[Had a wave of nostalgia reading ‘The Last of the Afternoon Newspapers’ by Peter Funt. The last two are located in Livingston, Montana serving about 4,500 readers. During my 10-13 age in Indianapolis, I had two paper routes – first one in the city where I carried a large canvas bag of papers strapped across my shoulder, and second one in the suburbs where much bigger saddlebags were permanently on the back rack of my balloon tire Schwinn. As a kid I worked hard for the $5/week that sometimes was left over from my collections after I paid the Indianapolis News route manager for the newspapers I ordered and sold – every kid was a little businessman who was assigned a territory in which he had to market, deliver, and collect. It was one of my early lessons about the real world of business. Have any RR readers had a paper route somewhere in their past? gjr]
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193 responses to “Sandbox – 20apr22”
Posted by: George Rebane | 28 April 2022 at 10:34 AM
The newest nom de psul is a creation of his own making.
Pro tip….if you are going to whine about how you are being addressed and as part of this “Indignance Theater” you list a number of names to which you’ll respond, you oughta double check for grammatical and spelling errors.
Psul he is now and Psul he shall remain.
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The newest nom de psul is a creation of his own making.
“Creature”…..a creature of his own making.
Apparently Psul isn’t the only poster who needs editor support.
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Punchy will always be punchy in my book.
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Its nice to see lying sacks of shit pay the price in the public market of ideas –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/04/28/piers-morgan-viewership-crashes-70-percent-after-trump-aide-crushes-his-mishandling-of-deceptively-edited-interview-promo/
😉
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So it turns out our new Minister Of Truth has some history. Looks like a hyper-ventilating spittle blowing left wing Karen. Great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4inJSblCUY
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Wonder what they will talk about over lunch. Let’s do lunch…Dutch Treat.
This whole Psul thang got started because Paul is getting his affairs in order and for his legacy, he does not word Emery attached to the P words. I bet Psul Emergy has 9,000 hits by now. His temperature has been rising and “there’s a killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad.
I liked the old rules. He would not respond to queries addressed to Punch or Punchy. New rules: same as old rule, but anything untoward attached the good name Emery will not be tolerated.
Punchy and Punch is cool. No last names. People don’t need to know what Psul is up anyway. When are the mimes coming back? 🙂
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Bill T 7:08 – “He would not respond to queries…”
That’s the key. Paul sets the rules, Paul asks the questions, Paul establishes the new, new standards for truth, Paul sets the new, new, moral tone.
Paul does not respond to queries.
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Want to bet he says screw you –
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/senate-dems-considering-calling-musk-testify-twitter-buy
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What say you psul the art of the deal or what? –
https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-ceo-laments-deal-trump-183927650.html
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Hey aren’t they the guys who killed desalinization last week? LOL
https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-california-drought-water-restrictions-184414579.html
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Lost 51% of her viewers. What have you done for me lately?
MSNBC’s Joy Reid suffers lowest ratings ever
Rumors circulated in January that MSNBC would end production on “ReidOut”
“ReidOut” also lost 57% of its audience among adults ages 25-54, with an average of 124,000 viewers in April, Fox observed.
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/msnbcs-joy-reid-falls-lowest-ratings-ever
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Don 7:57 – “Want to bet he says screw you”
I wouldn’t be so sure. Musk might welcome the challenge to have a public discussion with a few elected officials that haven’t anywhere near the IQ or the wit that Musk has.
On the other hand, he might be busy that day…
You know – going over the choice of fabric samples for the interior of his next space ship.
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‘Major disappointment: Economy shrank at 1.4% annual rate in first quarter’
‘Friday’s report means that President Joe Biden now has to contend with bad GDP numbers, in addition to the soaring inflation that has strained households and driven down his approval ratings. Inflation rose to 8.5% in March, according to the consumer price index.
Still, details within Thursday’s report showed that underlying momentum is stronger than the headline number would make it seem.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/economy-contracted-at-1-4-annual-rate-in-first-quarter
Reading between the lines, the economy is getting crushed. Take a medium priced home of $275k-300k (nationally) and your payment just went 675 bucks/month….per bump in interest rates.
With all the woe at the pump, CA plans to raise our gas taxes. It’s scheduled.
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Democrats want to tax-hike the US back into recession
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/democrats-want-to-tax-hike-the-us-back-into-recession
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Comedy article of the week –
https://news.yahoo.com/revolt-college-educated-working-class-124403688.html
Ooooh – they’re going to ‘revolt’!
“Members of this college-educated working class typically earn less money than they envisioned when they went off to school.”
OMG!!!
Nobody affirmed their vision!!!
Here’s the money quote:
“But when it’s snow storming at 11:30 at night, I don’t want to have to think, ‘Is the Uber home going to make a difference in my weekly budget?’”
Pretty sure they key part of that quote is “I don’t want to have to think”.
It just gets worse – “In many cases, the workers have endured bouts of unemployment.”
Oh, no shit.
This takes the cake and explains the whole problem – “And they complain of being trapped in jobs that do not make good use of their skills. Liz Alanna, who holds a bachelor’s in music education and a master’s in opera performance, began working at Starbucks while auditioning for music productions in the early 2010s. She stayed with the company to preserve her health insurance after getting married and having children.
“I don’t think I should have to have a certain job just so I can have health care,””
Can you just imagine this generation actually having to navigate something like the Great Depression?
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Two species of the ant genus Acanthomyrmex EMERY, 1893 are recognized from Vietnam.
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Acanthomyrmex | 28 April 2022 at 10:52 PM
Okay….now I’d answer to anyone posting and calling me by this name!
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From Sacbee…..
Sexual Predator Task Force that nabbed Sacramento Suspect set to lose funding in State Budget
I imagine the progressives don’t want to have to go through another Ed Buck fiasco. There’s no shame or regret involved but oh….to lose all that campaign cash, all that walking around money…..simply unacceptable!
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HOW MUCH LONGER CAN THIS GO ON?
Today’s Biden struggle with the Teleprompter delivered this 15-second gem:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/04/how-much-longer-can-this-go-on.php
A national intervention is indeed in order
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Twitter Thread:
“NEW: for the last few weeks I’ve been digging into how the huge pressures on the NHS — both immediate and longer-term — are increasingly forcing Britons to go private.”
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1519706451912142849
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Neoclinus @ 8:04 am
‘Team Biden finally admits there’s a war on cops — which it’s inflaming’
https://nypost.com/2022/04/28/team-biden-finally-admits-theres-a-war-on-cops/
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Scenes @ 8:29 am
Health care….sorta
REPORTER TO JEN PSAKI: WHY DID VP HARRIS GET PAXLOVID IF SHE DOESN’T HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS?
‘Psaki: We’re just grateful that this is an improved drug on the market that many people can benefit from, including the Vice President’
https://news.grabien.com/story-reporter-jen-psaki-why-did-vp-harris-get-paxlovid-if-she-doe
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‘Foreign research finds Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines don’t reduce all-cause mortality‘
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/foreign-research-finds-pfizer-moderna-covid-vaccines-dont-reduce-all
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It’s Not In Your Head: The Left Really Has Become This Miserable
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/29/its-not-in-your-head-the-left-really-has-become-this-miserable/
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scenes 829am – Mr scenes, your comment is important and belongs under the current commentary on healthcare. Please repost it there.
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The Joseph R. Biden Legacy Project is coming along nicely.
Select the most Sovietesque name for a new ministry and then put the craziest slammed from one end of the pH scale to the other progressive nitwit female in charge. What could possibly go wrong?
I suppose it’s really a kindness that Ol Joe has no idea what’s being done in his name.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-bidens-new-russia-hoaxer-disinfo-queen-goes-full-libs-tiktok
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STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN……
Alec Baldwin Calls For Gun Control In Viral Instagram Post
https://dailycaller.com/2022/04/29/alec-baldwin-calls-for-gun-control-in-viral-instagram-post/
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Wokesters destroy another company –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/04/29/nolte-netflix-can-only-save-itself-by-entertaining-instead-of-lecturing/
😉
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The WH is doubling down on Homeland Security’s Speech Board Authoritarians
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/white-house-defends-disinformation-board-im-not-sure-who-opposes-that
This must be stopped at all costs.
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re: BT@1:12PM
Twitter thread:
“That the Biden Admin casually announced today that the Dept of Homeland Security — a domestic security agency — has created a “disinformation” board is indescribably dystopian and chilling.
That Democrats think this is good and normal tells you all you need to know about them.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1519858132775751680
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scenes @ 2:28 pm. Good link
More on Jim Crow 2.0
‘Biden’s Ministry of Truth’
https://www.jewishworldreview.com/0422/harsani042922.php3
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Once again, Elon Musk wins the internet (scroll up a smidge for the AOC tweet).
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1520152887090892800
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Tired of being taken for granted and pissing on their family values as well as flooding the job market to every citizens detriment especially kids. And now creepy grampa joe wants them to pay for intersectional queer basket weaving degree university costs for wokesters. –
Latinos break with Democrats as Republicans look for midterm majority win
Quinnipiac University polling has Biden’s approval among Hispanic voters at 26%
https://www.foxnews.com/us/republicans-have-edge-midterms-latino-voters-new-poll-shows
😉
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In surfing past your local Travelogue writers site and shortly after the ode to his old pickup truck I stumbled upon the following gem!
Eleven plus years later….?
Ben…..buddy…..best to let sleeping dogs lie lest people start to assume this is the kind of constituent servicing they might expect were you ever elected.
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Try as the Lamestream does to convince us otherwise, we are not an isolated fringe….they are. We are not alone on a hostile barren planet, they are increasingly becoming so. 🙂
‘Parents Of Kids Under 18 Almost Twice As Likely To Vote Republican Over Democrat, New Poll Finds’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/parents-of-kids-under-18-almost-twice-as-likely-to-vote-republican-over-democrat-new-poll-finds
“In addition to a majority of young Republicans favoring more parental rights, a plurality of young Democrats and independents held the same preference.”
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De ja vu all over again but worse than carter –
That was not all. Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline, initiated adoption of draconian regulations making energy production more costly and warred against the ability of oil and gas operators to obtain financing. Energy prices began climbing. In response, Biden went hat-in-hand to Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela asking that they, not we in the West, increase their production. Twice, Biden tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Nonetheless, energy prices kept rising and Americans blamed Biden.
Thus, came Good Friday’s announcement, which reversed a Biden campaign promise to end oil and gas leasing on federal lands. Progressives outraged by Biden’s decision either have not read the fine print or are in on the mischief, for Biden eliminated 80 percent of the land available for leasing and increased the cost of operating those leases by 50 percent. Without saying so, Biden is achieving what radical environmentalists demand when they insist that we “leave” fossil fuels “in the ground.”
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2022/04/30/exclusive-william-perry-pendley-biden-continues-his-war-on-american-energy-with-sham-federal-oil-and-gas-lease-sales/
😉
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Thats a daily chore for the WH cleanup crew following creepy grampa joe its just like following a parade of elephants –
Biden’s student debt remarks in 2021 led White House staff to appease progressives, new book says
Biden said last year he was opposed to forgiving student debt for Ivy League graduates
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-student-debt-remarks-white-house-staff-appease-progressives
😉
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Drip, drip, drip. The Origins emerge.
‘Durham unmasks alliance between media, Democrat dirt diggers that triggered false Russia story’
Court filings show plan to introduce evidence that Clinton campaign flooded media with “unverified derogatory information” on Trump.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/durham-unmasks-alliance-between-media-democrat-dirt
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Is that Psuki in the first pic? Her deal with MSBNC may not turn out to be as wonderful or lucrative as anticipated. Anyway, Fauci skipped the WH Correspondents Gala because of The Plague concerns, yet managed to show up at a press bash over the weekend.
Dr. Anthony Fauci Skipped WHCA Dinner, Citing Coronavirus Risk — but Appeared at WHCA Weekend Party Maskless
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/02/dr-anthony-fauci-skipped-whca-dinner-citing-coronavirus-risk-but-appeared-at-whca-weekend-party-maskless/?
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Drip, drip drip, drip, drip drip, drip
Why The Hillary Clinton Campaign Can’t Hide 38 Documents From The Special Counsel
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/02/why-the-hillary-clinton-campaign-cant-hide-38-documents-from-the-special-counsel/
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Food.
SAMANTHA POWER CELEBRATES FERTILIZER SHORTAGES THAT WILL FORCE FARMERS TO ‘HASTEN TRANSITIONS’ TO ‘NATURAL SOLUTIONS’
‘Never let a crisis go to waste’
https://news.grabien.com/story-samantha-power-celebrates-fertilizer-shortages-will-force-fa
There goes our ability to feed the world.
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“SAMANTHA POWER CELEBRATES FERTILIZER SHORTAGES ”
Not to sound conspiratish, but she just strikes me as yet another Ivy League lawyer cog in the US overseas empire. I wish these people would just leave everyone else alone. Maybe spend a little time experimenting with their theories for others on themselves.
You do have to wonder where the natural fertilizer comes from in a world full of vegetarians. Maybe Night Soil Nation can be a thing as us peasants turn over a healthy portion of our crops to the local tax farmer.
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There is/ was enough fertilizer in the Dead Sea to feed the world. Maybe the next big war will be over food, not fuel for heat. But, I have been saying that since the Six Day War. 🙂
When the hordes are hungry, then civility is the first to go out the window.
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‘Appeals court suspends university harassment policy for ‘likely’ violating First Amendment’
11th Circuit also orders new review of University of Central Florida’s bias response team, comparing it to unconstitutional “morality” commission, in fifth legal victory for four-year-old Speech First.
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/appeals-court-suspends-university-harassment-policy-likely-violating-first
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