1,208 responses to “Sandbox – 1jan23”

1. 

   scenes

   01 January 2023

   Thanks for considering the notion, although it may well take a bit of editorial work before the dogs are trained.
   On another note, it’s interesting watching the unfurling of EV tax credits on Twitter (which is concerned with all things Musk). The whole deal is a wonderful example of the craziness of using .gov to manage an economy, the whole notion of giving them all the money and then they dole it out as needed.
   https://www.autonews.com/editorial/ev-tax-credits-sound-simple-they-arent-really
   Naturally, there’s payoffs to special friends, no real concern as to total environmental hit of a vehicle, you gotta pay taxes to get the taxes back. Utter madness, the result of adding together the good ideas of a batch of congressional staff members.
   Just wait until all cars have the magic cut-off switch and the magic camera to make sure you’re OK to drive.
   https://www.yahoo.com/now/law-install-kill-switches-cars-170000930.html
   It’s for the children after all.

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   Gregory

   01 January 2023

   Has anyone seen or heard the FUE?
   He hasn’t made a blog post in nearly three months.
   There ain’t been an issue of his flagship publication Sierra Rude!Whine!Farts for a couple years.
   Nor has he bragged about the fruit of his loins.

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   scenes

   02 January 2023

   re: Gregory@9:44PM
   I would guess that the magazine business, especially the free variety, is as impossible as it looks. Especially so as they go down the inevitable path of writing/layout that looks more like the internet, going full internet, insufficient or no ad revenue, demise. The value of a printed word, musical note, or second of video just ain’t what it used to be.
   Speaking of demise, I’m not seeing an obit anywhere either, you’d expect some news on the 10+ pall bearers if that was the case.
   People fade away, which is just as well. We can’t all be George Floyd or Hitler.

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   scenes

   02 January 2023

   lol. Even the name is perfect.
   https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/yorkshire-non-binary-priest-bingo-25873680

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   scenes

   02 January 2023

   ..and in the interest of seeding the sandbox, just one of those things you run into.
   “Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in the non-elderly population”
   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512201982X

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6. 

   fish

   02 January 2023

   Posted by: scenes | 02 January 2023 at 08:38 AM
   A fitting end to Perfidous Albion….

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   Paul Emery

   02 January 2023

   Note to RR Readers:
   I’ll be back soon. Had a great New Years show and celebreation at the Miners Foundry despite being a bit under the weather. Look for my posts later today or tomorrow. And yes, happy New Year.

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8. 

   Bill Tozer

   02 January 2023

   “In the 19dec22 Sandbox Mr scenes offered an intriguing suggestion (830am) in an attempt to eliminate the detritus of TDS and things gratuitously Trump from continually contaminating practically every other topic with yet another boring lap around the Trump barn. He suggested that RR add a Trump category and restrict posting of Trump-centric comments to that category.”
   detritus: In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material. Detritus typically includes the bodies or fragments of bodies of dead organisms, and fecal material. Detritus typically hosts communities of microorganisms that colonize and decompose it.
   My ideas: Won’t work without a community effort of nudges and reminders. It’s been tried here before in unofficial capacities a couple of months ago where the All Things Trump post did not stay in the All Things Trump post. When a few commentators moved on and gathered under a different topic, they were followed by the Trump Derangement One. The One does not like to be alone. The One cannot be alone. The One cannot be irrelevant. A narcissist trait. We all have traits, but some more than others. It’s the degree (and depth) of said trait which makes me pessimistic about Romper Room staying within the classroom and not infecting the entire corridor….without hallway monitors. Tying a reminder thread of yarn around a finger will not work either.

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   Bill Tozer

   02 January 2023

   Andrew C McCarthy
   ‘Impeach Biden over the Security Catastrophe He’s Caused at the Border’
   https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/12/impeach-biden-over-the-security-catastrophe-hes-caused-at-the-border/?

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10. 

    psfish

    02 January 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 02 January 2023 at 10:14 AM
    As always the only metric of interest is the depth of the change in the guitar case.

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11. 

    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    re:10:47
    As posted by fishmouth a contributor to RR that is too embarrassed to use his real name.

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12. 

    psfish

    02 January 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 02 January 2023 at 11:46 AM
    So not the best haul on New Years then…..
    Maybe you should add a monkey to your act. People like monkeys!

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13. 

    Gregory

    02 January 2023

    Punchy (xe/xem/xirs), you promised not to be back until tomorrow!

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    Bill

    02 January 2023

    Gun Control Groups Got CDC To Scrub ‘Good Guys With Guns’ Study, Emails Show
    “[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and buried again,” Mark Bryant, head of the Gun Violence Archive, wrote to CDC officials after a meeting. “It is highly misleading, is used out of context and I honestly believe it has zero value – even as an outlier point in honest DGU discussions.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/gun-control-groups-got-cdc-to-scrub-good-guys-with-guns-study-emails-show
    ————————
    People like monkeys! Psuboscis monkeys.
    https://hakaimagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/header-proboscis-monkeys-2048×984.jpg

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15. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    re: CDC
    Idea du jour.
    We get them to start pushing for prostate cancer screening at womens’ health centers.
    Time to start printing up the protest signs.
    I did learn one thing today..
    https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/Preferred_Terms.html
    You’re not supposed to say ‘smoker’, it’s ‘people who smoke’. Oddly, it means something different in Standard English (‘people who smoke’ nudges towards ‘people who are on fire’), but remember, this is Crazytown.

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16. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    The birth of AGI continues.
    https://twitter.com/HotepJesus/status/1609974950915457027

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17. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    and in other news, what’s the likely response?
    https://www.zerohedge.com/military/huge-death-toll-after-us-supplied-himars-leveled-russian-barracks-donetsk-possibly
    https://www.newsweek.com/himars-attack-ukraine-makiivka-russia-new-years-eve-100-russians-1770671

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18. 

    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    Changed my mind Gregory. Is that problem for you. Meanwhile your guy Trump needs help. Likely headed for the slam.

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19. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    “Meanwhile your guy Trump needs help.”
    lol. …and there you go George.

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20. 

    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    Yeah he does need help scenes Working class people are pissed that they pay more income tax in most years than he does. Just another example of the privileged wealthy class ripping off the American people in this tough economic time especially. No wonder why he didn’t want to release his taxes.

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21. 

    Donald j. Bessee jr

    02 January 2023

    Let the TDS do your talking oh great ponytail of ignorance. Do you have a source for you contention @441 or is just more fevered TDS erruptions? LOL
    😉

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22. 

    Gregory

    02 January 2023

    If he was my guy, Punch, I’d be using his name nearly as often as you.
    To have been a lawful disclosure of a tax return, it had to have been related to discussion of tax law, not a series of gotcha political smears.
    Trump lost a bunch of money of his own being in office… Pelosi and biden got really, really rich. We need to see their returns including the big guy’s subchapter S filings.

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23. 

    psfish

    02 January 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 02 January 2023 at 04:41 PM
    Oooh….it was bad then…..I mean for you to drop a “working class” reference.
    Guitar music by itself can be pretty insipid…..think the staircase scene from Animal House! Maybe you should consider some percussion….
    https://giphy.com/gifs/reactionseditor-monkey-cymbals-l4FGmO3MZkGng9Bp6
    Just spitballing here!

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24. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    re: Gregory@5:05PM
    I assume that most (all?) pro politicians have clean-as-a-whistle tax returns. The time honored ways of paying people off, the really big money, seem to be off the books. Payoffs and jobs to relatives, speaking engagements & board memberships & sweetheart stock offerings after leaving office. God knows who the truly crooked congresspeople are, although my gut says that Maxine Waters or Zoe Lofgren have the best opportunities.
    I don’t get too worked up about it since it’s always been the case. The rapacious behavior surrounding the Lincoln administration must have been a real sight to see. Problem is that there so much more money at stake, the feds didn’t amount to much until, I think, FDR.
    Why anyone thinks that the gubmint is anything besides a really really big company is beyond me, a monopoly in some fields. The best and worst of humanity is to be found, and I’m rarely surprised by their actions.
    as a side note: it’s also hard to get worked up by rich people who don’t pay income tax when, well, they don’t have income. Merely having an asset go up in value doesn’t count I’m afraid. It makes for good clickbait though.
    psul: “they pay more income tax in most years than he does. ”
    lol. ‘He’. And we know who ‘He’ is. Hopefully George has his special ‘He’ place in the works.
    People should probably save their anger for that jackwagon that runs BlackRock.

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25. 

    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    Here you go Donald Bessee
    It’s all in here:
    https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/editorialfiles/2022/12/20/house_jctreport_dec22.pdf
    Let me know when you read it

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26. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    psulorama @5:15PM Now you’re just making me think of Ernie Kovacs.

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27. 

    Scott O

    02 January 2023

    Paul 4:41 – “…another example of the privileged wealthy class ripping off the American people”
    Poor comrade Paul. Please tell us – how much did they steal from you this year?

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    fish

    02 January 2023

    Posted by: Scott O | 02 January 2023 at 06:19 PM
    Please tell us – how much did they steal from you this year?
    Don’t trivialize this…..I personally saw Bill Gates reach into psul’s guitar case and pull out a fistful of change! It looked like mostly quarters too…. not just nickels and pennys!

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    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    What is your justification for a multi-billionaire (according to trump himself) not paying any taxes for those years?
    I paid taxes last year Scott, Trump paid none. Millions od other low income Americans paid their taxes Trump paid none. Is that alright by you?

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30. 

    Gregory

    02 January 2023

    Losing a shitload of money on a real estate deal isn’t a great tax dodge, Punchy.
    Trump apparently paid everything the tax law required.

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31. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 January 2023

    Trump donated his salary to charity. Didn’t make a dime. Lost money.
    Yabut, yabut, shoot the rwybit.

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32. 

    Don Bessee

    02 January 2023

    The i am so ignorant of tax law and how making and losing money works in the real world. So provide your federal tax returns to prove you actually paid something other than sales tax oh great ponytail of ignorance.
    😉

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33. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    This is how you make money from government.
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-visa-courted-nancy-pelosi-hoping-to-forestall-swipe-fee-changes
    I guess that psul is making the case that people should pay taxes even if they are losing money. Naturally property developers pay a boatload of money in taxes, it just ain’t income tax.

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34. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 January 2023

    You know, Trump might qualify for food stamps. Food stamps goes by projected INCOME, not any assets like big house(s) and fancy foreign cars you might have in the garage. Thing Trump likes that public housing on Pennsylvania Ave as well.
    Image 200 companies, once as high as 500. Every 6-8 companies are under another managing company that trades assets or money between the sub-companies to go where it’s needed. From raising beef to fourteen dollar long sliced flaming piece of bacon cover in brown sugar syrup. The man from Queens. Working stiff. Thinks in three dimensions.
    As I have said to Punchy before…..”I have twenty seconds. That should be more than enough time for you to explain how to run 200 companies in a myriad of fields with a 3% bankruptcy rate. Ask Joe.

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    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    So then Trump is actually a money loser according to Gregory. Add this quote to his cavalcade of lies.
    ““I have total net worth of $8.73bn,” he said. “I’m not doing that to brag. I’m doing that to show that’s the kind of thinking our country needs.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/16/donald-trump-reveals-net-worth-presidential-campaign-launch

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36. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    It occurs to me that Trump paid quite a lot in taxes in the last year and a half.
    Bidenflation (I mean, we are really screwed here folks) took a pretty pretty hefty chunk of old Donald’s net worth…and mine. Joey Fingers loves to grab a piece of your assets.

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37. 

    psfish

    02 January 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 02 January 2023 at 07:25 PM
    I can’t wait to see you and Trump working the same corner!
    Maybe you guys should rehearse by playing “Dueling Banjos”?! He can play the Ronny Cox character and you can be that poor inbred kid…

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38. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 January 2023

    That poor inbred kid turned out to be Michael Avenatti. Paul could be the bastard red headed step child version of that poor inbred kid. Blue bloods. Ewe bloods.
    Man, I Wonder if Trump’s tax lawyer has an opening. He would be a great tax dude.

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39. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 January 2023

    Ok Paul. 40 seconds. Not corporate tax law. 40-45 seconds should be enough time for you to tells us how to run 200 businesses simultaneously with a 3% bankruptcy rate and add some filler. 🙂
    Where are the thousands upon thousands of employee suits? Not even Rosa the maid?

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    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    So Trump runs up 7.5 trillion in debt whild President and paid no taxes for several years. He’s your guy Gregory, you never waver in your support nof this con man.

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41. 

    psfish

    02 January 2023

    Posted by: psul Emery | 02 January 2023 at 07:56 PM
    You didn’t care about deficits when it was Barry O’Dummy who was running up his and you don’t care about Senile Joey’s now.

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42. 

    Gregory

    02 January 2023

    Punchy, you don’t love and cherish the poor… you just hate the rich. He has good accountants who knew the tax law as well or better than the room temperature IRS employees who audit the returns.
    I don’t hate the rich, and I don’t love the poor. And because I don’t hate Trump, whenever you have something you hate about him, I don’t bite.

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43. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 January 2023

    Ok Paul. Let’s sweeten the pot. I will give you the ample time of 47 seconds to tell us everything you know about corporate tax law, and/or more importantly, everything you know about General Accounting Principles, which happen to be stricter rules than the IRS.
    A one, and a two, now hit it boys. Trump, Trump, Manly Man Trump
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxNrJljt_WI

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44. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    Paul, seriously, consider this chart.
    https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-to-gdp
    To tell you the truth, I had no idea that it actually changed so much under Joey Fingers.
    Seriously, a person needs to think a bit about how to survive this. Not as a profit-making opportunity but simply how to make it through the Time of Troubles this might imply. Maybe the upcoming simultaneous Bidenwar with China and Russia will help the economy.

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45. 

    scenes

    02 January 2023

    “You didn’t care about deficits when it was Barry O’Dummy”
    I really doubt he cares about Trump’s deficits.
    It’s mostly just the fun of taking over George’s Blog. Make the same six ‘points’ over and over, everyone responds, essentially no moderation at all. Ridiculous.

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46. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 January 2023

    Blame OCD: Make that Generally Accepted Accounting Rules. Enron cleaned a lot of old ways out and they upped the license fees for CPA $128.00 to pay for it. Arthur Anderson loss 35,000 employees, took the hit, never to rise again. Framed and treated the Enron corporate executive like a rabid animal, literally dragging him out of his house in front of his kids. He was found innocent after all the smoke died down.
    Anyway, corporate accounting is a whole ball of wax. Reverse entries, shares and shareholder laws, obscure carve outs for certain years on depreciation. 7 page footnotes for one entry line. Some page and a half footnotes, a lot of 2-3 paragraph notes, but public accounting thinks too weird. It’s not Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for sure . Plus and minus all mixed up.
    NY Times Now Loves the FBI: SWAT Teams, Surveillance, Pressuring Social Media All Cool
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2023/01/02/ny-times-now-loves-fbi-swat-teams-surveillance-pressuring-social
    ———
    Awards.
    WORST OF 2022: Celebrity Freak-Out Award
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2023/01/01/worst-2022-celebrity-freak-out-award

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47. 

    Don Bessee

    02 January 2023

    So oh great ponytail of ignorance, should an elected official who gets busted for DUI drugs and alcohol resign given the failure of self-control and judgement? The world wonders.
    😉

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48. 

    Bill Tozer

    02 January 2023

    On a more interesting note, you don’t see this one every day.
    Walrus Wanders Into Harbor, Masturbates, Falls Asleep, Ruins New Year’s Fireworks
    https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/01/walrus-wanders-into-harbor-masturbates-falls-asleep-ruins-new-years-fireworks/
    Must have found a barrel of rum floating out there.

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49. 

    Paul Emery

    02 January 2023

    So in conclusion for today the RR regulars once again stand by their man Donald Trump. The Regulars include the fake Libertarian Gregory who is truly a Trump loyalist.

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50. 

    emetic

    02 January 2023

    I heard a fly buzz when I died.

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