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286 responses to “Sandbox – 11apr18”
I thought I smelled something rotten. Strike that. I declare, I did indeed smell the stank.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/23/comey-friend-leaked-fbi-memos-now-claims-attorney/#.Ws652wsw0ag.twitter
Odd, very odd…not.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1032535206896701/?type=3&theater
Next to go. Somehow I pictured that guy wearing a bow tie.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1032535540230001/?type=3&theater
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It gets better – http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/12/comey-lynch-clinton-email/
‘development still unknown to the American public to this day.’
And probably will stay that way.
The left loves ignorance.
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Let me help our proggys out. I’m sure at some time Trump, before getting elected, put someone from the new LIB Gestapo on hold before taking the call, or put one on hold during an “official” call. In essence,, “obstructing justice”.
That’s what it may have to come down to.
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Here’s one for Paul, who now seems sooooo concerned about deficits.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/12/pelosi-wealth-mlk-balanced-budget-amendment-video/
Read this, Paul – and please get back to me about your new found interests.
from Paul – “I didn’t vote for her”.
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Watching Zuckerberg getting grilled in DC. I have no doubt that he has a high IQ.
But – he has obviously never had any serious challenge to his beliefs or his ethics.
Total deer in the headlights. When challenged on any specific case of anyone on the right being censored, he suddenly decides that his ‘people’ made a ‘mistake’.
Yeah – cause you got your sorry ass called on the carpet and you have to answer questions right now without the ability to hide behind your ‘people’.
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More news for Cali – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/12/exclusive-splitting-california-three-step-closer-billionaire/
It’ll be Cali-A Cali-B and Cali-P.
Because, DEMOCRACY!
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Scott.. Recall not long ago when the SoJ idea was being ridiculed and laughed at by our Lefties? Now look at’m. Dead silent. And this is all about Trump winning. A couple here may wind up moving. Right Paul and “jon”?
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Santuary cities in under a minute
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAeDLVfAnbU
Parkland shooting in one minute 7 seconds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIFUW6MJxJc
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Gentlemen, please take your Calexit and SoJ thoughts to the latest Ruminations in which those topics are re-introduced and invite your penetrating thoughts and observations.
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Sometimes I think that Trump is a singular genius. Wins the office with 10% of the money, and is now nearly single handedly taking on the DNC’s Operation Gladio. Imagine how alone the guy must feel sometimes, but he keeps on keepin’ on. Even if he fails, the effort is one for the ages.———Scenes
Alone is true. It’s what is required for the right tool for the right job at the right time. Then banishment……..
“Perhaps we could not withstand the fire and smoke of a series of Trump presidencies, but given the direction of the country over the last 16 years, half the population, the proverbial townspeople of the western, wanted some outsider, even with a dubious past, to ride in and do things that most normal politicians not only would not but could not do — before exiting stage left or riding off into the sunset, to the relief of most and the regrets of a few.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2018/04/30/donald-trump-tragic-hero/
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This should get some peoples Bush Derangement syndrome erupting big time!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-poised-pardon-scooter-libby-dick-cheneys/story?id=54433032
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So Todd is applauding Trump for being a “quite a stud”. Your kinda guy right Todd. What a hoot from Todd who claims to have Christian values.
Trump down by double digits in all polls except Rasmussen Don. 11.9% consensus. Hard to put a smiley on that.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
Just got back from the LWW Congressional Debate. La malfa is going to have his hands full this election. All challengers pledged to support whomever emerges as his opponnent.
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So why couldn’t it be before tax day, as far as refunds oy vey?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/944211/end-of-the-world-rapture-april-23-prediction
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“Trump down by double digits in all polls except Rasmussen”
Paul, look at the column labeled “Sample”. LV, RV, A in the realclearpolitics link you provided.
What do those letters stand for?
You seemed to have no problem believing Rasmussen’s daily poll when Trump had tanked into the high 30’s, by Rasmussen. Neither did I.
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Well at last some clarity on the criminal defense sharks and Jennings attacks on our local LE from Don Rodgers the union publisher –
So many whispers, including a juicy false one about the FBI joining in. A yearlong internal investigation that cleared Mackey. A chief deputy prosecutor who quit over this. Revelations of sexual relations with an informant surfacing about the senior officer who disparaged Mackey and eventually quit and left town.
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Lots of hot, loose talk about Mackey went awfully quiet when it came to testifying in court. Crickets. The deputy’s cases now under scrutiny are proceeding so far, with convictions in at least two after judges waved off the doubts raised about them.
Lawyers, in their elevated lexicon, call the chirping outside court hearsay. Regular folks know it as plain gossip.
The rumors seem to roost most directly with the detective who left the Sheriff’s Office, Mark Hollitz. The District Attorney’s Office dismissed 13 of Hollitz’s cases, including eight felonies, tainted by what prosecutors called an “undisclosed, inappropriate relationship” with the informant and using her to “set up” another informant who refused to work with him, along with improper destruction of Sheriff’s Office records about his informants. Seems the DA isn’t all that protective of sheriff’s officers, after all.
Hollitz steadfastly declined to refute those claims throughout a 90-minute interview with one of our reporters. Again, crickets at the opportunity to defend himself, set things straight, if there were something to set straight.
https://www.theunion.com/opinion/don-rogers-clouseau-with-a-beard/
Why should we let the Nevada city criminal defense attorneys tell us who should be our primary advocate for crime victims?
Just sayin’ 😉
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https://yubanet.com/regional/crime-victims-candlelight-vigil-at-calanan-park-on-apr-13/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+YubanetRegional+%28YubaNet.com+-+Sierra+Nevada+News%29
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Yes Paul Emery, why not? It is quite a feat to get a woman to be with you. You have been trying for many years yet every time you get them to the sacrifice rock on the Yuba River, they flee. You need a better religion, one of love not the sacrifice of a virgin.
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Trump doubles down on war against American farmers. Trump’s steel tariff is killing them, then China fights back with ag tariffs. Against virtually every economic advisor Trump shot from the hip with his tariff with predictable results. At least he doesn’t have the power to impulsively shoot some shiny missiles or push that big (BIG) red button . . . oh yeah, he does.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-steel-agriculture/trade-war-backfire-steel-tariff-shrapnel-hits-u-s-farmers-idUSKBN1HK0GV
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So Todd has confirmed he admires Trump as being “quite a stud”. What are your feelings about Melania Todd? No wonder you’ve been divorced several times. So you admit you’ve been lurking around the sacred stones at the Yuba River. We’ll do a chant and cast a stone for at the next ritual
Scott
Good find on Pelosi. I don’t like. She’s one of the reasons the Dems are in the situation they are in now.
Pelosi quote
“God never intended for any group of people to live in superfluous, inordinate wealth while others live in abject, deadening poverty.”
What a hypocrite just like our President when he supports tax cuts for the wealthy and says it’s for he good of the working class.
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should have read “Good find on Pelosi. I don’t like her.”
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WOW Paul, a whole 5%. So they found one guy who canceled an order.
That’s chump change.
Our own gas tax was voted up by about that. You stop feeding your old gross polluter of a van? (Didn’t think so.)
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Re Bessee’s 4/12 at 11:26 p.m.:
Who supervised those guys in the sheriff’s office: Buford T. Justice or Roscoe P. Coltrane?
Or was it your boy, Retirin’ Bill Smethers?
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,,,Zuckerberg explains the internet to walt and bessie,,,
https://www.cnet.com/videos/zuckerberg-explains-the-internet-to-congress/
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Paul
Still trying to figure out the meaning of LV, RV and A in the RCP poll chart?
Trump holding at 50% by the Rassies, slightly better than Obama on the same day of his 2nd year. Hold your breath… it’s sure to plunge with the Comey book … don’t you think?
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Oh Paul Emery, Melania? I’d date her if he wants. She is hot stuff. And as far as your virgin sacrifices on the Yuba rocks? Not my thing. You and Rosemary’s baby are a good match.
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Didn’t you know Todd Melania is a married woman? So now the word is out Todd wants to have an affair with Melania.
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Gregory
How do you account for the double digits negative in ALL the other polls?
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Todd 10:080
One sick perv you are. “Melania? I’d date her if he wants.” How many other guys have you done?
#1 Best Seller on Amazon: A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership. Got my order in. Need to make a new bookshelf with all of the good Trump-inspired reads.
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,,,trumpski’s hometown newspaper has had it with him,,,
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/984580216411574273/photo/1
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Paul and polls. Hummmmm The same ones that said he would never win.
The same ones that said Hillary had it in the bag.
Bet more money on those horses Paul.
Did any of your polls have Johnson winning? (yet you claim to have voted for him…. You sure love to put your dollar bet on a sure loser.
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@ 936, you might read the article from your own newspaper. The NCRP refused to endorse Jennings and he should apologize to the Mackey family and quit the race. 😉
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If that 5% increase in aluminum and steel is a real deal breaker,
then this is real tragic news.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/04/12/california-legal-marijuana-sales-fall-short-due-taxes/
Only down by 13% of projected. THE HORROR!!! (have another toke to ease the pain)
Like I said in the beginning. People will still buy it the same ol’ way. From the guy they got it from before it was legal.
Those damned tax dodging street dealers.
Gotta love these tax rates.
Besides Proposition 64’s excise tax on sales, the State of California is charging growers a cultivation tax of $9.25 per ounce for flowers and $2.75 per ounce for leaves. California’s legal sellers and cultivators of recreational marijuana are also now required to pay the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a steep 35 percent federal income tax rate.
I say,,, good luck collecting!
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Proggys love to use fancy 25 cent words. Maybe they should actually understand what they mean first.
A kakistocracy (/ˌkækɪsˈtɒkrəsi, -ˈstɒk-/) is a system of government which is run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the 17th century.
Pretty much describes the Obummer admin. to a tee.
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That was your quote Todd.
“Melania? I’d date her if he wants. She is hot stuff.”
10:08
Walt
I voted for Gary Johnson because I believe he a man of integrity, something I cannot say about Hillary or Trump. You are saying that the only important thing is to vote for a winner. that’s what got us Clinton twice, Bush twice, Obama Twice and now Trump. You have no integrity if that’s what you believe.
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You’re evading my question, Bessee. I don’t care about the DA’s race; I want to know who was running that Keystone Cops operation in the sheriff’s office.
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Yes Paul Emery I stand by my quote. Melania is hot and rich. Great combo for any man.
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So Todd you’d have no problem with her being married if she wanted to date you
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You can tell that boredman did not read the article which properly notes we have a crime rate lower than surrounding counties. 😉
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Todd 12:06
“Great combo for any man.”
And you say Melania is a he-she? Not such a great combo for most men Todd. You are aberrant.
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Jonnie, never said that. You just make it up like all goofball liberals.
Paul Emery, no I would wait until she is out of the marriage. Unlike you I do have some values.
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Aww another massive disappointment for the po’ ol’ fakenewsman –
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Chris Wallace, the anchor of “Fox News Sunday,” described former FBI Director James Comey’s forthcoming book as “bitchy,” adding there weren’t any new bombshells in the book and instead a lot of “unpleasant” opinions.
“[W]hat strikes me, is how little new there is in the book,” Wallace said. “We get a lot of opinions, unpleasant opinions of the president by James Comey. But in terms of hard facts, you know, people are talking about bombshells, there are none. Basically everything that he said in terms of the facts of what the president did, he already has testified before a congressional committee. And in fact at one point he says while he thinks the president’s behavior may have been unethical, it may not have been illegal.”
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/04/13/fox-news-chris-wallace-im-surprised-bitchy-comey-book/
😉
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Elizabeth Warren on investing benefits the rich.
https://howiecarrshow.com/2018/03/20/revealed-warren-bet-big-on-trump-economy/
Yep, I remember the tiny dustup when she was snatching up foreclosed homes during The Geeat Recession. That gal loves the greenbacks, no doubt in my mind.
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Todd gaslighting again.
“Jonnie, never said that.”
“Melania? I’d date her if he wants.” You DID wrote this, unless there is another Todd Juvinall playing in the sandbox. If you don’t imply that Melania is a he she, then what are you attempting too say?,
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Elliot Broidy.
Check.
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jonnie/linda, If she wants it you idiot. You really are creepy. I heard you hang out on Rudge Road in your car. Is that true?
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Ridge Road
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“Melania? I’d date her if he wants.” ,,, I did not know Todd was a ”’Dreamer”’!!!
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1) You guys (some) are a bunch of xenophobics. What, you and Michelle can’t get over the fact that an immigrant took her job?
2). Guess we don’t hold all the cards.
“The bill, which was drafted by leading lawmakers at the State Duma in response to the new round of U.S. sanctions announced last week, proposes a wide range of restrictions for U.S. businesses in Russia and for cooperation with the U.S. Among them is a proposal to ban or restrict titanium exports that are crucial for U.S. aircraft maker Boeing.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/russia-threatens-to-freeze-cooperation-with-us/
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Now,, how do we get Mexico to do this?
http://www.breitbart.com/news/i-will-arrest-you-philippines-duterte-tells-icc-prosecutor/
Get caught selling drugs, it’s dirt nap time… on the spot.
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Bill- I think Brazil would pick up any slack in a Russian titanium export ban. Unless of course they didn’t like being called a shithole country by our Dear Leader With Great Foresight.
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