[Having lived in the LA area most of my life, Jo Ann and I have done our best to get excited about the Dodgers during our annual and singular homage to baseball – the World Series. We feel that, even if you think the game is terminally boring, all patriotic Americans must submit at least once a year to the national sport. Full disclosure – when they tied 7-7 last night, we gave up and watched an episode of 'Rake' instead. The game's final score vindicated our decision ;-) And then there's the utter joy and dancing in the streets by our progressive neighbors, for Mueller has finally indicted someone connected to Trump. gjr]
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146 responses to “Sandbox – 30oct17”
Watched a portion of a panel last night on CSPAN. Swamp dwellers and also attorneys. I was hoping they were endangered species. Anyway other than Ken Starr who played it unbiased, the rest were what I call, hysterical in their hate for Trump. The audience was theirs too. I can see the “derangement” syndrome affects even these “pointy heads” in the swamp. Amazing.
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Posted by: BunBun | 31 October 2017 at 08:45 AM
“For Christ’s sake stick it up your ass.”
Like I said….I am digging all the psychological reveals in your posts! Just make sure to wash your hands after!
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I was looking for the justification within the Emolument Clause for the lawsuits the liberals are filing against Trump. Seems to me if he gets room rent in a hotel he owns that is not covered in the Clause.If the money is not from a king, prince or foreign government seems he is off the hook.
“No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state.”
This was beaten to death last night by the detractors.
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While the bungholios of the world are breathlessly chanting their party parrot lines the real world has new record home prices, a new consumer confidence record and a booming economy. What is it that wins elections folks? 😉
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“The conservative media and most of their politicians can not be trusted. They have practiced years and years and years of bad faith. Fox News, Sean Hannity and Wingnut Welfare recipients like A. McCarthy are misdirecting, dissembling, deceiving and lying. They’re encouraged to do it, get paid to do it, and are good at it, like George Rebane here (who does it for free – I think). It works on those who are easily swayed by what they want to hear. Hillary is guilty of none of the nonsense being hyper-bleated by the desperate wingers. It’s just words, nothing else. We were attacked by our enemy and the conservatives watched and helped. They will be punished and must be.”
-Eric Anderson
This sort of hate and intolerance is a problem… once you claim the people who disagree with you to be incapable of good faith and cannot be trusted, it’s a small step to hunting them down. Eric Anderson, meet James Hodgkinson.
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O’ besamiculio,,, Trumpski-ite cheerleaders are going to breathlessly report anything positive happening in the world to their Dear Leader Trumpski even though since 2009 the stage was being set so that everything you would like to attribute to our Dear Leader was already improving,,, Thanks Obama!!!
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Posted by: BunBun | 31 October 2017 at 11:11 AM
Thanks Obama!!!
Yeah….go ahead and spend the future KeachKeach! You and (Medicare For All – Punchy McFreeclinic) won’t be around to see the eventual results….or pick up the pieces!
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Well Gregory you certainly have shown a profound indifference to the Russian interference in our elections. You still don’t believe Russia didn’t interfere do you?
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Golly, Paul, yes, we have James Clapper on the record that the Russians did interfere (or was it “meddled”?) in our election, though the only concrete examples we have are $100k in adverts on Facebook (some ran after the election) and now we know the Clintons (both) got roughly a thousand times as much. We also know Clapper earlier perjured himself testifying under oath to Congress so it’s unclear whether he should be believed.
https://www.salon.com/2013/06/12/how_james_clapper_will_get_away_with_perjury/
Do you believe anything James Clapper says, Paul? If so, why, unless it’s an answer you are so painfully desperate to believe?
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Boy you had to dig in the archives for that one Gregory. The link you provided was 2013. What was the final resolution of that question? Glad you agree that the Russians meddled.
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from Paul – “You still don’t believe Russia didn’t interfere do you?”
Well, it must have happened while Obama was pres, so we’re never going to get the truth from his admin. Remember that Obama claimed he knew about it all along and took care of it.
The big question is: Did Russian ‘interference’ alter the outcome of the election?
Who changed their vote because of what some Russian did?
The answer is no to both questions, so why should we be bothered by whatever the Russians did?
We should always be guarding against cyber attacks no matter what the source. If it continues and the govt proves unable to counter the menace then yes, I’ll be concerned. Very concerned.
The left is unable to understand that this whole scenario of ‘Russian interference’ some how affecting our election was a con cooked up by the Dems after they had their feet knocked out from under them on election night.
Mueller, the FBI and anyone else who has investigated this nonsense has found no evidence of the alleged collusion by Trump with Russians to alter the election.
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If the Rooskies meddled it was in favor of Hillary and Podesta.
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Paul, you dodged the question:
“Do you believe anything James Clapper says, Paul? If so, why, unless it’s an answer you are so painfully desperate to believe?”
Macedonian teenagers living at home also meddled. So did the Chicoms and NorKs. Probably also Prince Albert of Monaco.
We’ve also meddled in elections in Russia and Ukraine. Just about everywhere else, too.
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Gregory
Do you agree with this finding by Trumps Homeland Security ?
The Department of Homeland Security contacted election officials in 21 states Friday to notify them that they had been targeted by Russian government hackers during the 2016 election campaign.
Three months ago, DHS officials said that people connected to the Russian government tried to hack voter registration files or public election sites in 21 states, but Friday was the first time that government officials contacted individual state election officials to let them know their systems had been targeted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dhs-tells-states-about-russian-hacking-during-2016-election/2017/09/22/fd263a2c-9fe2-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.73739a57b37c
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Paul Emery never answers questions. What a hoot!
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Posted by: Gregory | 31 October 2017 at 12:54 PM
You’re wasting your breath Greg…..everyday is Pauls own personal “Red Scare”.
Rather than obsess over Clapper lying in 2013, and all the other facts that the left would prefer to ignore, lets just cut to the chase and serve up a heaping helping of Punchy Political Porn as authored by someone who should clearly know better!
Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig offered a Clinton path to the presidency on Medium, putting forward a series of “if/then” scenarios that lead to House Speaker Paul Ryan handing the White House keys to Clinton.
Related: Hillary Clinton losing to Trump was like Jesus’s crucifixion
Here’s how constitutional law expert Lessig lays it out:
If number 1: If Trump is definitively found to have colluded directly with Russia, he would be forced to resign or be impeached.
If number 2: If Trump is removed, Vice President Mike Pence would become president.
If number 3: If Pence becomes president, he should resign too, given that he benefited from the same help from Mother Russia.
If number 4: If Pence resigns before appointing a vice president, Ryan would become president.
If number 5: If Ryan becomes president, he should do the right thing and choose Clinton for vice president. Then he should resign.
That’s just sad!
No wonder Newsweek is on its deathbed!
http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-president-lawrence-lessig-post-686077
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Get over it Fish. Trump won the election. What’s your fixation with Has Been coud have been Hillary. Didn’t vote for her myself. Did you?
Who cares about Clapper. That happened in 2013 around the same time Trump was saying Bush should have been impeached. Do you agree with Trump on that one?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 31 October 2017 at 01:21 PM
But Punch….I just posted it “for your reading pleasure”.
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Paul, you dodged the question:
“Do you believe anything James Clapper says, Paul? If so, why, unless it’s an answer you are so painfully desperate to believe?”
2nd question:
What state and local computers related to the election in any way did the darned Russkies actually break into? Those that were poorly protected, what did the Russkies get? Did even a single vote get changed?
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I don’t necessarily believe anything clapper says Gregory. Does that work for you?
Let me refer you to the website of the article I read Gregory for details. I don’t have them memorized.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/dhs-tells-states-about-russian-hacking-during-2016-election/2017/09/22/fd263a2c-9fe2-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.73739a57b37c
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More Lying from the mainstream press!
New York has strict gun laws. Therefore gun crime can not and will not occur! The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that this is “Fake News”!
http://nypost.com/2017/10/31/several-people-shot-in-downtown-manhattan/
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Paul, Clapper lied under oath in 2013 about you, me and everyone else being recorded by the intelligence services when asked by Congress.
And it took no digging at all to find a lefty magazine with the right headline. The first page of search returns from “james clapper lying”.
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hee hee
From the WaPo link Paul shared:
“What this boils down to is that someone tried the door knob and it was locked”
Paul, do you lock your door?
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Administrivia – Please move your Russia collusion thread to ‘Mueller Mining the Russia Collusion Confusion’ so that your pithy observations and repartees will be readily found when RR is searched by some interested third party.
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Once again Gregory I don’t necessarily believe anything clapper says. Can you say the same about Trump or do you believe everything he says?
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…looks like another “jon” special courtesy of Drudge!!
Importing the 3rd world…..clearly an unalloyed good for the United States!
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Gregory
Why would the Russians attempt to hack our election computers unless they intended to accomplish something? What do you think that would be.
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Paul, an instance, please, of me uncritically accepting anything any politician says.
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Gregory
I have yet to hear you at any time question Trumps honesty. Perhaps I missed it.
Do you believe Trump when he said that he actually won the popular election?
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Fishski is behaving like a beached whale,,,trouble breathing,,,,muddled thinking,,,paintball gun and pellet gun found on wackamole in NYC,,,
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You point your cell phone at a cop and he will shoot your ass. Stupid. But he ran over and killed 8 people, that was his gun you fool.
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Paul, an instance, please, of me uncritically accepting anything any politician says. You missed answering this question.
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refer to 2:49 You accepted Trumps statement that he actually won the popular vote because of massive (over 3 million) fraudulent votes.
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Is it criminal conspiracy, collusion, attempting to defraud the government or what?…. When a tiny Montana company that just happens to be based in Ryan Zinke’s home town gets a $300 million NO AUDIT contract to rebuild the power grid in Puerto Rico…. considering that the largest contract Whitefish has ever completed was $1.3 million? Naw, Trump and crew aren’t grifters. They are as honest as the day is long….at the North Pole on the Winter Solstice.
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BAd news for the Republicans PPP Polls give the Republican led Congress only a 9% approval rate. Unbelievably bad. Show Dems up by 10 in Congressional polls for next election. 49% favor impeachment of Trump
Historically accurate poll
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 31 October 2017 at 05:05 PM
…..thanks Bobby.
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Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 31 October 2017 at 03:30 PM
Now Todd…..KeachKeach is right I shouldn’t have assumed that the incident in NY was gun related until I knew for sure!
It would have been much more reasonable to assume that the murders committed today were just part of the filming of a campaign ad by the democrats for Ralph Northam!
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someone has to keep you honest fishy! The water in the pan has got to be getting warmer or will the frogs (fish) never see it coming until the pot boils?
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 31 October 2017 at 07:21 PM
…….thanks Bobby.
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Paul, ignoring your question is not the same as “accepting Trump’s statement” he won the popular vote… were fraudulent votes not counted.
At the time, I said popular vote didn’t count. I recall you thought it should. It doesn’t; if it did, there would be fighting for every vote even in California. I also think many more illegal aliens vote than you want to believe. Probably not enough to make up for the lopsided vote in California (sorry, Donald) but there are accounts of jury duty summonses indicating large numbers of illegals are probably registered to vote.
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The po’ ol’ fakenewsman needs someone to explain that congress is elected by district, not nationally. Brain freeze fakenewsman? 😉
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Is pot a Trick or Treat? This is a no brainer, good for Nirvana City. Boo!
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/31/news/economy/california-cannabis-tax-fitch/index.html
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Welcome November.p! Halloween was great last night. My costume went over well. A hit, if I may say so myself. Went as a crazy cowboy with lips a’blazing. Got my inspiration from a pic I saw on FB.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1189016407899061/?type=3&theater
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Don
sorry you didn’t understand what a generic Congressional vote polls mean.
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Generic poll on Congress is meaningless but the libs now love t. Each Con District is in play. There is no overarching issue affecting all of them.
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Paul, it is you who misunderstands the generic Congressional vote polls meaning, which is very little.
The incumbent advantage is key and people will vote for their candidate in their district. The “generic” poll is what people think about the congresscritters elected by all the miscreants in other districts.
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Gregory it means what is says. In that particular poll 10% more of the people polled have a preference for Democratic Congressional representation.Can we agree on that and move on?
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Oh Paul Emery, you and your situational facts.
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GCan we agree on my 12:18 Gregory?
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A phun phact… Michael Oreskes, ousted from his choice NPR gig ( senior vice president of news and editorial director) in the wake of the outing of his harassments, is indeed the brother of climate hysteric and “science historian”, Naomi Oreskes.
Naomi, accepted as a climate scientist by some warmistas who have posted here, has a bachelor’s degree in mining geology. Pussygrabber Michael has a BA in Something Or Other from CUNY.
Somehow I feel safer from BS with him out of the drivers’ seat at NPR.
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