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[Alex Berenson on the real skinny behind Covid-19 reporting.  Short book and very much worth a read if you’re interested in debating the pandemic, how it’s reported, and various response policies (here).  Apologies for letting the last sandbox languish a bit too long; we're working through a family medical emergency here.  gjr]

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335 responses to “Sandbox – 3jul20”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Los Angeles declared that they are defunding the LA Unified School District PD. Who knew the school district had ts own legitimate police force. Anyway, no cops on campus not more. No worries, they will work it out with magic words and counseling when the next school shooter walks onto a high school or jr. high campus knowing full well the place is a gun free zone. It’s for the children….

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    lol. Wow. Check out this horrid little girl plus the horrid little media that is hovering around a 15 year old. Somehow this kid reminds me of a lot of the marchers.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8489983/Kellyanne-Conways-daughter-15-slams-parents-blocking-freedom-speech.html

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Los Angeles declared that they are defunding the LA Unified School District PD. Anyway, no cops on campus not more. No worries, they will work it out with magic words and counseling when the next school shooter walks onto a high school or jr. high campus knowing full well the place is a gun free zone. ”
    I don’t think it’s school shooters that’s the problem, it’s the students. Plenty o’ stories on that subject out there.
    That’ll be a wonderful social experiment. Maybe removing any semblance of security will make for perfectly behaved kids plus their friends from off campus. It could happen I tell you.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 04 July 2020 at 08:17 PM
    Go long remote learning companies…..! Time to close bloated government funded daycare centers.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Thanks Brother Bill. Hope you had a good 4TH as well.
    Did the BBQ twice! It’s roast LIB,,uh,,chicken tomorrow.
    Got one of those racks you shove up the back end of said cowardly bird. (beer can chicken I think)

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  6. Walt Avatar

    WOW Scenes,,, now if a bunch of us white guys did that,,,,,,,,,

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Here’s the WORST Moments from MSNBC’s America-Hating, Anti-Founders Mt. Rushmore Coverage
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/07/04/heres-worst-moments-msnbcs-america-hating-anti-founders-mt

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  8. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 841pm – how do we tell if they’re a rightwing or leftwing militia? Is it only by the color of their skin?

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Mr. Plissken to the white courtesy phone please…
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8490367/How-coronavirus-BLM-protests-liberal-mayor-doing-Bin-Laden-never-could.html
    …………
    “scenes 841pm – how do we tell if they’re a rightwing or leftwing militia? Is it only by the color of their skin?”
    Heck, that’s easy. The nature of news media coverage.
    Now, it could be that the really stylish rightwing version wears short shorts and carries FN-FALs. It’s a funny old world after all.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@9:49PM July 4, Year Zero
    “Here’s the WORST Moments from MSNBC’s America-Hating, Anti-Founders Mt. Rushmore Coverage”
    It would be interesting to see the KVMR Action News Team comment on that article, but perhaps it’s not part of ‘news craft’.
    Can you imagine any Left-leaning media folks speaking like that 20 years ago? Hey, don’t look at me, I’m not the one who went crazy.

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  11. Mary Wanna Avatar

    It was swift and sweeping like nobody’s business,
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8OVRR_HXY&feature=youtu.be

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: MW@7:32AM
    lol. That’s a good one, although it’s remarkable how well he speaks without notes.
    Maybe we’ll see remixes like this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-66xJLd6Z0 to
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYQ5MIjq0Sw

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: moi@8:41 and the Black Panther Marching Band.
    It’s pure street theater of course. Somebody went out and bought a bunch of tacticool gear and, owing to the rarity of a lot of the rifles, quite a few airsoft firearms, but by golly it looks cool.
    If we could get them to guard stores, homes, and monuments and stand up for people who got fired for a trivial tweet, you’d really have something there.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, you don’t see anybody on the Right burning flags, or normal people burning flags Just the usual Dems and Leftists and America haters….you know, the crazy ass enemies of the Constitution. The ones who the best part of them ran down their momma’s legs.

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    scenes

    re: Mary Wanna@8:00 July 5, Year Zero.
    I also see headlines like this all over facebook “WARNING WHITE SUPREMACIST ATTACKS PLANNED FOR 4TH OF JULY ACCORDING TO HPNGC” (Huey P Newton Gun Club).
    Must be them evil ‘boogaloo boys’, huh? No doubt there’s a unicorn somewhere.
    In other news from The Crazy Party
    https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/status/1278733305190342656
    Dude, you’re never going to win in a tit-for-tat in terms of ridiculous people. You know it, I know it. A person could swamp this page with insane Blue Mob links.

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Yup,, she’s a LIB……
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/05/tammy-duckworth-george-washington-statues/
    That will surely get her re-elected.
    Another one of the Amerikan Taliban.

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  17. Scott O Avatar

    Mary Waaaah! – 8:00 You lefties are very proud of your hoaxes – it’s all you have!

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    re ScottO 839am – That indeed is true. And like third graders, they are proud of their accomplishments. It’s equivalent to yelling fire in a crowded theater and then telling all how you fooled them after the people ran out of the theater. It’s easy to hoax by claiming the occurrence of high probability events. And as Scott says, it’s all they have – more in my next Scattershots.

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-jp-morgan-race-exc/exclusive-jpmorgan-drops-terms-master-slave-from-internal-tech-code-and-materials-idUSKBN2433E4
    “‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’” -Syme

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  20. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    ” You lefties are very proud of your hoaxes ” And you are equally proud of the corona virus hoax, the climate change hoax, the Russian bounty hoax, the Russian election interference hoax, sex assault claims made against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh were a “hoax”, on and on.. actually trump is hoax..a bad one.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Real Estate agents now longer say “master bath” or “ master bedroom.”

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  22. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 905am – Yes, Newspeak has been an abiding subject in these pages over the years, especially when connected to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which years ago first posited the dictum that ‘you cannot think thoughts which your language does not support’. Most recently this was again demonstrated by a defecting NK soldier who had no concept of the word ‘defect’ since it was expunged from NK’s lexicon.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    NIGHTMARE AT OBERLIN
    “Now, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled that a male student may proceed with a claim of sex discrimination against Oberlin for railroading him out of the college for alleged sexual assault. The case was filed under Title IX, which bars universities that receive federal funds from discriminating against students based on their sex.
    Although the male student will now be able to present his claim against Oberlin, he still has suffered through a nightmare that even a successful lawsuit will not fully mitigate.
    For purposes of determining whether the male student can proceed with his case, the facts he asserts must be taken as true. However, the basic facts here are undisputed, or were until the woman who accused the student of assault changed her story.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/nightmare-at-oberlin.php

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Someone drinking too much? Or just as brain damaged as Biden??
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kanye-west-tweets-running-for-president-2020

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Amid a pandemic, the woke-ist media are experiencing a psychotic break’
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/amid-a-pandemic-the-woke-ist-media-are-experiencing-a-psychotic-break
    “Lastly, ABC News published a report this week titled “New government data, shared first with ABC News, shows the country’s premier outdoor spaces – the 419 national parks – remain overwhelmingly white.”
    The story’s headline reads, “America’s national parks face existential crisis over race,” adding in the subhead, “A mostly white workforce, visitation threatens parks’ survival and public health.”
    “Just 23% of visitors to the parks were people of color,” the report adds, “77% were white. Minorities make up 42% of the U.S. population.”
    As it turns out, white people really enjoy hiking and camping, and that is a problem for the parks, the ABC News report claims, because people of color will be a majority in America by 2044. The article then goes on to quote outdoor enthusiasts of color who say they do not feel welcome at the “overwhelmingly white” national parks. These advocates, the article reads, “say they hope the moment since George Floyd’s death in police custody brings attention to systemic racism in the outdoors as well as other parts of society and translates into a long-term change in attitudes and behavior.”
    Sorry, everyone. Even national parks are racist now.
    This is not normal behavior from our press. This is a mental breakdown in the works. People of the future will look at all this and wonder how on earth these stories made it into print.“

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT : “Sorry, everyone. Even national parks are racist now.”
    I’d been reading about that for some time, but I’m still musing on the underlying purpose.
    Maybe Mary ‘n Paul could break cover to explain why national parks are racist, 24/7 Trumphate has to be boring after a while.
    My leading contenders for the nat’l park brouhaha are:
    1. Just another thing to bitch about to the white devils, clickbait.
    2. $$$$. A cover to move resources from the park system to those super duper important issues like midnight basketball. Of course, a lot of cash has to cross the palms of the appropriate ‘non-profits’ (btw, congrats to SBC for snagging $165k in taxpayer money for one of those ever-useful studies contracts).
    3. ???
    What would number 3 or beyond be? Genuinely curious.

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Mary Wanna@11:34AM July 5, Year Zero.
    Look at my 8:41 from last night. You must have gotten out of your damp EZ chair while I was posting.
    Here’s some words from the organizer:
    https://twitter.com/TheOfficialGra3/status/1276982105726160897
    You must be so proud.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Everybody forgot who the Dixie Chicks were until they brought it up by dropping the word Dixie.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 11:28 am
    I bet our own little Yuba River State Park with 700,000 visitors a year (snicker, snicker) is problematic as well because I don’t see 44% of the visitors being persons of color. Racist! Maybe some preferred parking spots reversed for non-whites is in order….like right quick. Nevada City Libs can drive to the river, find a spot to park up the Hwy, and gather around and bow to those in the reserved spots for POCs. Maybe slip each of them a ten and apologize for being part of systemic racists at our state parks.

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  30. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Scenes, similar videos. Wally is all washed up though, he thinks no white people have been showing off their guns lately.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@11:58 July 5, Year Zero
    “Dixie Chicks” = “Chicks”, I guess then.
    I’m not sure that ‘Chicks’ is entirely kosher. Maybe ‘The Xyrs’ or something.
    In the meantime, the July 4 celebrations are coming in:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU0YWkMnDm4

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  32. Mary Wanna Avatar

    Locally we need to give up on the term ‘Karen’ and replace it with ‘Reinette’,
    https://twitter.com/OnlyInLVNV/status/1278601941644279809?s=20

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The trolls wont want to watch this –
    Georgia Man Plays National Anthem in Front of American Flag Made of Hay Bales
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-man-plays-national-anthem-173518168.html
    😉

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You would have to be an idiot not to see this coming. How come everybody knew except for the Dem mayors
    ‘Six Weeks, Six Cities, 600 Murders’
    https://townhall.com/columnists/kevinmccullough/2020/07/05/six-weeks-six-cities-600-murders-n2571887?fbclid=IwAR1VF_W9dkLvTkKCWEfqbeIhGnBA8RfpD0_OjpwUDklmkMbtMi0dgn9t45s
    Well, we now know who the real baby killers are. Liberal Supramists

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Two More Childen Killed In Chicago Violence Spike, City Sees Two Mass Shootings In Under 24 Hours’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-more-childen-killed-in-chicago-violence-spike-city-sees-two-mass-shootings-in-under-24-hours?

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Forget politics, let’s talk guns!”
    Honestly, nearly all of the modern semiautos seem alike to me. I keep waiting for some novel design that brings something to the table…I do wish that Five-seveNs weren’t so expensive.
    My own gut feeling is that the average person with no need for concealment needs a smallish carbine for self defense.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Funny this didn’t get lamestream coverage, oh ya it does fit the antifa mobs allowed narrative –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/mainstream-media-ignores-arrest-ringleader-115733684.html
    😉

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The chi coms are not even bothering to pretend anymore that they are flooding us with spys. –
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/05/red-guards-in-britain-china-ambassador-calls-on-chinese-students-in-uk-to-serve-the-motherland/
    😉

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Child Sexually Assaulted in Neighborhood That Refuses To Call Police
    https://www.westernjournal.com/child-sexually-assaulted-neighborhood-refuses-call-police/?
    Its for the children

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    This is a complicated timeline we live in brothas. Perhaps Mary can tell us all about the ‘boogaloos’ some more, being an expert and all.
    “Today armed Black Lives Matter and “boogaloo” protesters joined forces for an open carry rally against police violence and government overreach. I’ll have HD video up ASAP, but here are some photos I snapped today.”
    https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1279463131861979136

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The trollish set should turn their eyes away to avoid the PAIN, OH THE PAIN OF IT ALL! –
    The early economic signs indicate that we may already be in a “V”-shaped recovery — or at the very least a strong checkmark-shaped recovery — as we cautiously emerge from the coronavirus shutdown.
    As Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jay Powell admitted earlier this week, we have experienced a welcome “bounce back in economic activity,” and “have done so sooner than expected.” The economic data from the past two months make the point.
    The May jobs report gave us the first indication that the post-pandemic rebound would be something special, revealing that employers had created a record-shattering 2.5 million jobs in a single month, beating economists’ expectations for a loss of around 9 million jobs.
    Most economists anticipated that the trend would continue, but few foresaw just how stellar the June jobs report turned out to be. Last month, the country gained a mind-boggling 4.8 million new jobs, blowing past consensus expectations of around 3.7 million. As an added bonus, last month’s total was revised upward by nearly 200,000 jobs, bring the two-month gain to 7.5 million jobs.
    Tammy Bruce: Trump prioritizing law and order with move to protect monuments from mob
    Kay Coles James: Nation’s values under attack — we must do this to stop the left’s socialist agenda
    Dale Wilcox: Stop abusing visa system — Corporate America must hire homegrown talent
    Even though the labor force participation rate rose sharply, meaning more people began looking for work, the nationwide unemployment rate nonetheless plummeted in June by more than two full percentage points, falling from 13.3 percent to 11.1 percent, also beating economists’ expectations of a 0.8 of a percentage point decrease to 12.5 percent.
    Those are some incredible numbers! But what else were we seeing in the economy?
    In May, retail sales increased by a record 17.7 percent, soundly beating economists’ expectations of around 8.4 percent. This increase in retail sales — following three months of declines — bodes well for a return to positive economic growth. Consumer spending accounts for about two-thirds of our economic output, and retail sales account for about a quarter of consumer spending.
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/v-shaped-recovery-economy-andy-puzder
    😉

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The city that never sleeps is in a coma. Is that what comrade Deblasio always wanted? –
    Parts of Manhattan, famously the ‘city that never sleeps’, have begun to resemble a ghost town since 500,000 mostly wealthy and middle-class residents fled when Covid-19 struck in March.
    New York state has suffered the highest death toll in America, with more than 24,000 dead, nearly 10,000 more than the second-hardest hit state, New Jersey, and eight times the number killed by terrorists on 9/11.
    Streets once teeming with tourists are virtually empty. Shops and restaurants are boarded up to protect against looters. Hotels are closed. According to one resident: ‘New York has become a place where the soup kitchens are full and skyscrapers are empty.’
    The Broadway theatre district sits in darkness, unlikely to open before next year. The subway, which once carried 750,000 commuters a day, is mainly deserted. In Times Square, a handful of street vendors offer hand-sanitiser and face masks in place of knock-off designer sunglasses and bags.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8490367/How-coronavirus-BLM-protests-liberal-mayor-doing-Bin-Laden-never-could.html
    😉

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  43. Mary Wanna Avatar

    “Many powerful people connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — including Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Leslie Wexner — could be “extremely worried right now” following Maxwell’s arrest — because she wrongly believed they were protecting her.
    Steven Hoffenberg, a former business associate of Epstein’s (and who temporarily managed the New York Post in 1993), said, “She’s going to be naming some big names — not only in terms of those who abused underage girls at Epstein’s parties — but also those who made financial agreements with Epstein or benefited from his generosity, including flying on his plane and staying at his homes.”

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  44. Mary Wanna Avatar

    “One day the president will learn a little history and he’d be better off for it.” If you missed my appearance on @FacetheNation, you can read the full transcript here: https://t.co/ybxTP8HPmb
    https://twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton/status/1279861943000588289?s=19

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  45. scenes Avatar
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    re: MaryW@1:52 “Many powerful people connected to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell ..”
    Aahh, now there’s an actual topic. You know darned well there’s dirty deeds done dirt cheap among the beltway elite and the moneyed classes.
    What are the odds that the Podesta Bros. are involved somehow?

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