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[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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  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Gun restrictions, assistant professor style
    https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2018/08/21/university-utah/

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    The sex thing with sheep, etc keeps coming up and then receding. When it is revived, then everyone jumps in to make their latest contribution. I find it interesting to note who is the one who reintroduces the topic from time to time.

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So Todd you agree with Bill who claims Greeks and Scots have sex with animals. You have added Druids to the list.
    It was hate talk because first of all it’s a lie and secondly it’s aimed at demeaning a specific culture and nationality. Can’t figure out why someone as intelligent as Bill has to stoop to that level. Now we have Walt and Todd and supporting him. Anyone of Scottish or Greek heritage has to be disgusted. Out host should not allow hate talk on his blog.

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    a po’ ol’ fakenewsman snowflake @ 835 – A bad day for fakenews –
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/08/28/nolte-someone-tell-carl-bernstein-the-cover-ups-worse-than-the-crime/
    😉

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  5. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    GeorgeR: “I find it interesting to note who is the one who reintroduces the topic from time to time.”
    PaulE: “So Todd you agree with Bill who claims Greeks and Scots have sex with animals.”
    lol. At least it gets his mind off of Stormy.
    Jeesh, even Tiger Woods is in trouble now.
    https://www.breitbart.com/video/2018/08/27/espns-kellerman-tiger-woods-defending-trump-really-bothers-me-im-angry/

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    I was Walt who brought it up accusing me of being a fascist for saying Bill should be banned from this blog for spreading hatred of the Scottish and Greeks on your blog.
    Walt writes:
    ” YOUR the one demanding Bill be banned from here, because he said things you didn’t like. That’s Fascism Paul.”

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    And George Bill is still doing it. Disgusting that you allow this. Bill writes:
    “Come on Punchy. The evidence is overwhelming. Not all Greeks. Just from the Northern Hill Country. Not all Scots. Just the Highlanders.”

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Now we have Todd chiming in with “Paul’s Druids did the same thing. Now we have a little critter that takes a shot to get rid of.”
    Can you tell us Todd what that “little critter” that the Druids are responsible for is?

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  9. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 28 August 2018 at 08:48 AM
    Punchy….out of pity I’m going to reveal to you an important Pro Tip………if you just ignore it the topic will probably go away…..and far quicker than you think!
    The magic of the internet…..short attention spans!

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The South African government bends the knee. Trump Triumphant.
    https://www.rt.com/business/437051-south-africas-ruling-anc-says/
    I expect they’ll just wait for a new administration before rounding up all the bad people.

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery, why so defensive about your sheep?
    Scenes, Trump and Ticker were right of course about the ANC and it’s”law” taking the white man, farmers, land. The ANC is a commie political party and we all know they hate the landed gentry and think the government owns all the land. I doubt the lefty fools that attacked Tucker and Trump will apologize.

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Stories from the swamp –
    Jonathan Moffa, who worked with controversial former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, testified last Friday behind closed doors before the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight Committee.
    The source with knowledge of his statements confirmed to Fox News that Moffa said FBI personnel would use media reports based on information they leaked to justify applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants.
    The source told Fox News that Moffa acknowledged this “had been a practice in the past.”
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/28/fbi-agent-says-bureau-leaked-stories-then-used-them-to-get-fisa-warrants.html
    😉

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd writes:
    Those Greeks and Scots knew how to have a real party without women being present. Paul’s Druids did the same thing. Now we have a little critter that takes a shot to get rid of.
    What are those “little critters” Todd? Are you making that up? Unless you have a reasonable explanation you are spreading lies and hate. Would you say the same thing about African people or Jews or white folks or is you’re hate just reserved for Greeks and Scots?

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  14. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the ‘like father like son-in-law” dept. Jared Kushner was fined $210,000 for lying on city construction documents about the number of rent-regulated tenants in his buildings so that he could jack rents up by forcing rent control tenants out under the guise of remodeling construction and then re-renting for a higher amount but continuing to claim the apts. were under rent control. The family that goombahs together goes to prison together. The trump family members really are moral icons to be mimicked at all levels of society, not just by the Uber-wealthy but by common folks like you who have so much in common with them.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Robert Cross | 28 August 2018 at 11:34 AM
    ……thanks roberta!

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Somehow “rent control” has been legalized in this free country. I am all for a landlord getting the fair market rent for his property. How these rent control people can live in America and support such a communist program makes me see how far they have strayed from freedom. Besides NYC is Little Moscow pre 1991.
    And Paul Emery, I don’t hate anyone like you do. I am simp[ly pointing out the proclivities of Scots and Greeks. Sort of like you spew every day here about conservatives. I don’t call you slander hate speech but you for some reason anyone critical of your proclivities is a hate speech person. Sad.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DonBessee@10:11AM
    Yeah, I saw that. It seems to me that if you want to bail out the boat a little bit, fire everyone in the FBI that is involved in ‘counterintelligence’ (a better name than they might think). It likely makes very little difference in the long run and is heavily politicized. It is probably time to start over on some of those agencies. Generally, my opinion is that the threat from intelligence agencies is higher than the threat from foreign intelligence agencies. The GRU steals plans for airplanes, the TLAs want to run your life. They simply can’t help it.
    Personally, I’d repurpose the NSA into an agency that thinks about the security of computers, not breaking into them.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Crickets sez: “Would you say the same thing about African people or Jews or white folks”
    Probably not the first two groups as they are protected. There’s open season on the white folks but I expect they’ll simply tribe up as a result.
    As an aside (ie. not to Crickets), you can make a (more than) strong argument that civil disruption is a natural side effect of times and places where ‘nations’ and ‘states’ don’t overlap.
    Just enjoy the ride. Like one of those dead Roman guys said: “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength”

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  19. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery, do you support the blacks of South Africa taking the lands of the white farmers? And what is your opinion on blacks in South Africa segregating the whites from their country?

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  20. Walt Avatar

    You can ALWAYS tell a Paul….(Just not vary much)
    It doesn’t matter what Bill, or anyone else said. Demanding that someone else be “banned”, “silenced”, or whatever else you care to call “suppression” of speech or opinion, just because YOU,,YES YOU!!
    don’t like it, find offensive, and it burns your tender ears, is fascism.
    Now. Have those “cultures” been known to have carnal knowledge of sheep and other stump broke critters? Let me help ya’ out… The answer is YES! Deal with it.
    That’s what Proggy fascists do. Try and silence others.
    Go ahead. Tell us again how you didn’t do that.
    Or does the 1ST. Amendment cover only what you say it does?

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    I’ll get to that question in due time . Todd I want to give you an opportunity to right yourself from the perception that you are engaging in hate talk about the Scots and Greeks. Can you document you’re belief that those nationalities engage in sex with animals with some kind of scientific observations that could illustrate you’re position. Also Todd you write, and I quote you:
    “Those Greeks and Scots knew how to have a real party without women being present. Paul’s Druids did the same thing. Now we have a little critter that takes a shot to get rid of.”
    Can you provide some documentation on the party scene you refer to also the “little critters” that need a shot. If you can document those statements you’re off the hook.

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Walt writes:
    “Now. Have those “cultures” been known to have carnal knowledge of sheep and other stump broke critters? Let me help ya’ out… The answer is YES! Deal with it. ”
    Where did you get that information?
    Can you document this Walt? Give it a go.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Democrat Rep. Beto O’Rourke is giving Trump a real run for the money in the Texas Senate Race with some polls calling it too close to call. Should be an easy win for Cruz but it’s a contest for sure at this point.
    Cruz,by the way, is not fond of Trump calling him
    “utterly amoral” and a “bully” who was “proud of being a serial philanderer.”
    “This man is a pathological liar,” Cruz added. “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. In a pattern that is straight out of a psychology text book, he accuses everyone of lying.”
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/08/27/can_cruz-orourke_senate_race_turn_texas_blue_137901.html

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  24. Walt Avatar

    It’s time you do your own homework Paul. You don’t want to take our word, so do your own damned digging. It’s obvious you never cracked open a history book.

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Show me some documentation Walt. Are you saying it’s printed in history books that Greeks and Scots have sex with animals? show me.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Thats disgusting Scenes. I’m sure we can agree on that.

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  27. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Paul Emery@3:47PM
    Well, you do have to admit that Greek mythology is full of zoophilia.
    I’d be happy to post up pictures of Greek redware depicting that.
    In other news. I report, you decide.
    https://i.redd.it/r39ggmklrvi11.png
    https://i.redd.it/9j17duuxxti11.jpg

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Proof was supplied the last time we went through this Paul,,,
    It’s not my problem you refused to read it. Go dig it up.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Now how come this didn’t make the local rag? (OK,, MAYBE I missed it.)
    http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/08/28/california-mom-bitten-by-kissing-bug-warns-others-about-danger-silent-killer-parasitic-disease.html
    When Lynn Kaufer Hodson was bitten by a triatomine, also known as a “kissing bug,” she couldn’t even feel it. It wasn’t until a large, itchy lump appeared on her neck the next day that she realized some type of pest had sucked her blood.
    Hodson had been staying with family in a camper on her ranch in Grass Valley, Calif., in November 2016 while she waited to move into her new home in Penn Valley — a town that was a roughly 30-minute drive away.
    At first, Hodson just believed a spider or mosquito had bitten her while she was staying in a fifth wheel camper. But weeks went by, and the bite mark continued to throb and itch.

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey the po’ ol’ fakenewsman is on par with the NYT now, or is it the other way around?
    Trump is right. The New York Times is wrong.
    Even a deal between the U.S. and Mexico that leaves out Canada would be the largest trade deal ever. When NAFTA was put in place, trade between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico combined amounted to less than $400 billion, less than trade between the U.S. and Mexico today.
    Last year, the European Union and Japan concluded a trade agreement touted as “the world’s largest free trade agreement.” The total trade in goods between the EU and Japan, however, is just around $150 billion.
    The New York Times points to the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a larger agreement but Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump all opposed U.S. signing on to that agreement. While still a big agreement without the U.S., it is no longer a Goliath. It’s sans-U.S. version now covers just 14 percent of global gross domestic product, less than that covered by an agreement between U.S. and Mexico.
    https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/08/28/carney-the-new-york-times-falsely-accuses-trump-of-falsely-describing-mexico-trade-pact-as-one-of-the-largest-ever/
    😉

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  31. George Rebane Avatar

    Administrivia – I’ll do my best to delete all the sheep and goats comments from here on. Would appreciate additional pairs of eyes.

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Does Lanny Davis have a collusion problem?
    “Lanny Davis, the longtime Clinton confidant who is also the attorney for former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, is on the payroll of a pro-Moscow Ukrainian oligarch with direct ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
    According to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) records reviewed by Conservative Review, Davis is an active registered foreign agent for Ukrainian billionaire Dmytro Firtash. A review of his social media records shows that Davis has never tweeted about his Ukrainian client, seemingly preferring to advocate quietly for Firtash, who faces enormous legal issues in courtrooms across the world.
    Firtash is not merely a corrupt businessman who owes his success to one of America’s biggest adversaries. He is also deeply tied in with elements of organized crime in Eastern Europe. According to Foreign Policy, Firtash is a longtime business partner of Semion Mogilevich, who has been described by the FBI as the most dangerous mobster in the world.
    While Lanny Davis is representing Michael Cohen pro bono, his primary source of income appears to come from a man who is currently a top priority for U.S. authorities. Davis has quite the client on his hands. The longtime Clinton confidant has spent the last four years of his life fighting in court for a man who owes all of his success to a Russian autocrat, who is also deeply connected to a worldwide criminal network.”
    https://www.conservativereview.com/news/michael-cohen-attorney-lanny-davis-is-on-the-payroll-of-a-putin-ally/
    http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/09-how-often-do-animals-get-stds

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now its clear they realized that the got the order wrong, grab the guns before the land grab stupid!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/land-confiscations-loom-south-africa-rules-300000-gun-owners-turn-over-their
    😉

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  34. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Just came here to post that, Don. You beat me by minutes. Yes indeed. Disarm the citizens and all will be well.
    I wonder if any country in the world will intervene in the coming bloodshed in SA? They sure didn’t in Rhodesia. And that turned out so well for the ‘dear leaders’ of Zimbabwe. Not so much so for anyone else.

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  35. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Paul Emery at 3:23 – “I’ll get to that question in due time .”
    Hilarious.
    Another dodge about a simple yes or no question from the intellectual coward Paul Emery.
    He needs time to roam Spring Street for a bumper sticker to give him an idea of what to say.
    Or maybe a moistened finger in the wind.
    Or maybe he’s researching the polls to see what the in crowd thinks.
    Quite the moralist, that Paul Emery is. Except when he’s asked a straight forward question.
    His string of pearls have been clutched so many times, they’ve scattered across the floor, poor dear.

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So if they do this to their own employees why should we expect them to treat us any different!
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/08/28/facebook-employees-hint-conservative-intolerance/1127988002/
    😉

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Let’s see what I I missed in the news today.
    1) Started the morning listening to Laura Ingrahm about the McCain-Trump hype. She said they despised each other and the media spent all day yesterday bashing Trump for not honoring the man by sending condelances to the family, absent nice words about. McCain the man. Then Trump released another tweet honoring John McCain.
    Laura said now that Trump said nice things about McCain, the media will tear into him for being a hyprocrite or something and twist it to make Trump look bad. He can’t win. Just then, she started laughing. No sooner did the words come out of her mouth than the MSNBC’s feed was about how Trump’s latest tweet was taking the spotlight from McCain and making it about Trump, lol.
    2) Saw that ABC finally mentioned the trade deal with Mexico, giving the topic 37 seconds.
    3). MSNBC slams Florida gun laws after latest shooting, gun was bought in Maryland.
    4) Vogue is rebranding Stormy Daniels, painting her a formative foe for Trump. CNN paints Stormy as working Mom, “Perfect Adversary” to Trump. Hmmm. Talking points sound the same.
    5) CNN tries to weasel out of taking responbility for Trump Tower story.
    Guess I did not miss anything.

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  38. L Avatar
    L

    With apologies to George: The worst STD, aka syphllis came to the West via returning Conquistadores from Peru, where the origin of the organism has been traced to the gentle llama, the Incan beast of (small) burden. The tribe responsible is unknown.

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  39. L Avatar
    L

    My source? Dr. Proust, UCLA Anthro Prof, 1964. Great intro anthro class about evolution. Do such classes still exist?

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
    A federal appeals court on Tuesday said printing “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency is constitutional, citing its longstanding use and saying it was not coercive.
    The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Paul, Minnesota rejected claims by 29 atheists, children of atheists and atheist groups that inscribing the national motto on bills and coins violated their First Amendment free speech and religious rights.
    While other courts have allowed the motto’s use on currency, Circuit Judge Raymond Gruender said it also did not constitute an establishment of religion under a 2014 Supreme Court decision requiring a review of “historical practices.”
    Gruender said the Constitution lets the government celebrate “our tradition of religious freedom,” and that putting the motto on currency “comports with early understandings of the Establishment Clause” without compelling religious observance.
    “In God We Trust” began appearing on U.S. coins in 1864 during the Civil War, a period of increased religious sentiment, and was added to paper currencies by the mid-1960s. ((https://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx))
    President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law making the phrase the national motto in 1956.
    https://ca.news.yahoo.com/u-court-rejects-atheists-appeal-over-god-trust-173316736.html
    😉

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  41. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,In God We Trust,,,is a stupid religious saying that only makes sense for some people
    Why put it on currency???
    I guess people have been praying that the paper money will be worth something for years.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ’’’M’’’ | 29 August 2018 at 07:13 AM
    ,,,In God We Trust,,,is a stupid religious saying that only makes sense for some people

    Really…..dugsKKKi……this is what you choose to get your Depends™ in a wad over this morning?

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  43. George Rebane Avatar

    M 713am – That’s a pretty cold statement on a sentiment most Americans have embraced over the life of our Republic, and a sentiment many have given their lives to maintain as our nation’s motto. The greatness of the same nation constituted so that you can say such things without recourse.

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: that ‘stupid’ In God We Trust.
    Nothing new here.
    https://tinyurl.com/y7grava6
    All that the Green Libertarians are lacking is a charismatic leader. The schools are already in line and the street army is somewhat in place.

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