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329 responses to “Sandbox – 24feb18”
Good guy with a gun-
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/aurora-beacon-news/news/ct-abn-oswego-stabbing-charges-st-0227-20180227-story.html
😉
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lol.
Our good friend Paul sez: “Did you dig ditches for anyone famous Walt?”
wow.
I can’t say that he has, but digging ditches is a more honorable trade than singin’ railroad songs and avoiding taxes on the few sheckels made doing it.
It’s a real testimony to modern life that so many people can do so little valuable work and still get by.
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Avoiding Taxes scenes What evidence do you have of that or did you make it up?
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…..and now the fallout!
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/nra-boycotters-get-spanked-in-public-opinion-polls/
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Well Paul, you still have yet to prove your so-called Druid ancestry..(but HAY!,, No one is really keeping score,,, right?)
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re: PaulE@1:51PM
You know, that’s a fair question. My assumption is that musicians who play for cash just pocket their wages. Perhaps you’ve always been above board on your IRS reportings.
So….have you reported all the income you’ve made as a musician through the years? I’ve certainly paid a share of every penny I’ve made.
As to whether people who dig ditches are more valuable than musicians, I think it’s inarguable. Civilization is built atop the efforts of blue collar workers, not entertainers.
Have you always paid 100% of your taxes owed?
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Hang on..I think my post disappeared. Again….
re:PaulE@1:51PM
I think that’s a fair criticism. My assumption is that bar musicians simply pocket their earnings without reporting their income. Perhaps you’ve always paid your tithe to the government? You’ve gotten a 1099 from every gig? Reported income from those you didn’t?
If so, I apologize. So…have you always reported your income to the government? I certainly have.
As to whether blue collar workers or small town entertainers built the civilized world, I’ll always vote for the former. I can’t help but feel that digging is a more valuable and honorable trade than playing the guitar for money. We can do without the latter, but the former is a mandatory thing to build a society, or even a dry roof over your head. To reiterate, it takes a rich society to afford people who don’t earn their keep in the most straightforward way, everyone else is a sort of hanger-on.
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Speaking of google/youtube, from Drudge:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-28/youtube-s-new-moderators-mistakenly-pull-right-wing-channels
lol. Right. The memory hole is still sorting itself out and Minitrue is hard at work.
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Have you paid your taxes Scenes? I have
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Scenes, have you asked Trump that question? If so what did he say?
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….speaking of Memory Hole!
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/28/big-surprise-student-gun-control-activists-getting-help-democrats-progressive-groups/
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Oaul Emery why fib when we all kn=now you are tossing whoppers all the time. Why do you do that? You never met GeorgeD or the Queen.
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I have heard it is well known that musicians don’t pay federal income taxes. Anyone else hear that?
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Yeah Todd, Tell us about CABPRO! Or maybe I will tell K.A.’s version for you. Not a pretty picture, not a pretty picture at all Todd. It really is difficult to believe you keep sticking your head (and other things) where it doesn’t after so many smack downs and divorces.
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Todd
Played three private events where the Governor was in attendance. He was a very nice man, always took a little time to listen to the music and have a few words with us. Also we played at the wedding of Sal Russo. I don’t need to tell you who he is. This was a couple weeks after the election and the Gov was not in attendance, he was on vacation. those events are probably what caused the Gov’s office to call us and ask us to play for the Queens reception when she visited the Capital in ’83.
Thanks for the opportunity to promote myself.
By the way Todd, tell us about CABPRO, not that everybody doesn’t already know.
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jon smith | 28 February 2018 at 02:49 PM
Do what you have to do. And what about your marriages? Both sexes I heard. Is that true? CABPRO still drives you libs into a foaming at the mouth.
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Children, Children, Children
OK, got your attention. Why all this second-grade schoolyard name call and pissing on someone character. If you cannot be adults, at least pretend, as you are boring the crap out of readers with your immature bull sh*t.
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“Have you paid your taxes Scenes? I have”
Well, why yes. I’ve never had an opportunity not to.
I guess I have to apologize then. It takes a better man than I to count up the tip jar (or the cash payment from a venue), put it in a book somewhere, and then report it all to the IRS at the end of the year.
You are probably 1 in a 1000.
Todd…you and Paul need to get a room.
re: Trump’s taxes. I assume that they are exotic, it’s the nature of property development. Truth is, he probably would have made more money throwing his inheritance into a mutual fund, but it wouldn’t have been as much fun. I can’t judge whether there was any outright larceny involved, probably just a good attorney. The most interesting tax situations are the wealthy politicians who have never had a job outside of government. I’d love to watch the cash flow into Maxine Water’s pockets or the outright criminality of the Clinton Foundation…It’s an interesting moral point really, is it more virtuous to push your taxes to the bare minimum? or to make a living off of forms of bribery? It appears that fatcat Republicans do the former, Green Libertarians the latter.
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Scenes, Paul Emery is too homely, short and the wrong gender. LOL!
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CABPRO ceased being a viable Conservative voice once you took it over Todd. All the libs appreciate your leadership, short as it was, that put an end to CABPRO.
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…..and like that he becomes a “One Termer”! Who knew!
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-dianne-feinstein-erupt-with-glee-after-trump-seems-to-endorse-her-assault-weapons-ban/
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No Hope left. Pretty much a Trump family affair any more. So much for “The Team.”
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Looks like a LIB took one for the team.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/28/georgia-teacher-in-custody-after-reports-shots-fired-at-high-school.html
Just to “prove” teachers can’t be trusted with a gun?
I put nothing past a Proggy these days.
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No Hope-she’s out. Grease Boy Kushner is next. Must be lonely at the top for the Trumpster. Trump reported as telling Hope Hicks about Corey Lewandowski that she was ‘ the best piece of tail he’ll ever have’
What a class act Trump is
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hope-hicks-leaves-white-house_us_5a7cd9e0e4b08dfc93023551
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Grease boy? So Paul Emery adds anti-semitism to his resume” What a guy.
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Sure Paul, LIB news has been caught more than once making shit up about what someone “had said”.
Besides. How many of “O”‘s minions suddenly resigned after being questioned? She admitted to some white lies. ( OK,, who’s the first to yell “white privilege”?)
I think she knows that will just get worse. So,, off to better things, and no more crap from Proggy news.
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Yeah Walt things are going to get worse for Trumpers. Mueller is getting ready to go after the Trumplet and Kushner next and leave Trump twisting slowly in the wind. Pardon is not an option with midterms coming up and the Republicans having dismal hopes of retaining the House. Lots of fun. Much more fun than if Hillary would have been elected. Thanks to all of you for all the entertainment since you’re guy got in office.
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Ever see the musical Grease Todd? I doubt it. too sophisticated for him.
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I was just considering how you might make both of these rifles illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFYZHLuxXZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7gZ3mEmJM
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Muller has nothing and you know it. Muller’s tricks are known.
A nice example,, if you said red, but someone called it scarlet, and you should have known that,, you just lied. Can you tell the diff between the two?
That’s Muller’s game.
Remember. “collusion” is not a crime.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 28 February 2018 at 04:45 PM
You’re so reliably incorrect Punchy that your crowing makes me think Trumps legal problems are behind him!
If he gives in to an assault weapons ban as was reported today he’s done!
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Scenes. On that pump action,, to make it illegal fix it so the trigger can be held back, and fires every time the pump action is cycled. Like an old REM.Model 12 shotgun.
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re: Walt@4:59PM
I’m thinking along the lines of those being fired too quickly, they’re too dangerous.
Maybe a three shot magazine for both.
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I should be more clear I guess. I’m wondering what kind of law could be written by Green Libertarian headquarters to make those illegal.
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Well Paul, who might get indicted first? Trump or this Ca. LIB?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/28/doj-looking-into-possible-obstruction-charge-against-oakland-mayor-who-warned-ice-raid.html
Obstruction IS criminal.(not collusion)
What else should be tacked on? Say, harboring fugitives?
If one warns other cars on the road about a speed trap ahead, that’s criminal too.
She stated she would have no problem going to jail. Lets see her live up to that.
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Antifa affiliated group?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/27/black-illegal-aliens-gather-capitol-fight-trump-administration-immigration-policies-white-supremacist-wish-list/
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In the “Nope, we ain’t no grifters” department: It seems little Jared Kushner got “loans” of over a Half a Billion dollars after conducting White House meetings with private equity firm and banking executives. I wonder what they talked about. After all, Jared did have a higher security clearance then. All of the revelations coming out about the Trump crime family must be really beginning to wear on folks.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/jared-kushner-apollo-citigroup-loans.html?referer=https://t.co/zEeXKP4IZQ
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“Trump crime family”?? Evidence or more gratuitous allegations for the neuro-deficient constituents?
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Dr. R, he is just borrowing the talking points for po’ ol’ putin party parrots from PE since he has nothing of his own to contribute. Cue the troll. 😉
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Now for a change of pace,
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/clip/14161314/injured-visitor-believes-kaneohe-homeowner-set-booby-trap-to-deter-hikers-from-haiku-stairs
This guy has the balls to bitch about getting hurt while knowingly trespasses? This is how kids are raised these days?
I doubt there is a need to speculate of his political lean.
His excuse was he flew six hours just to get there? “People will go in anyway?”
Kinda like the folks around here, and NID ditchs.
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Hope spends 9.5 hours being grilled on the hill, then Trump jumps her for admitting to telling white lies and then she quits 30 minutes later. Expect her to spill the beans like a dropped can of Van de Camps. Would be no surprise if he was banging her when Melania and Barron weren’t looking.
Would be no surprise if she takes him to the woodshed . . . and back. I bet Trump is more afraid of her testimony than any other. Can’t wait for the fireworks!!! Then again she might simply disappear to her own Fantasy Island worth hundreds of millions with no income to show for it.
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Somebody flush the ‘jon’ will ya?
Trying to bully the SCOTUS is never a good idea!
https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/supreme-court-labor-case-ugly-labor-thuggery-on-display-at-oral-arguments/
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Posted by: jon smith | 28 February 2018 at 06:42 PM
One has to wonder why Trump would have reprimanded her so sternly if she had that much on him!
I suspect that this will be as disappointing to you as everything else.
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Facebook can expect scrutiny given Donald Trump’s appointment of Brad Parscale as his 2020 election campaign chief. Parscale was the Trump campaign’s digital guru in 2016, and credited Facebook as the crucial factor in Trump’s victory. If Trump’s reach and engagement are being disproportionately cut back on the world’s biggest social network, it’s unlikely to escape his notice.
When compared to high-profile Democratic political figures, Trump’s engagement appears to have been hit particularly badly. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders do not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/02/28/exclusive-trumps-facebook-engagement-declined-45-percent-following-algorithm-change/
Did the WH know about this and was this why Parscale was appointed now? Kinda looks that way!
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It’s interesting watching the Green Libertarian Censorship Committee at work.
https://www.thewrap.com/roku-rejects-calls-dump-nra-tv-channel-devices/
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fyi:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/business/banks-gun-sales.html
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bobbie cross 555pm
Trump Crime Family? That’s something Michael P. Anderson would write… are you familiar with him?
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An accident or a pattern?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-28/youtube-s-new-moderators-mistakenly-pull-right-wing-channels?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=bd&utm_campaign=headline&cmpId=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo
Funny how all the new stuff is making this happen.
😉
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Howdy. Reading the last comments, I would say it’s time Trump grabs his Twitter Machine and sent out a couple tweets using the M word. Monopoly . Breakup. The Googles of the our nation were soiling their pants when Trump called them up all to the Tower all in a big circle. Yahoo or somebody got left out, no room wvailable. There were whispers about the M word. Anyway, I thought that was a perfect time to mention In passing the M word. But no. Trump walked it the room and said it was the first time in his life that he was the poorest guy in the room. Funny man.
M word will get their attention. We can talk here about Ma Bell and Taft. Bet Punchy finds a way to defend monopolies.
Oh yeah. The point. The point is Loretta Lynch had been using an e-mail alias. Like, that is news?? I been exchanging e-mails with Peaches for a long time, not to mention Goodlovin, Sugadelight, and Spankme. Yep, it was sizzling hot hot hot on the Phoenix tarmac on a hot summer day. Mercy.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1267404080060293/?type=3&theater
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Well, let’s see the libs rail against Wal-Mart now.
… “Fighting evil is the Left’s Achilles heel. As I have repeatedly noted, the Left fights little evils, or even non-evils, rather than great evils.” —Dennis Prager
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