302 responses to “Sandbox – 29jul18”

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   scenes

   31 July 2018

   One thing that cracked me up about Defense Distributed, they of the plastic 3d-printed gun fuss, is that they are currently digitizing guns…plus this (from futurism.com):
   “Meanwhile, Wilson is working on new ways to share even more gun blueprints. WIRED reports that he is working to get a book-filled room of the Defense Distributed office recognized by the government as a public library. If he’s successful, Wilson would then be able to access the U.S. military’s technical manuals that include the specs for thousands of firearms; only libraries approved by the federal government can access the military’s microfiche reels that carry the information.”
   lol. This is a man with a mission.

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   Scott Obermuller

   31 July 2018

   scenes at 5:53 – Me? I’m stock piling rubber bands.
   When rubber bands are illegal, only school children and the paper boy will have them.
   Actually, the YouTube video of the guy using his beer-gut to ‘bump-stock’ was priceless. Maybe we’ll have to limit fire arm sales to only thin waisted guys?

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   scenes

   31 July 2018

   re: ScottO@6:02
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKI9S5qT5IA
   Hopefully he’s not planning on starting a wine magazine.

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   Don Bessee

   31 July 2018

   They just can not keep their mouths shut in spite of the orders from the talking points for lefties eblast-
   https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/31/majority-of-democrats-illegal-aliens-should-be-given-the-right-to-vote/
   😉

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   scenes

   31 July 2018

   re: DonB@6:20PM
   Huh. That’s an interesting idea.
   It’s a good and rather basic question for “M”, Mr Emery, Mr. Cross, Mr. Frisch.
   Should illegal aliens be given the right to vote?

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   fish

   31 July 2018

   Posted by: scenes | 31 July 2018 at 07:09 PM
   Should illegal aliens be given the right to vote?
   Gentlemen…..point of order……Gregory was kind enough to enlighten me regarding the term “illegal alien”……the preferred term now is “Undocumented Democrat”!

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   Scott Obermuller

   31 July 2018

   scenes 6:06 – that’s the one! So – what to do? Fatties can’t own semis?
   But, gasp! That’s fat shaming! The left twists itself into so many knots.
   What happened to Paul Emery – gun expert of KVMR?
   We want answers!

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   Don Bessee

   31 July 2018

   Roberts Rules of Order says its unregistered democrat Mr. Fish. 😉

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   Scott Obermuller

   31 July 2018

   scenes 7:09 – “Should illegal aliens be given the right to vote?”
   Only if they vote correctly.

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    Scott Obermuller

    31 July 2018

    “I mean, imagine if somebody tried to prevent the investigation into how Pearl Harbor happened from going forward. You would say that person is not being not patriotic.”
    Actually, they did cover up Pearl Harbor. They knew that the Japanese govt had ordered a grid map of the harbor to be sent to Japan. They knew the Japanese fleet was somewhere north of Hawaii. They sent all of the carriers out of the harbor just before the attack. The radar operators saw the planes coming in that morning.
    I’m sure that Roosevelt was sick when he heard that no one was alerted to the attack. He had been assured our radar would pick them up and we would counter. Instead, the alert was side-lined. The radar operators had no direct line to Hickam Field.
    The Brits were dancing in the streets with joy when they heard the news.
    Most of this was never reported to Americans at the time. Most Americans still don’t know any of this.
    History isn’t always like they tell you in school.

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11. 

    Walt

    31 July 2018

    Since Paul is pearl clutching at the thought of printed guns, LIB news is showing a printed AR15 lower. What they don’t tell you is that that printed part breaks after just a few rounds fired.
    Now how bout this?
    https://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2014/01/09/solid-concepts-offers-100-3d-printed-metal-1911-pistols-sale/
    YES! A 3D printed model 1911 .45!!! At the unheard of low price of
    $11,900!!
    Paul. That’s probably to much trouble and expense to knock over the corner stop and rob.

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    Don Bessee

    31 July 2018

    Aw now come on, importing uneducated, poor, socialists from socialist countries is better than genetic engineering. Especially when you have no American agenda like the Dems.
    Socialism does however hold the title for killing the most people ever! Way to go socialist/ dem/Nazi/communists!
    😉

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13. 

    Bill Tozer

    31 July 2018

    “Should illegal aliens be given the right to vote?”
    Only if they vote correctly.
    Well, therein lies the challenge. After the Bush-Gore vote was settled by SCOTUS, I watched the hearings on CSPAN by the House Civil Rights Commission Committee, or whatever it was called. One point that was brought up as a factor in the election was people were not able to read the ballot and know who they were voting for. Hmmm.
    Excuse me, the candidates’ names were Gore and Bush. Four letter words. Even if I only was literate in Swahili, I still could look at those complicated four letter names and know that the letters B-U-S-H look different than the letters G-O-R-E, with no letters in one name found in the other name to avoid confusion. If one cannot make distinguish one name from the other, then perhaps the voters in question should have done a little prep work and wrote down their preferred candidate’s name on their hand or at least looked for a D or R. You can’t fix stupid. You can fix lazy by withholding food, which is a well proven motivator for centuries. “A man who will not work shall not eat” was inscribed on the Mayflower to remedy a problem that arose on the high seas. But I digress. You can’t fix stupid.

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    Scott Obermuller

    31 July 2018

    “…perhaps the voters in question should have done a little prep work and wrote down their preferred candidate’s name on their hand…”
    Gasp – Oh, Bill – you’re one of those ‘white supremacists’!
    The ‘work’ word and the assumption that certain ‘communities’ are able to think ahead shows a distinct bias towards pale skinned folk. For shame!

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    George Rebane

    31 July 2018

    ScottO 553pm – Of course.

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16. 

    Don Bessee

    31 July 2018

    So what does this loser have to say?
    https://www.yahoo.com/sports/michelle-obama-stephen-curry-join-praise-lebron-james-promise-school-opening-235050117.html
    😉

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17. 

    Gregory

    01 August 2018

    Toes 758pm
    The issue was not recognizing Bush or Gore on certain ballots… it was not being able to grok the Butterfly Ballot style designed and approved by the local democrat apparatchiks in charge. Old folks homes were especially bewildered.
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Butterfly_Ballot%2C_Florida_2000_%28large%29.jpg/1254px-Butterfly_Ballot%2C_Florida_2000_%28large%29.jpg

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18. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 August 2018

    Gregory @ 12:56 am
    Have to disagree with you on this one. Yes, the butterfly ballot was the issue that made all the headlines and hogged the news for days. Along with hanging chads.
    The hearings I watched in February following the elections dealt with voter intimidation, i.e., investigating whether police (or others) blocked or hindered folks from physically getting to the polling places. Where cop cars parked too close to voting places with the intention to,prevent/ discourage people from voting, etc. Where police stopping black folks en route to vote and issue moving violations to intimidate them from voting? That type of thing. They investigated all the typical rumors that were flying about on Election Day.
    A side issue brought up during those Civil Rights hearings (and not a lot of time spent on it) was people’s ability to read the names on a ballot. How to make reading a name easier. That was when my jaw dropped.
    Ah, it’s all water under the bridge now. As far the voter intimidation issue went, after all the lengthy speeches by the panel members decrying the everything going back to Jim Crow, the star witness finally got her chance to speak. She was six blocks from the polling place and was pulled over for a moving violation, speeding or something. The officer explained why he pulled her over and rather than cite her, her gave her a warning and both went on their seperate ways.
    You could cut the silence in the room with a knife after she answered the lanel’s Questions. No other witnesses were called after the big long build up. :).

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    Gregory

    01 August 2018

    Yes, Well-hung Chad had his day… just not in California, where the law for punch card ballots was the chad had to be COMPLETELY disconnected to be considered a vote… apparently, California knew that every handling of a card deck had a possibility of dislodging a chad.
    BTW this is for George… whatdayathink about Terry McAteer’s idea in The Union of stopping the senior year of high school on November 1st to force the kids into “volunteering” for local non-profits for 3.5 months followed by getting dressed up and forced to “intern” at jobs for a few weeks. Supervising the kids to insure 100% effort will be the same teachers who, like McAteer, couldn’t motivate the kids to pay attention in the first place.
    Now, does that abbreviated Senior Year happen for just the college bound? What about the kids who are struggling just to graduate?
    I remember being in McAteer’s office, looking him in the eye and he was telling me about his plan to get high school kids into high tech jobs as interns … asked for an example, he gave me one: a local company making measurement equipment was going to hire two to teach them… “assemblage”. Meaning screwing things together. Assembly work.
    The more things change. No grins.
    Toes, you get an A for your snarky responses on The Union facebook comment section. Russ, you get a Gentleman’s C- (meaning an F, but with points for spelling, penmanship and the effort).

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20. 

    George Rebane

    01 August 2018

    Gregory 1133am – I think the idea sucks. I had an enormously profitable and educational senior year – three math courses (my undergrad minor), physics (my undergrad major), English literature, history – awesome. In those days you didn’t have to apply to colleges until late spring at which time your high school sent all grades including your midterm grades for the spring semester. There is absolutely no reason for kids having to apply at the start of their senior year. All that these early applications do is justify months of work for the bulging administrative staffs to justify their existence (and add thousands to tuition costs).

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    Gregory

    01 August 2018

    I also had a great Senior Year in high school… a real physics class with a combined trig/math analysis class, two periods long, same teacher, coordinated syllabi. I didn’t even know what physics was before my 12th grade year. Yes, I majored in physics after that, and had I not been accepted into a liberal arts college of science and mathematics, I might have taken the path of majoring in an associated subject (math being the language in which physics is written), so I minored in history. Anyone taking a major in a science or math had to minor in a humanity, and vice versa.
    Had my son been screwing around doing volunteer (meaning as a slave) make-work his senior year rather than physics and calculus at NUHS, chamber choir, English, etc etc he would not have hit the ground running at UC Berkeley getting A’s (and an A+ in multivariable calculus) his frosh year, and have had a Physics professor tell him his questions were too good to be a chemist, he should change to physics.
    Terry McAteer screwed up education in Nevada County for years (“outcomes based education”, whole language and whole math were being heavily promoted by his office) and it was a blessing for him to “quit” and go do to Inyo County what he’d been doing here. Now he’s back.

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22. 

    Paul Emery

    01 August 2018

    Wow
    One of Georges most quoted entities, the Cato Institute is supporting open borders and blasting Trump. From Breitbart by the way.
    Trumps Conservative support seems to be falling apart.
    “The Cato Institute, a think tank partially founded by the billionaire, pro-mass immigration Koch brothers, is advocating for full open borders to the United States.
    In an op-ed for USA Today, the Cato Institute’s Director of Economic Studies, Jeffrey Miron, says the U.S. “has nothing to fear, and much to gain, from open borders,” saying that Americans should “forget” about putting a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration.
    Immigrants will not flood into America, although the rate of immigration might increase. Instead, much of the immigration will be temporary. Return migration happens because most people want to be near their families, surrounded by their own language, culture or religion. [Emphasis added]
    …
    Crime will not skyrocket. Available evidence shows that immigrants are no more crime-prone than natives. And the additional immigrants likely to enter under open borders would plausibly be even less so, because they have shown respect for the law by not immigrating illegally. [Emphasis added]
    ”
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/31/koch-backed-cato-institute-time-for-the-u-s-to-have-open-borders/

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    George Rebane

    01 August 2018

    PaulE 122pm – thanks for the heads up Paul. I’ll report back after talking to Cato. I’m not sure that their ‘open borders’ is the same as that promoted by Dems.

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    scenes

    01 August 2018

    Paul ‘Crickets’ Emery sez: “the Cato Institute is supporting open borders and blasting Trump.”
    From wikipedia (the font of all knowledge) “The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974”
    What part of the word ‘libertarian’ is the surprise here?
    From the Libertarian platform:
    “Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.”
    If large ‘L’ Libertarians ran the country, we’d be ass deep in people from Nigeria, India, Mexico, El Salvador, etc. etc. etc. in just a few years. Back up the 767s and load ’em up.
    Vibrant diversity would do it’s thing and we’d be living in heaven on Earth.
    So Paul, what do you think should be the immigration law in this country?

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    Paul Emery

    01 August 2018

    Just reporting on the news Scenes. Cato was a feature on Breitbart that I thought RR readers would be interested in.

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26. 

    fish

    01 August 2018

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 01 August 2018 at 02:45 PM
    Just reporting on the news Scenes. Cato was a feature on Breitbart that I thought RR readers would be interested in.
    Nahh ……Koch’s were Never Trumpers from the beginning. I’m surprised that you’re just now picking up on it now Punch!
    Well not really surprised

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    Paul Emery

    01 August 2018

    The focus was on CATO Fish, a widely quoted source from RR regulars.

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28. 

    Walt

    01 August 2018

    Not looking so good for the prosecutors.
    The judge ain’t buying the class warfare game one bit.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/01/mueller-prosecutors-rebuked-repeatedly-by-trial-judge-with-history-colorful-rulings.html
    “”Enough is enough. We don’t convict people because they have a lot of money and throw it around.” ”
    “In a surprising moment, prosecutor Uso Asonye told Ellis that Rick Gates — Manafort’s former business partner who had been considered a potential star witness for the prosecution — might not be called to the stand after all.
    “Enough is enough. We don’t convict people because they have a lot of money and throw it around.”
    – U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis
    “In a surprising moment, prosecutor Uso Asonye told Ellis that Rick Gates — Manafort’s former business partner who had been considered a potential star witness for the prosecution — might not be called to the stand after all.
    “He may testify, he may not,” Asonye informed Ellis, saying Mueller’s team would make the call depending on the evidence presented.
    That disclosure prompted reporters to hustle out of the courtroom to report the news — “scurry[ing] out of here like rats out of a sinking ship,” Ellis said.
    Muller’s case is falling apart big time.

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    scenes

    01 August 2018

    “The focus was on CATO Fish, a widely quoted source from RR regulars.”
    ah, I got it. You’re hunting around for logical inconsistencies. It’s kind of like being a Green Libertarian but not being a Libertarian.
    There’s always a problem with being identified with some kind of defined social movement, you’ll have to defend their whole heap o’ theories.
    One problem that you run into is that so many websites and news organizations have a strong political bias, that nothing will get quoted. “Oh well, that story is on Fox! You know how they are!”
    On Civil War 2.0, story of the day:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dnc-refuses-to-play-rnc-in-annual-softball-game
    I think that Preston Brook’s cane is starting to twitch around somewhere.

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30. 

    fish

    01 August 2018

    French rappers beat each other with perfume bottles……
    Satire just died!
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6016259/French-rappers-brawl-duty-free-Paris-airport.html

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31. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 August 2018

    I have no problem with a free and fair press having its journalists leaving networks to work in government. However, it does raise eyebrows when government officials foverwhelmingly from one Administration leave to work for networks, clustering in one or two networks in particular.
    “According to a House Intelligence report released in April, Clapper acknowledged speaking with CNN reporter Jake Tapper about the infamous Steele dossier while he was serving as DNI. This contradicted earlier claims about whether or not he had spoken to media about the topic, and Clapper still later denied the House Intel report.
    Clapper was present at a meeting with President Donald Trump wherein then-FBI director James Comey briefed the soon-to-be president about the existence of the dossier. The fact that Trump was briefed on the dossier was later leaked to CNN. (REL
    Clapper’s quick pick-up by CNN gave the appearance that he was being rewarded for allegedly handing CNN a scoop on a hot news item.
    Former FBI agent Josh Campbell similarly raised eyebrows when he joined CNN after very publicly leaving the FBI and blaming his resignation on President Donald Trump. Campbell served at the FBI from 2008 to 2018.
    Campbell’s closeness with former director Comey and his relative inexperience in the field raised questions as to whether CNN hired him to provide real expertise or to give the network more ammo against President Trump. Those questions were not assuaged by Campbell’s FBI goodbye flyer, which said his role at CNN was to “defend the bureau.”
    CNN only describes Campbell as a “law enforcement analyst.”
    CNN does not currently have an updated, full list of contributors to the network, but it seems no administration past or present has as much representation at CNN — who claims to be an impartial, unbiased network — than the Obama White House.
    CNN did not respond to,a request for comment.”
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/01/cnn-obama-officials-payroll/
    In a related story, Chuck Todd called the Daily Caller a ‘troll farm’.
    https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/07/30/learn-the-difference-so-nbc-news-chuck-todd-thinks-the-daily-caller-is-a-troll-farm/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
    Hmmm. Who is Chuck Todd and who made him the self proclaimed arbiter of what is a legitimate news site? Sure, a Dem, but who is Chuck Todd? Cut his teeth working on Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) 1992 Presidential Campaign. Later started making frequent guest appearanceson MSNBC ‘s Hardball with Chris Matthews. Who is his wife?
    Instapundit was kind enough to remind people that we reported Chuck Todd might want to be careful with “compromised” analogies, when his wife Kristian Denny Todd’s firm brought in $2 million from Bernie Sanders in the last election cycle, and Todd doesn’t mention it when Sanders comes on.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/10/26/nbc-chuck-todd-hide-wifes-kaine-donation-and-firm-getting-millions

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32. 

    Todd Juvinall

    01 August 2018

    Who uses CATO around here? I never have. They are a bit out there for me, especially on health care. As far as Mueller and his witch hunt is concerned. It looks like there is a Judge that wants no BS and no fishing. And now that Gates is pulled back from testimony, no witnesses trying to save their asses. And why is Paul Emery using Breitbart? He hates them and calls them fake news. The Koch brothers did not support Trump and that broke my heart.

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33. 

    Don Bessee

    01 August 2018

    This snowflake game is getting tired –
    “During the conversation with the waitress, the waitress confessed to writing the racial comment on the ticket herself due to being upset that day,” stated Shipley. “The waitress confirmed that she took the ticket book containing the ticket from the customers at the table, went into the restroom, and hand wrote, herself, on the receipt the racial comment.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/08/01/hate-hoax-texas-waitress-frames-sheriffs-dept-employee-for-racial-slur/
    😉

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34. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 August 2018

    Daily quotes
    Bingo! Score on this one. Daily quotes all lined up for me. Quote containing Koch Bros. followed by quote containing CATO Institute. How cool is that? Maybe Punchy is not running a couple of weeks behind (or a lot longer). He be on the cutting edge.
    For the record: “This week, Charles Blahous of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University released a study taking a look at the cost of [Bernie] Sanders’ preferred [Medicare for All] program. The total: $32.6 trillion over 10 years. Over that same period, our total federal spending is projected at $56 trillion — and we’re already racking up debt like there’s no tomorrow on that budget. That means that we could double our taxes at every level and still not come close to covering Sanders’ program. Sanders responded to this unfortunate news by attacking the study, blaming the nefarious Koch brothers for sponsoring Blahous’ basic math. There’s only one problem: The Urban Institute, a left-leaning outlet, estimated the cost at $32 trillion. So this isn’t a right-left problem. It’s a basic math problem. Sanders doesn’t understand basic math. Or, more accurately, he doesn’t care about it.” —Ben Shapiro
    Non Compos Mentis: “The solution to America’s immigration problems is open borders, under which the United States imposes no immigration restrictions at all. If the U.S. adopts this policy, the benefits will far outweigh the costs.” —Cato Institute’s Jeffrey Miron

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35. 

    Walt

    01 August 2018

    Why in hell are we subsidizing those with a self imposed guilt trip?
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/01/tesla-burns-through-739-million-on-road-to-record-717-5-million-quarterly-loss/
    “The company’s net loss more than doubled from the same quarter last year, and was slightly more than the loss in the first quarter of 2018. Despite this, the company has reiterated CEO Elon Musks promise to post a profit in the third and fourth quarters.”
    I guess we will foot the bill so they can move to China.
    That should work out just swell.

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36. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 August 2018

    Love it. Trump’s Deplorables chant “CNN sucks, CNN sucks” at Tampa rally.
    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/1/17639110/trump-tampa-rally-cnn-jim-acosta
    To which Sarah Hucklebee Sanders relied,
    “while we certainly support freedom of the press, we also support freedom of speech, and we think that those things go hand in hand.”
    https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-arter/wh-freedom-press-and-freedom-speech-go-hand-hand
    There is something about Sarah. She is right, you know. The relationship with the press and the people is a two way street. CNN sucks, CNN sucks, CNN sucks!, lol.
    Guess Trump only holds rallies at night because the Deplorables are all working in the day. CNN sucks, CNN sucks. Too funny. Guess that means some are mad as hell and aren’t taking it no more. Oh my.
    Seriously, Obama called us bitter clingers. Hillary called us Deplorables and Irredeemables, ISIS called us infidels. Only Trump called us Americans. CNN’s ratings suck.

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    Scott Obermuller

    01 August 2018

    “The focus was on CATO Fish, a widely quoted source from RR regulars.”
    Really? Who? You, Paul? M? Frisch?
    And remember – it’s one thing to quote CATO on a factual matter as opposed to quoting them on their opinion.
    If you think about CATO wanting open borders, you’ll also have to think about what most mainline libertarians would also believe. That once the newly arrived ‘citizens’ get here, expect no benies, free goodies, or handouts from the govt.
    Oops.

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38. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 August 2018

    John Solemn has been writing some good stuff lately. The tales of two spies.
    “For at least 18 months, the FBI even surveilled her regularly as she roamed the United States, according to sources.
    Yet the FBI chose not to arrest her until 2018, charging her just two weeks ago with acting illegally as a Russian agent of influence without properly registering, a charge she and her lawyer deny.
    Before that, the U.S. government had cleared and even helped to facilitate a meeting for two congressmen — one a Republican, the other a Democrat — in summer 2015 in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Butina and her Russian handler; it then approved her receiving a student visa to stay more regularly in the United States, starting in 2016.
    Such behavior seems odd for an FBI that now says in court records it has evidence dating to 2015 of Butina’s efforts to influence American politics — especially when compared to the bureau’s conduct in the earlier case of another Russian, Anna Chapman.”
    http://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/399970-the-real-maria-butina-scandal-fbi-could-have-prevented-it
    Maybe Meuller is signaling he is not a Ken Starr and he is narrowing his focus. Handed off Cohen to New York, kicked the red headed spy to Justice, may drop Gates.
    So far, it looks like Manafort is just one glorified big tax evasion case. Sure, Manafort faces dying in prison. So did Al Capone and others. He is broke, his family members are now also broke (all of them), he has two cases coming at him from two different district courts and needs to get closer in distance to his lawyer to fight both, he bragged he was being treated nice in fed lockup (isolation), so he got immediately moved to another prison where he would not be treated so nice…and further from his lawyer.
    Oh, the reason he is locked up in prison instead of house arrest is he is being charged with witness tampering for contacting somebody….someone who was on the witness list….a witness list that Meuller never provided to Manafort or his lawyer. Go figure.
    Meanwhile, Punchy is chanting “Flip, flip, flip!” Hard to flip when there are no bodies in the closet.

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39. 

    Don Bessee

    01 August 2018

    Swimming against the flow of history –
    From tax cuts to North Korea and everything in between, Democrats have constantly predicted Armageddon only for President Trump to prove them wrong. Potentially the most egregious of these predictions relate to President Trump’s handling on the economy.
    Many pundits predicted economic collapse when the business tycoon turned presidential candidate won the 2016 election. Even the so-called “experts” got it wrong. Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman made the bold prediction that markets would “never” recover from Trump being elected president.
    Yet here we are, with no sign of an economic collapse. Quite the contrary. The great GDP numbers are just the latest positive example of what has been an objectively successful economy under President Trump.
    Since taking office, the Dow has gone from 18,332 to 25,503. The Nasdaq has gained almost 3,000 points, and the S&P is up just shy of 800. Our national unemployment rate was 4 percent in June, up from an 18-year low of 3.8 percent in May. Among black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans, unemployment is at or nearing all-time low numbers. Further, President Trump has slashed red tape at a record rate. Consumer confidence is through the roof, and we have more available jobs than we do workers prepared to fill the vacancies.
    http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/01/trumps-economic-success-destroying-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-socialist-fantasies/
    😉

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40. 

    George Rebane

    01 August 2018

    DonB 820pm – Paul Krugman is one of countless economists whose work, let alone economic prognostications are not worth a warm bucket of spit. Were he to have performed so as a private sector engineer, he would long ago have had to change his profession. No one would risk hiring an engineer with a such a record of failures. And if as a registered professional engineer (I am one) he would have had his ticket pulled.

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41. 

    Don Bessee

    01 August 2018

    Dr. R @ 825, what’s Krugman got to do with it? That was from an article by Evan Berryhill.

    Now this is hilarious! Fauxcahantas does not make the cut!
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/01/calexit-co-founder-elizabeth-warren-might-not-be-allowed-in-proposed-california-spinoff-reserved-for-native-americans.html
    😉

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42. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 August 2018

    @ 8:39 pm
    I’ll see your Fauxahontas and raise you one TAD.
    https://m.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1118570321626522/?type=3&source=48

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43. 

    Don Bessee

    01 August 2018

    I’ll see your TAD with a jealous, working for free (now?) 3nd rate fakenewsman –
    No not the reformed druid!
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/01/cnns-acosta-attacks-fox-newss-hannity-propagandist-for-profit-lies-every-night/
    😉

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    Don Bessee

    01 August 2018

    As a bonus here is another TAD in action, my only question was she wearing a pink knit hat?
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/01/massachusetts-woman-enraged-by-trump-bumper-sticker-intentionally-rammed-into-car-police-say.html
    😉

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    Paul Emery

    01 August 2018

    I’m using Breitbart Todd because it’s used over and over on this blog as a credible source.

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    Bill Tozer

    01 August 2018

    Where’s Fish? Guess I will have to fill in for our esteemed commentator.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1390716387729061/?type=3&theater
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    Paul Emery

    01 August 2018

    Todd writes:
    “And now that Gates is pulled back from testimony…”
    Wishfull thinking Todd and not what happened at the trial today. Anyone who knows anything about law knows a prosecutor or defender won’t commit to a strategy at the beginning of a trial.
    From NBC news:
    “Asonye backtracked, saying it’s not to suggest that prosecutors will not call Gates. “If I need to shorten the case I will,” he said. “We evaluate each witness by what the case needs.”

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    Don Bessee

    01 August 2018

    That’s rich, the po’ ol’ fakenewsman quoting the oh so ethical and balanced NBC, they are especially challenged on TAD issues. Anyway thanks for the unintended end of the day chuckles.
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49. 

    Ricky McVeigh

    01 August 2018

    Balanced is in the 👀 of the beholders!
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AaWPhfKe0V8

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    Don Bessee

    01 August 2018

    Is anyone surprised in anyway by this (po’ ol’ fakenewsman excluded)?
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/01/parkland-florida-teens-bus-tour-aims-to-register-democrat-voters/
    😉

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