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Sandbox – 9jan22

09 January 2022

[Apologies for such a big interval between fresh sand. Too many other good topics to address directly. gjr]

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158 responses to “Sandbox – 9jan22”

Bill Tozer

09 January 2022

I say we came definitely came out ahead. Even Crabbman may agree.
BATTLE LINES BEING REDRAWN
“I think we made out pretty well in the Taibbi/Greenwald for Kristol/Wilson trade.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/battle-lines-being-redrawn.php

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Walt

09 January 2022

The tune “Hit the road Jack” comes to mind.
“SACRAMENTO—California Governor Gavin Newsom is racking up the awards. For the first time this year, Newsom has been named U-Haul’s number one salesman for his efforts in making the state completely inhospitable.
“People are leaving the state in record numbers,” Francis DeLonge of U-Haul said. “They’re getting the hell out of the state and they need to rent trucks to do it. For that, we’re eternally grateful to Governor Newsom.””
https://genesiustimes.com/gov-newsom-named-u-hauls-1-salesman-of-2021/

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Walt

09 January 2022

An Idea of U-haul rates. Leaving CA.VS coming to Ca.
15′ Truck
15′ Truck
Moving Type:
1 Bedroom Home to 2 Bedroom Apt.
Inside dimensions: 15′ x 7’8″ x 7’2″ (LxWxH)
Door opening: 7’3″ x 6’5″ (WxH)
Deck height: 2’9″ Length: 12’5″
EZ-Load Ramp
Rate
$4,826.00
15′ Truck
15′ Truck
Moving Type:
1 Bedroom Home to 2 Bedroom Apt.
Inside dimensions: 15′ x 7’8″ x 7’2″ (LxWxH)
Door opening: 7’3″ x 6’5″ (WxH)
Deck height: 2’9″ Length: 12’5″
EZ-Load Ramp
Rate
$1,467.00
Going to or from Memphis TN.

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Bill Tozer

09 January 2022

Tell it like it is.
FRENETIC KEITH OLBERMANN CALLS ON BIDEN TO FIRE MERRICK GARLAND OR QUIT IN EPIC BALCONY RANT: ‘G*DDAMNIT, JOE!’
‘If you don’t see it that way, resign’
OLBERMANN: “Where is the president who is not sleepwalking and hiding behind naïve, antiquated clichés about bipartisanship when the other side is trying to kill all of us? Where is the president who knows that the bully understands only fear? Yours and his. And that the only way to stop the bully, to stop the Republicans, to stop the Trumps, to stop the next coup d’etat is to make them fear that they will lose everything they have. Because they have made it clear, America is going to be them, or us. And, goddamnit, Joe! It is your job to make sure it is us. And if you don’t see it that way, resign. We need somebody in your chair who realizes that democracy could be dead a year from right now. We want that to be you. But if it isn’t, the rest of us don’t have any more time to wait, or to waste.”
https://news.grabien.com/story-frenetic-keith-olbermann-calls-biden-fire-merrick-garland-or
It’s either us or them. Think Brad C used to follow Keith. Or was that Robert ‘cursing the sky’ Cross? No matter.
Boy, what a pleasant bunch the Lefties are.
Next comes the panic when nobody is interested in AOC’s vagina no more.

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Walt

09 January 2022

But that’s the Lefty hero they wanted on SCOTUS.
Thank GOD for small favors.

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Bill Tozer

09 January 2022

Insurrection is being covered on another post. Let’s look at second prong of the Dems’ strategic plan to take back the White House…err…..strategic plan to take less of a beating from that ole can of Whoop Ass in November.
GOP Guest SCHOOLS Lib on Voting Laws, NBC’s Todd Looks on in Horror
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/01/09/gop-guest-schools-lib-voting-laws-nbcs-todd-looks-horror
Silly oppressed people. Georgia made it easier to vote with longer hours weekend hours and open Sundays in pre-election voting.

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horseniglio

09 January 2022

AOC Is Latest Member of Congress to Get Sick With COVID
……so an equine virus then.

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Paul Emery

09 January 2022

Proof is in the pudding. How low can he go
Trump down 20 in fivethirtyeight approval polls consensus
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

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Jose Peyote

10 January 2022

@ 8:47 pm
“AOC Is Latest Member of Congress to Get Sick With COVID”
there are horse deworming products available for the filly

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Paul Emery

10 January 2022

That was his closing job approval numbers and things have only gotten worse for him since then.
Meanwhile Biden is down by 9, while not good is far better by 11 points than Trumps closing numbers

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George Rebane

10 January 2022

PaulE 824am – As Bumblebrain’s champion in these pages, would you care to celebrate any of his achievements in office, as opposed to your endless citing of polls. I’m sure that you and yours have noted some things he has accomplished.

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Bill Tozer

10 January 2022

Paul. Good morning. How was Grey Eagle? Bet it was beautiful. This morning is almost one for the record books. It is so clear out there that I can see for miles and miles. Gorgeous morning, absolutely gorgeous. I always get a kick by seeing snow capped peaks….looking west. Did you know that all surveying in our area starts from a market on Mt. Diablo?
Paul, I am confused. You have endlessly pointed out Biden’s approval numbers as opposed to Trump’s bad approval numbers at the same time (or date) in their respective first months of their presidency. Have you moved the goal posts? Comparing apples to kumquats. Might as well compare George W Bush’s approval numbers when he left office to Obama’s first 11 months.
Since you probably know at the snap of your fingers what Trumps unfavorables are at the end of his first eleven months compared to Biden’s unfavorable are at the end of Joe’s first eleven months…what are they. Apples to apples, dust to dust.
Unless….no, can’t be…unless you are inferring that President Joe Biden is at the end of his presidency, thus the comparison with Trump’s leaving office would be valid. We all know that the Biden presidency is done, washed up, toast….but it has not been made official yet. While, as you often stated, that Trump has no friends (‘remember, Trump as no friends’), it appears to me that Biden is losing a lot of friends with each passing hour. Guess Lunchbucket Joe still has a friend in you. Bless you. Stay true to your school until Daddy takes the keys to the T-Bird away.

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Barry Pruett

10 January 2022

With no identifiable successes over the past year, Biden is eight points behind Trump in a head to head. Because Biden has had zero success, he spent last Thursday attacking Trump. Imagine Biden versus DeSantis. DeSantis would win in a landslide not seen since the 80’s. I am with George. Tell me how Biden has helped anyone in this country and please be prepared to argue your position.

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Paul Emery

10 January 2022

Yes indeed George. Economy improved in many ways considering he inherited the worst economy since the depression. Also infrastructure bill and he got us out of the “shit hole” Afghanistan with minimal casualties finally ending the tragic legacy of Bush and the Neo-Cons. Leaving Afganistan was one of many things Trump promised and never delivered on. The Taliban stregnted under Trump so it was a road race out of there to avoid disaster wnen Biden took over
That’s just a start.
This is from The Hill. Actually unemployment is now down to 3.9.
All I have time for for now
Can you show me a link to your post Barry?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/584905-biden-is-delivering-the-fastest-economic-recovery-in-history-why-hasnt

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porkniglio

10 January 2022

Posted by: Paul Emery | 10 January 2022 at 10:07 AM
You don’t read linkz Punch…..remember….busy, busy, busy! Oh so frightfully busy!

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Bill Tozer

10 January 2022

Rather than bury this in the Predictions 2020 thread, I put it here. VDH… not to be confused with the Leftists’ spewing their VD.
‘What Makes Riots, Conspiracies, Cabals, and Insurrections ‘Good’ or ‘Bad’? ‘
Shut up and keep quiet; that is all ye need to know.
https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/09/what-makes-riots-conspiracies-cabals-and-insurrections-good-or-bad/

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George Rebane

10 January 2022

Administrivia – I draw your kind attention to the recent ‘Dark Days’ updates.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2022/01/dark-days-diary-8jan22.html

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Bill Tozer

10 January 2022

Word of the day: Malaise. Not to be confuse with mayonnaise.
“For More Malaise, Vote Democrat 2022!”
That could go down as the worst political slogan ever. But bizarrely, Democrats seem to have adopted “America in malaise” as a central theme of their political marketing plan.
Kamala Harris, channeling Jimmy Carter at his nadir, kicked off the gloom ‘n doom in an interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS over the weekend. Kamala claimed there was a “level of malaise” in America…under Democrats. Has anyone considered might not exactly reflect well on the party’s accomplishments while controlling the levers of power?
And then this morning, Democrat flack Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina elected state official who doubles as a CNN political commentator, also employed the m-word, speaking of:
“The malaise we’re in now with the resurgence of the virus, inflation, et cetera.”

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George Rebane

10 January 2022

re PaulE’s 1007am – And there you have the reason that America’s sheeple celebrate, credit, and keep voting for leftwing politicians. E.g. Biden has done everything possible to inhibit the economy’s recovery from Covid, and promises to do even more. For any measurable benefits, Biden had less to do with those than I had in making the sun rise this morning. And how he screwed up the retreat from Afghanistan has set back our foreign relations for at least a generation. Allied nations have long memories when it comes to commitments involving military support, or the lack thereof – because that’s where the rubber meets the road with alliances.

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Scott O

10 January 2022

Now NBC is pushing fake news. Despite the “settled science” of global warming and the end of snow, NBC bows to their masters of ‘big oil’ and claims cold air and snow are on the way!
I’m sure that wizard of climate science in Truckee will explain how this can possibly be.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/coldest-air-three-years-coming-parts-country-rcna11618

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Paul Emery

10 January 2022

At least he got the hell out of there George something Trump didn’t do. Why do you Trump broke his promise and didn’t pull our troops out?
Also unemployment is under 4%. Care to compare that with the mess that Trump left Biden? Here are the numbers:
Trumps numbers:
Unemployment rate 6.4%
Total unemployed people 10M
Unemployment insurance claims 6M
Bidens Numbers:
Unemployment rate 3.9%
Total unemployed people 6.3M
Unemployment insurance claims 2.2M
https://www.google.com/search?q=unemployment+rate+today&client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=AOaemvK7hlMSf09cjAPCBc07lPCVL7xB5g%3A1641847026143&ei=8pjcYfaOCLqIwbkP5tmKyAw&oq=unemployment+rate+jan+2021&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYADIKCAAQRxCwAxDJAzIICAAQkgMQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAEEcQsAMyBwgAELADEENKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQAFgAYPCoDmgHcAJ4AIABAIgBAJIBAJgBAMgBCsABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz

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George Rebane

10 January 2022

PaulE 1245pm – The same reason Obama didn’t get us out of Guantanamo as promised. And the stats are all due to the dastardly way that Trump started the Covid pandemic and got a Democrat House to spend all that money.

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Paul Emery

10 January 2022

Well George those are excuses. Thew facts are the facts. Trump did not pull us out as promised and the unemployment numbers were under his watch.
I agree inflation is way high under Bidens watch though.

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duckniglio

10 January 2022

Posted by: Paul Emery | 10 January 2022 at 01:12 PM
Don’t you want to mention Trump “bonking” a porn star……bonking….?
#senilenitwit

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Paul Emery

10 January 2022

Naw… Trump personal character is known by all. Might get back to it one of these days where there’s slow news. Thanks for reminding are readers about him screwing a porn star with a wife at home with a babe in arms.

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George Rebane

10 January 2022

PaulE 112pm – Did we just establish that liberals and conservatives don’t even have the same definition for ‘excuse’?

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🐔 niglio

10 January 2022

Posted by: Paul Emery | 10 January 2022 at 02:49 PM
But Paul……”bonking”…..Paul he was very clearly bonking a porn star…..bonking Paul…..bonking….Paul???
….. tap…tap…tap…this thing on?!?

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Scott O

10 January 2022

“Thanks for reminding are(sic) readers about him screwing a porn star…”
Really?
Indictments? Convictions?
I’ve asked for Paul’s proof of this but he has yet to deliver.
Meanwhile the “smartest” man Biden knows was ordered by a court to pay a pole dancer for somehow impregnating her.

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Scott O

10 January 2022

Probably not your father’s country –
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/10/petition-for-2000-stimulus-checks-reaches-3-million-signatures.html
3 million? Is that all?
I knew that lazy folks love free money from the sky, but they can only find a lousy 3 mil?
Too much work to sign your name?

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Bill Tozer

10 January 2022

Paul @ 12:45 The Biden Economic Recovery
Now, Paul, you don’t need to convince us how well the economy is doing. What you need to do is preach it to all the working stiffs out there along with soccer moms out there who might need a bit more convincing. You know, the types who feel uncomfortable and a wee bit disgruntled each time they hit the gas pumps, the grocery store, buy a used car, or seek some hired help that will show up and not come down the the Nevada County Johnny Walker flu.
Go convince the suburbanites why gasoline prices are over a dollar and climbing in just 10 months or why their heating bills skyrocketed or why they can only buy beef twice a month or why one cannot get parts for their weed eater.
Darn that Joe Biden. Have you seen the price of deck screws lately? Thanks for nothing, Branden Biden.
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Abraham Lincoln said if you pay him eight hours to chop down a tree, he would spent six hours sharpening his ax.
If you pay a man not to work, then he will not work.
https://westfaironline.com/144065/survey-1-in-4-americans-plan-to-quit-their-jobs-this-year/

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Scott O

10 January 2022

BT 4:01 – re 1 in 4 plan to quit:
You do realize the poll was taken of White House staff and Dem solons?

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Paul Emery

10 January 2022

George how about reasons rather than excuses. or explanations. Any ideas what a suitable description would be? Either way excuses was good enough to keep you responding to my post.

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Bill Tozer

10 January 2022

This person nails it.
https://fb.watch/asyGiSggVD/

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goatniglio

10 January 2022

Posted by: Paul Emery | 10 January 2022 at 04:23 PM
Bonking Punch….what about the bonking! Evidently bonking did take place. Again are readers our interested in you opinion vis a vis the bonking….
(In an attempt to convey adequate meaning in the comment, I wrote the last sentence in the colorful patois of Punchybonics)

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Schlonged

10 January 2022

How about boinking? Porking? How about buggering Punch. Buggering is the preferred phrase in the inner circles of our moral superiors

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Walt

10 January 2022

Emery wants explanations? here is one.🖕 Try giving some of your own.
Lets see.. You claimed a laptop was “stolen”. Proof? None provided from Embot.
You claim Proggys are wanting Trump to run. LOL!😂 No link given.. In reality,, your and yours are crapping yourselves
at the thought. “Experts” trying to find any way to disqualify Trump. Care to EXPLAIN? (I hear the 420Th Nevada City cricket corp being drummed to muster.
How much does Stormy Daniels owe Trump? Have proof of that boink job? Photos?
Look who else is filling a thousand dollar pair of pants in fear.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/10/schiff-shaken-catastrophic-if-mccarthy-becomes-speaker-and-boots-him-off-intel-committee/
“Schiff Shaken: ‘Catastrophic’ If McCarthy Becomes Speaker and Boots Him Off Intel Committee”
Emery is as bad as the steaming pile of Schiff in the evidence dept.

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Walt

10 January 2022

Maybe this why Emery is the way he is…
Have you been a test subject for Psychedelic Therapeutics?
Pharmaceutical mushrooms? If not,, maybe you should be.
Actually,, the company has done great for my stock portfolio.

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Walt

10 January 2022

How high will the tallie go? The count now is 26!!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/10/perlmutter-26th-democrat-announce-house-exit/
This is turning out to be a mass casualty mid term.

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scenes

10 January 2022

Schlonged@5:16PM
“buggering Punch.”
That’s a killer name for a band.
Walt: “How high will the tally go? The count now is 26!!”
Maybe they’re getting out of Dodge before it gets more exciting. Given Left and Right’s essentially equal need right now to duke it out on a major scale (subject of numerous polls) and Biden’s ability to throw gasoline on the fire as The Great Anti-unifier, it’s probably safest to avoid the whole thing at this point.
Given a flip in both houses of Congress, just imagine the mayhem opportunities sure to erupt from all the Burnings of Peace that will go on. A thousand points of light indeed.

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Walt

10 January 2022

Scenes. I just love how McCarthy is already naming names on his “hit” list for removal of committee seats. When (and if) he becomes Speaker. Swalwell and Schiff are already voicing their fear.

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Don Bessee

10 January 2022

The joys of shit hole living. Somehow a building this big got approved without pilings that went to bedrock like everyone else. Could it be related to all those shithole politicians that got arrested for other graft not that long ago?? –
https://news.yahoo.com/leaning-san-francisco-skyscraper-tilting-233244444.html
😉

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Scott O

10 January 2022

Walt – re McCarthy’s big talk.
He’s going to remove them from their seats??!!
Oh, my.
When are the Rs going to put someone in charge to kick ass?
At the very least, Schiftty needs to be censored and dragged through the mud hole he created. The man is a dishonorable liar who helped move along a filthy plot to try to get rid of sitting president by deceitful means.
McCarthy is a cowardly putz. How about some fighters?
How about some of those new gals who swing bigger balls than most of the R men?
Give them the gavel and start the proceedings at the worst time of the month.
Have them defund the CIA and the FBI and 1/2 the fed govt. The fed govt has grown so large and corrupt it isn’t funny.
Rip the mask off the clown show in DC and watch the fun.
Find out who in the military has FJB tattoos and put them in charge. Cashier the rest of the brass.
I want a president who will openly tell a hot mic:
“The bombing starts in 5 minutes”
You would be totally amazed how peaceful and calm the world would get.

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scenes

10 January 2022

not a bad essay.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-authoritarians

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Scott O

10 January 2022

Here’s what I’m talking about:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/10/exclusive-kevin-mccarthy-pledges-as-speaker-he-will-not-consider-amnesty-or-gun-control-legislation/
Oh, wow!
He “pledges” to follow the law and the Constitution.
What a guy!
I kinda thought that was just a low-level bottom line item that was expected. As in – “If elected, I won’t beat my wife or steal funds from the govt”!
Give that man a cigar.
I know the bar is low. Right now if a govt official actually follows the law he expects a gold medal and accolades from the public.
How about some one who will go after law breakers in govt?
We know Hunter Biden is guilty of lying on an ATF form to obtain a fire arm and we know agents from the govt tried to illegally take the evidence from the dealer that holds the evidence. We know the govt knows who these agents are.
Some one needs to clean house. If not, then why should I or anyone else in this country bother to follow any law?
The crickets are louder than ever.
We are to be a nation of laws. Not a nation of men.
You can snicker and sneer all you want, but in the end this is not utopia or dreaming. It is doable and possible. It is impossible to be perfect but it is possible to start at the top and work our way down.
Otherwise, we are finished.
We become no better than any of several great ideas that last only a short time and then are done in by our own corruption.

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Bill Tozer

10 January 2022

More non-news buried by our lame stream. It will news to Union readers when mentioned 6 months to a year from now. Not interested in getting them up to speed.
‘Hunter Biden’s ‘close friend’ charged with treason in Kazakhstan’
“Former Kazakhstan intelligence chief Karim Massimov, whom Hunter Biden once described as his “close friend” and who once posed for a photo with Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, was arrested by Kazakh authorities last week on alleged suspicion of high treason.
Massimov’s arrest came Thursday, one day after he was fired from his post as chairman of the Kazakhstan National Security Committee. He was arrested amid nationwide violent protests sparked by, among other things, an increase in fuel prices. The unrest has resulted in thousands of arrests and dozens of deaths.“
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hunter-bidens-close-friend-charged-with-treason-in-kazakhstan

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Scott O

10 January 2022

BT – “…whom Hunter Biden once described as his “close friend…”
Well – that was then and this is now…
Anyway Paul claims it was all ‘doctored’.

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bonkniglio

10 January 2022

Hey…..I just want to know why none of you care about “bonking porn starz”!?
…..thatz right…..I said bonking.
Bonking..!

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Bill Tozer

10 January 2022

Forgot where the Mean Green Renewable Energy Machine posts go, so it goes here.
First…baby it’s cold outside.
WHEN THE WIND DOESN’T BLOW
The political push to transform our electrical grid into reliance on “renewable” wind and solar energy keeps running into the laws of physics. The laws of physics are going to win, but the economic carnage in the meantime will be terrible.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/when-the-wind-doesnt-blow.php
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Second….the Biden solution
BIDEN AFTER TOURING WILDFIRE DAMAGE IN COLORADO THAT DESTROYED MORE THAN 1,000 HOMES: ‘WE’RE GONNA HAVE WINDMILLS’
‘So there’s so much that’s going to be able to be done’
https://news.grabien.com/story-biden-after-touring-wildfire-damage-colorado-destroyed-more
I guess that means Biden feels their pain and the real pain has only just begun

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scenes

11 January 2022

“WHEN THE WIND DOESN’T BLOW”
I just don’t get how you could build a ‘green’ (ie. no petrochemicals, no nuclear) power system, especially if the plan is to electrify transportation, home heat, etc., without having a complete, on-demand, parallel system.
An honest man, one not corrupted by the grifter-green folks (or those who simply don’t care that the power is out for weeks every few months), should work out the cost of a reliable solar/wind system. That would include power storage for some time plus backup power.
Hey, maybe we could simply build dams absolutely everywhere. It’s rain power, baby!
Truth is, if you’re convinced of the doom from human-caused greenhouse gases, you’d better be a huge (I mean YUGE!) champion of nuclear. Of course, it doesn’t help a bit that the First World finds it’s highest moral good in importing millions of poor souls from the Third World. They all need ‘lectric too.
That’s just the supply end. No doubt the push for lowering demand will continue. Low hanging fruit (car mileage, Energy Star) has been plucked. Next up is parking everyone in highly insulated apartment cubicles with mass transit plugged into keyboards as ‘knowledge’ workers. One big happy midden heap of humanity. Paul can organize Leonard Cohen concerts in assembly hall 2122B.

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scenes

11 January 2022

BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND. Part Dos.
“The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking”
https://media4.manhattan-institute.org/sites/default/files/R-0319-MM.pdf

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