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[Looks like President Trump nailed it in Europe when he took fellow NATO members to task about their defense spending.  Besides Merkel’s epiphany, other countries are starting to realize that they’re pretty much incapable of doing sh!t when comes to defending themselves.  Now that's presidential leadership.  More here.  gjr]

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203 responses to “Sandbox – 3jun17”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    For the next time one of the usual suspects blathers on about “peer review”!

    Do penises cause climate change? Discuss
    The academic hoax that shows how generations of kids are paying good money to study pure, unmitigated, mind-warping drivel

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/do-penises-cause-climate-change-discuss/

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    Here’s another reason not to play ball in the globalists’ climate change game.
    http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/03/paris-climate-accord-green-fund-america-paid-billion-united-nations?
    H/T to correspondent.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Private Jenkins says to his lieutenant. “Sorry LT, can’t move off with the squadron on the next mission. Got some medical stuff to do that will take me out of combat for 1-2 years. Sure glad those treatments will be over in just two shorts years, about the same time my hitch is up. Geeze Whiz, those therapy drugs are expensive! ,Glad i don’t have to pay for them.”
    http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/pentagon-rolls-back-obama-transgender-order?utm_source=FBLC&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=LC

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Tragedy in London this evening as the specter of climate change drove innocent muslims to commit horrible crimes at London Bridge!

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Follow up to Fish’s 9:21 am, the first comment in this Sandbox.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/rpp.217926015008110/1099568006843902/?type=3&theater

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  6. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    No Students Are Proficient in Math And English At Six Baltimore City Schools
    Six schools in Baltimore have exactly zero students who are proficient in math and English.
    WBFF reports Project Baltimore led an investigation and discovered five Baltimore City high schools, along with one middle school, do not have any students who scored high enough to be deemed “proficient” in math and English on state testing.

    All taught by highly effective teachers under the observation of union thugs to make sure none of these highly effect teachers are laid off or fired. /SARC Off

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Bill Maher received a slap in the wrists for his houseboy comment. No big deal. What he should of got was a swift kick in the family jewels. I have never heard such talk in all my born days. Wake up and smell the apple? Those Lefties sure have been developed a potty mouth from top to bottom since they got smoked out from behind the curtain of the Greater Good. They seen so angry. That Maher is one angry white dude. So is DNC Chairman Perez, Hillary’s houseboy. Why so angry? Very vulgar.
    Trigger warning.
    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/06/03/maher-gop-goes-low-democrats-kick-nuts/
    Be careful what you wish for. That 11 year old kid is a bully. Just ask Rosie.
    http://truthfeed.com/2016-interview-reveals-kathy-griffin-saying-shes-going-after-barron/78113/

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    No big deal. I once called Obama a boneless brown trout and only the fakenews dude got upset with the usual incredulous moral outrage. Somehow the words I penned got interpreted as a “spineless N word”. Must be some filter he was using. But, it’s all water under the bridge. Nothing to see here except vile language from the Party of Enlightenment.
    http://www.theamericanmirror.com/cnn-host-calls-trump-piece-sht-renewed-call-travel-ban/

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wonder where “jon” is? Nary a peep since yesterday!


    LONDON TERROR RAMPAGE
    LASTED 8 MINUTES
    PEDESTRIANS MOWED ON BRIDGE
    STABBINGS AT MARKET
    ‘THIS IS FOR ALLAH’
    12 ARRESTED

    Probably face down in one of his Turkish “friends” laps!

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  10. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Rumors abound a County Supervisor was arrested for a DUI!

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Russ, I just listened to a AGW alarmist on FOX News. My question is this. He acts like carbon into the air is a zero sum game. Doesn’t the planets plants absorb most of the CO2? And where can a person find the total intake of the planet’s plans versus the output?

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  12. Steve Loomis Avatar
    Steve Loomis

    HALL, HEIDI MARIE 56 6/4/1961 F B17029076 6/3/2017 11:43 PM N GRASS VALLEY, CA SUPERVISOR
    GVPD 4013 G1701652 660 MINNIE ST 23152(A)/23152(B) DUI:ALCOHOL/DRUGS $5,000.00 M
    Chg #
    Agency
    Officer
    Agency Case
    Arrest Location
    Statute
    Statute Description

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  13. Steve Loomis Avatar
    Steve Loomis

    Now that’s “leadership”.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. It’s HH’s birthday today. Happy Birthday Ms. Hall…..and many more. Here’s a smile to grow a mile, a pinch to grow an inch, and a sock to grow a block. Now make a wish and blow out the candles.

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  15. George Rebane Avatar

    ToddJ 842am – Todd, the earth’s carbon cycle is known only in part; it’s complete cycle is still not known, with major components missing and/or not known that they are not known. That is the dirty little secret that the IPCC and its more vigorous spokesmen have tried to hide for years. This ignorance alone (never mind the historical data and current measurement shortcomings) make the general circulation models perform so badly, and of a form that does not survive critical examination by people versed in complex large-scale computer models. All this and more has been covered for years in these pages. This situation has not changed, only the political bamboozler voices have grown louder since their basis on science has crumbled.

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    It is fascinating to me the left and the promoters of the hoax are never asked the obvious question bt the press. “What is the net affact” of carbon dioxde into the atmosphere. Anyway, the left also thinks there is a fixed number for the income of the humans paying the bills. You cannot fix stupid I guess.

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Left believes strongly in centralized government. No man is an island, no country is an island, no government is an island. We need one big central government run by unelected bureaucrats on distant shores to achieve Nirvana.
    Did you see how many billions and billions of US taxpayer greenback dollars were funneled through the Paris Peace Accords….er….funneled through the Paris Climate Accords straight back into UN? Guess Trump was just cutting out the middlemen.. Middlepersons? Anywho.
    Speaking of achieving Nirvana…..
    https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/un-fake-gaza-victim-israel/

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  18. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Todd @ 8:42 AM and George @09:20 AM
    George is right, there a lot of unknowns in the carbon cycle. Here is a link to everything CO2:
    http://www.co2science.org//CarbonSequestration/CarbonSequestration.php
    There are three volumes that examine the latest thinking and experiments. Also on the front page of the CO2 Science, you will find some videos demonstrating some of the know facts. Hope this helps.

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Thanks Russ, there is some interesting analysis here.
    http://www.co2science.org//articles/V4/N1/COM.php

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  20. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Exiting Paris agreement brings out emissions deception by mainstream media
    Guest essay by Larry Hamlin
    President Trumps great and defining global decision to exit the flawed and unnecessary Paris climate agreement has driven the climate alarmist mainstream media (MSM) over the brink with articles frantically supporting that only government dictated mandates should be used to establish how global energy demand and use must be controlled.
    An L. A. Times article for example falsely implies that state governments lead by California (OMG!!) must take command of future U.S. emissions performance and deliver Obama’s ill-advised emissions reduction promise that President Trump has now wisely decided to abandon.
    The emissions reduction leadership role for California championed by the L A Times is touted despite the fact that our state doesn’t have the foggiest idea of how it can achieve its SB 32 emissions goals nor does it have any idea of how many tens of billions it will cost nor care at all about how the state will end up dictating how all Californians must live their lives.
    Full Essay with Graphics that demonstrated the free market success in lowering emissions without government meddling.
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/06/04/exiting-paris-agreement-brings-out-emissions-deception-by-mainstream-media/

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  21. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    On the FUE. It is interesting how the left parses everything and then tries to change history and the fact to protect bad behavior. Just as Kathy Griffith is doing. Terry L was arrested and ten served. He admitted it. And because some chicken shit nameless Judge says he is now “not” the public is supposed to believe that? Sorry but a big segment of the people don’t believe that and are not going to let the system get away with that ruse. And it is curious why the FUE protects these scofflaws and then attacks the good people of the community. No wonder he is hated and shunned.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    ……..and the wheel is spinning…..spinning……spinning…….! Where will the pointer land?

    Sheriff: ‘Multiple fatalities’ in Florida shooting

    C’mon …….”white guy”……..let it land on “white guy”! Progressives could use a win……..it’s been a rough couple of weeks!
    http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Sheriff-Multiple-fatalities-in-Florida-shooting-11196137.php

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  23. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Thirty percent of Jobs Created Since 2010 are Fake
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) seems to be alone in its belief that the entrepreneurial environment in the US is improving. We believe that the BLS has been artificially inflating the monthly payroll numbers via the birth and death adjustment. This overstatement is not trivial in nature – the adjustment added 30% of all jobs reported since 2010.
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-03/93-all-jobs-created-2008-were-added-through-birthdeath-model
    Numbers and graphics showing this deception are shown at the link.
    The jobs numbers were create the same way the government created global warming — adjustments to the base numbers.

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  24. George Rebane Avatar

    Hilary Hodge Redux – The Union’s editor was admonished by a reader in her 5jun17 letter.
    Gosh — you guys must be short on copy if you have to allow Hilary Hodge to talk about her sexual orientation in her column. I dare you to ask your readers if they care one molecule about Hilary’s sex life. Surely — there are far more important subjects to discuss.
    When you run out of worthwhile copy — call me and I’ll write something that will surely generate more interest.
    Elaine Ashton
    Grass Valley

    Ms Hodge’s proclivity in these and other matters was first raised here.
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2016/04/the-liberal-mind-hilary-hodge-cant-connect-the-dots.html
    … and then most recently here.
    http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2017/05/scattershots-28may17.html

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane, you may find this article of interest. It’s from very lib VOX, but they do write with some flashes critical thinking now and then on non-news stuff. Best bigger pic I have read in awhile. Its all tribal. The Great Divide. It’s why we have a two party system here, IMHO. Kinda long. You can skip the middle.
    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/5/15161442/2016-election-normalcy-democracy-realists-identity
    Oh, concerning the Hodge Podge, I have yet to read the coming out story. Just ain’t interested in her private life, I reckon. Without looking, I bet there is a whole bunch of “I, I, I, I, I’s” in there. It would have been brave twelve years ago. Nowadays, it just reeks of self absorption and “me, me, me” in the guise of openness, vulnerability, and honesty. Just not that into her or reading about her first false alarm evacuation experience. Maybe some humor might make reading her stuff worthwhile.

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  26. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 106pm – You are, of course, on the mark Mr Tozer. Interest in Ms Hodge and her scribbles for me will depend on how serious are the rumors that she intends to fun for a BoS seat. Now that the other HH there is in a bit of hot water, maybe the new HH will give it a go.

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Over at The Union, I clicked over towards the comments on a Heidi Hall arrest story, and found the following posting from Linda Campbell, retired “educator” and currently an elected trustee of the high school district:

    As a lifer, or though no choice of my own, I was brought to Nevada County as as child and graduated from NU 73..Though had no intention of coming back after leaving to obr ain an College education, I did return (just for awhile..) and found the teaching position of my dreams, I ended up working and retiring here…However, back in the days of my youth, due to the “brain drain” when Bourne shut the mines in 56, it was also the same time that Nevada County had the highest rate of alcholoism as well as one of the most economically disadvantaged counties in the California …And at that time, which was true among most rural, poverty ridden towns, in terms of alchololism, the line was between ones that could hold their liquor and those that couldn’t.
    However in this geographically isolated fishbowl of a community, if you were a supervisor, judge, or the so called “elite”, you could actually call the police and instead of arresting or citing you ( and at that time, dui, were considered misdeamnors) they would drive you home….However, times have changed, and Ms Hall was duly arrested by GVPD, and based on the article above, She is accepting responsiblitly for her behavior, or being accountable for her actions. Also am a constituent of Ms Hall’s and will continue to support her as my representative, because she is standing up and doing the right thing and not the politcally or basing her actions on what’s best for her…
    But thats what cracks me up,our local bully right wing politicians, are using this as a means to polticize the enemy, or playing bully politics. Because most of these people, I have known of or have known members of thier families over my 50 plus years here. For instance , Todd Juvinall (Juvenile, based on long term observation) is one of those who are throwing stones from his glass house, as well as most of the local faces that made up the so called “Grass roots conspiracy to take our Country back (actually attended meetings and heard that) . And thats all what these people are doing, using good old fashioned bully politics as a means to attack the opposition, or “They”.
    So please, The Tea party, Central Committee of Republican party, Cabpro, or whatever titles, you all give yourselves, please stop your bully politics. Because all you are doing is proving that your crowd is a bunch of small town hypocrites, ..or Judging others for the same life sins, political bullies are guily of doing themselves. And that is based on my own personal knowledge of being a lifer or local in Nevada County….
    PS, and that includes those who say they speak for god, or who use religion as a means to condemn and judge others…the well documented intent, was to separate church and state, or to protect the “State” from theocracy or a state religion….no matter what religion..

    The spelling errors, the mixed metaphors, the errors of grammar and punctuation… it hurts to think of the kids this person shepherded through high school civics, not to mention the damage she continues as a district Trustee.
    Well, she did spell the problem alcholoism and then alchololism a sentence or two later. A cry for help, perhaps? More on today’s spelling list:
    misdeamnors
    responsiblitly
    politcally
    polticize
    guily

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 05 June 2017 at 04:19 PM
    Those misspellings look remarkably like how I would misspell them were I trying to imitate “drunk speak” in text. Maybe Linda likes to knock a couple back while penning her missives to your local paper.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Come on guys, this is not the time to into Spelling Nazis or the Grammet Police and get all uppity and PC like. Perhaps later would be a better time, you bullies, you.
    https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/06/london-man-islamophobia/

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    That Trump is something else. Make him stop, pleazzzze make him stop.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1101808659953170/?type=3&theater
    Oh my, he’s back. Yep, he better sell more books that Chelsea in a few hours. When there is a will, there is a way.
    http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/06/05/milo-yiannopoulos-book-sales-surpass/

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    “A man walked into his former workplace on Monday and opened fire on employees, killing five people before turning the gun on himself.”
    Not a peep from our President about the carnage as a result of crazed people with guns. He’d rather pick a fight with the mayor of London.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/orlando-shooting-terrorism_us_5935854fe4b013c48169c043?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Well Paul Emery I guess you should send your advice to Trump and let him know what he should be doing.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    What do you think Trump should do Todd about gun violence in America?

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump should keep calling out the mayor of Chicago for the out of control gun violence and g keep getting those Gangbangers off our streets and out of our country. Deport criminals and violent crimes go down. President should keep calling out the mayors or Chicago and Baltimore for them to get off their asses and clean up the sections of the ghettos and filthy barrios were the crime and murder rate is out of control. Send aid for more police training, more cops, and call in National Guard is necessary to put the sewer rats in prison and throw away the key. That would be Step 1.

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery 839
    Public executions of killers and a pillory for those that brandish.
    Otherwise the people that own guns legally in America should be left alone.

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    The problem is Americans really don’t give a shit about it. More on the story
    “Initial reports out of Orlando, Florida, prompted fears of terrorism. Less than two days before, terrorists had carried out a car and knife attack in London that left seven people dead, stirring President Donald Trump into a bout of fevered tweeting. Next week, Orlando will mark the one-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.
    But as details began to emerge from Monday’s crime scene ― a warehouse owned by Fiamma Incorporated, an RV accessory company ― it became clear that the bloodshed fit into a far more ordinary but far deadlier pattern of U.S. gun violence, and specifically of workplace shootings.
    To some, that seemed to be a reason not to give too much attention to the carnage.
    Morning broadcasts on CNN and Fox News covered the Orlando incident as developing news, but reports tapered off after police confirmed there was no link to terrorism. MSNBC appeared not to mention the shooting at all, according to a HuffPost review of Monday’s programming. (MSNBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)
    The modest level of attention given to the Orlando massacre, one of the deadliest shootings yet this year, is just the latest sign of how desensitized many Americans have become to the ravages of daily gun violence.”
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/orlando-shooting-terrorism_us_5935854fe4b013c48169c043?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 June 2017 at 09:08 AM
    The problem is Americans really don’t give a shit about it.

    ….yeah…..you probably could have just stopped after this statement.

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 06 June 2017 at 08:23 AM
    He’d rather pick a fight with the mayor of London.

    Well who wouldn’t?
    …..and Paul…….still President.

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery, why did you not defend the President when the Mayor of London attacked him? Seems to me that a good Amwrican would say to the Muslim Mayor, “shut up”! But you would rather show your support for those attacking our own. That tells me a lot about your allegiances.

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd writes
    “rather show your support for those attacking our own.”
    Quite the contrary Todd, I am supportive of doing what I can to curb gun violence in this country that claims thousands of lives every year. There have been around 140 mass shootings in our country so far this year. What is Trump doing about it? How is he (Trump) raising the conscience of the American people to try to prevent this carnage?
    There have already been more than 140 mass shootings this year, according to a tally from the Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit corporation that defines a mass shooting as any incident where “four or more [are] shot and/or killed in a single event… at the same general time and location, not including the shooter.”
    This is in our country Todd, not in England yet
    Trump ignores this and has not mentioned one word about it during his short time in office. I find this deplorable and sad and it shows how deeply in trouble we are as a nation and a culture to ignore this tragedy in our own homeland.
    Trump chooses to pick a fight with the Mayor of London while we slaughter each other daily in our homes, schools and streets.
    Have a good day Todd.

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    PaulE your reading skills are in need of help. I did not ask you about guns I made a statement. And I asked you why you support a Muslim London mayor over President Trump. Try again, read my post.

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I responded to you by saying why is Trump ignoring slaughter in our streets, schools and homes and picking a fight with the Mayor of London. What the Mayor says is of little importance to me. What’s happening in our country is. He’s our President and why don’t you hold him to task?

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Wow
    This is from an editorial from the Conservative Wall Street Journal editorial staff talking about Trumps lack of discipline and loyalty to his staff.
    “Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be justified if he resigned, and this is merely the latest incident in which Mr. Trump popping off undermined his own lawyers, If this pattern continues, Mr. Trump may find himself running an Administration with no one but his family and the Breitbart staff. People of talent and integrity won’t work for a boss who undermines them in public without thinking about the consequences.”
    In other words, in 140-character increments, Mr. Trump diminished his own standing by causing a minor international incident, demonstrated that the loyalty he demands of the people who work for him isn’t reciprocal, set back his policy goals and wasted time that he could have devoted to health care, tax reform or “infrastructure week.” Mark it all down as further evidence that the most effective opponent of the Trump Presidency is Donald J. Trump.”

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 06 June 2017 at 10:22 AM
    Yeah Todd…… Punchy isn’t telling you that the majority of the 140 incidents this year (indeed in any year using their methodology) is standard street crime in exactly where you would expect to find it.
    http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Fish, that is why no one engages fake newsman PaulE anymore. He can’t even read and comprehend our answers or even answer our questions. He is the best example of fake news.

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  46. Paul emery Avatar
    Paul emery

    OK Todd You asked why I didn’t defend Trump in his encounter with the mayor of London My response then is Trump is not defendable he took what the mayor said out of context and didn’t listen to what he said
    So there you go I answered your question. So there you go I answered your question I can go into more detail if you prefer

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  47. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Gunvioencearchive.org is an obvious ploy to conflate suicide by gun with homicides and murders in order to muddy the waters of the gun control debate.
    Most fatal shootings are suicides and if someone is hell-bent to die, the lack of a gun won’t stop them.
    Not surprised Paul found the site

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