[A reader alerted me to another gem of the FUE's logic. He takes to task those who criticize the People's Republic of Kalifornia, and still (gasp!) take their leisure at the state's awesomely scenic locales. The man's brain cannot separate terribly gone wrong social policies from the state's natural beauty, as if eschewing one requires rejecting everything that is still good about the state, and that mainly because the progressives have yet to eliminate the last vestiges of such enjoyments (e.g. denying/limiting public access to TBD 'wildlands'). This thinking by local lefties is replicated in Sacramento, because those are the idiots that the gimmes all over the state have now voted into power. And that California now has achieved the nation's highest poverty rate gives additional depth to the ignorance of these leftwing loonies. gjr]
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391 responses to “Sandbox – 23sep18”
How about something provactitive: The Left is left with hatred.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-left-is-consumed-with-hate-1537723198
For those who cannot get behind the paywall and have time, here is an audio of Shelby Steel on the radio. 13 minute podcast. Again, he nails it. Hatred and vanity is all the Left is left with…and people are going to get hurt.
http://www.lauraingraham.com/b/Shelby-Steele:-Liberalism-will-die-an-ugly-death,-and-it-will-hurt-people-in-the-process/500945349820928871.html#.W6vHXI_FMXY.facebook
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It was on the radio yesterday. Do your own homework.
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Found it Todd. He does not deny his arrest.”More than 20 years ago, I was arrested–not once, but twice. So you should know that and we should all own that, if asked.” O’Rourke specified that he’d been arrested for attempting to hop a fence at the University of Texas at El Paso and later, he said, for a “far more serious mistake: I drove under the influence of alcohol. There’s no justifying that.”
According to the results, O’Rourke’s May 1995 misdemeanor arrest on the UTEP campus was later declined and his September 1998 misdemeanor DWI arrest in El Paso was dismissed.
At least he is honest about his personal history something that Kavanaugh wont fess up to.
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Here, maybe you can read this.
https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2018/aug/22/silvestre-reyes/beto-orourke-arrested-1990s-burglary-and-dwi/
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Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 26 September 2018 at 10:51 AM
As usual Todd, Uncle Punchy is lost on the thread. He wants links for your 10:48 am post, not the 10:51….never having mastered the ability to just copy the accusations and paste them into the search bar.
In short he wants you to do his homework for him again!
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He is a lazy ass
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Hey….where did Punchy go???
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Oh, the pony tail of ignorance is back, what fun.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/26/questions-about-julie-swetnick-claims-she-was-in-college-when-brett-kavanaugh-was-in-high-school/
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 26 September 2018 at 12:03 PM
The more I think about the name, “The Pony Tail of Ignorance” the more I love it!
Not bad Don!!
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The latest liars page.
https://thewatershed.blog/2018/09/26/julie-swetnick-not-so-good-personal-reviews/
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More discrepancies in Ford’s story –
• Christine Blasey Ford releases polygraph report from her legal team. Details differ from other times she has recounted the story, and it is revealed that it was administered in Maryland — even though she recently delayed testifying before the Senate, citing difficulty with flying across the country from her home in California.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/26/live-updates-avenatti-circus-throws-brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-into-chaos/
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M @ 8:03 AM
North Carolina has 100 counties. Your source of rainfall data lists 28 counties. The last paragraph also states “THESE DATA ARE PRELIMINARY”.
Elizabethtown is in Bladen County (not listed in your data). Lumberton, a city west of Elizabethtown, was hard hit by Florence, and is in Robeson County, also not listed.
You should be careful of your data sources. It reflects poorly on you and your position.
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Uh oh –
https://nypost.com/2018/09/25/eight-big-problems-for-christine-blasey-fords-story/
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For yopur reading pleasure:
woman who allegedly witnessed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault is prepared to speak to the FBI and Senate Judiciary Committee about the incident.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Elizabeth Rasor, the college girlfriend of Kavanaugh’s friend Mark Judge, said through her lawyer that she “would welcome to the opportunity” to speak to officials.
Though Rasor did not corroborate Ford’s allegation, she told the New Yorker that Judge “ashamedly” confided in her about an incident in college when he and other men “took turns having sex with a drunk woman.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/woman-may-witnessed-christine-blasey-fords-assault-prepared-speak-senate-fbi-report/
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Wow
Trump is in the pits. Down 13.3 in RCP favorably Poll
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 26 September 2018 at 01:41 PM
It’s obvious that the RR Resident Feeb is desperate because he is reverting to the usual “Pony Tail of Ignorance™” Full Flail Mode after recognizing that his efforts aren’t having the their intended effect. Boring and pathetic but not unexpected
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Where is the outrage from the socialist/dems?
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/26/donald-trump-accuses-china-of-interfering-in-american-midterm-elections/
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Wow.
GOP favorability is up to 45%, the DP’s is 44%, by a Gallop poll.
Hold onto that Trump poll until this date in 2020, Punch. Also, you apparently didn’t read the link to rawstory you posted… it plainly states “Rasor did not corroborate Ford’s allegation” and Kavanaugh wasn’t named in the Mike Judge story the ex-girlfriend told.
The Punch who cried “wolf” strikes out again.
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Come now Gregory, the pony tail of ignorance never let facts get in the way of a talking point for lefties.
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The Pubbers are in a lose-lose situation in the Kavanaugh confirmation situation. Deny him and Trump and his ilk are branded losers, confirm him and you have an activated female electorate just in time for the midterms in a month.
“The growing furor over Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination has Republicans trapped between their conservative base and the female voters who’ll be pivotal to deciding control of Congress in November.
President Donald Trump and his conservative allies are rallying behind Kavanaugh, calling allegations of sexual misconduct brought by two women a Democratic smear campaign intent on blocking his confirmation to the high court. But they’re doing so amid a widening gender gap that has women increasingly breaking toward Democrats six weeks before the midterm elections.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/kavanaugh-battle-squeezes-gop-between-base-and-female-voters
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“The Pubbers are in a lose-lose situation in the Kavanaugh confirmation situation.”
I think there’s some truth to that, but it would be true for any candidate.
Given that there are no rules in Civil War II, you can invent any old thing about a Supreme Court nominee and make it stick to some extent. After all, this isn’t about policy, it’s about winning.
Of course, one side effect of this is a radicalization of Team Red. Given your age, you might not like the world you are helping bring about.
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Most likely the activated womens vote will result in enhancing the chances of a blue wave in Nov.
Audrey Denny will give LaMalfa a good test and surely win in Nevada County. There is virtually no visible LaMalfa campaign here and he won’t make a local appearance. He’s apparently given up on Nevada County.
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Posted by: scenes | 26 September 2018 at 03:00 PM
Given your age, you might not like the world you are helping bring about.
Punch doesn’t care……as long as he gets his “Free Shit” now he’s a happy old hippy. A condition I suspect that has been a persistent feature of his personality for much of his life.
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“The Pubbers are in a lose-lose situation in the Kavanaugh confirmation situation. Deny him and Trump and his ilk are branded losers, confirm him and you have an activated female electorate just in time for the midterms in a month.”
I’d rather have Kavanaugh than hold congress. Pauls tribe will fuck things up soon enough that they will lose it again. Hopefully just in time for Ginsburg to shuck this mortal coil!
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fish
what “free shit” are you referring to? Always had to work for a living. Never leached off the government like the LaMalfa family.
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It time for Paul to head back to the nursing home. I’m back.
Paul ALWAYS hobbles off when I show up.
Proggys are so desperate they will drag wooden nickles through a trailer park to find an accuser to say what they want.
And all the stories are falling apart.
Evidence be damned. It’s the trumped up charge that counts.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 26 September 2018 at 03:50 PM
Why don’t you tell us Punch……here I’ll help you with the first one……government provided health care! What else does the great Green Libertarian think is better provided by the state than via other means.
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“Never leached off the government like the LaMalfa family.”
Says the guy who’s employer gets subsidized. Go ahead and whine about it Paul.
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Looks like the democrats are starting to go south with the voters. Ober-reach as they always do. Red wave coming.
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OHHH GOODY!! The celtic fest is coming up.
I see Paul is supposed to be on stage.(The first one leaving town?)
Now you can’t have a midevil event without the usual midevil ways.
It’s time to pick the over ripe veggies for the event! If Paul’s performance sucks, he will be told the in the ways of old.
Remember Paul, my ancestors pillaged and razed your ancestors.
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There is the potential for a backlash on the Libbies on this one. That last Avenatti stunt is a real doozy. A 1980 high school grad is going to high school teenage parties to years later. Sees the boys lined up to take turns at these parties, and this woman goes to these drunk fests 10 times and watch assaults and rapes going on before it happened to her. If one puts himself or herself back in high school and all the gossip normally going around anyway, a parent, a best friend, a PE coach, a school counselor, a mother of a friend of a friend, somebody…would have heard something and at the very least the Vice Principle would be hauling the boys or girls in for a little hard questioning and calling parents and quite possibly LE. That’s why Sandy Hook was not a conspiracy. There are just too many parents and kids,relatives, teachers, and neighbors close by that all would have to keep it hush, hush and not one wouldn’t spill the beans? Impossible. Toss #3 out.
Big backlash against the Blue Wave is possible. We willl know soon enough. It’s so over the top and blatant right now that it goes against our values, our sense of justice, not to mention fairness. Americans have an ingrained sense of justice. Even kids on the playground cry out, “That’s not fair!” It’s so out of bounds that it is going too far for the average Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sackofdonuts. Avenitti is so far over the top he truly is in theTwilight Zone.
Then there are the outraged women who think Dr. Ford and the circus going on around her is demeaning to those women who actually were raped and it never leaves the back of their minds for a day 47 years later and the remember every detail. Major affront t to the true rape and battered victims. That’s what they are saying. Engraved.
And of course #metoo is doing damage to their cause and themselves. May have started off going with good cause Weinstein and the like, but their extremist tactics are too off the charts for the country……yet not extreme enough for the media. 🙂
As the parade of victims grows or shrinks, expect a higher than what I would thought R turnout. They are seething out there. Trump did get 52% of the women. Time will tell.
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So Fish in your view is everyone who is on Social Security and Medicare a leach?
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Afternoon Walt. Priviledged White People Fest coming up? Figures. They are coming out of the woodwork. Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
3:09 p.m. — A caller from the 800 block of Sutton Way reported wanting to be taken back to her castle because she was the real queen of Ireland, this before she was a heart surgeon. The caller said there were people who have issues with her at a grocery store and many other places in Grass Valley. The caller then said she was a vampire but promised not to bite an officers. The caller was wearing an orange dress and backpack with vampire pants with bats and see through parts. The caller said it was very much similar to business attire except for the bottom half. Another call received reported the queen of Ireland wanted to know if an officer was en route or if they will just take a report and fax it to the castle. She was advised to stop calling 911 unless she had an emergency. She hung up.
They usually hang up when confronted. Anyway, male patrichary is on trial. Oh, the drama! Oh, my virgin ears.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GAQRpD7_le0
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Yes Bill, and Paul’s name made the paper. (But not top billing)
Paul better forgo the kilt. We can’t have the old bittys making fun of him. That’s our job.
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Sutton way? I guess she didn’t come past where we were.(not that far from there.) One of my workers would have asked her for a date.
He has some real low standards.
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Really?
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/26/ex-boyfriend-filed-restraining-order-against-kavanaugh-accuser-845348
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“Never leached off the government like the LaMalfa family.”
Paul’s old standby.
He hasn’t got one clue about the details. I’ve asked him and he has no reply. (per usual)
So Paul – how have you leached off the govt if not like the La Malfas?
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Oh, can’t we talk about caged children and bringing in millions of welfare cases? Come on. La Malta, La Malta, La Malta, Deport Berekely Traitors. Oh baby, I feel good.
I believe ewe.
Meanwhile, before the Senate hearings even started, before the 10 1/2 hour call for millions of Kanaugh documents, before the 11th hour letter, before the 12th hour gang rape train will young men with erections and hormones raging lining up out the door and down the sidewalk…..before all that, the Dems were considering walking out before it all even started.
Good job Mitch making them work in August. It’s what we pay them to do.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/democrats-considered-mass-walkout-from-kavanaugh-hearing-but-settled-on-disruption-report.html
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Talking to the echo chamber can have unintended consequences –
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/09/26/kavanaugh-chaos-democrats-are-sinking-metoo-movement-in-politics-can-it-survive.html
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Always worked Walt. Collecting Social security and still working. any problem with that Walt?
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Still working at your age? That just tells me you were crappy with finances.
Why you bitching at me? I didn’t say anything about your leaching off the system.
Just your slam about LaMalfa. Like I said before. You don’t have a problem with KVMR getting the same aid. I Know.. That’s “different”.
I remember well when you stated KVMR would do just fine if gov. money stopped flowing.. Not long after, KVMR stated a different story in The Union. It would be “real painful”. That sure painted you as they say,, “full of shit”.
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What will be the pony tail of ignorance’s solution to this –
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/26/fbi-people-killed-hammers-clubs-rifles-every-kind/
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Here you go Paul. Now you need to share with the other Lefties.
Bobby seem pretty plugged up the last time he showed. An extra dose just for shits and giggles.
I’m sure you can score some from any Nevada City artist.
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2018/09/25/drinking-poison-turpentine-health-craze/
“in its pure form, pure gum spirit of turpentine was once used as a form of medicine centuries ago. Today, it’s back as a controversial new wellness treatment.
Azmyth Kaminski is a healing consultant who takes it as an internal cleanse.
Pure gum spirit of turpentine is a controversial alternative treatment for stomach or intestinal issues like parasites or yeast infections.
The therapy is unusual and considered by many experts to be questionable, but there are believers who ingest it by saturating and chewing on sugar cubes. Actress Tiffany Haddish touted turpentine’s benefits in a recent article, saying “everything felt so much better, clarity wise.”
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More cracks coming out of the woodwork.
“I find it disappointing but also kind of amusing because they built this really big, they spent a lot of money,” said Cheng, 32. “I feel like the money should have been used for a lot of other things.”
“I don’t know. Maybe this is a sign,” she said.
Earlier this year, San Francisco’s transit agency disclosed that a contractor had installed about 3 miles (5 kilometers) of the wrong grade of rail for its new $1.6 billion subway spur. Several problem trains and buses marred a City Hall celebration of transit week Monday.
https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article219036790.html
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But he was brought here due to no fault of his own. Boy, that illegal this morning wanted in 3-5 cold blooded murders and this guy today.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/09/26/man-arrested-in-virginia-accused-multiple-murders-is-daca-recipient-source-says.html
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 26 September 2018 at 04:36 PM
So Punch in your view its a good idea to confiscate workers money to fund poorly administered and ultimately doomed programs like Social Security and Medicare?
Why do you hate working people Punch?
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yes or no!
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Quotes from these dark days in our nation’s silly Great Divide
Upright: “It should go without saying that the Supreme Court should not be this important. If it were just a judicial tribunal, even the highest-ranking one in the nation, the only thing we would care about would be having its bench filled by high-quality, high-character legal talent. The justices’ politics and partisan affiliations would be irrelevant because they would be technicians applying law to narrow legal questions, not making law and deciding how 325 million people who did not vote for them should live.” —Andrew McCarthy
For the record: “If the GOP goes with Amy Barret Comey, she’ll be attacked for conspiring to get women raped and forcing gay conversion therapy on people. If the GOP goes with Jesus, he’ll be attacked for forcing people to give up their demons and killing pigs. Lies will be used on them all.” —Erick Erickson
Village Idiots: “I believe Christine Blasey Ford and I demand that our Senators vote to reject Brett Kavanaugh as the next Justice on the Supreme Court. Every person who refuses to loudly and openly reject Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is telling every generation of Americans that an alleged abuser’s career is more valuable than a survivor’s humanity. And the highest court in our land is no place for an alleged sexual offender to sit.” —actress Alyssa Milano
Non Compos Mentis: “I put [Kavanaugh’s] denial in the context of everything that I know about him in terms of how he approaches his cases.” —Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Alpha Jackass: “So even though Dr Ford is saying please stop, slow down, I’m not comfortable with the way this is going, the GOP is gonna plow through, ignore her telling them to stop and just take what they think is rightfully theirs?” —MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
Deep state: “This is a classic espionage ‘wilderness of mirrors.’ This is a set up, deliberately … leaked to provoke Trump into firing Rob Rosenstein.” —Mark Steyn on the Rosenstein obstruction setup
[HYPOCRITE!] —- “Believe me, I am frustrated, too. I am sick of all the chaos and the nastiness of our politics. It’s exhausting and, frankly, it’s depressing. I understand wanting to shut it all out.” —Michelle Obama, whose husband epitomized the moniker of divider-in-chief
And last… “Noteworthy to watch all the media rushing to insist that Kavanaugh’s diaries don’t ‘prove anything.’ If only that were the standard they also maintained regarding the accusers’ (evidence free) allegations.” —Kimberley Strassel
Aha.
https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10155912030165914/?type=3&source=48
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WELL WELL well…. Look what rears it’s ugly head right HERE!
And Lefties no less.
You were saying Paul? No voter fraud? These are just the ones that got caught. No,,, I don’t give a crap about it being “only two”. ONE is too damned many.
https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/nevada-county-authorities-allege-2-people-voted-twice-in-june-2016-election/
“Celeste Anne Pechar, 60, of Nevada City, faces a felony count of election fraud. Accused of casting a ballot in the Democratic primary in Santa Clara and Nevada counties, Pechar was arrested Saturday.
A second woman, 48-year-old Deidra Vrooman, faces the same charge. She’s accused of casting ballots in the Democratic primary in Alameda and Nevada Counties. Wanted on the accusation, Vrooman hasn’t yet been arrested, Walsh said.”
As they say, “vote early and often.”
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What was on the ballot in the 2016 primary?
All one big happy family –
Late Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that approximately 10 years ago, Swetnick retained the law firm of Katz, Marshall & Banks to represent her in dispute with her former employer, insurance company New York Life, over a sexual harassment complaint Swetnick had brought.
Deborah Katz, one of the firm’s founding partners, is currently representing another Kavanaugh accuser, Christine Blasey Ford.
Meanwhile, Politico reported that a former boyfriend of Swetnick had sought a restraining order against her in 2001. In an interview with the publication, Richard Vinneccy said that Swetnick had threatened him after they broke up and he married his current wife.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/26/republicans-stand-by-kavanaugh-as-details-on-avenattis-new-client-emerge.html
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