how many dispensaries are being allowed is also fodder for discussion. It will be tough to rake in those taxes that everyone is supposed to be thrilled to pay.Let alone pay for the new bureaucracy that has been created. “The Office of Cannabis affairs”.
   The vast majority of weed will still be sold the way it has been. Tax free and plenty less than “store bought”.
   As Stated when this first came up,, how do you tax what you have no way of controlling?

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7. 

   Bill Tozer

   27 December 2017

   1) Gregory: On my second Christmas family gathering Monday, (other one was the 22nd), I asked three youngish adults what was the difference between the new buzzword “fantasy” verses Sci-fi. There is a big difference! Well, they told me exactly what made Fantasy different from Sci-Fi in a calm no-nonsense itemized manner. A teachable moment, but I already plumb forgot. All I know is it sounds like any Disney plot: You got the good guy, the real bad guy, and the guy gets the girl in the end. But, then again, what do I know. Science fiction -Fantasy is close enough for us unenlightened Cretans. Don’t bother to explain it to me. They were quite articulate and very clear in the distinctions…..as if I really care. I should have gotten an Oscar or whatever Fantasy Awards they pass out for pretending I got it now. “Got it, thanks.”
   2) Don, you said “winning”. Darn, you said “Winning.” Oh boy, that is one humongous trigger word. Mr. Cross will be fit to be tied by morning at the latest. Others as well. You brought the Wrath of Winning down upon our heads. Thanks a lot and tanks a rocket. Incoming! (Yes, I projected).
   https://youtu.be/I6eQ78HCGEA

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8. 

   Don Bessee

   27 December 2017

   BT (2)@ 555 (hmmm triple nickel) One can only hope! 😉

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9. 

   Bill Tozer

   27 December 2017

   Speaking of being cold outside, this one is just plain cold.
   According to The Wisconsin State Journal, DeSpain said the hairstylist then ran the clipper with the shortest attachment down the middle of the customer’s head, “leaving him looking a bit like Larry from ‘The Three Stooges.’”
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/27/haircut-from-hell-lands-stylist-behind-bars.html
   The link above has no socially redeeming value. Neither does the link below.
   https://youtu.be/VNXenXPBs3o

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10. 

    Paul Emery

    27 December 2017

    Walt writes at 5:46 “There are are few here that were for the legalization of weed. ”
    In case you missed it Walt Prop 64 won in Nevada County. Won by 3000. Sorry to inform you of that. Kinda embarrassing you didn’t know.

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11. 

    Gregory

    27 December 2017

    The buzzword isn’t new, Toes. “Fantasy” was in play five decades ago when I first read Lord of the Rings.
    The two genres overlap somewhat (by fanbase more than literary traditions), but if it’s tech, it’s SF (or “sci-fi” if you want to piss off purists) and if it’s magic, it’s fantasy.
    Every once in a while you get someone looking for a book like LOTR. There ain’t anything like LOTR that wasn’t written by JRR Tolkien.

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12. 

    Walt

    27 December 2017

    Are you that senile Paul? Think all “3000” stop in here to read?
    So your one “few here”(the others know who they are) Ponytail braided too tight?
    This should make your day.
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/12/27/study-pregnant-mothers-california-using-pot/
    I have yet to see the PSAs about those dangers, like they did with cigs.
    Again you take a cheap shot, yet refuse to answer. Your nursing home days are coming in on horseback. Pray your (soon to be) caregivers are drug tested. (ask your choice of old folks home if they do.)

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13. 

    Don Bessee

    27 December 2017

    All the rest of the days news was too heavy a lift for the po’ ol’ fakenewsman @ 624. 😉

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    Don Bessee

    27 December 2017

    For the haters –
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/12/27/trump-may-get-train-station-near-western-wall-named-after-him-in-jerusalem.html
    😉

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15. 

    Paul Emery

    27 December 2017

    Walt
    You’ve got to deal with it Prop 64 won in Nevada County. Are you saying that Nevada County did not support Prop 64?

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    Paul Emery

    27 December 2017

    Here’s how elections work Walt. Whatever gets the most votes wins. (Except in the presidential election) Nevada County voted 29,342 supporting Prop 64 and 26,043 opposing which means, guess what, Prop 64 won. Perhaps you should move to Tulare County where it lost by over 10,000. You’re kind of people Walt.

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17. 

    Don Bessee

    27 December 2017

    Keep whistling past all that winning ya po’ ol’ pollhead. 😉

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18. 

    Paul Emery

    27 December 2017

    Do you dispute the Nevada County votes on Prop 64 Don?

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19. 

    Paul Emery

    27 December 2017

    Here’s a goodie from the Washington Examiner. First Christie, then Sessions then Flynn. He’s turning on his strongest supporters from the beginning.
    “President Trump’s legal team is putting together a reactionary plan to cast former national security adviser Michael Flynn as a liar should he accuse President Trump or any of his top aides of wrongdoing, according to a new report.
    The new strategy comes after Flynn pleaded guilty to one felony charge of lying to the FBI about his communications with the Russians during the transition period.
    Because he has agreed to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry team, Trump’s attorney’s are ready to fire back if Flynn points a finger at Trump and his team, three sources familiar with the strategy told the Washington Post.”
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-legal-team-plans-to-smear-michael-flynn-if-he-accuses-trump-of-wrongdoing-report/article/2644468

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20. 

    Don Bessee

    27 December 2017

    Winning with another good news story for workers that doesn’t fit the fakenews narrative!
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/27/first-farmers-bank-announces-wage-hikes-bonuses-and-community-investment/
    😉

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21. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 December 2017

    “Are you saying that Nevada County did not support Prop 64?”
    Posted by: Paul Emery | 27 December 2017 at 07:41 PM
    No, Walt was saying what Dr. Rebane and I said just last night: Your reading comphrension sucks big time. You have a knack to keep stepping right into it time and time again. Definition of insanity? Helpful hint: operative word is “here”.
    “Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”—-ironically, that was a line from the song, “The Boxer” Coincidence? I think not.
    Keep trying Punch Drunk One until you get it right. You have all eyes upon you.

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22. 

    Don Bessee

    27 December 2017

    Its tough to be a po’ ol’ pollhead right now. Lump of coal for the haters. You know, lump of coal has a whole new angle rhetorically in a carbon sort of way. –
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_dec27
    POP! 😉

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23. 

    Paul Emery

    27 December 2017

    Glad you agree sith me about Trump being in the dumps on polling. From your link:
    The latest figures include 29% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. Do you have a reading problem Don?
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_dec27

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24. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 December 2017

    Don @ 7:11 pm. Oh thank heaven for 7-11…
    The Western Wall train named after President Donald J. Trump. Wonder why it wasn’t named after Trump’s predecessor. Hmmm. Obama got his Nobel Peace Prize years ago, as well as Yasser Arafat. Quite puzzling.
    Interestingly enough, the President’s son-in-law is a practicing Orthodox Jew. Doesn’t work on Saturdays and even unplugs all cell phones (along with his wife Ivanka) on the Sabbath. At least they did all the way through the primaries and beyond. Don’t know if Jarred stills does or is taking a break from remembering the Sabbath and keeping it Holy.
    Anyway, the Dems promised me that I would save 2,500 clams a year with Obamacare. Still waiting. The Dems said my middle class taxes would go up. That is a bold faced lie. Now it know why the WW Train is named after Trump: Trump don’t drink no whiskey nor chew no tobacco. This train don’t pull no liars, this train. (A bit long, but so are trains), especially clean trains.
    https://youtu.be/Z6L5grLqkA0

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25. 

    Gregory

    28 December 2017

    By Rasmussen today, Trump has 46% of likely voters giving him a thumb’s up. In Nov ’16, 46% gave him a thumb’s up. More plummeting?

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26. 

    fish

    28 December 2017

    Posted by: Gregory | 28 December 2017 at 06:49 AM
    That can’t be right…..according to Punch-E Trump lost 15 percentage points a day, every day, all year long! By my back of the envelope calculations using the Punch Method the president stands at around – 5500%!

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27. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 December 2017

    How to determine if you should talk about politics in public:
    “I didn’t get any of those predictions wrong. But if you got 15 or more wrong, you might want to consider never saying anything about politics out loud again for the rest of your life. Just a suggestion.”
    http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/12/22/determine-talk-politics-public/#more-16717

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28. 

    Scenes from the Apocalypse

    28 December 2017

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/28/farmers-markets-racist-source-environmental-gentrification-professors-contend.html

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29. 

    Todd Juvinall

    28 December 2017

    Rasmussen has Trump only down by seven today. And checking the dem/rep who you gonna elect polls finds them heavily “weighted” to democrats. Who wooda thunk?

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30. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 December 2017

    Don B is correct. They truly are haters. Hate blinds a person to facts and makes their brains unable to function correctly. Surprised they did not go after her shoes like the haters do. They truly do peddle in fake news.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208687900193346&set=p.10208687900193346&type=3&theater
    Nevermind she speaks five languages, created thriving businesses all by her lonesome, and multiple arborists said the tree could fall over at any moment as previous cables and supports under the bark have disintergrated…I am wasting my breath. This is pure unadulterated hate, which comes as no surprise concerning Trump Derangement Syndrome. Probably just upset than an immigrant look Michelle’s job.

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31. 

    Walt

    28 December 2017

    WOW Paul,, looking back over your nutty posts from last night,,, and you claim not to smoke dope? The 1ST ain’t here yet.

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32. 

    Paul Emery

    28 December 2017

    Todd
    Ther’s hope for your your guy Moore in Alabama Todd, he’s appealing the election.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/28/roy-moore-asks-alabama-court-for-a-new-election/?utm_term=.03ee149517ae

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    Paul Emery

    28 December 2017

    Gregory
    My poll is job approval. Once again from the Rasmussen link
    “The latest figures include 29% who Strongly Approve of the way Trump is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15.”
    Down 16.9 in consensus poll
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

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34. 

    Walt

    28 December 2017

    Paul’s unending fixation with polls, and lack of understanding of what people say, is a condition of Dementia. ( repeating the same thing, over and over and over and….) Saw it first hand with Mamma.
    Bill T sees it also.
    Better gather the family Paul. Draw straws,, short straw is now your keeper.
    Hospice is a good help too.

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35. 

    Todd Juvinall

    28 December 2017

    Paul Emery, your guy Harvey Weinstein is on the ropes today. He is paying millions to defend his sexual assaults on women. Why do you support that democrat donor of Hillary?

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36. 

    Walt

    28 December 2017

    Paul. Your friends just ain’t obeying the LAW!!
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/yuba-county-may-declare-state-of-emergency-over-cannabis-cultivation/
    Or does your opinion end at the county line? Not looking good for your pro dope constituency.

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37. 

    Don Bessee

    28 December 2017

    Just another sad example of a po’ ol’ pollhead with TURDS spinning. Unfortunately for him the pollster said;
    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.
    The same as 0 at the end of his 1st year. 😉

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    Gregory

    28 December 2017

    Paul, your poll is not job approval, it’s a measure of voter passion from a job approval poll of likely voters, an ‘index’, and hate has dominated since the gullible were convinced Trump conspired with Putin to win the election.
    Easy go, easy come. Trump is at 46% approval, today. Tomorrow may be higher or it may not.
    Here’s a graph of another president’s index
    http://freedomslighthouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/obama_approval_index_october_28_2010.jpg

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    Don Bessee

    28 December 2017

    This makes @1026 all the more remarkable ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman-
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/pew-trump-media-three-times-more-negative-than-for-obama-just-5-percent-positive/article/2644448
    😉

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40. 

    jon smith

    28 December 2017

    Walt 10:21- Spent Christmas afternoon at the dirt bike track in Marysville. Great way to let off steam while the kids learn about motors, drones, and catching air. Druggies were never out of sight. Shooting up in the ball field and openly smoking crack and heroin. More than a few people were simply passed out. Never saw a cop. Why is Yuba County calling for a state of emergency over the “evil weed” when there is so much horrible abuse of hard drugs that will actually get you addicted if not kill you outright? How many people commit violent crimes to get their hands on a joint vs how many violent crimes are NOT in some way related to the heavy drugs??

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41. 

    Walt

    28 December 2017

    GREAT observation j.Smith. It doesn’t matter what the “need” is at any given moment. Be it weed, or OXY. if one doesn’t have the money or “barter”, a crime will be committed to get it.
    Now with a patch on every other parcel, I see the patch pirate death toll to go up. ( Will Paul attend those funerals?) Just try’n to get their fair share of the wealth… Right?
    Why grow it when you can rip it off? (or go to the dispensary and pay triple the street rate)

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42. 

    Walt

    28 December 2017

    One more note to Jon.
    The cops are not in any real hurry to bust druggies. Too much paperwork, and they are out before the report is written.
    Oh.. and thank Prop 47.
    The measure required misdemeanor sentencing instead of felony for the following crimes
    Personal use of most illegal drugs
    Shoplifting, where the value of property stolen does not exceed $950
    Grand theft, where the value of the stolen property does not exceed $950
    Receiving stolen property, where the value of the property does not exceed $950
    Forgery, where the value of forged check, bond or bill does not exceed $950
    Fraud, where the value of the fraudulent check, draft or order does not exceed $950
    Writing a bad check, where the value of the check does not exceed $950
    In other words,,, WHY bother?

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43. 

    Paul Emery

    28 December 2017

    Never supported Harvey Todd. Can you show me where I did? You support him though because charges agaisn’t him are accusations not convictions so in your book he’s ok.

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44. 

    Don Bessee

    28 December 2017

    Fleeing the field of battle @ 108! 😉

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45. 

    Don Bessee

    28 December 2017

    More winning gasoline on the haters fire-
    http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/12/28/texas-manufacturing-hits-11-year-high-december-says-dallas-fed/
    😉

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46. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 December 2017

    Dope:
    Oh Walt, you old fuddy, you. The biggest Cannabis Alliance in the state says 90% of the Marihuana goes out of state and they (the licensed big legit growers in the Emeral Triangle) figure maybe 27% of the total growers will go legit. LE figures about the same. Don’t see our area as any different, all in all.
    Hope our local and state tax collectors don’t count their chickens before they hatch…..eagerly awaiting for the Green Goose to start laying them golden eggs.
    Oh, BTW, it is still illegal to drive around with 60 lbs of our fine local produce in Nebraska. Learn something new every day. At least Nebraska let the 83 year old wife with medical problems walk. A humanalian gesture. The pics from Nebraska showed the elderly couple even had it all nicely trimmed and purdy, ready for a nice Christmas in Vermont. Darn those canines.
    Homeless camps, infested with drug addicts down by the river, is a horse of a different color.

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    Todd Juvinall

    28 December 2017

    Paul Emery, you have supported Harvey Weinstein as much as you say I supported Moore. So look in the mirror bub.

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48. 

    Todd Juvinall

    28 December 2017

    And it looks like Trump and Obama have the same end of the first years ratings. 46 plus 53 nope. So Paul Emery, do you understand how ridiculous your constant drolling on polls is a big nothing? You hero O and Trump are tied!

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49. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 December 2017

    Oh goodie, Roy Moore Syndrome. How about a story about more on Moore and his effect on the 2018 Blue Wave.
    The storm is a’brewing out yonder over the horizon, the storm clouds have gathered, and the tsunami is ready to give birth. The Blue Wave is coming, and boy it that Wave pissed and will sweep the land. Or, maybe not.
    http://barrycasselman.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-prairie-editor-color-of-wave.html

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50. 

    Walt

    28 December 2017

    DAMN Paul!! ” You support him though because charges agaisn’t him are accusations not convictions so in your book he’s ok.”
    That was what you said before a while back when it was your boy’s goose getting cooked.
    Be careful Paul, some hippy chick may accuse you of something that may have(or not)happened in the back of that old van of yours.
    Let’s see how fast your tune changes. Right now your in the “guilty till proven innocent camp” ( right up until YOU get accused of something) Funny how that shit works.
    A hippie chick’s word is indisputable. Remember that. (for as long as you can)

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