[Hopefully, after our Christmas gut busting binges, everyone today is eating more lightly, no matter that such professed dedications never last long. In the meantime we must gird our loins for the Georgia vote, and then the darkness that the new regime promises to spread across the land in 2021. gjr]

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266 responses to “Sandbox – 26dec20”
Happy New Year.
Got my Covid money already. A good tax advisor is worth their weight in gold. I be po folk. :). When is the next check coming?
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/rose-bowl-california-2020-texas
Oh well.
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Rose Bowl? How about those peaks in that area? They must come down to level the playing field, figuratively.
Los Angeles Times Opinion
Op-Ed: These two peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains honor racists. They must be renamed
https://www.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-two-peaks-san-205320534.html
Never knew those peaks had names or what they were named. They ain’t like Mt. Baldy. Someone better do a search on Mt. Whitney.
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Happy New year Gregory,,, See what happens when you listen to the Proggy press?
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Happy New Year, Walt.
I could be wrong, but I have a feeling your shepard enjoyed the bar-b-que..er….funeral for the pork butt. 🙂
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The GOP is eating its own,
JUST IN: VP Mike Pence asks federal judge to throw out attempt by Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert to broaden Pence’s powers to allow him, in effect, to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
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Toes, the closest peak to the Rose Bowl is Mt. Wilson, home of the first 100″ telescope; he may have been anything ’cause I’ve never heard of him. Mt. Baldy, twice as tall, is actually named Mt. San Antonio- called ‘baldy’ because the summit is above timberline.
Not sure if St. Anthony was a racist…
Climbed it many times, including when snow capped; great little hike.
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Mt. Wilson. Yes, been there once. I once ran up the face of Mt. Lukings to the top of on firetrails many moons ago on a bet I could not do it without stopping. Its above Tujunga-La Crescenta-La Canada…good view of the ocean, all the San G Valley, San F Valkey, Downtown LA, San Pedro and all the out into the ocean to Catalina or some island sticking out on the horizon. I could do anything ‘once’, back then. Won the bet (dare), but unfortunatly, i took the bet after a afternoon workout and did notmakr it back down until well after sun set, roflmao. Scarey noises in the darkness. Young, stubborn, and dumb. All cause someone said “can’t”
Oh, this just adds to my utter contempt for teachers union honchos. Must be nice.
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/ctu-board-member-facing-criticism-for-vacationing-in-caribbean-while-pushing-remote-learning/
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L: opps, Mt. Lukens. Formerly Mount Sister Somebody who ran an orphanage probaly in the 1830’s during the LA gold rush in them dar hills. Lukens was a former US Ag Secretary according to the little plaque on top. Bet he was a racist as well. Wonder if that plaque/marker is still there.
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I have to say Minuchin was right the direct deposits are already in play, i got mine overnight.
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The commissar dances the night away and says screw you little people! –
De Blasio under fire for dancing in deserted Times Square
Social media lights up with ‘View’ co-host tweeting ‘everyone hates’ the mayor
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/de-blasio-dancing-times-square
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THE GEEK IN PICTURES: YEAR-END ROUNDUP
Time for another round of miscellaneous charts and graphs that do a lot of work.
First up, more embarrassing news for California and New York (with a side order of Illinois). I wonder what these states have in common? It’s a total mystery.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/12/the-geek-in-pictures-year-end-roundup.php
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Keep paying us to go to the caribian while your kids rot at home in lockdowns, no live school says the teachers union. –
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-teachers-union-sarah-chambers-teacher-ctu
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Anyone surprised? –
https://www.oann.com/nyt-wapo-and-others-revealed-as-participating-in-ccp-propaganda-events/
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So you listen to the wokesters and have an incredibly thin margin that with covid issues could see you not being speaker and you do this? Must have been the pig head, blood and tagging of her garage –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/01/nancy-pelosi-bans-gender-terms-like-mother-daughter-father-son-in-house-rules/
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Socialists culling the heard ahead of death boards, but they are still pikers compared to commissar diblasio –
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-elderly-fall-victims-having-180748341.html
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Now what was I saying just last week?
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/01/liu-jieyi-china-snubs-taiwan-tsai-ing-wen-talks-offer/
Dementia Joe will do nothing and China will take Taiwan.
China knew damned well Trump would protect Taiwan.
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Can’t find a place to put this, so Sandbox here we come.
‘National Borders are Not Going Away’
https://quillette.com/2020/12/30/national-borders-are-not-going-away/
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Rose bowl parade
https://www.foxnews.com/us/trump-supporters-uncancel-rose-parade-after-new-years-tradition-scrapped
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@ 4:12 am
“Pull your mask up!” a Trump fan responded, seeing that the heckler was wearing his face mask on his chin.
How delightfully delicious.
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It only took a year to figure out what everyone in the country already knew –
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/01/02/portland-mayor-admits-failure-in-dealing-with-antifa-asks-for-federal-state-help/
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Oh… NOW they want FED help?
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/01/02/portland-mayor-admits-failure-in-dealing-with-antifa-asks-for-federal-state-help/
I say F.U.! it’s your stink’n mess, YOU clean it up.
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Bessee loves him some socialism, direct deposit those gubmint checks.
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The Idiot Contingent gets their asses handed to them again,
“The latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.
A Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.”
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Feel good fuzzy story to kick off 2021. I must say without sounding too
cli·ché-ish that 2020 was the worse of times and the best of times. I am so friggin grateful for it that panned out on the personal side for Biker Bill. What a blessing 2020 was, considering the lows that came early and the highs that came later that swept away the gloom. We are a blessed people. I got back that ‘attitude of gratitude’. Lost that, and you lose it all. We will see how long it lasts. 🙂
Single Mom Financially Ruined By CV-19
How The Generosity Of Strangers Changed This Single Mother’s Life For The Better
Maria Patton, a single mother who was financially caught off guard after she lost her job during the pandemic, finally received a good surprise
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/01/how-the-generosity-of-strangers-changed-this-single-mothers-life-for-the-better/
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Sniff sniff… Yup A TROLL… Something tells me that TROLL didn’t refuse IT’S “crumbs” deposit. It’s a “tax rebate”.. NOT a Commie “gift”… On second thought,, did the TROLL pay any taxes?
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THE WEEK IN PICTURES: HAPPY 2021 EDITION
Well, 2o20 is finally behind us. You don’t need to be a soothsayer to predict that there will be plenty of controversy about social media, racism, and above all Donald Trump. The greatest achievement of Trump is that he is going to live rent-free inside the heads of liberals forever. He really is the End of History: all you’ll need to do from now until Judgment Day to trigger a liberal is just say, “Trump,” and sit back and watch the fun. Even better than the ghost of Joe McCarthy.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/the-week-in-pictures-happy-2021-edition.php
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And they were hoping we uneducated uncouth knuckledraggers would simply forget. Congrats Dems, you won again!
2020 Democrat Hypocrisy Hall Of Shame
https://www.dailywire.com/news/2020-democrat-hypocrisy-hall-of-shame
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No one is safe from emperor xi –
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13629201/mystery-china-billionaire-jack-ma-disappears/
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If they can afford to buy the spray paint, they don’t need the money.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnells-louisville-home-vandalized
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Don.. Isn’t those Socialist states great? Our socialist cheerleader should take notice.
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So Repub protesters are “extremists”.. Yet ANTIFA and BLM are always said to be “peaceful”..
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2021/01/02/d-c-officials-slam-pro-trump-rally-planned-oppose-bidens-election/
Funny the trouble never starts till the feral LIB basement brats show up.
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WalDoH!™ yeah, us Socialists are all about the freebies. Glad to see that you and Bessee are joining the club. I thought Bessee was retired so wondering why the gubmint would send him more money?
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“If that’s how it’s going to be, then what good are these news organizations?”
‘2020 was the point of no return for establishment media’
“NBC has nothing on its website about the Chinese spy scandal. Neither does CBS or ABC. The New York Times, the Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times, similarly have avoided reporting on the scandal. Swalwell, meanwhile, has been allowed to skate on the excuse that the Axios report was a hit job orchestrated by the Trump White House, which doesn’t make any sense.”….
“Neither NBC, nor CBS, nor ABC has reported on her allegations. The Washington Post hasn’t touched the story. The New York Times has not touched the story. CNN hasn’t touched the story. MSNBC hasn’t touched the story. The New Yorker hasn’t touched the story. And so on. Just a brief reminder: The New York Times and the New Yorker share a Pulitzer Prize for their #MeToo coverage.”…..
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2020-was-the-point-of-no-return-for-establishment-media
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Another instance of the ignorant wallowing in it @136!
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Promises, promises. Maybe the good mayor is finally listening to the oppressed forgotten little guy and is beginning to stand up for them. Nah, just kidding. The Honorable Mayor found himself on the wrong side of history and is doing a course correction. Good luck sending in the social workers to quell the real violence, the real looting, the real arson, the real throwing of real projectiles, real commercial grade explosives, and real firebombs, and real windows on real retail businesses being smashed on a real nightly basis.
“This is Biden Country!” shouted one rioter, wearing a pink pussy hat and a Molotov cocktail in one hand and a fist full of ball bearings in his pocket.
Listen to the children.
‘Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler pledges to ‘push back harder’ against Antifa after New Year’s Eve riot’
Wheeler’s zero-tolerance policy comes after a string of violent clashes in the city’s downtown area
“Wheeler said it was hard for him and others “to accept the reality that there are just some people on this planet who are bent on criminal destruction; that there are some people who truly just want to watch the world burn.””
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portland-ted-wheeler-pledges-antifa-riots
[Denial is not a river in Egypt, Mr. Mayor. If we can’t get you to see the light by reason, then perhaps recently winning re-election by a RAZOR THIN MARGIN might to the get your attention.
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Does this mean the Gubmint is going to send us some rakes so we can keep the forests clean?
“On Friday, January 1, 2021, the President signed into law:
S. 3418, the “Safeguarding Tomorrow through Ongoing Risk Mitigation Act” or the “STORM Act,” which authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide capitalization grants to States to establish revolving funds to provide hazard mitigation assistance to reduce risks from disasters and natural hazards.”
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/bill-announcement-010121/
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Will woke medicine kill people? –
Britain’s socialised healthcare system is requiring retired doctors and nurses to meet a checklist that requires “equality, diversity, and human rights” training before they can help administer Chinese virus vaccines.
Despite widespread reports of National Health Service (NHS) staff shortages, former health workers are being forced to fulfil a 21-point checklist before being allowed to administer vaccinations.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/01/02/wokedemic-diversity-checklist-required-for-retired-doctors-and-nurses-to-help-administer-vaccine-in-the-uk/
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Odd writer, but I like her.
‘New Year’s Revolutions’
Peachy Keenan
“Yet resistance is busting out all over. Restaurant owners with bullhorns and billboards are trolling the lockdowns. A college professor I know told me a student asked him for his pronouns and he told her to “take a guess.” Employees who participate in mandatory anti-racist Zoom struggle sessions where they are forced to confess their White privilege spend the hour secretly texting each other mocking the trainers.”
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Teen of the Year
“Runner up: Champion cheerleader Mimi Brooks, whose life was ruined and lost her spot at U of Tennessee after a years-old video of her saying the n-word (with a soft r) was leaked by a despicable worm named Jimmy Galligan. If you don’t want White teenagers to talk like Cardi B, maybe rap should be banned for White kids. I don’t listen to much rap anymore, so I wanted to see how widespread n-words are these days. I opened Spotify, clicked on United States Top 50 and literally it was the first word I heard (on “Rockstar,” not a terrible song).
The Mimi Brooks story reminded me of something I saw a few weeks ago. Sasha Obama posted a TikTok video where she and some (White) friends are lip syncing a song called “Adderall” by 20-year old rapper Popp Hunna. The clip isn’t long enough to show the whole song, but did Sasha’s White pals also sing along to the seven instances of “n****z” in the song? Huh. I wonder if that video would get them all thrown out of U Mich. I don’t want censorship—I just want mercy for Mimi.
Winner: Kyle Rittenhouse, for extreme calm under fire while being chased by armed and horny pedophiles.“
https://americanmind.org/salvo/new-years-revolutions/
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Trump, the GOP arsonist,
https://www.axios.com/trump-republicans-georgia-runoffs-tweets-7997c1d8-9f1b-47ae-8353-94864426eaea.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=facebook
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‘Democrats propose major change to House rules, eliminating family language for ‘gender-inclusive’ alternatives’
[‘This is stupid. Signed, – A father, son, and brother’]
The proposed changes would establish “gender-inclusive” language in the House rules by eliminating “gendered” language.
“Instead of words like “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter,” the proposed rules say the House should use language like “parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, first cousin, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild.”
The proposed rules also demand the following changes:”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-house-rules-gender-inclusive-language?
Boy, that is exactly what Dems to best. The whole world could be on fire and they will make gender neutral language one of the very first things they vote on in the new session of Congress. What a bunch of dickless wackos. Progressivism is a mental disorder.
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You go girl!
‘Incoming GOP Lawmaker Appears To Score Win On Right To Carry Gun In Capitol’
“If Members can’t carry on Capitol grounds, they can’t protect themselves in D.C.”
“I refuse to give up my Second Amendment rights,” Boebert said in a statement. “I’m a 5-foot tall, 100-pound mom with four children and will be walking to work and serving in one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S. I choose to defend my family and my life with all of the force the Constitution provides. I will not let a bunch of gun-grabbing House Democrats take away my Constitutional right to protect myself.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/incoming-gop-lawmaker-appears-to-score-win-on-right-to-carry-gun-in-capitol
The 2A is her gun permit.
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NY going FULL COMMIE? The Bill of Rights is headed for the shredder.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-bill-a416-detainment-assembly-ny
“A New York Democrat’s bill that would allow the governor or his surrogates to detain individuals who pose a threat to public health “by a single order … in a medical facility or other appropriate facility” sparked fierce backlash online.”
Now wasn’t the LIBS letting criminals loose on the streets because of the kung flu?
Yaa,, public safety is less important.
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January 21, 2021: The date Trump is eligible to face charges of money laundering, insurance fraud, rape, campaign finance violations, lying under oath, bribery, conspiracy, and treason.
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How come none of our libs comment on the butt stupid things their Dem leaders are doing in Congress? Do they even notice the crap is going on?
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What’s that smell?
Wokesters are at it again –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/01/03/woke-bbc-viewers-deride-grease-as-racist-rapey-and-homophobic/
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@ 4:36 pm
What’s that smell? Did he open his windows again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2D4zoIODVo&feature=emb_logo
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In very much related news
CHEEKY’ MAN HIDES SAMOSA BETWEEN BUTTOCKS TO SMUGGLE IT INTO JAIL
https://news.grabien.com/wire-cheeky-man-hides-samosa-between-buttocks-smuggle-it-jail
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Keep dreaming Douchey,, if that was true, your boy “O” would be doing life.
Look at the bright side.. The queen of the DAMNED keeps her flying monkeys… For now.
She did a fine job of bribing for votes. The guillotine was all set up in the back room.
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Those Botox Queens have so many preservatives shot into them that we could put them on corners and hang sign stop signs on them.
The Botox Nanny survives for her last term. It just won’t be the same without her in two years. Maybe then somebody will put her in the front lawn in Pacific Heights with a ‘Go Back to Berkeley You Stink Asses’ sign somebody licked the back of and stuck to her face. I can see here with her hands flailing at passerbys, “You are not my constituents. Go back, back”.
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IN THE HOUSE, STUPIDITY REIGNS
When the House of Representatives opened its session today, the invocation was delivered by Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who I take it has been ordained as a minister. This is his conclusion, in which he invokes “the monotheistic God Brahma,” if I am hearing it right. (I know it makes no sense, but that is not the point for now.) Cleaver concludes–I kid you not!–with “Amen and Awomen.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/01/in-the-house-stupidity-reigns.php
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Botox nancy did not even get a majority of the house to vote for her just a plurality but pay attention GA block the crazy cat ladies play –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/01/03/nancy-pelosi-promises-advance-racial-justice-environmental-justice-new-congressional-term/
😉
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