[Apologies for the last sandbox getting a little rancid there. We just returned from travel and I let things get away from me. Well, now with all the additional stuff that's happened, there is a lot of catching up to do. This morning NPR did a couple of hit pieces on President Trump, nimbly circling their innuendo wagons to blame him and the Republicans for all the current tragedies – happened and impending – while wondering why the other side doesn't stop "their hateful rhetoric" that is causing all this. Of course, constantly pointing this out, their hands somehow remain clean. gjr]

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282 responses to “Sandbox – 28oct18”
Holy Smokes.
My 12:00 noon post today was taken down by the censors at Youtube. It’s back up. Go figure. Nothing says supporting free speech like throwing a punch at those of whom you do not like the words, lol.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2018/10/30/youtube-marks-tucker-carlsons-immigration-video-dangerous
Ideas are dangerous. Ideas they don’t like are really dangerous. Live censorship is best.
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OH that pesky video archive –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/harry-reids-1993-claim-no-sane-country-would-provide-birthright-citizenship-fuels-gop-immigration-push
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/29/watch-hillary-clinton-makes-quip-after-booker-holder-mix-up-they-all-look-alike/
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They said WHAT!?!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/30/planned-parenthood-encourages-birth-for-illegal-aliens/
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OH shit, three SNAPS up!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/30/report-obama-admin-approved-71000-snap-retailers-without-background-checks/
One week left to vote!
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@7:02 pm
They did what?
“Still, all of these inappropriate business relationships led CMP to continue digging. What they found was disturbing, to say the least. ABR is currently under CMP’s filing with the court. Based on sealed documents reflecting Planned Parenthood’s invoices for payment for aborted baby parts, both ABR and Planned Parenthood produced what purported to be the same set of invoices, “but they produced different versions of the same invoice,” CMP states.
Additionally, “the revenue totals and procurement totals” for fetal body parts “do not match” the totals…..
http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/30/new-evidence-suggests-planned-parenthood-lied-congress-aborted-baby-part-profits/
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Don
Let me get this straight
You are claiming Trumps request for funding the wall has passed congress and is the law of the land. Trumps estimate is 18 Billion. You are contending that is in the budget correct.
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What a fool @ 740 a fool who reads and yet does not comprehend. Have I ever let you play that game? Perhaps rereading the thread again could help you and the bar flys or not.
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Don
Does Trump have the funding to build the wall or not? Simple question. If not it’s just more bullshit from our Liar in Chief.
Trump quote:
“I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me –and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
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Remember when all the R’s in Congress would resist Trump and he would not be able to get a thing done and he would be forced to up and quit…….yeah, that was a real doozie, wasn’t? Now that we are moving along cleaning up our side of the street, our attention will be on the seedy shadowed side of the street. That’s wear the big rats are.
Things are tightening out there. Montana is within striking distance, a hard state to read in normal times, I don’t see a complete wipeout as forecasted (another real doozie). It ain’t really a Blue Wave if it does not take both the House and Senate and Governors and State Legislatures. So, up comes the Red Wall just as the Blue Wave is looking more like a wadding pool than a swimming pool.
Nancy wants her gavel back . Mad Max head of the House Finance Committee, Nadler heading the Judicial Committee, and Schiff will have his eyes bugging out burying all that nasty Democrat shenanigans during the last election. Di-fi still on the Intel Committee. What a cast of all-stars they have on the field. If nothing else, I don’t see the R’s blocking too much of Trump’s agenda now. They got a taste of winning.
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OH Babs you are still just a big, old teaser, we have heard this before, did any of them actually do it? Teasers the lot. But its still a good reason to be sure and vote. A clown caravan if you will of irrelevant hollywoods bygone years, never were’s and the new batch of ‘who is that’s?’ 15 minutes of famers train wrecks like Avanantinonio.
Yes it is not looking like a stormy blue wave but a neck and neck race for the finish in the House.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2018/10/30/barbra-streisand-may-move-to-canada-if-republicans-keep-house/
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Neck and neck race to the finish. Yep, coming out of turn four and making the dash to the finish line. Have you seen Trumps schedule? That man is an animal.
Boy, who unleashed Lindsey Graham today on the 14th Amendment? Despite all the chatter, the American people want those holes in the border plugged and illegal mob migrantion throttled back. 1,700 a day caught, 2,000 sneak in. Good orderly direction. Every poll is consistent on that one for quite awhile. Dems are on the wrong side. Time for Congress to do their job: Comprehensive Immigrantion Reform. Wall off CA.
Walls don’t work? Where? Israel? The Vatican? If moi put up a 12’ hunk of concrete wall on just one side of the property, there ain’t too many people who will choose to take the long way around. 🙂 Its going to awesome. Strike that. It’s going to be beautiful. Walls work. Good fences make good neighbors.
They built the Great Wall of China one stone at a time. 3 billion is start. A little here, a little there. Turns those pennies into dollars.
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Well they are giving it away left and right so what’s a couple of billion here or there its your money not theirs!
In one case, the report said, the state continued making payments into a resident’s health plan until August of this year – even though the resident died nearly five years ago. Payments to that resident’s plan totaled $383,000, the Times reported.
Ya that’s why they need more gas tax on the poor and fixed income folks they hate.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/californias-medi-cal-program-paid-4b-to-recipients-who-may-have-been-ineligible-audit-shows
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If not it’s just more bullshit from our Liar in Chief.
Like your healthcare premiums would go down $2500 per year and “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”.
…..from the then Liar in Chief. No fevered posts about his mendacity Punch?
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,,,Twinkie Toes@646pm,,, Sorry to hear about your Utube issues.
,,,I was able to find the video,,,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOxebCVD0c#
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Never did support Obamacare Fish. I’ve repeated that dozens of times. Didn’t vote for Obama 2nd time around partially because of that.
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Yep, all 3.2 km of Vatican Wall.
https://www.worldwidewriter.co.uk/walking-around-walls-of-vatican-city.html
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Good one M. Where did you find that one? Gave me an idea what to drop on your abode for Halloween. Di-Fi was tons of those bombs now that she, like you, wears incontinence products. Beware the drones sharing Frisco values. Good find. There is something about Amber.
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Don Lemon, the dumb vanguard of race relations and protector of all people of color said:
“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right,” he said. “We have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no white guy ban. So what do we do about that?”
Hmmm. Sounds like former Homeland Security boss Janet Nappypooh.
https://ktrh.iheart.com/featured/michael-berry/content/2018-10-31-don-lemon-the-biggest-terror-threat-in-this-country-is-white-men/?fbclid=IwAR0-Dqw0I99kV1o8B3mwZa9Q33Y1dndSyq9Zo8xglPw8bnnM5BkGs_VGO4Q
Ackward.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 31 October 2018 at 08:26 AM
No Punch but Obama clearly lied and I don’t see you here having regular tantrums over his lack of truth! You didn’t vote for Trump either but he is a regular target of your bile!
Wonder why one comes under such attack and the other gets a pass? Wonder……wonder….wonder!
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Happy Halloween Punkinheads!!!
https://tinyurl.com/yaytzktg
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Halloween is here. Oh goodie.
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You’re talking about what happened 8 years ago Fish. Trump lies daily now. Mexico will pay for the wall. Do you really believe that?
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Obamacare….the premiums are not going up nearly as fast as projected. The trajectory has been altered.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/10/25/is-obamacare-stabilizing-thanks-to-gop-sabotage-n2531607
Drugs prices
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/trump-outlines-plan-to-lower-medicare-drug-prices-to-match-prices-overseas
Medicaid enrollment drops. Sure, it’s a tiny drop which will be wiped out without the Wall. Walls always work.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/strong-economy-halts-medicaid-growth-as-more-americans-make-too-much.html
The bill that passed the House nobody ever heard of.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/there-is-a-republican-plan-to-cover-pre-existing-conditions-and-the-house-already-passed-it
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In these arguments it appears that only the bygone faults of Republicans are fair game to cite – somehow the Democrats’ bygone sins no longer count. Is that written in stone somewhere?
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9:26 am
“Is that written in stone somewhere?”
Yes! It’s written in stone on just about every headstone across the land. On Tuesday, Nov. 6, the bodies arise from the graves and vote for Democrats.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157378694293521&set=gm.500773643771473&type=3&theater
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George
Are you saying the veracity of the statements of our CURRENT President are not fair game for criticism?
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Democrats have a statute of limitations on their lies. One article then exoneration. Never to be heard of again. And if it is brought up by a critic as a example, the “bringer” is a racist, bigot, homophobe. The strategy used to work until we on the Right started to challenge them. And we see the results. The left has gone violent.
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Of course from a historic perspective the trustfulness of all Presidents is fair game, However the lies of our current president intended to influence public opinion are an urgent issue.
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Administrivia – I draw your kind attention to the 31oct18 updated Scattershots.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2018/10/scattershots-29oct18.html
PaulE 1001am – Paul, I’ll gladly answer that once you tell us how my 926am induced you to ask such a question. I’m sure our readers are interested in your connecting those dots, and most certainly they will be entertained.
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Oh my. The Social Justice Warriors were dreaming their panties and Depends when the news broke that Whitey (Y-T) was murdered as he was attacked with the ole lock in the sock. They were rejoicing…until they found out it was Whitey Bulger.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 31 October 2018 at 09:16 AM
Trump has only been president for a little under two years Punch. I’ve been posting here for a little over four…..next to zero criticism of Obama from you over the last two…..mild disappointment the he wasn’t more generous with social programs.
Not the TDS that you display every day here! Again….it’s funny!
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Because the RR’s always use vintage Obama as a response to what’s happening today.
Speaking of which where is the Tea Party speaking out for fiscal responsibility of the Trump Administration now that the debt has increased by a Trillion bucks in the last year. Not a peep from Tea Party Patriots.
“The national debt rose more than $1.2 trillion in the fiscal year that just concluded on Sept. 30, according to a government website that tracks the debt……
The budget deficit alone is set to soar above $1 trillion by 2020, as they did during President Obama’s first term. But the federal borrowing also takes place outside its formal budget, including for various loan programs, and the pace of growth in the debt has already exceeded $1 trillion per year at times.
In addition to the $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt in the last fiscal year, it took a little more than six months for the debt to rise from $20 trillion to $21 trillion.”
Gonna blame that on Obama?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/national-debt-jumps-1-2-trillion-in-fiscal-year-2018
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PaulE 1032am – Au contraire Paul. Many “RR’s” here volubly lament the national debt and related deficit spending that continues its growth also under Republicans. You apparently miss that in the related arguments about the budget components that give rise to the large deficits. We are a country divided about many things, including humungus transfer payments. Recall that you’re for ‘single payer’, the greatest budget buster of all; and the rightwingers here are against subsidies of any and all kinds (including LaMalfa’s ag payments).
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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the Lamestream Media has toned down their Immigrant Horde coverage down to a trickle? They call it a non-story now. Too funny.
Odd considering their only “victory” they have in many moons is showing pics from Obama’s 2014 tossing kids into cages after ripping crying babies from the arms of their mothers! The horror, the horror. So, why aren’t they covering the Migration Hordes throwing rocks, sticks, and Molotov cocktails at police, injuring many. Why? Why, why, why?
Thank goodness we have Trump reminding the voters that the Leftinistas want to demolish ICE (not via global warming melting ice) and have open borders. Open to all comers from shithole countries. Thank you, Mr. President, for bringing the Leftinista policies back to the forefront yesterday.
Has anybody besides me noticed the Lamestream Media (Fakenews) has toned down their interest in Kavanaugh? The Kavavan, Kavanaugh, and Kaos are the legs of the Progressives’ three legged stool. Why would they drop their best weapons and terms of enragement on which they stand right belief the election? Very odd. It’s like they don’t want to focus on it after making it their only policies. If Kanaugh was guilty then, he certainly is guilty now.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/10/31/why-did-media-and-democrats-abandon-their-investigation-into-brett-kavanaugh/
Maybe it is because they know they are on the wrong side….again. Never get tired of winning and exposing who they are.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1462355720565127/?type=3&source=54
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Dr. R, I assume you’ve read the lead editorial in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal regarding birthright citizenship and the 14th amendment. Sounds a lot like me, albeit in loftier language and with legal citations.
I suspect this will go the way of that 10 percent tax cut promised middle class types after the election.
Forgetaboutit!
P.S.: I like hiser.
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Year George B. It will also go the way of fake voter fraud allegations, Mexico building the wall and countless other proposals from our Liar in Chief.
Here’s a response to the defunct Voter Fraud Panel from a member of the panel.
“‘The most bizarre thing I’ve ever been a part of”
Trump’s claim that as many as 3 million to 5 million fraudulent votes were cast in the 2016 election remains one of his most notable falsehoods.
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Yes George B
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GeorgeB 1051am – Agreed on the 14th Amend; Trump is pissing into the wind on that one; even though the original intent of Congress was very limiting in scope, it no longer is – y’all come! Not so sure about the 10% cut, it depends if the economy shows signs of maintaining at least 3% growth in its quarterly reports. Otherwise you’re right, fugedaboudit.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 31 October 2018 at 10:32 AM
Gonna blame that on Obama?
Why not….you blame similar profligacy on Bush!
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 31 October 2018 at 09:16 AM
You’re talking about what happened 8 years ago Fish. Trump lies daily now. Mexico will pay for the wall. Do you really believe that?
Again Punch it’s funny how you blew through your arbitrary 8 year limit on the window of criticism to go after Bush when Obama was president!
Do you give these statements even the slightest thought before you hurry to post them?!
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ITs the economy stupid –
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/wages-and-salaries-jump-by-3point1percent-highest-level-in-a-decade.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/31/private-payrolls-gain-227k-in-oct-vs-189k-est-adpmoodys.html
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,,,po’ ol’ Punkin’head is getting pissy,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-snaps-paul-ryan-174434876.html
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She’s back?
Last night, “The Conners” was beaten by everything- “NCIS,” “The Voice,” etc. This was their first really objective run, no World Series, nothing to distract potential viewers.
But the key demo sank, which isn’t a good sign. And the total viewers were down by 180K, which is a lot, frankly. People are leaving and they’re not coming back.
ABC has ordered 1 extra episode to the original order of 10. Sounds to me like a finale. Someone wakes up and says they dreamt Roseanne died. There’s a cackle from the next room. Fade to black.
https://www.showbiz411.com/2018/10/31/ratings-the-conners-beaten-by-everything-drops-in-total-viewers-and-demo-as-abc-orders-only-1-more-episode
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Slow motion suicide of a once great city –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/31/san-francisco-votes-to-starve-itself-of-water-to-spite-trump-backs-bay-delta-plan/
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Hey…..where’s Punchy?
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Do you believe Mexico will pay for the Wall Fish? If not then you admit Trump is a liar.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 31 October 2018 at 01:34 PM
Homey don’t play that Uncle Punchy! You are remarkably selective in your outrage towards lying presidents!
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My recollection on Paul Emery during the eight years of Obama was o love. He just loved that guy. Liked the crease in his pants too. And for those eight years Paul Emery expropriated Bush on a daily basis. Now he is PO’d that we bring up his love Obama in comparison to Trump. You have to be mentally challenged as a libertarian/green to think that way.
Regarding the 14th. You may be surprised by what could happen. I listened to a 14th scholar last night and the intent and practice for a hundred years was tossed in the 1960’s to what we see now. Maybe there will be an “adjustment.
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Not selective at all. Just dealing with whats in front of us right now. Fish, do you believe Mexico will pay for the Wall Fish?
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Didn’t vote for Obama second time around Todd. did you vote for Bush 2nd time? If so why?
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Fish
In your view is Trump a “lying President” ?
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