[Well, the old year is going out like a lion. The whole county got plastered with its biggest snow storm in years, and there's more to come. Power went out 1215 this morning, and our new 24KW powerbox has been humming along ever since. Everybody will be ordering propane. Time to hunker down, stay warm, and pray for RAIN. gjr]
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194 responses to “Sandbox – 27dec21”
Pge screwed up and left my power on this time. Propane tank has aboot 250 gallons… and starlink internet is humming along.
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President Klain decides to tack a different tack and try to salvage something from the midterms.
This administration has been a real inspiration to me. Think I’m going to buy a ventriloquist dummy that makes bold statements too!
…..and thanks in advance for agreeing with me.
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Gregory 1013am – What kind of service does starlink provide, and where is it accessible?
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WOW Doc,!! 24KW? You can help out the guy next door, and still have every light on in the house, with the washer,dryer, and central heating going at the same time.
Ch.3 is showing pics from GV and NC snow. Pretty. Pretty deep too.
A good test for one of those battery powered snow blowers.
Now how will someone charge those batteries with the power out, and no backup genny? Back to that dark ages, and a snow shovel?
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It’s accessible anywhere that has a clear (fairly) unobstructed view of the sky.
It’s still in the Better Than Nothing Betà phase, a great way to set expectations… but I’m about to cut the ATT landline/DSL cord. It has been very reliable for the past few.months.
I’ve seen nearly 300Mbps downlink speeds, usually above 100Mbps, minimum of 30. Upload typically 1/10 as fast, ping about 20 to 30ms.
$99/mo, $500 buy in.
https://www.starlink.com/satellites
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Thanks Gregory.
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PS for the past 10 months, there’s been no noticable degrading of service due to weather
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snow, what snow. First snowbirds with dogs on route to my humble abode. They were told power will be off 3-4 days, too many trees down. 4 days might be just a recorded message to stifle the when expectations. “What wimps,” sez the guy who cries like a baby when MY power goes out.
From the sacred box I have pulled out a brand new MAGA hat sent to me when they first came out for a small donation. Nice, thick, the orginal and well made…not like the knock offs that came later. Got it on now to greet the NC refuees when they come to the door. 🙂
Hey, who else would take in their beloved ugly mutts? Beggars can’t be choosers. its MAGA hat time!
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We live in Penn Valley, and all the kids and dogs are at our house as well!
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After Portland Riots, NY Times Suddenly Finds FBI Surveillance a Bad Thing Again
And
CBS Edits Out Own Reporter SLAMMING School Closures Causing Mental Health Crisis
And
WORST OF 2021: Craziest Analysis Award
[Spoiler alert.. Winner: Fox News Is “Danger to Democracy”
Runner ups ain’t bad either. I can feel the love.]
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2021/12/27/worst-2021-craziest-analysis-award
Help Jeff, they are attacking me!
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Thank the LORD.. NO refugees at our place this time.
We did our part when N. of Placerville was on fire. We had’em for a month. One ungrateful Cousin and her three dogs.
The family in Alta Sierra are now living in the dark ages.
They plan on roughing it easy.
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LOL Bill, looking to chase them off sooner than later?
The cousin mentioned above is a die hard Lefty. Maybe FOX NEWS on the tube most of the time drove her over the edge.
Something about real news really twists of the Lefties.
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Fish and house guests smell after three days. Opps. No offense to our fish.
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Looks like Robocop is here, and China has it.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/12/27/china-develops-a-i-prosecutor-capable-evaluating-crimes-filing-charges/
Next month, “robojudge?” Let’s just say China likes it’s summary executions.
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Another Loser Awards Ceremony with Shapiro as MC.
https://fb.watch/aa7gmQ-KK2/
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 27 December 2021 at 04:19 PM
No worries Bill….frankly I start getting a little gamey before three days!
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Alta Sierra has just about every way in is blocked at multiple places trees on lines everywhere and blocking main routes. PGE says they can not get into central AS to even fix yet, waiting on road clearances.
We were very lucky, treemagodon all around us, had some big branches break off but all missed the house, deck and car. Big shrubs look like toast. Looking down from our house i can see trees blocking streets and leaning on lines.
We are warm enough thanks to propane and backup power and led lights. The biggest problem is the cell system is overwhelme and 1 in 5 calls conects, everyone streaming?
IN the bad news good news department get woke go broke!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/27/colin-kaepernicks-acquisition-company-loses-business-deal-casting-doubt-former-players-market-value/
😉
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Readers Choice Meme and Cartoons Awards.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/85174-readers-choice-best-of-cartoons-and-memes-for-2021-2021-12-23?
Always liked #6.
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“Time to hunker down, stay warm, and pray for RAIN.”
Dr. Rebane. Pray for rain? If I didn’t know better, I would think you want it to rain so you don’t have to outside tonight and hose the satellite dish off. Brrr.
Tis the time of year when somebody calls 9-11 because their dish went out. Usually makes the Police Blotter. It’s an emergency!
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All the downed lines? Blame the tree trimming crews.
If they actually did their jobs and stopped milking PG&E like a dairy cow, things may be a lot better.
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My satellite dish melts snow.
Not because it has heating elements… because it has active phased circuitry array circuitry that generates heat.
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‘You Unparalleled Boob’: Biden Blasted For Finally Pushing COVID Back To The States. ‘So What Orange Man Wanted. Got It…’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-unparalleled-boob-biden-blasted-for-finally-pushing-covid-back-to-the-states-so-what-orange-man-wanted-got-it
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Punchy’s right…..a “General” who loses so many on his watch should probably step down.
…..and because it’s Biden you wouldn’t even need to tell him.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/12/27/more-americans-have-died-from-covid-under-biden-than-under-trump-n1538121
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Bill and Pinky re Biden’s admission of failure – this is why Paul is suddenly “too busy”. His entire collection of rants against Trump have returned like a steaming cow pie to splatter all over his face.
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Gregory 1103pm – I wasn’t aware that phased array technology was available today in residential satellite receivers. I assume if that’s available, then your antenna would have a tighter receiving beam that is also steerable to max S/N. Is that what they advertise?
I have a static dish with an after-market heating shield strapped on which has done well during this heavy snowfall. Although the DishTV receiver did tell me once that my signal loss was due to a lot of water in the atmosphere and not anything wrong with my equipment. I suppose your antenna would even then perform better because of its enhanced ability to dig out signal.
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Bidens doing fine-still 10 points higher in job approval compared to Trump.
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Trump had the entire MSM and DC establishment arrayed against him (never thought a wannabe California hippy posher would be such a shill for the DC status quo). For President scarecrow they’re “water carriers”!
Maybe you should just stick to reporting polls…..critical thinking doesn’t appear to be your strong suite.
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Hey Punch…..was Biden lying when he said he was going to “shut down the virus” or was he lying when he said “this will be resolved at the state level”?
Asking for a friend.
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Paul 9:53 – “Bidens doing fine…”
Oh – OK.
Funny how even an increasing number of Dems at a high level don’t share that view.
Pretty sure Stalin and Mao had high approval ratings at the end as well.
MUCH better than Trumps!
Good lord.
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scott
Hilter did not drink Diet Coke.
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Gregory @ 11:03 pm
good to know. I was kidding Dr. Rebane about hosing the Dish off. Figured he already solved the problem on his end, being a rocket 🙂 Still, rain would help…as long as it don’t freeze up at night. black ice is no fun.
So, you have 250 gallons of propane, 300 Mbps, power, and…you are the man. I have 20% propane (40-50 gallons), and rent the tank. Yep, you ain’t no dummie either. I have a sneaky suspenion the propane companies are swamped, especially after the recent weather events and trees uprooted and all. i can make it 10 days ..at least. fingers crossed.
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“Hey Punch…..was Biden lying when he said he was going to “shut down the virus” or was he lying when he said “this will be resolved at the state level”?”
Maybe it was the time that Biden hassled Trump about there not being enough testing.
Fast forward a year and there’s not enough testing I guess.
You know it’s possible to dislike Trump and still think that Biden is a disaster, but the local troll just views it all as arguing points. It’s like fighting over whether The Flash is faster than Superman. I ain’t got no time for that.
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Posted by: scenes | 28 December 2021 at 01:43 PM
Just doing my civic duty reminding Punch that he finds lying abhorrent and that he should have known better when he backed The Pride of Scranton.
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Afternoon Paul. At least you are consistent as evidenced by your morning constitutional here this morning. Biden up by ten over Trump? Good to know. Very good to know.
Hey, wasn’t Biden up by 17 then 14, then 10 today. In only eleven months? Wonder what it will be in 4 months. Follow the trend lines over time, pilgrim. But I do appreciate your “a winner never quits, a quitter never wins” attitude. Never say die and all that jazz.
Fake it til you make it.
‘Never say die: Trump-Russia collusion theorists strike again’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/never-say-die-trump-russia-collusion-theorists-strike-again
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More good news for Paul. He will be in hogs’ heaven.
Matt Taibbi
‘The Democrats’ Education Lunacies Will Bring Back Trump’
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-democrats-education-lunacies
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GR 936am
The Starlink sats aren’t up in the geosynchronous Clarke band where they can be made to stay put, and so the beam is continually tracking the sat providing service at the moment and be ready to hop to the next one.
The orientation of the physical dish is a wonder to behold when first powering up and it looks for a sat to chat with but it don’t move much in operation.
I was not convinced it would work well enough when I put my name and address on the wait list but I knew AT&T was going nowhere and fiber wasn’t happening in my neighborhood anytime soon.
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one man’s opinion on Moscow Mitch, the Cocaine snorting Grim Reaper.
McConnell Makes His Case: ‘We Must Be Doing Something Right’
“What’s his reply to the critiques of him from the populist right as too much of an accommodationist? “Well, my response to that,” McConnell says, “is look at the polls. How’s it look out there after a year of this administration? After a year of us not becoming the issue and letting them be [on] full display? We must be doing something right.””
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/12/mcconnell-makes-his-case-we-must-be-doing-something-right/
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-Daily Cases Of Coronavirus Smash Records In U.S. After Biden Promised To ‘Shut Down The Virus’
-White House Rushes To Walk Back Biden’s Admission Of ‘No Federal Solution’ To COVID-19
-Red States Boost Unemployment For Unvaxed Workers Fired Over Vaccine Status
-Booster Backfire? Some Experts Concerned Fourth COVID Shot May Weaken Body’s Ability To Fight Illness
-Newly Crowned Jeopardy! Winner, Dubbed Highest Earning ‘Female’ Ever, Is Actually A Man
https://www.dailywire.com/
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Looks like my man Dan ain’t taking it like a girly mon.
‘The New Yorker Has 9,000-Word Conniption Over Dan Bongino’s Rising Media Influence’
“But wait, there’s more! Osnos even tried to pin the killing of Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol Hill Riot on Bongino”.
“Bongino reportedly snapped back as Osnos was preparing his write-up. After Bongino slammed a magazine memo as containing “obviously false material,” Bongino then later reportedly ripped Osnos on his podcast: “‘[Y]ou ass-kissing-Biden, surgically-attaching-your-lips-to-the-ass-of-the-Administration piece of garbage.’”
Bongino certainly has reason to be angry, given Osnos’ sleazy attempt to make him look like an instigator behind the events of Jan. 6. Journalist Glenn Greenwald also slammed The New Yorker’s character assasination of Bongino in a tweet: “One last point about the formulaic Bongino profile: it used to be that a @TheNewYorker hit piece by a CNN writer would be harmful. Now: it doesn’t matter. They’ve so whittled their credibility that the targets of their smears have larger audiences than they, making them impotent.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2021/12/28/new-yorker-has-9000-word-conniption-over-dan-bonginos
Hmmm. First Mark Levin, then Shapiro, then Buck, and now Dan. Hard to find anything they ever got wrong. They must be cancelled. They are oblivious the embodiment of The Threat to Our Democracy.
Hmmm again. Wonder what Buck has to say on his feed. Probably about masks, mandates, and the Wuhan bug
https://twitter.com/BuckSexton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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A local sandbox idea.
Not that I’m saying to do this, but if you live in a town that makes you get a bunch of permits and fees and (usually denied) permission to cut down a tree, this would be a mighty good time to do it.
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Perhaps this is gods way
“People living in counties that voted for former President Trump in the last presidential election are nearly three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who live in counties that voted for President Biden, according to an analysis conducted by NPR…Counties that went to Trump by a higher percentage had higher COVID-19 mortality rates and lower vaccination rates, with the rates lowering as Trump’s vote share increases.” – The Hill
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Here’s more:
Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That’s according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic.
NPR looked at deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which vaccinations widely became available. People living in counties that went 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.73 times the death rates of those that went for Biden. Counties with an even higher share of the vote for Trump saw higher COVID-19 mortality rates. ”
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate
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Wow, punch, that means you can sit tight and wait for Trumpers to just die off… problem solved. In the meantime you can keep the bs to a minimum.
To folks interested in the Starlink system, here it is
https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 28 December 2021 at 04:45 PM
Have you had all your shots Punch?
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“People living in counties that voted for former President Trump in the last presidential election are nearly three times more likely to die from COVID-19 than those who live in counties that voted for President Biden, according to an analysis conducted by NPR.”
So basically he’s saying that Trump counties had it right in wanting a change in government. They are poorly served by the bureaucracy and wanted something new.
Of course, coming from NPR, there’s the schadenfreude derived from watching your political enemies die from slow strangulation.
Both of those things strike me as true and a good reason to oppose the Blue Mob whenever possible.
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Gotta laugh at that BS from Emery. Remember? it was your Proggy Press telling people they will most likely DIE if they get the “Trump shots”.”Untested”,, and all that jaz. So you go ahead and suck up to those history rewriters.
Here Emery,, ain’t Socialist rule great?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/12/28/eu-drafting-law-allowing-seizure-of-private-property-during-pandemic-emergencies-report/
“The European Union is reportedly drafting a law that will allow Brussels to seize private property during a pandemic emergency.”
That includes, food, medical supplies, etc.
I bet you can’t wait for Biden’s string pullers to get wind, and have Herr Biden do the same.
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Paul 4:40 and 4:45 – Did they bother to investigate who the dead people voted for?
We already know the answer is no.
Remember this is NPR.
The folks that thought that Hunter’s lap top “wasn’t an important news item”.
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re: starlink.
I wonder how the speeds will change when they build-out a user base. From all accounts, they handle bad weather pretty well. It sure would be nice to have something that worked longer than 10 seconds after a power outage, it isn’t like the local carriers will spend any more money than they have to on reliability.
Question. Why on earth (so to speak) would you spend a bunch of money running high speed internet cabling to rural homes when this is available? lol. Just imagine all the committees, fast-talkin’ proponents, folks looking to make a little vigorish in the rural internet biz that will have to find real jobs.
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Almost forgot.. Emery has yet to post the poll that shows Biden
sucks worse than the hyena. Now that’s BAD.
Now why won’t you post the bad news Emery? You side sucks on ice. Most news folk that actually have a soul would embrace the suck and admit the skunk stink.
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Who are we to question Gods way.
What happened to the fake news story about “Hunters Lap top? Hasn’t had a bit of ink for months not even from the shrill billies and their press?
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Scenes 514pm
Not all homes have enough clear sky above… big pine trees abound. I’ve a couple big uns that I dream of removing for additional bandwidth.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 28 December 2021 at 05:20 PM
What happened to the fake news story about “Hunters Lap top?
Russian hookers……they peed all over it Punch.
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