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[To the scurrilous would-be character assassins that frequent these pages I have a question.  How does diverting to and focusing on Hitler's reputation as genocidal maniac bear on Germany's introduction of autobahns in a productive discussion about the development and utility of limited access highways?  gjr]

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251 responses to “Sandbox – 29apr16”

  1. Jon Dozer Avatar
    Jon Dozer

    Agree on your anger management issues. Man do you get worked into a lather when thinking of that racist with the stupid orange hair.

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  2. Brad C. Avatar
    Brad C.

    BillT – I never thought holding the chain saw bar between the legs while trying to start the saw was a good idea. Darwin Award contestant?

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jon Dozer | 30 April 2016 at 09:28 AM
    Wow!
    At just what time did the psychological break occur last night? I go away for a couple hours after the Giants get thrashed against the Mets and come back to multiple versions of you.
    Is there someone I should call?

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Bill,
    1). My niece’s young smart techie love of her life husband has been diagnosed with cancer (lympth) and it has mushroomed in the last 5 days. Young, brilliant, with a second child due soon. His dad once was given a new position created for him at Intel or Cisco or one of those Beaverton outfits, CTO. Both have since left to form new companies. He will have the best of medical care, but prognosis is always uncertain.
    Not the best christian…..not by a longshot but I will keep the lad in my prayers.
    Posted by: Brad C. | 30 April 2016 at 09:40 AM
    I tink incidents like this is why the Husqvarna manual is 27 pages long in Sweden and 177 pages long in the US.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: fish | 30 April 2016 at 09:48 AM
    No….I really “think” that.
    (needed to get ahead of The Nations Editor)

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  6. Brad C. Avatar
    Brad C.

    Tink works…

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  7. Brad C. Avatar
    Brad C.

    I tot I taw a puddykat…A dialect I learned at an early age

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  8. Russ Steele Avatar

    This is how the left plays the intellectual game of data hide and seek.
    Research university hides results of fracking study which fails to prove it’s dangerous
    POSTED AT 5:01 PM ON APRIL 26, 2016 BY JAZZ SHAW
    What happens when a university research department is tasked with conducting a study of the harmful effects of fracking on ground water and other environmental concerns? Well, that depends on who provides their research money and what the results turn out to be. In the case of the University of Cincinnati, a lot of their funding comes from groups which have a vested interest in proving how harmful fracking is so it’s hardly a surprise that they lost interest in the study when it failed to produce any evidence of ground water contamination near commercial fracking sites.
    Jeff Stier, senior fellow and head of the Risk Analysis Division at the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington provides a detailed report at Newsweek.
    Geologists at the University of Cincinnati just wrapped up a three-year investigation of hydraulic fracturing and its impact on local water supplies.
    The result? There’s no evidence – zero, zilch, nada – that fracking contaminates drinking water. Researchers hoped to keep these findings secret.
    Why would a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program deliberately hide its work? Because, as lead researcher Amy Townsend-Small explained, “our funders, the groups that had given us funding in the past, were a little disappointed in our results. They feel that fracking is scary and so they were hoping our data could point to a reason to ban it.”

    So, if the results do not support the left hypothesis, it is OK to hide the results. Especially if the researchers want some funding in the future. One has to ask, how many AGW studies showing it is null and void have been hidden, to keep the research money flowing?

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  9. George Rebane Avatar

    RussS 157pm – Good catch Russ. This comment may have a better home under ‘They sure ain’t like us’.

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Seems standards are dropping precipitously at some of the other blogs in your area…..

    jeffpelline says:
    April 30, 2016 at 1:39 pm
    George “Raghead” Rebane is crying in his beard over this! ROFLOL.
    Reply

    This in response to: greendogdemo
    Yes I remember a time when blog posts were throughly vetted and the bloggers themselves rigorously checked and their full and complete names verified before being allowed to post.
    Good times…….good times indeed

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 559pm – Over what does the overheated brain of the FUE claim that I’m crying in my beard??

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I found the Reuters poll that had madam liar liar pants on fire and Trump tied. Still not sure what the Bernie bros were saying as to Trump beating pantsuits on fire but it may be about the lack of Bernie bro turnout and Trumps nibbling a percentage here and there on black on other surprising minorities. Whatever happens we all have to work to prevent madam liar liar pantsuits on fire from a third 0 term.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 30 April 2016 at 07:14 PM
    That’s the beauty of it…..I haven’t any idea.
    My comment was in response to yet another of the jeffies cherished and inviolate principles (must post with full name) being shown to little more than dust and falling by the wayside when ignoring them helps him reinforce ones of his political “points”. Last week it was his using his own kid as a prop when he was trying to make the utterly ludicrous argument that you had no business (“not qualified” I believe was the term used) officiating your Tech Test. This while continuously whining about “boundaries” when he makes a habit of rooting through public tax and criminal databases looking for dirt on your neighbors.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Not really new news, but found this quote amusing. The Leftist government leaders are exempt. Got to feed the beast.
    “While blackouts have not been enforced in the capital Caracas, poor families in cities like Maracaibo are suffering the consequence.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/hair-left-half-cut-venezuela-electricity-chaos-023151955.html?ref=gs

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I think I am out of the loop, a fish out of water so to speak. I just can’t muster the outrage to be offended this lovely morning. It’s a beatiful day in the neighborhood when you aren’t walking around on guard against being offended. Or maybe it is better to offend than be offended. Or, I just don’t get it.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/28/university-central-florida-police-defend-description-middle-eastern-suspect.html?intcmp=hpbt3
    http://nypost.com/2016/05/01/hillarys-off-the-reservation-remark-angers-native-americans/

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 May 2016 at 06:21 AM
    Yes…..one wonders how “our gal” will ever be successful by both uttering and being in close proximity to such racist language!
    Really Mayor Cuckold…..“Colored People” time?
    To borrow from Instapundit….why are progressives and progressive cities such cesspits of naked racism?

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 409am – since I’m not aware of the FUE’s literary and political contributions, where did you get that quote of his re TechTest?

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 01 May 2016 at 08:25 AM
    jeffpelline says:
    April 21, 2016 at 8:36 pm
    Then the other George (Rebane) weighed in with his snide comment — a “fat joke.” George is unqualified to give a Tech Test to local teens. He is a role model for intolerance and false pride. These two have much more in common than their first names. LOL.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Lest you gossipers forget, it’s May Day USA style! Too hip, gotta go.
    PS: Oh, yeah, Lover Lips did say you have no business giving tech tests and the not so subtly veiled innuendo that your kind should not anywhere near millilials, per my selective reading comprehension, of course.
    International United People’s Worker Communist Party’s day to shine! Parades. Next up, watching the French sound like crickets on Cino de Mayo! May Day is the one day each year that if your nose goes on strike, you can pickette in broad daylight.

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  20. Patricia Smith Avatar

    Fish, April 30 9:48am If your neice’s husband would like to supplement his medical care with cannabis oil, please contact me (assuming they still live in CA?). They can call my google voicemail at 530-273-7009 or email at psmith@asa.nevco.com. In any case, I wish him well.

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    re BillT’s 558am – Does anyone else wonder why our leftwing cannot connect the dots from the global experience with socialism to what WILL certainly happen here when such policies are finally put in place in America? The harbingers are already visible wherever one looks. All my life I’ve wondered what special kind of intellectual blindness afflicts these people. From the carefully camouflaged studies that are being done (e.g. the functional MRI imaging of Left v Right brains asked to solve/answer the same problems) the conclusion emerges that the differences in our brains has a clinical basis. That explains why they are immune to remediation through normal educational pathways.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Patricia Smith | 01 May 2016 at 10:42 AM
    Not my relative Patricia……Tozers! Nevertheless your thoughts are appreciated.

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Rebane | 01 May 2016 at 10:44 AM
    The results never matter……intentions are all that count.
    And hey……the Nomenklatura manages to do well regardless of the political/economic system.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No, my kin is taken care of. Dozer’s! For Dozer. You know, for the hand that wears his ring. Thanks anyway gang. BTW, when it comes to medicinal marijuana (true medicine for some ailments that work for many, not all), Patricia Smith would be there for you and me and us all 24/7. Name another that would do the same for strangers in time of need that you know of. Patricia has a saintly spirit.
    It’s too bad that we can’t seperate the business of growing marijuana with MMJ patients and their advocates. It all gets jumbled into one big crockpot of stew because darn near every Jack and Jill wants to be in the business of selling marijuana. Work at home and all that stuff. Full time or part time, sole source of livelihood or supplemental income. As the brand new Woman Card proclaims on front, “Deal me in”, and that in essence is the monkey wrench jammed in the gears.

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  25. Patricia Smith Avatar

    Sorry Fish and Bill T, glad to hear your family member is taken care of, but do not hesitate to call if things change.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Psssst, Jon Dozer.
    Made you look. Ok, do not open this link. Danger.
    http://patriotpost.us/posts/42242

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  27. Russ Steele Avatar

    Oh NO! jon,jon, jon another bad day at black rock.
    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 41% support to Clinton’s 39%. Fifteen percent (15%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.
    This is the first time Trump has led the matchup since last October. Clinton held a 41% to 36% advantage in early March.
    Trump now has the support of 73% of Republicans, while 77% of Democrats back Clinton. But Trump picks up 15% of Democrats, while just eight percent (8%) of GOP voters prefer Clinton, given this matchup. Republicans are twice as likely to prefer another candidate.
    Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Trump leads 37% to 31%, but 23% like another candidate. Nine percent (9%) are undecided.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2016/trump_41_clinton_39

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That must be the poll the bernie bros were crowing about the other day. There has never been a primary candidate who led out of the gate and kept leading all the way to the R convention. What ever happens its going to be interesting. 😉

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  29. Russ Steele Avatar

    California Drought Report #61: Dry Winter Expected for California
    Forecast: La Niña to replace El Niño conditions in the fall of 2016 – dry winter for California expected.
    Details HERE.

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Does this belong on the “Portrait of a Successful President” chart?

    “In 6 Months Since Budget Deal: Debt Up More Than $1 Trillion!”

    http://tinyurl.com/z7x7fnn

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  31. George Boardman Avatar

    Sound advice from a Republican candidate:
    http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/05/02/3774423/michele-fiore-nevada-aim-gun-at-cops/
    And I thought Sharron Angle was loony.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    George Boardman.
    Just skimming your link, I must confess I cannot find anything redeeming about Sharrrrron Angle’s angle (yet).. If a cop was pointing a gun at me and I thought it was a great idea to then point a gun at the officer in return, that would mean I would be taking a long undisturbed nap. Nobody likes to be awaken from a nappy-pooh anyway. Or, to put it a different way, such a decision is what is now called “suicide by cop”.
    At first blush, you have indeed busted us right wing extremists’ nuts. I am embarrassed for the woman hating wife beating tee shirt wearing Party.
    Aha! Found it. Angle may be helping rid our fine country from those dumber than a bucket of rocks. Only mental midgets like libs and other dumbasses would be so brain dead to try it, thus getting the low lives off the streets. Always a silver lining.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, this is not surprising. They ain’t the only ones fleeing our Socialist Paradise of Kalifornia.
    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/latest-solar-plane-leaves-california-arizona-38811028
    In related news, our own Scott O made the headlines! They even quoted him accurately.. Miss ya Mr. O, even if you do lean Cruz.
    https://www.ncscooper.com/california-program-relocates-citizens-to-idaho-montana/

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Get ready for the next wave from Frisco.
    http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/02/survey-says-34-percent-of-bay-area-residents-are-ready-to-leave.html
    We are still dealing with the migration of 1969.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Hillary knows how to step in it. First she says how she plans to put coal miners out of business, then rolls into coal country saying “vote for me!”
    http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/02/laid-off-coal-worker-confronts-hillary-over-her-promise-to-eradicate-industry-video/
    ““I don’t know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context from what I meant, because I’ve been talking about helping coal country for a very long time,”
    How stupid does she think they are? (On the other hand they believed the line of crap that “O” shoveled them to get their votes.)

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Isn’t MyGal something! Liked her style when she said she has been talking about getting money out of politics for a very long time. Sounds kinda familiar. Problem is she has been speaking for too long.
    Walt, if you put your ear down to the ground, you can hear the distant charging horses coming our way. Mr. Dozer is whistling in the dark being brave and all because his instinct keeps telling him he hears it too, no matter how mightily he tries to fight it.
    Allow me to alleviate Mr. Jon Dozer’s fears. He is 100% correct. The Trumpf is coming for him. Opps, us Trumpsters and assorted United Uncordialables, I should say. We are going to put him in stocks in public square. We will be compassionate. We will fed him by stuffing an apple in his pie hole.
    The smoke signals on yonder hill says we got them by the short hairs. Figured you already knew that, but it’s worth repeating to the faint of heart.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    When Trump took the last super primary day, he won 5 of of 5 with well over 50%. Gone are the days of winning with 30%. Dilution was not a good solution for the Rhinos. Well, at least they tried.
    He looks good even if he has pink hair.
    http://www.ksdk.com/mb/news/nation-now/trump-trouncing-in-calif-by-34-points-poll/165144506

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    Trumps new campaign son is We Shall Over Comb

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  39. Jon Dozer Avatar
    Jon Dozer

    Sorry Bill, I’ll stick to the demographic/electoral reality :). Here is the worst case scenario for Dems..
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/02/republicans-have-a-massive-electoral-map-problem-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-donald-trump/

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  40. Jon Dozer Avatar
    Jon Dozer

    Paul, that was bad..:) Accurate, but very bad.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mr. Paul, Good one, but about 9 months old. My adult child bought a mini-bumper sticker somewhere about “there will be hair to pay”. Told her the same thing I just told you. Good one nine months ago.
    Darn, she put this bumper sticker on her back window that reads “My other ride is a feminist.” So, we switch cars and I am driving around with my head in the clouds….until I looked at the back. There are stickers about Keeping Sqaw True, Support the Ironworkers, Santa Cruz, Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society, and finally, “I’d rather be at Possum Lodge.” That’s my little girl, except that “My other ride is a feminist” is not something I want to be stopped driving around in. It’s a Daddy thing.
    Now, my buddy rocks. He’s getting calls all over the world….and some group he never heard of is building the pole barn in the back he joked about he won’t be able to build this summer in an interview…all expenses paid.
    http://www.khq.com/story/31869787/man-shot-during-wells-fargo-bank-robbery-if-good-men-do-nothing-evil-succeeds

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Mr. Dozer. Can you come out and play?
    Republicans always have a massive electoral map problem. We are programmed to lose, guaranteed to be pushing up daisies out of the starting gate. You guys win again! Just look at that map. Just look at those demographics. Demographics is what you bet the ranch on, is it not? So, why not let us “guaranteed to lose” knuckledraggers have a ray of hope before getting squashed like a bug? Now, is that too much you ask, Masta!
    But then again, what scares the living green grunt out of you is that…..drumroll please….we are sending someone that is unpredictable to meet and greet your gal into the Thunderdome. Two enter, one walks out. Demographics and the electroral college map are so predictable. Only thing that could possibly upset the apple cart is……someone unpredictable. “Welcome to my parlor”, said the spider to the fly.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8TIy4R54Ak

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I attended a showing of Marc Morano’s Climate Hustle tonight and I must say I was disappointed. There were no gross errors of fact but there was far too much filler and not enough fact.
    I did learn how to pronounce Nobel Physicist Ivan Giaever’s last name.
    In short, they updated the classic The Great Global Warming Swindle by dumbing it down, repeating some of the same material and not actually giving enough information to interested viewers who want to double check claims.
    Dr. Judith Curry got her points across nicely, including the hit to her career that going off the reservation cost her personally. Other scientists who found themselves on the street (one physicist was summarily fired from a 20+ year position two days after their op ed ran in the WSJ, not because of errors but because it didn’t match their official line) made the point of how scientists were kept quiet.
    Some footage of Philip Stott in 2007’s IntelligenceSquared debate was included and the trouncing of the Warmists in that debate was rightly cited as the reason Warmists shy away from debating skeptical scientists of the likes of Lindzen, Stott, Christie, Spencer, Svensmark, Kirkby etc etc.
    A panel discussion including Sarah Palin followed the film (ummm, video, some of which was low rez enough to make it painful to see on a big screen)… and and perhaps a quarter of the audience chose to walk out then; I might have followed but I didn’t have a clear path out and I generally don’t leave the theater until the credits are finished.
    No doubt Climate Hustle will eventually be free to view on the net. If you didn’t see it, don’t fret. Go watch the original The Great Global Warming Swindle or Klimamysteriet (the Cloud Mystery), the Danish documentary about Henrik Svensmark by Lars Mortensen.

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh “jon”….I had no idea you were in the German “…and they left as good friends” Ministry?

    <

    blockquote>”Now, according to local press reports, it turns out there was more. Germany’s The Local reports that a high-ranking police officer has alleged that his seniors tried to strike the word rape from an internal police report after the mass sexual assaults in Cologne over New Year.
    The local media outlet reports that a chief superintendent in the Cologne police told the investigative committee established in the wake of the attacks that the interior ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia had sought to influence the investigations.”
    </blockquote

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Grants are just never a reliable source of income,” said Cindy Maple, executive director of Hospitality House.
    http://www.theunion.com/news/21857675-113/nevada-county-agencies-get-no-hud-dollars-still

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Holy Mackrel. Now they are attacking the Sacred Cow, my gal’s boy toy and economic guru of the progressives.
    http://observer.com/2016/05/the-new-york-times-clinton-puppet-gets-it-wrong-again/

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  47. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 03 May 2016 at 07:12 AM
    Now William that was just gratuitous. We should offer kudos to Mr. Krugman…..once he was “purchased” by the leftist intelligentsia/finance/political establishment he had the decency to stay bought.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Forgot something, came back. Boy, My Gal is something special.
    http://www.breitbart.com/hillary-clinton/2016/05/01/one-year-silence-hillary-clinton-uranium-deal/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
    Ever wonder why 90% of the boat load of tax deductible donations to The Clinton Foundation went to the Clintons and 10% went to helping saving the world. Hillary is pissed that 10% slipped through. No worries. When questions arose, Hillary promised to release the names of The Foundation’s donor, nothing to see here. Storm blows over. Still waiting for the donor list to be released. Nothing YOU get to see here. I gave up waiting.

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