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Sandbox – 4oct15

04 October 2015

[It turns out that socialist Connecticut, one of the most leftwing, richest, and corporatist states in the Union (hedge funds, corporate headquarters, and Wall Street mavens from NYC) "has a huge pension problem' (here). "Connecticut has roughly half of what it needs to pay future retirement benefits for its workers, meaning the home to scores of hedge funds and some of the country’s wealthiest towns is wrestling with financial distress rivaling that of Kentucky or Illinois." gjr]

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233 responses to “Sandbox – 4oct15”

Don Bessee

07 October 2015

Frishy 755a- Didn’t think you would bite on the Debate victory or calling Ben Carson a coon. So you must approve of your like minded brothers use of the term. Closet racists on the left can be brought into focus by their failure to stand up for people of color who don’t hold their world view. Thanks for again showing your true limousine liberal revulsion of uppity blacks who do not tow the party line. There should be EEOC investigation of Frisch’s corp. for failing to hire people of color.

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Todd Juvinall

07 October 2015

Fish, the left shows again why they are the true racist pigs of our society.

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George Rebane

07 October 2015

Re Jon’s 957am – Just wanted to weigh in that Carson was right on the money with his advice for everyone to charge the shooter. The optimum decision is an obvious one to all except, again, the progressives. (‘It’s not that they can’t think, it’s just that they have such bad luck when they do.’)
Fortunately for the untold lives saved, this tactic occurred on 9/11 to those aboard Flt 93.

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Paul Emery

07 October 2015

The TPP agreement has emerged in all it’s glory. It looks liks Hillary is going to break with Obama on this. Smart move. The Pubsters have been quiet, not a peep. Here is a significant stance she’s taking that should please those with concerns about national sovereignty.
“I was against the Trans-Pacific Partnership months and months ago,” he said. “I believe we need to stop stumbling backwards into bad trade deals.”
Clinton has said she was waiting to see the final deal before making a decision. In her most recent book, Hard Choices, she spoke out against a key provision of the deal known as “Investor-State Dispute Settlement.” That program allows corporations to challenge domestic laws and regulations before an international tribunal.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-tpp_56157832e4b0fad1591a9289?6csug14i

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George Rebane

07 October 2015

Re the TPP, in spite of continuing concerns about the treatment of intellectual property, the 7oct15 WSJ reports, “The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, promises large economic, strategic and political benefits, reshaping world commerce for decades and adding about $285 billion to global GDP by 2025.”
Now my question becomes – What’s the big deal about the TPP since its projected contribution to global GDP after TEN years will only be about 0.3%?? That’s less than a drop in the bucket. (Stay with me. 2013 GDP = $74T; at 2.5%/yr growth the 2025 GDP will be $99.5T; this yields $285B/$99.5T = 0.0029 = 0.29%.) This indicates that there must be some serious special interests pushing TPP who will be making a lot of money from this global drip.

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fish

07 October 2015

Posted by: Paul Emery | 07 October 2015 at 02:00 PM
All well and good Paul but were she not floundering so badly in the polls I doubt seriously she would have taken this “stand”. She is every bit a product of the big money political system that you rail against as any of the republicans.

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Todd Juvinall

07 October 2015

Hillary was for it before she was against it. All these lefties are pathetic. Pick and issue, any issue, and these libnuts were opposed (or for) and now for political reasons are again (for) it. Why would anyone trust them? Oh, I know why, because the left are sheep.

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Paul Emery

07 October 2015

George, Fish, I’m with you on this. This is the influence of big money on display.

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fish

07 October 2015

Posted by: Paul Emery | 07 October 2015 at 02:35 PM
Of course this might prove to be a bigger hindrance than any clumsily expedient political position she takes this go round.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article37968711.html

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Todd Juvinall

07 October 2015

The “cloud”. Wow! So it really exists? Those Rooskies and Chinese folks have all those emails is my guess. Seems the world is headed to oblivion since she got a teet in a ringer on all this. Liar liar , you all know th rest.

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fish

07 October 2015

Well of course it legal to carry a legal firearm on an Oregon college campus……just don’t get caught exercising your right!

Oregon law does allow permitted concealed handguns on school property. The New York Times, Media Matters, and others have been quick to pounce on this fact. What has been ignored, however, is that public educators in Oregon have undermined the law by putting bans in faculty and student handbooks.
There may be no criminal sanctions for violating the ban, but faculty face termination and students risk expulsion. Those are life-altering penalties. Faculty members undoubtedly won’t get another academic job if they committed a firearms violation. Expelled students are very unlikely to be admitted into another college.
Although Umpqua can theoretically provide written exemptions for the bans, school president Rita Calvin wouldn’t even let the college’s security guards carry guns.

I’m thinking that maybe Rita Calvin should be fired!
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/thinktank/Would-be-killers-target-gun-free-zones.html#KJGKmKeQGJAIwFrx.99

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Don Bessee

07 October 2015

0 now threatens to veto defense bill if he does not get ‘other things’ and close gitmo. That’s the way to show putin how tough barry the hood organizer is. At least the margins in the house and senate are of a level to override a veto. I can not imagine what its like to be a serving professional in the military. Torn between your sense of purpose and dedication to God and County and a feckless Chicago tainted pol who leads from behind with head up behind.

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Paul Emery

07 October 2015

What will be interesting to see is if the Repubs back the TPP. The cozy little deal between Obama and the Repubs may come back to haunt them. I can’t see how any Tea Party type Pubber could support it but you never know. for sure that;s where the big money is. Thee is nothing bigger in this election. Interesting to see how the Koch boys play on this. the “Investor-State Dispute Settlement.” is a huge compromise of our national sovereignty. For anyone who wants to educate themselves here’s a link and some info
“ISDS would allow foreign companies to challenge U.S. laws — and potentially to pick up huge payouts from taxpayers — without ever stepping foot in a U.S. court. Here’s how it would work. Imagine that the United States bans a toxic chemical that is often added to gasoline because of its health and environmental consequences. If a foreign company that makes the toxic chemical opposes the law, it would normally have to challenge it in a U.S. court. But with ISDS, the company could skip the U.S. courts and go before an international panel of arbitrators. If the company won, the ruling couldn’t be challenged in U.S. courts, and the arbitration panel could require American taxpayers to cough up millions — and even billions — of dollars in damages. “.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-settlement-language-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership/2015/02/25/ec7705a2-bd1e-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html

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Todd Juvinall

07 October 2015

Only an idiot would not support free trade.

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George Rebane

07 October 2015

DonB 604pm – It is well known, documented, and nationally reported that Obama’s military lackies have by now purged all flag officers who don’t kiss ass. This ideological house cleaning has even reached down to bird colonel (regimental) levels. So today there are not many left in the senior officer corps who disagree with the CiC or have the career ending guts to do so. Only the lower officer ranks and NCOs remain who can still chafe, but are powerless to even have their voice heard. Those brave enough to try, like the whistleblower SFC, who reported the filing of misleading front line reports, are drummed out of the service after being reassigned to janitorial duties.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4540995627001/whistleblower-claims-mideast-terrorism-facts-downplayed-/?#sp=show-clips

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Don Bessee

07 October 2015

Dr. R.- Less well reported is the exodus of his Ukraine, Russian advisors, intel, Isis and other key knowledgeable players. The WH ed secretary departure fluff was a timely distraction. The grape vine has it that even the depleted ranks of truth tellers have had all their proposals rejected by big barry. What are the odds 0 drags us through a veto of the defense bill thus seriously delaying all priority acquisition capitol projects? This neutering of the military capability in time of war is criminal. It is my expectation he will ignore everyone again like Iraq and arbitrarily abandon Afghanistan next year. Lets hope the ghosts of the fallen hero warriors haunt his reaming years of sleep.

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Don Bessee

07 October 2015

I note the failure of the usual local leftist knee jerks to even engage the issue of the ongoing path to a real world war by way of weakness. They can not even quibble on the edges. A real sign of the low levels we have sunk to that even they are going CCC. Does anyone think the very long range cruise attack was anything other than a demonstration? I am sure we had all the ship radars and interceptor patriot batteries lit up across Europe. But that was the real point was it not?

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George Rebane

07 October 2015

DonB 744pm – You’re right on the mark with the cruise missile launch. We have never seen Soviet/Russian cruise missiles used on combat missions, and this salvo launched from the Caspian demonstrated the latest model of this long range weapon system.

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larry wirth

07 October 2015

Watch the C(oon) in Chief close Gitmo, free the detainees, and then hand over the real estate to the bros Castro as he’s leaving office. Final piece to his “legacy,” fulfilling one last campaign promise from 2008. Any bets for this not happening from folks on this blog? Thought not.

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Bill Tozer

07 October 2015

Well, you boys moved on to other things. Yep, here is GHW Bush’s attack ad on Micky D. Gov D looked so goofy wearing a oversized helmet popping out of tank. That image of Dukias will never leave my mind and his own ad killed him more than Bush could ever do.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Io9KMSSEZ0Y
That was nothing like the attack ad the NAACP ran against Gov Bush after James Byrd was dragged down a gravel road 200 miles away. They sure made good politicial ads back then, and bumper stickers. The nuke bomb attack ad on Goldwater only aired once, but it was one of the best. Little girl in pretty dress picking pedals off a flower, then Boom!, the nuke incinerates her. Goldwater will blow up the world!
Yep, I miss the good ads. They were Trumpesque.
And, you idiots, the current top two R’s will remain the top two for many many more months to come. Sure, Rubio and maybe one more (even Jeb) might start making a move but the also rans will peter out. Rubio is the only guy that might last around long enough to get near one of the top two. Rubio will take votes away from Jeb, not the outsiders. When Carly fades, Dr. Ben will pick up some of her mess.
You lives are squealing In delight and it is affecting your Two brain cells.
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Sure, it feels good that Uncle Joe is in and Rubio is your current R to admire briefly, and you all know that is how it will come down. YeH, riiiigggght. 3 weeks after Uncle Joe jumps in the water, things will get back to normal and you will be still (believe it or not) stuck with Rodclam.

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Paul Emery

07 October 2015

Todd
Have you taken any time to read and learn about the TPP?

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Paul Emery

07 October 2015

“Watch the C(oon) in Chief close Gitmo’
George, why do you allow such overt and disgusting racism ou your blog? This is beyond disgusting.
Posted by: larry wirth | 07 October 2015 at 08:45 PM

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Bill Tozer

07 October 2015

Sorry. Almost done then back to TPP.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3MpFKGNZZA
Don:
http://patriotpost.us/posts/38097

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Todd Juvinall

07 October 2015

Paul Emery, I have not seen you condemn the use of the epithet “coon” by the Professor, a black woman, against Ben Carson. I would suspect you might send her a letter of your disgust for her. And maybe her dismissal from the college staff? She has been thumbing her nose at those outraged at her by telling them she has tenure so go screw yourselves.

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Paul Emery

07 October 2015

So Todd you think that language is appropriate on this blog? Yes or no.

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Todd Juvinall

07 October 2015

Paul did you send a letter to chastise the woman? Yes or no.
Regarding language. I don’t censor.

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Paul Emery

07 October 2015

Todd
This is close to home. We all saw the evidence of racism by that disgusting racist event that happened at Rollins Lake a few weeks ago. I have no interest in participating in a forum that supports racism in any form. I am confident our host will not allow use of this racist language and will remove this reference and not allow it in the future..

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Bill Tozer

07 October 2015

Long time no come see, eh Paul. Well, we will see ya after your hiatus.

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Todd Juvinall

07 October 2015

Oh [lease grow up. If you don’t like it, then debate it! All you libs want to delete.
So Paul Emery, should that woman professor be reprimanded? Fired? what would you do?

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Bill Tozer

07 October 2015

You know, I heard a black woman on the radio who had a great point. She said all the media says “a racial prejorative” was hurled. Well, she wants to know exactly what the word(s) are. By cloaking everything under the umbrella of “racial epitaph” (and there are many other umbrellas) we sort of dilute the the whole racial taboo thang. Her point is say it so the listener/reader can hear for themselves what the slur was. Was it the N word,or a hell of a lot worse or even benign? Then we can make up our own judgements. She had a point.
I, for one, would like to know what those punks at Rollins said. By not knowing I can only imagine and thus I know nothing.

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Don Bessee

07 October 2015

Mr. Paul Emery, the real question was YOUR lack of objection to Ben Carson being called a COON. I note your reaction to its use on another but a total CCC as I noted regarding Mr. Carson. SO tell us is it ok to use it on Carson? Too afraid to buck the party line, thought so. Sad double standards with you guys. ‘-(

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Bill Tozer

07 October 2015

Hey, remember when Paul got his dander up all crazy like and even his own hair was all over the studio when I said Obama was a Boneless Brown. I call the President of the US. a hunk of grunt and Paul goes ape cause he though I said a racial no-no. Strike that. Paul was and is convinced boneless brown means “spineless N word.’ Yo Mr. emery, does boneless really mean shifty as well? Lordy, Lordy, bet your ears have never heard such a thing as what is heard daily on the streets just outside the studio windows. It’s Ok to call Obama a turd, just as long as you don’t call him a brown turd. BTW, a black turd means blood in the bowells.
Wonder what else “boneless tube streak” could mean other than the appendage you are so sorey lacking. Oh yeah, hotdogs. Crap, I said hotdogs. That is a sexist term.
Geeze, Don has been harping on the Coon Quote thrown by one of the Liberal Guru’s all friggin day and you, Mr. Paul sit on it like a fart in church. coon talk all day. There, I said it. A professor of Lib Studies called Dr. Carson a coon and nobody but us on the right got upset about it. Go suck wind.

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Don Bessee

07 October 2015

So Ms. Heidi Hall, Is it ok to call Mr. Ben Carson a COON? I am very serious on this. You marched at the Selma anniversary did you not? Take the principled stand Ms. Hall. You are the stated leader of the progressive element in Nevada City. Take a stand for racial equality and respect regardless of the individuals political persuasion. I work with a significant number of people of color in the State who would be interested in your view of this perceived double standard in Nevada City. I have to question if Lefty Jeffy’s liberal lament land will stand up for Racial Respect.

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fish

08 October 2015

Posted by: Paul Emery | 07 October 2015 at 02:00 PM
From Drudge….
HILLARY MOVES LEFT; OPPOSES OBAMATRADE…
SUPPORTED MEASURE — 45 TIMES!
There are times that even I get fatigued by being right so often. 😉
(smiley emoticon employed so I can conveniently deny this statement later should I need to….. much like another chap who likes to post here on a regular basis)

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George Boardman

08 October 2015

As long as we’re on the subject of switching sides, let’s not forget conservative stalwart Lindsey Graham. He voted against emergency disaster aid for Sandy Hook, but will take every buck he can get for South Carolina.

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Todd Juvinall

08 October 2015

I never cared for him. He and McCain are too hawkish even for me. Hypocrisy is everywhere. Even I have changed my mind on some things. Like Obama, all politicians “evolve” like he did on homosexual marriage.

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Steven Frisch

08 October 2015

So …um..let me be the first to say it is not OK for anyone to call anyone a “Coon’ whether a college professor from Pennsylvania or a blogger from Nevada County. It is a racial perforative and thus, other than placed in context to discuss the history o race relations or language it is inappropriate.

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Steven Frisch

08 October 2015

‘pejorative’

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Paul Emery

08 October 2015

Crickets George?

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George Rebane

08 October 2015

re StevenF’s 813am – A person cannot pick his parents or birthplace or the conditions into which he was born. To denigrate someone for a past not of his making is, in my mind, inappropriate and says that the argument against the denigrated person has gone bankrupt.
This admonition should not be confused with the deliberate use of pejoratives to label and/or denigrate a person for behaviors and beliefs which he adopted after achieving majority. As an example of this category I offer my use of ‘raghead’ for Muslim terrorists of mostly Mideast extraction.
Given the above, I believe that anyone – professor or commenter – who uses such labels as ‘coon’ to identify someone should immediately qualify its use as descriptive of the opposed behaviors by the so designated. And this is especially important for words like ‘coon’, ‘nigger’, ‘kike’, ‘mick’, ‘wop’, …, which historically have been used to denigrate only on the basis of race or ethnicity or national origin – all low and unworthy blows, especially in a liberal society such as ours.

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Steven Frisch

08 October 2015

There is a big difference between saying someone 2000 miles away who used a pejorative after it is reported in the media should be accountable, and holding someone you are in direct contact with in a small circle, accountable. One is responding to hype the other is a social and moral responsibility.
I expect more than crickets, I expect a vigorous defense of free speech.
Yep, people are free to be racists.

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Walt

08 October 2015

On a lighter note, either someone just can’t handle smoking weed, or Nevada Co. growers
have nothing on Ohio.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/funny/smoked-too-much-weed-546930
“OCTOBER 6–An Ohio man who dialed 911 to report that he was “too high on weed” was found curled up on the floor of his bedroom “surrounded by a plethora of Doritos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, and Chips Ahoy cookies,”

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Steven Frisch

08 October 2015

“Given the above, I believe that anyone – professor or commenter – who uses such labels as ‘coon’ to identify someone should immediately qualify its use as descriptive of the opposed behaviors by the so designated.”
Well then its use by the Pennsylvania professor would be fine, because she qualified the statement when she made it to say she was referring to the affect of Carson’s policies.

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fish

08 October 2015

Really digging the Religion of Peace this morning……
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-spencer-stone-stabbed-in-sacramento-20151008-story.html
The poor lad on the train in France…..yes him….the poor boy who was only looking for food with his AK-47…..seems as though somebody has his back in California.

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Gregory

08 October 2015

Here’s a new sandbox topic: we have thousands of new high school graduates by the stroke of a pen!
The requirement to pass the exit exam for a California high school diploma has been rescinded, going back to the beginning. Tens of thousands of former students who just couldn’t pass an 8th grade material math test with a 55% score will get their diplomas. Just signed by Gov. Brown, becomes law in January.
Congrats, new graduates! For those of you who passed the old fashioned way, your earned diploma has just been discounted.

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fish

08 October 2015

Posted by: Steven Frisch | 08 October 2015 at 09:03 AM
Well then its use by the Pennsylvania professor would be fine, because she qualified the statement when she made it to say she was referring to the affect of Carson’s policies.
Well then I can expect you to retract your accusation of racism directed at me for the use of “President Hollow Chocolate Bunny” after explaining the rationale behind it and how there were no racial connotations other than those assumed by you.

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Gregory

08 October 2015

Where has the Sandy Hook School federal money gone?
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-sandy-hook-shooting-two-years-later-20141214-story.html
Let’s remember the victims, and remember there’s a Sandy Hook in Chicago every 10 days but they aren’t cute little white kids.

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George Rebane

08 October 2015

StevenF 903am – I don’t think so. Were some other (say, white) candidate to promote the same policies as Dr Carson, the professor would not and has not called them a ‘coon’. That appellation was assigned to Carson because he was also black, and it was clearly meant to attribute him with the demeaning characteristics for blacks stereotyped during the Jim Crow era. It is odd that progressives are blind to that when one of their own uses such pejoratives.

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Steven Frisch

08 October 2015

Posted by: fish | 08 October 2015 at 09:15 AM
You must have misread my post, I said that under George’s description, which I quoted, the Professors use would be fine.
George has since modified his statement, and I agree with him; it was intended to be demeaning based on race not a position or issue, in which case it is not fine.
Which means Larry’s use is not fine either.

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Todd Juvinall

08 October 2015

So let me get this straight. Steve Frisch supports the Professor calling Ben Carson a “coon” and we don’t yet he calls us racists? OK, once again, step away from the bottle and call 9/11. The man is a libnut as I described.

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