[Was going to intro this sandbox with a comment on the current Trump/Cummings imbroglio, but reader Todd Juvinall's comment in the last Scattershots covers it pretty well. "Elijah Cummings district is truly a shithole district. Most of the urban blight is contained in the areas represented by the Con Black Caucus. With over 40 members I have watched them most of my political years and they are as impotent (as) Steve Frisch. Their districts are shitholes. We see the same thing now in LA with the Hispanic Caucus. If they would cast off their leftist robes of failure and embrace Republican values and ideas they could revitalize their shitholes. But they won't. The press is siding with these failed politicians against Trump. He sure says what is true." gjr]

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344 responses to “Sandbox – 28jul19”
Looks like Kushner would have a kindred spirit in Valarie Jarrett…..
Of course no comment about her…….!
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92087053
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Crabby at 5:45 and later – maybe if you had read a little more history and sucked a little less dope you might understand the issue. Ol Miss has always been a poor area. Baltimore not so much. And you might want to check out Cummings net worth before he was first elected and now. Compare to the average citizen of the good city of Baltimore then and now. Because you have a bucket of cow shit for brains, I’ll make it real easy for you. E Cummings has gotten filthy stinking rich and his charge has gone downhill from somewhere near the septic tank to the bottom of the septic tank. And the left applauds him as a “social justice warrior”.
Here’s a clue for you morons on the left.
The left has been in charge of Baltimore for decades.
It’s a shithole.
Unless you would like to disagree.
By say, moving there.
Oh no – we like it here in Whitey White Nevada County run largely by whitey whites!
And who is the racist?
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Fish! Join Soctt O. in Boise. For guys on a budget (AKA “economic refugees”) with low expectations (no urine odor), it’s nirvana. No smart growth, cars are mandatory, chain restaurants, ringed by hills that trap pollution, an an anti-environmental sentiment. And apparently no local blogs for Scott O. to opine. Sounds like Sac in the ’70s. Right up your alley!
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Good job Border Patrol. Sorry to break up the family unit.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/yuma-sector-border-patrol-catches-child-molester
Another one. El Paso Sector. Another family unit.
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-nabs-previously-deported-child-molester-within-group
Del Rio Sector
https://q1019.iheart.com/content/2019-04-09-illegal-immigrant-child-molester-arrested-by-border-patrol-in-eagle-pass/
El Centro Sector
“In fiscal year 2019, El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents have arrested and removed seven convicted sex offenders attempting to enter the United States illegally. (As of 1/29/2019)
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/border-patrol-arrests-child-molester-and-kidnapper#
Good job girl. Take that man down.
“Two Border Patrol Agents Assaulted in Separate Incidents in Arizona”
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/07/26/two-border-patrol-agents-assaulted-in-separate-incidents-in-arizona/?
Great. Bring the whole country in. It’s not like we have plenty of room at the holding facilities. And to think Venezuela was the richest county in the entire continent of South America before it went big government socialist.
“Chamber of Commerce, Soros-Funded Groups Bankroll ‘Temporary’ Amnesty for Venezuela’s Population”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/28/chamber-of-commerce-soros-funded-groups-bankroll-temporary-amnesty-for-venezuelas-population?
Funny thing about TAP. They never are sent back. Earthquake in Nepal over, let’s renew the “temporary” program. Earthquake in Haiti over? Let’s renew the Temporary status program. Natural disaster, famine, war over? Oh no, renew the program.
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Well there’s a reason they call it Charm City…..!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-28/trump-right-say-elijah-cummings-has-failed-baltimore-badly
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Posted by: Jeff Pelline | 28 July 2019 at 09:18 PM
Shouldn’t you be out molesting an “All You Can Eat Buffet”?
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Fish, as usual, nothing intelligent to say.
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On any given Sunday…….
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Posted by: jeffpelline | 28 July 2019 at 09:28 PM
jeffty…..don’t you think you would feel safer back in your cat box?
I mean ….we’re just one comment away from you reminding me I don’t live there.
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Pee-Line at 9:18 – Spoken like the poor idiot you are. You obviously have never been here. Chain eateries?
Maybe the you have never ventured off of Hwy 49 onto Brunswick. Try it some time.
Downtown Boise has electric scooters and bikes all over. A great greenbelt along the Boise River.
Tell you what.
Get UHaul to rent you one of their bigger trucks to get you here and I will be glad to take you down town and show you how stupidly and ignorantly wrong you are.
Once you get to my place, transportation will be no problem – I have a 1/2 ton truck and a 7K gross flatbed trailer to squire you around in style. You can roll out at any number of brew pubs, ethnic eateries and rib joints.
It’s on me.
Once you get here.
Be fore warned – it’s not as white as Nevada County, so you might encounter ‘people that don’t look like you’.
Best,
Idaho
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Third line. How did that ‘you’ sneak in there?
Dele
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Posted by: Scott O | 28 July 2019 at 09:38 PM
Jeez Scott……ixnay about oiseBay…..Pork Linkerson might decide that it sounds good and then you will have screwed it up for your neighbors!
PS: Did you here that there wasn’t a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Fest? There couldn’t have been given all that gun control legislation that California has passed.
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Scott O,
I went to school in Berkley and Chicago (Northwestern). For you, I’m sure Boise is “diverse.” A Golden Corral but also a Chuck-A-Rama. And “pink politics.” Glad your happy though. I love California! One request: Can you take Fish with you? lol.
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Glad your happy though.
Medill F jeffty……..
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Gilroy – Tragic. Sad. No one had a weapon to respond.
But it’s good to see that the new gun and ammo laws are taking effect.
Maybe it’s time for more of the same?
Maybe you can only buy 2 bullets a day and then everything will be peachy keen?
How many bodies do they have to bury before they see that clamping down on law-abiding citizens won’t do any good? Law breakers break laws.
DUH.
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Fish: “jeffty….. ???
I think you would enjoy “international day” or “Mexican day” at Chuck-A-Rama. You could put it on you resume under “diversity.” ROFLOL.
http://chuck-a-rama.com
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Pee-line “I went to school in Berkley and Chicago…”
Hilarious – “But when I want to raise a child of my own, I live in Whitey White Nevada County”.
Sorry dude – my statements stand.
You have never been here and have no idea of what goes on.
Where you went to school has no bearing on the matter.
But – if that’s all you got…
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Scott O,
I’ve been to Boise, Idaho, and can see why it’s your cup of tea. It’s just not mine. But here’s a thought: Invite “fish” up for “Mexican Day,” “Asian Day” or “International Day” at Chuck-A-Rama and I’ll buy! The location is here, next to Panda Express. LOL.
https://www.chuck-a-rama.com/locations/locations.php
You are both my multicultural idols!
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Posted by: Jeff Pelline | 28 July 2019 at 10:00 PM
You are both my multicultural idols!
Wouldn’t you rather talk about fetching coffee for Herb jeffty! That always seems to brighten you day.
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Scott
Good thing you have that truck. No way could your visitor fit in one of those little electric cars. Talk about a clown car. Oh my, the visuals make me smile.
Just today, I received a Boise moving guide sponsored link. Junk mail. Unsolicited. It even had our local area code (530) for contact information and the Move to Boise information kit, lol. I swear, I did not or have not even searched the web for Boise, Idaho. Saw that and thought of you. Made me laugh….the contact number being my area code. Must be a need, a void to fill. Maybe a local networking for the city.
Joe Albertson went to the College of Idaho, met and married his sweetheart there…she was a gal from Boise. Turn the page and Joe opened up his first supermarket in Boise at Sixteenth and State Streets. Hard to believe how fast our nation changed. Joe was born in Yukon, Oklahoma Territory ….in 1909.
The only reason I mention it was I was offered a full scholarship to College of Idaho and a bunch of small colleges I never heard of….from Jamestown College in North Dakota to some in Montana to El Paso and a bunch in California. I choose another direction and boy was my dad pissed….er…disappointed. I told him Southern Cal was too smoggy, Montana too cold, Texas too dry….I went another direction. Literally. I walked out of the house and stuck out my thumb.
Left Northern Idaho after St Helens blew….too many California’s moved in and ruint the place. Even some old friends that live up there say it got worse since I left and never go to Cour d’ lean. Breaks their hearts. Friggin Californians turn paradise into shitholes. It’s what liberals do everywhere they go. I still dream of those places….but decades later they only exist in my mind. You should have see it then. Russ did.
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“fish,” You struggle to stay on topic. Have you seen a doctor or psychologist? Let’s hope it’s not hereditary.
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Pee-line 10:00 – I have never heard of or seen a Chuck Up Rama. But I can certainly see why it’s your go-to for fine scarfing (sorry – ‘dining’).
If you really were in Boise and that’s all you saw, I’ll have to wonder what kind of restrictions you were on.
Most of us are free to wander about and take in all of the fine city.
My offer stands – you show up and my flat bed trailer is ready to show you the wonders of the Treasure Valley.
P.S. – I have an engine hoist with a 2 ton capacity but in a pinch my next door neighbor’s tractor does have a bucket loader.
Just saying.
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Posted by: Jeff Pelline | 28 July 2019 at 10:19 PM
Uh oh……here come the Dr.Phil references…..
Do you watch a lot of daytime TV jeffty?
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Scott O,
Is this your idea of Boise’s diversity? Just saying!
“Boise State University programs promoting diversity are under fire, after 28 state legislators, all House Republicans, urged incoming university president Marlene Tromp to abandon the university’s inclusion programs and initiatives they say are antithetical to the “Idaho way.”
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/boise-state-university/article232600507.html
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Pee-Line at 10:19 Struggle to stay on topic?
I mention where we live and you bloviate on where you went to school.
Why don’t you raise your son in Chicago?
Too many folks that aren’t as large and white as you?
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Posted by: Jeff Pelline | 28 July 2019 at 10:24 PM
Hmmmm…..sounds like something a newspaper reporter should look into…..pity we don’t know any!
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Scott
PS. Spent an hour today watching videos of locals in Baltimore in the shithole parts of town. Most have never seen Cummings once there in 30 years. One woman said the last time the West Baltimore had a good economy or was happening was in 2003…and she never saw him there then.
https://www.facebook.com/TheWhiteRabbitMediaGroup/photos/a.1221808567990072/1239485139555748/?type=3&theater&ifg=1
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Scott,
Stay on point if you can and address this issue of recent racism (yup) in Idaho: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/boise-state-university/article232926762.html
As I said, Boise is no Berkeley or Chicago. Not even close. Of course, your idea of diversity seems to be “international day” at Chuck A Rama buffet. You’re a lightweight in that regard and I guess, another economic refugee from California who is cloaking it as a lifestyle change. Bring “fish” along!
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Posted by: Jeff Pelline | 28 July 2019 at 10:35 PM
Of course, your idea of diversity seems to be “international day” at Chuck A Rama buffet.
What’s your (see what I did there….used “your” correctly in the possessive. Not “you’re” like you did earlier…..when you earned tonight’s Medill F.) idea of diversity jeffty?
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Pee-line 10:35 – Stay on point? The point was where we live and you chose to live and raise your son in whitey white land. Or are you going to claim anything else?
That article is total BS. We don’t have the time or money to kiss every grievance mongers fat ass. Hit the books and learn or go home to mommy and cry.
Boo Hoo.
The Statesman is leftist trash owned and operated by the nearly defunct McClatchy so-called “news service”.
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Diversity in the whitest county in CA? Irony Alert. Irony Alert. Podunk. Hehehe. Tee tee. Sad.
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Scott O,
“The Statesman is leftist trash …”
Thanks for proving my point about your experiment in “diversity.” I left you a gift certificate at the counter of Chuck-A-Rama, since the real issue for you is being an “economic refugee” from California. But you have to go on “international day.” ROFLOL.
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Posted by: JeffPelline | 28 July 2019 at 10:59 PM
jeffty……you sound like someone with unresolved issues……maybe you should just go to Chuck-a-Rama and try it? See if you’re into the “lifestyle”.
There’s no shame in “coming out” even at your age.
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“Jug Jiggler,”
You’ve wandered off topic, but don’t worry. Diversity is not a problem in our family. Our family has traveled all over the world, spending our summers in Berkeley, Chicago and elsewhere. We chose to live here because it is home to my wife’s family. And except for this blog, we notice that it is becoming more tolerant of diversity and politically “purple.” And this blog has taught our family and our community about hate (“Ragheads,” etc.). BTW, why are you afraid to sign your name?
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Jeff Pee-line “Thanks for proving my point about your experiment in “diversity.”
from Wiki – “…reported that Nevada County had a population of 98,764. The racial makeup of Nevada County was 90,233 (91.4%) White”
And same for my county in Idaho – “As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 188,923 people, The racial makeup of the county was 83.0% white…”
And we have true diversity – meaning that there is a diverse point of views available.
So mister whitey white, why aren’t you moving you and your family to Baltimore?
Racist much?
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“We chose to live here because it is home to my wife’s family.”
Well of course – they’re white.
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“Ragheads” – that refers to jihadists.
Wondering why you don’t move there?
Oh – of course…
They would bugger your son, rape your wife and cut off your head.
In that order.
Maybe that would stretch your idea of diversity just a bit.
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Scott O,
Well, yes, they’re white. But they embrace diversity and raised their kids that way. And so does a majority of Nevada County, even though it is white. Some of the commentary on this blog is the exception, not the rule. Except for the embarrassing “rag head” discussion that occurred here a while ago, I can’t think of a more illustrative example than the last week. Even you still cling to it, though you are no longer a local.
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So what the hell is “Chuck O Rama”?
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“Well, yes, they’re white.”
How white of you to notice.
Just coincidence, I’m sure.
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Couldn’t you move them all to Baltimore?
Then they could put into practice all this diversity BS you talk about.
Oh – I know, you’re too busy lecturing about how diverse you are in a whitey white county.
What a clown.
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Scott,
You’re kidding right? It’s an iconic restaurant in your part of the country:
https://www.standard.net/lifestyle/food/chuck-a-rama-celebrates-years-of-business/article_19254167-3a8e-54a9-9a0b-c6a1ccefff9c.html
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C’mon Pee-line, what is Chuck-Up-Rama? You seem really familiar with the place. I have never seen or heard of it. Is this one of those ‘ethnic’ places you have there on Brunswick?
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I have been all over Idaho and the Treasure Valley and down town Boise and I’ve never heard of or seen this place. You seem to be real into it boy.
Tell us about it!
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Scott,
This illustrates your ignorance: “rag heads” are not “jihidasts.”
Ragheads, a slag term, is “a Muslim, Arab, Sikh, or member of any group that traditionally wears a headdress such as a turban, keffiyeh or headscarf.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raghead
More background here: http://www.mashupamericans.com/issues/is-it-hot-under-there/
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OK – I checked out the locations.
Right near the Mormon Temple!!!
Pee-line!!
Dude!!
Now we understand!!
That’s the restriction you were on!!
Your secret is safe with us – wink, wink!!!
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“rag heads” are not “jihidasts.”
As to what they are here on this blog – yes they are!
And YOU referenced this blog.
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Scott, I notice whenever the commentators here can no longer hold an intellectual discussion it resorts to name calling (AKA, “what a clown.”)
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So Pee-line says he was in Boise and the only eatery he can remember isn’t even in down town Boise!
But it’s the one he remembers!
Better get yer ‘special’ undies on Pee-line.
The Bishop is coming to inspect!!!
Probably your favorite time of the day!!
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Scott,
I’ve been to Boise repeatedly on the way to Yellowstone or Sun Valley. I would not want to live there, though.
I assume you read this before you moved from California to Idaho:
https://www.estately.com/blog/2013/10/32-things-to-consider-before-moving-to-boise/
But you continue to dodge the truth: You are an “economic refugee” to Idaho; that’s fine but don’t pretend it was the main motivator. Have fun!
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