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Scattershots – 1may22

01 May 2022

George Rebane

‘Workers of the world, arise and celebrate the day that brings us together to again be thankful for the blessings of collectivism that unite us in a revolution to make socialism available to all peoples everywhere.’ – or something similar. I just thought it would be appropriate to make up that piece of crap on May Day.

Inflation Tax. Last year many of us already saw the salacious intents of the Biden administration in how they were systematically going about to ruin the nation. Among the many disasters they were cooking up was inflation. Well, it’s here now, and the piece I posted then (here) is definitely worth reviewing by those who are impacted by inflation and those who are planning to be so impacted. I count myself among the latter, so it’s time to review the taxing aspects of inflation (here). And for those who are spreadsheet challenged, I made a spreadsheet with the formulas from the ‘Inflation – up close and personal’ post. Download InflationInvesting2

Wealth tax: The Build Back Bullshit agenda is still not dead and buried. Team Bumblebrain has every intent on passing most of its provisions, especially those increasing our taxes. The administration’s entire team on economics are double dummies who couldn’t pass Econ 101. They continue to tell the sheeple that we can tax ourselves out of an inflationary spiral. Even Keynes, the lord of demand-siders, counseled against raising taxes in an inflation infested economy. (more here)

Election corruption right here in River City? My bride and a commenter picked up on a thinly disguised campaign ad in the 30apr22 Union for Natalie Adona, our Soros'(?) foreign plant Assistant Registrar of Voters, who is running for the county’s Clerk Recorder – Registrar of Voters in the 7jun22 election. The ad, pictured below, is made to look like a public service announcement from the Nevada County Clerk Recorder – Registrar of Voters office. Notice the formal seal in the lower right corner. Were it a bona-fide voter info notice from that office, then it would have been published under the aegis of our current holder of that office, Greg Diaz. It does not speak well for The Union to have allowed this campaign ad to appear without some corrective editorial comment.

Posted in Critical Thinking & Numeracy, Current Affairs, Nevada County, Our Country, The Liberal Mind

69 responses to “Scattershots – 1may22”

Gregory

01 May 2022

I’m going to guess The Union would not give such a space (a full quarter-page) without being paid for it… so who paid? The Adona campaign… but if it was a campaign ad… wouldn’t The Union identify it as Paid for by the Adona for Recorder Campaign?
If it was paid for by the county they might not identify it as such… but then, the campaign could get dinged big time for accepting a campaign donation from a public entity and theft from the person who authorized the funds.
If it was donated space from The Union… where is the quarter page advert for the other person on the ballot?

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Bill Tozer

01 May 2022

I will put this here instead of the Sandbox solely because this article briefly hits on inflation and taxes and economic stuff.
Two Weeks to Flatten the GDP
https://brownstone.org/articles/two-weeks-to-flatten-the-gdp/

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George Rebane

01 May 2022

Gregory 1051am – Exactly. DonR has already had these questions put to him.

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Don Bessee

01 May 2022

There looks to be a valid fppc violation there with her name so big and bold at the top and the seal of the office tucked away at the bottom so its hardly noticeable. Yes it should have come from Diaz not the candidate. The county offices normally put the logo big and bold at the top of the document. Doing it right before the ballots hit the mailboxes is too obvious and heavy handed. Arrogance.
The grape vine has it that Adona is in trouble, so the story is circulating that she went to the dem central committee loudly complaining that she had no volunteers, no donations and no help from the central committee.
Why would she think people would want their name associated with the crazy lady in the videos who will forever be labeled by the Judge as being “marginally rational” hardly a qualifier for elected office. LOL
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Don Bessee

01 May 2022

Gee that sure sounds like the 17 intelligence agencies agree the dossier is real and we know how that turned out! –
Rachel Levine says pediatricians all agree on importance of ‘gender-affirming care’ for children
‘Gender-affirming care’ includes irreversible surgery for adolescents on a ‘case-by-case basis,’ according to HHS
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rachel-levine-no-argument-pediatricians-gender-care-adolescents
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Don Bessee

01 May 2022

So the left has the new ministry of truth with the deranged marry poppins and of course the new red guard is still in full effect working hand in hand with the cancel wokesters –
https://www.foxnews.com/us/antifa-assaults-portland-gop-rallygoers-understaffed-police-struggle-respond
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Gregory

01 May 2022

Db316pm
Scary Poppins works nicely.

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Don Bessee

01 May 2022

Like it @329!
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Don Bessee

01 May 2022

Well that begs the question what will they do when they find out mizzu is a tool of the socialist wokesters who act more like vlad than Washington –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/plans-materializing-ukrainian-exchange-student-100224067.html
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Bill Tozer

01 May 2022

inflation
https://www.facebook.com/95475020353/posts/10169298683590354/

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Paul Emery

01 May 2022

George
Can you explain why you characterize Natalie Adona as a “foreign plant Assistant Registrar of Voters”? What evidence do you have that some foreign entity installed her here and how did they do it? I assume she’s an American citizen. Just curious

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Don Bessee

01 May 2022

That comprehension problem acting up again oh great ponytail of ignorance? Looks like its gotten worse with your advancing TDS! lol
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George Rebane

01 May 2022

PaulE 820pm – ‘foreign’ = outside our region and California. Recently trained elsewhere and moved here for registrar job. Perhaps it is all a coincidence that a person with a JD shows up to do a mid-level bureaucrat’s job. And perhaps similar appearances in other jurisdictions is also a coincidence. Soros has been known to do worse – e.g. blanket country with law-ignoring prosecutors. Of course she’s an American citizen, so are Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden.
Your apparent approval of that campaign ad kinda says it all.

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Gregory

01 May 2022

Punchy 820p
Adona at best is a carpetbagger here to milk the Sierra rubes. Too clever by half.

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Paul Emery

01 May 2022

George
As a matter of fact I don’t approve of the ad but your truly bizarre “foreign plant” summation stole all the thunder. So what you are saying is that there is something inherently evil about someone from outside the area moving here and doing the work she’s been doing and she’s been trained elsewhere. And so what if she has a J.D. which is a Juris Doctor degree. Does that disqualify her from running for office or doing the job she’s been doing?
George, your conspiracy inclinations have reached new levels of paranoia. Can you show me some details about how she’s linked to Soros?

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neoclinus

02 May 2022

George, your conspiracy inclinations have reached new levels of paranoia. Can you show me some details about how she’s linked to Soros?
Lunch?

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Gregory

02 May 2022

” And so what if she has a J.D. which is a Juris Doctor degree. Does that disqualify her from running for office or doing the job she’s been doing?”-a punch 1049p
The disqualification should be from her being labeled marginally rational by a “judge” and partisan slow walking in the non-partisan job she hasn’t been doing all that well.
She wants a promotion. You think she deserves it? Why?

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scenes

02 May 2022

re: Miss Marginally Rational.
Honestly that, and her behavior in the youtube vidya, is enough to get a reasonable person to not vote for her, but I don’t doubt that placing ‘who counts the votes’ is a good tactic for taking over a country. A modern progressive will always choose the activist over the apolitical administrator while convincing themselves they are doing right by the people.
I guess you could learn something by looking at a former employer, the Democracy Fund. Maybe the evil hand of Soros isn’t even needed to get the desired results.
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/democracy-fund/
If nothing else, by installing that sort of apparatchik, you’ll get Nevada County on the national news every single damn time that she doesn’t like how something is going. I guess that any PR is good PR. A quick googling gives the Marginally Rational One quoted on the Washington Post, NPR, Rolling Stone, Sacbee, PBS, etc. The Outrage Machine never sleeps.
Maybe it’s that modern people can’t just put their nose down and work. Life has to be full of drama and being star of your own show. In her age group, there’s nothing to be gained by choosing one candidate over another.

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scenes

02 May 2022

To be fair to Miss Marginally Rational, it’s mostly impossible to tell from my EZ-chair whether she would suck at her job or not. Give me ten minutes talking to her co-workers and I’ll have near-certainty.
People are going to vote based on a photograph, some name recognition, and whether she ‘looks’ like someone from their side of the tracks. Dunno if this is a good way to appoint someone who is, in the final analysis, an administrator of laws and policies they didn’t write.
So, is this gig a good one for an election? or should they be appointed by the Board of Supervisors or the County CEO? Having said that, it sure would be nice to make it easier to fire people in those highly unionized shops.

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Acanthomyrmex

02 May 2022

Scenes at 7:35 am
“To be fair to Miss Marginally Rational, it’s….”
Well, at least she isn’t from Tacoma. When she was seen on video yelling ‘Why aren’t you following my orders’ , or ‘Why aren’t you listening to me!’, that was it for me. A department head, a leader, the office person in charge must behave themselves as a leader with cool, calm, and collected responses and persona. A judicial temperament is expected and hopefully required for a County Department head. She failed the test. She lost her cool under fire. She freaked.
Those standards do not apply to the public, but do apply to and are expected from elected public officials. She failed the test, bigly.
I do not usually give a hoot about local elections as I don’t know any of the names of the ballot from local school board candidates to dog catcher. I, in all sincerity, am not sure who my Supervisor is without looking the name up.
With that said, I can’t wait to vote this year. I am ready to vote today to vote NO! against the emotionally unstable Marginally Rational. I will donate to any of her opposing candidates. Unfit for the job
Besides, Marginally Rational is still going through intensive therapy for her PTSD along with Acanthomyrmex EMERY. She won’t be cured by election time.

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George Boardman

02 May 2022

I don’t recall you complaining when an ad paid for by the county touted the accomplishments of the supes. I’m sure it was just a coincidence that the ad appeared in The Union shortly after the recall campaign was announced.
You ding Adona for being a carpetbagger. Surely you don’t begrudge the fact that she was a military brat whose father served honorably wherever he was called? You know, like Jason Tedder.
You also view with suspicion Adona’s JD degree. How about the one Tedder says he’s currently pursuing?
Perhaps we should consider Paul Gilbert’s candidacy. Aside from having the sketchiest bio of any candidate I’ve ever seen (who is this guy?), his “audit” of the 2020 election showed a lack of even the most rudimentary numeracy you’re always decrying in your fellow citizens.
The Adona ad was deceptive and constitutes an unforced error that could have easily been avoided. If Diaz thought he was doing her favor, he wasn’t. But the ad does highlight the fact that, unlike her opponents, Adona actually knows something about the job.

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George Rebane

02 May 2022

Conspiracy? what conspiracy? Soros populated a goodly number of jurisdictions with his lackey lawyers as prosecutors – no secret there. It worked, crime is up as intended. Now why not do that for other public offices in which compliant accomplices can interpret the laws in a partisan manner? The Democrat and Republican parties have had grass roots programs for years to fill low level local offices with favored candidates and seed their eventual paths to higher office. If you got the money, why not scale up the process across the land?
It’s always the leftwingers blinkered by their lamestream who evince surprise at the development of events already known to the rest of us, and then start hollering ‘conspiracy’ and ‘paranoia’ when they finally find out. Today examples of this are legion from the last few years.

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Acanthomyrmex E

02 May 2022

George Boardman @9:45 am
“You also view with suspicion Adona’s JD degree.”
Spoken like someone who has a family member pursuing a JD.
Is Diaz still not in the office?

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George Rebane

02 May 2022

GeorgeB 945am – Good point on the supes’ ad. But how do you connect that with the Adona campaign ad? The supes’ ad celebrated the accomplishments of the entire BoS, just like the state and federal level politicians, who constantly pat themselves on the back from their offices, websites, etc paid for by taxpayer funds.
Given her background, lack of local roots, and the mid-level bureaucrat job she’s doing in a small rural county tucked away in the foothills, what do you think the odds are for this lawyer to pack it up for much greener pastures after her election job is done?

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Gregory

02 May 2022

“If Diaz thought he was doing her favor, he wasn’t. But the ad does highlight the fact that, unlike her opponents, Adona actually knows something about the job.”
The job isn’t about lying, and the “Q & A with Natalie Adona” could have been written by anyone. Even Diaz.

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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

The carpet bagger issue has to do with her work history not when she was a kid boardman. Lame deflection.
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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

You know you screwed up when its unanimous –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-sides-group-flying-christian-flag-at-boston-city-hall
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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

Creepy grampa joe and the woke minions want a new ministry of truth and why not adopt stasi techniques with a red guard spin –
DC elementary school gave 4-year-olds ‘anti-racism’ ‘fistbook’ asking them to identify racist family members
‘It’s not your fault for having white privilege, but it is your fault if you choose to ignore it,’ a presentation told kids in Pre-K through 3rd grade
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-elementary-anti-racism-fistbook-racist-family-members#&_intcmp=hp1bt4,hp1bt
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George Boardman

02 May 2022

Starting with the county CEO and working your way down the food chain, practically everybody in a position of authority at the Rood Center came from somewhere else. The new DA and GM of NID are imports, and the city manager of Nevada City returned after working elsewhere for 20 years. If carpetbagging was a disqualifying factor, there would be nobody with any skill left to run the place.
Why would Adona leave if she gets elected? Does Soros have another job in mind for her?

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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

Lame whitewash deflection @219 So the lawyer hand picked by the national dem minor league development folks had her in DC then SF then Oakland and somehow lands in Nevada County so does that tell us she could not hack it? Still a carpetbagger resume.
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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

Do you think they regret pissing him off? –
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a scorched-earth approach to NBC on Monday after a left-wing Peacock host accused him of handing Twitter “to the far-right.”
“NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis …” Musk wrote in a Monday tweet, responding to a video clip posted by another user showing Mehdi Hasan railing against Musk, calling him a “not-so-bright billionaire,” and complaining about his purchase of the social media giant.
“Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people,” Musk added in another tweet, listing some of the network’s most notorious scandals in recent years.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-scorched-earth-nbc-peacock-host-insults-notes-networks-worst-scandals
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Bill Tozer

02 May 2022

Mr. Boardman, I presume.
“I don’t recall you complaining when an ad paid for by the county touted the accomplishments of the supes.”
Well, this tuned out white yokel don’t know what you are referring to. But, I most vividly recall the FUE going bananas (ape shit) when the old little Nevada County Contractors Association office on S Auburn and the 100 block of E Main In heart of GV. Good guy Dan Miller had election campaign banner flying across the upper floor of the building for all to see!! Violation!! Anyway, fond memories, eh Mr. Boardman. :).
Man, Mr. Boardman, have you turned into an old crotchety grumpy white male or what? And ornery as well. Reminds me when Biden starts whispering forcefully into the mike and then takes a step or two back and yells out something, some vow, as God is his witness or something. Old Man yell at sky and all that. Me too!
So, you guys had a bad week. We all do.

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scenes

02 May 2022

G. Boardmen:
” unlike her opponents, Adona actually knows something about the job.”
“The Adona ad was deceptive ”
I’m trying to grok that, besides simply a wish to see Adona elected regardless of the reality on the ground.
So she is both knowledgeable and she is deceptive. Maybe being sketchy is a feature not a bug, I’m not sure. Generally you’d expect elections folks to be careful in their own elections, but I’d wager that it’s a sinecure for the brother-in-law in a lot of large cities.
Judging from the vidyas, there appears to be a pretty high harpy level involved, but for all I know that’s desirable in an elections official.
It’s all so confusing.

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George Rebane

02 May 2022

re GeorgeB 219pm – Yes indeed, a lot of our public sector bureaucrats are imports; they’re professionals and have to go where the next career advancement job is available – not too different from private sector professionals and careerists. The difference with those of Ms Adona’s ilk is that she is part of a dedicated and purposed cohort with a political agenda. Her organization, Democracy Fund, is an absurdly progressive and partisan political organization having the gall to still call itself “non-partisan”. More here –
https://democracyfund.org/idea/understanding-the-career-journeys-of-todays-local-election-officials-and-anticipating-tomorrows-potential-shortage/
By commenters here pointing this out does in no way imply that placement of such election officials around the country is an illegal activity. There are conservative outfits that attempt to do the same – the Institute for Humane Studies comes to mind. The important thing about Adona is to understand who she is and who are ‘her people’. Her placement of campaign ads under the guise of county public service information is another matter completely, and deserves its own special attention by concerned citizens. I hope that The Union will attempt to get ahead of the curve on this and proactively look into the matter of who placed and paid for the ad.

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Barry Pruett

02 May 2022

Lol. Adona is not experienced. Our election office sub-contracted out the vast majority of the 2020 election functions, because Adona had no experience and could not do the job. The experience schtick is fake news Mr. Boardman. Don’t believe the hype.

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scenes

02 May 2022

George, dash off a column and we can all fight about this.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473

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Paul Emery

02 May 2022

Barry
Can you provide some documentation for your 4:33 post about the extent of sub-contracting and the poor quality of her work? What is you source for that that information? I know that when I was News Director of KVMR she was the go to person for election process information and I interviewed her several times and she always was available and informed on the topics I was interested in. The graphic George presented was typical of the job she took on as PR person for election processes although I agree her name was certainly puffed up to a remarkable size that I doubt would have been done if she wasn’t running for office although the information she produced was well within the category of public information and did not promote her campaign. It was quite simply part of her job as PR person for the Elections Office.

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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

A little bit ago an election office worker promoted the league of womans voters forum for the clerk recorder on nextdoor.
I have never seen that office post any of the other forums ever yet here we go one after the other right before the ballots are mailed. Not a mistake, willful abuse of taxpayer money electioneering while at work on our nickel.
Could you imagine if you worked there and the crazy lady in the videos yelling at a staffer to DO IT I TOLD YOU TO AND I AM GOING TO BE THE BOSS, GOT IT! Marginally Rational lady thinks she can get away however i think the court of public opinion is going to be a wave against her like the rest of the Rood center occupants.
The financial reports show how bad it is for her but there may be a big chunk coming out between reporting periods.
Would you trust her to baby sit your kid?
Lill miss marginally rational is a massive embarrassment and has an agenda that does not serve the voters.
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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

Liar @ 645 Can you provide any proof of your party parrot puffery? Didnt think so.
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Paul Emery

02 May 2022

What is “party parrot puffery” Don? Can you be more specific?

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scenes

02 May 2022

more on this:
” Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473
“This is the first time in modern history that the public has seen a Supreme Court draft decision while a case was still pending.” – Politico
lol. This is brilliant. Everyone will get played like a fine fiddle with outrage aplenty. Picture perfect GOTV effort with plenty of opportunity fer leftist marchin’. I can just imagine the crazy Twitter Tweets that are incoming.

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Don Bessee

02 May 2022

Gee what a surprise that the rhetoric from the creepy grampa joe admin does not reflect the fact when there is a hot war in europe and we need energy price relief. You might think creepy gramp joe and the crack head were owned and operated by the chi coms. The world wonders. The mutha mullahs and maduro refused to help our self-destructive administration. –
HOUSTON, May 2 (Reuters) – U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) fell about 8% last month, according to preliminary Refinitiv vessel tracking data on Monday, but Europe remained the top importer as the continent secures alternate supply following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/u-lng-exports-decrease-europe-222254365.html
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Barry Pruett

02 May 2022

Sources. 😉

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Bill Tozer

02 May 2022

scenes @ 7:39 pm
Oh boy. It’s going to be thick incoming. Move over Elon, the real gravest threat to our democracy has appeared, so that makes Elon and DeSantis the former gravest threats to our democracy as the real gravest of the gravest emerges from Politico.
They sure are going to be in a full mood now and hurting for bear. That makes us the sitting ducks as we are as close as they can find to target the blame and all their rage against. Lucky us.
Exciting times, bro.

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Bill Tozer

02 May 2022

Make that they are going to be in a foul mood and hurting for Bear. Boardman, Rogers, Ms Chi tea latte, all of them. Even Ben Emery and Punch and Misses Clark and Cook, and the lamentations of their soy boys.
Carry on.

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Gregory

03 May 2022

re roe
It was 35 years ago the Great Borking was performed by Joe Biden and friends because they knew Bork would turn the court against Roe and it was no holds barred to keep him from being confirmed.
ooooops

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Scott O

03 May 2022

The outrage machine is already in high gear! Gavin claims he’s going to “fight like hell”! Not exactly sure who or what he’ll fight – overturning Roe v Wade changes nothing in California. “Women will not be silenced!”
Does he even know what is actually going on?
How, precisely, does this ‘silence’ women?
The most hilarious bit was how the leaker was described as “brave”.
Unless it can be traced directly to a sitting justice, the leaking will lead to a career upgrade.
No one has claimed (so far) that any statute was violated.
Boy – the Dems are really pissed as well as this will blow their big ‘reveal’ about the ‘insurrection’ right off the front pages.
Ah well – the Musk/Twitter deal was getting boring.
Let the games begin.

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Barry Pruett

03 May 2022

Dobbs would not ban abortions. Abortion will be legal on a local basis. For instance pretty sure it will be legal (and encouraged) in California while Texas will likely ban abortion completely. Each state should make up their own minds through the democratic process. This one size fits all approach doesn’t work and is divisive. Further Roe was always ill-conceived constitutionally. The Dobbs opinion destroys Roe. Nuked it.

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scenes

03 May 2022

Scotto: “How, precisely, does this ‘silence’ women?”
I’m afraid that would take a stronger force than has ever been invented. Gracile build can be mitigated with volume.
Barry P.: “Dobbs would not ban abortions. Abortion will be legal on a local basis.”
That’ll get lost in the firefight. Naturally, the Democratic pols will work this one to the max so it should be fun to watch. Maybe they’ll hold the Congress as the USA sinks slowly into the briny depths. 5th C. Rome won’t hold nothin’ on us.
You do have to wonder about all the yelling about ‘our bodies’ when it’s illegal to take a jillion sorts of recreational drugs, but expecting consistency in human affairs is a fool’s errand. A sliding scale of human rights applied to a fetus as it becomes human is a tricky thing, in a way it’s not dissimilar to giving enhanced protections to dolphins or chimpanzees.
In any case, the marches should be fun. Probably a good way to pick up chicks.

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Steven Frisch

03 May 2022

Posted by: Barry Pruett | 03 May 2022 at 06:14 AM
“Abortion will be legal on a local basis. For instance pretty sure it will be legal (and encouraged) in California while Texas will likely ban abortion completely.”
Unless of course Republicans control Congress and then pass legislation to make abortion illegal nation-wide. According to many people’s reading of the draft decision that would be possible under the ruling. Of course that might change between now and the release of the final ruling.

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