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431 responses to “Sandbox – 14jan19”
San Antonio which contains the walled ibn Alamo was used as an example of a place protected with a wall. And Brandon B here gets his panties all bunched up for some reason. The left is truly nutty!
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That why I said it. You just got spanked.
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Friggin litterbugs. I hate litterbugs. They care nothing about our environment. They are a lawless bunch that should rot in jail.
“The Defendants did not get an access permit, they did not remain on the designated roads, and they left water, food, and crates in the Refuge. All of this, in addition to violating the law, erodes the national decision to maintain the Refuge in its pristine nature,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco wrote in his three-page order posted online Friday afternoon.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/four-border-activists-guilty-of-illegally-entering-refuge-to-give-aid-to-undocumented-immigrants
https://www.foxnews.com/us/four-border-activists-guilty-of-illegally-entering-refuge-to-give-aid-to-undocumented-immigrants
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“An interesting statistic I learned from a spokesperson from the National Park Service today at the film festival – 85% of National Park users are self described liberals. Why do you people hate nature and seek to destroy it …”
LL 941pm
93.7% of all statistics cited in blogs are made up, including this 85% of National Park users being self described liberals cited by LL.
The name of the “spokesperson from the National Park Service” was not cited.
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Litterbugs. The assholes have no problem carrying food and freebies they are given into the woods, but they have an inversion to carrying their crap out. When is our LE going to cite these scum for littering? Screw those trash spewing environment hating bums.
We could learn from Placer County. They site the puke buckets for littering.
Mamula does not have any recent criminal cases in Nevada County, but court records show a drug offense in 2017, as well as camping and littering offenses in 2018, in Placer County.
https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/man-on-highway-49-snarls-traffic-ends-up-in-jail/
And to think our local do-gooders give them the trash they discard. Disguising.
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So Steven Frisch, 1033am… how do you get away with your Sierra Business Council being lily white? … every single person, all 40, are monochrome, people of no color.
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The Beat Goes on
This would change everything. Peaceful revolution:
“A call for a national general strike part 2: Times up for deferring MLKโs dream
Ballooning debt, stark income inequality, endless war and rampant racism are all hallmarks of the Trump nightmare
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/13/the-case-for-a-national-general-strike-protesting-trumps-heartless-shutdown/
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Steve- Of course, Todd is an American Patriot and anyone who doesn’t follow lockstep in his personal views is a nazi and not eligible to participate in National days of celebration. I almost spit up my coffee when I read that the Fourth of July was a conservative celebration!!!
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How do you pay for it? Blonde ambition?
โConservative pundit Ann Coulter once made a controversial claim that โsingle women look at the government as their husbands,โ expecting the government to provide for their every need. Ocasio-Cortezโs Green New Deal naivete provides unfair validation for that statement. Instead of using her massive platform to make nuanced, well-reasoned arguments for taxing the rich and expanding the national debt, her current track record indicates that sheโs interested in neither.
All of the cringeworthy media interviews and high-profile errors sheโs been so flippant about making will only cause more difficulty for young women to get elected to high office in the future. Her incompetence only cements the idea that a pretty, likable woman is one who, unfortunately, lacks a brain.โ
http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/18/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-setting-women-back-light-years-politics/
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PaulE 1118am – Paul, how do you assess Salon as a persuasive leftwing media organ? Do people on your side take them seriously, for example, on making such a call for a general strike?
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,,,Bible Thumping Trump Youth to the Rescue!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maga-hat-boy-apos-mother-132527127.html
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George
It the idea of a General Strike that is starting to resonate that I’m referring to not the specific source. As far as the credibility of Salon as a news source it is at least as credible as Breitbart or Hannity to name a couple of the Right Wing commonly used “sources”.
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Well what is there to say when you get caught lying!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buzzfeed-reporter-after-rebuke-by-mueller-declines-to-explain-discrepancies-we-cant-get-into-like-the-details-there
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Brandon Branson | 20 January 2019 at 11:26 AM
I wrote that as a joke but now I see it is actually true. We conservatives celebrate the Constitution and you lefties want to change it and make it something else. So yes, those days are days of conservative celebration. You and Frisch can have your “mayday” and Lenin birthday events all to yourselves.
An American Patriot would not talk and write against the things that make our country great as you loons of the left do.
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ToddJ brings up an interesting point, whether you agree with his specifics or not. According to ample liberal media (print, broadcast, blogs, โฆ) there definitely are โholidaysโ โ secular and religious โ that are distinctly favored asymmetrically depending on your ideology. Googling the topic provides ample evidence. Conservatives, for example, are more prone to observe religious, patriotic, and historical (traditional) holidays. And liberals are obviously more observant of the socio-political holidays such those celebrating labor, ethnic identities, Cesar Chavez, MLK, May Day, Cinco de Mayo, Labor Day, and Indigenous Peopleโs Day (instead of Columbus Day). Even a semi-religious (semi-secular?) holiday like Thanksgiving is now beginning to be eschewed by the Left because of its Pilgrim heritage. Christmas has long been dunned by the secular humanist Left. And from yearsโ long observances of events like 4th July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, it doesnโt take rocket science to figure out the political affiliation of the residences and businesses that fly flags, buntings, โฆ, and who attends the convocations to observe the holidays. Parades and fireworks are more iffy to argue since they provide entertainment and expression (e.g. political party and activist floats) for people of all persuasions. But attend, say, a Veterans Day convocation, and youโll have trouble finding a liberal save some old codger in his American Legion cap who served overseas in the long distant past and is now a liberal. Bottom line, to argue that the Right and Left observe all of our holidays with equal enthusiasm, seems to me, as something people do who havenโt been paying attention or serve another agenda. Just a thought.
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George
I’m referring more to cultural events and their effects on the economy. SYRCL with their advocacy for Wild and Scenic status for the South Yuba River and their organized support for the South Yuba River State Park as well as their Wild and Scenic Film Festival in a very slow time of year-mid January make a huge impact on the local economy. Can you list an equivilant organization from the Conservative perspective that makes such an impact?
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Having attended many Memorial Day events, parades and other community gatherings I have to say the left only shows up to complain and whine while the conservatives are there to say thanks. Recall LaMalfa coming here after the Trump election. The left turns out all those freeloaders to scream and shout their “wants” while we conservatives were there to thank LaMalfa for his help of the district. And the gatherings on the overpasses here. All the loons of the left are there with their whining and screaming while we on the right were there to support America.
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Todd
Do you acknowledge the benefits to our economy of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival and the South Yuba River State Park?
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Punchy, would you comment on the claim of ‘LL’ that an official spokesperson from the National Park Service stated at a Wild and Scenic venue that 85% of National Park visitors are self described “liberals”?
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Could be Gregory. Why is it important? They add to the economy don’t they?
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There are 700,000 visitors to the Park annually Gregory. That’s quite an impact on our economy.
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Here’s a contrary word on the issue that is a bug up the FUE’s butt today… I’m shocked, shocked that it was selective editing that is driving the outrage du jour.
http://reason.com/blog/2019/01/20/covington-catholic-nathan-phillips-video
Steven Frisch, Judith Lowry, Chip Willer… such dupes.
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Steve King
https://www.facebook.com/DailyWire/videos/2026888037407534/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMTA0NDI3ODgyOTM3NDM3/
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Wow… two non sequiturs from Punchy.
First, it was a claim that a National Park Service spokesperson made a general claim about visitors to National Parks, not the South Yuba state park.
And I sincerely doubt there are 700,000 visitors to “the Park” annually.
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G@ 101 – Amazing the fake news got away with it for that long with the real video out there. But hey lefties never let those pesky facts get in the way of a good narrative!
Somehow I doubt the denizens of the Dark Lords Liberal Lament Land will bother with the facts in your link or watch the video. Why waste a good pearl clutching froth, right?
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Do your homework Gregory. Google South Yuba River State park 700,000 that number is all over the internet. Here’s an example
https://yubariver.org/our-work/river-ambassador-program/
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More:
While ABC did share the video proving Phillips was the instigator, it obviously pained the network to give the MAGA students the benefit. โBut on this Martin Luther King weekend, the youngest daughter of the civil rights icon tweeting, โthis is ugly, America. Truth, education and corrective action matter,โโ Reshef added before playing a โtear-filled plea for a teachable momentโ from Phillips.
โOne Native American man who was there tells the Associated Press that he initially thought this could spiral out of control, there would be a mob mentality,โ she continued, โbut some of those students actually joining the Native American men and women that were singing there, and it ended up defusing peacefully. That’s what we don’t see in some of the video.โ
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/01/20/nbc-blasts-catholic-students-racist-fails-update-story?utm_source=newsbusters&utm_medium=block&utm_campaign=trending_now&utm_content=NB
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Related
https://nypost.com/2019/01/18/mike-pence-responds-to-criticism-over-wifes-job-at-christian-school/
Let us hope so. The Bible, the same one liberals are waving lately, says Christians, and Catholics, are the light of the world and are to place their light, not under a bushel, but on a night stand where the light can lead all to the ultimate truth. It is unlikely Feinstein would tell a Muslim nominee, โThe Sharia dogma lives loudly within you.โ
Note the use of the word โdogmaโ in a pejorative sense, as if the Catholic Church was a cult like the Druids chanting around a fire waiting for the human sacrifice to arrive. In fact, Barrett has in fact been slandered as a member of a cult which is in fact a legitimate Catholic faith group:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/12/the_democrats_anticatholic_bigotry.html#ixzz5dBaZOwnA
And Imainโt even Catholic.
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From Nevada Counties website
Nevada County has been facilitating a multi-agency Yuba River Safety Cohort group to take steps towards keeping the South Yuba Riverโs approximate 700,000 annual visitors safe while enjoying the Yubaโs natural beauty and recreation opportunities
https://mynevadacounty.com/CivicSend/ViewMessage/message?id=60303
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Paul, where did the number come from?
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700,000? No that was a made up number back in the4 90’s from SYRCL. I knowe of no actual count but if there is one and it is legitimate I will accept it. I recall the SYRCL jerks told us there would be this wonderful input to the local economy with the visitors to WandS but the truth was the visitors brought their own food and drink and filled up their gas tanks in other places.
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Nothing “scenic” about brush choked canyons. Just one dope roach not snuffed out, can level Nevada City. “Paradise II” is just waiting to happen. Not a matter of “if”, but “when”.
Our ECO nuts love to sing the praises of Malakoff state park.
“OH the BEAUTY!!” yet condemn those “who made it that way”.(ya. The miners)
A word comes to mind. “Twofaced”.
As for the 4TH, Which side of the fence is first to bitch about the noise? ECO nuts went blind with rage because bits of cardboard and flecks of paper were found in water on the 5TH. “YOU MUST END FIREWORKS!! THEY ARE NOT ECO FRIENDLY!!!”
OK ECO nuts,, did you get the memo? A collective “F” YOU, the horse you rode in on, and the dog that followed.
Didn’t the Proggys demand an end to the civil war re-enactments in Nevada City? (a patriotic event) The cannon fire scared the dogs.
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I recall a trick played by the left when I was a Supervisor regarding numbers in budgets or benefits. They would come testify and use a made up number and the lazy ass press would just accept it without research. And then when published the same people that planted the phony number would put it into their propaganda and cite the paper. What a scam. They do it with “global warming” as well.
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Why don’t you ask the County that Gregory. They use it all the time when referring to the economic impact of the State Park. Show me evidence it’s wrong.
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“South Yuba Riverโs approximate 700,000 annual visitors ”
“Nevada Countyโs historic Bridgeport Covered Bridge welcomes approximately 700,000 California State Parks visitor”
Now if I use LIB math,, that’s 1.4 million visitors.
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Paul, where did the number come from?
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Todd writes:
“700,000? No that was a made up number back in the4 90’s from SYRCL. ”
That memo was written by Nevada County CEO Rick Haffey in 2017. Are you saying he made it up?
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He is using the phony numbers the SYRCL jerks spewed in the 90’s. He just parroted it. Can’t you read?
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Show me evidence its wrong wails the pony tail of ignorance because he knows that there is no google search with evidence to support his boast. The County web site has no such numbers either.
There is no evidence to prove wrong as usual.
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Looks like the FUE and Frisch and Willer and that babe Lowry are crting about their brownshirts not getting respect.
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Show me proof it was made up in the 90’s Todd. That was over 20 years ago.
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The onus is on you ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman, its your claim to defend and PROVE.
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In other fake news,
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/20/critics-covington-maga-critics-push-back-against-portrayal-of-catholic-high-school-as-racist-to-native-american/
It really sucks when a video of the WHOLE confrontation shows up.
And it shows the opposite of what Proggy news is trying to push.
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So Don you do not accept a statement from Nevada Counties CEO Rick Haffey about the use of the South Yuba State Park.
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Paul needs to explain why, from his own post, that “700,000” got used more than once for different places.
Now do the Yuba County riff raff that shows up to swim and trash the place count as paying “visitors”?
I can’t find any “hard” proof of a “visiting” body count.
The usual gang playing fast and lose with arbitrary numbers.
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I attended and spoke against the SYRCL jerks at every hearing and recall it well. I suggest you do your journalism and go read their testimony. I am as usual, correct and you are not.
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Seven hundred thousand visitors is 1918 visitors a day, 365 days a year.
But if we think it’s weekends, that would be limited to 104 days a year, or 6731 people on average on weekends.
If it’s weekends in the summer months, that would be a crowding in just 26 days a year… of 27 thousand people, or a really big chunk of Nevada County, a sea of pasty white flesh.
So, when are all those people there? Yes, in heat waves in the summer it seems like all of Grass Valley are in the water by the bridge but it isn’t so.
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Show me a credible source that disputes these numbers Gregory.
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Sometimes you gotta love numbers guys. Gregory shot Paul’s numbers down like clay pigeons.
In other words Paul,, it’s statistically impossible.
Not to mention,, PARKING!
Tell us Paul,, how many parking spots are on the HY49 Yuba crossing?
There is room for about 150 cars at Bridgeport. (legally parked)
That I DO know. ( the kind of info when you give a bid to pave )
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Will someone please look in on Paul Emery… his head may have exploded.
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I don’t accept the memory of a po’ ol’ fakenewsman, provide a link to that, I already looked on the county website archives. No such thing there. Give it up and let someone else use your device, that at least can be funny.
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