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[Perusing this morning's papers I see that the TPP negotiations have blown a tire.  Polls show that 70% of Americans believe Hillary is untrustworthy and a consummate liar.  Team Obama is demanding that Congress abandon even the Pelosi Principle in accepting the Iran deal with unknown and unknowable secret codicils. And, of course, as data from the states rolls in, Obamacare is living up to and beyond its worst prognostications.  But for a bit of levity or very deep conspiracy, I point you to Joe Queenan in the 1aug15 WSJ who writes 'Clearly, the Donald Works for Hillary'.  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar

    Another ? for Georgman. The testical tourcher chamber known as Hilary is real close to being inicated. That will sure give an extra squeeze to the LIBS collective balls.
    Than what? That will take her out of the running. Vote for her anyway? Take the oath of office from club FED?
    Prop up Biden? Now that would be good for a laugh. Moonbat Brown? He’s only good within the confines of the Kalifornia boarder.
    She who lies though teeth Warren? Trump would have a field day with any of them.
    Let’s have it smart guy….

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  2. Russ Avatar

    California Drought Update #38 — Contrary to Science, Most Blame Global Warming for Drought
    You can read the full story of how the CA population has been gruberized by Governor Brown here: http://sierrafoothillcommentary.com

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Is Hilary’s excuse about those emails ” Since we didn’t mark them “classified”, they weren’t.”
    One again the LIB double standard applies. Gen. Petraeus got busted for far less.
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/2/hillary-clinton-emails-calls-mount-for-criminal-in/

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    Regarding the timing of when Hillary’s emails became classified. As SecState the woman had the authority to classify any materials she considered sensitive. And in that job she was supposed to possess the knowledge, reasoning powers, and the ability to decide what she wrote was or was not classified. Apparently she failed on all counts, and no one is yet astute enough to point that out. BTW, I as an Army intelligence officer had that same authority and the duty to correctly apply it. And when I was a government defense contractor, it was again my job to discern what information I and my company generated that would be classified, I had the concomitant authority and duty to classify such materials even before they left the company and treat them as such while they remained in my possession.
    That sleazebag did none of that, and now claims that she didn’t know what she was doing at the time. How far is that going to fly with the lamestream is anybody’s guess, but it is guaranteed to work within Obama’s administration which will do everything possible to hold her blameless for the release and compromise of classified materials.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    And nothing but crickets from our resident commies. Cheap shots, then run for cover.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, Hillary’s best hope right now is the Omaba Justice Deptment. They will stonewall all requests for an investigation until Nov, 2016 per Obama’s directives. Always remember Obama and Hill cut the deal and this is the most politicized Justice Department since Richard Milhouse Nixon by all accounts, be it left , right, independent or living Presidential historians.
    Hillary bonks her melon after Ambassador Stevens was burned alive and dragged through the streets and Obama will cover her assets….for as long as he is able to keep a lid on it. Just like Lois Lerner and the “not a smidgen of corruption at the IRS”. Heck, you yourself saw how angry not one but two Federal judges got at the White House/Clinton lawyers very recently. Stonewall, stonewall, stonewall. Who knows, maybe the heat will become too much for Obama’s legacy and he will have Valerie Jarred leak some more dirt on Hillary to the NYT or select media outlets and, of course, invite The Paleface Squawking Squaw back into the White House again for more meet and greet. Never know. We know Valerie hates Clinton and Obama thinks Lizzy will be more trustworthy to bring about his change of America as we know it to fruition. Heck, I am more trustworthy that Hill (as her adorning fans and other paid staff call her).
    Hillary certainly is experienced. Exhibit A, Just One of the Many Ghosts of Christmas Past
    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/pb.51560645913.-2207520000.1438574080./10152796258860914/?type=3&theater
    Exhibit B; The Ghosts of Christmas Present
    http://patriotpost.us/cartoons/22284
    Note: the Ghost of Christmas Future is too unpalatable for this site….

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My last post was but wishful thinking. Sorry.
    George B. Have a nice va-ka. You need to rest up and recharge your batteries. You have been losing some of your piss and vinegar lately, which I miss sorely.
    Dr. Rebane. The longer this drags on, the more Hill can pronounce with extreme confidence “What difference does it matter anyway?” Worked so far. Somehow, someway, we can only hope that Karma is still one of Nature’s most powerful Laws.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    The photo representation can be found on any porn site under the heading of ” 20 years past a cougar” wearing kneepads with the Presidential seal. ( The nightmares at no extra charge)

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, thanks for putting that lovely imagine in my noggin. I feel like I just got demon possessed. I best take some hay to bed with me tonight to feed my night mares.

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Here is another nightmare. But this nightmare is not merely a bad dream, it’s reality.
    http://nypost.com/2015/08/02/students-say-school-lets-them-cheat-online-summer-classes/

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  11. Joe Koyote Avatar
    Joe Koyote

    Fish 1:47 — Once again you have imagined information about me. this is the second time you have stated that I worked for the state. I have never stated I worked for the state. I have stated that I commuted to Sacramento. That is all.

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  12. Joe Koyote Avatar
    Joe Koyote

    George 2:05 — What is Meckler’s “40 year Plan” if not an attempt to impose tea bagger values on the rest of us. You should compare TP values with those of the rest of Americans and I think you will find that TP values are held by a pretty small segment of society. The tea party seems to be on the opposite side of many issues like climate, austerity, foreign invasions, wealth distribution, gov’t regulations particularly with regard to consumer issues/pollution/, the safety of fracking with regard to polluting groundwater.. the list goes on. And then ask yourself where the 40 year plan originated in the first place and you might find billionaire funded think tanks behind the curtain.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Joe Koyote | 03 August 2015 at 10:25 AM
    My mistake.
    So we can avoid another error in the future….and without being any more specific than you are comfortable with…..what did you do that brought you to Sacramento on a regular basis?

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  14. Walt Avatar

    JoKe… ” Wealth distribution”.. Want money? Go work you ass off for it like the rest of is.
    ” Austerity”,, Other people’s money has run out. Gov. gets PLENTY and pisses it away.
    “GW”. Man can’t change the weather.
    “Foreign invasion” It’s better to fight them there, than here.
    Fracking is safe. Even the LIB EPA can’t prove otherwise.
    What’s your beef with personal responsibility? Or holding GOV. accountable? ( a couple of Tea Party values)
    Thanks to YOUR big LIB “values” jobs and pay are slim and low. ( Over regulation and taxation.)

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    JoeK 1035am – Meckler’s ’40 year plan’ and a comparison of TP values with dissimilar values are orthogonal. I have not seen any TP plan that is “an attempt to impose tea bagger values on the rest of us.” If you know of one, then present it.
    And yes, the values embraced by the TP are distinct from the values of those who promote all things collectivist. That is a tautology. Your view of who and how many belong to the several camps of value holders is up for debate.
    The Tea Partiers sincerely hope that you are wrong; they believe that most of us don’t want a bigger more autocratic government, fewer individual liberties, abandoning constitutionality (including how the Constitution should be modified), hindrances to entrepreneurship, and the confiscation of the fruits of our labors.

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Somehow I don’t think jk intended to be a cheer leader for the TP but after a review of his so called ‘values’ like wealth redistribution and global warming he sure paints the TP in a good light! LOL

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  17. Walt Avatar

    The Commies are really showing their stripes.
    http://www.infowars.com/video-hillary-supporters-call-for-repealing-bill-of-rights/
    Shredding the Constitution wholesale? This should get JoKe and the Commie crew cheering.
    Good luck using that to get elected.

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    ‘Arab states cautiously embrace Iran deal’ Clever people those Arabs. They know in the marrow of their bones that Iran is developing nuclear weapons and will use them to establish itself as the mid-east hegemon. That does not portend well for Arabs or the lesser states since Iran is a dictatorship that will only become more so as their nuclear programs progress. The only way to hold back the Persians is for Arabs also to get the bomb.
    Right now it is politically cumbersome for them to start individual or joint nuclear development/acquisition programs. But they know for certain that Iran will detectably violate the present agreement. And the declaration of such violation (and likely abrogation of the agreement) will serve as the justifiable demarcation point for Arab countries going nuclear that will be politically acceptable across the globe. What Israel will then do is anyone’s guess. But vindicating the launch of Arabian nuclear defenses is worth the perfidy of their adulterous embrace of the necessary and sufficient legitimizing agreement.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    COLUMN: Joe Biden ‘only adult in the room’…
    Well until he starts speaking…..then it’s the “Shotgun Joe Biden Gaffe Factory and Laugh Review”….but hey, he is the only candidate I would really like more than Hillary.
    I simply didn’t dare to dream it……!

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    0’s DOJ is poised to intervene in a civil case that awarded terror victims of the PLO hundreds of millions with the terror law that trebling the judgement to over a billion. The DOJ gave the court notice that it will be making a filing. What is unclear is how they are going to help the PLO without evoking the sovereign nation status for the Palestinian authority who is not now a recognized country. Does 0 feel so empowered now that he can recognize the terrorists as a real country with a back door maneuver? Just kidding, of course he does. Can we survive another 17 months of this?

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @ 1036
    Very nice job of treading in a delicate manner. I do not envy anyone who had to commune to Sac, even if it was for but a week. Not a good way to live, especially for a low paying job. Perhaps better questions posed would be along the lines of:
    1). Have you ever worked for The U.S. Postal Service, and
    2). Have you ever been disgruntled?

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Vary telling.. Not one uber LIB will step up to take on the hard questions.
    Come on,, one of you should have the sack,, How bout that yanking of the Bill of Rights
    the Hilary crowd would like to see.
    Maybe they are not back yet from the Camp Commie retreat this weekend.

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  23. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 1230pm – This kind of interviews is now so easy to collect and assemble to illustrate the abysmal ignorance of the American voter – Dr Gruber, of course, nailed it a bit too publicly. And on these pages we witness the champions of such ignorance. The Left has no idea how to remedy these mental midgets, but they have a lot of bad ideas about how to transfer wealth so as to perpetuate and grow such ignorance. And to do that against the resisting cohort of earners and taxpayers, they know that government must grow ever more powerful to take by force what a free people will not willingly give up.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Just the fact that they are willing to scrap the Bill of Rights is telling.
    Like they would see one dime in “income redistribution”.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Here is your headline of the week……
    “Navy won’t rule out charges against Chattanooga defender”
    http://hotair.com/archives/2015/08/03/video-navy-wont-rule-out-charges-against-chattanooga-defender/

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Just saw an announcement on bloombergtv that the fed is going to sell 121B USD in debt this sale not the 61B USD forecast 3 months ago. Now what is interesting is the reason they are citing as the driver behind this sudden expansions of debt sales. They claim they want to have a greater cash on hand balance if something odd happens like a cyber attack that would not let them sell debt?!??! This sure sounds like somebody is worried about something or its just a covering lie for something worse. With the 0 crew its hard to tell.

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Fish I would say if the Navy does that we all should get in a car and driver there and ask for the arrest of the doofus bastards that won’t take that ridiculous act off the table..

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Guys it is the 0 administration that gave us workplace violence and every other dodge to distract from the terrorists. The AF fired a Chaplin for talking too much about Christianity so how far a stretch is it for them to prosecute a navy officer for defending fellow servicemen? I mean really, he had a ccp and likely was one of those religious nuts who goes to church and has his kids go too, child abusing, gun nut, religious wacko will be the mantra of the pr hacks at the pentagon, the WH, the DNC and the frischys of the world.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Joe K’s delightful 10:35 am seems to imply that Tea Party Values are as Queen Nancy put it so well….AstroTurf. Not the real deal, just a front for them billionaires pulling the muppet puppet strings.
    Austerity? Well, that is a dirty word in Greece, Italy, and France for certain. They can’t print money nor should they ever be allowed to. All good things must come to an end.
    Outside of the confines of the purple independent voters of Nevada County and the states that border large bodies of salt water, this is still right of center country in the aggregate. Opps, exclude Texas and Alaska and a few others on the list of states that abut large bodies of salt water.
    When talking about values, it is not easy to see the big picture when everyone you know thinks the same way as you do upon a very tiny tiny speck of dirt on Planet Earth. For example, if I were a homosexual male wearing air conditioned riding chaps living in the Castro Disrict, I would tend to believe that everyone shared my beliefs and values. Heck, all my neighbors do! Not a very good reference point to make broad generalizations about the rest of America or the American citizenry,
    Many outside a tiny tiny minority of those Tea Party Wackos feel that government should be smaller and pay its bills and start trimming the fat. Not all voters by any means. Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize Economist would strongly disagree with me. Yet, Queen Nancy after her first term of being the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives said unequivocally that her proudest accomplishment for that session of Congress was the passage of Pay Go. Maybe the whole concept of Pay Go is now most unpopular and only shared by a “small minority of people’ nowadays, Mr. K. Looking back, I see why Nancy was so proud of her accomplishment. It has so many loopholes and exclusions that it is as about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
    AstroTurf or striking a chord with more than a handful.?? Apparently, you have already decided. What I cannot figure out, Mr. K, is if conservatives are on the wrong side of the issues, why have they recently regained the U.S. Senate and widened their majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives?
    Is it because Obama is about 7% African-American or it is because billionaires like David Koch really run the show. Or maybe, just maybe, more than a tiny fraction of the voters share some of those ridiculous Tea Bagger values. I am soooo confused, Mr. Koyote. Help me out here.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Just read the line up for our local “dancing with the stars”. And Dr. R isn’t in the mix?
    What gives?

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Bill T. there is also the issue of state houses and gov’s. as a quantifier that should draw the ccc.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don: Oh yes, The q Dems losing all those state senate seats and state assembly seats and all those lib office holders (incumbents) getting the boot. Yes, Mr. Peon, that is generally known as opening a can of whoop ass, getting your clock cleaned, getting shellacked, stomped, ground into dust, trounced, beaten with the ugly stick, run over, your time has expired. I would have mentioned the governorships along with State AGs and Lt Govs, but no use piling on. And the issue of space constraints must be considered.
    Yep, just your typical fringe tiny minority of AstroTurf tea baggers that are out of touch with the values of the American people. I agree 100% with Joe K for once. When a man is spot on he is spot on. Now, let’s continue this discussion about the ever shrinking small group of out of touch angry white guys that are sooo far behind the times, shall we? We shall!

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Opps, auto correct did it again. That should have read Mr. Don, not Mr. Peon. I accept zero responsibility because I am a victim of technology forced upon me. But, I do apologize to Mr. Don for any gross misunderstandings that software engineers have caused. 🙂

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don, kindly explain to this obtuse AstroTurf half breed again what is CDC and cc and that lingo. I know someone once posted these meaning, but I need some religion to wrap my out of touch brain around. Maybe this time it will stick. Thank you, Gentle Bill the Serene.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Darn it. Need proof reading more than ever with this new I-pad issued to me. Ok, let’s try that again. What is ccc and cc and all that stuff? I need some repetition to wrap my mind around this to hopefully make it stick. Geez, the new I-phone 6 I was issued last week has voice dictation, why doesn’t this new fangled contraption?? Or maybe it does. It’s all Gregory’s fault.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    But it’s only the Tea Baggers who want to inflict their values on America eh Joe?
    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/08/03/university-punishes-conservative-student-for-anti-islam-tweets.html?intcmp=hpbt4
    Like I said….way late to the Gramscian party!

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    But they said that everybody else would be paying my healthcare costs……..
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/3/obamacare-enrollees-less-satisfied-others-survey/
    Not me!

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Speaking of the TPP both Obama and the Republicans support the use of corporate tribunals that will trump our national sovereignty. Here are examples from Jim Hightower.
    “the World Trade Organization has ruled not once, but twice this year that two US laws must be repealed or modified to satisfy the profit goals of corporations in Mexico and Canada. On May 12, a WTO trade tribunal ruled that our “dolphin-safe” tuna labeling law (which lets you and me know that the tuna we buy has not been fished with nets that trap and kill dolphins) violates the free-trade “right” of Mexican tuna fleets to use the cheaper, dolphin-slaughtering nets.
    And on May 18, another WTO tribunal hurled a second cream pie. This one smacks “COOL,” an American consumer law that requires country-of-origin-labeling on meat products, so your family and mine can know where the meat we buy comes from. Our Congress passed this sensible right-to-know law, our courts have upheld it, 92 percent of Americans support it – but a group of corporate lawyers on a WTO tribunal has overruled us.”
    Now Obama and his Republican cohorts ants to saddle us with the TPP, creating even more corporate kangaroo courts that’ll have even greater power to usurp our sovereignty.
    Any connection with LaMalfa’s sponsoring a bill to take the ability to label GMO foods out of the hands of States? States rights? What a joke. National sovereignty? Forget it with the Republicrats in power.

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  39. George Rebane Avatar

    Mr Tozer – CC = cricket corps; CCC = Collectivists’ cricket corps; CDC = Centers for Disease Control.

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Welcome to that “one world order” Paul, The Lefty Dream. And your biggest gripe is the label on that can of catfood?
    What are you bitching about? Today’s GOP is LIB lite. Hence the rise of Trump, and the rekindling of Tea Party values.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, Paul, if it is any consolation, it pisses me off as well. Call me an isolationist on this one, but screw them other countries if they start cramming their crap down our throats, albeit it is a complicated issue with many, many moving parts. Who knows, maybe I can get myself some shark fin soup one of the days in the not too distant future. Yep, enough to piss off the Pope.
    I was pissed off after NAFTA when Mexican truck drivers were allowed in to drive freely across our amber waves of grain in unsafe rigs and without class 1 licenses. Politics makes strange bedfellows as I sided with the Head Bustin’ Teamsters on that one.
    Guess it all depends on whose ox is being gored. I do empathize with your “don’t tread on me” mantra, always have. Next time younger Emery goes off on how we violated some World Court ruling, I will send him your way. Lord knows if that will do any good,
    I liked the TV show Flipper growing up so I might be a wee bit prejudice on this one.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @ 0625, the one day I actually got to sleep in
    Oh, Fish, Hillary will turn that around. It is no longer for the children, it’s for all the Dorthoy’s out there. I do wonder how long it will be until she reminds us all that she was once a Goldwater Girl. Oh, her parents tried to raise her right, but, alas, it was not meant to be. Dorthoy’ won’t be the first parent to shake her head and wonder where she went wrong. Gee, Dorthoy, you ain’t in Kanas anymore.
    http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-lauds-her-mother-first-campaign-ads-150923152.html

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Fortunately it is a religion of peace…..
    http://bloom.bg/1KMDnbM

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  44. Walt Avatar

    Got one better for ya’ Fish, Screwy Louie is at it again.
    Now just think if these words had been said at a tea Party event, let alone a White guy.
    http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/04/farrakhan-we-must-rise-up-and-kill-those-who-kill-us-video/

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Walt | 04 August 2015 at 10:49 AM
    Yeah…..must be NoI fundraising season again. That seems to be when he’s at his most flamboyantly vituperative.

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  46. Jon Avatar
    Jon

    Funny you ask about that Walt. Not an official Tea Party event, but cohorts nonetheless. Some nice rural crackers.
    http://www.wsoctv.com/news/news/local/official-fbi-operation-being-conducted-belmont/nnBSL/
    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONSPIRACY_ARRESTS

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  47. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jon | 04 August 2015 at 11:11 AM
    NOT 3 MEN…….?!?!? 3 MEN PREPPING FOR MARTIAL LAW…..OMG….3 MEN! 3!!!!! MEN!!!!!
    Jeez….how do you summon the courage to drag your self out of bed in the morning jon knowing the 3 MEN were out there?

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, me thinks even Bro Ben and his High Steppin’ Peaceniks would not approve. “He that lives by the sword will die by the sword” and all that stuff. Where in the heck do all these men of the cloth come from? Minister F, The Reverends Al, Jesse, and Jeremiah, and Lord only knows what other spiritual midgets lurk hiding in the grass? Rhetorical question, no need to answer. I wonder if the Democrats sent them to fan the flames of love.
    Sorry, Louie, me gotta go. “Now, let’s give it to them.”
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4V1p1dM3snQ

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