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193 responses to “Sandbox – 16apr18”
I don’t plan on voting for either Dan Miller or HH 88. I don’t live in that district. And neither does Boardman, FYI. 🙂
But, HH88 does have an edge. The largest concentration of renters and welfare receiptants in the county live in GV. But, then again, Dan Miller is the incumbent with a track record of no major screw ups…..unlike that drunk driver at the Condon Pak who endangered lives of our children and is sitting on the BOS and not up for re-election. Go figure.
Of what to do, what to do. Guess I won’t vote for either.
A few years ago I had to laugh. Was listening to the radio when someone was running for the GV Council. Maybe it was the porn surfer. Nay, it was well before that. Anyway, the chap promised jobs, maintaining the character of the city, and a bunch of other things. I laughed because how many jobs will a GV council member create within the GV city limits with a no growth building agenda? What, hire another staff member? What, create 3 jobs? Oh wow, I am impressed. Hey, the city was lucky to get a grant o by one cop car at the time and was basically running on razor thin margins. But, he would fix all of that and create jobs, jobs, jobs and redo all the sidewalks and fix every one of the citizens’ concerns. Ya right. How about a train to nowhere (Colfax). Yeah, that will fix everything.
Shoot howdy, all of them promise jobs, smart growth, maintaining our rural atmosphere and small town feel, end homelessness, solve affordable housing, blah, blah, blah. Yep, be they a small town city council person or Mayor of LA or the Governor, they all promise jobs, wealth, 2 chickens in every pot, 40 acres and a mule, prosperity, and solutions to these “themes” year after year, decade after decade, from sea to shining blue state sea.
They will all be running to get in from of the cameras and microphones when the next fire or flood hits our little piece of paradise.
Guess this year it all gets down to free range dope and housing for all.
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Bill.. I just love beating a dead horse. Especially when it’s still bloated with fresh stink to spray upon politicians making promises about jobs and growth.
IMM.. (Idaho Maryland mine ) Honest to goodness work, for plenty of people. Taxable income and expenditures. But NOPE!! Green lies killed that. “Tech jobs” will ride in and save us all.. Still waiting. Then weed was the new gold mine. How’s that working?
Yes, a little reminder at the up and coming “vote for me” fest should make a few squirm.
Sooner than later the new mine folk will make their presence known.
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Has anyone asked Ms Hodge about her work history? Who in the private sector has hired her to do what for how long? What kinds of businesses can she “ignite” or has she ignited at her Sierra Commons?
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George Boardman | 20 April 2018 at 10:10 AM
I never said a word in this thread about the Supervisor District GeorgeB. I think you are the one that is stoned. My goodness are you OK?
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Oops, yep I said District One at 859. And you assumed I thought they were running for that seat? No, simply a comment on which District the debate was held in. You really assume don’t you?
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Desperation is really setting in. ” Let’s legalize weed!”(we need to buy every vote we can)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/20/chuck-schumer-backs-effort-to-decriminalize-marijuana-my-position-has-evolved/
It’s right up there with the Proggys openly running as Commies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/dsa-socialism-candidates-midterms.html
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Poor Todd is still complaining about the rejection of his trashy little development back in the early 90’s that couldn’t even get the support of the conservative majority on the Board of Supervisors. He pulled the project before it went to vote.
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Odd position you are taking Scenes. I was a representing a position supporting less restrictions in building codes for housing options. Do you oppose that?
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Sorry Paul Emery your memory is shot. I got a 5-0 vote for my project at the Planning Commission and then after you and your limousine liberals attacked me and the affordable housing project, I withdrew t from consideration. You really show us all how terrible you are as a “journalist” Sad. And you sure were babbling last night at the debate. Were you imbibing? You really showed all what a flaming hypocrite you are.
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Policies by Paul Emery and his ilk are the prevalent one’s in the county. You can put the homeless issues right on his and their backs as they decided housing was too much “growth”. Now they think we believe them when they cry about the homeless and other housing issues. Sorry but you created this Paul Emery, live with it.
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Now I know Paul is smoking dope. Less building regs in THIS state?
Maybe when the state is broken up will that even have a chance.
The County has no say.(if any at all)
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That’s a good start –
SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) — North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has announced that the country will suspend nuclear and missile tests and shut down a nuclear test site in the northern area, state media said Saturday.
“From April 21, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles,” the Korean Central News Agency said.
“The North will shut down a nuclear test site in the country’s northern side to prove the vow to suspend nuclear test,” it added.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2018/04/20/0401000000AEN20180420010300315.html
😉
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Da lady is in denial, and that isn’t just a river in Egypt –
“A week earlier, she’d cut off Joel [Benenson] and the pollster John Anzalone, as they walked her through the almost daily reminder that half the country disliked her,” Chozick wrote, according to the Daily Beast, noting that the conversation had happened around the time of the Republican National Convention. “‘You know, I am getting pretty tired of hearing about how nobody likes me,’ she said.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-campaign-staff-apos-150005238.html
😉
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Nothing a little reparations and PC school can’t fix.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1300598810074153/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1300596780074356/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1300600513407316/?type=3&theater
I do get a wee bit of pleasure when they eat their own.
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Todd 8:59
“District One. Their debate tonight proved Hodge is not ready for the job. Dan Miller clearly is the leader and knows what is going on and has solutions. Hodge is full of platitudes and hubris. Not good for the District.”
Do you even know in which district Miller and Hodge are running?? To borrow a phrase from Chef Bourdain, “You are too dumb to pour piss out of a boot.”
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“Odd position you are taking Scenes. I was a representing a position supporting less restrictions in building codes for housing options. Do you oppose that?”
My guess is that you don’t know current building code in any depth, so it’s hard to even discuss the issue. In addition, there’s a boatload of fees/taxes…all for good deeds of course.
Most of what I’ve seen for ‘affordable’ housing is to sneak around zoning for higher density. At the bottom of it all is someone trying to maximize the value for a plot of land.
As a practical matter, the simplest way to build a bunch of cheap housing in a hurry is to loosen the zoning for trailer parks. An extremely fun thing to watch would be a bunch of humanity-lovin’ pro-diversity electric car drivin’ Green Libertarians fight with a developer trying to build a mobile home park for-the-poor in their neighborhood.
Typically, charity begins in someone else’s home.
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Should have read further before posting. Todd was already been called out as an idiot
Oh well, sometimes it’s good for those with your condition to hear two voices say the same thing.
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I’m all for more trailer parks Scenes. Are you?
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Who has let our children down? Who has done this to our children? Who??
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1035907296559492/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1300601170073917/?type=3&theater
Can anyone out there explain to me and jon smith and Scenes and George Boardman how it is possible that we have gone from teaching Greek and Latin in high school when we were impressionable youth to today teaching Remedial English in college.
Anybody?
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“I’m all for more trailer parks Scenes. Are you?”
Oddly enough, yes. It’s a brilliant way to radically boost low-income housing, and you can do it on a temporary basis (temporary could be 1 year or 50 years). If it doesn’t work, you can back out of the situation.
Given that you are tending to collect up poorly-behaved people, additional policing is probably needed. As it sits, I can’t say that NC does a good job with what it already has.
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…as an aside, house trailers strike me as the only way to avoid the hugeness that is Title 24.
I don’t see how you can build new low-cost housing in California.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpyl71wbDWo
The drawbacks to trailer parks is simple. You have to pay rent on the space…every darn month. If someone cannot feed themselves without a helping hand, what makes you think they can pay rent even once after the “first month free” expires?
But…but…but, can’t the county find some land and just give it away to the po folk? But, but, but, can’t the county just wave 30-40k in permits and fees and do the free hookup to sewer for our po folk? But, but, but, why doesn’t Nevada City or PGE or NID just run the infrstructure for free and provide free water and electricity and maybe Comcast can give everybody free cable and internet…with free solar.
I have had this conservation with a well meaning advocate 20 years ago who, quite incidentally, was looking for affordable housing for himself, lol. He said if we can find some old rich lady to just donate some land and get those contractors and nail pounders to donate all the building materials needed, and if we could get the county to wave fees and get an exemption on property taxes….and if we can….that was his solution. I told him at the time (with the possible exception of waving fees and reduced property taxes) that program already exists! It’s called Habitat for Humanity and they are building right now 3 sweat equity homes and plan to finish the project with a total of 9 homes in two years ….out of the hundreds needed.
Here is one couple’s solution. Live in RVs and Yurts. Make temp quarters permanent. Very well meaning…..if you have the land. They ain’t making anymore land.
https://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/mel-julie-marshall-suggestions-to-ease-the-affordable-housing-crisis/
The “Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park and no telling what you will find” condescending attitude of the elites is why Trump was elected. They look down on “trailer park trash”. The one on Zion Street is fine, my kind of people.
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I like that one as well Bill (Zion Street). Many people I know are looking for housing and have jobs and families in schools. The increase in property values has caused many property owners put up their rentals for sale and forcing residents to find other housing.
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on smith | 20 April 2018 at 04:31 PM
All I said was District One. Then a period. How do you know what was meant? Anyway, you are as dumb as a rock as I was a District One Supervisor for eight years. My goodness jonsmith, are you drunk again tonight along with Boardman? Apparently so.
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That Hillary Hodge is sure a typical liberal. I bet she never was told what to do by her parents and she probably got a trophy for showing up. Her hubris was amazing. Maybe jonsmith, the local village idiot could get a meeting with her to compare their failed childhoods?
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Todd 6:00
“All I said was District One.”
Oh yeah, we are convinced :-)!! Cry yourself to sleep with that line. I don’t see anyone standing up for you.
Keep digging Todd. With every shovel of manure, you increasingly reveal yourself as the moron that you are. Sleeping alone tonight? Again? Infidelity has a way of biting back.
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Oh jon/linda, give it up, no one cares. You really are a bitchy 12 year old girl and it shows.
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Re: The DNC lawsuit against the Trump Campaign, Wikileaks, and the Russians for damages.
OMG. How stupid can Tom Perez be? How friggin stupid? A publicity stunt that is going to backfire big time. He just opened up the Dems to discovery and depositions and counter suits. Bring Donna Brazile in, Hillary in, the DNC in, bring Whatzername Shultz in, bring them all in and counter sue for Collusion with the Obama Administration not lifting a finger to stop Russian interference in the election. Put them all under oath. Get discovery on the money the Clinton Campaign, the DNC, and Obama for America slushed through their lawyer to fund Fusion GPS. Bring it on.
Those named in the suit need not be on defense. Nay, it’s an open door to be very very aggressive and go after them. Then, when the DNC and Perez opt to drop the lawsuit, refuse to drop it. The defendants do not have to agree to drop it. This is a golden opportunity. Oh yes, the DNC will fight discovery tooth and nail.
“By filing a lawsuit, the Democrats just opened themselves to discovery. A how a few smart lawyers can turn this around on the Democrats and cause a few headaches over what the Left thought would be a nice publicity stunt.”
President Trump is on board.
“Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Wendy Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 20, 2018
Get the most aggressive mo fro lawyers you can find and tear them a new one.
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‘’’You really are a bitchy 12 year old girl’’’,,,Todd needs to attend the Starbucks sensitivity training,,,
,,,SAD!!!
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Marillyn Lock-Heed | 21 April 2018 at 08:30 AM
Maybe, but you need to attend the “troll” school of courage where you expose your true self and name.
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Trump’s mystery man of Patistan. Quite the portrait when put on a list. Trial starts May 4th. Debbie wants her laptop back and House Caucus had some explaining to do.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/20/ig-pakistani-mystery-man-imran-awan/
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Oh my, now they are slamming the impeccable credentials and integrity of Meuller, the untouchable and steadfadtly unapologetic.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/19/revealed-robert-muellers-fbi-repeatedly-abused-prosecutorial-discretion/#.Wtugb2pdEsE.twitter. . .
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It’s compost the one you hate day.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/22/flashback-earth-day-co-founder-killed-composted-his-girlfriend-2/
So this is what Marillyn is doing today.
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Stay back 500 feet from this guy. GOD has it out for him.
http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article209572004.html
First a rattlesnake bite,, some time goes by,, almost bear chow.
Then off to Hawaii to get away from it all, low and behold a shark gets a turn.
No word if he’s has any lotto tickets.
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Remember when the Popinjays were running around with their hair on fire squawking, “Treason, Greaser!, Russian Collusion, Smoking Gun, Treason!” about the Russian (RUSSIAN) lawyer meeting in Trump Towers with Don Jr and the slimeball “Greaser”?
Well, two quotes popped out.
1) Veselnitskaya alleged in her interview with the AP in downtown Moscow that if Mueller’s team never questions her, it would mean that it “is not working to discover the truth.”
2) Veselnitskaya dismissed the dossier as “absolute nonsense.” She insisted that Glenn Simpson, whose firm Fusion GPS was hired to compile the dossier and who was questioned by the House Intelligence Committee in January, had been “framed.”
http://www.stltoday.com/news/world/russian-lawyer-questions-why-mueller-hasn-t-contacted-her/article_c5db1bdc-de71-58cf-a44d-43ac4a03df8a.html
Hmm. That last quote really jumps out. Glenn Simpson got framed? I wish she would have expanded more on that. Who knows, maybe….maybe not. Apparently Meuller isn’t interested in interviewing her.
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,,,bwahahaha!!!
trumpski hides out at the southern white house during Babs Bush memorial services!!!
,,,that’s what I call a Chicken Hawk!!!
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More Russia, Russia, Russia. 2 quotes:
1) In a move that reeks of desperation, the DNC filed a civil suit Friday against President Trump’s campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks, alleging a vast (right wing!) conspiracy to tip the election to Trump.
The suit’s flamboyant charges made headlines, but that only served to obscure the real meaning. Namely, that top Dems are giving up their fantasies that special counsel Robert Mueller will deliver them from political purgatory by getting the goods on Trump.
The trashy suit is their way of trying to keep impeachment and Russia, Russia, Russia alive for the midterms in case Mueller’s probe comes up empty.
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Don’t let down your guard, Mr. President of the United States. It could be a trap to get you to let your hair down. We know now that McCabe lied, Comey lied, and Rosenstein is a liar.
2) Truth be told, party leaders are right to be disheartened by setbacks in the War against Trump. For the second time, the president was told he is not a target of Mueller, this time by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy assistant attorney general who created Mueller.
While Trump could still become a target, the odds of that happening decline by the day.
The probe started in the summer of 2016 by the FBI, and was taken over by Mueller nearly a year ago. Despite a large, secret budget and a squad of seasoned gunners, many of them Clinton supporters, Mueller hasn’t produced any evidence of a crime by the president.
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,,,bwahahaha!!!
trumpski lied about his net worth to make Forbes list decades ago,,,and you meatheads have believing in him ever since!!!
,,,now we know where Baron’s name orginated!!!
https://www.gq.com/story/forbes-trump-lied-size-fortune/amp
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,,,nothing new here,,,but he has been screwing people ever since,,,
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/09/nj_businessman_i_sold_trump_100k_worth_of_pianos.html
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,,,you fools love him,,,but Scotty Pruitt is costing you money!!! Don’t forget the $40k phone booth,,,bwahahaha!!!!
http://www.newser.com/story/257635/pruitt-has-tremendous-security-but-ap-finds-no-proof-of-threats.html
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Marilyn Chambers-Pot
Still the President. Sucks, doesn’t it?
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I believe the record shows the ravings of a madman immediately pretending Gregory’s 7:57 pm comment above. Rather embarrased for trench coat Nessy, painlful to even cast a glance towards the unfortunate tormented lost soul. Not the kind who should ever get near a firearm. Sucks to be her.
Gregory’s prior comments have been confirmed again. The Hillary “I’m with Her” campaign indeed elevated Trump, figuring the Deplorable who make 2016 the easiest campaign to win….ever in the history ofPresidential election. Mook said he’s gotta get him some more Trump….according to the NYT reporter, who was blowing breath kisses to My Gal. That sucks.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1301353099998724/?type=3&theater
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This might be a fakenews Russian site, trying to influence my thinking. Just saying. They do have an article entitled “Pelosi, Dementia or Botox Poisoning?” , but I was too afraid of what the real life pics might look like, so I dared not go there. Proceed with caution.
This is how rumors start.
https://davidharrisjr.com/politics/obama-cia-chief-john-brennan-secretly-visited-moscow-at-same-time-fusion-gps-produced-anti-trump-memos/
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