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["Immigrants separated from their children after being arrested for illegally entering the U.S. at the Mexican border are being asked to choose between being deported alone or with their children."  Why in the world would we not deport the children with the adults who brought them in?  Is it because the kiddie importers may not be the kids' parents after all?  Then where is today's insane hew and cry about separating kids from arrested parents – a long practiced process for both American and illegals taken into custody?  Or are we now done with this topic?  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar

    Proggys are really starting to nut up
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/07/democrat-man-allegedly-threatened-to-kill-long-island-trump-supporters/
    Just being a Trump supporter is reason enough these days to pack.
    Go on down to the local cop shop to get a CCW.. They will ask just what the “need is”.. ” well, I’m a Trump backer.. Need I say more?”

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Poor babies –
    Democratic senators running for re-election in red states where President Donald Trump remains popular face an agonizing choice over his coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead of the midterm elections, or stick with the party and possibly sacrifice their own seats — and any chance at a Democratic majority in 2019
    https://www.wral.com/red-state-democrats-face-terrible-bind-on-supreme-court-pick/17681882/
    😉

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  3. Walt Avatar

    If a LIB hates and fears of a nomination,, it might be the right pick.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/07/law-professor-scotus-extremist-firearms/
    “A law professor described Judge Thomas Hardiman, a candidate for the impending Supreme Court nomination, as a “Second Amendment extremist” for his originalist view of the Constitution, specifically regarding the Second Amendment.”

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh god please let it be so…….

    Is Hillary Clinton Secretly Planning to Run in 2020

    https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/is-hillary-clinton-secretly-planning-to-run-in-2020/

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Fish@9:08
    Clinton’s Run.
    I think I like the idea.
    There may be no conscious planning behind it, but it may simply be that she’s going through the motions of running in order to stay relevant. She’s probably the most ambitious person ever put on this planet, so it’s reasonable to assume that her activities roil around that inner hunger.
    I say she’s so ambitious by looking at how far she got without any of the obvious gifts that successful dictators have usually had in their rise to power. I think what you are seeing is pure drive.

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  6. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,the get of my lawners have even infiltrated Portlandia,,,if you see something say something,,, ok,,,RACISTS!!!
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-police-called-on-black-oregon-legislator-20180704-story.html

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  7. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,another wackydoodle with a gun,,,MEH,,,it’s Texas,,,what do you expect???
    http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-austin-texas-fireworks-fatal-shooting-20180707-story.html

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 07 July 2018 at 02:17 PM
    Also as a diversion from this conversation is Fish playing the odds that I’ll die soon unless he’s talking about Trump being a dictator. Now that’s a classy conversation.

    Just trying to understand why you, an old man with no children is so obsessed with Trump! Good news though, your secret crush is contemplating another run!
    https://nypost.com/2018/07/07/is-hillary-clinton-secretly-planning-to-run-in-2020/
    I’d start saving mu pennies now for the would be democrat contender Punch….doesn’t look like the big money is interested! Funny, in this image driven world the candidate that every body had been talking about….Kamala Harris…may not get the nod as “she” looks far too masculine to get the white male vote….still a large bloc! I think she’ll corner the transexual vote though….so there’s that!
    Who else thinks that screwball Tom Perez is right and that “as the future of the party” they’ll push She Guevara to the front of the pack?
    As far as “diverting the conversation” goes you would think that a man who describes himself as “peppy” could field at least two conversations at once. Maybe not as peppy as you think!

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: “M” | 08 July 2018 at 10:19 AM
    ,,,another wackydoodle with a gun,,,MEH,,,it’s Texas,,,what do you expect???

    Uh oh DuGsKi….RaNdOm MixInG oF uPpEr aNd LoWeR cAsE LetTeRs AgAin! TiMe To Up YoUr DoSaGeS AgAiN!

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  10. George Rebane Avatar

    Author and socialist politician Upton Sinclair said, “The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label.” This was later expanded in an attribution to socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas – “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. … I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.” Later quoted by Ronald Reagan, this statement makes clear the Democrat Party’s massive leftward movement in the last decades, when today Democrats openly run as socialists touting socialist principles. Oh, the power of progressive public education – ‘as the twig is bent … .’

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, can’t blame a man for trying. Nadler reminds me of the late Punchy. Nadler tried once, tried twice, and then tried thrice. Guess Jerrold is left assuming people agreed with him. No worries, he will try again. Yo Nader, you are asking the wrong questions concerning the wrong IG investigation, lol.
    “Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. Nadler appeared to want Horowitz to declare that there was no bias in the FBI’s investigation of President Trump. Horowitz quite pointedly declined to go along.”
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/on-trump-probe-bias-igs-carefully-worded-answers-get-second-look

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. This sounds like our late Punchy who used to post here. His name was Paul something. How easily we forget. Anyway, rather than write a nice obit where we all lie through our teeth looking for something nice to say about the dearly departed, I will simply be brief and post an article from another news director:
    “Todd played a series of clips where Trump spoke glowingly of Putin and Russia and he proceeded to suggest Trump may have been doing what Putin wanted. “NATO allies are already nervous about this meeting and they’re already offended that the meeting got planned after the NATO summit, which is exactly the way Vladimir Putin would have wanted it,” he chided.
    “Contrast that rhetoric about Russia and Vladimir Putin about the Trump rhetoric when it comes to NATO allies: You need to pay up, you’re killing us on trade, etcetera, etcetera,” huffed NBC senior political editor Mark Murray. His “biggest” concern was that the President was headed into the meeting with Putin without ever admitting that the Russians sought to help his campaign at the “expense” if Hillary Clinton’s.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/07/08/meet-press-panel-panics-thought-trump-meeting-putin
    Hmmm. Looks like Putin is playing Trump like a Spring Toy.

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  13. M Avatar
    M

    ,,,fishymon,,,thanks for all the advice and reminders on my Depends changing schedule!!! It can be difficult when we are forced to adapt to new conditions.
    Speaking about that,,,since their are so many leaks in the House of Trump,,,i hope you have been trying to get Dear Leader to change his more often,,,
    #somuchleakage!!!

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 10:29 am
    I like folks who are straight shooters, to the point of being blunt. Bob Bennet comes to mind. Add The Swamp Thing, the Ragin’ Cajun, Mr. James Carville. I like the person, their politics not so much. That’s why I always liked Bernie the person. He may be crazy Bernie or grumpy Bernie, but he told it like he saw it. You know where he was coming from. At least before was he got the taste for fine houses, cars, and areoplanes.
    Bernie’s new Mini-me is a breath of fresh air, if for no other reason that she says what she thinks. Doesn’t try to hide it and no need to smoke them out. Imagine the young energetic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez waiting tables and stealing tips from the other waitresses one day and six months later garnered 16,000 votes to win an stunning unset against the Establishment favorite. Only in America
    https://patriotpost.us/memes/56971-socialist-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
    —————-more Sunday memes———————
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1092448204238734/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1092447307572157/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1092449194238635/?type=3&theater
    https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/26331

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “#somuchleakage!!!”
    Hmmm. That reminds me. Has anyone else noticed that the universally established symbol for pounds (lbs) is #. So, does that me the women folk are saying pound on me too? #Metoo.

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  16. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,tick tock,,,the new trump clock,,,
    https://trumpticktock.com/

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  17. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    I am a Settler. I am descended from Settlers – not from immigrants – Ann Coulter
    ,,,bwahaha!!!
    https://crosscut.com/2016/06/the-twisted-logic-of-ann-coulter-and-the-oregon-patriots

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  18. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: “M” | 08 July 2018 at 12:02 PM
    “Will you donate one minute of your time to fight Trump?”
    Oh lil druggy feculent……no…..no I won’t!

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Another fat finger html failure!

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  20. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    real time Trump Feeder videos
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUUSbmLaueY

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Roe probably won’t be overturned because it probably won’t come up; Casey is the center of abortion law nowadays.
    Still, I admit to chuckling over the musings of Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a “moderate” Republican in the Kennedy mold. With the justice announcing his retirement after 30 years on the Court, a confirmation battle royale is shaping up over his successor, whom President Trump is expected to nominate on Monday. On cue, Senator Collins has let it be known that she would look askance at any nominee who has “demonstrated hostility [towards] and an eagerness to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
    Go ahead and Roe, Roe, Roe your boat, Senator. Thanks to Justice Kennedy, we’ve actually been living in a Casey world — as in Planned Parenthood v. Casey — for the past quarter century. For good and for ill. “Don’t you dare touch Roe” is the political hyperbole of Democrats and their fellow travelers. It is not a serious legal position — as if serious legal positions had anything to do with confirmation politics.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/supreme-court-unlikely-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Laugh of the day….so far.
    Before Cruz was taken away, a Danbury police officer issued him an infraction for “reckless use of the highway by a pedestrian,” police said.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/08/man-fleeing-ice-agents-struck-by-unmarked-police-car-outside-courthouse-authorities-say.html

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Finally, I agree with these folks. I stand with my brothers and sisters. I have been waiting for the good people living in those shithole crime and drug infested unsafe at any speed neighborhoods to stand up and have their voices heard. And yes, finally black lives cut short by gang violence truly matters to BLM. A good sign. Too bad the crowd size was small……per expected.
    “and members of the community”: ……restricting traffic as they demanded lawmakers and members of the community do more to stop the bloodshed.
    “Some carried crosses and others banged drums as they marched, chanting slogans including “Black Lives Matter!”……..Chicago leaders have long struggled to bring down its high murder rate.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/activists-block-major-freeway-protest-slideshow-wp-211421210.html

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    scenes

    BillT@1:38PM
    BLM freeway blockin’ sign totin’ protest.
    Help me out here. Just who exactly are they yelling at? You could knock me over with a feather if the subject of their ire was the people doing the shooting.
    Kethledge (to be fair, I’d never heard of him)
    “As Breitbart News reported, in one case back in 2013, Kethledge sided with an illegal alien who had overstayed their visa and spent 10 years in the U.S. illegally trying to obtain an employment visa.”
    lol. Oh well, it was only ten years. I’d give him another 10 or 15 probably.

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  25. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 10:39 “the Democrat Party’s massive leftward movement in the last decades”. Once again you show your biased and therefore incorrect assessment. What has actually happened is that the Republican Party has moved so far to the right that it creates the appearance of the Democratic Party moving left in the eyes of those who want to see it that way. Don’t forget it was Nixon who gave us the EPA, initiated Title IX and consumer protections, all of which trump now is trying to destroy. So guess again on how the political 50 yard line has moved to the rightwing 35. It wasn’t because the left moved. If anything, the traditional democratic left has moved right to about where the moderate Republicans used to be leaving a hole newly being filled by so-called progressives.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes. Is the glass half empty or half full? Oh, that little thing on the Interstate. Well, pay that no mind. It was a non violent peaceful march with various signs for other causes, but no one was shot and not one anti-Trump sign in the crowd…at least what I could gather in the picture slide show. Unless….unless that black skeleton thang in the crowd as a never trumper. Just saying there is always a silver lining. And it looked like a picture postcard day in the land of Lincoln.
    Have they set a date for Punchy’s service yet?

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  27. M Avatar
    M

    @106,,,Donnie,,,did you miss the Media Bias chart??? You go to the fake news outlet that loves to skew the news so it fits your agenda.
    Kethlege wasn’t handing out free passes for immigrants. Patel should be given a pass just for being willing to go through all the legal hoop and shit he went through,,,
    http://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/13a0293p-06.pdf

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  28. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    RC: “What has actually happened is that the Republican Party has moved so far to the right that it creates the appearance of the Democratic Party moving left in the eyes of those who want to see it that way.”
    You know, that’s hard to believe since the Republicans (or, as Paul so charmingly sez, the ‘pubbers’) are the party of not changing anything. My guess is that you view your own vantage point as stable and so there’s a bias built into that.
    Look at it this way. If you grabbed a Republican from 1970, or 1960/1950/1940, or 1890, would they feel more in tune with a modern Republican or Democrat? Would a Republican from 1960 be in favor of transsexual Army officers? Gay pride parades? Transgender bathrooms? National round-up of guns? Nationalized healthcare? Riots because immigration law was enforced? Student loan forgiveness?
    You might need to think your posish, as Bertie Wooster would say.

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  29. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I admit that I didn’t respond to this:
    ” Don’t forget it was Nixon who gave us the EPA, initiated Title IX and consumer protections, all of which trump now is trying to destroy.”
    Do you really think that Trump is destroying all of those? or is it just that any dialing back of a perceived overreach is viewed as destruction?
    It would be interesting to compare Nixon’s EPA to the modern behemoth it has become.
    lol. ‘Destroy’. The amount of Trumphate hyperbole is strong in this one.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Seen McConnell’s Pic and reasoning for “his” choice of judge.
    ” The Left won’t put up a fight.”
    “McConnell has said he does not want a SCOTUS battle in an election year,” a source familiar with McConnell’s off-the-record conversations with at least one journalist told Breitbart News. “He thinks Kethledge would be easy to confirm because Kethledge is not a consistent conservative.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/08/mitch-mcconnell-kethledge-wont-face-hurdles-liberals/
    Well hell’s bells.. Just give the LIBS anyone they like!
    The more Proggys bitch about,, the better the pick.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I got interested in the EPA and found two articles.
    https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/trump-epa-budget-cuts/
    http://www.cfact.org/2017/03/11/those-devastating-epa-reductions/
    Of course, the easiest way to improve the environment is to avoid overpopulation.
    The truth is, Leftists prefer massive immigration over the natural environment in the US, so it’s pretty obvious how little they really care about the things the EPA might care about. I tend to ignore any bitching about environmental issues as a result. The Sierra Club is a wonderful example.
    A chart or two.
    http://progressivesforimmigrationreform.org/images/US-Population-Projections-to-2100-under-Three-Scenarios.png
    http://www.cairco.org/sites/default/files/images/charts/numbersusa-us-population-growth-redchart.gif

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  32. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 438pm – On this one you are really off base Mr Cross. Again, your narrow reading has you accusing me as being some lonely voice coming to that very obvious national conclusion, instead of it being shared and trumpeted by literally every commentator and Congress critter from center to right, and also joined by many leftwing commentators who are warning their compatriots that the Democrats have crossed a bridge too far (cf Perez’s recent statement) on their journey toward the Socialist States of America. They advise that the voters are not (yet) ready for it. But many thanks for posting your assessment to underline the point.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Richard Molhouse Nixon. He lowered the voting age to 18, ended the draft, instituted wage and price controls, and sent Forrest Gump to go play ping pong in Peking. He also, not unlike today’s Progressive and Green Libertarians, searched the pumpkin patch for thesecret list of Putin Cuddlers hidden therein.
    But, that was then, this is now.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1091304877686400/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296.63999.217926015008110/1362608007206566/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1089210291229192/?type=3&theater
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1066436423506579/?type=3&theater

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Putin cuddlers in the pumpkin patch, that sounds like a druid hang out @ 547

    The Swamp creatures in England are not giving up on overturning the will of the people just like here
    David Davis resigns and sparks a Tory Brexiteer rebellion that could bring down the PM: Brexit Secretary says he ‘couldn’t sell out his own country’ with a soft exit from EU as TWO more ministers quit
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5931823/David-Davis-resigns-Brexit-Secretary.html
    😉

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  35. Walt Avatar

    These people sure ain’t bitching about Tariffs.
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/08/illinois-steel-town-trumps-tariffs-secure-800-new-jobs-laid-off-american-workers/
    “Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports have been welcomed by American workers and steel workers who say their jobs need to be protected from foreign competition.
    In the latest Harvard/Harris Poll, 83 percent of Republican voters say they support tariffs on imported products like automobiles and electronics. Additionally, 81 percent of conservatives said they too supported tariffs, along with 61 percent of Americans living in rural communities.”

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 6:57 pm
    Add to the list the 32 (or there about) domestic solar panel manufactures who got wiped out by the Chinese dumping solar panels below cost on our shores, leaving just two US solar panel factories on life support. Then along came Mr. Straight Shooter himself, our current President of these here United States. Not only did he smack the Chi-coms upside their violating unfair heads, he called Chinese solar panels cheap crap that “you wouldn’t buy anyway.”
    What a promoter for the Green Industry! Gave them a shot in the arm. Now, because of President Trump the Miracle Worker, 6-9 new solar panel factories will be opening up here and creating green jobs. That Trump is one Mean Green Fair Trade Machine, I tell ya.
    This dude always gets it wrong
    https://www.facebook.com/Rowdier2/photos/a.1499270640284886.1073741828.1406258846252733/1980800732131872/?type=3&theater
    This dude get it right. America First.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1362094990591201/?type=3&theater

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Robert who is always Cross sez @ 4:38 pm
    “Once again you [Dr. Rebane] show your biased and therefore incorrect assessment. What has actually happened is that the Republican Party has moved so far to the right that it creates the appearance of the Democratic Party moving left in the eyes of those who want to see it that way. Don’t forget it was Nixon who blah blah blah.”
    https://www.facebook.com/mary.grunewald.56/videos/10157514641859746/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDk4NjI5ODg2MjoxOTgzMjY1MjE4MzgzMDAy/
    Hmmm. We on the Right did not move an inch. You did.

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  38. Ricky McVeigh Avatar
    Ricky McVeigh

    Americans don’t understand the basics. This video explains a ton.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uuS001pQNzI

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I see the leftwing loons are spewing their BS again in the Union today. They are all unhinged goofballs like “M” and the “jon’s” Where is JonS? Oh that’s right, completing the gender transfer.

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  40. M Avatar
    M

    ,,,Todd,,,sober up, it’s Monday!!! Your Ron Lowe screed is barely legible with all your all thumbs texting.
    Why didn’t you also check the little box that says ‘’’post to facebook’’’,,,afraid of the blowback???

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  41. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    a bit of that old anti-hate hate.
    https://thegoldwater.com/news/30711-Black-Swan-Books-Owner-Called-Police-When-Woman-Verbally-Attacked-Steve-Bannon-The-Left-Unhinged
    re: Drywall.
    I wish that stuff would go away. I don’t think that I could stand to build a house using it.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Would one of you Nevada City/Grass Valley residents explain this to me…..

    “As the proverbial camel, I have vented my spleen and will now await the inevitable chastisement that I know will come.”

    Are painfully mixed metaphors a local thing……camels and spleen venting…..if so I’m unaware!
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/betsy-wobus-vote-blue-in-november/

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: M | 09 July 2018 at 07:28 AM
    Remember dugski……it’s wipe, powder, and change…..in that order!

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  44. George Rebane Avatar

    fish 804am – The lady’s intellectual credentials were reviewed in the 6jul18 Scattershots. Please keep relevant comments under that post. Thanks.

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    M’M, don’t drink or do drugs like you do so try some other slight. It appears FISH has you pegged anyway. No guts to post your real name. And you know Ron Lowe is a loon so any response to his screeds against R’s is justified.

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