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[This is your Happy Valentine's Day sandbox in which we may pursue all the divers love affairs that ended badly with sexual harassment and abuse and … which are now the newly preferred weapon in the armory assembled to destroy President Trump's administration.  I'm sure when this has run its course, a new one will already be fashioned and ready to deploy.  gjr]

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204 responses to “Sandbox – 14feb18”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar

    jon smitty
    Rosa Parks had no need to explain her rights when she moved from the back on the bus to the front.
    Sad day today. Sorrowful. . Just don’t see how we can legislate evil and don’t have to explain our rights. The shooter obviously was not a NRA member. BTW, the guy in the bushes who shot two cops….well, they just changed his buddy for accessory to murder or some murder charge because the buddy let the shooter take his gun. No law would have stopped stupid. But really, how do you legislate evil?
    Heck, they already threw vets, white males, white rural males, Christians, and all Tea Party (balanced budget types) in the Basket of Mentally Ill and the rest are irredeemable flag waving domestic terrorists. Maybe you can take away their guns on the insanity angle. Unfortunately, they just don’t seem to fit the profile of the Sandy Hook kid who shot his Mom in the face with her own gun and then went hunting down at the kindergarten, or the 19 year old today. or the Pulse Shooter, nor even the profile of the Bernie volunteer who went out and tried to assaiate members of Congress. Imagine if he would have got 6 R’s. One good long shot from a handgun through a fence across a ball field took him down. That is my kind of woman.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Ok, Mr. White Savior Cross. So, wanna bring this thang up to date? No prob, bob.
    “Rice said, “Poor black kids trapped in failing neighborhoods schools, that’s the biggest race problem of today. That’s the biggest civil rights issue of today. Anybody who isn’t in favor of school choice, anybody who isn’t in favor of educational reform, anybody who defends the status quo in the educational system, that’s racist to me.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/11/10/condoleezza-todays-true-racists-are-liberal-who-defend-teachers-unions/
    Oh Bobbie, Bobbie, Bobbie. Here is some hay to take to bed with you to feed your night mare. It’s in the now.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1254258441374857/?type=3&theater
    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/11/10/condoleezza-todays-true-racists-are-liberal-who-defend-teachers-unions/

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Arm the teachers.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Well, this explains what happened to Herb’s coffee boy. A lot of pressure to hold your head still and at just the upright right with a doily on top. Stress can be debilitating, duh..
    https://nypost.com/2018/02/13/my-job-as-an-nypd-officer-made-me-obese/

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 14 February 2018 at 05:09 PM
    fishy: I think most of the demographic information points to the fact that a large contingent of trump supporters are white males with a high school diploma or less. So your IQ argument is null and void

    Well knowing and having worked with a number of guys (one or two gals as well) who earned a living with their hands I’ll take them over the inner city “Dindu Nuffin” contingent and the Hot House Flower cadre churned out by your high dollar indoctrination center/struggle session “education” emporiums that the Nuevo Democratico party seems to prefer now any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Thats from both a smarts as well as morals/good citizenship standpoint!

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    George…typepad ate my response to bobby cross. If you see it will you post it.

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: jon smith | 14 February 2018 at 08:45 PM
    Two more kids just died from their bullet wounds in Florida. Y’all gotta hope and pray a little bit louder I guess. Carry on.
    Anyone have a better answer than, “We need more guns?” Lots of finger pointing from you guys. How about some suggestions other than the normal NRA talking points?

    I gave you your marching orders up thread!
    You need to get off your comfortable retired ass, strap on your Pussy Hat, don your “#Resist” T-shirt and go out and effect some positive change. Get out there and get a total ban on privately held firearms enacted. Stop whining about the NRA and turn off the snark over “thoughts and prayers”!
    Just get out there and do it!

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  8. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Another school shooting? At the school where the president’s kid goes?
    No?
    Gee – I wonder why not.
    Maybe they follow the NRAs ‘talking points’.
    Does seem to work.
    Just a suggestion for those that actually care about their children.

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  9. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 9:10: The messenger is as much a part of the equation as the message. How does one trust the message of a biased messenger other than to put in context as biased and, therefore, unreliable as it relates to the truth. The problem arises when people choose the messages of biased messengers over the truth because they tell the receiver what they want to hear rather than what is true. This, of course. leads to conflict which is baseless and contrived and, as intended, confusing and obfuscating, thus achieving the goal of the messenger.. to hide the truth. So when information is presented from a disgraced source as D’Souza it runs off the backs of the informed like water off a duck and only serves to further discredit the argument of those who use such sources.

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  10. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Here BoobieC read some truuth and see why we on the right respect the military. The pussies of the left are wearing their vagina hats and protesting males. This is from a Facebook posted by a female friend who I am honored to know, Robin Cayton/Sutherland.
    On 2 May 1968, a 12 man SOG team was surrounded by about 1,000 NVA. They dug in and tried to hold them off, but were not going to last long. MSG Roy P. Benavidez heard their distress call over a radio and boarded a rescue helicopter with first aid equipment. He did not have time to grab a weapon, so he voluntarily jumped into the hot LZ armed only with his knife. He sprinted across 75 meters of open terrain through withering small arms and machine gun fire to reach the pinned down team. By the time he reached them, he had been shot 4 times, twice in the right leg, once through both cheeks, which knocked out four molars. He ignored these wounds and began administering first aid. The rescue chopper left as it was not designed to extract men. An extraction chopper was sent for, and Benavidez took command of the men by directing their fire around the edges of the clearing in order to facilitate the chopper’s landing. He was wounded severely, but still carried and dragged half of the wounded men to the chopper.
    The enemy fire got worse, and Benavidez was hit in the left shoulder. He got back up and ran to the platoon leader, dead in the open, and retrieved classified documents. He was then shot in the abdomen, and a grenade detonated nearby peppering his back with shrapnel. The chopper pilot was mortally wounded then, and his chopper crashed. The MSG ran to the wreckage and got the wounded out of the aircraft, and arranged them into a defensive perimeter to wait for the next chopper. The NVA was building up to wipe them out, and Benavidez called in tactical air strikes and threw smoke to direct the fire of arriving gunships. Just before the extraction chopper landed, he was shot again in the left thigh while giving first aid to a wounded man. He still managed to get to his feet and carry some of the men to the chopped, directing the others, when an NVA soldier rushed from the woods and clubbed him over the head with an AK-47. This caused a skull fracture and a deep gash to his left upper arm, and yet he still got back up and decapitated the soldier with one swing of his knife. He then resumed carrying the wounded to the chopper and returning for others, and was shot twice more in the lower back. He shot two more NVA soldiers who were trying to board the chopper, then made one last trip around the LZ to be sure all documents were retrieved, and finally boarded the chopper. He had lost 2 quarts of blood. The battle lasted six hours. He had been wounded 37 times.
    He was evacuated to the base camp, examined, and thought to be dead. As he was placed in a body bag among the other dead in body bags, he was suddenly recognized by a friend who called for help. A doctor came and examined him and he too believed Benavidez was dead. The doctor was about to zipper up the bag when Benavidez managed to spit in his face, alerting the doctor that he was still alive.
    For his actions, MSG. Benavidez was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, but it was not until 1980, that one of the man who was in the six hours of hell with the MSG, provided all the eye witness accounts of Benavidez’s actions. For this, his DSC was upgraded to the Medal of Honor.
    http://www.zerofoxtrot.com

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  11. Russ Steele Avatar

    Robert Cross. Thank you for explaining why we no longer have to listen to Al Gore, Michael Mann, Ben Santor, Galvin Schmidt, James Hanson and all the other hysterical global warmers, as they are all biased anthropogenic global warming messengers who have been presenting their arguments in disgraced sources. Well done!

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 212am – posted. Don’t know what got into TypePad; it had spammed nine perfectly fine comments (now posted). Thanks for the heads up.
    RobertC 756am – It appears that you and yours have the minds of the Renaissance Inquisitors. Rejecting the facts and reports of messengers you consider “disgraced” is akin to what all blinkered hubrists have done since they rejected the discoveries and reports of the disgraced Copernicus, Galileo, …, Einstein, … All of them were rejected out of hand because their reports of reality did not fit the narratives of the then elitists. But your and your’s behavior is always predictable and well understood.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: MAGA CoVfefe! | 15 February 2018 at 08:46 AM
    What’s the over/under on how long before someone finds the data or methodology errors in this one?

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    A reader sent me this from the FUE’s blog to document that this yellow journalist is still a lying SOS – “Now Rebane claims that the comments about Trump’s sexist, lewd and boorish behavior are merely a “tool” of the progressives against him. I don’t know Rebane well but how can he condone Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” comments or his porn star sex scandal. Does he condone this behavior?”
    ??? a quoted ‘tool’, and against me??? Do his readers really lap this stuff up? But he should rejoice for his thirty seconds in the sun on RR.

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  15. George Boardman Avatar

    You boys must have got the hots this morning watching the women’s biathlon: Attractive white women shooting rifles, and none of them from “shi*hole countries.”

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Boardman | 15 February 2018 at 09:41 AM
    You boys must have got the hots this morning watching the women’s biathlon: Attractive white women shooting rifles, and none of them from “shi*hole countries.”

    To use an Emeryism…..are you trying to say ……that you don’t like hot white women in Spandex with guns?

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  17. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Phew, we can rest easy now boys. The shooter was only a white supremest, not a terrorist like we thought.
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-school-shooting-suspect/story?id=53092753

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Bingo, Mr. Boardman. Hot,hot, hot. But not as you got watching the men’s huge luge bulges with zoom in shots. One will think if dressed in pants so thin you can read the date on a dime in the back pocket in the freezing biter cold weather, that the package would shrink. Must be on those little blue pills you have been sending them.
    Come on Boardman, leave your armed secure fenced community, get some fresh air, and check out attractive white women with rifles with us. As Trump would say, “We want you on our side of the wall.”
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/54113-humor-video-winter-olympics
    Hot white women or huge luge?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3jGp_ZC2iBE

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    GeorgeB, absolutely!
    Jsmith, I read he was a “white hispanic”. Like the guy that shot Trayvon.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: jon smith | 15 February 2018 at 10:08
    Funny saw pictures just last night of him in his #resist communist party till you puke get up!
    How goes your gun ban campaign? Progress?

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    GeorgeB 941am – Mr Boardman, that sure sounds like a dose of gratuitous snark from you this morning. You surprised me.

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I think we learned all we need to know about GeorgeB’s fantasies with his last remark, He doesn’t like hot spandex clothed, armed white women from Norway and loves women of color from Zambia or Haiti in native garb and unarmed except maybe with a machete.

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  23. ArchieBunker Avatar
    ArchieBunker
  24. Russ Steele Avatar

    MAGA CoVfefe! | 15 February 2018 at 08:46 AM
    Read it and get the facts:
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/02/14/sea-level-rise-and-fall-part-4a-getting-even-more-of-a-rise-out-of-nothing/
    Sea levels rise out of nothing!!

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  25. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Wasn’t Manhattan supposed to have it’s streets underwater by now?
    But the left still laps up info from this same source.
    First we were all going to freeze, then we were all going to bake, then it was ‘the end of snow’ and along the way the world was going to run out of food, oil and then we would all die. The ‘deadlines’ have come and gone all was proven false.
    Yet the left continues to beat the same drum and blindly ignores reality.

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  26. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Thanks Russ for yet another dose of pseudo science from a wacko website as described by Media Bias/Fact check : “Watts Up with That is a 100% climate denial website. They cite junk science and reject the consensus of climate scientist globally in the pursuit of their denial.” This site has been known to print “unverifiable information that is not always supported by evidence.” The site may be “untrustworthy for credible/verifiable information.”
    The real facts are not going to com from a former TV weatherman (Watts) or Russ Steele who merely parrots the bunk information put out by the fossil fuel industry in their pursuit of profit while endangering the lives of billions of people. To think that climate change is some kind of political football and tens of thousands of scientists the world over are wrong, and Russ and Watts are right, is absurd beyond the belief of rational human beings.

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  27. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    jon smith @ 10:08
    http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-school-shooting-suspect/story?id=53092753
    from:
    https://www.adl.org/blog/florida-white-supremacist-group-admits-ties-to-alleged-parkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz
    so this is your ‘source’:
    https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/160524925/#160524925
    You know, it might even be true, but you folks sound like a bunch of old women trading lies. The cool thing is that it ends up on ABC News.
    I feel embarrassed spending the few minutes it takes to read these blogs. They are less reliable than barbershops.

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  28. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: MAGA @12:26PM
    The odd thing is that I looked up ‘Skeptical Science’, and this is the first thing that I hit.
    http://www.populartechnology.net/2012/03/truth-about-skeptical-science.html
    Seriously dude, if you are going to argue about climate science, either learn something about it yourself or quote bonafide experts.

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  29. George Rebane Avatar

    More examples of messing with the messenger and not addressing the data – sources and methodology. Most ludicrous is the face off between the Left’s ‘thousands of consensus scientists’ vs Steel and Watt by themselves on the other side. Yet that is the best they have ever done and the only thing they are still limited to in their apologetics. The list of skeptical scientists are available on the web along with their reasoned arguments for not embracing preventable man-made global warming.
    But as Einstein said of ‘scientific consensus’ when a team of the world’s leading physicists were proposing to visit him and argue that relativity was wrong – ‘In science you don’t need a team to disprove a theory, one person is enough.’ The corollary to that is that science doesn’t proceed through consensual truths – one scientist’s proposition that withstands experiment is enough.

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  30. MAGA CoVfefe! Avatar
    MAGA CoVfefe!

    ”’Watts up with that”’ reminds me of the OJ Simpson dream team playbook,,,spew a bunch of mumbojumbo to try to confuse the jury…OJ walked…but was he guilty???
    Pretty impressive that Steele and Watt ”’singlehandedly”’ have outsmarted NASA,,, NOAA,,,universities,,,and everybody else!!!

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Yes, Watts is a propagandist of a sort (written without judgment, it just means he’s promoting his point of view)… but so is John Cook of the wretchedly misnamed skepticalscience website whose mission is to stamp out skepticism. Watts and Russ are both users of meteorology products, Watts in presenting the weather, Russ (in his past) was (someone will correct me if I’m wrong) was a USAF flight navigator; both need a great deal of knowledge of weather processes.
    Yes, climate isn’t weather… it’s the trends in weather. Weather records, weather projections. But you can’t (and probably never will be able to) project future weather accurately, and the further away the projection, the more wrong it will be. Face it, MAGA Dougie, Cross and others, including the FUE, you’re just doing in the blogs what Brownshirts did in person four score years ago… stomping people who dare not follow the one party line.
    The canard of thousands of scientists lined up on one side and Antony watts on the other is ludicrous. Watts is mostly a news aggregator, and there are at most 50 senior scientists driving the IPCC process to their intended results, one of the reasons why there hasn’t been ANY success in narrowing down the central question: if you double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, what is the change in temperature be?
    In 1979, it was a range estimated (and published in the Charney Report) to be from 1.5C to 4.5C, which, by a great coincidence, is the same in the last IPCC Assessment Report. But physicists working outside the very political IPCC framework are narrowing in on a number between 1 and 1.5C. At some point, without the fabulist claims of alarmists panning out, people will come back to sanity. Yes, CO2 warms the climate somewhat but it does appear to be much lower than natural variations.

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: MAGA CoVfefe! | 15 February 2018 at 01:34 PM
    …..SOUNDS like SOMEBODY is READY for A new NAPPY!

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Yes, “Archie” 147pm, but at least if the congress does nothing, they won’t be doing the same wrong thing that had been done time and time again after each major massacre since the first one, the Saint Valentines Day massacre by Al Capone’s gang in the 1920’s: find the gun guilty and make it harder for the law abiding to own and carry one.

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “jeffpelline says:
    February 15, 2018 at 1:22 pm
    Meanwhile, no word on the local hard-right blogs, Rebane, etc., about this massacre. Go figure.”
    No word on Jeff Pelline noticing a word on Rebane’s blog a full day before this false post of his.. In fact, it was me, yesterday, at 2:19pm in this thread, followed by “jon smith” making a comment a few minutes later that “That “thoughts and prayers” thing doesn’t seem to be working very well.”
    I’d counter that the “thoughts and prayers” do what they are intended to do. It’s a signaling of shared grief.
    Really, Jeff, don’t you even check these things before your fat fingers blurt them out?

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Looks like Trump dilemma has borrowed a page from the Clinton saga.
    Stormy Daniels saved a dress she wore during sex with Trump — and plans to test it for his DNA: report
    ““Sources close to Daniels tell The Blast the shimmering gold mini dress with a plunging neckline was kept in pristine condition after her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump at the Lake Tahoe hotel suite,” the publication writes. “We’re told Daniels is planning on having the dress forensically tested to search for any DNA that proves she isn’t lying about her tryst with Trump, including samples of skin, hair or… anything.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/stormy-daniels-saved-dress-wore-sex-trump-plans-test-dna-report/

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  36. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like the democrats of the Senate are as dysfunctional as we thought. They could not muster any to break the self-imposed ridiculous 60 votes on the immigration issues.

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The Clinton playbook? So the difference is now the media is after Trump unlike them enabling and protecting Clinton. I say “who cares”.

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 338pm … who doubts it? What does it matter?
    That’s the problem with believing that Clinton’s problem was about private sex between consenting adults, and not lying under oath,aka perjury in a serious sexual harassment civil case.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 15 February 2018 at 03:36 PM
    Hey give the guy a break….he’s lonely over there with only JoKe and sockpuppets to play with!

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Paul and his hooker obsession. BFD Pauly.

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 February 2018 at 03:38 PM
    We’ve been over this Punch…..presidential cheating was blessed in the 90’s by your guys!

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  42. Walt Avatar

    AHhhh..The AGW chicken little gang is at it again. Stop pushing your religion.
    The chicken little gang even try to have people prosecuted for “non belief”.
    It’s time the witch hunter gets burned at the stake. The carbon you put off won’t hurt the environment one bit.
    The vast majority says your full of shit.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    jeffpelline says:
    February 15, 2018 at 4:21 pm
    What a hoot! Greg Goodnight thinks another one of his little brain farts in the comment section of Rebane’s blog qualifies as “commentary.”

    Yeah jeffy were going to need two regular black coffees, a caramel Macchiato, two lattes (one with cinnamon and soy), and a toasted onion bagel for Todd. ….. now run along like a good boy!

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Like the socialist ghouls they are they never miss taking advantage of a tragedy-
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/15/florida-shooting-dnc-nra/
    😉

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Ooopsy…..looks like somebody jumped the gun in thinking they had “The Great White Defendant”!

    Local law enforcement: No ties between militia and Florida high school shooter

    http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/02/15/florida-school-shooting-suspect-nikolas-cruz-member-white-nationalist-militia-tallahassee-leader-say/341751002/

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