[Watching President GHW Bush’s funeral pageant this morning brings to mind that now and then we still have occasions in America that bring us all together. But such occasions can only happen in sovereign nation-states like America still is today, a unique country where we Americans can find common values and shared lives upon which we are then called to reflect and reveal the things that still unite us. gjr]
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156 responses to “Sandbox – 5dec18”
I am back making comments on the articles posted in the Union and am obeying the “rules”. Yet the left is once again whining and complaining about me to get me booted. They sure can’t take a contra POV. And they are all the same, whiners and babies. We will see if the bosses at the Union cave.
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I see in the 5dec18 Union’s op-ed page under Terry McAteer’s column a gleeful post from the attention-seeking FUE, where he writes – “Well done. You’ve stopped George Rebane dead in his tracks. LOL.” Does anyone know which tracks he had in mind? BTW, our DRR emailed me some of his latest posts where I saw that he has really been paying extraordinary attention to RR and continues lying without respite to his readership about me, what I write, and on what all of you comment. I was bit disappointed to see that PaulE engaged him about KVMR continuing to air my commentaries, which gave his debate there some sorely needed legitimacy. In that thread he characterized my opinion in the Khashoggi piece – So, despite the public gnashing of teeth and rending of garment by Trump’s political opponents, everyone understands that this is the correct way to end the affair. … Losing the order for shipping the Saudis our fancy armaments and other things so that they will remain our ally in the region, trumps all other factors in this case. – as being “hateful”, confirming again an emerged characteristic of the far Left – anything that does not agree with their narrative is instantly labeled ‘hateful’, ‘racist’, ‘sexist’, ‘divisive’, ‘treasonous’, ‘-phobic’, … ; there can be only theirs, and no other opinions or perspectives in the new world they are building for us.
(None of these worthies know enough history to appreciate how many presidents did exactly the same thing without being explicit about it to the American voters – e.g. FDR played nice with Stalin, a killer of millions of his own, on the same theory that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’.)
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Posted by: George Rebane | 05 December 2018 at 11:17 AM
Other than for the purposes of pure mockery I can’t imagine you devoting a moments thought to anything that the “Coffee Retrieval Unit” regurgitates in his catbox.
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fish 1130am – I actually don’t, that’s why we have Designated Reader Reports that come in my email. But this little cri de coeur from the FUE was in the Union. I guess I couldn’t hire a better PR man to drive traffic to RR. Apparently it is only here where the Left reads the Right, and then engages. No one else is able to draw such wrath from our Blue Brethren. Were it anyone but he, this would be quite an honor.
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Posted by: George Rebane | 05 December 2018 at 11:41 AM
Ok! Would hate to think that you would waste even a moment your time on lil jeffy.
That’s what the commentariat is for!
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Todd@ 10:58 am.
Good luck. Wanted to jump in there with ya, but I refuse to sign up for the Union’s free newsletter and updates, so I can’t post. See Gregory is going after that pompous ass who increased the administrative staff by 7-8 fold during his tenure and left NU as the shiniest turd in the middle of the pile.
I just barely skimmed the comments and Cook’s post. Too many errors to correct to even begin. Way too many. Khashoggi was a NYT journalist? Learn something new every day. Just shook my head. And the comments. Wow. Trump ordered lethal force on poor children and poor women? No, Trump authorized lethal force, not ordered it. Words have meaning…and biases. Then I saw “the Cruscades.” They always jump to the Cruscades when cornered, lol. So predictable it’s boring.
Ok, the Cruscades was over 250,000 killed over a period of decades. Maybe a century. Sure, Christians are just as bad as atheists as evidenced by the scores of millions slaughtered by Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and a countless host of ruthless atheist minor dictators like Idi Amin who liked to eat his victims. Nevermind that if it weren’t for the Polish army coming in to save Constantinople, all of Europe would be speaking Arabic today as the ruthless Islamics conquered everything in their path…by the sword. Convert or die. Leave the Religion of Peace and the penalty is death. Death to the Infidels! Sweet.
I just read about every 8th word and it was enough. Now that you got your time out, you are like a solo different colored pigeon in a coop. First, they peck and peck on the different one until they draw blood…then once there is a drop of blood, they all jump in as their bloodlust takes over. It’s who they are. I see need no need to correct them. Let them live in everlasting ignorance.
Consider yourself lucky. It could be worse.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/04/springfield-college-attempts-ruin-professors-life-teaching-male-writers/
Consider the source:
https://www.facebook.com/ConservativeCartoonsDaily/photos/a.215324168506069/2102587656446368/?type=3&theater
The reason the Leftinistas don’t do a real Christmas (devoid of politics or self grandiosity viture signaling) is because they can’t find three wise men or a Virgin.
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Hey BillT excellent post. If you read further from those loons they even try to make Stalin, Mao and the rest into Christians! But they do sing in one voice of complaint to shut down the opposition. Now they are attacking Russ and Gregory for there links of fact on CC.
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Todd. Make ‘ktkhat God hater, not atheists. I have no problem witha atheists. And it wasrobably 225,00 killed the Crusades. Oh, add Little Roe man o the list. :).
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@1:26 pm. Opps. Key pad sticking big time. Make that God haters, I have o problem with atheists. Add little Rocketman tot the list of minor dictators will the blood of millions on his hands——
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Dr. Rebane and Co.
KVMV giving Dr. Rebane his 3-4 minutes a week has driven the Fat Guy crazy. It’s not the first time. He went on and on about it a few years ago and never stopped. Drove him nuts. During the newshour, for crying out loud. Not my news hour! Get him off MY newshour. It’s my dinner time and Rebane ruined my whole week! Oh, The Fat Guy had a fit cause there were some Republicans in the Constitution Day Parade! It’s a non political event. Get them out of here, out of my parade. Bar then, ban them, make it go away!
Then it was the Tea Party folks in lounge chairs drinking sodas at Western Gateway Park! It’s a public park. Get them out of my….er….a public park. When pointed out that the Tea Party or State of Jefferson folks reserved and paid for the stage in advance, he cried to high heaven about equal time on stage for other views to be heard. Equal time. When pointed out that any group can reserve the park’s stage for their activities if they plunk down the cold hard cash, he bitched and bitched that his son could see those people way off yonder in the disc golf course. Get them out of the park!! When pointed out that the Stage at Western Gateway encompassed only a small portion of the park, it did not matter. The public can still see “those people” from far away. Get the. Out of my eyesight!
Let’s see. Oh yeah. A Nevada City Police squad car was parked above Express Mart watching traffic and bums. What were the police thinking? (Oh boy, here it comes now is what I was thinking). They SHOULD be parked in front of the tiny bank that got robbed. 200 feet away is too far. They are doing their jobs wrong. WRONG! He was going to talk to the police chief himself and demand a report. Get this straightened out.
And he was going to walk over to the Bonnaza Market and demand they take down the Gator Jersey sign because Gator Jersey is not a local product and he did not want to see such a thing play in HIS town. It’s not local! Well, neither is the vodka and top ramen they sell
And who can forgot the time he was enjoying a fine meal with a fine bottle of wine in a fine restaurant in HIS town when…right in front of the window in the street the police were arresting a drunk driver. They are ruining my meal! The cops are taking too much time! They should not be arresting folks in front of MY view of the street ruining my dinner! They are doing it wrong which really messed with his head and appetite. Ruined everything. I reckon the cops should have asked the drunk driver to kindly drive around the block so the Fat Guy would not have to have his evening ruin’t.
There is something about Khashoggi that really sticks in his caw. He is not alone. It drives the Leftinistas control freaks crazy and they can’t let it go. Nevermind that the Saudi’s have been executing dissents for 70 years in the most brutal 6th century ways. To this very day, they have public squares for public beheadings. It’s who they are…and they are not alone in that region…by any stretch of the imagination. And Iran cuts off women’s lips for wearing lipstick in certain areas and they all throw gays off of rooftops.
I remember when Dwayne S of the bike shop took a donation from a conservative I never heard of when Dwayne was running for some thankless office. Oh, The Fat Guy had a fit and all two of his readers were going to boycott the Nevada City Bike Shop forever. Boycott Dwayne! Nobody ever has said Dwayne is not a great guy…until a dreaded Right Winger donated some money for Dwayne to run for some petty tiny town office. Hmmm. Look how the Nevada City Bicycle Classic has gone downhill ever since Dwayne stopped single handily and tirelessly put on the event for fun and for free.
Control freaks are that way. They must control everything..everything. It’s MY town! No Rebane’s allowed, not even for 4 minutes a week! I demand it to be so
The curse (karma) of being a control freak is one is controlled by the need to control. Thus the angst and constant turmoil. Never can let it be. No rest for the wicked, I reckon.
Life would be grand IF only things went the way He demanded them to be. In a short order the Fat Guy has offended, demonized, attacked, sniped at, and ridiculed Crabbman, Boardman, Paul Emery, and every single person who sees or does things differently than he wants them to say or do. Thus, the Gator Jersey is a problem. Not for the Bonanza Market or the good citizens of Nevada City, but for the control freaks of the world.
Had to laugh when the Fat Guy was ridiculing us Deplorables cause HE said on his superior blog we wanted life to be Ozzie and Harriet again. Then I read in the police blotter that a bicycle was stolen from a front yard on his block. I wondered if it could be. Yes, it was. Somebody stole his kid’s bicycle and get the cops on the case, ASAP. Kids never had their bikes stolen n Mayberry, Kids left their bikes out in the front yard all night. Guess you can’t have it both ways, lol. Oh my.
Hope the Nevada City Officers Park their squad cars exactly where the Fat Guy wants them to. :). Or should I say where the Fat Guy tells them to.
Consider the source, Dr. Rebane. It’s all good. You are dealing wit the same crowd who was convinced that Hillary was the mot qualified person to be President in the history of the United States, bar none.
Just give him nine miles of payment and a long noose. Boardman is an ameteur, Crabb is forbidden to take his picture (as if that is some priority of Earl’s) and Conservstives should neither be seen or heard….ever! Of yeah. Barry Pruitt is an ass because he had the gall to run against the Fat Guy’s chosen canidate for Clerk Recorder. The unforgivable sin. We all have our quirks, some more than others. .
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So Dr. R, Pelline is trying to get kicked off KVMR? Welcome to the club.
He’s been trying to get fired for the almost 5 years I’ve been writing a column for The Union. In fact, he tried to get me fired before my first column appeared, devoting New Year’s Eve of 2013 to writing a long screed detailing the shortcomings that made me unfit to write for the paper: https://sierrafoothillsreport.com/2013/12/
But you have to give him credit for persistence. Jean Valjean had Inspector Javert. We have Jeff Pelline.
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Posted by: Bill Tozet | 05 December 2018 at 01:35 PM
Quite the compendium of off putting behavior from everybody’s favorite gravitational anomaly William! As I said on an earlier occasion……he must have been a delight as a child.
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@ 2:09 pm
Oh, I forgot to mention that you went to a State College! Guess that puts you in the same league as Sarah Palin. :). SF State? What a knuckledragger, along with those old folks Danny Grover, Dan Hicks (and his Hot Licks), Johnny Mathis, Pierre Salinger, and my favorite one; Alex Borstein, the voice of Louis on Family Guy. Hmmm. Come to think of if, The Fat Guy resembles Peter on the Family Guy. Peter? A former name for dickhead.
“George also thinks Tom McClintock’s bill to salvage timber — widely criticized by knowledgeable environmentalists — “should be given serious consideration.”
Oh Mr. Boardman, how could you say or think such a thing?
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Oh, I forgot to mention that you went to a State College!
State College?!?!
Be gone from us O unclean one!
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There is a new sheriff in town and no more mister nice guy –
Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies over allegations she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran. Wanzhou Meng, who is the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei and also the deputy chair of Huawei’s board, was arrested in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities and is facing extradition. “Wanzhou Meng was arrested in Vancouver on December 1. She is sought for extradition by the United States, and a bail hearing has been set for Friday,” Justice Department spokesperson Ian McLeod said in a statement to The Globe and Mail. “As there is a publication ban in effect, we cannot provide any further detail at this time.”
The moves comes just two weeks after the U.S. government reportedly urged foreign allies to avoid using the company’s telecommunications equipment over cybersecurity fears. Since at least 2016, U.S. authorities have been investigating whether Huawei violated U.S. sanctions against Iran.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/canada-arrests-global-cfo-of-chinas-huawei-technologies
😉
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“Watching President GHW Bush’s funeral pageant this morning brings to mind that now and then we still have occasions in America that bring us all together. But such occasions can only happen in sovereign nation-states like America still is today, a unique country where we Americans can find common values and shared lives upon which we are then called to reflect and reveal the things that still unite us.” gjr]
What we are seeing is the passing of the torch from one generation to another for us to carry forth as they did.
https://www.facebook.com/BAMBOOBOBSPANKSALIB/photos/a.10150345576685288/10157094585875288/?type=3&theater
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Going to private colleges doesn’t buy any FUE indulgences, either. Neither Harvey Mudd College or Loyola Marymount rates a rats ass from His Lardness. However, on one list of average salaries for graduates, Mudd is #1 and LMU is ahead of his Lardness’s precious Northwestern, around #82 vs #89.
http://www.payscale.com
UC Berkeley is the highest rated state school on payscale’s scale, #28, but it’s unlikely that bachelors degrees in Rhetoric is the driver of that.
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“KVMR giving Dr. Rebane his 3-4 minutes a week has driven the Fat Guy crazy”
That drive is a short one.
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……and while we’re at it……let’s not slight Stanford!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-04/stanford-fraternity-told-take-down-offensive-american-flag
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GeorgeB 335pm – ‘By thine enemies shall ye be known.’ Thank you for the kind sentiments. Yes, there are a number of people here the FUE does not like very much, and would haul us all away in a tumbrel were he the king. But not to put too fine a point on it, I have borne his bulls-eye on my back for 12 years on RR for daring to write a rightwing blog, and another 9 years for the temerity to be the political balance on KVMR (‘stubborn ounces’ and all that). So welcome indeed to the Amalgamated Foes of the FUE or AFFUE! Gesundheit.
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re George’s post at 11:17 concerning the demise of Khashoggi – funny you should mention Stalin.
“If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only statistics.”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/21/death-statistic/
If you read the article from the link you see that the supposed quote from Stain was found in the (wait for it) Washington Post!
As you correctly point out, we do business daily with murderers far, far worse. Ah – but those thousands of dead are just ‘little people’ of no particular importance. Mr K worked for a person that ‘buys ink by the barrel’. And we know how that adage goes.
This is just more DDS.
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TDS – sorry about that.
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Daily quotes from space and time
Insight: “We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.” —Horace Mann (1796-1859)
Cat’s out of the bag: “It’s inevitable that we can use the transition to 100% renewable energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the fundamental transformation radical leftists aim for with the phony climate agenda
What could possibly go wrong? “The Great Compromise, as it was called when it was adopted by the Constitution’s Framers, required that all states, big and small, have two senators. … Today, in a nation of more than 325 million and 37 additional states, not only is that structure antiquated, it’s downright dangerous. … There is a solution, however, that could gain immediate popular support: Abolish the Senate. At a minimum, combine the two chambers into one, and the problem will be solved.” —former Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)
Long live communism! “Champions of cutthroat capitalism pushed former Soviet states to privatize as quickly as possible, despite the enormous risk of corruption.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Tick-tock: “I’ll be as straight with you as I can. I think I’m the most qualified person in the country to be president.” —Joe Biden
Non Compos Mentis I: “80% of gun owners shoot themselves or members of their own families.” —actor Tom Arnold
Non Compos Mentis II: “Face it — you can’t claim to be a feminist and still eat eggs.” —PETA
And last… “I think one of the greatest antidotes to the spread of leftism is for young people to observe the violent contradiction between the left’s professed beliefs and attitudes and their actual behavior toward others. They are their own worst witness.” —David Limbaugh
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Posted by: Scott O | 05 December 2018 at 05:08 PM
TDS – sorry about that.
Whew……for a minute there I thought my dentist might be involved somehow!
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 05 December 2018 at 05:27 PM
Cat’s out of the bag: “It’s inevitable that we can use the transition to 100% renewable energy as the vehicle to truly deliver and establish economic, social, and racial justice in the United States of America.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the fundamental transformation radical leftists aim for with the phony climate agenda
Yeah…..I’m looking forward to being entertained by “Picket Fence” for the next couple of years!
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What a lousy way to go.
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/300-pound-woman-guilty-of-crushing-boyfriend
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Sorry for the scare, fish – my finger must have gone back in time to Dole.
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80% ????
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/12/01/fun-facts-with-tom-arnold-80-percent-of-gun-owners-shoot-themselves-or-a-family-member/
Gee whiz, Bill – that just goes to show how much the Lamestream Media hides from us.
I had no idea.
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Lest anyone think AOC is the only bat-shit crazy person to be elected –
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-would-guarantee-a-bed-for-every-13443429.php?src=hp_totn
Will there be a ‘homeless residency’ requirement?
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Because I’m the only woman who comments here I wasn’t going to write anything, but can’t resist. Thank your George R for your interesting, intelligent viewpoints. I think it’s funny that your critics even come here because it’s not boring. As for the atrocities in Communist /Socialist Russia if any of you can find Svetlana Stalin’s book “Twenty Letters to a Friend” you’ll be shocked how her father used the medical doctors to murder his enemies using Misdiagnosis…like giving an insulin injection to someone not diabetic. What goes around comes around. They killed her husband and Stalin. Interesting reading.
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A whole new way to rig an election.
“When Maine voters stepped into the voting booth on November they cast traditional ballots for state offices, but voted for their first, second, and third choices in the one federal race for the U.S. Senate the two federal races for the U.S. House of Representatives.
In order to be declared the winner, a candidate for federal office had to receive 50 percent plus one of the first place votes cast for the office. If no candidate received more than 50 percent plus one of the vote, then the second choice votes and third choice votes cast by voters whose first choice votes were cast for the third place and fourth place finishers were then allocated to the top two candidates based on the proprietary computer algorithm of the outside vendor selected by the Democrat Secretary of State.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/05/gop-winner-in-maine-02-now-declared-loser-due-to-rank-voting/
And who dreamed this up?,, That’s right lady and gents,, a LIB!!
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Well look who’s mail order Viagra came in today…….
December 5, 2018 at 6:47 pm
Yes, Rebane and his “Merry Pranksters” are getting restless again! And the “baker’s half dozen” of them! (him, Russ, “fish,” “Tozer,” Todd, George Boardman, Walt, Scott O., ;), Gregory, and their foil, Paul Emery). Even in our small county, that’s nobody! What a hoot! You get off my lawn! Meanwhile, we’re going blue.
jeffy…….you’re looking at your feet again!
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1) 8:07 pm; somebody better tell Boardman he got thrown in with the Dregs of Society. He may not take kindly to being lumped in with us abodorable deporable me’s.
2) 7:11 pm. “Lest anyone think AOC is the only bat-shit crazy person to be elected..”
“Today Macron’s approval rating stands at an abysmal 26%, far below that of U.S. President Donald Trump. Yet Macron has repeatedly rebuked Trump for his pro-American “nationalism.” Trump’s nationalism certainly stands in stark contrast to the globalism of world leaders like Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel, who responded to criticism of migration and climate change policies by declaring, “Countries must give up their sovereignty … in an orderly fashion of course.”
“Of course, it’s an open secret that the war to end “climate change” is really a proxy war to destroy free-market capitalism and replace it with globalist socialism while curtailing individual rights.
“In 2015, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of UNIPCC (the global governing body on climate change), declared that the real goal of the “global warming” agenda is not avoiding ecological disaster but destroying capitalism. Figueres said, “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
“But much like socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders — who owns three houses and a high-end sports car — the French people want to enjoy the feeling of moral superiority of embracing socialism (who can be against equality for all?) without actually having to deal with the consequences of socialism, which is, and always has been, government oppression and widespread poverty.”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/59847-socialist-climate-policies-drive-frances-riots?fbclid=IwAR2blHrMin8O3rhB6YO0Aa9EH4IicCD2iymW2F0Fo2lGt372roX_E0lA3Zw
The French aren’t the only ones who have trouble grasping cause and effect. We have our own home grown batshit crazies as well.
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Ok, follow me on this one. Don Jr. gets banned from Instagraph…violation of community standards.
1) PETA posts this
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1494101017390597/?type=3&source=48
2) Don Jr. contributes to the conversation
https://news.unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/donald-trump-jr-gets-blocked-for-instagram-bacon-post/
3) Bill sez, “Hey Walt, check this out.”
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=119140755773122&set=gm.524566471392190&type=3&theater&ifg=1
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101888985604976&set=gm.525009008014603&type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Cartman seems cornered. Fish.. He CAN’T see his feet. (unless two yards from the mirror.)
Emery a “foil”? Did spellcheck fail again? or was the keyboard fat fingered? (Fool is most likely what was meant)
So tear open another box of cheapass wine “big”guy, Looks like you need the liquid courage.
Santa might send you a gallon of WD40 to help you get through the doors.
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Sorry Bill,, I can’t. Don’t do FB. Can’t even get past the sign in page. Hell… If I did, I would get my account shut down. “F”‘m….
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Posted by: Walt | 05 December 2018 at 09:17 PM
No it was, I suspect, indeed “foil”…..his wife must be helping him again!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foil_(literature)
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No prob Walt. There is more than one way to skin a cat. :). I can improvise…
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OH look, the trail of rancid Russian dressing led to the Clinton foundation and team 0 –
The inquiries center not only on Craig and Podesta — a Democratic lobbyist and co-founder of the onetime lobbying powerhouse known as the Podesta Group — but also on Vin Weber, a former GOP congressman from Minnesota.
The probes had been quiet for months since Mueller referred them to authorities in New York City because they fell outside his mandate of determining whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia.
But in a flurry of new activity, Justice Department prosecutors in the last several weeks have begun interviewing witnesses and contacting lawyers to schedule additional questioning related to the Podesta Group and Mercury Public Affairs, people familiar with the inquiry anonymously told the Associated Press.
The apparent wind-up comes as multiple reports and indications suggest that the Mueller probe into possible collusion in 2016 between the Russian government and President Trump’s campaign is wrapping up.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mueller-referred-probe-into-clinton-linked-podesta-group-reportedly-kicks-into-high-gear
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This ones for you Walt! Arabs with AK’s!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-05/humpday-humor-first-graduate-dick-cheney-school-gun-safety-shows-his-skills
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Picture of the Year: My Gal ain’t none too happy and she can’t tell Barrack to call off the dogs.
https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:371213fa25e34ac7b72c578318312748/800.jpeg
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The cali good old boy still play the same way-
She said she reported the alleged harassment in 2011, but was retaliated against. Hartley was involuntarily transferred to another office at the state Department of Justice at the end of 2014, the suit said.
Xavier Becerra, who succeeded Harris as California’s attorney general, said Hartley “unreasonably failed to utilize the procedures during the period of time, and after, the alleged harassment or discrimination was occurring.”
Wallace previously served as director of the Division of Law Enforcement under then-California Attorney General Harris and worked for her during her tenure as district attorney for San Francisco.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-aide-resigns-over-harrassment-asettlement
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What I find most interesting is the press only likes and says good things about a Republican when they are dead. GHW Bush was trashed by the press and Clinton’s team said the nastiest things as well. They tried to float a rumor he ws a cheater on his wife.
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Oh jeffy…….
December 5, 2018 at 8:57 pm
Where did “fish” go to college, or grammar school for that matter? “Well look who’s mail order …” I think he meant whose. What a dunce! ROFLOL. (For the record, “fish” has never shared his “education” with us; no wonder).
So true jeffy……I was never a member of the educational elite like you! I never knew the pleasure of staying at the International House……of Pancakes. My lack of a degree kept me from achieving in life and my goal of being the Chronicles Coffee Retrieval Unit was never realized!
Pity me jeffy…….PITY MEEEEEEEEE!
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“But such occasions can only happen in sovereign nation-states like America still is today, a unique country where we Americans can find common values and shared lives upon which we are then called to reflect and reveal the things that still unite us.”
It is stunning to me that on a thread premised on praising our ability to find shared values, immediately after a thread premised on the idea that the “Great Divide” is real and seemingly insurmountable, the conversation immediately degenerated to fat jokes, division and insult.
What shared values are you talking about?
This is why I made the point that the Great Divide is a construct–a self perpetuating device designed to divide people by race, class, gender, ideology to use the ‘other’ to gain advantage–and the ultimate example of its use by a small coterie of self identified left behinds.
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But the left are the perps of the divide that even a third-grade girl can recognize. We just want you to leave us alone but you can’t help yourself. We love all races and creeds and yet we seldom bring up those traits. It is the left that can’t make an argument for their failures in life without blaming “white people” and callig our success “white privilege”. When hypocrite crackers like you make your points of “fairness” you forget about hard work and sacrifice. But hey, if you are a tub of lard as many liberals are, then expect a little ribbing about it.
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re StevenF 854am – Mr Frisch has never understood the role a ‘Sandbox’ post serves on RR. For others similarly confused, my opening sandbox remark expresses a sentiment and/or invites a topic. Otherwise, the sandbox is for reader comments and discussion threads not covered in my recent commentaries.
And we again see that Mr Frisch remains totally ignorant of the national Great Divide discussion/debate. His limited (lamestream) information sources eschew any coverage of this critical national issue for all the obvious reasons. The bright ribbon on his misunderstanding is his overall view that it is only a “construct” fostered “by a small coterie of self identified left behinds.” (BTW, that’s the rest of the country.)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/197828/record-high-americans-perceive-nation-divided.aspx
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/maybe-its-time-for-america-to-split-up.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/03/05/state-secession-does-american-flag-need-more-stars-glenn-reynolds-column/393371002/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/11/10/calexit-possible-california-secede-us/93581688/
And to put a bow on it, the gentleman still does not even know that it is his own party and now a seminal part of progressive ideology ” to divide people by race, class, gender, ideology to use the ‘other’ to gain advantage”.
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Posted by: Steven Frisch | 06 December 2018 at 08:54 AM
It is stunning to me that on a thread premised on praising our ability to find shared values, immediately after a thread premised on the idea that the “Great Divide” is real and seemingly insurmountable, the conversation immediately degenerated to fat jokes, division and insult.
What shared values are you talking about?
This is why I made the point that the Great Divide is a construct–a self perpetuating device designed to divide people by race, class, gender, ideology to use the ‘other’ to gain advantage–and the ultimate example of its use by a small coterie of self identified left behinds.
Good lord but you are tedious!
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The left has ruined the culture and made fun of those that love America and its values. Their values seem to be French.
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What to do when students feel unheard, underrrepresented, and unsafe? What to do when anybody feels unsafe? Since feelings are totally subjective contained within one’s own person (self-absorption?), and subject to one’s own interpretation to outside stimuli, how does one counter the charge of “feeling unsafe”? Listening to someone can alleviate feelings of being unheard. Counting heads (Affirmative Action) can deal with feelings of being underrepresented, but what about “feelings of being unsafe”?
Good art can challenge the viewer and evolve uncomfortable feeling, as intended to do.
Many moons ago in another place and time, I was involved in seeking a use permit for a non profit. Mixed use neighborhood with residences, churches, liquor stores, a small appliance repair shop, etc on a thoroughfare. The building in question was a former doctor’s office. Bus stops on each side of the street a few lots away. At the hearing, one woman objected loudly, saying that people walking by her house made her “feel apprehensive”.
The permit process was stopped to address her feelings and apprehensions. People had been walking up and down that street for decades. She had lived there for years. I had no answer to allieve her feelings. None. Traffic reports, crime stats in that area (very low), nothing could make her feel “safe”. She felt apprehensive. How do you combat that?????
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“The speaker of this event, Ryan Bomberger, made several comments at the event that deeply troubled members of our community,” the students wrote. “His comments, surrounding the topic of race, made many students, staff, and faculty of color feel unheard, underrepresented, and unsafe on our campus.”………
“While progressive activists often claim to be offended by conservative speakers, saying the speakers made them “feel unsafe,” it is a serious charge for the student leaders to claim Bomberger — himself a black man who was conceived in rape and might have been aborted — made people of color “feel unsafe” at his speech.”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/wheaton-college-students-say-black-pro-life-speaker-made-people-of-color-feel-unsafe/
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“This is why I made the point that the Great Divide is a construct–a self perpetuating device designed to divide people by race, class, gender, ideology to use the ‘other’ to gain advantage–and the ultimate example of its use by a small coterie of self identified left behinds.”
Total hilarity from the left.
If Frisch bothered to read anything the leftistas write, he’d see plenty of division, insults, racial hatred and class division.
In fact – it’s all the left has.
Fat jokes – oh my!
When Limbaugh was always made fun of for being overweight did Frisch ever once denounce that?
Give me a break. Conservatives aren’t even allowed to talk in many venues. And the same folks blocking conservatives then turn around and talk about ‘shared values’.
Such as?
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