[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”
For the next time one of the usual suspects blathers on about “peer review”!
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/do-penises-cause-climate-change-discuss/
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wonder where “jon” is? Nary a peep since yesterday!
Probably face down in one of his Turkish “friends” laps!
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Rumors abound a County Supervisor was arrested for a DUI!
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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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HALL, HEIDI MARIE 56 6/4/1961 F B17029076 6/3/2017 11:43 PM N GRASS VALLEY, CA SUPERVISOR
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Now that’s “leadership”.
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Here is the jail booking info site
http://reports.nevcounty.net/justice/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=Sheriff.JailMediaReport&dtInmateInformation-PageNr=1
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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks Russ, there is some interesting analysis here.
http://www.co2science.org//articles/V4/N1/COM.php
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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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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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……..and the wheel is spinning…..spinning……spinning…….! Where will the pointer land?
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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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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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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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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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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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:
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
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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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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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Call me sexists, but I like this ball busting woman.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/polish-pm-europe-rise-knees/?utm_content=bufferabe1a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=laura_ingraham_buffer
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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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“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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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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What do you think Trump should do Todd about gun violence in America?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A CA. LIB gets some heat and runs for the door.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/06/wow-dem-lawmaker-walks-town-hall-event-crowd-starts-chanting-love-trump-video/
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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