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244 responses to “Sandbox – 22apr18”
Read this folks
https://nypost.com/2018/04/25/judge-bars-are-allowed-to-throw-out-trump-supporters/
“A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars — because the law doesn’t protect against political discrimination.”
Then it’s safe to claim a bar a LIB free zone as well.
If it had been an “O” supporter they would cry racist and burn the bar, and the judge would have called his 86ing a hate crime.
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re: ScottO@5:57PM
“…some words posting about California’s shitty educational system ending with:
And who runs the state?
Bush? Trump?
Bueller?”
If Paul/JonSmith/MarijuanaLockheed (I’m assuming it’s the same person) actually answered a question on occasion, it would be interesting to hear why a single-party state can’t have a decent school system. Given that the government in CA is doing God’s work it shouldn’t be a problem.
Dunno, maybe they have to finish up with the poop cleanup in SF first and then on to greater things.
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You know, with all the gun foofaraw, it’s interesting to think about the 50 states as their own petri dish of laws.
It’s funny that a state next door, Arizona, has largely the same demographics (assuming that makes any difference as all populations of people are absolutely equal), problems with illegals, mix of urban/rural, but such different gun laws.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state
Arizona: Gun ownership – 32.3% Murder rate – 4.1/100k Gun murder rate – 2.5/100k
California: Gun ownership – 20.1% , Murder rate – 4.8/100k, Gun murder rate – 3.3/100k
Now, mind you, California has among the most stringent gun rules in the nation and it’s practically impossible for most people to get a concealed weapon permit. Arizona allows any adult (who isn’t a felon or a few other things) to carry a gun either concealed or open, no permit needed. Plus there’s no knife laws at all.
So riddle me this, how is California safer for all it’s rules?
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Goodbye Mini-me.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj-PXCf0gQY
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scenes 718pm
Paul E is Paul E… aka Punchy and variants, but he eschews his pet names
jon smith is very probably Michael P. Anderson, proprietor of Clientworks.
Marilyn Chambers-Pot is very probably Doug Keachie.
scenes 731pm
I remember spending three months in Tucson on a business trip with and to Hughes Aircraft Co. in late ’77. At the time AZ didn’t have concealed carry but open carry was depending on the town. Tucson didn’t, but South Tucson, separately incorporated, did… and it was a culture shock to see folks walking with a Colt SAA in a western rig. Not that much of a shock… not like the shock of bikers wearing gang colors and missing teeth trying to sell me meth or pot in the parking lot outside of The Bum Steer saloon.
AZ is a birthplace of Libertarianism, and the GOP there (like Barry Goldwater) have had a lib streak all along. Gary Nolan (of Nolan Chart fame) ran for the 8th District Congressional seat in 2006 and got nearly 5% of the vote statewide for Senate in 2010, dying of a stroke later that month.
No, California isn’t safer though it’s difficult to say whether we’re worse off… at best one can say with a higher crime rate and a leftward bent, gun laws have been passed and when they don’t work, more gun laws are the obvious fix.
Not unlike a barber of old prescribing a good bleeding for whatever ails you.
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1). Education
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” —John Adams (1756)
2). Ban assault vans. Nobody needs 15 passengers.
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/26067
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George Boardman | 25 April 2018 at 07:01 PM
No you are a hypocrite that does not like getting back what he tosses out. You are an old coot and unable to even debate me, and you know I am just a high school grad. You are a phony baloney.
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sceens @731- Arizona keeps its criminals in jail, Cali on the other hand keeps pretending and letting people who down plead out on the street with abandon. Now its do away with bail. Nevada County judges with their low bails fuel the 5,6,7,8 bails and still the judges think that they will be better on what the 20th time? 😉
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George
No one is claiming a “win” in Arizona but it is an indicator that the Repubs who won by 5% in a district that voted 21% for Trump are may be in trouble in the fall in districts that lets say voted only 10% for Trump. Combining that with the normal mid term loses for incumbent parties would cause any realistic Republican pollster and researcher to have concerns. I’m not implying you are one of those observers. You seem to embrace a Pollyanna vision for this fall for the Republican party.
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I believe it was Scott O who said the other day that he has an idea (knows) where this is all going and that is what concerns him.
VHD on Revolution and Worse to Come
“We are entering revolutionary times. The law is no longer equally applied. The media are the ministry of truth. The Democratic party is a revolutionary force. And it is all getting scary.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/trump-resistance-democratic-party-revolutionary-times/
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Sorry Paul; Emery you are misinformed. The gal that won claims the win. Heard her interviewed today. She makes a mockery of your idea. My goodness all it takes is one vote to win she won by many more. A win is a win. You can now go cry a liberal loss. No blue wave this year.
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Sure Todd. You were the supporter of Moore in Alabama and he still claims he won. Your guy Todd.
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Todd
The “No one is claiming a “win” in Arizona” referred to the Democrats. Sorry that was difficult for you to understand.
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Man o man it smells like really rancid Russian dressing up in here!
Putin says I will have this someday, lill’ rocket man is caving in literally and we just keep dropping the re-entry vehicle in the basket ball hoop!!!
http://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/test-missile-launched-from-southern-california-coast/article_c7bb3a0e-6ceb-5b56-b653-18442c1c66c3.html
😉
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Identity politics isn’t cutting it anymore.
https://www.westernjournal.com/black-unemployment-rate-trump-lowest-17-years/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/04/25/chance-rapper-black-people-dont-democrats/
😉
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In observance of your Heathen; Norse Pagan faith, you may wear a beard, in accordance with Army uniform and grooming standards for soldiers with approved religious accommodations.”
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/04/25/this-soldier-just-got-authorization-to-wear-a-beard-because-of-his-norse-pagan-faith/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow
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Paul Emery | 25 April 2018 at 10:36 PM
If that is the case I suggest you not write the comment as if it is your then. And Who cares if I and a million Alabama people supported Moore? He lost and he was never arrested for anything. You really do scrape the bottom of the liberal barrel./ Hell, you are a Weinstein lover and we don’t toss that at you as we have class.
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All Paul cares about, it that the sliming of Moore worked. The Proggy won, and Moore didn’t. The end justifies the means.
Right Paul?
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,,,trumpski said many times pleading the 5th is a mafia,,,mob mentality move…
,,,now his goomba lawyer pleads the 5th!!!
,,,in the ‘’’a sucker is born every minute department’’’ 50 million suckers voted for POTUS AURANTIACO!!!
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Morning Walt (from Scattershots)… 🙂
1). No, it was the wolf pack that woke me up early in the darkness. Something big was out in the darkness.
Been meaning to ask you. What/who was that big yellow helicopter doing a few days ago? Not everyday I see an aircraft not only at eye level, but below eye level. Like the construction ones they used to work on Oreville. Not Calstar, not hovering over Hwy 20, but flying low (above the tree tops) over dirt roads and flying in a slow pattern around the county line, Nevada County side. Same day as the car chase that ended poorly for the driver in Foresthill, but hovering low around Big Oak Valley, not pavement, sweeping the area. Any ideas?
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Tod
Show me ONE quote that I support Weinstein. Just one.
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If the Fifth is good enough for the Mafia it is good enough for any law-abiding American.
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Here is a copy/paste from the Reuters poll on Dem/Rep favored for the election done last week. Kind of weighted towards the left. Always check that if you think there is a bias. Looks like that is the ase on this.
“These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted for Thomson Reuters April 20 -24, 2018. For the survey, a sample of 1,522 Americans, including 551 Democrats, 484 Republicans, 157 Independents ages 18+ were interviewed online”
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A yellow egg beater? Haven’t seen that one. I did hear old school rotors the other day.(The ones you hear for miles) But nothing within eyesight.
But there was “something” to my East two days ago in the late afternoon. It had rotation, a glint of shine then dark, then just gone. Nope, it wasn’t the Google balloon again.
The same day we had C130s going South on the half hour all, day, long.
Troops headed to the boarder?
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Paul.. You never need to support someone, to trash the “other guy”.
Your pretty good at that game. Real good actually. I don’t recall one kind word out of you where Moore was concerned.
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Kind word for Moore Walt? I left that up to you and you did a very good job of supporting the accused child molester.
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Re: DNC e-mails lists, their monetary value, and party finances:
Not slamming the Dems on this one, just confirming two observations.
1). Obama did not trust the D state party apparatus, nor the DNC in the least. Bernie won’t cough up his e-mail lists, no matter how much the pressure…for quite a while. He switched back to being a non-member of the Democratic Party. Those lists was worth more than their weight in gold. Well, the Dems did give Bernie a small private plane, after the election, which is all he asked for…but I digress.
Jill Stein grabbed all those donor lists and e-mail addresses when she raised the funds to have recounts in WI, Michigan, and PA (Philly). Raised more than her entire 2016 campaign in days…after it was over, lol Those post- election lists are worth about 6 million smackers and she ain’t coughing them up to the DNC either.
The recent AZ special election shows the DNC sat on the sidelines. No need to waste money when there are so many Soros/Obama/Media Matters/Parented Parenthood type of groups pouring money in all these special elections races. They are awash in mula and champing at the bit to bury R’s.
Point #1 is that a bunch of folks on the Left do not trust the DNC to spend money wisely or on candidates they prefer. Or, they just don’t like the DNC no more. Oh baby, where has the love gone? You think the Bernie Bros or the extreme far left (aka the Lefties) are going to send their mula to Tom Perez instead of their preferred political advocacy organization?
Whether it is a boycott, or protest for the hanky panky done by Hillary’s 08’ Co-Campaign Manager Debbie Whatzername Shultz, or for other reasons. the Dems, no matter how fired up they be, are not sending their little cards and letters to the DNC or the state committees. It’s going elsewhere, like PACs.
2). Hillary sure loves the greenies and no matter she does, it’s always makes her look like a shameless opportunist. Kinda hard to conclude otherwise.
https://theintercept.com/2018/04/25/hillary-clinton-email-dnc-democratic-party/
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You just proved my point Paul. If there was anything to the charges they would have been pursued.
Your proggy friends got away with making false charges, then trotted out Stormy to try for a second at the same game. Stormy is back on her back, and well calloused knees to pay her lawyer.
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Thanks Walt @ 9:32 in the morn.
My first instinct was “training”. Double egg beaters. Yep, had to leave the hood and go to Roseville Tuesday. Decide to take 65 north to 70 to Hamilton Smartsville on the way home and you could see the big gray birds lined up in the fields on runways normally empty, aka, unnoticed. Gee, never seen planes parked there. And wow, it looks like a parking lot they way they were packed in nose to tail. Figured they were bringing in cargo loads of Norwegians.
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So Walt you are contending Story is a liar. If so why did Trump pay her $130,000 to keep her mouth shut?
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Toes and Walt
Airshow at Beale this weekend
http://www.beale.af.mil/Expo2018/
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Stormy? That is the first time in donut mouth’s life she is asking to get paid for keeping her mouth shut.
Ray Moore? Might be creepy, but not a child molester…even 40 years ago. And all that changed when he met and married the love of his life. My whole take on Moore is that the Deplorables flatly declared give us better candidates or put it where the sun don’t shine. And the “child molester” barely lost, lol. Luther was our man. The RNC tried to get their boy in, spent millions slamming Luther Strange and left Ray Moore as the default candidateas they split the 3 way race.
Water under the bridge now. I will concede Strange is a weird name for a politician, sort of like Charlie Brown or Doolittle or for the AZ angle, Flake. What a Flake and Moore’s name should have been Strange….but we must’nt judge a book by its cover, despite sometimes the shoe fits.
Since Hillary is not in the ballot in 2018, it’s important that all parties put up good candidates. My Gal got the most votes and was the best Dem candidate in US history. 🙂
BTW, this whole 2020 talk is ridiculous, IMHO. Ridiculous before the 2018 primaries , where local issues and local candidates weight the scales more than any national candidate. First things first. In fact, until we know who is facing off against whom after June, I can’t make an honest assessment on November 2018.
As far as projecting 2020 this far out, is it going to be Jeb or Rubio….or will Scott Walker lead the pack? Opps, that was 2014, sorry. Even in 2014, everybody knew it would be Hillary….everybody. Even Biden.
2020? My two cents is the Lefties have to impeach Trump because as of this date in history 2.5 years out, the Dems know damn well they don’t have a single candidate that can beat Our President in 2020. They know it, I know it, and only the popinjays who read Huff-n-Puff blogs don’t. Patience. Objects have a way of getting more in focus the closer you get to them. Go figure. I read that in a book somewhere.
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I knew about the air show, so I figure extra military flights are not really noteworthy. Yet the C130s are still headed South as I write. Maybe the FEDS are spraying herbicide that only kills dope grows.
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Yes Paul, Stormy is a lying whore. In more ways than one.
She’s out of money, and looking for more.
And you say you have proof Trump paid her? Lets have it!
Show us the canceled check with Trump’s name on it.
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Trumps fellow pussy grabber Bill Cosby guilty on all counts.
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All about getting money Paul. Needed this verdict to go after his bank account.
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,,,just in from the official whitehouse news outlet,,,Fox news,,,check out the intro to the video if you don’t believe me!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-fox-friends-meltdown-130955283.html
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LIBS are losing their plantation help.
The Black community is seeing Trump do what the Lefties only promised, and NEVER acted on. Black unemployment is now at record lows. Those welfare checks ain’t buying votes anymore.
No wonder the Proggys are going for the illegals as constituents.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/26/daily-daily-caller-podcast-april-26-kanye-west-thought-police/
“The writer tells the story of a friend who basically disowned his mother because she supported Trump. Lovely.
Entitled white liberals even tried to warn people away from listening to the dangerous black man encouraging independent thought.”
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Where o where will the money come from now???
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/26/gops-salt-cap-may-speed-exodus-from-high-tax-states-report-says.html
“Laffer and Moore estimate that both California and New York will lose on net about 800,000 over the next three years, roughly double from the previous three years, while Connecticut, New Jersey and Minnesota combined with lose around 500,000 people in the same period.”
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Walt 1126am – Mr Branson, pay attention; this comment belongs under scattershots, could you please repost it there. Thanks.
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Todd
Trump down by 5 in Pubber leaning poll. Down 12.7 in consensus. This was before his insane Fox rant this morning.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
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Nice try Paul, most of Trump’s base are at work, and watching the news.
Hummmm I do believe the “polls” said the AZ. race was going to be won by the LIBS.. Uh,,, nope.
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Paul… lotus position, palms up, breathe in, breath out… ommmmmmm
“Pubber leaning poll”? No, it’s a poll that doesn’t lean towards the DEM side.
Trump has been in the same range since the first week of February. He’s down one since yesterday. If that keeps up he’ll be at zero in another 47 days.
Hint… it won’t keep going to zero.
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,,,poll watching is like watching a baseball game,,,BORING!!!
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Polls didn’t say that Walt. they called it pretty much as it came out. You made that up. Here’s the final polls
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/house/az/arizona_8th_district_special_election_lesko_vs_tipirneni-6499.html
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Trumps nunmber are great, all things considering. It’s not like what happened to George W with the 24/7 Lord of the Flies boys dancing around with W’s head on a stake in their typical feverish frenzy chanting “War Criminal, War Crimal” into the wee hours of the night…….drinking their yohimbe bark tea and waving around big ass peace pipes filled with the dried sacred Gangha Flower. With the entire exttreme alt-left mainstream in the Dem’s pockets, that can drive someone’s numbers below 29 and sink ‘em. Funny, they have pulled out more stunts and vile than that on Trump in 16 months than Bush in 8 years and Trump’s numbers hold. Go figure. Must be an anomaly
. All I look at is Punchy’s last numbers when he posts. -12? Heck, they usually are minus -15, week after week, month after month. This bodes quite well, thankyou.
Here’s the deal. The Deplorables don’t have a majority, and neither to the liberals or the D’s or R’s if they stood alone. So, we will take Trump’s numbers, some Never Trumpers (who will not endorse, but fall in line and vote for the Emperor God at the last minute), along with a rather humongous hunk of the Republican Party, and of, course, normal Americans, and it’s relection for our third party candidate, the current President of these here United States.
If we can get up to 43% approval with TDS as severe as it is, we are doing another dance at Key Largo.
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Give it a rest Paul… All those LIBheads on TV kept claiming “WE will take AZ!.. Our internal polling data says,,,,!!!”
Yet when YOU show up Trump is always down.. Funny you NEVER say “Trump happens to be up today”… Nope never do you utter those words. Kinda like that Lefty “new” fuzzy math.
Judging by all yur “Trump down” reports Trumps should be impeachable by now. How’s that work’n for ya’?
No collusion. Imagine that!
No hookers.
NO Stormy
No Russians.
Even Nancy P. is telling Aunty “MAD” Maxine to put a cork in it
with the impeachment crap. ( I say let’m howl all they like)
So now the song of the butthurt is “Trump won’t run again”.
I have yet to hear Trump say that.
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Wow
Bill says Trump – 15 is good news. You really can’t make that up.
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I said that’s all we need, repeatedly. And I will say it again.
Within the next two years, the unhinged Lefties will do complete meltdown for all the world to see and remind normal folks of all the many reasons to hate the Left.. can you say implosion? Can you say normal folk getting a bad case of ‘cry wolf’ fatigue? Can you say that? Good, I knew you can’t.
-15 is all we need and thankyou very much. We are in the catbird’s seat now. -12 is just icing on the cake.
Time to do an Irish jig. It was St. Paddy, afterall, who drove the Druids out of Ireland….straight into the loving arms on the Romans who slaughtered those pagans on sight. There never were snakes in Ireland, just weirdos with snakes drawn on their arms holding up snake symbols. Considered universally much lower form of life than the barbarians.
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,,,bill,,,you smokin’ mushrooms again??? they said the same thing about the pubberistas dint they???
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