282 responses to “Sandbox – 4may2018”

1. 

   Todd Juvinall

   07 May 2018

   10-1 democrat professors over Republicans. New survey out. National Association of Scholars. (,000 tenured professors at 51 top colleges.
   Now we see how communism stayed alive in America after the fall of the USSR and it acolytes.

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   Bill Tozer

   07 May 2018

   Will Rosie the Pig Riveter spend time in prison? I remember D’Souza was a rising star when they cut his legs out from under him. They had a way of doing that under Obama and the ‘most transparent administration in history.’ It’s only fair that they put Rosie away.
   “It seems clear, from what we know, that Rosie broke the law and she broke the law five times,” D’Souza said.
   “What makes it particularly sneaky on her part is that she used four different names and five different addresses. It seems clear that she knew what she was doing and she tried to cover her tracks, ” D’Souza added.
   Filings show O’Donnell gave a combined $5,400 in contributions over the limit to the five candidates, and used five different New York addresses and four variations of her name, the Post reported.
   D’Souza was charged in 2014 for making a $20,000 contribution to Wendy Long’s senate run. He served five years probation and eight months in a confinement center. He was also fined $30,000.
   “You exceed the campaign finance limit and the law is the law whether you actually know it or not,” he said.
   http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/05/07/dinesh-dsouza-rosie-odonnell-illegal-democrat-campaign-donations-broke-law-five-times

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3. 

   Don Bessee

   07 May 2018

   Global warming wackos are all hat and no cattle when the rubber meets the road =
   The “highly concerned” cluster was “most supportive of government climate policies, but least likely to report individual-level actions, whereas the ‘Skeptical’ opposed policy solutions but were most likely to report engaging in individual-level pro-environmental behaviors,” the researchers concluded.
   Conducting the study, entitled “Believing in climate change but not behaving sustainably,” were Cornell assistant professor Neil A. Lewis Jr. and University of Michigan researchers Michael P. Hall and Phoebe C. Ellsworth.
   The skeptics were the more likely than the “highly concerned” to recycle, use public transportation and reusable shopping bags, and buy eco-friendly products.
   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/climate-skeptics-more-eco-friendly-global-warming-/
   😉

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4. 

   scenes

   07 May 2018

   http://wlrn.org/post/stoneman-douglas-shooter-was-assigned-controversial-broward-discipline-program-officials-now

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5. 

   Bill Tozer

   07 May 2018

   Lol. Send it to the Ethics Committee and nothing to see here. I won’t stoop that low to call him a pedophile….yet.
   “Last year, Pelosi was among those Democratic leaders demanding that Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama, withdraw “We’re talking about a child molester,” Pelosi told NBC News’ Chuck Todd on Meet the Press on November 27.
   Pelosi declared that there would now be “zero tolerance” for sexual misconduct in Congress: “Women have spoken out. Their concerns will be addressed in a way that I think will give comfort, as well as end this behavior. … Because you know what? It’s disgusting, it’s repulsive, and it has to be zero tolerance.”
   At the time, Pelosi also said there should also be “due process” for Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), who was soon forced to retire over allegations of sexual misconduct.
   http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/06/nancy-pelosi-refuses-call-cardenas-resign-child-molestation-claim/

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6. 

   Don Bessee

   07 May 2018

   Well that is the end of any chance for survival. It was funny predicted this a few years ago! Ouch, worse than Weiner!
   https://nypost.com/2018/05/07/ex-schneiderman-called-me-his-brown-slave-would-slap-me-until-i-called-him-master/
   and then 5 minuets later;
   Breaking News:
   New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman resigns after allegations of physical abuse/
   😉

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7. 

   Don Bessee

   07 May 2018

   The other side of that coin is –
   http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/31/mueller-teaming-schneiderman-undermines-russia-inquiry/
   😉

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8. 

   Bill Tozer

   07 May 2018

   Is the Empire State AG the same man who went after the Trump Foundation for a piece of artwork or something? I was going to play “Hit Me Ith Your Rhymn Stick, Hit Me!”, but I won’t. I can picture him in a leather teddy complete with those tongue licking delicious 9 inch stilettos. Oh, I can almost hear him calling me a worm. Insert sound of butt slap here.
   Nope, ain’t going there. Instead, how about that guy who got killed by a wounded bear cause the now deceased maulee got out of his Subaru to take a selfie with Yogi. Gee Yogi, Mr. Ranger would not like that.
   Some folk ain’t familiar with the ways of the wild, I reckon.
   https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kjsz4n5XpLc

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9. 

   Don Bessee

   07 May 2018

   Keep this up and we may gain seats in both houses in the mid terms –
   http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/07/chelsea-manning-wants-eliminate-u-s-borders-close-prisons-u-s-senate-bid/
   http://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/05/07/dnc-chairman-keith-ellison-promotes-open-borders-campaign/
   😉

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10. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 May 2018

    John McCain’s point of view.
    McCain, in his book, reiterated a central criticism: “Chris had asked the State Department for more security for the Benghazi mission [before the attack], but it had been denied.”
    McCain said he was “terribly saddened” by the news, but “wasn’t angry with the administration” — at first.
    “I started to get angry when it appeared administration officials were knowingly misleading us about the attack, attributing it to a video that some idiot had made mocking Islam that incited a spontaneous mob that turned violent,” McCain wrote. “It took more than a week for the White House to acknowledge it had been a planned terrorist attack. The uproar that ensued became a lasting political controversy that’s still debated.”
    In the end, all it established is what could have been presumed at the beginning, bureaucratic incompetence and a– covering, two common conditions in Washington,” McCain wrote. “Anger subsides, politics moves on, but sadness remains. Chris Stevens deserved better from all of us.”
    He got that one right. 1 out of 3 ain’t bad.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/07/mccain-book-blasts-benghazi-response-as-bureaucratic-covering-hits-trump.html

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11. 

    Scott Obermuller

    07 May 2018

    DB at 8:33 – re the Keith Ellison tee shirt (and many others of the same ilk) – it continues to amaze me how stupid people are. No borders? Really? Have you consulted Canada and Mexico about that? Have any reporters ever, ever asked about the fact that there are 2 countries on the sides of these borders we’re supposed to get rid of and just exactly what do these other sovereign countries have to say about it? You can not ‘get rid of’ a border without it affecting the flow of people and goods both ways.
    Like all good left wing slogans, it’s a pile of bull shit. Like ‘reproductive rights’. I don’t care what you think about abortion, but please explain what is ‘reproductive’ about that procedure. ‘Climate change denial’ is another one. Who is denying climate change? No one. No more borders? Really? Say- why don’t you folks that think we shouldn’t have borders go north and try to blow past the friendly folks at the building right there at the 49th parallel?

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12. 

    Scott Obermuller

    07 May 2018

    “Chris Stevens deserved better from all of us”
    Excuse me, but there were only 2 people involved that knew what was happening and had the ability and authority to do something about it.
    Obama and Clinton.
    They both decided to let him die.
    Hillary went to bed and Obama flew off for a fund raiser.
    Then they cooked up a total lie and did everything they could to sell that lie repeatedly.
    There is no debate. We have the first hand account of the men at the scene fighting for their lives in direct communication with their superiors telling them exactly what is happening. They were abandoned by our commander in chief.

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13. 

    Don Bessee

    07 May 2018

    Who said the Presidents economic policy is not having an impact –
    The federal government took in a record tax haul in April en route to its biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, the Congressional Budget Office said, as a surging economy left Americans with more money in their paychecks — and this more to pay to Uncle Sam.
    All told the government collected $515 billion and spent $297 billion, for a total monthly surplus of $218 billion. That swamped the previous monthly record of $190 billion, set in 2001.
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/cbo-says-april-was-best-month-history-us-budget/
    😉

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14. 

    Don Bessee

    07 May 2018

    Comrade Bernie needs to high tail it down to his paradise before everyone has fled –
    The shortage of troops comes as hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans flee a societal collapse, crowding cities and makeshift camps throughout the region in the largest mass emigration in modern Latin American history. Hyperinflation has made the currency virtually worthless, and malnutrition is endemic. Almost 2 million Venezuelans are living outside the country.
    High-ranking members of the military are barred from much contact with the lower ranks . Lines of young military men asking for retirement are long, said the first retired officer. The officer tried to chat with one, but officers running the barracks forbade them from talking to each other. The retiree said top officers fear too much conversation will permit officers and enlisted solders to form alliances for a coup.
    How much do you want to bet those 2 million expats show up as having voted in person in Caracas, you know like Chicago?
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-07/venezuelan-soldiers-said-to-desert-in-droves-with-vote-ahead
    😉

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15. 

    Don Bessee

    07 May 2018

    There wont be anything left but the bones before this is over –
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/conoco-moves-over-venezuelan-pdvsas-caribbean-assets-sources-181400128–finance.html
    😉

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16. 

    Bill Tozer

    07 May 2018

    A good read on “cultural Marxism”….vs classic Marxism. Too many nuggets to post, so here is a couple.
    Thus, a cultural Marxist like Angela Davis — mentored by Herbert Marcuse — could stand at the Women’s March before a sea of young women in pink hats and recite a litany of popular grievances. In her casting about for victim groups, the former Communist Bloc cheerleader hailed Chelsea Manning, “trans women of color,” “our flora and fauna,” and “intersectional feminism,” and denounced “white male hetero-patriarchy,” misogyny, Islamophobia, and capitalist exploitation.
    This is where today’s Marxists in America are toiling hard. They are working diligently on the cultural front. That’s where they are confident they can finally take down Western civilization and its Judeo-Christian bedrock.
    and
    In closing, consider this striking new term I recently encountered when perusing the latest “About” section of the website of People’s World, successor to the Soviet-funded Daily Worker and the leading mouthpiece of American communism. It singled out a label I hadn’t heard before: “cultural workers.” It states: “Today, People’s World offers a daily news platform for the broad labor-led people’s movement — a voice for workers, the unemployed, people of color, immigrants, women, youth, seniors, LGBTQ people, cultural workers, students and people with disabilities.”
    They’re looking not for factory workers but for cultural workers. Forget the factory floor — that project failed long ago. Communists tried to organize the steelworkers, the autoworkers, the teamsters, the coalminers. It didn’t work.
    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/55788-marx-at-200-classical-marxism-vs-cultural-marxism

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17. 

    scenes

    08 May 2018

    BillT@11:05 The patriotpost article is actually pretty good.
    I’ve never been much of a student of Marxism, although as a religion it’s done darned well. It’s always so hard to find straightforward words on things like that instead of wall-to-wall POV.
    I’ll grind through a few of these to get the flavor of the thing.
    https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/prison_notebooks/selections.htm
    It wouldn’t surprise me if the roots of cultural Marxism are simply in the experience of the Russian Civil War. The Bolsheviks had a heckuva time convincing the non-urban working class and peasants to do much of anything, the latter were mostly land hungry but didn’t need outsiders running their affairs. Of course, after the Whites were defeated (not an impossible task given the holding of Moscow and other urban centers, interior lines, and and facing an enemy who couldn’t decide on a single philosophy), there was plenty of opportunity to get those pesky (and often non-Russian) rural people to behave, although I’m not sure that they liked it.
    So, in Russia, it was never enough to get the countryside to join up by merely handing out a bit of land, there wasn’t an emotional attachment to the center. It sounds like somebody got smart and thought through the implications of reprogramming a peoples’ emotional ties to groups. Schools, media, non-profits, even churches are a pretty good bet.

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18. 

    scenes

    08 May 2018

    Sorry, here’s the link that I meant.
    https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/

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19. 

    Walt

    08 May 2018

    Who forgot to let the Lefties out of their cages this morning?
    Not a peep. I guess all the crappy news on LIBism here and there has them muzzled.

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20. 

    scenes

    08 May 2018

    I thought everyone might enjoy this series of UK Army recruitment ads.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1vCe3BAnws

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21. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 May 2018

    The Inion’s back page was a list of all the extremist lefties of Nevada County and elsewhere. All in support of Hodge. If she wins Nevada County is toast and we can put the USSR’s old flag up to be safe.

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22. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 May 2018

    And we see the New York AG democrat accused of beating up women. You cannot make this stuff up. And he was the lead dog chasing Trump in regards to sex.

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23. 

    Robert Cross

    08 May 2018

    “Nevada County is toast and we can put the USSR’s old flag up to be safe.” Can you get any more stupid? The Cold War ended decades ago, Todd. Your ‘commie baiting’ comments have the ring and intellect of a 4th grader from the 1950’s.

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24. 

    Walt

    08 May 2018

    Progressivism is just a kinder, gentler form of Commieism,,, right Bobby? Or would you prefer the Chinese RED star?( The Calif. flag already has a head start.) The Proggys these days are already coming out of the Socialist closet… You DO realize, one of those “S”‘s in USSR stands for “Socilist”,,, don’t you?

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25. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 May 2018

    Robert Cross | 08 May 2018 at 09:46 AM
    You seem to be trying to date Alice and run down the rabbit hole with her. Are you that stupid that you can’t accept your ilk’s attempts to take America down the “progressive” commie path? I suggest you go read about Red China, North Korea, and Cuba and then get back to us with your results. My goodness, you have to be the result of a public education. Always dumb all the time.

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26. 

    George Boardman

    08 May 2018

    How do I contact Mueller? I think I’ve found the Russian connection.
    My daughter, who works in Beijing, went to the airport recently to pick up a friend. As she walked past the Aeroflot Airlines boarding area, she came across three Russian-speaking guys who were wearing Trump tee shirts! One even had a MAGA hat!

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27. 

    M

    08 May 2018

    ,,,you are right George, the local chapter of the League of Pale Faces here are an astounding association of 1950s thought!!!

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28. 

    Gregory

    08 May 2018

    M 1111am … isn’t “M” a reference to a pedophile and child murderer played by Peter Lorre? An early ‘talkie’ in German, directed by Fritz Lang? I can almost hear Keachie whistling “In the Hall of the Mountain King” reading his work here.
    As an aside, there’s a scene where a handful of mobsters are waiting for their leader (as opposed to lieder) to start their chat (their business had been all but shut down by the police actions looking for M). Said leader was described as the “bestest Mann” from Berlin to ‘Frisco… that even prewar German audiences were familiar with the diminutive for Baghdad by the Bay puts a lie to the modern day language nannies.
    Frisco will outlive Caen’s memory.

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29. 

    jon smith

    08 May 2018

    Does a single nation (even a small handful of nations) placing an embargo on Iran make any sense? Are they going to “feel the pain?” when they can bank just about anywhere in the world and sell every drop of oil it produces? This looks more like a bully chance to destroy an Obama accomplishment than it seems in any way strategic. The trade war isn’t looking so keen and neither does this.

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30. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 May 2018

    George Boardman | 08 May 2018 at 10:55 AM
    You used some keywords here so I would say Meuller will contact you. Make sure you are under oath though, he seems not to care if he can catch you lying.

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31. 

    Gregory

    08 May 2018

    Oh my, “jon” 1157am… do you really think the Iran deal, cemented with a palletload of cold cash, should be counted as an “Obama accomplishment”?
    John Kerry agrees with you.

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32. 

    scenes

    08 May 2018

    ToddJ@9:30AM
    Some Schneiderman donors.
    https://i.redd.it/z0uspewkonw01.png

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33. 

    scenes

    08 May 2018

    Schniederman 4 Wimmenz.
    https://i.redd.it/5armb9sbrmw01.png

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34. 

    Walt

    08 May 2018

    Lil’ “jon” missed the facts on the trade war too.
    http://thehill.com/opinion/international/386286-trump-wins-the-first-round-in-us-china-trade-war
    If a “jon” says it,, it’s bound to be wrong.

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35. 

    George Rebane

    08 May 2018

    Gentlemen – The Schneiderman thread should be under ’21st Century Progressive Dating …’
    Iran deal: even though Iran can sell its oil ‘anywhere’, it cannot buy the stuff needed to operate a modern nation ‘anywhere’. That’s where the sanctions come in – to hinder its ability to buy sophisticated parts, equipments, software systems, etc from suppliers who are almost always located in developed nations. And anyone, especially the UN and our progressives, believing that Obama’s agreement stopped Iran’s progress toward ICBM deliverable nukes, is a prime candidate to take title to the Brooklyn Bridge.

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36. 

    jon smith

    08 May 2018

    Gregory 12:08
    “The Iran deal cemented with a pallet load of cash”. You sure got your finger on the pulse, or maybe you are so brainwashed by Brietbart that you actually believe that. Sad.

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37. 

    Walt

    08 May 2018

    Not just a “pallet”… A plane load or two Lil’”jon”.
    Now CA. is out to finish health care in this state once and for all.
    http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/05/08/california-labor-backed-bill-to-socialize-healthcare-costs-advances/
    ” the bill is a recipe for disaster. CHA estimates the bill would make 60 percent of California hospitals unprofitable by slashing $18 billion of annual revenue. The CHA estimates 175,000 healthcare workers could lose their jobs.”
    And you think Lil’”jon” is whining now?

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38. 

    Walt

    08 May 2018

    Lil’ “jon” needs a little help.
    http://fortune.com/2016/09/07/us-iran-billion-hostages-arms-deal/
    “The controversial $400 million payment that the U.S. sent to Iran in January, just as four American hostages were released—a planeload of Euros, Swiss Francs and other currencies—was only the first of three American cash deliveries to the country, the Obama administration reportedly told lawmakers on Tuesday.
    During the 19 days following the first shipment, the U.S. sent two more planeloads of cash, totaling $1.3 billion, to Tehran, reports The Wall Street Journal. The two planeloads, which passed through Europe on Jan. 22 and Feb. 5, followed the same route as the earlier payment, a congressional aide who was briefed told the Journal. In the first payment, an Iranian cargo plane picked up the money in Geneva.”
    I guess “jon” believes it was just fake news.

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39. 

    scenes

    08 May 2018

    Gregory@12:08
    Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that. A billion here, a billion there, it turns into real money.
    https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2016/11/the-story-of-obamas-ransom-payment-to-iran-gets-worse/

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40. 

    Gregory

    08 May 2018

    “jon” aka Michael P. Anderson, 1242pm
    I don’t visit Breitbart for news, Mike. Here’s the LA Times in 2016:
    http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-iran-payment-cash-20160907-snap-story.html
    Walt is correct, it was multiple pallets of cash in a couple of deliveries.$1.7 billion in various currencies.

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41. 

    Gregory

    08 May 2018

    “jon”
    You were wrong. Sad, indeed.
    Put those fingers to the keyboard and write a mea culpa to me and your fellow posters here at RR.

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42. 

    scenes

    08 May 2018

    Walt@12:54
    Thanks, first I’ve heard of that bill.
    I whiled away a few moments looking for information on government-mandated healthcare costs. I can rather understand the push to do it given the broken free market that a lot of healthcare is mired in, in some ways it’s like the free market that PGE or Waste Management is involved in.
    Evidently it was a more common idea than I had thought, tried in a bunch of states, and usually thrown away over time. As a general theory on those matters, my guess is that even a well-intentioned law (and the following commission and 10M pages of regs) results in something that is heavily gamed into weird results. One thing that is always bound to happen is that the government is going to somehow try to pass on the health cost for poor people (and illegal aliens) onto the health users and providers rather than out of a general fund.

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43. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 May 2018

    jonnieSmith never knew Obama and Keyy delivered 1.7 billion in cash to the Mullahs? And it was in different currencies as I recall. JonnieS must be brain dead then. It was all over the news when it took place. Now we know he is a moron and ill-informed as well.

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44. 

    Walt

    08 May 2018

    Well Scenes,, I have to drive to Reno for any medical issues.
    I just might be better off than most. The VA is only a year or two out of civil war medicine standards. Ca. is about to dive back to “dark ages” brand of healthcare. Blood letting and a box of leaches.
    Dope will be the new cure-all. ohh… wait…..
    Broke an arm? Off it comes. Break a leg? Sorry dude,, “OK,Take him out back and shoot’m..” ( bullets and a grave are cheaper.)
    Soylent Green is coming to Ca.

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45. 

    Don Bessee

    08 May 2018

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/08/iran-military-base-in-syria-attacked-sources-say.html
    😉

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46. 

    jon smith

    08 May 2018

    Boys, boys, boys. Of course you know you are combining two entirely different money transfers into one to make a nice clean optic to substantiate your views. If you truly believe what you are saying, dare yourself to venture to a fact check site of your choosing.

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47. 

    Walt

    08 May 2018

    Nice try lil’”jon”.. Funny,, you don’t produce anything to back up your BS.
    No matter,, keep your head buried good and deep and preform a self colonoscopy. Trump did the right thing. OH.. YES!.. Campaign promise upheld.
    And Trump is “fundamentally” transforming America back to it’s rightful glory.

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48. 

    Todd Juvinall

    08 May 2018

    jonnieSmith is a moron and uninformed. Obama and Kerry had 1.7 billion in cash delivered in the dead of night and then released the frozen assets of the Iranians to the tune of 150 billion. JonnieS, now do you get it?

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49. 

    Gregory

    08 May 2018

    “jon”, the money transferred. You can pretend they were unrelated if you want.
    Agreement details according to the wiki:
    “According to the joint statement in Switzerland, the P5+1 countries and Iran agreed on a framework for a deal. According to this framework, Iran would redesign, convert, and reduce its nuclear facilities and accept the Additional Protocol (with provisional application) in order to lift all nuclear-related economic sanctions, freeing up tens of billions of dollars in oil revenue and frozen assets.”

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50. 

    Bill Tozer

    08 May 2018

    Boys, lest we forget, we don’t have that much cash hanging around. So, in addition to our cargo plane filled with pallets (plural) of cash, at the same time European banks were loading up their planes with pallets of cash to deliver to the Mullahs.
    Step by step, Obama’s legacy is being erased from the chalkboard. It’s like he never existed.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1047048548778700/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/rpp.235086849974878/1046512618832293/?type=3&theater

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