[The Miami bridge collapse embarrasses me as an engineer – such screw-ups are supposed to occur only in third world countries. And then we find that this was a 'shovel ready' project from the past, designed by the nearby university, that took five years of bureaucratic buffeting before being awarded to a problem-plagued construction firm. And it turns out that the Left did another number on CIA's Deputy Director Haspel nominated by Trump to be the new CIA head. They lied about her involvement in past waterboardings by the agency, which even if true, is to me and mine no reason to doubt her ability to lead that organization. gjr]
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302 responses to “Sandbox – 16mar18”
Well he is already well versed in talking to the press out of school @ 544 its just that he wont have anymore classified information to share! 😉
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HA! Hey Trump, you vindictive, spiteful, arrogant prick. Suck this:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/andrew-mccabe-was-just-offered-a-job-by-a-congressman-so-he-can-get-his-full-retirement-and-it-just-might-work/ar-BBKlTAR?ocid=spartanntp
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Now I believe its that usual suspect @ 625 gang. 😉
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Proof positive Mzzz “smith” ain’t no lady.
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Must be some of that gov. union crap. Because as of now, McCabe is unemployed. “FIRED” means GONE. DONE. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. Turn in your shit. (now he kept memos?? uh,, gov. property…) So as jon Doe cackles about the laws of getting kicked to the curb no longer apply.
He want’s a pension? Put in another 20. Maybe you will follow the rules next time.
I guess Hillary is throwing him under the bus. Loyalty didn
t pay off. And all that info he held back on her server. Must have been worth it.
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Posted by: jon smith | 17 March 2018 at 06:25 PM
Jeez Linda…..take a Valium!
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Law Prof: Did McCabe Just Throw Comey Under The Bus For Perjury?
Bring on the OIG report!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-17/law-prof-did-mccabe-just-throw-comey-under-bus-perjury
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From the “what does he know that you don’t” dept. comes this from former director of the CIA John Brennen:
Brennen said that trump would take his “rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history” once “the full extent” of his “venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known,”
NO small wonder why trump is trying to shut down the investigation. My guess is that they have him for laundering Russian mob money. Just a guess.. and I also guess you have seen the Comey tweet where he responds to trump’s attacks by saying “Mr. President, the American people will hear my story very soon. And they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not.”
Reality TV just doesn’t get any better than this. Did you guys know that professional wrestling is fake?
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 17 March 2018 at 07:11 PM
……thanks bobby.
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I am sure I will be blessed with another visit from her at the Republican fair booth this year. 😉
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I know why the po’ ol’ putin party parrot is out of the mix, he is working feverishly to get out the vote in Kaliningrad!
Seeking mandate, authorities make major push to boost turnout
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-17/russians-vote-on-new-putin-term-as-tensions-flare-with-west
😉
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re: JonSmith@6:25PM
More news on McCabe…..
https://twitter.com/sean_spicier/status/974837940462542849
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re: RobertCross@7:11PM
You mean Brennan with an ‘a’?
This guy?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/31/cia-director-john-brennan-lied-senate
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-20937055
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/20132894728377540.html
I suggest you find more palatable allies.
Honestly, it seems to me if guys like that are mad, Trump is doing something 100% correct.
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Oh jon smith and his livihood dependent on gov’t work. What, your boy is a secret agent or something? Eat this G-Man. The closer to the bone, the sweeter the meat.
Every time the Dems try to uncover some salacious juicy morsel on Trump, they end up getting caught with their pants down stooping over a San Fransciso sidewalk. Push! Push harder. Smile, you’re on candid camera.
Amazing, it just keeps blowing up in their faces. Have you seen the share price of Acme Rents lately. I have never seen such a thing in thirty years.
To quote the late Jim Nabors, “Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!”
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1) Sorry jon, that wasn’t very Nevada County friendly of me. Yep, that Trump sure can get under your skin. It’s like it escalates for awhile, backs off for 19 hours, The the cycle repeats itself. Is it time to talk about your pain?
2) That Trump is one vindictive prick, I tell ya.
http://www.oann.com/calif-dam-construction-likely-to-be-financed-by-2019-federal-budget/
It’s goinna be beautiful.
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Geez Toz, do you have a life? Come up for gasp a breath of fresh air and start hammering away on your computer using 45 words to tell the tale most could tell in 10 words? I detected a yelp in your last whiney. Trump drop a bowling ball on your foot?
Again, I’m serious now, do you have a life outside of this blog? GR should be paying you for 40 hours a week getting a monitor tan while filling out these pages. Wife, kids, work, cleaning the cat box, knitting?
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Still don’t get it (uh)”jon”? Bill tells you to go “F” yourself, and you still look forward to the action.
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I can feel the love.
It’s almost like these guys were drawn from central casting.
http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/378919-mccabe-just-made-life-tough-for-comey-and-the-special-counsel
“Following his termination late Friday night, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe declared that he was “singled out” after “unrelenting” attacks by President Trump and critics. McCabe’s objections are less than credible, given the virtually unprecedented recommendation of career officials to fire the one-time acting FBI director. etc.”
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Posted by: Scenes | 18 March 2018 at 07:57 AM
It’s like every day is Christmas!
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h/t to Takimag
The Intergroup Foundations of Policy Influence
https://sci-hub.tv/http:/journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1065912918761008
the best part:
“In fact, only women and minority judges showed any statistically
significant ingroup favoritism. There is no evidence
of male or white judges showing favoritism toward
their own demographic group. ”
Which makes me wonder what’ll happen when improved AIs are let loose on large chunks of sociology data. They’ll have to install large dials on the side of the machine to make it produce the ‘correct’ answers.
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and last in the news o’ the day.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/16/student-with-trump-flag-assaulted-by-mob-during-national-school-walkout.html
“While it was previously reported he sustained minor injuries, a family friend told Fox News he was taken to urgent care because his arm was broken in two places.”
It’s worth considering what the lessons are here.
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oh jeez, one more. Sorry.
Remember back in the days when you used to hear “DON’T GO AFTER THE ILLEGAL ALIENS, GO AFTER THEIR EMPLOYERS!!!”?
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/democrat-congressman-costa-upset-ice-is-causing-illegal-aliens-to-lose-their-jobs/
Ya can’t win in this world.
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fishy “Law Prof: Did McCabe Just Throw Comey Under The Bus For Perjury?
Probably not, considering your source, the story is probably pure BS.
Zero Hedge is a financial blog that aggregates news and presents editorial opinions from original and outside sources. In between the aggregated news there are economic conspiracies and general right wing biases. Zero Hedge also has a terrible record with fact checkers. Overall, this is a conspiracy based website.
source: Media Bias/fact check
and you are welcome!
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Does anybody else when the Obamanauts were bragging to the world about their very similar program!
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 18 March 2018 at 08:58 AM
Oh Lordy bobby you entertain me so……
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bobby 858am
So, faced with quotes in zerohedge, with citations, from Jonathan Turley, McCabe and Comey…
You go in for the kill to slime zerohedge as a “conspiracy based website” based on claims emanating from a conspiracy based website.
Easier than finding fault in Turley’s quotes, eh, Bobby?
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oh, the irony!!! mccabe fired for leaking about hillary!!!
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Posted by: obeehave | 18 March 2018 at 09:28 AM
Oh the irony…dugski trying to make a point….about something…..and failing again.
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Now how does that go? “What a tangled web we weave,,,,,”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/18/trump-calls-out-comey-for-lying-under-oath/
I guess lying is only supposed to Repubs in trouble.
It’s OK for Proggys and anti Trump minions to lie.. The end justifies the means.
Right Bobby?
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“You go in for the kill to slime zerohedge”
At least he didn’t bring up the SPLC.
To me, the value of places like Zero Hedge is the fact that they aggregate stories. I can’t say that there are any ‘unbiased’ (whatever that means) news websites, but they all serve a purpose in pointing out interesting situations. Foreign news sites covering US domestic politics aren’t bad sometimes, but they tend to leave out the stuff that gets the Green Libertarians all het up.
I think that the real value of this whole election cycle and Presidency, besides some mild attempts at controlling the border, is that it so brutally dug out the awesome bias in big-league media outlets. It’s one thing to think that the NYT, CNN, etc. are firmly in a philosophical camp, but quite another to have it shoved in your face on a daily basis.
I wonder if there’s an official fallacy (think Godwin’s Law) based on the sliming of a news outlet rather than the news.
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BIGFOOT update.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/03/17/woman-claimed-saw-bigfoot-sues-state-california/
As nutty as the state courts are these days, she might win.
She goes out LOOKING for the big guy,, then sues when she finds one?
Like suing Nevada city for a MJ contact high knowing full well Nevada City air is 50% weed smoke before you even get there.
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,,,robert,,,how cool is that,,,we get to live,,,rent free,,,in águaman‘s head!!!
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Get your vote in for Putin Dougy? Or did you wait for your TROLL check to clear first? (20 Rubles is 20 rubles.)
Now you can afford that rent.
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30,000 hillary emails hacked by putin,,,one steele dossier vs. 50 million facebook accounts hacked by trumpski and the meatheads,,,what is the score now boys???
,,,hmm,,,why haven’t we heard from camebridge analytics on who the ‘’’real’’’ trolls are walter???
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Posted by: obeehave | 18 March 2018 at 11:39 AM
Enjoy your last president Cap’n Poopy Pants.
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‘’’Enjoy your last president Cap’n Poopy Pants’’’,,,are you pushing out your mental loaf of the day for trumpski to become president for life like his idols in russia,,,cuba,,,venezuela,,,china,,,north korea???
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,,,like i said,,,free rent!!!
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Dougy.. Who said it was a good idea to mix meth and crack?
Looks like you got bad advice.
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Posted by: obeehave | 18 March 2018 at 11:56 AM
Not at all dugski…..I’m just guessing that the chronic diaper rash will probably have killed you by the time Trump starts his second term.
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It looks like the Trump team were better at cyber warfare than the Hillary Google Team. We will hear a lot of liberal press whining about the Trump/Bannon/Cambridge Analytica initiative, but little or nothing about Google’s role on Hillary’s Team.
Several outside firms connected to Google also worked on the Clinton 2016 campaign. Those included Civis Analytics and The Groundwork, two companies that compiled data and polling on voters for the campaign and that were funded by Google’s Schmidt. Hillary for America spent more than $590,000 on services from The Groundwork and at least $48,000 on Civis Analytics in this campaign cycle. Clinton’s primary super PAC, Priorities USA, has spent more than $800,000 with Civis Analytics this cycle.
http://www.googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-support-hillary-clinton
Trump/Bannon/Cambridge Analytica was better at cyber warfare than Obama/Hillary/Google, who got beat at their own game.
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,,,russ,,,make that trump/bannon/cambridge analytica/putin…
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,,,águaman,,,feel free to take out a term life policy on me,,,just send me the paperwork,,,as long as you don’t mind if i sign as david dennison,,,i should warn you though that at my advanced age and infirmity the premiums are going to cost you!!!
maga
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Wow, I wish that obeeXXX would find a different playground. It’s difficult reading posts by a (likely) 70 year old that read like a teenager’s.
A quick observation on leaked emails, the ‘Russian’ (or insider) leaks of Hillary outlining her evildoings being an ever-present example.
We are quick approaching a point where sovereign states or large companies could pull off a cyber-version of MAD. Realistically, ask yourself how much dirt Putin has on the Western elite after all these years. The Russians have (my guess) less of an Achilles Heel in this area since a)their intelligence services and military have moved back to paper communications and reports and b)their system is more tightly controlled.
So, a question. If the Russian did a full release of all the stuff they know about Western leaders, would that be considered an act of war? Seriously, just imagine the amount of dirt they have, some legal, some not.
I’d laugh my ass off if a bunch of video footage of Bill Clinton on the Lolita Express showed up on youtube.
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Posted by: obeehave | 18 March 2018 at 01:14 PM
This is what I was afraid of….sepsis seems to be setting in. Even more rambling and nonsensical than usual.
crapa
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Well put me down in the “not surprised” category!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5513625/Barbra-Streisand-75-says-never-sexually-harassed.html
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Posted by: Scenes | 18 March 2018 at 01:18 PM
So, a question. If the Russian did a full release of all the stuff they know about Western leaders, would that be considered an act of war?
Public service!
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“Public service!”
You can make that argument, but the ruling elite would consider it something else. Their Prime Directive (yes, even Saint Mueller) is to stay in power after all.
It isn’t like the Russians had cameras set up at “Man’s Country” watching the future President receiving suitors, but you know darned well that they have the Clinton Foundation and/or the Trump business empire thoroughly monitored and charted out.
An interesting variant of this, given new modern abilities, would be DNA testing. Is Barrack Obama the son of Barrack Obama Sr.? Frank Davis? some other radical that mom had a fling with? Not to mention the Hubbell/Chelsea Clinton business. The thing is, 90% of these stories are false, but a true one would be dynamite given the silly nature of voters. It wouldn’t take much in the way of physical sample, and the opportunities for political mischief are many.
The fact that the so-called Russian election interference was so trivial merely proves to me that they either didn’t do it or weren’t really trying.
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It is hilarious that someone as corrupts as Brennen would even think of throwing rocks. He must drink the shrillary koolaid by the gallon!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/18/paul-denounces-disgraceful-ex-cia-chief-brennan-over-anti-trump-tirade.html
😉
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In the “No there ain’t no collusion” dept. It seems the Federal Election Commission is investigating the possibility that the NRA took money from Russians to support trump and bash Hlillary. No wonder trump did nothing after the latest massacre but blow hot air out his rear and then backtrack on that. The saga of TrumpINC. just gets more entertaining by the day doesn’t it.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fec-probing-nra-russia-election-funding_us_5aadab7ee4b0c33361b0f887
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robert,,,that falls in the ”’what a hoot!”’ department
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