[Been contemplating soliciting reader submissions of the most stupid and/or unreasonable thing that prominent leaders/spokespeople for the Republicans and Democrats have done during a given week. Candidates would NOT include some dumb thing someone in the party’s fringe has said or done. I’m talking about nationally recognized people and proposed/passed public policies. An example candidate would be CA’s $20/hr minimum wage law, or Biden’s national security adviser telling the country that Biden’s threat to withhold aid to Israel (if they don’t clear their operational war plans with Washington first) does not represent a change in US policy toward Israel. Such examples would serve to confirm that there is no common ground between our two sides to begin a path to rapprochement. gjr]
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173 responses to “Sandbox – 8apr24”
Newly named?
“Safe and Unified Nevada County (SUN) is a subcommittee of The Equity & Inclusion Leadership Alliance (EILA) which consists of representatives from the Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) Coalition, county, and municipal departments, law enforcement, the judicial system, healthcare, faith-based groups, education, the arts, the social justice non-profit Color Me Human and other vital organizations.”
This has been congealing for a few years, and Color Me Human is a leisure activity of a person who retired here on a state public employee pension a couple years ago, one Darryl Grigsby.
I recall in The Union that he referred to Thomas Jefferson as a child rapist once or twice.
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re Juanita 1049am – That presumes that all that intervention will be required to restore or maintain the quality of Nevada County life – of which there is no evidence. So it’s another leftwing oriented coalition that sooner or later will find more intrusive regulations to be passed by local and state politicians in the attempt to restrict and redirect our lives. Such socialists will never stay out of your business or wallets.
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George @ 03:12 PM
A couple quotes from my list of aphorisms-
Walter Williams (7/14/17) – The job of tyrants and busybodies is never done.
Thomas Sowell – 8/6/13 – Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. Whether in housing, education or innumerable other aspects of life, the key to busybody politics, and its endlessly imposed “solutions,” is that third parties pay no price for being wrong.
So how can we make those busybodies pay a price, a real physical/monetary price, a humiliating price, to change their behavior? Unfortunately, can’t be done. There is no shame in Mudville for those folks. Look no farther than Hamas. They have to be annihilated, yet all the world seems to be telling Israel to come to terms. Chuck the Hammer did his part many years ago, but no one else has been stepping up to the plate recently, not even Casey at the bat.
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“one Darryl Grigsby.”
The author of such weighty tomes (Kindle bookz on Amazon) as:
In Their Footsteps: Inspirational Reflections on Black History for Every Day of the Year
Celebrating Ourselves: African-Americans and the Promise of Baseball
Reflections on Liberation: Essays on Spirituality and Freedom
For the People: Black Socialists in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean
Oh Freedom!: Essays on Black Spirituality
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You have to admire the single-mindedness of the man I guess.
Personally, I’d rather by obsessed with cuneiform translating or chip design, but horses for courses.
E. Fox: “They have to be annihilated”
Generally, I could probably be convinced of the rightness of either side’s cause given a good argument. Like Ukraine, it could simply be the problem is that no one is dominant enough to utterly dictate terms, so conflict grinds on to the detriment of the man on the ground. I’ve heard different reasons for why that longitude of the Earth, from Estonia to Suez, is so conflict ridden. Peace seems to break out when a disinterested imperial power moves in, Byzantine or Ottomans or Russian, but assimilation never seems permanent. Go figure. Best to not get involved at all.
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Side note: Excellent cartoon by RL Crabb in The Union (Saturday).
When people unironically use the word ‘stakeholder’, you just know that bullshit is in the offing. It was a sad time when city councils came to be dominated by ‘activists’ instead of prominent local business dudes, but it’s just the nature of the age.
I figure that the future will either be Robot Overlords or bartering matches and cigarettes for fish antibiotics, so it’s all a temporary state of affairs.
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My expectation is the “stakeholders” in this case are jewhaters on the left.
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‘FLASHBACK: Biden claimed in 2020 if Trump were to be re-elected, he would “get us to war in Iran”‘
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkUXVD68BG0
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@150 Its always their way to accuse others of the shit they do!
Mod pizza leaves the state, job losses and closed franchises thanks to the brainiac whos brain is saturated with hair goo and thats just the beginning –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-shoppers-flood-99-cents-only-shops-ahead-closure-blame-newsom
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Gavin Newsom is no “brainiac”… he’s been mum on his SAT scores for two decades as they were not good enough for college admission outside of junior college which has no standards for the SAT . He got in by baseball bein beery beery good to him.
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Pretty sure “brainiac” was used sarcastically. It’s the only way I ever hear it used. I thought about that term and wondered if it had anything to do with ENIAC. Although Wiktionary claims it does, I think the other citations are correct. From the Superman comics 1957/58 a new arch-enemy was created with the name Brainiac which was a combo of ‘brain’ and ‘maniac’.
Newsom is a low IQ glib-talking oily used-car salesman who appeals to low information voters.
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Creepy grampa joe has pushed Anthony Eden off the pinacol of appeasers empowering those mutha mullahs! –
Republicans slam Biden’s ‘Don’t’ deterrence: ‘Every time he says Don’t, they do’
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/republicans-slam-biden-don-t-175041476.html
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Energy prices soar almost 30 percent under Biden — 13 times faster than previous 7 years: analysis
Sounds like someone is going to need to upgrade to a bigger case to pay his PG&E bill……
https://www.cellocentral.com/best-cello-hard-cases/
https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/us-news/electricity-costs-soar-under-biden-administrationenergy-prices-soar-under-biden-administration/
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“pinacol’? It didn’t auto-correct to pina colada?
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Nomenklatura Progressive Radio keeps on keepin’ on.
(original essay) https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-npr-ceos-social-media-posts-show-progressive-views-support-clinton-biden
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay
https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/us-news/nprs-new-ceo-katherine-mahers-woke-tweets-arise-as-editor-claims-bias/
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias
You know, it wasn’t that irritating when it was just about how much tax money was spent on the poor and the occasional foray into abortion law (an interesting question, when does a human develop enough to acquire rights from the state?). Now that Team Blue has veered into the territory of actively tearing down Western Civilization, it all got a lot more serious.
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Posted by: Scott O | 16 April 2024 at 07:24 AM
pinacol’? It didn’t auto-correct to pina colada?
I guess someone was trying for “pinnacle”? Took me a moment to figure it out though!
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scenes 7:37 – Isn’t that totally hilarious?
“We’re not biased – we allow all points of view. Who said that? He deviated from the party line. Grrrr. Suspend him without pay immediately!!!”
So they dispute what Uri had said and then go out of their way to prove his point. They are dumber than I had thought.
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fishy – yes, I know – I’m being a pendant and a smarty-aleck. Coffee must be kicking in.
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Here’s this morning’s article from Politico for the masses to ingest:
“The 401(k) industry owns Congress’: How lawmakers quietly passed a $300 billion windfall to the wealthy”
You can tell right off it’s a total pile of horse manure –
“Five months before Congress faced a near-catastrophic standoff over the debt ceiling, with Republicans demanding restrictions to food and Medicaid programs to rein in spending, a bill that raised the cost of private retirement savings accounts to $282 billion per year was quietly signed into law.”
Of course the problems of our fed govt’s inability to live within its means has nothing to do with folks trying to save for retirement, but we need to preface the paragraph with that scare-fact to set the tone.
And notice – “…quietly signed into law”.
That would be President Potato, but somehow the author after all of his research was unable to ever uncover that fact. The rest of the screed is Marxism For Dummies 101.
Gee – the productive and industrious people are doing better than the unproductive and undisciplined people. Awk! Awk! Not fair!
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/13/how-your-401k-ate-the-federal-budget-00150319
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Posted by: Scott O | 16 April 2024 at 08:03 AM fishy – yes, I know – I’m being a pendant and a smarty-aleck. Coffee must be kicking in.
”yes, I know – I’m being a pendant”
Well played sir!
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fishy – you do know that pendants hang from their own rope?
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Who could have ever imagined that this might happen……..
The chants practically write themselves………HOTELS FOREVER, SHELTERS NEVER……
I guess the “Newcomers” missed the memo that once the moral posturing and photo-ops were finished they were free to go…..!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brink-unrest-migrants-flood-nyc-city-hall-protest-losing-luxury-hotel-rooms
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Too much pedantic pedantry.
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Don’t forget the pendants. They’re real swingers!
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“Too much pedantic pedantry.”
Not precise enough.
‘”The 401(k) industry owns Congress’: How lawmakers quietly passed a $300 billion windfall to the wealthy”‘
Ah well. There’s a whole lotta money just sittin’ there not doing good deeds.
I figure it’s just the osmosis of money. The Little Red Hen bakes bread, all the other animals would sure like some. Inflation, asset taxes, or merely pooling public and private retirement savings will move the money to where it’s ‘needed’ as you’d sure hate for everyone to not get their ‘fair share’.
As the precipice creeps closer, a person could argue that asset protection will be a growth industry.
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“…just sittin’ there not doing good deeds.”
The crass among us would call those ‘good deeds’ vote buying, but what do we know?
Pretty sure credit card debt relief is the next moral fight for the righteous. Just think of the lift to our economy if those poor folks who were hood-winked by the evil banksters were unburdened from those high monthly payments! And if the relief is skewed towards the “underserved” communities it will serve double duty as reparations. Win win!
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Who knew in 1973 that much later the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would serve in its most vital national security role….
….keeping a senile halfwit grifter living in public housing!
But I get why Punchy™ likes him!
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/wti-rally-stalls-crude-build-white-house-hints-spr-release
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scotto: ” it will serve double duty as reparations. ”
Oh well. Like the new CEO of NPR said on Twitter a few years back:
“I mean, sure, looting is counterproductive. But it’s hard to be mad about protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression founded on treating people’s ancestors as private property.”
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Ingrid Jacques has been a conservative writer for USA Today for 2 years or so. Yeah – that’s a shocker. I’ve emailed her 4-5 times that they are going to fire her for her truthful & factual articles. She’s said that USA Today intentionally hired her for her counterbalancing opinions. So that’s one conservative vs 30+ liberals.
Her article today was about her angst to send taxes to the govt when she knows they won’t spend it judiciously. Also took a (justified) shot at ANOTHER student loan forgiveness by Joey B. That’s after he got slapped down last year by the Supremes for the exact same thing. OK, OK, not the EXACT same thing, there were 2 words that were changed.
She even used the word “egregious” – that’s my word of last resort when I’m done sputtering at the gross stupidity of the progressives.
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“Here’s Frank Runyeon reporting from the courtroom on Day 2 of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial:
Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head doops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.
Once again, the universe has done Trump a favor. If video was allowed in the courtroom and we had tape of this obese old man nodding off because he doesn’t even have the vigor to stay awake during a criminal trial, this election would be over.¹”
The Bulwark
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scenes 3:11 – “…protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression”
Yeah. Especially if it’s not YOUR private property. What a stupid human.
Isn’t she a Y-tee? Maybe the protests could not prioritize her personal safety?
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Jeff… could you help me with some investigative journalism?
Need a name of one Republican on staff of the prosecuting att’y. Just one.
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Idiot Juanita – “…during a criminal trial”
It’s voir dire, moron – been there many, many times.
Dozens of people getting asked the same damn questions over and over and over and …zzzzz.
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Gregory 5:00 – You’re wasting your breath. Idiot Juanita can’t even tell you what crime it is that Trump is charged with.
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Thats going to leave a mark –
A Democrat-controlled city announced $45 million in funding for programs to help deal with the skyrocketing number of migrant arrivals it is facing, resulting in over $8 million in budget cuts for the police department.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-city-mayor-defunds-police-force-more-than-8-million-aid-migrants
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scotto, it was my breath to waste.
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Gregory – Yep.
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Thats a big L for jack smith –
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Neil M. Gorsuch noted that the law made it a crime to destroy or conceal documents to impair an “official proceeding,” but they voiced doubt over extending it to any disruptions of a proceeding.
A ruling that limits the obstruction law could also undercut the prosecution of former President Trump. Two of the four criminal charges against him are based on the obstruction law.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-casts-doubt-obstruction-161548743.html
😉
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Who knew she has a sense of humor! Start with the illegals right? –
https://www.foxnews.com/media/la-mayor-pleads-wealthy-help-buy-housing-homeless-unprecedented-partnership
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So whats wrong with this global warming propaganda ignoring what really happened? And these folks want to destroy western nations standards of living and force penury on the populations –
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-16/dubai-grinds-to-standstill-as-cloud-seeding-worsens-flooding
Friederike Otto, a leader in the field of assessing the role of climate change on specific extreme weather events, said it was likely that global warming played a part.
“It is highly likely that the deadly and destructive rain in Oman and Dubai was made heavier by human-caused climate change,” said Otto, of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/cloud-seeding-global-warming-what-caused-widespread-flooding-and-brought-dubai-to-a-grinding-halt/ar-BB1lL245
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DB @ 9:12PM
From the Wayback Machine – fish 11/17/22 7:19AM- under Sandbox – 10nov22
Karen Bass – newly elected mayor of Los Angeles:
To the people of our city, my message is this: We are going to solve homelessness.
We are going to prevent and respond urgently to crime. Our city is no longer going to be unaffordable for working families.
And know this — that work has already begun.
I’ll take “No we’re not, no we’re not, yes it will, and no it hasn’t” for $800 Alex!
She left out the part of begging the successful to claim the unsuccessful as dependents. No mention of tax breaks. And just how much has she contributed, out of her personal wealth, to help the homeless? Show us a copy of your personal check, not one issued by the City of LA.
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Speaking of LA.
Metal Leo goes to Los Angeles…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1-twsYoXgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-3c76f0USE
CLOSED NOW.
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scenes 6:08 – Hey, it’s diverse and vibrant!
And no evil MAGA hats or ‘triggering’ American flags.
And lots of democracy – the folks that are left just keep voting for more of the same.
Do you see psul or Idiot Juanita living there? Oh, hell no. They’re comfy and cozy in Whitey-Ville while they claim the Dems in Kali have everything under control.
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Yeah……I’m so old I can remember when your local philosopher kings told us that “populism” was bad……
…..Mmkay!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scranton-vs-mar-a-lago-biden-turns-sharply-to-populism/ar-BB1lMMo2
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Posted by: The Estonian Fox | 17 April 2024 at 04:07 AM
She left out the part of begging the successful to claim the unsuccessful as dependents. No mention of tax breaks. And just how much has she contributed, out of her personal wealth, to help the homeless? Show us a copy of your personal check, not one issued by the City of LA.
Gavin J. Nepotism (D-Baseball) showered 27 lightly audited billions on the “homeless” over the past 5 years. It worked …..throwing money at the problem led to more homeless!
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It’s funny when it’s shown as the “work” of the Editorial Board but you know exactly who wrote it……
A writing style so peppered with whiny indignation and demonstrative goodfeelz posturing that it’s redolent if you will, of the repetitive bleats of a certain gravitationally challenged local Hispanic man who seems to be all alone on these threads.
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article287743805.html
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re: fisho@8:03AM
Lots of paywallish action on the link, but there’s this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/racist-opposition-assembly-bill-proves-120000665.html
I’m not sure what it all means. Some letter from some guy that they don’t print is being mean about some bill that makes my eyes glaze over. Like most bills of this type I suppose it’s a whole bunch of reporting requirements and probably some new committees and commissions to appoint your friends to. You know, it could be that in the Age of Robot Overlords we need to find useless things for people to do, and Boss Keen’s ditch is out as it requires something besides keyboarding and meetings with snacks. Perhaps Nevada City could kick in an extra $30k to make it happen.
Anyone who is willing to give me a tl;dr would be most appreciated. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2319
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Posted by: scenes | 17 April 2024 at 09:08 AM
As I’m sure you’re aware it wasn’t so much the content of the …ahem….”editorial” as the tone. I know what I’m getting from today’s modern newspaper….all I have left at this is the critique of style and tone.
Another entertaining attempt at identifying the writer who absolutely refuses to “stop clapping first” when it comes to all manner of wokery.
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Are We On Japan’s Path Of Stagnation?
Only if we’re lucky! They have an intelligent, community oriented, and self-disciplined populace……us….not so much!
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/are-we-japans-path-stagnation
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re: fisho@9:22am “Another entertaining attempt at identifying the writer …”
I’m just assuming that it goes this way:
writer of the editorial: some white chick in her 30’s with a journalism degree, a cat, and a refrigerator full of white wine.
writer of the secret never-to-be-revealed evil hate letter: who knows? No doubt, for the good of the people, the editorial writer is busy trying to figure out who it is in order that public shaming and loss of job is in the offing. They add oak leaves, swords, and diamonds to your medal for that kind of investigative work.
It’s all just more of Cory Doctorow’s enshittification of the internet at work. Low effort outrage sells well, and nicely frames the other 90% of screen space which is taken up with surveillance advertising. It’ll be fun to watch AI outrage generation really kick in and sweep the humans aside. Stage 2 is when language models are trained from the output of language models. Inbreeding. I like the term I ran into, ‘Hapsburg AI’, to describe this.
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