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[Again a Happy New Year to all RR readers and its diligent band of commenters of all political shades who do their dharma battles on these pages.  This year promises to be even more exciting than 2016 – who knew that Trump would win? – if one can conceive that possibility.  Last New Year’s day I opened a new sandbox with these words.

Happy New Year! to all RR readers.  This year will turn out more exciting and surprising than any of us can anticipate.  From the socialists' perspective, they are at the cusp of a victory from which they can deal a deathblow to American capitalism and institute their new economic order as part of the country's fundamental transformation that Obama promised and has already launched.  We conservatarians also see this as a cusp year, but given the disarray of the Republicans, it will be one from which a 2016 Democrat defeat will deliver little besides delaying the day of reckoning between collectivism and open markets capitalism.  So I thought it would be appropriate to start the year with a fresh sandbox.  gjr]

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186 responses to “Sandbox – 1jan17”

  1. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, would you want Todd to set up a putting green in your front yard?
    It appears to me Hurt could have played through with his foursome had he not chosen to rattle Trump’s cage by confronting him on his golf course.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Russ and Scenes. Duh. Obama and My Gal hatched the plan to support, arm, and then aided in the flourishment of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. That is why Obama calls them ISIL and dropped the Iraq and Syria from the Islamic State (IS).
    Few things make me scream at the tube since I don’t have TV. But, I was screaming at the clips I was watching on my internet machine on this:
    Remember the footage of the 1,000 Toyota pickups in a long caravan making its way across the open desert from Libya to Syria?? Each truck was loaded with ISIS fighters with guns mounted on the back. 1,000 Toyota trucks (supplied by us) making its way across barren planes for the world to see. Let’s see. How long would it take to drive slowly from Sacramento to Bakersfield?? Many hours.
    Where were the air strikes?? I saw a helicopter fly over them doing surveillance. We had the biggest group of ISIS ever assembled wide open in the desert with no anti-aircraft protection and sitting ducks. And no air cover! It wasn’t like we needed minutes to respond. That 350-400 mile journey took the convey hours upon hours. But, no air strikes, no nothing. We allowed them safe passage to take cities and dig in.
    Like Benghazi, the military never got the go-ahead from State….and they had the weapons we supplied the “Libyan freedom fighters”!!! Yep, watching that I screamed “Where in the fudge are the air strikes?”. It would be like getting all the fish in the barrel, then shooting fish in a barrel. “Ah sugar”, I exclaimed in disbelief.
    Obama is a psychopath. A CryptoIslamic psychopath. Tried to hide it behind supporting the Arab Spring. He fudged the children of Syria.

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I’d have no problem is Todd came up to me at one of my concerts. The incident is just an insight as to what an immature wimp Trump is.

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, your hate is showing.
    I think the immaturity was on Hurt’s shoulders who didn’t bother cluing in his golf buddy Koch that he had written a controversial book on Trump, before inviting him to play at the Trump course and then confronting Trump face to face.
    It’s sounds to me that Hurt probably got what he was asking for.

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Probably right Gregory. He got publicity verifying what he wrote about Trump that he is a thin skinned wimp with no principals beyond his own inflated ego.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Thin skinned? Nope,, the days of cowardice and just “take’n it” are over. Nope,, you can’t handle that Paul.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You Walt. Understandable. Boardman dropping the numerous white racists jabs at us leading up to the glorious election and his first comments the next day will not be forgotten. Never forget. May forgive, but not forgotten. Eat this, Boardman. But, each column must be judged on its own merits, lest we be like them.
    ISIS? Crickets from PE. That boy is consistent and sadly predictable if nothing else. Way too predictable. We already know what his obsession of the day, week, and months ahead will be. Makes for boring reading once the fun wears off. Like, how many times can you laugh at the court jester doing the same routine? The Laughingstock is good for only so many laughs…..and yet he takes himself seriously, lol.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul 1041
    Principals?

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emry and his ilk really have no idea about what makes a man who is successful, tick. Paul could not fight his way thru a permit for a “johnnie” while Trump makes huge projects around the world. So Paul Emery, your poinyt of view on Trump is laughable. Try it on your pal Pelline’s site. You will fnd agreement with your ridiculous views there.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Now here is a great “then,and now”.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/01/02/first-amendment-media-suddenly-finds-courage-confront-trump/
    It was just fine when “O” kept a boot on their necks. Now they cry foul.

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    fish 1100
    Imagine had that snowflake had her wishes granted… Bad losers make abysmal winners.
    They were so ready to send Republicans to the ash heap of history… just Submit and all will be well.

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Pretty “thin skinned” to not let a critic play golf in his public course. Trump is a very sensitive guy. Poor baby, got his feelings hurt by a “really bad” person Even his language is childlike.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 02 January 2017 at 11:16 AM
    Indeed!

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Why am I not surprised?
    http://rightalertspolls.com/breaking-shes-back-jill-stein-makes-new-move-to-invalidate-trump-election-victory/
    Maybe she wants a lakefront home next to Bernie’s new vacation digs, but bigger. Much bigger and no refunds! If I recall, the courts stopped the recount in Detroit after they found more votes in Heavy Solid My Gal Blue precincts than registered voters…..:)

    How predictiable. Impeachment and treason charges next for President Trump. The left is like an unlaced boil….

    Hey you xenophobics, nothing to see here…..unless they are placed in your kids’ schools.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/02/1565-refugees-diagnosed-active-tb-2012-three-times-more-reported/

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Uh,,, “news guy” Paul. Better check things out first. That golf course is private. NOT public.
    “Trump International Golf Club,A 27 hole private course located at West Palm Beach”

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    show how little you know about “Privae” golf courses. They are privately owned but accommodate golfers that are willing to pay the high price of entry. No different than golf courses up here.
    Somehow Hurt and the Koch bro paid the dues or whatever to play the course but were booted by Babyboy Trump because he had his feelings hurt.
    Not a very complex issue but it is an insight into our President-Elects character.

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    Why is a person “thin-skinned” when he doesn’t want someone to use his private property, especially one who has demonstrated that he is not a friend??

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Here is a link from the website that solicits for rental use of the facility. Does your definition of “private” entitle an owner of a similar facility to restrict use because of race, religion or lifestyle?
    http://www.trumpinternationalpalmbeaches.com/event#/

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Pretty “thin skinned” to not let a critic play golf in his public course.” Paul E
    That’s a privately owned golf course, Paul.
    “Principals”?

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 02 January 2017 at 12:09 PM
    Does your definition of “private” entitle an owner of a similar facility to restrict use because of race, religion or lifestyle?

    Was the individual in question removed from the course for any of these reasons?

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Same question to you Gregory since you brought up the rights of “private” ownership.
    Does your definition of “private” entitle an owner of a similar facility to restrict use because of race, religion or lifestyle?

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Well,, Are we are now witnessing the effects of legal weed? When was the last time YOU played golf Paul? Head on down to LWW or LOP. See if they let you in.
    “Private”, means Members only. Yes, members can bring a guest or two. Contrary to your beliefs Paul, money does not get you through the door.(or on the green for that matter)
    Show me where it says “public welcome” at Trump’s golf course.
    Those “private clubs” you hint at that allow the “public” to play, are few and far between.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    It was Trumps personal dislike of a critic Fish. But can a “personal dislike” also apply to race or religion? Could Trump refuse access to someone because he or she is a Muslim?

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, that is the first golf course in the area that was opened up to Jewish membership, lol.
    Thin skinned? Guilty! Childish? Guilty! Psst, PE. You do know the difference between child like and childish, don’t ya? If not, just ask your inner child.
    Poor Paul. Voted for Obama in ’08 and now quotes Obama’s 08 opponent War Monger McCain like he is a foreign policy expert, lol.
    Thin skinned and childlike? Too funny. Just can’t wrap his pinhead around the fact that the Access Hollywood did not sink Trump. In fact, it was the justifiably disgusted Evangleicals that first came around back to Trump after the tape emerged. Why? Because they saw that a 3rd term of Obama would be the coffin nail in the USA.
    Pssst PE: Find a new script. All you got is the tried and true talking points that always worked before. All the pundits said it always worked, all those in the think tanks and Huff-n-Puff Post and the old Grey Lady that feed you the magic formula. How is it working for ya? Keep partaking of the opiates of the masses, silly boy.
    Hint: Your playbook and bedtime stories only work against insiders. The Establishment if you will. This (for the 101st time) is all about outsiders vs the insiders like you! And you thought you were so independent and a free thinker. They pull your strings, Mr. Puppet. They play you like a Stradivari……
    Your playbook is good only for the burn pile. The Republicans tried every tried and true plan to stop Trump. The Dems tried their best and brightest and expensive for focus group research against Trump. How did that work? Never say never.
    I love it that you cannot wrap your head around why Trump survived the Access Hollywood tapes, survived the Huff-N-Post, and is raking in chips like Grant took Richmond. Oh please, call us “angry white men” again. Please, oh please! Call Trump thin skinned. Call him any thing you want. That only works on politicians, ROFLMFUEO. He is beholden to no one but us Deplorable racist, homophobic, misogynist, xenophobic, gun toting, Bible clinging Iredeemables and the basket is bustin’ at the seams
    Poor Paul. He has been reduced to calling Trump childlike (you mean childish, I assume) thin skinned crude, rude, and socially unacceptable boar. And right you are. Keep trying…..rest assured your script for this afternoon is being prepared for you as I type, lol.
    You are like all the kids that dress the same in black or dye their hair freaky colors to “be different”. They all look the same, not different. Amazing. Pssst: we love Trump partially because he is taking up free rent in your head. He owns your pea brain, Mr. Independent. Now, go fetch me another cup of tea and once around the park, James.
    Trump is merely our tool for the needed job of blasting a hole through the Republican Party, the Democrat Corrupt Establishment and lay ruins to our current President’s Globalist Tyrannical Legacy. He is our tool we sent into the Thunderdome. We did not send a pussy to do a man’s job, nor a politician to be a street fighting man. Trump is our tool. The Prize is the Supreme Court….and our culture, our borders, our heritage, our language, our Nation.

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 02 January 2017 at 12:22 PM
    I imagine if this guy had just stayed in his party there wouldn’t have been an issue. If you publicly call a guy a Motherfucker and then go up and try and shake his hand you probably oughta expect a little blowback! Maybe he shouldn’t have been ejected but on most private golf courses causing a disturbance….especially with the guy who owns the place….is enough to get you run. Especially if your only a guest!
    Sorry Paul….that’s just the way it is!
    Does Trump have a thin skin…..oh yeah……if you democrats didn’t want a President Trump you should have run somebody who could beat him.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    At one time I was quite a golfer. Used to play at Private courses all the time as well as public ones. Private golf courses were always open to the public if you were willing to pay the fee. This golf course is not “private” as one would be if it was adjacent to a private mansion or estate. It is a business open to the public as demonstrated in the solicitation link I included.
    http://www.trumpinternationalpalmbeaches.com/event#/

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Your treading on thin ice Paul. Forget there BET?(Black Entertainment Television) Or Black Dating web sites? The same goes for “clubs” on college campuses. But don’t even try to form a “White” anything “club”. How does that fit your exclusionary drivel?

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Fish writes “if you democrats didn’t want a President Trump you should have run somebody who could beat him.”
    Should have been written “if THE democrats” and I would have agreed. I am not a Democrat Fish.
    Can’t keep up with your rants Bill. Can you be a little more concise?

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

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    Sorry Paul……a guy like you isn’t schlepping onto Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach and catching the “Twilight Special”
    (Don’t feel bad…..nobody posting here is)!

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 02 January 2017 at 12:22 PM
    It was Trumps personal dislike of a critic Fish. But can a “personal dislike” also apply to race or religion? Could Trump refuse access to someone because he or she is a Muslim?

    Arguing facts not in evidence Paul……if Trump runs a muslim off his course get back to me.
    Should have been written “if THE democrats” and I would have agreed. I am not a Democrat Fish.
    Like I said Paul……you probably should just come out of the closet as a dem! Besse is right….you spend an inordinate amount of time “carrying water” for them and their policies!

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Quit while your still behind Paul. Renting a venue and “showing up” just to play are two different cats. Epic fail Paul. Take another hit of that rec. weed.
    What next? Not being able to afford the hefty “membership” fees and dues is now discriminatory because your not a financial “equal”? Good luck with that.

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Was the individual in question removed from the course for any of these reasons?”
    No, that was just Paul changing the subject.
    Perhaps Paul never went out of his way to insult the owners of the private courses he played. If you go skiing at Boreal and go out of your way to harass the owner(s), you will be asked to leave. If you’re lucky, they’ll refund the ticket price.

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  33. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 02 January 2017 at 12:47 PM
    Yeah….pretty much how I saw it as well!

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Break his teeth, Mr. Trump. Bust his chops. We don’t care. Just appoint the right people to the Supreme Court and do what little you can to fix the economy and drain the swamp. Oh, yeah, enforce existing law on border security and keep telling individual reporters “you are sleaze, you are weak, you are dishonest” till the cows come home. We don’t care because we have our eyes on the prize. Tell them the best thing about them ran down jomamma….just get the job done the best you can under fierce opposition.
    We on the right have evolved and remain flexible. The definition of conservative in the 50’s and 80’s did not foresee ISIS or the flood of people breaking into our country and ripping apart our social safety net. Trump cannot bar entry to Muslims, but can bar entry to anyone from certain countries or regions. We barred entry to Germans, Italians, and Japanese during the last World War and we (along with NATO and the entire Western Developed World) are at war with Islamic Jihadists, are we not??
    Oh, that writer. Go ahead and call him a horrible person, weak, a sleaze, a mo-fro all you want. It’s what we expect from an outsider.

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  35. Walt Avatar

    BILL!!! OHHH BILL!!,, According to Paul and Ass. legal firm,
    we should be able to join “club Lez”. We like women too. Who do we SUE!??

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  36. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Buy a ticket to see the Stones and invade the stage area to give Mick congratulations, you will not succeed, especially if you’d written a Stones espose’ detailing what Mick and David Bowie used to do for fun.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Entertainers and public figures thrive even with a critical press which is part of the game if you choose to be a celebrity. Not so BAby Boy Trump. He has the disposition of a spoiled 5 year old.

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Giving Trump unfavorable reviews does not make me a Democrat Fish. You can do better than that…

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Let’s see. Trump opened up the first gay night club in the Miami area against all advice and much opposition. It’s a money maker, the proverbial gold mine…run my experienced management winners (gay) Trump handpicked from his pool of employees. Hmmm. Trump opened the first and only private golf course in West Palm Beach area whose membership was opened to Jews. A money maker. Hmmm.
    Notice that only the head poppers and skin poppering dopehead socialists call Trump anti-Semantic and homophobic. Heck, he ain’t even opposed to Transgenders. You can use any bathroom you want at Trump Tower. Hmmm. I might wake up tomorrow and identify as a woman just to follow a hot babe into the Little Girl’s Room. Ok, I won’t make it a habit, just do it once to see if the bathroom stalls are cleaner and have bigger countertops to set my purse on. It used to be that way. :). Now, I cannot speak for public restrooms. They be government controlled relief stations.
    Keep those thin skinned and not thinly veiled hatred comments coming! Popcorn time on such a beautiful drizzly day.
    Yo Walt: I know what everybody got for Christmas. I thought the range down here was only open on Sundays, but ever since Christmas, I hear the boom, boom, boom from sunup to sundown every day. Stop it you guys and gals, stop playing with your new toys. 🙂

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Thanks for reminding me Bill. I need to hit that range and get plenty of free brass.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 12:36 pm. Paul, no surprise you can’t keep up. Must be the typos, but fair enough. I will try to use brievity and smaller sentences and type slower. Try this. It might be easier to follow.
    Great minds talk about ideas. Pinheads talk about events.

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, you’re confused… the issue isn’t dealing with bad press, the problem is the choice of someone who reveled in giving Trump some really bad press to invade Trump’s personal space at Trump’s golf course, and rubbing it in.
    Hurt wasn’t beat up and left on the curb; he was asked to leave. That’s better than Mick’s security would do for an intruder on the stage or backstage… your ticket gives you a right to play golf, or listen to the concert, not to have a chat with the principal (please note that’s different than “principle”) owner on your terms.

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  43. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Trump on Trump,
    “I play into people’s fantasies,” he wrote. “People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.”

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    BradC, Trump is a modern P.T. Barnum, and P.T. was another character not to be dismissed lightly. Besides being the Trump of his day, Barnum served four terms in Congress.

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    My style as well. It worked great at the TSA Xray pod. LOL!

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  46. George Rebane Avatar

    Placing a public solicitation to enjoy a private property or join in a private enterprise 1) does NOT convert these into a public property or public enterprise, and 2) most certainly does nothing to prevent its owner(s) from imposing any conditions for participation that they wish, which includes rejecting old, bearded and bald-headed, white males born in Estonia.
    Since you own something ONLY to the extent that you can dispose of it as you wish, government can and has bit by piece deprived Americans of their ownership of private property and enterprises. From his many and heartfelt professions of ideology in these pages, it again appears that PaulE (1209pm) is firmly in the camp of Americans who do not believe in any of this.

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Blaming Milo’s hate speech on Trump? Nah, Milo came first. And he is loved precisely because he, as an intillenctual, can say things we rubes cannot say. The Redcoats are coming! The British Invasion strikes again.
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/opinions/milo-yiannopoulos-and-trump-profitable-hate-ben-ghiat-opinion/
    Holy Toledo! Now they are making a movie about Nigel Farage. Warner Bros.Is now feeling the hate, not the love, from the usual Hollywood suspects. There outta be a law. Stop the hate, oh please, stop the hate
    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel-farage-the-movie-brexit-eu-referendum-arron-banks-kevin-spacey-title-role-a7504561.html
    This is something I believe “is the biggest and greatest and the most spectacular”.

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  48. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Does that include banning customers at a restaurant because of race of relation?

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  49. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory writes …Trump is a modern P.T. Barnum…
    So Gregory you agree with me when I say Trump is a Carnival Barker…
    Sorry for the typo George. Been using voice recognition. Should read
    Does that include banning customers at a restaurant because of race or religion?
    George
    Do you support the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
    http://civil.laws.com/civil-rights-act-of-1964

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