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[Apologies for the delay in providing fresh sand.  It is interesting to continue the discussion of the Fat Kid's threats in response to which our Left wants to go through the next cycle of appeasement, so that when another 5-7 years have gone by NK really has the capability to concurrently launch multiple missiles with survivable warheads.  The people counseling a diplomatic solution to the current 'crisis' are firing intellectual blanks – they propose nothing new and fully succumb to Einsteinian Stupidity by repeating the same thing while expecting different results.  gjr]

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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @4:25 pm.
    Oh, oh my. A $2,000 dollar late fee that can be waived? This is too funny. They got themselves a big fish in the inner circle with that one. Well, now we know why the Russians cheered. No more why, why, why? Finally laid that one to rest. 🙂

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  2. Walt Avatar

    AAHHhhhh. Revisionism… Emery style. Wasn’t it the LIB Congress that pulled our dogs of war back by the scruff of the neck?( NO! Your NOT going to finish the job!)
    Ya. Paul Blame that on Bush. Not the nutless Left who sit to pee.
    Nam was too far gone for Nixon to do anything. Besides. All those pissed hippies that somehow believed Commies were not the enemy.( OH Ya… DEMS using the draft to help pull triggers. That was a great idea)
    Granada? I was one of those who were sent there.( got the orders and said “What the hell is a Granada? Never heard of it.) So we kicked a banana republic’s ass in a few hours. Big deal.
    Ike did a fine job. Maybe you would have been happier speaking German today. Come to think of it,, didn’t that almost happen? Granny got out just in time. (according to you)
    Next time Paul,, work on your timeline, Besides. I already addressed the rest.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    OH Paul.. The guy you voted for pardoned a traitor. PVT. Manning.(remember him? uh,, her?,, Naa,,,, It…) Cutting his balls off was good start. Too bad it was on her terms.
    Traitors are to be shot , not pardoned. Now the nutless bastard has the brass ones to say “It” changed the face of war”
    Here read up on Venz.
    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/08/11/venezuelas-currency-now-worth-less-than-world-warcraft-gold.html
    A good spot or your next vacay…

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    On the domestic front, he can’t we all form a circle, hold hands, visual Whirled Peas and pray for more love. Love, after all, Trumps Hate. And the beat goes on.
    http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/11/congresswoman-calls-nra-dana-loesch-domestic-security-threat
    No wonder they pushed for smaller portions.
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/08/10/michelle-obama-top-school-lunch-ally-charged-embezzling-lausd-funds/

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Screw the nukes! WE have bigger things to worry about.(all of a sudden)
    Since AGW grant money is drying up, those “smart guys” need a new money tit to suck on.
    http://www.sfgate.com/local/science/article/With-8-dangerous-volcanoes-California-has-a-11746331.php
    “The volcano threat list was created, Ewert explain, not simply to alert people that the Earth is petulant but too set a foundation for determining which of the country’s volcanoes need extensive monitoring.
    He said the team used 25 factors to determine a volcano’s danger status: What has the volcano done in the past? What’s its modus operandi? When does it tend to erupt? What kind of phenomenon does it produce? Lahars (mud slurries of ice, rocks and other debris)? Pyroclastic flows (hot gas, rock and other stuff out of the volcano)? Is it a highly explosive volcano? How active is the volcano right now? Are there seismic swarms? Is it emitting hot volcanic gases? Is the edifice changing its shape ”
    That should make Frisco really nut up.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Oh I get it Walt. Send in the U.S. military because Venezuela is having a tough time. In your view should Trump seek the consent of Congress before marching in our boys?

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, you don’t think the Sutter Buttes and the Sierra Buttes are likely to blow this week, do ya? That would rock our world. :). Oh my. I feel so uncomfortable, fearful. People will be hurting and they need me to nurture them!
    This wood paneling is too masculine, best get rid of it.
    The history of appeasement has historically failed.
    Exhibit A:
    Delusional: “I think there’s some things that [the North Koreans] want from us, and we have to find out whether or not we can work with them on the things that they’re asking for.” —Maxine Waters

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  8. Walt Avatar

    I think Trump will wait for the Progs to come crying to him to do something first.
    Isn’t that how we got dragged into Somalia? Remember the crying Hollywood people on the TV commercials? ” We must DO something!” and,, we did. That was the humanitarian’s war.
    “we all watched with horror as Somali children and their families lay dying by the tens of thousands, dying the slow, agonizing death of starvation, a starvation brought on not only by drought but also by the anarchy that then prevailed in that country.”
    We went because only the United States could help stop one of the great human tragedies of this time. A third of a million people had died of starvation and disease. Twice that many more were at risk of dying. Meanwhile, tons of relief supplies piled up in the capital of Mogadishu because a small number of Somalis stopped food from reaching their own countrymen. Our consciences said “enough.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/08/world/somalia-mission-clinton-s-words-somalia-responsibilities-american-leadership.html?pagewanted=all
    Hummm.. Sounds a lot like Venez.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Bill PLENTY of people forget, or don’t even know the buttes was a BIG volcano at one time.
    Now down in your neck of the boonies, I leveled off the top of one of those knobs for a house to sit on. I dug up plenty of melted rock seams. Yup, volcanic intrusion even up there.
    Now the Guisers over by Clear Lake is another story. Screwing with Mother nature just for geothermal power may come back to bite someday. Humm.. Drill into REAL shallow hot rocks, pump in cold water… What could possibly go wrong?

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    My, my, my. I see to recall Shit for Brains sending the US Marine Corps into Haiti to be the country’s garbage men. Drive those big trash trucks up and down the city streets and pick up trash. US Marines have never been sent to pick up garbage in the shantytowns on foreign soil before in the history of our country, or hopefully ever again. Well, Lord only knows why he made liberals without the ability to pick up after themselves, but that answer is best left to Providence.
    The US Marines and fellow jarheads are indeed street sweepers and have a good removal/disposal service, but its a skillset of a different kind. Sounds the same, but different tasks to be accomplished.
    Let the Clinton Fountain pick up Haiti’s smelly garbage. Shoot, they raked in 13 billion for Haitian relief.

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt to you seem to forget Eisenhower was the president who negotiated the so-called end of the Korean War

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    The only Syrian planes that took off from the repaired runway that were cratered by Trump were the ones he had left when the smoke cleared. There is no evidence that Putin is replenishing Assad’s aircraft. And all that besides delivering the first strong message to a murderer since Bush2 was in office. Now we’ve added the even more murderous fat kid to our ‘fire and fury’ list. Oh, the never ending responsibilities of a white hat hegemon, while everyone else is second guessing with no better solutions to offer, and secretly praying to God that we continue to keep their collective asses safe from the bad guys.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fun facts:
    The Sutter Buttes is the only volanco in the valley (the big CA Valley) and is not connected to any known volacano chain. A rugged indivualist, if you prefer. It also may be the smallest mountain range on earth, with the operative word being may. Figure all the rock outcroppings from Spensville to Rough and Ready were just the falling rocks when she blew. You hit that rock just right, and it splits off a big hunk. Very porous. Very volcanic. 🙂
    Oh, the Papa Doc years where when we sent the USMC to do their job for them. I am still pissed at the disrespect Shit for Brains showed the Corps. May be rot in an unmarked grave.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Paul,, you’re running out of “But,, b-but but,,,,” to grasp on to. I almost feel sorry for ya’.
    You still have time to brush up on your Mandarin. China may own Ca. sooner than later.
    Trump will just give China, Ca. to cover the FED debt that China holds. HELL. The peanut farmer gave away the Panama Canal. The ground game has been set.

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  15. Russ Avatar

    The DNC Emails Was a Leak, NOT a Hack is Growing Legs
    http://www.redstate.com/slee/2017/08/11/dnc-hack-actually-leak/
    CrowdStrike stands by their initial report [it was the Russin’s] (which is why lefties on Twitter are holding onto it like a lifeline), but this new report, says The Washington Examiner, provides reason to doubt their conclusions:
    The report says that “forensic investigators, intelligence analysts, system designers, program architects, and computer scientists of long experience and strongly credentialed are now producing evidence disproving the official version of key events last year. Their work is intricate and continues at a kinetic pace as we speak.”
    The group found that “there was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else.”
    The report continues, “Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system.”

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Through all this, Paul has yet to say what he would do if he were in Trump’s shoes.
    Your great at pissing and moaning about “what if”, yet look like an ethiopian who has never scene a candybar when that ball is in your court. Grow a pair Paul. (Let me guess. Let him have all the nukes and missiles he wants. Pay him billions to stay quiet.) How has that worked out so far Paul?(another ? to go unanswered)

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  17. Walt Avatar

    Hay Russ. They leaker most likely is the one found dead from a botched “robbery” in a park.
    Like Scenes said. Another case of “Arkencide”.

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Russ,
    Putin had access to the DNC’s system?? When was the last time he was in Washington? Hmmm. Bet he snuck over the border in the dead of night. He’s a sleath one. 🙂
    https://youtu.be/rc5G04nJecI

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  19. George Rebane Avatar

    Google will now be the gift that keeps on giving a deeper and revealing view into the political correct idiocy of the Left. Google canceled its townhall employees meeting to discuss the latest Damore kerfuffle because it was afraid of their acolytes being exposed in public to questions the answers to which would be more than embarrassing. Local leftwing luminaries are attributing this to Google’s fear of “alt-right trolling” for which there is no evidence; but, hey, gotta keep those stories straight, else they’ll look behind the curtain.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    George. Google is just living by Frisco and Berkeley’s rule.
    You can say anything you like, just as long a I(we) agree with what you say.
    Speak up pal,,don’t worry. If I like it, you keep your job.
    I guess he didn’t like what was on the person’s mind.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Oh.. It could have been worse,, Google isn’t NK. Fatboy would have used him as artillery practice.

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  22. Walt Avatar

    OK folks,, NOW would be a good time to set a few of these bad boys up.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i737rM6FxqE

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Somalia? Blackhawk down? Hmm. Was that the time we thought it would be a grand idea to put our troops under UN command?
    We have this to consider as well:
    1) Little Syrian boy washes up on rocks in Southern Europe, Greece. Oh my, the little child! Breaks my heart. Therefore, let all the friggin Islamofascists in!!!!!! How’s that working out, old Europe?
    2) Children starving to death! Do something, anything, but do something now! Blackhawk down. How did that work out, hmmmmmm? Somalia today is the picture of peaceful utopia standing in solidarity with The Higher Good. Rightttttttt.
    3). “Distrust of government is manifesting in leadership as cross-cultural apathy. The world watched as Aleppo fell, the screams of children airing through social media and falling on the mostly deaf ears of world leaders.
    Even though we have access to a global community, rather than shifting our consciousness to the global well-being, many are choosing fear and living in a world of separatism. The inability to connect and collaborate will only accelerate our world’s problems and poverty. Our continual denial that our actions have the potential to have a global impact will only make that impact greater. Our ignorance will not save us.” —- HH 88, Hilary Hodge.
    By all means, let’s spill blood and treasure because of screaming children. Do something! Do something now!!!!
    We lost Syria as well, Hilary, along with Libya. You can hear the Libyan children’s screams if you put a seashell to your ear.
    Do you still hear the lambs screaming, my dear liberal war mongering friends?
    https://youtu.be/OLBotH5Bki8
    Funny, liberals, progressives, and socialists always complain loudly we spend TOO MUCH on the military, yet demand that the military pay for sex changes. Go figure.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    But, the little boy washed up on the rocks! That is the bigger picture.
    http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/the-new-crime-epidemic-wrecking-havoc-on-uk-rape-gangs/

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Perhaps I missed it while at the Republican fair booth but did the po’ ol’ fakenewsman have an answer for the left wing mag National coming to the conclusion that the DNC was not hacked? It was an inside job on a flash drive based on the download speeds. DUH! Don’t expect any apologies behind the facts of this. 😉

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  26. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    Some more lines get drawn:
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/ellison-kim-jong-un-acting-more-responsible-than-trump
    Perhaps we could cut to the chase and make Lil’ Kim the Supreme Leader of the DNC, although I admit that he’s not as ruthless as Hillary.
    Meanwhile, the chattering classes and the 17 intelligence agencies continue the 2016 election by other means. And so it goes (h/t Linda Ellerbee).

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  27. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    And as the dezinformatsiya fades into the sunset.
    https://spectator.org/it-was-a-brennan-operation/

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  28. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: The Paul@5:54PM
    “Walt to you seem to forget Eisenhower was the president who negotiated the so-called end of the Korean War ”
    Cool. Another Eisenhower fan.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr__GThVIAA_vAE.jpg

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 8:19 am
    “A tool of the Muslim Brotherhood (during a stint in Saudi Arabia he says that he grew to admire Islam and the concept of jihad), Brennan refused to take his oath as CIA director on the Bible. His hatred for Michael Flynn and Trump stems in large part from his Islamophilia and his nostalgia for the socialism and the atheism of the Old Soviet Union.
    His Russian fable — which was itself a product of his collusion with foreigners from Estonia to England — fed off his disdain for Russia’s turn to Christianity and America’s turn away from Islam.”
    Hmmmmm. As if we needed more proof that liberalism is a mental disease causing extreme intolerance, irrationality, and hatred coupled with Broken Thinker Sydrome, not to mention severe emotional retardation. What could be worse? A: They also lack a sense of humor. Like giving birth to a Cyclops who is born blind.
    https://mobile.twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/895636327991062528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Frightwingnews.com%2Fnorth-korea%2Fmike-huckabee-says-america-secret-weapon-destroy-kim-jong-un-send-maxine-waters%2F

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump quote good grief, this man has no class and is totally delusional.
    ““Eddie (Governor of Guam) I have to tell you, you’ve become extremely famous. All over the world, they’re talking about Guam, and they’re talking about you, and I think you’re going to get tourism. I can say this, your tourism, you’re going to go up like tenfold with the expenditure of no money, so I congratulate you.”

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scenes
    As a child and teenager I respected and felt confident with Eisenhower as President. He presided over massive economic expansion, high employment and expansion of Social Security. What kind of example is our Pussy Grabbing Narcissistic President sending out to the youth of America?
    Here’s a typical Ike quote:
    “Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”

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  32. George Rebane Avatar

    The finely honed sensibilities of liberals today have ascended to levels where literally in the same breath they can launch another in the unending critiques of Trump’s every word, while reaching back over 60 years to dun a Republican president for negotiating the Korean armistice to insinuate that he still shares blame for today’s problems with NK. Such all encompassing breadth is nothing short of remarkable.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    That’s all you can find to complain about Paul? That’s really desperate at this point.
    I’m sure you can find three or four words Trump put together to make a sentence in some conversation somewhere that will be the next impeachable offence.
    Ever been to Guam? It’s a great place to visit when it’s not the target of a mad fat kid.
    Or is your bitch that Trump used the guy’s first name? If you insist on the use of “Mr.”,, Then Mr. Emery Cloth it is.(You’re just as abrasive.)

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Been paying attention to the Left on Left riots? I have to be on the side of the “Southerners”. It’s the ANTIFA and BLM that are out to erase history. “Tear down Robert E. Lee!!” and anything else “Confederate”. Any memorial to the civil war is a target.
    So I contend that the radical Left is our own version of ISIS. ISIS has been destroying anything they don’t agree with. Crimes against antiquity and history.
    Just wait for our county gold miner statues to be targets of the ECO left. It’s just a matter of time.

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    It is it not OK to applaud Eisenhower on some things and condemn him on others? You see things as black and white with no subtleties allowed. As a child I respected Ike’s demeanor and maturity something I think young people would have difficulties embracing with our current President.

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Just ran the quote word for word Walt with an explanation as to who “Eddie” is. Stupid comments by Trump. Is he serious about the tourism boost” for Guam or is he trying to be funny?

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    That makes sense that you would support the “southerners” Walt. Most of them are Trump supporters and he has no problem with what they do or believe in.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1046am – Please don’t confuse ‘black and white’ with ‘clear, complete, and concise’ communications. Would love to see some evidence of your contention – you have almost twelve years of my commentary at your disposal.
    And how did your logic let you conclude that my 1026am advises against any criticism of Eisenhower?

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Damn right Paul, I had family fighting under the stars and bars, as well as the stars and stripes.
    So you’re in favor of “deleting” history. I’m NOT.
    A couple of My Granddads were Confederates. Maybe we should find one or two of your kin “we” didn’t agree with, dig them up and throw them in a new hole in a more PC landscape.
    I doubt you would take it all that well.

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  40. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Pau; Emery belongs to the American Talian/ISIS contingent of history erasure? Who would have thought that? And he claime=s to be a Greek? Did the Greeks stop the Persians a couple of times in the BC? Yes, they did. So Since the Greeks beat the Persians I guess using his logic any statues or icons from the era are to be destroyed. Would not want to upset the Turks.

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  41. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: The Paul at various times:
    “He presided over massive economic expansion, high employment ”
    If you’ll notice, the unemployment rate trended up throughout Eisenhower’s administration. Generally, I’d say that your gut feeling on unemployment rates over time is fooling you. Notice that he began with a historically low point.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/US_annual_unemployment_rate.svg/2000px-US_annual_unemployment_rate.svg.png
    (as a side note to everyone else, I don’t think that Presidents generally have much to do with the employment rate, but it’s always used a proxy for their term. It’s similar to the success of harvests in the past I guess).
    “You see things as black and white with no subtleties allowed.”
    lol. That is like the pot calling the shiny white kettle black. I’d suggest that people read back through their own posts before they ever accuse that of someone else.
    A question for Paul. In regards to Eisenhower, what do you think about Operation Wetback? Good idea? Necessary?

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Thanks Scenes, I was wondering which side did the deed. The Fascists. of course.
    Paul.. Rallying the troops to blow up the miner monuments around town? We know how the Nevada City types despise us miners, and our forefathers. Hell!! “your side” pulled an ISIS and planted flags at the Miner’s theater and foundry, and now claim them as your own.
    “Your culture” destroyed MY culture. So much for that “coexistence” crap.

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt
    How about we celebrate good ole “Hydrolic Mining days” and wash away a mountain and polute the rivers just to bring back memories. How about we also, symbolically of course, have a ceremony celebrating decimation of the Native population by 90 % in 40 years. Are these the good old days you wish to return to Walt when you say I “destroyed your culture”?

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  44. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Today David Duke, a solid Trump supporter is spoke out.
    “Duke said Saturday the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville is in line with Trump’s “promises.”
    “We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump,“Duke said. “That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back.”

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh, Paul is just upset today with the news that there was no hacking going on over at the DNC. For all we know, Podesta’s emails being hacked was a story made up from by Podesta himself. That would put Punchy a bit more irrational and out of touch with reality than normal.
    I cut Punchy some slack for his honestly. Once, in a rare moment of clarity after he got offended at a poster, Punchy explained he does not grasp sarcasm or facetiousness. Nor humor. Ok, I added “nor humor.”, he didn’t. His exact words were along the lines of “I don’t do satire well” or “I have a hard time apprehending satire”. My paraphrase, but you catch his drift. It don’t come easy, it comes difficult for our off Broad Street denizen.
    Poor guy, sarcasm confuses him and facetiousness…..well….he just cannot wrap his head around the whole concept and his facetious meter don’t work. Imagine the constant frustration, tension, and turmoil he goes through everyday being unable to keep up and comprehend, interrupt, or recognize such matters. Hard to stay in the flow of things when you have some blockage somewhere. Thus Trump must drive him bonkers. Add to that this the hacking story and his whole narrative and worldview is going down in flames. It would make anyone contraire. Disgruntled, if you prefer.
    Oh, life was so good before the pussy grabbing Trump. Punchy wants his life back. I do feel sorry for him. Look in his eyes and you can see all the hurt and pain.
    Folks with Trump Derangement Syndrome appear to be getting worse, not better. Who could even imagine that is possible. Learn something new everyday. Come on guys, show a little pity for the poor sap.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296.63999.217926015008110/1147530432047659/?type=3&theater

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  46. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    The disrespect and know it all attitudes prevalent in today’s society reminds me of “…as the days of Noah and Lot,” when suddenly…the earth erupts, wipes everything out and eventually a new landscape and creatures began anew. Anyone who has studied ancient history, legends and archeology becomes aware that there’s nothing new under the sun. Those who lie, poke fun at, cheat and steal from others may be in for an unfortunate surprise When the earth decides its had enough. Graduation time.
    http://youtu.be/3krjG5fUtEk

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  47. George Rebane Avatar

    re PaulE’s 1239pm – now there’s a real example of nuanced interpretation and understanding.

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