[In updating the government’s butt stupid department, we witnessed today a major speech by SecTreas Janet Yellen assuring the Red Chinese that that US has no intention in surpassing them in international trade and economic progress, let alone outcompeting them in military matters. Then for what in hell are these people getting paid?? gjr]
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282 responses to “Sandbox – 20apr23”
Posted by: scenes | 22 April 2023 at 07:54 AM
The Case For Making Earth Day a Religious Holiday”
I think I could live with that, but only if we did it properly.
I’m onboard…..and we heretics could celebrate 🎉 too. I’m thinking an “Immolation of the Insufficiently Pious”. Someone of no particular use to the party (….or Order if you prefer) who has been overly demonstrative regarding his lifestyle….multiple homes, a personal watercraft, and a great deal of ostentatious pirate themed, carbon spewing air travel….I’m sure you know the comrade….err….congregant. Indeed his personal appearance alone would hint strongly at sin! He having consumed enough resources for so many others.
The smoke could’ve seen for miles……and was instrumental in keeping the faithful observant and Gaia fearing for years….
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“Immolation of the Insufficiently Pious”
We could do it twice a year. Maybe add in a harvest festival.
A thousand years from now the people of the future could marvel at a bog body with a placard stating ‘Inventor of the Internet’.
They could then get back to plowing with sticks.
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Here’s another example of capitalism taking advantage of cheap child labor. Didn’t the parents know or perhaps they did and didn’t care?
“KIELER, WI – One of the nation’s largest food safety sanitation services providers has paid $1.5 million in civil money penalties after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found the company employed at least 102 children – from 13 to 17 years of age – in hazardous occupations and had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states. ”
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20230217-1
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“Here’s another example of capitalism taking advantage of cheap child labor.”
Paul – I’m not quite sure why it is you want to advertise to the world how F’n ignorant you are. Exploited people of all ages have been and are now exploited whenever and wherever a particular society allows it. “capitalism” has absolutely nothing to do with it. There is, BTW – no indication in the article that they were underpaid. Your fabricated idea they were “cheap” is not supported by fact.
Did you read the link I provided, Paul? Where are these children the Biden admin loosed on our country? Do you care? Of course you don’t.
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Posted by: psul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 09:16 AM
Oh psul….you silly, silly old halfwit. You didn’t really think that the 14 year olds slaving away in those meat processing plants were going to be white children did you? No……they will be lovingly delivered unto capitalisms maw from the border by the Pride of Scranton and his Homeland Security Secretary….or Imp of Satan as he is more properly addressed Alejandro Mayorkas.
But hey…..keep thinking you’re on the right side of history….if that helps you.
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Here’s what Paul proudly voted for:
https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/video-cornyn-biden-admin-allowed-migrant-child-trafficking-silenced-whistleblowers/
Hey Paul – care to know what happens to trafficked children? Care to know the “working conditions”? I can assure you there’s no break room and paid holidays.
There is some health care, though – the girls get free abortions so they can continue to provide money to the pimps.
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Well Scott it’s now allowed in Arkansas because of Republican governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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Paul – I’m not quite sure why it is you want to advertise to the world how F’n ignorant you are……
C’mon man…..an overt display of the faith can keep a “brother” out of trouble and in free drinks for a long time.
They don’t call it “virtue signaling” for nothing…..!
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Posted by: psul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 09:45 AM
Again…..your only interest is the rhetorical point…..nothing more.
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Fishmouth
Are you saying that my 9:45 is not true? Can you document that?
Just a reminder to readers that “fish’ or whatever he calls himself uses a fake name because he’s ashamed to use his real name because his opinions are an embarrassment to his family.
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Hilarious – “it’s now allowed in Arkansas…”
American citizens “allowed” to be gainfully employed!!!
Just shocking, I tell you, shocking!
What fresh hell will Paul uncover next?
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Posted by: psul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 09:56 AM
I must have landed one…..that’s the only time psul plays the “embarrassing the family” card.
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More hilarity – “…uses a fake name because he’s ashamed to use his real name because his opinions are an embarrassment to his family.”
Hey Paul! Can you “document” that?
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So Scott has no problem with 14 year olds working in meat processing plants in Arkansas without their family knowing about it.
Fishmouth
Can you document why you use a fake name?
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Might want to start drawing any government entitlements now……no telling how long they’re going to last.
This is in near exact alignment with other predictions made by people I’m familiar with who have above average analysis and predictive track records.
Plan accordingly.
https://twitter.com/wretchardthecat/status/1649218725055430656
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Even more hilarity – “…no problem with 14 year olds working in meat processing plants in Arkansas without their family knowing about it.”
I’m trying to figure out how my son at age 14 could be working in a meat processing plant in Arkansas without my knowledge.
Does this sort of invented BS keep poor Paul awake at night?
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Posted by: psul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 10:39 AM
psul……you should maybe look into memory care. We’ve been over this in the past.
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It’s on…..
https://www.rt.com/business/575111-brics-dollar-trade-indonesia/
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Re. my 7:55 am……
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2023-04-22_10-24-35.png?itok=z32PWGpb
One look at her likely explains any “interest” in trans……perhaps at some point in the past.
Kindred spirits…..!
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The Biden administration removed Nigeria from the Human Rights Violators List. Some speculate that they feel it is O.K. to kill Christians as long as they get their oil. “Last year alone, 5,014 Christians were killed in Nigeria — accounting for nearly 90% of Christian deaths worldwide as well [as] 90% of Christian kidnappings across the globe”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253517/republican-and-democrat-leaders-urge-biden-to-add-nigeria-to-list-of-countries-violating-religious-freedom
https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/12/rubio-hawley-call-on-biden-admin-to-redesignate-nigeria-as-country-of-particular-concern
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“I must have landed one…..that’s the only time psul plays the “embarrassing the family” card.”
Posted by: 🐠 | 22 April 2023 at 10:02 AM
Family card? Yep. Let’s not forget about the incredulous moral outrage Punchy uncontrollably vented over Donald J Trump boinking a porn star while poor Melania was home nursing her baby.
Well, at least Trump did not have Melania euthanatize the little fellow. Surprisingly for a Limousine Liberal.
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THE DIRTIEST TRICK
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/the-dirtiest-trick-2.php
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I consider fish “family.” Not just “family” but family.
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‘Spy letter about Hunter Biden shows how Dems are undermining democracy’
https://nypost.com/2023/04/21/spy-letter-about-hunter-biden-shows-how-dems-are-undermining-democracy/
The devil is not in the details. The devil is the details.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 22 April 2023 at 12:23 PM
I consider fish “family.” Not just “family” but family.
Well thank you William….right back at ya!
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So Bill why do you think “fish” has to lie about his name? ßince you’re family is must make you sad he cannot be honest about who he is. I’m proud to use my real name.
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What’s the point if there are no children? True agenda exposed.
‘Florida LGBTQ group cancels Pride parade when told it must be adults only‘
https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-lgbtq-group-cancels-pride-parade-when-told-it-must-be-adults-only?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 12:32 PM
I’m proud to use my real name.
I wouldn’t be…..there’s a whole line of Emery’s rolling in their graves every time you take to the keyboard.
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Time to have a nappie poo @1232 –
“ßince you’re family is must make”
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 22 April 2023 at 12:40 PM
Thanks Don….I should have read that a little more closely…..more Classic Emery.
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Biden Has Held Fewest News Conferences Since Reagan. Any Questions?
My only question is …….”ßince you’re family is must make”…..WTF?
Joe Biden…..the only man who could ever truly represent psul Emery. I guess you could say they speak the same language!
https://dnyuz.com/2023/04/21/biden-has-held-the-fewest-news-conferences-since-reagan-any-questions/
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He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother.
ßince
https://youtu.be/TNAQ8LLptUo
Blood is thicker than water punchy.
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 22 April 2023 at 12:50 PM
Not to criticize a family member Bill but isn’t that a little too “gay anthem-y” for this crew? Just throwin it out there!
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“BRICS de-dollarization push gaining momentum – Jakarta”
That’s a thing I genuinely wonder about, what is a decent estimate in a drop to the dollar’s value if it loses status as a world currency? Maybe a person’s best start might be looking at the English pound over time, but so many circumstances are different. Debt. Backing by metals. Lack of crazy derivatives, money less mobile, money not traded by computer.
Plus other currencies have their own problems. What are the BRIC+ planning on doing for banking really? Maybe they could set up a currency backed by commodity values, but I really have no idea.
Settling transactions sounds like a more complicated business that you might give credit (so to speak) to.
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@fish/12:47
Joe Biden…..the only muppet who could ever truly represent the muppets who voted for him.
I did hear that they’re going to prop up ol’ Joe and have him announce his candidacy in a recorded message. God knows you couldn’t take a chance on a live gig.
The perfect President for these times. A man never famed for his intellect with obvious physical and cognitive decline, some unseen staff members with their hands up his backside making his mouth move.
I welcome our upcoming Robot Lords and Masters. Bring on the AGI.
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Posted by: scenes | 22 April 2023 at 01:00 PM
The dollar had long been seen as “the least dirty shirt in the closet” but with the freezing of dollar assets of the non compliant I’m not sure that even this will be enough for it to hold! I think that a new patchwork settlement and storage infrastructure is probably being worked on furiously as we speak.
All it really takes is seeing enough “people” looking towards the exits.
Batten down the hatches!
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Posted by: scenes | 22 April 2023 at 01:05 PM
I did hear that they’re going to prop up ol’ Joe and have him announce his candidacy in a recorded message. God knows you couldn’t take a chance on a live gig.
I hope he wins…..none of the Republicans are going to be worth a shit ….all being more of the same “Big Gov” types! Frankly at this point in the American Experiment we all need to learn to appreciate the humor of a “Crash Test Dummy” as Chief Executive!
I wonder if he had even the slightest clue at the time just how valuable living with profound cognitive decline would make him to the machine later in life!
https://www.bafound.org/news/what-joe-biden-learned-from-his-life-threatening-brain-aneurysms/
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Kinda sad that none of you have any concern about poor fish who cannot use his real name to express an opinion. Pretty sad actually and I am concerned about his situation. I know he doesn’t live around here, if you believe what he once said. At one point he said he’s from somewhere near Sacramento but that could be fake as well. Perhaps he’s a paid agitator from China or Russia who knows. He certainly is a Trump supporter, no doubt about that. Possibly he’s QAnon. His opinions are wacko enough.
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re: The Bud Light Boycott
Easiest boycott in the world. No protests, no letter writing campaign, no nasty grams sent to corporate. The right generally does not stage big demonstrations and bust up persons, places, and things to protest a product. Not our style. If you want to down some Bud Light brewskis, it’s up to you. Personally, I have had enough, thank you very much.
Depending how one defines market cap, Budweiser is a 170 billion international company and has lost only 5 billion. That is taking the share price x total shares. Some figure it a different way and come up with 130 billion. Whatever.
It is best to focus on one thing. Not let it peter out. The cost to make it all better is simple, but not easy. Expensive to the company. An apology from Anheuser-Busch to its core customers. A apology is all we ask, nothing more, nothing less.
Other companies like Nike have already factored in the costs of going Woke and won’t change a thing. It’s their core customer base so a dude without breasts modeling sports bras is A-OK with Nike. A dude with a dick modeling as the face and spokesperson of WOMEN is not ok with Bud Light consumers, albeit some don’t give a rats ass nor follow the news or even care one way or another.
Keep it up until there is a clear apology from Busch. It is amazing to me how many craft beers Budweiser owns. AB- (?) on the cans. Amazing also how many craft beers are owned 50% by Busch.
Keep the pressure up. Just one product. No death threats, no doxxing corporate individuals, fire off a e-Mail if you must, but protest with your wallet. Easy peasy.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/the-week-in-pictures-the-unbearable-bud-lightness-of-being.php
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Bill writes:
” The right generally does not stage big demonstrations and bust up persons, places, and things to protest a product.”
How about the Capitol on Jan 6? Was that not a demonstration from the right?
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Posted by: psul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 01:26 PM
Da…you have discovered truth…..I sit dedicated in Chelyabinsk Oblast wearing my filthy hand me down Stalin pajamas waiting, always waiting to receive orders from Putin or his alter ego
Bruce WayneQ to relentlessly humiliate mediocre American musician in Sierra Foothills.Must now find new job…..perhaps in local musical production.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 01:39 PM
How about the Capitol on Jan 6? Was that not a demonstration from the right?
More like a musical choreographed in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover building.
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Wow…fish writes Jan 6 was:
“More like a musical choreographed in the basement of the J. Edgar Hoover building.”
What a wacko. No wonder he won’t use his real name. What an embarrassment to his family and children if he has any!
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Posted by: psul Emery | 22 April 2023 at 01:53 PM
Like I said….I must have really landed a stinger earlier today. I notice there is never any question about “misanthrope” (jeffy), or the legendary Joe Koyote (JoKe) or when we had a spate of “Bill +random initial” sock puppets, or dugsKKKi’s (Keachies) entire warehouse of alter egos or anybody else who posts under a pseudonym.
I’m going to have to review todays transcript……find out what popped your mainspring this morning.
Thank you psul….it’s days like this that restoreth my faith.
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I’ll be back sometime soon. Got a sold out show tonight-my 4th in a row. Been a good year for Emery Productions AKA Nevada City Live
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You know you are too woke when you lose the audience especially this guy –
Phil Jackson says he has not tuned into much NBA since 2020 social justice statements: ‘Couldn’t watch that’
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/phil-jackson-says-nba-trying-cater-audience-during-covid-19-orlando-bubble-got-political
😉
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I should be getting paid for entertaining psul all day. Maybe something through the state.
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Punchy. Sorry you are sad, not. Be glad like fish. I am glad fish is glad and I am so glad you are sad.
“At one point he (fish) said he’s from somewhere near Sacramento but that could be fake as well” Looking in the mirror again, punchy you stink-ass flatlander?
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Punchy said Trump’s the reason we lost faith in our government. A sacred trust. Well true libertarians never had much faith in our government to begin with, neither did our Founding Fathers, old liberals, or those on the right like me. ‘I love my country but fear my government’ the old bummer stick read. Don’t tread on me and all that stuff.
It is not Trump that made many lose trust in our government. It is the government cabal that made folks lose trust in the government. I do trust that our government wil do the wrong thing. Feed the beast.
‘CDC director rewrites history of COVID vaccines as uptake plummets, side effect research mounts’
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/cdc-director-rewrites-history-covid-vaccines-uptake-plummets-side
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‘I Am Speaking The Truth’: Megyn Kelly Hits Back After Outlet Labels Her ‘Transphobic’ Over Dylan Mulvaney, Bud Light Comments
https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-am-speaking-the-truth-megyn-kelly-hits-back-after-outlet-labels-her-transphobic-over-dylan-mulvaney-bud-light-comments?
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“Punchy said Trump’s the reason we lost faith in our government.”
I kinda remember back to ol’ J Edgar and Lyndon Baines and the people’s total love and respect for the govt back then. They told us the honest to gosh truth about everything including all the latest stuff bout the Gulf of Tonkin and Dr King and how swell everything was. There were more than a few “block parties” back then where thousands would celebrate the love and trust they had in our govt. Yessir!
Then Trump came along and said maybe the Krauts and Europe shouldn’t be dependent on Russian energy supplies. What a maroon! Boy was he waaaay off base! And he claimed the WooHoo Flu came from CHINA! Can you believe that? Hoo Boy! Now we have a bunch of smarties in there that tell us nothing but the God’s own truth!
Yeah, I have “faith” in our govt. Not quite the kind of faith Paul dreams about.
Snakes gonna be snakes. I have faith in that.
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Ahhh remember the days when protecting citizens was job 1 for the executive branch?
TB spreads through the air, like a flu or a cold. Stand next to someone with TB for a long subway ride or sit next to them every day at school, and you can catch it. New York City’s TB rate, at 6.1 cases per 100,000, is more than double the national rate. Close to nine out of 10 (88%) of these TB cases are people born outside the United States. Every neighborhood in the city has had at least one case.
Vasan’s letter called on New York to pull out all the stops providing health care, food and legal services to migrants. Not a word about protecting the people who already live here.
Open borders import disease. Immigrants who lawfully apply for a visa must undergo health screenings and show they are vaccinated, and refugees are screened for TB before entering the U.S. Not so for those wading across the Rio Grande.
Nationwide, 6,009 of the 8,300 people with TB in 2022 were foreign-born, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Florida was slammed with a 21% increase in TB since 2020.
Texas border counties have a TB rate triple the national average. At least TB is treatable. Polio, on the other hand, can paralyze you for life.
Vasan warns that only 50% of the migrants streaming into the Big Apple are vaccinated. But an even bigger issue is the type of vaccine used in many poorer countries, which can actually spread polio.
The U.S. uses only injectable polio vaccines made with dead virus that cannot spread the disease. But many other countries use a less safe oral vaccine that contains live virus and is sometimes shed in the vaccinated person’s feces. It can then spread in sewage or on unclean hands, causing vaccine-derived cases of polio. That’s a problem in 25 countries.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/next-pandemic-already-here-courtesy-biden-open-borders?dicbo=v2-sd1FqQu
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