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Sandbox – 11jul18

11 July 2018

[President Trump's trip – is he doing it well, or is his direct and undiplomatic manner going to make things worse for the US when he returns. And it looks like the Ugly Fat Kid needs another nudge. gjr]

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400 responses to “Sandbox – 11jul18”

Russ

11 July 2018

CA Max Temperature are Declining
Since the early 1930 the annual maximum temperatures have been declining. More details HERE:
https://wordpress.com/post/sierrafoothillcommentary.com/4086

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Russ

11 July 2018

In answer to the question posed in the introduction to this sandpile, I find Trump unvarnished approach refreshing. The typical diplomatic approach by the highly educated political elite has not produced much, other than allow the deep state pond scum to keep their jobs. While Trump does not fit the diplomatic model he is getting things done that the political elite pond scum has been unable or unwilling to do. Yes, I know it is making everyone uncomfortable, including the stiff nosed EU ministers. Rules are rules if you make them you follow them, or change the rules. Trump has a street-bred sense of fairness, no stiffing those who are paying their NATO allocations, by the deadbeat nations.

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Paul Emery

11 July 2018

Here’s an astonishing bit of news from Russian TV. the word is out for sure.
Julia Davis, who runs the Russian Media Monitor website, reports via Twitter that Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation President Tatyana Parkhalina told the Russian “60 Minutes” news program on Wednesday that she never dreamed she’d see an American president do so much to undermine his own country’s longest standing alliances.
“I never thought I’d live to see this!” she exclaimed, according to Davis’ translation. “Neither the USSR nor Russia, who tried many times to drive the wedge between transatlantic allies, but Washington is doing everything to break down the foundations of transatlantic alliance and unity.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/never-thought-id-see-russian-state-tv-gushes-trump-putins-job-wrecking-nato/

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Todd Juvinall

11 July 2018

By all means, rely on a “Russian” TV babe Paul Emery. Maybe Trump is colluding with her and maybe looking for a tryst tonight in Helsinki.

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scenes

11 July 2018

“is he doing it well, or is his direct and undiplomatic manner going to make things worse for the US when he returns.”
I can’t say that it matters. I think what you are seeing is an inevitable re-shifting of political alliances, a thing which always happens over time.
It usually doesn’t happen gradually but is more of a kind of seismic slip resulting from pent-up forces.
I do have to take some issue with our famous Cold Warrior, Mr Emery in quoting “country’s longest standing alliances.”
The US’s longest standing and strong alliances (and there’s different kind of alliances) tend to be with the Anglosphere, not Germany. In the near term, I can see where even the UK potentially edges out of NATO as it ends up being a German-run EU army (complete with broomstick guns). Going further forward, I expect even that will fray as vibrant diversity does it’s damage. There just isn’t going to be that much common ground between the UK Caliphate and a Spanish-speaking United States unless they can each turn it around and rebuild common internal cultures.
I do have to like that the GEOTUS hammered on the German dependency on Russian energy for a bit. Too funny. You can just imagine all the financial skeletons in that closet.
Trump is a damn genius. He sees the rot in the systems and goes right after it. Maybe divine providence is real.

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Russ

11 July 2018

My post at 11:25 has a bad link. This one should work:
https://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2018/07/11/if-planet-is-warming-why-are-ca-max-temperatures-declining/

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fish

11 July 2018

Anti-Trump Protest at NATO Draws Only a Couple Dozen

Sounds like a Punch Emery production……
https://ntknetwork.com/anti-trump-protest-at-nato-draws-only-a-couple-dozen/

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rl crabb

11 July 2018

Inept v. Insane – Chapter 218: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/10/hey-progressives-and-conservatives-youre

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Todd Juvinall

11 July 2018

So what?

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Don Bessee

11 July 2018

Winning!
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/11/food-stamp-usage-drops-below-40-million-first-time-8-years/
😉

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Don Bessee

11 July 2018

The po’ ol’ putin party parrots will still squawk their talking point but Trumps actions speak louder than their words –
“We have been clear that firms working in the Russian energy export pipeline sector are engaging in a line of business that carries sanctions risk,” a spokesman for the U.S. State Department told Reuters.
“We believe it (the pipeline) would undermine Europe’s overall energy security and stability by providing Russia another tool for the political coercion of European countries, especially Ukraine. Russia understands that this project is dividing Europe, and is using that to its advantage.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-us-warns-of-sanctions-risk-for-firms-invested-in-russian-pipeline-2018-7?yptr=yahoo&r=UK&IR=T
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Gregory

11 July 2018

RL, did you read that piece in Reason beyond the first two sentences, or did you stop reading (and misunderstanding) once you got the bright idea to bash your square peg of “inept v. insane” into the round hole of a libertarian perspective of the conflict between left and right?

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Don Bessee

11 July 2018

This is gonna be fun!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/11/us-marshals-served-subpoena-on-fbi-lawyer-lisa-page-goodlatte-says-threatening-to-hold-her-in-contempt.html
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Don Bessee

11 July 2018

It comes after the Netherlands recently became the ninth EU country to ban the burka after outlawing “face-covering clothing” in public places such as schools, hospitals and public transport.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/11/austria-to-ban-headscarves-in-elementary-schools/
😉

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Walt

11 July 2018

Some people are SOOOOOOO STUPID. But HEY… It’s only OPM…..
https://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/07/11/san-francisco-gun-buyback-gets-played-with-homemade-shotgun/
“The homemade shotgun was one of 187 guns turned in during the day. It consisted of a pipe zip-tied to a piece a wood. It had no hammer or trigger and lacked sights.”

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Don Bessee

11 July 2018

OH goodie! They are really going to do this and commit electoral suicide like the good lemmings they are –
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/11/house-dems-plot-abolish-ice-legislation-to-end-all-immigration-enforcement-in-u-s/
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Don Bessee

11 July 2018

Looks like the Senate seat in Nevada just got safer for the incumbent R –
Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller is using former President Barack Obama’s infamous “you didn’t build that” line to mock his Democratic opponent’s claims to have started her own business.
It comes amid news reports, including in the Reno Gazette-Journal, about the lack of public records backing up Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen’s repeated claims she built her own business in Nevada.
But the stories have said there’s no evidence Rosen had local or state business licenses, employees or even a business name.
“You didn’t build that,” Obama was heard saying in the middle of the Heller ad.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/11/heller-uses-obamas-words-to-mock-dem-rival-rosens-business-claims.html
NOW THATS FUNNY! 😉

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Don Bessee

11 July 2018

Oh my, there goes the po’ ol’ fakenewsmans fantasy girl up in flames, was it something that happened in the VIP rooms for $$?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/12/stormy-daniels-arrested-in-columbus-ohio-while-performing-avenatti.html
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scenes

12 July 2018

Graphic o’ the day.
https://i.redd.it/r7xmi4tzvf911.jpg

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scenes

12 July 2018

Hopefully, the wheels of justice grind ever so finely.
https://imgur.com/CaK6nku

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scenes

12 July 2018

In other news, I see that someone said ‘the word that must not be uttered’.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2018/07/11/john-schnatter-resigns-as-chair-of-papa-johns-following-forbes-report/#1fc81d805f75
Given the way that language evolves, I was just musing about how many years it’ll be before the phrase ‘the n word’ will be considered utterly vile reprehensible evil a firing offense.
Maybe the answer is a national contest to find the new phrase. We can’t simply strike the letter ‘n’ from the language else everyone will sound like they have a speech impediment. Something like ‘the word that starts with that letter that comes after m’ is a bit long. I’m willing to take input on this important matter.

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Gregory

12 July 2018

Scenes 755am
Belgium,man, Belgium!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WstSMMApDRI#

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scenes

12 July 2018

@8:33AM
lol. Pretty good.
Luckily, there’s slang for Belgians.
http://www.rsdb.org/race/belgians

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Paul Emery

12 July 2018

For your reading pleasure:
the Trump Slump is continuing -near 11% job disapproval
Also generic congressional poll shows Dems with highest support in two months.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2018_generic_congressional_vote-6185.html

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fish

12 July 2018

Posted by: Paul Emery | 12 July 2018 at 09:49 AM
You’re naked when you read and post these polls aren’t you Punch?

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Todd Juvinall

12 July 2018

Is anyone else watching that lying c***sucker Strzuck? He is an arrogant scumbag and I am ashamed he was in our FBI.And the democrats are defending him now. They are hapless.

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2018

When all else fails, turn to the polls to gleam a bit of comfort in this alien hostile planet. Last week I read that Trump’s favorability’s were at -10.8. Surprised that Punchy did not post it last week, but lo and behold it’s posted today. More than a day late and a dollar short, of which 18% is paid by unearned gifts from the government to keep the Popinjay with enough funds to keep his two carbon footprint vans all gassed up.
I heard Punchy died, so it’s a mute point anyway. May his tormurted soul be comforted by a child sacrifice to the gods.

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Gregory

12 July 2018

Punch…
Among likely voters, what are the numbers? You know, citizens of voting age?

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2018

Todd @ 10:04 am
I liked it when Gowdy responded to Struck with, “That was a great answer to a question no one asked.” Despite the Dems loosing their minds with obstructing the questioning, Trey set the foundation of FBI bias. Quite a foundation. Peter talked about impeachment before he interviewed on single person while on Meuller’s team, lol.
Nader says must not go there, must not look that way, must not dare to approach the subject of the lead investigator’s bias. Of all of the tens of thousands of FBI investigators, Peter was the chosen one to lead the Clinton e-mail and Meuller’s investigation. There was no bias, end of story, ROFLMAO.
In a related story…..
“While lawyers at Justice have previously helped out with past Supreme Court nominees, asking U.S. attorneys to do so is seen as unusual.
Rosenstein has faced pressure from congressional Republicans over his role in overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Democrats have raised the Mueller probe in the context of Kavanaugh’s nomination, arguing that he should not be confirmed because he could end up making decisions on the probe itself.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told the Times that “the scope of the production of executive branch documents we’ve been asked for is many, many times as large,” as previous Supreme Court nominees.
Rosenstein said in the email that he expected he would need the equivalent of 100 full-time lawyers to work on Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing. The work will reportedly be supervised by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy in Washington.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/396545-rosenstein-asks-federal-prosecutors-for-help-in-review-of-kavanaugh-documents-report
Now I know what the unhinged meant when they warned about the Supreme Court being an arm of an extremist political party.

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2018

Speaking of polls, Hilary Rodclam Clinton is the #2 choice for Dems in 2020. Did like her taking a commercial short hop on Delta the day Trump announced his selection for SCOTUS. Boy, desperate times call for desperate measures. Hillary flying commercial? Next thing you know she will be driving a car 100 feet in from out the cameras. She, thankfully, ain’t going away. Every race she entered, she won the popular vote, including against Obama in 2008. Guess she is just addicted to losing.
James Woods came up with a new slogan for Hillary’s 2020 Campaign: Drunken Lying Hag. Short and sweet and will fit on a bumper sticker.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Thomas1774Paine/status/1017381840473206785
She number two, she’s number two!

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Todd Juvinall

12 July 2018

Peter the liar is setting the plate for his amour Lisa and I bet she is taking copious notes. But is it not a conspiracy when two or more are doing some lawbreaking? And why has no one asked Strck if HE is a Russian agent? Seems like a basic question to me.

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rl crabb

12 July 2018

Greg 7/11 5:11PM – Down, boy. I know you have to keep up appearances as The Voice Of The Contrary, but it was just another confirmation of the dead end politics I’ve been writing about for the last twenty years. I didn’t mean to upset your libertarian sensibilities.

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scenes

12 July 2018

@11:36AM
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/166/059/fb8.jpg

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“M”

12 July 2018

Why doesn’t everyone love Trump???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ZVUZum2nw&feature=youtu.be

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Todd Juvinall

12 July 2018

The democrats are doing all our work as they give the American people so many reasons to NOT vote for them. Connolly , a democrat just said this was a “Russian” show trial. I cannot believe an American Congressman would say such a thing. But that is the left and they are, with every utterance, are helping us defeat these slimeballs.This hearing with the slimeball Russian agent Peter Strock is exposing the democrats as the slime they are. Amazing.

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Don Bessee

12 July 2018

You can teach a fakenewsman something after all but it has to come with physical danger –
CBS News reporter David Begnaud traveled to Roma, Texas, this week to cover a story about Texas landowners getting notices about a proposed border wall. While shooting a segment along the river border, he was shocked to see a group of illegal immigrants making their way across the river in broad daylight a few hundred yards from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry. He was even more shocked when a man with a two-way radio approached them and told them to leave.
“I’ll tell you, we were scared,” he said. “It was ominous to listen to him and he clearly was letting us know that it was time to get out.”
He said residents he talked to in Roma want to see more border security. He said they want more Border Patrol agents, equipment and modern technology.
https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/07/12/cbs-news-surprised-to-realize-border-is-open-and-unsafe/
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Bill Tozer

12 July 2018

@11:13 am.
Loved Peter’s statement that he is an unbiased patriot defending the US is laughable. His proof he offered in his defense? He did not leak to the media!! Well, that says it all.
Hmmm. Leaking to the press details of an open investigation is against the law. Feigned outrage time. How dare someone question his texts. He can explain that away! It’s all about Kahn, the Gold Star Dad whose Daddy was a business partner and close personal friend of Huma’s grandpappy. Small world. Loved the way Peter channeled the election campaign highlights as his reason for being biased, but really unbiased. Wonder when he will bring up the disabled reporter from the NYT?
Peter called Trump supporters ignorant hillbillies, but he did not mean what he said. Dance, Peter, dance! It’s all Putin’s fault, let’s not look at the corruption in his investigation of Trump. Ah nevermind. Interesting to ask “why” the Dems are 100% all in running interference. Why, why, why?
The Dems on today’s hearings are appalled that the R’s are asking questions about text messages instead of the Western Alliance falling apart! Hmmm. Excuse me, fine anti-American Democrats, the hearing is all about the texts messages. That is the purpose of these hearing and why Peter is testifying and answering questions about his text messages, duh.
It ain’t about Khan, the Gold State lawyer whose speciality is in obtaining hard to get VISA for Islamics, or NATO, or immigration. It’s all about your texts, Peter. Dance Dems, Dance!

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Don Bessee

12 July 2018

Sell baby sell –
Asked about pressures on countries with weaker finances, he said, “We have many wealthy countries with us today but we have some that aren’t so wealthy and they did ask me if they could buy the military equipment, and could I help them out, and we will help them out a little bit,” he told a news conference.
“We are not going to finance it for them but we will make sure that they are able to get payments and various other things so they can buy – because the United States makes by far the best military equipment in the world: the best jets, the best missiles, the best guns, the best everything.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-ready-help-nato-states-buy-u-181016378–finance.html
😉

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2018

Oh my, somebody had to come out and say it. It has been the elephant in the room that nobody has mentioned, until now. ROFLMAO.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/12/gop-rep-gohmert-unloads-on-smirking-strzok-how-many-times-did-look-so-innocent-into-your-wifes-eyes-and-lie-to-her.html

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Don Bessee

12 July 2018

The leading lights of the left sure look dim when the open their mouths –
“We now need to codify Roe v. Wade, which will actually increase the protections in New York. God forbid they do what they intend to do. I want to get it done before the Supreme Court does that because I don’t want any gaps in a woman’s right to protection. We have a better legal case when the Supreme Court acts because I will sue when the Supreme Court acts,” Mr. Cuomo said in a statement, according to Rochester TV station WHEC.
The statement caused much head-scratching among conservatives, for a number of reasons, not the least being … how does one sue the Supreme Court? And where?
“Did he really say that? Whom would he sue, and where would he find a court able to overrule the Supreme Court?” wondered Fox News Channel political analyst Brit Hume.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/11/andrew-cuomo-threatens-sue-supreme-court-over-roe-/
😉

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scenes

12 July 2018

@1:58PM
He’d dearly love to take it to The Hague, I would think.

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scenes

12 July 2018

I’m sure that everyone has seen this, but it does crack me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN1d6_h9skc

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Don Bessee

12 July 2018

DA! @ 207. 😉

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Don Bessee

12 July 2018

Will the sjw’s in SF go after him for making fun of the team lefty talking point?
https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/07/12/sf-giants-brandon-belt-blames-russia-losing-all-star-final-vote/
😉

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Don Bessee

12 July 2018

He said what?
Jason Furman, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, argued on CNBC Thursday that the economy is growing even faster than the commonly used government figure suggests.
CNBC’s Sara Eisen said people at the network were surprised to see the argument being argued by an Obama administration official.
“I like to think of myself as an economist who looks at the economic data,” Furman said.
“Unfortunately, the numbers published by the government aren’t the single most accurate way to measure growth,” he added.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/obama-economic-adviser-economy-growing-faster-government/
😉

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Todd Juvinall

12 July 2018

WOW! The hearing is still going and I want to thank the Democrats for helping us so much in the re-election and maintenance of the Republicans in government. The democrat’s defense of this liar Strkock has me giddy with glee. And the Republicans are ripping his lies apart and the Democrats are breathless in his defense.

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Walt

12 July 2018

Like any good LIB,, this Strzok is a good liar. The smirks and squirms are a dead giveaway though.

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Don Bessee

12 July 2018

Wasn’t that the whole point of 0’s DOJ attacks on LE?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/12/baltimore-police-not-noticing-crime-after-freddie-gray-wave-killings-followed/744741002/
😉

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2018

My my. I haven’t seen the Leftinistas this upset since yesterday. Today all the quotes are most tasty.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57074-thursday-short-cuts

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“M”

13 July 2018

,,,toes is diving deep into the rooskie bot dumpster sites,,,newsbusters,,,patriot post,,,
,,,most enlightening!!!

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