[Power still out on Cement Hill with no wind, while Sonoma County burns. Am looking for local readers' reports on the return of power. gjr]

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209 responses to “Sandbox – 24oct19”
Sure Dougy, what do you expect from Proggy land?
Yet TV ratings are way down… I wonder why?
Not much better than the NFL.
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A 10 minute wait to sign the “recall” petition at Sam’s Club down the hill.
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Posted by: BigAnus | 28 October 2019 at 03:34 PM
Oh dugsKKKi…..why so bitter?
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It was shameful how the Enemy of the People lied and slandered the minor as he stood there and silently took abuse and homophomic (and racial) slurs from a group of adults. Not to mention death threats against the minor and his family and friends.
Woods is a good lawyer. Defended the imnocemt ‘Altanta Olympics Bomber’ against government slime and abuse back in the day.
Come to think of it, when Bill Barr left government and went into the private practice, he to devoted his practice to defending the innocent against government overreach and government abuse. No grey areas, all by the book.
http://dlvr.it/RH8QzC
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Good news. The military canine injured chasing down that crying whimpering dog of a raghead head of ISIS in Syria is ok. Trump released an unassifed photo of our furry hero. Good news.
Speaking of killing ragheads, it wae Joe Biden himsself who leaked the names of Seal Team Six. Good to keep Joe in the dark…for our fine men and women’s sake.
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Altering 302s is a big no-no. Sarah A. Carter is a good journalist.
More on the continuing saga of the one The Popinjay calls “The Liar who reflects poorly on Trump’s judgement”, “Liar!” aka, Michael Flynn.
https://saraacarter.com/judge-cancels-november-hearing-after-powells-explosive-brief-to-dismiss-flynns-case/
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Todd @ 3:42
What did you expect from a town that voted 96% against Trump (literally)?
Its no reflection how the rest of the country feels or thinks. 🙂
Quick. pivot from the good news about the dead dog ISIS beheading scum and the media’s narrativr on Syria to…to….
https://mobile.twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1188634738992353280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1188634738992353280&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.powerlineblog.com%2Farchives%2F2019%2F10%2Fpsycho-wapo-style.php
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BAM! The Covington kids get their day in court! –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/28/judge-reverses-ruling-allows-covington-catholics-nick-sandmann-to-sue-washington-post-for-defamation/
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They are getting too comfortable using little kids as a front and giving them mental health issues before they get into 6th grade!
Long Island man sicced angry kids on hunter: ‘What did the … deer do to you?’
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/long-island-child-confronts-deer-hunter
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You knew it was only a matter of time……..
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-uncovers-evidence-hero-dog-sniffed-butts
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Nunes, a Hispanic member of Congress, is a true CA hero. A review before moving toward
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/how-the-obama-administration-set-in-motion-democrats-coup-against-trump/
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Its just who the socialist dems are –
A second aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., has been sentenced in a scheme to break into Hassan’s office to obtain and publicly post the personal information of several Republican politicians amid contentious confirmation hearings for Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The 24-year-old former aide, Samantha Deforest Davis, was sentenced to two years of supervised probation with 200 hours of community service, with a suspended sentence of 180 days in prison. She was ordered to “stay away from [Hassan’s] office to include current and former staff, and to not use Tor or anonymized computer applications,” the Justice Department said in a statement.
Davis was a staff assistant in Hassan’s office from August 2017 until last December. She was fired after Capitol Police discovered her involvement in the so-called “doxxing” effort.
Prosecutors said Davis helped 27-year-old Jackson A. Cosko, another former Hassan aide who has pleaded guilty to five federal offenses (including two counts of making public restricted personal information, and one count each of computer fraud, witness tampering and obstruction of justice).
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/second-democratic-aide-sentenced-in-kavanaugh-doxxing-case
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“Nancy Pelosi shouldn’t be mad that President Trump didn’t tell her what was about to go down; Hell, he didn’t tell al- Baghdadi either!” Diamonds and Silk
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GRIFTER GRIFTER GRIFTER…..GOOMBAH GOOMBAH GOOMBAH….. YAY TEAM!!!
Well of course Mayor Cuckold did that….its a perfectly normal thing for a progressive democrat to do! Pure as the driven snow I tells ya!
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-dante-epu-yale-probe-20191028-innjjwz3ird2jkyjtuso6fjape-story.html
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Kaine Hill: This story gives a whole new meaning to the old phrase, “Going after the swing vote.”
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Articles like these give me the creeps –
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-super-rich-elite-have-more-money-than-they-know-what-to-do-with-2019-10-28?mod=MW_story_top_stories
and –
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/qe-on-steroids-could-lead-to-a-depression-warns-money-manager-who-compares-the-us-to-a-banana-republic-2019-10-28
and –
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-middle-class-getting-hooked-100001049.html
It’s pretty clear there are way too many people out there with no conception of how to handle their (or our) finances.
I find it a further amazement that folks like Rex Nutting can continue to get paid to write the drivel he puts out. The man is a complete idiot when it comes to finances.
Anyone out there who might be upset with our nation’s debt better hold on to their hats. The left is coming to save us from ourselves and we know how that goes down.
If the Dems do get control of both houses and the presidency, I won’t be doing the ‘screaming and crying at the sky’ thing – I’ll just shrug and pour a drink.
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Will someone please tell me what Brian Dahle is doing, this besides campaigning for his wife, about these blackouts? If his inaction is any indicator of what she is going to do, she can forget about my votey
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Thank you Show-me. I forgot to mail my ballot in. I will do that right now and votey for Dahle. Thsnk you again
for the reminder. Our voteys do matter.
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I forget to mail my ballot in as well. I will do that today. I have already marked my votey for Megan.
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Megan Dahle will be wonderful for our District 1. She understands our area and knows our needs. Votey for Megan Dahle to get us through these uncertain times.
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Megan Dahle isn’t the candidate on the ballot who is the founder and leader of the Redding Women’s March, the preeminent event of the Resistance to the election results of November 2016.
POWER TO THE correct PEOPLE!
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We have two choices for this election, both of whom are novices. One has a MA in Forest Resources. One needs only look at the debacle the progressives have brought managing our forests for decades. The trail of carnage in their wake must not be tolerated.
Nevada County cannot take any more of where that came from.
Remember when the ecology sabatours tried to make more than one brush or tree cleared per five acres defined as clear cut and outlawed. We cannot allow such people to represent the good people of this area. We need common sense in Sacramento, not the failed policies of the past. Vote for Megan Dahle as if your life depends on it. It does.
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The sock puppet misspelling and misappropriating a real name in Nevada City at 1259 is full of crap.
No one’s life is at risk over the Dahle/Betancourt race. All indications are that Dahle will win; the only issue is what districts will fall one way or another.
Given that Betancourt’s name hasn’t been attached to the crops grown on her small family farm and the fact that she has been the driving force of the Women’s March against the election of Nov. ’16 and everything GOP hasn’t been headlined in the Union, the lie that Betancourt would be free of partisanship has been a fig leaf covering her shortcomings.
That said, Sacramento will be a one party state no matter the outcome.
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Does he work for Ukraine and Russia? Way to go creepy grampa joe –
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/29/the-head-of-joe-bidens-new-super-pac-is-a-foreign-government-agent/
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No Amgen Tour of California in 2020. Maybe ever.
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And on this day,50 years ago, Al Gore invented the Internet.
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Example of bad timing and who they are. Maybe the Dems will use it as a campaign slogan. “Trump sides with ISIS”
http://dlvr.it/RHDL8v
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What a miracle worker! Is there nothing the Orange Man cannot do?
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-gets-dems-to-interrupt-baseball-condemn-dogs-side-with-terrorists-all-within-24-hours
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It’s a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. Note to self: remember to do laundry.
REPORT: Al-Baghdadi’s DIRTY UNDERWEAR, Stolen By A Kurdish Spy, Gave Him Away
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Jeffy’s power wall must be working great…. Not a peep out of him since the lights went out.
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Guess who is running for Katie Hill’s SWING district? Why, it George Populopolis, the Greek. Small world.
Guess who MIGHT run for Doug Jones’ Alabama senate seat? Why, that be Jeff Sessions, the arch conservative Russian asset. )
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Brother Walt @ 6:40
Oh, he’s running on gas, but we already knew that.
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You can bet they were all happy when the state made PGE pay 2.5 billion on the new green deal and could only spend a billion on line maintenance! –
https://www.theunion.com/news/new-round-of-power-shutoffs-force-nevada-city-businesses-to-adjust/
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No is a complete statement. William Barr and those rascally democrats.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/10/the-dems-frivolous-request-that-barr-recuse-himself.php
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Oh boy, Nunes is hotter than a hornet. Accused Shifty, the rascally Dem, of coaching a witness. Wouldn’t let the witness answer simple questions presented by the minority concerning the Ukrane Phone Call. Go, you hot blooded Latino man, go! Give them hell.
Jim Jordan is fit to tied. I don’t think Shifty is too keen on the idea of transparency…or even pretending to go through the motions of appearing not to be what this kangeroo circus court is. I call Judge Roy Bean as the next witness, no questions allowed unless Shifty okes the witness to answer. Its the best they can do in the absence of proof that can hold up to the light.
I am coming around to the idea that the Dishonest Demogogs are just making up stuff as they go along. Stuff only found in one’s imagination.
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Kunstler speaks:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-fumes-of-fanaticism/
“Judging by the volume of intemperate emails and angry social media blasts that come my way, the party of impeachment seems to be inhaling way too much gas from the smoking guns it keeps finding in the various star chambers of its inquisition against you-know-who. You’d think that the failure of Mr. Mueller’s extravaganza might have chastened them just a little — a $32 million-dollar effort starring the most vicious partisan lawyers inside-the-Beltway, 2,800 subpoenas issued over two years, 500 search warrants exercised, and finally nothing whatever to pin on Mr. Trump — except the contra-legal assertion that now he must prove his innocence.”
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the main take-away:
“…
To set the record straight I’m forced to repeat something that these New Age Jacobins seem unable to process: you don’t have to be a Trump cheerleader to be revolted by the behavior of his antagonists, which is a stunning spectacle of bad faith, dishonesty, incompetence, and malice — and is surely way more toxic to the American project than anything the president has done.
…
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Its the trend line –
The former vice president leads Trump by 5 percentage points, 41 percent to 36 percent, among 1,997 registered voters in a new Morning Consult/Politico poll testing the hypothetical Election Day matchup — roughly half the 11-point advantage he enjoyed in a June survey conducted ahead of the Democratic Party’s first debates. Both surveys have a 2-point margin of error.
https://morningconsult.com/2019/10/30/bidens-edge-over-trump-wanes-polling-shows/
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The socialist dems have no sense of humor, another example –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/30/leftists-rage-donald-trump-posts-photoshopped-image-honoring-hero-dog/
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https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html
Whistleblower?
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Time to tell the truth about the chi coms or we will miss this chance to rebalance and defend our economy! –
“We collectively need to confront these challenges from [China] head-on – in all their many facets.
“It is no longer realistic to ignore the fundamental differences between our two systems, and the impact that these differences may have on the United States.”
After joking about how the explosive remarks marked a departure from the norm in traditional American foreign policy, Pompeo continued: “We’ve been slow to see the risk China poses to American national security because we wanted friendship with the People’s Republic from the very start. We still hope for it.
“But, in our efforts to achieve this goal, we accommodated and encouraged China’s rise for decades – even at the expense of American values, and security, and good sense.
“We did everything we could to accommodate China’s rise, in the hope that Communist China would become more free, market-driven, and ultimately, hopefully, more democratic.
“We did this for a long time.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-pompeo-communist-china-beijing-challenges-head-on
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A tool of the deep swamp and a well known team 0 pawn working to undermine the administration with leaks and got booted from the WH for it! –
It said Ciaramella is 33-years-old, a registered Democrat who began working at the White House during the Obama administration and previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan.
Ciaramella left the Trump administration’s National Security Council in mid-2017 over concerns about negative leaks to the media and then returned to the CIA, the outlet reported.
“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” a former NSC official told RealClearInvestigiations.
The outlet also reported that Ciaramella huddled for “guidance” with the staff of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), including former NSC colleagues who now work for Schiff.
Ciaramella also worked with a Democratic National Committee operative, Alexandra Chalupa, who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, and he invited her into the White House for meetings, former White House colleagues told RealClearInvestigations.
“He knows her. He had her in the White House,” one former co-worker told the outlet.
A handful of former colleagues have compiled a roughly 40-page research dossier on Ciaramella, which has been circulating on Capitol Hill, the outlet reported.
“Everyone knows who he is. CNN knows. The Washington Post knows. The New York Times knows. Congress knows. The White House knows. Even the president knows who he is,” Fred Fleitz, former CIA analyst and NSC chief of staff, told RealClearInvestigations.
“They’re hiding him,” he added. “They’re hiding him because of his political bias.”
Ciaramella is reportedly a CIA officer specializing in Russia and Ukraine who was detailed over to the National Security Council in the summer of 2015, working under former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice. He also reportedly worked closely with Biden.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/30/realclear-investigations-suggests-whistleblower-likely-33-year-old-cia-analyst-eric-ciaramella/
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The comics employment act, get your cankels and pantsuits jokes from the archives, time to recycle! Just before the IG report and Bars pitbull go public!
DEATH MATCH 2020! THE SOCIALST DEMS SQUARE OFF WITH TEAM 0’S MINIONS AND TEAM CLINTON IN A BARBED WIRE TOPPED CAGE MATCH! WATCH THE CLOWN CAR GO UP IN FLAMES!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/bill-clinton-fuels-rumors-of-a-hillary-2020-run-she-may-or-may-not-run-video/
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The Proggys have started their vote for Soviet style law.
Putin has a tear of joy at the moment..
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In the “doing the limbo-how low can you go to please the idiots” category : trumpler posted a photo of himself giving a medal to a dog that was in on the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid. FAKE NEWS!!! The photo was fake and had the dog photoshopped into a 2017 Associated Press photo of Medal of Honor recipient James McCloughan receiving his medal from trumpler.
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DAMN Babs,, you guys get all buttsore over the smallest things.
Need another investigation? It is comical that the Left is all mad that Trump went and rubbed out the SOB in the first place.
“Trump executed a religious scholar”
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Posted by: Roberta Cross | 31 October 2019 at 08:36 AM
Oh the things over which a menopausal woman will get butt-hurt!
Hey, If you didn’t care for that……
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-gives-chewbacca-long-awaited-medal-for-heroic-acts-in-battle-of-yavin
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Posted by: Walt | 31 October 2019 at 08:52 AM
Damn Walt……we’re on the same frequency this morning!
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You can always count on Robert to be a day late and a dollar short.
“Wow It’s a good thing the media is around to tell us an obviously photoshopped image of a hero dog getting the Medal of Honor is fake
Trump has broken everything about the journos. Their professional pride, common sense, and sense of humor-
all broken”
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I could be wrong, but I don’t think Trump likes “austere religious scholars.”
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Halloween sure brings out The Walking Dead and other Democrats.
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We are almost even Fish,, you still have one up on me.
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