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Sandbox – 27nov21

[While not overflowing, the last Sandbox was getting a bit dated.  So here's a fresh one that you can fill with holiday cheer, or not.  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LOL!!
    Cross Bob ain’t happy! And the rest of the Lefties too.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/parent-company-of-the-union-sierra-sun-sells-to-ogden-newspapers/
    Robert Cross
    3 HRS AGO
    Reply to David Alkire –
    That ought to make all of the folks who complain that the Union is left leaning happy.
    Seems the new owners are Repubs.

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  2. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    So Yellen says she’s really, really upset about IRS files being stolen and then she says this:
    “Just to be clear: we do not know the ProPublica information came from the IRS. That hasn’t been established.”
    Could some one please ask her where else IRS files would come from?
    Oh yeah – Project Veritas wants to know when was the FBI raid on the folks running ProPublica?
    They can’t even tell an intelligent lie anymore.
    But then again – sadly – there’s little need for it to be intelligent.
    https://www.atr.org/yellen-claims-she-still-does-not-know-who-stole-thousands-private-irs-files

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who said its a right wing conspiracy theory? Kind of like the old shrillary slick willey lie is it not? –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/superintendent-says-detroit-schools-deeply-using-critical-race-theory
    😉

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt. Keep an eye on Roberta. She might be the one stealing stickers.
    https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/11/download-1-copy.jpg?

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Of course in the salons of the rich socialists and the coastal lamestream lapdogs its the little red books truth –
    Democrat policies are meant to make things more difficult for the average American: Skyrocketing energy prices are a feature, not a bug, in Biden world. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg himself said that high gas prices will make more Americans buy more electric vehicles. Jen Psaki hinted that higher prices on all products will make American consumers consume less. Biden’s chief of staff retweeted affirmatively an assertion that inflation was a high-class problem. Democrats used to look out for working-class voters. Now, they despise them. That contempt has not gone unnoticed.
    Democrats don’t care about fighting crime: Murders are up in almost every major city. Looting is common-place in both high-end boutiques and low-brow Home Depots. Shoplifting is no longer a criminal offense in many big cities. The Democrats, stuck between the defund-the-police crowd and the American people, have largely ignored the issue. When they talk about it at all, most on the left blame the 2nd Amendment for the uptick in homicides and talk about white privilege as the underlying cause of the uptick in petty crime. Some leading lights of the left even cheer on crime as striking a blow against the white patriarchy.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/feehery-why-democrats-now-historically-121506434.html
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So who can guess what they will do the world wonders! –
    ABC producer who accused Chris Cuomo of harassment calls CNN suspension ‘meaningless’, predicts he’ll be back
    Shelley Ross says Cuomo won’t be fired ‘given CNN’s great depth of forgiveness of sex offenses
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-chris-cuomo-suspension-shelley-ross-reaction
    😉

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Democrats used to look out for working-class voters. Now, they despise them. ”
    I’ll put forth an alternative theory.
    ‘Democrats’, by that I mean Blue Mob activists, dream of everyone living in solar-powered cities filled with bike paths, cradle-to-grave housing,food,medical regardless of lifestyle choices by everyone. The rest of the world is a beautiful wildlife park with no untoward changes in weather. Top o’ the heap Democrats want safe beachfront mansions (who doesn’t, really?).
    So how do you achieve the dream? Even if you remove policy choices from the hoi polloi’s wishes by more centralizing there doesn’t appear to be much motion in the desired direction.
    Answer? Destroy existing systems and use the chaos and degradation as a tool to rebuild in a desired direction. If you remove nuclear, natgas, coal, oil from energy production, hopefully you arrive at the ‘right’ answer. Beautiful government-sponsored housing not available for everyone? Put so many homeless people on the street that we are forced to build the ‘right’ answer. Don’t favor all of the special ethnic groups? Decriminalize crime until you cede the public sphere and commerce to them.
    There’s probably a word for it in Russian, from the Revolution, for the idea. Destruction is a helluva lot easier than building, and once you are upset or destitute enough, you can be guided to a naturally occurring ‘correct’ answer.
    The working class isn’t despised, it just needs to get it’s mind right.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘How The FBI Raid On Project Veritas Helped Protect The New York Times’
    The FBI’s raids on Project Veritas had the effect of protecting not just the Biden family but also The New York Times. It’s yet another episode in a long history of the FBI and New York Times wildly abusing their power.
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/01/how-the-fbi-raid-on-project-veritas-helped-protect-the-new-york-times/

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    France on the Verge of Civil War
    The rise of Éric Zemmour.
    https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/france-on-the-verge-of-civil-war/
    ——————
    Dovetail:
    “Today Zemmour released a video declaring his candidacy for president, and I’ve heard comparisons (including from a French student in my political science class this semester) comparing it to Charles de Gaulle’s famous July 18, 1940 radio broadcast pronouncing the cause of Free France amidst the nation’s collapse before the German army. For our readers who understand French, the video is at the bottom—but even if you don’t speak French I recommend watching it for a few minutes to take in how powerful it is.
    Here is a rough translation:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/will-france-save-the-west.php

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Just to be clear: we do not know the ProPublica information came from the IRS. That hasn’t been established.”
    So now you have two hyper-political groups with access to those records. The IRS and ProPublica.
    Really, is that worse than just the IRS holding them? (assuming that the weren’t purposefully given out in order to attack certain individuals).
    In both cases, the organization is allowed to target particular people for punishment. It isn’t like the leaked records were in turn made public (so far as I know), the guy who was known for that is named Assange and is carefully kept in the subdungeon of a secret policeman’s lair. Information is power and ProPublica wants it as much as the IRS. The short term goal of taxing wealth in addition to income is besides the point.
    Given the upcoming lack of privacy, and it isn’t like it’s listed in the Bill of Rights, you can imagine the machine put together at the IRS. The aim is to track all financial transactions, no matter how small, and that can be pasted together from private and public sources. For all I know they have a direct line to that Alexa device in your house and keep track of your physical location via modern wifi devices. There’s likely no turning back on this one, especially given the newfound ability to parse the data.
    So what do you do? Maybe one answer is some kind of radical transparency. The power doesn’t come from the information so much as the control and centralization of it. Musk should simply post his tax returns every year and not care about blowback.
    Either that or a cabin in the woods.

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  11. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    scenes at 7:34 AM-
    Mr. Михаил Горбачёв liked to use the term ‘perestroika’ (перестройка = restructuring). Sounds way more genteel than ‘destroy’.
    That policy has been tied, on and off, to the break-up of the Soviet Union. Maybe try a different term for use in the U.S.
    How about “like duckpins”? I believe that was the term shouted by that evil red SUV that, on its own, plowed through those folks at the Christmas parade in Waukesha recently.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Notable quotables from Trey Gowdy, Ted Cruz, Eric Swalwell, and more.
    Insight: “I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.” —Robert Yates (1738-1801)
    “Prosecutors knew that [Darrell Brooks] had a lifetime of violence and bail-jumping and disregarding the law, but Wisconsin prosecutors recommended a $1,000 bond. … And now, six body bags later, prosecutors finally concede that bond was too low. We already know that. $1,000 was too low when you set it. Now, after six people are dead, and dozens more injured, you set the bond at $5 million. So what’s different now? He was a career criminal before he killed six people at a Christmas parade. We don’t need prosecutors to react after there are six bodies laying on a parade route; we need prosecutors and politicians who prioritize public safety beforehand.” —Trey Gowdy
    “[Darrell Brooks] should not have even been on the street. [He] had clear, anti-white animus. And this was an intentional act. And it seems like, you know, for corporate press, they’re more apt to characterize a parent who goes to a school board meeting to protest bad policies as a domestic terrorist than somebody who intentionally rams an SUV into a crowd of innocent people.” —Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
    Friendly fire I: “Let me be clear, Oakland needs more police. We have been interrupted by staffing reductions, COVID interrupted our recruitment and training processes, and the defund rhetoric is challenging our ability to attract and retain recruits.” —Oakland, California, Democrat Mayor Libby Schaaf
    Friendly fire II: “I don’t know that the travel ban makes sense. I don’t know that it’s that different because he’s banning people from African countries and we know that this variant is not only in South Africa, and South Africa has some of the world’s best scientists and epidemiologists and I think that’s why they found the variant there. This variant was found in Israel, it was found in Belgium, it was found in other European countries. Why aren’t there bans from those countries? Why just Africa? I think that has to be called out.” —”The View’s” Sunny Hostin
    “Dr. Fauci, I think, is the most dangerous bureaucrat in the history of the country. You know, he talks … about hurting science. I don’t think anyone has hurt science, has hurt the credibility of the CDC, has hurt the credibility of doctors more than Dr. Fauci because throughout this pandemic, he’s been dishonest. He’s been political. He’s been partisan. And and the American people know it.” —Senator Ted Cruz
    Non compos mentis: “I’m losing my Covid patience. I’ve tried to reason with the unvaxxed. I’ve directed some to medical pros. I don’t judge but hear them out and steer them to facts. The unvaxxed love to say it’s about choice. But you know who doesn’t have a choice? My 3 kids under 5. … The looney carnival barkers at the school board meetings DO NOT reflect where most parents are. Your unvaxxed status is creating new variants. So get your damn shot. Or, stay inside your house. But don’t mess with my kids.” —Congressman Eric Swalwell
    What could possibly go wrong? “It’s time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID. Require vaccination universally. Have the military run it. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your conscientious objector status in court.” —CNBC’s Jim Cramer
    But hey, it could always be worse… “You can now see family and friends again in their homes, and use the bathroom, inside. Luxury.” —New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
    Judicial intimidation: “I hope the Supreme Court is listening to the people of the United States because … I think if you want to see a revolution go ahead, outlaw Roe v. Wade and see what the response is of the public, particularly young people.” —Senator Jeanne Shaheen
    Thanks, Captain Obvious: “We tend to use [the word transitory] to mean that it won’t leave a permanent mark in the form of higher inflation. I think it’s probably a good time to retire that word.” —Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell
    The BIG Lie: “Right now, sending your kid to preschool in the United States costs around $8,600 per year. Under my Build Back Better Act it will cost $0.” —Joe Biden
    Grand delusions: “Thanksgiving is about gratitude. In 2021 it’s Biden supporters and liberals who seem grateful for America, for American institutions and ideals, for the American way of life. It’s Trumpists and today’s conservative movement who seem to be bitterly lacking in gratitude to America.” —Bill Kristol
    Hardly in better hands: “Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation. The kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.” —new Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal last year
    Belly laugh of the week: “It’s time to stop demonizing ‘invasive’ species: Climate change is forcing some animals to move. Don’t call them ‘invasives.’” —Vox’s Marina Bolotnikova
    And last… “It’s not hard to imagine that the day will soon come when the radical left begins touting abortion as a tool for managing population growth as the Chinese Communist Party has done for decades.” —Mike Pence

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  13. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    “But don’t mess with my kids.” —Congressman Eric Swalwell
    Oh, I see. YOUR kids, Swalwell.
    But for the parents in Waukesha holding a funeral for THEIR child it’s “tough sledding, ol’ bean”.
    For the parents upset about the schools pushing racist crap on THEIR children – “just spouting right-wing talking points”.
    Swalwell and HIS kids are protected by walls, guards and firearms.
    You and YOUR kids will just have to put up with the way of life dictated to you.
    How much longer do these pin heads think the populace will put up with this crap before an actual ‘insurrection’ happens.
    Almost like they’re planning on it…
    Hmmm

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scott O
    “But don’t mess with my kids.”
    Swallowell has 3 kids under 5. I doubt the school board crowd is messing with his kids, neither is COVID-19, 20, 21, or 22 messing with his kids. He has a better chance farting on air during a live interview that his kids suffering from the China Virus from Wuhan.
    In fact, there is more danger to his kids and his kids’ future by sleeping with the Chinese Communist Government spy than anything those MEGA types could or would ever do.
    Speaking of flatulence (oral and otherwise) the Duchess of Cornwall can’t stop talking about President Joe Biden recently greeting her with a long loud expulsion of gas from his anus. It wasn’t the loudness of the fart the Lords and Duchesses are still talking about – it was the length they found so conversation worthy. It went on and on. “Impossible to ignore.”
    https://nypost.com/2021/11/07/camilla-parker-bowles-keeps-talking-about-biden-fart-at-cop26/

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ‘Biden’ foreign policy is the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps Admiral Levine will be assigned to NATO.
    “American embassy workers who have been stationed in Moscow for over three years have been given just weeks to leave the country, Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced, amid a growing row with Washington over diplomatic visas.”
    https://www.rt.com/russia/541845-us-embassy-staff-leave-moscow/

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  16. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Since Emery remains MIA, The Biden poll numbers have nowhere to go but DOWN.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/01/gop-poll-joe-biden-at-36-percent-approval-rating/
    And in other related LIB news,, another LIB throws in the towel. That makes 19 not going for re-election.
    I call that a real good start.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The green socialist dems will deny connectivity but da numbers dont lie –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-officially-have-a-retirement-problem/ar-AARmDjq?ocid=msedgntp
    The poll showed that 52 percent of Americans strongly disapproved of Biden while 6.9 percent merely disapproved of his job performance.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/01/gop-poll-joe-biden-at-36-percent-approval-rating/
    😉

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  18. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    If you were wondering why the name Omicron sounded familiar, perhaps it’s because you’ve heardit before on the hit series ‘Futurama’ created by Matt Groening. That’s right, the new COVID variant was named Omicron, which is the 14th letter in the Greek alphabet and initially didn’t sound threatening at all. However, those who have seen Futurama are fully aware that the main antagonist comes from a planet named Omicron Persei 8. His name is Lrrr but it’s really pronounced ‘Lurrr’. Twitter users went crazy as soon as the World Health Organization made this name public. There are all type of reactions to this new name that all ‘Futurama’ fans find familiar.
    https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/tv-shows/2021/11/28/61a327fe268e3e001c8b4576.html

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well that sums it up well –
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/kudlow-the-biden-philosophy-success-is-penalized-and-failure-is-rewarded
    😉

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe and the socialists have taken hispancics for granted to long and their policies have driven them to team R –
    The now-former spokesman for District of Columbia Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser told Fox News on Wednesday that President Biden’s tenure in office has led him to change party affiliation and also to vote for GOP businessman Glenn Youngkin in the off-year gubernatorial election in Virginia, where he resides.
    Victor Jimenez told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that his political shift was not a small decision, adding that he was until recently the “lead public information officer at [Bowser’s] office for community affairs” and previously in a similar role for Latino outreach.
    Jimenez, who is an Afro-Dominican immigrant according to a tweet from the DC Office of Latino Affairs, previously told Spanish-language network Telemundo that “Biden turned me into a Republican” and that the president has “destroyed the economy.”
    The reason I switched parties is because of everything that’s going on in the country right now. We see immigration through the roof right now and that is affecting a lot of Hispanic families in my home state of Virginia,” Jimenez said. “And those are people who are already struggling with making ends meet.”
    we also have bad people coming into the country with bad intentions. People with illegal guns and drugs and people who are running from their law enforcement in their own country.”
    Carlson replied that, in the Democratic Party’s strict categorical hierarchy, the assumption would be that Jimenez would both continue to be a Democrat and additionally be supportive of illegal immigration.
    “Being Hispanic and Black, I should be Democrat by default,” Jimenez replied. “But I am going against their narrative and I feel like right now everything is crumbling for the Democrats.”
    He referenced Youngkin’s defeat of former Gov. Terry McAuliffe as “the beginning of the end” for the party and a potential precursor to a GOP landslide in 2022.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/dc-mayor-bowser-spokesman-victor-jimenez-changes-gop-biden-economy-immigration
    😉

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gee you think that trying to stop natural growth was going to have no implications, they are just too pc to admit it was a bad idea from the get go. Now they will cancel Sweden for failure to adhere to the dogma? –
    Several others were diagnosed with mental health issues, including thoughts of self-harm and suicide, while others simply regretted being put on the drugs after developing irreversible side effects from the hormone therapy, such as vocal changes.
    In May, Karolinska hospital announced it would be ending hormone treatment for children after witnessing the various side effects of the treatment.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/27/sweden-trans-kids-suffered-injuries-as-a-result-of-puberty-blockers/
    😉

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No justice for Sam.
    REPORT: TEMPLE STUDENT KILLED BY CRIMINAL KRASNER LET WALK
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/report-temple-student-killed-by-criminal-krasner-let-walk.php

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Remember that his preferred way to be addressed is ‘Best Selling Children’s Book Author’
    ‘WATCH: Matt Walsh Greets Scores Of Protesters Outside His St. Louis Event, Poses One Simple Question‘
    “At one point during the protest, Walsh walked out of the venue accompanied by law enforcement to speak with the protesters. The Daily Wire host was met with boos, chants, and one man screaming “do not come over here!” The crowd took several steps back as Walsh approached.
    “I went out to say hi to my protesters and give them a chance to answer my ‘what is a woman’ question. They declined, it seems,” Walsh posted on Twitter with video of the confrontation.
    My favorite part was when the guy shouted ‘do NOT come over here’ and then I came over there and he backed away,” he added. “This is no way to treat a children’s book author.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-matt-walsh-greets-scores-of-protesters-outside-his-st-louis-event-poses-one-simple-question
    Matt is having a ball taking pages out of the Lefty Playbook.

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    An administration imploding in just a few months is creating hilarious talk like the littlest communist congrescritter –
    The only name Trudo identifies with both the policy credentials and the star power needed to raise hundreds of millions online from small-dollar donors is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
    A Democratic primary challenge to a sitting Democratic president is not without precedent. As recently as 1980, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy attempted to wrest the party’s nomination from a similarly unpopular Democratic incumbent unable to control inflation.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-poor-polling-prompts-progressive-plotting/ar-AARlT5v
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/symone-sanders-harris-chief-spokesperson-to-leave-white-house/ar-AARmCFA?ocid=msedgntp
    😉

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Worth a read. Consider that this is an official correspondence by city management in Seattle.
    “The Seattle Department of Finance and Administrative Services sent an all-staff email calling police officers white supremacists. Seattle cops are livid, but the agency is backing the hateful, dangerous message. It’s the latest blow to a dwindling police force losing officers at an alarming rate.”
    https://www.scribd.com/document/510972279/FAS-Email

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  26. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ooh, I like the sound of this.
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/terry-mclaughlin-why-a-catholic-school-education/
    Does anyone have more details beyond the website?

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    moi@9:15AM.
    …and, quick as a wink, the normal suspects pull the lanyard on their crazy. I mean, no one can consider opening a high school version of a Great Books college like Thomas Aquinas. That’s bypassing the commissars after all…
    “I wonder how many members of Congress who claim to be solid Christians, yet perpetuate lies, attack other members with ethnic names and twisted cartoon tweets of murder, and back down from standing up for what is right, attended Christian schools? ” – Cheryl Cook
    “This is a parody, right? ” – Randy Tatum
    “(some iron rice bowl teacher stuff)” – Rich Howell
    I would suggest St. Leibowitz Academy as an alternative, but you can tell the value of a thing from it’s detractors. A lot can happen in the organization of a system as complex as a school, but it’s worth considering how to help any effort of this sort.

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  28. radishniglio Avatar
    radishniglio

    Posted by: scenes | 02 December 2021 at 09:37 AM
    “(some iron rice bowl teacher stuff)” – Rich Howell
    As an educator, Rich Howell decries your all too accurate description of his former sinecure…….as an educator.

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  29. beetniglio Avatar
    beetniglio

    I attended Catholic high school and university. I studied Chesterson and Merton. I read scripture and the Beatitudes and learned how to apply them to modern day social issues. I studied 4 years of Latin, Logic, Religion, Literature, and Chemistry. Then four more years of Religion in university before Graduate School and finally teaching in Catholic schools.
    ….and yet Cheryl remains ever the empty-headed progressive dunderhead embracing every failed nostrum. So much for that vaunted Catholic education.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Topic, no links. The fertilizer shortage outside of the US. Fertilizer means food….and bio fuels.
    China has stopped exporting its fertilizers (nitrogen, potash, phosphates) to take care of their domestic needs first. Same with the former USSR, aka, Russia. Europe needs fertilizers to go food. In the Western Developed countries of Europe, some countries rely on imported fertilizers to grow their food to feed the masses. “Three missed meals leads to Revolution.”—author unknown.
    In the USA, a massive country, some of the fertilizer shortages are due to factories being shut down during the China Virus from Wuhan. Some face labor shortages. About 18% goes into the bio-gasoline mix grown in the farm belt, as required by law. All these food staples need fertilizers. Sure, one can skip the fertilizers for a year, maybe two, but the yields will be smaller and thus lead to more food shortages. But, the real story is happening in Europe, Eurasia, Vietnam, etc.
    The Biden Administration got on its high horse and banned exports from Belarus, along with Canada and the UK. Belarus two main products that give it access to foreign currency is oil and potash. The UK for some reason exempted potash from the Belarus sanctions, lol. The UK has been importing potash from America since the early Colonial times; once the biggest export from from the New World to the Crown.
    Not surprisingly, the EU has weakened its sanctions on Belarus to exclude potash and/or just knock down the percentages they receive (imports from Belarus) a
    some. Belarus cut off Poland. Oh my. Each individual EU country must make sure they have enough fertilizer to take care of their own…first.
    I wonder if Europe and other countries feel ‘food insecure’ yet?

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Potash. That’s interesting stuff. Apparently there are details to the economic war underway that make sense to somebody, potassium levels in potash fer example.
    Economics warfare uses banks as weapons of course, as a person looking remarkably like a surprised member of the Team America World Police cast informs us.
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/uk-announces-new-belarus-sanctions-targets-potash-producer/ar-AARoyZp
    My suggestion is a full-court press of a boycott of Belarus plus forward basing nuclear missiles and the freed-up troops from Afghanistan in Ukraine (along with Meal Team 6 from the Bundeswehr). That should help along Washington’s need for more excitement.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes;
    During the 6 Day War when Israel demolished the Egytian Air Force and even Kissenger was pleading with Israel to stop advancing on its enemies.Later was the ensuing OPEC oil embaago and gas lines in the news. Seems all of the media was talking about the wars over oil in the future.
    Every talking head except one. He said the big war in the future will not be over oil, but food. He went on to say there is enough water soluble potash (potassium) in the Dead Sea to feed the world.
    Israel and Armageddon? Food over oil, Whether that happens or not, I have always remembered that lone voice crying in the wilderness. Potash? Go figure.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Poland’s Border Shapes the Future of Migration
    https://www.meforum.org/62812/polands-border-shapes-the-future-of-migration

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  34. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    BT@ 1:47- Good reference to an article that may be appearing in U.S. papers in 2-4 years.

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  35. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    The left and the Dems must be pretty pleased a white kid shot up a high school. No more need to explain an SUV carelessly harming some people out in the street.
    The gun nuts (the folks that are insane and want to pass laws about guns) wasted no time in climbing on top of the bodies to appear to be of higher stature:
    “He went on to call the footage “absolutely terrifying to watch”, adding, “All of those kids who fled that violence, all of those kids who now don’t think of school as a safe place, they are going through trauma and will go through trauma that will take a lifetime to address.””
    No, Virginia – he’s not talking about Chicago or Philly or any other large metro run by Dems – shootings in those places are just part of life we need to get used to. We’re talking here about white children in a mostly white suburban mid-western town.
    But.
    He has the answer – actually – no, he doesn’t.
    “Murphy acknowledged that the expansion of background checks would not have necessarily prevented the school shooting…”
    Actually, it wouldn’t have at all.
    “I don’t claim that this proposal nor any other proposal to change the nation’s gun laws will have an effect on every single shooting” but argued that expanded background checks “saves lives, decreases gun violence, [and] decreases violent crime”.
    So – it doesn’t work on any actual circumstance they can name, but by god, by some pixie magic it will work! Quick question – what’s the tally on school shootings where the various presidents had their kids attend? Oh, that’s different. OK.
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-senator-blocks-gun-control-law-in-wake-of-michigan-shooting/ar-AARp9Fs

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    Bill Tozer

    The Washington Post published an article in response to the Twitter post saying it “might be the worst defense of the Biden administration yet.”
    ‘DCCC blasted from all sides over tweet praising Biden for lowering gas prices 2 cents’
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/dccc-blasted-both-sides-tweet-praising-biden-gas-prices

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    Bill Tozer

    The French Fried saga continues. Just how big is Big Tech?
    ‘Google’s YouTube Meddles In French Election, Slaps Age Restriction On Presidential Candidate Zemmour’s Campaign Video’
    https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/02/googles-youtube-meddles-in-french-election-slaps-age-restriction-on-presidential-candidate-zemmours-campaign-video/
    Just like here in the USA. The Tech Titans are trying to influence the outcome of an election….by censorship. Shocking, not.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Think Don or Walt may have posted this already.
    The Democrats made me do it.
    ‘Former spokesperson for Democratic D.C. mayor says became Republican because of Biden leadership’
    The former spokesperson for D.C. Democrat Muriel Bowser says he voted for Glenn Youngkin in last month’s Virginia gubernatorial race.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/former-spokesperson-democratic-dc-mayor-becomes-republican-because-biden-leadership

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Kamala Conundrum—Why Dems Are Stuck With Her
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/the-kamala-conundrum-why-dems-are-stuck-with-her/

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    Don Bessee

    You damn racists need to stop giving to food banks or going to farmers markets which are racist!! –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/duke-university-farmers-markets-food-charity-white-supremacy
    😉

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘BLM’s Racist Boycott of White Businesses’
    By calling for a boycott of all white-owned businesses, Black Lives Matter is putting a lump of coal in everyone’s stocking.
    ‘Tis the season — for race-based discrimination, apparently.
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/84608-blms-racist-boycott-of-white-businesses-2021-12-02

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Uptight and outta sight….or was that out of sight, out of mind?
    ‘Biden tries to define away ongoing supply chain crisis, declare victory’
    https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/biden-declares-victory-supply-chain-crisis-despite-no-improvement-cargo-logjam

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    scenes

    BillT@8:23PM
    “The Kamala Conundrum—Why Dems Are Stuck With Her”
    ” So, the only possible way out is for Biden and the party to swap her for another black female. ”
    You really just have to laugh sometimes at how tribal humans are. In-group favoritism is a thing and physical differences (followed by things like culture and speech) make a lot of evolutionary sense. We are seeing the opposite of that right now in a few quarters, but it’s a passing phase. There’s some deep mental circuitry being tapped here.
    I wish I had a long enough lifespan to see how the destruction of color-blindness as public policy plays out (it’s racist after all). I can guess how the prison rec yard part forms up (ie. just regular people), but not sure how their lords and masters, the metastasized version of prison administration called government and business executives, will clique up.
    Two central questions (to me).
    . Does diversity always lead to competing teams? What is the social glue in states with diversity?
    . Will the issue of the day move from blacks plus allies vs. everyone else to an all against all fight for status and resources?

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    scenes

    Clownworld Chronicles, Sports Edition.
    “Trans University of Pennsylvania swimmer sparks outrage after smashing women’s records
    A transgender 22-year-old US college athlete has smashed two long held women’s records at a recent meet…”
    https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/trans-university-of-pennsylvania-swimmer-sparks-outrage-after-smashing-womens-records/news-story/10375502467ce96736b5b2312772ddeb
    I honestly enjoy this sort of thing as it shows the sheer craziness of the Blue Mob while avoiding arson by the Party of Mostly Peaceful. Transsexual sports seems like an underserved non-profit profit opportunity in Nevada County. I need to hie me up to Truckee to get some business advice for setting up a 501 to handle this matter.

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    scenes

    Hold the phone. Brilliant idea time.
    Someone needs to set up a US Women’s National Soccer Team made up purely of men-in-dresses. World championship should be a shoo-in.
    The movie rights should be worth a fortune.
    Of course, given the money involved, golf and tennis are the low hanging fruit.

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    scenes

    lmfao.
    ‘NATO chief: “Russia has no right to establish a sphere of influence”‘
    https://news.yahoo.com/nato-chief-russia-no-establish-153028914.html
    What is this ‘right’ thing of which he speaks?

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    bokchoiniglio

    Posted by: scenes | 03 December 2021 at 08:10 AM
    Someone needs to set up a US Women’s National Soccer Team made up purely of men-in-dresses. World championship should be a shoo-in.
    Didn’t Monty Python do this in the 70’s?

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  48. shallotniglio Avatar
    shallotniglio

    Posted by: scenes | 03 December 2021 at 08:04 AM
    ….and in other female sporting news……ugly man in dress turns in stellar performance on Jeopardy.
    https://www.sfgate.com/characters/article/jeopardy-winner-oakland-amy-schneider-16649910.php

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  49. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 8:04 am
    Once again the majority is commanded to submit to a minority and thus creating an elevated aristocratic class of the minority to lord over us. The real one half percenters. Ok, the 0.3 %ers

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    The Estonian Fox

    Well, finally, prosecutors who believe that violating gun laws should have some consequences:
    Suspect’s Parents Charged in Michigan School Shooting. Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald made the disclosure Friday as she filed involuntary manslaughter charges against Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley.
    McDonald says the gun used in the shootings at Oxford High School was purchased by James Crumbley a week ago and given to the boy,…saying earlier that their actions went “far beyond negligence.”

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