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[The NCAA now allows transgender females to compete in women's track events, and soon other sports.  The big concern that needs to be addressed is not that the transgenders are setting new records for women, but that this makes no never mind to the officials now fashioning this new sports world, “Focusing on performance advantage is largely irrelevant because this is a rights issue. We shouldn’t be worried about trans people taking over the Olympics. We should be worried about their fairness and human rights instead.” (more here)  gjr] 

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  1. Walt Avatar

    Now this should make the Olympics fun to watch.
    This is about the same thing of game fixing the Russians and China keep getting accused of.

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  2. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Todd 8:05
    “This is about the same thing of game fixing the Russians and China keep getting accused of”
    How about CONVICTED of?

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    TS 944
    so drinking already I see. That was Walt. AA is beckoning you.

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  4. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Todd J-
    Did you just engage? Why yes, I think you did. After all of your vows, threats and promise to never engage. Loser.
    Todd Swallows

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  5. Walt Avatar

    😵🤪 Swallows??

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 26 February 2019 at 10:12 AM
    That was pretty funny……..”Swallows”…..err….um…..Anderson……committed an “Emery”.

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  7. AV Man Avatar
    AV Man

    ,,,re: Olympics…they need a new “open class” for roided, transgendered, and bionic sportos…

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Nice to see we are on the same page ths morning. Listened to an interview this morning with a polite young HS lady who lost in the state track and field prelims to two boys in the girls events, losing her chance to make it to the state finals and her dream of landing a scholarship (or partial scholarship) to college. And to lose to “boy” who is a sophomore. The college scouts only are at the state finals usually track and field. Everyone loves a winner. So much for a level playing field.
    I forgot all those mornings in high school a young Biker Bill got up before school at the crack of dawn to go running off on the backroads, byways, hills and dales to get a few mile workout in before class every morn, rain or shine.
    I have no doubt that almost any young man in the 20’s who is in decent shape (or not in bad shape) can beat the best a female team can muster. Laura Ingrahm once told the story of being on a collegiate La Crosse or field hockey team that just won the national Championship. The girls were pumped up to the max celebrating their victory and feeling like Superman on the bus when it pulled in back to Dartmouth. Still feeling pumped up, they saw some guys from a dorm playing soccer in an athletic field. The victorious ladies challenged the guys to a game of La Crosse and got their asses wiped. She could not believe the boys upper body strength, their athleticism. And these were just male students from a dorm who where either althelics or ever played La Crosse (or field hockey). Burst that bubble real quick.
    This ain’t little Bobbie Riggs playing Billie Jean King in tennis here. Isn’t synthetic testosterone a banned substance for Olympic athelics? Don’t men naturally have more testosterone and hormones than females?
    Ah, I will steal a link Dr.Rebane posted on Scattershots and repost it here. Thanks doc.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    OKAAAaaaaaa….. First time I have found tomato seeds sprouting INSIDE the tomato.
    Think it’s safe???

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt? Is it ripe? They charge extra for sprouts. Fried green tomatoes?
    ———————————
    Ah, what is a true woman? Born that way always works for me.
    Is it genitalia? Is it chromosomes? Is it hormones?” Susan Cahn, a his­tory professor at the University at Buffalo and author of Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in 20th Century Women’s Sports, told BuzzFeed News. While the IAAF and IOC have continued to search for new ways to neatly sort athletes into “female” and “male” categories, their main goal, she said, has stayed the same: excluding athletes who don’t fit the mold of “true women.”
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/sex-testing-olympians

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Swallower, yes I find it fun to expose you to the public fr the fool and felon you are.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Yes Bill,, a picture perfect tomato.
    Doing some research, these must have been in the cooler for some time. This can happen with long storage apparently.
    Now to take the things back from where I got’m.
    They will have to throw out the entire stock. Those sprouts are toxic.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    🤣🤣🤣🤣
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/26/illegal-immigrant-maga-hat-assault/
    😭😭😭
    A woman who allegedly attacked a man sporting a “Make America Great Again” hat was apprehended Tuesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after authorities discovered she is unlawfully present in the U.S.
    “Deportation officers with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Team arrested Rosiane Santos, an unlawfully present citizen of Brazil, today near Falmouth, Massachusetts,” ICE spokesman John Mohan said, CBS News reported Tuesday.
    “Santos is currently facing local charges for assault and other offenses. She is presently in ICE custody and has been entered into removal proceedings before the federal immigration courts,” Mohan added.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Maybe the Nevada Club is more to “his” liking?

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  15. AV Man Avatar
    AV Man

    ,,,a bit of good news for GOPers and SOJers,,,I was trying to find out who bought Friar Tucks in Nirvana Silly and noticed on the buyer’s Facebook page he had an image of himself with an image of the Seal of the Great State of Jefferson!!!
    ,,,possible new safe space for lovers of guns and haters of regulations and taxes right here in River City???

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  16. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    AV 1:23
    And gubrnet health inspections be dammed! Et at yer own risk.
    Todd Swallows

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  17. Walt Avatar

    River city?
    So you have been eating those tomatoes…

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    and then there’s the fastest 14 year old in Sweden.
    https://i.redd.it/w802hpdrasey.jpg
    Don’t say anything in Sweden about it though or there’ll be hell to pay.
    Speaking of male vs. female athletes, there’s always the story of Karsten Braasch, who trained for his match by playing golf and then drinking some beers.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Swallows,
    Who eats in Nevada City? Not me. Not since that rude service I received last time I took out of town guests there. This red head dude was a complete asshole and then I found he owns the place. The sign said please wait here to be seated. So, we stood there and he came out and acted we were in his way and gave us dirty looks and even a litttle
    push. And we were all dressed up and looked respectable. If I did not have my guests with me, I would have dropped the fucker right there, cut his nuts off, and shoved down his throat. And gone to jail. Some New Orleans Wannbe resturant. Never going back there, ever. That red headed punk will get his at another time, or never.
    Another place down by Deer Creek wanted over 15 bucks for a burger during lunch. I paid it, but never again…7 years or so ago. Plus, what that wack job tin foil hat lay said about cops, and knowing several older women assaulted or harassed behind the National and Miners Foundry, have at it. Go for it. Nevada City is doing just fine without me. Probably better.
    I will never spend a penny in that town again, as if really makes a difference, lol. I go there if I have to. To each his own. Variety is the spice of life.
    I used to pal around with a guy for a few years who was born and raised inside Pioneer Park. His Daddy did all the stonework in Pioneer Park back in the day. My dago friend. He showed me where he hunted after school along with his classmates…which is now around Railroad Ave and Gold Flat. He showed me old sheds in the blackberry bushes right off Gold Flat covered in blackberry bushes. Still there, must have driven by it a 1,000 times and you would never notice, It was a mechanics shop for the old Narrow Guage.
    Anyway, he said the same thing several other native sons I know say. That is, “They will never step foot in Nevada City again.” The libs ruint it.” It’s true. He drives around the town rather than drive through it. His hometown, lol. Not his town no more. Oh, they all will die off sooner than later. It’s some body else’s town now. I go there if I have to. Do miss a nice theater in the Round now and then and foreign film festivals with subtitles, and animated film festivals. A small sacrifice to pay after what that nutjob said about cops. There are other places to go to and eat at.
    But, by all means, go for it. It’s a free country.

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  20. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    in the “naw we ain’t no goombahs” dept. Congressman Matt Gaetz issued a threat on twitter to expose Cohen’s supposed girlfriends to his wife and father-in-law in what some legal experts are calling ‘witness tampering’. Except. Duh! If ,in fact, there are girlfriends, which no one else seems to know about at this point, the lid is off the pot now anyway. One would think that given Cohen’s mantra of not biting the bullet for trump that this latest mob style gaff just adds frosting to the cake. Revenge is a dish best served cold. Of course trumpy is off giving a helping hand to rocket boy to try and take some of the coming revelations out of the spotlight. Just like everything he does.

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  21. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the “Republican rule #1984: alway accuse the other guys of what you are doing” category: Slippery Mitch McConnell put the blame on Democrats for Republican election fraud in N. Carolina for failing to recognize that voter fraud Republicans were screaming about for years was real. Duh.. It seem ole Mitchy got his frauds mixed up. The fraud at the top of republican’s list is accusing illegal immigrants and other illegal voters of trying to manipulate the outcome in favor of Democrats (never proven and considered virtually non-existent)…. this version of republican voter fraud involves actually taking ballots (ballot fraud) in an effort to manipulate the votes of actual legal registered voters. Proven beyond a reasonable doubt.. in fact the republican who won the election via fraud said today he would not seek election again citing health reasons. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
    I report you decide!

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I see BoobieC 543, is trying to appropriate our position about him and his ilk. Sorry BoobieC, we have exposed you libs for years about “projecting” your behavior on others. Not going to fly here. We don’t so that because we have balls. We take the heat. You libs try to hit and run like the cowards you all are.

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  23. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Ol’ Mitch outsmarts Schumer and the boys every day. Too bad so sad.

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  24. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    todd — I know you are but what am I…neener neener

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another reminder to the po’ ol’ fakenewsman why the historic holding of the Senate really matters so much in the real world.
    😉

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well that was awfully pasteless of me!
    The Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Trump’s nominee to be a judge on the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a party-line vote — and, in a historic snub, the White House ignored the input of the judge’s two Democratic home-state senators in the process.
    The aggressive and unprecedented move to give the so-called “blue slip” consultation process the slip comes as the Trump administration seeks to erode left-wing dominance on the key appellate court, which Trump has called “disgraceful” and politically biased.
    With a sprawling purview representing nine Western states, the appellate court has long been a thorn in the side of the Trump White House, with rulings against his travel ban policy and limits on funding to “sanctuary cities.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ninth-circuit-gets-another-trump-picked-judge-after-white-house-bypasses-consultation-with-dems
    😉

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    BoobieC is showing his age again. 13 year old girl. Are you transitioned yet?

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  28. George Rebane Avatar

    I notice that recently the progressives here have put Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ on steroids with their discovery that they can and should also accuse Repubs of doing what they do, and then notch it up by ascribing the practice to originate from some fabricated Republican rules.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bobbie Sue @ 5:43.
    I for one am most pleased with the decision in North Carolina. All I seek is the truth. The issue is ballot harvesting. The canidate had an operative that was harvesting ballots. Paying folks a couple bucks a ballot to go out there and collect ballots. The thing that really touched me was the candidate’s own son (an assistant US prosecutor who worked on his dad’s campaign) about obvious red flag concerning the operative. Very candid and honest testimony by all. A moving moment watching the testimony and following the case. There was no evidence or charges that the “winning” candidate knew , yet he did miss some red flags. When presented with the statistical evidence of the high chance
    of hanky panky went down, the candidate called for a new election along with the local election board, BOTH of whom first resisted calling for a new election.
    The next day (yesterday) the canidate himself withdrew his name for consideration, a move he was not required to do.
    He figured the primary election was now so tainted and rather than do a redo of the election, it was best to preserve the integrity of the election process ahead of his personal ambitions. Thus he withdrew, even though he personally was not under a cloud of suspicion or target of allegations. Can’t remember if the operative actually even worked for the campaign. A good moment for The Truth.
    What makes the North Carolina case different from the allegations of ballot harvesting in CA is that it was a bottom up I nvestigation in North Carolina, starting at the local level. In CA, all election fraud investigations are stopped at the local level, stopped half way up the chain, and all START at the top. Rather than working it’s way up to the CA Sec of State, all investigations in CA work their way down from the Sec of State. A glaring potential for political abuse. The Sec of State can start or quench whole shebang. No investigation into CA ballot harvesting will be commenced unless it is started by Padilla, or whatever his name is. If he says no, then no investigation will commence, including at the local level. Truth won in NC, nothing to see here in CA.

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    ”Posted by: Robert Cross | 26 February 2019 at 05:43 PM”
    Well said Roberta…….did you and the other hausfraus think that up at book club?

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    …….and in the “shit you don’t see every day” category!
    Russian Nuclear ICBM Stuck In Moscow Traffic Jam
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-26/russian-nuclear-icbm-stuck-moscow-traffic-jam

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO
    “Asked by moderator Wolf Blitzer why he stops short of calling Maduro a dictator, Sanders demurred and turned his fire on President Donald Trump, accusing him of being inconsistently “selective as to where he is concerned about democracy”
    Yes, Bernie, Saudi Arabia is a Despot, no doubt. Now Bernie, why do you resist calling a Maduro a dictator? Yes, women don’t have equal rights in Saudia Arabia and people there are not starving to death and there is plenty of antibiotics in the hospitals.
    “Why have you stopped short of calling Maduro of Venezuela a dictator?” Blitzer asked.
    Yes, we know you are concerned with democracy all over the world, especially in places like China and Cuba and North Korea and UAE. Now Bernie, why do you stop short of calling Maduro a dictator?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FqpA3lgl_2w&feature=youtu.be
    Boy, Bernie has a soft spot for dictators,lol

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Available worker pool, massive consumer confidence, cheap energy, heavy transport infrastructure, MAGA tax incentives, what’s not to like? I know, I know its soooo old school but –
    The total $4.5 billion investment by Fiat Chrysler will mean a total of about 6,500 new U.S. jobs at existing Michigan plants with plans to build a new assembly plant in the city limits of Detroit, marking the first time a new plant will be built in the city in almost three decades.
    “The reborn Mack facility would be the first new assembly plant to be built in the city of Detroit in nearly three decades,” Fiat Chrysler executives said in a statement. “Jefferson North was the last new assembly plant built in the city in 1991. When complete, Mack would join Jefferson North as the only automotive assembly plants to be located completely within the city limits of Detroit.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/fiat-chrysler-to-reopen-idled-detroit-plant-bring-6-5k-u-s-jobs-back-to-michigan/
    😉
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/fiat-chrysler-to-reopen-idled-detroit-plant-bring-6-5k-u-s-jobs-back-to-michigan/

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish@ 8:08 pm
    I can’t match an ICBM in a traffic jam, , but you don’t need no stinkin’ traffic lights if you live in Hanoi.
    https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/2318390738212145/

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  35. Scott O Avatar

    https://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/069.html?hdf=1
    What a shame!
    Think of all the grandparents trying to get their grand kids to the museums to see what snow looks like.
    Now they’re stuck at home and the poor little kids will never ever know what snow looks like.
    Settled science!
    Don’t argue!

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  36. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Tozer- 2:23
    “This red head dude was a complete asshole and then I found he owns the place. “. . . “I would have dropped the fucker right there, cut his nuts off, and shoved down his throat.”
    The “New Orleans” restaurant is called Ike’s. The owner’s name is Ike. Damn nice guy and his cooking is respected even in NOLA. I knew him when he was an upstart chef is Santa Cruz well over 20 years ago. He has never had red hair. Not even close.
    BTW: He is also an instructor at our local Karate Joint, Kook Sool Won. Though he is rather lean and wiry and very mild mannered, good luck “dropping the fucker”. I’d pay to watch you try. Check out his cauliflower ears and the callouses on his knuckles and elbows before you get to feeling a bit too frisky.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Scott! I had two gophers in a dugout tree root, shooting class 4 rapids down the hill, and through my backyard. I swear I heard it yell “BANZAI !” as they paddled past.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    I’m no fan of Bernie Sanders. But he still deserves a fair shake.
    Now CNN is playing dirty? Stacking the deck against him?
    First Hillary, now asswipe news?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/cnn-accused-of-colluding-with-democrat-operatives-during-bernie-sanders-town-hall/
    “Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) participated in a town hall event that aired on CNN Monday as part of his campaign for the 2020 election–but some online sleuths have discovered that the audience may have been stacked against him.”
    Yup LIB news is just an extension of the DNC.

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  39. Scott O Avatar

    Walt 10:17 – Why should Bernie expect anything different from the Clinton News Network than the last go round?
    The Dems are anything but democratic, that’s just a buzz word they like to use when it’s convenient.
    You Californians should have listened to your wise ex-governor. From now on, it will be nothing but drought.
    Settled science – no arguing, now!

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar

    So listening to todays hearing it’s obvious that the Republicans offer no defense of Trump and are limited to going after the integrity of Cohen as their last resort.

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trump quote relevant to this topic:
    “I Could Stand In the Middle Of Fifth Avenue And Shoot Somebody And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters””
    This RR Circle of Jerks, is our President.

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  42. Walt Avatar

    There’s Paul!, You sure love liars when they are saying something you want to hear.
    What a joke. The first hearing the LIBS have, their star witness is a CONVICTED liar. ” WE take lying to Congress VARY seriously. Thank You for coming back and doing it some more.”

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar

    Do you have the same opinion of Manifort Walt?

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  44. Walt Avatar

    An Emery question? I don’t answer telemarketers phone calls either.

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  45. George Rebane Avatar

    Defense of Trump? I wonder what other defense Repubs could offer when the allegations come from the mouth of a confessed and convicted liar with a very large ax to grind. Examples?

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  46. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery is not listening to the hearing or he would have a 180-degree different opinion. Cohen has yet to accuse Trump os anything illegal. Now they are trying to say a $35,000 check was hush money to the pirn babes and Trump says it is a retainer. The Democrats and Paul Emery are so desperate they are trying to believe a liar that actually lied to this very committee! You cannot make this stuff up!

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