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253 responses to “Sandbox – 21jul17”
Went to the movies with my brother last night. DUNKIRK! It was truly riveting. I have always been a WW2 history buff and of course, the evacuation of 328,000 troops, British and French, was a miracle. To this day no one really knows why the Germans stopped their push and allowed this. Many of the men fought another day. But to see the men fighting for survival against the fascists is truly something all people need to see and understand. Our fathers and mothers were truly the “greatest generation”.
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Scenes, I concur. It don’t matter, won’t change a thing. They neither see what they are going to themselves, their own personal integrity, their industry, nor the damage they are doing to the country. The latter is the real tradegy. Unspeakable damage.
Did like the sidebar story of Murdock hiring Ailes to find a niche and come to find out that little niche was half the country. The media’s blind spots continue on to this very day. And ne’er the twain shall meet. Even the Democrat Party is realizing that Resistance ain’t a winning formula. Guess the media is the last to know, as evidenced by a nameless GL.
Back to the only news that makes the news: Russia, Russia, Russia! Squawk! Russia! Squawk squawk, sqawk.
https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/photos/a.594779487326617.1073741828.423006854503882/971723262965569/?type=3&theater
Russia is dividing the Democrat Party! Squawk, squawk, squawk.
Love it when they eat their own. Pauly want a Lefty cracker? Squawk!
“When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things—Comey, Russia—you blame yourself,” Schumer told The Washington Post. “So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump. And still believe that.” Schumer’s comments.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/schumer-rips-hillary-dont-blame-comey-or-russia-blame-yourself
Well. Chucky, most still believe “that”. Wonder why? Puzzling, is it not?
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Ah heck, even moi is getting tired of this. Ok, one more kick to the dead mule just because. Kicking the dead jackass can’t help, it can’t hurt, and it definitely won’t change a thing. Can you say duplicity? Good, I knew you could…but won’t.
“Last year, after President-elect Trump picked Jeff Sessions to be attorney general, The New York Times editorial page called the Alabama senator “radical” and “extreme” and tarred him as an unrepentant racist and xenophobe.
Last week, after Trump criticized Sessions and others, the same editorial page suddenly discovered a new fondness for Sessions. The Times now insisted that Trump had impugned his “integrity” and that of others “who have spent their careers respecting and protecting” the law.
It’s not likely that Sessions is grateful for the embrace. He knows he’s just a pawn — dirt when Trump embraces him, and a saint when Trump criticizes him.”
http://nypost.com/2017/07/22/exposing-the-new-york-times-hypocrisy-on-jeff-sessions/?ref=yfp
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 23 July 2017 at 08:33 AM
Yeah it reminds me of how President Bunny lauded Mitt Romney as a saint and true statesman when Trump was running…..desperately begging the republican party to nominate men/women of his caliber rather than ruffians like Trump!
Funny……only four years earlier I recall the democrats honestly arguing that Mitt was going to re-institute slavery and mine old people for the the precious minerals they had been hoarding inside their wrinkled old carcasses!
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Todd @ 8:03 am. Good movie, eh? Read some dribble by some Buttercups going ape denouncing Dunkirk a racist white privileged misogynistic movie that made white folk feel good about themselves by not hiring enough prominent people of color. You know the old song and dance: Diversity for diversity’s sake. Akin to Obama saying Our Republic was founded by Islamic principles and persons. Hmmmm. Makes me want to see all the it more. Might be historically accurate judging by the bedwetters pretending to be adults reaction.
I will keep an open mind, but not so open like the liberals that their brains fall out.
Even Bernie was on his way to see Dunkirk, but an unfortunate event happen on the way to the premier.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1135366799930689/?type=3&theater
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BT at 856
Really? Liberal snowflakes dissed this? I did see one black French soldier in the flick. The French Foreign Legion had a ot of people from all countries. So right there the left lied about the movie. I am sure all those 19-year-old boys were concernes about how many LBGT=Q’s were in their division as those fascist white German’s bombed them.
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WHAT no polls?! Well that’s ok, too much fakenews industrial complex dropping already.
TJ@ 946- It did very well at the box office with $51 million domestic and #1 world wide with $105 million for the weekend. Not bad for being a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, insert your own phobic, glorifier of cracker history. Evergreen state students deny Dunkirk ever happened. 😉
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Just looked at the ABC poll results for who should run Congress. Weighted plus 12 for democrats. And the poll said plus 14 for the democrats. Hmmm, maybe GeorgeR can straighten us out on this?
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re: BillT@8:56AM
I wouldn’t worry about it too much. They are planning a sequel about D-Day starring Morgan Freeman as Eisenhower.
Speaking of historical figures..
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Blog-3931.112112-12426.112112-I-erased-30-seconds-of-a-recording.html
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“Russians speak English Gregory. Don’t you know? Heard on sac tv news interviewing Russians about the trump Russia thing”
Paul, you started this fake news installment by writing:
“The Russians are playing Trump like a string toy. Trump the Chump as they like to call him.”
Posted by: Paul Emery | 21 July 2017 at 03:28 PM
So now we have you admitting it was possibly one Russian you saw on Sacramento TV news who you claim said something including “Trump the Chump” while being interviewed. Does that “Russian” who speaks English well enough to enjoy an episode of Click and Clack have a name?
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Sorry this is getting to you Gregory but the average Russian know that Trump is a Chump for Putin and that he’s no match. The Russians can pull the plug on Trump any time they want to because you’d better believe they’ve got an encyclopedia of information on him because he’s so sloppy and not at all slick like Obama. My opinion so don’t ask for proof. The proof is in the pudding which is being made as we speak. It will take just one Flynn or Manafort typwe to flop for a plea bargain to tip the balance and trigger “Dump the Trump”. Lots of fun to watch. Endlessly amusing!!!
From Reuters:
“Investigators examining money laundering accusations against President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort hope to push him to cooperate with their probe into possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia, two sources with direct knowledge of the investigation said.”
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Todd
Looks like you’re back into the “unskew” polls again. You were off by 12 in ’14 when you picked Pomney. Fact is the polls were right on in ‘6 showing Clinton by 3 with a plus or minus margin of 2. Clinton win the popular vote but of course lost the election because she lost the electoral vote. Polls are ruthlessly accurate especially the averages.
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The Paul, in an erudite fashion, sez: “he’s so sloppy and not at all slick like Obama. ”
Well, there you have it.
I will admit that Obama has an advantage in that he was singularly unaccomplished for someone who became President. Not much history there aside from the “Man’s Country” bathhouse action.
That’s a reason it’s easier to get a security clearance when you are fresh out of school.
Poster o’ the day:
https://i.redd.it/piuwqbb0scbz.png
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It’s not “getting to me” Paul, it’s just that you conjured a factoid or two from thin air and you continue to do so in your continuing saga of “Trump the Chump”. And I’m not letting it slide.
So, no actual person with a name who is from Russia said “Trump the Chump” is a favorite expression. That’s what I thought, Paul. You made it up to fit your own expectations.
Now you’re waiting for the inevitable turning of a Flynn or a Manafort for Trump to begin unraveling.
“Lots of fun to watch. Endlessly amusing!!!”
You’ve been claiming that for at least a year and a half, Paul. When will one of your predictions pan out?
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Todd
Here is documentation for my 11:06 showing polling was remarkably accurate in ’16
Final polls showing Clinton by 3.2% average polling
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
Final election showing Clinton winning total votes by 2.1% Within margin of error
http://cookpolitical.com/story/10174
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Posted by: Gregory | 23 July 2017 at 12:12 PM
If I had to, I would guess that he’s been left for too long in the hot sun again. My opinion so don’t ask for proof.
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HOPE to push him to cooperate with their probe into POSSIBLE collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia, TWO SOURSES with direct knowledge of the investigation said.”
Posted by: Paul Emery | 23 July 2017 at 01:01 PM
Yep, read that one at 5 this morning on Drudge. Just another long list of hope to’s possibles, and anonymous sources from Reuters. Month after month they get egg on their faces for getting it so wrong. If I had a dollar for everytime the got a story right in the last, say 9-10 months, I’d be 4 quarters short.
Carry on. Literally nothing to see here…..per usual
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And now for something completely different… Hillary lied about purchasing carbon credits to make her “Stronger Together” campaign “carbon neutral”/
http://www.cfact.org/2017/07/21/campaign-never-bought-promised-carbon-offsets-to-atone-for-clintons-jets/
So we’ll all roast because of Hillary’s jet’s role in raising temps 0.00000000001 degree over the next century.
That’s a made up number, Paul. Just to be clear… but I expect it isn’t far off.
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First Auntie Maxiepad demands Voter ID at her townhall “meet the voter” confabs. Now, she bans the media. Hmm, she must have been following the media as close as we have.
All I can say is Trump was right once again. It’s amazing. I have never seen anything like this in 30 years. Judging by the picture, either Aunt Maxiepad is indeed wearing her
James Brown wig as Trump pointed out, or James Brown is back, sober, and feeling good.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/nh-dems-ban-media-maxine-waters-appearance/
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No Paul Emery you are simply reading things incorrectly. You are in LaLa land on the polls. Sure I was a partisan for Romney and I put my personal guess on the outcome. It was actually accurate (using your logic) up until the 47% issue was leaked. So, using Emery logic, I was right and the polls were all wrong at the end. If a poll like ABC, your pals of fake news, weight the polled 12% over one party, what makes you think they are correct? If it was weighted accurately it would be to the R’s who have the majority.
And since Trump outfoxed Hillary in the states she took for granted, no whining by you will change that. The facts are TRUMP is your President. What a hoot!
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Correction to 1:30 pm.
Opps. Me bad. The press is barred/banned from the picnic that Auntie Maxie is attending. That makes more sense now. The press always scarfs up all the food in the back when the audience’s attention and eyes are focused on the speaker up front. Yep, those media types cram their pockets with hor d’ oeuvres and everything they can stuff in their pie holes and trousers and purses. Greedy and hungry things they are. The picnic is for the attendees and with the all money shortages endemic to the current Democrat Party at all levels, it makes sense that they ban the liars, cheats, thieves, and moochers. Strike that. Oh my, what to do? How about this: It makes sense they ban the freeloading moochers from the press. Only so much food to go around. Plus, the press always leaves without picking up their trash. They toss their trash on the ground then go back and then write garbage. Disgraceful. Down right embarrassing to watch them steal all the airline peanuts as well, but I digress.
If they banned all the liars, cheats, thieves, slackers, and freeloaders, there would not be a single person at the NH Democrat company picnic, including the guest of honor.
Loved this one from Friday: Say what??
You’ve been warned: “I don’t have any presidential aspirations. If the Millennials want me to do it, I’d do it, though.” —Maxine Waters
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Todd
I totally agree with you that Trump out foxed Clinton as you stated at 1:35. Todd, you neglect to mention that the final votes in’16 were consistent with the consensus polling (well 1% off)
Polling consensus Clinton by 3.2% Final vote tally Clinton by 2.1% Can we agree that those numbers are real?
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Paul REALLY needs a 12 step program. Sooner than later Paul might get the “CNN treatment”.
Man. can you picture this outside KVMR?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/22/watch-live-conservative-groups-protest-against-manufactured-news-outside-cnn-hq-in-atlanta/
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Paul,
Can we agree that without the California overvote, Trump would have won the popular vote too… if the CalExit people would jump into the Wayback Machine and secede before last November?
And that’s even with the millions of illegal aliens voting! 😉
Sorry, no, Hillary lost the election. Thank Zarquon for that!
Now, when Romney ran against Obama, I was called a traitor by GOP friends who thought it was my duty to throw my vote away to the GOP nominee who had no chance whatsoever to get a single Elector from California, not to mention being hostile to my libertarian Libertarian sensibilities. And I’ve been called traitorous by the likes of Michael P. Anderson for not buying his take on the Russkies stealing the election in November.
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Oh and Paul Emery, if that asteroid had not hit the planet 65 million years ago, we would still be little marmots.
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Oh Walt, that will never happen. Like, who ever heard of KVMR, a tiny alternative FM station located at the end of the dial staffed by volunteers and survives by begging for donations several irritating times a year.
With the above said, how about a wee bit of irony. The bedrock news of KVMR is a program called “Democracy Now!” I have listened to the host Amy Goodman interview at depth various writers and investigative reporters…..some who draw their paychecks from RT….aka…Russian Television, ROFLMAO. If you read RT, you are a Putin cuddler. If you air RT journalists, that makes you a……Minister of Propaganda. A puppet, a parrot, a Paul
Oh yeah, let’s not go there. Move along people, keep it moving.
Gee, Dorthoy, you ain’t in Kanas anymore. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.
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re: BillT@1:56PM
For your dorm room wall.
https://i.redd.it/8lbt5z8zkebz.png
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RT runs KVMR? Who knew but it all makes sense now. 😉
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Thanks Scenes. I will hang it up next to my Ruthie Badder Ginsberg in the hot tub poster. Sizzling hot hot hot!
https://youtu.be/wVOa3xhl0bg
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Posted by: Gregory | 23 July 2017 at 02:14 PM
And I’ve been called traitorous by the likes of Michael P. Anderson for not buying his take on the Russkies stealing the election in November.
Isn’t this a fairly consistent accusation against you by uberpatriot Michael Anderson….and in reference to multiple issues?
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Nothing to do with Russians or polls, but I rather liked this webpage:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/373840/ten-dumbest-common-core-problems-alec-torres
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ghoti 342pm
No, I think the Russkie-Trump hallucinations were the first time mandersonation used the t-word a’gin me.
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I’m watching ABC’s This Week with Bill Clinton’s Chief of Staff, and Steffie is interviewing Chuck Schumer about the “Better Deal” the Dems will unveil tomorrow. Sounds like he’ll be pushing for a Department of Drug Price Controls… and Chuckie even managed to blame the eeevilll Koch Brothers for the problems. His bogeymen.
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Posted by: Gregory | 23 July 2017 at 03:54 PM
I thought traitor/treason were hurled routinely around the time of l’affaire Bundy a few years back!
Perhaps not!
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re: Fish@4:24PM
A quick googlesearch shows Mr Frisch using the term rather freely quite some time ago (2010?).
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“and Chuckie even managed to blame the eeevilll Koch Brothers ”
are they even in that business? I always thought of them as providers of chemicals, in the raw materials biz, and making Brawny paper towels.
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Scenes
No, the Koch’s weren’t specific to drug pricing shenanigans, just sort of a generic bad guy arrayed against the forces of goodness and light.
Meaning old deal Democrats.
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 23 July 2017 at 04:56 PM
Ahh!
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Here is the real crime, it’s owned by the LIBS.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/23/exclusive-fbi-seized-smashed-hard-drives-from-wasserman-schultz-it-aides-home/
Yet the LIBS try and paint Russia as bad? Yup,, you would too, to try and get the heat off.
LIB news ain’t going to touch this.
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Walt @ 7:20 pm.
Yep, that one just keeps working it’s way through the process. Made a home visit, eh? Knock, knock. Nobody home. Debbie wants her laptop back bad. Loved how the guy stashed her laptop in a crevice in the Capitol Building.
Let’s see. Debbie Whatzername, Hillary’s co-campaign chairwitch in 2008, was the DNC Big Wig when those leaks came rushing in. The DNC refused to let the FBI take a peek-a-boo at the DNC computers. Debbie wants her laptop back real bad. Squawk, squawk, the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming! Squawk!
One can only imagine the dirt and blackmail the Russians have of My Gal, being she is sloppy and all. Oh, the shady financial deals, the corruption, the collusion. Has Putin’s fingerprints all over this one. Can’t proove it, just my feelings. Emotional stuff, you know.
Debbie wants her laptop back really really really bad. She’s getting all emotional and running on fear.
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Well, I’d be horn diddled. Never thought I would see this tradition come back around in my lifetime. Great project for the wood shop. Bet those kids in shop will turn out some gnarly paddles. The ones with a hundred small holes drilled into them sting the worse. Mercy.
http://www.fox4news.com/news/269420049-story
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re: Walt@7:20PM
Old news. You’re not supposed to pay attention to that. Bad Walt.
Noticing that the Witchfinder General is actually a witch is bad form.
I think that the dangerous part here isn’t the DNC and minions, they simply are participating in old school machine politics, but is the new and improved interest the bureaucracy has in actually running the State rather than to be run by it. There appears to be a slow motion coup going on, and I dearly wish that I had more insight as to the players and teams at work.
Of course, the Green Libertarians are four-square in favor of the intelligence industrial complex running the levers of government since Trump once said ‘pussy’. Can’t be havin’ that.
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A good example of the power of Green Libertarians.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/16/exclusive-twitter-shadowbanning-is-real-say-inside-sources/?D
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Richard Dawkins, the new Milo, banned from Berkeley alternative radio FM airwaves. He hurt feelings. Bad, Richard, bad. He didn’t even apologize and worse, he did not sign up for reeducation camp.
“I have indeed strongly condemned the misogyny, homophobia, and violence of Islamism, of which Muslims — particularly Muslim women — are the prime victims. I make no apologies for denouncing those oppressive cruelties, and I will continue to do so.”
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/richard-dawkins-removed-from-berkeley-radio-station-event-over-abusive-islam-comments/?mod=sm_fb_post
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 July 2017 at 07:34 AM
KPFA…..like having a dumpster fire in a dumpster fire!
No wonder progressives like it!
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Our Brave New World
https://i.imgur.com/I2Auwml.jpg
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What someone with real Libertarian leanings (as opposed to ‘Green’ Libertarians) might say:
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2017/july/24/trump-should-veto-congress-foolish-new-sanctions-bill/
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 24 July 2017 at 08:16 AM
Godspeed St. Godfrey of Elfwick!
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Boy, getting to the point where there is not much else to say. Thomas Jefferson was a bad man.
https://patriotpost.us/posts/50332
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Quote from Trump Jr. No Russian connection? Sure Trumplet
“And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.’
http://www.eturbonews.com/5008/executive-talk-donald-trump-jr-bullish-russia-and-few-emerging-ma
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