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442 responses to “Sandbox – 14mar19”
I thought it was spelled “Stanfurd”.
Neither Harvard or Cal were caught in the first batch… Harvard may be protected by doing their selling out in the open.
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It looks like the UK is going down the road of the pony tail of ignorance, next it will be bats. Why not get back to stop and frisk and fully enforcing the law? Naw that’s too obvious.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/14/uk-lawmaker-calls-for-all-knives-to-be-registered-fitted-with-gps/
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For Robert Cross.
Kinda long, but definitely not written by anonymous. Akin to school shooter Nikolas Cruz crying out for help repeatedly, and no one listened…for political expediency. Push ‘em through. The suicide rate of adult transsexuals is now pushing 40%. Medical malpractice? Anyway, food for thought.
“I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.”
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/i-was-americas-first-nonbinary-person-it-was-all-sham
Items 5 and 6 are of importance
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/14/7-reasons-why-the-equality-act-is-anything-but/
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,,,Bill,,,I doubt this article, The Biggest Higher Education Scam Isn’t Hollywood Fraud, It’s Academia Itself, is correct.
,,,How many buildings on elite colleges are available to have someone’s name put on them? There are other ways for ne’er-do-wells to get in on pappy’s coattails…I heard that if a military brat’s father was at West Point,,, and maybe this is true at other schools that parents attended,,, they got a leg up at the admissions office.
,,,eliminate all private schools,,,make everyone compete in public schools,,,and watch how much money all schools in every district in the country suddenly get their funding increased.
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Just to clarify:
So Todd if a 19 year old sells a couple of joints to a 17 year old you say line em up and shoot them in the public square.
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“Boys and girls, this is going to get big, real big. gjr]”
Is it time to dump the SAT?
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/it-time-dump-sat
Althelics and the College Admission Scandal Grew out of a System That Was Ripe for Corruption.
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/college-admission-scandal-grew-out-system-was-ripe-corruption
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Posted by: AVMan | 14 March 2019 at 11:49 AM
,,,eliminate all private schools,,,make everyone compete in public schools,,,and watch how much money all schools in every district in the country suddenly get their funding increased.
Really…..you would think that public education has already suffered enough due to your participation?
Stop helping!
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Yes Paul-
Todd is “pro life” on his terms and only as he knows it. Sorry point is, he barely crawled out of high school on his knees and knuckles, never stood up, and I’m certain he doesn’t understand the difference between plant, animal, protist, or vegetable.
Speaking of Todd and his “ilk”. There is a green Dodge pickup that parks in front of Penny’s and the owner used adhesive letters to write” Fiestien and Pelosi suck”. I kid you not. He drives around like this. He might as well have a kick me Post-it on his back. Wonder if he and Todd share any tattoos?
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Ozz | 14 March 2019 at 12:12 PM
Ooze/Swallows?Pelline, i realize you were the jock cleaner for me and the other superior athletes at NU but this jealousy should end before you croak you old geezer. And though you were in the bottom five percent in NU I was in the top ten and you should just accept it.
Regarding the fellow with the green truck. I think I saw your heavily tattooed body and liberal bumper stickers covered all over the Volvo squelching oil smoke the other day. Please trade that in and get a Prius or an SUV. Stop polluting.
Paul Emery, my position has been stated to you many times.
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The Republicans are finally getting sick and tired of being defined by the Trump family mob. Good on them for finally standing up to the don and not only giving his emergency declaration the boot, but overwhelmingly asked for ALL of Mueller’s papers to go public. Next, it will be ten years of hidden taxes. Mr. “if you got nothing to hide” is being told by his own party to walk his talk.
Speaking of dons, I heard one took six in the chest and then got run over by a truck! One can only wish that it is contagious.
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Talk about an entitled POS –
“They’re blowing this whole thing out of proportion,” Malcolm told the New York Post on Wednesday while outside of his family’s Fifth Avenue building in New York City, as he reportedly toked on a blunt (a hollowed-out cigar filled with marijuana). “I believe everyone has a right to go to college, man.”
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/pot-smoking-son-defends-parents-charged-admissions-scandal-everyone-right-go-college-165312981.html
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The guy with the green truck MUST be a real Conservative.
A role of tape is WAY cheaper than a hard to see bumper sticker.
Will have to find that truck and drop off a role of bright neon orange. That should really toast ooz’s beans.
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That’s a Proggy for ya’.. ” I’m an asshole, but it’s other people’s fault.”
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/media-matters-boss-blames-being-bullied-as-a-kid-satire-and-right-wing-blowhards-for-his-past-hateful-comments
“Media Matters president and far-left activist Angelo Carusone has blamed being bullied as a kid, “gross and horrible” Republicans and a failed attempt at satire for hateful and inflammatory comments he made in the past about everything from transvestites to Jewish people.”
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Another act of GOD’s Will Emery.
https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2019/03/14/framed-photo-of-lords-prayer-stops-bullet-fired-into-home/
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Walt- 12:46
I’ll give you a gift certificate to B&C if you buy some neon orange tape to wrap his truck!! You and Todd are too stupid to even understand why he is a laughing stock and a true representative of conservatives in Nevada County. Your kind must make George and other semi literate neo-cons want to crawl under a rock.
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Ozz | 14 March 2019 at 01:05 PM
My immense fan base disagrees with you. Of course, you are a phony troll without guts so no one cares about you. I am very famous here and well loved. Oh and way more intelligent than you soulless troll bots.
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In the ‘finally some bi-partisanship’ category the House today voted 420-0 to passing a resolution calling for the complete Mueller report to be made public.
Bill 11:47 — I will get back to you later on that.
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@112 A symbolic means nothing do nothing vote that does not change the rules of the game so just as before the report is confidential and the AG writes the summary and decides what will see the light of day. You will never see the full report you bunch of braniacs.
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Bobbie 1147am
Leave it to the Congress to be unanimous over an action they have no authority to command.
Perhaps the best kind of futile gesture.
All…
The SAT is often criticized as not performing its central task… to predict college success. However, to believe that one has to accept that students struggling at CalTech with near perfect SAT scores in their past are equivalent to Communications ‘majors’ at Sierra College with an IQ similar to that of a sack of hammers.
If the darling influencer at USC there because mom and dad paid someone $250k each for her and her sister tried to do the work at a CalTech, Harvey Mudd, MIT or Cal (in science and engineering, not Disgruntled Studies), she’d not have been there long enough to party before a basketball game.
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Posted by: Ozz | 14 March 2019 at 01:05 PM
Your kind must make George and other semi literate neo-cons want to crawl under a rock.
Oh my…….such a towering intellectual presence! Holding court at the SBC……youngsters drinking in your every thought!
So rewarding!
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No chi com coddling –
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/14/u-s-state-department-compares-chinas-human-rights-abuses-stalin-hitler/
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Welcome to our CA education system, newcomers.
“The ACLU has begun sending out lawyers to school board information meetings on curriculum and very vocally and publicly reminding officials and parents that the time has come to move forward or their schools will face immediate legal action.”…..
“Finally, the parents had a chance to speak, some saying that they had been purposefully ignored because it was known they would object to the graphic elements intended for the curriculum as well as the unmonitored discussion of sexuality and gender identity. Davis reported one mother exclaimed, “How can a state that claims to be so much for the rights of immigrants and minorities then ignore our concerns on purpose? They are hypocrites!’
Davis said one white woman called the Hispanic crowd “liars” and “fear-mongers.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44670/hispanic-parents-frightened-about-cas-sex-ed-their-hank-berrien?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
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BC 12:45-
Thanks for the detailed description of a blunt. As you are, no doubt, acutely aware, Bessee Blunts were showcased at the opening of the marijuana retail store in Nevada City. Did you learn about blunts when you went to anti-marijuana therapy at American’s Against Safe Access training?
As an aside, a friend’s mom was an anti MJ activist in Sacramento and had a kit of paraphernalia she would use to teach parents “what to look for”. To this day I don’t think she is cognizant of the fact that her sample bong has a bowl encrusted with thick black resin – courtesy of her daughter. Clueless.
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OOOzz is sure full of himself. Who is the laughing stock? The one who has nuts smaller than a lizard’s that is too embarrassed to show up under his own damned name.
What’s funny are those far Left LIB brats that spray can their cars black and cover the ass end in stupid LIBnut bumper stickers.
So man up asswipe, and use your real name.HELL even if you grew a pair and did, we could never trust that to be real.
Just TOOOOO shameful … Yup, sucks to be you.
Seems the dude with the green truck has more honor than you will ever have.
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No dopers in government. No way, no how.
“The Pentagon is reviewing Elon Musk’s federal security clearance following the billionaire’s marijuana toke on a California comedian’s podcast in September, according to a U.S. official.
“Musk has refiled his SF-86 security form, which requires a federal employee or contractor seeking a clearance to acknowledge any illegal drug use over the previous seven years, according to the official, who asked not to be identified. The entrepreneur has a secret-level clearance because of his role as founder and CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., which is certified to launch military spy satellites.
“Smoking marijuana is “absolutely grounds for termination or loss of a clearance if a federal employee or contractor currently uses” it, lawyer Zaid said in an email.
https://www.autonews.com/executives/musks-security-clearance-under-pentagon-review-after-toke
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Well that did not take long –
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/433970-democrats-upset-over-omar-seeking-primary-challenger
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Walt you dork-
I laugh at the libtard’s stupid bumper stickers too – but at least they can spell!
Your buddy in the green truck barely made it out of NU and his spelling proves that he shared the NU showers with Toddski. One can only wonder how long he has paraded that epitaph to conservative literacy around town. His friends likely never noticed. Neither you or Todd did, even after I spelled it out for you.
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“Ozz” 239pm
I suppose you never considered that, with non-left wing intersectionality being down to the individual, that literate non-leftists don’t feel responsible for such people.
That’s his business. Not Walt’s, Todd’s, George’s or fish’s business. And no matter how such a person comes to his or her conclusions, they’re probably less likely to pick the pockets of the body politic than you or AVman.
Conservative literacy? I don’t give it a second thought, perhaps because I see so many illiterate and innumerate socialists that are picking the pockets of society at large.
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🤣”dork”?🤷♂️ WTF?? You posting from high school?
What a douche. Hell… You don’t even rate “little man”.
Thanks again for show why you don’t have the manhood to post the real you. OOzzzz it is.
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Here’s one for Biker Bill
“I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”
Any speculations as to what ” very bad, very bad.” means.
Bil;l, your insight on this would be appreciated.
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Link
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/trump-tough-people-military-police-bikers.html
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PaulE 315pm – Sure looks like you’re fishing again.
Ozz 105pm – Careful there with your “semi-literate” crap. My ideas are fair game, on my own blog I am not.
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Not fishing George
That’s a direct quote. What do think he means. I take it as a threat for violence. And what does it mean when he includes the military in his threat?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 March 2019 at 03:26 PM
Looks like Punchy is going to have another “Stink Asses” moment.
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Walt-
I’m glad you stooped to pick that up! Tomorrow I might call you a pi hole.
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He’s your guy fish. You and the rest of the Circle of Jerks are going to have to defend him.
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“Bil;l, your insight on this would be appreciated”
Bil;l sez:
Run to your fainting couch! They are coming for you. Yes, you! Time to exercise your 2nd Amendment Rights! They know when you are sleeping, they know when you’re awake, they know if you have been good or bad, so be good for goodness sake!
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Beto-mania is here! The next Obama, the next JFK, the next Lincoln!!!!
“There was magic in that room like when we hosted a Hardball College Tour at West Chester University up in Pennsylvania in 2008 for Senator Obama. Democrats respond to magic. I have a reason for urging a Beto run. Obama sent a tingle up my leg, but Beto sent a guster down my leg.”
— Host Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2019/03/14/journalists-go-bonkers-beto
Watch first 2 minutes only. Beto-mania and “journalism”. Trigger warnings abound.
https://www.facebook.com/DailyWire/videos/272947603633719/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMTgxODcwMDU1MTkzMjE5/
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,,,oh dear,,,The Senate voted to block Orange Hitler on his emergency declaration…we knew it was never going to happen
,,,the ongoing drama and theatrics will serve to feed the fat man-in-chief’s frail ego though…
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.Paul Emery thinks because some one posts here ihe/she is “ours”? What a shallow thinker at best. You and Ooze are the same kind of goofers
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Nothing new under the sun. Mad Maxie speaks: “Show him the door.” Yawn.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/03/14/waters-calls-wells-fargo-ceos-bonus-outrageous-calls-for-his-removal.html
Hmmm. I am more concerned with a politician than becomes a millionaire than a billionaire that becomes a politician.
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Quotes from our triggered time in space
Upright: “We are having the anti-vaccine discussion for the same reason we are having to remind people that commies are bad. People haven’t experienced mass pandemics or Soviets in some time. They’ve forgotten and now the loudest voices are the ones who believe the lie.” —Erick Erickson
Food for thought: “We are blessed to live in a time and a place where diseases that killed our ancestors are easily treated through preventative measures in the early childhood years. Let’s not squander that blessing because of something someone wrote online.” —Jay Sanders
For the record: “I don’t miss it. You know, everything now … everyone has to know your politics. I tried to use Johnny’s model, and I would get hate mail from both sides equally and thought, ‘Well, that’s fabulous. That’s exactly what I want.’ But when people see you as one-sided, it makes it tough. And, you know, I did it when Clinton was horny and Bush was dumb, and it was just a little easier. Now it’s all very serious. I’d just like to see a bit of civility come back to it.” —former late-night comedian Jay Leno
A blind squirrel finds a nut: “Yes, I do [believe in capitalism]! I think it also, when it doesn’t work, it’s been a force for bad, but that’s been true of every form of government that we can identify. We’ve gotten it right sometimes, and we’ve gotten it wrong sometimes. When you let markets work with rules and with people on the beat to enforce those rules, we can produce a lot of wealth in this country.” —Elizabeth Warren
Non Compos Mentis: “We should be excited about automation, because what it could potentially mean is more time educating ourselves, more time creating art, more time investing in and investigating the sciences, more time focused on invention, more time going to space, more time enjoying the world that we live in. Because not all creativity needs to be bonded by wage.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Braying Stink-Ass: “This motherf—er is like ruining the planet and all kinds of other crazy s—t. And the people think that’s okay. It’s not f—ing okay. And if you’re not saying anything, then you’re complicit.” —Samuel L. Jackson on Donald Trump and his supporters
And last… “Get ready to see lots of reporters throwing their panties, and I’m not just talking about the men from Vox. Robert Francis O’Rourke is running for President.” —Erick Erickson
Hmmm. “”Because not all creativity needs to be bonded by wage.” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Well, that what entrepreneurship is all about.
https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156257395560914/?type=3&source=48
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Eating their own. They should have never gone after Horowitz or been such a shameless hate group. You point one finger at others, you have three pointing back. The Left has a big racism problem, a big anti-Semitic problem, a big #MeToo misogyny problem, ad infinitum. Talk about a basketful of deplorables.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center has fired co-founder Morris Dees, the group announced Thursday…….
The SPLC tracks hate groups in the U.S. and works to prevent discrimination against minorities, but the Advertiser‘s series aired allegations of discrimination against black employees, who “accused . . . Dees, the center’s driving force, of being a racist.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/southern-poverty-law-center-fires-morris-dees/
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The masters of the universe are chi com coddlers –
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/google-directly-benefitting-chinese-military-says-top-us-military-general
😉
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In the “some republicans value democracy more that partisan politics” dept. 15 Republican Senators crossed over and voted with Democrats to reject trump’s declaration of an emergency.
In the “some Republicans value partisan politics (and sucking trumps trumpet) more than democracy” dep’t. Lindsay Graham blocked voting in the Senate on the non-binding unanimous House resolution that the entire Mueller report be made public babbling the trump mantra that Hillary needs to be investigated before the Mueller report is released.
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Give it a rest Emery. If have actually paid attention, it’s people on the Right that have been getting assaulted. Yet no word from you denouncing that.
“WE” on the Right have been VARY tempered.. So far. There may come a point if the violence from the Proggys will be one assault too many. as they say,, “payback’s a bitch.”
HELL! You even have a Proggy who staged an attack to make us look bad. Forget so soon? He’s was looking to start a “war”.
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OOzzz.. Another word for TROLLpiss.
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Walt, now that’s funny!
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Look who the Proggys want to be able to vote!
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/14/pelosi-supports-lowering-voting-age-16/
Yep. The more ignorant the voter, the more likely they are to vote Democrat. “We need more fools to vote for us. Lower the age so dip shit kids can vote for us. “We’ll promise them a PlayStation and a discount on internet.”
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Gavin Newsome is now trolling the chambers at San Quentin for votes.
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Snowflakes are officially confirmed as new thing with the attendant mental health issues –
“More U.S. adolescents and young adults in the late 2010s, versus the mid-2000s, experienced serious psychological distress, major depression or suicidal thoughts, and more attempted suicide,” said lead author Jean Twenge, PhD, author of the book “iGen” and professor of psychology at San Diego State University. “These trends are weak or non-existent among adults 26 years and over, suggesting a generational shift in mood disorders instead of an overall increase across all ages.”
The research was published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/mental-health-issues-increased-significantly-in-young-adults-over-last-decade
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Oooops forgot this part of @653, it seems those evil older white guys are getting happier while the socialist are going crazier. Who knew? Me and my friends did! –
There was no significant increase in the percentage of older adults experiencing depression or psychological distress during corresponding time periods. The researchers even saw a slight decline in psychological distress in individuals over 65.
https://www.newswise.com/articles/mental-health-issues-increased-significantly-in-young-adults-over-last-decade
😉
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