[Well, I guess the big question du jour is whose bygone trysts are the most damning – a previous president's, verified and while in office; or the current president's, alleged and before he took office. The French are laughing their butts off that the puritan Americans, especially the secular humanist progressives, are making such a fuss over it, to the point of impeachability. gjr]
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282 responses to “Sandbox – 4may2018”
No new airplanes for the mullahs –
Licenses for Boeing Co (BA.N) and Airbus (AIR.PA) to sell passenger jets to Iran will be revoked, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Tuesday after President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/boeing-says-consult-u-next-184647653.html
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Winning!
For the first time in U.S. history, America has enough job openings to give every unemployed person in the country a job, according to data from the Labor Department on Tuesday.
There were a record 6.6 million job openings at the end of March, the Labor Department said. With unemployment down at 3.9 percent, that means there are enough jobs to employ everyone looking to work for the first time since the data began to be collected.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/08/america-has-enough-jobs-everyone/
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Gregory-
Spin the story like a Trumpster enough times and you think someone with a brain will believe you. Two different payments took place in a similar time period for two very different reasons. You choose to further the well known lie that Obama paid 400 million for nuke deal. Here are two of TEN fact check sites that ALL say they same thing. You are lying! Don’t become a Todd.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-bribed-iran-400-million-to-release-u-s-prisoners/
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/03/obama-not-ordered-pay-400m-restitution/
Q: Did a federal court order former President Barack Obama to pay “$400 million in restitution”?
A: No. Multiple sites have carried the fictitious story.
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Its another bad day for the po’ ol’ pollheads –
Fifty-three percent of Americans say that the special counsel investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 elections is politically motivated, while 44 percent insist it is justified, according to a CBS poll released on Tuesday.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/poll-americans-trump-mueller/2018/05/08/id/859067/
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Oh jonnie, jonnie – You should have actually read what you linked to.
“Critics questioned the timing of the cash payment — made on the same day Iran released several American prisoners. The Obama administration maintained the payment was used as “leverage,” but denied that it amounted to ransom.
Oh yeah – ‘leverage’. Just happened on the same day. Total coincidence.
When did Gregory say anything about a court order?
The facts remain.
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Snopes? Really…….. MAD Mag. has better creds.
And just who fact checks the “fact checker”?
Just Proggy protectionism,, only Proggys go to for excuses.
Good thing “jon” uses a fake name. Can’t use the real name when getting thing wrong so consistently. Yaa,, that’s pretty embarrassing.
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Ahh, poor Walt. Read more than one sentence please.
Don’t like Snopes? That’s why included factcheck.org which coincidently is used by FOX. The quote is from factcheck.org. You can also peruse the next 8 top hit fact check sites and they’ll say the same.
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When you’re dealing with a rogue state, you pay them money for one and only one reason, no matter how you decide to package it and parcel it out. There is nothing legitimate that they have to sell us which we want to buy. The naifs and neurologically deficient believe otherwise.
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LOL!! lil’”jon”… Me? poor? Unlike you I can afford more than Ikea.
You keep right on believing what you want to. This is still America.(despite your side’s attempts to turn it into a shithole nation)
Your entitled to your patently WRONG opinion.
Last one to use the “jon”,, close the lid.
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That’s what happens when you build a sandcastle instead of treaty –
When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America’s future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. “In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this,” he said. “We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.” He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal.
“We drove them crazy,” he said of the deal’s opponents.
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/08/soros-financed-group-warns-trump-of-consequences-for-bolting-iran-deal/
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1). A quote for today.
“The fact that one of our two major political parties is advocating lowering the voting age to 16 is a good example of the absence of wisdom among a large segment of the adult population. What adult deems 16-year-olds capable of making a wise voting decision? The answer is an adult with the wisdom of a 16-year-old.” —Dennis Prager
2). Court appointments. Trump keeps pounding on the lib’s castle walls, much to the Dems dismay.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-nominees/trump-push-for-conservative-judges-intensifies-to-democrats-dismay-idUSKBN1I80WL
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1.7 BILLION USD (in various currencies), in easy to ship shrink wrapped pallets. Scott O, thanks for noticing I didn’t write anything about a court order.
“jon” aka Michael P. Anderson, you can claim to believe in coincidences as baldfaced as this if you want but the optics still stink two years later.
Neither Snopes or “Factcheck” (funding by Annenberg iirc) are neutral actors, and the Annenberg School may well be 100% staffed by faculty registered as DEM.
The Iran deal would not now be put to sleep by Trump had one of two things happened:
1) Obama submitted the pact to the Senate for ratification and had the Senate voted for it, or,
2) Hillary won
Better luck next time. There’s a reason for Senate ratification, “jon” … it keeps out of control presidents from doing things like that deal without political support in the open from the Congress.
Trump ran on this promise, and the Israeli dump of a ton o’ documents stolen from Iran showing bad faith from the zarreshk kuni keshes in Tehran was cover too good to have been unexpected by Trump at this time.
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1.7 BILLION USD (in various currencies), in easy to ship shrink wrapped pallets. Scott O, thanks for noticing I didn’t write anything about a court order.
“jon” aka Michael P. Anderson, you can claim to believe in coincidences as baldfaced as this if you want but the optics still stink two years later.
Neither Snopes or “Factcheck” (funding by Annenberg iirc) are neutral actors, and the Annenberg School may well be 100% staffed by faculty registered as DEM.
The Iran deal would not now be put to sleep by Trump had one of two things happened:
1) Obama submitted the pact to the Senate for ratification and had the Senate voted for it, or,
2) Hillary won
Better luck next time. There’s a reason for Senate ratification, “jon” … it keeps out of control presidents from doing things like that deal without political support in the open from the Congress.
Trump ran on this promise, and the Israeli dump of a ton o’ documents stolen from Iran showing bad faith from the zarreshk kuni keshes in Tehran was cover too good to have been unexpected by Trump at this time.
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It appears that even James Howard Kunstler has bent the knee.
http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/which-hunt/
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When is a cut not a cut? When it’s money never spent from expired programs.
“Republicans just hate children, says Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.”
Schumer railed, “Let’s be honest about what this is: President Trump and Republicans in Congress are looking to tear apart the bipartisan Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), hurting middle-class families and low-income children, to appease the most conservative special interests and feel better about blowing up the deficit to give the wealthiest few and biggest corporations huge tax breaks.”
Oh please. Trump’s request is to rescind $15 billion in unspent money from previous years, including $7 billion from CHIP. That doesn’t jeopardize anything or anyone. Furthermore, as we’ve admonished Democrats before, taxpayers keeping more of their own money isn’t ransacking the middle class.”
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55824-rescinding-$15b-one-small-step-for-budget-restraint
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Primary results.
The biggest surprise tonight was the defeat of Dennis Kucinich in Ohio’s Dem Primary for Governor. 9 parts Progressive, with one part Rand Paul in him. Anyway, surprised me. I always liked Dennis as a person. As far as politics, not so much on most issues. Still, I like him as a person. He retained those Mid-Western roots which kept him humble…and honest.
Just 3 weeks ago the Wa Compost ran a big story that Kucinich was the future of American politics. Guess the Wa P.O. done got it wrong….again. Can’t bode well for progressives. Isn’t Ohio a bellweather State?
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Well now, it’s starting to look more and more like the Green Libertarians pushed another national institution off the cliff.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/05/08/mormon-church-ends-relationship-boy-scouts/593116002/
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Actually, it was two things that took down Dennis Kucinich. 1) His radical extremist stance on guns and, more importantly, 2) he said something nice about Trump.
You would think a shrewd political like Dennis would never have underestimated the ravishing insane effects TDS. has on reason. What a Utopia Boy. Fatal mistake.
From the campaign trail in Ohio:
“Rising to rebut Kucinich, [his opponent] Cordray speaks with the focused burn of a welding torch. “It’s easy to jerk a knee and have an answer that sounds good and it’s a slogan,” Cordray says of the gun issue. He’s for more moderate measures such as banning bump stocks and high-capacity magazines, and establishing universal background checks. “My job here is to find concrete, practical solutions,” he adds — “concrete” and “practical” being two of his favorite adjectives when parrying Kucinich.
Cordray’s quiet outrage continues: “Not all of us lost our way as Democrats on this stage. Not all of us became paid commentators for Fox News and praised Donald Trump’s inaugural address as a great speech.”
It’s true: After Trump’s inaugural address, Kucinich tweeted, “Great #inauguration speech @RealDonaldTrump! Congratulations & best wishes.” Then, appearing on Fox, he elaborated in a way that perfectly captured how American politics have become unmoored from the traditional left-right continuum — how, in the age of Trump, an uber-populist progressive who is as far left as anyone on social issues, on the environment, on guns, can also have more in common with a Republican president’s rhetoric on economics and foreign policy than do many Democrats who are closer to the center: “Things I’ve been talking about for 30 and more years, about doing something about these trade agreements that are causing our cities to be hollowed out and factories to be closed, about standing up for the American worker, about rebuilding the infrastructure, putting millions of people back to work, about stopping the foreign interventions, wasting trillions of dollars abroad — he covered those points, and frankly, I think that it’s important for America to read what he said, not just hear it, but to read what he said and to consider that there might be some way that we can bring this country together on the kind of principles that he laid out in the inaugural.”
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Another independent thinker has a come together moment. What’s going on out there where the rubber meets the road? Stop the independent thinking!
“Y’all associate the flag with different sentiments, not necessarily racist ones,” she said in a tweet. “Cody is a great guy and my dad and I are grateful for his help.”
“Do I agree with his flag supporting? No. Is he a nice guy? Yep.”
https://tribunist.com/news/teens-mind-blown-after-tattooed-confederate-flag-wearing-man-pulled-over-and-changed-familys-flat-tire/
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Where is that blue wave? In Indiana 160,000 more Republicans voted than democrats. Maybe Paul Emery should have went there to help the left turnout. What a hoot!
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ToddJ 928am – PaulE also should have gone there. 😉
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Dr. R, correcting Todd’s grammar is a hopeless task. Maybe this link will help: https://www.grammarly.com/?q=brand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=brand_f1&utm_content=76996511046&utm_term=grammarly&matchtype=e&placement=&network=g&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuMrXBRC_ARIsALWZrIhyo_J8WtIKNv9wxwD_kfP75CF2rCJqXgSCQcDoFiDJG63einuLvP0aAtqYEALw_wcB
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This sandbox reminded me… I’ve a catbox to clean myself as a first chore today lest the cat find someplace else to poop, like my closet.
“Keep pot illegal or we’ll kill these police dogs” really is art coming to life… kudos to little Doug Kenney who didn’t go to bed hungry because I bought the National Lampoon.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/08/illinois-police-dog-trainer-warns-k-9s-m
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Also the left’s wet dream that Blankenship would win the R seat in WV is not to be. Dang, they thought they had a Roy Moore without the sex. The democrats will see a red wave.
GeorgeB, I’ll leave any criticism of you and your spelling and grammar to your good and close friend, Jeff Pelline.
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Lots of MAGA hats in the crowds supporting the R primary winners. But, but, but I thought the R’s would distance themselves as far away as they could from the toxic Trump. In fact, we were told that the R’s in Congress would be so upset and against Trump they would flee Trump and block his very move so Trump would be forced to resign….last year. Guess I was told wrong. Mark the Tape and all that stuff.
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Another good number –
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/09/food-stamp-enrollment-drops-1-3-million-two-months/
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From Ruminations favorite Judge on Fox News. A heads up for Trump.
“Former New Jersey Superior Court judge and Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano publicly warned President Donald Trump of an impending federal indictment of Michael Cohen.
“The problems for the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, just continue to mount,” Napolitano observed. “And these problems, depending upon where they lead to, may draw the president in.”
“Why was a Russian billionaire giving a half a million dollars to the president’s lawyer — at the time the lawyer was paying, not only Stormy Daniels, but according to Rudy Giuliani, other women, to remain silent about their relationships to the president?” he asked. “Nobody knows the answer to this, yet.”
“But all of it is enough to provoke a federal judge in Los Angeles … to say, ‘I think we should put the case on hold, because Mr. Cohen is about to be indicted,’” he noted.
“The president’s lawyer getting indicted can’t be good for the president,” Napolitano explained.
“Mr. President, please be wary of all of this,” he cautioned.
Fox News legal analyst warns Trump of imminent Michael Cohen indictment: It ‘can’t be good’ for you
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/fox-news-legal-analyst-warns-trump-imminent-michael-cohen-indictment-cant-good/
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PaulE 149pm – A most interesting prognostication indeed. But do you also have any counsel for RR readers as to what they should make of this report, and what extraordinary measures they should take to prepare for a future that you have yet to describe. Surely you didn’t just post this report to once more revel in another dose of anti-Trump glee (or did you?).
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Really arts folks???
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/09/columbia-university-god-hates-guns-loves-gay-porn/
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Hey who is leaking the Mueller stuff? I thought he was as tight about leaks as male moose arse. Anyway, Cohen is being railroaded and if he is indicted he will be exonerated.
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UH OH!
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/05/09/idf-iranian-forces-fire-rockets-israel/
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George
I was just sharing information and an opinion of Judge Napolitano, am RR respected commentator on Fox News about his concerns about a potential federal indictment of the Presidents lawyer, Michael Cohen. Loos like the swamp is pretty close to home for Trump. Here is the essential question the Judge asks and is worth the contemplation of RR readers
“Why was a Russian billionaire giving a half a million dollars to the president’s lawyer — at the time the lawyer was paying, not only Stormy Daniels, but according to Rudy Giuliani, other women, to remain silent about their relationships to the president?”
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I think the judge is only regurgitating what the media whore said, Paul, Rush had different news. The Russian crap is just that… Crap.
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You can tell how out of touch the po’ ol’ fakenewsman is @ 507. It already came out that the Russian did not have any involvement at all, it was a contract with Novartis. Keep up with the newsfeeds there ya po’ ol’ putin party parrot.
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Walt
The Judge expressed his opinion very clearly. example
“But all of it is enough to provoke a federal judge in Los Angeles … to say, ‘I think we should put the case on hold, because Mr. Cohen is about to be indicted,’”
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That’s right ya po’ ol’ putin party parrot, stick with the party line in spite of evidence to the contrary having already gotten made the rounds today. Pathetic even for a po’ ol’ putin party parrot. 😉
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oops, didn’t get the whole phrase changed.
Then there is this –
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/08/leaving-iran-deal-trump-ends-obamas-legacy-appeasement-autocracy/
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Yet you took it and ran..(well,, shuffled off) You thought you had something.
One of the players SPEAKS!
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/09/narrative-collapse-novartis-says-paid-cohen-1-million-advice-couldnt-provide/
“Novartis said it signed a one-year contract with Cohen’s shell company, Essential Consultants, for $100,000 per month in February 2017, shortly after Trump was inaugurated as president.
Novartis said it believed Cohen “could advise the company as to how the Trump administration might approach certain U.S. health-care policy matters, including the Affordable Care Act.” ”
But your girlfriend’s media whore may be in bigger trouble for making those financial records public. Along with the worm that gave them to him.
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PaulE 507pm – Your reasoning is again going into Never-Never Land. What do the pre-candidacy business transactions of Trump’s lawyer with whomever have to do with the DC Swamp being “close to home” to Trump’s presidency? Is this some byway of liberal logic and/or morality that you’re applying that’s difficult for normal people to follow?
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LOL!! Stormy’s lawyer has plenty of problems of his own.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/stormy-daniels-lawyer-owes-over-5-million-in-back-taxes/
He’s a piss poor ambulance chaser.
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It gets worse Paul,,,”AT&T said it made payments to Mr. Cohen’s company, Essential Consultants LLC, in 2017 for “insights” into the administration. It says it ended the relationship in December 2017, shortly after the Justice Department sued the company on November 20, 2017 to block the merger.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/09/trump-administration-sued-att-payments-trump-lawyer-cohen/
They tried to BUY him!! A new twist to insider trading.
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George
If you research a little on this matter you’ll find the money was taken in during Trumps Presidency. All in All it was enough to arouse the Judge RR admires to express his opinion as to Trumps vulnerability.
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Walt @ 530- Somehow I think there is already someone in the IRS cubicle farm already on that one! 😉
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PaulE 533pm – When did it become accounts receivable?
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What difference does it make ? I made my post to highlight the concerns of the judge Apparently you don’t share those concerns. Kind of surprising since you’ve expressed your admiration for the judge in the past.
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So what Paul? Lawyers have more than one client. Just because Trump was one, in no way ties Trump to that money.
And paying a whore to keep her yap shut still isn’t a crime.
So name the victim Paul, name the offence.
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He’s just another TV judge. He’s made plenty of predictions, and none have played out. Plenty of “what if’s”.. Too many for my liking. Buy You thrive on those “what ifs”.
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Looks like Stormies shyster named the wrong Cohen. Oh my, do I detect a defamation suit?
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Perhaps the Judge does not have all the facts in yet. In addition to the LA judge, Stormy’s lawyer can be on 17 hours of TV and claim anything he wishes. More will be revealed.
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Heads up,, Start scrounging the money together.
http://thecmp.org/cmp_sales/1911-information/
Only 8000 will be available this year.
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