[For those interested in an expansion of how we use words today, as promised, I have addended the 'Fake News Defined' commentary that opens with a retort to Mr Steven Frisch's most recent contribution to these pages. gjr]
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223 responses to “Sandbox – 29nov18”
Hey….thanks for nothing Punch…..your four comments over at jeffys catbox screwed up my “Pelline Bingo” card.
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So the San Jose Mercury News Editorial Board is the latest fascist group here in California. They attacked Mr. John, the SF Giants owner for donating to the woman Senator Smith in Mississippi. Disgusting. When these fools squelch free speech the place is really screwed.
The Governors that embraced the Trump agenda won Paul Emery. Those that did not fair badly.
The R’s have the Senate wich means we won as that is the “advice and consent” half of the Congress. The House will do nothing except have hearings to try and make people hate Trump.
It looks like you and the FUE are now buddies eh?
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My point is that we can discuss and debate and be civil. Pelline does not discuss issues. Pelline attacks all folks relentlessly who harbor different views than his own. It is an Alinsky tactic to demonize your opposition in an effort to tangentially discredit their ideas. Such attacks fly in the face of what makes America great – free exchange of ideas – and did not fit with the values of our community paper or the values of our small town. Make no mistake about it; Pelline is not a journalist. He is a liberal propagandist. He unfairly and endlessly attacks Paul and George, because Paul and George value the free exchange of ideas – the great debate. Further and as fish aptly points out, Pelline couldn’t run the local paper and now he lectures Paul on how to run a community radio station? Please Jeff. Paul would be better served by taking advice from Donald Duck.
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jeffpelline says:
November 30, 2018 at 10:23 am
Of course, “fish” has to jump in, repeating himself as if he had some obsessive compulsive disorder. Not much new there. And to think, I hadn’t mentioned any of these losers for weeks. They must have missed me! LOL.
Miss you……how could I miss you? You’re visible from orbit!
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That’s from “Fish”, someone who won’t use his real name and doesn’t even live here. I guess there is no local action to keep him busy wherever he lives or perhaps he subscribes to Utah Phillips adage that “a bear doesn’t shit in his own back yard”
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The FUE is just a sad sack looking for attention. Cheezewiz makes a person woozy I am told. If anyone wants to see why American “journalism” is dead look at the Mercury News Editorial attacking the Giants owner and the Mississippi Senator.
So don’t fret about the FUE and his three loony commenters and numerous female sock puppets. Nobody cares.
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Meanwhile Todd ignores the fact that the Repubs were whompted in the elections and are extinct in California.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 30 November 2018 at 10:55 AM
Hey Punch…..did you know that the internet is changing the way we communicate?
Something that both you and jeffy don’t seem to get……I really have little to say about issues local to your immediate area! There are a ton of places you don’t live but yap about constantly!
If living in an area is necessary to comment then STFU about state matters in Sacramento. And you should completely shut up about matters national.
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Of course we were womped. Most of the R’s have adiosed and left you and your ilk with the detritus.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 30 November 2018 at 11:01 AM
Meanwhile Todd ignores the fact that the Repubs were whompted in the elections and are extinct in California.
Why are you commenting about this…..it doesn’t concern you? You don’t live there!
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fish
“you don’t live there”
huh???? Are you trying to be clever or is that some kind of joke in your neighborhood in the Sacto burbs?
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Pelline is arguing all by himself now. The man has lost what little noggin he has left.
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Must be lonely Todd in your little Lizzard Empire.
As a matter of fact the Pubbs actually had their own Governor just 8 years ago, muscle boy Arnold. Now we have Reality TV star Trump as the Republican offering for President. You guys really know how to pick um. The Dem tsunami in California followed the Muscle Boy and it the recent tsunami of 2018 shows history is repeating itself and what to look forward to in ’20.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 30 November 2018 at 11:11 AM
No Punch, your comment above suggested that if you don’t live in an area that you shouldn’t comment about it or discuss matters with those who do. A childish idea…..but not surprising given the sources (you and Pelline).
If this is something you truly believe you should probably restrict your discussions to Nevada City/Grass Valley topics exclusively and let your political representatives handle matters in the surrounding areas and at the national level. Of course they can report back to keep you abreast of progress on these issues when they hold Town Hall meetings or send political correspondence to their constituencies.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 30 November 2018 at 11:17 AM
Interesting all the democrat cheerleading from someone who claimed within just the last week to want political gridlock?!
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You gotta cheer fish considering the general vermin that have infested our Government. The Repubs have to get it together to remain a competitive party and clean house or we will be left with a one party country agaqin, this time it will be the Dems turn.
Come on Todd, get to work rebuilding the Repubs to become a viable party. You can start with boosting Assemblyman Dahle, a respectable viable Republican Assemblyman from the North State. He is the future, if there is any, of the Republican Party in California. I don’t necessarily agree with everything he supports but I respect him as an intelligent viable representative of his constituents.
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Nevada County is an exemplar of the spread of liberalism into America’s comfortable, clean, and traditional hinterland communities that are yet untrammeled by the sewage (aka San Francisco values) from the cities. Here we now experience the importing of human detritus – indigents, drug addicts, criminals – that is the inevitable second wave of such out-migrations from the bleak, crowded, and burdened urban areas that were created, grown, and sustained by decades of progressive policies and governance.
Here we are daily witness to the up-close and personal details of such a putrefaction process that is heartily supported by the now ensconced early arrivals of the liberal contingent, one that can still deport itself in polite company and get elected to community leadership positions.
RR welcomes all voices from other communities to bear witness to our travails in the hope that they can better husband what remains dear where they live.
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George
Do you consider an organization such as the South Yuba River Citizens League an example of the “putrefaction process” in Nevada County?
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Paul Emery | 30 November 2018 at 11:17 AM
Lonely? Not at all. But your musical attempts sure have seen a dropoff as the people of Nevada City make fun of you and now we see the FUE even does that too.
Regarding doing something. When I was active in the fore on politics I won many races for moi and others. Alas, I am having too much fun doing this and chasing willing women. My life is great. Yours not so much. Your negativity is overwhelming. I suggest you find a gold miner and buy some PC and take it. You are the most negative sourpussed man since Denham’s dummy, Walter. But you have to live with that not me.
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PaulE 1209pm – No, but how do you think the public policies they promote contribute to our putrefaction?
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George
The Webster definition of putrefaction is:
the decomposition of organic matter especially : the typically anaerobic splitting of proteins by bacteria and fungi with the formation of foul-smelling incompletely oxidized products.
Can you use another descriptive that will be more realistic to embrace in the spirit of meaningful conversation?
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jeffpelline says:
November 30, 2018 at 11:44 am
You can’t make this stuff up! Now “fish” is scolding Paul for suggesting it seems odd that he is so focused (and invested in time) on the issues and personalities in a small community where he doesn’t even live. Gee, imagine that!
I realize that reading and the written word isn’t your strength (unless it’s printing on the Oreo bag) but as I told Punchinello I don’t spend much time discussing your local issues. I’ve been in Georges little “community” long enough to enjoy the comments and personalities of some of those who comment here. I know that you probably haven’t given it much thought but the internet is changing the way we communicate. You should look into it.
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PaulE 1229pm – ‘putrefaction’ was carefully chosen to bring into the reader’s mind the societal analog of its original organic definition. I do think you get the idea, and hope that you can work with that, or the choice of another term that doesn’t lose my intended semantic of breakdown and decay. Looking forward to your response to my 1214pm.
fish 1240pm – I’m a bit amazed at the above comment stream’s report of ongoings on the FUE’s blog. Is he really that desperate for content and visitors that he has to take yet another swipe at RR and attempt at silencing me (us)?? Didn’t he just go through one of these periodic enemas a couple of weeks ago?
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Sewer stank? Swamp gas. ?
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Posted by: George Rebane | 30 November 2018 at 12:53 PM
Didn’t he just go through one of these periodic enemas a couple of weeks ago?
He’s back from China and well rested after giving the Chinese something at which to point and giggle for a week or so. And apparently he is really cheesed off when anybody tells him no like Paul did over at the Catbox.
He must have been a joy as a child!
Oh and kudos to Punch for essentially telling Piggly Wiggly to pound sand!
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Represent the citizens what a novel concept –
“This trend must be reversed if the United States is to survive as a constitutional republic,” Gaffney said. “Let’s start by finding out how many of those here are American citizens.”
In a Rasmussen Reports poll, nearly 2-in-3 likely voters, or about 66 percent, said the U.S. Census should ask respondents whether they are citizens of the country. Only about a quarter of Americans said they opposed the citizenship question on the census.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has noted the citizenship question on the census is necessary to further implement congressional apportionment based on the citizen population rather than the current rules that base state representation on the total population — including citizens, illegal alien residents, legal immigrants, and nonimmigrants on visas.
Should congressional apportionment be based on the number of American citizens in each state — which is only possible through asking the citizenship question on the census — Democrat-strong coastal areas with large foreign populations like California and Florida could lose representation, while states with small foreign populations like Wyoming and Ohio would likely gain representation in Congress. Such a rule change would shift power from coastal states to the heartland of the country.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/30/republicans-working-with-democrats-to-ban-counting-u-s-citizens-in-census/
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@12:53 pm “- ‘putrefaction’ was carefully chosen to bring into the reader’s mind the societal analog of its original organic definition. I do think you get the idea,..l.”
Stink Ass?
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I am sorry but 13 of 15 is a freaking Bingo…
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Posted by: Barry Pruett | 30 November 2018 at 01:43 PM
I am sorry but 13 of 15 is a freaking Bingo…
NO!
I’m sorry Barry but I just can’t sit idly by while you tarnish the majesty of “Pelline Bingo” by lowering the standards by which the game is won!
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OH how the Left would foam at the mouth if anyone on the Right mentioned stringing up a LIB. Yet they get away with it.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/11/30/bette-midler-fantasizes-trump-and-family-hanged-high/
“Actress and Broadway star Bette Midler fantasized about President Donald Trump and his family being hanged “good and high” in a pro-Robert Mueller social media post Friday.”
Yup.. The whole family.
What a sick and twisted bitch.
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,,,trumpki’s puppet masters meet at G20,,,hey bro, killed any journalists layely???
https://twitter.com/ahmed/status/1068529363082129409
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I am not changing the rules of the majestic game! LOL. Pelline did. It used to be 10 comments showing on his screed. Now due to Pelline’s proclivity to comment relentlessly to nobody, he modified his blog to show 15 comments thus thwarting the established rules. I demand a recount! Hahaha!
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“Do you consider an organization such as the South Yuba River Citizens League an example of the “putrefaction process” in Nevada County?”
Heck no. It strikes me as a ‘really good idea’. I like nonprofits that don’t deal with those icky poor people or POC’s problems. It’s gotta be a lot easier to raise money for things like this or Music in the Mountains.
Great big ol’ staff (which looks about like Frisch’s organization):
https://yubariver.org/about/meet-the-staff/
Check out their Form 990 at propublica. I appreciate anyone that can invent a job and it isn’t like the folks that push in the $1.7M did it at gunpoint. You go girl(s).
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re: SYRCL
Honest to gawd Paul, you are missing a bet here.
You need to start a non-profit. Build it around something that well-off white people like. Pets/environment/fancy music or dance. Build a brand that you can run your concert promotions under. Pay yourself a nice salary as the Executive Director. Profit.
I’m serious as a heart attack here.
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“he modified his blog to show 15 comments thus thwarting the established rules. ”
We are darned close to a pentadecafecta. Even though Paul is a made man in Team Pelline, today’s bitchiness requires a real deal royal flush.
Keep pushing them posts dude! That pie won’t eat itself!
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Scenes, that SYRCL page would be a good stand in for any “white nationalist” organization. All white all the time. And they have turned themselves into the SPLC and anyone that disagrees with them is a racist. Send that link to the KKK and see if they bite.
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“M” says Trump is the puppet master! Well that is just fine with me. He is truly making America great again. Trade imbalances are his thing and the country will be much better off if he makes that balance happen. Why would any true American make fun of that?
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Uh oh, the FUE has a new post on RR. He uses two loons quoted as saying they won’t donate to KVMR because of Rebane’s 4 minutes. You cannot make this stuff up. Looks like Barry may have won the bingo!
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This lady is about to be branded a racist.
“A woman getting takeout had suspicions about a silver Jeep spotted outside the T-Mobile store, calling authorities and following it as it fled what police have called a robbery.”
Is she guilty of profiling? and the charges need to be dropped?
https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/passerby-followed-t-mobile-robbery-suspects-called-911-grass-valley-police-say/
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Two responses!? Two!? I guess that’s just how you was raised! I kid of course!
Really though jeffy to make it more impactful just keep pulling the string in the back of Bruce’s neck until you have a whole bucketful of responses!
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Auntie Fox will be next. Mark my words.
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Whoops the Dems might win another one
Election Fraud Hearing Could Change Outcome Of North Carolina Vote
The Republican candidate leads his opponent by 905 votes
North Carolina election officials have agreed to hold a public hearing into alleged “numerous irregularities” and “concerted fraudulent activities” involving traditional mail-in absentee ballots in the 9th Congressional District, apparently in two rural counties.
The state elections board voted 7-2 on Friday to hear evidence by Dec. 21 before deciding whether to certify the result.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ballot-worries-cloud-outcome-of-north-carolina-congress-race_us_5c01ced6e4b04fb21168186a
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Does anyone think for a minute that this is isolated to Google and not all of the masters of the universe?
Google employees debated whether to bury The Daily Caller and other conservative media outlets in the company’s search function as a response to President Donald Trump’s election
“Let’s make sure that we reverse things in four years,” one engineer wrote in a thread that included a Google vice president
Google employees similarly sought to manipulate search results to combat Trump’s travel ban
https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/google-censorship-conservative-media/
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Election fraud? So Paul – care to admit that it exists?
You lefties always said it was just Republican BS. Singing a new tune are we?
Anyway there’s nothing in the article to suggest skulduggery by one party or another.
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,,,put your bifocals on Todd,,,
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Hey look, its Macron doing his imitation of the po’ ol’ fakenewsman stomping his feet and exclaiming you never listen to me! –
Watch—Emmanuel Macron Complains to Saudi Crown Prince: ‘You Never Listen to Me’
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/11/30/watch-emmanuel-macron-complains-to-saudi-crown-prince-you-never-listen-to-me/
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Institutional bias at work here and a narrative fail for the pony tail of ignorance –
The Federalist, which first caught NPR’s lie, points out that:
In fact, Senate investigators were asking Trump Jr. about a series of efforts to develop property in Russia, going back several years. Reporter Phil Ewing (reporter Tim Mak contributed to the story) conflates one of those efforts with another separate effort. That conflation results in the false news report.
The “certainly not ’16” remark from Trump Jr. pertains to a Trump Tower deal in Moscow involving another party.
The truth is that when asked a direct question about the Trump Tower in Moscow deal that pertains to Cohen’s testimony, Trump Jr. gave a direct answer that in no way contradicts Cohen’s testimony:
Q: It’s been reported that in late 2015 or 2016 when now President Trump was running for office the Trump Organization was pursuing a plan to develop a massive Trump Tower in Moscow. Is that accurate?
A: Yes.
Trump Jr. also offered to provide investigators with the letter of intent signed by his father.
Only after the false story remained published for most of Friday, did NPR finally issue a weasally correction
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/30/npr-busted-spreading-fake-news-about-donald-trump-jr/
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It must be pretty meaty if it’s all being kept in the dark.
Muller must have really overstepped his bounds if the court is actually hearing it.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/appellate-court-plans-closed-session-in-mystery-plaintiffs-suit-against-mueller
“A federal appeals court announced Friday that it would hold a closed oral argument session on Dec. 14, to address a lawsuit apparently filed against Special Counsel Robert Mueller by an unidentified grand jury witness.”
How would it look if Muller is found to have tried to get someone to fabricate a story to frame Trump?
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Barry Pruett | 30 November 2018 at 04:48 PM
The bigboy now admits he is a monkey’s uncle. I always knew it.
“M” no bifocals and what has that to do with your post and my response? Are you drinking again this early?
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The Dark Lord of Liberal Lament Land has gone full thought police from what I have been sent. So its a “community radio station” that gets taxpayer dollars and now it is to be a slave to the pink knit hats approved talking points demands the Dark Lord! Sounds like the Dark Lord is a wanna be Goebbels or should that be Google employee.
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