321 responses to “Sandbox – 25feb17”

1. 

   Jack Cominsky

   26 February 2017

   It would be far too easy for me to engage the loyal members of the Rebane Revolutionaries in a contest to measure the relative magnitude of our masculinity by the number and caliber of firearms that we own. Suffice it to say, I already have what I “need,” but I aspire to acquire more of what I “want.”
   Isn’t that what “freedom,” in terms of the Second Amendment, is all about?

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   ScenesFromTheApocalypse

   27 February 2017

   Sometimes you have to admit that this is the best of all possible timelines to be living in.
   https://twitter.com/SheriffClarke/status/836181108186365953
   https://heatst.com/culture-wars/rachel-dolezal-jobless-and-nearly-homeless-refuses-to-apologize-and-now-suggests-shes-trans-black/

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   Bill Tozer

   27 February 2017

   “Anti-Trump activism seems to have little to do with the political arts required to win elections — finding common ground, forging alliances, making friends. Instead all of these demonstrations are about denouncing enemies, and making yourself feel better about the November defeat by gathering publicly with those who share your rage. This sort of thinking leads to such self-defeating acts as interrupting traffic in places like New York City (where Trump got 18 percent of the vote) or San Francisco (9 percent).
   If you want to persuade working-class Trump voters in Wisconsin to join your cause, annoying rich liberal Democrats trying to get to work a thousand miles away is a strange way to go about it.”
   http://nypost.com/2017/02/25/the-next-womens-march-is-co-organized-by-a-terrorist/

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   Bill Tozer

   27 February 2017

   https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1035542183246485/?type=3&theater

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5. 

   Scott Obermuller

   27 February 2017

   Oh, Bill at 9:03 – now you’ve done it. A certain person who posts here on George’s blog is now going to have to find a poll to prove that photo is fake. Because – STANDARDS!!!!

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   Paul Emery

   27 February 2017

   For your reading pleasure:
   Trump is down to only +2 in Rasmussen Polls-lost 4 points over the weekend. Losing ground again in Gallup to -12. I figure he’ll bottom out at about 3o support in a few weeks which is pathetic but probably reflects his core support . That’s approaching Bushville who actually went as low as 29. Te more he plays to his crowd the lower he drops.
   http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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   Paul Emery

   27 February 2017

   Todays edition of GOD BLESS AMERICA:
   “The father of the Navy SEAL killed in a botched Yemen raid last month wants an investigation into the White House-ordered operation that claimed his son’s life.
   Bill Owens, the father of Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens, the Navy SEAL who died in the operation, accuses the Trump administration of using his son as a political prop in an interview published Sunday in The Miami Herald.
   “Don’t hide behind my son’s death to prevent an investigation,” he said of the mission, which was intended for servicemen to gather laptops, cellphones and intelligence about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula but morphed into a fiery battle that killed Owens and several civilians.
   “I want an investigation. … The government owes my son an investigation,” he told The Herald, adding that he couldn’t bear to meet President Donald Trump when he came to pay his respects as Ryan’s casket was carried off the military plane.”
   The Raid also at least 14 civilians, including nine children.
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yemen-seal-investigation_us_58b320eee4b060480e08c86e?

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   Bill Tozer

   27 February 2017

   http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/26/poll-half-college-students-believe-student-loans-will-forgiven/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

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   Bill Tozer

   27 February 2017

   https://www.facebook.com/molonlabeind/photos/a.424897844207736.98738.419846804712840/1447069948657182/?type=3&theater

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10. 

    fish

    27 February 2017

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 27 February 2017 at 10:51 AM
    Don’t recall any similar hand wringing while the Obama administration was droning the shit out of Afghan weddings on a regular basis.
    Oh…..and still president.

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    Paul Emery

    27 February 2017

    typo
    The Raid also killed at least 14 civilians, including nine children.

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12. 

    Paul Emery

    27 February 2017

    Fish
    You didn’t pay much attention to my contributions to this blog that condemned the Obama foreign policy during those times. I did not vote for Obama in ’12 largely because of his foreign policy. Might I remind you that most of the contributors to this blog continued to support Bush in ’04 despite the total disaster of the War in Iraq that caused Trump to call for Bush’s impeachment for lying.

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13. 

    fish

    27 February 2017

    Funny I don’t recall seeing any tear stained editions of GOD BLESS AMERICA: from you during the Obama administration Paul…
    Hmmmm…maybe I just overlooked them?
    

    The US Has Bombed at Least Eight Wedding Parties Since 2001

    https://www.thenation.com/article/us-has-bombed-least-eight-wedding-parties-2001/

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14. 

    fish

    27 February 2017

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 27 February 2017 at 11:18 AM
    Yes so……just nothing so vehement…..so specific as with Trump! The difference between scolding a wayward child and dealing with someone who tried to blacken your eye.
    Trump is conducting essentially the same US foreign policy that the Bush, Obama administrations pursued.
    Anger during Bush and Fury during the Trump presidencies…..annoyance during Obamas term. Your complaints give off the stink of political hypocrisy.

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15. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    Poor ol’ pollhead PE fix, check. Huffpo stupidity, check. Typo, check. BDS eruption, check. Another predictable waste of space by poor ol’ PE. 😉

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16. 

    Paul Emery

    27 February 2017

    Don
    Do you have anythng else to say other than derogatory statements about me. How about your view on the possible new fed policy on states with Recreational Pot. It is something you know about.

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    Paul Emery

    27 February 2017

    Fish
    I have stated innumerable times that the Obama Foreign policy was a total failure and did not vote for him 2nd time around. I believe you voted third party, Libertaran I recall. Please correct me if I’m wrong. My question to you is why you seem to support Trumps defense policy when it is so contrary to any Libertarian belief in minimal foreign military involvement. Do you subscribe to the Ron Paul foreign policy as outlined in his essay “Why we Fight”?
    http://original.antiwar.com/paul/2005/09/10/why-we-fight-and-why-we-shouldnt/

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18. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    Noting that poor ol’ PE’s posting is predictable is hardly derogatory. 😉

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    Paul Emery

    27 February 2017

    Grammar Don Please rewrite

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20. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    The DOW just closed at another record high, the 12th in a row. That has not happened in 30 years, all the way back to Saint Ronnie’s administration! Making America Great again! 😉

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21. 

    fish

    27 February 2017

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 27 February 2017 at 12:18 PM
    I believe you voted third party, Libertarian I recall. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
    Yes….Johnson this time. I would, of course have voted for Ron Paul in the general if he hadn’t been shafted so badly by Mittens during the convention.
    And I don’t support the Trump foreign policy…..yet.
    It is as stated earlier a continuation of that of the previous two administrations…..three if you let the tolerances slip sufficiently. We’ll see if his disjointed style works better than a more traditional foreign policy. In any case other than being off put personally by the man your over the top reaction seems a little funny from a self described Green Libertarian. Hillary was expected to be far more bellicose than Trump out of the gate. If your focus is on not having a war of any significance he seems, at this point, to be the better of the two options.

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22. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    The DOJ announced it is dropping 0’s law suit against the TX voter ID law.
    Poor ol’ pollhead PE must have missed (wink wink) the WSJ poll that said 60% are very optimistic about the United States future! That’s a ringing endorsement of the policies of the new administration. 😉

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23. 

    Todd Juvinall

    27 February 2017

    Elections have consequences. Now Trump needs t get that Pakistani doctor out and get him here.

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24. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    Yep, that mission was a disaster. Planned in the O last months, and too much in haste to go through with it in hindsight. Should have got all the new teams in place, but Trump gave the go ahead to what was already in the works. Haven’t read one article on it.
    All I know is from the men from the firing line is that they knew we were coming. They had a good trap, moving women and children around, downed aircraft, and waiting for us. Somebody might have tipped them off. No proof, just hearsay. Saddens me on too many fronts to mention.
    Like we are finding out, The Warrior Monk can only do so much until T Rex cleans out State, whoever cleans out Intel, and RNC Reince plugs the WH. Big Swamp. It won’t happen likely that again, but there are no guarantees in matters of love and war. The whole thing is not as it is published, IMHO.
    No links, no proof. Just communications and skuttlebutt from 24 hours after.

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25. 

    Paul Emery

    27 February 2017

    Spicer, speaking for Trump about Yemen, ““And so we’re very comfortable with how the mission was executed.”

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26. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    First link I have read on failed SEAL mission:
    http://nypost.com/2017/02/02/after-obama-waited-trump-quickly-approved-botched-navy-seal-mission/
    Oh, Einstein, check out who you donated to,. Your favorite Kurdish women fighters have turned on the Christians. Territorial stuff. It’s a cultural thang.
    “I am more worried about the Kurds than I am about ISIS. The Kurds are smarter, they are very well armed, crueler, they have a very deep history of slaughtering Christians (read about the Armenian Genocide), and they have Western backing which makes their evil intentions hidden by a guise of American and European validation. This is not the first time the Kurds have attacked Christian militia fighters”
    http://shoebat.com/2016/01/14/kurdish-soldiers-open-fire-on-christian-fighters-a-shootout-commences-and-both-kurds-and-christians-are-killed/
    Now, that’s my girl. You go girl and get down of your bad self. You been my kind of feminist. 🙂
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/danish-student-who-killed-100-9776839

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    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    1:54pm. What do you expect him to say? There is a spy in the Shadow Govetnment? Did you want to him throw the military under the bus? To throw Somebody under the bus? Blame it on a fighter pilot who was called in to assist with the unexpected ferocious firefight and hit the target..or wrong target? Trump will take the fall, but he won’t point fingers.
    We got some of what we were after and the numbers uno bad guy got away. More Intel, more electronic stuff like hard drives taken. Looks like Yemen is on the radar. Go where the Islamic Terriorists are.
    Ok, let’s go back to drones. Maybe The Warrior Monk should go around wearing Ashley Carter’s pink tie. Nah.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1035157299951640/?type=3&theater

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    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    My, my. Mr. Boardman wore a good article in the Union. Kudos, Mr. Boardman.
    He surprises me now and then. He even got through an entire editorial without saying “white supremacist.” Make that a double surprise. He is moving on to the bargaining stage. Somebody had to be first.
    http://www.theunion.com/opinion/george-boardman-mexicos-meddling-in-immigration-issue-will-just-harden-u-s-attitudes/

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29. 

    George Rebane

    27 February 2017

    I call your attention to the 27feb17 update of Scattershots.

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30. 

    Paul Emery

    27 February 2017

    What an egomaniac. Trump thinks the world revolves around him. Cracks me up. Th is is about last nights Academy Awards blunder.
    “I think they were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get the act together at the end,” Trump told Breitbart News. “It was a little sad. It took away from the glamour of the Oscars. It didn’t feel like a very glamorous evening. I’ve been to the Oscars. There was something very special missing, and then to end that way was sad.”

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31. 

    Todd Juvinall

    27 February 2017

    I did not watch them as I never do since Bob Hope stopped being the MC. Trump is the most powerful man on the planet. All the media and his opponents keep telling us that. He has a big ego, and I say so what? Twitter has changed things so if you don’t want to hear what he says, stop reading your AP wire at the station.
    And I see that Mel Gibson got zip from his Hollywood overlords. The movie Hacksaw Ridge was excellent and the man playing the main character was fantastic. It was also a true story. But we see how petty those Hollywood fools are.

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32. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    The Oscars did revolve around him you poor ol’ pollhead PE and it was a disaster, sets collapsing just before the show, ratings just avoided being the worst ever and then the obvious stupidity at the end. Other than that is was a great show, NOT. 😉

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33. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    I omitted another serious screw up at the Oscars last night, they included a live person in the memorial video, you cant make this stuff up! 😉

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34. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    Well, I did not watch the Oscars and probably few stayed up through the entire the longest marathon Oscar show ever to see the Grand Finale. Told ya. Everything that the libs do blows up in their faces.
    Trump, Trump, Trump. You may not like the medicine, but we need a strongman in the Oval Office to kick the vermin out and open a can of Whoop-Ass on the pussies’ heads. What an absolute disaster Obama/Bush left us and cleaning up their trash ain’t a job for no girlie man with a yellow horn on their bicycle basket.
    .. Everytime the playbook says that will make Trump buckle like all the R’s before him, Trump doubles down on fake news and calls them very fake news. And he is just getting warmed up and shows no sign of slowing down. Do what it takes, President 45, do what it takes.
    The right tool for the right job. My aborable absolutely deporable street fighting man.
    Did like how he sent the tranny baby issue back to the states and locales. Each jurisdiction knows what is the best way for their community to handle the bathroom issue. Oh, Bruce Jenner is upset. but I can live with it. If it works one day for one locale and another way for another school district or township, so be it. Very Reagenesque.
    Trump is a federalist on some domestic issues it appears.

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    George Rebane

    27 February 2017

    PaulE 302pm – DonB’s 313pm nailed it Paul; the Oscars did indeed revolve entirely around Trump, the rest was an administrative screw-up. But no one who didn’t watch the political pummeling would come to your conclusion from the Breitbart interview Trump. I think it’s ‘stretched’ comments like that which give support to those accusing you of being rabidly anti-Trump.

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36. 

    Todd Juvinall

    27 February 2017

    Watching CSPAN at this moment. A democrat bill being read on the House floor regarding the dems demanding tax returns etal. What a hoot!

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37. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    Fake news from our very own fakenewsman, poor ol’ PE is having another TURD’s eruption! 😉

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38. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    Ok, this may be out of line and not real political stuff, but how about some good news feel good stories:
    1). From the dirty mouthed bikers:
    http://tribunist.com/news/bikers-heard-this-marines-remains-were-coming-home-in-a-usps-box-they-couldnt-let-that-happen/
    2) From a bitter clinger rural old fart white priveldged deplorable who is xenophobia no doubt. From WI no less!
    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/man-lends-stranger-his-car-keys-to-get-to-a-funeral/ar-AAnsrog?ocid=spartanntp

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39. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    Former AG Mukasey was just on the Clinton news network schooling the rabid newsreader on the ‘russia’ thing. He rightly pointed out that there is no crime involved so you could not justify a special prosecutor. The FBI has said Flynn transcripts show no wrong doing of any kind and the FBI rejected the fake news in the NYT Russia article.
    Just as the house intelligence chair pointed out today, there is no there, there only a news story that fell apart. Cue to the poor ol’ poll head to clutch his perals and wail about the ruskies having ‘something’ on the president. 😉

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    Todd Juvinall

    27 February 2017

    Right track/wrong track. The week before the election on November 8, 2016, 30/63 a Obama of -33%.
    Today 45/51 a Trump -6. Seems the American people are shoving a stick in the eye of the lefty nits!

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41. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    The head of La Raza said in his WP editorial that the administrations enforcement of existing immigration law is the same as slavery. I know we can rely on team lefty to keep this up and ensure their massive defeat in 2018 and the Presidents re-election in 2020. 😉

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42. 

    Walt

    27 February 2017

    Yup, Mex. is still sore about losing the Mex./American war. Some still feel this land is “theirs”.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/27/jorge-ramos-america-our-country-not-theirs-we-are-not-going-leave/
    Take your pick Paul, Turn over your property to the Mexicans or Indians. (I see you still haven’t handed Bill T. the keys to your house since the last time this came up)

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43. 

    Gregory

    27 February 2017

    Paul, what is your take on the elder Paul’s drawing a causal chain to the Clinton administration’s push for regime change in Iraq? There was massive bipartisan support for “Establishing a Program to Support a Transition to Democracy in Iraq” and bipartisan support for the first Gulf War. I was carrying a sign a’gin it on the streets of Los Angeles as a Libertarian, were you? G
    Imagine if the mistake that was the first gulf war was actually finished at the time, with borders adjusted to match tribal realities (the Brits screwed that up badly). Instead, in a very real sense… the first war really never ended, as they kept violating every term of the cease fire and an armistice never was signed. Don’t start wars you don’t intend to win. That’s bad, n’kay? Imagine WWII ending with a cease fire as the Allies advanced into Germany (and then Japan) and handing administration to some imagined third party as long as Hitler and ToJo pretended to be cooperating.
    No need to point out their provocations were not actual strikes against the USA, states or territories. We’d have been better off were the USA just let the middle eastern predominantly Muslim states fight amongst them
    I’ve been busy getting a handle on how to proceed with a few ideas, and recent readings have led me to a desire to get a better handle on the history of argument. Yes, I’ve read enough Aristotle to have a passing understanding of where the ideas originated but on the science side of the liberal arts (as opposed to the Trivial Arts where most of the Humanities reside), rational, logical debate was virtually a given, or was at least expected.
    So, if I’m appearing to lose interest, that is not the case. It’s just that it takes a chunk of my budgeted gregory-hours for sparring with the rhetorical barbarians at the gate.
    As Barbie (a trademark of a former employer of mine) might say, “Schopenhauer is hard!”

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44. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    Walt:
    https://www.facebook.com/UncleSamsMisguidedChildren.Net/photos/a.169953786533962.1073741830.169676909894983/640382879491048/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1035807686553268/?type=3&theater

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45. 

    Bill Tozer

    27 February 2017

    Bored of education?
    https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/02/26/maybe-he-doesnt-have-adhd-maybe-your-curriculum-just-isnt-good-enough/

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46. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    A Canadian tv channel took a look at some fast food chicken products. It seems likely that they expected some bad results for the big ‘unhealthy’ guys but not so. The ‘healthy’ subway had a massive surprise for the reporters, it only contained 50% chicken! Miky D’s breaded patty came in at 85% chicken and Wendy’s did even better with theirs showing 89% chicken.
    I get that the big guys have breading on theirs but what the heck was the other half of the Subway ‘chicken’ made up of? Unfortunately the article failed to address that question. 😉

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47. 

    Walt

    27 February 2017

    Don. Those Subway meat slices are cut so thin, they have only one side. That 50% is a bit generous. The rest is rabbit chow.

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48. 

    Don Bessee

    27 February 2017

    It was the big chicken pieces, grilled I think. ;-0

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49. 

    Gregory

    27 February 2017

    The rest of the Subway “chicken” is soy protein. Probably better for you than the parts of the chicken used by McFoodies.
    http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/DNA-testing-Subway-chicken-sandwich-10963685.php
    We used to buy TVP regularly from whatever commie co-op carried it nearby. Cheap and long shelf life, but for the life of me I can’t remember what we were doing with it at the time.

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50. 

    Walt

    27 February 2017

    HALLELUJAH!!!
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/27/trump-pushes-for-massive-budget-staff-cuts-at-epa/
    If he gets half of that, I would be happy/

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