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[Fresh sand for the free for all.  Anyone want to review the latest clinical evidence that liberals/progressives process critical thought with different parts of the brain than do conservatives/libertarians?  gjr]

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236 responses to “Sandbox – 27jun17”

  1. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    And you’re “own mind” Todd endorses our Pussy Grabber in Chief Donald Trump.

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Here it is:
    GOP operative hunted Clinton’s 30,000 emails via Russian hackers — and had a ‘line of communication’ with Flynn
    “Peter Smith, a Republican opposition researcher who implied he was working with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, sought access to emails stolen—likely by Russian hackers—from Hillary Clinton’s private email before the 2016 election, the Wall Street Journal reports.
    Smith told his inner circle and potential recruits he was “talking to Michael Flynn about the his attempts to obtain those emails, computer-security expert Eric York told the Journal.
    The Journal notes that federal investigators probing the link between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russian operatives have analyzed intelligence reports that purport to show “Russian hackers discussing how to obtain emails from Mrs. Clinton’s server and then transmit them to Mr. Flynn via an intermediary.”
    Wall street Journal

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery, you were all into your abusing the intern sex slave Monica and defended Bill Clinton at every turn. So why did you do that?

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Todd 1:40pm
    I remember when RLC tossed you off and my recollection you were intentionally being a jerk, just making gratuitous slurs.
    I was pulling my punches until RL had the gall to step over an entirely out of line post by Frisch without noticing it to tell me I’d be tossed if I kept it up… and the post I’d made was pretty tame. It was also true.
    RL’s old buddy Chris Peterson who he gave freedom to really be nasty is the most like the Virginia shooter, Hodgkinson, than I’ve ever read. Blissfully ignorant and focused on hating Republicans and anyone who ever stands up for one.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 29 June 2017 at 04:17 PM
    Yeah but Chris is such a lefty caricature it’s really no fun to engage him……he’s like Pelline but without the charm!

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gregory 417. Sorry your memory is flawed. I was being attacked and defending myself. He favored the other other guy and booted me. Now you have experienced being booted but in some ways I understand it when you and Frisch start your dance.

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    You’re going back nearly 20 years. Our Pussy Grabbing Liar in Chief President in in office right now and you support him.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Todd
    You’re going back nearly 20 years. Our Pussy Grabbing Liar in Chief President in in office right now and you support him.

    Todd…..I think this is Punchy McFreeclinics way of telling you he doesn’t like pussy!

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The commissars of Seattle were not pleased with the report on their minimum wage impacts. It reported less low end jobs and a loss of average take home pay to the tune of 200 bucks a month due to reduced hours. That’s a big cut for people already living paycheck to paycheck.
    Their reaction? Order another study, likely from a friendlier contractor. 😉

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    here’s a news flash from the radio
    The large (more than 10 rounds) magazine ban in California to be in place 1 July has been blocked by a federal judge.
    that is all I got…

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Travel Ban now in effect. 😉

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “The judge ruled that the ban approved by the Legislature last year takes away gun owners’ Second Amendment rights and amounts to the government taking people’s private property without compensation.”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-blocks-californias-high-capacity-magazine-ban/2017/06/29/a012ab42-5d28-11e7-aa69-3964a7d55207_story.html?utm_term=.1231a9ba1025

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emer 433
    Yes I support Trump and as I recall I never attacked you for your love of Bill Clinton and his ACTUAL groping of women. Trump was bragging locker room talk. So, please, your love of Clinton makes you really su
    spect.

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  14. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Na Fish, Todd is a Trump wanna be. Trouble is he dangles his worm at NC bars and doesn’t get a nibble. Trump is his hero and Todd respects his way with woman and wishes he could do the same but he’s not famous so he can’t get away with it.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 29 June 2017 at 05:48 PM
    Funny, you’ve been going on about Trump so much I thought you were talking about….Trump!
    I had no idea this beef was really with Todd!

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  16. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    “The large (more than 10 rounds) magazine ban in California to be in place 1 July has been blocked by a federal judge.”
    By golly, you’re right.
    http://abc7.com/news/federal-judge-blocks-ca-ban-on-magazines-with-more-than-10-bullets/2165386/
    calguns.net is probably the best place for that kind of thing.
    The 10 rounds rule is probably the stupidest gun law I’ve run into in my lifetime. It’s like it was specifically chosen to have the highest ratio of PITA to actually accomplishing anything good.

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  17. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Fish, Paul Emery is simply jealous, always has been. He is small and homely, I am tall and a stud. His hero is Clinton, the abuser of women, mine is Gandhi.

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Fakenews at its finest. MSNBC fired Greta VanSustren for not being confrontational enough in her interviews. Then there is the fact that she is not a hair on fire lefty. She has been replaced by a lefty former campaign hack. 😉

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I would like her back on FOX!

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Ghandi is a pacifist Hindu Todd and doesn’t believe in violence or guns. You really impress me Todd. Perhaps we can be friends after all. Have you read The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi ? I’m sure you have. Very inspirational book for Ghandi followers. As a Pacifist what are you doing hanging out here? I’m confused as to how you can be a pacifist and a Republican.

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    sp it’s Gandhi

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  22. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: The Paul @ 6:31
    “I’m confused as to how you can be a pacifist and a Republican.”
    Easy peasy, the Republicans have been out of power for eight years.
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html
    In real news, here’s the court stuff:
    http://www.calguns.net/duncaninjunction.pdf

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  23. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Oh Paul Emery always putting words and actions in other people. Go to bed.

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And who shot Gandhi ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman? 😉

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Thought Gandhi is your hero Todd? I get it, you just said that to attract Hippie women.

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Emery, Emery, Emery? Don’t know do you @657? 😉

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    One thing Trumps sexist tweets today accomplished was a diversion from the Trumpcare Flop in the Senate.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Bingo, ignorance alert @ 717. Then there was the sanctuary cites bill, Kates bill, energy production expansion and draining the swamp. But we don’t want to talk about that do we now ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman? 😉

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trumpcare flop

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So you still don’t know who shot Gandhi. 😉

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    RE George 6:10
    This forum is much too noisy to take up a serious conversation such as what you propose. I will gladly engage in that conversation with you or a small group in a personto person room. I’m afraid I succumb to the trashy level of conversation on this blog as well. Too bad

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Adios Paul Emery. And Healthcare is being worked on as I write this. Along with all the successes today I’d say things are going quite well.
    So yes, please leave this thread Paul Emery, you drag it soen into the gutter when you ar here.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gutter? You are the one who called my humble abode a “shithole” You are the one who accused me of committing treason, you are the one who made jokes about my teeth. Now that’s class Todd

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Is that a little pot calling kettle black @ 805? Who shot Gandhi? The world is waiting for your reply ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. 😉

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  35. John Avatar
    John

    Steve Frisch, I have a serious question for you. You make fairly regular denigrating comments about the POTUS, which is your absolute right. You appear to be an intelligent and well read person, and I am very curious as to your opinion of DJT’s opponent for President, HRC? Are you A), not aware of her well documented corruption and dishonest/illegal behavior. B) aware of her behavior but don’t really care for whatever reason you choose. Or C) so disenchanted by DJT that A and B don’t matter, you just didn’t want him to be POTUS no matter what?

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  36. Steve Frisch Avatar
    Steve Frisch

    Posted by: John | 29 June 2017 at 08:28 PM
    You call that a serious question?

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I know the history Don. Do you? If it’s so important why don’t you print it? Goodness you’re weird.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    GeorgeB 231pm – I would have lost betting you knew that Medicaid was rapidly going broke, and that it would not survive being left alone, meaning that capping it at some level would have let states manage it as long as possible. From what you write, you seem to share in that pitiful deficit promulgated by the lamestream. Tell me I misunderstood your comment.

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    On another topic Rachel Maddow rules the airwaves as most watched news show.
    “One of the most significant cable news ratings stories for Q2 ’17 was the performance of The Rachel Maddow Show. Maddow finished this past quarter as the No. 1 show across all of cable news in the all-important A25-54 demographic.
    Not only did Maddow deliver its largest demo audience since Q4 2008, but the show’s 2.5 million total viewer average for Q2 represents the best total audience delivery for a quarter in series history.”
    http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/q2-2017-ratings-rachel-maddow-has-the-no-1-cable-news-show-among-adults-25-54/333372

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  40. John Avatar
    John

    Frisch, yes. That is a completely serious question. Non-insulting and to the point. You are so blatantly anti Trump and so apparently oblivious to HRC. I am trying to understand your thought process of overlooking her flaws to focus on his?

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    John Frisch only comes here to fight. So have at it.
    Paul Emery, all I said was true, why deny it? And it was BillT that called your house a sh**hole If I recall. You need some goingo for your fried brain.
    So now for the unpteenth time please go to bed.

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Are you denying you said that Todd? Yes or no. You’re lying to yourself. That’s a bad sign.

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  43. John Avatar
    John

    Maybe it is just narrow-minded hypocrisy that allows Frisch to completely overlook Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty and corruption and yet point out every flaw in the POTUS?

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    That’s it for me for now. You never know when I might return. Music time for me. Hope you guys can entertain yourselves. Don’t hurt yourselves chest thumping.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sure you do @ 839! 😉

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  46. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I think it could be interesting to get Frisch’s take on the injunction granted by that Federal judge down in San Diego thwarting the vote of the people banning large (as if 11 is large) capacity magazines as a violation of the 2nd and 4th amendments.
    Scalia could have written it hisself.

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  47. fish Avatar
    fish

    Jeffpelline says:
    June 29, 2017 at 7:56 pm
    What is it about the behavior of some “600-to-700 lb oh something” white men?
    Well why don’t you enlighten us Carbon Footprint!?

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  48. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 29 June 2017 at 10:26 PM
    There won’t be anything interesting at all! Steve will read from the prepared remarks binder and be done with it!
    Corporate communications 101!

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  49. Steve Frisch Avatar
    Steve Frisch

    Posted by: Gregory | 29 June 2017 at 10:26 PM
    Well I have not read the language of the injunction yet, only the media on the case. But in general it is of course perfect appropriate for a court to be weighing in on this even though it is challenging a law passed by the legislature and I do not consider it ‘legislating from the bench’ or an overstep of judicial authority. This is the judicial branch job.
    Mu guess is the case here is the 2nd amendment case though…not the 5th amendment case…there is pretty strong precedent that taking a product off the market is not a taking.

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  50. fish Avatar
    fish

    Hahahahahahahahahahaja!!!!

    “Brooks is, of course, horrified at Trump and his supporters, whom he finds childish, thuggish and contemptuous of the things that David Brooks likes about today’s America. It’s clear that he’d like a social/political revolution that was more refined, better-mannered, more focused on the Constitution and, well, more bourgeois as opposed to in-your-face and working class.
    The thing is, we had that movement. It was the Tea Party movement. Unlike Brooks, I actually ventured out to “intermingle” with Tea Partiers at various events that I covered for PJTV.com, contributing commentary to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner. As I reported from one event in Nashville, “Pundits claim the tea partiers are angry — and they are — but the most striking thing about the atmosphere in Nashville was how cheerful everyone seemed to be. I spoke with dozens of people, and the responses were surprisingly similar. Hardly any had ever been involved in politics before. Having gotten started, they were finding it to be not just worthwhile, but actually fun. Laughter rang out frequently, and when new-media mogul Andrew Breitbart held forth on a TV interview, a crowd gathered and broke into spontaneous applause. A year ago (2009), many told me, they were depressed about the future of America. Watching television pundits talk about President Obama’s transformative plans for big government, they felt alone, isolated and helpless. That changed when protests, organized by bloggers, met Mr. Obama a year ago in Denver, Colo., Mesa, Ariz., and Seattle, Wash. Then came CNBC talker Rick Santelli’s famous on-air rant on Feb. 19, 2009, which gave the tea-party movement its name. Tea partiers are still angry at federal deficits, at Washington’s habit of rewarding failure with handouts and punishing success with taxes and regulation, and the general incompetence that has marked the first year of the Obama presidency. But they’re no longer depressed.”
    One of the most famous things about the Tea Partiers was that — as befits a relentlessly bourgeois protest movement — they left things cleaner than they found them. Rich Lowry reported from Washington, DC: “Just as stunning as the tableaux of the massive throngs lining the reflecting pool were the images of the spotless grounds afterward. If someone had told attendees they were expected to mow the grass before they left, surely some of them would have hitched flatbed trailers to their vehicles for the trip to Washington and gladly brought mowers along with them. This was the revolt of the bourgeois, of the responsible, of the orderly, of people profoundly at peace with the traditional mores of American society. The spark that lit the tea-party movement was the rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli, who inveighed in early 2009 against an Obama-administration program to subsidize ‘the losers’ mortgages.’ He was speaking for people who hadn’t borrowed beyond their means or tried to get rich quick by flipping houses, for the people who, in their thrift and enterprise, ‘carry the water instead of drink the water.’ The tea party’s detractors want to paint it as radical, when at bottom it represents the self-reliant, industrious heart of American life.”
    In San Francisco, too, tea party protesters met pro-Obama activists and picked up their trash. “John,” author of The City Square blog wrote: “As Obama supporters moved along in the line to get into the fundraiser, they left behind an impressive amount of trash … Tea Partiers shouted ‘pick up your garbage’ and ‘this is San Francisco, what about recycling?’ There was no response. They chanted ‘Obama leaves a mess.’ Still no response. Eventually, a tea partier (wearing the black cowboy hat) crosses over and starts to pick up the trash on his own. Other tea partiers join him. Another manages to find a trash bag. Soon the trash is being collected.”
    Yet the tea party movement was smeared as racist, denounced as fascist, harassed with impunity by the IRS and generally treated with contempt by the political establishment — and by pundits like Brooks, who declared “I’m not a fan of this movement.” After handing the GOP big legislative victories in 2010 and 2014, it was largely betrayed by the Republicans in Congress, who broke their promises to shrink government and block Obama’s initiatives.
    So now we have Trump instead, who tells people to punch counterprotesters instead of picking up their trash.
    When politeness and orderliness are met with contempt and betrayal, do not be surprised if the response is something less polite, and less orderly. Brooks closes his Trump column with Psalm 73, but a more appropriate verse is Hosea 8:7 “For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” Trump’s ascendance is a symptom of a colossal failure among America’s political leaders, of which Brooks’ mean-spirited insularity is only a tiny part. God help us all.”

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/20/donald-trump-political-establishment-elites-tea-party-bourgeois-working-class-column/82047484/

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