[One of our daughters is visiting this weekend and we decided to take in the gun show at fairgrounds today. The entire show fit into the Amaral Center and was very well attended; in fact there were actually too many people there back to back and belly to belly. But the show itself was a bit sad – not enough shooting hardware. No major manufacturers showing off their line, the reason being that gun makers are not sending as much of their new stuff to California to be put through the regulatory and testing hoops to make sure they are up to snuff in a state that really wants to confiscate every last gun from civilian hands. Another sign of the times. gjr]

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321 responses to “Sandbox – 25feb17”
Donald Trumpβs Call For Millions To Rally Fizzles. Pathetic turn out. Follos this link for the awful truth.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-rallies-fizzle_us_58b4e665e4b0780bac2cb5e2?
Compare that to the Indivisible women’s gathering at the Miners Foundry on Sunday where hundreds packed both concert rooms at the venue and had traffic backed up all the way to the Old Downiville Road. I know because I couldn’t find a parking place anywhere near the KVMR studio on Sunday afternoon. It was like there was a parade going on.
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Who is “they” Todd? What agency? State, local or Federal.
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Todd
If you are an “expert” then you can easily answer my questions.
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Oh, not again, why, why, why from the poor ol’ pollhead PE. No depth to have a discussion, the EPA already is primarily a grand distribution administrator oh learned one. The EPA could be run by less than a thousand staffers. That would let you fire 14,000 bureaucrats and never notice it. They already are dumping the whole global warming section and contractors as a start. π
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Hopefully she doesn’t find out about Guam.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/02/28/party-science-democrat-congressional-candidate-doesnt-know-gravity-works/
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That’s ‘a grant distribution…. π
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re: PE@5:06
It’s looking to me like George’s bet is a sure thing for you.
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Scenes, IF that’s the case then why is the poor ol’ poll head failing to jump at the opportunity? It would seem poor ol’ PE does not stand by his rhetoric and prognostications, I understand why given his history. π
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Don
I guess you’re no longer involved in anti-pot issues. I can see why you’d give it up as a lost cause. It was fun for you for a while, you had a little time in the spotlight. What’s your next losing cause Don?
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Just to show the flavor of the times:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-hbcu_us_58b59757e4b060480e0c00d2
She could stand there and read the dictionary out loud, and someone would find fault.
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…aaaand from the nether regions of the net.
https://www.dangerandplay.com/2017/02/28/source-of-national-security-breach-identified-leaker-is-david-laufman-of-doj/
I wonder if this is true? I’ll put this down as a placeholder and see if the story has any reality at some future date.
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Pot? Really Paul?? What’s the next illegal drug the dopers want legalized? FED laws be damned. Meth? Coke? End the need for prescriptions? Like you said, “the war on drugs is lost.”
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One of the best parts of the night. Love it when Trump rubs one’s nose in it.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-nancy-pelosi-refuses-applaud-american-job-creation/
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6:46 pm
Power to stop investigations into leaks? My, he had been exercising that power fairly regular lately. . Hypothetical of course. Laufman. Noted.
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Trump gave a great speech. Democrats are crap. How they sat on their hands when he spoke of America is a act of sedition.
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Poor ol’ PE again insists on showing his shortcomings @ 557, personally or as a newsman is up to the readers. There is lots of regulation writing going on all over the state but the campaigns are over. There are 37 mj related bills in play at the capitol mr newsman or were you ignorant of all the work going on? While you want to make weed a focus i would remind you that i still sit on a number non profit boards. You could look to the recent BOS video archives ya poor ol’ pollhead. π
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Walt. I watched most of it. Heck, at one time he stole Hillary’s thunder and at another time he made nice with the Party, but he mostly was Trump laying out a huge multi-year agenda. Now, if the legislature can do its job and start crafting and moving bills along, that would be great for the country no matter what side you are on. President doing his job, Congress doing theirs, and maybe 1/3 of the plate might get done….never know. Good to quickly put the vile Left’s Yemen story to Rest In Peace.
Nancy sitting alone not clapping for jobs was worth more than 200 gazillion words. See, everything the Left tries to do lately blows up in their faces. Never seen anything like that in all my days. Mercy.
Good thing about free streaming the speech is it ends when the speech ends, without commentary. Saw Shepard Smith mug popped up for a split second and the feed stopped. Just in time. They haven’t got rid of him yet?
Let’s see. What will the Left’s spin buzz word be? What phrase? Last time they all (left meaning Media, Dems are irrelevant) came out with “it was a dark speech.” Dark. Everyone of them from CNN to NBC to that girl that looks like a boy on MSNBC, to Huff-n-puff Post to Salon to…all of them. Dark, dark speech.
This is great. I don’t have to read any copy! Paul will pop over soon enough and give us the Alt-Media catch phrase issued down from on high. Always a silver lining.
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Here is a copy of a woman from a Facebook debate on abortion. Now my position is a woman can do what she wants but I just don’t want my tax money paying for it. This is a typical response but this was really something. These people are truly unhinged.
“Alejandra Nafir I’ve never had a. Abortion in my life, I do however have a family member whom was raped by a family member, if that would have resulted in her pregnancy (as a child) would it be up to her parents to pay for that bill since they went and had a daughter?!? This is where womans rights come in. That guy gets to go free because the court systems favor him. Roll over and die with your opinions Todd you shouldn’t be breathing our air”
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Ok, 1/5 of it getting done would tickle my fancy….over 8 years.
Oh, I forgot something.. That story above about all the Media Alt-Left saying it was a “dark speech” last time, well, an hour later some news guy from Nevada City, I believe, popped over here and said he found the speech to be dark. Dark speech. Come on Rummy, don’t you have an original thought in your noggin?
What’s the magic phrase this time?
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Todays edition of GOD BLESS AMERICA
My goodness!!!
WASHINGTON β President Trump killed a regulation that would have tightened gun background checks Tuesday, signing a bill to undo one of his predecessor’s executive actions following the San Bernardino shootings in 2015.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/28/trump-sign-bill-blocking-obama-gun-rule/98484106/
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Todd, you really know how to charm them. :).
Holy Smokes: I can’t believe my eyeballs.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321722-van-jones-on-trumps-honoring-of-widow-of-navy-seal-trump-became
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Can we get a prayer to clear up poor ol’ PE’s TURD eruption our friends? God love our resident druid @ 831.
That was the lamest attempt to divert attention from what has been called the best address ever by some #nevertrumpers! We know the dems wanted 0 care to fail so it will transition to madam liar liar pantsuits on fires single payer.
We will, we will, ROCK YOU, ROCK YOU! π
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Don
“Turd eruption our friends?” Can you translate that into understandable language?
Good to clear up the fact that you believe mentally ill persons can buy assault weapons.
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“clear up the fact that you believe….”. Fact? “Fact”, he says. Nice way to frame an argument. Don, clear up this fact.
“Time for small thinking is over.”
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http://www.chicksontheright.com/are-you-suffering-from-trump-acceptance-resistance-disorder-tard/
TURD….disgusting acronym for an even more repulsive disease.
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Diversion alert, diversion alert on poor ol’ PE, the President killed it tonight! I understand as one who suffers from a malady that has metastasized from BDS to a TURD eruption that you would want to change the subject PE. Get some of that salve. π
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Don
Do you believe mentally ill persons should be able to purchase and possess an assault weapon? Yes or no…
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Don’t be a TARD. Be a TURD!
Trump Unacceptance & Resistance Disorder (TURD)
Still don’t like that acronym. It is more like Trump Uniting Republicans and Democrats.
Alt-Left Media still struggling to come up with the phrase to change the narrative of tonight’s speech. Well, Chicago is pissed that “Trump mentioned Chicago again!” and the usual suspects are begrudgingly saying “He finally mentioned the India Indian killings, but it was LATE! in doing so, and just a bunch of nitpicking. I am sure they will stay up all night and Morning Joe will drop the magical spin words on us in the morning.
Heck, the Dems raced out of there to jump in front of the cameras, but all they have so far are spurts and stalls. Ah heck, call it dark again.
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/photos/a.488852220724.393301.153080620724/10158723553055725/?type=3&theater
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Tonight defiantly proved that Trump can read and follow a teleprompter and read a prepared speech.
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Don, there are 50 shades of grey. Yes or no? Yes or no! π
This one really pissed a lot of us off. Todd’s drainage ditch is no longer a navigable body of water.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/trump-kills-another-obama-epa-overreach/
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Tonight defiantly (did he really mean that?) proved that ……… My God loves you to ya poor ol’ pollhead PE. π
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*$)W)$ auto spell, my god loves you too ya…..
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Well, there is always Russia to cheer him up.
“The New Yorker story goes on to document a long list of assertions and speculations, but still, no hard evidence of Russian hacking exists.”
http://www.inquisitr.com/4021642/russian-hacking-still-no-hard-evidence-that-putin-interfered-in-2016-election/
But, why did Putin applaud Trump’s stunning victory over HRC? Why? Isn’t that proof enough?
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re: PE@ 9:44PM
But is he articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy?
I see that the opposition was lookin’ good.
http://i.magaimg.net/img/512.jpg
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GrΓΆfaz in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XuItt6iuMc
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What was MSNBC’s response to the Democrat response?
βThe Democratic Party is at its lowest point of power in this country since the 1920s, and the response was made by a 72-year-old retired two-term governor of Kentucky, not by Kamala Harris, not by Kirsten Gillibrand, not by the Castro brothers, not by anyone who has a future in the actual Democratic Party,β said Schmidt, an MSNBC political analyst.
http://aurora-news.us/2017/03/01/even-msnbc-is-laughing-at-the-dems-after-trumps-speech/
Boy, everything the Left tries to do blows up in their faces…..again. The folks in the diner looked like they could smell bad beef stew or patiently waiting for a short stack.
Meanwhile…….Investigating crimes committed by illegal aliens is now “genocide”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5zfrrESh60M
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What? No poor ol’ pollhead PE morning fix?? He must have a joint session of congress hang over and reading the headlines today is too painful for him. π
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Bill. Did something go boom last night? Just wondering if it woke you up too.
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That was liberal heads exploding when cnn said 78% of respondents were positive about the Presidents address to congress. π
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 01 March 2017 at 06:59 AM
Magnificent……..!
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8:19am.
Don, Polls are not out yet….gotta wait……interesting to see what the polls are in 4-8 months. Strike that. Not interesting in the least, but let’s pretend we care about daily snapshots in the spirit of unity.
Now, Don, you have not addressed “the fact”. Shame on you. :). Let PE cling to whatever straws he can grasp onto. We gotta keep him alive to fight another day. Impeachment is coming! Goody, goody. Punchy will be roaring back….. Everyday, every darn day with no vacations and no weekends off.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/804380156378875/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10154482194370914/?type=3&theater
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It’s interesting watching people taking sides on whether Islamic terrorism is a good thing or not.
(at 00:20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZpbT7gMMK8
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“O” and Co. must have had Al Sharpton as an advisor.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/03/01/gop-wants-to-eliminate-shadowy-doj-slush-fund-bankrolling-leftist-groups.html
“Franks said the money should go to the Treasury Department and the process subverts the legislative branchβs essential spending power. The Justice Department has argued that money is allowed to bypass Treasury because the banksβ donations to the groups are voluntary.”
“voluntary” my ass. More like “Pay up or else!”
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This should go over SO well.
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/01/oprah-rethinking-presidential-run-donald-trumps-win/
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Paul Emery will have to go to his safe space after reading this. Americans liked what they saw and heard last night.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2017/03/01/poll-american-public-loved-trumps-speech-n2292342?utm_content=bufferb43c2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Trump’s speech was the best yet of his new administration. But he is all hat, no cattle until he gets some legislation passed. I don’t like the guy a person (but no one cares about that except me). If he gets shit done, then more power to him (well, maybe not ‘more power’ π
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It was a good show Todd. Promise everything with no path to getting it done. It’s like a diet that includes chocolate cake.
It will give him a little bump till the Donald we know so well reemerges. At least he knows how to read a teleprompter.
By the way Todd, since you are an expert on these things, what Federal agency interfered with your property rights in regard to your ditch or pond or whatever?
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Walt, I did not hear a big boom last night. I was going to say it was an exploding head, but somebody beat me to it. π
Now, isn’t this sweet. A Hillary gal sitting next to a Bernie guy. A Jew next to a Jew hater. A display of unity! This must be what HH 88 was writing about in her Union Democrat Party column.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/13970/awful-top-democrats-refuse-stand-clap-navy-seal-ben-shapiro
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Paul.. So he used a teleprompter. BFD. “O” couldn’t form two complete sentences without one.
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Love it. Paul doesn’t even follow the regs the EPA set upon us. Here is a term you might understand Paul,,”vernal pool”.(a depression in the ground where a stump may have been.) “those” fell under that law . Yup, ANY standing water after a rain was under FED EPA control. NOT anymore.
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