164 responses to “Sandbox – 15mar17”

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   Don Bessee

   20 March 2017

   Since po’ ol’ party parrot PE is having a TRUDS eruption that clouds his recollection it was well over a month ago that SecState Tillerson visited NATO/Germany as his first official trip and then there was SecDef Mattis’s trip. Oh well, facts never stop the party parrots bovine scatology. 😉

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   Don Bessee

   20 March 2017

   Oh that’s sad, po’ ol’ pollhead PE is not up to his usual why, why, why standard. Just a why, why? 1044,50. 😉

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   Paul Emery

   20 March 2017

   Sorry Don. He didn’t go to Europe for a NATO meeting last month. Here is the detais
   https://www.apnews.com/a897cf02a37645f8a6d8a128be23eb89

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   Don Bessee

   20 March 2017

   So the fakenewsman claims there were no discussions, side meetings, questions or statements related to NATO at the G20. Forget Mattis too? Sad. 😉

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   Bill Tozer

   21 March 2017

   Morning laughs. This day is starting out great.
   http://article.patriotchronicle.com/terrorist-suicide-belt-goes-off-accidentally-during-terrorist-sing-along-h/

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   Bill Tozer

   21 March 2017

   No wonder Paul refused to vote for Hillary in 2016 or Obama in 2012. No one wants to continue those failed policies. I love this guy’s quips:
   https://www.facebook.com/UncleSamsMisguidedChildren.Net/photos/a.169953786533962.1073741830.169676909894983/651880215007981/?type=3&theater

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   fish

   21 March 2017

   ….and now a report from Bill Clintons economic hand puppet.
   My Visit to Trump’s Washington
   MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2017
   I spent much of this past week in Washington – talking with friends still in government, former colleagues, high-ranking Democrats, a few Republican pundits, and some members of Congress from both sides of the aisle. It was my first visit to our nation’s capital since Trump became president.
   My verdict:
   1. Washington is more divided, angry, bewildered, and fearful – than I’ve ever seen it.
   Wonderful….good things already happening in the DC cesspool then.
   2. The angry divisions aren’t just Democrats versus Republicans. Rancor is also exploding inside the Republican Party.
   Omelettes and eggs little man……Omelettes and eggs!
   3. Republicans (and their patrons in big business) no longer believe Trump will give them cover to do what they want to do. They’re becoming afraid Trump is genuinely nuts, and he’ll pull the party down with him.
   Was going to happen anyway….might as well have fun with it!
   4. Many Republicans are also angry at Paul Ryan, whose replacement bill for Obamacare is considered by almost everyone on Capitol Hill to be incredibly dumb.
   Not going to pass it seems…..the dems will get to wear Odummy care for another couple of election cycles.
   5. I didn’t talk with anyone inside the White House, but several who have had dealings with it called it a cesspool of intrigue and fear. Apparently everyone working there hates and distrusts everyone else.
   This is funny from a guy who served in the Clinton administration
   6. The Washington foreign policy establishment – both Republican and Democrat – is deeply worried about what’s happening to American foreign policy, and the worldwide perception of America being loony and rudderless. They think Trump is legitimizing far-right movements around the world.
   Sad….seems like Paul Emery isn’t the only frightened old man out there.
   7. Long-time civil servants are getting ready to bail. If they’re close to retirement they’re already halfway out the door. Many in their 30s and 40s are in panic mode.
   Really….you say this like it’s a bad thing!
   8. Republican pundits think Bannon is even more unhinged than Trump, seeking to destroy democracy as we’ve known it.
   See item 6.
   9. Despite all this, no one I talked with thought a Trump impeachment likely, at least not any time soon – unless there’s a smoking gun showing Trump’s involvement in Russia’s intrusion into the election.
   Sorry Paul……still president!
   10. Many people asked, bewilderedly, “how did this [Trump] happen?” When I suggest it had a lot to do with the 35-year-long decline of incomes of the bottom 60 percent; the growing sense, ever since the Wall Street bailout, that the game is rigged; and the utter failure of both Republicans and Democrats to reverse these trends – they gave me blank stares.
   Funny that you expected anything else inside the imperial bubble.
   ….and as always…..stay tuned for more of the comedy stylings of little Bobby Reich!
   http://robertreich.org/post/158634648215

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   ScenesFromTheApocalypse

   21 March 2017

   Although the website is quite partisan, this was an interesting article about something I haven’t followed that closely:
   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/20/it-took-a-freshman-gop-congresswoman-to-pull-the-mask-from-fbi-director-comey/
   The fact that the Green Libertarians are carrying water for the people who build the Lubyankas and Abu Ghraibs of the world is an irony which is not lost on me.

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   BradC

   21 March 2017

   So much for draining the swamp Lyin’ Donny…
   https://restoreprogress.com/2017/03/19/kellyanne-conway-gets-husband-appointed-to-lead-civil-rights-division-of-justice-department/

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10. 

    fish

    21 March 2017

    Posted by: BradC | 21 March 2017 at 08:03 AM
    Civil Rights Division is a toilet within the greater toilet that is the Justice Department….maybe he’s going to plunge it for the President.

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    Bill Tozer

    21 March 2017

    Scenes @ 7:26 am
    Great minds think alike.
    I would have asked the Department heads since the NYT reported nine former and current White House “sources” as the ones who leaked information (Jan 13 and Jan 20, both dates which Obama/Lynch were still in office)….which former and current White House operatives have been submitted to lie detector tests?
    Which members of the NIA, CIA, White House, and Justice Department of the 10-20 personnel mentioned that had access to the leaked Intel concerning the Flynn leaks and Presidential phone calls have been questioned? Which have been given lie detector tests, a routine and standard practice given to employees at the CIA and NSA? Which of the 10-20 humans that had access to the classified Intel have been interrogated?
    Finally, I would have asked, “Are you, Mr. Comey and Admiral Rogers, the source of the leaks?”
    So far we know of as today, only one CRIMINAL activity that has occured in this Russian-Trump Campaign investigation: leaked information, a serious felony. What Intel gathering methods were used since July, 2016 to used to investigate the Trump campaign’s any and all contacts with the dirty Rooskies? Was wiretapping used? What exactly were the methods used to investigate Trump’s campaign communications with Russian agents since July, 2016. Did this investigation start before or after the day HRC received her party’s nomination? Before or after the day Obama endorsed Hillary for President?, lol.
    I could go on and on. Tell you what. Gather all the 10-20 people who could be the leakers together in a room and give me 30 minutes and I will tell ya who the leaker(s) are. Easy. Now, I will end with a pic rather than go on and on.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1049784338488936/?type=3&theater
    Comey has saving the careers and reputations of more than one person yesterday.

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    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    21 March 2017

    re: Fish@8:12AM
    While I’m generally against nepotism, and this certainly qualifies, I can see the point in this case.
    When fighting the Deep State and not possessing a particularly integrated power base, who do you choose for close associates? Family and a few trusted staff members. Bobby Kennedy didn’t become Attorney General because of his good looks. I doubt that the Conway appointment is a reward so much as inserting loyalty (and an ear) into the national security state.
    In a world where the chief of the FBI is quite rich (and didn’t receive unearned wealth the way that it typically comes, inheritance) and FBI officials’ wives get really large sums of money for political campaigns, the fix is in in a thousand ways. Breaking the iron rice bowl results in a lot of enemies.

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13. 

    Bill Tozer

    21 March 2017

    If anyone want to see how our elected politicians are devoid and ignorant of The Constitution, simply watch Di-Fi and the Dems grandstanding speeches/ statements at the SCOTUS hearings yesterday. All the things Wi-Fi mentioned (living document) were done by activist judges, not the Constitution. No, Diane, the Constitution did not bar women from voting or equal rights. The 14th and 5th and even the 4th Amendments works just fine and does not need a word to be changed.
    Many cases that have been precedent and considered carved in stone (like Roe vs Wade) have been reviewed and some even overturned. Dread Scott comes to mind. Segregation was not the result of the Constitution, Ms. Di-Fi. It was the result of activist judges. Noticed she failed to mention FDR’s interment camps and activist judges’ decisions under Wilson. What an idiot. Talk about ignorance….

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14. 

    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    21 March 2017

    As a complete aside, I was just musing about how you’ll see an organized character and intellectual assassination of David Gelernter if he gets the science advisor gig. The Green Libertarians don’t take prisoners.

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