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245 responses to “Sandbox – 30nov17”
The Christmas season is nigh – share some cheer and family plans on how the holidays will be spent.
Nah….I’d rather post how legislators are dropping like flies!
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/11/30/rep-joe-barton-will-not-seek-re-election
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Aw shucks!
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McCain a yes on taxes!
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/us-stocks-dow-record-high-tax-reform-senate.html
DOW blasts through 24,000! +300+ 😉
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CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: National Concealed Reciprocity Passes House Judiciary, Is Expected To Receive A Floor Vote By The End Of The Year. “The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 was introduced by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) on January 3, 2017. It changes federal law that so concealed carry permits are treated like driver’s licenses, making a permit from one state valid in the other 49. This would fix the complicated and often confusing patchwork of concealed carry laws currently in effect throughout the country.”
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Russ 1108am – Yay!
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The po’ ol’ fakenewsmans hopes and dreams about Russian dressing have been dashed and the rats scurry away.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/29/democrats-go-silent-dossier-house-intelligence-committee-seeks-answers/
Emery, Emery, Emery. 😉
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‘Tis the season.
The libs have really lost it now. They are going ape snot over Melania’s Christmas decor in the White House, comparing it to the disturbing film “The Shining.” That’s ok, but they have become so unhinged they plumb forgot to rant and rave like the insufferable madmen they are about her shoes. Not a word of disgust or aghast about the First Lady’s shoes. Yo Libbies, what about her shoes! Man, they are really slipping lately.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is the gift that keeps on giving. Merry Christmas from the White House, from my Trump family to yours.
https://youtu.be/THr_seahKUI
Look what I got at the craft fair. A true work of art and labor of love….and saved from the those awful Big Mean Green Killing Machines, aka, those butt ugly wind turbines. I like birds.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1209758132491555/?type=3&theater
In a related bit of bird news, the tribe has officially given Elizabeth Fauxahonas Warren with a ceremonial designated name. Walking Eagle. Yep, Walking Eagle. She is so full of crap she cannot fly.
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ATT said they would hire 7000 workers asap if the tax bill passes.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-half-companies-say-theyd-hire-trump-cuts-taxes-135212711.html
I bet the po’ ol’ fakenewsman can be counted in the 12% that are haters. 😉
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24K gold DOW 24,272 up 331! Will we get 25,000 for Christmas? Perhaps on the reconciliation bill. 😉
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Boy, they don’t even try to hide their racism anymore. It’s all out in the open now.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-men-feel-stricter-gun-205859751.html?utm_content=buffer6e78f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
I could share countless similar links about the evil white man that have popped up recently. More stories about who the real evil culprits are. They are drawing the bead on the palefaces’ foreheads.
Is it just me, or does this hate Y-T rhetoric ring vaguely familiar. It’s exactly what the real Nazis were saying to justify blaming and fingering the European Jews. Dirty Jews. The problem in need of a final solution. It’s the exact same rhetoric Hilter used in the 30’s against the Jews and now the new Nazis are saying about the white men of America. Boy, we need the rule of law now more than ever.
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Well, well, well – Seems the lefty media has been covering up sexual abuse for years. Where are the usual suspects here at the local OpEd watering hole of RR to denounce this sort of thing?
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/11/28/abcs-cokie-roberts-admits-press-corps-know-conyers-years-nothing-568843
It seems the left’s high moral ground turns out to be nothing more than a mud hole.
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Plagiarism on top of fauxcahantas cultural appropriation writ large, dizzy lizzy say it aint so.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/11/29/elizabeth-warren-and-pocahontas-howie-carr-reacts-pow-wow-chow-crab-recipe-entry-french
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I guess I hurt Paul’s feelings. I wasn’t going to put another quarter is his wayback machine, for another round of fractured fairy tails. As I see it his chest thumping about legalized weed, and how all the small growers were going to get rich…. Legally.
Well, that’s not what the wind is blowing in. It’s pretty clear that the “big bucks” are going to be making the big bucks.
Dope sales was to come out of the shadows. According to the local fish wrap (sorry pal),,there isn’t going to be any. Save for MMJ,, and The Union even paved the way to the Dr.’s door to get a “recommendation”.And the price even! Right back into the shadows where sales was to start with.
Dust off the prohibition “git aroun da law” book once again. This time it’s dope and not booze.( for medicinal use ONLY…..right)
And about those taxes.. You can’t tax what you can’t* sell.
If I’m barking up the wrong tree Paul, don’t hesitate to clear the air.(so to speak)
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More gun control nonsense – “In Las Vegas, gunman Stephen Paddock shot and killed 58 people in October using a bump stock that converted his semi-automatic rifle to an automatic one.”
Well – no, it didn’t but what do facts mean to lefties?
Let’s get right down to what is at stake here: “Assault weapons, which have resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of people in recent months, are not protected by the Second Amendment.”
http://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-upholds-assault-weapon-gun-ban-723464?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss-related&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news
And what is an ‘assault weapon’? Seems to be whatever the left desires it to be.
These are the same folks that claim that no one wants to take anyone’s guns.
If we are to follow that sort of logic, then we should ban anything that slaughters ‘hundreds’ of humans.
Oh – I know, logic is just another weapon of ‘whiteness’ that oppresses women and our community of those of color.
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UHOH trouble in fauxcahauntas land, even the lefties are putting her in the pillory-
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/30/the-daily-shows-trevor-noah-ridicules-elizabeth-warrens-false-claims-of-native-american-ancestry-cites-pow-wow-chow-cookbook/
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http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/11/30/mark-steyn-steinle-verdict-miscarriage-justice-profoundest-sense/
Well – I see that folks can’t be held for manslaughter or murder with a pistola anymore. “The gun did it”.
Or does that only hold for non-whites?
He may have gotten off, but he had better head for the old country fast.
This is not going to be forgotten.
The saddest thing is that he was held guilty as a felon in possession of a fire arm, but some how not responsible for what transpired after he was in possession of the fire arm. Because adult non-whites are not adult humans? Or?
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ScottO 805pm – Unbelievable, another profound exhibit of San Francisco values. They really know how to make the sanctuary in ‘Sanctuary City’ work.
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When do the riots start?
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Hoover Institute: Scientifically Illiterate America
https://www.hoover.org/research/scientifically-illiterate-america
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A 2001 study sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation found that only about half of all people surveyed understood that the earth circles the sun once a year, while only 45 percent could give an “acceptable definition” of DNA and only 22 percent understood what a molecule was. More recent research by Jon Miller, Professor of Integrative Studies at Michigan State University, found that 70 percent of Americans cannot understand the science section of the New York Times.
Such widespread illiteracy has an impact on policy. In his 2005 book The March of Unreason, British polymath Dick Taverne warned, “in the practice of medicine, popular approaches to farming and food, policies to reduce hunger and disease, and many other practical issues, there is an undercurrent of irrationality that threatens science-dependent progress, and even the civilized basis of our democracy.” We see evidence of such irrationality in significant opposition to important products and technologies such as vaccines, nuclear power, and genetic engineering—and in the embrace of herbal dietary supplements and organic foods.
At least a modicum of scientific literacy is important for citizens. As the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry’s primer observed: “It is imperative that policy-makers, the media, and the general public are able to distinguish the facts from mere interpretations of a biased constituency. Decision-makers and those who inform them must be able to judge the quality of the science and reasoning that supports a position and must know whether a set of scientific findings is really meaningful to a decision.”
However, even when the science is sound and the data are “meaningful,” politicians and government officials commonly ignore them, often in the cause of bureaucratic empire-building, advancing some ideological goal, or capitulating to activists. When I was an official at the Food and Drug Administration, I once heard a Clinton administration undersecretary of agriculture, who previously had headed an anti-technology advocacy group, deconstruct science: “You can have ‘your’ science or ‘my’ science or ‘somebody else’s’ science. By nature, there is going to be a difference.” Translation: “I don’t care about data or the consensus in the scientific community. My opinions are just as valid.”
The beauty of the scientific method, when done right, is that it protects us from ideology and bias, and helps us understand what is true and what really works. At its best, science can inform sound public policy. But when we ignore or misinterpret science, we move backwards toward a time when irrationality and superstition prevailed.
Yes, we have experienced some of that scientific ignorance in the comments on this blog.
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This headline explains the Trump presidency,,,”””A Key Intelligence Advisory Board Has No Members”””,,, I guess that assures Trump he will be the smartest person in the meeting room.
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Holy Scooter Libby’s Ghost, Batman!!! … Mike Flynn has plead guilty to lying to the FBI.
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Russ 701am – As you know, the general knowledge base of our aggregate population has been a constant theme on RR. Ranging between the reprehensible and evil is the Left’s constant denial of national dumbth, and their role in creating an ignorant citizenry through almost half century control of our public educational systems from K through post-graduate schools. They are following the teachings of communist leaders from Lenin to Alinsky in how to fundamentally transform America. And as surveys like those you cite show, this transformation of intellect is already complete; now comes the full-court press on the political structure of the US abetted by technology driven systemic unemployment. Stand by for ram.
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Flynn Flips-will “co-operate” with special council-pleads guilty to lying to the FBI. Will Flynn be the John Dean of Trumpgate?
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to a single count of making false statements to the FBI, becoming the latest Trump associate ensnared by Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Flynn entered the plea at a federal court in Washington, D.C., shortly after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office released a one-count charging document.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/01/michael-flynn-charged-in-special-counsels-russia-investigation.html
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Flynn is the Scooter Libby. Nothing to see here.
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Sure Todd
What does “co-operate” mean to you?
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Lock him up
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Oh Paul Emery, you really need to read the whole thing. Flynn was there for 25 days and was fired for lying to Pence. Of course, he was required to meet and discuss things with foreign powers. That was his job. And his discussions with the Rooskies were all about ISIS and terrorism. You libs are searching for something that does not exist.
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Todd
His discussions with the Russians were about sanctions imposed by Obama for meddling in our elections. He was cutting a deal.
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No that is your idea. He was talking about the ISIS and terrorist issues.
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Since there has been no “Logan Act” from Mueller, you must admit I am correct.
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And Flynn was Onbama’s guy for many years.
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Wsrong Todd about discussing sanctions
“The charging document reveals that on or about Dec. 29, Flynn asked Kislyak to “refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed on Russia that same day.” The document also reveals that Kislyak told Flynn that Russia “had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request.”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/01/flynns-guilty-plea-confirms-he-talked-russian-sanc/
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So Flynn will be singing for his supper. Next up the Greaser Kushner and serial liar Jeff Sessions. The crack in the cathedral will only widen. Trump asking Comey to “go easy on Flynn” is an attempt at obstruction of justice for sure
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“His discussions with the Russians were about sanctions imposed by Obama for meddling in our elections. He was cutting a deal.”
-Punchy 937am
When did you receive this vision, grasshopper? Dropped some Owsley acid that had been kept in the freezer since the ’60’s, or just a flashback?
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Sure Gregory. And the Russians didn’t interfere with our elections right?
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No Paul Emery, the WashPo on January 23, 2017, reported the transcript of the Rooskie calls with Flynn. Nothing about sanctions. Your sources are not credible.
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How did those Rooskies interfere with the elections Paul Emery?
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From Breitbart
UPDATE: Michael Flynn has entered his guilty plea and will reportedly testify against President Donald Trump.
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Good to hear that Flynn will be testifying about his contacts as the National Security Advisor for the incoming President.
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Saying “hello” passing a Russky on the street and forgetting about it is now a crime.
Damn Paul,, still can’t bring yourself to talk about weed?
Pretty guilty yourself on that subject.
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BFD. This is what the fun is all about?
““The transition team felt that the Obama White House had completely abandoned any coherent foreign policy and had to fill the vacuum,” the former official told Fox News.
The purpose of the calls, according to the source, was to assure the other nations that the incoming adminstration would soon be in place and not to overreact to last-minute actions taken by the Obama team.”
Still no collusion, and criminal acts.
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What is there to talk about “weed” Walt that I didn’t already cover? List questions and I’ll respond.
It’s a criminal act to lie to the FBI Walt in case you didn’t know. Flynn, Trumps former National Security Advisor, has plead guilty. Same applies to those who will follow .
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If anyone actually takes the time to read the actual court document and statement, all Flynn admitted to was lying about the same conversation that he lied to VP Pence about which got him fired. There is nothing about the President in any of it. 😉
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But DonB, the left does not care about the truth. Paul Emery proves that.
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Todd
are you saying it’s ok to lie to the FBI?
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Will some liberal voice in these comment streams finally tell us what measurable or even reasonably feasible interference in our 2016 elections can be laid on the Russians? Nobody is saying that they didn’t try to interfere – all countries, including the US, constantly attempt to sway foreign elections in their favor. But the amount of bullshit that this topic generates from the Left is beyond belief.
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I put forth questions Paul, you CHOSE to ignore them. Your cowardly self as usual.
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Sweden has gone insane, lets not enforce the law on immigrant gangs, lets declare amnesty, much easier.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/12/01/sweden-propose-amnesty-turning-hand-grenades/
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Put them on the table Walt or shut up. I gave my view as to the current state of MJ regulations as applied to current processes beng persued by the County and the ever changing landscape of State law. what more do you want?
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I have Paul. Go bloody LOOK!! It’s all above in black and white.
Kinda comical that you clam up when I post them, then claim stupidity the next day(or two). “shut up” you say? It’s seems your the one who already has.
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