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411 responses to “Sandbox – 21feb17”
Wow.
The memo also reallocates “any and all resources” currently used to advocate for illegal aliens and terminates “outreach and advocacy services” provided to them:
“To that end, I direct the Director of ICE to immediately reallocate any and all resources that are currently used to advocate on behalf of illegal aliens (except as necessary to comply with a judicial order) to the new VOICE Office, and to immediately terminate the provision of such outreach or advocacy services to illegal aliens.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/dhs-shifts-funds-defending-illegals-new-office-help-their-victims
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This level of rational action by the feds is so refreshing. Help the crime victims first, whoda thunk! 😉
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My bride’s recent letter to The Union containing a humorous poke at the Left overstressed by the election has been met with vituperation and vilification by our local progressives. On the obverse, her scribblings have given rise to a flood of plaudits from the Right, even unto being included as a skit at the monthly Republican Women’s luncheon.
The problem she highlights appeared to more sober souls as a real syndrome that has caused the Left to express itself publicly nationwide through a wide spectrum of indignation ranging from outright street violence and rioting to organized attendances to disrupt Republican members of Congress holding constituent town halls. Well, it turns out that our dis/mis/un-informed and permanently pinched-faced progressive neighbors shot their wad a bit early. The American Psychological Association has just reported on some recent research which describes a new syndrome called Post-Election Stress Disorder, a clinical condition of which many today on the Left suffer. So it turns out that our humor-free neighbors have volunteered themselves as Exhibit A for PESD. More here.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/21/politics-to-blame-as-stress-levels-rise
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George
Don’t underestimate the effect Trumps election is going to have on our local elections in two years. There is a grassroots awakening never seen before.
I knows I’ve said it before there is nothing better for religion than a good healthy devil. Trump has exceeded that requirement beyond it’s wildest expectations
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Well, I can’t say that I knew this.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/834121778062643204
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One more good bye for Milo. I will miss that young man.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1032219486912088/?type=3&theater
Dr. Rebane @ 5:21 pm. Well, we all said that their behavior was not normal and unprecedented. Now there is a name for their illness. Obliviously, everybody knew that liberalism is a mental disorder, but now we have a more precise diagnosis from the mental health professionals. Information is good. Now they can draw disability.
Tell the bride no worries. Those with TDS have no sense of humor. Never had, never will. Guess that makes her a Deplorable. Come on in, the water is warm.
Jo Ann is a true feminist, whether your bride acknowledges it or not. Feminism is all about personal empowerment, not group think. Plus a true feminist, besides being a free thinker, has a delightful understated sense of humor. The Feminists In Name Only are filled with poison and go through life with frowny faces and boy are they pissed. Being shunned by them is proof of personal empowerment.
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“Don’t underestimate the effect Trumps election is going to have on our local elections in two years.”
What difference would that make besides making the county or one of the towns more 420 friendly?
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Just to show who can get away with this kind of thing. Maher on 14 year olds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBYM0dQ4zUU&feature=youtu.be&t=6m57s
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The real impediment to Trump’s agenda. The R Establishment. Bill Crystal and most of the National Review staff never were accommodating to the Deplorables and never really spoke to them or for them. This is no surprise as his girlfriend Lindsey yesterday called for punishing Putin now. Like right now!
http://truepundit.com/exclusive-white-house-fingers-john-mccain-as-media-leak-believes-u-s-senator-eavesdropped-on-trumps-classified-phone/
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Paul and friends missed a good party.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/21/13-anti-trump-protesters-arrested-portland/
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Paul at 12:40 – Wasn’t aware I was ‘supporting’ Milo. I’d ask for proof, but Paul can’t find the proper poll.
Paul, on the other hand does support brown shirt activity.
He could hardly wait to be on the side of the mob shutting down speech they didn’t like. Too late to take it back now, Paul.
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PaulE 541pm – That settles it, you don’t read my posts or comments. I have not “underestimated” the Left’s response to Trump in these pages, I have proclaimed its intensity and virulence. The Alt-Left cannot let Trump succeed, else their entire Agenda21 is toast here and abroad.
They saw what the Right did with the Tea Parties – they changed the face of Congress in just one election and then doubled down in each one since. But don’t worry Paul, you guys have the wind at your back. In our country, and especially in California, the regency of dumbth will take generations to topple. And we humans don’t have that many generations remaining.
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Golly, Paula Poundstone pleaded no contest to lewd acts on a child … a felony, with a real victim. Could have gotten 13 years in prison, before Orange became the New Black. How long between that and being able to work for, say, NPR or Nevada County’s Center for the Arts?
Maybe the Center will hire MY as soon as the hate settles. Paul, what are the chances? How much to rent the Nevada Theater if the Center passes?
Or are double standards universal among our local national and international Blue Meanies? Left wing comedians can be rehabilitated if they actually get convicted of child endangerment or “lewd acts”, but if an unabashed Brit “dangerous faggot” who can hold his own with Bill Mahre, who was a victim of molestation as a child has an old tape of him talking about the issue (talking!), the left goes after his ability to make a living making fun of he left?
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Are you blaming me because Milo got fired and lost his book deal? What’s the point of what you’re writing Gregory ? You should be writing to them and complaining In his behalf. And why do you bring Paula Poundstone into this discussion ? Never had the chance to book her or even see her in concert.
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Hey good ol’ poll head PE, here is a midnight fix for you. The Harvard poll says 80% of Americans disapprove of sanctuary cities. What say you poll head? 😉
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So? It means what it means. Since you’re a believe in polls now let me ask you this. If Trump is such hot shit then why is he the lowest in history at this stage in all polls.
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So you’re interested in booking Paula at the Nevada theatre Gregory? If you like I’ll put you in touch with Theater management and they can give you the scoop on renting the theater.
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Sorry meant to say “So you’re interested in booking Milo….
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Your complaint should be with Breitbart Gregory. They are the ones who fired him.
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That was a gift fix for you, ya poor ol’ poll head PE. There was a question for you newsman, afraid to engage again? 😉
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We better watch out. All the Snowflakes are getting together to form an avalanche! We can run but there is no place to hide. There is no escaping the avalanche.
Avalanche?Hmmmm. Destruction, carnage, mayhem, channeled brute force, and wreckage. Sounds exactly like the Snowflakes since Nov. 8, 2016 to me. Does that mean 2018 will bring more of the same?
It was too funny whe they destroyed that Muslim immigrant’s limo outside the Inauguration. Cost estimates are 70k to replace the limo, the poor man’s sole source of income, and he doesn’t have that kind of money. Collateral damage in the fight for Social Justice, I reckon.
Yep, everything the Alt-Left does keeps blowing up in the faces. I have never seen anything like this in 30 years either. That we have in common with Steve and Punchy.
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Good grief people, there’s 70 billion dollars at stake here.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/21/h-sterling-burnett-climategate-redux-noaa-scientists-fudge-lose-data/
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 21 February 2017 at 11:39 PM
……ixnay about the oneymay Bill!
They haven’t spent all that time, money, and credibility on scaring people about the weather to have a guy like you blow it for them now!
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No wonder they think we’re deplorable……
BRZEZINSKI: “Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.”
I guess that’s why they get so upset when we frighten the cattle….
https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think
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….almost there!
I imagine they’ll call for “camps” next.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/students-rat-each-other-out-over-speech/article/2615405
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Yeah….I see big things happening for the democrats during the next election cycle!
Maxine Waters: I just think the American people need to know what is going on. This is a bunch of scumbags. That’s what they are. They’re all organized around making money.
Scandal-Plagued Maxine Waters Top Dem on Banking Committee……
A few years ago Waters was investigated by the House Ethics Committee for steering $12 million in federal bailout funds to a failing Massachusetts bank (that subsequently got shut down by the government) in which she and her board member husband held shares. Read all about it in Waters’ profile on Judicial Watch’s 2011 “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” list.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/12/scandal-plagued-maxine-waters-top-dem-on-banking-committee/
No question……scumbags.
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Well the German left is finally out of the closet regarding its infatuation with refugees…..
“To win the election in Germany, the SPD & Greens want to move to change the law regarding voting rights. Essentially, they want to give the refugees a right to vote. They need not be an EU citizen nor do they need to pay taxes. The mere right to vote is you happen to be there at the time. Meanwhile, the SPD has now taken the lead in polls from Merkel. Martin Schulz, the German Social Democrats’ candidate for federal elections in September, is the very person who in the EU wants to federalize Europe and this scheme is intended to use anyone other than Germans to win the election.”
This is the topic that a local Green Libertarian (and a few others) can’t, as the same issue pertains to the United States, bring himself to comment on……wonder why that is.
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Hypocrisy is such an overused and misunderstood word. I prefer the kinder gentler word ‘duplicity’.
http://joeforamerica.com/2017/02/naacp-requires-photo-id-attend-anti-voter-id-protest-wait-video/
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 22 February 2017 at 08:28 AM
Ooooh…good link…..I love the smell of irony in the morning!
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You know, I have probably painted too many persons, places, and thangs with the evil broadbrush. Not all campus students are Snowflakes and not all current journalism students are disciples of Melissa Glick nor the UC Berkeley student paper.
This young writer has shown some promise. Good journalism from Stanford of all places. I have harbored some bad vibes in my heart since Stanford dropped their mascot “Indians” and replaced it some stupid bird from St. Louis. Oh well, it’s time to bury the hatchet and smoke the peace pipe.
Good research by the young…..oh, this pains me….good research by the young Cardinal.
https://stanfordreview.org/students-for-justice-in-palestine-linked-to-terrorist-affiliate-43d5c8c074ca#.a7pvblugg
Just like Acorn. They don’t go anywhere, they just change their name.
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fish 749pm – You will recall that for years RR has called out such culture killing, vote buying practices here and elsewhere. The Left’s two-fisted approach to global autocracy is 1) grow governments of elite central planners by promoting fraudulent societal needs (e.g. ‘climate change’), and 2) promote raw democracy through increasing the size of compliant, ignorant, and powerless electorates (e.g. through politicized education, expanded wealth transfers, and now franchising non-citizen migrants).
The Left can do nothing save repeat their strong denials in the face of overwhelming evidence. But as Lenin has shown, that works.
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Posted by: George Rebane | 22 February 2017 at 09:06 AM
I do! I find it endlessly entertaining (and not in a good way) that those who ought to know better don’t!
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Bill T at 8:28 – The problem is that this news item will either sail right over the lefts’ head or be ignored as ‘fake news’.
I can hardly keep count of the number of times in the last year that I had to show a photo ID. And only once was that for voting.
Funny how all the non-whites around me during those various times seem to have no problem with that trivial requirement.
But we all know the drill. Photo ID for voting = proof of KKK membership.
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Mr. Fish @ 8:30 am.
Aha! Irony is a better word. Thankyou. Sniff this:
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1032567513543952/?type=3&theater
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Well now…. Lets see how this news plays out.(or already swept under the rug.)
Milo get burned at the stake for his comments, So what should happen to this famous LIB gay?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/02/wow-george-takei-advocated-pedophilia-13-year-olds-will-pizza-hut-drop-video/
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Posted by: Walt | 22 February 2017 at 09:42 AM
So what should happen to this famous LIB gay?
NOTHING!
Just more who/whom hypocrisy from Proglodyte Nation!
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Dr. Rebane:
My condolences to your friends: Here we go Bruins, here we go!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/21/author-book-islamic-terror-ucla-banned-book-free-speech-event/
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1031781230289247/?type=3&theater
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He gets a pass Fish? Milo said close to the same words and got BBQed with his own flame.
So are you saying that just because he a minority Lefty,queer he gets a pass?
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Walt @ 10:04am
Yes.
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Posted by: Walt | 22 February 2017 at 10:06 AM
Oh I’m not saying I approve Walt….I’m just saying that Mr. Takei will be welcome in “Polite Society” where Milo won’t be because Milo isn’t on the lefty plantation.
Did Old Man Indignance, Nevada Citys Greenest Libertarian and noted Matlock impersonator ever answer your question about this?
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Stupid questions don’t deserve answers. Try again. didn’t pass my intelligence screening.
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Milo getting fired by Breitbart and losing his book deal is his own problem. What more is there to say?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 February 2017 at 11:16 AM
What more is there to say?
There’s always more to say!
Just curious if yesterdays outrage at Milo is applied equally to Mr. Takei ….currently a darling of the left? Or Mr. Maher for that matter? I don’t recall a similar witch hunt when he and Mr Maher discussed similar things earlier?
http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/02/22/uh-oh-video-surfaces-of-bill-maher-condoning-sex-between-an-adult-and-a-14-year-old/
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Well Paul, then the gay Asian should lose all his commercial gigs. Taco Bell and the like should drop him as well. As they say, “what’s good for one”.
But since Takei is a flaming LIB he’s OK to say the same words as Milo without consequence.
Right Paul? Love that double standard of yours.
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OK Paul,,(our resident “news man”)
You paddling the same boat?
https://news.grabien.com/story-brzezinski-our-job-control-exactly-what-people-think
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Fish
It’s the Right that’s going after Milo so why are you asking me. Breitbart is a Right wing website and they fired him.
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Fish, Walt
Last I heard CPAC is a Conservative organization as well, Have you written them a note like Todd has asking them to reinstate him? Also have you written to Breitbart as well? Why are you asking me these questions rather than going after those who, in your view, did him wrong?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 February 2017 at 11:33 AM
Yesterday the Green Libertarian was losing his mind over who here “endorsed such behavior” or “was in favor of such things”…. You also seemed to think that UC Berkeley somehow “dodged a bullet” by allowing leftist thugs to stop Yiannopolis from speaking based on the contents of the recordings just released.
I don’t recall anybody here “defending” pedophilia at all but I seem to recall numerous demands for “cards on the table”……
So I’ll ask you again….is the condemnation currently being heaped on Milo something that should be applied equally to Mr. Maher and Mr. Takei? Maher speaks at colleges sometimes….should they “dodge” that bullet as well by banning him from speaking? Should he lose his talk show gig?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 February 2017 at 11:40 AM
CPAC can disinvite anybody they want to…..no skin off my ass! Yiannopolis resigned from Breitbart so he made his own decision.
I’m just curious if you think Mr. Maher and Mr. Takei should be hounded equally with pressure brought to bear on their employers?
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Paul Emeryt won’t answer because he is hypocrite. Milo did not really say a “pedo” information but it was close enough for some on the right to get really nervous. We usually boot that kind of person from power. Democrats though seem to promote those kinds of people. Even give them TV shows, like Spitzer.
I like Milo and though I do not defend anything pedo like Maher and Takai do, I defend his right to say whatever in the free speech we say we support. Paul Emery was in the TerryL camp and have we seen anything from him condemning him? Nope.
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