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[Bumblebrain again promises that the feds spending an extra $5T this decade under its BBB plan will be the best thing for the economy since "it will cost nothing" by taxing the bejeezus out of everyone in sight.  You really didn't believe that "only those making over $400K" did you?  What is it that makes all leftwingers terminally stupid about economics and as to how humans respond to armed confiscation?  Perhaps that mental deficiency is a prerequisite for becoming a leftwinger.  gjr]

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360 responses to “Sandbox – 15dec21”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The scales fall from their eyes –
    CNN reporter knocks Biden over interview on COVID test shortages: He ‘seems confused’
    Jeff Zeleny: Biden ‘really not accepting any responsibility’ for testing shortage
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-reporter-biden-interview-performance-confused
    😉

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  2. porniglio Avatar
    porniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 December 2021 at 10:59 AM

    “I’m Busy, busy, dreadfully busy…..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SucuesPHhH4
    Busy…so busy…..busy, busy, busy, busy, busy!!

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mike Pence to Kamala: Say what?
    ‘Kamala Harris confides media coverage would be different if she were white and male’
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/vp-harris-confides-media-coverage-would-be-different-if-she-were-white-and-male

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Thursday Daily Quotes
    “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.” —Elon Musk
    and more
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/85160-thursday-short-cuts-2021-12-23

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ps:
    “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful.” Elon Musk
    update: “At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and incineratory, aka, DIE”

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The kakkler in chief is an empty skirt –
    Rep. Henry Cuellar, a moderate from Texas and one of the more prominent voices on border issues in the Democratic Party, said his experiences with Harris’ team had been disappointing. When Cuellar heard Harris was traveling to the border in June, he had his staff call her office to offer help and advice for her visit. He never received a call back.
    “I say this very respectfully to her: I moved on,” Cuellar said. “She was tasked with that job, it doesn’t look like she’s very interested in this, so we are going to move on to other folks that work on this issue.”
    In the future, Cuellar said he would go straight to the West Wing with his concerns on migration rather than the vice president’s office.
    Of the White House, Cuellar said, “at least they talk to you.”
    Harris’ aides have pointed to her work lobbying other countries and companies to join the United States in a commitment to invest about $1.2 billion to expand digital access, climate resilience and economic opportunity in Central America.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/heir-apparent-afterthought-frustrations-kamala-125811653.html
    😉

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I guess this could be filed in the get woke go broke file or it was so bad it was not worth making more discs tarnishing the franchise –
    Sony appears to be trying to memory-hole its woke 2016 box-office dud Ghostbusters by omitting the feminist reboot from its upcoming Ghostbusters “Ultimate Collection” box set.
    The Ghostbusters Ultimate Collection, which Sony will release in February, is an eight-disc set that contains the original 1984 Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II. The ghost-trap-shaped box set also contains the recent Ghostbusters: Afterlife as well as a wealth of supplemental material.
    Ghostbusters: Afterlife has been a modest box-office success, so far grossing $114 million domestically in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The movie doesn’t acknowledge the 2016 Ghostbusters storyline, working instead as a companion piece to the original 1984 movie.
    Actress Leslie Jones, who co-starred in the 2016 reboot, lashed out at the new sequel when it was first announced, saying it is “something Trump would do.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/12/23/sony-excludes-woke-feminist-ghostbusters-from-ultimate-collection-box-set/
    😉

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Tough night Emery? Trump ain’t the President today.
    The dotard you voted for is. Likability in the crapper.
    The CLAP polls better.
    DEMS running for the door. They have better things to do than move their offices to the loser’s lounge in 11 months.
    Hear the news? Gas prices down all of SIX CENTS!!! Sign Biden up for the Nobel peace prize on the news. I just saved a whole buck filling up today.
    Asv for Trump,, just how many points ahead of Biden is he today? Funny,, you NEVER post that kind of poll. I’m sure you can find some never heard of poll to save face.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Here Emery… Enjoy.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/morale-low-biden-white-house-unhappy-staffers-plan-post-holiday-exit-report
    “Morale among staffers is reportedly low in President Biden’s White House as his first year in office comes to a close and polls show his popularity underwater with the majority of Americans.”

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe is probably asking, in between pudding, if putin is right? –
    Putin blames West for tension with Ukraine, experts divided on invasion threat
    Experts warn Putin is using threat of Ukraine invasion to block access to NATO
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-blames-west-for-tension-with-ukraine-experts-divided-on-threats-of-invasion
    😉

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    scenes

    re: DonB@6:07
    Gascon? Odds are he’s a creature of Soros.
    You know, just thinking out loud, I wonder if you could think of Trump as simply Western Civilization’s immune system producing a kind of anti-Soros.

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gascon got the boot out of SF and is now screwing LA al la soros!
    😉

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  13. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Merry Christmas, you deplorable Americans!

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And to you BP and your crew of deplorables, Merry Christmas and get ye to a feast!
    😉

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  15. show me kd Avatar
    show me kd

    I don’t mean to be a Grinch. However, to those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, would you please avoid anything that has red or blue flashing lights together?!
    Every time I come around the corner, I think it’s the police. I have to break hard, toss my margarita out the window, fasten my seatbelt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down and push the gun under the seat. All while trying to drive. It’s just too much drama, even for Christmas.
    Merry Christmas to all!!!!

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    Show 942pm – we sympathize fully Mr show; Merry Christmas!

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  17. Walt Avatar

    That ain’t noth’n Kid,, I had to shave the fur off my face.
    The Mrs. said ” You look like a low rent mall Santa that just got a DUI.” Yaa… Merry Christmas. Now I look respectable.
    Off to go make next years planting mix for the dope growers.
    I must work for Uncle Scrooge.. Having to work on Christmas. Just wrong on so many levels. The Mrs. ain’t too upset, she gets all the free compost that my pockets can hold.
    Have a safe day my friends. The official greetings will come when I get home.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Clownworld Chronicles. Law of Unintended Consequences Department.
    Here’s one I just ran into that Mr. Walt will like. One of many articles.
    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/australia-taps-mideast-indonesia-japan-urea-ease-trucking-fears-2021-12-13/
    It turns out that most of that additive is made in China. China cut exports. Whoopsie.
    So now the world is dependent on China for fuel for trucks as (no doubt) the computers won’t run without the magic elixir.

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    scenes

    Gregory@7:29AM
    That is a great drawing, good find.
    Bummer that he couldn’t fit Grand Admiral Levine into the frame.

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Darn. All my Christmas cards and well wishes are coming in from out of state. Its getting lonely staying put.
    ‘No wonder why people and businesses are dumping California’
    https://www.dailynews.com/2021/12/23/no-wonder-why-people-and-businesses-are-dumping-california/
    Merry Christmas Brother Scott! So, you drove from Idaho to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport? 😉

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  21. Scott O Avatar

    BT 9:50 – Ha! Darn near. DFW is a scant 5 miles from where I now sit typing out this missive and swilling delicious Mexican cerveza. Lord willing I will be at DFW tomorrow picking up our son and daughter in law unless they become the victims of the on-going Christmas airline collapse.
    Merry Christmas y’all!

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  22. kneeniglio Avatar
    kneeniglio

    ……not racist anymore…

    White House Abandons Southern African Travel Ban As Okinawa Outbreak Strains Ties With Japan

    Progressives weep.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/white-house-abandons-south-african-travel-ban-okinawa-outbreak-strains-ties-japan

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  23. Walt Avatar

    LOL Sciens,,muffler bearing fluid also comes from China?

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  24. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Walt@12:27PM
    Who knows? It might be a bit embarrassing if history books in the year 2500 have a chapter about the crash of civilization in the early 21st century due to the Worldwide Urea Shortage.
    It certainly doesn’t have the story-telling zing of a Khanate sweeping through Europe or the Black Death.

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I was just considering a twitter tweet (does that make sense? you know what I mean..) from one ‘Ron Filipkowski’ among a bunch of his anti-MAGA diatribes, this time attempting to insult Turning Point USA:

    “The overall message/theme to mostly college-aged attendees of TPUSA’s AmericaFest’s 4 days:

    Get married young, have lots of kids, don’t go to college, don’t get vaccinated, the media and doctors are all liars, arm yourself heavily to fight tyranny, communists run the country.”

    Following that of course are the usual batch of twitter crazypeople, mostly guidance counselors, non-profit executives, HR professionals, K-12 ‘teachers’, and the like chipping in on the evils of the unwashed masses of deplorables.
    Ya know, it doesn’t sound like entirely bad advice.
    Change my mind.

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  26. Scott O Avatar

    A urea shortage is the least of our problems. Diesels for some strange reason ran just fine for 100 years with no urea.
    This is a self-inflicted issue for Australia.
    Meanwhile the globalist left are running America into a much larger problem. Remember how we rued allowing people who didn’t like us to control our energy supply (OPEC, remember?)
    Now we’ve gone from being energy independent to launching into the arms of China as we mandate a method of propulsion for our surface transportation needs that will make us utterly dependent on the CCP. Thanks, Biden!
    From the article: “China’s control of 85-90% of the rare earths processing sector means an uneasy reliance on Chinese supply for the United States…”
    Uneasy?
    How completely idiotic do we have to get before we realize our country is being sold down the river to the ChiComs for payoffs to the Biden family and goodness knows who else?
    https://www.reuters.com/world/china/minmetals-unit-confirms-china-rare-earths-merger-2021-12-22/

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    re: The Dancing Nurses
    Looking at the pics I have this overwhelming urge to say, “The SUV I was driving….”
    ——————
    Walt. Merry Christmas my good fellow. My blood bro, my brother from another mother…and to Roberta have happy Christmas hating weekend, my dear sista from an unknown mista. And to Scenes and frozenfishsticksiglio, and Gregory, and DonB, and to Mrs. JoAnn Rebane and to her lesser half, the good Doc George the Rebane. 🙂
    ————————————-
    Walt @ 5:24 am
    Yep, moi had to shave yesterday. Been awhile. Used the dog trimmer to knock it back to save on razor blades.
    So, mixing fertilizer for the pot growers now are we? It’s all good. Might as well make a few clamshells from the herb industry. Everyone else does…at least it seems. I see those pot soil trucks and water trucks and mushroom compost trucks and plumping trucks and electricians’ vans…..good for them, not so good this year for those starting out and thinking big. Price drop in now institutional. Systematic. Heard they are getting only $900/pound in NYC cause Jersey came on line and heard the locals struggling to get 5-6 hundred, if they can dump it. But, what to I know or care? Just scuttlebutt in the wind. Market is flooded and looks like it will stay flooded year round now…and I don’t see it going back to the prices of 10-15 years ago. But, again, what do I know? Pay the trimmer $125/# and dump at $350, lol. Not a good business plan. Probably the only thing in price to have come down during The Biden’s Great Inflation.
    So, looks like your delivery job to the farms on private roads didn’t pan out. Not worth tearing up you rig I hazard to guess. Just as well, Those Amazon Prime drivers and soil fertilizer trucks Fed Ex vans are tearing up the road. Only cool ones are USP as they (she, Kelly and ones she trained) stop and throw biscuits out to the dogs who get all happy when they hear Brown approaching a long way off. Sunday Amazon Prime kids (they look like kids to me) flying up the road are the worst offenders. On any given Sunday. Horse manure to that! Bull pucky. Chicken Squat delivered hot.
    Forgive the repost dear readers. This is the fourth time? Another recycled gift for you, Walt.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxcTpdOZBJU

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Sucks to be her. And they told me she is just a comedian with an opinion. Just like Dave Chap-ple-le or Jesse Walters or Samatha Bee (the lady who has yet to make anyone laugh) or Lena Durham or that dreadful evil evil evil Tucker Carlson, or Kamala Harris?
    She gets her own category. Joyless Reid.
    WORST OF 2021: The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2021/12/24/worst-2021-joy-hate-award-joy-reid-rants
    Imagine if you will waking up to her. Do not touch your dial. You have enter the Twilight Zone.
    Peace on Earth Joy. ‘Comedian just does not fully capture the essence of the word. Comedian is not the word for it. 🙂

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Always one in every crowd. How uncharitable.
    ‘Let’s Go Brandon’: Kid’s Dad Trolls Biden During Santa Tracker Call — And Biden Responds
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/lets-go-brandon-kids-dad-trolls-biden-during-santa-tracker-call-and-biden-responds

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Been looking for an article that reaffirms my belief that Americans in general are good decent caring and sharing people. The Union’s front page is full of our neighbors and fellow citizens donating food to families. I always felt that the group who delivers free firewood to the elderly was great.
    One of the four flaws in Karl’s Marx’s head was that he never anticipated the work of philanthropists or the heart of free citizens. Say what you will, but when Reagan got his tax cut through almost two years after his first Inauguration, donations to the non-profits charity outfits soared to record highs.
    Anyway….let’s see what Ammo Grlll has to say about it, aka, the short dumpy Jewish lady
    THOUGHTS FROM THE AMMO LINE
    Ammo Grrrll reflects on A LIFETIME OF UNFORCED DIVERSITY.
    “When the Obamas tried to come up with times in their lives when they had been “victims of racism,” it was downright embarrassing. Why, Barack had once been mistaken for a valet, and Michelle had – wait for it, I hope you’re sitting down – been asked to reach something on a high shelf. Oh, the humanity. If only I were EVER asked to reach a high shelf!
    When Halle Berry whined about all the terrible racism she had experienced in her mostly-white Ohio high school, her classmates said, “What?” Halle was a cheerleader, the prom queen, an honor student and school paper editor – they were shocked that she had found the experience of going to school with them racist. When such things are pointed out, the professional victims always fall back not on THE truth, but “my” truth. If they FELT discriminated against, then, by Jove, they WERE. It’s all so very tedious.
    I now live in the most racially diverse place I have ever lived. I interact every day with Mexicans, African-Americans, Indians, and, of course, white geezers. My days are rich with friends and acquaintances and absolutely not one whit better or worse than when we all were white. Diversity is neither “our strength” nor some kind of disaster. It is a neutral factor. We are all just people, disappointing, inspiring, striving, frustrating, loving, imperfect people! And we forget that at our peril. If you don’t agree that ‘All lives matte,r, I don’t even want to know you. But you know who agrees with that in polls in greater numbers than white liberal suburban women? Black people. That gives me hope.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-407.php
    A feel good story…..Our Town, USA.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Been looking for an article that reaffirms my belief that Americans in general are good decent caring and sharing people. The Union’s front page is full of our neighbors and fellow citizens donating food to families. I always felt that the group who delivers free firewood to the elderly was great.
    One of the four flaws in Karl’s Marx’s head was that he never anticipated the work of philanthropists or the heart of free citizens. Say what you will, but when Reagan got his tax cut through almost two years after his first Inauguration, donations to the non-profits charity outfits soared to record highs.
    Anyway….let’s see what Ammo Grlll has to say about it, aka, the short dumpy Jewish lady
    THOUGHTS FROM THE AMMO LINE
    Ammo Grrrll reflects on A LIFETIME OF UNFORCED DIVERSITY.
    “When the Obamas tried to come up with times in their lives when they had been “victims of racism,” it was downright embarrassing. Why, Barack had once been mistaken for a valet, and Michelle had – wait for it, I hope you’re sitting down – been asked to reach something on a high shelf. Oh, the humanity. If only I were EVER asked to reach a high shelf!
    When Halle Berry whined about all the terrible racism she had experienced in her mostly-white Ohio high school, her classmates said, “What?” Halle was a cheerleader, the prom queen, an honor student and school paper editor – they were shocked that she had found the experience of going to school with them racist. When such things are pointed out, the professional victims always fall back not on THE truth, but “my” truth. If they FELT discriminated against, then, by Jove, they WERE. It’s all so very tedious.
    I now live in the most racially diverse place I have ever lived. I interact every day with Mexicans, African-Americans, Indians, and, of course, white geezers. My days are rich with friends and acquaintances and absolutely not one whit better or worse than when we all were white. Diversity is neither “our strength” nor some kind of disaster. It is a neutral factor. We are all just people, disappointing, inspiring, striving, frustrating, loving, imperfect people! And we forget that at our peril. If you don’t agree that ‘All lives matte,r, I don’t even want to know you. But you know who agrees with that in polls in greater numbers than white liberal suburban women? Black people. That gives me hope.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/12/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-407.php
    A feel good story…..Our Town, USA.

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well we know at least 1 percent of cali is having a very merry Christmas –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/24/census-1-of-californias-population-moved-out-of-the-state-in-2021/
    😉

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  33. Walt Avatar

    Any snow in town yet?

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Expect nothing less fro Gov. Scrooge.
    Gavin Newsom makes Santa get permits to fly reindeer over California
    https://presscalifornia.com/2021/12/25/gavin-newsom-demands-santa-ger-permits-to-fly-reindeer-over-california/

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The governor has zero (0) authority to regulate real or imaginary air traffic in any airspace above the state.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@2:37PM
    That sounds like an interesting thing to read about. The history of airspace. I’ll bet it’s more complicated than I thought.
    I wonder how low you can get before the Russians or the US takes umbrage, Wikipedia is unclear on that.
    on a completely separate matter, running into this…
    “Like diphenhydramine, lactoferrin is available without a prescription. Ostrov thought about pairing it with diphenhydramine and ran with the idea. In lab tests on human and monkey cells, the combination was particularly potent: Individually, the two compounds each inhibited SARS-CoV-2 virus replication by about 30%. Together, they reduced virus replication by 99%.”
    https://m.ufhealth.org/news/2021/two-common-compounds-show-effectiveness-against-covid-19-virus-early-testing
    which has been known for some time in terms of anti-viral value. If those results actually pan out, somebody needs to be hung in a gibbet for not both publishing recommended dosages and amping up production. Maybe it’s like N95 vs. a gauze mask, there’s no money to be made so no one cares.
    Hopefully horses don’t use antihistamines or we’ll never hear the end of it.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer
  38. troutniglio Avatar
    troutniglio

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 26 December 2021 at 05:29 PM
    Fortunately we’re getting pampered middle class white girls to train us up on how to address them……everything else has been resolved.
    Whew…..that was a close one.
    https://spacenews.com/chinese-astronaut-pair-complete-six-hour-spacewalk/

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