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272 responses to “Sandbox – 21aug17”
My, my. Headliner on Yahoo News is the Punchy story. Black KKK or something. Also, crowd was half as big as shown. Trump Deplorables doctored pics, and so much more salacious details!!
If that ain’t a big enough scandal that Punchy uncovered, here is a bigger one he missed. This one is too hot to handle and is growing legs!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-louise-linton-outfit-viral-162047349.html
Wait, there is more to “The Story’ of the Century”. I haven’t seen anything like this in 30 years. Oh my, what ever will we do now?
https://youtu.be/7k3oksfSXr8
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Hell! I don’t like some of the BS you advocate, yet I still deal with you.
Just gotta nit pick anyone who likes Trump. So… Just what does that say about you?
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This is odd to me.
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/californias-top-court-justice-tells-ice-stop-pursuing-illegal-aliens-around-courts
Why on earth would ICE not be allowed around a courtroom? What possible justification is there for restricting them (or any other federal police for that matter). I’d love to hear a decent bit of reasoning for that attitude. Is Treasury or DEA not brought in if interested in a case?
It sure makes a mockery of the notion of federal ownership of certain functions.
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I shouldn’t laugh….I really shouldn’t!
I’m a bad person……(i need a few minutes)!
http://www.dailywire.com/news/20140/top-5-versions-antifa-protester-being-hit-balls-jacob-airey?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=dwbrand
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“Really Gregory, how naive can you be .”
Yes, tell us Gregory, how naive can you be?
First comes the frustration that we do not have the same (correct) concerns, passions, and alarmist reactions that we should have to this major breaking story. Then comes the doubling down. Then the frustration. Then the ole “by your silence I can assume you agree with me.” Then back to size of crowds by the Liar-in-Chief. Then, the “round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows.”
It is an unreasonable demand to have others FEEL or act the way YOU want them to, Pablo. But, if it is of any comfort, I feel your pain.
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DAMN IT Fish… You did it again! Snooze ya’ lose,, strikes again.
I wonder if #7 kissed it to make it all better? Right after they dug the gas mask filter out of his throat.
Stupid SHOULD hurt.
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 23 August 2017 at 05:14 PM
I think they have some leeway in state courthouses. I imagine they have practically none in Federal facilities.
http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/07/sheriffs-to-the-feds-you-are-on-notice/
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Posted by: Walt | 23 August 2017 at 05:23 PM
Sorry Walt…..!
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The po’ ol’ fakenewsman should be barred from the internet, he is named after a pope who sucked up to Hitler so allowing him public access perpetuates the Nazis cause. That support for the Nazis is abrasive like the po’ ol’ fakenewsmans last name. So he is an abrasive Nazi propagandist. Ban the abrasive Nazi now! 😉
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Trump came out in support for Blacksfortrump2020. Click to see wqhere it leads. I can only assume Trump supports their aims and goals. Certainly anyone vetting him would go to this since it’s on h is shirt.
https://blacksfortrump2020.com/
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Yet you voted for the Muslim Obama. “Hussein” should have been your first clue.
Great going Paul.
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re:Fish@5:23
“a county sheriff has stripped state law enforcement authority from the US Forestry Service.”
I get that, it’s sort of the inverse of sheriffs enforcing federal law. It’s a fine point, but arguable (as in Arizona…of course the feds had no intention of enforcing the law). But this seems more like a matter of access. Can the state physically block federal agents from entering or hanging out near state facilities? Can they pick and choose which federal agencies are allowed access?
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Scenes 537pm – Elected sheriffs are the highest law enforcement officials in their respective counties, and that includes federal lands not connected to national security. All law enforcement on other county lands happens at the pleasure of the sheriff.
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Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 23 August 2017 at 05:37 PM
Hanging out….probably not. Entering? Again….a state or county courthouse maybe.
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Oh my, frustration has gone to exasperation. Yo Pablo, you link is broken. Won’t load. Repost it. Thanks.
Scenes @ 5:14 pm
The answers are easy. The courts want the illegals to appear and the family members don’t want them to jump bail, duh. And what Fish pointed out, albeit a minor detail.
Fish @ 5:18 pm.
I liked the golf ball one the best. If the peaceful protestor protesting against hate had turned around at the precise moment, Donald would have scored a hole in one.
Don @ 5:25 pm.
Oh, cut the Green Libertarian some slack, will ya? They took down his site The Storm Trooper has he has been all discombobulated since. I don’t ever want to read that crap, nor would I ever consider reading that kind of vile stuff, let alone quote it on these pages. That would be sooo wrong. Nobody is that dumb. But, to each his own. 🙂
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This probably won’t help the marketing plan…..of course as screwed up and exhibitionist as modern Americans are these days it just might!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4756740/Tesla-Model-3-secret-camera-installed.html#ixzz4qd4OoS7K
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 23 August 2017 at 05:46 PM
I liked the golf ball one the best. If the peaceful protestor protesting against hate had turned around at the precise moment, Donald would have scored a hole in one.
THREADWINNER……
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So Walt you are outright claiming Obama was a Muslim Is that correct?
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Hah……posted before Bill found it!
Allow me to clarify……these would be Chinese children, not the neighbor who shall remain nameless!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4306538/chinese-kids-are-too-fat-and-masturbate-too-much-to-join-the-army-government-claims-adding-theyre-going-blind-from-fiddling-with-their-phones/
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re:GeorgeR “Elected sheriffs are the highest law enforcement officials in their respective counties, and that includes federal lands not connected to national security. All law enforcement on other county lands happens at the pleasure of the sheriff.”
So, for the sake of argument, could I have a state where, say, slavery was legal (or at least winked at) and then simply not allow federal agents anywhere in my county? It sounds to me like a sheriff could essentially nullify any federal law at all.
Maybe the US Civil War could have been easily avoided.
Even in modern times, if you are correct, a sheriff could essentially turn off all ICE activities within a county. I’m surprised that that hasn’t happened in somewhere like Pima County then.
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Yes Fish,, TOOOO good.
As for Hillary she had some help from fake news with selective editing.
“Caution”.. Things look closer than they really are. Yes,, video can be manipulated to fit one’s needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AdcirKbFfs
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re: fish@5:59PM
I should sell those people the top-secret anti-surveillance privacy device that my laptops have. It looks just like a small piece of tape, but it’s really special and I’d only charge $10 for it.
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re: BillT
“The courts want the illegals to appear and the family members don’t want them to jump bail, duh. ”
If I’m a lion, I’m going to plonk my big butt right next to the watering hole every single time.
Next thing you know, ICE agents can’t go to landscaping services or restaurants.
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Where is Barry when we need him? Get our resident lawyer on this case.
Immigration is a FED issue.(thank the Obummer admin for that clarification)
Then why do city cops show up to a bank robbery? That’s on FED turf as well.
Murder is a FED “capital” beef too. FED laws apply in all 50 states.
But what the hell do I know??? I didn’t even stay in a Holiday Inn Express.
As for the judge,, she took the oath to “uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land”
Can someone point out where in that oath a judge can pick and choose just which laws to uphold or ignore? “O” and Holder are gone.
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Paul. Give me undeniable proof he isn’t.
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Walt @ 6:11 pm
Bill Nye is not a real science guy, but at least he stayed at the Holiday Expeess last night,
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Current ICE policy:
https://www.ice.gov/ero/enforcement/sensitive-loc
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ESPN has some real winners. Benching a guy because his name is Lee, takes a special kind of stupid.
THEN this shows up. Just when ESPN thought things just couldn’t get any worse.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/23/espn-host-arrested-after-reportedly-wandering-naked-into-strangers-home.html
YAA BUDDY,,, it CAN!
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Walt:
There is something about bank robbers that really gets the FBI going. They love catching those guys. They live for it. It’s their thang.
Local LE are always on the scene first, the the Feds take over. The CHP can patrol any street or road in the State they choose. US Marshalls are the only ones I know that have jurisdiction anywhere in the US, where they please, when they please.
I thought the courts settled the state’s rights vs Feds jurisdiction issue (immigration) when Arizona sued and lost under the previous Administration. The Feds own the immigration issue. And here I thought that losing the AZ case was a bad thang. :). Silly me. Never get tired of winning.
The caveat is that the Feds cannot force local LE to serve as their agents. Separation of powers kind of thing and boy are Santuary cities and county are fighting like mad now that the shoe is on the other foot. I want my Obaba back. Trump is a meanie.
Scenes @ 6:04. Ten bucks for your anti- spying device? Not bad. But, I got another idea, since you will corner the black tape market. You know that racist Andrew Jackson pic on the twenty dollar bill we are all so hot and bothered by? Very offensive. If anyone is upset by Andy’s face, you can send those 20s my way. Hmmm. Think it’s time to demonize U.S Grant while we are at it. Now wait a cotton pickin’ minute. Did Ben Franklin own slaves? I will take all those dastardly Benjamins off your hands as well and dispose of them properly. For free…whether he owned slaves or not. Can’t have those rich white founding males lingering in your back pocket or purse, now can we?
Just thinking of others and being empathetic to my suffering brothers and sisters. It’s the least I can do, livingbon the altruistic plane and all.
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Walt@613- Whatever the case the damage done by team 0 will take a long time to fully fix. Its been nice to watch the systematic roll back so far by the administration but the congress needs to get its ass in gear on their end of Pennsylvania ave. 😉
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still looking Paul?
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Don, it appears it all gets down to policy. What were they shouting at the Charolettesville City Council meeting last evening? Oh yeah, ” We don’t care about you rules!” They might have added “we don’t care about your stinkin’ laws, either.” Free speech, my Aunt Annabelle!” Rights are not a smorgasbord where you pick and choose. Policy, OTOH, is like a smorgasbord. Grab the bad guys, gang bangers, and low hanging fruit first, especially the bad hombres. They are no bueno. And the darn tight fisted Scottish. Then the ones that drive gross polluters. :). Gotta ease into it.
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Punch-E 4:57pm
I expect he’d been vetted enough to be trusted to smile and applaud at opportune times. And not have to be escorted out.
Really, dude! Either they are super competent and run everyone through the mill who gets within spitting distance, or they just do a smell test.
This isn’t Hillary’s campaign team, Paul, this is the Donald’s.
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You really have to wonder how bad (good) the situation is in the USA when folks are all up in arms because a multi millionaire black athlete isn’t signed to an NFL team.
He’ll never want for anything materially again in his life as long as he doesn’t blow away all of his wealth. He is wealthier than 99.99999% percent of everyone else in the world. He has entree to almost all of the halls of power, probably far more than most white millionaires. He pissed folks off and he’s not seen as a good prospect for most all NFL teams right now. As the season progresses he most certainly might get a call after some teams QB goes down with an injury, but for now he’ll have to just be famous and wealthy. Yet folks with out a pot to piss in who Kap wouldn’t give the time of day to are marching around screeching that this is just sooooo unfair. I would love to know just what these protesters want the NFL to do? I realize that not one single reporter has the intelligence to actually ask one of these idiots what they want the NFL to do.
Yes – we certainly are a terrible bunch of people, we Americans.
Maybe the reporters should go to Africa and ask some one on the street if they feel bad for Colin. After they explain who he is and how wealthy he is – and how he feels it’s his place to whine about the hand that has so generously fed him while on some one elses time and dime, they will probably laugh and say – “you’re putting me on, right?”
No – it’s real. Things have gotten that bad for Americans of African descent.
Just horrible.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaahahahahah!
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blockquote>Rapper Joey Badass dubbed ‘Joey Badeyes’ after tweeting about staring at eclipse
Perhaps he can find a place as an intern at the SBC?
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Rapper-Joey-Badass-dubbed-Joey-Badeyes-after-he-11953697.php
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Posted by: Scott Obermuller | 23 August 2017 at 07:44 PM
Kap knows how to throw the short, touch pass we’re not having this conversation!
Colin Kaepernick – Million dollar body, Ten cent head!
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Huffpo sez: veteran = racist
https://archive.fo/vFjE3
the salt-left is really something.
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I’m just wondering what in heck the protesters want the NFL to do?
It’s a freaking hobby or something for these people to simply walk around ‘protesting’. Probably not one of them has a clue about what is is they are marching around about. It is well known that left wing protesters either just mouth off boiler plate left wing slogans or they simply won’t talk to anyone asking them questions because they know they haven’t got a clue what they’re marching for.
The reporters are reluctant to ask because left wingers are also famous for assaulting the reporters. And those are the ‘peaceful’ protesters.
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Fish, I don’t think they allow dreads in SBC, sorry.
It was fun to read the comments from the WSJ’s E in chief to his writers stories about the Phoenix rally. He slammed his writers for their failure to report facts and filling content with slanted opinions.
Quick somebody get the po’ ol’ fakenewsman his plastic pearls, what, they are soaking in Russian dressing? Really? 😉
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 23 August 2017 at 08:00 PM
Fish, I don’t think they allow dreads in SBC, sorry.
Surely in the name of racial and cultural sensitivity not to mention now physical infirmity (solar retinopathy) an allowance can be made.
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Tree hugging has gone TOO far.
http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2017/08/23/how-to-go-ecosexual-and-embrace-your-love-for-mother-nature.html
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Well perhaps if there are some grants involved Fish. Speaking of culturally insensitive non-profits, is it crazy that the aclu was accused of promoting white supremacy by advertising their logo line of clothes for kids? A, grab your pearls, blonde toddler holding a flag in a aclu logo onesie! Apparently there is no place in the aclu’s future for whites. As someone who was an actual aclu client I am micro-aggressed. I think? 😉
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Florida Man….?
The picture is awesome!
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/14/florida-couple-transporting-grill-injured-after-suv-explodes-when-woman-lights-cigarette.html
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Fish. How they didn’t die from the overpressure is really something.
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Years ago my teenage son taught me what we are experiencing today. If he had a problem that needed to be addressed you could not do so face to face because he’d immediately put up his guard to block any discussion. I discovered that if I talked to a third person in front of him about someone else with the same problem he’d listen. My relative in high Government places had the same teenage mentality. He went from college into government and didn’t have any idea about business outside government…so wouldn’t listen to what the deplorables had to say. I pulled the teenager tactic on him by talking to his best friend (in front of him) regarding what our government was doing to local businesses that was detrimental. His eyes got big listening to what was going on here in America while he was in Afghanistan helping our government pump up their economy at our expense. Unfortunately, this mentality is what President Trump and most knowlegable individuals are having to deal with. It’s very difficult.
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Posted by: Walt | 23 August 2017 at 08:40 PM
The window glass comes out easy. Even minor pressure across that surface sustained for a moment would be enough to push out the windshield and normalize any pressure.
I think.
I confess some confusion as to why the roof is so distorted (impact from the barbecue, Jaws of Life….don’t know)!
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Colin Kap, kinda.
Not about Kap specifically. When ESPN started to weave political commentary into sports, that sure put the kibosh on a good thing. Sports was the one place where you could escape politics completely and root for your team or just get away from the pressures of life and catch a game, any game. Quiet housewives were suddenly turned into screaming rabid fans on Sundays, neighbors who were on opposing sides of politics meeting for a Super Bowl party, hearing your neighbor whom you don’t know much about cheering down the street, watching the same game as you are as you are cheering yourself, the loner listening to a baseball game in his camperblate at night…..sports was a unifier in a world of partisan politics, racial, ethnic, and class divisions. Whole towns, cities, and communities around here were suddenly Kings fans and maniacs when Vlady and Mike Bibby almost took Sacramento to the house.
Ain’t much of a baseball fan, but darn near all of NorCal rocks when the Giants are on top, including ‘not that much into it moi’. Well, maybe not the A’s fans. :). But….sports is the unifier, win or lose. A source of community pride, be true to your school type of thing. The Great Escape, The Miracle on Ice, the biggest comeback, the biggest upset, the closest game…..sports. Life long fans and shared passions among strangers, despite the ups and downs of life.
But, noooo. Had to inject politics into the mix. Not new, but was mostly confined to international events like the Olympics. We boycotted the Moscow Olympics because the cheating doping USSR messing around in some place called Afghanistan, John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising the black first on the winner’s podium in Mexico City, and the Munich Olympics marred when the PLO blew up 8(?) Israelis on the tarmac. Very dark Games in ’72.
Now domestically, we got ESPN injecting PC into everything and seeing everything through the eyes of Idenity Politics first, the sporting event second. It really became more politicalized with “Hands up, don’t shoot!” and has gone downhill ever since.
The lefty self absorbed bedwetters are indeed a glum lot with no sense of humor or fun to be around….as I have pointed out countless times before. Every place, every thing they get their control freak claws into goes to shit. Now it’s sports. To the SJWs, Idenity Politics is not everything, it is the only thing, to weave a Vince Lombardi quote into this heavy gloomy dark saddening topic. Another bites the dust.
Kap? Welcome to the free market. He opted out of his contract and walked away. Probably a mutual parting of the ways with the 49ers. Despite how it’s spun, Kap ain’t no Jackie Robinson. And despite how it’s spun, the SJWs with their push for victimhood (their version of Idenity Politics) and can always be counted on to mess up a good thing and drag it down to their level in the abyss.
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Humm.. I thought Paul would have some rock solid proof “O” ain’t a Mussy.
He has the world at his fingertips.(bony as they may be)
Hay Paul. The Muslims in Muslim land believe he’s one of them. How bout that?
“the theory that Obama is a Muslim is not just an American phenomenon. The Washington Post explains that “Muslim” Obama theories “have mutated as they traveled abroad, adapting in unexpected ways to fit regional arguments.” In the Middle East, a “persistent and widespread” theory is that Obama is not just a Muslim, but a particular brand of Muslim: Shiite.”
Find anything to depute that? I’m sure you can come up with some poll showing overwhelming numbers that “O” is is just below Jesus in the Christian world.
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Scenes 601pm – I think you’re exploring the unexplored with your question. Something tells me that when Mr Lincoln changed ‘these United States’ into ‘the United States’, the federal govt took a whole new lease on their projection of power into the states. In such a confrontation, I believe most sheriffs would conclude that discretion is the better part of valor.
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Scenes: More on Google, reenforcing a link you posted somewhere recently.
Most of us have figured it out already. When a conservative sight gets too many views or grows into a couple million daily hits (or less), that sight dramically loses the majority of its hits….as much as 90%, seemingly overnight. This dramatic choking off is not because of scandal or its content being outside of the normal boundaries.of socially accepted discourse.
The most popular conservative sites are big enough to raise a stink if it happened to them. Not so with the smaller less viewed sites. It’s here. It’s happening now.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/08/22/google-doubles-purging-conservative-speech/amp/
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