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[I think I pushed all the liberal hot buttons in my 16feb18 post on school shootings.  So gather your continuing thoughts on the topic there.  And please use this fresh sand for dissecting Mueller's latest indictments and Trump's latest travails.  gjr]

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99 responses to “Sandbox – 17feb18”

  1. Herman Gore Avatar
    Herman Gore

    Trump has announced that he is going to put himself on the face of the $100 bill. “After all,” Trump said, “Franken (sic) wasn’t even a President and I have done way more for this country in one year than he ever did in his whole life.”
    https://gorereport.com/trump-new-tweet/article/928734

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  2. Xeno Avatar
    Xeno

    Oh Boy, lets see how fast our local Trumpers try to drag Mitt Romney out from under the bus they threw him under now. This should be good.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/profiles-expediency-dumb-romney-welcomes-endorsement-con-man-trump-142845302.html

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Xeno | 20 February 2018 at 02:56 PM
    Oh Boy…..cuz going to Romney from Orrin Hatch is going to be such an epic change!
    Do you ever get tired of being Pelline Level stupid?

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  4. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Well today Mitt and DJT looked to me they buried the hatchet and are willing to be pals. DJT endorsed Mitt and he accepted. Looks like Xeno loses again. It is called POLITICS!

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Mitt will be nothing but trouble. He must have the same brain tumor that McCain has. If they are under the bus, I wiould back it up and run over both of them multiple times.

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Shhhhhhh! You are not supposed to talk about he results of weak government enforcement around here, its not welcome by the politically correct set. Especially the dealers who hide behind pot plants and sick kids. How often do we find poly drug sales, guns and stolen property in in Nevada County pot busts. 😉

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar

    I m really beginning to appreciate this writer’s well informed factual articles. He was great on the insider protocols for FISA requests and did not disappoint on his view of Islam. Too many money quotes to list.
    https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/islam-facts-or-dreams/

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  8. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    That was actually a pretty good op-ed.
    http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/paying-the-price-for-breakdown-of-the-countrys-bourgeois-culture-20170809.html
    I can see why she needs to be fired.
    I am become Green Libertarian, destroyer of civilizations.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar

    And this ain’t bad either.
    “Most of the ads didn’t mention the election or any candidate. A quarter of them weren’t seen by anybody. And, as Goldman notes, “The majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election.”
    How does this point to a Russian effort to elect Trump? It doesn’t. But as Goldman notes with apparent frustration, nobody wants to hear that.”
    ———-
    Con’t……”The problem is that Democrats and the mainstream press will never admit any of this, because if they did, they’d also be admitting that they were co-conspirators in this nefarious Russian campaign to undermine America’s democratic institutions.
    During the Cold War, there was a label for Americans who unwittingly did Russia’s bidding — “useful idiots.”
    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/mueller-investigation-13-indictments-trump-russia-collusion/
    Useful idiots? I prefer the antiquated term “popinjay”.

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  10. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    George- everything ok? I hope all is well.

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    jons 1115am – aok; thanks for asking.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Big one:
    The case is Janus v. AFSCME and Madigan (16-1466). A ruling is expected by late June

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar

    History? Treason? Russian Collusion? Memo or fakenews?
    Reading material on a slow news day. Head of the KGB to Head of the USSR memo concerning one Ted Kennedy, the Lying of the Senate and Democrat presidential nominee.
    “In Kennedy’s view, the main reason for the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s was Reagan’s unwillingness to yield on plans to deploy middle-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, the KGB chief wrote in his letter. “Kennedy was afraid that Reagan was leading the world into a nuclear war,” Kengor said. “He hoped to counter Reagan’s polices, and by extension hurt his re-election prospects.”
    http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/book_teddy_kennedy_plotted_with_soviets_to_oust_reagan/

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  14. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: BillT@1:07 (Janus v AFSCME)
    Is that one of those cases that chisels away at unions?
    It always has been a wonderment to me that people can accept that a monopoly is bad (Standard Oil) but that it’s also good (government employee unions).
    Just more proof that politics is emotional at it’s heart, not logical.

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Bad news for the po’ ol’ pollheads, Americans first has resonance-
    When asked, “In your opinion, about how many legal immigrants should be admitted to the U.S. each year,” 48 percent of black Americans said they would like to see between one and 250,000 legal immigrants brought to the U.S. a year.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/21/poll-of-republican-voters-reducing-immigration-more-important-than-replacing-obamacare-destroying-isis/

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Darned if you do, darn if you don’t. There is no accounting for taste.
    Offended by stereotyping, offended by insensitivity.
    “This is what it’s like to be a black student at New York University…” she wrote. “In 2018, I literally had to explain why displaying watermelon and koolaid in celebration of Black History Month was not only racially insensitive but just ignorant.”
    https://nypost.com/2018/02/21/nyu-served-racially-insensitive-black-history-month-meal/
    Ok, offended by not sterotyping, offended by insensitivity. From Lena Durman’s college:
    “A petition protesting both the quality and selection of food options served at Lord-Saunders Dining Hall began circulating on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Students called for CDS to adhere to more traditional meals, including making fried chicken a permanent feature on the Sunday night menu and providing more vegan and vegetarian options.
    The petition also outlines a list of proposed meals, offering authentic food ideas, recommendations on how to properly prepare food and reduce the amount of cream used in dishes because, as stated in the petition, “Black American food doesn’t have much cream in it.”……
    https://oberlinreview.org/9451/news/students-protest-in-wake-of-a-house-petition/
    And to think serving baked chicken at the dining hall started it all. Sure, there were other issues like having the food servers take oppression training. but the food was the biggest thorn in the side.
    Sure wish they would make up their minds.

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A great way for a rich snowflake to get attention in a military congressional district but not so good for her campaign-
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/22/dem-candidate-under-fire-for-crusty-old-marine-comment.html
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who knew that they were working against us in an official capacity?
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/22/immigration-agency-puts-americans-first/
    😉

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No wonder the po’ ol’ pollhead has stopped posting the tracking polls-
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_feb23
    Yes that’s right at 50% he is 5 points above 0 at the same point in the second year!
    😉

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar

    1) Oh Don,
    Punchy says Trump is down 11.5, neatly avoiding the fact that is was lower, shocking lower at -18 or -15….which he gleefully reported.
    2) Those Norwegians just can’t catch a break with all the snowflakes running around with their hair on fire.
    “”But on a second look, “Well, it does look like the Norwegian flag!”
    She says, “Maybe that’s the story … we’re so stressed by all things political that we see things that aren’t there.”
    Better hope the Russian bots don’t decide to repost their slightly altered version.
    Editor’s note: Due to the number of comments on this story that violated our Terms of Service, the comment thread has been removed.”
    But on a second look, “Well, it does look like the Norwegian flag!”
    She says, “Maybe that’s the story … we’re so stressed by all things political that we see things that aren’t there.”
    Better hope the Russian bots don’t decide to repost their slightly altered version.
    Editor’s note: Due to the number of comments on this story that violated our Terms of Service, the comment thread has been removed.
    But on a second look, “Well, it does look like the Norwegian flag!”
    She says, “Maybe that’s the story … we’re so stressed by all things political that we see things that aren’t there.”
    Better hope the Russian bots don’t decide to repost their slightly altered version.
    Editor’s note: Due to the number of comments on this story that violated our Terms of Service, the comment thread has been removed.”
    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/both-have-crosses-so-norwegian-flag-mistaken-for-confederate-flag/

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    A new flipper. this is more fun than I possibly imagined. Will testify against Manifort who faces prison forever with a batch of new charges. The greaser Kushner is next on the food chain.
    “Rick Gates, a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to two charges and will cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
    Gates pleaded guilty on Friday afternoon to conspiracy against the United States in connection with avoiding taxes as well as a charge of lying to the Special Counsel’s Office and the FBI.”
    Gates could be sentenced to about five years in federal prison under the sentencing guidelines, though there’s the potential he could get less time.

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    All these indictments are way before Trump. So be as gleeful as you want since nothing is attached to Trump.

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  23. George Rebane Avatar

    I take it PaulE’s unbridled joy is in anticipation of something finally starting to tie the president to some nefarious activity. It’s hard to believe that his happiness extends to third and fourth tier subordinates being indicted for activities that preceded the Trump candidacy. And yet the man continues claiming to wear the mantle of a mid-roader. It seems to me that he still hopes, nay, depends on the rest of us being dumber than 2x4s with faces painted on them.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    Just think Paul, just by chance if YOU had talked to gates years ago,(for whatever reason) Muller could give you a rectal exam.
    Find something in your past and indict you. Screw up on a question, and you just LIED! to the man. You said you had a conversion on Fri., when it was actually Thur. That’s considered a lie, and indictable. Yet you had nothing to do with what the original investigation.
    Ain’t open ended investigations great?
    Don’t ever say it can’t happen to you.

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sure your campaign manager not a big deal he’s a crook

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who knew the po’ ol’ putin party parrot is taking a math class-
    http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article201604224.html
    😉

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    DonB 906pm – I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. There are high school students in the US who don’t recognize a square root symbol, and mistake it for a gun, and then the police are called???!! Is this an indication that as a nation, we are at the threshold of both unbelievable ignorance and stupidity?? Who called the police, a teacher? What function will people like this have in our society?

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dr. R, I was floored that a so called math student in a math class could have possibly a) not known what it was or b) was such a snowflake to have complained that it was a threat that led to police action. It does however say a lot about that schools administration and teachers! Pathetic. 😉

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  29. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    I am floored that people here came to the conclusion the kids didn’t recognize the square root symbol… and If you compare it to the index finger & thumb combination universally recognized as a cocked pistol, I can see how some kids could have used it… what shocks me is the extreme hypersensitivity of school personnel and the lack of reason among police and a judge going off half cocked.

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  30. fish Avatar
    fish

    That’ll leave a mark…..

    “911, what’s your emergency?”
    “There’s someone breaking into my house. Could you send the Broward County Sheriff’s Department to water my garden while I kill the intruder?

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  31. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    News o’ the day.
    https://abovethelaw.com/2018/02/you-realize-arming-teachers-is-going-to-lead-to-black-students-getting-murdered-by-their-teacher-right/
    I figure it’s because the students were drawing a square root symbol on the board.

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scenes | 24 February 2018 at 06:37 AM
    Hey man…..! Nobody needs a radix ……not when the much less threatening x to the 1/2 power is available!

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Laugh or cry?
    “The patriarchal race to colonize Mars is just another example of male entitlement.” —Clayman Institute for Gender Research’s Marcie Bianco
    “Let’s talk about where a more serious structure might be necessary, where fencing will do or mowing the grass so that people can’t be smuggled through the grass.” —Nancy Pelosi on immigration and border security
    “If the government at any level had even attempted to do its job, the shooting never would have happened. This was perhaps the most preventable mass shooting in American history. But the people tasked with preventing it were incompetents and cowards.” —Matt Walsh

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 February 2018 at 08:00 AM
    1) Laugh….and laugh and laugh hysterically! That utterance may have just staked the end of “Please Pay attention to me” feminism!
    2) Laugh
    3) Cry

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Now if Trumps was actually cozy with the Russians, think this would have happened?
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/24/russians-us-strikes-syria/

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar

    “I want to say from my heart: Any leader who says that $1,000 in the pockets of working families is ‘crumbs’ is out of touch with the American people.” —Mike Pence
    “Republicans enacted a tax cut in December and any day now, most of the country will find out about it. … To paraphrase an old advertising slogan, an educated voter could be the Democrats’ worst customer this fall.” —James Freeman
    At least they are consistent in their duplicity.
    “I had to have a security detail to get out [of the CNN town hall]. I wouldn’t be able to exit that if I didn’t have a private security detail. There were people rushing the stage and screaming, ‘Burn her!’” —NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch
    .

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  37. MAGA Covfefe! Avatar
    MAGA Covfefe!

    Trumpski deletes ‘’’a nation of immigrants’’’. Fahrenheit 451 here we come!!!
    Look what Trumpski has done for the US!!!
    MAGA!!!
    https://yubanet.com/usa/trump-administration-rewrite-of-uscis-mission-statement-removes-phrase-a-nation-of-immigrants/

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Yep, the lefties are dull as dishwater, a humorless glum lot. And now they since that progress as left them behind as the voters are leaving them behind.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f26LqzPzU5o

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  39. Scenes Avatar
    Scenes

    re: Mr Maga
    Bummer that they don’t seem able to actually show the new (or old) mission statement, honestly I’d be surprised if you had looked up the new or the old one. When you’re in the propaganda business, I guess there’s no point.
    After a moment’s googling:
    “U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services administers the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.”
    I can’t see anything wrong with that at all. Do you?
    I guess that the underlying difference in attitude is that Team Blue values foreign nationals more than US citizens, and God knows the future 700M citizens of Nigeria (per pop. estimates in 2050) or the one gajillion in India are better off here than there…Team Red is more interested in the well being of current US citizens.
    If Team Blue had their way, you have to wonder what the point of even having a border is. The Prime Directive of Team Red is to protect themselves from Team Blue.

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