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[Putin is making nice with Iran and Turkey, two competitors for the new Mideast hegemon.  That sure looks like the latest, and possibly the worst, Foxtrot Uniform of Obama's foreign policy, leaving Russia as the new 'go-to power' if you want to get anything done in the region.  When you decide to lead from behind, then the view never gets any better and the smell gets worse.  gjr]

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140 responses to “Sandbox – 17aug16”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Yep, Russian is the big one. Now there are 100,000 Iranian troops in Iraq. Need a new and improved reset button I reckon.
    Allow me to bring the topic closer to home in light of Iran and Russia and other potential threats as recently discussed on the campaign trail.
    Campaign trail. Yes, Biden is that stupid. Points out who is carrying the bag to launch nuclear codes in the audience. Hey, it’s that guy over there! What a dimwit.
    http://unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/biden-reveals-us-secrets-claiming-trump-reveal-us-secrets/
    To top that off, Biden keeps the Secret Service/ military van with the bag for launching nukes parked a mile away from his home because he does not like all the cars in front of his house. BJust a regular guy. Yes, the bag to launch nuclear weapons is down the street when he is skinny dipping in his pool. Biden also keeps the personal Physican at bay, down the street. One heart beat from the President? Stupid is as stupid does. At least his hands that are busy touching every female under the sun is not on the launch codes. Always a silver lining.
    “And on top of all that — and this is probably the worst of all — when he goes up to Wilmington, Biden instructs his agents to keep the military aide with the nuclear football for unleashing a nuclear counterstrike at least a mile behind in the motorcade. Biden, like most politicians, is fixated on his image. He wants to maintain the image of the regular Joe, working-class guy. So he doesn’t want to have a long motorcade when he goes to Wilmington.
    But the result is that if Obama were taken out, we would be defenseless against a nuclear attack. Because, of course, there wouldn’t be time for the nuclear football to catch up with Biden. Height of irresponsibility. The worst judgment you can imagine.”
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/247915/ronald-kessler-secrets-secret-service-frontpagemagcom
    To top it off, his advice would have his constituents end up in jail. What a moron.
    http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/27/more-self-defense-advice-from-joe-biden-just-fire-the-shotgun-through-the-door/comment-page-1/

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  2. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Interestingly, Iran does not experience any more suicide bombings than we do. Maybe they should be running Iraq since they seem to be, at least, relatively politically and culturally stable (for whatever reason)…not saying that they wouldn’t have their share of trouble managing Iraq…
    http://www.inss.org.il/uploadImages/2015report.pdf

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Oh when you have a huge police state and all those informants, plus no weapons in the hands of the regular folks you get a great East Germany circa post WW2.

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    BradC 1106am – From your mouth to Obama’s ear Mr Croul. I do believe that your idea is already well on its way to implementation.

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Splitting up Iraq by tribe/faction should have been done a long time ago…the artificial boundaries drawn up by brain dead Brits in the early 20th century are worth abandoning.
    However, the lack of Sunni suicide bombers in Shia Iran has more to do with the Sunnis knowing they’re not exactly welcome and to not rock the boat. Yes, police states and religious autocracies do appear to be stable, until they aren’t.

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Ever wonder why Iran is not bringing in all those Syrians. Hell it is just a stones throw from Aleppo. A lot cheaper for the travelers and it would show the world the big heart those Mullahs have.

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    Yes, tyrannies not only appear stable but are the most stable form of government. Any given tyranny may be short lived, only to be replaced by its successor. And it really breaks me up to read about liberal Jews being blindsided by America’s blacks. For an ethnic group that correctly prides itself on intelligence, they sure have a centuries old aggregate blind spot when it comes to supporting modes of governance that serve their best interests. Something about collectivism serving equally in the large as it does in the small.

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  8. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    GeorgeR 1130am – Pretty sure it also went to Trump’s ear.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Really Brad? the last time I checked, it was “O” and Hillary (and Progs in general) that have no use for the Constitution. You may care to revisit what “O” had to say about it.
    He has done a pretty good job of ignoring it, and acting dictator like. And you take a cheap shot at Trump?

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  10. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Only a one percent gap today on the USC/LA Times poll.

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  11. George Boardman Avatar

    Trump reshuffles his campaign staff again, but there’s no point in rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic because The Donald’s going to double-down on the campaign style that put him behind. I guess he never heard the admonition to stop digging when you’re already in a hole.
    Hillary should say a prayer every night for the Republican Party for delivering an opponent like Trump.

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  12. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Boardman | 17 August 2016 at 04:19 PM
    She really should.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    I’m beginning the believe that Boardman is/was the “jon”.
    that’s a “jon” post if there ever was one.
    You sure scampered away from the last one there Boardman,, (the last I heard from you was sunday.)

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump is not behind far enough to worry. One point as I said before. Actually I think Trump thanks GOD every night that his opponent is Hillary. My goodness, her life is a mess and when the Wilder affect happens you might get a big surprise.

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  15. Russ Steele Avatar

    Climate Crusader’ California Governor Jerry Brown on Big Oil Payroll
    Climate skeptics on this blog have often been accused of being on the big oil payroll just for having an opinion on climate change. What a suprize to discover California biggest climate cursader taking big money from big oil.
    Consumer Watchdog Report Finds Big Energy Companies Gave Big $ and Got Big Favors From Governor Brown With Dollars and Decisions Flowing In Close Proximity To Each Other
    Here are two examples:

    The report says that in November 2011, former governor Gray Davis β€” by then a lawyer for Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. β€” pressured Brown to fire two oil and gas regulators the company felt were slow to grant injection well permits for hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Two months later, Oxy contributed $250,000 to Brown’s Proposition 30 tax increase initiative, and shortly after that gave $100,000 to a pet Brown charity, the Oakland Military Institute. This surely looks like old-fashioned pay-to-play, and boosting β€œfracking” as well. Maybe he’s allowing fracking because the money is just too good.
    The report shows that in June 2013, tough regulations were dropped from Senate Bill 4, a bill intended to restrict β€œfracking”. The same day, Chevron Corporation gave $135,000 to the Democratic Party. Several months later, Chevron wrote the party a $350,000 check and a week later, the party put $300,000 into Brown’s re-election campaign fund. On the same day, Chevron plunked $54,400 (the legal maximum) into Brown’s election coffer.

    Do you remember all his tought talk in Paris, during the climate change conference, delaring California to be a leaders in anthropogenic climate change and CO2 emission reductions?
    There is more. HERE is the Watchdog Press Release

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  16. Walt Avatar

    One more thing Boardman,,, You hanging your hopes on polls? Especially ones that put Trump in the dumpster? As I recall, those vary same polls said Trump would NEVER even get the nomination. How did that work out? Keep betting on the LIB poster book of dirty tricks.
    Then there is the GOP seppuku at play.
    Funny.. the same crap was pulled against Reagan. They said Bonzo was sure to be his VP pick.

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 505pm – Hillary’s prayer life notwithstanding Mr Bronson, we should all allow the Left to wallow in the joy of certitude. The new deck chair arrangement may actually have come in time.

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  18. Russ Steele Avatar

    Traveling through liberal Oregon we have been spotting big Trump signs along the highways and byways. Some on barns, other on posts in a field next to the road. Nary a Hillary sign of the dame magnitude. I fact, not even a Hillary bumper stickers, lots of dust covered Burnie stickers.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    But Dr.R.,, the likes of Boardman shouldn’t be that gullible. Yet will still most likely vote for one he knows damned well has done criminal activities. If Boardman beleieves otherwise, he’s a fool.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    So expect the collective “WHAAAAAaaaAAAAA??????” from the Left.
    Trump didn’t get where he is in business and now politics be being stupid.
    LIBS on the other hand are counting on the stupid vote.
    In y own morbid glee,, I hope Trump uses the same tactics that “O” has. “I have a pen and a phone”. Paybacks a bitch. Then watch the Left howl.(and some on the right as well.)

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Since Boardman brought it up, The “reshuffling” sure has Hillary, bitch pissed.
    http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/17/clinton-campaign-denounces-breitbart-news-divisive-racist-anti-muslim-anti-semitic-donald-trump-hires-steve-bannon/
    And who do they use as a counter? The Southern poverty law center. A hate group of the highest order.
    Nice attacks against Breitbart,, but I have yet to see where what they have published has been in any way BS or fabricated, unlike the likes of NBC,CBS, and CNN.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh “Shotgun”….you’ve done it again!
    http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_US_BIDEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-08-18-04-58-22
    Hey democrats….why couldn’t you pick Joe instead of “Menopause von Cankles”!? A Biden administration would be so much more entertaining than watching Hilbot decompose on live TV over the next 4 years.

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  23. Russ Steele Avatar

    Hey Paul:
    Denmark has a problem: it may soon be unable to afford offering such a good deal to its people.
    Free health care for all, a $757 monthly stipend for college students and robust safety nets for the less fortunate all cost money – Denmark devotes slightly more than 30 percent of its gross domestic product to social spending, one of the highest levels in the rich world.
    According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, such a β€œgenerous welfare system requires robust public finances.” And while Denmark’s β€œseem sustainable” for now, the assumptions that underpin that view carry a high level of uncertainty, the OECD warned in a recent survey.
    Take labor market participation.
    True, an unemployment rate below 4 percent is one of Europe’s lowest, and industry frequently complains about shortages in skilled labor. But population projections show that Denmark’s 600 billion-krone ($91 billion) welfare system is facing a future of more customers and fewer people around to pick up the bill.
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-18/aging-danes-hope-robots-will-save-their-welfare-state

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  24. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    an example of how the profit motive and privatization don’t work in the realm of public services. Yes, some government run facilities and services are better run, provide a higher quality, and are more cost efficient than the private sector can offer.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/?postshare=9221471534255226&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.10bd99b2465b

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Social Justice Warrior decides to teach the unenlightened a lesson…..hilarity ensues!

    White House Indian education official accused of assaulting Native American over Redskins

    Feather on Feather Indian violence as opposed to Feather on Dot or Dot on Dot…… just as a point of clarification.
    My day is made!
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-indian-education-official-accused-of-assaulting-native-american-over-redskins/article/2599660?custom_click=rss

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish, that PC dude couldn’t even beat up a Sqaw. Well, neither could I back in the day (full disclosure). Oh my, the Cherokee Princes are high spirited, but you mix the Sac Nation with our Fox Nation and Choctaw and she ain’t taking no lip. What a weetard. Looks like one lady is off the Rez and is not getting with the program.
    Funny, we had a moment in the sun in the late 60’s and early early 70’s. The movies Billy Jack and Little Bigman, the gun fight with the FBI at Wounded Knee and other spots (same result as the first Wounded Knee) and the book I Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee flying off the shelves being bought up by bespectacled paleface Bozos donning tweed and corduroy jackets with brown patches on the elbows in Bay City. Geeze, it didn’t last long. But, after that time our people started coming back from free college and some were Harvard Law trained lawyers.
    I am certain the Council will appoint a very pissed off lawyer to settle the score. πŸ™‚

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Hay Cross.. You ever had to go to the VA for healthcare? I say slightly better than civil war battle field medicine. Guess what? I get to get another procedure.. NO anesthetic either. But I did when I saw my private practice Doc. for the same thing.
    The VA cut a tumor out of my neck. On the table for three hours. I woke up in more pain than you can imagine. “Here is Tylenol 3.. Have a nice day.”
    Gov. medicine sucks.
    You like it so much? You can have it. Give me back what I had. It was MUCH better.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    OK, hears a good one that happened at work today.
    I was working on a repair project, and a man and a woman walked up saying they got kicked out of the place they were at last night because his girlfriend wouldn’t have sex with the guy. They had a flat tire and wondered if I could fix it… Well now…Yes Bill, I almost went there. ( Seems it just not your day! I don’t fix tires for free!) But no,,, I didn’t.
    Something said,” no,, don’t you say it!”. So I fixed the tire. Then they come back needing a jack. then a lug wrench. Little did I know CHP even paid them a visit. I was lucky to get the jack back.
    By the looks of things, and their car, they were couch surfers.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mr. Walt @ 4:09 pm. What, they cut off your other melon? Geeze, where are you going to turn to to get a second opinion? At least they could have left the better looking mug. :). 3 hours? What, did they take a long lunch break or were
    watching soaps with you laying on the table? I could have been in and out in 12 minutes. But, I don’t carry Tylenol. Too expensive for my tastes.
    Walt @ 4:58 pm. Ah, yes, I remember going “there.” Those old hot dusty backroads. Nothing to do but F, Fight, and Fix Flats. Welcome to Injun Terrority:
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/693654224118136/?type=3&theater
    See, I told ya since day one that as the libs, The Reverend Al, and POTUS were busy lining up to kiss BLM’s non-lily white behind, Trump would strike a cord with concerned Mommas by saying the solution is more cops arresting thugs and talking back the streets.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/693654224118136/?type=3&theater
    Note: remember our Mother of the Year driving her boy with her fists a’ flying out of the Baltimore riots and chasing his sorry behind back home? Well, his brother gone burned their apartment up and now they are on the streets. An accident. 17 year old home alone got a grease fire going in the frying pan cooking some grub while Momma was at work. He threw water on the fire. Live and learn, a common mistake. Somehow someway, that woman is destined for greatness. My gut tells me we haven’t seen the last of her.
    I am spent. That’s all Mr. Roadside Hero!
    https://www.facebook.com/khop951/photos/a.407064174667.178982.91946724667/10154517434309668/?type

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ah sugar. This should have been the 2nd link above concerning our black concerned mothers hearing Trump’s message for the first time. Take back the streets first and foremost, then go down the education and economic opportunity list.
    http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/18/shock-poll-trumps-black-support-grows-6x-after-milwaukee-appeal/

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  31. Russ Steele Avatar

    California’s globally irrelevant, costly, elitist driven and purely political climate change campaign
    Governor Brown and his cronies are so blinded by their own misguided political and ideological beliefs concerning climate issues that they are driving state policy in directions which are imposing harsh, unjustified and unnecessary costs, restrictions and mandates that add burdens to the lives of tens of millions of Californians who struggle to make ends meet each and every day.
    The states ruling bureaucracy is lost in a contrived make believe world of man made climate change political assertions built upon nothing but speculation and conjecture unconnected to and unsupported by real data but for which limitless amounts of bureaucratic meddling and interference can be justified and imposed upon the states peoples.
    Governor Brown’s climate change actions and proposals represent nothing less than a disaster for California’s economy, individual freedom and future prosperity.
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/18/californias-globally-irrelevant-costly-elitist-driven-and-purely-political-climate-change-campaign/
    Graphic learners should check out the graphics in this article.

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  32. Russ Steele Avatar

    We were hearing about the hottest year ever from our local lefty trolls, but it appears they are not up their science. In fact they seem to have disappeared.
    Scientist: β€˜All the hoopla about this being hottest year ever is contradicted by findings from Antarctic ice cores’
    Scientist: ‘All the hoopla about this being the hottest year ever is contradicted by findings from Antarctic ice cores that during the Eemian, the last interglacial (LIG; 130,000–115,000 years ago), global climate was warmer than today and global mean sea level was 6-9 m higher’.
    I wonder what were the anthropogenic CO2 sources during the last interglacial that cause all that warming and sea level rise? It must have been natural, just like the current warming and sea level rise, a natural process.

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  33. George Boardman Avatar

    And to think Todd and Walt kept insisting it’s just sarcasm:
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/18/politics/trump-i-regret-sometimes-saying-wrong-thing/
    Yahoo also has a picture of Trump appearing to be contrite. Look’s like you boy is whimping out.

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Why is that a problem. Seems you all criticize him for not being contrite. Can you see why o one believes the press?

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    HEY EVERYBODY……..lets all get together for a socialist barbecue!

    Venezuela Spiral: Gang breaks into zoo, butchers horse for food….

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hungry-gang-butchers-thoroughbred-horse-8662326

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  36. George Boardman Avatar

    Todd, Trump would never back down, would never admit he was wrong or that what he said was untruthful or hurtful, and people like you and Walt defended him.
    Now Trump is essentially admitting that the “scum of the earth” media were right.

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    GB- Don’t be so hard on your profession, pols shows media types fall into the scum bag category along with used car salesmen and lawyers.
    Scum of the earth is for drug lords, lil’ kim in N Korea, Assad and jihadis. πŸ˜‰

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  38. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    George Boardman | 19 August 2016 at 11:03 AM
    Sorry you don’t know politics.

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  39. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Give Boardman a break… he’s only bashing Trump because he can’t think of any positive thing to say about Hillary.
    George, I also can’t think of anything positive to say about Hillary, you have my sympathy.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bill Tozer
    I can’t even read this. Maybe one of you can.
    titled, β€œIn the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Subject/Prices of Selling Spoils of War.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/19/islamic-state-keeps-price-list-selling-spoils-name-allah-christians-yazidi-sex-slaves-young-1/
    Do you realize how sick our government has become??. What dangerous scum our government is. Sick stuff. Ask Muslim immigrants if they were Nazis back in the day or members of the Commie Party, but not ask if these pigs are members of ISIS?
    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/extreme-feds-ask-immigrants-if-theyre-communists-nazis-but-not-isis-al-qaeda/article/2599734
    Want more of this? Then you must vote for Hillary. If you want to bring in a culture that hates our gay citizens, preys on our US citizens that are women (as well as multitating them), and firmly believes in their hearts of hearts that our small Jewish-American communities should be destroyed, then you must vote for Hillary. No other choice. .

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Slow news day. Obama sends memo to flood victims in Loisianna “Don’t Discriminate.” He was laying golf with comedian Larry David when memo was send. No “our prayers are with you, hang tough, help is on the way”, no nothing but Do Not Discriminate.
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/19/obama-offends-louisiana-flood-victims-me/
    Ok, how about we have a more pleasant view of what is going on in the Deep South.
    http://ktla.com/2016/08/19/louisiana-flooding-brings-outs-acts-of-kindness-amidst-
    distress/
    http://ijr.com/2016/08/676606-after-days-of-flooding-mans-act-of-kindness-in-a-louisiana-walmart-wasnt-really-all-that-random/

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  42. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Bill at 2:47 – Don’t be so hasty!
    They know there’s no point in asking the followers of Mohammed because their religion teaches them to lie to the infidels. Commies, on the other hand, might be willing to sign up for Hillary’s pres campaign.
    You have to think outside of the sanity box.

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  43. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Who are you voting for, Brad? And how about Boardman?
    What do are friends on the left have to offer as leadership?
    Cue the cricket corp.

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gregory 230p- Madam liar liar pantsuits on fire is positively corrupt, positively ruinous to our society and positively indictable. πŸ˜‰

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