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Sandbox – 5mar23

05 March 2023

[Apologies for the delay of new sand. My malady is definitely slowing things down on RR, and I appreciate your continued hearty participation and patience. gjr]

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333 responses to “Sandbox – 5mar23”

Gregory

17 March 2023

Primum non nocere!

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Burpie Burp

18 March 2023

Primum non nocere!
Experts Tell Congress ‘Green’ Wind Turbines in Atlantic May Impair Ship Radar, Threatening National Security
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/03/17/experts-tell-congress-green-wind-turbines-in-atlantic-may-impair-ship-radar-threatening-national-security/

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scenes

18 March 2023

” No irreversible courses of medication.”
I should put together a picture book of ‘gender reassignment’ surgeries.
The beauty shots that that industry puts together really don’t do the whole thing justice. It’s like a whole generation of, mostly, autistic males is going through the meat grinder of hobbyist surgeons and crazy parents. I wonder if the thing will show up in the archaeological record somehow.
It’ll take GPT-10 to figger out how they all went mad at once.

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18 March 2023

Come on, no words yet about the upcoming Trump arrest in handcuffs?
This should be amazing. Hullaballoo abounds. Maybe they’ll stick him in the political prison where the Jan6 folks are chained up.
I need to check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcRrp7x-yDQ
Is Elon Musk right?
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1637051525670264834
Will Cheryl Cook write yet another in a series of angry columns that the paper runs for no known reason?
Will Robert Reich dance a little jig while wearing a tiny green suit and hat?
Will the Proud Boys launch an attack using pickle fork boats and Budweiser on all port cities?
Will GPT-4 refuse to comment?
coming soon.

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scenes

18 March 2023

lol. OK. Courtesy of Scott Adams’ rant linked above, I learned about this.
https://nypost.com/2023/03/12/de-anza-college-diversity-director-dr-tabia-lee-fired-for-questioning-anti-racism-policies-claim/
“Additionally, Lee said she refused to use the gender-neutral terms “Latinx” and “Filipinx” because of her belief they only fuel racism.”
Did you know that Filipinx is a thing? I didn’t. How is it pronounced? Filip-pinks maybe? That’s absolutely brilliant and I have now added it to my vocabulary.
‘Progressive’ readers, give a brotha a hand here. How is ‘Filipinx’ uttered?

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Bill Tozer

18 March 2023

“It’ll take GPT-10 to figger out how they all went mad at once.”
True, true…whatever a GPT-10 is. 🙂
Funny you mentioned the midget Robert Reich. Been thinking about him and Milo the provocateur due to Steve Bot’s contributions here.
Milo was to address UC Berkeley when the crowd of black masked young folks torched the building causing $600,000 damage to the university building. And this was before the Summer of Love. Anyway, in an interview immediately following the arson, smashed windows, and destruction, Professor Reicccccch said ‘NONE of those rioters were students at Berkeley.’ None. He knows.
Well, I figure that Cal probably has 20,000 students. Professor Reiccccccchhhhh teaches a course, probably 600-1,000 students max combined.
If the woke mobsters of carnage had their faces hidden behind robber’s masks and he only knew a few hundred students on campus, how could Robert Reiccccchhh the midget say unequivocally that none of those dreadful punks were students at Cal???? How could he know?..
Robert the Socialist midget brain was either lying as all socialist bastards do because it is a requirement OR the professor is dumber than Supertcunt Cook. Or, a lying Marxist cunt. Redundant, I know.

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Bill Tozer

18 March 2023

scenes @ 8:38 am
Well, if you want to know what the Democrat Party talking points are, just follow CuntCooked in the Union. Explains a lot. Dominion lawsuit against Fox…..the dreaded Fox News.
‘The battle for cable-news viewers is coming to March Madness.’
“CNN intends to run a new promo during the heavily watched NCAA men’s basketball tournament that throws a sharp verbal elbow at Fox News Channel and the legal defamation case filed against it by Dominion Voting Systems. The promos will air starting this weekend on TNT, TBS, TruTV and CBS, all of which carry the games under a joint rights agreement held by the owners of those networks, Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, which is also the parent of CNN.
Fox News Channel is not mentioned in the promo script, reviewed by Variety, but the references are clear. “What should you expect of a news network?” asks the narrator. “Some bury the truth, while we fight to reveal the facts. The only side we are on is yours.” Viewers see images of CNN correspondents and anchors such as Abby Phillip and Clarissa Ward.”
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/cnn-fox-news-dominion-voting-march-madness-promo-blitz-1235558100/
I was going to run down the long long list of the fakenews Enemy of the People CNN, Rachel Maddcow, Wa Compost, NYT’s coverage of the Russian Hoax created out of thin air by Supertwat Hillary, Spygate, The Pandenic masks and vaccine farce, the lying FBI and lying DOJ, Cuntcooke using her statuette of Fauci as her personal arousal dildo, 17 Intel agencies, and on and on it goes year in and year out…..but I will not waste my time.
As scenes wisely and pragmatically said recently, “Why bother?”
As far as Tucker Carlson’s “cherry picked” footage of the Q-Anon Shaman goes, it was nice to see and hear the footage on J-6 without the J-6 Committee’s added sounds of screams in the background and sounds breaking glass and insurrection carnage and other Hollywood soundtracks. To hear it was it was without the added sounds of the shark approaching in Jaws was rather nice. :).
I feel no need to acquiesce to the Lefties demands and narratives no more. Why bother. They have lost all credibility.

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Gregory

18 March 2023

I recall when my son called on Reich to help with a talk to prospective students (kiddies getting offered admittance as Regent’s Scholars), he talked with Reich and told him he watched him on Kudlow and Company with his dad. Meaning me.
His take on his meal ticket, that he was associated with for years? “Don’t watch it, it’s a horrible show”.
With a guaranteed audience, RR was a pro and kept the kiddies’ attention.

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18 March 2023

re: The upcoming Trump arrest.
I dearly hope for one of two outcomes.
. Trump is marched out in handcuffs by policemen from New York. His aides kitted him out with an orange jump suit. Lots of cameras. The hinterland begins rumbling in a not-nice fashion.
. Florida tells their brothers from not their mother in NYC to pound sand. DeSantis assigns security to Trump to guard him from the Blue Meanies from the North. Florida National Guard goes on alert.
No better times to live in, I tell ya.

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18 March 2023

“Don’t watch it, it’s a horrible show”.
Naturally.
About the only thing worse than TV scientists like Bill Nye or Black Science Man are TV economists.
Maybe I’ll throw TV investment experts in that group. Dante’s 8th Circle has plenty of room for the likes of Jim Cramer.

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Steve B

18 March 2023

Bill Tozer, 1:14
As usual you have nothing beyond straw man positions to soothe your unhappiness.
You do realize it’s REPUBLICANs fighting in 2023 against raising child marriage laws to age 16
in states like Wyoming, Tennessee and Idaho.
Don’t hear you moaning about actual groomers in those states who are actually fighting to keep it codified into law,
but we do hear your support for Milo who thinks it’s ok for thirteen year olds to have sex with adults.

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fish

18 March 2023

Posted by: Steve B | 18 March 2023 at 12:48 PM
….. but we do hear your support for Milo who thinks it’s ok for thirteen year olds to have sex with adults.
I don’t recall much support for Yiannopolis at all here but you seem to think about him an awful lot.
Why is that?
Especially since child grooming is something progressives are completely OK with!

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Misanthrope

18 March 2023

“child grooming is something progressives are completely OK with!”
Fish is swimming in the Pond of Sweeping Generalizations again.
How’s the water? 98.6F?

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fish

18 March 2023

Posted by: Misanthrope | 18 March 2023 at 01:39 PM
Hi jeffy….the missus let you have some computer time today? Very kind of her!

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Bill Tozer

18 March 2023

stevie bot
you sure are obsessed with Milo. So was Dead Paul. Thank you for sharing.

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fish

18 March 2023

Posted by: Misanthrope | 18 March 2023 at 01:39 PM
You do notice that the earlier response wasn’t at all a denial?
Ok groomer….

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18 March 2023

Steve B: “You do realize it’s REPUBLICANs fighting in 2023 against raising child marriage laws to age 16
in states like Wyoming, Tennessee and Idaho.”
OK groomer.
You do realize that it’s the DEMOCRATS who run the Great State of California that allow children of age zero to be married? (and Mississippi. California’s sister state).

I wonder how you say ‘Old Enough to Bleed’ in Latin, it would look good on the California state flag.

Jeez louise Steve B., enough with the bullshit attempts at bombshells. At least come in with a cogent argument. You sound like a perfect idiot or a bot.

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18 March 2023

Hang on, while Steve B is here…how do you pronounce Filipinx? I’m genuinely interested.
Is it Filipine-X? Filip-Inks? Fili-Pinks?
You must have gotten the note from SMERSH or somebody.

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Bill Tozer

18 March 2023

Wow. Two links in a row.
First:
‘Teen Suing Doctors For Removing Breasts At Age 13, Putting Her On Puberty Blockers: Letter’
“…presenting Layla’s parents with the false dilemma that: ‘would they rather have a live son, or a dead daughter?’”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/teen-suing-doctors-for-removing-breasts-at-age-13-putting-her-on-puberty-blockers-letter
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Very next link n DW
‘California Bill Seeks To Provide Abortions, Trans Treatment In States Where It’s Banned With New Bill Protecting Doctors’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-bill-seeks-to-provide-abortions-trans-treatment-in-states-where-its-banned-with-new-bill-protecting-doctors
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I really don’t care what adults do. They can turn themselves from a married lesbian couple into a heterosexual couple for all I care. I don’t believe in irreversible body disfiguring of children, especially since a disproportionately number of ‘trans’ girls have autism. Neither do I believe in masking school children or shutting classrooms down for K-8 graders as the educational and social harm outweighs the risks by a hundred miles. The damage of listening to our fucking teachers and their bosses the teachers unions in unfathomable at this point. A crime against humanity and a crime against our next generation. Sure, Kenny Jonsey and Cuntcook and Howelling Dick and the rest of the lot did and do not care about our children and neither do they now.
Like I said, I don’t give a hoot about what adults do to themselves, even if it is changing a gay marriage into a heterosexual marriage. Chop, chop.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/gfwu8y-angels-top-surgery?

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18 March 2023

‘California Bill Seeks To Provide Abortions, Trans Treatment In States Where It’s Banned With New Bill Protecting Doctors’

Ya know, I think they should expand that whole program. By adding the Body Integrity Dysphoria folks to that, the doctors would get a whole new profit center from needlessly amputating limbs and perhaps the occasional purposeful blinding. There’s bound to be a few 14 year-olds with an extra leg or two and has parents who are interested in the Cool New Thing. You get better parking spots if nothing else.

Whoof. Finished up the newest Scott Adams and is he on a tear (youtube). F-bombs aplenty. I don’t think he wants to be monetized on that one.

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18 March 2023

“A Predator’s Paradise
On the grounds of making California more welcoming to LGBTQ youth, State Senator Scott Wiener is transforming the state into a haven for human trafficking.”
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/a-predators-paradise
Bummer that his first name isn’t ‘Dick’.

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scenes

18 March 2023

Speaking of Sen. Scott ‘Weiner’:
“A DeSantis-style bill was just introduced in CA to require teachers/counselors to inform parents if a kid id’s as a gender not on birth certificate.
Even if the kid isn’t ready to come out to their parents. Even if ratting the kid out risks violence at home.
Nope, not in CA.”
https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1635303061060190211
Really, that’s one of the primary fronts in the Culture War. Are schools primarily responsible for children? or parents?
Maybe Steve B could weigh in on this.

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Don Bessee

18 March 2023

Follow the money –
there is a significant difference between how western Europe and the United States treats children with gender dysphoria.
While the American medical establishment is pushing heavily for the “affirmation” model — which includes prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilation surgeries to children — European countries have sounded the alarm on how harmful such a model is for children.
“If you’re running a gender dysphoria clinic in the U.K. or France, you’re not going to be getting paid $5,000 for each surgery,” the neurologist explained, noting the differences between the American capitalism-oriented healthcare system and the socialized European one. “The fact that the model is different is why the Europeans are able to be honest about the situation.”
The doctor was not advocating for socialized medicine, but rather pointing out a significant moral setback that can be present in the American system.
“When you talk about some of these invasive surgeries, you have to be careful to acknowledge that there are entities making a lot of money on the surgery,” he said.
“Most pediatricians are very uncomfortable that children are not mature enough at 12, 13, 14 [years old] to make decisions to pursue body-altering treatments,” he continued. “There probably are some, but that makes all of us very uncomfortable.”
The neurologist explained that the “transgender” issue came in a “movement from the left coast to the east coast celebrating LGBTQ.”
“It didn’t just acknowledge it. It didn’t just accept it. It celebrated it,” he said. “The transgender people have kind of piled on.”
The movement has attacked the family unit and “taken advantage” of poor family structures to gain legitimacy.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/18/big-bucks-medicine-doctors-rip-gender-affirming-care-model/
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Don Bessee

18 March 2023

Why the chi coms and those mutha mullahs are laughing so hard their sides hurt –
As the Secretary of the Navy, I can tell you that I have made climate one of my top priorities since the first day I came into office,” Del Toro said March 1 in remarks at the University of the Bahamas.
Del Toro said he met with Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis during his visit and spoke “at length” with him about the climate crisis and focused the bulk of his remarks on climate.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/navy-secretary-cited-climate-change-110048201.html
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Bill Tozer

18 March 2023

Anybody see parallels or hypocrisy? I do. To review our Looney Left story covered here on these pages, of course:
‘Maryland Democrats want to let young adults off the hook for felony murder’
“The Democratic delegate behind the bill objects to this because anyone under the age of 25 has not had their brain fully develop. How would a 23-year-old know that participating in a violent crime such as robbery could lead to someone dying? They are basically children…..
Again, the idea here is that young adults who are 21 or 25 years old are not capable of realizing that they should not commit crimes.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/maryland-democrats-want-to-let-young-adults-off-the-hook-for-felony-murder
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Now Matt Walsh’s testimony before the Tennessee Legislature as covered previously here, of course:
“Walsh then said that it did not make sense for children, who are not allowed to do things like purchase firearms or get tattoos, to be able to make such impactful decisions. He added that “children were being coerced into making decisions” that they were not equipped to make…..
Walsh stated that 18 is the legal age of adulthood, but noted that people’s brains typically are not fully developed until age 25.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-testifies-in-favor-of-tennessee-bill-banning-child-gender-mutilation
See that? Maryland’s looney Left says a person’s brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. Matt Walsh says a person’s brain is not fully developed until the age of 25.
I see a double standard. Fuck you Lefties, fuck you Progressives and nuclear family hating American Marxists for permanentl disfiguring our “children.” You are sick mo fros.
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PS: Sen Scott Weiner of West Hollywood is the dude who year after year tries to water down Megan’s Law and legitimatize pedophilia in our laws. Very very very Democrat area he represents. Fuck you groomers. Fuck off and die, groomers and child molester o the Left.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/college-park-maryland-mayor-arrested-child-pornography-charges

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Don Bessee

18 March 2023

Its telling that the woke craziness even has bill mahrr sounding reasonable –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/this-is-madness-bill-maher-tears-into-san-francisco-reparations-plan/ar-AA18N9Me?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=db74a4b925f440c9bba456319a3ead9d&ei=34
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Bill Tozer

18 March 2023

CNN reporter reveals her crew was robbed in San Francisco while covering city’s rampant crime: ‘Ridiculous’
“Got robbed. Again,” Lah wrote. “[CNN producer Jason Kravarik] & I were at city hall in San Francisco to do an interview for @CNN. We had security to watch our rental car + crew car. Thieves did this in under 4 seconds. Security stopped the jerks from stealing other bags. But seriously- this is ridiculous.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-reporter-reveals-her-crew-robbed-san-francisco-while-covering-citys-rampant-crime-ridiculous

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Burpee Burp Belch Misanthrope

18 March 2023

‘Woke’ Effectively Describes The Left’s Insanity, And That’s Why They Hate When You Say It
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/17/woke-effectively-describes-the-lefts-insanity-and-thats-why-they-hate-when-you-say-it/
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The number of illegal border crossings between Canada and the United States has increased nearly tenfold over the past five months in the region between northeast states and Canada, local law enforcement officials say.
From October 1 to February 28, around 2,000 migrants illegally crossed the border between Canada and New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York, south through forests, compared to just 200 crossings in the same period the previous year, according to NBC News.
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrants-flood-into-us-from-canada-as-bidens-border-crisis-deepens?

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Don Bessee

18 March 2023

Soros backed da fighting for political life decides to resurrect an already rejected political witch hunt –
“This is a flawed case if it is based on a state charge effectively prosecuting the federal election violation,” wrote Turley. “That federal case was rejected by the Justice Department. There are also statute of limitation questions that could come into play.”
In an opinion article published in the Hill Saturday, Turley wrote that the case was “legally pathetic” and highlighted issues with the “most-discussed” potential charge in the case.
While we still do not know the specific state charges in the anticipated indictment, the most-discussed would fall under Section 175 for falsifying business records, based on the claim that Trump used legal expenses to conceal the alleged hush-payments that were supposedly used to violate federal election laws. While some legal experts have insisted such concealment is clearly a criminal matter that must be charged, they were conspicuously silent when Hillary Clinton faced a not-dissimilar campaign-finance allegation.
A Section 175 charge would normally be a misdemeanor. The only way to convert it into a Class E felony requires a showing that the “intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.” That other crime would appear to be the federal election violations which the Justice Department previously declined to charge.
He added that Bragg’s office could not prosecute the charge as a misdemeanor, as the statute of limitations is two years. He would have to pursue a felony.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/03/18/legally-pathetic-jonathon-turley-shreds-alvin-braggs-potential-case-against-trump/
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Bill Tozer

18 March 2023

I am 100% behind Frisco paying reparations and boycotting non-woke cities and states. Make that 110% behind Frisco paying reparations to folks they did not harm.
https://fb.watch/jmgxMiIKEN/

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scenes

18 March 2023

re: SF Reparations.
There’s a lot more ideas for making black people happier here:
https://www.sfreparations.org/documents
Given that there’s a bunch of words about housing, I’ll present my plan.
Choose a reasonable amount of San Francisco housing stock, let’s say 50%, and make those available for under-market rates exclusively to black folks. I’m thinking $1 / year. For the first ten years or so, utilities, food/drink, transportation would be free.
A person could build a great big vibrant example for the rest of the US. A kind of Wakanda by the Bay. The life and excitement of The City would change immeasurably.
Seriously, we could make it happen. There would be a thrill watching this happening from afar.

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Bill Tozer

19 March 2023

Frisco, the poop City by the bay. More on the morons.
It’s had sometimes not to be judgmental. What I seek is not humanly possible from the arrogant and ignorant left. I do not seek, “I am sorry” because they are all sorry sons of bitches. What I seek is a simple, “I was wrong.” You will never hear that from Supercunt Cooked, Kenny Jonesy, Mr. Wilson, or the rest of the lot. Ever.
See, if you admit you were wrong, then you have to make changes. Sorry does not cut it. And because our Nevada County wack jobs can never admit to others they were wrong on so many things, issues, and policies….well, they just do not have it in them. Like Dead Paul, for a tiny insignificant discredited example. It is beyond their capabilities. Programmed.
Anyway…..
‘Shot: defund the police; Chaser: I am begging for more police’
“So I am inclined to be forgiving to people who make mistakes in good faith. But not at all inclined to do so for people who sacrifice the health and well-being of others in order to score political points. And that is what Ronen did……
Sure, some people will grumble a bit, but the voters of San Francisco will reward her for being stunning and brave when she attacked the police, and stunning and brave when begging for more.
In a sane world, she would have been ridiculed then and ridiculed now. In fact, she was and is. But only by conservatives and we don’t count. We are bad people for pointing any of this out.
Republicans pouncing, that is all.”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/03/17/shot-defund-the-police-chaser-i-am-begging-for-more-police-n537615

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ChiaTeaNevadaCity

19 March 2023

Apparently the Germans have learned from Greeks in sailor caps, CA State Senator Weiner, Scots in Kilts, and the New Democrat Party.
https://fb.watch/jmJ1D3AykS/

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Misanthrope

20 March 2023

Posted by: ChiaTeaNevadaCity | 19 March 2023 at 02:04 PM
MAGA drivel…but par for RR.
“Definition of Penal Code 236.1 Human Trafficking
California Penal Code 236.1(c) defines causing a minor to engage in commercial sex acts. This statute makes it a crime to cause or persuade a minor to participate in commercial sex acts – also with the intent to commit the California crimes listed above.”

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ChiateaNevadaCity

20 March 2023

Misanthropie @ 9:51 AM
??? My post @ 2:04 pm had nothing to do with CA commercial law, rather the long held trend in Europe. California commercial sex acts refer to child pornography, which is about a low as one can go. Commercial. Like a wedding photographer.
Bestiality Sex, aka Zoo Sex, is legal in German Brothels but filming of such debauchery is illegal.
May I kindly suggest you comment on the topic at hand if you are going to reference a time stamped comment. Focus playground monitor, focus.

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Bill Tozer

20 March 2023

Always good to review and drive it home. Never say never, but there is always an exception. Never work. Outdated, obsolete technology.
WHY WIND AND SOLAR WILL NEVER WORK
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/why-wind-and-solar-will-never-work-2.php

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scenes

20 March 2023

“WHY WIND AND SOLAR WILL NEVER WORK”
I’ll take a look at the article, but suspect that it involves power storage.
In any case, engineering reality never gets into the picture. The typical Team Blue ‘clean’ energy plan is 1)make ‘not-clean’ energy unavailable and 2) hope that someone comes up with an alternative. Alternatives may not include new dams, nuclear, cutting down trees, anything unsightly in wealthy neighborhoods.
In race relations, I noticed that Thought Leaders have come to the same conclusion as the Left and the Right link arms.
Scott Adams: ““I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,””
Robin DeAngelo: “I think people of color need to get away from white people and have some community with each other.”
The details have yet to be worked out, but mostly seem to involve Scott Adams being deplatformed.

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Hans Inderschmitten

20 March 2023

ChiaPet,
Donkey shows in TJ, Rednecks humping sheep, chickens, and whatever. What’s news?
Are you a prude?
Squeal like a pig!
Figures you would be from Nirvana Silly. Woke up!

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Bill Tozer

20 March 2023

scenes @ 11:04 am
It is precisely because of power storage that wind and solar will not work.
What scares me is this push for all electric homes. WTF? Despite the Biden Administration getting caught with their ass flapping in the wind again and trying to walk back banning gas appliances under the guise of indoor pollution (asthma), released communiques show that the Eco-Nuts have been planning to natural gas across the land long before the asthma excuse was put forth.
Poop City Frisco is banning all gas water heaters. Green freaks in Ca are proposing state wide bans on gas. Nationally, they are pushing a ban on gas full steam ahead.
Is it the Netherlands (or another Northern Europe country) that shut down its plentiful fossil fuels that is gearing up its bio-mass burners to produce electricity. The devil is in the details. Taking timber from the forests of the slopes of Eastern North America and shipping the wood across the Atlantic seems counter productive to me at first glance.

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Bill Tozer

20 March 2023

‘The Great Abdication’
In California, public officials now favor the lawless and deviant over the law-abiding and hardworking.
Heather Mac Donald
https://www.city-journal.org/the-great-abdication-of-california

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scenes

20 March 2023

“What scares me is this push for all electric homes.”
The real deal all-electric home is the scary one. You don’t just run everything needed for life from a single wire (well, three) and it’s upstream opportunities for mayhem, but the natural next step is to actively manage your home for the sake of ‘efficiency’ and ‘the children’ and whatnot. All of your house power systems, pricing, HVAC, water heaters, probably refrigerators and ovens would be expected to be centrally managed at some point. Not enough ‘lectric from the windmills? Reddy Kilowatt will turn your heat down a bit. Your cars will become grid-tied batteries. One Big Machine run by the The State.
No doubt wood heat will become more and more illegal, so that’s no alternative.
It’ll take some time, but the The State has all the time in the world. There’s plenty of people that want to place everyone in apartments with mass transit, suitably diverse neighbors clomping around overhead, with more and more rules for living. It’s for Gaia. For the children. For equity. Or whatever sellable concept comes up. The thing is that extremists usually win, they hit way above their weight. …or maybe the whole thing will blow out in a giant social cataclysm.
Choosing between collapse and dystopia is a heckuva thing, but here we are.

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20 March 2023

“Is it the Netherlands (or another Northern Europe country) that shut down its plentiful fossil fuels that is gearing up its bio-mass burners to produce electricity.”
Speaking of the Netherlands, the last few years’ hullaballoo of farmers v. The State are worth looking at. Not well reported in the US.

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scenes

20 March 2023

re: 12:01PM led me to this article.
https://www.city-journal.org/the-great-feminization-of-the-american-university
In which one of the commenters coined the word ‘Karenocracy’. Now, that is a good one.

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Don Bessee

20 March 2023

@229 –
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/20/pro-farmer-party-wins-even-more-dutch-senators-than-expected-globalist-govt-loses-big/
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Don Bessee

20 March 2023

Talk about making every mistake you can –
In the aftermath of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th biggest bank in the country, many are left wondering what went wrong. Both current and former employees have stated that the bank’s support of remote work is a contributing factor.
Axios reports that current and former employees of Silicon Valley bank have mentioned the bank’s support of remote work as a contributing factor to its recent collapse. SVB stood out in the banking sector for its commitment to remote work. “If our time working remotely has taught us anything, it’s that we can trust our employees to be productive from wherever they work,” the company’s career website bragged. The SVB executive team was dispersed across the nation, with CEO Greg Becker occasionally working from Hawaii
In its 2022 annual report, SVB included remote work as a risk to its business, despite its public commitment to it. The report cited concerns about productivity as well as IT problems brought on by having employees spread out across the nation as reasons for this risk.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/03/20/silicon-valley-bank-employees-think-remote-work-contributed-to-collapse/
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Bill Tozer

20 March 2023

scenes @ 2:25 pm (The push to be a 3rd world country)
“It’ll take some time, but the The State has all the time in the world. There’s plenty of people that want to place everyone in apartments with mass transit, suitably diverse neighbors clomping around overhead, with more and more rules for living. It’s for Gaia. For the children. For equity. Or whatever sellable concept comes up. The thing is that extremists usually win, they hit way above their weight. …or maybe the whole thing will blow out in a giant social cataclysm.
Choosing between collapse and dystopia is a heckuva thing, but here we are.”
The very first time I read the GND, I said within myself, “This is written by someone who lives in major cities who take public transit and does not own a car!”
It was not till my work down in Southern Cal did I ever meet some adults who never owned or drove a car. Immediately made friends with couple from Chicago seeking their fame and fortune. The lady of the couple never had a car, never had a drivers license, never had a need to. Downtown Chicago….take the bus.
Also, immediately meet a lady from Boston. Same story. No need to own a car, way to expensive to park one in Boston or even own one. Mass transit, baby. Bicycles cab.Gotta make mid six figures to own, drive, or park a car in New York City.
To cut to the quick, this whole Green New Deal is written from a urban downtown subway rider point of view. The only Amtrak route in the entire nation that is profitable is the New York City to NE corridor. (BTW, AOC did not participate in writing the GND and never even read it before promoting it. Trivia pursuit.).
So, take mass transit, take a train, no need for an automobile (call Uber), no need for cow farts, no need for farmland, and no explanation on how to get from the last stop on the Brown Streak to you domicile in suburbia.
Two years ago they had these young greenie lassies at some University in NY writing regs for the elimination of AC. Air conditioning not needed…..send the hoards of the unwashed masses to the Bog Top cooling stations situated throughout the city.
Clearly a Eastern Urbanite metro-sexual point of view.
Hey, CA and Az and all the Southwest and Sunbelt: Listen up, no AC for you. Go to the cooling station, knuckledraggers.
3rd World Country here we come. BTW, that gas station down in Brownsvalley on Hwy 20 heading towards Marysville has sold out of 3 straw baskets of packages of bugs and ground up bugs to eat. The clerk was telling me all about it when he caught me looking and laughing at the bug food on the counter at the register. He was laughing too and he could not believe how quick they were selling as well. I saw it as a novelty item like a Pet Rock or something.
But it was the mealworms that got to me. Hey, it says meal in the word mealworms. I told the clerk that imagine sitting at dinner with your sweetie pie and instead of saying very quietly in hushed tones, “Hey Sugar Plum, you got a piece of lettuce stuck in your teeth“, you say, “Honey Bun, you got a grub stuck between teeth. The clerk was rolling.
It’s Bugalious.
https://www.chewy.com/amzey-appetizing-natural-dried/dp/262116?

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pro bonobo

20 March 2023

“Today we secured a GAME-CHANGING WIN in The CRPA Foundation’s Boland v. Boland lawsuit to dismantle Newsom’s Handgun Roster!!
The court just granted our Motion for a Preliminary Injunction, concluding that the loaded chamber indicator, magazine disconnect, and microstamping requirements are
unconstitutional.”

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Bill Tozer

20 March 2023

Tonight I decided to go out on a limb and discuss ONLY ONE SIDE of something we (excluding Don B and a Dr. Rebane not recent post) have not discussed in a while. The 900 pound gorilla in the room: Ukraine.
First, with both sides of the conflict in Ukraine (US and Russia) experts at propaganda, it’s hard to sort through the fiction from the fact.
Second, I will play devil’s advocate here and give one take on the War without being in the know to what is really happening or in the know about everything. With those two disclaimers out of the way….
My stated position is the Ukraine War will end when Putin says it will end. Looks like Putin is willing to replay Stalingrad in WW2, throwing everything and millions of untrained soldiers at 3 million Germans. Think the USSR lost 9 million soldiers in that war, millions at Stalingrad. Block by block, house by house, one side of a street by one side of a street. Half a building by half a building. A slugfest. A true flesh shredding machine.
Remember, Ukraine is the largest and poorest country in Europe. For eight years straight, Ukraine has been shelling innocent civilians in the two eastern pro Russian oblasts/regions. Remember Trump’s impeachment over Javelin missiles? Those missiles were directed at the eastern oblasts, civilians and rebels alike, indiscriminate. Those oblasts are Russian speaking regions. Always have been.
The President of Ukraine has mandated Ukrainian be spoken in the East. He has also shut done all churches in the country and arrested the priests. He has also suspended all political parties save his own. He has shut down all news outlets and media except the official government run ‘Pravda’ of Ukraine. Spare me with this is a fight for democracy. That is one big line of horse phooey. Ain’t no democracy in Ukraine.
The killing fields of Stalingrad are in the eastern Russian speaking oblasts. That’s the real battle to come.
Ukraine only has only so many citizens, only so many soldiers, and only so many men of fighting age. It’s not enough with its forces protecting Kiev and Odessa to do battle in the wide open terrain of eastern front.
Both the Romanian and Hungarian Embassies have filed a complaint with Ukraine because the Ukrainian government is grabbing the approximately 150,000 ethnic Romanians and 180,00 ethic Hungarians that live in Ukraine and taking the men and by force making them Ukrainian soldiers. Gypsies if you will. They are sent to the Eastern front, some with 2-4 weeks training, some with no training. Now Ukraine is arrested is own people not of fighting age (some over 40, some older juveniles) and again, some with no training and some with 2-3 weeks training off to the battle zone.
Why? Because Ukraine does not have enough soldiers to fight and win the coming Russian backed Spring offensive from the eastern regions.
Biden promised to send Ukraine 31 Abrams tanks. But, we cannot allow our real Abrams, not one single one to fall into Russian hands. The armor on the new Abrams are such a state secret that nobody in the world has the formula. The armor and composites are in and of itself a National Security issue. Like making the finest or finest Samurai sword with 17 folds into itself, each layer hammered into itself to become the sharpest and strongest edge. The Abrams armor with their composites and manufacturing secrets are the same thing. Biden will send 31 Abram tanks, but with the old armor and they have to be built with the old armor technology and that takes months.
NATO? Do you think France of Germany gives a shit about Ukraine? Never have before and they do not really give a shit about Ukraine now. Not really. Poland has the largest standing army of our European NATO members. Poland’s army of 200,000 men could invade and overrun Germany with ease. Take over the who damn German nation. Let that sink in. NATO is unified in rhetoric, but not in reality.
Unless we or an NATO alley send tens of thousands of troops, even a 100,000 boots on the ground in Ukraine, this war is over when Putin says it is over. Yes, there have been defections of Russian troops, Ukrainian victories and strategic missions, but Putin has 500,000 troops ready to do the inch by inch flesh shredding battle in the two oblasts this Spring.
Putin has also positioned his troops inside the Russian border near Kiev and other places. That keeps the bulk of Ukrainian troops at bay guarding the west, south and middle.
With NATO growing weary, with a LACK of the necessary Ukrainian troops to take the East, with Putin having Stalin’s total disregard for human life….I make the argument that it is Putin who is in the cat bird’s seat, not Ukraine. Nor Biden.
That is one side of the story. Only one narrative, but I will stick with it.

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fish

21 March 2023

If there were any doubts as to whether or not to take the Fat Girl Gazette seriously…..

Kellyanne Conway’s Daughter, Husband Roast Trump Over Looming Indictment

Yes, by all means let’s check with Conway’s first regarding these matters……
The real downside is that whatever meager utility newspapers once had is gone…..I can’t line the bottom of the birdcage with iPads.
https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/article273370970.html

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scenes

21 March 2023

re: fish@5:49AM
I figure that the modern newspaper is made up of equal parts:
. things they read on Twitter and other websites
. feelz
. puzzles ‘n comics
so of course that would be heavily covered. Maybe ‘Mean Girl Gazette’ is more like it.
re: Ukraine.
Good gawd, who knows? Before the war, Ukraine was a Russia mini-me complete with oligarchs and world-class corruption. The US foreign policy establishment obviously is playing Risk there. The Russians are going to ground and pound until they lose interest or run out of endless warehouses of old artillery shells. If nothing else, the place is showing where you end up with decades of bad decision making in defense spending. My hope is that the fools running the White House and the gubmint generally don’t cross some line they don’t see.
In the meantime, believe nothing in US media reporting on the matter. It crossed into domestic politics, just like a worldwide virus, five minutes after inception.
re: George Boardman (yes, that one).
Excellent column in today’s Der Union. Good job. It’s always best to old-man-at-clouds at local events rather than national ones in any case as more (a lot more) expertise is brought to the matter.

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