[I voted for John McCain in 2008, even though I considered him a weak entry by the Republicans. But he was a man who had fought the good fight for America, and was a military hero in the true (old) sense of the word. While not agreeing with all of his politics – especially that climate change should be a national security issue for the US – but he did hew sufficiently to the conservative views on property, security (e.g. US as world's white hat hegemon), and liberty. His parting shot at President Trump will assure that his funerary plaudits will make political history. Thank you for your service, and RIP Senator McCain. gjr]

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242 responses to “Sandbox – 27aug18”
fish/Scotto
no, no. There’s more to it than that. From the article I posted, someone named Rachel Howard said:
“Some months ago, I turned the corner onto my street and saw a sign, hand-painted in red, posted beneath the speed limit. BEREKLEY TRAITORS GO HOME BEFORE WE PATRIOTS DEPORT YOUR STINK-ASSES. ”
Think about it. Months ago, maybe 3+ months ago, somebody put up those words. The mime troupe did their thing about a week and a half ago. Somebody, somewhere is making ‘STINK-ASS’ signs and putting them up every couple of months. This is serious business, FBI worthy, even more serious than changing the ‘Grass Valley’ street signs to ‘ass alley’.
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Now what in the tarnation is going on here? The Leftinistas are wound up tighter preacher’s wife’s girdle at an all your can eat pancake breakfast. Whoa Nelly, the dam is bustin. Thar she blows! Oh my. The Left is going bonkers the last couple of days.
I was warned. Dan Begino sent this to my in-box a couple of days ago. Now it makes sense.
The “collusion” case against Trump has entirely collapsed. It’s been a hoax from the beginning but the media, and the Democrats, are panicking because of two key developments:
1) Clintonista Lanny Davis has completely backtracked on his claim that Donald Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting.
2) The dossier claims, which place Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen in Prague, have been repeatedly discredited and Lanny Davis has convincingly denied these charges.
The media is losing ground quickly and they’re running out of time to produce the goods on this Russian collusion hoax. Trust me, they’re anxious right now. They know it’s all falling apart.
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Then the Dems are stuck with a socialist running for Gov in Florida of all places. And the party ain’t none too happy about it. Hey, people move to Florida because they are sick and tired of the sky high crushing taxes and burdensom regulations in the Blue Northeast and thus are escaping in droves. Florida is nice. No state income tax, restrictions on property taxes, good place to get away from the Socialist Democrats of the Deep Blue Liberal Strongholds. Governed pretty well as far a States go, and no one breathing down your neck because you want a Big Gulp and like stand your ground laws. But, noooo. This Socialist the Dems nominated for Gov wants to get rid of ICE and immediately raise the state corporate income tax by 40% and do the massive free stuff thang. And now he is playing the race cad to the hilt all day long, lol. How predictable.
His proposals are billions more than the state budget or his jacked up taxes will bring in. He is trying to turn FLA in New Jersey or a Blue California, ROFLMAO.
Do you know why the Cubans who risk life and limb to,escape the Socialist tyranny of Cuba move to Fla? It’s not cause of free healthcare, they can get that in Cuba. It’s because of freedom and they like it. They dreamed of it. Do you know why Venezuelans immigrante to Florida? Its no for the free earth care or socialism. They can get that in Venezuela, and like Cuban, it sucks. No, people like Florida because of the nice weather, capitalism, low taxes, and freedom. Did I say freedom?
It is sad to see the sorry state of the Democrat Party and what they are turning into. All they have is “Russia, Russia, you are a racist, Russia, Trump is a racist, Russia, Russia, Trump is a racist, Russia, Trump is a racist demagogue”……all the while they have nothing to offer or talk about save to demagogue folks and call them racists. Me thinks they are the true racists and the true divisive demagogues. Strike that. Me no think, me knows. .
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Good Lord, did you get a load of the plot from the Mimes?
https://minersfoundry.org/event/san-francisco-mime-troupe-4/
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ll I know is it was put up the day of the show in front of the venue the Mime Troupe was playing at. Had to tell the police. Any responsible producer would have done so. The Mime Troupe is the most overtly left wing political theater group on the west coast so it’s hard to think it wasn’t intentional.
Good Catch Scenes. So they aren’t even original, I’ll see what I can do to post the sign so you can see it.
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Scenes
“Seeing Red”. How fitting. Is that black smoke arising from a stink ass, or is the stink ass lifting the black silhouette over the chairs? Nobody likes stink asses. Not even Stinky Sillis ScIymgeour. Like that line from A Chorus Line, “one fart and they call you stinky for the rest of your life.”
Speaking of stink asses, did you hear that the solution Frisco’s poop patrol is using on the sidewalks has the residents upset. They say it smells worse than the poop and lasts days longer, ROFLMAO.
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While advocating deportation of fellow Americans who disagree with you is IMHO a deplorable reaction, those facile with a dictionary know that deportation is a legal procedure, and not some kidnapping in the middle of the night and dumping them over the fence into Mexico. In other words there is nothing violent about promoting deportation – other factors have to come into play to constitute violence. So I don’t know how deportation and violence suddenly got commingled – sounds a lot like leftwing Newspeak.
Maybe PaulE can make the whole thing clear for the rest of us (remember we’re NOT talking about pasting nasty slogans on traffic signs here).
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“Let’s be clear also about what’s going on here. The theme here is ‘I’m Donald Trump and I’ll protect you from the scary black people.’ Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization and this is just part of the same story of LeBron James and Don Lemon and Maxine Waters and the NFL players and the UCLA basketball players.” —CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin, who apparently thinks that because antifa members dress in black that they are black”
Me thinks the chief legal correspondent at CNN is an idiot. Anybody ever seen a black Antifa?
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“did you hear that the solution Frisco’s poop patrol is using on the sidewalks has the residents upset. ”
Maybe it’s like a deer spray for homeless people.
Black Antifa?
https://bit.ly/2PkgBge
https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ebt-0903-antifa-701.jpg?w=976
Everything but the foreheads I guess.
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from Paul Emery – “If the sign maker would have had any courage they would have carried the sign on the sidewalk as an expression of free speech but they were such chicken shits they did a hit and run blocking a stop sign with their sign.”
Unlike Paul Emery who slags our president with false accusations and then runs from his own words.
Still not answering questions, are we Paul?
Because –
Can’t find the right poll.
Can’t find the right bumper sticker.
Can’t read.
At least he turned in that ‘obvious’ violent right wing cell threatening the good people of Nevada City!
So – did some one from the Peoples Diversity Enforcement Division waddle on over and take pictures and get the fingerprints?
I imagine the triggering effect was nearly enough to cause a shut down of the show.
Paul shows that Milo isn’t the only controversial figure to face the wrath of the violent mind set.
Stand firm, Paul! Don’t let the bastards win!
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Scenes:
Antifa and black. First, they used black shoe polish. Now they dress head to toe in black.
I like this young lady’s tribute to her grandfather. It was not what they saw, it’s what they saw when they came home. Paint it black to blot out what had changed, what was and is happening tomtheir country. The Leftinistas never change. They are just as vile and evil as always, but getting worse..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uvZlC_FpL90
Antifa protesting ICE. Think you have posted this before.
https://www.facebook.com/TheMeninisms/videos/708659462825477/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToxOTAzNDQ1ODU2MzY4OTc1/
Old saying: You can bury the jacket, but nobody forgets where it is buried.
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So team 0 gave the mutha mullahs a couple of thousand blank green card, so does anyone hazard to guess how many went for this –
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/arrest-iranian-spies-u-s-just-tip-iceberg-lawmaker-warns/
😉
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There’s just no stopping those Green Libertarians.
“San Francisco Bay Area cities are cracking down on free food at Facebook and other tech companies”
https://www.businessinsider.in/san-francisco-bay-area-cities-are-cracking-down-on-free-food-at-facebook-and-other-tech-companies/articleshow/65141075.cms
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Ban company cafeterias? Free lunch on site is wrong? Yep, make people leave the workplace, go out to restaurants and cafes at lunch time and hope they will be back in time….if they can find a place to park and the eateries aren’t crowded. Oh my, have they considered what kind of carbon footprint this would create? The Leftinistas screw up every good thing. Sigh.
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In other news, interesting Transexual vs Rapid -Onset Gender Dysphonia war breaks out. Hold the knife, Doc, it may be environment, not heredity. Nuture, not nature? I will let them fight it out.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35119/brown-university-researcher-released-study-about-ben-shapiro
In related news a few days ago, the DNC announced that all their committees will be comprised of equal numbers of men and women. They wrote it all up and someone raised their hand and said, “Oh Mr. Perez, oh Mr. Perez. What about the non-binary people? Did you think about them, Tom?” Opps. The rules committee had to back to the drawing board and rewrite the gender equality rules. :).
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Re the right/left violence discussion thread. PaulE emailed me the photo he took of the defaced stop sign that he reported to the police. He wants everyone to see this evidence of rightwing violence that is posted under the most recent Ruminations. It is clear from the inference of PaulE and other leftwing commenters that the use of “we patriots” on the pasted sign could only mean that the sign’s provenance was from the Right, since it is clear that no one on the Left would consider ‘patriot’ to be an appropriate label for themselves. But we should let Paul explain.
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Speaking of violence, BUILD THE WALL!
https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/08/29/mexican-cartel-boss-offers-100k-for-assassination-of-breitbart-texas-writer-arrested-within-days/
😉
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Oh ya, China is really winning the trade wars –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/global-markets-stocks-climb-markets-202130957.html
Asia stocks slip; weakness in China outweighs NAFTA trade optimism
😉
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Like we didn’t know that already –
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/29/study-foreign-nationals-on-sanctuary-city-voter-rolls-more-likely-to-register-democrat-than-republican/
😉
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Winning –
https://www.breitbart.com/economics/2018/08/30/jobless-claims-lower-than-expected-four-week-average-hits-lowest-level-since-1969/
😉
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@ 1028 am
Noticed last night that the 2nd quarter GDP was upgraded to 4.2 from 4.1%. The world has gone backwards, I tell ya. All through the previous administration, the figures were always downgraded after the announcement to. Lag time. Waste of time to argue official final numbers with those uninformed unhinged lost souls to keep saying Obama had a year with over 3% growth. They sure like to point to record of the announced numbers more than the final official numbers. 🙂
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Democratic Congressional support highest since January. Looking grim for the pubsters in Nov.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2018_generic_congressional_vote-6185.html
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And the plot thickens-
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/30/email-correspondence-between-clinton-associate-fusion-russians-trump-tower-meeting/
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Guess where I will start stopping to grab a good burger?
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/30/todd-starnes-boycott-california-democrats-declare-war-on-in-n-out-burger.html
You LIBS are some real pieces of work these days. How DARE a food franchise give to Repubs!? Capitalists giving to those who actually help capitalism. OH.. And Christian!!
So Give’m the Chick fil a treatment!!!(And just how did that work out for ya’?)
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My, my how timely, Don. That would make the TT meet a false flag op by the Clinton mafia, designed to trap Trump and produce evidence for Trump’s post election proctology exam by our domestic communists. Very nice. L
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Someone else please explain to Paul how this works- I haven’t the patience. L
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Another po’ ol’ fakenews shreds what little credibility it had left –
Nevertheless, even though the story has imploded, CNN has not only refused to correct or retract the false report but continues to stand by it, as does the now-disgraced Bernstein.
With Davis admitting he was the source, CNN has been claiming it has a another source, which is what Trump means when he is mocking their search for that “source.”
Even so, even if CNN has another source, that source should be outed by CNN as a liar. If that source even exists, he or she is guilty of giving CNN bad information. Back in the good old days, when the media was somewhat concerned about its credibility and deterring “sources” from lying, sources guilty of lying were named and shamed.
This Trump Tower story was CNN’s biggest of the year and the biggest story the hapless Bernstein has had since he and Bob Woodward parted ways 40 years ago. To have something like this implode is a massive humiliation, even for a shameless outlet like CNN.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/30/trump-cnns-trump-tower-story-source-doesnt-exist-credibility-is-now-gone/
😉
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McCain. As the nation grieves and extrolls the greatness of Senator McCain’s time in the Senate, it wasn’t always that way. McCain ran an ad calling Obama a celebrity. How calling anyone a celebrity can be construed as racist is beyond me. Must be one of those dog whistle thangs. The grieving widows are coming out of the woodwork now.
“What started out as a drip metastasized into full-blown accusations of promulgating a racist agenda.
“What I’m seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history,” Georgia Rep. John Lewis said only two months after the “Celeb” ad aired. “[The campaign is] sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
Lewis further signified McCain was complicit in racial segregation, comparing him to the former governor of Alabama and segregationist George Wallace.
“George Wallace never threw a bomb,” Lewis continued. “He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.”
CNN Anchor Don Lemon implied similar sentiments, telling his followers on Twitter that “the question is” if the McCain campaign was “inciting hate and hate speech.”
https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/29/john-mccain-media-coverage-life-death/
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Good Morning Nevada City!.
Hang on, is Paul up yet? Another news flash.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article181683621.html
re: John Lewis on voting laws:
“an attempt to take us back to another dark period in our history when people were denied access to the ballot box simply because of their race or nationality.”
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Parkland shooting and little piglet.
There is so much wrong with the media narritive of another ‘mass shooting.”
“Although there is no official standard for the casualty threshold that distinguishes a mass shooting from other violent crimes involving a firearm, a common approach in the literature is to adopt the FBI’s criteria for a mass murderer and set a casualty threshold of four fatalities by firearm, excluding the offender or offenders (Duwe, Kovandzic, and Moody, 2002; Krouse and Richardson, 2015; Gius, 2015c; Fox and Fridel, 2016).
Piglet snorts at Rubio.
https://mobile.twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1033801906836135936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwgr%5E373939313b73706563696669635f73706f7274735f616374696f6e&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orlandosentinel.com%2Ffeatures%2Fgone-viral%2Fos-parkland-students-marco-rubio-jacksonville-shooting-20180827-story.html
There is so much wrong with that tweet by the grunting squealer. First, the guns were purchased in Maryland, not in Rubio’s state. In Maryland, there is a 7 step process of careful vetting, waiting periods, and long background checks to legally purchase a firearm. 8 steps if you count going to pick up your gun.
The shooter passed the mental health background checks. Maryland has a one gun purchase per month policy. Since the shooter had purchased two guns, he had to wait 30 days and go through another lengthy background check for the second gun. It appears the shooter did not reload the gun he used. No ammo capacity violations, no military style weapons used, no flags for mental heath issues, no FL gun law loopholes or bobbling the ball.
So, what’s Rubio to do? Station state agents at every road leading into Florida and search every vehicle for a gun that making its way into the State? What about train coming in from the west? Every Greyhound buses and passengers? Best search every trucker’s cab just to be sure.
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For your reading pleasure
Support for Dems in the fall elections is highest since January. Trump slumps to over 11 points disapproval.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/2018_generic_congressional_vote-6185.html
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From the always invaluable “Instapundit”…..
I wonder if she has offered to perform other “services” for Mr. Ellison as Nina Burleigh of Newsweek offered to Mr. Clinton at the time?
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/08/30/so-much-for-believe-all-women-jill-filipovic-reverts-to-the-bill-clinton-standard-on-keith-ellison/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
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Blue wave has to overcome this –
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/boom-times-83-execs-say-business-is-better-76-see-more-growth
😉
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Mercy, he got the color back in his face.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/aretha-franklin-funeral-internet-frenzy-at-bill-clinton-s-gaze-during-ariana-grande-s-performance-at-a3925066.html
The little lady looks better as well. A lot better than going down the stairs.
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1035629824986046465
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Mike Dyson:
“And then, this orange apparition had the nerve to say she worked for him. You lugubrious leach! You doppelgänger of deceit and deviance! You lethal liar! You dimwitted dictator! You foolish fascist! She ain’t work for you. She worked above you! She worked beyond you! Get your preposition right! Then he got the nerve to say he goin’ grab it.
That ain’t what Aretha Franklin said. “I’m gonna give you something you can feel.” Like the brothers in the streets say, “Tap lightly. Like a woodpecker with a headache.” So don’t you sully the memory of our great Queen. Aretha Franklin was an original. Never one like her before. Never another like her afterwards.”
Whoops.
Posted erroneously in Dems R Dumb thread by: Tricky McClean | 31 August 2018 at 05:53 PM
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Quote of the day….yesterday. Re: In-n-Out Burger boycott.
Customer Justas Jodele, 23, said he didn’t believe a boycott would be effective in the long run, “but it’s a good way to show that we are displeased with Trump.”
He said he was willing to join the boycott — after he enjoyed his Thursday lunch.
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Even FOX is showing Trump no sympathy
“On Fox News Friday, anchor Chris Wallace pointed to major flaw in the president’s reasoning.
“You know, things have changed and obviously the decision in the spring of 2017 to recuse himself and everything that has flowed from that has made a big difference,” Wallace said.
“Remember, the recusal of Sessions did not lead to the special counsel. It was the firing of Comey, of James Comey, the FBI director that lead to the appointment of the special counsel,” he pointed out.
“The only person the president can blame for that is himself.”
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And here all along we thought that FN was totally incapable of such reporting. My, my.
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Yeah the liberals and democrats cry about how FOX is all about Republicans. Now we see how when anyone disses Trump the left shelves its values and praises them. What a load these liberals spew.
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Looks like the democrat leader who wanted to boycott Inn-N-Out got spanked.
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Soon Fox will join the fake news cadre George. That will mean the only support he’ll have from the media will be the National Enquirer. Whoops that son’t work.
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Pat Buchanan has another good foreign affairs article. What is our policy now that the interventionists are leaderless?
http://buchanan.org/blog/are-the-interventionists-now-leaderless-129973
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I expect that this sandbox is about to be closed, but I’ll share a current fooferaw
https://www.businessinsider.com/neil-armstrong-movie-first-man-omits-american-flag-on-moon-gosling-defends-2018-8
“Star Ryan Gosling defended the decision and said Armstrong’s mission to the moon was “widely regarded in the end as a human achievement.””
With a picture of a celebration of the ‘human achievement’.
https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/hires/s69-40022.jpg
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scenes 745am – Good catch Mr scenes, and entirely predictable through the understanding of the extent and penetration of our Deep State – America as an idea (“city on a hill”) and as an exceptional sovereign nation-state must be vanquished by all available means. And since there are no sufficiently powerful external means to do the job, the continued growth of internal rot is all that is left for the Left.
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