Rebane's Ruminations
February 2023
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728  

ARCHIVES


OUR LINKS


YubaNet
White House Blog
Watts Up With That?
The Union
Sierra Thread
RL “Bob” Crabb
Barry Pruett Blog

[About time for fresh sand.   Please note the new Trump post for things Trump related.  Thanks. gjr]

Posted in

273 responses to “Sandbox – 1feb23”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Report says Americans own 46% of the world’s guns. Congresswoman reacts:
    ‘MAGA Rep Lauren Boebert Is Upset – Says Americans Owning 46% of All Guns is Way Too Low!’
    “The Second Amendment is absolute and it’s here to stay. A recent report states that Americans own 46% of the world’s guns,” she said. “I think we need to get our numbers up, boys and girls.”
    “Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms,” she said. “In western Colorado, we call that a fun weekend.”
    https://thepoliticalinsider.com/maga-rep-lauren-boebert-is-upset-says-americans-owning-46-of-all-guns-is-way-too-low/

    Like

  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Climate Alarmist’s Greatest Fear
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/29/the-climate-alarmists-greatest-fear/
    Well, at least we can boil our lobsters in the ocean.

    Like

  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    More from the “Fat Girl Gazette”…..haven’t read it of course.

    Why must we wait for the next death of another unarmed Black man to finally act? | Opinion

    ….but I can guess.
    PS: Hey, where’d jeffy Ploughjogger go? So chatty these past few days. I do confess to being miffed about his blog handle (hi psul)….as “The fattest lil cowpoke in Nevada City” has neither plowed nor jogged in the last 50 years.
    Blatant misrepresentation!

    Like

  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Humphrey Ploughjogger to the Boston Evening-Post, 20 June 1763
    “What I’me ater is, to get some great larnt gentleman, who has been to Old Ingland, and knows how they raise Hemp there, and can read books about it, and understand um, to print in your News, some direckshon, about it, that we may go to trying, for we cant afford to run venters, by working, may be, a month and then have nothing come of it for want of working right.2—I’le affirm it, a little short piece in the print, no bigger than these few lines I send you at this present riting, if it did but tell us how to raise Hemp, how to fitt our land and feed, how and when to sow it, how to gather the crop and when, and how to dress it, and suck like would do a thousand pounds worth of good.”
    (…)
    “I do say it would be a nice thing if we could raise enuff Hemp to pay our rates, and bye a little rum and shuger, which we cant well do without, and a little Tea, which our Wifes wont let us have any peace without.”
    https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0045-0004
    P.S. Seems to me if grate Men dont leeve off writing Pollyticks, breaking Heads, boxing Ears, ringing Noses and kicking Breeches, we shall by and by want a world of Hemp more for our own consumshon

    Like

  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    So Humphrey Ploughjogger is really a young satirical John Adams. He looks older than that.
    John Adams’s Earliest Essays:
    The Humphrey Ploughjogger Letters
    MONG the many admirable qualities of the recent editions of The
    Adams Papers is the inclusion of material that presents a less pomp-
    ous portrait of Adams than the one in Charles Francis Adams’s
    edition of 185I. John Adams’s detailed account of his early years re-
    veals a passionate young man who desired recognition, a man with a
    keen love of nature, a discerning sense of human nature, and a fine sense
    of humor. His nineteenth-century editor had deleted not only diary en-
    tries but also numerous drafts for essays that displayed Adams’s youthful
    political concerns. Among these is a draft of 1767 in which Adams em-
    ployed the incongruous pseudonym of “Humphrey Ploughjogger,
    an
    uneducated, down-to-earth farmer. The editors of the Diary and Autobiog-
    raphy have recognized Adams’s authorship of this document. Com-
    menting on a draft of one of four essays that he signed
    “U.” thev explain
    that it was evoked by a piece signed ‘Humphrey Ploughjogger in the
    Boston Evening Post, 20 June 1763,
    and assert that “there is the strongest
    ground for believing that JA himself wrote this and the other Ploughjog-
    serlieces, cha marcarcordinbe, Rapwas his geraz o7 & diataguel whit aim°
    self in the two leading Boston papers,” the Evening-Post and the Gazette.’
    o Beginningia Marcs and 3 o Adiamore um dah Pacersona of Rinuehingece
    later created the well-educated gentleman who signed his essay
    provide directions for its cultivation and use. Adams’s rustic mask, as well
    as the topic of hemp, was probably not in keeping with the dignified image
    that Charles Francis Adams wanted to maintain for the second president of
    the United States. He omitted the first “U” letter and renamed the re-
    mining three, claiming that they…..

    Like

  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 03 February 2023 at 07:42 AM
    Oh no Bill…..I get it….but we know who has most recently decided to help himself to the pseudonym.

    Like

  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    fish
    Let sleeping fat tubs of lard lie. Or take the giant tortoise and put it on his back.
    Hemphrey Podunk, what a hoot. Tee hee tee hee hee. Like a fluff in church.

    Like

  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Revealing the New York Times’ Deceitful Russiagate Coverage
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/02/03/revealing_the_new_york_times_deceitful_russiagate_coverage_148809.html
    ———
    The FBI as Intelligence Unit for the Administrative State
    Today, the heroes are few and outnumbered as the FBI has become the enforcement arm of the Democratic Party, which is the party of government.
    https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/01/the-fbi-as-intelligence-unit-for-the-administrative-state/
    The Atlanta Bomber, Boston FBI Office, Anthrax…….

    Like

  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A few minutes with Dan. Ukraine and Joe Biden, corruption, and Ukraine.
    big stinkbomb.
    https://fb.watch/isWKTstiZq/

    Like

  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: “Hispanic Democrats In Connecticut Introduce Bill To Ban Woke Term ‘Latinx’
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/hispanic-democrats-in-connecticut-introduce-bill-to-ban-woke-term-latinx
    No to the WOKE, no to erasing Hispanic culture.”
    Well, how boring is that?
    If I were them, I’d introduce a bill forcing the state to standardize on Negrx and Asixn.
    It would give tons of opportunities for outrage, maybe a mostly peaceful protest or three.

    Like

  11. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@7:59
    I did like this line:
    “the FBI is an indispensable weapon for the permanent government, which now constitutes the most powerful faction in American society.”
    and while it sounds true, the interesting part is defining the ‘faction’. A big ol’ hivemind of people who know each other, went to the same schools, give each other jobs, move in and out of government is a hard thing to pin down. Of course, these groups have always existed, will always exist. Where they get troublesome is when the resources available to them grow too large. The only reason that ridiculous figures like Ilhan Omar exist is that they can send the cops to your door, their ability to organize and build from scratch is nonexistent.
    The US seems to have escaped that plague for it’s first couple of hundred years as an English colony and then it’s own country, but that successful a situation will always attract new generations of Lords and Masters. It’s for the children after all.
    When there’s no frontier left, dunno how you correct this aside from the occasional do-over. Of course, you usually end up with Stalin or Napoleon.

    Like

  12. Misanthrope Avatar
    Misanthrope

    Childish asides from our most incontinant readers aside, it is expected that the ranks of “Independent” voters will continue to swell as the embarrassed MAGA-lite voters squirm away from the behaviorally challenged GOP Freedom Caucus recruits making their power plays and turning the House into a circus sideshow.
    Pledges of allegiance at the beginning of every Congressional meeting?
    Why not the Star Spangled Banner during every intermission and in every hallway?

    Like

  13. Scott O Avatar

    “Why not the Star Spangled Banner during every intermission and in every hallway?”
    Why not?
    It burns the Dems’ commie ears like a vampire seeing a cross.
    Like the convenience stores playing classical music to drive away the drug addicts.
    Works like a charm!

    Like

  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    To The Colors is an acceptable substitution to the SSB. Face flag. Doff hat, hand over heart. When over go aboot your business.

    Like

  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    BIDEN: ‘MORE THAN HALF THE WOMEN IN MY ADMINISTRATION ARE WOMEN’
    ———-
    The View Denounces Pledge of Allegiance, American Exceptionalism
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/02/02/view-denounces-pledge-allegiance-american-exceptionalism
    ————
    VAN JONES: INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE HAS GONE SO FAR AND HAS BECOME A PARODY OF ITSELF MORE OFTEN
    ‘It’s a distraction from getting anything actually done’
    ————-
    BIDEN: NO, I’M NOT TAKING BLAME FOR INFLATION, ‘IT WAS ALREADY THERE WHEN I GOT HERE, MAN!’
    —————
    LOCAL MAN CLIMBS UP ONTO FLOORBOARD OF ORANGE TRUCK, FINDS SIX SLEEPING INSIDE

    Like

  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Split Vote to Condemn ‘Horrors of Socialism’ Shows Democrats Have a Socialism Problem’
    “A recent vote on the House floor to condemn the “Horrors of Socialism” proved what many people already knew about the Democrat Party; it is infested with socialists.
    According to Fox News, the vote was used as a litmus test by Republicans to have proud socialists step forward and declare themselves. Sure enough, 86 out of 109 Democrats did:”
    https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/02/02/split-vote-to-condemn-horrors-of-socialism-show-democrats-have-a-socialism-problem-n697672

    Like

  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    I hate it when I’m “incontinant”!
    Moron….

    Like

  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Biden Says He’ll Shoot Down Chinese Spy Balloon As Soon As He’s Done Letting It Spy

    “Listen folks, that balloon came a long way to do a little spyin’,” said Biden in a meeting with military leaders. “Would be a shame to shoot the poor thing down before it even gets a chance to take some pictures! I remember when me and the boys used to spy on Suzie Anne McGillicutty through her bedroom window after a long day of protesting the civil rights movement. It’s all in good fun, folks!”

    Oh Joe…..you’ve done it again….!

    Like

  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    😂😂😂👍🤠🤣
    fish @ 12:46 pm
    “incontinant”
    What is the correct spelling for INCONTINANT?
    This word (Incontinant) may be misspelled.
    moron.
    ————————————-
    THE DAILY CHART: LIBERAL STUDENTS ARE THE WORST
    Yesterday the University of Wisconsin released the results of a student survey on campus free expression issues taken on all of its campuses, and many of the results demonstrate that the censoriousness to typical of campuses today is driven largely by students who classify themselves as “very liberal.” Here are a few of the charts displaying this problem most vividly:
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/the-daily-chart-lliberal-students-are-the-worst.php

    Like

  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I was just musing about Biden Family Values for a second, saw an article where 5 of his family members have been to rehab, and ran into this picture.
    https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/07/07/15/41401956-9717919-Hunter_Biden_became_the_poster_child_for_drug_addiction_s_ruinou-a-28_1625667839569.jpg
    I like Hunter Biden. He makes me laugh. Everyone knows utter wastrels like this, it’s just that they usually don’t get rich from influence peddling.
    You do have to wonder how far you have to go back to run into a President as stupid as Joe Biden, aside from the creeping dementia. His hand grabbiness doesn’t hold a candle to JFK or LBJ, but the man ain’t no genius. Calvin Coolidge is supposed to have been a dullard, but I don’t know enough about him to judge. Before that, they had to be able stand there for an hour or two and speechify at crowds with maybe a few notes, so the selection process was a little keener.

    Like

  21. Misanthrope Avatar
    Misanthrope

    ROTFLMAO!!!
    incontinant?
    That’s all you got?
    Sad pedantic malorthographobes.

    Like

  22. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “malorthographobes”
    Hah. I like that one. Actually had to look it up.
    And I always thought I was eddicated for knowing what a lullyprigger is.

    Like

  23. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/lose-lose/
    “There’s another difference between the fall of the USSR and the collapse underway in the USA. Underneath all the economic perversities of Soviet life, Russia still had a national identity and a coherent culture. The USA has tossed its national identity on the garbage barge of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” which is actually just a hustle aimed at extracting what remains from the diminishing stock of productive activity showering the plunder on a mob of “intersectional” complainers “

    Like

  24. D.Pecker, Enquirer Avatar
    D.Pecker, Enquirer

    Scenes,
    Yes. Silly to be sure.
    The idea is the pledge will own the libs, act like garlic to vampires.
    Reminds me of the old jokes, “Have you stopped beating your wife”, or “do you think your contempt for America might influence your judgement?”
    They hope that they will be able to judge anyone who votes against such an Uber- American idea as Un- American.
    Welcome to the New McCarthyism, just like the 1950s McCarthyism.

    Like

  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “The idea is the pledge will own the libs, act like garlic to vampires.”
    When you form up teams, you need special code phrases to identify who is who.
    Kneeling vs. Stars ‘n Stripes. Pride flags vs. the national anthem. Drag queens whippin’ out their stuff vs. Civilians in Camouflage (Meal Team Six).
    It’s all good.
    In any local Nevada County group, it doesn’t take long to figure out that someone is nudging you to find out your voting patterns. Gotta figure out who is first for the scaffolds ya know.
    For a lot of this stuff, it isn’t so much garlic to vampires as it is a kind of subtle programming. When you make people pretend that Admiral Levine is a woman, make corporate drones and college professors write wonkin’ big DEI statements to keep their jobs, claim that mathematics is white privilege and hound out of a job anyone who disagrees, there’s a kind of enforced shame that goes on. Make people do ridiculous or perverse things and you have power over them. The techniques of the Cultural Revolution are a thing.

    Like

  26. Massachusettensis Avatar
    Massachusettensis

    Mr. President, we must not allow… a balloon gap!”
    – General Buck Turgidson

    Like

  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Miss Anthrope | 03 February 2023 at 01:34 PM
    Once again…..Moron!

    Like

  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 03 February 2023 at 01:49 PM
    “malorthographobes”
    Actually had to look it up.

    Don’t feel bad. So did he.
    …all 500 lbs. of him,

    Like

  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Buck Turgidson.
    Good one, but it led me down the time-wasting rabbit hole of how high countries go.
    The Vertical Limit of State Sovereignty (2007)
    https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1126&context=jalc

    Like

  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Consistently incredibly so bad even reading from the book. Must have been hired to make creepy grampa joe look not so bad. LOL –
    White House press secretary defends false statements at the podium: ‘I have been consistent’
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-press-secretary-defends-193619127.html
    😉

    Like

  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Agree 100%
    Wind Farms Don’t Just Hurt The Environment And Boost China, They’re Ugly As Sin
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/02/wind-farms-dont-just-hurt-the-environment-and-boost-china-theyre-ugly-as-sin/

    Like

  32. Scott O Avatar

    scenes 2:18 – “Kneeling vs. Stars ‘n Stripes. Pride flags vs. the national anthem.”
    Hmmm…
    Kneeling for a drug addict who had shoved a gun in a pregnant woman’s belly while committing theft and later ODed after passing a phony bill?
    or
    Honoring the symbol of our nation and paying respect for those who died so we can sit on our asses and type witty stuff on a keyboard?
    You usually have to put a gun to folks’ heads to get them to do the former. The Dems did it like a 2 dollar whore kneeling for their money (or in this case, their woke act) for the adulation of their base. Said base will turn on them like a rabid dog turning on its owner.

    Like

  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe and his crime family are bought and paid for by the chi coms. I suspect they will have to take it down as soon as it crosses the coast. –
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/02/03/panetta-chinese-spy-balloon-gathering-intelligence-on-u-s-id-really-be-concerned-if-we-didnt-intercept-it-or-shoot-it-down/
    😉

    Like

  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    San Diego Declares Housing A ‘Human Right’ Without A Plan To End Homelessness
    “Protecting something of value, regardless of “human right” status, differs greatly from providing that object of value. When the government protects human rights such as life, speech, and marriage, it prevents those rights from being wrongfully stripped from us. It does not provide them for us.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/03/san-diego-declares-housing-a-human-right-without-a-plan-to-end-homelessness/

    Like

  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    IT IS BALLOON!
    – Chief Wild Eagle
    So what is it? Stray weather package that the Chinese are too embarrassed to admit? Sooper-secret military thingie to spy on all of our top secrets? At least the ones the lunch lady at Groom Lake doesn’t write down. Tricky Communist trick propagandizing borders like all the fighting over territorial waters? Shipment of hookers to Hunter Biden? Dunno, but I’m tired of it. Either shoot it down or ignore it.
    re: Joe Biden and the Chinese.
    I just assume that members of his family make money wherever they can. Lots of irons in the fire. The Chinese are just one feed trough.
    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407/
    More crooked than Lyndon Johnson? The Kennedys? How did the Bush family get so darned wealthy?
    The problem isn’t politicians working the system, but that the system has so much to give. The incredible wealth disparities and corruption in the Soviet Union is the obvious endgame for constant growth in government.
    Grifters grifters everywhere.

    Like

  36. D.Pecker, Enquirer Avatar
    D.Pecker, Enquirer

    Scenes,
    Why all the hysteria over a balloon? I am sure the Gov can block any device up there from transmitting back to China.
    By the time the balloon reaches the Atlantic it will be slowly deflated and captured by the Defense Dept. or CIA and reverse engineered to determine the device’s capabilities.
    I would like to see the balloon continue its journey to see if it will make it back to China.
    Another balloon was spotted over Latin America.
    Lawnchair Larry, where are you?

    Like

  37. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    It is just like Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Same ideology… Antonio Gramsci, founder of Italy’s Communist Party, was released from prison with his notebooks in the mid-30’s. The long march through our institutions took longer.
    It also is far from being over.

    Like

  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another low information voter @1142
    😉

    Like

  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ballon. Don’t say China. That is racist.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/02/FB_IMG_1675477522811.jpg
    If no workie, try this
    THE WEEK IN PICTURES: HOT AIR BALLOON EDITION
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/02/the-week-in-pictures-hot-air-balloon-edition.php
    —————————-
    Balloon shot down over Atlantic, another one spotted over Canada.

    Like

  40. D.Pecker, Enquirer Avatar
    D.Pecker, Enquirer

    Don,
    Trump/Taylor Greene 2024?

    Like

  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘By Exposing Hamilton 68, The ‘Twitter Files’ Proved The Deep State Is A Weapon Aimed Directly At You’
    What else is the U.S. government using to monitor its citizens while mobilizing against domestic targets who have done nothing wrong?
    “They wanted [Russian collusion] to be true so badly,” she said. “They felt like they were freedom fighters. In their minds, every Trump appointee was probably a Russian plant because, in their minds, Trump was a Russian plant.”
    “The whole media pretended that this Russaigate thing was real. It didn’t just affect citizens. It affected everyone who worked in Washington, D.C., which includes everybody that worked with the [State] Department, the CIA, and more,” she continued. “These people were going home at night being told Trump and his people were Russian agents and then would come into work with the idea that they were going to save America from us.””
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/03/by-exposing-hamilton-68-the-twitter-files-proved-the-deep-state-is-a-weapon-aimed-directly-at-you/

    Like

  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Pro-life Catholic students kicked out of Smithsonian Museum
    https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/02/03/pro-life-catholic-students-kicked-out-of-smithsonian-museum-n528200
    —————————
    Youngkin Slams VA Dems for Blocking Bill Requiring Schools to Promptly Inform Families of Academic Honors
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/02/03/youngkin-slams-va-dems-for-blocking-bill-requiring-schools-to-promptly-inform-families-of-academic-honors-n2619122
    —————————-
    Shoot the messenger
    Nearly 600,000 Migrants Released Into US Without Court Date
    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/migrants-southernborder-joebiden/2023/02/03/id/1107221/

    Like

  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Canada says it’s tracking a second ‘surveillance balloon’ in its airspace
    China says first balloon spotted over U.S. is weather surveillance craft.
    https://justthenews.com/world/canada/canada-says-its-tracking-second-surveillance-balloon-its-airspace

    Like

  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mystery solved as to why Hunter Biden’s lawyers filed the much ridiculed lawsuit against Ruby, Tucker, and more characters. Follow the timeline. Why would Hunter’s lawyers call for such preposterous actions from Hunter’s $20,000/month Malibu digs? Mystery solved, to repeat myself.
    ‘Hunter Biden served defamation lawsuit by computer repair shop owner days before his lawyer called for criminal probes’
    https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/hunter-biden-served-defamation-lawsuit-days-before-his-lawyer-called-for-criminal-probes/
    —————————
    Lol
    ‘That Didn’t Age Well! Read The Most Clownish Takes About The Laptop Hunter Biden Admits Was His’
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/03/that-didnt-age-well-read-the-most-clownish-takes-about-the-laptop-hunter-biden-admits-was-his/
    Double lol.

    Like

  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ben Shapiro on Florida Man
    https://fb.watch/iuP0KxIsKP/

    Like