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[All those vilifying President Trump should read the latest essay by historian and commentator Victor Davis Hanson on a whole new look at the role of this president in our life and times (here).  gjr]

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244 responses to “Sandbox – 22apr18”

  1. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Walt-
    Sorry if your daughter is buddies with Boss Hogg. My apologies for cutting so close to home. Honestly, I didn’t know. Did she send back any pictures of his spewing volcano?
    Now, back to the more pressing question neither you or anyone else dared answer. The kid being chased by Taylor Swift killed four diners before he had to reload and was stopped by an unarmed hero. Doesn’t that make a case for limited rounds? How many more would be killed if he had a sack full of 30 round clips?

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar

    How many more would NOT have been killed iif, after the authorities took away the psycho schizo kids’ gun and gave them to his father, had the father not gave the guns back to the Taylor Swift is stalking me kid??

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  3. Walt Avatar

    I do believe this is is when you hear,, “go fuck yourself”.
    But I’m bigger than that. I chalk it up to your fakeness.
    So I really don’t expect much these days out of GEN WTF?
    The Lefty years of drug experimentation has shown results. And not good ones.
    So blame it on your parents. Was it LSD?, Ludes?, PCP even?
    Or the new designer crap sold on the streets of Frisco?
    What was it that made you turn out the way you are? Born sideways?
    I bet it really torqus you off you must live by conservative ways.
    (actually live within your means,, and pay your own way.) That must really suck on ice.
    Now go smoke your bowl. and sizzle in the corner.

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “GR 3:05 – Thanks George. I actually do know how to keystroke HTML (built/repaired entire websites when I was forced to back in the dark ages). I simply screwed up and didn’t realize I hadn’t closed out the italics. Must have been because the hair dresser was coming back to rinse the dye from my do.”
    -jon smith 432pm
    Sounds like Michael P. Anderson’s background.

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Hmmmm I swear I only hit Post once.
    Another bit of news… famed Nevada City family man Jeff Pelline is vacationing alone in Hawai’i … but it’s all good, he even calls home so he can help his kid with homework every night. His high school aged kid.
    Anyone here have their dad help them with homework ever in high school? I will say I kinda helped my kid once, when he was studying AP Chemistry as a sophomore, catching up on reading after a choir trip. My son in an exasperated tone asked what was really a rhetorical question, “What the h*** is ‘Ksp’?” and without a stumble I said “It’s a solubility constant”… he calmed right down, found the section where it was introduced and said something like “wow, you really did take this stuff before”. Not a single question since, not at NU, not Berkeley, not Harvard. That suited me fine. 🙂

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  6. Walt Avatar

    The gun Nazis are really uping the anti.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/23/kyle-kashuv-says-school-security-questioned-him-for-visiting-gun-range-with-his-dad.html
    Parents and kids will get rich sueing radical Lefties.

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Sorry if your daughter is buddies with Boss Hogg. My apologies for cutting so close to home. Honestly, I didn’t know. Did she send back any pictures of his spewing volcano?”
    lol. Well Mr/Mrs Smith, you’ve found a new way to piss off the angry old white men.
    You’ll probably need a new nom de troll to get any kind of serious response.

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  8. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    It’s fun watching the wheels fall off of the Green Libertarian conspiracies.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/23/the_hidden_bombshell_in_the_mccabe_report_136882.html

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Walt the left always goes personal as they are all morons. They attack kids, parents and wives. Look at how these scumbags attack Trump and his family. Anyway, I just chalk it up to they are not too smart and have no ability to debate. Saw that on Ingraham tonight. Some Conservative black woman is getting praised by Conye and the plantation blacks of the democrat party attack him and this gal with some vile stuff. She is a brave woan. Check her out. She is a rising star and has lots of guts.
    https://ijr.com/2018/04/1087420-kanye-west-candice-owens/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar

    jon smith is Sky Pilot in the shiny van? Holy Burning Man, I was right. That is one dude that should never ever be allowed anywhere close to a firearm or sharp objects…or school zones…or parks…..or…maybe going to see a man of the cloth could help. Some folks are beyond human aid. As it is now, Ms. Smitty reminds me of Sampson, armed only with the jawbone of an ass.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1038778012939087/?type=3&theater

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I think you are right BillT. But he has a problem he can’t shake. Restrooms at the park. He has the “urge”.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    Ya’ see “jon”,, we make fun, and ridicule ya’to your face right here. Everyone else does it behind your back.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is a little bed time snack with a side of rancid Russian dressing-
    Obama Justice Dept.’s attempts to influence investigations exposed in McCabe probe
    Tucked inside the inspector general’s report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was the story of an August 2016 phone call from a high-ranking Justice Department official who Mr. McCabe thought was trying to shut down the FBI’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was running for president.
    The official was “very pissed off” at the FBI, the report says, and demanded to know why the FBI was still pursuing the Clinton Foundation when the Justice Department considered the case dormant.
    Former FBI officials said the fact that a call was made is even more stunning than its content.
    James Wedick, who conducted corruption investigations at the bureau, said he never fielded a call from the Justice Department about any of his cases during 35 years there. He said it suggested interference.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/23/justice-departments-attempts-influence-investigati/
    😉

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  14. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Trump 2020
    Generally seen as underwater, below the surface things are very different for Trump. President Trump elicits strong reactions from two-thirds of America’s electorate. Yet among the one-third in neither camp, the president is quietly doing quite well.
    Rasmussen’s 4/16 daily tracking poll, the same polling closest to 2016’s popular vote, gave interesting insight into President Trump’s support. Overall, Trump’s job approval rating was 51 percent (48 percent disapproval). Among the hardcore, his strong support was 35 percent; his strong disapproval: 39 percent.
    On the surface, these results are unexciting… until compared to 2016’s actual results. In 2016, Trump received just 46.1 percent of the popular vote. Rasmussen’s 4/16 results put him five percent ahead of what won him the presidency.
    Also, Rasmussen’s 4/16 hardcore results closely mimic 2016 exit polling.

    https://spectator.org/trumps-below-the-surface-strength/

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  15. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    More VDH: Respect Unearned.
    “Washington’s self-righteous establishmentarians talk of professionalism when they act unprofessionally. They refer at length to their intellectual and professional pedigrees when they prove incompetent. And they cite their morality and ethics when they possess neither. And then, adding insult to injury, when the public expresses abhorrence at their behavior, they accuse critics of unprofessionalism, a lack of patriotism, or reckless demagoguery.”
    https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/23/respect-unearned/

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  16. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,it’s Springtime in nirvana silly,,,where’s the river???
    3:53 p.m. — A person from the 200 block of Broad Street reported an intoxicated naked female.

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  17. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Someone handing out dancing lessons? Y’all just keep dancing around a pretty simple and common sense question.
    “The kid killed four diners before he had to reload and was stopped by an unarmed hero. Doesn’t that make a case for limited rounds? How many more would be killed if he had a sack full of 30 round clips?”
    “Ooooooh but what about . . . . .”

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    jons 1001am – it appears that you haven’t been paying attention as to what are the seminal parts of the gun debate. You’re arguing a tautology to maximize a utility that is solely a function of expected loss of life in school massacres. But unfortunately, for people driven by anecdotal goads to emotion, that may be a bit too demanding when considering ‘gun violence’ in terms of broad and long-term social benefit. As I said, we live in different universes.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Proggys like yellow “jon”,, call for “common sense” gun restrictions. Yet refuse to actually say just what those are..
    Funny thing about those using the term “common sense”,, really don’t have any.
    They voted for the likes of prop 47.(thug protection act) That’s was showing “common sense”.. Right?
    Reducing the penalty for using a gun. Such a bright move. Now look who bitches.
    That’s what passes for smarts on the Proggy side.
    Maybe Yellow “jon” can tell us what will make criminals follow the law.( they don’t,,, by definition.)
    The ball is in your court asswipe,, just what are those “common sense” gun laws you spew of?
    Just what other Amendments to the Bill of Rights you care to crap on in the process?

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  20. Walt Avatar

    “jon’s” squeeze may be out of a job, despite her claim of being immune from getting canned.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/24/petition-to-fire-fresno-state-professor-attracts-10000-signatures.html

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: GeorgeR@10:54AM
    A magazine change is only a few seconds (or less if you’re good), even with a silly bullet button if you have the right setup.
    Truth is, the whole push is from people who aren’t shooters, but by golly they have this brilliant idea. Also, it’s a thing you can attach a number to and so it seems scientific and all.
    The tactics of mass murder in a building full of people are an interesting thing to think about, but I’ll skip this one in order to avoid a visit from one of Paul’s beloved 17 intelligence agencies.
    I was just thinking, if you want to save kids’ lives, simply force the texting apps on phones to a)have the GPS turned on and b)turn themselves off if you are moving faster than a fast walk.

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  22. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Despite holding court with polysyllabic word soup, you avoided answering a simple question.
    “The kid killed four diners before he had to reload and was stopped by an unarmed hero. Doesn’t that make a case for limited rounds?”
    Yes, or no?

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  23. Walt Avatar

    No, dipshit.
    So without guns,, how will your snowflake spawn take over Ca?
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/04/24/calexit-iii-california-independence-advocates-can-collect-signatures/
    See that pic.? All the hoodrats with evil guns with BIG magazines!
    LIBshits drew up that poster. Can’t blame us.(but you will try.)

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  24. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,jon,,,they can never answer ”’yes”’ even though that is the obvious answer,,,but they like to say proggies won’t listen to reason
    ,,,#SAD

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  25. Walt Avatar

    So the other coward shows up.
    Still not one word on those “common sense” gun laws.
    Now go write another bumper sticker.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The tag team of Dougie and Mikey, together again.
    Of course, smaller magazines make more such opportunities to stop a mass shooter. And the flip side, law abiding people using a gun to defend themselves, won’t tell a tale when they run out after 10 rounds and 11 or 12 might have made the difference for them.

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    jons 1207pm – NO. And we’ll do our best to cut down on the polysyllabics for your benefit, even though it does make adult conversation a bit more cumbersome. And Ms Lock still doesn’t know how to inject reason into the debate; her approach is interminable repetition of stock answers with no backing – kinda like the building fronts on an old western movie set.

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  28. Ricky McVeigh Avatar
    Ricky McVeigh

    If fish was here it would ban muslin on all scenery set fronts cause it just make good sense.

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  29. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,lol,,,talk about,,,”’no reason”’!!! The Answer is NO!!! I guess that you mean you will not elaborate,,,
    The NRA echo choir are the ones spouting stock answers,,, not I…
    I came to the conclusion logically,,,as I think jon did,,,that a par force show of strength does not require banana clips.
    ,,,why are hunting shotguns limited to 2 in the magazine and one in the chamber??? There is something else you guys can bitch and whine about…
    Gregory imagines Seal Team 6 directed by a tyrannical trumpski is heading up his driveway and expects a long lasting firefight,,,more AMMO!!!
    What a HOOT!!!

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    MarilynnL 235pm – Ms Lock, I hate to say it, and have been holding back for just one more jot of evidence that you now delivered, but I do think your elevator does not go to the top floor – i.e. you are definitely sporting a neurological deficit of major proportions. I have twelve years of reasons on the meaning and disposition of the Second Amendment, most recently in considerable posts on everything from par force through debating the 2nd to summarizing the recent town hall on guns and my participatory remarks. I sincerely believe that you are beyond help, but do serve a useful role as a palpable bookend on the intellectual spectrum of these comment streams. But we would like to have you point us to your ‘logic’ on par force.

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  31. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Doug Keachie, violently fisting a female sock puppet at 236pm,
    No, Doug, 10 shots is not a long firefight, and I had in mind a home invasion robbery by a few stoners, not the Big Red One storming someone’s door.

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Keach, the 2+1 restriction for semiauto and pump shotguns is fish and game law, not safety. Double and sing!e barrel shotguns are still used by hunters.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    More hate from the usual crowd.(and pure BS to match)
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/24/nebraska-professor-fake-blood-nra-lobbyist/
    Hay “jonboy”… Your redheaded stepchild belong to them?
    “Another gun control faction, Betsy Riot, describes itself as a “neo-suffragist punk-patriot resistance defending America against Trumpism and metaphorically kicking NRA gunf***ery in the balls.” Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell “debas[ed] democracy” by “Chris Cox-sucking the blood money-jizzing death dick of the NRA,” the group said.”
    Ain’t it just dandy that all the attacks on the NRA have backfired
    on epic levels? Those that cave to Progressive demands soon find out they made the wrong choice.
    So keep up the fine work Proggys,, your putting votes in OUR ballot boxes.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Elmer Fudd hunted silly wabbits with a shotgun.
    N. Korea.
    “There is no doubt that apparent concessions by North Korea are in response to punitive sanctions issued last fall and, more recently, to Trump’s tariffs. Trade negotiations between the U.S. and China are indeed about unfair economic practices on the part of Beijing, but they’re also about convincing China to rein in North Korea. Progress may indeed be happening, even if Kim’s announcement is simply meant to keep talks on track for the time being.
    Kim surely hopes that some olive branches will do the trick without having to abandon his nuclear program entirely. But one thing we’re fairly confident of: Trump won’t be making any Obama-Iran deals. He won’t win a Nobel Peace Prize either.“
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/55513-kims-latest-olive-branch-no-more-nuclear-tests
    Trump has instituted the tightest sanctions against N Korea in our history.
    https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/26064

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  35. Walt Avatar

    Muller actually getting close to the real criminals?
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/24/obama-lawyer-mueller-manafort/
    By now,, in a nation with no extradition agreements.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Boycotts are a legal expression of our speech, but, all in all, I just don’t like them as a general rule of thumb. Puts businesses who are in the business to make a profits in the smack dab in the middle of two warring factions and are forced to pick a side in a fight not of their choosing or making, generally. Banks folding like cheap suits as they bow to the anti gun forces. The squeaky wheel definitely gets the grease.
    Glad there is one bank that is just saying “no”, albeit they have been so demonized, vilified, and beat down already, that I reckon they threw up their hands and figured what do they have to lose. No use getting on their good side of the Miserables.
    Come on, what’s Wells Fargo without the man riding shotgun?
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/55515-wells-fargo-resists-the-resistance-on-guns

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar

    Yo Walt, it’s science time!
    What are the chances that a planlet called Uranus would be surround by fart clouds. Is that Intelligent Design or what? 🙂
    http://www.businessinsider.com/uranus-smells-like-farts-hydrogen-sulfide-gas-2018-4

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  38. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    George, your intro to “par force” was a wasted moment at the so-called town meeting, and no, Keachie has not settled down to logic for the decade I’ve been noticing him. Catch him in a bald faced lie and it will only slow him down… A couple days and a brand spanking new sock puppet and all is forgotten.
    One of the funniest Keachie shows was as a radio show caller, an afternoon KFBK talk show. “Doug from Nevada City” was all over the map and had the on air guy laughing at him, along with the following two or three callers.
    He came here and said he “smoked ’em”. Doug is as delusional as he needs to be to keep his illusions inflated.

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “The kid killed four diners before he had to reload and was stopped by an unarmed hero. Doesn’t that make a case for limited rounds?”
    Yes, or no?”
    OK. No.

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  40. Walt Avatar

    So Dougy made an ass out of his usual self on national radio.
    I bet Tom is still kicking him around at the watering hole in NY.
    ” There was this guy from Nevada City Ca. who called in today,,, you guys know I used to live in Sac.. Yup I have been to Nevada City a time or two, and let me tell ya’… That’s one “F”ed up town. And you thought Berkeley was nuts? This Doug guy proved that.”
    Ya,, Dougy and his dirty socks. Funkstain,,, Lavender,, plenty call him Nate.
    The only friend he has on the Daily Caller comment boards is himself.
    He’s pretty good at posting with three sock puppets at the same time. I give him that much.

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Cool, check out betsy riot.
    http://betsyriot.com/
    https://www.youtube.com/thebetsyriot
    Lotsa Orange Hitler, grrrl power, a bit of gratuitous vulgarity, GUNZ-MEAN-YOU-HAVE-A-TINY-DICK.
    All from a philosophy that has sprung forth in the last few decades. My best guess is that it results from a lack of meaningful work, soy products, and an excess of plastic/bug spray/lead in the environment. God knows what my father would have thought of these people.

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  42. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes, it makes “a case”, just not a good one. And there are countering “cases” that represent infringements of the right to own and carry guns.

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  43. George Rebane Avatar

    Gregory 459pm – I have to agree with you, it was wasted on that audience is that format introduced by Judge Tom, an intro that caught me by surprise since I had no idea they wished to discuss guns without bringing in the raison d’etre of half the country. Yeah, in that forum my opening remarks were pissing in the wind, silly me. Nevertheless, I am heartened that I went on record laying out the missed basis for the entire discussion.

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “scenes, it makes “a case”, just not a good one.”
    Good point. There’s the semantic difference between ‘the case’ and ‘a case’.
    You know, there probably is one shooting in 10,000 (or some other high number) where the time between round 10 and round 11, especially if the shooter fumbles, makes some small difference. Of course, it could be round 9 and 10, or round 20 and 21.
    If someone really cared about mass shootings, rather than just furthering a more general set of politics, they’d probably look at the Ft. Hood shootings. Those always struck me as the sort of situations that are the most likely to occur, aside from the inevitable inner-city high school shootings of course.

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Walt 516pm
    It wasn’t Tom Sullivan, it was a sub for the day. Speaking of Sullivan, a local pilot named Buzz got on the air today talking about the VA. Great guy. A retired Marine Corp. test pilot. Salt of the earth.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar

    “…it makes “a case”, just not a good one.” Ok, how about a nutcase.
    It’s that time of month again. Aunt Flo is visiting, Aunt Maxie Flo that is.
    “70% of women polled say they want Trump impeached.” Sure, whatever you say.
    The majority of women voted for Trump in 2016, which is why My Gal is so pissed at those spineless women married to Deplorable types who can’t think for themselves. Obliviously, Hillary has not met our women, but I digress.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JaeQuohDhJM
    BTW, that clacking you hear in the background is Aunt Maxie Flo’s ring hitting the table as she is yapping. It’s a big ring. A very expensive big ring…..a gawd awful, ring.
    Yep, our women tell us what to. They won’t need no Woman Card. 70%, eh?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kmgRv2V_7P4&list=PLE187349577EFD358&index=4&t=0s

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  47. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    George, I appreciate your honesty with the simple no. I find it your answer illogical but we can agree to not agree.

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  48. George Rebane Avatar

    jons 650pm – since I’ve more than sprayed my logic on that issue over these pages over the years, I’d like to hear the depth of yours. Thanks.

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