[Ah yes, the filibuster debates are again in season. Republicans are being admonished by the eternally innocent progressives about messing with the filibuster, as if that were a tradition brought down on the tablets and one that has remained unblemished since then. It would be utterly unconsciounable to bring up the recent history of who exercised the 'nuclear option' and under what conditions they pulled the trigger. In the meanwhile, we are on our way home and thank RR readers for keeping the sandboxes exercised and the comment candles burning. gjr]

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262 responses to “Sandbox – 29jul17”
re: BarryP @ 7:45
I believe that Google saw similar results. From a quick read, it seems like the only upshot is that natural languages aren’t very compact (no doubt they are filled with error correction notions) and aren’t precise. Eventually, the inter-computer speaking would be indistinguishable from random data.
What’ll be interesting is when the passed concepts are truly alien. Dunno how you detect that being alien and all.
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BarryP 745am – Scenes 929am has put his finger on it. When inter-machine transmissions start looking like noise, then we may really have a problem.
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Still on vacation I can keep up with this
For your reading pleasure Trump continues to slide. Down 16.9. Lowest point yet Word Is the Republicans are looking to dump trump but they won’t because he has a small number of loyal supporters who would go with him Lots of fun to watch Having a blast What a dismal failure or two party system Is
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
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“What a dismal failure our two party system is”
A serious point. The Trump administration has turned out to be the first successful third party since 1860. That’s the actual problem here. The two dominant parties want no part of an interloper. He’ll survive if he manages to build a philosophy and stand-alone organization.
If you want to carry water for the status quo, so be it. The fact that the status quo includes the overthrowers of the Iranian state in order to install the Shah is an amusing thing, but I always figured Green Libertarians were a CIA front organization.
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While the po’ ol’ party parrot squawks away the world is still turning. DHS signs national security enviro. waivers for the boarder wall to move forward in an expedited manner. Time for the po’ ol’ party parrot to eat crow for saying they would never build the wall. 😉
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from Paul – “For your reading pleasure Trump continues to slide. Down 16.9. Lowest point yet Word Is the Republicans are looking to dump trump but they won’t because he has a small number of loyal supporters who would go with him Lots of fun to watch Having a blast”
Trump continues to slide – He’s still El Presidente, Paul.
Word is… – from whom, Paul?
Having a blast – so Paul, you enjoy watching the poor and minorities suffer?
Someday, the green libertarian will get his story straight.
Until then… well, there’s always another poll.
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“Having a blast – so Paul, you enjoy watching the poor and minorities suffer? ”
I very much doubt that that’s the case. Most likely the Green Libertarians build an internal hierarchy of who to give succor to, and poor,minority US citizens aren’t in the highest tier. Once the other groups get their fill, citizenship, or membership in the military, only then the traditionally downtrodden can have a piece of cake.
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If you’re a denizen of the swamp, whichever party, the Russians are whatever you want them to be that year.
https://i.redd.it/8xeakwn874dz.jpg
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Business as usual.
https://twitter.com/rasmussen_poll/status/892414629342851074
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As projected Hillary Hodge confirmed the office she is running for is supervisor in D3. 😉
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Remember……it’s the Affordable Care Act……c’mon say it with me…..A…F…F…O…R…D…A…B….L…E……
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Covered-California-premiums-to-rise-12-5-percent-11723665.php
It’s OK though…..you can rest easy knowing that you are doing the Lords work paying an extra car payments worth a month to the State of California to subsidize a 450 lb. inner city Lark scooter driver with a bad Hot Cheetos and grape flavored Fanta habit!
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 01 August 2017 at 12:54 PM
Ahhh….running for local political office…..the last refuge of the intermittently employed!
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DOW has its 50th record close since the election. 21,963. 22k this week? 😉
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The Two Party system? You mean the Deplorables vs the RINOs? That other party is not even worth yapping about.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1141258016008234/?type=3&theater
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Ah, the religion of peace strikes again. Trigger warning.
http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/graphic-vicious-muslim-mob-attack-on-female-tourist-filmed-in-paris-suburb/
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Sign of the times.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1141259222674780/?type=3&theater
Hey, that guy in the orange kinda looks like somewhat familiar. Well, finally he is getting the respect he has yearned for since moving up here….by default. Must be his lucky day. Always a silver lining
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 August 2017 at 01:58 PM
NICE! I’m sure “jon” will be by shortly for a new round of apologetics!
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Fish @ 2:06 pm
if not “jon”, then a guest appearance from Dr. Dozer.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1140886262712076/?type=3&theater
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 August 2017 at 02:21 PM
Pure awesomeness!
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Covered California? Is that a condom promotion?
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Just like the good old days!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/b1d418c7-cc88-3be6-b030-aca7464485ef/man-who-raped%2C-killed-child.html
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Pure awesomeness is jon Dozer has now grown rather sweet on Scenes. He’s playing the field. I have been jolted by a lot worse than “them”. Wonder if he ever got the lampshade off Aunt Sybil’s head yet? I am sure he will be coming around after a Mommie passes out and he can sneak….er…..quietly stumble and crawl by Mommie’s bed and hop on her computer and a few long pulls On the jug. Then he will let loose and have them fingers dance like Fred Austier. Opps. More like a one legged gal in a can-can dance down at the local saloon. The anticipation is killing me.
Now, wear did we leave off? Oh yeah. I was reenacting Grass Valley’s favorite son, Ambassador Steven’s final moments of life on the backside of Mr. Dozer spread across Chris’s gravesite after he called Benghazi “administrative error.” Boy he sure was relieved that My Gal came out of that hearing unscathed. I just felt the need to drive it home.
Until tonight…..later. Chomp, chomp
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Even the head of the DEA is coming down on trump for condoning police violence. trump’s pronouncements sound more and more like Hitler every day.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dea-chief-trump-police-brutality_us_5980aaa8e4b00bb8ff39fb81?uy9&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 01 August 2017 at 04:48 PM
Jeez…..I heard the statements…..just more blather from the Tangerine Tornado. Maybe you would feel more comfortable “pearl clutching” over at Pellines?
Oh…..and Bobby……when everybody is Hitler, nobody is Hitler!
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It can’t be true, can it? Debbie kept paying Paki Man months after he was accused of stealing our great and mighty Democrat House of Representatives computers? Boy, that 39 year old virile man must really knows how to make Debbie’s hair curl up. I hear a symphony.
Boy, that Trump is amazing.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10213460772256000&set=p.10213460772256000&type=3&theater
The R’s are going to dump Trump? Dumpf the Trumpf! Too late, they already have. No matter. The Deplorables are here and feeling like exacting some more pain. Smoking them out is not the goal, but a mere tactic….. a means to the end, if you will.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/896692473814309/?type=3&theater
Come on guys, no use piling on. He is a dagnabbit War Hero! Liked how Herman Cain played 8 years of our War Hero’s videos praising Repeal and Replace. 8 years of clips until you get tired of our War Hero’s repeaing the same lines over and over again, year in and year out. Oh well, Trump Derangement Syndrome is no respecter of persons.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/896690330481190/?type=3&theater
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Great find there Johnny. They put him down like the rabid dog he was. Even a sheet to contain the mess. It appears a little suffering was in order. No bullet to the back of the melon. Just five or so shots to the back,, one handed even.
If it was here, he would be getting therapy, and many a bleeding heart LIB making excuses for his actions.(He had a rough childhood)
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Well it looks like bobby is going to be cross for another 11 and a half years. He has a full blown case of TRUDS. The loss of the ability to get the joke is one of the prime symptoms, well that and Russian dressing. Get the salve it helps attenuate some of the more painful symptoms. 😉
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Hitler?,, Really?? And that from the new Socialist side. (Hitler was a Socialist)
You guys have created your own version of the “Hitler youth”. I give you Berkeley, and all the other rabid college campus ANTIFA crap.
But bitch about the slightest thing you can find disagreeable with Trump.
Well Rob,, how bout “O” and his used car salesman’s crap to sell you on health care?
“You can keep this, that, your prices will go down, etc. etc,,etc.”
I’m sure your all for fur covered cuffs so the criminal won’t feel any discomfort too.
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More Democrat Unmasking
Former Obama Aide Ben Rhodes now a person of interest in unmasking investigation. “Former Obama White House National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes is now an emerging as a person of interest in the House Intelligence Committee’s unmasking investigation, according to a letter sent Tuesday by the committee to the National Security Agency (NSA). This adds Rhodes to the growing list of top Obama government officials who may have improperly unmasked Americans in communications intercepted overseas by the NSA, Circa has confirmed.”
https://www.circa.com/story/2017/08/01/embargoed-until-6-pm-former-obama-aide-ben-rhodes-now-a-person-of-interest-in-house-intelligence-committee-unmasking-investigation
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Another shoe drops, one of 0’s favs former National Security advisor Ben Rhodes is now a person of interest in the unmasking investigation, this right on the heels of Comey’s FBI counsel being named a target. Will a special prosecutor be investigating the current special counsel given his disgusting conflicts that cannot be ignored anymore. 😉
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Forget the polls, show me the data!
http://bigleaguepolitics.com/data-trump-expands-base-swing-states/
Ok, if you insist on polls, I give you polls. Geeze, you live by the polls, you die by the polls, as evidenced by our own legend in his own mind, the aborable and oh so cute Ms. Pauly Parrot, squawk. Opps, forgot the lead in……drumroll please…..”For your reading pleasure……”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/31/democrats-own-poll-shows-white-working-class-voters-prefer-republican-policies-by-wide-margin/
Oh, BTW, Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, is not on the ballot in 2018. But, but, but a whole bunch of Dems are. 2018 is starting to heat up,
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/896996290450594/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/896680737148816/?type=3&theater
Finally….Holy Smokes! Great Cesar’s Ghost. Did my eyes deceive me? Never in all my born days have I seen pundits and fakenews journalist turn down free grub. Never. That is so wrong. Well, you live by fakenews, you die by Fakesnews….as evidenced by….
https://medium.com/@Cernovich/cnn-politicon-2017-mike-cernovich-ann-coulter-charlie-kirk-tomi-lahren-jake-tapper-161041f6308d
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/31/democrats-own-poll-shows-white-working-class-voters-prefer-republican-policies-by-wide-margin/
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The NYT is reporting that that AG Sessions is putting together a prosecutorial team to focus on suing universities that have discriminatory admissions policies based on the 2016 SCOTUS decision. At a time when citizens, asains and whites are widely discriminated against in higher education policies this will be an earthquake in the Evergreen States and Berzerkly’s of the world.
What’s next, the Federal prosecution of institutional suppression of free speech 1st amendment rights at any school that gets Federal funds? Lets hope. 😉
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Time to get rid of this RINO, and a few more. The Deplorables are coming, the Deplorables are coming!
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/896693450480878/?type=3&theater
Boy, just how big is the Swamp? The more you uncover, all the more there is to discover. And to think he did not disclose his wife’s donations, another violation of yet .another law.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/31/fitton-judicial-watch-files-three-lawsuits-seeking-communications-of-acting-fbi-director-andrew-mccabe/
The gift that keeps on giving. “What Happened” is the censored title of Hillary’s new thriller, available in September, 2017
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Opps. The gift that keeps on giving. Don’t they ever grow tired of getting schlonged?
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1141258362674866/?type=3&theater
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Oregon Housevmakes the news. Film at 11.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/01/yuba-county-deputies-shot-by-agitated-man-gunman-on-loose.html
later.
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Sac Bee said it is a disgruntled trimmagrant. 😉
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Great quotes for this day in history:
https://patriotpost.us/posts/50525
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re: BillT@8:16
The Seth Rich / Wikileaks / Seymour Hersh fiesta will swing into action today. Lots of premature ‘reporting’ by Team Trump, lots of damage control by Team Blue. It should be interesting to watch. Trash talk galore.
Given that the US news market seems to consist of Infowars and the NYT, maybe I’ll just read Singapore newspapers today. Who was to know that the internet would result in the triumph of the op-ed writer?
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But it’s for the greater good……
Cheap labor and bigger markets for TEAM R…..reliable lever pullers for TEAM D! I’m sure this woman with the broken jaw and nearly severed ear will understand!
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We do live in peculiar times.
https://i.redd.it/u3qrkcd0vadz.jpg
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Serial liar. Is there anything Trump has said that is true?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-boy-scouts-speech-wsj_us_5980e465e4b02b36343e94dd?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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The Calexit guy really hasn’t thought this through.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/calexit-leader-replace-middle-class-with-immigrants-video/
It sure was a good laugh to watch last night.
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R,Cross. Don’t cast stones about “lies”. Your side has yet to say anything truthful.
We always knew “O” was lying.. His lips were moving.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 02 August 2017 at 10:19 AM
….still president Bobby.
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Has Bobbie Cross ever said anything truthful here?
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re: Robert Cross@10:19AM
Here’s a blast from the past. Give the whole thing a listen (it’s all of 53 seconds) and think about the nature of politicians generally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ4iC8u94Ec
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Not for long fishy! Perhaps if you righties didn’t rely on fake news (breitbart, daily caller, NY Post, etc) as your sources of information you might just realize that you are backing a mentally incompetent sociopath that is taking the country down the drain and possibly the planet with him. Of course, you would have to admit to yourself that your judgement was wrong. Based on your blogging I would say that is something you aren’t willing to do. So lying about everything is just fine, as long as it is your guy who does the lies. Just what was “O” lying about all the time Walt? I don’t recall the constant everyday lies from “O” like Trump. Please give me some documented examples or I am just going to think you are just making it up, you know fake news. Besides, Trumps is the liar in chief currently in the WhiteHouse, not Obama. So the “Obama did it too” argument is just a bullcrap excuse that holds no water.
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Oh Bobbie, you get Trump for another seven and a half years. Better hunker down in the basement with your PJ’s. laptop and momma’s fresh baked bread.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 02 August 2017 at 11:08 AM
Guess you lefty bedwetters need to nominate a candidate who isn’t despised by so much of the electorate.
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So the “Obama did it too” argument is just a bullcrap excuse that holds no water.
No…..it’s a completely legitimate argument to make to a fervent Obama supporter.
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