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Sandbox – 8dec18

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  1. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    When you raise the cost of anything you get less of it – less produced, less consumed, and less available to support things in the economy that depend on it. Totally unknown to the Left.

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Terrible career move if your boss is Trump. Ask Sessions, Cohen, Manifort, Flynn…the list goes on and on.

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    “Picket Fence” is going to be just delightful over the next couple of years……..
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes a $21 trillion mistake
    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-makes-a-21-trillion-13441835.php

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So George (4:44) that’s the great fear about inflation.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 09 December 2018 at 04:47 PM
    Are you trying to say that if you work in the Trump administration and aren’t crooked, then you still shouldn’t serve the country?

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Fish
    Would you work for somebody rho after you left his employment would call you dumb as a rock and lazy as hell” (Tillotson) and “dumb Southerner” “mentally retarded”Sessions?

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    That’s publicly saying those things to the press. Real creep weirdo this President of the United States.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish
    Did Trump really say that? My, he has such a way with words, now doesn’t he. You know, Trump is a lot like Punchy. Jab jab jab first time, everytime. He will run to the microphones and mix it up with the Lamestream and loving every minute of it. Most accessible POTUS in my lifetime.
    Last week or so on a Friday morning he was heading out to Twirly Bird One and the fake NPR story was sizzling hot hot hot and not rescinded yet in that 6 hour story and something else about Cohen has the goods on Russian Collusion and R’s should be very nervous. Now, a normal Presiden would just head straight to the he.icopter and wave to the press as he is hurriedly went up the stairs. Not Trump. Instead of playing deaf, he turned around and mixed it up with them. He loves it, lives for it. Just like our Popinjay. Except Trump don’t take no time off for a little tick.. 🙂 He’s got a swamp to drain and a country to fix. Stopped by a tick?

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  9. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    WOW!! The buzzard of Broad St. giving employment advice.
    He who’s paycheck is subsidized. A buck says you would be unemployed if that free money your employer gets dried up overnight.

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  10. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    So Proggys are all in a fever.
    Yet real crimes don’t mean shit to them.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/victoria-toensing-why-has-mueller-ignored-obama-administration-crimes

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    Would you work for someone that would publicly say those things about former employees?

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 456pm
    So, you’re a blithering idiot on monetary issues, too?
    No, that isn’t the great fear about inflation.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Doesn’t inflation do this Gregory? To quote George
    “When you raise the cost of anything you get less of it – less produced, less consumed, and less available to support things in the economy that depend on it.”

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Defination of inflation Gregory:
    “inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.”

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 5: pm
    yep. It’s al most a branch of the government to themselves and above the law, yet controll the law. Our 5th branch of government.
    Finally got around to diggging into Uranium One. Documents, testimony in forgein capitals and parliaments. . Not quite the nothingburger we were told. M was most adamant that it was another conspiracy theory.
    State Departtment threatened to cut off aid to the government of Kazahsttan if they they do go along to alllow sales of mines start the ball rolling to having a third party obtaining the export license, so no, the uranium did not stay in our country as promised . And who was in charge of the Approval Panel with all the agency top dogs signing off. My Gal! It was her baby. Oh, she was just a member on the panel, some deputy took care of it. Right. You mean like with a cloth? :).
    ——————
    Seems to me somebody was on the fainting couch when Trump called out Arnold for dropping the ball on the Apprentice. Gee, try to do a guy a favor and he ain’t up to running a reality tv show. Also on a Sunday. Hmmm.
    Seems to me I recall somebody losing their marbles over T Rex from Exxon Mobile having contacts with the Russias and together they are going to take over the world energy and hold Europe hostage with Trump and T Rex’s help….Big Oil joins Big Evil Russia (our sworn enemy) to enrich oil companies (Punchy’s other sworn enemy) for a new Evil Empire. That is proof that Putin has blackmail stuff on Trump the novice. Sells out country and the free world for money! Stop them! T Rex the now good man.
    Exxon Mobile for Secretary of State!!! The swamp! Worse than Humungous from the Road Warrior. T Rex is not a suitable choice. The Russians will run circles around us.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just back from the Alta Sierra Country Club where ASPOA and the Club held a fundraiser to the benefit of firefighters who lost homes in the Camp fire. Excellent food, 3 two hour seating’s and thousands upon thousands upon thousands of gift cards and checks donated above the ticket prices.
    A Very Special Thank You to Eddie and Nancy Garcia from the Association and the Club as well as the firefighters for their extremely generous donation of $1,000.00 in gift cards!
    🙂

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Good work Don. Nevada County is really coming through to help the folks in Paradise.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I am remis in not thanking all the folks like KVMR, KNCO, The Union who were so helpful in the marketing of the event. THANK YOU!!!
    😉

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Nicely done gents!
    🦆

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  20. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.”
    Wonderful – Paul managed to find a dictionary online and cut and paste a quote from said dictionary.
    Here’s the issue, Paul – why is there inflation?
    If it’s because the govt has added a tax to raise the cost of goods and energy with no increase in value to the consumer then…
    Cue the Yellow Vests.
    The Union’s editor apparently doesn’t understand basic economics nor does he follow world news.

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, I don’t get a feeling that you’re grokking the difference in cost as a number of dollars and cost as a value of those dollars.
    If a punitive tax is imposed on carbon fuels, everything that is moved or made by those fuels will be made more expensive, and therefore we will have less of them. Yes or no?

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The Union Army solved the hyperinflation experienced by the Confederate Dollar for a two week period. Does anyone know what the Union Army did?
    A: they advanced on the city where the Confederacy had their printing presses, which had to stop printing Confederate dollars for a couple weeks for the move further from the advancing Union troops.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    SNOWFLAKE ALERT! Don’t we all know sweet and lovely obsessive Christmas disorder friends and family?
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fashion-seller-fire-obsessive-christmas-disorder-pajamas-ocd-ruins-lives-221530018.html
    😉

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 09 December 2018 at 08:55 PM
    I’m getting one for my mother in law!
    The shirt…..not the model!

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  25. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,Po George@1247,,,ya right,,,The Military left the border before the Caravan got there
    ,,,the existing Border Wall worked as it has per usual for years,,,
    ,,,with the Trump improvements of rebar punji sticks that one woman was impaled on.
    Typical low bid government contractor did not install rebar safety caps…
    Looks like someone is drunk on Orange Cool-Aid again!!!

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  26. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “The Military left the border before the Caravan got there”
    What caravan? Thought you said it was a phantasm.
    Per usual, M and the left are confused.

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  27. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    What was Emery saying? “be more LIB like” ?
    Here is what happens when that is put into practice.
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2018/12/10/majority-of-discharge-petition-gop-members-exit-congress/
    “In June, the 23 members used the discharge petition process to push for a Democratic-backed amnesty of at least 3 million DACA illegals. That push gave political cover to Ryan while he created a second immigration bill which successfully split the GOP caucus amid unanimous Democratic opposition to Goodlatte’s bill.
    The subsequent November wipeout is being described by establishment outlets as a defeat for “moderates” — even though the discharge-petition group sought no compensating protections or benefits for the blue-collar workers whose wages would be damaged by the flood of amnestied workers.

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  28. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,how bout that McCrea Dowless Walt???
    https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article222459875.html

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  29. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    WOW! Trump may have given money to a skank to keep her yap shut.
    Yet “O” had millions in “illegal” money issues.
    ” Cohen admitted to criminal violations of election law. … President Obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled! … However, under federal campaign finance rules, a contribution is “anything of value given, … for nearly $2 million in contributions in the final weeks of the campaign.”
    Then there is Uncle Joe, and HIS dirty money
    The Biden for President campaign committee owes the Treasury more than $219,000 because it accepted excessive campaign contributions and understated the value of a trip taken on a private plane in the 2008 campaign, the Federal Election Commission said in a new report.
    Auditors from the agency found numerous violations of campaign finance rules by the committee that Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. used in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/us/politics/18biden.html
    We all have heard of the hush money fund down in Sac.
    Now where is the outrage and criminal indictments there???

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  30. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,good article by Boardman today,,,
    Heritage Foundations nails LaMalfa hypocrisy,,,
    “This is not a safety net. It is a massive social welfare program. Despite myths to the contrary, this inappropriate corporate welfare goes primarily to wealthy large agriculture producers, not to small family farms.”

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    WOW
    Fox News believes that Trump will be indicted!!!
    “Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Monday said he finds it impossible to believe that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York will not at some point indict President Donald Trump.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/fox-news-legal-analyst-says-cant-imagine-trump-not-indicted-bombshell-new-york-legal-filing/

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ”’M”’ | 10 December 2018 at 09:46 AM
    WHEN HAVE YOU GUYS EVER BEEN AGAINST MASSIVE SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS?

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Can’t make an estimation about the effects of a “punitive Tax imposed on carbon fuels” without doing an analysis on the effects on inflation of global warming which the tax is designed to mitigate.

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  34. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    You get right on that Paul. I’m sure someone has already done that.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “WOW! Trump may have given money to a skank to keep her yap shut”—— Walt
    No, I would characterize it as Trump was being extorted for money during the last days of the election. October surprise. Stormy extorted money. At least John Edwards was not extorted for money to pay for fun times and his love child as his wife was dying of cancer.
    https://www.facebook.com/BuckSexton/photos/a.568156706588519/2261613783909461/?type=3&theater

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    The tapes and communications with Cohen will tell. If Trump explicitly says we need to pay off the bonkettes because they will negatively affect the elects it’s a campaign contribution.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Either way Trump lied to the American people about it so what else is new.

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  38. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Paul states”Trump lied to the American people” And the somebitch he voted for didn’t?
    Better check your own people Paul, before you start bitching about others.
    At least Trump is looking to make America a better land, while your side looks to sell it out. Elected LIBS are only looking out for themselves.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh course the Prez lied to the American people and to his own cabinet. “I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
    Did Trump lie about sex? Oh my, a married man lying about an affair? Unheard of. A treat to our democracy. Treason! Bribery! High crimes! Impeach the bastard for lying about sex, I say.
    I remember a funny political cartoon from back in the day. It was a simple cartoon of Bill and Hillary walking hand in hand. My Gal was wearing a tee shirt with the ole “I’m with Stupid” with the arrow pointing to Bubba. Bill also was wearing an “I’m with Stupid” tee shirt with the arrow pointing down to his crouch.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    You’re being evasive, Paul 1003am. It’s a simple questions.
    “If a punitive tax is imposed on carbon fuels, everything that is moved or made by those fuels will be made more expensive, and therefore we will have less of them. Yes or no?”

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  41. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Oh please, Paul – “…without doing an analysis on the effects on inflation of global warming which the tax is designed to mitigate.”
    Once again, Paul does the Spring Street shuffle off to the side to avoid actually answering a question.
    2 seconds on Duck Duck Go found this:
    https://www.masterresource.org/intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-ipcc/ipcc-alarmism-1-5c/
    Trigger warning: The facts are we can’t afford to ‘mitigate’ a fabricated tale of climate woe.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its always other peoples money with this guy –
    “I would ask all employers who can, pay an end-of-year bonus to their employees,” he said.
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/macron-to-address-france-after-latest-riots-in-paris-result-in-nearly-1000-arrests
    😉

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Paris.
    Anybody notice the graffiti on the wall, buildings, and inside looted shops in The City of Romance? No, the taggers did not write “Kilroy was Here”. Rather, it was an A with a circle around it, red and black. Must be Antifa’s calling card in the cities. The incredible shrinking rural France did not have such graffiti or looting. Hmmm. One could almost draw some parallels with Solid Blue urban districts and rural Red Districts in CA.
    If you did not notice, don’t blame yourself. MSM buried that tidbit.

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  44. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,poor Faux News Bimbo gets schooled by actual Danish person,,,
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXecLXlzEXE

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  45. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Sure, if it makes you feel good yes. Now answer this question. Will Global warming affect the cost of goods causing them to rise therefore causing inflation. Yes or no.
    Thanks for your response.

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  46. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,you go Brett,,,
    https://www.brit.co/brett-kavanaugh-sides-with-liberal-justices-in-planned-parenthood-funding-decision/

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  47. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Ha
    Trump comlsains about staff. Would any of you work for this guy? (Todd excepted because he is attracted to Trumps Studleness).
    “President Donald Trump is reportedly angry at his staffers for exhibiting low morale amid the search for a replacement for his outgoing chief of staff John Kelly.
    White House sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal said the president has taken to complaining once again about his “disloyal” aides and the apparently poor morale in the West Wing.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/trump-whining-low-staff-morale-disloyal-aides-white-house-scrambles-replace-john-kelly-report/

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  48. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Administrivia – as always, please continue threads topical to the latest Scattershots under that commentary. Much grass.

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  49. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: M | 10 December 2018 at 12:58 PM
    That’s simply not possible….we were assured by the left and the PARTY of One…Green Libertarian™ wing that if Kavanaugh was appointed that every woman within a twenty block radius of the Supreme Court was fair game for rape and that Brett and Dick Cheney were establishing their own D.C. coat hangar franchises for “do it yourself” abortions!
    So I guess all that bleating and whining leading up to the hearings was just more proggie bullshit……eh dugsKKKi?!

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  50. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 12:58 pm
    .,you go Brett”
    Yep, Brett sided with liberal values. Now there will not be millions of women dying on the streets. Thank goodness for that. Rip those babies from their mother’s wombs. Suck their brains out. Burn them with chemicals, fry those babies, kill them babies. You go Brett with those liberal values. San Franscico Values. Kill those babies, the more the merrier. Yahoo, good times. Party time in M’s home today. And let the taxpayers pay for it.
    Rip those babies from their mothers….unless they are trying to bust into our country illegally and are brown. Black babies don’t count. Eugenics and all that stuff. It’s why Margaret Higgins Sanger founded PP.
    See, all that screaming and disrupting over K rolling back a woman’s right to kill was all hat and no cattle. All that wailing and gnashing of teeth over nothing…again. What a waste of time and energy. Suck those brains out. Kill them and kill them good. Time to Celebrate! Victory for the Party who says there is no room for Pro-Life women in their ranks. How exclusionary
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1495742617226437/?type=3&source=48

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