[Mr George Boardman, our beloved compatriot debater and member of The Union's considerable cadre of leftwing columnists, has again declared his true colors in today's 'Who's behind Calexit?' Therein he presents a pernicious conspiracy theory, blaming the whole movement on those dastardly conservatives. "It appears to me that Calexit is being funded and supported by shadowy forces that are less interested in ridding California of its tormentors than makings the rest of the U.S. permanently red. That’s why Breitbart News and Infowars haven’t exposed this threat to the American Way of Life." Calexit a threat to the American Way of Life??!! Aside from that little bit of humor, my real question for our readers is what possible "Observations for(sic) the center stripe" can Mr Boardman hope to offer? Perhaps he can expand on both claims. gjr]
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222 responses to “Sandbox – 6feb17”
For a news person PE you sound so willfully ignorant of politics. Who were big donors to the 2 R’s who voted against DeVos? A- Teachers unions. What’s a few mill super pac bucks here or there when you are billionaires? You do recognize that your 950k in 37 years is only 25k a year for Senators from the whole family, right PE? That’s Secretary DeVos to you as of a few hours ago. 😉
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The Army just confirmed the Dakota Access pipeline has been approved. The indian tribe is still cleaning up the snowflake protesters camp and now the pipeline is back on. How much do you want to bet they will have the last pipeline section completed before the snowflakes garbage is cleaned up? 😉
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Gosh and golly guys!!! I thought things were going to be different under Trump-no more pay to play. I’m so disenchanted… I thought Trump was leading a crusade to drain the swamp,
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Should not make much difference because she can’t do much because Conservatives leave education and curriculum up to local and State control and don’t believe in Federal control of schools.
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Yes PE, drain the swamp of the calcified same old, same old group think you so regularly demonstrate. DeVos has worked the issue for years yet has not been tainted by the swamp in DC, like much of the NEW Cabinet. Pay for play, that’s a laugh, madam liar liar pantsuits on fire wouldn’t pick up a latte for all the money the DeVos family has donated to pacs. 😉
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I’m sure Trump has been a big disappointment to you, Paul. Just think, if Clinton campaign Fieldmarshal Podesta hadn’t started pushing for Trump as Hillary’s designate chump two years ago, who knows who might be president now!
Take solace in the fact the Scalia seat will be filled by a Jeffersonian textualist… just what this libertarian wanted as a consolation prize.
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PE 122- She can take an axe to the department and remove all of 0’s mandates while dismantling the FED ed machine. 😉
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Don
Sorry you’re confused about this Don but those numbers are just for the last two election cycles (8 years) Follow my link and you will find that this applies to current Senators who voted on her confirmation.
Also can you send me documentation on Union contributions to the two Senators who opposed Her? Shouldn’t say those things unless you can back it up.
Once again here’s a link to my documentation. Please check it out before you open your mouth, Makes you look like an idiot.
“In the past two election cycles alone, her family has donated $8.3 million to Republican Party super PACs.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-donations_us_5893bd80e4b0c1284f251c5f?
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Don
Can you give us an outline as to what Obama “mandates ” there are? I have no idea so here’s an opportunity to educate me. You’ve got a little homework to do Don.
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Read you own post PE, you mentioned 950k from the family since 1980. Who cares that they gave 8 mill to super pacs? Pay for play was your charge yet no quid pro quo is established oh brilliant one. The Clinton foundation is the pay for play player of the century! 😉
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Seems to me its incumbent on the press, even radio, to educate themselves before putting a focus on their lack of depth on a given subject. Get thee an edumacation on the dept of education. 😉
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People forget that locally “controlled” schools are actually centrally controlled by uncontrolled (by the public) teacher’s unions which really are coordinated by state level union representatives working in and around the state education departments, one of the reasons the CTA is the 600lb gorilla in the one party state of California. IIRC about half of state and local tax revenues have historically been spent on education. Remember… it’s for the CHILDREN!
Colleges of education have been pushing labor intensive and ineffective pedagogies (look it up) while promoting labor rules that do not value intellect or real academic achievement. Teachers overwhelmingly arise from the bottom 25% of incoming college freshmen, and, believe me, if you have teachers with an average of 900 or so points on the SAT Math + Verbal, you aren’t going to be getting lots of high school graduates with M+V above 1250.
We need teachers that can teach, not just encourage students discovering material for themselves, standing on the shoulders of their fellow students rather than the giants that teachers formerly used for lecture inspirations.
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Don
Don’t understand your problem
Here’s the exact words from my quote on my post.
” In the past two election cycles alone, her family has donated $8.3 million to Republican Party super PACs.”
IF you go to the link you will see the exact amount given to GO”P Senators that voted on her confirmation. It’s a graphic so I couldn’t reproduce it. Here’s a link to the entire article. Pay to play? You bet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-donations_us_5893bd80e4b0c1284f251c5f?
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I suggest you look at any demoncrat’s FEC and the Teacher’s Unions have spent 20 times what DeVoss gave a SuperPac. You bet it is the democrat style.
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SEE…..further evidence of the positive effects of the Trump Administration!
Is there nothing he can’t do?
http://ew.com/tv/2017/02/06/lena-dunham-weight-trump-howard-stern/
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I have no problem PE, you however appear to not even comprehend or remember what you write. Poor ol’ PE.
PE 1250 today- “Republican Senators have received $115,000 from Betsy DeVos herself, and more than $950,000 from the full DeVos clan since 1980.” Then you snivel about the super pacs.
Did you get your edumacation yet PE? 😉
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It sure they contribute Todd. I thought Trump was going to change that on the Repub side. Very disappointing . Can you provide me with documentation on the Unions contribution? I provided that for the DeVoss situation.
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Here Paul Emery, a link to Schumer. 85 pages of companies and groups. Many bigPharma. You crack me up.
http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=S8NY00082&tabIndex=1
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Here from “Open Secrets” for your perusal of labor all sources
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=P
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Before we hyperventilate about DeVos buying her SecEd seat, it’s good to take a look at what the teachers unions have been doing for years and years to dumb down our kids. As the record shows, I’ve not been a fan of the Dept of Ed, now’s the time to drain that part of the swamp. A correspondent forwarded this –
Betsy DeVos was confirmed as the new Secretary of Education — 51-50. This, after Democrats did everything possible to stop her, including a pathetic 24-hour talking marathon designed to please the radical Left while posturing to care for kids. Take a look at the political contributions made by teachers unions in 2016…
National Education Association: $23.7 million
American Federation of Teachers: $8.8 million
AFT Solidarity: $425,000
And where did these millions go?
Democrats in Congress: $ 2,315,309
Republicans in Congress: $ 212,859
That means that Democrats received nearly 92% of all political contributions that teachers unions gave to members of the United States Congress.
The vote on Betsy DeVos was not about children. Senate Democrats (and 2 Republicans) voted against DeVos to protect a monopoly that funds their campaigns, and protects a system that is failing our children. Want proof? Just last month, a nonpartisan study by the federal Institute of Education Sciences revealed that the Obama administration School Improvement Grant (SIG) program failed to achieve any academic improvement for students… over 8 years! The program spent over $7 billion, the largest investment ever to help failing public schools. And it accomplished NOTHING. Yet, Democrats in the Senate fought tooth and nail to preserve the status quo.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/17/by-numbers-teachers-union-political-contributions-in-2016.html
https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20114019/
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PE @ 310- Just how was the President to change the DeVos donations that happened in the past? You doubt that the teacher Unions spend their money on dems? Silly is starting to border on senility there my friend. 😉
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Likely they did however I just like to see documentation to know how it related to this nomination. Otherwise it’s just a hunch. See what you can find Don.
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PE, I am very comfortable in the fact of the matter however you can put your glasses on and read Dr. R’s 317 for the minutia. 😉
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Here is a typical list from the FEC on Pelosi. Just one committee. You will see she gets 90% of the vote so it is a safe seat. Yet she raised or was bribed to the tune of 4 million plus by many PACs and companies the left says they hate. You cannot make this stuff up. Oh, LaMalfa raised about 400K .
http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandCmteTransaction.do
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The latest from the Trumper. I just can’t keep up. This guy is a real gem you guys are going to have to live with. He’s kinda like an ugly tattoo you won’t be able to wash off.
“President Donald Trump threatened to “destroy” the career of a Texas state senator after a Texas sheriff accused the lawmaker of getting in his way by promoting asset forfeiture reform. Check oput the video.
“Want to give his name? We’ll destroy his career,” Trump told Sheriff Harold Eavenson of Rockwall County, Texas. Trump’s comment was met with laughter and Eavenson declined to give the official’s name.
Trump made the remark during a listening session with county sheriffs at the White House. Eavenson is in line to become president of the National Sheriffs’ Association in June, the Dallas Morning News reported.”
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link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-destroy-state-lawmaker_us_5899fde8e4b09bd304bdd5b9?
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Heres a video link for your viewing pleasure. Very short
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1764219419001?bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdRI6UgfPhFgV0s-3wZ2v95n&bctid=5314470591001
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Oh. Huff and post. Supplier of fake news. Better fact check that Paul.
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PE 346, 347, 351- routed from the field of debate and then desperately changing the subjects, right on cue. 😉
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Paul, your worries about the dept. of Ed have been taken care of by congressman Massie of KY. Massie and his co-sponsors introduced legislation to terminate the dept. of Ed effective Dec. 31 2018, H.R. 899. That will cut federal jobs for sure. 😉
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Paul is disappointed? Yes, score!! Goal! Never get tired of winning. Paul is disappointed is music to my ears. The man who plays with half a deck is disappointed. Lights are on, nobody is home. Priceless.
I feel better with each passing day.
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Oh Paul, it’s only money
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/04/teacher-raises-60k-buy-senators-vote-devos/97485352/
Is being devasted more than being just disappointed?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/24/teachers-union-leaders-devastated-that-so-many-members-voted-trump/
I have an idea. Let’s make education more about the students instead of all about the teachers. What a novel idea.
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Since we are talking about cutting government civilian employees and spending PE, did you know that the EPA was created with an executive order? 😉
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To name only a few, records show that The National Education Association threw $18.1 million into the coffers of Democrats and spent another $1.4 million on advocacy. The Service Employees International Union also opened its pocketbook wide, donating a whopping $19 million to Democrats. And the liberal UNITE HERE spent $4 million just to register voters.
All total, unions spent at least $108.2 million on politics this cycle compared to the $78 million spent in 2012 and the $59.1 million spent in 2008,
according to The Wall Street Journal.
Little of that went to Republicans.
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It does not get better than this. What is more fun to watch? A black nationalist or a black nationalist that believes in Sharia Law? I can’t believe the luck that comes from winning. Another lucky break. I can see the Enlightened Emotional Party hemorrhaging votes from my back porch. Like watching two rats in a sock.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-democratic-party-chairman-1486502250-htmlstory.html
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1022945164506187/?type=3&theater
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Our Ca. Repubs just stuck a knife in Moonbat.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/02/07/republicans-ask-trump-to-block-gov-browns-high-speed-rail-funding/
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Ha Haaaa,,, Lizzy Warren gets tomahawked.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/07/warren-barred-from-speaking-on-senate-floor-for-rest-sessions-debate.html
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Looks like there is a House bill to abolish the Department of Education.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-07/house-republican-introduces-bill-abolish-dept-education-same-day-devos-confirmed-run
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So Don, Todd, George, Bill what is your view on view on asset forfeiture without a conviction or an arrest?
Asset forfeiture is widespread and doesn’t even require a conviction or even an arrest to enforce. Banning it is what the unnamed Texas Senator proposed that caused Trump to suggest he would destroy his career. . According to the Washington post, in 2014, federal authorities alone seized over $5 billion from suspected criminals, more than the total losses to burglary that year. That number doesn’t even count seizures conducted by state and local law enforcement.
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So Don, Todd, George, Bill what is your view on view on asset forfeiture without a conviction or an arrest?
Asset forfeiture is widespread and doesn’t even require a conviction or even an arrest to enforce. Banning it is what the unnamed Texas Senator proposed that caused Trump to suggest he would destroy his career. . According to the Washington post, in 2014, federal authorities alone seized over $5 billion from suspected criminals, more than the total losses to burglary that year. That number doesn’t even count seizures conducted by state and local law enforcement.
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Sooooooooo predictable there PE. When you are on the run rhetorically you change the subject. We were talking about the cuts at the Dept. of Ed and EPA. It didn’t work at 346,347 and 351 so why do you expect it to work now? 😉
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 07 February 2017 at 09:01 PM
On this we are in agreement….it’s how police buy all the goodies that they’d like to have but can’t get budgeted for!
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Ya Fish, like druid detectors. 😉
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Paul, without going in the details or Trump specially, that asset seizure program run by some counties (Sheriff Departments) in Florida is downright theft and no bueno. A guy is at the airport with 5k on him and they seize it as potential drug money and they never get it back. It takes lawsuits and much time and they never get it all back after much effort. It’s akin to the IRS seizing money from a live-in girlfriend because they think you are hiding it from them. Needs reformed. Guilty until proven innocent. P
Now, if your local LE budget is counting on the asset seizure program as part of its annual budget, the motive is there to push the envelop.
But Paul, as far as the Feds seizing 200 foot yachts, private jets, and mansions from “poor little innocent immigrants from South America”, I say fry their ass and bring back torture. Cut their balls off and make them choke on their own gonads. Then seize their stuff and deport them. Oh yeah, try them in absentia just to make it legal.
But, even if you can’t do all that fun stuff just for kicks, just torture them good and hard tor a fortnight. Then take their shoes and make them walk across hot coals and shredded glass if they want to leave. If they make that far, they are free to go.
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PaulE 901pm – I agin’ it. Now get back on the thread you interrupted 😉
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Walt @ 7:41
I don’t know what Forked Tongued Lizzy did today, but she got some Deplorables all riled up. Wonder what she did while I was meditating in my new yoga pants.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/793162890833935/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/793166280833596/?type=3&theater
What, was it something she said?
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Paul Emery | 07 February 2017 at 09:01 PM
I am opposed.
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So then to all of you are opposed to asset forfeiture without a trial or arrest let me ask you what is your view of trumps proposal to ruin the career of a senator from Texas Who wishes to change those laws ?
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Why, why, why? 😉
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Trump will ruin a lot of politicians careers if things go right. That is why the Deplorables have him sitting in the Oval Office.
Actually, Paul, with all the real big stuff going on right now and with the press trying frantically to catch up and the liberals’ heads exploding at every turn, your concerns about asset forfeiture is back burner stuff. First we have to get Sessions sworn in in some back closet tomorrow afternoon. Then, it will be the new AG ‘s job to tackle such issues. There is an order to these thing, Mr. Paul. Patience. Give it 3-4 months and then maybe this will be moved to the front burner for a couple of days. Russia, Iran, the economy, getting a handle on orderly immigration, China, trade policies, SCOTUS, rebuilding the military, the Wall, cleaning out the Intelligence agencies of America haters, cleaning out State from Wasabi lovers …stuff like that better on Trump’s mind for awhile.
Your questions Paul, are premature and not all the facts have been presented. One side of the story does not cut it.
Still drinking the opiates of the masses I see. Lay off HUFF-N-PUFF Post and get your head cleared out.
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