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Sandbox – 14sep16

14 September 2016

[Time for some fresh sand in which to conjure up scenarios that pit Hillary's health problems against the new counter-attack by Dems targeting an alleged illegal contribution from the Trump Foundation to the Florida AG. Has this now become a contest to see whose smoke screen works the best? gjr]

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98 responses to “Sandbox – 14sep16”

Todd Juvinall

14 September 2016

As well as trying to badger Pence into calling David Duke a “deplorable”. Honest to GOD, the media is s corrupt it makes my head spin.

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Gregory

14 September 2016

I’ll drop a steamer into the sandbox… Clinton needed to say something about her health after being tossed into the van like a side of beef… so, well, OK, she was diagnosed with pneumonia on Friday. And news outlets run with that, so she has pneumonia and she’ll get better.
I accept she has pneumonia, and I even accept that diagnosis was made Friday. That doesn’t mean she hasn’t been suffering from something more dire for some unknown amount of time; if that is the case, tossing out pneumonia would be a fine Red Herring to distract the Foxhounds that are dogging her.
Now, if either my wife or I had collapsed on an outing two days after getting a diagnosis of pneumonia and had to be tossed into a car to get help, the other would drive the stricken to an ER… which is what the Secret Service were apparently doing according to protocol when they were supposedly told to divert to Chelsea Clinton’s apartment instead.
Even if pneumonia is the only health issue that was kept secret (Ha!) it’s a lie that everyone understands and it has broken the logjam that has kept Clinton v. Trump in a dead heat Totentanz in the popular vote for weeks. Listening to NPR morning edition Monday on the way to KSMF, Cokie Roberts was treating the idea of replacing Clinton on the ballot as unlikely… not laughable.

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Gregory

14 September 2016

Todd, the DDuke deplorable ploy was win-win… if he dances to the tune of the interviewer the news would be “Pence admits Trump supporter Duke is “a deplorable””… if he doesn’t dance to that tune, it’s “Pence refused to call the KKK deplorable”. It’s a game he could only lose so he sidestepped it and it petered out quickly as Hillary’s health consumed all the O2 in the room.

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Todd Juvinall

14 September 2016

Good take.

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Todd Juvinall

14 September 2016

And Koyote is on a roll. He says on a rather listless local blog that the earth has never been warmer the last few years. And he shouts from the rooftops that humans need to deal with it now, time is wasting. What a idiot that dog is.

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Bill Tozer

14 September 2016

Todd Juninall @ 11:46am
“What a idiot that dog is.”
Now, now, there is always a reason. It’s all good.
https://www.facebook.com/bdsm161/photos/a.1130185797029099.1073741827.1127078314006514/1142554375792241/?type=3&theater
Hope KKKoyote does not pull a Hillary and get overheated…or short circuit…or have a fainting spell. August is usually a hot month, as well as the first week or two of September. He needs to hydrate and will be back to his normal self.

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Bill Tozer

14 September 2016

I am going to build me one of these. And to think Mr. Cross once asked why we don’t like government. Let’s see. Sending my people potable water in contaminated oil drums and by merely saying “Chicago” is now a trigger word no-no. Probably considered a violent act. The thought police know what I really meant. That’s a start, eh Mr. Cross?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/09/13/big-government-cracks-down-on-people-sharing-books/

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Gregory

15 September 2016

USC/LAT now has Trump over Clinton by 5.9%
Paul, is that bet still available at 2:1?

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Bill Tozer

15 September 2016

Two days ago: European oddsmakers put it at 5/4, Trump.

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Gregory

15 September 2016

Silver’s 538 now has it as a 60/40 race, Trump only needs 18 more electoral votes over what he’s expected to get and a number of states are in play, including NV, CO, WI, VA, MI, PA, MN.
Golly, Paul, I sure wish you had accepted that bet at 4:1, I can taste the Lagavulin you won’t be buying me. 🙂
In other words, back when we had that pleasant conversation over coffee, it wasn’t a done deal, it was a tight race. Lifelong left-liberals just couldn’t imagine a Trump beating a Hillary. I can, even if I won’t be voting for either one.
Any Californians reading this blog, please vote for the 3rd party candidate of your choice, Hillary is a done deal for our bag of electors, your vote for her won’t matter.

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Paul Emery

15 September 2016

NO gregory you missed out. Not to worry, the powers that be sill never let Trump win. It will be the establishment as usual in the end.

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Gregory

15 September 2016

No worries here, Paul. Let us know someday who these powers that be are. Some massive voter fraud machine? Enquiring minds want to know.
Silver’s 538 has it a 60/40 race as of today. Tomorrow may be different. Hill needs to stay upright for nearly two months… can she do it? Can Trump keep his feet out of his mouth for the same amount of time? Will WikiLeaks leak be as juicy as promised?
We live in interesting times.

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Gregory

16 September 2016

USC LAT Daybreak… +6.4% advantage Trump
GEEZERS are the least affected by the Hill latest but they were the most against her to begin with. Something of a surge by black voters… supporting Trump near 20%, up from 3 or 4. Black support of hill dropping faster than Trump support is growing.
Pass the popcorn.

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fish

16 September 2016

Patiently……..ever so patiently….
http://nozombiesaloud.blogspot.com/2016/09/and-patiently-he-waits.html
….waiting for the drugs that animate the Hilbot5000s lifeless carcass to stop working!
ALL HAIL “SHOTGUN JOE” BIDEN!

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fish

16 September 2016

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

“Our next president will either be an offensive, rich, divisive, bigot with a bad haircut or Donald Trump”. #Trump #Clinton

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fish

16 September 2016

….cont. !
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

“We get up to a hundred calls a day from Hillary’s low-income supporters complaining about multiple unauthorized charges,” a source, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of job security, from the Wells Fargo fraud department told the Observer. The source claims that the Clinton campaign has been pulling this stunt since Spring of this year. The Hillary for America campaign will overcharge small donors by repeatedly charging small amounts such as $20 to the bankcards of donors who made a one-time donation. However, the Clinton campaign strategically doesn’t overcharge these donors $100 or more because the bank would then be obligated to investigate the fraud.”

https://mishtalk.com/2016/09/16/allegations-of-fraud-surface-over-one-time-donations-to-hillary-that-occur-repeatedly/#more-40812
Thank god Richard Cordray quit his gig as Kenneth on “30 Rock” to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to end this type of crime!
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/the-bureau/about-director/

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Bill Tozer

16 September 2016

Play them like a fiddle….with cameras rolling, lol.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/16/media-outraged-after-trump-tricks-them-to-cover-endorsements-from-military-heroes/

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fish

16 September 2016

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 16 September 2016 at 09:21 AM
Didn’t watch the press conf Bill……but the “butthurt” emanating from the media makes me wish I had!

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Gregory

16 September 2016

538’s poll plus has it a 59/41 race by electoral college counts and the polling results to date.
Almost makes me want to be a Trump supporter so I an really root for him rather than just keeping a Clinton from making the next few SCOTUS nominations. Almost.
My Presidential vote doesn’t matter anyway… the Elector due California because of my Congressional district is all but guaranteed to go to Hillary… unless there’s a landslide to Trump on election day and then, my vote for Johnson still won’t matter. But I’ll be happy to not have voted for Trump or Hillary.
What a great country!

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fish

16 September 2016

Oh HillBot….this isn’t the era of your husbands politics ……the internet never forgets!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/journalist-says-that-clinton-ally-blumenthal-once-spread-the-birther-rumor-to-me/

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Gregory

16 September 2016

Vive Sarkozy!
http://www.thelocal.fr/20160915/sarkozy-turns-climate-sceptic-in-battle-for-the-elyse

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Bill Tozer

16 September 2016

Opps. Forgot to post this a few days ago. The Hillary and VP book (Kaine and Unable) was released last month. Did anybody know that? Apparently not. First month’s sales were….drumroll please…..2,900 copies and change. Ok, let’s lie and call it 3,000 copies. Biggest buyer so far is The Clinton Foundation. Sweet. Talk about a barn burner. Boy, wonder what the publisher gets in exchange for that nice multimillion dollar advance? That’s My Gal.

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Bill Tozer

16 September 2016

Well, what can I say about this? It isn’t supposed to be this way.
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/09/16/black-dallas-cop-sues-black-lives-matter-soros-inciting-race-war/
It isn’t supposed to work this way either.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/709325615884330/?type=3&theater
For Fish, my inspiration:
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/914980281969343/?type=3&theater
For Fish: enjoy your morning cup of joe.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/914998571967514/?type=3&theater

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Walt

16 September 2016

If I didn’t know better,,it looks like you might have got “Crabbed” Bill,, Take a look at Crabb’s submission to the local rag today.

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Bill Tozer

16 September 2016

Walt, Crabb wrote about a veghead naked acorn eating original hippy laid back peacenik tribe. Called the Neissans or Toyotas or something. The Sioux, and especially the Lakotas, were warriors and knew how to shove grass down Big Bro’s throat. Thus, I did not get Crabbed. Nonetheless, it is a spendid time to remind the reader that the only male from the Western Hemisphere to ever bring home the gold in the Olympic 10,000 meter race was a Lakota. He now lives close to these parts and his name is Billy. Go figure. One came close in 1912 with the silver, but he was a Hopi. Probably ate lizards. Yuck. It took a Lakota Sioux. 2016 is the Year of Going Tribal. 🙂
Now, Hillary said she “misspoke” about her Deplorable comment last Friday night. Hmmm. One day prior she said the same thing to Israeli TV. Me thinks she speaks with forked tongue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GPbH5G0nSSA
Hey Boardman. Suck on these apples:
http://blackamericansfortrump.net/index.php/2016/09/10/jesse-jackson-praised-trump-in-1999-for-lifetime-of-helping-african-american-community/

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Bill Tozer

18 September 2016

One thing I have surmised through posting here is that Libs hate to called stupid. It really gets them were it hurts. Shakes them to their core. I dunno, liberals have taken over the education system. So, the question remains are liberals really that stupid or is it the stupid liberal professors making our next generation stupid, or a combination of the two? Liberals are indeed stupid. Stupid is as stupid does says Mrs. Gump.
http://eaglerising.com/36797/liberals-outraged-that-trumps-sons-killed-a-triceratops-on-hunting-safari-video/

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Bill Tozer

18 September 2016

Oh my, Fish’s best girlfriend forever took another hit. It’s not xenophobia. Any politican with 2 brain cells left knows no matter what, the trains must run on time. Thus the rise of opposition.
“The election in the chronically indebted city-state of 3.5 million people was dominated by local issues including poor public services, crumbling school buildings, late trains and a housing shortage, as well as problems in coping with the migrant influx.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/merkel-party-loses-ground-populist-afd-gains-berlin-161629578.html

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Gregory

19 September 2016

“One thing I have surmised through posting here is that Libs hate to called stupid. It really gets them were it hurts. Shakes them to their core.”-Tozer
I’d really like to see this sort of shit stop. Not meaning to be singling you out, Toz, but it’s the bloody same rants on both the right and the left.
Left-liberals have their assumptions about life, the universe, and everything, and think the Right-conservatives just aren’t smart enough or pure enough to see the truth, and that if you are stupid and pure of heart, you’ll just believe the really smart left-liberals who are the annointed that the Left follow without question.
I’m too stupid at the moment to do a good job with a glib, snarky caricature of why the Right are full of it. Maybe more coffee will help.

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Bill Tozer

19 September 2016

Coffee always helps, especially on Monday mornings. I should be more specific.

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Bill Tozer

19 September 2016

Polls, polls. Now a senior Democrat is attacking the polls. Guess both sides decry the polls when they produce results they/we do not like. Just like a smorgasbord. Take what you like, tun a nose up at the rest. The race is not tightening. It’s all bull pucky!
Did not recall Harry going off on the cheapo polls when Hillary was up 18 points in Minnesota not too long ago.
Reid also lashed out at polls showing a tightening race as a “joke.”
“And I don’t buy your silliness with $500 polls you go out buy overnight. I don’t believe them. They’re not right. They’re incorrect,” Reid continued. “You only do it to generate some news. Donald Trump is a fraud.”
Wrapping the interview, Raju responded, “I think we spent a little more on polls than $500.”
From last paragraphs:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/harry-reid-trump-birther-liar-228283

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Todd Juvinall

19 September 2016

Ahmed is at it again. New Jersey and Minnesota.

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BradC

20 September 2016

For the Tesla whiners, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-15/tesla-wins-utility-contract-to-supply-grid-scale-battery-storage-after-porter-ranch-gas-leak

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Bill Tozer

20 September 2016

Someday everything will be battery operated. But not today.
Gee, why can’t we just do out and arrest them?
http://freebeacon.com/politics/emails-dem-senator-urged-justice-department-prosecute-conservative-groups/

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Russ

20 September 2016

SCIENTISTS ADMIT FAKE CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTIONS
Breaking news: Major climate science error exposed!
Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley:
. . .
A few weeks ago George White, an electronics engineer, contacted me to say that there were indeed several small errors in the way models handle climate feedbacks, which are changes that are thought to amplify the small direct warming from doubled CO2 concentration.
I looked at the equations and found not only the small errors but a very large and very serious error. Because of that error, climate extremists have been predicting as much as 10-12 Celsius degrees’ global warming for every doubling of the CO2 in the air.
The error is so grievous that the arrogant profiteers who have made fortunes out of pretending the science is settled could be thrown out of business overnight – and good riddance.
During my closing keynote presentation at the conference, I ran through the mathematics and physics of this discovery in some detail.
To learn more about the error that caused the climate scam, and to see and hear what my distinguished audience of professors, doctors and fathers of science thought about this important breaking news, feel free to visit YouTube today and watch my half-hour talk:
Video is here: https://youtu.be/58MEotH79rg
Warning, the audio is rather poor. Your thoughts? Is this really the smoking gun? Will it make a difference ?

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Bill Tozer

20 September 2016

Russ, nothing will make a difference. The science is settled by 2,900 experts, the vast majority who hail from North America.
I see it like building a 3 story building where you are off 1/8 of a inch at the foundation, plumb or level. The higher you build, the greater that 1/8 inch becomes. The door frames, framing of the walls…everything becomes so much more noticeable you can’t ignore it. Get the input wrong and the extrapolated outcome is wildly off.
For example, with all things being equal:
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/916401375160567/?type=3&theater

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George Rebane

20 September 2016

Russ 1136am – Never heard of the conference. How can such a quiet confab have an impact on a worldwide political parade that embraces ‘climate change’ as the last and best controlling mechanism for all forms of failed governance? There is nothing better to capture the nebish mind and force it to accept draconian forms of compliance from the ruling classes in order to ‘save the earth’.

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Russ

20 September 2016

Government to block free online college courses.
The Department of Justice has sent a letter to UC Berkeley threatening a lawsuit unless the university modifies all of its free online educational materials to meet conditions of accessibility. In response the Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education writes:
…we have attempted to maximize the accessibility of free, online content that we have made available to the public. Nevertheless, the Department of Justice has recently asserted that the University is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act because, in its view, not all of the free course and lecture content UC Berkeley makes available on certain online platforms is fully accessible to individuals with hearing, visual or manual disabilities.
…We look forward to continued dialog with the Department of Justice regarding the requirements of the ADA and options for compliance. Yet we do so with the realization that, due to our current financial constraints, we might not be able to continue to provide free public content under the conditions laid out by the Department of Justice to the extent we have in the past.
In many cases the requirements proposed by the department would require the university to implement extremely expensive measures to continue to make these resources available to the public for free. We believe that in a time of substantial budget deficits and shrinking state financial support, our first obligation is to use our limited resources to support our enrolled students. Therefore, we must strongly consider the unenviable option of whether to remove content from public access.
In short, the DOJ is saying that unless all have access, none can and UC Berkeley is replying that none will.
Berkeley today, all the other free MOOC providers tomorrow. Only the government could screw up FREE.

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Russ

20 September 2016

RR has been writing about this problem since 2006, now 10 years latter the main stream press is discovering the public pension fraud.
Blockbuster NYT Report Exposes Public Pension Charade
America’s public pension funds, which manage trillions of dollars in retirement assets for millions of civil servants, are systematically deceiving taxpayers, politicians, and municipal bond investors with elaborate accounting sleight-of-hand. The “official” numbers show that public pension funds are struggling; the accurate ones show that the looming fiscal time bomb is so explosive that it may be impossible to defuse.
That’s the thrust of an important new piece from the New York Times‘ Mary Williams Walsh, a reporter who has done more than anyone else in the mainstream media to bring this issue to public attention, and to provide honest and analytical reporting about one of the country’s most serious problems:

It turns out that Calpers, which managed the little pension plan, keeps two sets of books: the officially stated numbers, and another set that reflects the “market value” of the pensions that people have earned. The second number is not publicly disclosed. And it typically paints a much more troubling picture, according to people who follow the money. […]
The market-based numbers are “close to the truth of the liability,” Professor [William] Sharpe said. But most elected officials want the smaller numbers, and actuaries provide what their clients want. “Somebody just should have stopped this whole charade,” he said.

Kudos to Walsh, and to the NYT for that matter, for pushing a story that discredits some of the most important assumptions behind blue model governance. The truth is that many American state and city governments are not paying their way, pension systems are not sustainable, and the conflicts of interest linking politicians to public sector union leaders are a dangerous and deeply destructive force.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/09/19/blockbuster-nyt-report-exposes-public-pension-charade/

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Russ

22 September 2016

Is Climate Variability a National Defense Issue?
Obama signed a directive on Wednesday telling the offices to develop a “federal climate and national security working group” to “identify the U.S. national security priorities related to climate change and national security, and develop methods to share climate science and intelligence information to inform national security policies and plans,” the White House said.
He charged the group with developing a climate change action plan within 90 days, laying out steps for sharing climate data, research ideas and vulnerability assessments for parts of the United States that are threatened by climate change over the next three decades.
Obama also asked the agencies — which cover climate offices and national security missions — to write implementation plans for combatting climate change.
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/297070-obama-inserts-climate-change-into-national-security-strategy
The climate has not exceeded the bounds of natural variability. Only the computer models used by the left to justify their environmental actions have exceed the bounds of natural variability. Obama wants to use the power of government to change natural variability, usurping the powers of Mother Nature. How well will that work out when Mother Nature turns down the Sun’s thermostat for the next 20-30 years?

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Russ Steele

22 September 2016

2016 Not the Warmest in a 1000 Years and Not the Warmest Ever
All this talk of ‘warmest year evah’ is just simply not true.
Video presents proof that this is not the warmest year ever, and that what warming there has been is simply part of a natural cycle.
It’s a cycle, it’s a cycle, it’s a cycle.
https://youtu.be/bw5E2b-BRns
Hat Tip to Ice Age Now

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Todd Juvinall

22 September 2016

Hey Russ, are you going to attend and contribute some common sense to that meeting on climate? I think it may be tonight?

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Gregory

22 September 2016

Russ 12:30PM while I appreciate your use of a climate compass that generally points to reality, your sense of what “proof” continues to strikes me as without merit.

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Russ

22 September 2016

Gregory@03>25 OK, I agree “proof” may have been a poor word choice, it was just some information that refutes the claim of “hottest year ever” when the historical temperature records for the last 1,000 years is considered. That said:
proof: evidence or argument establishing or helping to establish a fact or the truth of a statement.

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Russ

22 September 2016

Todd @ 01:14 PM
Sorry, I quit talking to the lefty warmers, as they are committed to the religion of anthropogenic global warming. Evidence does not matter?

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Todd Juvinall

22 September 2016

Russ at 6:31
I understand. They really are into it as a religion. I watch some science shows and my GOD they pray to the beast of AGW! Now with Brown and his crooks taking Fracking money, it all seems to be a mess under the kiddie dome.

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Bill Tozer

24 September 2016

In other news fit for the Sandbox……
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/big-labor-slapped-down-congress-should-do-likewise/article/2601468

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Bill Tozer

24 September 2016

I think I am beginning to get it, By Jove!
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/916995698434468/?type=3&theater

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Don Bessee

24 September 2016

Just saw the photo of the semi-auto on the ground in the NC officer involved shooting, its hammer is back and ready to fire. That explains the way the cops were huddling behind that truck. Don’t comply with lawful orders and come out holding a gun has predictable consequences.

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Walt

25 September 2016

For those who like their weapons.(and care to keep them.)
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/09/25/nssf-gun-shops-sue-massachusetts-ag-unilateral-assault-weapons-ban-expansion/

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Bill Tozer

25 September 2016

My how times have changed. I remember reading about that phrase “a thin blue line.” It was first uttered in a courtroom when the prosecutor rocked the judicial world with the image of a thin blue line separating us from anarchy. Add another one to the no-no list.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/09/25/walmart-workers-refuse-to-make-cops-retirement-cake.html
Ok, how about a bonus for the Father Knows Best crowd: Farewell oh greatest generation. You did good when you ran the show.
https://www.facebook.com/humorshots/photos/a.319144738119518.84544.318396048194387/1294178157282833/?type=3&theater

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