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83 responses to “Sandbox – 23aug21”

  1. Walt Avatar

    LOL!!
    Good luck getting this to stick.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/capitol-police-officers-sue-trump-allies-over-jan-6-riot
    The cop will be sued for murder first.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Gavin Nussolini is in deep trouble. It’s gotta be bad if CNN has to admit it.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/26/cnn-warns-democrat-support-for-ca-governor-newsom-dwindling/

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘House Democrats Pass Bill To Steal Elections The Old-Fashioned Way’
    The bill is a radical leftwing assault on the integrity of America’s elections and would permanently reshape and dictate ultimate election outcomes for the rest of our lives
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/26/house-democrats-pass-bill-to-steal-elections-the-old-fashioned-way/

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The rats fleeing the sinking ship or lack of participation would make a disastrous visual. Its not like the cackler in chief helps in any way with bidens biggest blunder –
    Vice President Harris cancelled her trip to California to stump for embattled Governor Gavin Newsom after the deadly suicide bombings in Kabul.
    The vice president was slated to campaign for Newsom at his car rally on Friday as the California governor faces a contentious recall election that may cost him his job.
    Harris and Newsom were requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test for attendees to enter the rally.
    The vice president’s cancellation deals a serious blow to Newsom’s campaign
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harris-newsom-rally-cancelled-kabul-bombings
    😉

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    NOW THATS FUNNY, had no idea the tin foil hat brigade was such a big constituency! ROFLOL
    https://www.theunion.com/news/reinette-senum-takes-steps-toward-running-for-governor-in-2022/
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Fredos disgraced older brother put a final black mark on his time in albany. Is he angling for a job with soros? –
    Parole for a terrorist: Cuomo was wrong to grant clemency to David Gilbert
    Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News
    https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/parole-terrorist-cuomo-wrong-grant-081300334.html
    😉

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  7. Walt Avatar

    And the problem with this is just what??
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/26/newsom-warns-ahead-of-recall-california-could-become-florida-gop-hopes-so/
    “Newsom Warns Ahead of Recall: California Could Become Florida,”

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And look is talking. Is that Larry Elder on 60 Minutes? Yep, I call that a serious threat….
    https://www.facebook.com/113676922032321/posts/4232285980171374/

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  9. Show Me Kid Avatar
    Show Me Kid

    Dems are throwing mud over Elder’s foibles or whatever thay were with the ex-wife or ex-fiancee, whatever she is.
    How about Newsome and his current wife?? Newsome was married and his now wife’s then-husband worked for Newsome as one of his closest aides. Newsome and her began an affair while her husband was one of his closest confidantes, ultimately left his wife and she left her husband and they married.
    So Emery ,how do you place trust in someone that stabs one of his closest friends in the back like that? Are you okay with someone of those morals? Waiting for an answer Emery and don’t give me that consenting adult crap as I don’t think her -ex and his e-ex consented to Newsome and her hooking up.
    Or is that your definition of morals????

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. Imagine all the angry Democrats…where do they all come from? Imagine if
    ‘Dem Candidate For Virginia Governor Forgot To Sign Form Making Him A Valid Candidate, Complaint Says’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-candidate-for-virginia-governor-forgot-to-sign-form-making-him-a-valid-candidate-complaint-says

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory likes this kind of thing. So do I.
    ‘Israeli Study: Natural Immunity Is 13x Stronger Than Pfizer COVID Shots’
    A new pre-print Israeli study has found that people with natural immunity to COVID-19 could be 13 times less likely to contract the respiratory virus than those who were solely vaccinated against the disease.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/israeli-study-natural-immunity-is-13x-stronger-than-pfizer-covid-shots/

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Bill. He’s a LIB. Rules and laws don’t apply to them. So what if he didn’t sign it? They might just FEDX it to him to fix that little detail. It’s not like he’s Trump.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    This line of BS sure won’t hold water.
    “”This is an attack on working people across our country and city,” de Blasio tweeted Thursday. “New York won’t stand for this vile, unjust decision.””
    Working people have the money to pay their damned rent.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-attack-supreme-court-biden-eviction-moratorium

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “CDC: Schools With Mask Mandates Didn’t See Statistically Significant Different Rates of COVID Transmission From Schools With Optional Policies’
    https://fee.org/articles/cdc-schools-with-mask-mandates-didn-t-see-statistically-significant-different-rates-of-covid-transmission-from-schools-with-optional-policies/

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  15. Walt Avatar

    More ballot shenanigans.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/27/public-interest-legal-foundation-wisconsin-mail-ballots-went-missing-undeliverable/
    Sure thing. Mail ballots are safe and secure…. Says a LIB.
    “The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) said on Friday that 82,766 mail ballots sent to voters in Wisconsin’s November 2020 presidential election “went missing or undeliverable,” a number more than four times greater than Joe Biden’s 20,682 vote certified margin of victory in the state.”
    So does the LIBS have the FED postal workers union working for them to?

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The idiots in the legislature want to force small businesses to demand vax proof or fire employees when they can hardly get workers. Only in cali thanks to the socialist dems –
    California legislative switcheroo could ‘gut-and-amend’ bridge bill into coronavirus vaccine mandate
    AB 455 was supposed to regulate traffic lanes on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-gut-amend-coronavirus-vaccine-mandate
    😉

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I remember when pediatricians had a questionnaire for parents to fill out about guns in the home. I put down 87 and two 55 gallon drums of ammo and ‘kindly go fuck yourself., none of your business.” The pediatrician looked at the questionnaire and proceeded as if he had not read a thing. A good doc, if I may add. Knew his/her stuff.
    Nothing new under the Lefty Marxist…er….Lefty Maoist sun.
    ‘CDC To Restart Initiative To Study Gun Violence’
    https://www.oann.com/cdc-to-restart-initiative-to-study-gun-violence/

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Super Spreaders lose.
    ‘Texas Democrats’ COVID-Infected Resistance Is Defeated As Election Law Passes State House’
    Texas Democrats’ attempts to stop a Republican-led effort to secure elections in the state came to an official end this week when the state House advanced the bill 79-37.
    “For weeks, the state House Democrats paraded around Washington, D.C., more than 1,000 miles away from their constituents to stall a return to their duties in the state legislature. During that time, several of the tantrum-throwing, vaccinated lawmakers contracted COVID-19 after partying on a maskless flight out of the Lone Star State.
    They also likely infected several Nancy Pelosi and White House aides during their protests in the nation’s capital city, where the Biden administration openly praised their demonstrations.
    “I applaud them standing for the rights of all Americans and all Texans to express their voice through their vote, unencumbered,” Vice President Kamala Harris said“
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/texas-democrats-covid-infected-resistance-is-defeated-as-election-law-passes-state-house/

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gavin stuff:
    As Newsom Recall Vote Looms, Corporations Are Fleeing California On The Double
    A study found that the rate of companies moving out of the Golden State in the first half of 2021 was double the torrid clip of the year before
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/as-newsom-recall-vote-looms-corporations-are-fleeing-california-on-the-double/
    ———————————-
    ‘The Gavin Newsom Recall Undermines The Democratic Party’s Plans To Californicate America’
    The California model is dead, no matter what happens in the recall, and thus so too is the progressive agenda.
    “For much of the last decade, journalists have described “the California model” of high taxes, strong regulations, and aggressive action on climate change as the progressive template for the rest of the United States. After voters elected Donald Trump president in 2016, they elevated California as the leader of the national resistance to his administration and agenda. And in January reporters noted that “California is emerging as the de facto policy think tank of the Biden-Harris administration and of a Congress soon to be under Democratic control.”
    But with growing evidence that California voters may recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom from office next month, the tenor of news media coverage is starting to change. CNN yesterday aired a segment headlined, “Democratic Support for California Gov. Gavin Newsom Is Dwindling.” In it, three lifelong Democratic women in Los Angeles said they were leaning toward voting for the recall because of rising crime and homelessness.
    The recall is by no means assured to happen. The most recent fundraising numbers showed that Newsom had ten times more money to spend than the top-polling Republican in the race, conservative radio show host Larry Elder. Forty-six percent of voters are Democrats and just 24 percent are Republicans. And Elder’s opposition to abortion, the minimum wage, and laws banning gender discrimination is viewed as fringe by most California voters.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/the-gavin-newsom-recall-undermines-the-democratic-partys-plans-to-californicate-america/
    Stand your ground.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    How did maher become an almost voice of reason –
    “Real Time” host Bill Maher closed his show on Friday night by teaching liberals the “lesson of Afghanistan” amid the ongoing turmoil in the Asian nation.
    “Blind hatred of America is just as blinkered as blind love. And we Americans should really get some perspective about where we live,” Maher began his monologue. “Watching this s— go down in Afghanistan, I was reminded lately of every conversation I’ve ever had with an immigrant, almost all of which if we got to really talking, included the notion, ‘Oh, you people have no idea. All you do is b—- about and badmouth your own country, but if you knew about the country I came from, you’d stop s—-ing on your own.’”
    “Last week, the Taliban murdered a comedian,” Maher said, referring to Afghan comedian Nazar Mohammad, who was tortured and executed. “A comedian, a thing like that really hits close to home for me. I’ve had two presidents up my a–. … Neither experience was pleasant, but I never had to worry about being dragged ’til I’m dead behind a Toyota Tacoma. Have a little perspective about the stuff we howl about here.”
    I’m sorry your professor said something you didn’t like. That won’t be a problem with the Taliban because you’re not allowed to go to school. In Saudi Arabia, grown women can be jailed for doing the kind of things we think of as routine without the permission of a male guardian. China rounds you up if you’re the wrong religion and puts you in camps,” Maher said before listing several other injustices around the world.
    There’s a reason Afghan mothers are handing their babies to us
    We failed, but any immigrant will tell you we’ve largely succeeded here. And yet, the overriding thrust of current ‘woke’ ideology is America is rotten to the core, irredeemably racist from the moment it was founded and so oppressive, sexist and homophobic we can’t find a host for the Oscars or ‘Jeopardy!’” Maher exclaimed.
    “And this is where your new [Afghan] roommates that you took in will prove so valuable because they’ll turn to you and say ‘Have you people lost your f—ing minds?!?… Have you ever heard of honor killings, public beheadings, throwing gay men off of roofs, arranged marriages to minors, state-sanctioned wife-beating, female genital mutilation, marriage by capture? Because we have.’”
    “What’s the lesson of Afghanistan. Maybe it’s that everyone from the giant dorm room b—- session that is the internet should take a good look at what real oppression looks like,” Maher continued. “Ask your maid, ask your Uber driver, ask the Asian woman giving you a massage. … America may not be the country of your faculty lounge and Twitter dreams, but no one here tries to escape by hanging on to an airplane. No, we wait ’til we get inside the plane to fight – and only because they cut off the beverage service.
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/maher-afghanistan-woke-oppression
    😉

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Unlimited Power: The Latest Supreme Court Dissent Is A Window Into The Mind Of The COVID Bureaucracy
    The left thinks its power is so broad as to be essentially limitless, and so singularly vested as to be checked virtually solely at its own discretion
    “Interested to know what the top liberal legal minds of the United States Supreme Court think about government power and your private property? First, take 10 minutes to read Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion, written for the majority, in the court’s Thursday night decision to stop the ban on rental income; then spend another 10 minutes on Justice Stephen Breyer’s dissent.
    Here’s a hint: The left thinks its power is so overarching as to impact nearly every citizen, so broadly interpreted as to be essentially limitless, and so singularly vested as to be checked virtually solely at the discretion of the bureaucracy itself.
    “Substantially … Tailored”
    The absurdity begins in the opening paragraph of Breyer’s dissent, which was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonya Sotomayor. There, he lauds what he describes as the government’s limited and judicious use of its power, writing, “the [Centers for Disease Control]’s current order is substantially more tailored than its prior eviction moratorium, which automatically applied nationwide.”
    Therefore, he reasons, there’s no reason to even consider if the CDC has any authority on the matter.
    How tailored is it, though? He gets to that two paragraphs later, when he cites the number of American counties the order applies to: Ninety percent; the vast majority of the country. This, he openly admits, is the left’s idea of “substantially more tailored;” it’s right there in the open.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/unlimited-power-the-latest-supreme-court-dissent-is-a-window-into-the-mind-of-the-covid-bureaucracy/

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The ACLU Is Suing To Give The Government More Power To Mask Your Kids
    The American Civil Liberties Union is suing South Carolina over a ban on mask mandates in schools
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/27/the-aclu-is-suing-to-give-the-government-more-power-to-mask-your-kids/

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Biden Admin Takes Soft Tone On China In Long-Awaited Report On Origins Of The Coronavirus
    “President Joe Biden’s administration released a long-awaited report on Friday afternoon about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. The report gave no definitive answers, was relatively soft on China, and effectively stated that the origins of the coronavirus will never be known without China’s cooperation.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-admin-takes-soft-tone-on-china-in-long-awaited-report-on-origins-of-the-coronavirus
    In China it is prohibited from comparing Xi’s face to Winnie the
    Pooh.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    California teacher boasts not having American flag, tells students to pledge allegiance to gay pride flag
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-teacher-pledge-of-allegiance-pride-flag

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘California wises up and chooses natural gas’
    Eventually, reality catches up with you — even in California.
    The Golden State has been trying for years to get rid of all of its fossil fuel generation capacity. Spreading a mythological doom-and-gloom narrative about catastrophic, world-ending climate change, California’s government has nonetheless moved toward shuttering all of its carbon-free nuclear power plants in favor of creating a grid based almost entirely on wind and solar power.
    There is just one problem with this: It cannot be done, at least not with existing technology.
    Not only has this forced upon Californians electricity prices 80% higher than the national average, but it has also saddled them with a power grid that relies far too heavily on intermittent (that is, unreliable) sources of electricity. Wind power only works when the wind blows. Solar cannot generate electricity at night.
    And so temporarily, or so they say, the state has been forced to set up five natural gas power plants in order to avoid rolling blackouts. This move is the result of an emergency order signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month.
    We hate to be cynical, but we wonder whether the sudden adoption of gas power is an effort to spare Newsom additional political damage in the last weeks leading up to the Sept. 14 recall election being held against him.
    Even so, it is doing the right thing.
    This spring, when some uninsulated natural gas pipelines failed in Texas, the nation received a lesson in what happens when a massive swathe of one’s generating capacity cannot be counted on to produce anything. Texas, a national leader in wind power due to huge government subsidies, suffered destructive blackouts amid freezing weather while its windmills sat by in forced idleness.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/california-wises-up-and-chooses-natural-gas

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  26. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    ‘Democrats are considering a slew of tax hikes in their $3.5T budget reconciliation Bill’
    (Democratic leaders have said the massive bill is going to be fully paid for, but the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that it will add $1.75 trillion to deficit over a 10-year period.)
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have said they’re aiming to pass the budget reconciliation bill in the fall. Budget reconciliation allows the Democrats to move the budget bill to passage along a party-line vote without GOP votes.
    Democratic leaders have expressed support for raising the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, increasing the top income tax for individuals and families to 39.6% and doubling the current capital gains tax to 43.4%.
    The Biden Administration has proposed a capital gains tax that would be applicable at death with an exemption of up to $1 million. The administration is also considering a 15% minimum tax on book income that applies to corporations that meet certain income requirements.
    According to the Tax Foundation, potential health care-related revenue that Democrats want to raise under the budget bill would stifle U.S. medical innovation.
    “Under H.R. 3, if drug manufacturers do not agree to participate in negotiations, or do not agree to the negotiated price, they would be subject to an escalating excise tax on the sale of the drug in question,” said the Tax Foundation. “The tax would kick in at 65 percent and would rise by 10 percentage points each 90 days the manufacturers are in ‘noncompliance,’ reaching a maximum tax rate of 95 percent.”
    Democrats in Congress have floated the idea of a methane tax and carbon border tax.
    “The principle here is at least a methane fee, some kind of border adjustment, although there are serious technical challenges there,” Sen. Brain Schatz (D-Hawaii) said. “Our major hurdle is how to make it operate properly.”
    In addition to these new taxes, Senate Democrats have introduced legislation titled the Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, which would require “the largest U.S.-based fossil fuel extractors and oil refiners and foreign-owned companies doing business in the U.S. to pay into a Polluters Pay Climate Fund based on a percentage of their global emissions.”
    The reconciliation bill could also include an international tax reform proposal put forth by Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee.
    “If the U.S. were to remove the tax benefit from FDII [Foreign Derived Intangible Income] and companies then chose to move their IP offshore to benefit from a foreign patent box, the U.S. could lose out on investment and jobs related to R&D in addition to some tax revenue from the profits,” the Tax Foundation reported.
    Democratic leaders have said the massive reconciliation bill is going to be fully paid for, but the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that it will add $1.75 trillion to the federal deficit over a 10-year period.
    The Senate also passed a separate $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that the CRFB estimated will add $400 billion to the deficit over the next decade. The legislation contains a new tax reporting requirement for cryptocurrency transactions.
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/list-tax-hikes-likely-be-included-democrats-35t-budget-reconciliation-bill
    One million exemption for the death tax? It’s something like 6 million now. Been rising for years and has saved many a survivor from going to the bank to get a big big loan to pay taxes or if not feasible, sell Grandpa’s store. Double the Capital gains tax? Time to sell some properties now. Or dump the losing stocks to offset gains. What is an administrator of a trust going to do?

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Go Fighting Little Drunkards, Go!
    ‘Rejected! Woke Mob Can’t Cancel Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish Leprechaun’
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jay-maxson/2021/08/27/rejected-woke-mob-cant-cancel-notre-dames-fighting-irish
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI2EgEN8koY

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Oh look.. Judicial Watch scores another win against a LIB state.
    https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/court-rules-judicial-watch-lawsuit-can-proceed-against-colorado-officials/
    ” Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court ruled its lawsuit can proceed against Colorado officials to force a cleanup of the state’s voter rolls.
    Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit October 5, 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on behalf of itself and three residents of Colorado against Jena Griswold, Colorado Secretary of State, and the State of Colorado for failing to clean the state’s voter rolls as required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993″

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  29. Scott O Avatar

    Oh look – here’s what Paul wants for our country!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilvl_8g38xg

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Scott. Roseville is like that, Citrus Heights,
    The stretch of I80 between Roseville and Sac. the homeless have their camps along the freeway sound walls.
    Oh.. And they just about burned GV to the ground.. Again.

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  31. Scott O Avatar

    Walt – gasp!
    You mean the East Bennett weed removal project was caused by the To-Be-Homed-When-Equity-Is-Acheived population?
    If you Nevada County folk would only kneel and beg forgiveness this wouldn’t have to happen.

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