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[The genesis of our wildfires.  Here’s a topic everyone is afraid of discussing.  Almost all of our wildfires are manmade – they are started by indigents, crazies, and people with a political agenda.  The fires started by accidents and natural causes are well-known, few and far in between.  However, our politicians, liberal activists, and media of all hues treat western wildfires as if they were ‘acts of God’, and therefore their genesis need not be questioned, let alone examined, any further.  Given the number of annual wildfires, notice how rare is there any subsequent mention of arson investigations or what these may have discovered.  It seems that the ‘vulnerable underprivileged’ have a natural right to start fires and then be left alone.  And it is not a stretch to imagine the damage anti-American terrorists can do in a free country by simply setting wildfires with easily fabricated, time-delayed pyrotechnic devices.  But from what the public sees, our authorities neither suspect nor pursue such errant behavior – the fires just magically flare up and cause totally acceptable devastation.  gjr]

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401 responses to “Sandbox – 29aug21”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Biden’s authoritarianism is what happens when Democrats control the White House’
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-authoritarianism-is-what-happens-when-democrats-control-the-white-house

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  2. Walt Avatar

    I don’t think so..
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/lapd-social-media
    “Los Angeles police officers are encouraged to obtain social media information during field interviews with civilians regardless if they are suspected of being involved in a crime, according to documents obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice.
    The group collected the documents related to the LAPD practice in an effort to gain insight into how police departments monitor social media. It noted that a 2015 memo from then LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said officers should collect for social media and email account information to include the type of account and account name during interviews, which are then documented on field interview cards.”
    You are entitled to my Driver’s license.. That’s it pal….
    Well,, my CCW info. If I happen to have one.
    The cops would be writing for days with all the sock puppets Dougy has.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That’s going to be fun to watch –
    Portland protests: Slain Trump supporter Aaron Danielson’s estate files $13M lawsuit against city, mayor, DA
    Portland’s ‘passive’ policing during protests was partly to blame for Danielson’s death
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portland-protests-trump-aaron-danielson-lawsuit-wheeler
    😉

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Equity Office Marks 9/11 By Bemoaning ‘Prejudice’ Against Muslims With Play In Which American Muslims Cheer Attack’
    Play is postponed, perhaps after Equity office realized the play actually mocks white liberals as “naive.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/equity-office-marks-september-11-prejudices-against-muslims-howard-disgraced

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Natural Gas to the rescue. No rolling blackouts until after the Recall Election.
    ‘California asks Biden administration to allow gas plants to run at maximum’
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-asks-biden-administration-allow-185043041.html

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The woman’s touch. Ammo Grrrll
    “Others have noticed the profound differences between a “mostly peaceful demonstration” with arson and looting and an armed “insurrection” without any arms. But perhaps my favorite is “pounce.” When a Republican has messed up, naturally, well-meaning Democrats are compelled by conscience to “ask questions.” But, when a Democrat wades into deep doo-doo, Republicans just rudely POUNCE. Just lying in wait 24/7 for some teeny mistake like leaving 90 billion dollars’ worth of war materiel to the enemy, and then it’s POUNCE, POUNCE, POUNCE!
    IF ONLY. We need some Marines to give the Republican squishes real pouncing lessons.”

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  7. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    WELL, OKAY THEN: Psaki Reassures: ‘Inflation Completely Under Control Outside Of Food, Gas, And Housing.’
    Is it the Bee? Or the New York Times? Admit it, no one can tell anymore.

    You really couldnt…..could you.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    See? Progressives have the midas touch. “we can spend as much as we like! That’s what a printing press is for!”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/10/democrat-budget-committee-chairman-we-have-power-to-create-as-much-as-we-need-to-spend/
    “One Democrat lawmaker’s solution to combating money troubles in the United States is to simply create more out of thin air.
    “We are not broke as a nation. We are not bankrupt. We can’t go bankrupt. We absolutely cannot go bankrupt because we have the power to create as much money as we need to spend to serve the American people,” Chairman of the Budget Committee Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) said during Thursday’s Budget Reconciliation markup.”
    Now why didn’t Venezuela think of that?

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Has the poll dancer opened his box yet?
    Give this a good read.
    https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2021/09/10/this-is-why-we-recall-because-gavin-newsom-outlawed-career-freedom-with-ab5-n441202
    “There are lots of “discouraging” polls out today, showing that the campaign to Recall Gavin Newsom is losing steam, and that the anti-Recall efforts are winning. It almost seems like they either held results or manufactured results to spill out one after the other four days from the Special Recall election on September 14.
    One of the reasons why those who support the Recall are not losing confidence is because just like the Mama Bears, there is a voting bloc that has not, or cannot be quantified by pollsters: Independent professionals, freelancers, self-employed and gig workers who have been decimated by AB5.
    We really are not a voting bloc: we are a coalition comprised of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and No Party Preference. We don’t fit in any voting bloc, which can be used as a powerful tool in contests. We are Zoomers, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers, and we span the spectrum of race, gender, and socioeconomic status. I seriously doubt if there is a pollster that could quantify us or our ability to influence this Recall election.”

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  10. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 840am – Well said Mr Branson.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Emery,, Is the L.A. Times a reliable new source?
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/gwendolynsims/2021/09/10/hate-crime-charges-filed-after-racist-attack-against-larry-elder-n1477696
    “True to form, earlier Friday, the left-tilting L.A. Times posted an article about the incident with this misleading headline: “LAPD is investigating altercation involving Larry Elder at a Venice homeless encampment.” The accompanying photo appeared to show Elder slapping a white woman. That woman turned out to be Soledad Ursua.”
    “It only took an uproar on Twitter and twenty hours for the L.A. Times to replace the misleading photo.”
    So Emery,, where is the same outrage that Jussie Smollett lit the fuse on? No one was wearing a MAGA hat?
    No staged attack here.
    Wait a minute,,, I hear something…. It’s the 420TH Nevada City cricket brigade, and Emery leading from behind.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Found some interesting facts in my travels.
    “The United States has more violent crime than the rest of the Western world, including homicide. There are a lot of reasons for that (violent crime is a complex phenomenon) but mere access to guns by law abiding citizens is not necessarily one of them.
    Russia forbids ownership of handguns completely, and their murder rate is double that of ours. Brazil is restrictive, and their homicide rate is six times that of ours.
    One of the safest countries in the world in terms of homicide rates is the Czech Republic, and they have a national shall-issue policy. It’s also the home of CZ, and darned if those aren’t some of the best handguns there are.
    If you look at the 10 least-violent states in terms of violent crime per 100,000 residents, 6 out of 10 of them are constitutional carry states. Only 1 out of 10 is a restrictive may-issue state, and Rhode Island, well, Rhode Island is complicated as far as carry permits go.
    Clearly, handgun policy has minimal – if any – influence on crime rates. So his assessment that somehow the ability of Americans to purchase and carry a handgun, permit or no, is clearly ignorant in the extreme.
    Next, we have mass shootings.
    How the hell do you define mass shootings? Because if you exclude gang-related shootings where four or more people are shot only a few happen per year.”
    https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/05/hoober-axis-of-idiots-how-to-persuade-americans-to-give-up-their-guns/

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Biden knows his vax mandates are unconstitutional — but just doesn’t care’
    By Andrew C. McCarthy
    https://nypost.com/2021/09/10/biden-knows-his-vax-mandates-are-unconstitutional-but-doesnt-care/

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    THE REAL EXISTENTIAL THREAT
    David Horowitz puts the wood to our woke military leadership, and explains where the real threat to our country comes from. Spoiler alert: it’s not white supremacists.
    Our Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin – our leader who presided over the worst, most incompetent, most humiliating military defeat in the history of our nation – is black. Of course, he’s black. He was appointed by Biden to display the wonderful diversity of the most progressive president in history. He wasn’t chosen because he was a brilliant military leader (obviously). He was chosen because he was a political hack ready and willing to embrace even the most suicidal left-wing policies. Left-wing policies are by their very nature suicidal because the defining characteristic of the left is that it hates America and wants to “dismantle” it and replace it with the left-wing fantasy of a socially just future.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/the-real-existential-threat.php

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Is France to be the next Brexit? The Globalists were wrong.
    https://www.facebook.com/lotuseatersdotcom/videos/1477421595976306/

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Dougy won’t be happy with this news.
    “GOOD NEWS! Disqus, a well know Leftist organization that controls our comments, is gone as of today. The new format which we control, will be up today on all pages 🙂 You can see it here at this page – on this first test domain – Sports Wars: Bill Maher RIPS The Woke NFL After Black National Anthem Backlash From Fans””

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 10:53
    “In a video tweeted by @OldRowViral, the student section during the Auburn/Alabama State game chanted “F**k Joe Biden.”
    The student section? Not the old fart section? Well, they are our future. Where have we gone wrong?
    Another new fad among our rebellious youth. FU Football, season of 2021-2022. Who am I to judge. The fad was streaking naked as a jaybird through the grassy knoll back and through fine resturants and events and down the main drag back in the day. Feet don’t fail me now.
    FU Biden Saturdays. Doesn’t appear at first glance that once the students and fans got their college football back, they are in no mood to give it up. I could be wrong.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    It’s a start Bill,, And here I thought that the LIBS had a lock on the students.
    I hear at another game, the whole stadium was in on it.
    In other news,, Gavin Nuisance is whining “Don’t Texas Calif.”
    The Texas economy is way better, the taxation is WAY lower, and 2/3DS of the people leaving Ca. are going there.
    Plenty of BIG bus. that was here, is now there.
    My neighbor spends half his time in Idaho.(Probably not to far from Scott) He even registered his buggy there.(cheaper by far) He has his kids living in the house here. They just come back in the Winter.

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Perhaps this is Gods way:
    COVID ravages the Republican Party as 21 out of 23 most infected states voted for Trump
    https://www.rawstory.com/ravages-republican-trump-states/

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Fake news Emery,, and you took the bait hook, line, and sinker.
    SUCKER ON!!!

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Hey Emery!!🤣👍 Now why is it only RAWSEWAGE.com has that story? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
    Jeez Louise what LIB stooge you have turned out to be.
    Look for yourself.. Fool…
    https://www.google.com/search?q=COVID+ravages+the+Republican+Party+as+21+out+of+23+most+infected+states+voted+for+Trump&oq=COVID+ravages+the+Republican+Party+as+21+out+of+23+most+infected+states+voted+for+Trump&aqs=chrome..69i57&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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  22. Walt Avatar

    LOL Emery!! Do a google search on that. DARE ya’.
    Only RAWSEWAGE.com has it. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Can the judge get anymore vague and deep in the weeds of not copping to why??
    So tell what would meet the “criteria”.
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/09/12/justice-breyer-trumps-2020-election-case-did-not-meet-normal-criteria-for-supreme-court/
    “In a video, former President Donald Trump said, “No judge has had the courage, including the Supreme Court — I am so disappointed in them — no judge, including the Supreme Court of the United States, has had the courage to allow it to be heard.”
    Wallace asked, “Why was that?”
    Breyer said, “Why was it? Because they didn’t bring a case, I guess, that met the normal criteria for being heard. When we decide to take a case, there has to be four votes to take it, so I can’t go beyond that. What we do know is that there were not for votes to take it because it wasn’t taken. There are criteria, and if we don’t take a case, you know, the reason in all likelihood is that the criteria weren’t met.””
    Any excuse not to.

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  24. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/country/united-states/
    Click on the header of the confirmed case fatality rate column.

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well of course creepy grampa joe would not make the pols follow the rules for the little people –
    https://www.newsweek.com/members-congress-staff-exempt-biden-covid-vaccine-mandate-1627859
    😉

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Here Emery,, getch’a some of these.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apple-google-amazon-spying-lawsuits
    Just think of all the fake news you will get without the work.

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    hah. good one.
    “The reason why so many extremely woke people turn out to have been bigoted in the past is because bigotry used to be the best way to bully and intimidate people, but now performative anti-bigotry is the best way to bully and intimidate people. An evolving toolset for sociopaths.”
    https://twitter.com/ShantMM/status/1364992332064378880

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    BIDEN AT DOVER
    A reader responded to my post about the shunning of Joe Biden by family members of troops who died at Kabul airport with this trenchant message:
    The heartbreaking ritual at Dover AFB, too often repeated, is inherently theatrical. It fixes our national attention, ignites the glare of media coverage. Every word and gesture is pregnant with emotion and meaning.
    We know this very well. And our leaders know it, or should. Their minions and keepers certainly do.
    And yet…Biden? He was at his considerable worst.
    Bad enough that these people died, and would not have died but for his impulsive self-pleasing idiocy; but for him to lecture their families about his loss, and to show impatience if they wanted instead to talk of their loss, as their own flesh and blood was borne out of the aircraft by an honor guard? To keep peeking at his watch, as if he were late for some more pressing or pleasing matter?
    It’s such a terrible script. Nobody in theater would ever write it or produce it. Yet it’s the best that Biden can give us, and it’s not theater at all, it’s entirely real.
    We’re watching a shell of a man; and he’s coming apart. His senility reinforces his lifelong stupidity. Both feed his angry defensiveness — typical of dementia patients. And in turn the anger feeds more stupidity. I expect this process will continue and accelerate.
    Frightening.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jussie Smollett Disguises Self As Larry Elder So People Will Commit Real Hate Crimes Against Him
    https://babylonbee.com/news/jussie-smollett-disguises-self-as-larry-elder-so-people-will-commit-real-hate-crimes-against-him

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Bill. He ain’t going to get any attention from someone wearing a MAGA hat, like he did the last time. He had to pay for that hat

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    suppose you are correct Walt. Jussie should just walk by the homeless camps and shout, “This is Gavin Country!” Maybe he will get lucky and white gorilla mask lady will pelt him with Subway tuna sandwiches.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Where is Emery? the mausoleum lock the door?
    How come everyone loves Trump in any story you find, and only the Proggy press and the Commiecrats are the only ones not shoveling dirt over Biden?

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Newsom tearing it up-up by 20 in latest poll. What a joke and waste of taxpayers money.
    “The last Emerson College/Nexstar Media poll finds Governor Gavin Newsom peaking, with 60% of voters voting against the recall, while 40% are voting to recall the governor. This is the first Emerson/Nexstar Poll that has Newsom’s support over 48%, and shows the lowest support for the recall since March. Since the last Emerson/Nexstar poll in August, when voters were split 48% to 46% against the recall, Newsom has bolstered his support by 12 percentage points. ”
    https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/california-2021-recall-governor-newsom-rebounds-poised-to-avert-recall

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  34. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 13 September 2021 at 08:06 AM
    What a joke and waste of taxpayers money.

    Still no concern over the 31 billion that was lost on Gavins watch Punch?
    You are a pathetic little man.

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  35. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    With an all mail election for the most part and Republicans tending to vote on Election Day, Paul’s poll is designed to try to get Republicans to stay home tomorrow. It won’t work. They already voted. We’ll see what happens tomorrow. Newsom might survive but it is definitely a shot across the bow.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Have we forgotton 9/11 and some unfinished business in Afghanistan? Yes. Finally, finally, finally the WH acknowledges the ones left behind; albeit Sleepy Joe himself has not given his approval yet. They will inform him later when one of his lucid moments comes around.
    ‘White House Finally Acknowledges Veteran Groups Working To Evacuate Americans From Afghanistan, Approves Effort’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-finally-acknowledges-veteran-groups-working-to-evacuate-americans-from-afghanistan-approves-effort

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Just reporting the poll numbers Fishmouth. I’m not a Newsom fan but Elder—really.
    How about the nearly 8 Trillion debt Trump created Barry? Not a word from you about that.

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  38. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 13 September 2021 at 08:41 AM
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    Nope I don’t ….not any more! Just like your complete disinterest about Bidens (ongoing and future) wastes of money.
    Anyway Punch….why the intense interest in such a mediocre governor? Not like California will be any different if he’s shown the door.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    As usual, “no voter fraud” Emery has nothing to say on the exposed voter fraud. You going to call them liars Emery?
    Ain’t mail in ballots great?

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    No voter fraud Walt. Show me investigations, arrests and convictions.
    Trump is your guy for Pres Fish even though he ran up nearly 7 Trillion in debt. You don’t seem to care. Newsoms 31 Billon that you allege is chump change compared to 7 Trillion

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  41. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Trump is your guy for Pres Fish even though he ran up nearly 7 Trillion in debt. You don’t seem to care. Newsoms 31 Billon that you allege is chump change compared to 7 Trillion
    Well if 31 B is chump change why are you fretting over the cost of a 300 M recall election? I mean just how innumerate does one get when they’re your age?

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punch, California has about a trillion dollar unfunded liability from promised public employee pensions.
    as long as ballot harvesting takes place there will be fraud, whether large or small.

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  43. Walt Avatar

    AWW yes. the usual dodge from Emery. People show up to vote, and told that they already have. And that’s Emery’s backstop.
    So O buzzard, how are arrests and convictions supposed to happen when people are getting screwed over today?
    Is that how things are done in Greece too?

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  44. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    The Democrat Congress ran trillions in debt. You need to read the constitution. Congress in particular the House of Representatives has the power of the purse. That responsibility does not lie with any president. Fool.

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  45. Walt Avatar

    It’s OK Emery,, You LIBS have a printing press and can print as much money as you care to spend. I guess you forgot to read that link.
    Hell.. You can have some Gov. stooge sit at the computer and just add a few zeros to the bank account.. Money is just numbers on a computer screen these days.
    So your complaint is baseless.

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  46. Walt Avatar

    Dinn’t open the voter fraud link again Emery?
    Here. let me help.
    Some self-identified Republicans claim they arrived at their polling center to cast their ballots in the California recall election only to be told they had “already voted.”
    “At El Camino Real Charter High School in Woodland Hills, some voters say they were told the computers showed them as already having voted, even though they had not,” reported KTLA.
    Estelle Bender, 88, said poll workers informed her she and several friends of hers had already voted. She also allegedly witness another man arguing with a poll worker over the same issue.”
    So by your book, all the killings in Chicago are not crimes, since there were no arrests or convictions.
    Right Emery? Is that how you want to play it?
    A Nevada City tweeker smacks you over the head and swipes your geetar case. Was a crime committed? YES or NO??
    They never catch the guy.. No arrest nor conviction,,, So Buzzard “no crime”. It would suck to be you.

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