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193 responses to “Sandbox – 16apr18”
Paul Emery | 18 April 2018 at 02:49 PM
My recollection of their primary was the R’s were about a million votes more than the democrats. I think Cruz will win going away.
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George
I brought up the unexpected close race with Cruz in Texas because whatever the outcome it means the race is now competitive whereas earlier it was an automatic. that means the Republicans are going to have to spend money there that they didn’t expect to spend.
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Well its about time!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/18/lawmakers-refer-clinton-comey-lynch-mccabe-for-criminal-referrals/
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Here is a tid bit for the po’ ol’ fakenewsmans stormy fantasy world.
Fact is, the suspect sketch IS a dead ringer for Brendon … the porn actor who married Stormy in 2010, mind you. So, he was on the scene when the alleged threat went down in Las Vegas.
http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/18/stormy-daniels-suspect-sketch-husband-brendon-miller/?adid=hero3
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Now they did it, the libs are going to go after the illegal aliens who don’t have a 2nd amendment right.
Illegal Aliens Caught near Border with โAssault-Style Firearms,โ Says Border Patrol
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/04/18/illegal-aliens-caught-near-border-assault-style-firearms-says-border-patrol/
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The Cruz race is not competitive. He will win going away. My guess he will win by two hundred thousand votes. The poll was weighted incorrectly to democrats in a R state.
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Here Paul Emery and all the readers interested in the Qpoll Paul cites. When you read this you will see the huge disconnect between the results of the poll and what the intervening percentages are on all the issues. Even the personal ones. Cruz will wipe out his opposition. The results on election night were a substantial R turnout and mass of voters. This is not even evident in this Qpoll. It just reinforces why these kinds of conclusions are such a joke.
https://poll.qu.edu/texas/release-detail?ReleaseID=2536
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Here are the primary totals and you can see the huge R margin in Texas. The R’s will win huge.
https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/texas/
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BOOM: FBI Agent Faces Prison After Pleading Guilty To Leaking Classified Documents To Media
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29555/boom-fbi-agent-faces-prison-after-pleading-guilty-ryan-saavedra
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โI work as a tenured professor. I make 100K a year doing that. I will never be fired. I will always have people wanting to hear what I have to say,” she wrote on Twitter.
Oh really?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/18/fresno-state-says-barbara-bush-bashing-professor-can-be-fired-despite-tenure.html
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Its just been a string of bad news for the po’ ol’ pollheads –
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/18/hillary-clintons-popularity-has-plunged-since-election-poll-finds.html
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@ 7:38 pm.
We donโt want Hillaryโs numbers to go too low.. Might be bad for us, We want Hillary to stick around with her fingers in the DNC and choosing her candidates and making trouble for the Dems. We want her to be seen everywhere in front of the camera as often as possible, with or without her glass of Chardonnay. Whatever they served her in India must have been worth the climb up the steps, but I digress. Broken wrist, broken ankle….retirement had been rough of My Gal, but she keeps trudging along.
Read that she will open the Spring DNC fundraiser as is custom for the partyโs last nominee after an election. She is not the featured speaker or featured anywhere but in the lobby. She will be sitting at the gala entrance behind a table (probably with a stack of โWhat Happenedโ books to peddle behind her) and greet the arriving donors and the Democratโs Whoโs Who. Bernie went back to being an Independent Socialist, so he probably wonโt be there. Just as well. He ainโt known for giving or donating, just receiving.
Hillary-David Brock machine is the best thing for us. The Russian Collusion hype, Hillary blaming the crack of dawn for her being a Sore Loser, is losing its luster. Itโs wearing thin on the worn out public. Sheโs a reminder to the voter to drain the swamp.
Brock called Bubba the very day after The Glass Ceiling did not break and Bill was very interested what Brock had to say. Bubba liked the plan. Hillary was under the weather at the time. ๐
http://time.com/4641901/trump-inauguration-david-brock/
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Outing of Hannity.
Always remember that the attorney-client privledge is to protect the client, not the attorney. Even if Cohen is not an attorney, the public does not have the right to know the names of uncharged 3rd parties. Bending the rules again just adds speculation that this is a political witch hunt instead of a valid investigation, IMHO.
โThe United States Attorneys Manual admonishes that โin all public filings and proceedings, federal prosecutors should remain sensitive to the privacy and reputation interests of uncharged third-parties.โ Unless a person has been formally charged with a crime, not only should the government avoid publicly naming the person; federal prosecutors are further schooled to avoid even an โunnecessarily-specific description.โ In other words, while calling Hannity โClient No. 3โ would have been proper, even referring to him as โS.H.โ would have transgressed the policy. There is no justification for publicizing his full name.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/sean-hannity-outing-violates-law/
While CNN delights in embarrassing Hannity (without telling its viewers that it was CNNโs own lawyer that got the judge to disclose his name publicly), just remember one thing. What the government did to Hannity, they may and will do to you on the Left next. I would temper my giddiness, you Lefties and Hannity haters, because chickens have a way of coming home to roost. The FBI went judge shopping and found one who is not too bright. But, then again, all the rules are going out the window.
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Looks like Cohen me be Trumps John Dean
“A longtime legal adviser to President Trump says he’s warned the president that his attorney Michael Cohen would turn against him and end up cooperating with federal prosecutors should he face criminal charges stemming from a raid of documents found in his home, office and hotel room, according to the Wall Street Journal. Cohen has been under criminal investigation for months over his personal business dealings.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-legal-adviser-warns-michael-cohen-would-flip-on-him/
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Ah the flights of fancy by the po’ ol’ fakenewsman have fallen flat thus far and the President is still in office in spite of the breathless proclamations. Remember the one about him quitting before inauguration? We do.
โI donโt think the inspector general can do anything but come down hard on Comey,โ former head of the FBIโs Criminal Investigative Division Chris Swecker told Fox News. โIโm sure he has an inner circle of friends, but I donโt see anyone out there defending him right now. Heโs managed to pretty much tick off everybody.โ
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/comey-vs-world-g-man-sparring-with-old-deputy-boss-amid-war-with-trump-and-clinton.html
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Lest we forget
On this day in 1775, American militiamen at Lexington and Concord confronted 700 British Red Coats โ firing the opening volley for American Liberty. The British governor had ordered his troops to seize weapons in Concord. It is no small irony that the first shots of the Revolution were fired in response to a gun confiscation order.
Happy Patriots Day!
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BillT 1250pm – Very good, you stole the march on me Mr Tozer. I was planning on using that anniversary in tomorrow’s town hall. You should post this comment under the appropriate ‘par force’ commentary, the gun confiscation aspect of the British action would be most relevant there.
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Dr. Rebane.
Yes, that is where it belongs. But, I just wanted to say Happy Patriots Day to all, including those disinterested in the current gun issue or volleying back and forth about Boss Hogg and the Squealing Piglets. There is a method to my madness, although some may find it madding. It was a judgement call and I am appreciative on your long suffering.
Ok, how about this one. It is related to tomorrow. Use caution going to a fro the March For Life (But Not Pro Life) On City Townhall. Inside the building might be the safest place to be at that hour…..unless Punchy decides its finally time to exercise his 2nd Amendment Rights ๐
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/04/19/april-20-420-marijuana-massachusetts-driving/
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The easiest thing about boycotting Starbucks is I donโt have to leave my easy chair to drive to a place I never go to, to purchase something I never buy from them.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1035912456558976/?type=3&theater
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Now the fun really begins –
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/19/doj-inspector-general-refers-mccabe-criminal-prosecution/
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Oh boy the po’ ol’ putin party parrot is getting bad news left and right!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/new-emails-bolster-gop-claims-fbi-doj-coordination-on-clinton-case-response.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/rosenstein-tells-trump-is-not-target-cohen-investigation.html
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Blue lives matter! RIP –
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/19/two-florida-deputies-killed-in-apparent-ambush-at-restaurant.html
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It’s National dope day tomorrow. I don’t want the dopers to forget.
They get all bummed out if they miss it, because they were too stoned to remember.
We have a family member over in Placerville,and they went to the dope store over there. What Paul and “jon” can buy for 35 bucks from the dude on Weedman St. they are paying 90 bucks. 90″F”n BUCKS????
For an 1/8th?? You gotta be high to pay that much.
I’m pretty sure those that toked before it was legal, will still get it the same old way.. TAX FREE.
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Bad news from Trumps inner circle
From Breitbart
“Thursday on CNNโs โWolf,โ Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz said President Donald Trump should โassume your best friends will flipโ to cooperate with investigators once they are charged with crimes.
When asked about Michael Cohen, Dershowitz said, โI have told every client I have represented over the last 53 yearsโassume your best friends will flip. Prosecution has an enormous leverage. They can charge you with a dozen crimes, even if theyโre relatively technical crimes, that accumulate with the guidelines and tell you youโll never see the outside again, youโll serve your life in prison. That kind of pressure brings forth not only singing but composing. Witnesses realize the better the story, the better the deal they get, so the risk is they will exaggerate or elaborate or even sometimes make up stories. I think the president has to assume that his closest friends, his greatest associates, the people he trusts the most, if exposed to the risk of life imprisonment will flip. That has to be his working assumption.โ
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/04/19/dershowitz-trump-assume-best-friends-will-flip/
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Reality check on the SJW who is suing the NFL because no one wants him-
The NFL analyst continued, โHis tape is bad. The last year of tape is bad. He had the yips. Iโve had the yips. Iโve had them throwing and Iโve had them putting. He couldnโt throw it from here to the camera towards the end accurately. He was so locked up as a quarterback. โฆ The tape doesnโt lie. And to get through the activist part to the football part, you then have to battle that last year of tape โ which isnโt very good either.โ
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/04/19/trent-dilfer-kaepernick-nfl-teams-dont-want-activist-disastrous-play/
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LOL Paul,, That’s all we have heard for a year. “someone” just busted is going to flip on Trump.
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Just reporting using your favorite source Don, Breitbart.
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Looks like the anti Trumpsters are getting hosed by the Legal guys of the FBI. Oh my Paul Emery may need resuscitation!
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Walt 5:37-
Pot shop in Placerville, El Dorado County?? Go get ’em Bessee!!!!!!! Go get ’em!!!!!!
https://www.edcgov.us/Government/planning/ordinances/Documents/Cannabis%20Ordinance%205075.pdf
$90. an eighth??
Someone has been borrowing from the kitty jar.
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Starbucks
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UyEvTDurudw
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Walr,
90 bucks for an 1/8 pound? My, looks like the prices have risen a lot since January.
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No Bill,,, OZ.
Whoever is stupid enough to open up here, will go broke.
Subsidized weed sales. Who would have thunk? Will the money come from weed taxes? Oh.. That money has already been spent.. Just don’t ask me where.
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AGW ALERT!! Um,,,, more bad news… for your side.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/weather/ct-met-april-weather-could-set-records-chicago-20180418-story.html
“this is the second-coldest start to April across Chicago in 130 years.”
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/weather/2018/04/19/april-track-coldest-143-years/532994002/
“April on track to be the coldest in 143 years”.
Invest in heating oil. Sunscreen and T-shirt futures may not pay so well pretty soon.
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@ 6:37 pm
Oh Walt,….oh Walt…oh Walt!, that is funny indeed. You cannot indict a sitting President. The DOJโs Office of Legal Counsel, which issues legal memdoranums to the Executive Branch on matters of Constitutionality, holds steadfastly to the view that you cannot criminally indict a sitting President. This is the DOJโs stance and legal ruling for 45 years now, unchanged under Democrat and Republican presidents. The Office of Legal Counsel first issued its legal rulings, memorandums,and DOJ policy in 1973 under Nixon and held the same position with its update in 2000 under Clinton.
Meuller knows this, Comey knows this. It is impossible to have a criminal investigation of someone you cannot indict.
Funny, every talking MSM head on TV along with every guest expert lawyer, every former judge from any jurisdiction, every prosecutor from all levels, every defense attorney, legal anaylist, and every legal expert fails to mention this.
So, the pesky questions remains. If you cannot indict a sitting President, then what is Meuller doing? He is exclusively from day one building a case for articles of impeachment. Thus, when Meuller recently announced there is no criminal investigation of Trump, he was telling the truth.
From last year:
https://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/06/903710-mark-levin-gets-right-point-doj-cant-indict-trump/
The NYT can to the same conclusion as former DOJ official Levine.
Too funny. Carry on. Oh, Meuller is bound by the DOJ rules and practices.
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Walt, my buddy o buddy, again.
Cold weather, cooler temps? Itโs caused by Global Warming.. I shat you not. Read an article recently from the AGW crowd that explains it all. See, the ice caps melt and that cooler fresh water hits the ocean currents and prevents the warmer saltier currents in the North Atlantic from coming farther north, and Viola!, colder temps in the England and Detroit and New Foundland. Perfect. Sweet. Warming means cooling, duh. :).
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District One. Their debate tonight proved Hodge is not ready for the job. Dan Miller clearly is the leader and knows what is going on and has solutions. Hodge is full of platitudes and hubris. Not good for the District.
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I saw that movie already Bill.
Now have you seen the news from the islands? They are getting hammered. Floods, homes washed out to sea. Then piracy of all things. People are going around in boats claiming to be “help”,
go out into deeper water and rob the “rescued” for all they have.
There is some aloha for ya’.
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Don is out of the pot business. Even his hero Trump has dumped the idea of federal control. Not much demand for his kind of politics. Don always was a one trick pony.
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I watched Paul Emery on NCTV ask his first question. I thought “is he drunk”? It was a rambling incoherent diatribe about the lack of affordable housing. U thought to myself, Hmmm. Now this is the guy that helped defeat my affordable housing project years ago and now he is crying about it? You cannot make up the hypocrisy of people like Emery. Pathetic.
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Buzz kill for ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman, keep tellin the bar flys all that.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/19/before-he-was-fired-james-comey-told-trump-i-dont-leak-i-dont-do-weasel-moves/
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Fresno State Professor….
Sure, I support free speech more than most. I believe nothing will happen, except she will become another hero of the extreme alt-Left…..er….the New Democrat Party. Ah, Rush, no need to fat shame her.
. “That is the professor flipping off the photographer with her middle finger,” said Limbaugh, clarifying that she’s “not pregnant, by the way.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29622/rush-heres-what-we-can-learn-leftist-professor-who-james-barrett
I can learn a lot from Barbara Bush to temper my savage beast
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1590096051104073&set=a.103202859793407.6637.100003110802692&type=3&theater
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Tanks a lot team 0
Between 2007 and 2017, food stamp usage by new immigrants to the United States has more than tripled from four percent in 2007 to 13 percent in 2017, CIS Director of Research Steven Camarotta finds in his latest study.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/19/study-food-stamp-usage-by-new-immigrants-more-than-tripled-in-last-decade/
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I watched Paul Emery on NCTV ask his first question. I thought “is he drunk”? It was a rambling incoherent diatribe about the lack of affordable housing.”
Mr. Paul could stand to have the experience of actually attempting to build a new house (or apartments) in the Great State of California. The real world is a funny place, everyone should try it sometime.
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,,,sure todd if you like miller then you are a follower of the old cronies,,,hodge is a leader
,,,did you watch the cannabis forum on nctv Todd???
,,,miller was stumbling around,,,he wants mj to remain a schedule 1 drug,,,what a dufus!!!
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Todd, Miller and Hodge are running in District 3, not District 1. What were YOU drinking Thursday night?
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Say what? Heck I thought they were running for US Senate. Thanks for the heads up.
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Marylin, Hodge a leader? You metrosexuals would follow a lemming over the cliff if they told you a pot plant was at the bottom. I have my own individual life and follow the best people. Miller makes your pick look like a third grader.
Boardman, what were you toking on this morning? Where would you have thought I said anything about which district? Anyway, my project and my rentals are in Grass Valley so I have a stake in the race regardless.
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,,,You metrosexuals would follow a lemming over the cliff if they told you a pot plant was at the bottom,,,good one todd!!!
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Gee, I don’t know Todd. You wrote District One, followed by a comment about how Miller outperformed Hodge at the forum.
What should I conclude: That you can’t write a coherent comment?
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And to hear my own kid lost his job to “train” one of these people.
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Silicon-Valley-college-called-visa-mill-12849677.php?t=50f2959ebe&f?
All is good though,,, Found an even better job, and the severance pay was enough to by a new Car. THEN said Co. begged him to come back.. His “replacement” came from that “school”.
Now how many illegitimate degrees are out there from this scam?
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