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313 responses to “Sandbox – 22sep20”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They must be having snow ball fights in hell again –
    King Salman of Saudi Arabia applauded the administration of President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday for its role in helping Arab states normalize relations with Israel.
    The Saudi head of state also appeared to definitively declare the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a failure.
    “The Kingdom welcomed the international efforts to deal with Iran’s nuclear program, but time and again, the entire world witnessed how the Iranian regime exploited these efforts in order to intensify its expansionist activities, create its terrorist networks, and use terrorism,” Salman said, “and in the process squandering the resources and wealth of the Iranian people for the purpose of its expansionist projects which produced nothing but chaos, extremism, and sectarianism.”
    “Our experience with the Iranian regime has taught us that partial solutions and appeasement did not stop its threats to international peace and security,” King Salman added. “A comprehensive solution and a firm international position are required to ensure fundamental solutions to the Iranian regime’s attempt to obtain weapons of mass destruction, and its ballistic missile program, and its interference in the international affairs of other countries, and its sponsorship of terrorism.”
    The king also appeared to support U.S.-led efforts to maintain strict sanctions on the Iranian regime, although here he did not mention Washington or President Trump.
    “If we intend to win in our battle against terrorism, we must not waiver in facing the countries that sponsor terrorism and sectarianism, and we must stand firmly in the face of these countries that promote transnational extremist ideologies, which rely on false political slogans to hide their extremist, chaotic, and destructive nature,” he said.
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2020/09/23/saudi-king-praises-trumps-mideast-peace-deals-at-u-n/
    😉

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    Kamala Harris is hiding from the press. I note with great interest how Kamala’s tactic viz media mirrors and even surpasses that of Bumblebrain, who is actually more courageous in letting the country take the measure of his mental lapses. What equally corroborates the lamestream serving as DNC lackeys, is that none of them take note of her absence; it’s only FN that pays attention and reports on her unavailability. We also note that none of our liberal leaders care to comment on this anomaly.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    You can’t quit. We own you.
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/23/michigan-auto-workers-union-labor-charges-dues-nlrb/
    “A Michigan auto worker filed a federal unfair labor practice complaint Tuesday alleging that the United Auto Workers union continued charging her membership fees after she dropped her membership.”

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They back the wrong horse –
    A USA Today/Ipsos Poll that shows that a majority of the country is disgusted with the Antifa/Black Lives Matter rioters and the national media.
    This poll has not received the attention it deserves.
    Gee, can’t imagine why.
    After nearly four months of rioting at the hands of the left’s Brownshirts — the domestic terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter, a full 64 percent of those polled said “they believe protesters and counter-protesters are overwhelming American cities.”
    And by “American cities,” we of course mean “Democrat-run cities.”
    What’s most interesting is nearly half of Democrats polled, a full 48 percent agree with that sentiment, compared to 83 percent for Republicans.
    What’s more, a whopping 59 percent of urban dwellers agree with that, compared to 71 percent of those who live in rural areas (where there are no riots because riots only happen where Democrats are in charge).
    More bad news for the Democrats and national media who have encouraged and stoked this unprecedented violence… More than half — a full 56 percent — “believe the government should deploy more police to get protests and unrest under control.”
    Wait, it gets even better…
    A clear majority of 54 percent “say people should arm themselves to protect private property during protests.”
    And now we get to my favorite number…
    When asked what is causing the violence or what “factors Americans say make protests more dangerous,” the institution at the tippy-top was the fake news media.
    “Six in 10 Americans say the mainstream media has made the protests more dangerous,” the poll tells us, “followed by the Black Lives Matter movement at 59% and President Donald Trump at 54%. A majority of Americans say Antifa (53%), conservative militias (52%), and conservative media (51%) contribute to protests becoming more dangerous.
    Only 29 percent say Rapey Joe Biden has made the protests more dangerous, but how much damage can an enfeebled old man do from his basement while watching Matlock reruns?
    Think about that… a full 60 percent of the country blame the media for increasing the violence, more even than the actual terrorist group responsible for the violence, Black Lives Matter.
    https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2020/09/23/nolte-poll-shows-majority-turn-against-rioters-media/
    😉

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ooopsie bloomberg size –
    “[Under Florida law] it’s a third-degree felony for someone to either directly or indirectly provide something of value to impact whether or not someone votes,” Gaetz told Fox News’ “Hannity.” “So the question is whether or not paying off someone’s fines and legal obligations counts as something of value, and it clearly does.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-ag-calls-for-investigation-into-16m-bloomberg-donations-to-help-felons-vote
    😉

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  6. Walt Avatar

    No matter who the nominee will be, the first LIB salvoes will be directed at the person’s faith. The will try and discredit on being Christian alone.

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  7. Walt Avatar

    The new and improved way to steal elections.
    “Three card Monte” at the ballot box. When getting the most votes means nothing.
    https://reason.com/2020/09/23/maine-becomes-first-state-to-try-ranked-choice-voting-for-president/

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Our special ed governor has taken it upon himself to ban the sale of gasoline powered automobiles, beginning in 15 years. Climate change, you know.

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@2:52PM
    Huh. That’s interesting.
    You know darned well it’s part of a larger plan. Making older cars impossible to own. Strong phase-out of natgas delivery to homes. Giant push for ‘lectric mass transit.
    Gotta wonder how the power is going to be generated. Magic solar panels I guess. Maybe the hoi polloi can be induced to run their house via pedal-driven generator, let’s say 1000 hours to fill up your Tesla.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Gavin Nuisance must have never heard of the Interstate Commerce laws. Where is Emery? Hey Emery,, this is the kinds shit dictators do.

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  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The ‘mostly peaceful’ keep on keepin’ on.
    https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020/09/22/nevada-city-police-warn-of-violent-protests-advertised-online/
    Walt: “Gavin Nuisance must have never heard of the Interstate Commerce laws. ”
    It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s possible to simply not allow registration of non-electric cars.
    The other mechanism is simply to make the emissions standards so high (at least the emissions that actually come out of the vehicle) that only electric meets the requirement. They’re halfway there already with how insanely complex a brand new car is to get small gains on the margin, you can pretty much count on your 2021 car not being around in 10 years due to impossibly high repair costs.

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  12. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Life in these Blue Mob United States. Louisville Edition.
    https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    For yer viewing pleasure.
    “BLM Harassment [UPDATED]”
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/WBpePUsJ0gVh/

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  14. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The Austin Zone might be fairly decent tonight.
    https://dlive.tv/AustinZone

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What you sow is what you reap. Sometimes Karma comes slowly, sometimes quickly. How quick?
    WATCH: Woman Driver Taunts, Flips Off Trump Supporters. Then She Plows Into The Car In Front Of Her.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-woman-driver-taunts-flips-off-trump-supporters-then-she-plows-into-the-car-in-front-of-her

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    re scenes 339pm – so what should the response of local law-abiding citizens be when their neighbors import violent ‘protestors’ and the local police stand down in enforcing the laws protecting private property, public access, and rioting? Do they just stand and watch their town being trashed, and then later go through the formal process of petitioning government to do its lawful duty? That has never been the American way throughout its history. Or don’t we want to talk about it?

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  17. Walt Avatar

    And out Lefties want to trust the U.S. Mail for a fair election?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/mailed-in-ballots-found-tossed-in-wisconsin-ditch/
    More than one Trump hating postal delivery will just say “HELL NO… This is a Repub neighbourhood..” And pitch the ballots.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    It’s getting preeettty screechy on Austin Zone.
    https://dlive.tv/AustinZone
    GeorgeR “Do they just stand and watch their town being trashed, and then later go through the formal process of petitioning government to do its lawful duty? ”
    That’s really the heart of the matter, or at least one heart. So far you’ve seen areas where the police were forced to stand down by extremely left wing city officials where any civilian self defense is viewed as terrorism and heavily stepped on….and areas where the cops made sure nothing started containing less easily cowed civilians (plus places where nothing happens at all, probably a good place to invest in real estate).
    As Biden’s Army expands to the suburbs, you’ll run into the edge conditions. That’s where it gets interesting. Locally, I’d say that we tend heavily towards favoring the mob, although no doubt the rank and file LEO are on the side of law and order. It really hasn’t been pushed hard yet, so I dunno.
    This is all a ‘Red Scare’ of course, so I’m speaking hypothetically.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This will not sit well with the banned one Pig Wiggley or whatever her flavor of the month name is.
    ‘Trump Nominates Former Nunes Aide as Intelligence Community Inspector General’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-nominates-allen-souza-intelligence-community-inspector-general/

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    and so it goes (h/t Linda Ellerbee).
    “Update 2145ET): The situation has grown more tense in Louisville after a Metro Police Officer was shot downtown according to an LMPD spokesperson, who offered no further details. There are unconfirmed reports that a second officer was shot as well.”
    “Elsewhere, police officers stood guard with guns drawn as protesters heckled them.”
    “Both the FBI and National Guard have been deployed:”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lousiville-mayor-announces-curfew-stores-boarded-anticipation-breonna-taylor-riots
    This is a pretty brilliant tactic. What Team Biden really wants is 1 or more martyrs, hopefully female. Simply randomly shoot cops from a crowd, and you’ll get your wish. It’s similar to the notion of getting a bunch of Palestinian kids to heave rocks at Israelis, eventually someone shoots back, you just need to make sure it was done in front of the press.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘ Then They Came for Beethoven’
    The hosts even accuse Beethoven—whose democratic ideals are well-known to anyone who has studied his life story—of empowering colonialism. Says one, “I can almost even see the sort of stride of empire, colonialism, industrialism, all those things that have sort of that same built in narrative of triumph and conquering.”
    Really? That’s what you imagine when Beethoven’s 5th begins? I would be scared to imagine what flits though his mind during a performance of Wagner’s Parsifal.
    https://quillette.com/2020/09/19/then-they-came-for-beethoven/

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  22. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    Finally, someone (Gov Ron DeSantis FL) taking a common sense approach to ensuring freedoms for the common citizens. Skip to the 1:30 mark to bypass the reading of names of chiefs of police.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=115&v=LxiTGFvE2Y4&feature=emb_logo
    Why haven’t Dem governors done this?

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The business with having the government dictate a technical solution, this time requiring electric cars, has been grinding at me.
    Besides the oddity that plug-in hybrids produce less CO2 than all-electric cars in nearly all grid architectures (https://afdc.energy.gov/files/u/publication/ev_emissions_impact.pdf) there’s the unfortunate fact that you are messing with a highly intertwined ecosystem.
    What gets dragged along with this is a huge, mandated, investment in grid, charging stations, power generation, power storage, changes in waste disposal, etc. It’s the kind of thing that the free market excels at, so long as you avoid village commons problems, and the gubmint is bad at.
    E-cars are coming nicely along on their own, thank you, although I’d prefer to see any subsidies dropped…they are set up to benefit the more wealthy. When you live in what is becoming a metastasized banana republic, that’s to be expected.
    No doubt some real fortunes will be made in the upheaval, luckily I expect the Governor has plenty of friends ready to take advantage.

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Biden’s Army is still up to it’s hijinks nationwide.
    “Seattle: Antifa rioters assault a cop who was knocked to the ground from his bicycle. A person then uses a metal bat to strike him on the head. This is in the middle of the former “CHAZ.””
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1309090541850832904
    “Watch: A rioter at the BLM-antifa Portland riot throws a large Molotov cocktail at
    @PortlandPolice”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1309020430938836993
    “Larynzo Johnson is in police custody on suspicion of shooting two Louisville Metro police officers overnight at the #BlackLivesMatter riot. He’s charged with wanton endangerment & assault of a police officer. ”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1309107967120343043
    first response: “The bullets were 93% peaceful though.”

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Estonian Fox @ 5:21 am
    There is a reason AOC’s mom picked up and moved to FL. Mom was paying about $12,000 a year taxes on her small abode in NYC. Could not afford it once she retired. FL? About $850. Anyway….
    ‘New Yorkers Flee for Florida’
    https://bongino.com/new-yorkers-flee-for-florida

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Burn it down, then take it down.
    BIDEN VOTERS REPORTEDLY ATTACK HOME OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS IN MINNESOTA
    “The Democrats’ vow to “burn everything down” if they don’t get their way is allegedly being fulfilled. Last night in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, unknown arsonists attacked the home of two Trump supporters, burning the family’s garage and several vehicles and destroying a large Trump sign in their yard:”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/biden-voters-reportedly-attack-home-of-trump-supporter-in-minnesota.php

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@8:48AM
    I got busy looking up state tax intakes and spending for each and should have just looked at the article.
    The funny thing is that New York is where Taibbi’s Vampire Squid mostly lives (it’s brother lives in DC), you’d think all the money they sweep in from the rest of the country would lower New Yorker tax rates.
    I suppose when you run governments that push taxes to the limit leaving the citizens on life support, any new money that comes in simply gets turned over to Leviathan.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “The business with having the government dictate a technical solution, this time requiring electric cars, has been grinding at me.”
    Chaps my hide as well. Burr in the saddle, messing with my peace of mind and serenity. And the crazy thing is in CA there is no way no how the state can even supply enough electricity to charge millions of electric cars. Notice the recent rolling blackouts and brown outs that are NOT due to wind and fire, but to lack of electricity?
    Q: What did the Greenies use before candles? A: electricity.
    Idiots. Complete nincompoops. The science is settled so give two of the most clean, reliable, inexpensive, and low carbon footprint sources of electricity generation (natural gas and nuclear power) dirty names. Complete morons. I need to get a Thesaurus and look up moron and idiot because I am being too redundant. Need a new word that means friggin idiots. Who cares if the roads, freeways, and bridges are crumbling. Mass transit will make those Twentieth Century ideas obsolete. Imbeciles, knuckleheads, half-wits, and dullards. Grunt sandwiches.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Guess this should go under Evil or The Great Lefty Divide, or Scattershots, or when all else fails, try the Sandbox. Repost, different source.
    SUICIDE OF THE LIBERALS
    To these I now want to add Professor Morson’s First Things essay “Suicide of the liberals.” Drawing on his knowledge of Russian history and literature, Professor Morson observes the weakness of liberal reformers in the face of the revolutionary terrorists and their cadres to the left of the liberals. Professor Morson observes, for example:
    “How did educated, liberal society respond to such terrorism? What was the position of the Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party and its deputies in the Duma (the parliament set up in 1905)? Though Kadets advocated democratic, constitutional procedures, and did not themselves engage in ­terrorism, they aided the terrorists in any way they could. Kadets collected money for terrorists, turned their homes into safe houses, and called for total amnesty for arrested terrorists who pledged to continue the mayhem. Kadet Party central committee member N. N. Shchepkin declared that the party did not regard terrorists as criminals at all, but as saints and martyrs. The official Kadet paper, Herald of the Party of People’s Freedom, never published an article condemning political assassination. The party leader, Paul Milyukov, declared that “all means are now legitimate . . . and all means should be tried.” When asked to condemn terrorism, another liberal leader in the Duma, Ivan Petrunkevich, famously replied: “Condemn terror? That would be the moral death of the party!”
    Not just lawyers, teachers, doctors, and engineers, but even industrialists and bank directors raised money for the terrorists. Doing so signaled advanced opinion and good manners. A quote attributed to Lenin—“When we are ready to kill the capitalists, they will sell us the rope”—would have been more accurately rendered as: “They will buy us the rope and hire us to use it on them.” True to their word, when the Bolsheviks gained control, their organ of terror, the Cheka, “liquidated” members of all opposing parties, beginning with the Kadets. Why didn’t the liberals and businessmen see it coming?”
    That question has bothered many students of revolutionary movements. Revolutions never succeed without the support of wealthy, liberal, educated society….
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/suicide-of-the-liberals.php
    Darn. I should have posted this under Ruminations; Red Scare.

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 1040am – Mr Tozer, there is no need to restrict a comment to appear under only one commentary. Please feel free to post it wherever you feel it is relevant.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What can I say. Pick a card, any card. Page 5 of so was interesting
    https://www.newsbusters.org/
    Congratulations. The Lamestream media has surpassed used car salesmen, waiting at the DMV, and almost caught up with root canals on the list of things people least enjoy. Pop those bottles of bubbly.

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Looks like the R’s have an awesome “ballot harvesting” force for California. We may gain back up to seven congressional seats and maybe more. The democrats have no idea what they have created. WOW!
    Trump is moving way up in the polls as well. Checked the NYT’s poll and it is total crap today. 500 registered voters for the whole state of Texas? Jeeze.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Aftermath of Kenosha. Video, not long.
    https://www.oann.com/oan-tours-the-aftermath-of-kenosha/
    FYI, Orson Welles was from Kenosha.

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    It should be an interesting month what with everyone saving their good stuff for now.
    https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1309194520253399040

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  35. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    Todd writes:
    “Trump is moving way up in the polls as well.”
    Show me the polls Todd, put your money where your mouth is. RCP averages shows almost no movement and Biden is virtually at the same level of 50.3 % since June.
    You made that up as you always do.
    RCP Average today Biden 50.3 Trump 43.3 Biden +7.0
    Average June 23 Biden 50.2 Trump 42.4 Biden +7.8
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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  36. Regina Trumpler Avatar
    Regina Trumpler

    Tucker Carlson today said that he is the Joseph Goebbels of America and that the biggest lies are the best lies and he isn’t afraid to tell gigantic whoppers if it helps his buddy trumpler.

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Well,, we see what little it takes to get Emery to come out of hiding.
    How bout that ballot mischief Emery? Is that “fair” in your opinion? All those Repub ballots turning up in the trash, and ditches
    I guess we will wait and see what your crickets have to say.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    More subpoenas get issued to “O”‘s inner circle.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-homeland-security-committee-authorizes-subpoenas-for-testimony-from-obama-officials-as-part-of-russia-probe

    The Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday voted to authorize subpoenas for former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and other Obama administration officials as part of its broad review into the origins of the Russia investigation.
    The committee on Wednesday held a business meeting to authorize committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., to issue notices for taking depositions, subpoenas, for records, and subpoenas for testimony to individuals relating to the panel’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, the Justice Department inspector general’s review of that investigation, and the “unmasking” of U.S. persons affiliated with the 2016 Trump campaign, transition team and the Trump administration.”
    The conspirators and subversives are going down.

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  39. reginia Trumpler Avatar
    reginia Trumpler

    so stupid at 12:07 that he thinks he is smart.

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  40. Walt Avatar

    “jon” is back.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I interrupt this programming to bring a special link for Walt. You can read it later. Your ancestors called my ancestors salvages and then turned around centuries later and done ate up a couple of my forefathers up on Choctaw Ridge….er….Truckee Lake just below the Donner Summit. Savages.
    Hey Walt, your ancestors were right. We are “wretched ones”, sir. 🙂 welcome to home convalescence. Kinda like being under the Chinese Virus lockdown here in the ‘peanut gallery’(a now banned location and noun.
    ‘Vikings in America’
    Centuries before Columbus, Vikings came to the Western hemisphere. How far into the Americas did they travel?
    “According to these two sagas, the Vikings encountered a group of indigenous Amerindians, whom they called Skraelings, or ‘wretched ones’. The Norse traded red woollen textiles for animal pelts. That exchange marked a turning point in world history: it is the earliest documented encounter between the peoples living on opposite sides of the Atlantic.”
    https://aeon.co/essays/did-indigenous-americans-and-vikings-trade-in-the-year-1000

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump is on his way to a wipeout of Biden. Coattails too!

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