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Sandbox – 27feb16

27 February 2016

[Here is what Joe Biden had to say about filling SCOTUS vacancies. And the record here shows that no liberal has explained why this time is so different that the Senate should not continue to follow the advice of our VP and several of his prominent Democrat colleagues. We expected crickets, and they have spoken. gjr]

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197 responses to “Sandbox – 27feb16”

Don Bessee

02 March 2016

Whatever guise the ‘jons’ adopt they are still a bore. Its hard to have a battle of wits with the unarmed. 😉

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Bill Tozer

03 March 2016

Last thing the FBI usually does when concluding its investigations is to interview the targets of its investigations. Huma, Mills, and Jake next. Then My Gal. They will ask questions such as “Why did you set up a private server in the bathroom of a house? Why did you refuse a State Department blackberry and have your aides buy (4 actually) a blackberry off the shelf at Staples.” “Why did you order the State Department to break protocol and refuse to have a State Department Inspector General during your entire stint as head of the State Department?” Why…why….why….
Gotta love Hillary’s responses so far. Oh, it’s just a standard security review of the past 4 Secretary of States. Haha. The FBI does not do security reviews. They do investigations into violations of the law, thus the name Federal Bureau of Investigation. There are enough agencies and IGs that do security reviews.
Love her talking points about this is just the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy doing its thing against me and Bill since day one. And this is just an interagency bickering and over classifying of “after the fact” benign documents. Yes, there is a bunch of truth to that.
Get beyond the talking points and let’s look under the hood. The Republicans are making hay with this (as any opposing political party would do) and there is a lot of over classifying of docs. But….here comes the but….but the State Department IG has been appointed by Obama twice (!), John Kerry has ordered the full release of docs and doing its own investigation into Top Secret Intel sent to a non secure server, and there are 3 agencies doing investigations into Hillary besides the FBI and House Committees. 150 FBI agents on the case. When this first broke and I heard the FBI went in and seized 3-4 State Department computers on site, I knew they were in a hurry to secure evidence and there was a lot more “there” there than we knew. And Cheryl Mills still has top security clearance to this day, lol.
Now it’s time to “negotiate” the time and place of the interviews. 2 months max. The State Department quip pro quo to foreign donors of millions of clams to the Clinton Foundation has Chelsea on the list to be “interviewed”. Hmmm.
Sure Hillary, there is no there there.

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Walt

03 March 2016

The real kicker Bill,, is all this is out in the open for all to see, and people are STILL voting for the lying witch. It shows that Liberalism IS a mental disorder.

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Jon

03 March 2016

“The real kicker Bill,, is all this is out in the open for all to see”
actually Walt, its not.

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Jon

03 March 2016

Let the GOP Civil War begin! Unfreaking believable what the Mittster did this morning. 🙂

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Jon

03 March 2016

now doing my best Paul Emery impersonation… 🙂
A very interesting piece of data:
Obama Job Approval – Approve 50% Rassmussen 3/2

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Bill Tozer

03 March 2016

Jon, Hillary needs Obama’s positive numbers to hit 55% before November. That is what the conventional wisdom talking heads are saying.
Love what Mitt has said. Did you read that 58 conservative gurus and party lubbing big wigs have signed a long statement that Trump would be doom, doom, doom for both the Republican Party and the Ole Red, White, and Blue? Well, bring it on!!! If the true conservatives like The Weekly Standard are preaching the end of the world concerning Trump along with The Pope, The President, and everybody under the sun is now joining the bugle boy in the playing of Taps, then all is well in my world.
This sure is fun watching the fireworks. That, Jon, is something we completely agree on. We love it! Heck, I am beginning to like you. Keep me informed.
Now with all the PACs, media, movers and shakers, conservatives and Party Faithful huddling together to stop Trump, surely they have come up with a workable plan that will Dump Trump by now you would think. Let me know how their little plans of Mice and Men works out. Thanks.
It’s too funny. The media suddenly thinks what Sen. Lynsey Grahm (1% of the vote) is a spokesperson than now should be taken seriously, lol. Bring back Jeb! Too late, The Donald destroyed him. Rubio? His campaign ends the day he loses his home state. He is so far behind in Florida to The Terminator as of today that he will be gone in a couple of weeks. Cruz won Texas so he is still standing….for awhile.
Side note: if Al Gore could have carried his home state of TN, the whole hanging chad thang would have been a moot point, President Gore. Which brings me to the quote of the day:
“Ludicrous”. That is what Rick Perry of Texas thought of the idea when approached by PACs and donors to make another attempt to be the savior of the Republican Party as we know it. He, too, signed The Pledge. 🙂

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Jon

03 March 2016

Tozer, I hope you’re watching the Trump rally on right now in Maine. About 500 angry, aging white guys all chanting. Being introduced by Paul Lepage now. Your kind of crowd.. Cannot wait for Trump to start spewing the most vile insults imaginable against his party’s own standard bearer in 2012, a guy you voted for. IMPLOSION time!

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Walt

03 March 2016

Thanks “jon” for pointing out Hillary voters are dumber than a box of rocks.
Nope, the sharpest plastic knives in the drawer.

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Gregory

03 March 2016

That right wing Trumper Mila B. at MSNBC has a nice piece on the Clinton email server issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbX6cnWqV5o
Dems are whistling past the graveyard. Both the Dem and GOP conventions are going to be interesting.

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Bill Tozer

03 March 2016

Jon, I indeed voted for Mitt. A man of good character in my opinion. Yep, Mitt was the #1 reason that hordes of Republicans stayed home in 2012. Wonder what got me to even vote now that I think of it. Oh yeah, permanent absentee status. They just keep mailing me ballots. No need to go out and vote.
Mitt was right in the debates about Russia. Ole Obama rolled his eyes in disbelieve and ridiculed Gov. Romney for going back to the Cold War Days of all things! Geez, that is ancient history. Russia? Not even on O’s radar. Then Hillary as Sec of State gave the Rooskies a nice reset button of all things, lol. Mitt was right, O and My Gal were wrong, née-na-nooner.
Mitt can babble all day long. No one voted for him anyway. Another loser. Keep me informed Jon. You are my new litmus test to see how The Terminator is doing. Never thought Trump would carry both Catholics and Evangelicals as well as the youth in so many states, but I digress.
Trump is right. Mitt does walk like a penguin.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EEyQIAemn0

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Jon

03 March 2016

OK, so you can rip into Ted Cruz too, since he and Handsome Young Marco will be saying the same things as Romney tonight.
Interesting that no one actually knows any Repub who stayed home in 2012, allowing the despised black man in the WH to win.
Also interesting that Trump continues to fare the worst against Clinton versus his rivals, in every recent poll. John Kasich has consistently been the best, so I presume the Repubs aren’t interested in winning the General election.

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Russ

03 March 2016

Heh! Romney Joins the Pope in Endorsing Trump

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Don Bessee

03 March 2016

The ‘jon’ is getting a bit too creepy with the ‘Handsome Young Marco’.

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Gregory

03 March 2016

“Jon” seems especially active here when the FUE is talking to himself in his own sandbox. He presumes much and knows little.
Regarding George Boardman’s 02 March 2016 at 10:48 AM, the Chronicle ran a great op-ed from a history professor that did a better job than I of putting the KKK issue in context and Boardman in his place:

“The new red-baiting: Liberals use KKK to smear Trump”
[Why] do we care so much about who supports Trump? Back in the Cold War, right-wingers used this kind of guilt-by-association to smear liberals. Now liberals are using the same tactic to smear Trump… That puts us in league with red-baiters in earlier eras, who reviled liberals on the equally specious grounds that some of their supporters were Communists…
At the end of the day, though, this isn’t really about what your supporters think. The question is whether we should judge you on the basis of their support. And the answer is no. The measure of King lay in the power of his ideas, not in the people who were drawn to him. Ditto for Trump.
In my heart, I believe that we are better than the bigotry of Trump. But we’re also better than guilt by association, which is equally inimical to our democracy. I couldn’t care less which racist group supports Trump. Neither should you.
<a href="http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-new-red-baiting-liberals-use-KKK-to-smear-6863617.php

“>http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-new-red-baiting-liberals-use-KKK-to-smear-6863617.php

Where I disagree with Zimmerman is that no, the current crop of left-liberals aren’t “better than quilt by association”, as a group, it’s a tactic used by them over and over.

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Walt

03 March 2016

LIBS sure didn’t care that much about the Klan when they let Sen. Bird stay in office for as long as he did. It must have been OK to be a Klan member when it’s “one of your own”.
I wonder how many lynchings of deep South Republicans Ol’ Bird attended in the dead of night.

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Jon

03 March 2016

Russ, do you wanna take a shot at the Trump Math? You’re always up for a good challenge and no one has taken this on yet.
Can you describe the Trump path from 45% of GOP Primary Voters to 49%+ of General Election Voters?

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Gregory

03 March 2016

the above hypertext got some html mixed in. Try this:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-new-red-baiting-liberals-use-KKK-to-smear-6863617.php
Open it in a private window if it asks you for a subscription

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Gregory

03 March 2016

“Jon”, do you wanna take a shot at the “Jon” Math and describe the Obama path from losing the popular primary votes in 2008 to getting elected President?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2008
Could it be that Hillary voters would vote for Obama before they’d vote for McCain/Palin?
What a blithering idiot you are, “Jon”.

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George Rebane

03 March 2016

Jon 148pm – I’m sad to report the arithmetic pathways “from 45% of GOP Primary Voters to 49%+ of General Election Voters” are many and obvious. Let’s leave it as a problem for our numerate readers to describe one or two such scenarios.

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Patricia Smith

03 March 2016

Scott march 2, 11:10
This child died because her parents were worried their supply of MMJ would be cut off mid-treatment so they were waiting for a clinical trial to start. The point is Scott, children that are already using MMJ will have their supply cut off and yes, they are in danger of dying according to their doctors (But I suppose you know more than they do???). Why is that so hard for you to understand?
Can you imagine the outrage if ONE child got into their parents stash and died (not that that is possible)? Why don’t you have the same outrage over allowing one child to die from LACK of medicine?? Seems kinda hypocritical to me. And don’t get me started on the despicable email sent out by the Republican Women’s Federated. Unbelievable those women are mothers. Shameful.

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Jon

03 March 2016

George R 2:18, thanks. Lets do leave that as a problem, yet unsolved, but apparently full of possibilities. Would like to hear a couple.
Gregory, WTF is up with your temper? I’m not even talking to you most of the time, nor do I generally care about your boorish posts. The fact remains that no one has yet proven able to answer the simple question about Trump’s popular vote in a general election. Oh, BTW, I noticed your last post today happened at almost the exact time that A’s catcher Todd Phegley sat down in the dugout after the 4th inning in AZ…hmmm.

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Gregory

03 March 2016

“Jon”, as has been told to you and your doppelgangers multiple times, if you’re making a public post, you’re talking to everyone.
I’m not angry, “Jon”, just getting even, and your “question” about getting to a plurality in a general election is answered perfectly by the Democratic Primary votes in 2008.
Obama lost to Hillary. Imagine that. He only got 47%.
“Jon” you are the only one posting here who remains completely anonymous to all but a small circle of fiends.

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Walt

03 March 2016

Math “jon”?? LOL!!! More than 25% of DEMS have already said they are in Trump’s camp.
Many of MEX decent are there too. Blacks who don’t like gov. handouts? yup,, them too.
Then there are the untold scores of Independent voters (who don’t really get counted anywhere) Now take off your shoes to help you with that math.
I take into account just “who” is doing the counting.
Funny thing. The GOP is now using the Progressive playbook to try and derail Trump. And the people on the Right see it. Unlike LIBS (lemming party) who,, like good minions do as they are told. The young LIB voters (commies in training) are not going to be happy that Taxtheshitoutya Sanders isn’t going to make it. They will stay home.

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Gregory

03 March 2016

“This child died because her parents were worried their supply of MMJ would be cut off mid-treatment so they were waiting for a clinical trial to start.”- Patricia Smith
It seems the child died of a horrible disease while waiting for an experimental treatment that might well have not been beneficial.
I remember sitting with my wife Teri, in an oncology practice waiting room, when her oncologist called for the next patient who turned out to be a handsome young man whose brothers and parents had been sitting with him. We’d pegged them, playing the odds, as everyone coming to support Mom for her first appointment. It floored the both of us and we both agreed that agony would be infinitely worse were it our son, and not her.
Patty, your claim the death of that child is by the hand of the BoS is self serving and despicable.

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Jon

03 March 2016

“More than 25% of DEMS have already said they are in Trump’s camp.” Walt
Hay Walt, if people on the RIGHT object to what the GOP is doing to stick it to Trump, why are people on the RIGHT a major part of the Anti-Trump contingent? A true puzzle.. Is Ted Cruz and prominent NorCal Tea Party officials not conservative enough for you? Hell, I love the circus and the Civil War going on now, its only going to split you guys up in November!
Greg, kudos for a response to my question on the Trump math. Huge differences the way many see it- Trump on average isn’t even hitting 47% yet. Obama was also still a relative unknown to most American voters still after the primary, and had extremely low unfavorables. He ran a positive campaign about hope, change, humility and became a beloved figure to many. Trump’s negatives are through the roof and he will never turn into a positive face of anything except hate and anger. Not a winner.

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Jon

03 March 2016

Walt, need a source please on the 25% DEM figure you spouted. Its BS until I see something.

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Linda Erdmann

03 March 2016

Patricia Smith March 3 @ 2:23 p.m.
Ms. Smith,
Please get your facts straight. The email to which you refer was not sent out by Nevada County Republican Women Federated. Your apology will be accepted should it be offered.

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George Rebane

03 March 2016

Administrivia – we continue the Measure W imbroglio in its own post here –
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2016/03/measure-w-mmj-confusion-and-hysteria.html

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Gregory

03 March 2016

“Jon” 339
What a shame you didn’t give those kudos at 2:45, as the answer to your challenge was given at 2:03. Instead, you were your usual asinine self.
Your “analysis” ignores the fact that Sec’y Clinton’s negatives are also through the roof, and will probably get even worse as the tech for her private email server has just been given immunity which must mean someone is getting close to being indicted. Hillary? Huma? “Enquiring” minds want to know, and will.
Hard left analyses of who the right should nominate to best defeat the left candidate are never very prescient, and vice versa. The GOP will nominate who the GOP wants, not the one you do.

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Gregory

03 March 2016

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/0301/How-worried-are-Democrats-about-Donald-Trump

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Patricia Smith

03 March 2016

Ms Erdman, March 3, 3:58 Apology offered. Awaiting an apology from Ms. Wilder to the Hurds.

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Patricia Smith

03 March 2016

Gregory, You purposefully misrepresent my statement. What is despicable is that the Board has the power to make an exemption that WILL save children’s lives but chose not to. Get your head on straight, where are your priorities?

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Gregory

03 March 2016

Madam, if a child’s life was hanging on getting the right pot, they’d get it despite the lack of your will being done at the BoS… the “exemption that WILL save children’s lives” is a figment of your imagination.
I suggested a way for the BoS to make an exemption, it just isn’t to your liking.

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Walt

03 March 2016

“jon”.. You have a search engine… USE it. Do your own damned homework.
When your pressed to fork over facts, your not heard from in days, or until the subject is changed.

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Patricia Smith

03 March 2016

Gregory, you’ve said some really stupid things on this blog, but this takes the cake. An exemption could save lives so why is that a figment? Maybe you mean it is a figment to hope that the Supervisors will show compassion and create an exemption?
I did not see any suggestion from you for an exemption so please post date and time so I can enjoy your insight on this issue. It’s always so helpful when people with no knowledge of a subject offer solutions.

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Russ Steele

03 March 2016

Hey, jon smith, you might want to turn some of those bitcoins in to gold and silver before there is a total systems failure.
Bitcoin’s nightmare scenario has come to pass
The network’s capacity to process transactions has maxed out
Over the last year and a half a number of prominent voices in the Bitcoin community have been warning that the system needed to make fundamental changes to its core software code to avoid being overwhelmed by the continued growth of Bitcoin transactions. There was strong disagreement within the community, however, about how to solve this problem, or if the problem would ever materialize.
This week the dire predictions came to pass, as the network reached its capacity, causing transactions around the world to be massively delayed, and in some cases to fail completely. The average time to confirm a transaction has ballooned from 10 minutes to 43 minutes. Users are left confused and shops that once accepted Bitcoin are dropping out.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11146584/bitcoin-core-classic-debate-transaction-limit-crisis

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Gregory

03 March 2016

An exemption could save lives like a large sign saying “Aliens From Mars, Welcome!” could save lives… the evidence is of MMJ efficacy is overblown, like your rhetoric.
Measure S was driven into the ground by your actions; the best thing you could do is stop being the ramrod for medical mota in Nevada County before you do more harm.

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Jon

03 March 2016

Gregory, so sorry about my delayed answer to you. Delays are simply not appropriate for someone of your educational achievement. One problem is that you’re as anonymous to me as the guy who bills himself as Bill Tozer, so pleasing you ain’t my priority.
Walt, thank you for confirming your lie about 25% of Dems supporting His Fraudness. Perhaps you still have time to enroll in Trump University :). Its never too late!

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Walt

03 March 2016

Thanks for showing you didn’t even bother to look.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/265330-some-dems-would-defect-for-trump-poll-shows
(whats 5% between adversaries? So the numbers have changed slightly)
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jan/21/mike-rogers/mike-rogers-says-trump-appeals-democrats-much-repu/
http://spectator.org/articles/63765/are-reagan-democrats-becoming-trump-democrats
Well,, that should be it for the “jon” for a while. This is usually when he takes a powder.

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Jon

03 March 2016

Funny Walt, a more recent poll puts that Dem support of the Fraudster in single digits. In addition, there are a significant amount of moderate GOP voters that will cross over to Hillary.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/jan/21/mike-rogers/mike-rogers-says-trump-appeals-democrats-much-repu/
Trump will never become President and will do great damage to your party. EOM.

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Jon

03 March 2016

Walt, the Civil War has only started for the GOP. And the math doesn’t lead to Trump ever getting close to 49% of American voters.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/03/3756501/cpac-trump-divide/
Good luck!

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Don Bessee

03 March 2016

Another lovely evening serenaded by the comic styling of the ‘jon’ show. 😉

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Gregory

03 March 2016

There was no “delay” of yours, “Jon”. You ignored the substance of my 2:03 when you did your usual hit piece at 2:45.
“Jon”, if you truly don’t know who I am, ask your bromantic “hero” in Truckee who I am, or your doppelganger with the three digit NC address and the glossy pennysaver that might be worth the cover price. Or, have a chat with KVMR’s Paul Emery, which whom I have often had friendly chats over coffee.
Or ask George Rebane, Todd J.
I dropped my last name in this forum only to drop the libels from one bat-shit crazy former teacher who used to haunt the blogs.
Now, name some notable soul who knows you and can vouch for your identity as being separate from those whose empty rhetoric you so closely resemble. I know who 90% of the usual posters are. Hell, I’ve even enjoyed being in the company of Michael P. Anderson a few times, though he was apparently unaware of it.

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Bill Tozer

03 March 2016

Thoughts of current Presidential Race (The Dark Side)
The flood of wailing and gnashing of teeth emitting from The Establishment Alamo is to be expected. Nobody has come out said it yet, but conservatives and card carrying Republicans consider Donald J. Trump a third party candidate. Not a Republician, that Trump guy is using our name. Party member in name only.
With this theory in mind, the first and foremost thing the R Party must do is stop any and all defections, aka, endorsements of the 3rd Party “monster.” Once a few Injuns leave the Rez, it will be like open borders and the end of…heck, earlier today they (Mitt and POW McCain) said that a Trump win would not be the end of The Party, not the end of America, but the end of……drumroll please…..THE END of DEMOCRACY. Gosh, I hope not. Even that one man Adolph Hilter could not end Western Civilication as we know it. Maybe Trump is a con man, maybe worse than standing in line at the DMV, but I see this is exactly democracy at work. But, if I am wrong, I will be back in The Alamo eating crow sandwiches for a very long time.
Now, back to RHINO bashing, which has almost run its course. Nobody but Jonjon is listening to them anyway. My current task at hand is almost done…unless there is a brokered convention.
http://patriotpost.us/articles/41076
From a pro-Trump site:
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/614341628716063/?type=3&theater
Piling on:
http://brianmcarey.com/2016/03/03/gingrich-mitt-romney-is-part-of-exactly-what-people-in-the-country-are-mad-about/
Next up in the on deck circle is….is who?

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Gregory

03 March 2016

Another datapoint that “Jon” is his Purpleness himself. It took Jeff Pelline but a half hour to find my 9:13PM and post it in its entirety to his blog with a few snotty comments. I guess Jeff has nothing better to do as no one is playing in his sandbox today.
It’s people like Pelline who bring down Cal’s reputation. Rhetoric is a real major and useful, but not in journalism, where the ethical responsibility is to honestly report what is happening in one’s world, not to craft a false argument to push a false narrative. Journalism and activism is as out of place as science and activism. Choose one or the other, you can’t honestly choose both.
The FUE is sadly lacking in ethics.

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Bill Tozer

04 March 2016

Holy Smokes. That meanie made them cry!
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/03/pittsburgh-students-in-tears-and-feeling-unsafe-after-milo-yiannopoulos-event/
Nice job there you beloved and belittled liberals. That is the monster YOU created. Might take awhile to fix that problem you gave the country.
In other news, Jonjon has not lifted put a token finger to rush to the aid of My Gal in her hour of need. Let’s see. Jonjon reads the Huff-n-Puff Post on a daily basis. That means Jonjon has already read this following link. That means more cheap vino for Jonjon tonight. Big hugs is what they need now more than ever in his hour of need.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/obamas-justice-department-gave-bernie-sanders-presidency_b_9372012.html?
Good morning big guys!

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