Rebane's Ruminations
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Category: Comment Sandbox

  • [Thank you for your patience in putting up with the 9-day-old sand.  gjr]

  • [Well boys and girls, a good thing happened last week, and it's time for a little joy and celebration to preamble your contributions.  gjr]  

  • [The election has understandably sucked the oxygen out of all other topics.  On the off chance that some readers may still be looking outside our borders to a see a fully functioning world, here’s some fresh sand in which to note your observations.  H/T to reader for the graphic below. gjr]

  • [It's been fun listening to NPR (National Propaganda Radio) and reading the AP (All Propoganda) news service.  Both are bending over backwards attempting to output unbiased reports on the election while failing miserably as they not so subtly characterize Trump's 'unsuitability' for the presidency while describing Hillary's herculean efforts to keep her lead in the…

  • [Boy did I screw up.  We all got involved in the election and I didn't even notice that I'd forgotten to freshen up the sand until readers began to shoe horn in important off-topic topics in what seemed the closest fit.  My apologies again.  But I would appreciate a crisp nudge from any reader who…

  • [A sign of the times.  The election is dominating commenters' bandwidth to the extent that the last (1oct16) sandbox garnered only 45 comments.  The present one is opened with fresh sand just to make available a more recent repository to readers who may wish to share a thought not connected to the iceberg that our ship…

  • [Apologies again for delaying fresh sand for conversations such as those that respond to our perennial progressive critic, Mr Steven Frisch of the Sierra Business Council.  Please reserve our 'Dump Trump and Pillory Hillary' editions for election related comments and commentaries.  gjr]

  • [Time for some fresh sand in which to conjure up scenarios that pit Hillary's health problems against the new counter-attack by Dems targeting an alleged illegal contribution from the Trump Foundation to the Florida AG.  Has this now become a contest to see whose smoke screen works the best?  gjr]

  • [Just got back from a little RV trip with friends and family.  We did the Bend, OR to coast, down the coast to CA, and back home again on good ol’ Hwy 20 circuit.  Connectivity still sucks in most of the RV parks, even the ones near bigger towns.  In the evening when everyone is…

  • [Putin is making nice with Iran and Turkey, two competitors for the new Mideast hegemon.  That sure looks like the latest, and possibly the worst, Foxtrot Uniform of Obama's foreign policy, leaving Russia as the new 'go-to power' if you want to get anything done in the region.  When you decide to lead from behind,…