[Well, that last sandbox sure got smelly in the end. My bad for letting it linger. Perhaps we can try to raise the level of discourse on this one. Would love to see some dialogue on 'Trump divorces GOP Congress' and its implications for legislation and 2018. gjr]
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309 responses to “Sandbox – 25aug17”
Allow me to drop a fresh “stinker” right in the middle of the box.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/24/armed-antifa-group-calls-for-revolution-seizing-property-and-violence-against-police/
The feral Progressive vermin are getting emboldened.
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A couple of Union articles by libs wanting to take Trump to task for not saying what they wanted him to say. Of course I could not resist responding. And to the Publisher Don Rogers I gave him this response as I agreed with his article.
“My telling you that this is a spot on article of thruth will get you intop trouble with the left. But all you have said here is right. I went to Berkeley twice for free speech rallies. No nazis no KKK or hate groups were there in the rally. But the “:antifa” were there surrounding the whole park. Dressed in the helmets, black outfits and ski masks. They sliced and diced and pepper sprayed peaceful men and women simply speaking about free speecch. And the speakers I listened to were black, white, brown and yellow. Male and female. The left wants to shut down free speech it appears to me. And that is the trap they set. Americans of common sense know if you shut down one, then it won’t be long until they get to you.”
You should all comment oin these since the Union allows it. I see Gregory does periodically and I even aw a Tozer once.
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re: GeorgeR.
I wouldn’t sweat it too much.
Emery’s Law:
“As an online discussion on Rebane’s Ruminations grows longer, the probability of a squabble involving Paul Emery approaches 1.
In Year Zero news:
http://gothamist.com/2017/08/23/de_blasio_grant_hate_symbol.php
Pic o’ the morning:
https://i.redd.it/zidqcwrp0vhz.jpg
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Trump Divorces the GOP Congress,,, considering that Trump is the world’s most famous troll who uses Twitter and his rallies to troll the press and anyone else he is trying to get a rise out of, why wouldn’t he use Twitter like he used the New York Post to give notice to his wife about a pending divorce?
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Gotta love how the state sticks you for every dime they can get.
Got a late fee for that receded fire tax. Just called to find out why. Some Asian with bad English,,” You pay. Fee imposed while law still good. No matter tax gone now.. YOU pay.”
Yes, Gov. extortion is alive and well.
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re: Scenery@10:19AM.
Looks like someone googled ‘Trump divorces GOP Congress’, clicked the first link, read the first paragraph of a WSJ article, and semi-quoted it. Good job.
In terms of the problem generally, this will be 100% based on whether he can threaten their jobs via midterm elections and/or help with fund raising. The Prime Directive of a congressman is to keep the gig and sit in the comfy chair with the talking stick. Just like our local political figures but writ large.
I need to think back on those Presidents who had a really dominant relationship with Congress. Reagan perhaps? Maybe LBJ, especially given his resume, but it probably was as much fear of ending up in a shallow grave in the Texas Hill Country.
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Quote of the day (so far). Read on my fancy high falutin’ transistor radio.
“The media grabs on to a big story and holds on to it until it no longer moves.”
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Fair observation Bill. News outlets are dependent on advertising so they go for material that draws a crowd. For serious news I read the Christian Science Monitor.
https://www.csmonitor.com/
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 25 August 2017 at 10:42 AM
Bill…..loves me some “Iowahawk”!
Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.
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Nope, I just clicked on the link at the top of the Sandbox page.
Trump Divorces the GOP Congress
Republicans need to think of Trump as a political independent.
By The Editorial Board
Aug. 24, 2017 7:08 p.m. ET
A biographer says Donald Trump once told him that he informed second wife Marla Maples he was seeking a divorce by leaking it to the New York Post. President Trump now seems to be using Twitter to tell Republicans in Congress that he’s divorcing them
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Nancy P. thinks they are winning all the battles. I guess she forgets that LIBS have lost every special election. If she believes that’s winning,, well,,, keep up the great work.
As for Trump “divorcing” the GOP,, it’s more like the people on the Right putting the old RINOs out to pasture. The Rube Goldberg machine of politics has worn out it’s usefulness
Those that refuse to work with Trump are seeing their demise on the horizon, by getting primaryed. The people put you in office, they can take you out the same way. We are seeing that more and more.
As for LIBS,, they can’t go left enough to make their city folk happy.
Yes, TAX the rich and free shit for all,, just ain’t buying the votes it used to.
Jobs? Trump has actually created the environment for plenty of new employment, and better pay. Kicking out the illegal workers is raising wages for the legal folk.
It’s going to tough for LIBS to take any seats, let alone the 80 that lunatic Nancy is hoping for.
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What will be next?
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/25/california-could-start-jailing-people-who-dont-use-transgender-pronouns/
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from Paul – “For serious news I read the Christian Science Monitor.”
I had thought that rag went belly up – but I see it’s online only. Started by M Eddy to keep her cult members from actual news that might have them realize that ‘Christian Science’ isn’t Christian and it certainly is not scientific.
I can see why Paul likes it. The first article I read involves fire arms and the writer shows the same lack of rational thought as Paul when bang sticks are involved.
The whole article was full of false info, poor reasoning and biased reporting.
Maybe some other articles are better – when I have time I’ll try to read some.
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I watched their “reporters” question Republicans over the years and they are no different than CNN etal.
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Walt – really liked this line – “The bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Weiner, argues that religious views don’t hold weight in public areas.”
Well – actually – those are private areas (couldn’t resist).
Male and female is a ‘religious views’? Say what?
I had thought science kinda’ has a little to say about that.
As in – “the forensic examiner determined the human remains to be a female, approximately 20 to 30 years of age.”
And archaeologists – holy cow! Now they have to go back and re-do the records.
Traces of make up on King Tut? Cleo liked to smoke cee-gars?
Personally – I identify as a unemployed millionaire black football star. I claim victim status. Obey my commands or face the wrath of the SJWs.
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Wait – maybe he really said – “pubic areas” and they mis-quoted him.
Senator ‘Weiner’. You just can’t make this stuff up. SNL in the 70’s would have had a field day.
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THIS JUST IN!!!
LIBS PISSED WITH RAGE!!
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/348061-trump-pardons-arpaio
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Walt, they will forget about it after the next tweet makes their heads explode. 😉
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He’s obviously desperate and trying to energize his shrinking base. Rasmussen poll has his strongly approve numbers down to a pathetic 25%. He was desperate enough to use the cover of the Texas storm to distract attention from the pardon.
Reality time comes when the Congress is back in session. Going to be lots of fun to watch.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history
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https://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2017/08/25/first-grader-sent-to-office-investigated-for-pronoun-mishap-n2373212
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What’s that raspy noise? Oh, its just the abrasive Nazi squawking. 😉
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Paul. Not bad when only LIBS get polled, the deck stacked, and anyone who hangs up on the pollster gets an automatic “against Trump” score.
In other words,, BFD. 7.5 years to go.
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Prosecuting Arpaio was clearly a hideous abuse of power as he only upheld his oath of office whereas G Newsom openly defied the law and openly broke his oath of office.
What’s an oath to a leftie? Just cuss words.
Obama clearly and openly defied judges orders but what ever happened because of it?
And what about Holder? What a pathetic little lick spittle. Nothing more than a quisling and boot licker for his masters. He had blood on his hands but felt no remorse or guilt.
The 3rd Reich operated with second level rats and vermin like Lynch, Holder and Ron Brown.
Arpaio should get his own statue in Arizona for his work to better his state.
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Oh – and Paul – still POTUS!
I thought you said he would be gone by now?
You will always be Paul Emery who voted for Obama.
Not sure what kind of atonement will ever cover that sin.
Maybe you were suckered in by the crease of his pants?
Or the fact that he was described by H Reid as “a black candidate who could be successful thanks in part to his “light-skinned” appearance and speaking patterns “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”
So – which was it, Paul?
Hillary could do the southern black accent, but we note you wouldn’t vote for her.
Was it because she was a she? Or at least she identified as one.
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I read some news yesterday that is still on the down low. That will make the LIBS melons collectively explode as well. Especially Paul’s and Stevie’s The ECO clam will NOT be happy
The way things are going, we will be reopening the mental hospitals for the Progressively challenged. Trump comes up with a new way to trigger them every other day it seems.
I’ll drop a quarter on it.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article168730552.html
“WASHINGTON
The National Park Service has several big problems with NRA-backed legislation that would restrict the agency from regulating hunting and fishing within park boundaries. But according to a leaked memo obtained by McClatchy, the Trump administration has so far prevented the parks from voicing such concerns.”
Since the LIB press lies,, NPS comes out and says,,,
“Heather Swift, an Interior Department spokeswoman, rejected that claim. In an email, she said: “At no point did the Department tell the NPS not to communicate with Congress.”
At least public land can be used by the “public” again.(or soon will be)
What will Super Trump come up with next? Things are just getting started.
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Now now,, Scott,, We don’t want Paul running off the road on his way to BM.(or tripping in the hallway headed for the same initials.)
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I never worry about P.E. – he can always find a poll. As long as he can console himself that somewhere there’s a bunch of folk that agree with him, he’s good.
And there’s always the MJ.
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Walt, Rasmussen is the poll that Trump himself used when he was leading in the polls. It is considered the most Conservative poll and showed Trump as the leader before the election.
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See?!!
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Walt – I clicked on the link – Little bear cubs!!!!
“including the practice of killing bear cubs in their dens.”
Yep – that’s the NRA in a nutshell. The Second Amendment was strictly for killing bear cubs. In their dens. While the mother bear was forced to watch.
Meanwhile the lefties trumpet their ‘right’ to kill humans while they writhe in pain in the womb.
Gotta love it.
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I have hunted for a good portion of my life, yet I don’t recall ever hearing of that kind of hunting. Is it fact? HELL if I know. I just haven’t heard of it. But of course, put the heat on the NRA.
Since LIBS are rabidly pro abortion,, then when one of the ANTIFA gets laid low,, just call it a belated post birth abortion, and society was better off Mother nature’s gene pool filter.
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Well – there is one more possible reason Paul voted for Barry Sotero.
I have to give him all the options.
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” Biden said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
Possibly this was Paul’s ‘woke’ moment.
He might have wanted to vote for an American of African descent before Obama, but you know – Obama was the first ‘clean’ one. Seeing as to how voting for Obama meant voting for Biden for being next in line, maybe that was what swung the deal for Paul.
But – the cat’s got Paul’s tongue and he just doesn’t seem to want to talk about it.
I’m sure there’s a poll out there some where.
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Where is bunnywabbit?
There is hope for ya’ yet.
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-loveless-monkey-chicken-israeli-zoo.html At least it isn’t a football. But the chicken sure wishes it was.
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Well – the badgers are pretty busy out back by the canal. They go into the dens of the whistle pigs and rock chucks. I’m sure they clean out pretty near anything that moves. Cubs and all. I would think TNT would be the weapon of choice for den hunting.
But what do I know?
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Scott.. Defiantly the first affirmative action Pres. His actual ability to do said job was nonexistent. OJT all the way.
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“then when one of the ANTIFA gets laid low” – Hasn’t happened – yet.
But give it time. I’m sure the left will make that corpse a saint.
Meanwhile the left butchers tens of thousands and the Muzzies slaughter non-Muzzies at will. And the left rush to protect them.
Not to mention the murders and rapes by the illegals. The left wants to give them ‘sanctuary’.
Just keep it up, lefties. You’ve lost all special elections since the hated Trump came into office. Who will the left run against Trump in the next election?
Yes – I do worry that Trump will become another Auh-nold and cave to try to bolster his ‘numbers’. He had better stick to his guns or absolutely no one will support him.
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Well – here’s proof positive.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/08/25/german-left-wing-magazine-cover-portrays-trump-giving-hitler-salute/
Wow – photo-shopped picture of Trump.
I could post this on George’s other topic of the next brain-dead gen.
Just post enough of these photos and it’s all the proof you need.
On the other hand, there’s plenty of brain dead older folks that post here that call Trump names. This is their proof. It must be because I’ve asked them for actual evidence and they can’t seem to come up with any.
But – maybe that darned cat’s got their tongues as well.
Where is that cat?
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Cat? Was at the back door of the Chinese restaurant last I saw of it.
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It’s not just voter fraud we need to deal with. Blatant election rigging.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/08/25/california-democrats-rig-recall-again-with-2nd-bill-to-delay-election/
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Scott, as one who voted for Bush Jr twice you have no legs to stand on. Undoubtedly the worst President in modern American History. Even Trump wanted him impeached and he’s your guy.
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Damn Paul,, You really are a partisan news guy. The whole world knows Carter held the crown. Now “O” just got it by FED X from Ol’ Jimmy. “O”.. The most overturned President in history. Trump has taken his “legacy” apart, and the economy comes screaming back.
Now to just put a bullet in that dying dog called the unaffordable care scam, things will be SO much better.
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My, my. Ride ’em cowboy and gather up the men and deputize them all. . Sheriff Joe and the over the hill gang rides again, I think I heard a gun blazing off in the distance, but it was probably just more exploding heads.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/25/donald-trump-pardons-sheriff-joe-arpaio/
The South shall rise again.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1154568971343805/?type=3&theater
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Quote of the Day:
“Black people who were never slaves are fighting white people who were never Nazis
over Confederate statues erected by Democrats, because Democrats can’t stand their
own history anymore, and somehow it’s Trumps fault?”
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“Scott, as one who voted for Bush Jr twice you have no legs to stand on.”
Bush was hardly the worst pres in modern history. Carter was a nice guy that should have run a PTA. Maybe. Setting up the mullahs to run Iran was really a stroke of genius. How many women and gays have been persecuted, raped and murdered by the nice folks Carter helped into power? Clinton couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it and was impeached. He ran our country’s finances into the ground. Clinton was easily the most hypocritical pres to ever sit in the oval office. As much as I detested Nixon, I would vote for him over Clinton any day. Bush had good intentions and started off fine. He ran into problems when he went back on his word to not try to build up other countries. He had reasonable cabinets and SCOTUS picks – far better than the communists and dunder heads that Clinton and Obama put into power. Gee – remember the fabulous Surgeon General that Clinton found somewhere? She recalled fondly when the youths just beat each others’ brains out with baseball bats.
And of course as the nation’s chief physician she felt it was her duty to help the young learn how to masturbate. And wanting us to ‘get over our love affair with the fetus’.
But the thing is Paul – I can talk about it and discuss the issue.
What you are engaged in is classical deflection. You are a past master.
I ask you a question and you either don’t answer or ask another question of your own or just deflect.
One of these days little boy, you might want to learn how to have an adult conversation with logic, reason and facts.
Until then, you’re just a sad little troll who hasn’t got a clue.
Get off the dope and grow up.
I realize you are totally embarrassed by how easily you were duped into voting for Obama the fake. Until you are willing to talk about how a 3rd rate pol got you to vote for him, all you can do is deflect.
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Russ, it is over. They won, nothing to see here.
The statues are gone, some by the vote of the local ccity council, some moved into the basement (Capital Dome), some to museums, and some to The Daughters of the Confederacy. Ohyeah, some were removed in the dead of night and put in the maintence shed and some just plum got busted up in the dead of night as well. Still can’t figure why they had to go after Joan of Arc. She was already martyred. Oh, that’s right. They make the dumbest generation look smart. Got to remember that one. Explains a lot.
They won the Statue War. Done. Over. Score one for the good guys. They are on a roll…on a terror. Winds at their back. Clear sailing now. The land has been cleansed.
Seriously, do they know what they are doing? Do they what to erase hat happened once on this or that hunk of dirt? With breakthroughs and cheap DNA tests peddled on-line, you never know. You might be hating on yourself, or a distant distant ansector on a land far, far, away.
But here is sad part. We need plaques on spots, if nothing else. Like driving down some old State highway or road and stopping at a CA Historical Marker to stretch and check it out.
There is no plaque at Hangsman’s Tree. Nothing. It’s called River Something Park now. Picnic tables, hiking trails, a restroom. No one knows that happened there. Gone. Unmarked.
There is no little brass or bronze plaque set in a volcanic rock wall where I know some Japanese were interned in WWII. It’s a park now, nice baseball field, good lightening. Elementary school across the street, and the back of jr. high buts up against the other side. Nothing, absolutely nothing about what went down there on this hunk of dirt in 1943 or whenever. Not a peep. Hangman’s Tree and Japanese camp (small) got whitewashed. It’s like they never existed. For all practical purposes, it never did. Year Zero. That’s why it’s important to not whitewash persons, places, and things.
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Sheriff Joe reaction. True to form. The Lefties call in a middle finger to America and John McCain (war hero, Presidential candidate, US Senator, and most reprehensible member of the Keating Five) said no one is above the law and Sheriff Joe should be held to a higher standard.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/sen-john-mccain-reacts-to-arpaio-pardon-1032916547879?ref=yfp
Sounds like it was a good decision to me.
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So sheriff Joe was ‘profiling’? Imagine that. Of all the folks pulled aside for illegal presence in Arizona there wasn’t a single German, Swede or Italian. Gotta learn the rules. Joe was prosecuted for upholding the law. It was completely political.
How much criticism did Clinton get for pardoning Marc Rich?
It was straight out pay for play and he pardoned a crook that not only was wanted for fraud, (FBI ten most wanted) but also doing illegal business with enemies of our country.
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Where was the city folk when we, in these here hills got bent over with the illegal fire tax? Well,, the show is on the other foot. The bitching has already started.
http://www.presstelegram.com/article/LB/20170824/NEWS/170829723
SACRAMENTO >> For the first time Californians would pay a tax on drinking water, 95 cents per month, under legislation to fix hundreds of public water systems with unsafe tap water — a problem that’s most pervasive in rural areas with agricultural runoff.
Senate Bill 623, backed by a strange-bedfellows coalition of the agricultural lobby and environmental groups but opposed by water districts, would generate $2 billion over the next 15 years to clean up contaminated groundwater and improve faulty water systems and wells.”
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“Sounds like it was a good decision to me.”
Especially if you consider the details of what the judge did. 99% politics.
You’ll notice that most of the reporting talks about a ‘criminal charge’ rather than a fairly trivial misdemeanor…which of course is why he was denied a jury.
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Keating Five? It is entertaining to watch how quickly they turn on their own and throw them under the bus to protect their Orange Hair Chosen One!
“McCain testified against Keating in a civil suit brought by Lincoln bondholders, and was seen as the plaintiffs’ best witness.”
From respectable senator to low life non hero, F^@k him ..because he dared to speak ill of IL Douche
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