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[I draw your kind attention to the brouhaha that my 'Democrats' Newspeak' invited when it was published in the 29jan22 Union.  gjr]

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250 responses to “Sandbox – 31jan22”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Walt@12:15PM
    I’m sorry.
    Anyone who has dealt with the medical biz to any extent comes to realize a few things.
    . Every doctor has thousands of patients, they basically work from a simple flow chart.
    . Once you get out of plumbing medicine, maybe surgeries like heart bypass, colon resections, gall bladder removal, the certainty for cures becomes a lot less certain.
    . They don’t know how a surprising number of drugs even work.
    . GP’s are mostly just a gateway for specialists. I can weigh myself, take my BP, stick my finger in the O2 sensor thank you.
    . Psych med prescribers are charlatans.
    . Probably more things I can’t think of offhand.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Spotify.
    Reading comment threads on articles, perhaps the most insulting to Neil Young and Co. is that most people under 50 are asking, “Who is Neil Young, who is Joni Mitchell? That has to hurt their egos. Who is this guy? Oh, he was a guitar player for Bruce Springsteen. The biggest one to pull their music is Liza Minnelli. Oh my, nobody knows who she is anymore. I liked her acting. Liza is Judy Garland’s daughter and if one does not know who Judy Garland was, she was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz with the Lollipop Guild.
    When the younger crowd of music makers start pulling their music from Spotify, then wake me up. I don’t see Taylor Swift or whoever is a big star today folding under the pressure…yet. Must admit I can’t name one Taylor Swift song, so it’s not sweat off of me if she pulls out or not.
    Don @ 9:27 pm
    Who? That has to hurt Nash as well. Many moons ago before they started drinking Geritol for iron poor blood, there was a group called Buffalo Springfield. The group had many future stars, but nowadays they are all has-beens. Palmer, Stills, Nash, Messina, Young, Crosby. Some were from the group The Byrds, not to be confused with the Yardbirds.
    One can always spot Neil Young. Grumpy egoistical bastard from Canada. Never smiled. Second on the left. Why he was allowed in our great country always puzzled me.
    https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhino.com%2Farticle%2Fbuffalo-springfield&psig=AOvVaw2Vv_phAzmOCnPYmKghrft7&ust=1643923248784000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCPDLuLz54fUCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAO

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    PS: Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones taught Willie Nelson, Graham Nash, and Steven Stills how to play their first guitars when they were in pre-school. Keith Richards also taught Buck Owens and Willy Nelson how to play the guitar when they were in grammar school. 🙂

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@1:36PM
    One thing about streaming music becoming dominant is that you can instrument (so to speak) the bejeepers out of it. Somebody out there knows a lot about what music is popular with a lot of granularity.
    Just for fun, here’s some hits o’ the day.
    https://music.apple.com/browse/top-charts
    https://spotifycharts.com/home/
    https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/
    https://news.iheart.com/featured/charts/top-40/
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2022/digital-music-track/
    https://www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:562949997174247:1756780791
    See how up-to-date you are.
    Nevada City charts appears to put Leonard Cohen up top I imagine. Plenty of disabled parking out front.

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  5. sickniglio Avatar
    sickniglio

    Posted by: Walt | 02 February 2022 at 12:15 PM
    May you recover quickly and fully my friend!

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Thanks Scenes.
    ————————-
    But of course.
    ‘Congress claims sovereign immunity prevents Capitol Police from sharing January 6 emails and videos’
    https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/congress-claims-sovereign-immunity-prevents-capitol-police-sharing-january-6
    Did they ever find out who opened the Capitol Building door from inside?

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  7. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    So… George… a workplace violence restraining order is issued against your daughter…?
    Am not expecting to litigate the issue here, but I think there was a sock puppet at The Union that had a hand up it’s arse that may have in fact been Natalie Adona.
    This might be a time to serve The Union and viafoura with a request for the email address attached to the account of “Feministic”.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Europe Sparks Energy Fury, Announcing Plans To Label Nuclear Power And Natural Gas As ‘Green’ Investments
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/europe-sparks-energy-fury-announcing-plans-to-label-nuclear-power-and-natural-gas-as-green-investments

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@2:15PM
    Gotta ask. What words of wisdom extruding from ‘Feministic’?
    I have to say that the video evidence is not very damning.
    One problem here is that County Employee Karen has to go all-in on this or look like a complete fool. Fear of embarrassment is the single strongest force in the universe.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I dont know who is running Adona’s campaign but they already had a damaged candidate based on the viral cell phone video before this bit of idiocy that will not get them a restraining order. A TRO is easy the hearing not so much.
    Proving yourself a hysterical liar at the start of your campaign is going to be a mill stone.
    The recall is not going to get traction anyway.
    😉

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    They got the restraining order.

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  12. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Thanks my friends 😊
    I should live through this.
    They say when you’re going through hell, keep going. I’m in for the scinic trip.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No @314 they got a Temporary Restraining Order, the hearing on the 22nd we determine if they actually get a full blown restraining order which is extremely unlikely.
    What did the sock puppet say on the union Gregory?
    😉

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    Gentlemen – the discussion of the recall and restraining order belongs under Scattershots where I introduced the brouhaha at the Clerk Recorder office.

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    First let me wish Walt well… Sorry, I missed the significance of your illness. I’ve been in Reno, helping my sweetie sitting her (our) grandkids while her son (my stepson) did a weekend yoga instruction workshop.
    Granddaughter came down with covid. Then stepson came down with covid.
    The two old farts in attendance had Omicron a couple weeks ago and not terribly worried about coming down with it again.
    To recap my unnatural immersions in SARS-CoV-2, we both had Alpha 13+ months ago, she got vaxxed last April or so taking her MD’s advice. My MD had the same advice but had no answer as to why besides the CDC says to because they don’t know how long natural immunity lasts.
    Now we know it lasts longer than the vaxx.
    Walt, hang in there. At least Omicron is a shadow of Alpha.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Truckistan:
    I posted this for link solely to verify this one sentence.
    “Again, tow-trucks are reportedly declining to assist in their removal.”
    ‘Canada’s peaceful anti-mandate protesters keep on truckin’
    Trudeau’s government has tried everything — except, you know, actually talking to the truckers
    https://spectatorworld.com/topic/truckers-canada-anti-mandate-truckin-freedom-convoy/

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from DonB’s article at 7:21PM
    “Her thing is that she sees Jews as white people, which is beyond stupid,”
    Wait…they’re not? I would guess that most are, Sammy Davis Jr. maybe not.
    I guess the author is going to whip out some nose calipers and prove me wrong.
    It’s ridiculous that she’s in trouble, or enough trouble to get thrown off of a show, but that’s the world we live in now. In Crazytown, all humans are separated into identity groups, and they are strictly separated in a matrix of oppressed/oppressors. Contemporary critical theory? Sounds right. I guess the tricky thing is ranking them, but it probably also depends on context. TV is different than universities.
    You may not be interested in Crazytown, but Crazytown is very interested in you.

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  18. sickburnniglio Avatar
    sickburnniglio

    Sweet, sweet music……

    One Day Before That Radar Online Article Exposed the Zucker-Gollust Affair, Jeff Zucker Sent Out His Political Disinformation Officer Brian Stelter to Run a Hit Piece Against Radar Online. Plus: Is This a Fredo Revenge Porn Op?

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/397661.php

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    We have entered dangerous territory now.
    White House urges Spotify to censor content over COVID-19 ‘misinformation’ concerns
    “It’s a positive step, but there’s more that can be done,” Psaki said of Spotify’s decision to add content advisories to podcast episodes that discuss COVID-19.
    https://thepostmillennial.com/white-house-spotify-censor-content-covid19-misinformation

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  20. twitniglio Avatar
    twitniglio

    Your trusted name in news…….

    The company line from CNN right now is that they’re all “stunned.” But we’ve had:
    -Chris Cuomo
    -Cuomo/New Day producer is a pedo
    -Jake Tapper’s producer is a pedo
    -Jeffrey Toobin
    -And now boss Jeff Zucker
    Nothing to be “stunned” about. CNN is the home of sexual deviancy.

    ……some random Twitter.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Whoopie @ 8:29.
    Agreed. I must be the only one who saw Whoopie’s POV clearly the first time. She gets a two week time out. The silver lining is that some of the lefty media talking heads are saying, “Hey! Slow Down! This cancel culture needs to stop. You are talking about Whoopi. She can say whatever she wants. Fine by me.
    Whoopi words reflect once far left ideas that have over the years been crept closer to the mainstream view. That is, the Jews were once considered as a race, but they have been moved over into the whiteman box being, you know, rich and prosperous and….most importantly…the look like they are Y-T’s. Yes, I went there.
    Reader’s Digest Version: Move the Jews, especially the NY Orthodox Jews, as a group of 3% of the population from the race category to the religious group category. So, Whoopi was right. I see a Black person and I see a Black person. I look down Broad Street and I see a Caucasian, I don’t know by looking if he/she is a Jew.
    Longer version. Remember Rosanne Barr? She got into some cat fight with Valerie Jarret and said she looked like an organ grinders’s monkey or something after some back and forth. Anyway, Rosanne Barr, as crazy as she got, had not idea Valerie Garret was Black and neither did I. I never looked at Valerie and thought, “There is a Black Woman.” Not once. And neither did Rosanne. Otherwise, she would have never made reference to the monkey or ape? She was calling her a Minnie-Me….same what they called Dr. Condoleezza Rice.
    Sometimes you can’t tell at first or second or third glance. Like Whoopi said, sometimes you got to dig a little deeper to find out. That’s where the rubber meets the road talk. Down to earth. Reality. And yes, people have done unthinkable evil to other people. The first man born killed the second man born.

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  22. Scott O Avatar

    Add another thing to the list of what be ray-ciss:
    Metal detectors!
    “Superintendent Lewandowski also ordered the removal of all metal detectors for the 2021-2022 school year “after serious concerns about the racial equity impacts of using metal detectors.””
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/a-school-shooting-you-wont-be-hearing-about.php
    Keep it up – the fact that the end result for black ‘yoots’ will be an even more unequal life-quality result by the time they reach adulthood is completely lost on these left-wing idiots.

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  23. Scott O Avatar

    Free Whoopi!
    Wait…
    I mean – free Ms Goldberg!
    Can’t see why they’re going after her for making an idiot statement – unless it’s because they’re afraid folks might catch on that most of what she says isn’t correct or intelligent.
    I believe the Naht-zees were pretty much into this ‘master race’ stuff and they really, really didn’t think highly of the folks from Africa, so yeah – it was mostly ‘racial’.
    But the chick blathers away on the show quite often with nonsense so why the time out now?
    If she does leave, maybe she can team up with that guy who’s leaving CNN to ‘spend more time’ with his not-girlfriend. They could do a podcast on Spotify!

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The View is always in the news for leaks from disgruntled staffers. It’s how they settle their office politics and all. Always anonymous staffers driving the knife in deep. Heck, National Enquirer back in the day would give you $500 or more for a tip from behind the scenes 35 years ago. It’s bad management. No person in charge to take care of the “issues” and no disciple. The human business is a messy business.
    If we were like them, someone could easily point out how a conservative established actress got fired for for far less. Ben Shapiro opened his arms and she is making movies for his growing empire. He will give Rogan a platform for sure. Those Jews go work hard.
    Let’s face it. Whoopi stepped into it and revealed what is considered anti-Semitism…or more accurately, Semitism. And Whoopi is blind to it because she is submerged in the Race Culture and has been for years. Whoopi is the last to know.
    What blows my mind more than anything is what happened to the formerly good reputation of the Anti Defamation League? The Lefties have taken it over. Now, they want to partner with the biggest Jew hater of them all, Rev Al Sharpton!!!!!!! He’s the guy whole riled up the Black people in New York against the Jewish merchants in the neighborhood and they went out and torched the Jewish manufacture’s building and killed three Jews. James Brown’s convict road manager. No wonder Whoopi ran to the ADL.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Whoopi Goldberg’s Co-Hosts ‘Furious’ At ABC For Suspending Her
    https://mobile.twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1489176981807661057?

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  26. The Estonian Fox Avatar
    The Estonian Fox

    BT @6:38PM (Canada’s anti-mandate truckers)-
    From the article, re “trash on the street”:
    “…but it was bagged and neatly piled for collection.” Also, no arrests.
    Just like our own BLM peaceful protests of the last 18 months, or the free stuff from the LA trains photo of 2 weeks ago.

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ‘Canada’s peaceful anti-mandate protesters keep on truckin’
    The honking will continue until morale improves.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    E Fox & Scenes
    Now the government of Truckistan is stopping/blocking people from bringing food and water to Le Resistence. Even closing take outs in the area. Hope the Canadian honkers can do some recon missions, sneak through the lines, and bring back something from Tim Burtons.
    https://trippystore.com/products/keep-on-truckin-flag?

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Darn it. Tim Hortons, not Tim Burtons. Only an American would ever confuse the two. Opps.
    No Timbits.

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT@9:43
    I was thinking about this race v. religion matter. My guess is that ‘race’ has more emotional mojo, easier to get people riled up. Admittedly, the Nazis viewed Jews as a race, but it’s hard to use the belief systems of Crazytown 1.0 for human taxonomy. If religion can be used in that fashion we might as well throw Mormons in the race bucket…or Scientologists.
    Religion didn’t seem to be as much of a flag-waving concept until the monotheisms got cooked up. It was all a sort of wonderfully artistic mess.
    …When the Moon is your god, I don’t find it so odd, that’s amore
    although it’s always been a way to choose up sides. There’s always a way.
    In-group favoritism has always been a thing, it’s likely the natural state of humanity. Inventing and enforcing essentially blind interactions is a modern invention, always fragile.
    The interesting innovation of Crazytown 2.0 is, I guess, out-group favoritism, systematically taught at a young age. More specifically, out-group favoritism by a single dominant group. Will it hold? It’s never been tried before so I’ll guess we’ll see.
    Imposed innovation of the public is always exciting, whether it’s Russia after WWI, the French Revolution, or Akhenaten’s conception of religion. The true believers (often young women for some reason) are an interesting class of people. High energy levels, meme feedback loops, maybe it’s a way for young people to redirect parenting impulses into something more exhilarating.

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
  32. Scott O Avatar

    scenes – “Religion didn’t seem to be as much of a flag-waving concept until the monotheisms got cooked up.”
    Naw – look how chimpanzee tribes operate. Yer with us or agin us and boy howdy do they put a beat down on the poor chimp that crosses the line. Religion doesn’t even enter the picture. It seems the tribal cult was a thing going waaay back. A careful look at the history of the different religions show that some times it was a tolerant one and sometimes not but whether it was a single or multiple god setup had no bearing. If the society was powerful and wealthy and the average Joe was living pretty well, it seems the rules tend to be more lax. If the clan/group/sect/whatever was or felt isolated and threatened by the living conditions or other groups then things get a lot more rigid and harsh. The Israelites in Exodus, for example. Even the multi-theistic folks tended to have a main dude at the top of the god hierarchy. India has quite an array of worship idols/gods and depending on where you are in that country it can be fairly open to other religions or not. Often the people of India are depicted as being very peaceful and thoughtful of other ideas and cultures, but the news tells a different story on a regular basis.

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  33. artniglio Avatar
    artniglio

    I’m sure that Punchy’s “Man of Integrity” has a compelling reason for keeping this guy around?

    Biden Won’t Deport Illegal Immigrant Career Criminal Who Covered Union Station in Swastikas.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/02/03/union-station-vandal-idd-as-deported-illegal-n2602781

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 7:54 am
    There are two threats to BLM, Marxists, the Cultural Revolution, and Khmer Rouge’s Year Zero: the nuclear family and religion. Both are a real and present danger to the Statists. I would add the Roberta Karens and Stevens of the world, They go out of their way to attack, mock, ridicule, and denigrate religion fervently; Christianity being the number one target here and the Uyghurs living in the Xinjiang Zone abroad in China’s case.
    Before the BLM Marxist co-founders’ goals where taken down, the thing which stood out most wad the over emphasizing the evils of the nuclear families that must be abolished.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Estonian Fox @ 4:31 am
    “Just like our own BLM peaceful protests of the last 18 months, or the free stuff from the LA trains photo of 2 weeks ago”
    The Union Pacific yard is quite the image of a 3rd World shithole. But look at the bright side. At least CA banned plastic straws!

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  36. Scott O Avatar

    arty 9:44 – “I’m sure that Punchy’s “Man of Integrity” has a compelling reason for keeping this guy around?”
    He sure does have a reason. Biden hopes the guy scrawls even more swastikas around – the LSM will keep blaming Trump!
    And idiots like Paul will keep believing them.
    Gotta keep the narrative alive!

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Where is Ottawa?
    https://youtu.be/Sl88jzJK1Rs

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Someone asked me what “Feministic” wrote back on Jan 26 and 27 on TheUnion/viafoura commenting pages… here’s a taste:
    “Yes Gregory, I hear you! I hear that you’re entitled and incapable of being accountable. I wish I was more hopeful that this could change for you, but narcissistic personality disorder is difficult to treat. However, I do suggest you look into the practice of mindfulness and gratitude. You are responsible for how you show up in this world. ”

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@12:43PM
    “incapable of being accountable”
    Odd for someone with a nom de newspaper to accuse you of that, but oh well.
    Maybe we could gin up a brawl between the local ‘feministics’ and the county Left Handed Society. They could argue about who gets the rawest deal. The Feministic Fan Club could show up to cheer, since their champions possess something they want, while the opponents are merely gauche.
    Whether or not it’s County Employee Karen, you do have to wonder about the wisdom of electing any sort of activist to a government post. There’s plenty to do just grinding through the work without the added overhead of imposing your good ideas on the world. Sadly, the activist-bees of the world just love them their microphones. God help us all.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The funny thing is that if it is Ms. Entitled, her diatribe, a Cartmanesque ‘how dare you contest my authoritah!’ really does ring true for “narcissistic personality disorder”.
    Another from Miss Information:
    “ Sorry to disappoint, but all of your obvious assumptions are inaccurate…I had to look up what Grievance Studies Affair was, I’m not trained on critical race theory (although I am aware of it) and I don’t work for the county. Mindfulness is a practice that EVERYONE on this planet can benefit from, but feel free to spin it however you’d like. And Gregory, you put yourself out there enough that observations of your behaviors can be identified. I’m aware my response to you was critical, but so are these incidents happening at the BOS meetings, workshops, libraries, any county agency that doesn’t have their door locked! So, am I slandering your character? Or, am I speaking truths that for obvious reasons don’t settle well with you? But growth comes from self reflection. It’s okay to have opinions that are different from others. But the volatility and harm intentionally being caused towards others due to unfounded claims of civil rights violations is absolutely unacceptable. And do you think it’s normal behavior to demand transparency from county agencies and then conveniently leave out known truths when talking about your version of the incident so you can control and manipulate the narrative? I hope the people who are intentionally creating incidents in OUR public spaces realize we don’t hear your cause anymore. Your behavior overshadows anything you have to say. If you feel so strongly that your rights are being violated, and your obviously not getting anywhere at the county level, then take it up in Sacramento or DC…and if you don’t get anywhere there, maybe it’s because you have an inaccurate understanding of civil rights and violations. Is it hypocrisy when Clark proclaims “you are wasting tax payers money!”
    This one was where she specifically said she didn’t work for the county. If it is Ms. Natalie writing under a nom de net, it would be juicy to find out.

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    Gregory 250pm – Please copy this to ‘Tangles …’ where the topic is presented.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OK so you break our law get caught and deported and creepy grampa joe & the socialist greens wanted to give them half a million bucks but that got 64% of the public including swing voters saying no so now you go for amnesty BS –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/03/bidens-newest-reparations-plan-pay-off-trump-era-border-crossers-with-amnesty/
    😉

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  43. Scott O Avatar

    And I thought there were penalties for perjury in court.
    “Axelrod also said no one at the Times harbored ill will toward Palin,…”
    The ‘Times’ as in the New Yawk Times.
    No one there had a single bad thought against Sarah Palin. Not one.
    Hilarious. What would Gomer Pyle say about that?
    https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/after-covid-delay-sarah-palins-trial-against-new-york-times-scheduled-begin-2022-02-03/

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The pendulum has swung a bit back toward normal which means bad news for the socialist dems and creepy grampa joe –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-high-school-fires-teacher-for-politically-charged-tweet-about-gunned-down-cops
    😉

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    He really is that stupid –
    Schumer falsely claims Supreme Court ‘was all White men’ until 1981, ignoring Thurgood Marshall
    Marshall served on the Supreme Court from 1967 until 1991
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-falsely-claims-supreme-court-white-men-1981-thurgood-marshall
    😉

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    GV MAKES THE BIG TIME
    Cop’s Son Wears ‘Thin Blue Line’ Mask. Teacher Snaps, ‘That’s Not The American Flag. That’s The New Confederacy Flag.’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/cops-son-wears-thin-blue-line-mask-teacher-snaps-thats-not-the-american-flag-thats-the-new-confederacy-flag

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @635 If you think that the LE flag makes them crazy see what happens when you show the fire/le memorial black flag with a half blue half red stripe in the middle! Think susan sarandon. God Bless our First Responders! –
    😉

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  48. Scott O Avatar

    Don B 6:00 – Oh Don, don’t you know that T Marshall might have had black skin but his tongue just spoke white left-wing talk?
    We have no proof that Marshall ever voted for Biden so there’s another reason to believe he wasn’t ‘really’ black.
    Now – perhaps Biden once called Marshall “my boy” – that might give Marshall some cred as a black man…

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