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Sandbox – 8dec18

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  1. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Those darn French have surprised me. Looks like Macron needs Mueller’s help to survive. Maybe Trump colluded with him?

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  2. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    There really needs to be an investigation. There is no way she could not have known. Besides. LIBS live for investigations. So a few against them should be encouraged.
    https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article222775590.html
    Kamala Harris aide who resigned after harassment case was one of her closest confidantes

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Paris
    As a result of losing its soul, France has also been losing its body—its people, communities, business, and infrastructure. Like the rest of the developed world, the French are having fewer children and compensate for the population loss by taking in more immigrants. Consequently, the Parisian slums keep expanding while French villages gradually disappear.
    The lucky few French workers who actually have a job labor under heavier tax burdens and can afford little. Middle-class families are lucky if they own a small apartment, an economy car, and a set of cheap clothes from China. The luxury products sold on the Champs-Elysees and elsewhere are mainly for the rich.
    The most striking sign of decline in France for people visiting, however, is the disintegrating infrastructure. The government will go to great lengths to keep its landmarks safe and relatively clean, but it cannot hide the graffiti that mars everything, from train cars to buildings. It also cannot extinguish the stench of urine, feces, and body odor from the homeless, permeating every public space. Even if the roads are kept up in most places (thanks to high fuel prices, high tolls, and light, fuel-efficient cars), the subways and trains are decades old and decrepit.
    To make matters worse, French cities feature ghettos of unassimilated immigrants who pose an ever-increasing drag on the economy and culture. They do not speak French; they do not work; some of them follow Muslim Sharia law; and they make up much of the country’s poverty, crime, and terrorism (“no-go zones”). They also collect handsome taxpayer benefits. For this reason, the protesters are also calling for France to vote against the UN migration pact, an agreement that would undermine participating countries’ efforts to regulate migration.
    The Elites Fail to Respond to a Dying France
    http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/07/riots-france-arent-just-gas-taxes-wests-decline/

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  4. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    “His memory was so bad I feared he might not remember how to get out of the room after the interview,” an unnamed congressman told Solomon. “It was like he suddenly developed dementia or Alzheimer’s, after conveniently remembering enough facts to sell his book,” said another.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/08/james-comey-admits-steele-dossier-unverified-months-after-fisa-warrant-granted/

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    On the up side, hordes charging the border finally proves that walls do indeed. work. On the down side, there is not enough wall.
    “Univision anchor Jorge Ramos made a similar observation last week while he was at the migrant camp in Tijuana, Mexico. Ramos reported that migrants were becoming “more intelligent” and finding porous spots along the border that they could exploit enter the United States illegally.
    “If you go five miles that way or 25 miles that way, the wall that you see behind me disappears,” Ramos said. “If they don’t see a legal possibility of applying for political asylum, they’re just going to go a few miles… [and] they are going to try to do it illegally.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/05/nyt-migrants-believe-best-bet-is-finding-blind-spots-along-border/

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Doesn’t need to be just about Russia. Thought you knes that. It’s a pleasure to educate you. Here’s the details”
    -Punchy
    Just about Russia?
    Funny, Paul… it doesn’t seem to be about Russia at all now, does it?

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  7. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “it doesn’t seem to be about Russia at all now, does it”
    You can get a lot done when your primary weaponry is looking for perjury and conspiracy. Next thing you know, the Black Maria shows up and the perps get whisked off to the Lubyanka.
    Such is life in the Land of the 17 Intelligence Agencies.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Ha
    This is a tweet from Trump 3012 about Obama and the fact he had three Chiefs of Staff in three years. Trumps is going for his Third
    in two years.
    “3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @Barack Obama can’t manage to pass his agenda.”
    12:07 PM – Jan 10, 2012

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  9. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Bingo! Punchy changes the subject! I win!

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    During the down time yesterday, I took the opportunity to browse the archives. I forget all the minute by minute blows that we no longer discuss endlessly. There was Trump using stolen e-mails to “enchance” his election. Enchance came after Trump used stolen e-mails to help his election. Then there was treason. Trump treason, but when someone said Clapper and a couple others from the previous administration should be tried for treason….oh boy, treason only applies to Trump’s treasonous actions with Putin. Nice walk down memory lane.
    I figure Trump would have set up non disclosure agreements whether he was running for President or not. Like using stolen e-mails to help his campaign, guess non disclosure agreements, if used to help a campaign, is a big no-no. Wonder if internal polling is a no-no as well. It will all play out. Water finds its own level.
    When the RR comment function went down, I figured it was just the Chi-Coms. It was the tread when everything shut down. S They have been monitoring everybody everywhere and there is plenty of proof they monitor people on social media on US soil…as well as e-mails, bank accounts, etc. No place is safe from the Communist bastards if you criticize them, at home or abroad. They are a ruthless bunch, mean mothers, and will slam you with the iron fist. Don’t tolerate dissent or opposing views. Their way or the highway….the highway to evisceration. Then I thought I could have been the Leftinistas. Leftinistas or ChiComs……ain’t much dfference between the two. I certainly can’t tell them apart.
    I just love this pic of My Gal. The smartest woman in America. She should learn to lighten up and move on. Maybe grow a beard like Al Gore did after 2000 and teach a course at Harvard or something. Maybe New York City College.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296/1496544943812871/?type=3&source=48
    Well, we already knew who wore the mom jeans in that family.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1496091967191502/?type=3&source=48

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 08 December 2018 at 11:52 PM
    So we’re playing Punchy Bingo now? Is that where there are four comments that pertain to a topic and a fifth where Punch completely and suddenly changes the subject in order to not answer a question or alter the direction of commenting because it’s making him look bad?
    Can’t wait to play!
    Oh wait…..I’ve been playing for the last five years!

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  12. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,here is my Xmas list Fish,,,Thanks in advance
    https://www.diaperbuys.com/adult-incontinence/adult-diapers/

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    SacBee today page 3A. Seven targeted Congressional Districts in California. Democrats raised and spent 50 million to the R’s 20 million. And all this time those democrats decried Citizens United. Bloomberg sent in 5 million at the end.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: M | 09 December 2018 at 08:45 AM
    Nice!
    dugsKKKi you have been far less useless as of late! Expect Santa and an 18 wheelers worth of gifts on Christmas Eve!

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  15. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    ToddJ 926am – Now that’s an unfair revelation. Everyone knows that Citizens United was put on the books only to help the Rs and not the Ds. So bringing up results like that is a no-no.

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Found the union article by Todd titled “That coming wave has turned red”. Nov 3
    Shows how delusional Todd is. Just for laughs look it up.

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  17. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery all I said was born out except the House. So I win you lose.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Todd
    Of the three main elements in the Midterm Elections the Dems flipped 40 in the House (may be 41-more about that later) the Dems flipped 6 Governor seats and lost 2 in the Senate. Are you are actually calling the midterms a “Red Wave”!!!!
    You are as delusional as your guy the Swartz when he was famously quoted as saying “I will fix it” when he became the Republican governor . Schwarzenegger, your guy Todd.

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  19. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    Todd @ 9:26 am
    Noticed they have not been bitching about the Devil Twins Koch Brothers from the Senate floor on a weekly basis ever since they realized the Koch Bros rather are partial to the liberal immigration policies such as catch and release. Chamber of Commerce wants us to take in all of them as well. Come to think about it, they haven’t been bitching vocally over Soros or Tom Steyer either. Guess they are a bitched out.
    CA turning super majority blue has taken decades in the making. Compare Santa Ana in the shadow of Disneyland in the 70’s to the Santa Ana in 2014. Got much bigger and poorer. But, the real point is the CA R’s in CA had a pathetic ground game down south …and we can’t bitch if we got outspent and out hustled. Yes, they are fleeing the cities and spreading like gangrene, creeping even over the CA borders.
    My sister once drove to Phoenix to stay a few days in the mid seventies and she said a couple of people were throwing rocks at her yelling, “Californians go home!” Then someone later was yelling “Californians go home as she pulled out of a supermarket parking lot, lol.
    Somethings have remained the same, but you can’t convince the Progressies how most other states view them. Californian Lefties have given our State a bad name.
    Do you know rare it is to lose the House and pic up seats in the Senate? Something like 83% odds against. And Oscar Cortex won her seat with something 18,000 total votes to her opponent’s 15,000 votes in a primary with around 19% turnout. She out hustled her incumbent opponent….and the district turned from a mix of ethnicities from the Ellis Island wave to something like 6-1 Latino in neighboorhoods in less than twenty years.
    But, yeah, don’t hear too much wailing and gnashing of broken teeth over Citizens United lately. Maybe Oscar Cortez will bring attention to it. She will shake things up. I do like her idealism of youth. 🙂
    That was then, this is now. How quickly minds change.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=deGg41IiWwU
    ———————————-

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  20. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,Tozet,,,now you know how it feels,,,those states that don’t want the Cali Caravan coming to their cities
    Like the great Central Amerian Caravan detractors,,,Arizona, Idaho, Oregon, et al don’t want our kind in their backyards,,,but you are fooling yourself if you think it is for political reasons,,,nope
    They don’t like our buying power and that we will be clogging their cities with our need for endless trips to strip malls and pricing the local yahoos out of the real estate market.

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy… and how many more DEM governors are there, compared to GOP?
    What, you say there are more GOP gubernators than Dems? Well, better luck in 2020.
    Here’s the face of the new House who, unlike She Guevara, actually will have subpoena powers:
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dta4VDTVsAE1wOr.jpg

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  22. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,speaking of the Great Caravan,,,looks like the PinHead-in-Chief,,,his state news outlets,,,The Military,,,and the true believers were having paranoid fantasms of epic proportions.
    https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/migrant-caravan/sd-me-where-are-the-caravan-members-20181206-story.html

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  23. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    The GV Onion has been providing some entertainment lately:
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/don-rogers-climate-bill-rings-a-bell/
    Don has apparently had his bell rung a few too many times.
    Money quote (literally) – “I believe carbon emitters should pay the fuller cost of their effect on the environment we all share. And I like the idea of lowering the tax load on citizens, including, well, me. I like the projected increase in jobs, more money in people’s pockets, Democrats and Republicans working together to solve a real problem, a solution that would make an actual dent.”
    Oh don’t worry, Don – they’ll be a dent all right.
    What’s not to like? Those A-hole farmers, ranchers, truckers, construction companies and other producers of goods and energy will have to pay through the nose for being so evil. And then the govt will lower your taxes? And then there’s the ‘projected’ increase of jobs.
    Can some one go over to the Union offices and see if Don is OK?
    Even for him, this is off the rails insanity.
    Then there’s D. Berkheimer weighing in on how other people should spend their money according to what Darrell thinks is best.
    https://www.theunion.com/opinion/darrell-berkheimer-missing-the-targets-on-needed-housing/
    The opinion piece Darrell wrote is so filled with non-sense it would take hours to go over it. Read and weep for yourself.

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery is so delusional. He picked up one branch of Congress by 40 compared to 2010 where we R’s and te Tea OParty picked up 63. We have a majority in the Senate, SCOTUS Governors, state legislatures and trifectas. Yet Paul Emery must be on a mind-altering substance to think he won. Can’t make that up if I tried.

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  25. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    M 1212pm – So you think that the ‘caravan’ would have dissolved all by itself had President Trump not put up a good border defense? Doing the same-ol’-same-ol’ would have had all them migrants, after having made a couple of thousand mile dangerous trip to get to our border, when they got there they would have said ‘Aw shucks, just kidding, we’re going back home.’?? While that view is remarkable on its own, it is nevertheless completely consistent within the worldview you have displayed in these pages.

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  26. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    M at 12:12 – Actually if you read the article, you’d see that Trump did the correct thing.
    “paranoid fantasms”?
    from the article – “A top Mexican official told one news organization that about 1,000 members of the caravan have already left for Honduras.”
    And that’s only some of the ‘fantasm’. How can what didn’t happen go back to Honduras?
    Thanks for posting, M.

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  27. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Proggys better be careful. If they keep looking to make hush money criminal,, then MOST elected LIBS will be looking at prison time.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt
    I bet Putin is laughing his arse off right now looking at the absurdity of it all. Oh my.

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No rancid Russian dressing –
    https://news.yahoo.com/case-trump-stronger-ever-190800606.html
    😉

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  30. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Walt@01: 32 PM And after Putin stops laughing, his immediate reaction should be “Holy S**t what happens if the Proggy’s go too far” They are known for overreaching, Putin should be scared.

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    You gotta agree that the Dems got the best of the Pubbers in the midterms. How could you assume otherwise?

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  32. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Well,, Putin would just march over any country he cares too.
    The Left are yellow bellied and would not think twice to standing up to Putin. “You want the Ukraine? it’s all yours!” (LIBS like Commies. They are just one or two “identities” away, and have one just about seated.)

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  33. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Scott@ 12:45 PM You are correct the environmental wackos in Truckee and Lake Tahoe have been ringing Don’s bell big time. I have had some email exchanges with him over the climate change/global warming issues, pointing to the facts, and the best he would concede was the correction at the end of his last editorial. I continue to correct his scientific misses and distortions, but I am only one voice and there are multiple voices from the squirrel bait in the Tahoe Basin beating on him. Hope I live long enough to see the Next Grand Minimum, now forecast for a start in 2020. We just had the coldest November in 50 years, maybe we will get an early start.
    https://nextgrandminimum.com/2018/11/22/professor-valentina-zharkova-breaks-her-silence-and-confirms-super-grand-solar-minimum/

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  34. Bill Tozef Avatar
    Bill Tozef

    Dr. Rebane @12:47
    The caravan members of 6 thousand strong moved to the sports complex….well only about have half stayed there. Slipping out a night undetected and heading over near Calexico and crossing in smaller numbers. That “We are Here at the Door, Hear Us Roar” and “Here We Come, ready or not” plan didn’t work out for them. Surely they can’t catch all of us if we charge the border as a group all at once. Worked great at the Guatemala border and the Mexican southern border. The Surge done got repelled. Back to more tried and true method, Obama style. They can always apply for asylum later if the get picked up living in somewhere in America,
    Have you seen the U.N. migrate pact? Chile just bailed from it…even that ‘non-country’ Belgium as Nigel Farrage called them. lol. An Italy is playing sneaky by sending it to their Parliament to die there.
    No distinguishing between alysum seekers and economic migrants and other classifications of immigrants. No mas. It’s a human right. They must be accepted in with full social services…and the Right to Vote…everywhere. And, of course, all are to be referred to as migrants. No other term is acceptable.
    Justin the Canadian boy toy is still all in on the U.N. migration pack.

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  35. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    RT sez:
    https://www.rt.com/news/446023-un-migration-pact-controversy/

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  36. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    But Paul keeps saying he lost! Yet here he is. Headed back to D.C.!
    Maybe Paul can explain the discrepancy.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/u-s-rep-doug-lamalfa-heads-into-new-congress-as-member-of-the-minority/

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Never said he lost the election Walt, only that he lost Nevada County. He’s one of only seven, yes that’s SEVEN Republicans from California in the House.

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  38. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    That’s right Emery, make your excuses. Your own words..”He lost”.
    NOW you stutter your disclaimer. You sure where crowing before.
    How many times was it pointed out to you? How many times did you ignore it?
    We know,, you were just being your typical TROLL self.

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Never said he (LaMalfa) lost the election Walt. Show me where I did.

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  40. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    R’s won across the land. California and the northeast are hardcore left. But we still have the majority in most other places and states. That is a clear victory for the Republicans.

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  41. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    Well, on one hand the Dems can put the Russian Collusion away as they turn their attention to ILLEGAL campaign finance felonies…like not reporting the payment. Weak case, but make sure the word ILLEGAL is splashed across every talking point in bold print for awhile. Sure, we got to wait for the final report AND, more importantly, the IG report.
    On the other hand, the investigation into the origins and our government’s promotion of the entire Russian Collusion story has barely scratched the surface. Unlike Meuller’s investigation, bigger fish are yet to fry. Comey is just a bit player. Moving on up.
    When I want to read the truth and not hype, good or bad, I can trust Andrew MacCarthy to say what this latest hubbaloo actually. means. There have been so many false flags going up that (to be candid) I don’t bother even reading the stories lately.
    “But when Cohen pleaded guilty in August, prosecutors induced him to make an extraordinary statement in open court: the payments to the women were made “in coordination with and at the direction of” the candidate for federal office – Donald Trump.
    “Prosecutors would not have done this if the president was not on their radar screen. Indeed, if the president was not implicated, I suspect they would not have prosecuted Cohen for campaign finance violations at all. Those charges had a negligible impact on the jail time Cohen faces, which is driven by the more serious offenses of tax and financial institution fraud, involving millions of dollars.
    “Moreover, campaign finance infractions are often settled by payment of an administrative fine, not turned into felony prosecutions. To be sure, federal prosecutors in New York City have charged them as felonies before – most notably in 2014 against Dinesh D’Souza, whom Trump later pardoned.
    “In marked contrast, though, when it was discovered that Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was guilty of violations involving nearly $2 million – an amount that dwarfs the $280,000 in Cohen’s case – the Obama Justice Department decided not to prosecute. Instead, the matter was quietly disposed of by a $375,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andrew-c-mccarthy-why-trump-is-likely-to-be-indicted-by-manhattan-us-attorney

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  42. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Not playing your game Paul. We all know what you said.
    You really DO forget so soon.

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    The Pubbers are down to 199 seats in the House. That’s a loss of 48 since 2014 when the Pubs had 247. That’s part of the Trump legacy. Full steam ahead for the Dems and their roaring comeback in the House and Govs.

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  44. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    We retain the Senate and the SCOTUS and the presidency. Got you beat like a drum.

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  45. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Can’t win it all at once Todd. It took the Pubsters three election cycles to flip things. Now the Dems are roaring back.
    California Pubblers need you Todd. What do you plan to do?

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    In other news we can use:
    More people died from lettuce last month than AR-15s.
    Chess is banned in college town because White goes first and the Queen must protect the King.
    Groupon is offering deals. An Evening with the Clintons tickets worth $77.80 is now on sale for 35 dollars. What a deal. In related events, having 41 pass away screwed up the former first lady’s Texas show. Had to postphone that one. No wonder My Gal looked so spiteful at the funeral. It was her turn in the spotlight at her Tour! And not a line ‘is focus grouped’ ….which sounds like a focus grouped line.
    Mexican police officer pleads and trys to reason with caravan members; “That’s not what men do!” Bless him for trying.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3nq9yu_6Hew
    Asylum? What does it mean.
    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/59896-worthy-asylum-seekers-or-not?fbclid=IwAR0RwQoJWq7q0KRMR3h688d3riaiodSgUDeSb4e7uH9MrpSYOcB8z_YB5Ag
    Later.

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  47. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Russ 2:00 – It really doesn’t matter what you think about the ‘science’ of AGW. That debate will run endlessly. What gets me are people like Don claiming that taxing energy will be this big warm wonderful multifunctional blessing for the economy. There isn’t any debate there. If you raise the cost of extracting raw materials, raising crops, raising animals, manufacturing goods and on top of that – raising the cost of moving it all hither and yon, what happens to the cost of everything?
    Maybe some one might get a little cash back, but if you want to eat and keep your house at something above 20 degrees in the winter you’re going to have to pay a lot more than anything you might get from the govt. It’s already been tried and it doesn’t work. Perhaps Don could catch up a little on the news from France? Or would that be too much for the lad?
    And what does Don have to say about the green ‘leaders’ crowing that implementing these wondrous solutions will usher in the destruction of capitalism? Crickets.

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  48. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Smart kid. doesn’t want to get stuck with an ugly Trump stain.
    Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff and the top choice to move into the same role for the president, declined the offer and will leave the White House in the next few weeks, according to several media reports.
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nick-ayers-decline-trump-chief-staff_us_5c0a9421e4b04046345bcbbd

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  49. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 09 December 2018 at 04:28 PM
    Is it your belief that declining a Chief of Staff position is a sound career move?

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  50. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Why would anyone want to work for Trump. This is what he said about his former Sec of state:
    “Mike Pompeo is doing a great job, I am very proud of him. His predecessor, Rex Tillerson, didn’t have the mental capacity needed. He was dumb as a rock and I couldn’t get rid of him fast enough. He was lazy as hell. Now it is a whole new ballgame, great spirit at State!”
    Trump is emotionally retarded. Who would want to work for him. Oh here’s an idea-Todd, you’re looking for a job. You will be a good fit with Trump.

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