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[It pained me to read that legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano was suspended by Fox News, and I hope that he will soon be reinstated.  But I take heart that FN is an outlet that allows its senior correspondents to air items they consider important and true, and then hold them responsible for any subsequent mistakes.  To me this makes FN a more credible, comprehensive, and, yes, more balanced broadcaster when its reporters (consider Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith) and talking heads don’t have to get an OK from some lockstep editorial board in the head shed before going on the air.  gjr]

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235 responses to “Sandbox – 21mar17”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 March 2017 at 03:41 PM
    Always good to see the “Green Libertarian” arguing for the political status quo……very good indeed!

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  2. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Still a democrat PaulE?

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Haven’t voted Democrat for 8 years Todd. Still a genetic Republican Tdd?

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  4. BradC Avatar
    BradC

    Tough luck Donald. Maybe your kids will help you pick those grapes.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-winery-looking-for-foreign-workers/

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Fish, can you share with me what it is about Trump that appeals to a self described Libertarian Gary Johnson supporter such as yourself? Very curious what you see.

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 March 2017 at 04:59 PM
    We’ve covered this ground Paul. I don’t support him. I didn’t vote for him! But I’m really enjoying the histrionics he is causing both in DC and in your local burgh…..and he’s not Hillary Clinton!

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  7. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Brad at 4:52: So why are folks in that area still getting govt handouts for not working? Is Brad going to claim picking grapes is such technically hard work that skilled foreigners are needed? Hard to find low skilled workers when your tax dollars are taken from you at gun point to pay folks a better living to not work for you.
    Let’s face it, sitting on your rear end and swilling beer all day is way too easy in this country. Why work when freebies go to the idle?
    The solution is to make able bodied folk get to work. It’s not a kindness to anyone to continue the current system.
    Since the left wants to quote from the Good Book: “They that not work, neither shall they eat”.

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What did 0 know and when did he know it? Did 0 junk the intel rules on the way out the door before or after they had the transition team under surveillance? If they started the surveillance before the change and made the change so they could send it to everyone its a crime. That’s above and beyond the multiple felony counts related to unmasking US citizens and giving it to all 0’s buddies.
    Who approved the unmasking, who disseminated and who submitted the FISA request and why? We already know that 0 approved the dissemination already.
    0bamagate, time for a special prosecutor since we have the evidence of conspiratorial crimes before and after the fact. This will be fun since we own the legislative branch! 😉

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump knows everything doesn’t he Bessee? Why doesn’t Trump just tell the FBI everything he knows that led to his conclusion that Obama Wiretapped Trump tower.. Why not Don?

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You’ve got to be kidding.
    Spicer says Manafort had “a very limited role for a very limited amount of time.”
    Who is he trying to kid? Manfort was involved with the campaign for a total of five months as campaign manager, the top person in his campaign, What are the Trumpers trying to hide?

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Po’ ol’ party parrot PE is whistling past the graveyard. It was the 0 administration which stated surveillance right after the win. No dispute on that issue. It was 0 who personally changed decades old intel protocols that would allow his team to widely disseminate the wire taps, understanding you no longer have to affix a physical device to do phone call recordings.
    The small handful of very senior people who could have unmasked US citizens names all reported directly to 0.
    Too bad you guys went all in already, no way to get free from that tar baby now you registered democrat party parrot, po’ ol’ PE! 😉

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    CAn you provide some credible documentation for your 5:47 screed Don
    thanks in advance.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Uh,, Paul.. The Benghazi attack was ALL about a video. Remember? “O” and Co. ran with that. Ask Susan Rice. “Not a smidgen of corruption”. Right from “O” lips. Illegal guns in Mexico was American gun shop’s problem.”THEY did it”.
    It was Trump that hacked Hillary’s private emails… Right? Not the Muslim IT guys LIBs hired.
    I guess your short term, and long term memory is failing.
    OK Paul,,, the days of bugs in the phone are LONG gone. Some guy across the street in a vacant room with a laser mic can hear the bedbugs fart.
    Seen the size of the latest drone tech.? One can be on your window, and you will never know it..Listening… (if one wanted too)

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    There we go, po’ ol’ pollhead PE got that 3rd in the why, why, why pattern @553. 😉

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 22 March 2017 at 05:37 PM
    Like I said…..histrionics!

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  16. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Paul@ 03:41 PM
    I am not propping up anyone, just looking for the truth. And the truth is that a Democratic administration was monitoring Trump and others, and it was members of the Obama administration that launched the spying in July and continued after the election. The real crime is the release of the information to the public when the FISA regulation required any intercept of an American be masked. Someone in the Obama administration released the information. If some on in the Trump administration had done it, you would blame Trump, so using lefty logic Obama was ultimately responsible for the release of sensitive information that should never have been released to the public. Slice it any way you like but the bottom line is Obama was responsible, it was his gang that committed the crime.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Commit the crime, do the time. 😉

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey I wouldn’t screw up my democrat voter base either by making them use their heads! It’s just proper QA!
    Wellesley College Says Controversial Speakers “Impose On The Liberty Of Students” By Making Them Think Too Much
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/wellesley-college-says-controversial-speakers-impose-liberty-students-making-them-th

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    It does not sound like there is much actual thinking goin on at Wellsesley, brain washing, sure, thinking not so much. I bet po’ ol’ party parrot PE is so well rehearsed in the group think, party talking points he could get a sheepskin from them just for parroting the party line. 😉

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  20. Walt Avatar

    Looks like the Lefty roaches believe the political exterminator is on the way.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/03/22/politico-obama-admin-bureaucrats-panicked-by-breitbart-spotlight-dont-question-our-loyalty/
    This time they show up in black SUVs with clipboards and PDAs. (Que execution dirge)
    The Hatch Act needs to be applied “Liberally”.

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  21. Paul emery Avatar
    Paul emery

    I guess you have no documentation don. Bull charges that you make Too bad it’s all bullshit you made up in your head

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul emery | 22 March 2017 at 07:26 PM
    Says the guy pathologically incapable of answering a question that make him look bad!

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sounds like another instance where my newsfeeds are better that the KVMR fakenewsmans @ 726. 😉

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is a bone for the po’ ol’ pollhead PE, what is 0’s executive order 12333? 😉

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yo, party parrot po’ ol’ PE, who are the people who have the authority to unmask a citizens name caught in a wiretap? 😉

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Why don’t you know this stuff fakenewsman? 😉

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wow….sounds like David Brock is your kinda guy Paul! Staunch Hillary supporter or not!
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-22/anti-trump-propagandist-david-brock-suffers-heart-attack

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hey “jon”…..it’s your “Religion of Peace” moment of the day!

    “French-Tunisian is arrested after trying to drive a car loaded with liquid gas, assault rifle and knives into shoppers in an attempted terrorist attack in Antwerp”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4342446/Man-arrested-trying-drive-car-crowd.html#ixzz4cAIfuEil

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    ….and over at the “Hate Hoax” desk…….

    Israel arrests hacker linked to threats on US Jewish centers

    https://apnews.com/a6a67fb761304e3cae7497faa32dcdc9?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    For your reading pleasure:
    The Republican led Congress has an astonishing disapproval rate of -42 according to the latest polls. This is before the fumbling surfaced around the tossed out Trumpcare vote in the House today.
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh Punchy……you’ve done it again!

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  32. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re Fish @ 12:04PM
    Just to bookend the story.
    http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-trump-jewish-cemetery-desecration-20170303-story.html
    lol. Disgraceful!
    One saving grace is that it wasn’t a Russian hacker.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Fish
    You’re sounding more like a Republican every day. What ever happened to the Libertarian that was?

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  34. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: PE@3:31PM
    My guess is that in a world of two sides, you have to pick one or the other. Purists stand alone.
    A tolerable article:
    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-divided-deep-state-is-symptom-not.html
    I like this paragraph:
    “The divided Deep State is a symptom of this larger systemic political disunity. I have characterized the divide as between the Wall Street-Neocon-Globalist Neoliberal camp–currently the dominant public face of the Deep State, the one desperately attempting to exploit the “Russia hacked our elections and is trying to destroy us” narrative–and a much less public, less organized “rogue Progressive” camp, largely based in the military services and fringes of the Deep State, that sees the dangers of a runaway expansionist Empire and the resulting decay of the nation’s moral/political center.”

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  35. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 347pm+ – Mr Scenes, in case you have not noticed, this topic now has a dedicated thread under a post ‘Questioins …’ that lays the ground work for it. Your excellent pick up on Nunes’ report to the WH should be repeated there.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 March 2017 at 03:31 PM
    Perhaps……ivery much like you sounding more and more like a shameless partisan democrat.

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Well he is a registered democrat.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    ECO nut update.
    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/03/23/al-gore-global-warming-principal-cause-syrian-civil-war-brexit/
    Your polar bear humper has really gone South. “Brexit”?,, Caused by AGO???,,
    SBC needs to send Gore money for sure.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish ain’t no stinkin’ Trumpster, but he sure loves the way The Emperor Donald makes Paul chase his tail in circles….for weeks on end. Resist! is new comedy show with the Keystone Koys chasing the bad guy.
    Why would any good bony-fided Liberatarian not be amused? Besides, when push comes to shove, the magic answer has always been these three words: SCOTUS, SCOTUS, SCOTOS.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    AMEN BT!

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Anyone else hear the news how crime is down as much as 25% in some border villes?
    Trump allowing open season on illegals and no limit for ICE, has paid dividends.

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    We will see if there is going to be a vote tomorrow on health insurance. We have a number of factions in the Republican Caucus and Paul Ryan has to herd them. But it is like herding cats. Almost impossible. My position has been to repeal ObamaCare and then have a voucher or a chit for those on it so they don’t lose their coverage. Then I suggest the government get out of the business. And stop all the mandates to insurers. Let free enterprise work and it will if they would just leave it alone. So we may see a bloodbath or a kumbaya. Who knows. Update tomorrow. Good luck R’s!

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Todd. They still haven’t got the costs down. It’s like giving everybody free college or loans without addressing the costs of college. No go. I remember Obama saying he wanted a healthcare bill on his desk by Spring….er….by July 4th….er….by October and that’s the final deadline…..er……by Thanksgiving….er, go get that guy in the hospital and push him in here on the gurney with IV tubes attached so we can get this on my desk on Christmas Day. No need to race and not get it right. Slow it down a bit.

    If there Is one thing we have learned from Europe is there is no need for open borders or gun control.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1050963445037692/?type=3&theater

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  44. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    BilT teau they have made a mess of this and I am not sure Trump can fix it.

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    OH THANK GOD! After all those false starts they finally got their “Great White Defendant”
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/23/maryland-man-was-on-mission-to-kill-as-many-black-men-as-possible-in-nyc-prosecutor-says/
    It just sucks that he used a blade instead of a gun…….so many wasted opportunities!
    #guncontrollersfrustratedagain!

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  46. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Yes they have to search far and wide to find a white guy they can say represents all of us white dudes. But bugger a little girl in a bathroom in the same state and not a mention by the lamestreams the two rapists were brown.

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