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[The markets are finally correcting, as they do from time to time, and all the progressives are happy dancing in the streets.  Finally, since Mueller continues his sound of silence, they something to point at before the election that doesn't cause more Dems to reregister as Repubs. gjr]

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246 responses to “Sandbox – 11oct18”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 4:42 pm or anybody.
    Yep, tons of free rent in their heads, 24/7. Most reactionary. Love how they are painting themselves as the party of outrage, the party of Antifa. The party of howling banshees, scraming monkeys, and unfit for office. The party of roving mobs.
    It is just dawning on me how monumental the Kanaugh affair was. Hard not to use hyperbole. It is really a rather huge setback to the whole ball of wax for the Leftinistas. Battle of the Bulge. The Titanic hitting the iceberg. It has shaken the Lefties to the core. Now self doubt and insecurity has set in the back of their minds. Demoralizing. They are neither cocky or confident today.
    They were cocky and confident once. Why? Because since the last election, they were promised many things. Trump would be gone in 30 days, guaranteed. The Republican Party would refuse to back Trump and he would be forced to resign. Trump would be unable to govern, period. Guarenteed. The Russian probe would have Trump out of office for sure. Trump will be driven from office, a temporary Prez. Gone in the first 18 months if that.
    The strategy was simple: Trump, at all costs, cannot be allowed to be considered “legitimate”. That is why Obama called Jay Z a few months back and told him not to go to the White Houseunder any circumstances. Must not ever be seen as a legitimate POTUS.
    Trump is still in office and his popularity is 3% above Obama”s at the same period in his presidency. That is with 92% negative media coverage for Trump and 47% negative coverage of Obama, comparing apples to apples. And the R’s have come back into the fold and are rather pleased relishing their chance to stand tall and hold the line. Like the Spartans holding the line in that 15 meter gap against everything the enemy threw at them day and night. Add in the Anfgry Mob for all to see on national TV day after day, and no place to hide for them. No longer just single events on Breitbart.
    Trump was one the sidelines as the Left engaged in going stark raving mad with cameras rolling in the Senate hearings. Too many millions of witness of their anti-social behavior to take that one back. The collective temper tantrum of the Left and MSM made normal people decide the children need a time out. To add icing on the cake, compare the statesmanship, reason, and rationality of Susan Collins’s speech to that of the wandering and rambling desperation speeches of Spartacluz and the implied threats and hate in Harris’s eyes and words. Stark difference.
    So the former confidence about Trump’s impending exit is in doubt. From the way it appears at this date in history, it looks like Trump will be President for years to come. I have not a clue how the Democrat Socialists and their thugs will be able to handle that. I fear they will not be able to…they do not appear to have the tools nor capacity to handle more losing. It’s going to get uglier than before….until eventually the children throwing their temper tantrums scream themselves to sleep. Expect more “October Surprises, many more. They have proven they have no problem making stuff up. In fact, that’s all they got….making stuff up.
    In the final weeks leading up up to Nov, 2016, I checked 5-38. Waited and watched. Trumps chances went to 25% chance. One in four ain’t bad, at least it moved above one in five chance, I thought. Then it hit 30% Then it hit 34% and I was happy as its election time. One in three are good odds to have,
    I checked 5-38 to see the odds of the R’s pulling a House surprise. One in four and inching up. 30% next and moving up, then Election Day. 🤪

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So you have the lowest black and hispanic unemployment coupled with the highest popularity numbers in those community for any republican President. Don’t forget, Hispanic citizens don’t like illegal immigration.
    https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Democrats-fear-lackluster-Latino-support-could-13303831.php
    Azul wave?
    😉

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  3. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,hey Trump Saps,,,looks like your boy is lying again,,,
    Sad because pre existing conditions were what Meatheads were actually liking!!!
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/10/fact-checking-president-trumps-usa-today-op-ed-medicare-for-all/?noredirect=on

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  4. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    Welcome to TrumpShit Insurance!!!

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Debunk this: Hillary Collusion…..Russiagate updates. The plot thickens. Her
    “And it didn’t matter how they “proved” it, especially to Fusion GPS, which was feeding the FBI their bogus opposition research. We’re now learning just now of how one popular bogus conspiracy theory before the election, which alleged Donald Trump maintained a computer server in Trump Tower during the campaign which allowed him to communicate directly with Russia, was pushed by Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson (who later denied doing so). Slate Magazine published the “bombshell” story alleging that a server in Trump Tower was communicating with Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest bank. The “finding” was based on DNS logs – and spread by Hillary Clinton herself.
    https://bongino.com/new-evidence-suggests-fusion-gps-founder-glenn-simpson-lied-to-congress/
    Her tweet was Oct. 31, 2016. Stupid lady dropped her October Surprise of Halloween night and thus, nobody noticed. 🙂

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO. It’s who they are. Mr. West has been screwed, blued, tattooed, and slimed. Was it something he said or did? He looks like he can take it. O life as a free man.
    So predictable. Shoot the messenger! Kil him! Destroy him!!! Oh my.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/37040/network-garbage-cnn-attacks-kanye-using-dead-mom-ryan-saavedra

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Someone should tell the troll that those of us who had quality earned benefits, what was labeled Cadillac insurance before 0 care put Medicare ahead of our private insurance really learned what shit insurance was. The best private practice Dr’s could not even let you pay cash and they all retired! It was a drive to socialist goals, make it financially impossible to stay independent. Screw off if you don’t want to be a node in the 0 system.
    Its about building the controlling system, not your personal health care…….
    @@#$%^&*()_

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: M | 12 October 2018 at 08:39 PM
    Welcome to TrumpShit Insurance!!!

    Finally an insurance product for those awkward times when the Depends just aren’t up to the challenge.

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Of course, one problem with a mob is that they don’t always do what you want once you set them up.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/01/31/kaine_take_advantage_of_public_outcry_at_trump_to_get_outside_the_bubble.html
    Heck, we even have our “M”ob of one righteously giving the patriots what-for. I’d love to listen in on the ShareBlue meetings right now.

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Help them reverse their unicorn ride into hell?. Heck no, enable their unicorn ride to hell.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/democrats-election-hopes-save-party-vote-republican/

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “M”, in a most elegant fashion, states: “Welcome to TrumpShit Insurance!!!”
    As an aside, it seems to me that working through Trump is the best hope that single-payer healthcare (or some other variant of nation insurance) has. He probably doesn’t have strong philosophy on the matter and could easily serve as a Nixon-in-China conduit between the two warring parties.
    Of course, it’s more important to bring him down because a) he said ‘pussy’ once and b) he appears to care about national borders. This last appears to be the defining matter for the modern Left. I guess that borders are as good a reason for a civil war as any.
    There’s absolutely no reason why the Great State of California couldn’t put together their own plan, at least aside from the fact that even a single-party state can’t magically pay for expensive things. A lack of competence might have something to do with it also.

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  12. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    DIFI and Kamela are apoplectic as Trump’s people finally gave up trying to please them with appts to the Ninth. So here we go. More fun in the Judiciary Cmte.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, at least he tried. Listen to the children like Merrick?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgle_7BhlHI

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    According to the Kaiser Foundation, there are 40 million folks who have health insurance that cannot afford health care. After paying for insurance, no money to go see the doctor. There is not enough money in government to pay for universal single payer, no way, no how. Not even close.
    According to the Basic Financial Literacy Test, two thirds of Americans fail the simple test, including school teachers. CA got an F, only 5 states got an A. Now, since government does not have that kind of money, where are all those greenies going to come from? Hmmm? I can’t hear you. I know, I know! It’s going to come from all those evil greedy corporations, companies, businesses, and anyone who makes a dollar more than me. Tax the crap out of them, including the whinny middle racist class. Squeeze the last drop out of them. It’s for the little people.
    Actually, Trump is the guy to tackle big problems. Right up his alley. I like the catastrophic insurance coming back. In fact, the only reason to have castosphoic health insurance is so you don’t loose your home. I call it my homeowners insurance policy. With high deductibles and no longer with Cadillac coverage from an employer, I and others are paying cash as you go anyway.
    When gobberment starts looking for more money, hold tightly to your wallet. Gobberment has an insatiable thirst for more…more power, more control, more rules, more penalties, and more regulations. It consumes them. Exactly like Leftinistas. Synonymous.
    The man who worries that his well will run dry draws water that never quenches his thirst. More taxes, bigger government, kill, crush, destroy. Libs, Antifa, the Angry Mob, Gobberment.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1452201551580544/?type=3&source=48
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1452159554918077/?type=3&source=48

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: “I like the catastrophic insurance coming back. ”
    I can’t say that it ever disappeared. Current Obamacare policies, at least the lower level ones, are essentially that. There was that added special magic of huge rate increases, due to Obamacare, for those buying personal policies.
    I’d say that the problem is that you are not allowed to solve any part of the health insurance policy. Put into place a high-deductible plan at reasonable price and the first thing that happens is the hue and cry about paying $100 for a doctor’s visit, birth control pills, or a round of antibiotics.
    So far as I can tell, what is needed is a plan with:
    . Absolutely free healthcare for any problem
    . Big pharma stays profitable
    . Surgeons maintain their current income
    . Nurses, doctors, massage therapists, people that poke needles in you with some magic Chinese medicine maintain their current income
    . Hospitals stay profitable
    . All drugs are free
    . The average taxpayer shovels in an insignificant amount of money into the system
    . Illegal aliens get free healthcare
    If the Left had an answer, they’d simply invent (or copy) a system in California that worked. They’re all hat, no cattle of course.
    Generally, I’d say that any local bitching about evil Republicans and their policies is laughable. The State government has far more effect on your daily life than the feds and could mandate electric cars, healthcare, minimum wages, drug laws, policing, in a heartbeat with some pushback (but not much) from Washington. I’m bored with hearing about it. Given the (D) dominance in political affairs, just do it instead of talking about it.

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  16. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    It’s getting pretty bad when Algore has to bitch about his personal transport.
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gore-jet-stream-getting-loopier-and-wavier-so-we-have-a-global-emergency/
    Gore’s jet Gulf Stream seems to be causing him problems but that doesn’t seem to stop him.
    We have an ’emergency’!!!!
    And we’re running out of time!!!!
    Water is rushing up into Manhattan!!!
    Cities are under water!!!!
    Al might have to buy even more homes on the coast to prove his point.
    Genius. Scare prospective sellers into believing their shore front house will be flooded tomorrow and then buy it cheap and then flip it for millions.
    Quite a scientist that Algore.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    a pretty funny idea from reddit. Some guy just got in his new mousepad.
    https://i.redd.it/yvq4bexqf1s11.jpg

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Who would have thought that placid and civilized “Rose City” would be where the first shots would be fired…..
    https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/10/patriot_prayer_flash_march_cal.html

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Fish@8:16AM
    I can’t say that “the bear spray heard ’round the world” has quite the same zing.
    The good picture is this:
    https://twitter.com/shanedkavanaugh/status/1051349229371711488
    I think these guys are overstating the Proud Boys (in order to join they push you around until you can name five breakfast cereals), but the guy in the orange shirt has a more serious demeanor. The US has had a lot of violent street politics in it’s history, so perhaps we are fated to a cycle of that.

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    …more (thanks for posting this Fish, first I’ve heard of it)
    pretty much as expected:
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1051335278755950592

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  21. Walt Avatar

    HEY Dougy!! Need insurance? GO BUY IT! If you can’t,, TOUGH SHIT!
    welcome to the real world!

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Lefty revisionism never works. No matter how much is spent on advertisement. Remove Old Glory,, pay the price.
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/10/14/box-office-fail-flag-free-first-man-flops/

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Poll: Biden leads a crowded field
    Oh god please let it be so…….
    http://thecount.com/2015/01/11/joe-biden-maggie-coons-video/

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    jeffpelline says:
    October 14, 2018 at 9:40 am
    What a hoot to listen to the old coots in the right-wing blogosphere try to “analyze” this. Truly clueless.

    500lb Coffee Delivery technician fails to understand the nuance of test scores……film at eleven!

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Funny how the old fart Pelline calls others “old”. Tha guy is a loon!

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Carpetbagger –
    TJ Cox, the Fresno Democrat running for Congress against Hanford Republican David Valadao, owns a home in Bethesda, Maryland, that the state says is his principal residence.
    Montgomery County property records show Terrance John Cox has paid about half of his annual property taxes on a three-bedroom, four-bathroom, Cape Cod-style home valued at $968,100 in the Washington, D.C., suburb. He bought the house for just over $1 million in 2016 and it has been claimed as his principal residence on state property tax records in each year since.
    Cox seems to be flexible about where he runs, at least: he had been planning to run against Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) in the 10th district until Valadao’s 2016 opponent, Emilio Huerta, dropped out. Cox then switched districts to run in the 21st.
    Valadao is still running strong, even though voters in his district chose Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in 2016 by 16 points. In the June 5 “jungle” primary, he defeated Cox by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. He was up 11 points in a recent poll.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/13/democrat-t-j-cox-is-running-in-california-but-principal-residence-in-maryland/
    😉

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 1004am – We again note that leftwinger blogs continue to be content-free, and specialize only in ad hominems against voices whom they can’t counter with anything substantive. It would be nice to see them have a go at some ‘analysis’ of the day’s issues, instead of just delivering vitriolic echoes from vast intellectual wastelands.

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 14 October 2018 at 11:54 AM
    Speaking as your primary hurler of vitriol and analysis free invective I’ll tread lightly…..

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    jeffpelline says:
    October 14, 2018 at 11:36 am
    Listening to Gregory Knightbridge, “fish” and Todd Juvenile pontificate on education in the local blogosphere is like Roseanne pretending to be Emily Post! ROFLOL.

    Pathetic!
    Emily Post references…..really?! You should just quit the internet right now before you embarrass yourself further! I thought at some point you made your living by having some command of the English language but I guess they’ll hire any nitwit with a pulse to scribble for the Chronicle!?

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  30. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I am trying to remember if I said anything about the education system and guess what? I didn’t. So the Pelline bigboy with poop on his sidewalk values just makes it up. LOL!

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No Todd, not poop, yet. It was the time the Philistine got upset that somebody was going wee wee on his front lawn on a fine sunny morning and His Assholiness barked at the pee pee guy to stop that right now and put that thing away….well, the person relieving himself on the splendid lawn told him to F himself. Oh, My Lard got so upset he talked to the local Mayberry RFD policeman and wrote about it in the Union. Something like Pee pee in Quainty Town, from whence I immediately stole the the name Quainty Town. Gotta give credit where credit is due. Yo little buddy, go f yourself. Hugs and kisses.
    Now, I recall another Sunday afternoon (why is it always a Sunday afternoon when we gab about the half wit?) that Lardo came over here to set us straight. The topic was….drumroll please…..the pitiful state of public education, K-12, with the emphasis on high schools. Oh, that got his dander up. He said we were teacher bashers and public education haters and just a bunch of Right Wing extremist haters in general. Oh, he defended public education as the topic turned to school choice. That was when one highly intelligent poster here said, “”Yo Michelian Tire Man, Whatz yer beef? Your kid goes to private school”, ROFLMAO.
    Well, that got him all upset like the time somebody pissed on his front yard and told him to F off on a fine Sunday morning. I do declare. He got on the hotline and called the police and the sheriff and have some facetime with Sheriff Royal or Sheriff Andy Taylor with Barney Fife listening in. Needed to address the “security issue” that resulted from somebody saying, “What’s wrong with private school? You send your kid to one”, another ROFLMAO. Yep, he got so scared he ran to the cops. His kid’s life is in danger! Danger Will Robinson, danger! What a birddbrain.
    So before Dr. Rebane gets another e-mail threatening legal action and a Cease and Desist form letter from his mail order lawyer, I shall move on to more appropriate Sandbox topics
    https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.568156706588519/2148151661922341/?type=3&theater
    https://m.facebook.com/PaulJosephWatson/photos/a.419496204744539/2312184865475654/?type=3&source=48

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Now it’s official.
    “General Motors is alive and Michael Moore is dead.”
    https://nypost.com/2018/10/13/why-michael-moore-is-irrelevant-in-the-age-of-trump/

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  33. Walt Avatar

    And Portlandia has gone to the dogs.
    https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/14/portlands-mayor-defends-antifa/
    “The mayor of Portland defended the city’s response, or lack thereof, to members of Antifa who blocked traffic and harassed bystanders after a video of the incident went viral.
    “I was appalled by what I saw in that clip and I support the decisions of the [Portland Police]. I trust them,” Mayor Ted Wheeler tweeted Friday. “I believe them as the law enforcement professionals who have to weigh complex legal and safety issues, not only for the people on the streets but also for themselves.”

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Everyone needs to know about this;
    The Yuba County Office of Emergency Services was notified that PG&E may cut off power to some foothill residents as early as this afternoon. Below is the Code Red announcement we are putting out to residents in those areas. I will update everyone with more information, as it is received:
    “PG&E reports power may be turned off to Yuba County foothill residents living from Collins Lake to Rackerby and all areas to the north and east due to forecast high winds.
    Power outage may occur as early as this afternoon and last three to five days or even longer.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    5:46 pm
    They have already set up the PGE utility trucks across from the fairgrounds since yesterday. Looks like they are expecting a bunch out of area linemen.. Mt. Diablo on warning too, as is Lake County and a bunch more. Bring it on. Got propane stove and hot water tank.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DonB@5:46PM
    Where do you get the three to five days? I’m seeing thru Monday night everywhere (I assume it’s going to get windy at some point).
    So basically PGE is planning on shutting down the power for a whole work week every time we have low humidity and 10mph winds with gusts?
    Even if that is an exaggeration, you do have to ask why any company would move to an area with as unreliable an electrical supply as Nevada County has. It’s always struck me as slightly ridiculous.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes: 3-5 days everytime the wind blows now. PG&E is sick and tired of paying for these wildfires when the lines come down. Ever since the Traunner Fire when CalFire beat them in court, the power company pays for the whole shebang. Forget where I read could be 3-5 days
    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-pge-fire-weather-20181013-story.html
    https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/PG-E-warns-it-may-shut-off-power-amid-red-flag-13306256.php

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: It’s a thing I’d never considered before, what with all the talk about how we need petabit ethernet to the house in order to attract all those tech jobs which will save the day.
    If I were considering a move to Nevada County as a technology (or other) company, I’d take one look at PGE randomly threatening to shut off power for the best part of a week and look elsewhere. Reliable electricity really is a non-negotiable item anymore. That’s in addition to the multiple times per year it’s out for most of the day because of snow/wind/bad juju.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, I just pulled the roast out of the oven (propane). Enough to munch on for tomorrow. Got a pot of coffee brewed, and those battery operated candles on the ready. Just need to fill a jug of water and I am good to go. Got car charger for the cell phone. The phone lasts over 24 hours easy, so I can still post freaky crazy stuff.
    Hmm. Now we all know Nevada City ain’t too hot about Verizon mini towers, so who knows if their I-phones will go get service, lol. Comcast will be up on generators, but what good is that if you got no power on your router?
    Oh, how about a meme, any meme….just in case everything fades to black.
    https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.176191582451702/2149787738425400/?type=3&theater
    Man, Sex, God, and Yale…..sex maniacs!
    https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/man-sex-god-and-yale/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stripes&utm_content=10142018

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Keeping an eye on the spreading outages is interesting. No towns of size appear to be involved thus far.
    “To protect public safety, power in your area has been turned off due to extreme weather conditions with high fire danger. Power will be restored as soon as it is safe to do so.”

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And just like that, the winds stopped and it is a nice calm evening with nary a soft breeze to be found. However, they are afraid the winds will stir up old volcanic ash from St. Helens and an aircraft and health warning is advised. Better them than me. ;). Like the Storm of the Century….the perfect storm, I had one plastic bucket blow over.
    Danger Will Robinson, danger. Yawn. Well, it was a good excuse to make everything outside that could blow away put away for the winter.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is one for the po’ ol’ pollhead –
    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_oct15
    😉

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yup –
    That “60 Minutes” went looking for something greater is more proof than viewers needed that their approach to the President left them outmatched.
    https://variety.com/2018/tv/columns/donald-trump-60-minutes-1202980027/
    😉

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar

    How old are you Todd, you old fart?

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  45. Paul Emery Avatar

    that refers to this from Todd
    “Funny how the old fart Pelline calls others “old”. That guy is a loon!
    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 14 October 2018 at 10:32 AM

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