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[Apologies again for that last sandbox getting a bit long of tooth.  Here's some fresh sand in which to continue those ever engaging discussions about the local scene – as we are told, 'All politics is local' (but let's not get carried away). ;-)  gjr]

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222 responses to “Sandbox – 17jun18”

  1. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Agent Number 5 is a mutt and a bee-atch. My guess is a feminist and man hater. Sessions needs to vleak out these fifth columnists and make them guards at Gitmo so they can gain some perspectives.
    And Stormie might be illegal! And she is headed to the border to go home. She could come here to give us one last show though. LOL!

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  2. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like Berkheimer went limp on politics today. He is now talking about women authors. We all spanked him pretty good last time for his anti-Trump voter screed.

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  3. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Good Afternoon Nevada County! a repost…
    Reddit Picture News o’ the Day.
    https://i.redd.it/3u8r87u3eo511.png
    https://i.redd.it/85ar1l7k8o511.jpg
    https://i.imgur.com/wEOGXkt.jpg
    ZH on the capital of the Green Libertarian States of America
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-17/terrified-san-francisco-tourists-shocked-aggressive-vagrants-discarded-needles-dead?page=6#comment-11886141
    Netflix exec fired for saying a magic word while telling his employees what words not to say.
    https://archive.fo/l1R93

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I wonder how the clinton news network will spin this given their recent narratives??
    U.S. Forces Korea announced Saturday the wooden “Temporary Transit Cases” had been sent to the DMZ as North Korea prepares to return the remains of fallen American service members who died during the Korean War.
    U.S. Forces Korea spokesman Col. Chad Carroll told Fox News the military also sent 158 metal cases to a U.S. airbase outside of Seoul to transfer the remains to the U.S.
    South Korean news outlet Yonhap News Agency reported that the cases would be stored in Panmunjom, a border town, for several days before they are sent to North Korea to receive the American remains.
    http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/06/23/u-s-sends-100-caskets-dmz-receive-service-members-remains/
    😉

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    DonB@8:14PM “I wonder how the clinton news network will spin this given their recent narratives??”
    I can guess what their opinions are. It’s usually best to just go to some pure Green Libertarian writing.
    https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142090198
    Behold what Team Blue thinks
    https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142090198#post1

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. CNN disses it’s parent company Time for fakenews, ROFLMAO.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_EJu7sviI4

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Heard about this interview with a Border Patrol agent on CNN and finally got around to view it. Oh my, some producers’ heads are going to roll for this one.
    https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/06/19/border-patrol-agent-explains-separation-baldwin-nr-bts.cnn

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Opps from above. Here is the uncut version. Answers many questions. Can’t understand how CNN could ever let this slip by and made it on air. 🙂
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGuSdXiFtLk

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The county really dodged a bullet. Here is what Hillary Hodge writes on her Facebook page. Sent to me by a friend.
    “Please understand that if you are living with the possibility that the Trump regime has a silver lining, you are living with privilege. If a part of our community is living with hope for the Trump era, please know this: We are not the immigrants at the border, our children ripped from us. We are not young black men, dying at the hands of police brutality, or their parents, terrified at the possibility. We are not vulnerable young women, losing our healthcare and family planning options,or the victims of rape watching our assailants walk away with 3 months, 6 months or less. We are not poor college graduates, suffering under crushing college debt, wondering how to make ends meet with no-benefit jobs and sky-rocketing rents. We are not LGBTQ people being fired from our jobs, discriminated against in communities or being beaten to death by cleansing gangs. We are not foreign-born citizens, targeted for our accents or the color of our skin. We are not fixed-income seniors who worked our entire lives paying into a social security income only to have it stolen from us in our golden years. We are not the victims of heightened racial tension, nor the victims of the uptick in hate-crimes. For those living with the privilege of distance from the Trump regime, they have the opportunity to have perspective. For those of us directly suffering from the impacts the policies of this administration is having, we do not have the same privilege. Perspective will be too late.”

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    World Cup:
    Mueller, Comey, Steele. Investigation started over 8 years ago and it is still going on. Oh yeah, it also involves Russia
    http://www.oann.com/familiar-names-investigated-russias-world-cup-bid-steele-comey-mueller/

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    7:20 AM
    “We are not LGBTQ people being fired from our jobs, discriminated against in communities or being beaten to death by cleansing gangs.”
    My my. Never knew Grass Valley/Nevada City was such a homophobic place to live. Cleansing gangs roaming our streets? Or did she mean grooming gangs like in Merry Ole England? Maybe she meant Oakland or the Castro District.. Or maybe she meant places where the population is predominately Muslin. Like Milo said, the biggest threat to the Gay Community is no longer the Christian Right, but the Islamic Community. He should know. He got fired as well, but not for being gay.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    It’s good to see that the voters rejected the Progressive.
    That is one messed up in the head woman.

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ToddJ@7:20
    “cleansing gangs”? lol. I didn’t know that janitors were such mean guys.
    You have to admit that the county dodged a bullet on that one. To the extent that I cared, I figured that her skimpy resume was the main problem, but it’s pretty obvious that the women is kind of whacked.
    To be fair, ‘cleansing gangs’ aren’t entirely unknown (like BillT mentioned). The problem is that when this happens:
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/may/21/latino-gang-racial-violence-african-americans
    and both teams are members of protected groups, what in the heck do you do?

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The “progressive” left is on a tear and doing their own “ethnic cleansing” of those that disagree with their extremist policies. Just read a SacBee story on Tom Steyer, the billionaire hedge fund guy. He can’t even get the democrat party to support his attempts to impeach Trump. And he is now dissing his own people. We simply have to make sure we counter the loons but they seem to be self-destructing. Hodge is certainly an unhinged whiny lefty.

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  15. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    HH isn’t 100% wrong, the country does have a scattering of crazy prejudiced people.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/cheesecake-factory-suspends-workers-after-maga-hat-incident-2018-5

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  16. Walt Avatar

    I may have to get one of those hats and go “progressive hunting”.

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ”’M”’ | 24 June 2018 at 08:34 AM
    Good to see the “Man from D. I. A. P. E. R” checking in on this beautiful Sunday morning.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Walt@8:47AM
    Don your MAGA hat and go to that Sierra Commons Business Ignitor thingie to start up your internet marketing consultancy scam. I don’t expect that Trump voters are welcome and hilarity would ensue.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    It would be bad enough for Link Hogthrob to listen to Krugabe about economics! To pay any attention to him on other matters……ooooh ….bad call jeffy!
    There are entire industries devoted to debunking Krugnutty!

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 24 June 2018 at 08:53 AM
    You are an evil man scenes……I dig that about you!

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ah, HH88 is just joining the fight to not let Trump gain one inch towards being anything in the proximity of being “legitimate.” They said it right after the election, and they are saying it now. Their playbook. We cannot let this President ever ever be considered legitimate. Once that happens, our boat is sunk!, Quick, run to the little Red Hen. Resist everything. Resist curing cancer. Resist! Embrace Fear!
    “We are not vulnerable young women, losing our healthcare and family planning options…
    Well, abortion on demand is available all over the place. Just pick up the phone and call Planned Parenthood. They have a wealth of information and darn near unlimited resources. They got so much money, they got 600 million dollars for Women’s Health from the government alone. Rolling in the dough. So much money and extra resources they plunked down 150 million on political advocacy for Hillary in the 2016 election cycle, and way more than that across the board. They even manned the phone banks for our Progressive candidates.
    “Family planning” has not disappeared. Even free abortions for po folk in CA. Guess Hilary means some SJWs can send 5 bucks for a cup of Starbucks several times a week but can not afford to pay 8-12 bucks a month for the pill.
    “We are not foreign-born citizens, targeted for our accents….”. Tell that to the First Lady.
    HelpJeff, they are attacking me! I am under assault. I am the victim here.

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  22. George Rebane Avatar

    re ToddJ 720am – The ignorance of HH and her ilk is beyond understanding. They all know how to stare reality in the face, and simply ignore it. None of them asks, ‘Then why are they by the millions risking life and limb to fight their way illegally into this country? The perspective that the HHs can’t access is how come America is providing sustenance to people like them when they have nothing to give in return for which anyone is willing to pay.

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  23. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Honestly, I shake my head every time I read a HH screed or her ilk’s ramblings about America. Most of us on the right simply ask to be left alone but the left can’t stop interfering. When they found they could get 50 percent plus one vote to force us into lawlessness for simply practicing our religion I knew the country was in trouble. I truly think the progressives are mentally ill. I cannot find any common sense in them. If it was not for hardworking regular Americans paying the bills and fixing their cars these snowflakes would perish on their own.

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Just realized the Red Hen in Lexington Virginia (kind of ironic name for a Revolutionary battle place) has now exposed the utter hypocrisy of the left’s attempts to arrest and fine a cake baker. The bakers anmd the manager of the restaurant say they have the right to not serve someone. For that I agree. But these liberals put the country through hell taking the opposite postion all these years.

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  25. Ricky McVeigh Avatar
    Ricky McVeigh

    Can we all get along? Can we get along?

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  26. George Rebane Avatar

    RickyM 1012am – Please show us the way Rodney.

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Judith Lowry says:
    June 23, 2018 at 6:50 pm
    Bruce is right. When you are in it, you can’t always tell when the coup is complete. Comparisons to the insidious rise of the Third Reich could not be more instructive.

    Nazis……Nazis everywhere……!
    Poor Brucie……it’s always 1939 for him!

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  28. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wanna see what Kamala Harris is going to look like in a few years?
    https://www4.bing.com/th?id=OIP.M0_5UpctANdSDmY6LPDaHAHaEK&w=285&h=160&c=7&o=5&pid=1.7

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Can we all get along? Can we get along.” Ricky McViegh @ 10:12 in the am.
    Well, it’s kinda of hard to get along with the savages on the Left. Sure, we tolerate them because that is who we are on the Right, but we don’t venture into their safe places or stoop down to their level to get along with them.
    Here is what I mean by it’s kinda hard to get along with them. Take the last week or so. Now, to illustrate the difficulties we face about getting along with the Leftists, I will replace the names of the current First Lady with the names of the previous First Family.
    Ready?
    1) Samatha Bee (upset about President Obama caging immigrant children) says to Maila Ann Obama, “Do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless cunt! He listens to you! Put on something tight and low-cut and tell your father to fuckin’ stop it.” No problem with that, eh? That makes Samatha Bee, a C list actress, a A Lister as she instantly shoots up a couple notches on the totem poll.
    2). Peter Fonda, also upset over Obama’s policy of caging of migrant children, tweeted, “rip Sasha Obama from her mother’s arms and put her in a cage with pedophiles.”. No problem with that. In fact, the former actor who has been off the radar for decades, just saw his stock jump from obscurity to stardom in 30 seconds…..or less. Our hero!
    3). The Raging Bull DeNiro, on national television, grabbed the mic and declared right out of the gate, “First thing’s first: “F*** Obama” he said, fists upraised as the audience gave him a standing ovation. “It’s no longer, ‘Down with Obama, it’s ‘F*** Barrack Obama’”. Man, that brought the house down as the wildly cheering crowd of all the beautiful people felt their spirits soar in one big interconnected group climax.
    Ok, lesson time over. I ain’t to sure I know how to get along with that. Been in jail, been to the Penitentiary, been to Skid Row and Tobacco Road, been to the barrios, the ghetto, the penthouse, the outhouse, the most expensive universities, walked on the red carpet, sleep on dirt floors, and made my residence inside the Gates of Hell. Been to the redwoods, the desert, and the jungles with screaming monkeys virberating in my head. And nothing, absolutely nothing in my life has ever prepared me for getting along with those kind of degenerates on the Left.
    Can’t we just get along? Sure, if you are willing to sell your soul and walk back inside the Gates of Hell.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And do you know what Samatha Bee, Peter (and Jane) Fonda, and Robert Dinero have in common? Privilege, white privilege!

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  31. Walt Avatar

    “Can’t we all just get along”?? Apparently not.
    http://www.theamericanmirror.com/maxine-waters-orders-more-public-harassment-of-trump-aides-god-is-on-our-side/
    The Proggys are really looking to start a new civil war, and won’t be happy till the shooting starts. They they will cry and whine it’s not a fair fight because “the Right has more firepower”.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Love it when we take a page out of their playbook. The Leftinistas are ill equipped to handle the counter-revolution. Make it go away, just make it go away, whaaaaaaaaa.
    The assault on White Liberal Supremacist Privilege has begun.
    “The University of Washington settled with the university’s College Republicans Monday, agreeing to pay $122,500 to make the lawsuit go away. The settlement comes after the campus group filed a lawsuit claiming that UW’s speaker policies “unconstitutionally infringed upon the [University of Washington College Republicans’] First Amendment freedom of speech by making it unaffordable and therefore impractical to host events likely to invite violent protests,” Campus Reform reported.
    http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/university-coughs-legal-settlement-alleged-discrimination-against-republicans

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Then what do you do when the narrative fails?
    This, then, raises the question: Where do Democrats and their “Never Trump” conservative hangers-on go next, rhetorically, having spent their shot on the border issue? Anything less than full accusations of Nazism will seem tame by comparison. Now that Trump is “actually Hitler,” any compromise by Democrats will be viewed as kowtowing to fascism. Conversely, sticking with the Nazism line of attack cheapens its effect and, frankly, makes its proponents come off as a little more than unhinged, something perhaps already at play given that a Gallup poll has put Trump at his highest approval rating to date.
    Is this perhaps the last, desperate gasp of the president’s critics? Do they double down and ride the Trump-as-Hitler narrative — and themselves — into the ground until November’s midterms and beyond? Undoubtedly, the president is ready to chum the waters with another carefully manufactured outrage to distract the pundit class.
    Despite what should have been a slam-dunk for critics of the president, the overwrought rhetoric of Democrats may have handed the modern-day Teflon Don another victory, and harmed their longer-term prospects in the process.
    http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/393049-the-strategic-blunder-of-trump-as-hitler
    😉

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  34. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ToddJ: “The bakers anmd the manager of the restaurant say they have the right to not serve someone. ”
    I believe there’s a difference, albeit a subtle one. The bakers refused to make a certain product, somewhat in the way a Halal restaurant wouldn’t make you a ham sammich.
    The restaurant refused to sell something to a person because of their political beliefs
    Of course, gays are protected and white Republican wimmenz aren’t, so there is that.
    I’m think I’m in favor of being able to refuse service to anyone, at least in the case of private businesses. Of course, you do end up with segregated lunch counters, so it’s a mixed bag. Determining the reason for refusing trade is too tricky, so it might as well be all or nothing.
    Heck, let’s go for it. All the businesses in NC/GV can hang up a red or a blue sign (or both perhaps) showing which party they favor. I think it would be a great experiment and no doubt one that HH would favor given her semi-regular rants. It would be kind of fun and we’d all learn something.

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  35. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 1253pm – red and blue signs hanging in retail windows? Hmmm, now that may be a very good idea Mr scenes. How would you get the word out?

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @ 1251, 1259- That would certainly improve sales for brick and rock vendors. 😉

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 12:37 pm
    Great timing. I was going to start this day with something along the lines you posted, but I digressed. They can call Trump a Nazi until the cows come home. The Maoists calling Trump a Nazi. How deciliously insightful. Skunk smells his own first and all that jazz.
    But, this is what I want to hit on. I have waiting patiently for this moment and it arrived. From your link to my heart.
    “On Friday, an MSNBC commentator extended the Nazi label to every Trump supporter, declaring: “If you vote for Trump then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis, going: ‘You here, you here.’”
    Rejoice! Rejoice oh forgotten ones. The time has arrived with gusto.
    It has been proven as an undeniable fact that it is an act of political suicide to dis Trump supporters…er…Trump voters, Trumptski maniacs. It gains Trump more support each and every time. It solidifies and grows the base. Slam Trump, but not little ole bitter clingers.
    Even My Gal the slush, who depicted half of all TRUMP SUPPORTERS as a basket full of DeplorableS and the other half of TRUMP SUPPORTERS as irredeemableS, quickly said, “Oh, no. I was talking about Trump, not his supporters”, ROFLMAO. She knew, she knew. She may be poticicallt tone deaf, but even My Gal knew she kicked the hornets nest with that one.
    To repeat: call Trump anything you please, but once you start in on Trump supporters, time to kiss your Lilly White (ax handle width) ass goodbye.
    http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/04/25/cnns-jim-acosta-claims-was-not-mocking-trump-supporters-when-said-their-elevator-might-not-hit-all-floors.html
    (Hmm. CNN dropped 20% in viewership since that comment.)
    “If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis going you here, you here.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/cody-leach/2018/06/22/morning-joe-did-you-vote-trump-youre-racist-nazi
    (Hmmm. Did he just call me a Nazi? Ha! I’m a recovering anarchist.)
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296.63999.217926015008110/1347097425424291/?type=3&theater
    And they call us stupid and dumb? Ha!, and again I say “Ha”.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1344863138981053/?type=3&theater
    Bonus link. Now, who’s the dummies, hmmmm? You are so much smarter than us, masta. Yes masta, you be smarter. Yes masta, you be our betters,
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jay-maxson/2018/06/24/zirin-podcast-imperialist-us-host-26-world-cup-nfl-players-are

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  38. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GeorgeR@12:59PM
    Obviously, the flags themselves are a trivial matter.
    https://www.flagsimporter.com/solid-color-flags
    Although I’d probably prefer US-sourced red flags.
    Perhaps the Chamber of Commerce could run the effort. You would expect a certain amount of politicking in order to convince the various tchotchke and coffee shops to go exclusively Team Blue. The bars might go mostly Team Red but are too smart to turn away anybody with a buck. HH would make a fine Gröfaz in the campaign with a secret control center at the crack KVMR news team’s studios for the Blues. We can take applications for Red team leader but I’d expect them to be able to do a few pull-ups and qualify at the range to get the job.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    12:51, 12:59, and 1:24 pm
    Now boys, we must be inclusive. Aren’t we forgetting a couple of our friends? What about the Purple signs and the Green signs? And twhat about the brown sign for the kangaroo and gator jerky folks?
    12:53 pm
    “…given her semi-regular rants.” Phew, that was close. I thought for a second there you where going to say “monthly rants” or blood shooting out of everywhere. You did good and exercised much self discipline and control. The visual of blood shooting out her eyes will suffice nicely.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How about blue and red stages for the street festivities happening on Broad Street or wherever the new town square is going to be. Red stage playing one kind of music, blue stage playing another kind of noise.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1248636868603681/?type=3&theater

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    All that flag stuff sounds delicious. The solution for the all inclusive and inviting capitalist is to post all the colored signs that apply. Well, maybe making the red sign a wee bit bigger 😉
    But very definitely, this idea should not lay fallow. If it goes in Nevada County, it will go viral across the country.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You would think that facebook and twitter would have already done this and you would be wrong –
    The Times reports that Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan earlier this month sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey warning the company could face prosecution if it does not block accounts belonging to Hezbollah and other terror groups.
    FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE STILL STRUGGLING TO STOP TERRORIST CONTENT
    Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has also threatened legal action against Twitter over the social media giant’s handling of posts by terror operatives, the Times reports.
    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/06/24/hezbollah-reportedly-claims-facebook-twitter-have-disabled-their-main-accounts.html
    😉

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  43. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    From a friend on FB. I tried the number and it is toast as the GOP and conservatives have overwhelmed the place and it makes me very happy.
    “Oh, my gosh. What is this? Pretty scary, but makes conservatives look oh so beautiful! The Red Hen restaurant – Lexington, VA (540-464-4401).
    Reminds me of Robert DeNiro getting a standing ovation a few weeks ago at the Tony Awards ceremony by saying, “F Trump.” The hard Left is becoming emboldened to display their insanity.”

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  44. Walt Avatar

    The news you didn’t hear about Red Hen. You saw it here first.
    Paying attention Boardman?
    http://www.thenews-gazette.com/content/visitors-residents-split-resturant-owners-decision
    “The Red Hen was closed to the public Saturday evening, after Wilkinson received three death threats, according to friend and nearby shopkeeper Siobhan Deeds. Deeds said she’d also received three calls marked “unknown private caller,” including one from Oklahoma, asking her to support shutting down the Red Hen.”
    “A visitor from Alleghany County who had dined at the Red Hen in the past for special occasions, said that, though an “ardent anti-Trump person,” he still did not support Wilkinson’s action. “As a business owner it’s your business to serve everyone no matter their politics or sexual orientation,” he said.”

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    In vino veritas –
    The Senate Intelligence Committee’s vice chairman couldn’t resist mentioning the Russia probe.
    “If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know,” Warner joked to party-goers. “If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
    Warner found himself in hot water in February after it was revealed the 2020 hopeful was in contact with Adam Waldman, a lobbyist for a shadowy Russian oligarch.
    Text message exchanges show Waldman offered to connect Warner with Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent behind the dubious anti-Trump dosser.
    “We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country,” Warner told Waldman in Mark of 2017.
    “I’m in,” the lobbyist replied.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/24/democrats-party-marthas-vineyard-mark-warner-jokes-mueller-leaks/
    😉

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  46. Walt Avatar

    From the Gazette,,
    http://www.thenews-gazette.com/
    It may not bode well for the soon to be renamed “Cooked our own goose”.
    And who was saying put up signs? Someone beat you to it.
    ” Main Street Lexington
    24.06.2018, 08:40
    The red hen should put up a sign in the window that says “we don’t serve republicans here” that way we don’t waste time going into that chithole. ”
    “Main Street Lexington
    24.06.2018, 08:59
    Can we get a list of all businesses that support the Red Hen’s decision so that republicans know where they can and cannot shop while visiting? I think a sign in the window “Democrats Only” will also help.”
    There are more unfavorable comments than favorable.
    I see the Hen, dying a slow,, miserable,, death. And all self inflicted.

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  47. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GR@3:26PM Just think of all the trouble that this flag system would have saved the Red Hen restaurant. Sarah Sanders would have just seen the thing and driven on to Chick-fil-A.
    No harm, no foul.
    You can make the argument that the flags are extended to the HR departments of companies. In California at least, you can have a strong political culture in a company coming from the top down. This is especially bad in sole proprietorships since practically everything happens at the whim of the guy in the middle. Google could stand to have a blue banner as big as a house out front.
    In any case, downtown retail would be a good place to start.
    DB@3:43PM
    Oh well, one man’s terrorism is another man’s freedom fighter. Twitter, youtube, and the like don’t hesitate to shut down accounts that they disagree with, although they rarely seem to be real-deal terrorists. You’d have to have more energy than I do to keep Arab and Persian politics straight, although I expect they’ll just move to another website. Assuming for a moment that twitter etc. are actually impartial (a huge stretch), it seems like a lot to ask to get them to censor subject to 100+ countries laws and the millions of opinions that everyone brings to the table. I don’t doubt that they’re all working on esthetic AI’s that do the work in the background, but that’s a non-trivial job to be sure.
    Free speech on the margins is a tricky matter. I suppose the British will deal with it by making most videos illegal to watch and by forcing everyone to turn in sharp items.

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Reality check for all the lefty globalist chicken littles –
    Washington has sent a clear and loud message to China in recent months: you can no longer take the American market for granted. You must develop your own market, so as to balance the trade books.
    That’s why Washington has announced a host of tariffs on products imported from China.
    This message isn’t new. It echoes a similar message America sent to Japan back on September 22, 1985, at the Plaza Accord.
    That’s when the Japanese economy was growing by leaps and bounds by running a big trading surplus with the US.
    We know what happened in the aftermath of the Plaza Accord. The Japanese economy went on a rollercoaster ride before descending into a prolonged stagnation that has lasted to this day.
    Once a serious contender for world leadership, Japan is now counting lost decades.
    Will China follow the same fate?
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2018/06/24/what-is-america-doing-to-china-the-same-things-it-did-to-japan/?partner=yahootix&yptr=yahoo#7af16f022c8e
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