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[For those interested in an expansion of how we use words today, as promised, I have addended the 'Fake News Defined' commentary that opens with a retort to Mr Steven Frisch's most recent contribution to these pages. gjr]

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223 responses to “Sandbox – 29nov18”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now that’s a tangible demonstration of the rot at the core of Europe. The airbus has had multiple issues over the last year.
    https://www.breitbart.com/news/merkels-plane-makes-emergency-stop-tech-issues-reported/
    😉

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    This is Trump on 2017 at a rally in Ohio at an auto plant:
    “Let me tell you folks in Ohio and in this area, don’t sell your house,” Trump said, to applause. “We’re going to get those jobs coming back, and we’re going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand-new ones. It’s going to happen.”
    On Monday, GM announced the plant would be “unallocated.” If the Lordstown jobs are coming back, it’s not happening soon.”
    Another Trump lie.
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-gm-jobs-ohio_us_5bfc4d1be4b0eb6d931283c3

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Wow
    Huge story. The Repubs in the Senate Intel committee are making referrals for criminal prosecution to Mueller.
    “The Senate Intelligence Committee has “made multiple criminal referrals” to special counsel Robert Mueller in the Trump-Russia investigation, reports NBC News.
    The report says that Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) disclosed the news on Thursday, but added, “we’re not going to talk about any individuals.”
    The Senate committee has been investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and that they are now “combing through witness testimony for possible misleading or untruthful statements.”
    “The news on the referrals is also sourced to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) who said the committee “made referrals where appropriate.”
    “I am very glad the special counsel is pursuing those who mislead members of congress,” she said.
    You can read the whole story here:
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/senate-intel-committee-made-multiple-criminal-referrals-mueller-may-bust-don-jr-lies-report/

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 29 November 2018 at 03:12 PM
    Another Trump lie.

    Well at least that’s a direct statement. You’ve been running this line of Punchy brand nonsense for two years Punch…… he’s still president. He’s almost certainly going to win in 2020. You’ve got the gridlock that you claim to want.
    So what’s your problem?

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  5. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    How is it that a green libertarian sees the world so wrong looking at the same information? As the church lady used to say about everything, “is it a sexual problem?” Any I listened to Dershowitz and what he said was easy to understand after he exanded on what Paul Emery presented here. And it was not a blast at Trump.
    Regarding the Senate Committee sending over referrals to the DOJ. Maybe that will be as speedy in its resolution as the Senate Judiciary referrals of the Dossier people and the creepy porn lawyer and his client mrs. Spreadeagle.

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You mean the creepy porn lawyer who represented Trumps creepy porn girlfriend who he was bonking while his wife had a baby in her arms?

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  7. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I give Paul Emery one kudo though. Even he is hated by Pelline as we are. LOL!
    Here is Pellines latest on GeorgeR.
    ” jeffpelline says:
    November 29, 2018 at 4:06 pm
    It’s hard for Jamal Khashoggi to respond to George Rebane’s latest outrageous rant on KVMR, since this gentleman — an American resident and Washington Post columnist — is dead, having been brutally murdered. My hope is that KVMR shows some news judgment rather than its “anything goes” approach to commentary. It has a responsibility to the community to provide both sides of an issue. Meanwhile, here’s “the other side,” obviously missing on the KVMR “News Hour.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/11/20/khashoggis-murder-will-stain-trump-and-america-forever/?utm_term=.7ccb25bbe7ad

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery | 29 November 2018 at 04:12 PM
    Of course. And Trump paid a lot for that boinking. Since when are you a moral warrior? Hell you push the use of marijuana and God knows what else. Besides have you ever paid for nooky Paul Emery? Maybe when you were in the south and the Nat Guard?

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy… it seems all you read is either HuffPo or rawstory, two relentlessly left-progressive muckrakers. How about some balance?
    It would be easier to walk a straight line the next time you get pulled over…

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gregory
    They all have links to their sources if you pay attention and most are direct quotes.

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Cracks me up these liberals just can’t help themselves in their unbridled hate for Trump. The economy is cooking and everyone that wants a job has one. Yet they are all in for porn stars, crooked lying lawyers and Putin. How did we survive these loons for 250 years?

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  12. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    OMG! CNN actually canned Mark Lamont Hill. A black know-it-all fast talker. Looks like he is a anti-semite.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gosh Don
    What did you google to get that information. I’ll let you do the research because it seems important to you. Not of much interest to me.

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    DonB now that is why our Justice system is floundering. If the Judge doesn’t toss that as frivolous, then it proves our system is broken.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt:
    Its all a big nothingburger. Nothing anyone has said or done puts Trump in any legal jeopardy whatsoever. Skimming headlines, Rachael Madcow says Republicans should be be very nervous tonight. Very nervous. Boo, I am scared. None of them fakenews mass hysteria airheads with TDS have got one thing right last week, last month, a year ago, or even two years ago, including the Punch Drunk One. Never right and always wrong.
    Meuller looking into the R platform changes about Ukraine? What, you mean therevwas some lobbying going on in politics and political parties???? Wow. Manafort lied! Cohen lied! Yes, Cohen lied on his taxes, he lied on his financial statements, he lied about this and that and some other things….what, is he some pillar of virtuosity that Meuller is to hold up and hang his hat on? Wow.
    Citizen Trump was planning to build a hotel or something in Moscow before he threw his hat in the ring and during the campaign. That’s legal. Big deal. Nothing criminal. Wow.
    I could go on and one and the only consistent thing is the Fainting Couch fakenews addicted to outrage folks is they have been wrong every single time.
    I have been wrong. Said just yesterday or the day before that Meuller’s team ain’t leaking. Glancing the headlines and I was wrong, wrong, wrong. He is leaking like a sieve right now. Wonder why. Hmmm. Maybe I wasn’t wrong two days ago, but not if I said it today. This happens every time the Russian Collusion thing unravels and we see that Emperor Meuller has no clothes and the press races to help him out. Yesterday it was the Guardian piece about Manafort and Julian Assage. The Enemy of the People were wrong again. Haven’t got one thing right.
    Somebody lied to Congress. Yeah, Comey lied to Congress, Clapper lied to Congress, Brennan lied big time to Congress, Holder was held in contempt of Congress after he lied about Fast and Furious and refused to appear to face the questions, and that guy who ran the IRS after Lerner plead the 5th and bail lied to Congress as well….and nothing ever happened to them. Wonder why.
    Hillary and Cheryl Mills destroyed 33,000 e-mails that were supeoned by Congress and Cheryl Mills did not have the clearance to even read them (a felony for Hillary to even let Mills read them, not to mention destroy them, another violation of several laws, including the Records Act and Esponage Act)….and nothing ever happened to any of them. Wonder why that is. I thought the press was supposed to help us uncover the truth and expose a corrupted Justice Department, Administration, and politicalized (and weaponized) intelligence apparatus. I thought wrong. Way wrong.
    So, go ahead and say this time you got Trump by the balls. Go head wish upon a star. Einstein’ s definition of insanity.
    Nothing has changed in two years, not one thing. Meuller has never named the crime that was committed when he started and what he is doing now has zero to do with Russia-Trump Collusion or one hint of Trump criminality. No criminality. Sure, knock off some bit players. Roger Stone? Trump dumped him during the campaign.
    This entire charade is for Meuller to write a report in such a way so that the Democrat Congress can impeach Trump,…without finding one impeachable or ciminal offense. Meuller knows he cannot even indict a sitting President per the Justice Department’s own rulings, which Meuller has to follow. Bit players? Big deal. Where’s the beef? There is no beef, never was, never will. But, be my guess and knock yourselves out, oh Enemy of the People and aiders and abetters of the real threat to Democracy.
    PS: Manafort played Meullet like a fiddle, not the other way around.

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Todd, a leftover from the prior sandbox
    Yes, it’s true, there were kids graduating from NUHS and going to a four year college in the dark ages, the issue is how many and how selective? NUHS didn’t push kids forward. The parents in general were happy with their kids getting B’s and getting through with a diploma.
    Notice, I didn’t make any claim that college bound kids were happier, better looking or more whatever. It was just a comment about how good the local schools were in doing what schools are supposed to be doing. Not very is the answer, then and now.

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar

    Bill writes “Manifort played Mueller like a fiddle”
    Of all he ludicrous things you’re written Biker Gill this takes the cake. Just for a start, who has been in solitary confinement for the past few months and will be indefinably and who is walking free and getting a good paycheck? My goodness, this is so ridiculous I don’t know what else to say. The only hope for Manifort is a pardon which would be political suicide for Trump and even then he would have to face numerous State charges which cannot be pardoned. Manifort played Mueller like a fiddle while standing on the deck of the Titanic with no life raft.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar

    sp Biker Bill

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump was not supposed to be President now. We were promised that he would be gone in two years. Promised repeatedly by everybody! Make the tape Maybe that’s why “why now”. 😉

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You will see in due time Punchy. Manafort just out foxed Meuller and watch how this plays out.

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar

    So Bill you are saying that Trump will pardon Manifort. that’s the only option to a long prison sentence for what he’s already been found guilty of. You forget that he was found guilty of numerous felonies by a jury a couple of months ago. How else would he stay out of prison?

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 437pm
    My note regarding your monochrome progressive choices for reading and citing was not a claim that they made anything up… it was a noting that you only seem to read what will tell you what you want to believe.
    A progressive muckraker only rakes muck that will make their enemies cringe. Revenge porn.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Wat and see Punchy. Wait and see. It wasn’t Manafort’s team that went racing to the Judge with their hair on fire saying Meuller lied, he snookered up yesterday. Many lies! No, it was Meuller’s team that sprinted to the Judge screaming Manafort lied, Manafort lied to us!!! Lol.
    It has more than two dots to connect to draw you a picture you can grasp, Popinjay. Did I say anything about a pardon for crimes Manafort committed ten years before he met Trump? Nay, I didn’t. A line from the song The Boxer: “Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”
    Speaking of pardons..er…meaning you speaking of pardons. Best to think outside the box. BTW, that 175 page Manafort plea agreement…well, my news guy went over that and painstaking explainsed to the listening audience as he read it with it all with the State no pardon clauses about a month ago. Maybe a month ago, maybe 4 1/2 weeks. Figured it was not important enough to even post here. We already knew. Thought it was common knowledge weeks ago. Anyway….
    Thanks for keeping us on the cutting edge and in the loop.

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And now a meme, some quotes, and a link from this moment in time.
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1194429444055559&set=a.129017733930074&type=3&theater
    Upright: “We were told that we simply must bail out General Motors during the financial crisis because if we failed to, that would lead to a bloodbath of job losses and cascading business failures. But the job losses were always going to come: Paying people to build things that consumers don’t really want isn’t a sustainable business model. That’s a reality you cannot bail your way out of.” —Kevin Williamson
    Race bait: “I think it’s important to remember that identity politics doesn’t just apply when it’s black people or gay people or women. The folks who really originated identity politics were the folks who said Three-Fifths Clause and all that stuff. That was identity politics.” —Barack Obama
    Globalist fantasies: “The Washington consensus, whatever you want to call it, got a little too comfortable. … They’re only looking at GDP numbers and they’re looking at the Internet, and everything’s looking pretty great, particularly after the Cold War. After what you guys engineered, you had this period of great smugness on the part of America and American elites, thinking we got this all figured out.” —Barack Obama
    Hot air: “I just want to ask the question for folks at home, folks like us. We got kids. We don’t want to be slowly burned to death on our own planet here. Is the human race running — in the simplest terms — running out of time to take the measures necessary to rein in this rise in global temperatures?” —CNN’s Jim Sciutto
    Non Compos Mentis: “I don’t care what Obama did. I care what Trump is doing right here right now!” —”The View’s” Sunny Hostin displaying Trump Derangement Syndrome over the border-crisis response
    And last… “The teachers union has a stranglehold on many of the politicians in this country, both at the federal level and at the state level, and they are very resistant to the kind of changes that need to happen. They are very protective of what they know, and they’re protective, really protective of adult jobs and not really focused on what’s right for individual students.” —Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
    Why am I not surprised?
    https://www.themaven.net/theresurgent/erick-erickson/stacey-abrams-sues-georgia-over-in-part-a-law-she-sponsored-COgdUyzv60GI0zQQmFjFcQ/

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gregory | 29 November 2018 at 05:14 PM
    Gregory if you did not live here at the time (the 60’s) then you are simply mouthing someone elses BS. Later in the 80’s and 90’s NUHS was a top notch school as per its place in Caliornia. I really don’t give a hoot if you believe it or not as it does not matter in the first place, but people can be top notch as a ditch digger or a electronics engineer. A matter of perspective. I get a hint from your posts you have some sort of elite angle.

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar

    So how can you say Manifort out smarted Mueller when it seems assured that he will go to prison unless he has a pardon. He has already been found guilty of 8 or 9 felonies and was awaiting sentencing when he decided to plea bargain. Now the deal is off.
    Bill how do you see this playing out? How is it that Manifort outsmarted Mueller?

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I think this Corsi fellow is going to lead to the demise of the Mueller witch hunt. He has or is going to, file a criminal suit against Mueller for trying to get him to lie to avoid a life term in prison. I think Mueller has overreached and it will come crashing down. I recall too that Trump said Mueller better not come after his money or there will be hell to pay. I don’t think Trump ran for the most important office on the planet to become a pauper.

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar

    Just exactly what is Trump going to do Todd to enact “hell to pay”
    Do you actually think Corci, the bugler for the discredited birther movement is going to bring Mueller down Todd and how is he going to do that?

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  29. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Yes yes and yes

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Todd 628pm
    “Caliornia”, you say. OK.
    The 1970’s experience of a NU to Cal grad was what I was discussing, Todd. Not your glory days of the 1960’s.
    My “elite angle” in the 1990’s and the Oughts was trying to make sure my kid learned everything he would need to know to make his way into any school or major that he wanted. It was hell with McAteer’s whole math and whole language cheerleading but that’s another story.

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  31. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    no collusion,,,no collusion,,, no collusion!!!

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  32. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Toes 613pm
    I was gobsmacked at the Obama quote equating “the three-fifths clause” with identity politics.
    Let we forget, it was the slavers who wanted black slaves counted as a whole person, and abolitionists that wanted them not to count at all when determining congressional apportionment. Three-fifths was a compromise that enabled a Constitution to be ratified.
    Obama said that just this past Tuesday… I found it here
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gutfeld-on-the-curse-of-identity-politics
    I just googled the quote … I’d have used a generally left wing source, but none of the links were to leftist outlets. And besides, Gutfeld got some good zingers in.

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  33. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gregory | 29 November 2018 at 07:23 PM
    I had two sons in the 90’s into the OO’s and it was truly a struggle. Hell they decided to stop teaching cursive! And I attended many school board meetings to have my say in what I thought were crappy teaching skills and the curriculum. I am sure you did as well. Anyway, up until I left the BOS in January 1993, my kids got the treatment from teachers that did not like my politics. Those rat bastards took it out on my kids. So I have a different perspective than many and no patience for those that use kids as foils.

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Gregory, read your responses to Dick Sciaoni and I must say you are making him look silly.

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Wow…
    His Lardness is really dumping on our Punchy for punching here and for letting the so-called “Dr.” Rebane spread his evil thoughts on KVMR, dimming the Unicorn Rainbows that the greater KVMR community wants.
    Paul, how could you?

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  36. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: “His Lardness is really dumping on our Punchy”
    Imagine how much pie is getting on his keyboard from those posts. Perhaps we need to declare a kind of Pelline/Emery quiniela in JP Bingo.
    I was thinking of suggesting some anti-Rebane protests down at the station. They can sharpen their knives and have a kind of Love March thing going on. Get the Stink Ass Stencil Guy (or Girl) working on some signs.
    Seriously, it’s funny how it doesn’t take much to get the Left in an uproar within it’s ranks. Groups made from an alliance are always kind of brittle, but it’s a good explanation of why the Pauls of the world don’t express much in the way of their own opinion. Stray too far, and the Hive Mind attacks. It’s best to play it safe and stick to playing troll.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar

    The best is yet to come. Trumps personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who has flipped on Trump, has testified for 70 hours in front of Mueller. Yes that’s correct 70 hours.
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-cohen-has-cooperation-agreement-with-mueller

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 7:59 pm
    Did anybody else notice the Iron Cross on Merkel’s Air Force German One?
    https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2018-11-30/german-leader-merkel-on-her-way-to-g20-after-plane-problem

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  39. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett

    Psh. I’d go on the radio and discuss issues of importance with Paul any day. As a matter of fact, the most fun I have had in media was debating with Reinette Senum on NCTV. It was a great example of debate but still respecting the person when it was done.
    Yesterday’s FUE freak out is just his way of trying to stop the free flow of ideas and free speech. Pelline can’t debate…he just intimidates. Thankfully his “bully” pulpit has been restricted to an outlier blog after Ackerman got rid of him from The Union.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Meanwhile, Gregory Goodknight/Knightbrook or whatever it is”
    Jeffie, I have never used the second name, and that’s the second or third time you’ve used it for me. One more and you’ll win the prize of your.family being fair game for remarks.

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 30 November 2018 at 08:17 AM
    ….yawn…..!
    You’re really going to have to stop getting worked up over the little things in life Punch.
    Anyway, get back to us is something substantive happens.

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar

    According to Todd The Repubs “won” the last election. Well the Pubber governors sure don’t think so.
    GOP governors call out Trump after midterm drubbing
    Republican governors say the president and the party has to find a way to appeal beyond a narrowing conservative base to avoid losing in 2020.
    Republican governors are warning President Donald Trump that he and the GOP need to make a sharp course correction after their midterm shellacking to avoid losing again in 2020.
    While the president has hailed the election as a “tremendous success” and a “big victory,” Republican governors, who will play a central role in overseeing the GOP’s state-by-state 2020 machinery, are taking stock of the party’s poor performance in the November elections and drawing up plans for major fixes.

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  43. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh my……couldn’t run the local paper……now wants to fix the local radio station!
    Sad…….


    Paul,
    You either don’t get it or you’re so enamored with your provincial “blog war” debates with George Rebane (I see you comment on his blog daily) that you are blind to this on going problem with KVMR’s News Hour programming (a community-wide effort). Check out the comments from others here: What about this don’t you understand? Those segments you refer to are not in response to Rebane’s commentary on the news hour. There is no continuity in the presentation. That’s the journalist’s job! Rebane’s blog is hardly an Algonquin Roundtable; it is the rants of “white flight” from Simi Valley, best known for the acquittal of the police officer in the Rodney King beating. Gee, even Simi Valley, is becoming more diverse. Think Paul!

    Yeah Paul….think…..what could possibly go wrong by taking advice from jeffy?!

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Live and learn –
    “Ballot harvesting” by Democratic Party operatives — a surprise tactic they likely saved for the general election — appears to have made the difference. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday that Democrats ran a disciplined, door-to-door campaign offering to deliver voters’ ballots to the polls:
    Few people noticed when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the changes in AB1921 into law two years ago. In the past, California allowed only relatives or people living in the same household to drop off mail ballots for another voter. The new law allowed anyone, even a paid political campaign worker, to collect and return ballots — “harvesting” them, in political slang.

    In Orange County alone, where every House seat went Democratic, “the number of Election Day vote-by-mail dropoffs was unprecedented — over 250,000,” Fred Whitaker, chairman of the county Republican Party, said in a note to supporters. “This is a direct result of ballot harvesting allowed under California law for the first time. That directly caused the switch from being ahead on election night to losing two weeks later.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/30/blue-state-blues-democrats-stole-the-election-in-california-legally-through-ballot-harvesting/
    😉

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Barry Pruett reference: CHECK
    Clerk Recorder election reference: CHECK
    Dr Phil reference: CHECK

    “I have not mentioned Pruett’s name for weeks. But out of the blue, he suddenly jumps into the local blogosphere to launch a personal attack. He seems to have a lot of bottled up anger, going back to losing the clerk-recorder’s race against Greg Diaz — in every precinct, no less. I wonder if Dr. Phil could help him.”

    Wow……jeffy, in full flail mode! It must sound like running in flip-flops on the beach!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3VhoKCIkM

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