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Sandbox – 31jan22

[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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  1. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    It’s the Democrat Way. A tax. That will solve everything.
    Could someone ask this man when they will pass the “voter fee”?
    Let’s go after law-abiding citizens – that’ll show those street punks!
    If this isn’t struck down by the first court it comes to on a Constitutional legal challenge then you know California has gone into a hole it will never come out of.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/06/san-jose-mayor-talks-about-seizing-guns-from-owners-who-dont-pay-city-fee/

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Scotto@10:03AM
    The brilliant part is that the money goes directly into an anti-gun group’s mitts.
    It not only keeps a feedback loop running but it’s a dominance display against the gun owners.
    Insulting and self-perpetuating, there’s a genius in a thing like that.

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Please, please please, no one tell Keach the secret password to get into the sandbox.

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Please, please please, no one tell Keach the secret password to get into the sandbox.”
    Sorry. I already done and dusted it.
    Somebody has to post all the DRUMPF FASCIST BLEEGLETY BLARG posts and Paul is busy putting together a bit of viral magic for the county.

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  5. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    scenes – “Insulting and self-perpetuating, there’s a genius in a thing like that.”
    Insulting.
    You got that right. To start with, insulting to a citizens intelligence.
    “First, it’s a fee, it’s not a tax, and I won’t go into the details about what the difference is, but the reality is that in this country, there have been taxes on guns and ammunition since at least 1919…”
    Of course he won’t into the difference.
    Taxes on guns and ammo is not the issue, here. This is the city saying you have to pay a fee to exercise a Constitutional right.
    The funny part is that pretty quickly folks will take note of the “disparate impact” on the BIPOC community and by the time a case gets to a court, the city will inform the judge that the case is moot due to the city quietly shelving the whole deal.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scott 0 gun tax
    True dat. The anti-gun bigwigs and the usual Move On.Org types will say, “Hold your horses! We don’t to go with this case. The wrong case to go for precedent, high probability of losing. Withdraw it, and let it disappear as mist in the morning sun. Need a better case.”
    New York can’t get their anti-transporting (driving in NYC) with firearms in your trunk of you car…going to the shooting range….case dropped. The city removed the law, thought it was all behind them, but the pro-2nd Amendment guys and dolls are pushing and pushing it to trial anyway, ROFLMAO. First, they proved they had standing. Then The Bench has ruled the plaintiffs can move their case forward despite the law being reminded. Standing AND right to bring it to trial. Discovery. A case with big ramifications for the anti-gun wingnuts,

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Somebody has to post all the DRUMPF FASCIST BLEEGLETY BLARG posts and Paul is busy putting together a bit of viral magic for the county.”
    Here! Pick me, pick me! I will do Paul’s job. It’s easy.
    https://www.rawstory.com/
    George, do you agree with what your Pubber buddy Ted Cruz said , and I quote, ………….?

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe and the marxists enjoy the fruits of their efforts to destroy society –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/06/report-police-killed-during-joe-bidens-tenure-most-since-1995/
    😉

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@1:05PM
    Here’s a fun game, we need to find a way to gamble on it.
    Go to the search box and enter (including the quotes):
    Paul Emery “so george”
    There are literally pages and pages of hits.
    You have to wonder if he has a “So George” key on his keyboard. Maybe cell phones have “So George” as a suggested choice for practically anything.
    At the very least, I expect a ‘sogeorgeniglio’ to make an appearance.

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  10. Randy Avatar
    Randy

    No doubt this will get panned by PE and his “fringe friends.” Being that it’s from TownHall. Dr. Rebane you’re in Nevada County right? This make any local news?
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/landonmion/2022/02/06/substitute-teacher-dismissed-after-comparing-students-thin-blue-line-mask-to-to-the-confederate-flag-n2602899
    Blue Lives Matter “flag” is the new “Confederate Flag…”

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ya @226 funny how no local coverage but its everywhere –
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-substitute-teacher-thin-blue-line-face-mask-confederate-glaf
    😉

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You can bet this will end up in front of the scotus –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/06/san-jose-mayor-talks-about-seizing-guns-from-owners-who-dont-pay-city-fee/
    😉

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “This make any local news?”
    A quick look at The Union and Yubanet sez ‘no’.
    It would be a really wonderful question for the editor in each case.
    https://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/2022/02/02/thin-blue-line-mask-yelling-grass-valley/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAICB3Mo4vI
    Of course, we did find out that Diego Rivera was here once for a week or so in 1930. Next up will be a hard-hitting expose on Charles Dawes.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You would think with the juicy video the locals would have been all over it –
    https://www.breitbart.com/education/2022/02/06/watch-substitute-teacher-argues-8th-grader-thin-blue-line-mask/
    😉

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gentlemen, gentlemen. If I may shamelessly draw your attention to the first comment on the following link, you may find that the first comment two days ago was posted right in the Union editor’s face by some deplorable named Biker Bill, a brute, a beast, a person who does not play well with others.
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/hits-misses-a-miss-to-power-outages/
    Somebody has to stay ahead of the curb and notify the arrogant lefties what is going on in their back yard. Thanks, Biker Bill and his Smooth Movements.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now thats funny, can you say karma? –
    Chinese Olympics fans erupted on social media, furious that California-born skater Zhu Yi defected to China for the games but finished in a disastrous dead last place during her debut for Team China.
    Yi, who gave up her U.S. citizenship to become a Chinese citizen so she could compete for the communist government’s genocide Olympics, finished with the lowest score for the entire event in Beijing on Saturday, the Daily Mail reported.
    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/02/06/us-born-skater-defected-team-china-blasted-after-last-place-finish/
    😉

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dont ya love it when people who have no kids tell us whats best for the kids –
    Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson described the presence of children playing in bouncy castles at the Freedom Convoy demonstration as “disturbing” in a video interview with CTV News on Sunday.
    Watson is 60, unmarried, and without children.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/02/06/childless-ottawa-mayor-disturbing-to-see-kids-in-bouncy-castles-having-fun-at-protest/
    😉

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  18. Mr. Paul’s Stand-in Avatar
    Mr. Paul’s Stand-in

    So George, you are fine with starving of millions of Canadians as Prubber Ted Cruz calls for? I assume you agree with committing genocide on a foreign nation and NATO ALLy
    https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-vancouver-truckers/
    Yes or no! Do you agree with Ted Cruz that we should murder millions of Canadians?
    Trumpt is the biggest loser since…since…..Taft …or THerdore Rossevit..108 YeaRS

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  19. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Yes, for the record, we live in Nevada County and a stone’s throw from the Rude Center.

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    HAHA –
    https://www.breitbart.com/midterm-election/2022/02/06/vulnerable-democrats-distance-joe-biden-midterms/
    😉

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  21. duckniglio Avatar
    duckniglio

    “The state preference for BLM riots over the truckers just goes to show that the BLM and antifa riots of 2020 were government policy. State sponsored violence.”

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Randy @ 2:26 pm.
    Good link. On Fox and Friends now? Well, Gilmore tried to keep it under wraps to buy them time over the weekend to jump on it Monday morning when everybody comes back to work. Who knows, maybe the legal dude or the District spokesperson was on vacation…or down with COVID or out of service. No matter, the cat got of the bag quick enough. All those pocket phones sending recordings direct a local Sac evening news station. JUST IN: We have a breaking story about teacher….
    Oh my. Darn those kids who actually know how to use those little handheld gismos. “Mom, you won’t believe what just happened in class! I could not believe what was happening….The teacher was like screaming for twenty minutes at Johnnie and we are all sitting there thinking this cannot be real and…”
    Image those first frantic calls left on the school’s answer machine and the District Office’s message service left unanswered with ‘Our office is currently closed. Our office hours are’…….open again Monday.
    Images the firsts calls to the cell phones.

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  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Clownworld Chronicles: The Story With Everything Edition.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/06/nevada-transgender-rights-environmentalists-lithium-00001658
    “.. the lithium pulled from the ground here could fuel batteries for electric vehicles sold in the United States.”
    “Some activists fighting a massive lithium mine project are angry over the involvement of an environmental group they say espouses discriminatory views about transgender people.”
    “But beyond its environmental agenda, Deep Green Resistance also identifies as a “radical feminist organization.””
    “Indigenous activists from the region say DGR’s positions on transgender and nonbinary people are discriminatory,”
    ” Now its views on gender identity has left a group of Indigenous activists without a voice in the legal battle about an open-pit mine on land they say is sacred to their people.”
    “Some Indigenous opponents say the future mine also would destroy a site they hold sacred because their ancestors were massacred there in 1865 by the U.S. Cavalry.
    ““Max Wilbert is a traveling protestor who will do anything to advance the mission of his organization to ‘deindustrialize and depopulate society’”
    ““It’s frustrating to me. I want to talk about the murder of the planet,” Jensen said.”
    The views espoused by Deep Green Resistance about gender run counter to the well-established scientific consensus surrounding the health benefits of treating gender dysphoria,”
    ““Okay, hands up everyone who predicted that when Big Brother arrived, he’d be wearing a dress, hauling anyone who refuses to wax his ladyballs before a human rights tribunal, and bellowing ‘It’s Ma’am!’” the essay began.”

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  24. mallardniglio Avatar
    mallardniglio

    Hey….where’d faux Keachie go? He was fun!

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Ummm… and now for the rumors behind the news… that substitute teacher in the news sure looks a lot like… Doug Keachie.

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  26. Bll Tozer Avatar
    Bll Tozer

    re: “that substitute teacher “
    Yep, severe back pain and being on strong painkillers for too long will make ya go off the deep end.
    Congrats Douglas. You are going global. Just give it a couple of days.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10481657/Substitute-teacher-camera-tearing-eighth-grader-blue-line-American-flag-face-mask.html

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  27. Wigeonniglio Avatar
    Wigeonniglio

    Posted by: Gregory | 06 February 2022 at 10:19 PM
    ……..so Keach may have popped his main spring at a kid while he was substitute teaching?
    Be still my ♥️ heart!
    Still an awfully odd coincidence that someone claiming to be Keach shows up for the first time in a year and a half concurrent with this…..

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  28. Douglas Keachie Avatar
    Douglas Keachie

    https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072411820/law-enforcement-deaths-2021-covid
    In addition to that I have not substitute taught anywhere for the last four years.
    In addition to that I added my own FAKE WEDDING review to the website located above. I have to thank whoever first brought it up for bringing that antique to the surface. I am in the process of getting the listing for me taken down. I no longer do weddings. The ones I did before November 2018, were all charities cases. Did each one for $100 per wedding. Now for some real meat.
    Doctoring is a huge and vast field, such that there are GP’s who can handle basic stuff & point a person in the general direction of a specialist who may be able to handle what ails them, beyond the simple stuff. That specialist may in turn point the ill person towards yet another sub-specialist, to get a good handle on what is needed.
    To think that all doctors are equal, is just plain silly. To think that Dr Rand Paul, an average ophthalmologist is equivalent to, Dr Fauci, a world famous infectious disease expert, in the area of infectious diseases, is just plain silly. Dr Paul has done nice volunteer work in Central America, but no longer practices in the USA.
    I am indigenous to this planet. As for the injustices, 50% off all governmental fees, taxes, permits, college tuitions. etc., for all those with any form of DNA related to the past injustices, to go on until their is general equalization of family wealth across all DNA’s.
    Trump-A-Non-Sense Trollecks and Fades, would rather risk 1 chance in 3 of long term nasty effects from Covid, and the older they get, up to 1 chance in 10 of death. They’d rather have those odds than the one’s known from the vaccines. Me, I’ll take the miniscule odds of bad effects from the odds of being vaccinated, over the bad odds from not being vaccinated.
    Trollecs and Fades must lose their shirts with every visit to Vegas or Reno. They don’t believe in doing or learning from the science of statistics, or the non-junk medical sciences.
    We are both boosted, but even with “good” medical insurance, our deductible is $150/DAY in a hospital/per person. We can’t afford any more Covid induced debt. What’s your deductible?
    The Wheel of Time moves on, for everyone. You too will grow old, and your immune systems will be shot to pot, someday, and the virii may figure out how to attack youthful immune systems too.
    Good luck and have fun! Fauci Keachie rides again.

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  29. Ralph Underglass Avatar
    Ralph Underglass

    blood on the saddle, eh?

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  30. tealniglio Avatar
    tealniglio

    Posted by: Douglas Keachie | 06 February 2022 at 11:35 PM
    I am in the process of getting the listing for me taken down.
    Well thank god for that! It would be a tragedy if someone thought less of you.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “As for the injustices, 50% off all governmental fees, taxes, permits, college tuitions. etc., for all those with any form of DNA related to the past injustices,”
    I kind of like this idea.
    Just imagine who gets the discount. The French (Gauls) certainly have a case against the Italians. North Africans owe a boatload of money to Europeans due to the Barbary slave trade, practically any Russian is owed some Keachie Bucks, those transported to Australia probably needs some baksheesh from more recent immigrants, in places like Brazil or Mexico you’ll have to figure out who is who (Pantone charts?) to work out the funds flow. The Russians have been invaded by Sweden, Germany, France, the US (sorry, ‘intervention’), so V Putin should be able to drink out on that for years.
    Considering the steppe tribes playing havoc for centuries, Central Asians probably owe some megabucks to Iran, Iraq, Eastern Europe, China. The Turks are on the hook for Greece but the Greeks are on the hook for most of the Middle East. Spain owes money to most of the New World.
    Honestly, I can’t think of a better way to bring the politics of a penitentiary to every town, but it’ll be exciting. We’ll all have our own TV room and keep contraband in our prison wallets.

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  32. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    scenes 7:36 – Ya beat me to it. This comes from the left’s world view that all white folk have frolicked and gamboled for eons whilst the ‘others’ have toiled and sweated under the cruel yoke of Bull Conner, Jefferson Davis and in the future George Jetson.
    My mother’s paternal family have Slavic blood and we all know what dirty little word the Slavic race gave birth to.
    And don’t even get me started about the Irish on my father’s side.
    Until I have reached a certain yet-to-be-determined income, I wants me reparations now!

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  33. Chester the AV Man Avatar
    Chester the AV Man

    “Doctoring is a huge and vast field”. I like to play doctor with those who have suffered DNA injustice and neighborhood girls in my tree fort. Care to see my Jig Wiggler?
    Ah, the doctor is in.

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  34. canvasbackniglio Avatar
    canvasbackniglio

    Posted by: scenes | 07 February 2022 at 07:36 AM
    Look….Faux Keach wants to feel good about liking negroes…..and you damn well better understand that! If you think you can just waltz in here and screw up the narrative….well….you’ve got another thing coming.

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  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Faux Keach wants to feel good about liking negroes”
    Well, that’s boring. If you always mean ‘black people’ when you say ‘injustice’, just say so.
    The real tragedy (seriously) about the whole situation is that the most likely side effect of targeted reparations, targeted affirmative action, targeted media, all to one special group, is going to be the opposite of what you are pushing for.
    It’s a thing I can smell on the wind out there and it didn’t have to happen.

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    It’s interesting how automobiles appear to be the Left’s weapon of choice now.
    https://www.dw.com/en/us-car-rams-into-wisconsin-christmas-parade/a-59896255
    https://thepostmillennial.com/suspect-charged-in-winnipeg-attack-on-convoy-protest-revealed-to-be-antifa-radical
    I guess that Dodge Challenger gave them ideas.
    The real story is not that this happens, but the differential in news coverage. That is what shows who is in the driver’s seat.

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  37. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    scenes – “…is going to be the opposite of what you are pushing for.”
    What the lefty whiteys are ‘pushing for’ is feeling superior to you and alleviating their white guilt.
    You didn’t think they are pushing for better lives for poor blacks in Chicago?

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  38. anitidaeniglio Avatar
    anitidaeniglio

    Posted by: scenes | 07 February 2022 at 08:32 AM
    Well, that’s boring.
    It’s Faux Keach…..I’m sure he will be just as boring as Real Keach.

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Aaah, now here is the brilliant bit.
    You can pretty well assume that urban people are more ‘progressive’ while traditional people are more rural and suburban. It might partly be the result of a need for more rules as self-employment disappears and population density goes way up.
    So…you get decades of wealth moving to cities, largely due to financialization of the economy. Productive assets cluster away from private ownership and towards megacorps held in funds owned by public pension plans. A tidy system.
    Now we get to see more and more of step two, control of centrally owned assets moving away from profit motive and towards political weaponization. Larry Fink/BlackRock ESG investing is a canonical example, but I did like this one…
    https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-new-york-pension-official-worried-about-misinformation-seeks-spotify-2022-02-07/

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  40. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Scotto: “scenes – “…is going to be the opposite of what you are pushing for.”
    What the lefty whiteys are ‘pushing for’ is feeling superior to you and alleviating their white guilt.”
    I wasn’t thinking about leftywhiteys, there’s no explaining Crazytown, but the rightywhiteys, who outnumber them. I’d say that the most likely result of the diversity religion will be a movement away from race-blindness and towards philias/phobias.
    If the whole point of the exercise was to get 2/5 of the white population to idolize their darker brethren and the other 3/5 to distrust and avoid them, I’d say that modern Leftist politics has achieved it’s aim as that is the likely long-term result.

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  41. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    scenes – “If the whole point of the exercise was to get 2/5 of the white population to idolize their darker brethren…” Yeah, idolize at a distance. At least half of the white idolizers wouldn’t dream of ever actually hanging with the homies.
    Witness all the smug lefty white idolizers camped out in the whitest parts of California they can find and still appear to be in Hips-ville.
    Not that I blame them white lefty grifters – gotta hang where the money is. And it’s waaaay safer to boot.
    As scenes points out – the ‘integration’ push from the 60’s is pretty well dead. Various forms of tribalization and factional in-fighting has/is/will be happening and increasing. The worst of it is since the left always believes the economy is a zero sum game, they’ll continue to act that way and become the jackals and hyenas and vultures all squabbling over the carcase.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dems screwing over the po folks again.
    California rooftop solar proposal sparks firestorm
    https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/592917-california-rooftop-solar-proposal-sparks-firestorm

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Two White Students Were Named And Blamed For Racist Messages. A Black Student Was Just Charged
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-white-students-were-named-and-blamed-for-racist-messages-a-black-student-was-just-charged

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  44. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Administrivia – for continuance of the above reparations thread, please see the most recent Scattershots.
    https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2022/02/scattershots-6feb22.html

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@10:00AM
    Hey, these guys are pretty fast. It’s already on their list.
    https://fakehatecrimes.org/

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  46. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: rooftop solar.
    Well, good thing the gubmint doesn’t merely distort the market, it whipsaws it. I would guess there’s some new activists-with-good-ideas getting their one cent in, it’s a type of person that exists everywhere I’m afraid. Any competent engineer would steer clear as promoting reality is the quick way to get fired.
    Of course, without a bunch o’ batteries ($$$$), you’re not offgrid, so it’s purely an economic decision.
    From the article:
    “Cook stressed that the CPUC needs “to start from scratch and ask the question, how do we deal with the fact that low-income families are paying too much for power, and they don’t have access to solar?””
    Jeesh, that’s just exactly the question I would ask. Just why do poor people not have a solar panel on their roof? Is there something wrong with them?
    The whole deal is a mystery to me. No doubt solar facilities scale, it’s cheaper to build 1 big one than umpteen small ones and I doubt there’s any reliability that umpteen small ones brings to the table. If you can make the business case, stick 1000 acres of the thing somewhere where the sun actually shines on a regular basis.

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  47. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    scenes – “stick 1000 acres of the thing somewhere where the sun actually shines on a regular basis.”
    That would barely be a start. Remember all that pristine desert we had to save for the desert tortoise and the one-eyed Tarzana Lizard?
    Turns out we were saving it for the hot tubs and Teslas in Malibu.
    The green weenies and idiot leftists are just beginning to try to grapple with a reality the rest of us saw coming years ago. This whole green energy debacle was promised to save us money and now that the truth is dawning on the slow learners, the food fight breaks out.
    That was the best line:
    “Cook stressed that the CPUC needs “to start from scratch and ask the question, how do we deal with the fact that low-income families are paying too much for power, and they don’t have access to solar?””
    That’s probably the first thing school kids need to ask when they learn about electricity.
    ‘Cause once you solve that problem, everything else just falls into place.

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  48. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “That would barely be a start”
    Oh, you could probably run a small town or something. If you had storage enough for nights and/or cloudy days of course.
    I think you need something like 50 sq miles of solar to equal a nuke plant in average output, and then you still have the storage problems.
    The thing they never talk about is how little energy people need to use to go all solar/wind if you add heat, transportation, A/C, hot water to the mix. Light ‘n TVs are easy. Packing folks together always ends up being part of the plan. Apartments, mass transit, the Soylent Green Whopper. We’ll probably need body heat to warm the buildings.

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  49. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    He is on to something there –
    Sen. Rand Paul: Democrats have overplayed their hand, will ‘lose the public’ over COVID-19 mandates
    Kentucky senator said it’s ‘no longer a right-left issue’
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/sen-rand-paul-pushes-back-on-covid-mandates-democrats-have-overplayed-their-hand
    😉

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  50. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘How Green Energy Fantasies Have Put The World At The Brink Of War’
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/07/how-green-energy-fantasies-have-put-the-world-at-the-brink-of-war/

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