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[Wow!  Didn't mean to let the last sandbox overfill with over 300 comments.  But lots of important stuff to discuss and provide links for, among the unfinished ones being the asymmetrical Cambridge Analytica turmoil and the latest findings surfacing about Mueller's doings at the FBI.  gjr]

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243 responses to “Sandbox – 20mar18”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    He check it out , Zuckerberg was right the first time!
    Mark Zuckerberg branded early Facebook users ‘dumb f***s’ for sharing their data with him.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-branded-early-facebook-users-dumb-fs-sharing-data-105026140.html
    😉

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    In a May 2015 email thread, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta offered his condolences for the sudden death of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg. Sandberg thanked Podesta for his kind words, then affirmed her desire to “help” Clinton win the 2016 election. She mentioned a home visit where Clinton interacted with her children. “I still want HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton] to win badly,” she wrote. “I am still here to help as I can. She came over and was magical with my kids.”
    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/20/flashback-facebook-coo-wanted-to-help-john-podesta-elect-hillary-clinton/
    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/20/the-media-praised-or-ignored-obamas-harvesting-of-facebook-data/
    😉

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  3. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Tozer at 5 – Fake news, dude! The shooter was 17, so he couldn’t have possessed a gun!
    Some politician has already used the news of the latest bang bang to push for ‘gun registration’. Well, duh. How else could we possibly know who the shooter is?
    Oh, wait… oh, that’s right, cause he’s dead. Gun still in his hand.
    But those smarties that know better than us deplorables know that if he had to register the gun he wouldn’t have it because that would be against the law!

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Topic: My Gal Friday. If you think she should just go away, you don’t know My Gal. They had to roll her up in the carpet and carry her out when the Clinton’s left the White House. You can still see the claw marks on the hardwood floors. She will never give up, which makes me smile all the more watching her unravel. “I’m melting, I’m melting……”
    The Naysayers:
    “I don’t think that’s the way you should talk about any voter, especially ones in my state.” —Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on Hillary Clinton’s attack on women voters
    “[Hillary] should go away. … She is not helping the Democratic Party.” —former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf
    “Look, this was bad. I can’t sugarcoat it.” —Clinton’s 2008 campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle
    “I have all the respect in the world for her, but … [the] rest of us are gonna focus on the future.” —Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager Robby Mook
    And last… “In 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president, he went on ‘60 Minutes’ to answer allegations of extramarital wrongdoing. His wife appeared with him and backed him up. ‘I’m not sitting here some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette,’ Hillary Clinton said that day. ‘I’m sitting here because I love him and I respect him.’ She resented the insinuation that she lacked the agency to make a political decision in her own best interest. Women who voted for Trump resent it when Clinton makes the same insinuation about them.” —Jeff Jacoby
    Now, My Gal:
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1280480882085946/?type=3&theater

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  5. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the “nope, the pee tapes aren’t real” or “Putin ain’t got nuttin on me” dept. Despite explicit instructions in all caps in the President’ daily briefing stating DO NOT CONGRATULATE Putin on his “re-election,” Donald the Dealmaker called up Putin and congratulated him anyhow insulting millions of people worldwide. The purpose of the call was to discuss the Korean situation and trump was supposed to bring up both Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and the poisoning of the ex-Rusian spy via a nerve agent last month. Trumpski did neither but instead talked with Putin about “the state of bilateral relations and resolved to continue dialogue about mutual national security priorities and challenges.”
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-putin-national-security-advisers_us_5ab198fbe4b054d118ddf4f7

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Uh, Bobby,, “O” did exactly the same thing. From the Muslim Brotherhood and yes, even Putin… The last time he won election.
    About six or so Murdering thugs “O” congratulated..
    But what’s a little hypocrisy? ( That means it was OK when your boy did it.)
    That’s called politics.
    Now off to bed. It’s past your bed time.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Oh no, Trump did not follow the rules! What are we ever to do?
    Hey Bobbie, maybe Trump should call up lit-o-rocketman and start trashing the FUK (Fat Ugly Kid) about his human rights abuses and his release of our citizen as a walking corpse with his mind gone. Then Trump should lay into the Saudis and save the best for Putin. How dare he. Unless Putin behaves and throws down all his toys, we will never ever talk to Russia again.
    Right. Human right abuses, LGBTQQ, and setting up democracies in totalarain countries with dictators for life are not the top priorities in geo-political stuff. Shame on Trump. Hey, he is so crazy he might fire Meuller tonight.
    This is so weird. All my life the left loved Russia. From Russia with Love. Bernie honeymooning back, back, back in the USSR and all the good exciting stuff.
    Once the Wall came done, it changed everything. Guess the Left (especially those elitist university professors here and abroad) never forgave Russia for dumping communism. After that fiasco, the Left had to switch gears and go with the Anti-Colonial song and dance…which explains the Politics of Identity.
    Besides, Trump owes Vladdy one. A big nice thankyou is in order. As much as I really hate to admit it, it was Russia that gets more credit than us for putting the hurts on ISIS, be they be hiding in mosques or hospitals. Russian fighters have no problem with that.

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  8. obeehave Avatar
    obeehave

    ,,,sarah huckstable sanders did an admiral job of imitating local pubbers when she twisted in the wind this morning after being asked why trumpski praised putin on winning his sham election…
    ,,,what do the ruskies have on him???
    ,,,does he really want that moscow hotel that bad????!!!

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  9. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    “Lefty boycotts don’t work.” How many times have RR acolytes spouted that phrase?
    One year ago Breitbart had 250 sponsors. Today, following boycotts of Breitbart advertisers, there are only 17 left.

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  10. George Boardman Avatar

    Congratulation, boys. A Nazi is the Republican candidate in an Illinois congressional district.
    Meanwhile, I wonder how Fox is going to spin this one:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/business/media/fox-news-analyst-ralph-peters.html

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Good morning jon. If boycotts don’t work, keep trying.
    “The newest figures from Amazon-owned website ranking system Alexa have shown that Breitbart News has beaten competitors the Washington Post and the Huffington Post in popularity in the U.S. According to Alexa, Breitbart News is now the 54th most popular website in the United States. The Washington Post, by comparison, sits as the 61st most popular website, while the Huffington Post is the 78th most popular.” 03/02/2018.
    Breitbart is dropping like a rock. According to recent Alexa data (11/08/17) Breitbart News has beaten the Washington Post in the U.S. traffic rankings. Breitbart News is now the 48th most visited website in the entire United States, while the Washington Post is now the 50th most visited website.
    Hmm, fell from 48 to 54 in US ranking. Sinking like a rock in conjuction with the Wa Compost and the lowly Huff-n-Puff Farting Post. Separated at birth?

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Mzzz.”jon” And how is your own web site ranked? Yours doing better?
    The Lefty Scooper went boobs up. The day it went Lefty fake news was the beginning of the end.
    ( It’s “pro” Klan piece didn’t help one bit)

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  13. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    According to Alexa?? Must have been some old browser history you failed to purge. As of today Alexa shows Breitbart down to 274. What matters is advertising dollars not clicks and that is what my boycott post was about.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/20/breitbart-readership-plunge-steve-bannon-474801

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Whatever Mzzzz.”jon”.
    Hear Uncle Joe grew a pair?
    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-beat-hell-trump-high-school-disrespecting-women/story?id=53897309
    ( Now Joe claims high school bully creds?)
    Trump would have broke him in two.

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  15. George Boardman Avatar

    Hey Walt, I’m going to quit bugging you about hey/hay. If Trump doesn’t know the difference between council/counsel, why should I get on your case?

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  16. Walt Avatar

    Some stories you might find scary.
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/03/21/california-cities-seek-defy-sanctuary-state-revolt-spreads/
    OH,, You will love this one.
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/03/20/california-boasts-first-female-lgbt-senate-leader/
    And you got sold by Zuck.
    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/03/20/former-employee-horrifying-misuse-of-user-data-was-routine-at-facebook/
    Plenty of traffic for a “boycotted” site.
    It’s a nice place to visit since the LIB TROLLS “boycotted”.
    “Clueless” got kicked out a long time ago.

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  17. Walt Avatar

    LOL Boardman,, the first to claim spell’n superiority, are the first to screw up big time.,,, (BTW.. HAY is for horses. I doubt you can claim mule status)

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  18. Walt Avatar

    As usual, CNN gives an anti gun kid all the airtime it can,,,
    BUT
    The Pro gun kid from the same school. “Forget about it”.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/21/cnn-kyle-kashuv-interview/
    “Kashuv has separated himself from the rest of the Parkland student advocates in his strong support for the Second Amendment and alternative safety proposals beside gun control or the banning of specific types of weapons.
    In a tweet Wednesday morning, Kashuv accused CNN of canceling his appearance because he linked an article that was critical of Baldwin, along with saying that he was excited to appear on her show.”
    CNN lives up to,, “the least trusted name in news”.

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Jom/Linda uses a Politico story to bash Breitbart. What a hoot! And of course how is it that a proprietary thing like advertisers is known by Jon/linda. Where is that link?
    The left tried to boycott Rush Limbaugh a few years ago when he accurately described that babe that wanted us to pay for her condoms. It failed as the supporters doubled down and protected him. And he signed a 400 million dollar contract extension as well.
    Boardman, are you supporting th NAZI in Illinois? I know we aren’t so why bring it up? I have yet to see you joyously dissing Barbara Lee the ony Communist in Congress.

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  20. George Rebane Avatar

    And here all along we thought a website’s influence was linked to its viewing eyeballs that vote, instead of its advertising dollars, not one of which can enter the voting booth.

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  21. George Boardman Avatar

    Hey Walt, the nannies in the Trump administration want to take so much nicotine out of your cigarettes they won’t be addictive anymore. I hope your guns are locked up when you go through withdrawal.

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Walt, I think GB is hitting the liquor cabinet hard again. LOL!

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Yup, I gave it up a year ago The smell of gun power replaced it.
    The cost of a pack of cigs was more than a box of .22 shells.
    I could reload 100 rounds of .308 for the cost of a carton of cigs.
    (powder, primers, .165 grain boat tails)
    Trigger time is a fun addiction.

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  24. Walt Avatar

    George. How many millions voted for the Muslim? ( You know,, “O”!)
    Even Paul voted for him..(at least once) You?

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  25. George Boardman Avatar

    Walt, only people untethered from reality believe Obama was a Muslim.
    Meanwhile, my favorite congressman is at it again:
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/louie-gohmert-cesar-chavez-national-border-control-day_us_5ab22d4ee4b008c9e5f2d49f

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Boardman | 21 March 2018 at 10:56 AM
    ….., why would 20,000 Republicans vote for this guy?

    Wonder if it’s for similar reasons that the Congressional Black Caucus falls all over itself to kiss Farrakhans ring?
    Really George this is bitchier than we’ve come to expect from you.
    March Madness bets go south?

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar

    To quote (from memory) Mark Twain, “I have quit…..hundreds of times”. Best have jon fact check that for us.
    They (whoever they are) say kicking the nicotine habit is harder than kicking heroin.
    Get this: I read a study of the harmful effects of 2nd hand smoke….from pot, lol. To be fair, the study was too small with no visible control group in the findings so I did not post it here. With that said, you just got a peek into the future. As more people quit smoking tobacco, they (whoever they are) will be gunning for wacky tobaccy to replace the tax revenue lost to the quitters. They do say a quitter never wins……
    Antidotal story, about 12 years ago:
    Was in Santa Cruz visiting an old buddy. We went to a park. He pointed to the bar-b-que pits, similar to the ones in Memorial or Condon parks. Told me they banned smoking cigs, bar-b-ques, and even the Boy Scout campouts with the ole sitting around the campfire because of smoke pollution. No mas. While in Santa Cruz, the local paper’s front page article was about the upcoming huge crowd expected at the same park for the Great All America Pot Smokeout.
    The city council wrote up a quick exception for dope smokers cause nobody wanted to deprive the lame, disabled, and granny from their medicine, The ban on the upcoming 4th of July fireworks was to remain in effect, due to smoke pollution and scaring the sea lions. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em…..as long as “‘em” is the wacky tobaccy plant.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    You don’t know when to quit… Do you Boardman?
    Cesar Chavez? You were around when he was thumping illegals for taking farm jobs from LEGAL immigrants. Even I remember that.
    Protect “O” all you like. ( and just who’s funeral did “O” avoid like the plague? )
    Romney’s dog was only on a car roof. “O” ate fido.
    “O” praised the Muslim Bro hood. “O” is the Father of ISIS
    Did you miss the sale of “O”‘s prayer rug on Ebay?

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  29. George Boardman Avatar

    Walt, if a conservative ever lands a late night TV gig, I’m going to nominate you for head comedy writer.

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  30. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    It is my experience that voters sometimes never pay attention to who or what they are voting for. I would suggest you go interview some of those who voted for that scumbag and then get back to the thread. Otherwise, FISH is right and the CBC loves Farrakhan an avowed racist and anti-semitic holocaust denier. Let’s see you write about that GeorgeB.
    I suspect there is not one person nere that would ever support a NAZI. But you can find many on other blogs, even you and tours that support a Barbara Lee.

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Yaa yaaa,,, Ya……
    Now for some cultural misappropriation!!
    https://apnews.com/ff403e14b10743b18335b789d5b1a18d/Ax-throwing-gains-in-popularity-as-pastime,-sport
    ( Shit… You call that an ax?)
    That’s a LOGGER’S sport. City folk need to stick to switch blades.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    OK Lefties,, you seem to have a bit of a problem.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/21/democrats-take-out-loan/
    Who are you going to stiff this time?
    All your big money donors are spending big bucks on lawyers to stay out of jail, and expensive payouts. All that womanizing has come home to roost.
    It takes money to win elections… Remember? It’s back to OPM!
    Now try and pry open those OPM checkbooks.

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  33. obeehave Avatar
    obeehave

    bwaahahaha!!! axe throwing in a bar,,,what could go wrong???!!!

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  34. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the “we only like the rule of law when it rules in our favor” dept. Pennsylvania Republicans are tying to impeach four democratic state Supreme Court judges after they ruled (5-2) that the Republican controlled legislature gerrymandered the states districts in their favor and the districts had to be redrawn by the next election. After a legislative stalemate, the state Supreme Court redrew the districts and the Republicans sought to have the new map nullified. After two Republican appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal lawsuit were unsuccessful in blocking the new map, the Republicans decided to get rid of those darn judges.
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pennsylvania-republicans-move-to-impeach-supreme-court-democrats-for-gerrymandering-ruling_us_5ab16875e4b0decad044dee0

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  35. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Here we gooooooo! Don’t spend your tax bonus all in one place because you’ll be paying through the nose to support your Great Negotiator’s steel tariff.
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-deere-argentina/deere-co-fears-hit-from-trump-tariffs-retaliation-ceo-idUSKBN1GX2ZD

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  36. George Boardman Avatar

    Re Todd’s 11:44:
    So Republicans are just mindless automatons who will vote for anybody who has an “R” after his name? No wonder you guys nominate people like Roy Moore.
    In other news, Trump has set a fine example for Junior, who apparently is dumping his wife for a rock singer. He was probably inspired by his father dumping Ivana for Marla.
    Like father like son.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Them Trumps get all the hotties. Some guys have all the luck. Others are stuck with Hillary.

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 21 March 2018 at 01:21 PM
    Gerrymandering is so crude…..far better to just import the third world to vote democrat.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Hey Bob.. It’s fine when Leftys redraw things to maintain power… Right? Guess you forgot how it went here in Ca.
    Then there is the protectionism from the bench. LIB judges, protecting LIB interests. Nothing new.
    Districts CAN be redrawn… Just by Proggys… Right?

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  40. Walt Avatar

    OH…. One more thing about judges…I bet there are a few that would side with illegals having the right to vote.

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  41. obeehave Avatar
    obeehave

    ,,,georgeb 146pm,,, dumping his wife for a rock singer,,,she must have rocks in her noggin’ to be going for that douche!!! i heard wifey was dumping mini trumpski because he was such a cheap sob,,,kept her on such a tight budget she had to borrow from her parents,,,and he was always gone fishing or posing in front some dead animal he shot to make himself feel like more of a manly man!!!

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  42. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    When Obama Used Facebook, it was OK, Not When Trump Used Facebook.
    The problem with Facebook and Cambridge Analitica is that the Democrats are upset that Facebook, which the Democrats considered their exclusive tool, was allowed to be used by Trump. The press was not shocked when Obama had an office in his campaign organization filled with former Facebookers and Facebooker’s on leave from Facebook in the Chicago office with access to all accounts.
    For a campaign dependent on a big youth turnout, this could have been a crisis. But the Obama team had a solution in place: a Facebook application that will transform the way campaigns are conducted in the future. For supporters, the app appeared to be just another way to digitally connect to the campaign. But to the Windy City number crunchers, it was a game changer. “I think this will wind up being the most groundbreaking piece of technology developed for this campaign,” says Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign’s digital director.
    That’s because the more than 1 million Obama backers who signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their Facebook friend lists. In an instant, the campaign had a way to see the hidden young voters. Roughly 85% of those without a listed phone number could be found in the uploaded friend lists. What’s more, Facebook offered an ideal way to reach them. “People don’t trust campaigns. They don’t even trust media organizations,” says Goff. “Who do they trust? Their friends.”

    http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20/friended-how-the-obama-campaign-connected-with-young-voters/
    Cambridge Analitica had less access than Obama’s team, but no one is upset about the Democrats access to Facebook accounts, it was deemed brilliant at the time. After the election, Obama Campaign Manager was crowing about how they used big data to win. Facebook’s big data. The press and Democrats only got upset when Trump gained access to the Facebook data which they considered the property of Democrats since Facebook “was on our side.”
    Here is the information you need to delete your Facebook account:
    https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a25735/how-to-delete-facebook-account/

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  43. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Kelley Killmore. Yet another another Christian conservative terrorist. Build a wall.

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  44. obeehave Avatar
    obeehave

    ,,,no,,,say it ain’t so,,,harley is building an electric motorcycle,,,the local toy run will never be the same!!!
    http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/140619082008-harley-davidson-electric-bike-780×439.jpg

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Well, I knew the Austin Bomber was an amateur. Ain’t no Teddy Kazenski for sure. So far all we know about him was a blog he did at the City College as a term paper in some Gov’t class 6 years ago. Didn’t see anything outlandish there in terms of the foaming at the mouth ranting and raving like libs do.
    24 years old. From Gobberville, Tex. Oh my. The press is falling all over themselves to out tabloid the British tabloids. Too funny. Never too early to do feed the Christians to the lions, eh jon? Boy, he is one conservative, no doubt.
    “While attending ACC in 2012, he maintained a blog called “Defining My Stance” for a government class. In his bio, he said he viewed himself as a conservative, but didn’t think he had “enough information to defend my stance as well as it should be defended.”
    “The reasons I am taking this class is because I want to understand the US government, and I hope that it will help me clarify my stance, and then defend it,” the bio read.
    In a series of posts between February and May of 2012, Conditt criticized homosexuality as “not natural” and expounded on efforts to lessen internet piracy. He advocated for the death penalty and against sex-offender registries. In his second blog, dated Feb. 24, 2012, he mused on whether to release a captured al-Qaeda terrorist.
    “I think that it is just plain dumb to release a terrorist,” Conditt wrote, “much less a senior one — no matter what.”
    https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2018/03/21/mark-conditt-know-austin-bombing-suspect
    Funny, I don’t remember the press foaming at the mouth ranting and raving over that AR-15 that was used to shoot up the Christmas Party in San Bernardino. Did they ever find the shooters’ motives? Last I heard it was bullying at work that caused the workplace violence……
    Wonder if Ted Kazenski’s motive was in his manuscript. Ah, yes it is. Social media and fake news.

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  46. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    George Boardman | 21 March 2018 at 01:46 PM
    Sure whatever. And you and your lk relect Brbara Lee nd actually make her your Congresswoman year after year. A communist! So are you and yours brainless too?

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  47. George Boardman Avatar

    Barbara Lee was never my representative in congress. Who besides you thinks she’s a communist?

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  48. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    She is a self-described communist. Where have you been for twenty-five years? And the guy in Indiana has never been my rep so your premise is crap.

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