[The lamestream is now reduced to reporting on every Russian who ever had anything to do with US, or who traveled to America and in some way dealt with Trump or let his shadow fall on a Trump property. What does that say to the work product of special prosecutor Mueller after all these months? And we are still being informed that Russia has meddled in our elections, and will likely do so again – as if we just fell off the pumpkin wagon, or was it they who were so unfortunate? gjr]
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rebanesruminations.com 
250 responses to “Sandbox – 2mar18”
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Of course they meddle in our elections. To be fair, it’s probably 5% of how much the British meddle in our elections, and as to the Israelis, oy vey!
An interesting study for Mueller would be the amount that the US interferes with things like the Ukrainian elections, or heaven forbid the Russian elections.
It’s just business as usual since most countries tend to act in a self-interested fashion.
A better question is to think about what results the Russian might actually be after. The first would be a bit of internal tension, and since the Green Libertarians are the source of most of that it would be interesting to see what marches/protests/etc. the Russians have encouraged and/or funded. The second might be an attempt to get the US the heck out of places like Syria, which are right next door to Russia. The need for the Clinton State Department to cause civil strife in Arab countries was always a mystery to me, and probably a mystery to Putin. My guess is that all he wants is a certain amount of stability there and I can’t say that I disagree.
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The wicked witch of the West is losing her mind.
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/pelosi-repeatedly-says-wrong-words-commensurate-common-sense-tax-force-task-force/
Her brain damage is getting more visible with every press conference.
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Posted by: Walt | 02 March 2018 at 12:07 PM
Oh lord watching her over the next couple of years is going to be fun! She sounds like a stroke victim!
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Snopes has a new Villon now that the Scooper has tits up.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/03/02/nolte-snopes-fact-checks-facebook-threatens-over-satire-aimed-at-cnns-washing-machine/
Have and old washer? Ship it to CNN.
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Israel has probably buggered our elections and infiltrated our government far more than Russia ever has. Just a guess, but it’s an educated one.
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More BS from Doug’s brother “jon”.
Forget that it was “O” messing with Israel’s elections using our tax dollars? “O” hated Bebe, AND Israel.( Muslims tend to do that.)
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Walt – Here is a pretty good round up, and I can only guess the situation hasn’t improved. http://www.newsweek.com/2014/05/16/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757.html
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Like spying is anything new? Every nation does it. BFD.
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Posted by: Walt | 02 March 2018 at 12:45 PM
Sorry to say Walt but he’s not wrong…..Israel, Britain, Russia…..we do it right back. Funny to see the left cling to it so desperately to defend the honor of such a horrible presidential candidate.
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OH YA!
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/02/incredible-trump-agenda-what-most-americans-dont-know-about-war-president-has-waged.html
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And we revisit Mexico’s ongoing acrivities, overt and lauded, to mess with our elections. It’s a tautology to say we mess with everyone else’s elections. And it’s only the Democrat dufus double-dummies who think they just discovered Russia messing with us. Remember, it was the Left all during the Cold War that didn’t believe in the nefarious activities the USSR was promoting all over the world.
Now here’s a homework problem for all the astute RR readers. Can you find a single first world power that has not sought to influence the elections of another country, be they friend or foe?
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That should keep them busy @137!
Its the economy and voters perceptions that matter as we approach the primary season.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/02/consumer-sentiment-still-booming-higher-expected/
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Posted by: George Rebane | 02 March 2018 at 01:37 PM
Russia, or Mexico, or now both?
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Walt,
They claim its an M14. Only $1500!
https://www.classicfirearms.com/m14-rifle-new-semi-auto-walnut-stock-bula-parts-jra
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By all means big corporations…..keep virtue signaling!
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re: Fish@1:47PM
As an alternative, if you like that kind of configuration (and don’t go the Ruger route), you could check out Saiga Sporters. Cheap, potentially not black-rifle looking.
re: JonSmith@12:54
Can you image what would happen if the Israeli ties to US election manipulation were dug into to the extent that Russia/Trump (and not Russia / Clinton or anyone else) has been? Jeesh, the world would come to an end
As I probably mentioned before, Trump is the most highly vetted candidate or office-holder in history. The soft coup that we’ve been treated to has that to say for it. The stay-behind forces have been putting in overtime.
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How is ol’ Sleepytime doin’ at the HUD anyway???
He really making a big difference,,,except for wasting taxpayer money???
No comparison to Trumpski though,,,as far as a waste of space goes!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/27/ben-carson-spokesman-falsely-denied-expensive-table-bought
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Hay Clueless.(Dougy, “jon”,Lavender, or whatever your going by this minute) Your employment records have been hacked.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-secret-documents-from-russias-election-trolls-leak
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The teen who killed two in Michigan is a black kid. I wonder how the lames will spin that?
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The Nazi propaganda chief Goebels couldn’t even have imagined this kind of censorship!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/technology/china-technology-censorship-borders-expansion.html
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“Criminal unauthorized disclosures of classified material are investigated by the national security division,”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/02/jeff-sessions-doj-investigating-illegal-leak-of-michael-flynns-phone-call/
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Scenes-
“As I probably mentioned before, Trump is the most highly vetted candidate or office-holder in history. ”
Vetted? I have yet to see his birth certificate or his tax returns.
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Yeah we never saw Obama’s birth cert from Kenya of his college transcripts. Never one girl came forward for spilliung the beans on him. I think he is a transgender woman and Michelle is a transgender man.
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semiauto
http://www.guns.com/reviews/browning-bar-lightweight-stalker/
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re: jonsmith@4:07PM
Seriously, name me a politician who has had the millions of man hours applied to investigating him and his family, modern surveillance techniques used on him or her, and the full force of the state investigation apparatchiks used against them.
Really, it’s probably the first time in history. I can only think of Lincoln and perhaps Nixon has having as many enemies, but the electronic trails available now didn’t exist then.
At this risk of repeating myself, just imagine if this array of force had been applied against LBJ (to name one of our more crooked Presidents).
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Posted by: ArchieBunker | 02 March 2018 at 04:27 PM
Might be worth a look Archie! No 7mm Mag…..bummer!
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Posted by: Scenes | 02 March 2018 at 02:10 PM
Which Ruger should I not look at and why?
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yes, available in 7mm
https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/browning-bar-mk3-7mm-rem-mag-semi-auto-rifle-3-rounds-24-barrel-synthetic-stock-mossy-oak-break-up-country-023614439899.do?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=fn&ecList=7&ecCategory=614948
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Posted by: ArchieBunker | 02 March 2018 at 04:50 PM
Interesting……still intrigued by the higher cap in the M14 copy!
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re: fish
https://ruger.com/products/miniThirty/models.html
Why? I couldn’t tell you, I’ve never picked one up. It’s somewhat similar to the M1A in intent though. I’ve always figured that all of these rifles are somewhat overpriced as manufactured goods.
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George
what is your vies of Trumps recent tweet when he wrote
“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!”
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PaulE 528pm – As I made clear in the last sandbox, I don’t agree with the President’s trade policy. I haven’t seen what the net effect on jobs will be when the metals tariffs go in place, AND our trading partners start retaliating with their own tariffs. But it does appear that we already have enough capacity to produce all the steel and aluminum needed for national security. Have you seen any reputable estimates of the numbers?
However, if Trump’s reciprocal tariffs policy does work out, he will be hailed as a hero of the American working class.
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Posted by: Scenes | 02 March 2018 at 05:09 PM
I’ve always figured that all of these rifles are somewhat overpriced as manufactured goods.
Can’t imagine why that would be!
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We have yet to see the specifics of the proposal @ 549. From follow on comments it sounds like it is going to be targeted and not across the boards as some po’ ol’ putin party parrots would have you believe. 😉
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Walt from the now closed Sandbox this morning:: South African “darkies” grabbing Y-T’s land.
It makes perfect sense to me. This global international “diversified” non-God non-borders no -cultural Shangri-La is only what old pinko professors in elite colleges and unelected members of the EU Parilment taught the snowflakes how things will be. Promise. Get ready for Big Bro and his faceless hordes telling us what is best. Sounded great in the lectures. But not so great where real people live in real countries. Nationalism is not isolation, it’s a cultural thang. That’s something the Lefties hate more than God.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1268780226589345/?type=3&theater
Funny, the liberals told us that we were all raising our kids all wrong, wrong, wrong and proceeded to teach us how to do it right. Now the arrogant haters are freaking out because they have no clue how to deal with the monsters they created.
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Their true colors show!
Consequently, they and their political allies are complaining loudly and often about both Trump’s lowered refugee ceiling admission number and the increase in the time and length of the Department of Homeland Security’s security vetting of potential refugees.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/02/federally-funded-non-profits-whine-about-decline-in-refugee-admissions-and-revenues/
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S again. Wrong link.
Darn it, here is the link to the fantastic 7:22 pm above. South Africa, slaughter the Y-T’s, culture, and nationalism makes perfect sense in the real world.
“The Rhodesia of Spitfire pilot Ian Smith was a jewel of a nation of 250,000 whites and several million blacks that produced trade surpluses even when boycotted and sanctioned by a hating world.
When Smith was forced to yield power, “Comrade Bob” Mugabe took over and began the looting of white Rhodesians, and led his Shona tribesmen in a slaughter of the Matabele of rival Joshua Nkomo.
Eighty-five percent of the white folks who lived in Rhodesia, prior to “majority rule,” are gone from Zimbabwe. More than half of the white folks who made South Africa the most advanced and prosperous country on the continent are gone.
Are these countries better places than they were? For whom?
Looking back over this 21st century, the transnational elite that envisions the endless erosion of national sovereignty, and the coming of a new world order of open borders, free trade and global custody of mankind’s destiny, has triggered a counter-revolution.”
http://buchanan.org/blog/eternal-lure-nationalism-128811
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re: BillT@7:40PM
http://politicsweb.co.za/news-and-analysis/we-arent-calling-for-the-slaughtering-of-white-peo
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Didn’t the speech have a yet at the end @ 8p
One for the po’ ol’ pollhead, still holding at 49 –
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_mar02
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The face of antifa-
http://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2018/03/02/anti-trump-democrat-arrested-white-powder-laced-mail-sent-donald-trump-jr/
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Smiling Don @ 9:08 pm
Yep, the dude lives at his parents’ house and is on head meds. Been on meds for a long time. Long time. He is so plumb crazy that he is a gun control freak and a Trump hater to boot.. Oh my, what’s a mother to do? Well, I blame the parents. What were they thinking sending donations to Elizabeth Spreading Bull Warren? No wonder their boy is messed up. That family has some serious issues.
On a more serious note…….
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1009319795884909/?type=3&theater
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Somehow I think most folks can deal with a half cent on a can of beer for awhile to bolster our brothers and sisters in the rust belt. One of the biggest costs in aluminum production is energy. The US thanks to fracking will be the biggest producer of energy in the world this year. That is a domestic production cost advantage that matters. Turn off the tap on inferior chi com metals is a win-win!
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-will-make-beer-expensive-152234604.html
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I love these murder mysteries.
“And at the stoke of midnight, the town crier swung his lantern and called out, “Murder, murder in Bloomingdale. Murder.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/1/more-cover-up-questions/
Two days after the shooting, Hillary Clinton spoke of his death during a speech advocating limiting the availability of guns.
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Lets all thank the socialist team 0 for prop 47 in cali and this Cruz enabling policy that empowered the most radical antifa scum to do what they are doing.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/02/teacher-coalition-seeks-to-end-obama-school-discipline-policy-a-lot-of-fear-in-schools/
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More tales from a stormy night. Politics aside, I always had a soft spot for Donna Brazile.
“In a later mention of Rich, Brazile wrote that his murder haunted her. Brazile said she had a “spook” with connections to the intelligence community who advised her after Rich’s killing that she needed protection for herself.
Brazile heeded the advice and installed cameras, alarms and backup power at her home. She also kept the blinds in her DNC office window closed so she could not be seen by snipers.
The Daily Caller reported that Brazile was so concerned about Rich’s murder that she mentioned it during her brief, one-time phone call from Hillary Clinton following her loss in the 2016 election.
Brazile asked Clinton to contribute some of the millions remaining in her campaign’s legal fund as a reward for information leading to the arrest of Rich’s murderer(s).”
https://www.westernjournal.com/donna-brazile-haunted-patriot-seth-richs-murder-feared-life/
Yep, it has been one interesting bumpy ride since Citizen Trump threw his hat in the ring for the first and only time. I thought that Gold Star Mom and Muslim immigration lawyer Dad would never go away….but it did like countless other media created hysterias. Tonight I am reflecting on all the various characters that jumped out in front of Mr. Trump’s wild ride trying to stop it dead in its path. It’s like looking at the wake of a cyclone that blew through with lib bodies everywhere. Never get tired of winning.
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Talk about the vomit comet!
http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article203274359.html#storylink=latest_side
Even the pilots! 😉
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Bessee 9:53
“Somehow I think most folks can deal with a half cent on a can of beer”
Somehow I think you have the reasoning horsepower of a rock. How many thousands of pounds of steel go into bulldozers and cranes and railcars? Add 25% to the cost of steel and you are talking money. Infrastructure rebuild will use millions of tons of rebar and rails. Trump just decreased by 25% the buying power of contractors bidding heavy metal jobs. And the other countries haven’t even begun to retaliate. Stupid, short term, feel good move to assuage the instant gratification folks like you.
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Posted by: jon smith | 03 March 2018 at 07:39 AM
instant gratification folks……
Uh….you do recall which side you argue for?
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Zerohedge on Seth Rich Murder and DNC Emails
Given that a) the Russian hacking narrative hinges on Crowdstrikes’s questionable reporting, and b) a mountain of evidence pointing to Seth Rich as the source of the leaked emails – it stands to reason that Congressional investigators and Special Counsel Robert Mueller should at minimum explore these leads.
As retired U.S. Navy Admiral James A. Lyons, Jr. asks: why aren’t they?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-02/contradictions-seth-rich-murder-continue-challenge-hacking-narrative
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