[Good-hearted Darrell Berkheimer, one of our Union’s several progressive columnists, is truly an exemplar of ideological low hanging fruit. His most recent 1sep18 column is standard leftwing pap and a collection of its staple feel-good talking points, with no consideration of how any of such socialist goals can be achieved, either with living breathing human beings or available monies. His solution for the latter is to defund the military, which to him and his is the ever-present and unnecessary burden that maintains an America which keeps globalism at bay. If it weren’t for his effect on the even less-well-read of our community, Mr Berkheimer’s ignorance of history and economics could be gently dismissed as the simple outpourings of a concerned and kindly old gentleman. gjr]

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283 responses to “Sandbox – 1sep18”
We notice that the Left has no problem with such asymmetries, they don’t even see them. I suppose that keeps the reporting on CNN and MSNBC more simple, and their audiences don’t have to jump through intellectual loops.
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Still where he was when he was elected –
The president earned a monthly job approval of 47% in August, up one point from July
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_aug31
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So now who was saying there was no swamp conspiracy in DC?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
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,,,not sure what you are commenting about George 139pm,,,
,,,Of course ScottM is convinced that because Podesta is a Dem,,,can you say Deep State???,,,he was given immunity…
In the real world,,,not TrumpRealityTV world,,,a person is charged with a crime because of the crime and not how they might vote.
Podesta is not on trial and was not an employee of an election campaign that rooskies attempted to manipulate,,,that I know of
But we have a Trump appointee,,,probably a pubber,,, admitting they are sabotaging TrumpWorld to keep America safe.
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,,,Don’t mess with L’il Marco,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/marco-rubio-alex-jones-apos-170848519.html
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Wow
Trump himself doesn’t doesn’t know what Treason is. Unbelievable.
Trump Tweet
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
TREASON?
3:15 PM – Sep 5, 2018
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Neither do you Paul.
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That’s not true Walt and even if it was that wouldn’t change the fact that Trump doesn’t know what Treason means. Here’s a definition of Treason that I already shared on RR.
From the Constitution
““Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
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Yup, that fits “O” to a tee.
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And Hillary too.
So what’s you gripe Paul? You pretty much made it clear you want to see the nation turn into a Commie state. Socialism for all!
You should be happy. Scrap the Bill of rights and set fire to the Constitution. That’s the end goal of your side.
Nope, your no friend to our freedoms.
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You’re spinning out Walt just like Trump.
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No Voter Fraud, Not Here? Oops!
The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday said it has discovered it sent the Secretary of State’s Office 23,000 erroneous voter registrations.
The agency said the errors occurred within the state’s Motor Voter program — which allows eligible applicants getting a driver license to be automatically registered to vote.
The DMV said the errors stem from technicians toggling between multiple screens and registration information being improperly merged. According to the agency, 1,600 residents did not complete a voter registration affidavit and had their information sent to the secretary of state, which maintains the state’s list of registered voters. The DMV said none of the applicants were undocumented immigrants.
How do they know there were no undocumented registrants? They do’nt
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Just posted
.Already being referred to as Deep Throat Trump.
“This word from the anonymous New York Times op-ed may prove Mike Pence wrote it
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/word-anonymous-new-york-times-op-ed-may-prove-mike-pence-wrote/
Used in the Times Commentary blasting Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html
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Really Paul? DO explain how well the nation would be “according to Paul”. Trump has turned this nation around, and is more prosperous than ever. For some Liberal reason, you want to end all of it.
You seem to long for they days of “O” to return. Just WTF For?
All because you hate Trump.
You “spun out” a LONG time ago.
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rawstory! what a joke @ 528. EPA, Energy Dept, Interior all sound like likely sources.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/09/05/glenn-greenwald-white-house-coward-behind-anonymous-op-ed-part-of-unelected-cabal/
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Anonymous Editorial? That is what the NYT has lowered itself to now. My goodness no wonder the people have less faith in the press that they do in Trump. Also they have figured out who this anonymous person is and that will become public quite soon.
Funny how Paul EWmery and the left assumes the anonymous person is telling the truth about being in the WH. Why is that?
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Since Paul managed to find the meaning of”traitor”,
Lets see if he’s any good at “subversion”.
” In a striking act of betrayal, a senior Trump administration official wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times claiming to be part of a group of people “working diligently from within” to impede President Trump’s “worst inclinations” and ill-conceived parts of his agenda.”
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ROGER SIMON: NYT’s “Inside” Attack on Trump Unbelievably Cowardly.
On the other hand, it sure was nice of the Times to provide the evidence that the deep state actually exists. They just serve Donald Trump “his ‘Deep State’ talking point” on a silver platter? Winning in 2020.
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So is it a never trumper or a career socialist/dem that did it? Yes they have thrown off any pretenses. So who will this help more in the midterms, its gonna make elephants mad.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-sleeper-cells-have-awoken-trump-and-aides-shaken-by-resistance-op-ed/2018/09/05/ecdf423c-b14b-11e8-a20b-5f4f84429666_story.html?utm_term=.20ee1cf19413
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Did Russ just nail the shit house door shut, or what?
Good call Sir. With that now proven, the Proggys make claim a false flag operation….” That was done just to make us look bad by Trump!”
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Looks like the Leftinistas can’t hold it back no longer. October surprises coming early this year. Well, they say nobody pays attention until after Labor Day. Think of all those wasted words all summer.
The starter’s gun has fired and the race has begun. How exciting! Here it comes, Woodward with his all anomoyous sources and the NYT with its anomoyous odorous sources. Come on, drop that ‘third one is a charm’ on me, baby. Come to Papa, my playthings.
They just can’t wait to get rid Trump so badly that they are peeing all over themselves. Talk about a golden shower.
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Maybe the Media isn’t the enemy of the people, but it sure is an enemy of the people. The Deep State definitely is. You didn’t think they would give up power without a fight and claws coming out, did you? If you roll an audio tape of a livestock auctioneer over the videos of the squeeching sea haggies being escorted out of the Senate hearing, it’s kind of funny. 🙂
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Oh please, please, please let it be “Shotgun Joe Biden” in 2020!
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/05/joe-biden-rips-trump-as-he-campaigns-for-democrat-mikie-sherrill-in-midterms.html
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“Treason?” I think anyone who didn’t understand that question about the appellation of the NYT anonymous insider is either butt stupid, or more than likely ingenuous.
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Still looking Paul?
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Well that’s like what I would do to throw off the dogs.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-word-people-convinced-mike-003505270.html
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BT- This should fit the bill for ya –
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/05/rep-billy-long-auctioneer-drowns-out-protester-shouting-at-twitters-jack-dorsey-during-hearing.html
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Good one Don. I will see you one Billy Long and raise you one ‘Fake News! ‘
This Lefty is not dressed as a penis. He is dressed as a condom. Fake News!
https://www.pluralist.com/posts/1943-man-dressed-as-penis-at-anti-kavanaugh-protest-shows-the-left-is-coping-just-fine-thank-you
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Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer Hired As Trump’s New Tech Adviser
CNN claim: “His [Happer’s] public stance on climate change is in opposition to near universally accepted science.”
Former Harvard Physicist Dr. Lubos Motl responds to CNN:
“Right. By their definition, this scam is nearly universally accepted as “science” by these scammers. If you’re an expert in the climate hysteria who is approved by other experts in the climate hysteria, you usually accept that the climate hysteria is rational. Otherwise you wouldn’t be an expert over the climate hysteria. Instead, the real question is whether a rational society should nurture and pay “experts” in the climate hysteria – “experts” in a discipline where the big answer is decided from the beginning and it’s a scientifically ludicrous one.
We also learn:
CNN: “Happer, who is not a climate expert, specialized in atomic physics and the study of optics at Princeton.”
Motl: “Is Happer a climate expert? How should we interpret the negative sentence above? You know, as some “climate experts” don’t know, the global warming is supposed to be caused by the greenhouse effect which is physically the absorption of the infrared radiation by the air. Is Happer an expert in that? Well, search
Google Scholar for “w happer” infrared
Unsurprisingly, he has written numerous articles that are “mainly” about the infrared absorption bands and Google Scholar finds over 1,000 articles that contain his name as well as “infrared”. So when it comes to the main physical effect that is supposed to drive “climate change”, he’s not only an expert. He’s one of the world’s leading experts. CNN and doomsaying crackpots in general surely find this fact inconvenient but this inconvenience doesn’t make it less true.”
Full Article is HERE: https://motls.blogspot.com/2018/09/will-happer-hired-as-trumps-new-tech.html
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@840 I am not going to the clip. LOL FOLD!
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Oh Don. Scaredy cat.
Hey, isn’t that the gal that ran against Dan Miller and is running for something in GV?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnWfu14FC08/?utm_source=ig_embed
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So George just raising the question as to whether the writer committed treason is enough to reveal that Trump doesn’t know what treason is.
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PaulE 736am – Everyone, including Trump, knows what the formal definition of treason is. But given any potential instantiation of same, there is and has always been in American jurisprudence dispute as to whether this or that act constituted treason. What we see in Trump’s tweet is the latest example of that question raised. I hope that clears it up for you.
Simpler minds, not saying yours is one, think that because something is defined somewhere, then that definition can easily, reliably, and uniformly be applied to all such potential things. That clearly is not the case anywhere ranging from science through law to, most certainly, politics.
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Long Live the Freedom of the Press!!!
”’In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”’
EUGENE V. DEBS, speech in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918
”’Booker focused on a document he said described Kavanaugh’s views as a White House aide under former President George W. Bush on the use of “racial profiling” in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States that the senator said had been blocked from public release by committee Republicans. Booker had the backing of Democratic colleagues in demanding the release of that document and others.”’
”’The committee within minutes released various documents that Democrats had requested. The New York Times had earlier obtained some of the documents relating to emails Kavanaugh wrote touching upon abortion and race issues when he served in the Bush White House.”’
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh/fierce-document-dispute-grips-trump-supreme-court-picks-hearing-idUSKCN1LM1A0?il=0
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Posted by: “M” | 06 September 2018 at 08:49 AM
…..yawn.
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,,,Yellowcake for the masses!!!
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-successfully-extracted-uranium-directly-ocean-water-nuclear-yellowcake-energy
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,,,fishbreathe,,,yawn? Need more yellowcake in your fish flakes???
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,,,nice try douche nozzles!!!
https://www.thenation.com/article/amy-goodman-is-facing-prison-for-reporting-on-the-dakota-access-pipeline-that-should-scare-us-all/
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Expect to see more of these headlines as Harris strives to fill Barbara Boxers shoes…..
https://pjmedia.com/trending/kamala-harris-harasses-kavanaugh-on-robert-mueller-charlottesville-white-supremacist-terms/
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So she is a swinger eh?
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Merrill @ 9:02 am
Yes, I remember Amy being charged with a bunch of protesters. Glad that was cleared up and settled during the last Administration. Unfortunately, not everything was cleared up in the fall of that year (2016). My gripe has always been 48,000,000 pounds of trash, waste, debris, and garbage that the group left where the rains would carry the toxins straight into the nearby Cannonball water. They even left propane bottles, generators, vehicles, a motor home among the filth. A crime against nature for sure. Disgusting.
https://www.npr.org/2017/02/22/516487940/dakota-access-pipeline-protesters-clean-up-as-deadline-looms
“This is a sterling example of the progressive thought process. Leonardo DiCaprio preaches about the cataclysmic dangers of climate change, then flies a private jet. Thousands of activists traveled to Standing Rock to protest about an oil pipeline they claimed would contaminate the Missouri River, then left a garbage wasteland behind, which, if not cleaned up in time, will contaminate Cannonball River and Lake Oahe.
Aside from the minute band of activists who are helping with the cleanup, where is everyone else? It doesn’t matter. They proudly displayed their virtue, and so little details like cleaning up their own filth in the aftermath are irrelevant.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/13219/lol-standing-rock-protesters-leave-behind-enough-frank-camp
Yep, thanks palefaces. Thanks a lot, little piglets. You lie with dogs and wake up with fleas.
“The Standing Rock Sioux had been leading a cleanup effort for several weeks before Trinity arrived at the site near Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
Crews are racing to clear the camps before the snowmelt washes trash, waste and debris into the Cannonball River.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/1/dakota-access-protest-camp-crews-haul-48-million-p/
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re M’s 902am – Violent and disruptive protesting as trespassers is neither a right nor its denial (to a ‘journalist’) the suppression of the media. Goodman could have covered everything she needed without joining the protesters. If you want to be reminded of suppression of the media, then recall the Waco Branch Davidian massacre under AG Janet Reno where the press were cordoned off to a small tent that was located one mile away from the assaulted Branch Davidian facility.
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Trash, closer to home.
Take a drive around Reno in the days following Burning Man, and you will easily see illegally dumped trash just about everywhere,” said Reno resident Garrett York. “It’ll be covered in playa dust.”
Public works has seen “everything from coolers and bicycles to RVs” dumped in Reno after Burning Man. Heller estimates about half-a-dozen camping vehicles get ditched each year in the city. His guys sometimes pick up enough garbage to fill six 30-yard dumpsters.
Unless we had a huge neighborhood watch kind of system, people are gonna find a spot where no one is looking and drop things.”
Besides such bureaucratic measures, there’s not much one can do about what Reno resident Chris Hagen described as the “piles of trash” at shopping centers and gas stations “from Gerlach to Carson.”
On the bright side, “the garbage isn’t an issue 51 of the other weeks a year.”
https://www.sfgate.com/burningman/article/Burning-Man-garbage-reno-dumping-leave-no-trace-13186812.php
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George
My definition is the one in the Constitution. Here it is to refresh you. You of all people respect the Constitution.
“Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.”
Since there not even a remote reference to a: “dispute as to whether this or that act constituted treason ” your allegiance to Trump certainly compromises you’re greater values to support the Constitution of the United States.
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PaulE 1033am – I did not contend your or anyone else’s definition of treason. And, of course, the Constitution does not refer to a dispute on definitions in Sec3 or anywhere else. It is the subsequent 200-year history of American constitutional jurisprudence in which such disputes on definitions have kept lawyers, politicians, and SCOTUS busy. I am really sorry that you seem to have completely missed my 757am. Let’s try to soldier on.
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One woman convicted of voter fraud, one woman facing twenty years. If a few of these cases get prosecuted will long prison sentences, the word will get out and may make others think twice before illegally trying to influence our elections.
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office will prosecute Laura Janeth Garza, a 37-year-old Mexican national who lives in Houston, after a grand jury indicted her May 10 on charges of voter impersonation and ineligible voting.
Both charges are second-degree felonies. If convicted, Garza faces two to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to Fox 4 News in Dallas-Ft. Worth.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/15/mexican-woman-charged-with-voter-fraud-accused-illegally-voting-in-2016-election.html
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Its the economy stupid!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-jobless-claims-fell-to-a-49-year-low-last-week-1536237250
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Getting too comfortable with this –
https://freebeacon.com/politics/beto-orourke-campaign-denies-sending-text-asking-help-getting-illegal-immigrants-polls/
😉
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Found while browsing Don’s 11:08 am link:
“The wealthy Pennsylvania Democrat gave more than $100,000 to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and Inaugural Committee. He also asked former Obama advisor John Podesta to appoint him as U.S. ambassador to South Africa, Fox News reports.”
https://freebeacon.com/politics/pennsylvania-dem-candidate-criticized-role-money-politics-gave-100k-obama-asked-ambassadorship/
To the victor goes the spoils.
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,,,breaking news BillT,,,man donates money and volunteers for ambassadorship!!!
,,,and did not get the job.
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