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Sandbox – 10nov22

10 November 2022

[People who debate whether the glass if half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable. A verity cherished by the Right and missed by the Left. gjr]

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251 responses to “Sandbox – 10nov22”

Scott O

10 November 2022

“The glass is refillable.”
But that takes human effort and a source of energy.
An anathema to the left.

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Bill Tozer

10 November 2022

Propane came Nov 9. $2.99/gal. Told the driver “not bad.” He said, “Not bad?” as if it must have been an unusual remark by a customer lately.
Yep, not bad. I budgeted $500 and with Earth conscious conservation, they could only squeeze in 116 gallons. Conservation is the key. Time to heat the neighborhood.

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Don Bessee

10 November 2022

Another creepy grampa joe slap down –
“Whether the Program constitutes good public policy is not the role of this Court to determine. Still, no one can plausibly deny that it is either one of the largest delegations of legislative power to the executive branch, or one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the
United States,” United States District Judge Mark Pittman wrote.
“In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone. Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government…The Court is not blind to the current political division in our country. But it is fundamental to the survival of our Republic that the separation of powers as outlined in our Constitution be preserved. And having interpreted the HEROES Act, the Court holds that it does not provide ‘clear congressional authorization’ for the Program proposed by the Secretary,”
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bidens-student-loan-handout-struck-down-federal-judge-texas
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Don Bessee

10 November 2022

Awww isnt that cute a b lister goes full woke virtue signaling as if it matters. Note to soyboy, you are still not going to laid. RFLOL –
“Create a name that will bring attention to this problem. Then – and this is the important part – change your social media profile or display name to match your new ArcticRisk name,” he said. “And if enough of us do this, then maybe COP27 will be where our world leaders sit up and notice Arctic risks and introduce a solution.”
‘The Office’ Star Rainn Wilson ‘Changes’ Name for Climate Change: ‘Rainnfall Heat Wave Extreme Winter Wilson’
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/11/10/the-office-star-rainn-wilson-changes-name-for-climate-change-rainnfall-heat-wave-extreme-winter-wilson/
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Bill Tozer

10 November 2022

Lol.
“WTF?! I am focused on factual information that Code Compliance won’t give me. And why would you even suggest that I would intentionally mislead the public? I’m a professional journalist. I resent the hell out of the implication that I would intentionally mislead anybody.” Tom Durkin.
I am a professional journalist!

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fish

11 November 2022

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 10 November 2022 at 09:23 PM
I am a professional journalist!
Still pretty sure that Don Rogers paid Tom with leftover pizza crusts he found in the newsroom (do they even have newsrooms any longer) so I guess that sort of makes him a “professional journalist”. Some sort of compensation was involved.
Anyway Tom….step one…..LOSE THAT FUCKING PICTURE! The headband look has been dead for 60 years and was ridiculous from the beginning! The crazy “Doc Brown from Back to the Future look isn’t cutting it either unless you’ve just invented a functioning time machine. For a professional journalist it doesn’t work at all! For a still desperately rocking the 60’s look to maintain the hippy cred it doesn’t work either….. just stop it!

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fish

11 November 2022

FTX Files For Bankruptcy, Sam Bankman-Fried Resigns As CEO
At least he waited until after the World Series to auger in…..it gives MLB the entire off-season to get the umpires shirts fixed.

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Bill Tozer

11 November 2022

fish @ 7:20 am.
Well, If I get paid to paint a neighbor’s fence or get paid to work on my neighbor’s lawnmower, then by definition I am a professional fence painter or a professional small engine repair mechanic.
It’s not Mr Tom’s appearance. Yes, he does look like a cross between Dennis Hooper the American Photojournalist in Apocalypse Now and Robert Downey Jr.‘s role as the journalist in Natural Born killers. But, that is not the point that made me laugh out loud.
A). “I asked Code Compliance for an in-person interview like the ones I’ve done with Gruver, Dent and Bell. Code Compliance Director Jeff Merriman flatly refused. In an email, he said, on advice of County Counsel Kit Elliott (which Elliott has confirmed with me), he could not discuss the Scarlett case and would only answer hypothetical questions by email.”
Ok fine. Like a Supreme Court Justice about a pending case. The Justice will only talk about settled cases or hypothetical cases. (Exception is Clarence Thomas who refuses to talk about even hypothetical cases….he wants real cases that have been adjudicated before him or no dice. At least that is what he has told law students when he was once allowed to come on campus and address them). Anyway…..
Tom posed a hypothetical question and got in return a hypothetical answer.
B) “I also asked hypothetically, “If a reporter wrote a story and got some important facts wrong (because you wouldn’t talk with him) that make you look bad and mislead the public, what would or could you do?”
Merriman answered, “We would hope that reporters would focus on factual information, and not intentionally mislead the public.”
WTF?! I am focused on factual information that Code Compliance won’t give me. And why would you even suggest that I would intentionally mislead the public? I’m a professional journalist. I resent the hell out of the implication that I would intentionally mislead anybody.”
LOL! Mr Tom took it personally and blamed Merriman IF he got anything wrong in his story and was outraged at the mere hypothetical suggestion that Merriman hoped that the reporters would really focus on reporting factual information accurately and not Intentionally mislead the public.
Who does not hope that reporters focus on accuracy and not connect their biased dots and mislead the public. Anyone here against accuracy in media, even in general terms besides Punchy? Anyone?
“I am a professional journalist and it’s all about me!

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Gregory

11 November 2022

toes 812a
A journalist paid in leftover pizza crusts and living in a travel trailer that doesn’t go anywhere is at the top of their profession in the Sierra foothills.
TD only misleads the folk who think his ravings are valid.

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fish

11 November 2022

”Biden says his plan to reduce inflation is ‘showing results’”
Yes…..it’s making it worse.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDRFTVH0rY

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fish

11 November 2022

Is anyone at all surprised……

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER WORD ABOUT GLENN REYNOLDS’ CARBON FOOTPRINT:

Four hundred private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy.’

…anyone, anyone at all?!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11416209/FOUR-private-jets-arrived-Egypt-COP27-climate-delegates-accused-hypocrisy.html

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Don Bessee

11 November 2022

Sad times for vets watching our military going woke –
This Veterans Day, let’s listen to what our veterans say is wrong with our woke military
Military now values identity over competence as woke mandates chase veterans from service
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/this-veterans-day-lets-listen-what-our-veterans-say-is-wrong-with-our-woke-military?dicbo=v2-16a99009fc2f88f2589cfb22ae92f2ff
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Bill Tozer

11 November 2022

‘The Left Wants Parents Out of the Schools, BUT Do Want Farting Teachers’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/tierin-rose-mandelburg/2022/11/11/left-wants-parents-out-schools-do-want-farting

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Don Bessee

11 November 2022

Watching the wokesters destroy the Disney legacy is painful but get WOKE AND GO BROKE destroyed the star wars franchise and now it indiana jones –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/11/10/nolte-report-says-disney-wants-to-make-indiana-jones-a-girl/
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/11/11/disney-stock-suffers-worst-day-in-21-years/
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Don Bessee

11 November 2022

Its all turning to spoiled borscht just like the rancid ussian dressing emery obsession –
Vladimir Putin’s infamous submarine, dubbed the Belgorod, is reportedly headed back to port after a series of failed tests in the Artic Sea, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The development comes just years after the submarine was first put into service in 2019 and its return to port marks just the latest loss for the already struggling Russian leader.
Even more startling is the fact that the nuclear-powered torpedo launched from the Belgorod, named the “Poseidon” and put into service in July, failed to launch from the submarine during a series of test launches.
According to an intelligence source who recently spoke to CNN, the Poseidon is now back on the Belgorod and headed back to Russia by way of the Barents Sea.
“This can be seen as part of the bigger picture and Russia’s recent military practice, sending ill-trained and under-equipped troops to Ukraine,” the Western diplomat told the outlet, comparing Russia’s failure to properly launch the Poseidon to the country’s ongoing failure to take Ukraine.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tried-failed-vladimir-putin-suffers-another-devastating-loss-after-doomsday-nuclear-powered-torpedo-fails-to-launch/ar-AA141chV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=365a8a8e07884f01aeace1a751b352b8
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Bill Tozer

11 November 2022

“TDS only misleads the folk who think his ravings are valid.” Edited.
Posted by: Gregory | 11 November 2022 at 09:51 AM
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It’s frustration. It’s fighting city Hall. I remember the day looking up to my Dad, watched him grit his teeth, looking skyward and blurted out, “They say you can’t fight City Hall” and shook his head in amazement. I feel TDS’s pain. He won’t be the first, and he won’t be the last.
The same frustration Tomas expressed when he walked into the Nevada city council meeting asking if they support helping the homeless…..which Reinette on down did not fall for that trap. If you say ‘Nevada City Council supports helping the homeless’, that means turn Seaman’s Lodge into an emergency shelter with expensive insurance liability to purchase now, like immediately, and hand over the keys to place. And let’s look at other city properties.
When I first moved to God’s Country, out off the grid was a school bus with a family and chicken wire for the chickens, and they were living there right on the road practically with no services. Absentee owner, New York address, bought the parcel decades ago. Property in some trust by now.
Later, a guy bought the parcel (again, undeveloped) next to the yellow school bus folks, where the bus never moved. He got rid of them real quick. He didn’t waste his time. He called the Health Department. No septic. Not sanitary for habitation. Red flags.
‘Does the county support helping the homeless?’ If so, why do homeless have to leave cottages deemed not suitable for human habitation by the County inspector just looking at the premises. Walls so thin you can throw a cat through them. Water heater inside next to kitchen stove, inadequate ventilation.
It’s for the common good. Safety first. Just bring the place up to code and problem solved. But, but, but why? And the County told the tenants they don’t have to pay rent for six months. Sounds like a landowner problem, not a homeless problem. Can’t they bent the rules for the poor lady who is already renting sheds to guys who can’t pay $200 or even $100 a month. And some woman just gave birth.
Waiting for Part 3. Might take 10 days for his FOIA to come back. Good generic response by the County. We all hope no one, intentionality or unintentionally, misleads the public. The County does hope no one intentionally misleads the public, duh.
He is making the story about himself. A common trap when one is on a cruscade.

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rlcrabb

12 November 2022

It is said that every time a new living space is built, two more angels get evicted. Homelessness is epidemic and it is only going to get worse. At least Tom is nudging the powers that be to consider the consequences of adding to the problem.

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Gregory

12 November 2022

The consequences of ignoring code compliance is that we can lay off the code compliance folk at the Rude Center and cancel our pension obligations.
Good idea, Earl.
The newly laid off employees will either find another local job, find a job elsewhere or start competing for shelter spots here.

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George Rebane

12 November 2022

rlcrabb 1047am – I understand that there are no tent cities on the sidewalks of Oslo, Tallinn, Berlin, Prague, Moscow, Budapest, Beijing, Teheran, Jerusalem, … . They can’t have solved their homeless problems in the same way, so there must be several effective policies by which city governments can keep the cardboard condos, human feces, and needles off their streets and sidewalks. Maybe there is an affordable ‘best practice’ policy out there that we can copy.

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fish

12 November 2022

In the “this is going to ruin your day” category

Shocking Video Shows Plane Collides With B-17 Bomber At Dallas Airshow

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/shocking-video-shows-plane-collides-b-17-bomber-dallas-airshow

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fish

12 November 2022

For Gregory…..
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/11/312956148_10161409334263532_3391118759591660003_n.jpg?ssl=1

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Scott O

12 November 2022

Crabb 10:47 – “At least Tom is nudging the powers that be to consider the consequences of adding to the problem.”
Old news, Crabb. This has been going on for decades. We could have way cheaper vehicles if we got rid of safety and emission standards. We could have way cheaper housing if we got rid of all those silly energy rules. Every time the left pounds the table for bundles of new regs and rules thousands of ‘angels’ lose their livelihoods.
Tough shit – learn to code – right, Crabb?
Right?

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fish

12 November 2022

Posted by: Scott O | 12 November 2022 at 06:50 PM
Probably better if you don’t look like a 5150 candidate while doing the “nudging”.

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Scott O

12 November 2022

Crabb – “Homelessness is epidemic and it is only going to get worse.”
Great news for the “homeless advocate” industry!
They’ve been making a swell living at it for years and are making sure it’s a growing field.
Why doesn’t Nevada County just do what Gavin did in Frisco? He said he’d take care of the problem when he was mayor and he must have done a bang up job because he got promoted to governor.

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rlcrabb

13 November 2022

You have the empathy of a goat turd, Scottie. Unfortunately there are too many NIMBY Democrats and Republicans who believe the answer to the problem is to just push it off to someone else’s neighborhood. Or do you have a realistic solution? Eh?

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Gregory

13 November 2022

Invite the houseless into your home, Earl. It’s the solution.
Going where the climate suits your clothes is a time honored path.

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Bill Tozer

13 November 2022

Well, Mr. Crabb was none too happy when homeless addicts and insane folks were bathing behind his abode. Those homeless done got pushed out of his backyard. NSJ is a great place to put our homeless. Especially those who are not quite ready for housing….yet. Maybe someday.

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fish

13 November 2022

Posted by: rlcrabb | 13 November 2022 at 06:37 AM
Or do you have a realistic solution?
I think thousands of those 800K/unit apartments (Fun Fact: this was the topic where we discovered that Emery, after his incessant caterwauling for sources and documentation doesn’t read the links provided. Something about being simply too busy) that LA and San Diego county have proposed are a good place to start. Paying for them won’t be a problem with Pelosi returning to the Speakers Chair and already talking about eliminating the debt ceiling it shouldn’t be a problem.
You will probably want to polish up your grant writing skills though I’m not sure three panel cartoons are an acceptable format.

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Scott O

13 November 2022

Crabb – “You have the empathy of a goat turd, Scottie.”
Yep, that’s me. I point out facts and live in the actual real world. At least Crabby didn’t say pig turd. I hear they have even less empathy.
Crabb is falling into the usual pattern of “If you don’t agree with me about a problem, then you are a bad person”.
Well.
I might point out that he himself said the problem is getting worse. And it is I who have pointed out on more than one occasion that lefty politicians and public officials are famous for “solutions” that involve pushing the issue to a location far away from where they live. The cause of chronic, long term homelessness is clearly rooted in the individual. This is not the popular idea and is shunned not because it is wrong, but because it doesn’t provide the opportunities for left-wing virtue signalling, socialist posturing and the vast expenditures of public funds.
Do I feel sorry for the hordes of vacant-eyed zombies that could have been productive and happy healthy human beings? Of course. They need and deserve public help. But Crabb and the left slap away the help I would prescribe, and then claim that I have no “empathy”.
Then there is the problem of the cost of housing climbing quite steeply of late in many areas.
I am sympathetic to the working poor trying to find an affordable roof over their heads. The public decided years ago they wanted all manner regulations concerning the construction and maintenance of housing and consequently the cost of housing went up. Many areas became crowded and land costs went up. The public applauded the rise in costs to hire the people to build the houses. And the cost of housing went up even more. Shanty towns were forbidden. Now we have the result. Trying to solve the problem by providing low cost or ‘free’ housing at the public’s expense has been a proven disaster, both economically and in social outcomes. Yet it is the only solution offered by the left. If I notice that people banging their heads against the wall end up with brain damage, please excuse me if I don’t join in.
Maybe I’m just not empathetic enough, right?

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Scott O

13 November 2022

fish 8:16 – “I’m not sure three panel cartoons are an acceptable format.”
Are you kidding?
It might soon be the only format that the authorities in charge have the attention span and language skills to understand.

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fish

13 November 2022

Posted by: Scott O | 13 November 2022 at 09:39 AM
Are you kidding?
It might soon be the only format that the authorities in charge have the attention span and language skills to understand.
I didn’t say it would always be so but as someone who sees a fair amount of government generated paperwork I can tell you that they are still using letters and words with real life punctuation and everything. Give it a couple of years for the “Pronoun Sciences” majors diffuse into the workforce and Crabb might find his work in great demand.

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rlcrabb

13 November 2022

Tubby 6:49 – As a matter o’ fact I did take in two homeless friends, fed and housed them for five months during the Great Recession. After they found jobs and moved on they got back in touch and paid me some back rent for my effort.
I suppose everyone here has a similar story, right?

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fish

13 November 2022

Posted by: rlcrabb | 13 November 2022 at 10:28 AM
So you took in two friends? Why were they homeless?

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Gregory

13 November 2022

Cripple 1028a
So… you’ve room for two and not doing your part anymore? For shame!

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rlcrabb

13 November 2022

You guys are too much. It’s no wonder your friends in Congress got whupped by an old man with poll numbers just above measles who can’t even remember what country he’s in. Have a nice day.

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Gregory

13 November 2022

Crip, continued…
The problem is generally not friends or family being houseless (in fact, no one I know is) but total strangers, generally with substance abuse and anger management problems.
So, can we put you down for two?

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Scott O

13 November 2022

Crabb – “I suppose everyone here has a similar story, right?”
Helping out friends? Do it all the time.
But that hardly is a typical scenario of the “homeless problem”.
Suggest you spend time with the hard core homeless or check out the many, many Ytube vids of street scenes in major cities in this country.

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Gregory

13 November 2022

Cripple 1138a
There was no “whupping”. The Senate was a virtual draw and the House will be led by the GOP, who will have subpoena powers come January.

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fish

13 November 2022

…..hmmmm…..I guess we’re not going to find out.

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Bill Tozer

13 November 2022

Well, looks like I started this with my critique of Tom D’s visits (internet contracts?) with the Rood Center.
First, the story:
“So, when Tanya Scarlett came to me to report Code Compliance is evicting almost a dozen people from her property and forcing her to destroy their housing, I felt obligated to investigate. (See “Bad optics at Rood Center,” Oct. 12/13.)”
-Now, his efforts to save the dwellings that the County ordered destroyed/removed/bull dozed down, flattened, loaded up and hauled away.
“I also asked hypothetically, “If a reporter wrote a story and got some important facts wrong (because you wouldn’t talk with him) that make you look bad and mislead the public, what would or could you do?”
Merriman answered, “We would hope that reporters would focus on factual information, and not intentionally mislead the public.””
-Now Tom blowing his top:
“WTF?! I am focused on factual information that Code Compliance won’t give me. And why would you even suggest that I would intentionally mislead the public? I’m a professional journalist. I resent the hell out of the implication that I would intentionally mislead anybody.”
-Ego got involved. I see nowhere in the Code office’s response that insinuated (or suggested) Tom was intentionally misleading the public. I don’t see it. I just don’t see it.
-Additional information: “Apparently, Code Compliance doesn’t have to answer to the press, but according to the guidelines, Code Compliance must respond to the Board of Supervisors.”….
“….I don’t dispute that Code Compliance has the authority, and perhaps the obligation, to force the four families to leave their homes.
What I am disputing is whether this is the best course of action in the face of this homeless/housing crisis.”
-Tom does not dispute the obligation for the County to order the inhabitable structures to be removed, but is upset he was not treated more with the respect a professional journalist deserves.
Seems to me that the burden lies with Tanya Scarlett. Structures on Scarlette’s property have been ordered removed for code Compliance reasons—usually health, safety, sanitation, and squalor. Hopefully there is no toxic mold for the little one to breath and running hot water to bath the child.
One has to admit that a dozen people camped on her property is a rather high number for helping a person (or couple) down on their luck. That is a bunch more than letting some crazy woman stay in the trailer out back. Or sleep in the garage.

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Paul Emery

13 November 2022

Gregory
This was predicted to be a Red wave and the House history in that election cycle in recent history is a big win for the opposing party with the exception of 2002 when the nation was unified behind Bush after 9/11. Here’s a link with details:
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/seats-congress-gainedlost-the-presidents-party-mid-term-elections

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Bill Tozer

13 November 2022

Scott. Once you see it, you can never unsee it.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/joe-biden-as-montana-sniffing-idaho

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Gregory

13 November 2022

Yes, Punch, everyone knows the historical trends.
But generally, a winning presidential campaign results in a lot more seats in Congress for the president’s party. Not in 2020. Biden’s coattails were short.
But that notwithstanding, in 2022 there was no great victory sweep by Democrats in the Senate and there was a loss in the House.

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Bill Tozer

13 November 2022

How true.
“You guys are too much. It’s no wonder your friends in Congress got whupped by an old man with poll numbers just above measles who can’t even remember what country he’s in. Have a nice day.”
With Biden oversees attending the various Climate Crisis Conferences and com-fads, our President thanked Colombia today for hosting the gathering. It is Cambodia who is the host. Oh, that’s just Uncle Joe.

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Paul Emery

13 November 2022

Gregory
Can you remind readers who will have control of the Senate as a result of the election? Also can you remind them who had the smallest gain in the House first term midterms in the last 40 years with the exception of ’02 for a party that was not in the majority?

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Beep Beep

13 November 2022

Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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Gregory

14 November 2022

Punchy keeps punching.

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Paul Emery

14 November 2022

Gregory
As a sparring partner you are disappointing. You have no defense and your offense consists only of light jabs and clumsy footwork. Might have to look for a replacement. Fishmouth is too dumb and Besse is boring. Biker Bill has potential but he runs for cover if confronted with a challenge. Oh well…

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Scott O

14 November 2022

“Can you remind readers who will have control of the Senate as a result of the election?”
Can someone remind Paul how legislation is passed? Appropriations have to originate in the House. Hopefully we will have 2 years of nothing being passed. A mercy for us all.

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psfish

14 November 2022

Posted by: Psul Emery | 14 November 2022 at 07:25 AM
….and I love that you run this line of bullshit a couple times a year…..usually when you’ve had some recent good news politically (you make yourself scarce hippy style when the press is bad or someone…usually me, pins your wrinkled weaselly ass down on some topic) and you’re feeling bold.
Hate to break this to you psul but you’re the dimmest bulb here now that Todd has passed. You do nothing but “Headline Spat” and I guess it must be the Baby Boomer naïveté in you that is responsible for your all consuming poll fetish. I’ve been told to leave you alone by people hanging out over my shoulder while I was typing because they thought, from the repetitive, frantic nature and barely coherent nature of your posts that you might be headed towards some sort of breakdown.
You are a sad little man psul…….

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