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262 responses to “Sandbox – 5dec22”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    What is the “sin” of being and living together and not being married? Is that some kind of Christian thing? If so why inflict it on someone not of that spiritual persuasion? Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion in case you don’t understand our Constitution.

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  2. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: psul Emery | 13 December 2022 at 11:57 AM
    So not wearing white then……?

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So says the constitutional scholar @1157 It does not say freedom from you foolio. ROFLOL
    😉

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Paul Emery @ 11:57 am
    I love it when your fall over those neatly placed trip wires and do the ole faceplant in the mud.
    Mr. Emery, your topic this morning is the codification of marriage, passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law my a sitting President. Defense of Marriage Act or something, with couple of poison bills dropped in for faith based adoption agencies…unless the Senate took the, out along with making it a crime to announce opposition to same sex marriages. Like, no free speech.
    Tell you the truth, I have not followed the Act since it was in rough form in the House and still a work in process. Not interested in it, does not grab my attention. Never knew there was some inter-racial marriage bans going on in any state. Now we all can get divorce lawyers….independent of race, creed, national origin, sex, gender, cult…..
    So, what is new except to codify?
    Paul, the topic you are so pleased about morning is Marriage. Marriage. Bobby and Debbie sitting in a tree, k-I-s-s-i-n-g. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes little Punchy in a baby carriage.
    Hey, if you want to shack up and play house, that’s up to you. Two incomes can pay the rent better than one. Live together, shack up, live in sin outside of marriage, why buy the cow when the milk is free….ain’t nobody stopping ya. Sorry if my words bother ya. If if
    said words bothered you that much, make a honest woman (or guy) out of her. Or, just break off a dandelion stem, wrap it around their finger, and say until death do us part. California is common law State.
    Then there is the medical issues to consider if you ain’t madly in love. Say she is on Medicaid. Pays all her health insurance. You get married and you can’t afford to cover her health insurance, unless you are working for a good company with good bennies. So, if you do not marry, then let Uncle State foot her bill.
    But if you love her, then all that don’t matter. Love will find a way. I am a romantic at heart.
    Love is blind, marriage is an institution, therefore marriage is an institution of the blind.
    Fornicate to your heart’s desire. Let’s Shag. Shack up. Who knows, she probably has a place, a car, and a bank account. Some guys are quick studies and find that important stuff out in the first 3 minutes of meeting her. It’s a hook up culture anyway, been that way for awhile. Be it far from me to judge folks living in sin, outside of the blue D’s of Holy Matrimony.
    Geeze Louise Punch, for a Lefty morally outraged Puritan you are slipping, man. Women like the security, women like to nest. Women like to introduce their guys to people as, “My husband.” Men are such beasts. Then again, some women friends of yours may look at some guy they shacked up with after playing house for a spell and say, “This is not the guy I want to marry.” Lol. Rolling stone gathers no moss.
    Don’t expect me to condone your behavior. Tolerate? Yes. Condone, then celebrate? Nah.
    Remember when Trump had those bikers at the WH with unclad ladies on their vests? Why, I never!
    Later, prude.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Where’s my pearls?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm0juqBgG08
    —————-
    Ex-Twitter Exec’s Pro-Groomer Tweets Resurface as Musk Tackles Platform’s Child Exploitation
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/tierin-rose-mandelburg/2022/12/13/ex-twitter-execs-pro-groomer-tweets-resurface-musk
    It was not by accident he was brought in and hired for the job. By design, not by accident.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Taking a stand against the tide. Resistance to rubbing out women.
    J. K. Rowling’s Female-Only Shelter
    As Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon continues to push to enshrine gender self-identification in law, Scotland is set to become a difficult place to access women-only spaces and services.
    J. K. Rowling, the billionaire author of the Harry Potter series, has already signaled her disapproval by wearing a T-shirt displaying the message, “Nicola Sturgeon, destroyer of women’s rights.” Now, just days before Sturgeon’s law is set to pass, Rowling has announced the launch of a support and advocacy service for victims of sexual violence. Beira’s Place, in Edinburgh, is personally funded by Rowling and will remain female only.

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  7. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “President Biden will sign into law a bipartisan bill that will codify same-sex and interracial marriages”
    -Punchy
    Punch, a list, please, of the states that will have their laws changed thanks to this momentous, courageous bill… or was it just grandstanding by Democrats?
    We all know it was just grandstanding, but I thought I’d get a grandstand in.

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  8. Scott O Avatar

    Headlines for tomorrow:
    Dems refuse to pass law outlawing slavery of American blacks!
    Paul Emery sez: “good job!”

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No pass for trany hipocryites LOL!-
    “Brilliant display by Rep. @NancyMace! The people who say violent rhetoric on social media is a threat to democracy and then promote violent rhetoric themselves need to be held accountable and their hypocrisy displayed for the world to see,” Canary CEO Dan Eberhart tweeted.
    Conservative radio host Tony Bruno wrote, “This was so perfectly set up by @NancyMace to deliver the knockout blow to the entire panel of hypocrites. Brilliance!”
    She asked all the witnesses whether they consider violent rhetoric against government officials on social media to be a “threat to democracy.”
    When trans woman Caraballo, known as @Esqueer_ on Twitter, answered in the affirmative, Mace pointed out Caraballo’s own violent rhetoric against Supreme Court justices after the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
    Mace displayed a poster board with Caraballo’s June 25 tweet, which read, “The 6 justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again. It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public. They are pariahs. Since women don’t have their rights, these justices should never have a peaceful moment in public again.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-nancy-mace-praised-brilliant-display-lgbtq-activist-exposed-violence-inciting-fraud
    😉

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory @ 3:01 pm
    I think there is some language in there to redefine sex and include the 72 genders. It was all grandstanding not for same sex marriage or interracial marriage, not for the LGB community, but for the TAA+QRSUWYXZz community. Why else were drag queens invited to the signing? Drag Queens can get married so it does not help nor hurt them. Why, why, why?
    Grandstanding. It was all grandstanding for the Trannies and non-binaries. At least with lesbians we know who the husband is and who is the wife….who the butch one is and who is the princess. Guess non-binaries types like Sam Brinton, who is free to marry anyone of age, needed some language protection, lol.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ANOTHER CRASH AT THE INTERSECTIONALITY
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/another-crash-at-the-intersectionality.php
    Interesting footnote to the Rodney King beating. The place where King’s car was stopped in the Sun Valley-Pacoima area was the only place in LA where Blacks and Hispanic gangs ran together. Other than that area, blacks and Mexicans had little to do with each other.
    Blacks are higher on the woke pecking order, but Hispanics are muscling them out. Bad 🩸. And the gays pushed out the Mexicans by buying up the neighbors. More bad blood.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Flashback. Codify it!
    Rachel Levine’s ‘gender affirmation’ echo chamber
    https://nypost.com/2022/05/03/rachel-levines-gender-affirmation-ignores-science/
    ————-
    Rachel Levine’s claim all agree on ‘gender-affirming care’ is slammed by doctors ‘in hiding’
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/doctors-slam-levines-claim-gender-affirming-care-fear-speaking-in-hiding
    Rachel Levine blasted for call to ‘support and empower’ youth with transgender treatments: ‘Unserious regime’
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/rachel-levine-blasted-call-support-empower-youth-transgender-treatments-unserious-regime
    Chop ‘em if you got them kiddies.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Marriage Act that Biden celebrated at WH.
    Drag Queen Invited To Biden White House Once Performed For A 2-Year-Old Boy: ‘The Kids Are Out To Sing And Suck D!’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/drag-queen-invited-to-biden-white-house-once-performed-for-a-2-year-old-boy-the-kids-are-out-to-sing-and-suck-d
    They do what their hearts desire. Gluttons of lust and DEBAUCHERY.

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  14. Jose Koyote Avatar
    Jose Koyote

    CNN sucks, CNN sucks.
    BREAKING: Disgraced CNN producer pleads GUILTY to child sex crime
    “The defendant solicited young girls, including the minor plaintiff, for the purpose of knowingly persuading, inducing, enticing and coercing them to engage in sexual activity…”
    Lefties do what Lefties do best. What ever happened to the Cuomo Bros.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Show me where the ‘hate speech’ is. I agree. Lesbians cannot have penises. Glad she is standing up for women’s rights.
    Norwegian Lesbian Artist Being Investigated, Faces Criminal Charges For Saying Men Cannot Be Lesbians
    “Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/norwegian-lesbian-artist-being-investigated-faces-criminal-charges-for-saying-men-cannot-be-lesbians

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  16. psfish Avatar
    psfish

    Prepare the fainting couch immediately……
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-accused-being-dangerous-right-wing-qanon-terrorist-after-tweeting-rabbit-emoji
    …..and someone get psul a cold compress for his forehead!
    STAT!!

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    psfish
    Never go full #Pizzagate

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gee that was one of the original concerns and here it is again –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/covid-origins-may-have-been-tied-chinas-bioweapons-program-gop-report
    😉

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    What are the chances of this bill going through the House and then having Biden actually signing it?
    Senate unanimously passes ban on federal employees using TikTok on government devices
    https://justthenews.com/government/security/senate-unanimously-passes-ban-federal-employees-using-tiktok-government-devices
    Governor Kristi Noem (you go girl) was the first Governor to ban TikTok on state devices. Now there are 5 governors who did the same. And remember, TikTok is the preferred platform our our educators…
    “Governor South Dakota will have no part in the intelligence gathering operations of nations who hate us,” Gov. Kristi Noem said in a press release. “The Chinese Communist Party uses information that it gathers on TikTok to manipulate the American people, and they gather data off the devices that access the platform.”
    The order goes into effect immediately.”

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    First the Wa Compost cut its Sunday Magazine. Now this…..
    ‘Washington Post Announces Layoffs after Hemorrhaging Subscribers in 2022’
    https://www.nationalreview.com/news/washington-post-announces-layoffs-after-hemorrhaging-subscribers-in-2022/
    Come to think about it, not one Wa Compost ‘journalist’ nor one Lefty or one former Green Libertarian who has posted on these pages ever once called the Russian Collusion Hoax or Spygate ‘misinformation. Or ‘disinformation’.
    Not one. Not a single one. Not once.
    Democracy dies in darkness.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Essay from former Extinction Rebellion activist. She is now an evidence based activist.
    ‘It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear’
    The pro-nuclear movement is gaining traction despite vocal opposition
    https://quillette.com/2022/12/10/ts-time-the-green-movement-stopped-demonizing-nuclear/

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wow. Way too much testosterone. Take it to the boys room. Anger issues.
    ‘Transgender Student Charged For Alleged Violent Assault Of Two Girls In School Bathroom’
    “The trans-identifying student, a biological male, reportedly approached one of the girls in the bathroom while she was speaking with friends and attempted to talk to her, but she ignored him. He then became angry and approached her with balled fists, asking if she “wanted to fight,” according to the report.
    The student then allegedly hit the female victim in the face, pulled her hair, and forced her to the ground where he kicked her in the face and punched her repeatedly. The girl indicated to police that the attack was forceful enough to prevent her from fighting back.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-student-charged-for-alleged-violent-assault-of-two-girls-in-school-bathroom
    There is some underlying issues here. Call me old fashioned, but a dude kicking a girl in the face while she down on the ground seems seems against the rules.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Duh
    ‘California Democrat Rep. Porter says calling person a ‘pedophile’ brands them a criminal’
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/california-democrat-says-term-pedophile-brands-someone-criminal-because-their

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    California School Board Bans Schools From Teaching Critical Race Theory In First Meeting After Being Sworn In
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-school-board-bans-schools-from-teaching-critical-race-theory-in-first-meeting-after-being-sworn-in
    Fairly clear and concise.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Leftists Call Free Speech ‘Violence’ To Mute Critics Of Barbaric Transgender Surgeries For Kids
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/16/leftists-call-free-speech-violence-to-mute-critics-of-barbaric-transgender-surgeries-for-kids/

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    For all the transitioning kids out there, good luck with osteoporosis at age thirty.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Politico Ignores Huge Risks Of Child ‘Transition’ To Push Kids Toward Castration Instead Of Real Care
    https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/30/politico-ignores-huge-risks-of-child-transition-to-push-kids-toward-castration-instead-of-real-care/

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Mildly dead? German autopsy study undercuts feds’ dismissal of COVID vax heart inflammation risks’
    No signs of “pre-existing, clinically relevant heart disease” in patients who died suddenly at home within a week of mRNA jab, peer-reviewed study finds.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/mildly-dead-german-autopsy-study-undercuts-feds-post-vax-myocarditis

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  30. Bump Bump Avatar
    Bump Bump

    Hillary Hodge
    One L or two?
    HODGE, HILARY BETH 42 4/1/1980 F 12/16/2022 11:58 PM N GRASS VALLEY, CA DONER SERVICES MANAG
    Chg # Agency Officer

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  31. Drunk Teddy Avatar
    Drunk Teddy

    First HH HEIDI and now HH Hilary.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Five left-wing activists arrested for domestic terrorism in Georgia (Update)
    https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/12/15/five-left-wing-protesters-arrested-for-domestic-terrorism-in-georgia-n518117
    Funny, you never hear them up in arms for cutting down a tree to make room for solar panels.

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    fyi:
    “Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–July 2022”
    https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/special-resources/preliminary-lessons-conventional-warfighting-russias-invasion-ukraine-february-july-2022

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Every Black Resident of California Should Get $350,000, Says Black Businessman
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/12/16/every-black-resident-of-california-should-get-350000-says-black-businessman-n1654106
    Twenty acres and a mule or…..
    He also believes that black businesses should get a $250,000 grant and 15-20 acres of land.
    “It’s a debt that’s owed, we worked for free … we’re not asking; we’re telling you,” he told the panel, the Daily Mail reported. “The tangibles of what I’m asking for is $350,000 per black American in California — that’s tangible, small business grant $250,000, and land 15-20 acres.”
    I daresay that the value of “15-20 acres” varies wildly depending on where the acreage is. Who gets the beachfront property and who gets Death Valley?
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/12/16/every-black-resident-of-california-should-get-350000-says-black-businessman-n1654106

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Beep Beep @ 10:43 am
    So Hodgepodge got busted for a DUI, eh? Well, that one will cost her. Off to drunk school for her. Luckily no kids or others were killed or maimed. Always a silver lining.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory the Social Worker. 🙂
    ‘Decolonizing Light’: Canadian University Project Aims To Redefine ‘Physics As A Social Field’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/decolonizing-light-canadian-university-project-aims-to-redefine-physics-as-a-social-field

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @635 i am sure that will speed up the development of nuclear fusion. ROFLOL
    😉

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Krugman Lies Some More About Ron DeSantis: ‘Thousands of Excess Deaths’ in Florida
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2022/12/17/krugman-lies-some-more-about-ron-desantis-thousands-excess-deaths

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Biden Makes up a Story About Awarding a Purple Heart, and It Gets Much Worse From There
    https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/12/17/biden-makes-up-a-story-about-awarding-a-purple-heart-and-it-gets-much-worse-from-there-n675057

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    re BillT 1249pm – Where, oh where is our auto-moralized PaulE, the self-assigned herald of presidential lies? As liars, Barack was world-class, but still just a warm-up act for Bumblebrain. Biden, hands down, is the most voluminous, audacious, and unabashed liar to ever have lived in the White House. Substantial lies from his lips and over his name get issued daily from the administration, and have been so dispersed for two years now. And where has PaulE been on all this? Focused on Trump claiming Mexicans will pay for the wall, and little else. Yet we welcome his lopsided commentaries as continued evidence of leftwing character displayed in public discourse.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane. Hope you are feeling better, maybe not quite up and at ‘em, but hope you are getting there. I seem to be in a suspended state. Not better, not worse, just the same….and the same is not good. :).
    Hate to bury this here, but it’s the closest fit.
    THAT HAUNTING NIHILISM
    https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/01/that-haunting-nihilism

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    How about Trumps massive lie that the election was stolen? Do you bleieve him and what factual basis does he have for that assumption?

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here’s another whopper by Trump-an outright lie about Georga with no factual basis:
    ““So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”…“There’s no way I lost Georgia,” Trump said, a phrase he repeated again and again on the call. “There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”
    How can you say this wasn’t an outright lie?
    https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2021/01/quote-of-the-day-i-just-want-to-find-11780-votes/

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: psul Emery | 18 December 2022 at 04:13 PM
    How can you say this wasn’t an outright lie?

    Because you’re repeating it, which is a pretty good indication that it’s a lie.

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