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333 responses to “Sandbox – 5mar23”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I’m surprised that a tin shed in NC doesn’t require solar, battery system, sprinkler system, low income housing unit attached.
    I’d say that the way to go is to buy a place with a shed, replace it one wall at a time, replace the roof. Shack of Theseus.
    At this point, I’m surprised that there’s any new construction, aside from those guys who are wizards at working the system for some of that sweet gubmint grant money.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Elon Musk Responds After FTC Reportedly Makes 350+ Demands For ‘Specific’ Internal Company Information
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-responds-after-ftc-reportedly-makes-350-demands-for-specific-internal-company-information
    What does Twitter firing of the lying sack of shit former FBI General Counsel and Russian Collusion Hoax pusher have anything to do with the FTC???
    Information relating to journalists’ work protected by the First Amendment, including their work to expose abuses by Big Tech and the federal government;
    Every single internal communication “relating to Elon Musk,” by any Twitter personnel — including communications sent or received by Musk — not limited by subject matter, since the day Musk bought the company;
    Information about whether Twitter is “selling its office equipment”;
    All of the reasons why Twitter terminated former Twitter employee and FBI official Jim Baker;
    When Twitter “first conceived of the concept for Twitter Blue,” Twitter’s new $8/month verified account subscription; and
    Information disaggregated by “each department, division, and/or team,” regardless of whether the work done by these units had anything to do with privacy or information security.
    “There is no logical reason, for example, why the FTC needs to know the identities of journalists engaging with Twitter,” the statement from the House Judiciary concluded. “There is no logical reason why the FTC, on the basis of user privacy, needs to analyze all of Twitter’s personnel decisions. And there is no logical reason why the FTC needs every single internal Twitter communication about Elon Musk.”

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Tom Jurkin’s self directed homelessness camp would be.”
    I can imagine the setup, since it’s all about letting Tom live fer free in the woods.
    Gifted RV, extension cord to somebody’s house, garden hose to somebody’s house, communal pit toilet, sing-alongs by the trash fire, carpool to the country to see the eligibility worker, gubmint hotspot to check out the Food Bank schedule on the website, spirited conversations ’bout how things’ll be when The People take over.
    It’s tough being a Creative, but someone has to do it.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not even ‘dr’ jill can save them but then again not even lefties care what she says-
    The “CNN Primetime” special, branded “Jill Biden Abroad,” featured an interview with CNN White House correspondent Arlette Saenz that shed a staggering 43% of viewers of CNN’s average 2023 9 p.m. ET viewership.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-jill-biden-primetime-special-flops-sheds-nearly-half-time-slot-average
    😉

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    2hrs ago
    Scanner: 🚨 Save Mart. Report from the manager of a possible building collapse. Brand new incident. 9:45am
    2060 Nevada City Highway
    UPDATE: first unit on scene confirming partial collapse.
    UPDATE: Save Mart appears fine. It’s the roofs next door on Blue Moon and Verizon that are having problems
    ———————-
    3hrs
    Fire and police being dispatched to yubadocs for roof issues.
    ——————
    https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/334933828_581775173875199_5861261722907180405_n.jpg?
    ————————————
    County of Nevada, CA
    ·
    ⚠️ Many structures are under a large amount of stress from snow load. Please check for cracks in walls, sagging floors, displaced columns, cracking or dropping arches, bulging walls, or water/smoke that pushes through masonry. Structures with low-sloped or flat roofs, manufactured homes, carports, trellises, and patio covers may be more susceptible to increased snow loads. Call 911 if there is a life-threatening emergency. Check out our press release for more information: https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=6493.

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  6. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Save Mart.
    US Community Bank. (per yubanet).
    YubaDocs.
    It would be interesting to see the similarities in construction.
    History. Good list at end.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/20-7-inches-in-grass-valley-and-counting/article_1fd1d07e-82a1-5634-9224-92902eb2356a.html

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    scenes, the Credit Union was yesterday. First to go. All those have flat metal roofs. I remember watching them build the Fowler Center back in the day….my last days of drinking. Lived in a tiny home/shack next to the motorcycle shop which was next to a flower shop on Nevada City Hwy across the street. The shack was owned by Meeks and only cost $150/month. I saw them build those places and now, via the internet, I see them coming down. Memory lane. Flat metal roofs behind the facade. If you can get on Nevada County Happening now, they have a great pic of a collapsed building (hanger) somewhere.
    On metal buildings, the more pitch of the roof, the stronger (thicker) the steel and steel walls and supports have to be. I went with a 4-12 roof down here in the Inferno Zone because I know I can get some tornado like winds down here that never make the news. Also, a 4-12 pitch looks better IMHO. My humble abode has a 6-12 pitch of all things. Not for snow load (zero…rated 33lbs I believe) but for aesthetics. I dunno. Bought it that way when the housing market fell out in the Great Recession.
    What needs to happen is my very humble abode needs to be moved up the hill and all those flat to 2-12 pitch roofs need to be moved down here. Simple solution. Simple but not easy.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Told you so, told you so. The Wall would have paid for itself in just a year.
    Taxpayers Shell Out $151 Billion Each Year Due To Illegal Immigration, Analysis Says
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/taxpayers-shell-out-151-billion-each-year-due-to-illegal-immigration-analysis-says

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now thats funny –
    Twitter laughs, groans as Jill Biden gives biological male Women of Courage award: ‘Up your game, ladies’
    Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, ‘It’s International Women’s Day – a good time to remember that Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is’
    First Lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were slammed Wednesday for presenting a biological male from Argentina with an award for women on International Women’s Day.
    “Nice of FLOTUS to encourage the diminishment of women on ‘international women’s day.’ Erasing women is abusive,” host of The Dana Show, Dana Loesch, tweeted.
    “International Women’s Day: Not just for women anymore,” conservative Twitter personality Andrea Katherine wrote in reply.
    “Apparently men are a lot better at being women than women are. Step up your game, ladies,” Townhall columnist and radio personality Derek Hunter joked.
    “We are not a serious country,” Common Sense Society’s Christopher Bedford responded.
    Claremont Institute president Ryan P. Williams tweeted, “The jokes write themselves…”
    “Nothing screams ‘International Women of Courage Award’ like a dude.”
    “This is disgraceful and unacceptable!” Republican National Hispanic Assembly national editorial board member and podcaster Jennifer Barreto-Leyva tweeted.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-laughs-groans-jill-biden-gives-biological-male-women-courage-award-game-ladies
    😉

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    FBI Director Wray: Communist China Can Take Control Of ‘Millions’ Of Americans’ Phones With TikTok
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-director-wray-communist-china-can-take-control-of-millions-of-americans-phones-with-tiktok
    As State governments across the land are beginning to ban TikTok from state devices and there is currently a push to ban TikTok from all Federally issued devices, researchers are now saying that deleting the TikTok app from the devices is not enough. The phones must be destroyed.
    Yet TikTok remains the preferred app/site of the most reprehensible among us—our unionized public school teachers and lefty journalists. No surprise. Dumb and dumber. Commie bastards and sympathizers.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ‘Feds extorted social media to censor by threatening lucrative ‘hidden subsidy’: AGs lawsuit’
    New filings feature evidence related to interagency Global Engagement Center, which partnered with private consortium to mass-report purported election misinformation.
    https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/feds-extorted-social-media-censor-threatening-lucrative-hidden-subsidy
    Ok, I can say, “See, we were right. I knew it all the time, I have the receipts, I (we) have been vindicated.”
    Yet, nothing will change, no one will be held accountable. As I sit here in my easy chair, I am trying to think of two things the Control State Lefties have gotten right in the past 6 years, but I cannot.
    The Lefty misinformation and disinformation and proven lies are a long list.
    They (the Kenny Jonseys and Cherry Cookeds and Bobbie Crosstops and Fat Fuk FUEs of the world have been proven full of shit and dead ass wrong on over and over again.
    The Russian Collusion Hoax
    Spygate
    Masks
    Vaccines
    Education
    Science…just off the top of my head, and yet it don’t matter one lick. The consolidation of power under ‘special circumstances’ began and continues unabated. Bragging rights don’t count for squat. Liars going to liar and you cannot shame a sociopath nor the young crop of psychopaths. Impossible. Defense mechanisms cannot be overridden.
    Programmed to react to certain stimuli……
    On a lesser scale, Scott Adams was right. It’s been a waste of time this whole time. In fact, it’s been counterproductive, well past the point of diminishing returns. They are going to hate you anyway.
    Parlay that into bigger issues and bigger real threats to our democracy, and there is no use getting on their good side because they do not have a good side. What good side they might have possessed (like old fashioned liberals) is long gone.
    No use trying to fool ourselves. The Evildoers call evil good and good evil.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Jan 6 affair was mostly peaceful protestors. Mostly peaceful protestors. Mostly peaceful protestors. BOOM!
    It was a brilliant move by Tucker Carlson to go out of his way to purposely insert the words “mostly peaceful protestors” into his release of the J-6 tapes. It was not a mistake, he said it on purpose. Exposed the Lefty Media-Politician Complex for exactly what they were doing and exactly what they exactly they have done, lol.
    Triggered?
    Schumer: To Protect Democracy, I Need The One Network I Don’t Control To Stop Airing Raw Footage Of Congress
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/08/schumer-to-protect-democracy-i-need-the-one-network-i-dont-control-to-stop-airing-raw-footage-of-congress/
    —-
    Don Lemon’s Fit Over Tucker Carlson’s Access To The J6 Tapes Is Pathetic
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/08/don-lemons-fit-over-tucker-carlsons-access-to-the-j6-tapes-is-pathetic/
    Mostly peaceful protestors, mostly peaceful protestors. Smell familiar? Mostly peaceful protestors.

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Woman of the Year should have been the shop teacher.
    The beautiful part of that situation is how the Canadian government was so afraid of offending ‘her’, just in case ‘she’ was serious, that they let it go on so long. They should put Kayla Lemieux on the US $20 bill as a symbol of our era, a genuine hero.

    I think that the Democratic Donkey needs gigantic prosthetic breasts in editorial cartoons. It’s the new way of things.

    “Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
    Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis”
    https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-girls

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    THE DAILY CHART: DON’T DATE LIBERAL WOMEN
    “The supplementary hypothesis is that there is an inverse correlation between attractiveness and reports of sexual harassment”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/the-daily-chart-dont-date-liberal-women.php
    ————————————————————————————————
    More on the Moron, Chuckie the Clown Meltdown.
    WHO’S DECEPTIVE?
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/whos-deceptive.php
    CHUCK SCHUMER BECLOWNS HIMSELF IN RESPONSE TO CARLSON’S EXPOSÉ
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/chuck-schumer-beclowned-himself-in-response-to-carlsons-expose.php

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  15. Bill Wilfhson Avatar
    Bill Wilfhson

    The Ongoing Campaign to Shame You Out of Using the Word ‘Woke’
    ‘Woke’ does not describe a persnickety busybody who cannot abide your verbal miscues. It describes a revolutionary…

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  16. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from twitter.
    .
    @BennieGThompson, former chair of the Jan. 6 committee, said lawmakers were never given that type of access to the footage last Congress. “It’s strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place,” he told CNN.
    Thompson said he doesn’t think any of the Jan. 6 members themselves ever had access to the footage — they let only staff view it. “I’m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.”
    https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1633578747558350848

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Greta Thunberg Is Right, Wind Turbines Are The Absolute Worst
    “Indigenous rights, human rights, must go hand-in-hand with climate protection and climate action. That can’t happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice,” Thunberg told Reuters.
    This time, she’s right. When environmental policy becomes anti-human and anti-nature, it should be resisted
    https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/09/greta-thunberg-is-right-wind-turbines-are-the-absolute-worst/

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    scenes @ 7:16 am
    “Woman of the Year should have been the shop teacher”
    Saw a headline that read “Women of the Year Given to Some Dude”.
    That must be a typo. Here, let me fix that ASAP.
    “Women of the Year Given to Some Douche”
    All better now. No thanks necessary.

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  19. Gregory Goodnight Avatar
    Gregory Goodnight

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/08/trump-lawyer-misrepresented-jenna-ellis-00086256
    Trump 2020 Lawyer Admits Misrepresenting Stolen Election Claims
    Jenna Ellis, an attorney for Donald Trump who helped drive his false claims about the 2020
    election results, has admitted in a Colorado disciplinary proceeding that she misrepresented evidence
    at least ten times during Trumps frantic bid to subvert his defeat.

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    GG 10:10 – Hilarious! You realize by the standards of this disciplinary proceeding, we should get rid of most all politicians in DC?
    And the Dems are the worst offenders.
    None of what she has said alters the fact that the Dems illegally changed voting laws prior to the election or any other of the many proven lies and misrepresentations by the Dems.
    The entire Jan 6th committee should be at the very least censored for their shameful activity.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Large noted that Ellis wasn’t Trump’s counsel of record in any lawsuits challenging the election. But he also noted that Ellis admitted her actions violated “her duty of candor to the public.“ ROFLMAO
    Yep, Lanny Davis (Bill Clinton’s PR man and fixer)making wild claims on CNN while representing his client, Michael Cohen. Unbelievable.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Posted by: Gregory Goodnight | 09 March 2023 at 10:10 AM
    An imposter; please remove their comment.
    I think it interesting that the lawyer who was bitch slapped never was Trump’s lawyer of record in anything.

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Posted by: Gregory Goodnight | 09 March 2023 at 10:10 AM
    Smells like Jeff Pellini

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  24. Gregory Goodnight Avatar
    Gregory Goodnight

    Ellis is the latest Trump attorney involved in the former president’s post election efforts to face discipline. Rudy Giuliani had his license temporarily suspended and is awaiting a final ruling from a bar discipline proceedings in Washington DC. John Eastman is preparing for disciplinary proceedings in California. Jeffrey Clark has temporarily delayed bar proceedings in Washington DC while attempting to bring his fight to a federal court.
    Jenna Ellis is the first attorney of the group to acknowledge she misrepresented the evidence of fraud.

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  25. Gregory Goodnight Avatar
    Gregory Goodnight

    Among Jenna Ellis’s admitted misrepresentations:
    -Ellis claimed on Nov. 23, 2020 that Hillary Clinton didn’t concede the 2016 election
    -On November 20, 2020 Ellis claimed Trumps team had evidence of “a coordinated effort in all these states to transfer votes from Trump to Biden, to manipulate the ballots, to count them in secret.
    -On November 30, 2020, Ellis said on Fox that “Trump won in a landslide”
    -On December 4, 2020, Ellis claimed the trump team found that 500,000 illegal votes had been cast in Arizona

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jeff, stop it.

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  27. Scott O Avatar

    “an effort to aid a sitting president’s bid to undermine confidence in the American election system.”
    Actually, that’s not what was happening.
    Trump was trying to get an honest clean election.
    Trump was trying to bolster confidence in the election system.
    Pretty amusing that only R lawyers are considered fair game for lying about an election.
    She wasn’t under oath, her words had no effect on any election, she didn’t change anyone’s mind…
    The Dems have had a field day going after anyone they can to make sure the corruption in our country stays as hidden as possible.

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  28. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Ellis was publicly censured, but the action will not have any effect on her ability to practice law.
    She also agreed to pay $224 in fees related to the disciplinary action.
    In a statement after the judge’s opinion, Colorado’s Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel said it wasn’t pursuing any other charges against Ellis.”
    Petty bs.

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “An imposter; please remove their comment.”
    I think that George has access to their IP address, it would be fun to know who it is. Even VPN use is probably a tell.
    Failing that, the pie stains are a dead giveaway.

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  30. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Ellis “Petty bs.”
    Whole lotta lawfare going on.
    It’s like the Jan 6th INSURRECTION! people. Some federal attorney explains that they’ll go to jail for a million years, maybe for ‘lying’ in the interview process. They admit to a lesser and known charge. Team Blue crows about how the evil bad people were guilty doncha see.
    “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” – NKVD Guy

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    How many unbillable hours were invested pursuing this Pyhrric victory?

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The price of eliminating consequences
    By Victor Davis Hanson
    “When our state and federal governments allow criminals and foreign nations to injure with impunity their own law-abiding citizens, is it any wonder the civilized world we once knew has vanished — replaced by the Hobbesian rule of the wild?.
    https://jewishworldreview.com/0323/hanson030923.php3
    —————————————-
    Imagine That: NYC Learns That Enforcing the Law Reduces Criminal Activity
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/03/09/imagine-that-nyc-learns-that-enforcing-the-law-reduces-criminal-activity-n2620361
    ———————————
    ‘Young New York Rapscallions Get A Hankering For Seafood, Cause 20k In Damages In Less Than A Minute’
    Yet as highlighted by Fox 5 New York, “there are plenty within this community who are wondering, even when those who are responsible are found, what sort of consequences they will actually face?”
    Indeed, thanks to a 2019 bail reform law, shoplifters and other ne’er-do-wells like the ones featured in the video often go unpunished or are given a slap on the wrist before returning to the streets. Now, even Democratic lawmakers are calling for changes to state law.
    “It’s utterly ridiculous that a small subset of career criminals make up 30% of shoplifting arrests in 2022,” City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) recently told the New York Post. The paper noted that Holden cited statistics that the New York Police Department which showed “that 327 career crooks were busted a total of about 6,600 times.””
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/young-new-york-rapscallions-get-a-hankering-for-seafood-cause-20k-in-damages-in-less-than-a-minute
    It is true. It is friggin TRUE! There is a thin Blue Line separating society from anarchy. Blue Lives Matter! Black Rifles Matter! Black Labs Matter A Lot.
    Blue Lives Matter.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How about No!
    ‘Twitter Files’ hearing erupts as Matt Taibbi refuses to reveal sources in heated exchange with Democrat
    “I can’t give it to you, unfortunately, because this is a question of sourcing, and I’m a journalist. I don’t reveal my sources,” Taibbi said.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-files-hearing-erupts-matt-taibbi-refuses-reveal-sources-heated-exchange-democrat
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xagjS7zWGAM

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Complaining about a problem you created –
    Harris mocked for stating that kids are facing ‘climate mental health’ issues: ‘Fundamentally unserious’
    One user accused the VP of ‘just making stuff up’ with the claim
    Harris said the young woman gave her an example to help her understand, saying, “One example is you know whether, when they’re ready, could they start a family – worried about what that would mean and the stress of it.”
    The vice president continued, saying, “They were talking about in terms of their peers trying to figure out, you know, they’re going to have to get a job and they’re gonna have to make a living – but what they can do and how can they adapt the education that they are having now to their activism?”
    Twitter mocked the speech, with some stating that if kids are stressing about climate change, it’s because politicians like Harris have made alarmist claims about it.
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/harris-mocked-stating-kids-facing-climate-mental-health-issues-fundamentally-unserious
    😉

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jan 6 liars. Pieces of shit. Lying pieces of shit. Democrat Party and Enemy of the People media pieces of lying shit. Just the tip of the ICEBERG.
    https://fb.watch/jabAFXJFnp/

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  36. Scott O Avatar

    If GG is actually worried about lying – check this out:
    The Just-Us Dept head Garland is still repeating the lie that 5 officers died on Jan 6th.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPg9N_HiLMg

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  37. Scott O Avatar

    Well this is interesting. If this turns out to be true, people from the top down in the Justice Dept should go to prison.
    Jacob Chansley’s lawyer is openly claiming on FOX that exculpatory evidence was withheld from him.
    We’ll see what happens now.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTdL5VtjbtY

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No surprise here.
    House passes bill to protect free speech from government interference, 206 Democrats oppose
    https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-passes-bill-protect-free-speech-government-interference-206-democrats

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “It seems obvious that the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats hate free speech and are doing everything they can to try to squelch it.”
    THE DEMOCRATS MAKE WAR ON TWITTER
    “In any event, the Democrats’ childish display made clear how desperate they are to discredit the facts relating to the FBI’s collaboration with social media platforms to suppress free speech. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was especially absurd:
    “Being a Republican witness today certainly casts a cloud over your objectivity,” she said, before attacking the “Twitter Files” as a story “spoon-fed” by Musk to further the billionaire’s priorities.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/the-democrats-make-war-on-twitter.php
    Why is the Democrats knee jerk reaction to everything they do not like is to censor????

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No surprise here either. Peddling a Schedule 1 drug would be a deportable offense.
    House Democrats Vote Against Bill To Classify Fentanyl As Schedule I Drug While Thousands Die From Overdoses
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-democrats-vote-against-bill-to-classify-fentanyl-as-schedule-i-drug-while-thousands-die-from-overdoses
    Make America Last

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@7:30PM
    Huh. Maybe it’s just that Team Blue is expected to vote 100% against any Team Red legislation.
    Isn’t marijuana Schedule 1? How about take it off and add fentanyl?
    A list seems kind of silly in any case. Someone will always invent some magic new chemical. It’s like gun legislation that lists specific brands/models. Stupid.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Pinelli?
    PINELLI, KENNETH RONALD 57 4/3/1965 M 3/9/2023 2:52 PM N SUTTER CREEK, CA CORRECTIONAL OFFICER
    Chg # Agency Officer Agency Case Arrest Location Statute Statute Description Bail Court Case # Type End of Sentence Cleared Date
    1 CHP- TKE/ PLACER 16812 PCCHP NORTHSTAR DR/SR-267 23152(A)/23152(B) DUI:ALCOHOL/DRUGS $15,000.00 M Thursday, March 9, 2023

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Scotto 446p
    Bison Boi must be released from prison. Now. The judge in the case should be tearing a new one from the prosecution.
    “Why is the Democrats knee jerk reaction to everything they do not like is to censor????
    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 09 March 2023 at 06:37 PM
    That’s what Authoritarians do.

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  44. Scott O Avatar

    Gregory – “The judge in the case should be tearing a new one from the prosecution.”
    Don’t hold your breath.

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  45. Humphrey Ploughjogger Avatar
    Humphrey Ploughjogger

    Easy math everyone can get behind?
    House Republicans want to cut discretionary spending by 45% that would affect Defense, Head Start (included in Housing & Community), public housing and homeless programs (Housing & Community), federal aid for public K-12 education (Education), Pell grants for low-income college students (Education), food assistance for Women, Infants and Children (or WIC, in Food and Agriculture), job training and placement for unemployed people (in Social Security, Unemployment and Labor), and scientific research through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF), among many others.
    The Fed thinks that raising interest rates will eventually cause up to 2 million layoffs.
    Would two million jobs be affected by cuts in the discretionary spending area?

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  46. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: HP@6:54AM
    Is this the same news articles that say: “House Republicans’ Pledge to Cut Appropriated Programs to 2022 Level”?
    I guess it depends on how you phrase the action.
    The only 45% I’m running into is “The outline includes a 45 percent cut to foreign aid;” (NYT). I don’t know if The State’s goal of fighting to the last Ukrainian is included in this number.
    Naturally, any cut of any size will be framed as THIS DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTS BLACK WIMMEN! since the fedgov has become something of a jobs program.
    You could argue that we should simply spend more and more. It pushes the excitement of a bond apocalypse closer and gives me something to gaze in wonderment at. It’ll be like having a lawnchair and a drink to watch the Yellowstone Caldera go Tango Uniform, there’s a certain joy in destruction and it’s damned hard to keep a culture from committing suicide once it’s set it’s mind to it.

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Forgot the link…
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/politics/house-republicans-deficit-budget-biden.html
    I can see it, so hopefully everyone else can.
    It does make me wonder about a form of soft propaganda/censorship. News sites can selectively choose which articles to paywall (or not) to push a narrative.

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  48. Scott O Avatar

    Since I enjoyed listening to Tom Sullivan for many years, explanations of the terms used in DC regarding “cuts” are often total BS. You have to dig far more carefully than the average news article to often get what is actually proposed.
    The bizarre terminology and slight-of-hand book keeping in that town would have the average corporate CFO thrown in prison for the same actions. Just holding the line on federal budgets often produce screaming headlines of “huge cuts in spending!”
    As far as worry about job losses among fed workers in DC – I wouldn’t worry about that – most produce nothing of value to our country.
    Why in hell do we have a Dept Of Ed? They educate no one and the school test scores have gone down during it’s entire reign.

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