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Sandbox – 25mar18

25 March 2018

[I guess tonight belongs to Stormy. We have the DVR on and it's recording the long-awaited '60 Minutes' interview which we will watch a bit later. I presume everyone is preparing their pot shots. Perhaps we'll even have a thoughtful perspective about what our country has now become with this latest widening the rift even more. gjr]

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274 responses to “Sandbox – 25mar18”

Paul Emery

29 March 2018

Your link is nothing new Walt. Menendez not guilty due to mistrial. What did I miss?

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

No, ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman. A mistrial is not the same as not guilty. 😉

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Paul Emery

29 March 2018

Same as not guilty unless there is a retrial.
Personally I think Menendez is a dog but I’m trying to apply Walts standards in this matter.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

No it is not ya po’ ol’ putin party parrot. 😉

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Robert Cross

29 March 2018

In the” I only apologize for stupid statements if it costs me money”. dept. — Laura Ingraham apologizes after David Hogg’s call for advertisers to ditch her show starts to take hold.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/laura-ingraham-advertisers-david-hogg_us_5abcff01e4b03e2a5c7a2cf6

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

1973!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/u-s-jobless-claims-decline-to-lowest-level-since-january-1973
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scenes

29 March 2018

re: Robert Cross@12:12PM
Just once more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL_vBYf_srk

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scenes

29 March 2018

more from the Attention Hogg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37zoQLgqEy0
Bwahahaha. What a piece of work.

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Walt

29 March 2018

Poor McCabe. Has to go begging.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/29/fired-fbi-official-andrew-mccabe-soliciting-online-donations-for-legal-defense-fund.html
Yet he’s worth over 11 million. Times must be tough.

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

Oh, Bobbie is still pouting than Colin isn’t signed and neither is his kneeling buddy, Eric Reed. Maybe the teams are just waiting for the draft before putting together a contract. Ya, that’s it. Is good, no? When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Keep whistling by the graveyard, Bobbie.
I love Laura. Tough cookie, took on multi-millionaire 1%ers who dribble basketballs and now that little bitchface piglet. My kind of woman. Her radio show and guests rock my world. Comes on early….

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Walt

29 March 2018

Paul.There is hope for you yet.
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/pope-francis-there-no-hell
The Catholics really need a new Pope. This one has gone off the golden rails.
He has explaining to do when he meets Saint Peter.

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Scenes

29 March 2018

“Laura Ingraham apologizes after David Hogg’s call for advertisers to ditch her show starts to take hold.”
I was just thinking about this.
The natural temptation, if you’re some flavor of Green Libertarian, is that this implies a dislike for Laura Ingraham’s message (such as it is). Stories get spun to fit an internal bias.
Given the natural tendency to politicize everything in the modern era, the simple truth is probably that advertisers will become shy of any media with a political bent. If you sell paper towels (besides Brawny of course), why stick an ad on Rush Limbaugh, Democracy Now, or PBS for that matter. Over time, different industries will get associated with the two sides, and the Balkanization will continue.
Hopefully we can import another zillion people from the third world and continue to tear down Western Civ in universities.
Aaaah. The magic of diversity. I can feel the love.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

Its nice to see they really work!
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Israeli-stealth-fighters-fly-over-Iran-547421
😉

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Marillyn Lock-Heed

29 March 2018

oh no!!! trumpski couldn’t bear to give up his personal business dealings,,, got his foot caught in the emoluments claws!!!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-emoluments/u-s-judge-refuses-to-toss-suit-against-trump-on-foreign-payments-idUSKBN1H42VK

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Walt

29 March 2018

Give it a rest Dougy Leave the money issues to those who have some.
A judge refused to give Stormy her day in court. WWaaaaa….

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Robert Cross

29 March 2018

In the “Laura Ingraham is a political whore” dept. It must really bother you old guys that some 17 year old punk has more political power than both you and some blond bimbo who opted out on physical porn and did political porn instead.

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Walt

29 March 2018

Well Bobby,, look at it this way. All your side has is a Jr. Hitler
to prop up for the moment. Your next mass shooter when his popularity wears thin?
As for the proggy boycotts, that worked out swell for Delta.
The only one really getting screwed are the one buying that ad space. That will sure help sales. That game gets played both directions. So a few pull their ads. More people will just take their place.
Stick with the whores and up and coming fascists. Pour it on.
It will only help the Right at the ballot box.

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Paul Emery

29 March 2018

Don
Can you explain how in the eyes of the law it is different? If you were on trial and a jury is deadlocked and you are asked have you ever been convicted of a felony how would you answer?

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Walt

29 March 2018

Paul. Double jeopardy applies! He is free and clear. Never to be charged again on those allegations.
Even a ditch digger can understand that. A new dude from Nevada City,, not so much.
You Bring up Moore, who was never charged criminally. Just smeared. Your side just tried the same tactic with Stormy, and it failed.
So.. How much did you send to Stormy’s defense fund?

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

Little piggie got his 15 minutes of fame in California, then on to Florida. A coast to coast manchild. Sorta like Rachel Madcow, put without the staying power.
Makes sense why he choose a bunch of CA colleges and only one FLA college. The grief begins.
https://www.intellihub.com/brian-hogg-appeared-on-cbs-6-months-ago-appears-to-be-groomed-by-media/
Yo bitchface piglet, there is a reason you don’t cover the top on a beach trash can. It’s so people can throw litter in it and not have tissues and plastic blow all over the place. Litter a no-no for seagulls and fishies alike, asswipe. Gotta of think of others.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

Not guilty is a verdict. There is no verdict yet. Geezzzee That’s even bad for a po’ ol’ fakenewsman. 😉

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

The storm is waning, kind of like the 60 minutes nothing –
https://theblast.com/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-trial-denied/
😉

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

My my. McCade starting a Go Fund Me page for solicitation of donations for his legal defense team? But I thought he was an outstanding upstanding man (once acting head of the FBI) with a distinguished career in public service. So did Michael Flynn. . Why would McCabe need a legal denfense Fund? Very odd.
My my. What’s this noise about a federal prosecutor investigating the Clinton Foundation? It’s the Great Right Wing White Married Women conspiracy at their old tricks again.
My my. What this about the DOJ Inspector General digging into “alleged” abuses by the DOJ and FBI? Best send a few dollars to the Comey and Lynch’s Go Fund Me page to help them cover their legal defense funds. Playboy Peter we will leave down in the basement in the HR department for now. Why is the meat cooler where they hang the carcasses always in the basement?
My, my, what’s this noise about the Mayor of Huntington Beach wanting to opt out of our welcoming Sancuarty State law. And whatz up with 360 Sheriffs calling for Congress to build the Wall? Guess it looks different where the rubber meets the roads. They be closer to the stink, I bet ya.
Meanwhile, the Left is melting down cause Trump put his doctor in charge of the VA. They hate the good Doc after he said Trump is mentally fit, lol. We have had about 3 new chiefs at the VA to clean that medical abortion up, but to no avail. Just came out the VA has the worse healthcare service in all of America. A national disgrace. I won’t go there. I might have a heart attack and die in the waiting room…..only to be found at the change of shift.
If you don’t cut the mustard in the Trump Administration, you are outta here, knucklehead. The only thing we care about is results, not pornie Stormy to the chagrine to my panic stricken friends on the dark side of the street.

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

I know some have Trump’s ear, but the Warrior Monk has Trump’s heart. Mine too. I really love that Maddog Mathis.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/29/james-mattis-jokes-hes-heard-john-bolton-devil-incarnate-first-meeting-pentagon

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

Here is one for the po’ ol’ pollhead –
Americans thought former president Barack Obama had a similar shot at winning his re-election bid at this point in his presidency. According to CNN, 54% percent said Obama would lose in March 2010, and 44% thought he’d win.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/03/29/donald-trump-reelection-2020-cnn-poll/470852002/
😉

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Walt

29 March 2018

Bill
“the VA has the worse healthcare service in all of America.”
Don’t I know it. Been trying to get my gut fixed for a year now.
Hurry up and wait.(who else know that line?)
The VA choice is no better.
Welcome to socialized gov. run med.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

At least this will put some light on swamp creatures antics –
This decision will correct a longstanding injustice at the EPA, perpetrated against the U.S. taxpayer. For years the EPA has been able to behave as a law unto itself, cavalierly passing regulations which restrict freedoms, hamper business and hold back the U.S. economy for reasons which have much more to do with left-leaning environmentalist politics than with objective science.
The problem dates back to the early 1990s when the EPA decided it wanted to regulate fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 but couldn’t find any hard scientific evidence proving it was harmful.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/29/delingpole-winning-scott-pruitt-bans-junk-science-from-environmental-protection-agency/
😉

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

Don the Man
I like that Scott Pruitt fella. Heard him when he called in to the fabulous Laura Ingraham transistor radio show the other morn. What a knowledgeable gentleman. He is doing 2 things I like…..such as sunlight and not putting up with extortion. No mas.
First, all the EPA in house data is on line or available. The research and study stuff. But, most of the research is done by contractors who do not have to post their methodology or anything to help anyone duplicate the results. Now, outside contractors have to show all their cards.
Second, no more getting sued, settlling out of court, and pay, pay, pay through the nose to the plaintiffs’ lawyers and their clients, be it a class action suit or an indivdual taking the government to court. This is what has been going on: after the EPA settles with the tree huggers or Friends of the Sacred Poem, the EPA then writes a reg and backdates it so we (the taxpayers) have violated some rule and justify donating to the Sierra Clubbers and Butterfly the Tree Sitter/Squatter. What out below! Anyway, no mas. We will see your pathetic ass in court and break your bank, chump. Squash you like endangered cockroach that you are.
Never get tired on winning.

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

I really don’t care about the dumb fall guy McCabe or is goofy Coney. It’s Susan Rice I have my sights on. Darn, I can’t cancel that which I don’t subscribe to.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/29/james-mattis-jokes-hes-heard-john-bolton-devil-incarnate-first-meeting-pentagon
On a related topic, this is so sad I can’t even ridicule them anymore. It would be like kicking a suffering lost soul while he lays on the ground. Shoot, I can’t resist.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1024771514339737/?type=3&theater

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

Opps, I did it again. Susan Rice link. I take full responsibility, but not accountibity.

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

Third time is a charm. Blame it on mega multitasking.
https://truepundit.com/people-are-threatening-to-cancel-their-netflix-subscriptions-after-former-un-ambassador-susan-rice-was-named-to-its-board/

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Walt

29 March 2018

Trump has work to do.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/articleComments/Stephen-Reinhardt-liberal-circuit-court-judge-12792631.php
Watch the LIBS howl when Trump nominates a Conservative.

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L

29 March 2018

“Marillyn”, 1) at least learn to spell your ‘effing first name. 2) give me the proper gearing and I can not only move, but lift 250,000 lbs, turning a hand crank with my little finger. 3) Archimedes pointed this out 2500 years ago, but none of the liberal arts graduates have ever learned it.
L

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L

29 March 2018

Give me a 1906 Stanley Steamer and I’ll yank the Tesla off its feet in the first second. Something about torque.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2018

Too few cops on patrol, too many prop 47, 64 walking around, stand your ground –
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/29/convicted-felon-shot-killed-by-homeowner-during-tennessee-home-invasion-cops.html
There was a time not that long ago when the focus was on the victims in Nevada County. 😉

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Walt

29 March 2018

The Conservative EPA (GOD BLESS them..) sure knows what to do to make the ECOs squeel.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mileage-epa-rule-20180329-story.html
Doing away with targets No more “”X” mpg by “X” or else.”
Jerry and the kids won’t be happy.

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Scenes

29 March 2018

Cool. The Hoggster is going after his new arch-enemy by getting his minions to bug her advertisers.
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/979168957180579840
I have to admit that sometimes the nihilist in me rather likes watching the Green Libertarians attempt to bring the whole works crashing down around us. Western Civilization has a lot of inertia in it but, by God, the GL’s are giving it a good shot.

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Scenes

29 March 2018

re: me@9:11PM
Just out of some sort of prurient interest, I spent a couple of minutes driving down through the hate mail that Ingraham gets. She’s a talking head with a viewpoint, so I expect a certain amount of it.
The weird thing is that every person I clicked on in her Twitter feed had literally hundreds of sort of whacked-out Leftist speechifying statements to some hated person or the other. One sentence insult after one sentence insult. It was like watching PaulE or RCross, but on some kind of meth laden steroids. I can’t feel like I can bitch at our local hippies anymore after looking at that, they simply don’t have the stamina to write a twitter post every 10 minutes for months on end.

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Scott Obermuller

29 March 2018

The publisher of the Grass Valley Onion has shown his stripes. He follows the children’s crusade as an acolyte of the first order:
“Good luck, conservatives, with trying to peg the Parkland teens as dupes of liberal organizations.”
Yes – those ‘brave’ kids that only by coincidence follow the standard socialist/communist play book of disarming Americans are the real deal. There are other kids that also attended that same high school that think differently, but Rogers won’t even talk about them. They just don’t exist.
He even follows the standard lefty play book himself:
“Frankly, the NRA has succeeded in ensuring the dithering continues with the president, who made some promising remarks about safety measures before taking them back, and both houses of Congress. Congratulations. I’m cynical, I realize, seeing cash logic and fear mongering hard at work here. As if the Second Amendment were really at stake. As if.”
The NRA wants ‘dithering’? That’s a total lie. And, of course – “As if the Second Amendment were really at stake. As if.”
Apparently the publisher of a daily newspaper doesn’t even read the news in his own rag. Well – yes, he does and then he lies.
There is the old “And certainly there are sensible firearms restrictions, just as there are with the First Amendment, starting with not falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater, part of Supreme Court lore.”
But yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater is NOT ‘free speech’. It is first of all a deliberate lie and one designed to cause harm and bloodshed.
And just what are these ‘sensible’ fire arm restrictions that Rogers talks about?
Funny he won’t say. Cowards rarely delve into specifics as they would then have to defend those points.

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

1) Goodbye God Emperor Trump. Curses to Facebook.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/facebook-effectively-shuts-down-god-emperor-trump-facebook-page/
2) Curses again to Facebook. I hate it when that happens.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/facebook-effectively-shuts-down-god-emperor-trump-facebook-page/
3) For Scenes. BTW, I never read such vile vicious attacks until I read what the Bernie Bros were saying in the comments conversing with the old dried up bags of the “I Am With Her” true believers. Shameful. Got them crying and all upset and running to Bubba to make them stop. Boy, even Hillary blew a gasket and yelled at Bernie to make them stop. They didn’t.
The old sea haggie wharf rat Hillary supporters never saw coming. They had all the focus group tested responses to say and were quite eager to politely and factually make their case…..but they got blindsided. I was so appalled and shocked, I could not stop howling. I never heard such talk in all my life, but I digress.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1024334097716812/?type=3&theater

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Bill Tozer

29 March 2018

What me worry?
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1024334097716812/?type=3&theater

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ArchieBunker

30 March 2018

Well boys, it was a nice try but Attorney General Jeff Sessions declines to appoint a special counsel to look into the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation.
Good effort though!

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ArchieBunker

30 March 2018

The California chapter of the NRA comitatus doth protest too much with their character assisinations of Parkland pubescents. Most of the country agrees with ‘gun control’.
https://goo.gl/2751hu

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Scenes

30 March 2018

re: ScottO@9:48PM
Oh well, it’s an easy article to phone in. All the same magic words and incantations (I love ‘sensible’), basically the same statements by both sides uttered time and again. The Children’s Crusade is kind of novel so it’ll get a lot of air time. There’s the odd Leftist who is pro-gun and a (very) few folks on the Right who are anti, but basically it’s all tied up in a grab basket of other beliefs.
The demographic difference on the two sides is so stark that some combination of DNA, gender, and immediate environment drives most of it I think. Rural white male Green Libertarians tend to be the shrillest, but since they are fighting their local tide, they end up with a lot of ego tied up into the argument.
I think it’s a real testimony to the American system that a party made up largely of minorities, ladies, city dwellers is able to fend off what is basically the most martial part of our society. Near total ownership of media and schools probably has a lot to do with it, although a metastasized government bureaucracy with it’s ranks largely drawn from the Left certainly helps. The problem is that now the cracks are starting to show.

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ArchieBunker

30 March 2018

The President like to boast and brag and talk a big story when surrounded by groups or crowds but is afraid to fire someone face-to-face. Embarrassing, but that’s the real Trump.
“And Shulkin continued speaking out Thursday night, telling MSNBC that Trump had actually called him on the day of his firing and acted like everything was status quo.
“I spoke to the president yesterday,” Shulkin told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “We spoke about the progress that I was making, what I needed to do from a policy perspective to make sure that we are fixing the issues in VA. Very focused. He was very inquisitive about the things we were working on, making sure that we were focused on the job at hand.”
Shulkin told Hayes that conversation happened before he was fired, and that there was nothing on the phone call that led him to believe his firing was imminent. He added he only learned he had been fired right before Trump’s tweet announcing changes in VA leadership.

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Scenes

30 March 2018

New to me:
https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy/

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Bill Tozer

30 March 2018

“This revelation, the Parkland debacle and the series of other shocking events wherein the FBI was aware of the eventual perpetrator yet did nothing, demands an investigation into the FBI as a whole.”
What has happened inside the FBI is frightening, and must be dealt with immediately and transparently.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/28/the-fbi-and-omar-mateen-pulse-nightclub-shooter/
Wonder if they are still searching for a motive.

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Scenes

30 March 2018

re: Mr Bunker@8:01AM
While I appreciate the need to regularly scan the net for anti-Trump factoids and then needling the grouchy old white men about them, honestly that kind of firing makes sense to me.
Dunno if you’ve ever worked for a large company, but Presidents don’t fire Directors. That’s why God made VPs.
Due to the needs of the USA for good deeds, the executive branch has grown truly huge with no real serious reorganization to deal with all the tendrils. I think that I read somewhere that the President has over 150 direct reports.
My guess is that Trump had his Chief of Staff do the dirty work, it’s what they are hired for.
Tillerson would have been a better example of mishandling, assuming that you had any insider knowledge rather than just scraping something off the web, but I admit that something was needed for this mornings news.

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Walt

30 March 2018

That’s all Bunk has to cry about? How someone got fired?
All that counts, is that the bastard is GONE.
That’s like bitching about getting hung with a new rope.

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scenes

30 March 2018

“All that counts, is that the bastard is GONE.”
Well, there is that. People have been yelling for that guy’s head for some time. OTOH, that job seems to be sort of a killing field (maybe both for cabinet secretaries and for the veterans). Didn’t Obama go through a few of those people.
Have any of you folks actually used the VA in a really significant fashion, by that I mean the medical part of the benefits? Is there a good reason to not simply roll-up VA medical with Medicare?

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