[Time to revisit the national education scene with the just published critique Common Core by Nicholas Tampio (review here), and also enjoy the comedy of ‘Doomsday Climate Scenarios Are a Joke’ by Oren Cass (more here). Of course we can also re-circle the Trump and Stormy imbroglio a few more times. gjr]
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242 responses to “Sandbox – 12mar18”
Trump is still smarter AND richer than both of you.. Still President as well.
Then again,, what would one expect from the butthurt?
He proves day after day that capitalism works FAR better than proggyism.
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Kiss your solar panels goodbye!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5494489/Huge-solar-storm-set-slam-Earth-TOMORROW.html
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That’s what Tillerson gets for criticizing the Russians.
Meanwhile, John McEntee, Trump’s personal gopher, is fired and escorted out of the White House. He’s apparently being investigated for a financial crime.
No problem. He’s going to work for Trump’s reelection campaign as a senior adviser. That’s the kind of integrity we look for in our leaders.
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joes 922am – I believe you’re overlooking the more important aspect of Obama’s intellect – namely, that it was of no importance to those of you who elected him and kept the inexperienced, know-nothing, unaccomplished, Sec8 president in office for eight years.
GeorgeB 938am – Ooooh, now that was an icy one Mr Boardman.
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So what Boardman? People get canned from jobs every day.
So… You never have been fired? Do tell!
“O” never had the balls to fire anyone. Valery Jerrod wouldn’t let him. You know,, the “real” puppet master.
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Posted by: OBEE WONTON | 13 March 2018 at 09:20 AM
AwWw…..WhY sO sAd DuGsKi…..ToUgH BeInG tHe “MaN” oF a ThOuSaNd hAnDlEs?
Maybe watch some Thtar Warth maybe you feel a little better?
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Posted by: Scenes | 13 March 2018 at 08:53 AM
I mean it, I appreciate hearing anything from the online Left. My first tendency is always just to view them as mentally ill,
and that’s probably not a fair first impression.FTFY.
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Walter Branson 9:51-
Your Jeopardy answer of the day:
Dennis Blair, Stanley McCrystal, David Patraeus, Michael Flynn.
Question: Who are some people Obama fired.
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Well George tge Repubs kept Bush in office for 8 years and I wouldn’t call him an intellectual giant.
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Sure Paul Emery. The man graduated from college with degrees, flew a jet fighter and became President twice. No brains there. Is that nose of yours still planted up the ass of Obama the fraud?
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But Paul, “Nuculear” George was so smart he never learned to use a computer or even write an email. He bragged about it. Now that’s smart!
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Sounds like Trump Joe who doesn’t read and prefers junk food.
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Todd 10:57. That is AMAZING!!! Nuculear George not only graduated from college, but “with degrees” no less. I guess you don’t even understand why your comment is so absurd.
Thanks for entering a discussion about intellect, you give us a baseline to work from.
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off To San Diego for the Miss Universe Wall Beauty Contesy. Hope Trump gets an eyeful, if you catch my drift.
Who did Obama fire? Not enough deadweights, that’s for sure. That’s the problem with comparing Trump to a Washington Swamp Thang. Nobody gets fired in Washington. Not even Louis Lerner. Nobody. Not even that FBI lubberboy. They get reassigned. They get shifted around, but the nobody gets fired. Now Trump comes along and if you ain’t cutting it, you are out of here, knucklehead…..I mean it. Next. No time to suffer fools or good enough. The good is the enemy of the best.
T Rex wasn’t keen on moving the Embassy to Jerusalem, wanted to play nice with Iran and something else. Had your chance, decided to go “in a different direction”, as they say to you when they toss your app in the circular file or show you the door. You are fired, thank you for your efforts. Next.
What’s this? T Rex’s assistant says Trump fired T Rex on Twitter? Bold face lie. “You are fired as well, Little assistant to T Rex.” Get ‘em out of here, like in 12 seconds or less.
Yep, Trump does not believe in “close enough for government work”. Trump is hitting his stride and grapping the bull by the horns. Getting his engine clicking on more cylinders. What, you can’t fire public servants? Wrong. Eat Trump’s dust. Chao. Haste Bandanas.
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joe smith | 13 March 2018 at 11:08 AM
I am truly way smarter than you bub. Heck, I use my real name while you hide your LGBT lifestyle behind a fake one.
George Bush was recently honored for his African help against AIDS. All those black people living now and/or on drugs that keep the disease at bay think he is pretty special. So based on that I call you a racist dog who hates blacks.
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TodTard 11:19- Please forgive me for reminding you that the libtard Bill Gates designed the program and twisted Bush’s arm to join him. But . . . What Bush giveth, the Donald taketh away. You can’t have it both ways Mr. Wizard.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/03/trumps-dangerous-retreat-from-africa/
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Joe “LGBT” Confused Smith, please stop trying to rewrite history. Who cares where things begin? It is more important to make it happen. You should know, we realize your operations were not cheap, and who paid for them?
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Boy, the Buttercups sure are taking the House Intel Committee uncovering zero evidence of Russian Collusion with the God Emperor Trump (dictator for life) rather hard. “Not a smidgen of corruption.” Knocked the windout of their sails and put them a foul mood….er…a bit fouler than their natural foul state. Rank, rancid,clothespin on the nose time.
But, but, but, we know Trump did something! We just know it. Boy, the Lefties do not take losing graciously. No biggie. I don’t take all this winning graciously either. I just haven’t evolved enough. Trump used to humble, but now he is moving closer to perfect.
I wouldn’t compare intellects if I were ya. Just watching Trump running circles around ya so fast that he has has your brains scrambled and your heads spinning like a top….or more like Linda Blair’s spinning her melon then hurling the voluminous spit pea soup thang. Some call that an affliction. Don’t sound right. It’s more like an evil spirit possession. Or multiple evil spiritspossossing their mortal shells It’s the only valid possible explanation.
Or maybe watching My Gal doing the splits got their heads all a’twitter.
Bonus: I will put up Walt’s predictions and keen political awareness against anyone’s record here on this site…bar none. Drives the mush mouth holier-than-thous bonkers. Nuts. Coco for Coco Puffs. Plumb crazy. Satan’s spawn crazy.
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Shame how the Lefties treat women. A scandal for sure. Such misogynistic sexist behavior is repulsive to culture normals. Gina for the top CIA dog, first woman in US history. Trump has the first women to lead a victorious Presidential campaign in US history and now the first female Top Spook. And the Left treats them like death warmed over. The Plague, the Plague!
Hillary was right. The Dems do have a problem with married white women. No worries, Hill, the feeling is mutual, loser. A most bitter loser to boot. A bitter loser on her back with legs spread is not a pretty sight.
In a show,of Administration unity, Gina gave The Warrior Monk, aka Maddog Mathias, a dozen not quite trained German Shepherds from the CIA to give to our boys down at Gitmo.
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George@8:59
“Scenes 853am – Never claimed that Obama was not smeared as a simian, only that the smearers were immediately branded as racists and worse. Asymmetry again.”
Of course, but it’s just a sort of meta-politics. People will always find a way to form up teams, and your (in the broader sense) fear of being branded a racist is what gives that accusation strength. Sometimes racism is merely a synonym for observing.
I’m not sure that humans have either the intellect or vocabulary to describe what side they are on, but darn it, they just know.
My own rough approximation is that what we are seeing is a battle between Western Civilization and some other force of chaos, best defined as being anti-Western. I wouldn’t bother about getting wrapped up in gun rights, abortion, tax law, free speech, etc. It’s something deeper.
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Scenes 1220pm – Yes it is something deeper. BTW, didn’t mean to mislead you about any “fear” – in a broad or narrow sense – that you detect in me. I have none.
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2010/07/who-is-a-racist.html
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re: GeorgeR@12:41
That’s why I said ” and your (in the broader sense) ” . I’m using the word ‘you’ to refer to a general class of speakers.
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Could you imagine learning on Twitter that you have been fired? I mean, what kind of asshole does that? This is the Secretary of State for Christ sakes, not some natty headed busboy at Mar a Lago.
Why? Pure vindictiveness, spite, and classic example of a spineless bully.
note: I refreshed TypePad and jon popped back up to replace joe. I don’t get it.
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1) @ 12:20 pm
The current battle is fine tuning itself into Colonialist and anti-Colonialist. Best broadbrush I can come up, shooting off the hip.
2). I personally don’t care what Joy B or anyone says about Christians or any religion. But, she should not have done that as a de facto representative of the network who airs The View….aka, the ones who cuts her checks. Christians, Jews, and some others should know full well it comes with the terrority.
With that said, enough angry folks were twieeting and calling and and e-mailing the network and their sponsors to make Joy Behar say, “I am sorry my words were taken in an offensive manner”or however non-apology apologies are worded today. Nobody says, “I was wrong”. Because if you say you are wrong, then you have to change yourself. Saying “I am sorry” is true. Sorry you were forced to apologize to “those people”whom your industry ridicules every chance they get. No biggie. It’s behind us now..it’s worse on campuses. Always a silver lining.
Apology accepted if someone needs an apology.
https://news.grabien.com/story-joy-behar-i-sincerely-apologize-what-i-said-about-pence-and
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Donald Trump, class act:
–Tillerson finds out on Twitter that he’s been fired; Trump doesn’t have to guts to tell him face-to-face.
–Tillerson’s PR guy is fired for contradicting the White House, that is, telling the truth.
–An ICE PR guy quits because of lying by Session and others in the administration about illegals.
No wonder Todd and Walt like this guy. The only class they know about are the ones they cut in school.
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Scenes 112pm – Apologies. I took “broader sense” in terms of a broader definition of the label, and me as such a racist; and not in the appellation of a broader collection of people so ascribed. Thank you.
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That Mike Pompeo is a real Koch Sucker!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-hawks-firing-tillerson-case-careful-wish-180040243.html
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Trumpski Lies,,,and lies,,,and lies,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-spokesman-resigns-accusing-trump-105350870.html
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George Boardman | 13 March 2018 at 01:38 PM
Never cut one class in my school years, so as usual, you are a bald-faced liar. And I thought all you libs were all about tech? So he fires the guy on twitter, I could care less. And since when are you concerned about others on the right? Never, is when. But liberals can’t tell the truth can they GeorgeB? No wonder you a Pelline are so alike. HaHaHa.
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Pompeo is going to be the Sec of State. What are you ObwanneBee? A big nothing afraid to list her real name. Pathetic.
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Over at the FUE’s:
“Ghidotti’s plans for national school walkout to protest gun violence This week marks the first national test of teenage activism against gun violence. This is from the Ghidotti Early College High School newsletter:
“Hello Ghidotti Families,
A few folks have asked about a possible walkout tomorrow in concert with the events happening across the nation.
“As principal, I’m not in a position to endorse a political position. However, it is my responsibility to make sure our students are safe and heard.”
Since when does someone not in a position to endorse a political position claim it’s their responsibility to ensure protesters are “heard”…. Principal Levinson, I’d say your only responsibility is for student safety; whether they are heard or not is not your business unless you are passively endorsing the protestor’s position.
The protest isn’t about gun safety, it’s about limiting the rights of gun owners. Making the guns go away, or as marijuana activist and sometime RR contributer Patricia Smith put it in an Other Voices in The Union recently, 2nd Amendment rights are not unlimited so it’s not contrary to the 2nd Amendment to ban semiautomatic guns.
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The heart of the issue is the iran deal that is up for review this month, simple as that.
Iran nuclear deal. Tillerson frankly admitted in August that he disagrees with President Trump about the Iran nuclear deal. Trump has harshly criticized the deal and expressed a strong preference for scuttling or renegotiating it, while Tillerson argued, “There are a lot of alternative means with which we use the agreement to advance our policies and the relationship with Iran.”
After he fired Tillerson, Trump cited the Iran deal as one of the issues he was never able to resolve with the former secretary of state.
“When you look at the Iran deal: I think it’s terrible, I guess he thinks it was OK. I wanted to break it or do something and he felt a little bit differently. So we were not thinking the same,” he said, adding that new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a more “similar thought process” on the matter.
You can disagree with the boss but you can not under cut his policies. 😉
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Tillerson doesn’t bother to thank Trumpski during farewell speech,,,why would he thank the Commander in Attention Deficit???
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Todd 2:05 – Re: cutting class.
Did you graduate Todd? No.
Did you leave mommy’s backyard to get any education? No.
Did you leave mommy’s backyard to work? No.
Do you have any sense of the world outside of mommy’s backyard? Apparently not.
Did you get degrees too 🙂
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Trump-zombies are sticking knives into Tillerson already,,, throw another one under the bus,,,ba bump! ba bump!
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jon smith | 13 March 2018 at 02:18 PM
Wow what an imagination, are you drunk again you LGBTer?
:ist your accomplishments here and let us know how wonderful you are bub. I don’t have too. You are just a troll and I am a real person. What a hoot!
Hey at least I am not trying to become a mommy as you are. LOL!
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Hey, wait, didn’t Al Gore invent the internet?
Lee reserves his biggest criticisms for the huge platforms — by implication, Facebook and Google, among others — that have come to dominate their spheres and effectively become gatekeepers. They “control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared,” Lee wrote, pointing out that they’re able to impede competition by creating barriers. “They acquire startup challengers, buy up new innovations and hire the industry’s top talent. Add to this the competitive advantage that their user data gives them and we can expect the next 20 years to be far less innovative than the last.”
Centralizing the web like this has led to serious problems, like when an Amazon Web Services outage took down a chunk of internet services over a week ago — nearly a year to the day after another similar web-crippling incident on AWS. But bottlenecking the internet through a handful of platforms has also enabled something more sinister: The weaponization of the internet. From trending conspiracy theories all the way up to influencing American politics using hundreds of fake social media accounts, outside actors have been able to maximize their manipulation efforts thanks to a far more centralized internet than we used to have, in Lee’s opinion.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/12/the-father-of-the-world-wide-web-is-one-disappointed-dad/
😉
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Help us OBEE WON Douchenozzle…..you’re our only hope!
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/13/media-cant-figure-out-if-tillerson-proves-or-disproves-russia-collusion/#.WqgjRLyBkZI.twitter
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OH how the real story starts coming out.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/13/fusion-gps-romney-investigation/
“O” may wind up behind bars yet!
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Sepub Saccone sure sounding desperate.
“Rick Saccone, the Republican congressional candidate endorsed by President Trump in Pennsylvania’s special election, told a crowd of supporters Monday night that his opponents hate the president, the country, and God. “
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Repub Saccone sure sounding desperate.
“Rick Saccone, the Republican congressional candidate endorsed by President Trump in Pennsylvania’s special election, told a crowd of supporters Monday night that his opponents hate the president, the country, and God. “
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“jon smith”
If you are Linda Campbell as you seemed to admit a few days ago, you only went so far as to attend Chico State, and then you came back to GV, your “mommy’s backyard” to “teach” the underserved kids that fall behind. And according to the STAR exam results, you taught them very little.
No, Todd is not the most academically inclined on this blog but you madam, are not ahead of him much, if at all.
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Time for a nap @ 301? 😉
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Yes, Punchy, he’s desperate to not lose a short term job in the Congress in a district that will go away before November, and the guy who looks to be on a trajectory to win does not live in the District that will exist in November.
We’ll know in a few hours who won the seat… Either Trump got out his voters, or he didn’t.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 13 March 2018 at 03:02 PM
“Rick Saccone, the Republican congressional candidate endorsed by President Trump in Pennsylvania’s special election, told a crowd of supporters Monday night that his opponents hate the president, the country, and God. “
Yeah…..almost as desperate as Shotgun Joe saying this:
‘They’re going to put y’all back in chains’
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Greg 3:05 – I’m Linda only if Todd wants me to be. Anything to please my man. Who knows who he wants me to play tonight? Maybe I’ll be his Peggy.
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So what Paul? You have said the same thing HERE!
You sure forget things soon. Just the other day you said I hate Greeks. Care to show me where I said that? What I DID say, is that I have yet to meet one that tells the TRUTH. Thanks for proving that point.
You love GOD? (not by what you have said in the past.)
You love this country? Not by what you have said about it.
You even claimed the revolution was “unjust and illegal”.
Yup,, you hate Trump TOO!
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A non-denial denial from jon smith.
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”’President Trump on Tuesday said his new national security strategy… may pave the way for the creation of a “space force.””’
Walt Todd Fish Donnnie,,,now is your chance to be all that you can be!!!
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Keep America Great is sensitive content according to twitter??? To snowflakes apparently.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/11/twitter-censors-drudge-tweet-of-trump-2020-slogan-as-sensitive-material/
😉
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