[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”
Trump should be happy, but will he be happy or sad?
Sprawling Black Lives Matter Mural Work Shuts 5th Ave Right in Front of Trump Tower
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-to-start-trump-tower-black-lives-matter-mural-on-thursday-morning/2506262/?amp&__twitter_impression=true
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Red Lives Matter!
http://huffp.st/Qh7dC1Y
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Trump has to fight lower courts to keep hiding his tax records. He’s gonna lose.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rules-new-york-prosecutor-can-get-trump-s-n1232086?cid=eml_nbn_20200709
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Well you can just bet that all of Boeings Diversity, Inclusivity, and Equity Programs are functioning perfectly. So they’ve got that going for them….which is nice!
Of course they worked closely with NASA on the vehicle…..and NASA’s most important mission remains…..muslim outreach. So if any of our Astronauts wind up sucking the cold vacuum of space it’s really a small price to pay for making someone in a Hijab feel comfortable.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/official-report-boeings-spaceship-sucks
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Mary Waaaah! 7:44 – so Mary, we see you’re suddenly all in for upholding contractual obligations and the rights of humans re ownership of property.
Now if you could only see your way clear to applying these principles to white males…
We’ll have Mary voting for Republicans yet.
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Mary Waaaah! 7:03 – In light of all of NYC’s problems including the soaring amount of violence, it’s good to see the mayor has his priorities straight in the expenditure of city money.
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“‘I believe in white power’: Woman arrested after allegedly attacking Home Depot shopper in mask dispute”
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MaryW 653am – Taking your cue from your thought leaders at NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, … , you post a pile of tripe that is totally untrue and constitutes another load of leftwing lies. The CDC et al made clear that they were not issuing any “requirements” for anything, but merely discussing risk factors that MAY arise given this or that future contingency. The ‘science’ on C19 has been all over the place and from all kinds of experts, and, as the record shows, has yet to settle down as more and more questions arise even if some of them are answered. Our governments’ responses to C19 are and always have been a political matter since they involve the law, Constitution, and affect the freedoms of our citizens. This is, of course, beyond the ken of the cynically demonic Democrats who have an election year agenda to promote. And since you have yet to bring an original thought to these comment streams, you have no choice but to play the echo chamber.
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Barry 9:21 — one problem with your sophomoric thesis is that food is not contagious.. DUH!
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“Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in a statement: “This is a tremendous victory for our nation’s system of justice and its founding principle that no one — not even a president — is above the law. Our investigation, which was delayed for almost a year by this lawsuit, will resume, guided as always by the grand jury’s solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts, wherever they may lead.”
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George: I am pleased that you found the article as amusing as I did.
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Is the Circle waiting for directives from the mothership regarding Ruinit’s resignation from the Nevada City Council? ribit, ribit, ribit
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If Rushmore could talk,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwngoRxTXco
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Lots of good anti-Trump ads coming out,
https://tinyurl.com/y7pwfjq4
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 09 July 2020 at 10:32 AM
Would have been funnier if Kimmel had done that skit in blackface…..he’s good at that….and then hiding for 3 months!
Speaking of hiding…….any of your progressive brethren ever bust your chops for letting fly with “chink” all those times?
Inquiring minds don’t ya know!!
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Fish: nah, chinks, ragheads, slopes, wops, beaners, no worries!
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 09 July 2020 at 10:32 AM
When you were teaching in Berkeley too?
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Re the continuing pursuit of Trump’s tax and financial records. Given today’s SCOTUS ruling –
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-block-new-york-subpoena-seeking-financial-tax-records-11594304520
does anyone know of what new probable cause the NY prosecutor and House investigative committees have for subpoenaing those records? Is this the continuing witch hunt based on the premise that ‘there surely is something there we need to find, and we’ll just keep looking until we do’.
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The SCOTUS punts on the Trump taxes means no action before November.
WWBD? … what would Beria do?
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Trump losing bigly,
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1281229530892558338?s=19
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Thanks to the pandemonium of panicked progressives emigrating en masse from their soiled cities, the Nevada County rental market is going through the roof. One grandson and his girlfriend are now looking for a place to live, and their description of the pace of properties being listed and quickly rented is hard to believe. Is there any hope of teaching those leftwingers about policies that give rise to the crap from which they are escaping, and possibly how to clean up after themselves? They all sport ‘SF values’ and cannot wait to practice them in their new communities.
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The fakenews couldn’t even convince Colon Powell –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/colin-powell-media-hysterical-russia-bounties-afghanistan
😉
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Nothing new about the Rental Market in Nevada City George. It’s been going on for years. there is at least 56 new appartments being built for rentals. Has cleared the planning commission and should be built by the end if next summer. I’ll post information.
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Really….are you progressives trying to throw the election by letting Vice President Wax Dummy talk about “his” plans!
You’re supposed to get back to destroying the country after seizing power….smart progressives like Obersturmbannführer Frisch know this, newbys like the guy who got the “socialist it girl” elected still think that they can just say what they really think. Now in Joey Fingers defense, he has no idea what he just said….probably thinks he just said something inoffensive like, “I like ice cream”! But the hand up Biden making his mouth move should be more circumspect until the election is won. Bad form to tell the electorate that you’re going to crush them financially….better to control things and then just do it when they are still blissfully happy after thinking they have been full participants in democracy.
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Trumper ilk,
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/276194743488724/?d=null&vh=e
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 09 July 2020 at 02:06 PM
Hah…glorious…..I like this one better!
https://www.facebook.com/Occupyaurinesoakedrecliner/videos/275194753486724/?d=null&vh=e
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George: Way to pull a Trump and try to blame everyone but your ilk.
Where are your young relatives coming from, Jerry Falwell University, Trump U.?
It’s called having 40 million souls living in the state. Maybe it’s time to plan the move to a deep red state.
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“Eggs are to be legally reclassified as chicken in all Alabama restaurants, cafés, eateries and slophouses from now on, it’s emerged.
The decision was made after a group of pro-animal life activists put pressure on the state government.
‘The moment an egg passes through a hen’s vagina, it becomes a chicken. To treat them any differently would be cruel and should be punished by God,’ said Billie Jean Bob Cooter.”
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Fair warning, Part I: “As disappointing as the Supreme Court’s ruling is, there is a clear path to fixing it: electing a new President who will end Donald Trump’s ceaseless attempts to gut every aspect of the Affordable Care Act. If I am elected, I will restore the Obama-Biden policy that existed before the Hobby Lobby ruling: providing an exemption for houses of worship and an accommodation for nonprofit organizations with religious missions.” —Joe Biden
Fair warning, Part II: “I was glad to work with the vice president in forming six separate task forces. Which had some of the most knowledgeable people in the country coming together to deal with education and climate change and health care and the economy and criminal justice and immigration reform. … I think the compromise that they came up with, if implemented, will make Biden the most progressive president since FDR.” —Senator Bernie Sanders
And last… “Stop chasing the ever-elusive, never-ending standards of the mob and rest in the reality that, according to the God who made us, there are only two rules we must follow: 1) Love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul & strength. 2) Love your neighbor as yourself. That’s enough.” —Allie Beth Stuckey
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MaryW 211pm – Go ahead and give it a try. Attempt to explain how the state’s conservatives are responsible for our shithole cities and the liberals now escaping from them. And if I don’t see an apology from you retracting the snark about my grandchildren, you’re history.
PaulE 201pm – actually Paul, it seems you have not been paying attention. What’s happening now in the rental market is definitely a cut above from the usual deficit in housing caused by our progressive no-growth contingent. Again, please join Mary in the explanation of how conservatives caused this problem.
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Paul Emery: ” there is at least 56 new apartments being built for rentals. Has cleared the planning commission and should be built by the end if next summer. ”
That’s excellent news Paul. The ones I’ve read about are slated to be finished in summer of 2022, so that should make 112 total apartments if added to the ones you are talking about.
My dearest hope is that these apartments have a certain amount of units set aside for people of color and other under-served populations including genderqueers. Evidently you’ve forgotten the problem of actually funding these apartments, but CIS white males are not expected to cover all the angles. Given the cash-rich situation the state is in, the funding should come through with no difficulty.
At roughly 1500 households, these additional 56 apartments you are speaking of should make a tremendous difference in any housing shortage. We can only pray that they are being constructed by POC rather than members of the patriarchy. That remains to be seen.
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Posted by: Mary Wanna | 09 July 2020 at 02:11 PM
It’s called having 40 million souls living in the state. Maybe it’s time to plan the move to a deep red state.
….maybe it’s time for you to consider a dirt nap. That’s a notion that many of your fellow progressives have been pushing. To make room for others…..the most recent Biden Dem Convention Plank involves inviting all…again that’s all of the worlds refugees and migrants to the US. Probably be more room and resources for them if you weren’t here.
Give it some thought the next time you are out thkiing the farth thtarz…..
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Mary Wanna: “It’s called having 40 million souls living in the state.”
Strictly speaking, less than 40% of the souls living in the Great State of California are the products of a white-dominant colonialist heritage. This is a great improvement from the 90%+ in 1960.
We can only be thankful for the blessings of diversity and the decrease of prejudice plus power that this implies. Over time, perhaps by persuasion but other means are possible, we can gather the entire state into a congregation honoring Mother Earth. Whitesplaining will be a thing of the past.
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Texas: the Hotspots (outbreaks) in Texas that the news is all a flutter about can be traced directly to border towns. Houston was a nice place to live until all the Katrina people moved there and stayed for the higher welfare benefits paid by The Lomé Star State. Houston aside, check out which counties the hot shots are in Texas. Right on the border with Mexico…where news reports say 50% of Mexicans tested positive for C-19.
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Another article of Biden’s plan to carve out the suburbs. It all hinges on shithole cities annexing the suburbs to pay for their unaffordable solutions.
‘Biden’s Housing Plan Would Destroy Suburban Communities‘
He wants to push people into cities.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/72001-bidens-housing-plan-would-destroy-suburban-communities-2020-07-08?
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MaryW 242pm – Sayonara Sackhead Mary. Go find yourself a new sack and IP address, and try not to sound too much like old times.
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“Sayonara Sackhead Mary.”
Another boy hero, our own Pavlik Morozov disappears. Being a champion of The People is a tough gig.
In police news, important doings are underway.
https://twitter.com/WestVanPolice/status/1280964217172983808
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/us/hate-crime-charges-black-lives-matter-mural-painted-over-trnd/index.html
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Good gawd, these Hate Crimes are happening everywhere. We won’t be able to build prisons quickly enough.
https://twitter.com/CelineTVNEWS/status/1280591970092625920
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“Fish: nah, chinks, ragheads, slopes, wops, beaners, no worries!”
Posted by: Mary Wanna | 09 July 2020 at 10:42 AM
Free speech or not it’s best you take your conscious racism elsewhere. Beware off White Liberal Supremacists.
“Sayonara Sackhead Mary.”
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Sister Mary Incontinentia… no more?
So sad.
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While the news was blasting headlines about Trump’s taxes being release to the NY State AG (not Congress), I was wondering all day yesterday who would mention the victory for the Little Sisters of the Poor. Go figure.
‘Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Religious Liberty In 2 Landmark Cases’
https://www.oann.com/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-religious-liberty-in-2-landmark-cases/
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There’s a new information field in the county coronavirus info page…
we’re now told the number of active cases AND the number that are hospitalised.
Of the current 48 active infections, there is ONE (1) Active Hospitalisation.
ONE in the hospital. Just one. I can’t imagine why that was withheld.
https://mynevadacounty.com/2924/Coronavirus
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Wel well… Marty finally pushed it too far… Again.
It’s about damned time. The good Dr. has been way too leaninat with the likes of you.
I will miss(for now) using you as a fire hydrant.
As Daddy once said,, “there are only dogs and fire hydrants in this world… It’s up to you to choose which one you will be.”
So you chose to be a fire plug. Me? Bloodhound with a bladder issue. Just one more hiking of the leg,, 🖕 you……
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Scenes @ 3:17 pm
“Good gawd, these Hate Crimes are happening everywhere. We won’t be able to build prisons quickly enough.
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‘Breaking: Police release conclusive evidence in hanging of black man in California that BLM protesters called a lynching’
The evidence all points to one conclusion
“Investigators also found that he had purchased a rope similar to the one he was found hanged with.
Despite the announcement, some on social media were still claiming malfeasance on the part of law enforcement officials.
“Robert Fuller didn’t kill himself. Black people aren’t hanging themselves from trees. That’s called lynching. And it’s murder. A hate crime. There’s really no cameras in front of City Hall? Cmon,” said one Twitter user.
“[Los Angeles County Sheriff] Villanueva is a monster who does everything he can to avoid transparency. he can never be trusted. we need justice for Robert Fuller,” said another user.
In a similar case in nearby Victorville, a surveillance video proved that the hanging death of Malcolm Harsch, another black man, was a suicide and not a lynching as many claimed.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/robert-fuller-suicide-lynching-palmdale?
I can’t remember the last time there was an actual lynching that took place. Jussie Smollette had two guys that looked like Kenyan West try to lynch him, but in the freezing-your-ass-off Polar Vortex at 2:30 am, the lynchers decided it was just too damn cold and ran off, leaving the nice soft cotton rope behind. Lucky Jussie. As a bonus and against all odds, his tuna sandwich from Subway was unmolested. Always a silver lining.
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Next time you deal with a person that is out to “remove” anything slave related, be it a statue or name,, remind them that DEMOCRATS were the slavers in this nation. In many ways,, still are. DEMs want to keep them low employed and on the GOV. doll, low educated. Wanting to tear down the monument to Lincoln’s emancipation is proof of that.
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Bill.. Why are two news helicopters circling like buzzards around Smartsville??
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Afternoon, Walt.
“Wanting to tear down the monument to Lincoln’s emancipation is proof of that.” That’s nothing. Just for good measure, a Democrat put a bullet in the back of Lincoln’s head.
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Nevermind…. Ch.3 is now saying why.
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Thanks Bill,, I got back to work. Good money ta’boot.
Getting me some of that crazy prevailing wage! Making in one day what the booted one gets in a month.
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No limit to the madness of the new red guard –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/09/vandals-cut-down-flag-pole-at-9-11-firefighter-memorial/
😉
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You go with yo bad self with all that defund the police and cancel culture shit. It will make things easier in Nov. –
70 percent of respondents think that the movement has not improved race relations, with 38 percent saying Black Lives Matter has made race relations worse.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-70-percent-americans-think-220030495.html
😉
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