[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”
Cambridge Analytica = business as usual.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-obama-campaign-won-the-race-for-voter-data/2013/07/28/ad32c7b4-ee4e-11e2-a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html?utm_term=.2f4bd105c59d
https://www.wired.com/story/what-did-cambridge-analytica-really-do-for-trumps-campaign/
lol. Man, you guys are desperate. It went from Russian peeing prostitutes, to Russian bribery, to Russian leaking Hillary crimes, to Russian buy a few Facebook ads, to what is basically a marketing company (the modern, big-data variant) who has done business with the Russians being a Trump contractor during the campaign.
That is ‘collusion’. And, mind you, this is an election where the near-monopoly internet media firms (Google, the Youtube branch of Google/Alphabet, Facebook, MSM) are basically unpaid members of the DNC.
Christ Almighty. The beautiful thing about the handwringing is that people who are the most concerned know the least about the underlying technology. I’m not implying that the local Green Libertarians are stupid, but the grasping at straws is getting tiresome.
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Gotta love LIB news. Desperation is setting in(again).
Paul.. Your “source” fails to tell you this.
https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-fb/
And from your submission,,,,
“Other methods involved making the public believe inaccurate facts about a certain candidate.
“I mean, it sounds a dreadful thing to say, but these are things that don’t necessarily need to be true, as long as they’re believed,” he said.
Thanks for the ammo Paul…
Keep living up to “by any means necessary”
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The Trump campaign providing research material that they contacted through Cambridge to the Russians to guide their fake news Facebook propaganda campaign is collusion pure and simple. No doubt about that. No wonder Trump is getting so desperate.
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trumpski has made ‘merica great again,,,he has all kinds of folks working like crazy to dig up the dirt on him,,,time will tell…
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Bessee is still counting his fingers. Is he using the Mayan calendar when he claims Trump has improved ties with Taiwan over the past two years? Maybe he’s too busy counting the Bitcoins he bought at $18,000.00.
Trump Jr. caught with his pants down. Cheating, in every regard, seems to be a Trump family value. How do they sleep at night? Todd?
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OH, Mzzzz “jon”.. Of all people,, your concerned about cheating?
Happen a lot to you? It fits right in with your “pretty” wife issues.
If there was ANY “dirt” to be had, it would have been out by now.
Even the LIB “evidence” manufacturing operation is falling on hard times.
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What’s a blog to do?? The trolls here are so bad they cant read and comprehend what the article about Taiwan is saying. They are talking about the period since the election morons. He impacted policy by taking the congratulatory call from Taiwan, not since he was sworn, we are in 2018 and he was elected in 2016. 😉
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I had expected the po’ ol’ fakenewsman to have breathlessly reported the President pushed her.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/03/19/president-trump-saves-melania-tripping-her-way-marine-one/439019002/
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Paul Emery | 19 March 2018 at 03:21 PM
Fake News. The Trump campaign never used that info. Please get accurate you are a embarrassment.
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It’s probably time to go after Cruz, too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/01/01/data-breaches-psychological-profiling-voter-modeling-inside-the-big-data-world-of-campaign-2016/#2442d8107c4f
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Bessee 4:16- Two years has twenty four (24) months. You are about a quart low and 8 month’s shy of reality.
I think Mrs Donald Trump jr is going to be holding up a piece of Donny’s tail pretty soon.
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Are you on your period Linda/jon?
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Here’s a nice story.
Ex-Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side’
https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-fb/
Crooked Obama. Crooked Hillary. Crooked Warren. They’re all the same.
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Scenes. Every lefty here posted that, and each time it blew up in the collective face. Not a smidgen of remorse, nor even an “oh shit”. As sure as the Sun comes up in the East, it’s “OK” when their side does it.
Right now they are REAL buttsore their own playbook is used against them.
OL’ Paul really thought he had something.( apparently didn’t read it through)
“”Other methods involved making the public believe inaccurate facts about a certain candidate.
“I mean, it sounds a dreadful thing to say, but these are things that don’t necessarily need to be true, as long as they’re believed ”
It works on their own real well.
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don’t forget how zuckerberg got facebook to begin with,,,where are the winklevii brothers today???
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We all have to remember in these dialogues that both sides come from two different worlds that convince their dwellers of two completely different sets of facts, most of which don’t even related to the same happenings. Technically, this is known as having two distinct ‘world lines’, one for the Left and one for the Right. I believe that the only common objective sandbox commenters have is to maximally push each others’ buttons. There is no exchange of information here.
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My, my. They start freaking when they get smoked out and caught with their pants down. Image looking for dirt on a rival. U heard of in the annuals of history, fa shure. Hey, didn’t Zerobama hire Fusion GPS to trash Romney’s donors? Hmmm. As a dog returns to his vomit……. well, at least Obama, Hillary, and the bobble head popinjays got their cold war back.
Every place they look to uncover Trump’s dastardly schemes, one always come across the stench of Obama and Hillary being there first, in much bigger ways. Jeeze, you would have thunk they would have aired out the room upon leaving and not blamed Trump for leaving all their dirty diapers spewn about.
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Dr.R.. There is an exchange. “them”, post something, “us” point out just how wrong their info is. “them” respond with the usual crickets
Come back,, change the subject,, start all over again.
“we” can lead those mules to water, but we can’t make’m drink.
LIBS make a big deal out of McCabe losing his pension. BFD.. He’s worth over 11 million. Not counting what his wife drags in.
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Hey its a lot of po’ ol’ putin party parrots who cant connect reading and comprehending past the approved talking points. Teflon koolaide?
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/19/judges-recusal-michael-flynn-case-damages-fbi-doj/
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Walt – Mommy, mommy, he did it first!
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Irony alert, just say NO to investigating US!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/19/run-damn-justice-department-holder-says-sessions-must-have-guts-to-say-no-to-trump.html
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Who’s doing the bitching Mzz.”jon”? LIBS!!!
Where was the outrage when “O&Co.” was doing it?
LOL! It really doesn’t matter what the issue is. A both thumbs up when LIBS pull something, the cry “criminal act” when the Right follows suit.
Now your playing the Paul game. Not answering questions.( not one bit surprised in the least.) You know,, sentences followed by this? “?”….
But if all you have is gutter sniping,, well, have at it.
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WATER FOR THE PEOPLE!
WASHINGTON
Democrats in Congress have stalled an attempt to jump start an expansion of Shasta Dam, California’s largest reservoir and a major water source for the Central Valley.
Their objections blocked a Republican gambit to allow the $1.3 billion project to move forward without full up-front funding and despite objections from Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration.
A Democratic leadership aide in the House confirmed to the Sacramento Bee on Monday that House Democrats rejected a GOP proposal to speed preparations for the project, by eliminating a requirement on the amount of upfront funding needed for pre-construction.
Democrats also pressed to include language in the House spending bill that would ensure the federal Bureau of Reclamation follows all state and federal laws when it comes to the dam. State law currently bars the dam from being enlarged.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article205939189.html
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George
I gave precise information about Cambridge Analyitica and their raiding of personal facebook date after being paid 5 million dollars by the Trump campaign. They have close connections to the Russians and may have shared information with the Russians.
Is that not sharing information?
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Paul, Care to say why you leave “O” out of that? He did it to, and no one griped. Tell us why that’s OK. Zuck’s a Progressive? Is that all it takes? I gave “precises” information TOO! Yet YOU ignored it.
DO explain yourself.
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OK Paul,, where did “O” get the info?
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/19/flashback-maxine-waters-confirms-obama-has-database-with-information-on-every-individual/
Or is this just more LIB bullshit? “MAD” Max being just “mad”?
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Most likely Trump was truing to get voter information about all voters when he pressed his bullshit voter fraud investigation. Good for all the states that refused to give up their voter data. Trump requested Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and voting history.
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Sorry Paul Emery you are spreading fake news about the Facebook mining. Trump cam[aign never used the data.
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Transmitting information requires a transmitter, a receiver, and a comprehensible message whose information (or truth) value is shared by the parties involved in the transmission. Blasting messages at each other, the contents of which are totally discounted by the receivers, is NOT an “exchange of information” as noted in my 534pm.
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They paid millions for it Todd. Are you saying they never used it? Trump’s campaign hired Cambridge to target voters and to direct its political advertising strategy.
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OH my, Dr. R The po’ ol’ putin party parrot knows no better like his antifa brethren. We still have to push out the truths to inoculate our voters from the putin party parrot line. We shall overcome was based on facts not talking points. Just sayin’ trolls. Thanks for facilitating the truth Dr. R ! 😉
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Antifa Don? Still stuck on that one? That’s so ’17
George
There are many readers of you’re blog that do not participate but appreciate my point of view. It gets prety boring with just your regular Circle of Jerks that just like to do rounds of chest thumping and whatever else. Too bad you’re not capable of stepping outside that but I seldom see you doing anything but cheering them on.
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PE 814
Yes they never used the data
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I can’t even be surprised any more.
https://www.westernjournal.com/confirmed-facebooks-recent-algorithm-change-is-crushing-conservative-voices-boosting-liberals/
re: Paul Emery@9:03PM
“my point of view.”
Sir, you rarely express a point of view. Your posts are never more than a few sentences, you ask but never answer questions, you never flesh out any sort of opinion.
Merely jumping on and teasing ToddJ every hour or so or being shocked (shocked!) by some Trump peccadillo from a decade ago is not a ‘point of view’, it’s the typing of a precocious teenager.
Sorry for jumping in the mud one last time GeorgeR. I think I’ll stay out of the sandboxes and leave them to the bon mot makers.
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PaulE 903pm – Are not both ‘circles of jerks’ reciprocating each others’ behaviors? And to what “outside” would or should I be stepping? But for the record, I have never “cheered on” these ad hominem mudslinging contests. However, when topic-related ideological interpretations are made, I do concur mostly with those of Right. After all, I am a declared conservetarian whose credo and doctrine are integral to this long-established record. And I have never shirked from debating with you, no matter how many times we circle the same barn (thereby corroborating my 813pm).
Please contest me on the points instead of throwing vacuous accusations sans substance.
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I mean this is the company the Trumps campaign paid 5 million dollars too. Check out this quote from Alexander Nix, the company’s chief executive.
“We’ll have a wealthy developer come in, somebody posing as a wealthy developer,” he said. “They will offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land, for instance. We’ll have the whole thing recorded on cameras, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the internet.”
This results of a months long investigation by Britain’s Channel 4 News revealed Cambridge Analytica’s inner workings as told by Alexander Nix, the company’s chief executive, and Mark Turnbull, the managing director of CA Political Global, to a reporter posing as a client.
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George
My information about Cambridge Analytica is legitimate and verifiable yet you seen to show no concern or interest in the matter. that is what is disappointing to me about your contributions to your own blog.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 March 2018 at 09:57 PM
Hey look…..Punch-E thinks he’s found yet another “smoking gun”.
Nobody convinced?
Hmmm…..maybe another poll would help!
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Maleficence or nothing to see here?
https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-fb/
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“Vindictive” appears to be the operative word here. Cracks me up.
McCade, 49 years old and now 50, did not lose his pension. He lost his option of taking full benefits at 50. He will have to wait until he hits around 57 years old for full retirement. McCade might be eligle for retraining at tax payers’ expense. Maybe handling luggage at the Hilton or some other fine expensive luminous hotel. Tips are good and he is well experienced in handling others’ baggage.
Whatever the IG report contains on McCade (as well as the FBI’s own Office of Professional Responsibilty) it is of such a serious nature that the IG and OPR took the rare step of recommending firing his ass on the spot. That is not something you see every day. One might say unprecedented, but it probably has happened before.
I got a sneaky feeling that the report contained more dastardly deeds than we know about. Heck, he was sent home a few months ago and kicked out of his office….before the Justice Department sent it’s Inspector General’s report to the FBI’s Office of Professional Respinsibility. I suspect there is more that meets the eye, but even if there is no more “there” there, McCade violations were so egregious that it stunk to high heaven.
Was it not McCade who sat on the FBI’s dicovery that hundreds of thousands of Secretary of State Clinton’s emails were found on child sexual predator Anthony Weiner’s laptop (originally uncovered by the NYPD) from Sept 27 to l October 26, 2016?. Buried it. By the time he dumped it on Comey s desk, the election was darn near at the door and early voting had begun.
Poor Comey. Poor Comey. The Director was stuck having such an unethical right hand man colluding with the Clinton Campaign and burying criminal violations of the Espinoage Act.
McCade did not serve the FBI or his nation well. Shame the disgrace McCade brought downon his own head as a direct result of his own actions and deeds.
McCade got fired by the AG following the FBI’s recommendations for his despicable acts.
Vindictive? I guess reporting a home invasion is vindictive to the assailant.
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I don’t get all this hulabooloo about Facebook. It’s been out there for quite awhile. That is just the tip of the iceberg. What we all should be looking at is Google. FB is peanuts compared to Google, just as McCade is peanuts to what Susan Rice did.
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Punchy: this isn’t a scandal, this is how Facebook works
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/camridge-analytica-scandal-how-facebook-works-harvesting-data-politics-trump-brexit-a8264051.html
The author of the piece teaches IT and IP law at the University of East Anglia law school.
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“Liberal newspapers and the like appear terrified that the rise of Facebook means liberal newspapers have lost control of the national conversation. That, through the power of the web, the idiots in every village have all found one another, and together through the self re-enforcing power of their own editorially unscrutinised information, they suddenly have critical mass enough to march the world over the cliff.
There appears generalised despair in the media at the end of what it imagines to be some sort of golden age, when the political class was kept in check by the media class. When the national conversation was set by those with the cash to set its terms. Horizontal democracy played second fiddle to vertical democracy. Where everyone has the right to speak, but only those with money have a right to be heard.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cambridge-analytica-donald-trump-brexit-a8263646.html
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Wheather data is acquired electronically by exploiting weaknesses in the host system (hacking), or acquired through false pretenses (fraud), It proves that Trump and his skinny mini-Trump Kushner are dishonest liars.
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All the Facebook users spill their guts online down to a bowel movement and some company mines it for information to use in politics. Oh my! And it is all legal. No hacking no Russians. And Paul Emery has a wet dream that Trump was involved. No proof about that. In fact the reporting is his campaign did not use any data from this. Yet PE is pushing his fake news just like a good liberal lemmings lamestreamer does.
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What does the somebitch have to hide?
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/20/obama-banning-media-new-zealand-trip/
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He is banging a gal not his wife.
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Yes,, LIBS love to have it both ways.
http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/379245-whats-genius-for-obama-is-scandal-when-it-comes-to-trump
It’s OK when “O” did it.
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More sunlight on the ECO roaches.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/19/epa-scott-pruitt-secret-science/
“Scott Pruitt will soon end his agency’s use of “secret science” to craft regulations.”
Time to cut down that apple tree that gave chicken little headaches.
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Who was it giving me crap about my comment “it takes a gun to stop one”?
Choke on it.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/20/good-guy-gun-opened-fire-md-high-school-shooter-end-threat/
Think those kids are happy a gun was on the grounds? Or will there a protests that a good guy had one ON SCHOOL GROUNDS??
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