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[Feliz Cinco de Mayo compadres!  And re Corona beer about which you've all heard the story?  You haven't?  Well, they had a big international beer judging competition in Munich to which all the major and wannabe brewers sent their various brews for judging and receiving the prestigious awards.  The Corona folks also sent their finest.  A couple of weeks passed and when the award ceremonies were over, the Corona folks had heard nothing, not even an email acknowledging their entry.  So they inquired, and the next day they got a reply from a German vet in Munich that read 'I was forwarded the specimen you submitted, and am sorry to inform you that your horse has diabetes.' ;-)  gjr]

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258 responses to “Sandbox – 5may20”

  1. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Happy Cinco de Mayo! I love Mayo!

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Mary is waiting for the Dos-xx and the hints of Ebola special blend.

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Ms. Mary@12:36
    lol. So the Prez has 100 advisors, some say ‘coronavirus is the end of the world’, some (like Fauci in late Feb) say ‘no problem’. Some are in-between. Some decisions get made, some get put off, some should have been made. Local Blue Mob shouts ‘Orange Man Bad!’. Local Blue Mob grabs their somewhat manly parts and yell ‘ORANGE MAN BAD!’. No one cares. Blue Mob cries ‘cuz no one believes them that Orange Hitler killed millions of people. Silence reigns again for a couple of hours.
    Yah, that sounds like quite the bombshell. Maybe you should start by impeaching Lincoln for keeping McClellan in command too long. Get back to us on the exciting results.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    One woman’s opinion.
    ‘The Failed Experiment of Social Distancing’
    “The history of science, sadly, is littered with bad experiments gone horribly wrong. The Great Social Distancing Experiment of 2020, when it is over, will very likely be toward the top of that list.”
    https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/04/the-failed-experiment-of-social-distancing/

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@1:00PM
    Jeez louise man, you’re starting to drive me towards the conclusion that no one knows what they are talking about one way or the other. My trust in authority is being joggled.
    About the only conclusion you can draw from The Year of the Plague is that depending on the government to say yer ass is a fool’s game.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Mary must be dating Dougy. Or maybe “heshe” his Depends changer.

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Walt: “Mary must be dating Dougy. Or maybe “heshe” his Depends changer.”
    Dunno. These people are hard to tell apart. It’s obvious that they constantly check political clickbait, find Orange Man Bad stories, see if they can rile the Nazis.
    It’s not only boring but probably could be done by a fairly simple script.
    Kind of a sad thing really, if your online personality could be reduced to a few hundred lines of software.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    oops: “depending on the government to say yer ass” is obviously “depending on the government to save yer ass”
    Now, if typepad just allowed editing.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 11:05 am
    Did you know that Ebola was never categorized by the exalted WHO as an Pandemic? Or even an epidemic. The WHO categorized Ebola as a “situation”.
    More fun facts from the Encyclopedia of Worthless Information.
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    Dr. Rebane has twice kicked around the idea of closing the Sandbox. It’s up to him…shut down or open? 3 of the 4 first comments by a delusional and deranged (and always wrong) madman in this Sandbox gives credence to the pro shut down position.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ” gives credence to the pro shut down position.”
    I’d be fine with that, but it implies more time spent in curating than the good doctor would probably be willing to put in. Lacking a sandbox, all the threads become a sandbox. It isn’t like inventing a ‘Paul’s Polls’ category would keep him ensconced in there with the -3% of the day. “YOU GOTTA HEAR THIS NEWS ABOUT TRUMP MANN!!!”

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 11:05 am
    Another fun fact: Did you know that they do not celebrate Cinco de Mayo in France? I bet it is because of the Colonialist nature of the oppression white European racist imperialism.
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    FORMER VIRGINIA BLACK-FACERS STILL DON’T GET CIVIL RIGHTS
    [VA State Attorney General] Herring’s office responded with this imbecilic statement:
    “Donald Trump and Bill Barr should focus on saving lives and ramping up testing, not teaming up with conservative activists to undermine effective public health measures that are slowing the spread of covid-19 and saving lives in Virginia and around the country.”
    It’s not the job of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division to “ramp up testing” for the Wuhan coronavirus. The Civil Rights Division’s job is to protect against unlawful discrimination, including unlawful discrimination against the right to freedom of religious worship.
    It’s not surprising that Herring, who once got his kicks mocking African-Americans, fails to understand the role of the Civil Rights Division. Nor is it unsurprising that he has little regard for the rights of modern America’s most unfashionable minority group — people who take religion very seriously.
    Instead of taking the mindless way out — attacking President Trump and incanting the words “saving lives” — Herring should explain how anyone’s life is endangered by a religious service for sixteen people in a sanctuary that holds 225.
    When he’s finished trying to explain that, Herring should tell us why a meeting of sixteen lawyers in a conference room — an event Virginia permits — doesn’t put lives at the same or greater risk.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/05/former-virginia-black-facers-still-dont-get-civil-rights.php
    Talk about clueless and two-faced.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @1:08 pm
    “Jeez louise man, you’re starting to drive me towards the conclusion that no one knows what they are talking about one way or the other. My trust in authority is being joggled.”
    Funny, I went to bed last night thinking about our trust of authority….our trust in our institutions. Must have been triggered by an buried excellent article eviscerating FBI Director Wray from few days ago. Nothing has changed. The priority of the institution is first and foremost to protect and perpetuate the institution. I woke up this morning reading a headline (seemingly out of the Blue) that the FBI released a statement defending and praising Wray.
    Now, let’s cut to the chase. I literally asked myself, “What does loss of trust mean to ME, mean for our country?” What does loss of faith and trust to do the right thing or even do something with competency mean for the institutions themselves?” But, what does that mean for me and my worldview? Yes, all people make mistakes and sometimes frequently wrong, so I am not asking the trust factor questions with perfection or super duper consistent standards in mind. If we cannot trust our FBI, our top cops, who can we trust?
    Anyway, you nailed it with “My trust in authority is being joggled”
    You cann’t even trust experts…..like the ones ho fought us Common Core and Project 1619.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Enough with the “Fergusons” already…….Neil, Niall, Missouri………ugh!

    LOCKDOWNS FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME:

    Exclusive: Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover: Prof Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing.

    But read the whole thing as it gets worse. The “money” quote……

    “Ms Staats, a left-wing campaigner, made a second visit on April 8 despite telling friends she suspected that her husband, an academic in his 30s, had symptoms of coronavirus.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/05/exclusive-government-scientist-neil-ferguson-resigns-breaking/

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 05 May 2020 at 01:10 PM
    Or maybe “heshe” his Depends changer.”

    “shim”

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Ms Staats, a left-wing campaigner, made a second visit on April 8 despite telling friends she suspected that her husband, an academic in his 30s, had symptoms of coronavirus.”
    Perhaps he told her that those suspicious sores were a symptom of COVID.
    billt: ““What does loss of trust mean to ME, mean for our country?””
    It might be simply that there are long term cycles in trust relationships. It’s the sort of thing that the West has excelled in and allows things like banking and long distance trade.
    I wonder when the country actually might have been a nation. Perhaps some time after American Civil War 1.0, you can see it in the styles in the early 20th century. Patriotism without irony. No doubt the lack of immigration (near zero in the 1930’s) allowed everyone to settle down and construct social glue.
    Something appears to have happened in the 1960’s, maybe partly due to the newly artificial schism between young and old. I expect that extending high school for 4-8 more years rather than beginning adult life at 16 or so might have had something to do with it. Fast forward and ya got yer La Razans and yer feminists and yer pentecostals and yer mass immigration and yer Blue Mob and yer NRA. It’ll probably take a war or the Yellowstone Caldera to produce a nation again. In the meantime, we can pretend that voting will paper over it all.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Musta dropped that shell real close to the TROLL hole.
    Notta peep since! Used Depends scattered from Hell to breakfast.

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  17. Walt Avatar

    WOW.. GVPD has a high tech Drone. That’s the new police dog?
    The only thing ya’ need to feed it are Duracells, and no crap in the back of the car to hose out.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Walt @ 355 – That was a gift from the Law Enforcement and Fire Protection Council of Nevada County.
    😉

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @1:10 pm
    Maybe they hooked on Tinder, each expecting the other to show up with a toned vibrant body, virile, and big fat wallets. With great looks and stamina to boot and know how to buff the polish off a trailer hitch.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VZjT0JE70
    Best let sleeping dogs lie as they are busy at the moment.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Don.
    Cool.. They still didn’t catch the guy they are hunting for.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How come this comes at no surprise.
    Resurfaced Video Shows Biden Claiming Justice Kavanaugh Had No Presumption Of Innocence For Sexual Assault Claims
    https://www.oann.com/resurfaced-video-shows-biden-claiming-justice-kavanaugh-had-no-presumption-of-innocence-for-sexual-assault-claims/
    Vote for Biden or the other Biden?

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    re: My earlier post about England’s “Man of Science……
    Zero Hedge had a much cruder description of his transgression. Frankly I wish I had thought of it!

    Scientist Whose Doomsday Models Sparked Global Lockdown Resigns After Breaking Quarantine To Bang Married Lover

    I’m not usually partial to blonds but she might….might…have been worth making one a laughingstock, scuttling a career and risking a potentially fatal disease for. Might…..!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/health/scientist-whose-doomsday-models-prompted-worldwide-lockdown-broke-quarantine-bang-married

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 3:03 – “It’ll probably take a war or the Yellowstone Caldera to produce a nation again.”
    Then my money’s on a natural disaster.
    China has been – maybe not at outright war – but pretty darn close for decades against us.
    The American Left continue to make excuses for the ChiComs and take their side.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO.
    The Chi com propaganda sounds exactly like our flamers here and the news sources they read and spout with ease. Oh, I can see why many call the media and the Leftinistas one and the same. I do.
    Shame on you, shame. You are a bad Christian. Bad. Hypocrites! You bring disgrace to Christians. Here, let me quote from Hezekiah 6:23-24, lol. Priceless.
    ‘Chinese State-Run Paper Calls Pompeo ‘Degenerate Politician,’ ‘Brought Shame’ To Evangelical Christians’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-state-run-paper-calls-pompeo-degenerate-politician-brought-shame-to-evangelical-christians
    Do not bring dishonor to the State. It a big criminal offense.

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    BT 4:58 – C,mon, man – there’s no hypocrisy here. It’s only Republicans whose names start with ‘K’ are not to have a presumption of innocence.
    Biden is a Dem and his name starts with ‘B’.
    Duh.
    You lyin’, pony faced, dog soldier!

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Another no-brainer.
    Prominent Journalist On Tara Reade: ‘I Don’t Want Justice’ Or ‘Investigation’. Just Beat Trump.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/prominent-journalist-on-tara-reade-i-dont-want-justice-or-investigation-just-beat-trump

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You knew this was coming –
    Trump Administration ‘Turbocharging’ Withdrawal of Supply Chains from China
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-turbocharging-withdrawal-supply-133427366.html
    😉

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Let my people go. If it saves just one life, do it. Lift the police state.
    ‘The Worldwide Lockdown May Be the Greatest Mistake in History’
    https://pjmedia.com/columns/dennis-prager/2020/05/05/the-worldwide-lockdown-may-be-the-greatest-mistake-in-history-n388182

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Chough, cough, note to the pony tail of ignorance and his sock drawer. You think you would have learned from the last time he marked the tape. –
    NEW YORK (Reuters) – Joe Biden’s advantage over President Donald Trump in popular support has eroded in recent weeks as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee struggles for visibility with voters during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
    The opinion poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday found that 43% of registered voters said they would support Biden in the Nov. 3 presidential election, while 41% said they would back Trump.
    Biden led by 6 percentage points in a similar poll last week and by 8 points in a poll that ran April 15 to 21.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/bidens-edge-evaporates-trump-seen-000336671.html
    😉

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  30. Walt Avatar

    People will DIE with all the Dr.s the have making sure the notorious RBG stays breathing. LABS will be commandeered to find a cure to whatever infection she has.
    Every LIB has started chain smoking in fear.

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    Here you go with the list:
    A deluge of women made their accusations public following the October 2016 release of the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Trump was recorded boasting about grabbing women’s genitals in 2005. Some others made their stories public months before the tape’s release, and still others came forward in the months following.
    Trump has broadly dismissed the allegations, which include ogling, harassment, groping, and rape, as “fabricated” and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media and his political opponents. He promised to sue all of his accusers during the 2016 election. In some cases, Trump and his lawyer have suggested that he didn’t engage in alleged behavior with certain women because they weren’t attractive enough for him to be interested in.
    “Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign,” the Republican nominee said during a 2016 rally. “Total fabrication. The events never happened. Never. All of these liars will be sued after the election is over.”
    The president said these “false allegations” against him were made by “women who got paid a lot of money to make up stories about me.” And then alleged that the “mainstream media” refused to report on evidence that the accusations were made up.
    https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    My posts still don’t come up. Any ideas?

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Good spam filter?
    That one got through,,, Emery…

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Perhaps they installed a TDS BS detector app @ 613. LOL
    😉

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    Don Bessee
  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Did you try rebooting your computer?

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I know Walt.
    I used a different computer Bill and it still wouldn’t work. Only these very short notes get through.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Did you unplug your router from the wall and wait five minutes. Best to do with computer off for a half hour.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Business Insider has been blocked by Google for spreading fake news. Have you tried using Firefox or Go Duck Go?

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Just noticed on the Nirvana County Coronavirus misinformation page…
    The totals are
    1 death (and we know that poor soul was ill besides the virus)
    40 recoveries
    0 active cases
    That is all.

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They know who you are @ 716! LOL
    😉

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy (various times)
    So sorry you’re having problems posting.
    It appears your computer is fed up with your punchiness. Give it a rest for a few days (a real rest, no power, no porn) and then approach the keyboard with an offering of frankincense, myrrh and single malt scotch.

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Have you tried using italics? Have you called the Governor’s hotline for tech support? Are you close to a 5-G tower or close to radio signals that might interfere with your signal? Have you turned your Ann Coulter doll upside down and searched for a jamming devise? Did you use the new banned phrase, “Circle of Jerks?”
    Have you checked outside to see if there are any new Stink-Ass signs? Have your recently changed your password to your login? Did you try to post something from Business Insider?
    Have you been placed in Facebook Jail recently. Have you checked your e-mail. Checking your e-mail is important. It may not help, but it can’t hurt. Have you called Bobbie?
    Has your computer been tested for an airborne virus?

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Has your devices been tested for an air borne virus? When is the last time your took your temperature? Have your scheduled an Exorcism yet?

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