196 responses to “Sandbox – 3dec20”

1. 

   George Rebane

   07 December 2020

   Here are some memories of ‘the General’ Chuck Yeager.
   https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2009/03/general-chuck-fixes-a-kitchen.html
   The general and wife Victoria were shooters, and I am a regular range master (Range Safety Officer) at the Sportsmen Club rifle/pistol range. They shot when I was on duty, and I had opportunities for long memorable conversations with both of them. Chuck Yeager has been my hero since boyhood when I still had my pre-myopia dreams of becoming a fighter pilot. Even though I knew the man, I never called him Chuck, only ‘General’ and ‘Sir’. I recommend his autobiography ‘Yeager’.
   Rest in Peace.

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   Barry Pruett

   07 December 2020

   I brought chuck yeager’s book with me to Prague in 1995. I read it twice, because I had only brought a couple books with me and didn’t speak Czech yet. He was my hero as a adolescent child. Godspeed Gen. Yeager. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

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   Don Bessee

   07 December 2020

   Unintended consequences –
   Goya CEO says AOC was named ’employee of the month’ after her boycott call led to sales spike
   Bob Unanue: ‘When she boycotted us, our sales actually increased 1,000%’
   https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/goya-ceo-named-aoc-employee-of-the-month-after-boycott-call-led-to-sales-spike
   😉

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   Bill Tozer

   07 December 2020

   https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/homeschooling-more-than-doubled-during-the-pandemic/

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   Barry Pruett

   07 December 2020

   Alan wrote a very nice obituary of the general here.
   https://www.theunion.com/news/chuck-yeager-1st-man-to-break-sound-barrier-dies/

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6. 

   Gregory

   07 December 2020

   I remember sitting in the airport admin building in a bs session with a couple pilots who had flown themselves into Grass Valley. A woman came in and put some old aviation magazines on the table, hoping someone would read them one more time.
   One of the out-of-towners picked one up, looked at the mailing label and went into shock… I piped up and said “Yeah, that was Mrs. Yeager”.
   It’s been awhile since the Yeagers were at the airport… perhaps not since a hangar owner had to get a court order to evict them. Personally, I had an understanding with the General… I didn’t talk to him and he didn’t talk to me. Suited me fine… I learned to ignore famous folk growing up in SoCal.
   Victoria Yeager is personable and chatty.

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7. 

   Bill Tozer

   07 December 2020

   ‘Feds Canceling Tests Will Hide For Years How School Shutdowns Screwed Kids’
   Four to six months ahead of possible testing times, the test’s commissioner pre-emptively canceled this only way to measure the effect of varying school shutdown regulations across state lines
   “Historically, Republicans have made deals with Democrats to increase federal funding for K-12 in exchange for so-called “accountability” measures, most of which are tied to tests. With no consistent and reliable test results for nearing a decade now — testing was also both disrupted and rendered less useful with the massive Common Core overhaul President Obama forced on the nation — Democrats once again continue to achieve their objectives while requiring Republicans to forfeit theirs.”
   https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/07/feds-canceling-tests-will-hide-for-years-how-school-shutdowns-screwed-kids/
   —————————
   The group that is least likely to die in CA from the China Virus, least likely to transmit the China Virus to adults (in our State of 40 million, zero such cases of student to teacher infection, not to mention zero cases of child to adult C-19 infection resulting in death), and the place where the threat of COVID is statistically insignificant….that group is hurt most by following the science. Even Europe has kept their schools open through all this with no fallout or measurable risk. The risk to this group by demanding schools to be closed is immeasurable. The damage done is incalculable, the lives lost, the rates of depression and suicidal thoughts skyrocketing, lost future wages and income, and to top it all off, being robbed of an education. Even our CDC said on Thanksgiving Eve to open the schools and close the bars. Ok, follow the blankety blank science, you government and science worshiping asshats.
   THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS ARE EVIL
   I won’t say that those who run America’s teachers’ unions hate children. I will only say that they act as though they hate children. The teachers’ unions are the number one obstacle to education reform, by far. They stand in the way of school choice, school safety, and virtually any attempt to improve teacher quality or reform schools in any way. They feed off of, and promote, incompetence and lack of accountability. No one harms America’s youth as much as the teachers’ unions, not even drug dealers.
   https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/the-teachers-unions-are-evil.php
   In the entire USA of 330 million persons, 123-127 deaths total of people under the age of 18. That means all minors, from toddlers to 17 year olds. Read one piece that said 123 through August, another said 127 through the year. Let that sink in.
   The survival rate of those under 50 years old (as most teachers are) is 99.99 percent. Add some nuances and it drops to 99.5 % survival rate for older teachers. For a minor in grammar school, it’s 0.0001%. Open the schools. They are hurting the least vulnerable the most. Small business owners may disagree, but these kids are being slammed 6 ways to Sunday, not just monetary. And are suffering the most because the teacher’s unions have made unreasonable and totally unrealistic demands before reopening schools that cannot ever be met. Follow the science, at least in this important instance.

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8. 

   Don Bessee

   07 December 2020

   Now thats interesting –
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/07/texas-sues-georgia-michigan-pennsylvania-and-wisconsin-at-supreme-court-election-rules/
   😉

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9. 

   Gregory

   08 December 2020

   Db 1154pm
   Yes, indeed. An evil genius came up with that end run play.
   Straight to SCOTUS.

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10. 

    Barry Pruett

    08 December 2020

    I had the same experience with Gen. Yeager as well Gregory. Victoria kind of ran the show. Lol

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11. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    Bessee, Gregory, Texans are bigger whiners than Georgians. It does point out the need for national standardized election rules, including requirements that there are the same ratio of voting places to the local populations.
    The depths that Cons will go to in a coup attempt is evidenced by their plan to replace state electors with Trump brown-nosers who will vote Trump him.

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12. 

    fish

    08 December 2020

    Posted by: D | 08 December 2020 at 06:56 AM
    The depths that Cons will go to in a coup attempt is evidenced by their plan to replace state electors with Trump brown-nosers who will vote Trump him.
    Eat something….you’ll feel better!

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13. 

    fish

    08 December 2020

    Hmmm……no wonder…..Swalwell is as big a tool as he appears……too much Chinese!
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9029379/How-suspected-Chinese-spy-targeted-California-politicians.html

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    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    “The depths that Cons will go to in a coup attempt is evidenced by their plan to replace state electors with Trump brown-nosers who will vote Trump him.”
    Well, the Trump haters are not going to vote Trump him. It’s dirty job, but somebody had to do it.

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15. 

    Barry Pruett

    08 December 2020

    Doug: The constitution is a contract among the great citizens of this great country. It was founded in a very deliberative process in order to in man’s attempt form a more perfect union. If you don’t like the contract by all means you can amend it and change the contract. What you can’t do is simply violate it because you choose a certain result.
    Texas has a very solid and well support in case Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia all violated their own statutes, their own constitution, and the constitution of the United States in putting together the parameters of the 2020 election. These elected officials who are not members of the state legislatures created rules they were simply illegal using the Covid crisis in an effort to illegally help Joe Biden beat Donald Trump.
    It’s time we let this legal process play out in order to properly determine who will be the President of the United States. That said it is interesting that Clarence Thomas and his “wing of the Supreme Court” will be the ones to determine whether or not Joe Biden who was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee when Clarence Thomas was the subject of an “high tech lynching” before such committee will be the one deciding whether or not Joe Biden becomes president. Karma is a bitch.

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16. 

    fish

    08 December 2020

    DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: Top Biden COVID adviser cheered George Floyd protests despite pandemic.
    I’m sure that Nevada City’s most prominent citizens will roundly condemn these acts of biological terrorism?!
    Denny? Cheryl? Don? George?
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-biden-covid-adviser-george-floyd-protests-pandemic

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17. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 December 2020

    Those democrats sure are amazing at finding Waldo. In New York 22 after more than a month they just found 12 ballots in a drawer and they were all for the democrat. Amazing! The race is just a few votes difference. And a freaking Judge allows them to be counted!

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18. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    Seeing Mike Pence swearing in a Democratic Senator while a bisexual woman wearing a purple wig and zebra print coat holds the Bible is extremely satisfying.
    https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national-politics/heres-why-sen-kyrsten-sinema-wore-a-wig-to-mark-kellys-swearing-in-ceremony

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19. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Did I detect a wee bit of uncertainty in Dim’s comment? Like, what happened to RIP Republicans just a few days ago? That innate feeling of Impending Doom, the deep seated uneasiness, is starting to shake the foundations of his World as he sees it View?
    That fat lady has already gone back to her hotel. She can be reached by phone when the time comes.

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20. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Uncle Bernie! How could you.
    ‘Sanders Blasts Democrats For Blocking $1.8 Trillion COVID-19 Relief And Now Accepting Half That’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/sanders-blasts-democrats-for-blocking-1-8-trillion-covid-19-relief-and-now-accepting-half-that

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21. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    Barry: The Texans should probably mind their own business, don’t you think? They sound like a bunch of whiners anyway,
    “7. The rampant lawlessness arising out of
    Defendant States’ unconstitutional acts is described
    in a number of currently pending lawsuits in
    Defendant States or in public view including:
    • Dozens of witnesses testifying under oath about:
    the physical blocking and kicking out of
    Republican poll challengers; thousands of the
    same ballots run multiple times through
    tabulators; mysterious late night dumps of
    thousands of ballots at tabulation centers;
    illegally backdating thousands of ballots;
    signature verification procedures ignored; more
    5
    than 173,000 ballots in the Wayne County, MI
    center that cannot be tied to a registered voter;2
    • Videos of: poll workers erupting in cheers as poll
    challengers are removed from vote counting
    centers; poll watchers being blocked from entering
    vote counting centers—despite even having a
    court order to enter; suitcases full of ballots being
    pulled out from underneath tables after poll
    watchers were told to leave.
    • Facts for which no independently verified
    reasonable explanation yet exists: On October 1,
    2020, in Pennsylvania a laptop and several USB
    drives, used to program Pennsylvania’s Dominion
    voting machines, were mysteriously stolen from a
    warehouse in Philadelphia. The laptop and the
    USB drives were the only items taken, and
    potentially could be used to alter vote tallies; In
    Michigan, which also employed the same
    Dominion voting system, on November 4, 2020,
    Michigan election officials have admitted that a
    purported “glitch” caused 6,000 votes for
    President Trump to be wrongly switched to
    Democrat Candidate Biden. A flash drive
    containing tens of thousands of votes was left
    unattended in the Milwaukee tabulations center
    in the early morning hours of Nov. 4, 2020,
    without anyone aware it was not in a proper chain
    of custody.”

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22. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    “Hannity Tries to Un-Debunk Georgia ‘Suitcase’ Video That Fox Debunked” That Hannity is one desperate loser. Has he been given an honorary membership in the Circle of Jays?
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/hannity-claims-georgia-suitcase-video-that-fox-debunked-hasnt-been-debunked?utm_source=web_push

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23. 

    Barry Pruett

    08 December 2020

    Posted by: D | 08 December 2020 at 09:19 AM
    Thank you for supporting my position and that of Texas. Such details of election issues as demonstrated by your post above are examples of how Texans and Pennsylvanians (and a bunch of other citizens) were denied equal protection under the law.

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24. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    “Today is the day that the Trump “legal team” aka clown car, probably goes 1-50. 50 losses in a month. That can only happen through 2 things. NO evidence and incompetence.”

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25. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    Donald Trump is considering not returning from Mar-a-Lago after the Christmas break. He’ll leave the White House for the holidays — and never return.
    It’s a Christmas miracle!

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26. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    Why is ‘({[Billionaire]})’ asking for money to help pay his legal expenses? Y’all can’t be that stupid…can you?
    “(Reuters) – As President Donald Trump seeks to discredit last week’s election with baseless claims of voter fraud, his team has bombarded his supporters with requests for money to help pay for legal challenges to the results: “The Left will try to STEAL this election!” reads one text.
    A donor would have to give more than $8,000 before any money goes to the “recount account” established to finance election challenges, including recounts and lawsuits over alleged improprieties, the fundraising disclosures show.”

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27. 

    Gregory

    08 December 2020

    I wonder who the Yeagers supported in 2020…

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28. 

    George Rebane

    08 December 2020

    Administrivia – Please migrate your thoughts re voter fraud related topics to ‘Voter Faud 5.0 …’, thank you. And also note the 8dec20 Scattershots update.

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29. 

    Walt

    08 December 2020

    Told ya’ so.. Douchey is pro voter fraud. “By any means necessary”,, right Douchey?

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30. 

    Walt

    08 December 2020

    Lets test the theory.
    https://www.jpost.com/omg/former-israeli-space-security-chief-says-aliens-exist-humanity-not-ready-651405
    Will D- jump from the South Fork bridge?
    You know they are going to eat the fat ones first.
    Maybe the ETs messed with the elections just to see how far some will go to obtain power.
    Word has it that George Washington’s ghost as well as Abraham Lincoln’s have been seen in the W.H.
    They are known to only show up when things go to shit for the country. With Biden and the Commies there,, yup,, proof positive shit runs downhill.

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31. 

    D

    08 December 2020

    Mega church pastor dies of Covid.
    Heaven’s Gate cultists have nothing on mainstream churchgoers. They want to bunch together and spray each other with Covid. No need for anything other than the Orange Kool-Aid.
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article247580730.html

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32. 

    Walt

    08 December 2020

    Better stay on that ridge D-.. YOU could be next.

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33. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Oh boy. The internet is buzzing about this, calling it a bombshell and all. I heard it first on this site…yesterday. Those bad mask haters stay ahead of the curve. Thank you Walt and Don and others.
    Exclusive: Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians
    https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html

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34. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    BREAKING: Elon Musk: Bye, California, I’ve Moved To Texas
    That was quick. I heard rumors last week that Elon Musk is pulling up stakes and taking his show to Texas. Heck, he got a Texas drivers license, been seen all over the place with Gov. Abbott, and already has his Rocketman Space X division there…a nice new humungous
    center (thanks Gov) and nice tax break with a minisule business tax on top on no state income tax. Me thinks he is riled up over CA personal income tax and is doing this for personal reasons. He will pay billions if he stays here. He does have that true Jeffersonian Liberal/Libertarian streak to him.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-bye-california-ive-moved-to-texas

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35. 

    Walt

    08 December 2020

    When did Bill start writing for the Daily Caller?
    https://dailycaller.com/2020/12/08/hart-joe-bidens-buffoonery-starts-before-he-is-even-sworn-in/

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36. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Afternoon, Walt. Daily Caller? Nope, Free Beacon.
    https://freebeacon.com/satire/neal-katyal-child-slavery/

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37. 

    Walt

    08 December 2020

    Let me be the first to point out the return of the LIB loved, crony capitalism.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/glenn-greenwald-bidens-pick-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin
    “Journalist Glenn Greenwald slammed President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for defense secretary as “yet another high-level Biden nominee enmeshed in D.C.’s corporatist ‘revolving door’ of legalized influence-peddling.” “

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38. 

    Walt

    08 December 2020

    The first promise Biden can’t keep.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/08/joe-biden-pledges-to-distribute-100-million-covid-vaccines-in-first-100-days/

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39. 

    RXCross

    08 December 2020

    Are the endorsed by Donald Trump Proud Boys the new Hell’s angels of the 1950’s? They disrupted a Toys for Tots drive for crap’s sake. And those are real patriots, right? You know.. good people on both sides…
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article247694565.html

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40. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Evening Walt
    Your 2:18 pm link mentioned the Governor of Jersey violated his own decree and then lied, LIED about it, the article said. Well, for every action there is an equal reaction.
    Meet reaction:
    ‘Gov. Murphy Begs New Jersey To Work With Contact Tracers After Most Residents Tell Them To Get Lost’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/gov-murphy-begs-new-jersey-to-work-with-contact-tracers-after-most-residents-tell-them-to-get-lost

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41. 

    Scott O

    08 December 2020

    RXX 5:04 – Exactly what did they do? And who are they?
    The KCRA story didn’t mention anything about a ‘disruption’.
    When they start murdering, looting and burning down buildings – let us know.
    Until then…
    Nice try, X.

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42. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Maybe we (the Good Guys) already have 51 seats in the Senate on the big issues. Or, maybe the Dems sent out the distinguished Senator from WV to allay voter fears that the Dems are a bunch of Leftwing radical psychos before the Georgia elections. Maybe not. He must have said 40-50 times over the course of a month the following:
    -No to court packing
    -no to defund the police
    -no to Medicaid for All
    -no to the Green New Raw Deal
    -no to ending the filibuster, Buster
    -no to AOC and a double no to the Squad.
    -no to being counted on as the Dem’s 50 vote in the Senate.
    Joe Manchin Slams Fellow Dems’ ‘Crazy Socialist Agenda’ amid Intra-Party Battle: ‘Defund, My Butt’
    “Defund the police? Defund, my butt. I’m a proud West Virginia Democrat. We are the party of working men and women. We want to protect Americans’ jobs & healthcare. We do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police,” Manchin wrote in a tweet Wednesday evening.
    “Under no circumstances would I support packing the court or ending the filibuster if there is a 50-50 tie,” he said.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/joe-manchin-slams-fellow-dems-crazy-socialist-agenda-amid-intra-party-battle-defund-my-butt/
    Looks like KKamala Harris won’t be voting much in the future….unless she goes back to the Senate if Biden is not the next POTUS.
    —————-
    Spiking the ball
    “Sen. Joe Manchin is pledging to block major progressive legislative goals if Democrats retake the Senate.
    Speaking to Fox News’ “Special Report” Monday, Manchin (D-W.Va.) made the promise while discussing the future of the upper chamber of Congress, and how the 100-member body was facing a down-the-middle split between Democrats and Republicans.
    If Democrats are successful in their two Senate runoff races in Georgia in January, bills in the Senate could be moved by a single vote.
    “50-50 [control] means that if one senator does not vote on the Democratic side, there is no tie and there is no bill,” the West Virginia Democrat said.”
    https://nypost.com/2020/11/10/sen-manchin-to-vote-against-crazy-stuff-like-court-packing/
    ————————-
    Did you know….that the very morning after the 2016 Election, Joe Manchin was the first to call in to the Laura Ingram radio show. I know, I was listening to the show before she found herself too busy to do radio. Anyway, while Dems were having a mass hysteria mental breakdown, Joe was calling in saying the Dems have to listen to the people instead of being in a bubble and they didn’t and blew it again.
    A few callers later Michele Obama’s mom called in all upset that Trump was going to jack hammer up Michele and the granddaughters’ flower/vegetable garden and she was very, very upset. He (Trump) better not touch that garden, they put so much work into it. Oh, she was worried sick about the future of the garden plot.
    Everybody has an agenda.
    Gotta love the name Man chin. It’s so Alpha Male. So manly. So made in the USA.

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43. 

    Don Bessee

    08 December 2020

    Creepy grampa joe has already lost the tribal council on his sec defs required waiver. –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/two-top-senate-democrats-signal-opposition-to-bidens-pick-for-pentagon-chief
    😉

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44. 

    Don Bessee

    08 December 2020

    Bad news for the trollish set good news for society at large, i have to wonder if we will have more low rent trolls lurking around here? –
    😉

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45. 

    Don Bessee

    08 December 2020

    Ooopsie link for @749 –
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pornhub-bans-downloads-ends-unverified-uploads-215344129.html
    😉

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46. 

    Don Bessee

    08 December 2020

    Well no suprise that the socialist dems did well there –
    Of the 266 far-left or socialist candidates evaluated in the races, nearly 90% won according to the report’s findings.
    The greatest number were elected to Connecticut’s state legislature, at 38, followed by New York, 23, Illinois, 22, Minnesota, 21, and California, 19.
    A similar analysis from the Heartland Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank, found that, uncontested races aside, “socialist candidates received on average 49 percent of the vote.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-socialists-most-successful-election-year
    😉

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47. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Well, its no surprise that Wicked Gretchen and her AG are coming after the Joy to the World stuff. Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and other illiberals made it their top priority as well.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-ag-slams-people-wishing-merry-christmas-after-trump-warning?

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48. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 December 2020

    Meanwhile over in Minnesota…
    CHRISTMAS DIVERSITY GRINCH

    In St. Anthony, Minnesota, a St. Paul suburb, at least four families whose homes displayed Christmas lights received this letter from a neighbor:

    Last oaragraph
    “For whatever reason, liberals now feel emboldened to reveal the full insanity of their creed, and demand that the rest of us go along with it. Somehow, I don’t think that is going to happen. Merry Christmas!”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/a-christmas-diversity-grinch.php
    ————,
    Got a kick out this line from above:
    “The idea of twinkling, colorful lights are [sic] a reminder of divisions that continue to run through our society, a reminder of systemic biases against our neighbors who don’t celebrate Christmas or who can’t afford to put up lights of their own.”
    Eureka! Found the problen. Can’t afford to hang up lights on their own? No problem, got it covered. Just ask, neighbor
    Heck, you can get a good string of lights for $7.99 right now. How many do you need, its on the house. I’ll bring over a big bag of stringed lights and a ladder as well. A good sturdy one, never moves a hair or slips; not some flimsy ass cheapo bargin bin ladder.
    So, the real reason Progressive have a problem with Christmas lights in the neighorhood is they can’t afford a string of lights or put them up.
    Tis true. tis true. Get Woke, Go Broke.

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49. 

    D

    09 December 2020

    Florida Governor goes Bat💩 after indoctrination by QAnon/Trump – raids house of data scientist.
    https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2020/12/08/gop-lawyer-resigns-over-treatment-of-florida-data-analyst/

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50. 

    D

    09 December 2020

    It has become obvious to all that the Cons are the millennial Confederates.
    Back in Honest Abe’s day when the Southern States did not like the results of the election, they seceded.
    The Cons are always trying some crap like this. The “State” of Jefferson is but one example of the secession mindset that runs rampant among Cons.
    Lately, unable to handle the truth, they have been suing everyone over the reality that Trump was fired.
    Now, the calls to arms are going out.

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