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201 responses to “Sandbox – 5feb18”
Posted by: Bill Tozer | 06 February 2018 at 10:59 AM – I think Comey’s letter put the last nail in Hillary’s coffin but she was in trouble ever since they found all Huma’s emails on Tony Weener’s laptop.
Lanny Davis wrote a book on the subject (have not read it),
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lanny-j-davis/the-unmaking-of-the-president-2016/
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Posted by: Merv Griffin | 06 February 2018 at 12:41 PM
Our bridges are crumbling, trains are crashing….
Thank you Michael….more evidence of the majesty and grandeur of the Trump Administration…..he hath restored your ability to see! The scales…..fallen from your eyes and those travesties hidden during the eight year reign of President Chair Warmer are now revealed to you!
TESTIFY!
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How are all our bridges crumbling, Mary Wanna / MPA, when our previous fearless leader pumped 9T USD$ into all those “shovel-ready” projects?
Blocking walkers across the southern border was a campaign promise… are you suggesting a candidates drop their campaign promises, if they actually win? All candidates, or just the ones you hate?
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The new thought Nazi’s-
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/06/high-school-cancels-musical-after-white-student-lands-lead-role.html
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Hey Donnie, is this a good entry point into the market? Maybe I should consider alternative investments like Bitcoin, or maybe I can short a couple of memberships at Mar a Largo. At least that woman who found an extra $1.50 in her pay check was spared the Trump Dump.
Your boy is apparently too stupid to realize that if you insist on taking the credit when the market goes up, you’ll be saddled with the blame when the market inevitably goes down. What a maroon.
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Oh Georgie, 80% of earnings reports were beats, unemployment is great. A correction only hurts if you panic like after the election! Didn’t the Ponzi bit drop 11k bucks? SO much for hipster cryto currency. 😉
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Oh Mr. Boardman @ 1:41am
“Your boy is apparently too stupid to realize that if you insist on taking the credit when the market goes up, you’ll be saddled with the blame when the market inevitably goes down. What a maroon.”
Now, now. Mr. Boardman. Me thinks you need a new pair of glasses. It don’t work that way. We take credit for when the market’s go up, and never when the market comes down. There are forces beyond our control, with reasonable explanations. The market is much bigger than one man….when it goes down. Yes, we realize that, but will never never admit it to you, coffee breath.
Now, who is stupid? Those who listened to Paul Krugman or those who raked in a smooth 34% return last year? But, if you hang in there with your bond holdings, CDs and money market funds, the increase in rates will rise soon enough. The way The God Emperor Trump has this economy clicking on most of its cylinders, the Fed will have to try to tap their foot on the brakes pretty quick. If this keeps up, they will have to stomp on the brake pedal. Oh yeah, no more quanitative easing. Not needed.
That is all good news for you and all those like yourself squeaking buy on fixed income. Yep, value investors usually arrive too early, then bail before the party gets roaring. Figured you would have a bit more cast iron in your belly. How stupid of me.
Buy when there is blood in the streets Expect a bump, then a slide for three months That’s when the all the bedwetters will have left the goodies behind as they flee for their lives to their safe places. What a nincompoop.
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PaulE 1208pm – Sure looks like it. But to really know what goes into gerrymandering, you have understand what other criteria are used to draw those crazy boundaries. Start here –
http://redistricting.lls.edu/where-state.php
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I await Boardman’s crickets. Just what triggered the selloff Boardman? Could it be the cost of cheap money going up? OH! the HORROR!
Your the last one here who should be throwing their 2 cents in. Forget your personal “sell off” when Trump got elected? ” I sold everything!”-G. Boardman.
Yup, the stock market had a brief selloff, then came roaring back the next day leaving you in the dust.
Again.. Just what huge cats’sassterphy did we suffer financially? Oil go to 100 bucks? 40% taxation get announced?( coming soon to a state near you)
So tell us oh wise one.
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Re the stock market correction – I am a bit amazed and puzzled at all the dialogue that wants to put blame/shame on the market’s performance and its wantonly ascribed causes. Talk about strangers to investing in securities.
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Posted by: Gregory | 06 February 2018 at 12:58 PM – So you want to double down on a dumb wall? How about a link to where the 9T ended up? I know it didn’t end up in my pocket!
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Using Trump-enomics, Obama cut 9 Trillion from the National Debt,
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/10/obama-cut-the-national-debt-by-9-trillion/
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Mikey Wanna 258pm
So, you’re doubling down on your reading disability?
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Posted by: Mister Rogers | 06 February 2018 at 03:00 PM
95% Of Income Gains Since 2009 Went To The Top 1%
There really isn’t anything more entertaining than watching a middle aged progressive white guy twist himself into a Kama Sutra pose in order to tease the last few remaining drops from the Obama legacy!
Kevin Drum…..you dirty dirty girl!
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Mary @ 12:42am.
No, the coffin nail in Hillary was her big staged coming out announcement party on symbolic Roosevelt Island or Roosevelt square. She drew 5,000 and never saw a crowd that big again for many many moons. Then she did the reset and had another unofficial official kick off. That went over like a dud. A lead ballon, worthless as tweets on a boar. It went downhill ever since. Like, do we really give a flying guck about what that old airhead slut Cher thinks or Chucky the Clown’s niece Amy thinks?
Bernie drew 20;000 in Seattle and more the next day in LA. Hillary left the DNC holding her VP nominee’ The Grinch who stole Christmas’s twin brother Kaine’s hand and headed out the next day on the march to the White House tour….starting in Cleveland, home of the 2016 RNC convention. Drew 500. They split up, Kaine going off in one direction, the Hillary bus tour of Ohio in another. She drew 350. Victory tour to DC got cancelled after one weekend. But her numbers were high, ROFLMO.
Just kidding, been pulling your leg this whole time. There ain’t one Democrat alive that could have beaten Trump.
Obama called us annoying bitter clingers on his ass. The media ridiculed the Tea Party Patriots, of which I am sympathetic to. Hillary called us Deplorables and YOU ALL called us ignorant redneck racists. Wife beaters. In-bred knickledraggers.
The Deplorables were why Trump stands alone. With every tweet, comment, and fist Trump threw, every body blow and haymaker, he had the Deplorables’s knuckles strapped to the top of his hands. So, while you guys were focused on Trump, you completely missed what was really happening….and continue to do so to this hour. Trump mopped the stage with every contentder, not matter what party affiliation they hail from.
Did love one of his latest tweets. Delivery was off, but said something like “crumbs” kinda sounds like deplorables, or “crumbs” resembles “deplorables.”
Go pound sand. And then we will reenact Ambassor Stevens last minutes on your sorry ugly behind. Have a good one.
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Re Walt’s 2:51:
The sell-off was caused in large part by fear of rising inflation and interest rates. What’s going to play a big role in making both worse in the future? The Trump tax cut, of course.
As you may recall (but prefer to forget), the tax cut came with a price–an increase in the national debt of at least $1 trillion. The government needs to finance this debt and the impact is coming soon.
It is now estimated the Treasury will have to borrow a net $950 billion in the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, up from $519 billion. Those numbers are projected to increase to $1.083 trillion in fiscal 2019 and $1.128 trillion in fiscal 2020.
Unfortunately for the feds, the economy is strong and inflation is expected to rise in the future. Investors are putting their money into stocks instead of bonds, which means the Treasury will have to offer higher interest rates to attract investors. That, of course, will trigger more inflation.
But don’t worry, the Republicans have a solution for the problem. If they win the mid-terms, you can bet a major effort will be launched to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social welfare programs. As Republicans have been telling us for decades, these deficits are unsustainable.
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Pretty much what I said Boardman. Then you just add a little cut and paste from somewhere.
Think ultra low interest would last for ever?
That would be Yellen calling those shots, not Trump. So save the fake financial Armageddon for LIB children at bed time.
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And Schiff thought Christmas came early.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/06/adam-schiff-pranked/
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We are coming for your medical Boardman. You will be one of the first to die in the streets, Baaaaaaahhhhhahahaha. Just ask Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnE83A1Z4U
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The tax cuts are Armageddon! We are all doing to die.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-VzZQGWOqA .
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Liberation or enslavement?
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/06/revealed-britains-foreign-office-promotes-world-hijab-day-attempts-to-avoid-public-disclosure-of-staff-event/
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Hey Boardman, you still lurking around? Time to drain the swamp.
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-great-white-shark-george-stalks.html
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Here’s the best one I’ve heard for awhile. It’s about how Chief of Staff Gen Kelly treats Trump
“It’s like Kelly views Trump as a mushroom,” explained a Republican described as “close to” the White House by Sherman. “He wants to keep him in the dark and feed him a bunch of shit.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/trump-ally-says-john-kelly-treats-president-like-mushroom-keeps-dark-feeds-sht/
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 06 February 2018 at 03:30 PM – Sure, Hillary’s Democratic Party should not have nominated her in the first place. But, I remember when the Comey letter came out thinking she is going to lose more potential voters.
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Comey didn’t hurt Hillary all that much. He hasn’t been found dead in a park yet.
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DEAR LEADER want a BIG, REALLY BIG, maybe the BIGGEST military parade ever to salute him!!!
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Tesla whiners, wind power whiners, prepare to eat your hats,,,and maybe some barbequed crow too,,,no this isn’t about the successful SpaceX launch,,,it is about saving money,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/2b4db54b-b41d-33bc-8f9d-b38914f4ca15/ss_tesla%27s-massive-100mw-south.html
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People who don’t clap for Trump are treasonous!
BWAAAHAAHAAA
https://i.imgur.com/sRXkGLF.jpg
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People that support those who don’t clap are treasonous. Yep!
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Posted by: George Boardman | 06 February 2018 at 03:58 PM
But don’t worry, the Republicans have a solution for the problem. If they win the mid-terms, you can bet a major effort will be launched to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other social welfare programs. As Republicans have been telling us for decades, these deficits are unsustainable.
I know that George was counting on TEAM EVIL for some much needed budget discipline and to bring a modicum of fiscal sanity to counter republican profligacy.
Hmmmm….I guess not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/spending-deal-in-jeopardy-as-pelosi-issues-last-minute-demand-on-immigration/2018/02/07/a07e4e68-0c1b-11e8-8890-372e2047c935_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_budget-1132am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fe697f3e3190
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The latest rage in sleep aids-
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-dem-rep-falls-asleep-house-floor-nancy-pelosi-speaks/
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Go Nan GO!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/07/pelosi-buster-house-democratic-leader-speaking-non-stop-for-5-hours-demanding-immigration-vote.html
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DUH!
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/02/07/senate-report-obamacare-medicaid-expansion-contributed-opioid-epidemic/
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I wonder if trump is going to have his paramilitary units like the KKK, skinheads, and nazis march in his parade?
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 07 February 2018 at 02:15 PM
They said it was to be a “Military” parade Bobby! You march around with your Stormfront buddies on your own.
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Now why would the DEM owned KKK and bald boys do a thing like that?
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Its a sad day for po’ ol’ pollheads-
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/outstanding-president-trumps-approval-rating-tops-barack-obama-4-points-time-presidency/
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Talk about blowing the hell outta isis!
http://www.businessinsider.com/marines-in-syria-fired-more-artillery-than-any-battalion-since-vietnam-2018-2
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Maybe President Trump isn’t a puppet, or a tyrant, or Napoleon, or a fascist. Maybe he’s a wildly successful businessman who loves and understands the country and the American people. Along with that love, he shares American appreciation for, and pride in, our military.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/07/trump-wants-military-parade-and-liberals-are-hysterical-just-more-proof-its-right-thing-to-do.html
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Nancy must have had a catheter installed. No other way she could have stood that long without leaving to wizz. (poor Dr.)
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Honest to GOD. Watching the demoncrats on these TV News programs is almost to difficult for me. They are all liars and obfuscators. They are all Paul Emery’s! Never answer the questions asked and always changing the subject. The demoncrats must have a school they attend as they all do this!
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The deepest state-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/07/george-soros-man-broke-bank-england-backing-secret-plot-thwart/
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Todd. The degree ain’t called Liberal arts and political science for nothing.
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Bessee 7:24 – “he shares American appreciation for, and pride in, our military.” I had a bone spur removed. Took about 30 minutes from getting prepped to getting on my feet. Hard to believe that Trump didn’t do the same so that he could demonstrate his love and pride for the military. But in his own words he sacrificed a lot in his own way instead of joining the troops. So I guess fair is fair.
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Just the facts, ma’am. From Mr. Boardman.
“Contrast that with Hodge’s contributions from Joanne Bodine of Grass Valley ($2,000, $691), Neil Bodine of Grass Valley ($3,000, $70) and the Bodine Group ($1,300.) That adds up to $7,061, or 23 percent of the cash Hodge’s campaign raised.”
https://ncroadkill.com/2018/02/06/local-progressive-politics-on-the-installment-plan/
Any relation to Jethro Bodine?
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Well of course they did!
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/feds-scrambled-redact-information-showing-top-secret-spy-abuse/
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re: BillTozer and ncroadkill.
I see that Mr. Crabb put up a post on Pelline getting in touch with his feminine side.
I’m thinking he’d need to use a sponge on a stick.
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You better look again, Scenes, that post about Pelline was on NCRoadkill.
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For those who doubt climate change is man caused and wish for more information so that they can make a reasoned decision in that regard, might want to read this article on Yuba Net.
https://yubanet.com/regional/steven-schwarzbach-climate-change-a-talk-for-my-community/
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Jessica Levinson, a professor of law and political ethics at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles — and the current president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission — said that, if proven true, the accusations against Garcia threaten to seriously damage the nationwide movement that has been credited with bringing the issue of sexual harassment into the open.
“Hypocrisy knows no bounds and no partisanship, it crosses all party affiliations,’’ she said. “To the extent that these are substantiated claims, there’s a picture of Cristina Garcia as a hypocrite in the dictionary.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/cristina-garcia-california-metoo-398985
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