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[On 11 September 2001 radical Islam carried out its most devastating attack on those they identify as infidels and kafirs, their name for the rest of us on this globe.  On this day of remembrance it is incumbent on us in the west to reflect on the state of Islam, and especially its quiet ongoing conquest of Europe, whose belated recognition of and opposition to what's happening is deemed racist by the Left.  Lest we forget, Europe is just the warm-up, with the battle cry 'Death to America!', an Islamic America is their main objective.  gjr]

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339 responses to “Sandbox – 11sep18”

  1. Walt Avatar

    Nice try Paul, just where are the charges against Moore?
    As soon as the end justified the means, the accusations dried up over night.
    The same game is now being played again. The people see with open eyes this time.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt
    Oh let Punchy ramble and rage. Look, this is the guy who spent 6 hours freaking out of Melania’s stilettos. What a sexist pig.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This is definitely a provocative question. Before the question is posed, this may send the Leftinistas screaming all sorts of uncreative and overused pejorative names. When you challenge the ground the Left stands on, it ain’t a pretty sight. Oh well. The question:
    Is diversity is our greatest strength?
    “After playing clips of Democratic politicians reciting that truth of modern liberalism, Tucker Carlson asked, “How, precisely, is diversity our strength? Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific.”
    Reaction to Carlson’s question, with some declaring him a racist for having raised it, suggests that what we are dealing with here is not a demonstrable truth but a creed not subject to debate.
    Yet the question remains valid: Where is the scientific, historic or empirical evidence that the greater the racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity of a nation, the stronger it becomes?
    http://buchanan.org/blog/the-unpardonable-heresy-of-tucker-carlson-130088
    I think unity is our strength. The results of Identity Politics does not seem to make us stronger.

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    Re PR casualties “confirmed by two studies”. Studies based on computer models with no corroboration from boots on the ground, or even interviews with the people living there, are never ‘confirmations’, but only ‘projections’ or at best ‘estimates’ with a documentation of the methodology that includes error ranges. Only science-light people or those pushing an agenda (here TDS) would ever publicly admit that those numbers have been confirmed by anyone.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    5:17
    My. They went from TDS to the elevator and much more palatable TAD and now back down to the more accurate TDS. Thank you.
    Boots on the ground are kinda important. Ask a one room cop shop guy with a badge how many kids where in that little school down the way before and how many kids do your think are there now. What would you say were how many families living up in that there canyon before Maria and the other hurricane not long before it?
    Ok Patricia, how many patients are we talking in a county of 100,000 residents and what is the quantity of medicinal marijuana they need? Ok, Linda, how many people in our county of 100,000 need medical health services? Are 30% of us nuts, or is it a third? I hear a charitable survey that said only 25% are off our friggin rockers.
    Carnac the Magnificent says 2,975 people perished in PR. Survey says, “I dunno.”

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    First of all can you show me where the Democrats manipulated the numbers for whatever purpose? I see no documentation anywhere supporting that.
    Those were the numbers accepted by Puerto Rico and the Republicans in the house as expressed by Paul Ryan.
    What does Trump know that Ryan and many other Republicans don’t know? What was his souces of information anyway…
    “WASHINGTON – House Speaker Paul Ryan disagreed Thursday with President Donald Trump’s assertion that the death toll from last year’s hurricane in Puerto Rico was inflated.
    Ryan told reporters he had “no reason to dispute” the findings of a study commissioned by Puerto Rico’s government that put its death toll at nearly 3,000 people.
    “You couldn’t get to people for a long time on the island because roads were washed out, power was gone and the casualties mounted for a long time,” Ryan said when asked about Trump’s tweet. “So I have no reason to dispute those numbers. Those are just the facts of what happens when a horrible hurricane hits an isolated place like an island.”
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/13/ryan-no-reason-dispute-puerto-ricos-hurricane-death-toll/1288593002/

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trouble for Kavanaugh!!!
    Flake opposes quick vote on Kavanaugh, putting confirmation in doubt
    And Bob Corker urges the vote on the Supreme Court nominee to be postponed.
    Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court hit a serious roadblock Sunday night, as GOP Senate Judiciary Committee member Jeff Flake said he is uncomfortable voting to advance Kavanaugh’s nomination later this week after the nominee’s sexual assault accuser went public.
    Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who is not a member of the committee but whose vote is critical to Kavanaugh’s confirmation, similarly said late Sunday that the committee should pause.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/16/kavanaugh-allegation-anonymous-republicans-825855

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman, National take a hike day is coming up, why don’t you celebrate early!
    😉

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Paul. Gov. Manipulation request has been supplied. Nice try.
    You would expect Proggy news to print what you hope to read.
    Got nothing to say?,,, “Crickets”?

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar

    Proggy News Walt? Whats that? My guess is it’s a special word used by the Circle of Jerks that reside on this blog. If you google Proggy you get this:
    informal
    (of rock music) likened to or resembling progressive rock.
    “they turned the proggy concept album into an art form”
    Packed with progressive elements, esp. regarding the genre adjective which applies to music – i.e. progressive rock, progressive metal, progressive folk, etc. “Progressive” generally connotes virtuosic instrumentation, incorporation of exotic sounds/instruments, use of uncommon time signatures, unusual/abstract lyrical subject matter, etc.
    I’m sort of OK with Coheed and Cambria, I guess, but they are not nearly as proggy as Dream Theater or The Mars Volta. They sound like a less-proggy version of Rush, except Rush didn’t have an emo influence.
    Proggy fonts are a collection of fonts specifically designed for use by programmers.
    Proggy is a modern twist on the traditional craft of rag rugging, taking simple techniques and combing them with modern materials.
    Proggy is the colloquial term used in the North East of England for a rag rug. Traditionally, pieces of old cloth were pushed through old potato sacks, but in our …
    “Proggy” is a slang term and IT that is often just used to refer to a program. It has been part of IT slang for a long time, especially in the United Kingdom.

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  11. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    from Paul Emery – “Sorry you can’t handle the discussion Gregory.”
    You have got to be kidding.
    Paul couldn’t argue his way out of a wet paper bag.
    I’ve called him out so many times and he just runs away with his gloves over his ears.
    Better hide behind the post Paul, and have your coach protect you.
    Stand and deliver, baby!
    That California ‘perfessor’ trying to take down Kavanaugh has tried to wipe her record.
    She’s leftie through and through.
    But that’s what the left does. Make info disappear. Because true info=bad news for the left. What does the fake news guy from KVMR have to say about some one trying to hide their past.
    What an intellectual coward.
    Yes, you Paul – I’m calling you out.
    Or are you too askeered to have it out?
    Mano a mano.
    What do you say, Paul?
    Right here on an open record.
    Or are you too askeered to ‘handle the discussion’?

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    George, would you hazard a guess as to the political composition of the researchers at Harvard (the 800 to 8000 estimate) and GW University (the 3000 estimate)… ‘
    My guess is there might be one out of ten who sometimes vote GOP but wouldn’t dare talk about it at work.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    A little TRIGGERED,, Paul?
    I’m not the one with a twisted set of moral fiber.

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    So this babe Ford is saying Kavanaugh was trying to get some at a party in high school? And he denies it. But Flake and Corker, two idiots leaving the Senate and both Trump haters are getting pussified. Amazing.

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  15. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    So – she claims he might have been trying to murder her, but she didn’t say a thing until he was up for SCOTUS. And she’s trying to hide her political affiliations.
    Oh yeah -totally legit.
    Especially in light of the fact that the anti-Trumpers have vowed to do ‘anything’ to stop him.
    Kinda’ ruins your credibility.

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar

    So Gregory that is your “Proof” that the results are inaccurate?

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar

    Here’s a statement from the University that conducted the study. Gregory are willing to go on record as sayint they are lying?
    Statement Issued by Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University on Sept. 13, 2018
    We stand by the science underlying our study which found there were an estimated 2,975 excess deaths in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
    Researchers at the Milken Institute SPH in collaboration with scientists at the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health analyzed mortality, via use of death certificates and related information, from September 2017 through the end of February 2018. Using a state-of-the-art mathematical model, the team compared the total number of deaths during that time to the expected number based on historical patterns as well as age, sex, socioeconomic status and migration from the island.
    This study, commissioned by the Government of Puerto Rico, was carried out with complete independence and freedom from any kind of interference.
    Our results show that Hurricane Maria was a very deadly storm, one that affected the entire island but hit the poor and the elderly the hardest. We are confident that the number – 2,975 – is the most accurate and unbiased estimate of excess mortality to date.
    The report, “Ascertainment of the Estimated Excess Mortality from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,” can be accessed here.
    For more information, visit prstudy.publichealth.gwu.edu.
    Here is a link to the actual study. Did you read it before shooting off yourself?
    https://publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/projects/PRstudy/Acertainment%20of%20the%20Estimated%20Excess%20Mortality%20from%20Hurricane%20Maria%20in%20Puerto%20Rico.pdf

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “What an intellectual coward.
    Yes, you Paul – I’m calling you out.”
    Scott O 724pm
    Scott, yes, he is a coward, but essentially an anti-intellectual one. He doesn’t have the skill set required to make a logical argument and so resorts to punching his way out whenever faced with evidence his head is stuck where the sun never shines.

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gregory
    what is your”proof” that the cited casualty numbers are false and altered by the Democrats? Are you even going to try to justify your accusation?

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  20. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, where did I say the “casualty numbers were false and altered by Democrats”?
    Hint: I didn’t. That was Paul’s Imagination Run Wild!
    Looking at the document from gwu, can you tell me if there were ‘excess casualties’ from suicides in the time frame looked at, and are you comfortable with them being called being due to the hurricane?
    Paul, you’re problem is you don’t know enough to argue anything.

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Damn…. that should have read: YOUR problem is you don’t know enough to argue logically about anything.

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Proof of the two faces of LIBS. It’s just fine when their Muslim
    abuses a woman.(and not long ago.) Yet try and hang Kavanaugh
    for a questionable accusation 30+ years ago.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/16/brett-kavanaugh-dnc-keith-ellison/
    “Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Tom Perez on Sunday said that a sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “must be investigated thoroughly.”
    Perez’s statement comes as the DNC remains evasive about a domestic abuse allegation against Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chair of the DNC.”

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Morning Walt
    Oh, don’t be surprised. If you know how evil and morally bankrupt the Leftists are, it’s normal and expected of them. The illiberal ones did not bring this up at the hearings on purpose. Done on purpose and purposely waited til the hearing were over.
    And if you think this is about Kavanaugh, you are wrong. And it you want to discuss the facts, that means you don’t care about woman, lol.
    The accused can’t name the year or the house or street. Neither can she name the host. No witnesses, no report submitted. In 2012, decades later, she told her therapist she was 15 years old and there were 4 other teens in the room. No wait. She was 17 and there were two males teens. Rich Chevy Chase drunk teens at a party.
    There is nothing in Kavanaugh’s past to hint at this kind of behavior. Six (6!) FBI background checks, not a hint from any female that clerked for him or with him. Don”t matter. Keith Ellison’s accuser has a witness, exact dates and time…..literally hugged and embraced by Bernie after Keith’s wife beating abuse….nothing to see there, lol.
    You cannot defend yourself against these kind of charges. What teenagers did three and a half decades ago (36 years) with the only named witness says it never happened. This could happen to me, you, Punchy, Dr. Rebane and there is no defending yourself against accusations that long ago and stretchy details at best. Now, Kathleen Wiley and Anita Broderick have never recovered for what Bill Clinton did to them while Bubba and his victims were all adults, but that don’t matter to the evil ones.
    The accuser’s social media has been scrubbed. Now she says it happened in 1982. There are some “rate my professor” comments still up from her days at a CA state university her students speak of her “dark” side, dark….it don’t matter. That’s hating on women!
    Bottomline: These accusations never came out at the hearings on purpose. This has nothing to do with Kavanaugh. There is no winning this with reason or facts or even defending yourself.
    Someday the violence and hate the evil immoral twisted Leftinistas have dished out will be coming back on their own heads and they will be screaming bloody murder….and for good reason.
    This should put to rest any lie that the media will be nicer to the Bush people than Trump people. They don’t care what they do to the process or fairness. The fact that judge K was the presiding judge on her parents’s foreclosure case has nothing to do with it.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Does anybody even bother to listen to Al Gore anymore? Some do, I reckon.
    “Meanwhile, Mr. Gore’s defenders, including some scientists, have praised his work for bringing climate change to the forefront and dismissed the fact-checks as nitpicks”
    https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/16/al-gores-hurricane-florence-claim-debunked-scienti/

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  25. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,one PR casualty study,,,close to 500 aftermath deaths,,,so far
    https://hurricanemariasdead.com/database.html

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  26. ’’’M’’’ Avatar
    ’’’M’’’

    ,,,preppy boy Kavanaugh gets gropy at pool party,,,
    ,,,entitled elitist???

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  27. Walt Avatar

    OH.. Our own criminal has to pipe up.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    So.. “500”.. A far cry from the “thousands” the lying LIBs have claimed.

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    ROFLMAO
    MSNBC came out and said they contacted the 65 women who came out for Kavanaugh and only 3 say they still support him.
    Funny, cause I am listening live to all these women tweeting and texting that they were never contacted by them, it’s all a lie. It’s a big lie. One lady said she was on a plane last night, no calls from MSNBC day or night, now she and others are messenging like crazy. A big fat Liberal Lie. 🙂
    Funny all of K’s girlfriends and the girls that knew him as freshman college youngsters and high school girls and girls in his neighborhood and dated him (or wished he would ask them out) have said, to a female, that he always behaved as a gentleman with them.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the libs trot out another one towards the end of the week, just in case this one don’t live up to the Aninta Hill persona. Oh, I am not saying the accuser who thought Kavanaugh was going to ‘KILL HER’ should not be heard and let this play out for a week, but what I saying is this is not surprising in the least if you spend a few moments reflection. Nothing new under the sun.
    ROE vs WADE!, #METoo, pussy hats, moving backwards. The Republicans, wearing their wife beater tee-shirts, want to take their wives and trash all their shoes and dumps piles nails on the front porch so they can’t leave the house….bareful and pregnant and TDS.

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  31. George Rebane Avatar

    M 756am – Well, that’s more like it. Now please review for us your point in calling our attention to the PR deaths, be they 500 or 3,000.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    I see Kavanaugh’s accuser is willing to lie to Congress.

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  33. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The Anita Hill strategy is at work again. Disgusting. If the democrats ever gain power in America this is what to expect on every issue.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Don’t forget Judge Moore Todd. The same M.O.
    Now what LIBS and the NFL don’t want you to see.
    https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2018/09/16/week-two-nfl-stadiums-plagued-by-thousands-of-empty-seats/

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    She’s a registered Democrat
    Ford is a registered Democrat who has given small monetary donations to political causes, according to The Washington Post. Did we all know this? Of course.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s the Libbies’ Hail Mary pass. What do you do when it’s 4th and forty and punting is not an option?
    Oh goodie, the parade of victims. Ms. Ford is a victim of the Libs here. They will use her and use her up. The FBI threw the letter in one of Kavanaugh’s background check files last week. 🙂
    Fourth and 40. What tricks are left in the playbook….Alinky’s playbook.

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Her students gave her a nonpassing rating as a teacher/professor at Palo Alto University. A school I never heard of. She is a psychologist.

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  38. "M" Avatar
    “M”

    ,,,GR@901am,,,it’s what’s in the news,,,and response to your 517pm

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