[“Falling Unemployment Adds to Worries About the U.S. Labor Market. A lower rate could signal that many people are staying out of the workforce, which could add to employers’ hiring difficulties.” This is among the flood of maladies that Bumblebrain’s socialist policies and promises now causing suffering and hurt in the land. Has anybody yet found a SINGLE THING that he and the Dems have done right? gjr]
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344 responses to “Sandbox – 3oct21”
Making starch out of CO2, now here’s something worth keeping an eye on.
https://newatlas.com/science/artificial-synthesis-starch-from-co2/
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On Unemployment, Joe Manchin Hit The Nail On The Head
https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-unemployment-joe-manchin-hit-the-nail-on-the-head
Losing the work ethic is no bueno.
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C’est la vie, I can see the problem.
It was probably best to chum the unemployment benefits market (which is incredibly unfair, some people got a fair amount, some nothing) as the economy sloughed off the less mission critical jobs. It isn’t like we really need baristas and concert promoters plus there was a general drawing down. With enough hungry people you get real revolution not just the cosplay kind that was done in Portland and other cities by the Junior Democrats. But when do you turn off the spigot?
It strikes me as similar to the folks who follow Saint Keynes. The idea of turning a .gov knob when the economy is low sounds good on paper, it’s just that the knob is rarely turned the other way. Man plans and God laughs.
Of course, with President Potato as figurehead-in-chief, I suppose the answer is obvious. Two jillion jobs? One jillion unemployed people? No problem, just let in five jillion ‘undocumented workers’. The folks writing surveillance software in Silicon Valley won’t miss a beat regardless of the policy.
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‘Revolution without the Middle Class’
Victor Davis Hanson
https://victorhanson.com/eeyores-cabinet-revolution-without-the-middle-class/
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Free chicken for life?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-police-armed-citizen-intervened-robbery-churchs-chicken-port-arthur
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Why All the ‘Unexpected’ Jobless Claims?
COVID clampdowns made a comeback in September, hurting the jobs market.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/83143-why-all-the-unexpected-jobless-claims-2021-10-01?
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DEMS not happy. More minorities leave the Democrat plantation in the South.
” The campaign of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe is brushing off the endorsement of his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, by the Hampton Roads Black Caucus (HRBC).
“”I am incredibly humbled and honored to have the support of the Hampton Roads Black Caucus, and look forward to working closely with them and all Black Virginians to implement my Day One Game Plan to make Virginia the best place to live, work, and raise a family,” Youngkin said in a statement Saturday.
“Terry McAuliffe has hurt Black Virginians by turning his back on our schools and children, making our communities less safe, and causing the cost of living to explode,” he added.”
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Here we go again with fake hate.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/black-woman-charged-posing-white-ku-klux-klan-member-terroristic-threats
“A Black woman is accused of posing as a White Ku Klux Klan member and sending racially charged notes to the homes of families in an Atlanta suburb, according to local reports.
Terresha Lucas, 30, was arrested Wednesday and charged with eight counts of terroristic threats and acts. She made her first court appearance Thursday morning and was denied bond, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office told Fox News. “
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Disaster of an oil spill in California. And to think Trump wanted to increase offshore drilling without any additional precautions.
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/03/1042846846/a-massive-oil-spill-in-the-pacific-ocean-has-reached-the-southern-california-coa
“Trump Administration Releases Plan to Open California to Oil Drilling
A plan from the Interior Department would end a five-year moratorium on leasing federal lands in California to fossil fuel companies. ”
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-04-26/trump-administration-releases-plan-to-open-california-to-oil-drilling
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Omg. You are just silly. TDS 😂
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I wonder who was the President during the oil spill? Gotta think.
LET’S GO BRANDON!!!
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Barry
do you deny that Trump wanted to increase offshore drilling in California?
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Biden’s fault Emery,, he’s in charge.
But the VERY pretty Gavin is Gov.. It’s more his fault.
Have you paid George yet?? Deadbeat?
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Poor Emery.. He thinks Presidents are kings.
Just a waive of the pen, and it’s a done deal.
That may work for the Proggy kings. They get to ignore the laws they don’t like, and their minions follow blindly.
There are laws about illegal immigration.. Biden ignores them.
Worse than any oil spill,, Emery..
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Oil spill under Biden’s watch. Not a good look I think.
Of course, the largest one in the US was Deepwater Horizon in 2010. Obama’s watch.
Big oil spills = Democratic Presidents. Why do they hate the ocean? Does Biden want to kill all the dolphins?
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DAMN Emery,, you ECO bastards never do anything about the natural “oil spills”.
https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/8934/22546/26338
“Natural Oil Seeps in Southern California
Crude oil and natural gas naturally enter the ocean at areas known as “seeps.” The offshore
seeps along the Southern California coast are particularly visible, abundant, and well-studied.
● Offshore seeps in Southern California add about 5 million gallons of oil to the ocean
annually, with wide year-to-year variation (National Academy of Sciences, 2003).
● Though from a natural source, oil from seeps shows similar appearance, behavior, and
effects as oil released during drilling and other human activities.
● Oil from seeps affects fish, birds, and wildlife; can impair surface waters and shorelines;
and can impact recreational activities
5 MILLION GALLONS EMERY!!! 5 MILLION!!!!
And you go nuts over a few thousand?
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Are you saying that this incident is a “natural oil seep”
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Are you a natural born dumbass Emery?
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Just up the street from Emery’s place.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2021/10/03/the-obedient-the-brainless-and-the-woking-dead-n1521272
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Posted by: Walt | 03 October 2021 at 06:46 PM
Are you a natural born dumbass Emery?
You’re wasting your time Walt……Punchy probably thinks that the oil seeps are fine because they’re natural unlike all that icky oil that flows out the ground through pipes. Eeewwww!
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That’s what Emery does when he’s cornered and has no answer.
And his lack of denial, is a positive “YES” to my last question.
Natural crude oil seepage has never been a concern for the ECO bastards. Oil companies even tried to get permits to drill into those deposits to stop the natural contamination, and the ECO bastards being the real dicks they are, managed to stop those permits.
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New Supreme Court Term Set to Be One for the Ages
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/new-supreme-court-term-set-to-be-one-for-the-ages/
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Citing Anti-Second Amendment Climate, Smith And Wesson Will Move Headquarters From Massachusetts To Tennessee
https://www.dailywire.com/news/citing-anti-second-amendment-climate-smith-and-wesson-will-move-headquarters-from-massachusetts-to-tennessee
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Are you saying this is a natural oil seep or are you saying that the seeps also happen. Important distinction Walt.
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Punch, 60 years ago, playing in the surf at a SoCal beach ona family outing, I got a big glob of tar in my swimming trunks. It’s always been there.
With all th fuel California consumes, we shouldn’t bitch about offshore or on shore drilling here.
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Well, at least the Justice Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America are consistent.. Numbers, I don’t need no stinkin’ numbers. Let’s not talk about numbers.
AOC On Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Bill: ‘The Problem’ Is ‘This Conversation Shouldn’t Be About Numbers’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-on-democrats-3-5-trillion-bill-the-problem-is-this-conversation-shouldnt-be-about-numbers
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https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-01-at-8.47.53-AM.png?
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/10/Attachment-1.jpeg?
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I have fished off on Cold Oil Patch, north of Santa Barbara. Seepage. Not bad halibut fishing in the area.
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Paul, just in case you missed it last week. Harris-Harvard don’t sound like a Right Wing Wingnut Poll. I could be wrong.
“Former US president Donald Trump has overtaken his successor Joe Biden in favourability ratings among American voters in what has been described as a “remarkable turnaround”.
The Times reported that, just eight months after the transfer of power, Trump has a positive rating of 48% compared with Biden’s 46% in a Harvard-Harris poll. Back in February, Biden had a 56% positive rating compared with Trump’s 43%.
The team that surrounded Trump during his reign also fared better than Biden’s circle. Some 55% of respondents said that Mike Pence was a better vice president than his successor, Kamala Harris, and 63% believed that Mike Pompeo was a better secretary of state than Antony Blinken.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/world-news/us/954230/how-joe-biden-and-donald-trumps-approval-ratings-compare-now
Don’t worry. Biden’s free fall is over. Now he is simply stuck. He will get his sea legs in due time.
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Uncle Slow’s Q&A
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-10-03/uncle-joes-q
(not shown……President Klains hand up Susan Rice’s backside)
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Clownworld Chronicles.
“1/ Dorian Abbot is a geophysicist at the University of Chicago. He was to give MIT’s prestigious Carlson Lecture on Oct. 21. The topic was to be climates of extrasolar planets. Shamefully, MIT canceled the lecture under pressure from activists who objected to his political views.”
https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/1444738353845489664
to which there was this response.
“When does the out-migration begin, with leading American faculty moving to universities in Europe, Asia or Latin America? Or has it already?”
https://twitter.com/Vermeullarmine/status/1444820638569488391
..which actually is an interesting point and one which some local worthies could help with. Our local Blue Mob could suggest places that are reasonably First Worldish but aren’t buried in Modern Democratic Party Thinking. Maybe we are headed for Asimov’s ‘First Foundation’ as the Crazy People Jihad looms.
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Clownworld Chronicles.
There’s just so much to love in this tweet.
“As long as legislators continue to restrict the #ReproductiveRights of cis women, trans men & non-binary folx, there should be laws to address the responsibility of men who impregnate them!”
https://twitter.com/RepRabb/status/1444393756812267521
…although he/they is somewhat unclear on the usage of ‘men’ now that it means any old thing.
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Sky News host James Morrow says the Biden administration has “two very different attitudes” to COVID depending on how you choose to enter the country.
While overseas travellers from 33 countries will be permitted entry if they show proof of vaccination and test negative to the virus, Democrats last week voted to block measures which would ensure illegal immigrants were tested.
“Strict rules for people flying into the country legally, but it’s a COVID free-for-all if you stroll in illegally, and it doesn’t make any sense until you realise one thing,” he said.
“The stuff for legitimate travellers flying into LAX or JFK is all window dressing.
Much like Joey Fingers himself……..mere window dressing!
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/biden-administration-has-two-very-different-attitudes-to-covid/video/87edd22b76f9da9ff6e776714c2fe8ef
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Life In These United States
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1444293722896797702
You do have to wonder whether Team Red needs it’s own defensible towns/counties or if every home needs to be a fortress.
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Speaking of Clownworld……..
From your inimitable Richard Stormsgaard:
Local nitwit quotes slightly more famous nitwit…….ahistorical hilarity ensues.
So……where does it say this country was founded on “equality” Rich? I mean the closest you can get is “All men are created equal” in the Declaration but that has nothing to do with anything the government did…..!
https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/United_States_of_America_1992
Really……Don Rogers should know better! It’s bad enough a crime against journalism that he pays that whiny bridge troll Durkin so he’ll scribble his Street Sheet nonsense for leftover pizza crusts scattered around the newsroom. Wonder what the other leading light of local print based information (Berkheimer) would have to say about censoring such misleading fact free nonsense?
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Read the posted facts ponytail of stupidity.
Educate yourself on oil seeps.
GOD what a dipshit….
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Coming to a crowd near you.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/04/fk-joe-biden-jets-titans-game-viral-video/
Just some inserection on display.
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In green-weenie news:
“Rewiring Australian households could save them up to $6,000 a year, research finds”
Really.
Buried way down in the text:
“There was no way that we would ever be able to afford to put the system in,” Ms Hicks said.
Think how much my wife and I could have saved if someone had bought us a house in Malibu!
“Free – at no cost to anyone!”
When Firesign Theater quotes describe the new normal, we in trouble – bigly.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-04/rewiring-australian-households-could-save-up-to-6000-per-year/100512028
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Boss HOGG Jr. is back in the news… Sorta.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/college-students-beg-ammo-millennials-and-gen-z-embrace-guns
“Not too long ago, we wrote a response to something that prominent gun activist David Hogg said on Twitter. He believes that all gun owners are old fogey dinosaurs and will somehow “die out one day.” When they do, all the young people will usher in the utopia where nothing bad happens, and there will be no more evil guns. ”
As the article mentions, not much attention is paid to college students regarding anything firearms-related, even though they’re increasingly becoming a large demographic of gun-buying Americans.
“In fact, the idea that younger Americans are against guns is a silly one; younger Americans were raised on the “scary” violent video games, tv, and movies from the 2000s that politicians and corporate media outlets were hysterical about back then. Those same entertainment properties are pop-culture staples today. “
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Posted by: Scott O | 04 October 2021 at 08:20 AM
From the article…….
Public Trust Home….. how’s that for Orwellian.
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fishie 8:31 – Ain’t socialism wonderful?
Think how much we all could save if we got rid of capitalism.
But as AOC would say: “Lets not talk about the numbers”.
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Gregory, Walt
This news just out. Are you still saying this was called by oil seeps?
Huntington Beach, city of around 200,000 people, identified the company responsible for the leak as Beta Offshore, a California subsidiary of Houston-based Amplify Energy Corp.
“We will be working to ensure that Amplify Energy Corporation does everything possible to rectify this environmental catastrophe.”
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Hey Punch……Democrats (President, Speaker of the House….) lying about the debate ceiling……
We should probably impeach them for lying eh Punch? I mean I know how you get over lying politicians!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mcconnell-goads-biden-over-debt-ceiling-says-raise-reconciliation
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@ idiot Emery.. Read the link supplied. You demand them, so read it.
Are you disputing 5 million gallons annually from natural sources? Is NOAA lying?
Prove NOAA is making it up.
(and they say dope smoking is harmless. I give you an Emery that says otherwise.)
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Eeewwww….Debate Ceiling?
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Paul Emery: “Gregory, Walt
This news just out. Are you still saying this was called by oil seeps? ”
They never said that. Were you this fucking dense on your news shows? (Sorry George). Did you always put words in other peoples’ mouths or is this just a new phase in life? Are you a child?
To everyone else…
It is interesting that natural seeps vastly outweigh spills, I never really thought about it. I went down the rabbit hole of reading reports on spills from various sources (land pipelines, offshore production, tankers, refineries, fueling stations), it’s all pretty rigorously measured and surprising in a few ways. The Biden Spill is kind of a bummer but not huge in the scheme of things. The Obama Spill (Deepwater Horizon) was the real monster and actually skews all the stats..to the extent that they tend to be worked out with/without that particular situation.
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So scenes and Walt did you support Trump when he called for a great increase in off shore drilling in California?
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Huntington Beach to Newport Beach? Does that include The Wedge? Bummer for the surfers, the ones that don’t go out in the water when the real big waves come in, lol.
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Editor’s Pick: WashPost Thinks Dems Spending Trillions = ‘Grueling Cuts’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2021/10/04/editors-pick-washpost-thinks-dems-spending-trillions-grueling-cuts
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Emery prefers buying oil from terrorists. ISIS and the Taliban now have those oil fields.
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Be afraid Emery,,, be VERY afraid.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-heads-to-iowa-amid-record-high-poll-numbers-in-key-2024-state
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Hilarious – there’s an oil spill while Biden is in office and Emery is STILL trying to blame Trump!
Along with all the other disasters, this one is again on President Potato.
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PaulE 1112am – Paul, one reason you don’t get very many replies is that your questions, like this one, are neither germane to the ongoing conversation nor of interest to anyone. You have a lot of leftwing silliness to which you should respond here, but instead, you divert to non sequitur inquiries – that tactic wore out years ago.
And to show how asymmetrically silly your socialist worldview and policies are, here is an example of a rightwing lampoon, of which there are literally thousands going around the email circuits, that have no corollary from the Left.
‘You know the brainwashing is real when white people protest against white people for being white people.’
Why is it that no leftwinger can come up with equivalent lampoons against the Right’s worldview and policies?
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