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334 responses to “Sandbox – 8oct21”

  1. Walt Avatar

    So Emery,, how will your side cheat this time around?
    Two ballot shredders now fired, and AZ has caught the cheaters.
    The midterms will be a Proggy bloodbath. Pretty much a future scene in a new episode of Game of Thrones.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    The Emery is SO worked up about Trump’s taxes…
    The Emery needs to worry about his Dear Leader’s.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-could-get-drawn-into-the-fbi-probe-into-his-son-hunter-report
    It will sure will push the 25TH along.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The pointy heads on the city council are so stupid that they didnt think the inevitable would happen –
    Virginia public school that removed officers experience numerous violent fights: ‘Free-for-all
    The Alexandria City Council decided in May – following a year of national protests calling for police departments be defunded – to remove the school resource officers, and reallocate $800,000 in funding to hire mental health counselors.
    The officers were let go at the beginning of the school year, but no such counselors have been hired, ABC7 reported.
    “I’m pleading with the City Council this evening that we reinstate our school resource officers immediately,” said Gregory C. Hutchings Jr., Superintendent of Schools in the city, just last week at a city council hearing.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-public-school-removed-officers-132829078.html?.tsrc=fp_deeplink
    😉

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Do you intend to contact KVMR Walt? If not then you have no credibility when you make fake accusations about the station being subsidized primarily by taxpayer money.

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    ta ta
    All frome for mow. Got seven great concerts in the next month at the Historic Nevada Tneatre including Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas this Saturday. Here’s a link:
    https://paulemerymusic.com/alasdair-fraser-natalie-haas-2/

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The coward flees the field after another humiliation @842 let us know how that civics class goes oh great ponytail of ignorance! ROFLOL
    😉

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who cares when creepy grampa joe is flooding the open boarders to the interior of the country with millions of typhoid mary’s from god knows where with no protection for citizens –
    US to reopen land borders next month for fully vaccinated: report
    The new rules will allow fully vaccinated foreign nationals to enter the U.S. regardless of the reason for travel
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-to-reopen-land-borders-next-month-for-fully-vaccinated
    😉

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  8. Walt Avatar

    I thought he would never leave.

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dont much agree with vanjones but he hit the nail on the head on this one –
    then he steps on a rake and then he slips on a banana peel and then he falls down the stairs with some marbles and now people are looking at him in a negative light.” And people aren’t seeing “strong Joe Biden leadership that I think people were expecting,” and “the honeymoon’s over.” Jones also said that “right now, the Democratic Party is looking over the edge of a cliff,” and if this time next year, “cases are up, gas prices are up, you still can’t pull the legislative win, we’re in very deep trouble.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/10/12/van-jones-biden-has-stepped-on-a-rake-and-fallen-down-the-stairs-dems-currently-looking-over-the-edge-of-a-cliff/
    😉

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Yet another concert that ignores the immunity of the recovered… better than the mRNA vaxxes.
    Why, Paul?

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  11. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 8:42 – “All frome for mow.”
    Is that like ‘Let’s Go Brandon’?

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another luddite in the union columns had this gem, but i still wonder why the people who advocate to keep water from the people and shut down clean nuke and nat gas power generation also support open borders. Self hating socialist they be and poor so middle class life is a jealousy target. Perhaps seeing the EU, the brits and the chi coms not having enough energy brigs joy to their black hearts. Here they are destroying the life’s of our most vulnerable populations and giving their jobs to compliant socialist refugee illegal aliens. They are also racists –
    “Power is the key to solving climate change — but not necessarily in the way that many pundits claim. Solutions will not come just from defeating fossil fuel interests and empowering green entrepreneurs; real climate progress will require the willingness of large swathes of the populace, especially in wealthy countries, to forgo forms of power they currently enjoy: comfort and convenience, the ability to travel far and fast, and the option to easily obtain a wide range of consumer products whose manufacture entails large inputs of energy and natural resources.”
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/debbie-gibbs-remember-think-global-act-local/?
    fbclid=IwAR3zV9t7S7RZwSFRu0w9v_2nv29ecTAfpiQlwKv-me_S77pGNVkDW7udNlM
    😉

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  13. Walt Avatar

    One too may pulls of the cheap Irish crap he swills.
    Yup, Paul is back in the super spreader business.
    “Paul Emery infects”!

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    “Yet another concert that ignores the immunity of the recovered… better than the mRNA vaxxes.”
    “”Paul Emery infects”!
    Paul Emery Infects, that’s a pretty clever tag line.
    I’m not saying this to pick on PaulE, but it seems to me that there are a few no-brainer situations that shouldn’t exist right now. I’m all for being serious about the plague so long as the measures aren’t just COVID Theatre (it’s like being for greenhouse gas reduction as long as the policy makes a goddamm bit of difference).
    Sketchy doings…indoor live concerts, Friday night at the bar, indoor public meetings. Those bandanas don’t make a dime’s worth of difference and of course the typical suspects can do their thing (reinfection of a ‘survivor’, infection and passing by the immunized, etc.) to varying degrees.
    One of the things I’ve found most irritating about this whole she-bang, aside from the weaponization of COVID by the Democratic Party, is the lack of real information. After a year+, you’d think that county health departments would have good statistics on how to avoid this stuff. Are grocery stores bad? Schools? What masks actually work (if any)? and a hundred other questions. Either the health establishment is utterly incompetent or utterly secretive. Maybe both.

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  15. Scott O Avatar

    DB 10:36 – Debbie Gibbs is actually fairly honest about what the green weenies have in store for us.
    Her most damning statement was the admission:
    “If we believe a technological change may rescue us, please see if you can recall a technological practice employed in the last 100 years that has improved the Earth.”
    That is exactly what the left is always counting on – a huge breakthrough in solar cell and battery tech that will magically allow us to have the current standard of living without fossil fuel use.
    Of course true to left-wing form – some animals are more equal than others and the elites will always be able to travel far and fast.
    If you don’t like oil wells, please don’t visit any operation obtaining the necessaries for your ‘clean’ energy production. You might get red-pilled.

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  16. fishniglio Avatar
    fishniglio

    Posted by: Scott O | 13 October 2021 at 07:50 AM
    Remember just how important it is to those on the left to “out emote” others in the promotion of progressive ideals.

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  17. Scott O Avatar

    fishy 7:59 – I thought quoting Jay Inslee was really special. If you are trying to make a serious point, it might be helpful not to try to support that point with a quote from a complete and total bull-shitter.
    Just one eensie little example:
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304391204579180422881361030
    Has Jay moved to shut down Boeing in WA state?
    Speaking of travel far and fast:
    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/gov-jay-inslees-out-of-state-trips-strain-budget-of-state-patrol-security-detail/
    Next time Debbie, try to find some one living in the mud to quote about this exciting new lifestyle you have in mind for us.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Did Emery get the blessing from Lord Fauci?
    Will the FED shot police be checking at the door?
    According to Baghdad Bob with boobs at the W.H. , there is a “FED law “.

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    ” That is exactly what the left is always counting on – a huge breakthrough in solar cell and battery tech that will magically allow us to have the current standard of living without fossil fuel use.”
    Hey, it might happen…maybe…maybe not. My take on batteries/solar cells is that they’re like CPUs. You can track improvements over time and there won’t be much in the way of big step changes. Improvements on the margin are nearly always hard.
    I’ll suggest a different Left Fever Dream(tm). Many of them envision some sort of utopia society…walkable cities with highrise apartments. Neighbors from El Salvador, Nigeria, and Laos coming by your house for a big fiesta in brotherlysisterly fashion. Mass transit. Making a living with a keyboard doing ‘knowledge’ work and personal therapy. Concerts with Grateful Dead cover bands and singer songwriter guitarists singing worker songs by non-workers. Woven market baskets to go to the street fair to buy organic kale. Lots of government workers making bank.
    Then, you do whatever it takes to get there. Invent emergencies, scold your neighbors, tax and spend your way to nirvana.

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    It’s getting just too darn hard to do political comedy any more. Reality has all the best lines.
    Just in from Laredo:
    “The U.S. will reopen its land borders for fully vaccinated travelers.”
    https://dnyuz.com/2021/10/13/the-u-s-will-reopen-its-land-borders-for-fully-vaccinated-travelers/

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    scenes

    ” Remember just how important it is to those on the left to “out emote” others in the promotion of progressive ideals.”
    There’s a lot of ways in the world to compete for status. Truth is, we all do it.
    Some people want wealth, purty women, martial prowess. Others want to be viewed as member of a holy class, perhaps like a flagellant or some monk who sits on top of a column for years.
    For men to be in the second class is peculiar, but not unknown. The bummer is that the flagellants want to beat on me too.

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  22. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 8:56 – But can they pull that off without being hurty towards mother earth?
    Debbie and Greta want to know.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Did Emery get the blessing from Lord Fauci?”
    You know, in all seriousness, it’s fairly likely that he’ll kill a person with a large event. Dunno what the infection and fatality rate is from a bunch of people in a room for an hour or three, but it’s a measurable thing. The building probably has crappy ventilation and it isn’t like bandanas will help a bit.
    A person could make a strong argument for enforcing outdoors-only concerts for quite some time.
    Of course, the good vibes from all the Trumphate will cancel out any viral load.

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  24. Scott O Avatar

    The future?
    Something like Idiocracy mixed with Brazil, 12 Monkeys and Mad Max.
    It’ll depend on what part of the world you’re in.
    It’ll be great.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Take a gander at all the fun and games coming out of that ONE county in Georgia.
    https://thebaltimorepost.com/?p=7478183
    1 Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking a deep inspection of Georgia ballots Atlanta Journal Constitution
    2 Georgia election workers fired for allegedly shredding hundreds of voter registration forms The Washington Post
    3 Judge dismisses Fulton County ballot review case in Georgia Associated Press
    4 The Jolt: Raffensperger on Fulton Co. elections, ‘Enough is enough’ Atlanta Journal Constitution
    5 Georgia Secretary of State has harsh words after Fulton County elections allegations FOX 5 Atlanta
    Plenty of “legal” protection of the perpetrators.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    So Queen Nan just can’t handle her job.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/13/trump-treasury-pelosi-debt-ceiling-biden/
    ““Pelosi discussing giving authority to raise the debt ceiling to the Biden Treasury would be a total abdication of Congress’s Constitutional duties by the Democrat Party,””
    She did something along the same lines when “O” was Dear Leader.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Requirements for attending my shows are the as Music in the Mountains, Miners Foundry, Center for the Arts and County regulations.
    Scenes, does you support for outdoor only events eliminate basketball and church gatherings for example?

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  28. Walt Avatar

    LOL!! Emery now makes EXCUSES!!!
    Miss the med reports Emery? Dope smokers MORE likely to catch the Kung Flu. And what is Nevada City full of?
    Lord Fauci won’t be pleased. He’s back to demanding canceling Christmas for the family. Yet here you are. promoting a gathering of “more” than family.
    Yup,,,, “Paul Emery infects(LLC)” may live up to it’s billing.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    You can thank Biden and those that voted for him.
    Ground beef: + 10.6 percent.
    Steaks: +22.1 percent.
    Bacon: +19.3 percent.
    Pork roasts, ribs, steaks: +19.2 percent.
    Chickens: +17.1 percent.
    Fresh fish: +10.7 percent.
    Eggs: +12.6 percent.
    Peanut Butter: +6.2 percent.
    Apples: + 7.8 percent.
    Ham: +7 percent.
    Baby food: +4.4 percent.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    ?Are you opposed to gatherings in churches Walt? My shows would be equivilant of a small church-150 at the most.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You can get 150 people to attend. Wow, good going. Thats twice as many as I figured would show up.

    ‘The 2020 Election Wasn’t Stolen, It Was Bought By Mark Zuckerberg’
    The true story of how Mark Zuckerberg privatized the government’s voter registration and vote counting for Democrats in 2020
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/10/12/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg/

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Mail blows lid off Hunter and The Big Guy corruption scandal. Comes with the terrority. Whever Joe goes, the dark side follows. And vise versa. I give you my word as a Biden.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10070093/Joe-Biden-Hunters-shared-bank-accounts-make-president-target-FBI-probe.html

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Your “venue” ain’t a church Emery. Better have waivers at the door to sign. As I recall,, your tried to tar Trump as a “super spreader” with his open air rallies.
    Whatever Emery, have you looked into liability coverage?
    Just one person who claims they caught the bug from your event can make you the next homeless dude in Glenbrook.
    Welcome to Calif. litigation opportunities.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Bill. If the story is about Biden and/or “crack” Hunter, Emery is nowhere to be found.
    If the story and facts are about Biden and crew destroying the economy and pushing Communism, Emery has somewhere else to be.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Court reminds Kathy Hochul that religious rights exist
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/court-reminds-kathy-hochul-that-religious-rights-exist
    CA and Newsome were so bad at puting their hands on controling churchs and religious services that after the State losting two straight cases with a sharp admonishment from The Supremes…. CA is the only state in the zunion to have a state wide injuction placed by the Courts to keep government and the friggin lefties in their own lane. Its a right.
    The Music Flim-Flam Man venues are not a classified as a right but as non-essential.

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe and the green socialists are giddy over high energy costs –
    With prices surging worldwide for heating oil, natural gas and other fuels, the U.S. government said Wednesday it expects households to see jumps of up to 54% for their heating bills from last winter.
    The sharpest increases are likely for homes that use propane, which account for only 5% of U.S. households, but others are also likely to see big increases.
    https://www.breitbart.com/news/heating-bills-set-to-soar-as-inflation-hits-energy-prices/
    😉

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Just what the HELL is wrong with our military???
    https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/10/the-u-s-navy-killed-its-railgun-plans-for-lasers-and-hypersonic-missiles/
    “The railgun was meant to change naval combat. It was developed to shoot projectiles at remarkable speeds to eliminate enemy shipping in a re-imagined manner. This summer, the Navy removed all funding for the railgun from its latest budget proposal and indefinitely paused the program. The idea is to focus more on producing lasers and hypersonic weapons.”
    This fucked up Progressive administration is what’s wrong.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    This is how the Commiecrats treat political prisoners?
    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-says-dc-jail-violated-civil-rights-jan-6-defendant-2021-10-13/
    “WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday held top officials at the Washington, D.C., Department of Corrections in civil contempt, after ruling they violated the civil rights of a U.S. Capitol riot defendant by impeding his access to medical care.
    “It is more than just inept and bureaucratic shuffling of papers,” U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said.
    “I find that the civil rights of the defendant have been abridged. I don’t know if it’s because he is a Jan. 6 defendant or not, but I find that this matter should be referred to the attorney general of the United States … for a civil rights investigation.””

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Lets just add a little more to Don’s post.
    https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/10/13/biden-reportedly-asks-oil-companies-he-hurt-to-save-him-as-inflation-set-to-raise-heating-costs-this-winter-n456229
    “You’re about to pay a lot more to keep your house warm during the winter months thanks to Biden’s economy inflating like a bouncy castle, but don’t worry, because Biden has a solution. He’ll just ask the energy companies he screwed over to lower their prices despite already harming their bottom line.”
    LIBS got what they voted for. The only problem is they screwed the rest of us that knew better.
    Damned good thing I heat with firewood. (renewable energy)

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    scenes

    Paul Emery: “Scenes, does you support for outdoor only events eliminate basketball and church gatherings for example? ”
    Short answer? Yes. It’s something of a no-brainer I think. In addition, they all tend older in the audience age.
    Now, if you could find a decent study showing otherwise, I’d be happy to change my mind.
    Seriously, think about how people catch this stuff. The primary vector is probably family groups, with kids bringing in a virus (like most illnesses). Next? Enclosed areas with adults for a long period. It’s a natural problem for a virus passed through the air.
    I can’t help that you don’t give a damn, a lot of people wouldn’t. A person has to make a living after all.

    Truth is, there’s things that work (N95 masks to some extent, avoiding inside groups) and those that don’t (bandanas, intubation).

    In other news, I was musing about Superman’s boyfriend now that it turns out that Superman (his son really) is gay.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/arts/superman-comes-out.html
    You do have to wonder about the boyfriend’s colonic health. There’s something of a kinetic problem here.

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    scenes

    re: The railgun program.
    No doubt they had cost overruns and difficulties in finding mounting platforms. OTOH, I don’t doubt for a second that Navy weapons programs represent a bunch of cowbirds in a nest, each pushing each other out. Once the F-35 sucks the air out of the budget, they’ll be down to buying a single high tech plane that does absolutely everything.
    I can see the issue. Is your primary problem protecting the country? protecting trade routes? power projection? Often, any mission will be subsumed with the personal ambitions of admirals/apparatchiks/company executives and the tsunami of money that flows through the system.

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    “This is how the Commiecrats treat political prisoners?”
    lol. What do you think?
    It’s worth spending a few minutes on twitter or reddit watching the unfettered opinions spew forth on what to do with ‘insurrectionists’.
    Dunno whether the long term plan merely involves shunning (variations of social media scores) or barbed wire enclosures. You’ll have to ask Steve Frisch on his next missive about Nazis.

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Scenes.. It’s Lewis lane he dating now.
    But Spider man just couldn’t swing both ways.
    As for virus’ they can infect through the unprotected eyes.
    The six foot exclusion zone is bogus. Just an arbitrary number grabbed out of thin air. Masks? LOL! No protection against a virus what so ever.
    These thing you learn when you have worked in the HAZMAT world.

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  44. Walt Avatar

    Rail guns are actually very cost effective. Just a few hundred bucks(if that) per projectile. No explosives. Heck. With a little knowhow, you can build one at home.
    Looks like the turnup administration really wants to give the RED Chinese the upper hand.

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    scenes

    Walt @1:56PM
    N95s appear to make some difference, and look more stylish than N100. Being properly fitted is a trick in itself.
    A mixed bag. There’s a few studies out there and I’ve seen it go both ways.
    https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2012/04/lab-study-supports-use-n95-respirators-flu-protection
    https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(05)00911-9/fulltext
    You have to look back in time to find any studies that mean anything. Since Trump, science has been co-opted for political reasons in so many cases that nothing is really trustable at this point. Whether a thing is false or not, at least concerning COVID issues, is up in the air.
    I sure wouldn’t trust any of these masks if I were doing automotive paint jobs, and that’s a fact.

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  46. Walt Avatar

    The masks would catch the paint droplets, but the fumes will pass right through. Hence, the organic vapor filter mask.

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  47. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    Last time Alasdair played there for me he sold out-250. Numbers are down so that’s my generous estimate. Do you know the music and legacy of Alasdair Fraser? He is from Scotland and is now a local resident.

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    re: Walt@2:16PM
    I’m always surprised the materials that just reg’lar folks (and half-bright sometimes) shoot in a sketchy manner. Not just modern paints but foam insulation, some wood finishes, etc. Safety considerations fall by the wayside. Of course, there’s always welding brake cleaner.
    In any case, viruses look to be a statistics game. Some masks do better than the other, it isn’t all or nothing. It’s like personal activities. Staying at home is safe, going to a local indoors concert or hanging out at the emergency room is a lot less so.

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    I was just looking at theunion.com and Gregory made a fair point about the local public health officials:
    Gregory: “What makes you think the bureaucrats in the County Office of Public Health are “scientists”?”
    Sarah Daley: “In order to have that position, one needs to have an undergraduate degree in bio-chemistry, then earn either a Master’s or a Ph.D. specializing in science in which one learns how to evaluate the evidence presented in a research study on its reliability, validity, and use of statistics. Without that education and training one would not be hired to work there.”
    a moments googling:
    Jill Blake, M.P.A.
    NEVADA COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR
    – Master of Public Administration, University of Southern California
    – Bachelor’s degree in English literature, University of California, Los Angeles
    – UC Davis Public Policy Program certification
    – California County Senior Executive credential
    – Certified Public Health Accreditation Board site visitor
    I’d say one point to Mr. Gregory.

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