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[Ideology – n. A structured and communicable belief system that in its best expression is composed of tenets defendable by and malleable to reason. Ideologue – a person who is willing to communicate his ideology.  A more dubious definition of an ideologue is “a person who zealously advocates an ideology”.  The adverb 'zealously' denotes doing something in an "ardent, devoted, or diligent manner".  Hence, I confess again that I am an ideologue.  But then what does one call a person who advocates an ideology in a non-zealous manner?  gjr]

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263 responses to “Sandbox – 23jul18”

  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 24 July 2018 at 09:40 PM
    Pretty sure you are wrong again Punch! n the four or so years I’ve been posting here I’m not sure that you’ve “made” your point more than two, maybe three times!
    As George suggested …..you really need to up your game!

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    We’ve circled the subsidies barn too many times here. I’m not for them, and especially not for the kind of planned bandaid subsidies required to keep farmers whole who will be impacted by Trump’s tariffs. I’ll have more to say about tariffs soon.

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar

    Hmmm Fish
    How many times have the CJ’s brought up Hillary’s email server. The circle around that barn has turned into a ditch.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 July 2018 at 08:18 AM
    What server Punch? The one that the FBI has never seen? The one with all those classified e-mails/info that she was never prosecuted for having/protecting? The one that when asked why she “wiped” it, she snidely responded “Wiped it, like with a cloth?”
    My, whatever are you referring to Punch?
    Not my responsibity to police any comment here I don’t choose to comment on!
    You’ have to do better Punch!

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Some of that free speech stuff at work.
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-star-on-hollywood-walk-of-fame-destroyed-with-pickaxe.
    The next step will be breaking all the windows at Republican-owned businesses.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar

    Thanks for verifying my 8:31

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “What server Punch?”
    I think that it’s that server that dem Russkies done broke into what with their mad hacker skillz on the direct orders of Putin after he and Trump had a hooker party in Moscow. Maybe it’s the other server that the GRU broke into with a special ops team to deliver directly to a safe house at Trump Tower. I’m not sure anymore.
    Now that bastard Trump doesn’t even want to get into a proper war with the Russians. After all, we have the United State protectorate of Syria to worry about.
    lol. The ‘Progressives’ have sounded like the Weekly World News for a couple of years now. They have that special outrage that only the truly guilty can gin up.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 July 2018 at 08:38 A
    There’s a good progressive! Take another victory lap Punch!
    I really shouldn’t feel embarrassed for you but I do!

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar

    Don’t bother Fish or whoever you are (won’t use your real name). Your opinion of me is of no importance to me in any way.

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 25 July 2018 at 09:18 AM
    ….and yet there you are….regular as clockwork….responding!

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    dugski….finally caught your preferred candidate in an appropriate venue!
    https://static.pjmedia.com/user-content/1/files/2018/07/hillary-cuckoos-nest.jpg

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar

    The dam is breaking from the weight of Trumps lies. Cohen will be Trumps Dean. Lots of fun.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/us/politics/trump-cohen-tape.html

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  13. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,Trump Youth,,,that’s me, first dude from the left,,,back in my hippie days

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  14. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,they must be hiring ex gang members to this police force,,,
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trader-joe-apos-employee-killed-192020843.html

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The po’ol’ putin party parrot has been squawking that line of bs@1116 for 20 months and still consistently wrong.

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/25/former-gm-exec-president-trumps-trade-policy-will-make-u-s-winner-on-trade/
    😉

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: “M” | 25 July 2018 at 11:19 AM
    Yes dugski…..I’ve often felt that institutionalization would have been a better setting for you than letting you roam free in the woods.

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  17. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross
  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish
    Who wore it better? Hillary or the dinner table?

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WINNING! While the po’ ol’ fakenewmen are wallowing in rancid Russian dressing.
    EU cuts a deal to lower tariffs on US goods, buy more LNG and soybeans! No EU trade war, now its EU and US vs china. Sweet.
    😉

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    WINNING!
    The official said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and his top trade official Cecilia Malmström agreed to work with the U.S. administration to lower industrial tariffs on both sides, increase LNG exports and soy beans to Europe, and align regulatory standards to allow for medical devices to have better market access in Europe, the official said.
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/ahead-of-eu-meeting-trump-rails-at-domestic-critics-1532524795
    😉

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  21. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,Robert 1213,,,are those MAGA flags part of the Yvanka collection???

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  22. Russ Avatar

    Anyone planning to attend the GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT?
    September 12-14, 2018
    San Francisco, CA
    https://globalclimateactionsummit.org/
    Hosted by Governor Jerry Brown! What an opportunity to help save the planet from SUVs.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The CCC is deafening! 😉

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  24. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    M 1:31 — if they are part of her collection, I would hope they’re selling at a severe discount like the rest of her made in China junk. Her stuff is also exempt from the tariffs.
    IN the ‘we ain’t no grifters” dept.:
    A District Court Judge’s ruling allows a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Maryland and DC, against trump under the emoluments clause of the Constitution to go forward.
    Numerous reports indicate that foreign governments paid to use Trump properties and planned to do so increasingly as a way of ingratiating themselves with his administration. The ruling stated that emoluments clause “was intended to embrace and ban anything more than de minimis profit, gain, or advantage offered to a public official in his private capacity as well, wholly apart from his official salary” and as such this would apply to Trump’s receipt of profits from foreign or domestic governments through his hotel in D.C. Go figure!

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  25. fish Avatar
    fish

    Good to know what really terrifies the American left….
    In One Year, MSNBC Covered ‘Stormy Daniels’ 455 Times, ‘War In Yemen’ 0
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-25/one-year-msnbc-covered-stormy-daniels-455-times-war-yemen-0

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey Russ, ask the governor why carbon pays no taxes.

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 25 July 2018 at 02:44 PM
    Shouldn’t you be fetching coffe for someone Gloria?
    Go figure!

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who would of ever imagined Jean Claude Junker saying this;
    Juncker said he had an “intention to make a deal today and we made a deal today. We have identified a number of areas on which to work together, work towards zero tariffs on industrial goods. That was my main intention, for those to come down to zero tariffs on industrial goods.”
    As U.S. soybean farmers have struggled against retaliatory tariffs, Juncker said the EU “can import more soybeans from the U.S. and it will be done.” He said the two sides also agreed to work together to reform the World Trade Organization, which Trump has vehemently criticized as being unfair to the U.S.
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gop-lawmakers-critical-relief-program-farmers-052430924–finance.html
    😉

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 25 July 2018 at 02:53 PM
    The Europeans needed this much more than the US did! Their economy is approaching
    stall speed!

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @259 – And its very bad news for China and Russia ! WIN – WIN – WIN! 😉

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hey, Bobbie, remember that time Krazy Qaddafi and his harem and entourage with huge tents and animals came to NYC, the late Colonel Q?? He could not kind a place to rent for his address to the U.N. General Assembly. No problem. Trump rented the grounds of his hotel to him. Charged him a lot of money, “a lot of money”. An offer he couldn’t refuse. That be Trump. He will rent to anybody and he don’t care which bathroom you choose to use. They are paying for those rooms, for sure. Some are living full time there.. Not a bad business that slumlord business, not bad at all…only if the economy is humming. Shocking, is it not?
    Hey, i hate to be mean and do like the filly, but you guys are making it too easy. Stop it. Come on, try harder.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1382528218547878/?type=3&source=48

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 25 July 2018 at 03:06 PM
    She’s not bad looking but the media seems to be going out of its way to post pictures of her looking like Mr. …okay …Ms. Ed!
    https://standinbalance.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Mr-ed-44117502379.jpg

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Facebook stock is crashing. Couldn’t happen to a nicer company.
    Over at Crabby’s, there’s an advert for Earl’s table at Summer Nights in Nevada City, tonite is the last nite.
    There’s an interesting pricing policy… fascists pay double:

    RL CRABB says:
    July 25, 2018 at 9:11 am
    Still have lots of Yuba and City Hall T-shirts. Full Moon, I have Medium, Large and XXL. Sweat shirts in L & XL. Books, Inaction figures, prints. Fascists pay double.
    Reply
    Michael Anderson says:
    July 25, 2018 at 10:06 am
    Bob, this test might be helpful in establishing appropriate pricing:
    http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

    The f-scale is an interesting test that dates from 1950; at 2.4, I was labeled “a liberal airhead”. The US average at the time was 3.84, men a bit higher, women a bit lower. Above a 4.5 was considered to be receptive to fascist thought, above 5.5 to be card carrying.
    Good luck to Crabby, there weren’t many stopping by with cash for him last week. General Barstool was keeping an eye on him for an hour so so, or so he claims.

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  34. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,just bring some extra cash guys, lol

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  35. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,maybe a tinfoil hat would work as a disguise,,,

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gregory, Is he still peddling those tee shirts that one winter got rained on in his garage? Quite the winter. I grabbed a dry one from the top of one box, the others forget it. Probably all dried out by now. Bought me an autographed book as well. Looked like a Gary Larson book …from the outside. Guess I should read it one of these days. Gave it to a daughter, but I see it made its way back to me…unread. It’s in some box somewhere in a dry place, hint hint. 🙂
    That tee shirt is still hanging in the closet I bought from Crabbman. Only worn once or twice, like new, barely worn. Oh, it was too small. Me bad for being in a hurry or grabbing a dry one that was too small. Too tight and I don’t do a lot of black. Will work in a pinch. Afraid to wash it.. Don’t need no shrinkage. Nice artwork, though. Pops out. There is a full moon over Nevada City every night or something like that.
    Now I can say,”I already gave….years ago.” And I got a great discount. Gotta play the part. Bossanova.

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Time to eat our own.
    States would receive 10 percent of the revenues for “low-income” households, the definition of which always allows for political favoritism. Another 5 percent would go to states, cities, and tribes for mitigation of coastal flooding; accordingly, the middle of the country would subsidize the coasts. Is it an accident that Representative Curbelo’s Florida district comprises Monroe County and parts of Miami-Dade County? (As an aside, significant parts of Miami-Dade were built on swamps elevated with fill, which over time is subsiding. Are GHG emissions responsible for that too?
    The bill would also impose a border-tax adjustment (tariff) on imported goods equal to the increased costs paid by “comparable U.S. products.” This provision will yield an enormous expansion in the federal bureaucracy, as “comparability” will have to be defined and measured across a vast array of goods. Can anyone believe that political pressures will not affect such computations?
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/carlos-curbelo-carbon-tax-wealth-redistribution/

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its gettin’ to be a mutha to be a mullah –
    Iran’s cabinet approved a new governor for the central bank as the country, facing renewed U.S. sanctions pressure, grapples with a faltering economy and a sliding currency that have stirred street protests.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-economy-central-bank/with-economy-faltering-iran-appoints-new-head-of-central-bank-idUSKBN1KF0SY

    Tomi Lahren on Trump-Iran Warning: ‘The American Apology Tour Is Over’
    http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/07/24/tomi-lahren-final-thoughts-donald-trump-iran-tweet-obama-apology-tour-over
    😉

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  39. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,gee whiz!!! The pubbers,,,that impeachment crazy bunch,,,are trying to impeach Rosenstein now!!!
    They are doing all they can to stifle democracy and kneecap our government!!!
    Way to to Comrades!!!
    Боже, Царя храни!
    сильные, суверенные,
    Царствовать в славу нам;
    Правление в страхе врагов наших,
    Король православные!
    Боже, Царя храни!

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ’’’M’’’ | 25 July 2018 at 06:33 PM
    They are doing all they can to stifle democracy and kneecap our government!!!

    Take it easy Groundskeeper Willie…. democracy is in no greater danger now than it was during the last eight years.
    If whiny stupidity was a crime you’d get the electric chair!

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    I hate html tags

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Full exposure in every way, just not for me, I am a private person!
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/25/lawyer-avenatti-is-cable-tv-fixture-but-in-this-case-wants-privacy.html
    😉

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Maybe this.

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    I’m punting George

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