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311 responses to “Sandbox – 8dec18”

  1. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1119am – campaign claims of hopeful fulfillment, or advertising copy if you will. For you they are no doubt “outright lies”, which, of course, have hundreds of analogs having come from the mouths of Dems. However, vigorous economic growth is the ONLY means by which deficits can be eliminated and the debt starting to be reduced. As I’ve shown in these pages, the rate of sustained GDP growth required for such a happy time is >5%, very hard to achieve for an economy as large as ours that needs to concurrently fund massive entitlements and military. One mo’ time – the dollar must be destroyed.

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    At what point are you going to concede that Trump is full of poop and you can’t believe a word he says because he makes it up with no research or verification of the facts. And yet you still rail on about Obama and his Obamacare misstatements. what is the difference? Oh yeah. Mexico is going to pay for the wall-right George!

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  3. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 December 2018 at 11:41 AM
    What do you care Paul? It’s not going to change anything!

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar

    Fish
    Do you believe Mexico is going to pay for the wall and Trump is going to balance the budget?

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 December 2018 at 12:07 PM
    Do you believe Mexico is going to pay for the wall and Trump is going to balance the budget?

    Doesn’t matter what I believe….Trump is already president. Unless something catastrophic happens to the country economically (a possibility growing more likely daily I grant you) Trump will almost certainly be president after the 2020 election.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Interesting reading of this discussion of inflation. Nothing to add, save…..
    It’s been awhile since I sat in a freshman classroom learning bonehead macro economics 101 (taught by a top VP of Geneal Motors back in the day), but I do remember that one component of inflation was the velocity of the dollar.
    All my freshman. professors back then (most with Fortune 100 experience and doctorates) repeatedly warned us youngins to be wary of those who taught subjects for 30 years at prestigious institutions of higher learning The esteemed ones who write text books and haven’t a clue what they are talking about as applied to the real world where real money and real dollars and real production and real consumption is on the line. Monopoly board game money does not cut it….well, maybe for Government.
    Carry on. Read this article last night. Not on inflation, but eerily familiar….kicking the can down the road is not just about continuing resolutions.
    “Correa thought he was a genius and he has escaped accountability by giving the problem to someone else,” Albornoz said. “Moreno knew he was inheriting a country in bad shape but wasn’t fully aware of the things he has to do to correct the problem.”
    “Jaime Carrera, director of the watchdog Fiscal Policy Observatory, said the IMF is sure to set conditions for any bailout, including a likely demand that Moreno cut at least 10 percent of the 450,000-strong central government workforce and end all or most of $4 billion in annual fuel subsidies for consumers. Meeting those preconditions will carry a political cost, he said.
    Although Correa has been made the scapegoat for Ecuador’s problems, economics dean Albornoz also blamed Moreno for not doing enough to reduce state budgets since he took office in May 2017. Government spending, which Correa nearly tripled over his decade in office, is still too high, he said.
    “Has Moreno learned anything? I’m afraid not. I don’t see any austerity in the government and there should be a lot of it,” Albornoz said. “The IMF is a bank and it expects to be paid. But with no austerity plan, a huge deficit and public expenditures rising, it’s going to be difficult for Moreno to get a loan.”
    https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/ecuador-is-feeling-pain-of-china-loans/article_3456b756-956e-57ec-a869-94251437ae9a.html

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trump is losing support from what was once his core support.
    “Estranged Trump supporter Ann Coulter on Tuesday lashed out at President Donald Trump for blatantly lying about having built large sections of his proposed border wall.
    On Twitter, Coulter posted a link to a fact-check article from the Washington Post that took the president to task for falsely claiming that much of the wall had already been built.
    ““Even a Washington Post reporter knows that not one inch of Trump’s wall has been built,” she wrote. “Does Trump think his supporters are dumber than a WaPo reporter?”
    Trump tweet:
    ….People do not yet realize how much of the Wall, including really effective renovation, has already been built. If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!
    I mean his guy is seriously mentally ill.
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/think-supporters-dumb-ann-coulter-lashes-trump-lying-built-wall/

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  8. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 109pm – Border porosity is the issue, the reduction of which no one knows much. How many feet of an actual wall is built is just one factor that reduces porosity, and today is used as a red herring in the TDS repertoire.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    So you disagree with Ann Coulter when she says “Does Trump think his supporters are dumber than a WaPo reporter?”?

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  10. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ann Coulter! I love that woman.
    Dumber than a WaPo journalist? That’s pretty dumb. That’s real dumb. And that’s my Ann. Last time she said something exactly like that happened to be when she (and I ) thought Trump was wavering on Border Security. The Left does not want Border Security, no way, no how. Now that that lying corrupt War Monger McCain kicked the bucket and Flake and Corker and Paul Ryan are gone or leaving, things are looking up. Besides, Brain Dead John was only polling at 20% so at least he did not have to face a stunning boot from the voters and see his political flag at half mast when he was still sucking air.
    Hold his feet to the fire, Ann! Shut down the gov’t, like do it now! No more continuing resolutions. The American people want border security and the Leftinistas are on the wrong side on this one. Every poll shows it for quite awhile. Congress has to get off their duffs and write a budget. They have absconded their constitutional duties for too long. Come on Mitch, do your job.
    Besides, it won’t be a shut down. 70% of the government is already funded through 2019 ROFLMAO. 1/6 of government we can live without anyway. Non essential. The welfare checks will keep coming, that’s all that matters. Who cares about NPR, anyway.
    I can see the media finding that guy concessionaire who gives sleigh rides in Jellystone Park, whining about the shut down affecting the money lining his pockets again. He is their go-to guy. Fakenews will just roll old footage. And who cares if somebody who has never stepped foot in the USA can’t get a Visa from some foreign embassy to come to Disneyland and shout Allah is Great. They can go to France.
    Shut down the government and nobody notices anyway. It’s the only tool Trump has right now.
    Dumber than a Wa Compost reporter? That is too funny. You go girl.

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Trump losing support from his core? Sorry to telkl you that is a boogus claim. Rasmussen has him at 49%.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump want transparency. Transparency and Border Security. The Democrats want neither. Love how they chuck and jive.
    SCHUMER: “When the President brags that he won North Dakota and Indiana, he is in real trouble.”
    TRUMP: “I did. We did win North Dakota and Indiana.”
    PELOSI: “We came in here in good faith and we’re entering into this kind of a discussion in the public view.”
    TRUMP: “But it’s not bad, Nancy. It’s called transparency.”
    PELOSI: “I know. It’s not transparency when we are not stipulating to a set of facts and we want to have a debate about you, confront some of these facts.”
    TRUMP: “You know what? We need border security. That’s what we will be talking about. Border security. If we don’t have border security, we will shut down the government. This country needs border security. The wall is a part of border security. Let’s have a talk. We will get the wall built and we have done a lot of wall already. It’s a big part of it.”
    https://news.grabien.com/story-pelosi-schumer-tell-trump-not-discuss-border-funding-talks-p
    The Dems Border Security plan has no border security in it, ROFLMAO.

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  13. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Trump showed crying chuck and Palotti what a leader is all about.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 2:21 pm: Yep, and Avenatti recently had his law office door locks changed by property management and got evicted for not paying rent. Oh, he has money stashed around.. Last week the court ordered him to pay $160,000/month alimony, ROFLMAO.
    ————————————————
    Timely quotes from this time in space.
    Upright: “Brexit is to Britain like the Wall is to America. The people want it but they keep electing people who don’t want it. Governments not representing the will of the people. Why? They know what’s best for you, you don’t.” —Chuck Woolery
    Doh! “I have noticed that [Donald Trump] Junior here has a habit of posting nonsense about me whenever the Mueller investigation heats up. Please, keep it coming Jr — it’s definitely a ‘very, very large brain’ idea to troll a member of a body that will have subpoena power in a month. Have fun!” —Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez breaching House ethics rules
    Can’t we all just get along? “So basically when you think about how we’re going to succeed and actually kick their a—, it’s going to be based on justice — environmental justice, economic justice, and coloration. … And so when we look at what’s going to happen in 2020, we are going to have to crush these people. … The time for politeness is over.” —billionaire socialist Tom Steyer, as if leftists who personally attack their opponents have ever been polite
    The BIG Lie: “Most folks can find [ObamaCare] coverage for $50 to $100 per month. That’s probably less than your cell phone bill.” —Barack Obama
    Political hack: “All of us should use every breath we have to make sure the lying stops on Jan. 20, 2021. I understand the Democrats have important debates now over who their candidate should be, but they have to win. They have to win.” —former FBI Director James Comey
    And last… “I was just minding my own business, looking for people to crucify on my witch hunt (instead of dealing with my own pain) and I discovered something terrible: The classic Christmas song, ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside,’ is about date rape! It’s either I’m wrong or the song’s always been about date rape, and it’s just taken 74 years for someone as intelligent as me to finally come along and discover it. And it’s not that I’m wrong.” —comedian JP Sears mocking the controversy
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101893772611776&set=gm.528050551043782&type=3&theater&ifg=1

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 11 December 2018 at 02:44 PM
    Trump showed crying chuck and Palotti what a leader is all about.

    It’s as though you’re referencing an entirely different meeting than the one conducted this morning!

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 124pm – That question is beyond irrelevance in this discussion thread. Those Trump supporters, who believe that ‘building the wall’ means that only a high and deep physical barrier will secure the southern border, probably are dumber than WaPo readers.
    The overwhelming share of people (mostly Republicans) believe/know that ‘securing our border’ means lowering its porosity to a tolerable level (mine is 15K illegals per year) which, if achieved, will be with a mix of technologies that are appropriate to the terrain, nearby populations, and expected rates of assault. ‘The Wall’ will most likely be a flexible system that can be rapidly reconfigured to bring assets to bear near the greatest threats of penetration. (I can’t believe that I just went through all this again. It’s like talking to 2x4s with faces painted on them.)

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    You’re actually still quoting Rasmussen Todd???? Unbelievable. They were so far off the mark in the midterms they are now considered a joke. Even Gregory won’t talk about them anymore. You know how to pick um-what was it-“unsqued” polls that
    you were gooing over in ’12 that picked Romney.
    By the way there’s talk of a Biden-Romney ticket. When Trump dumps, which won’t be long, the Repubs will have no place to go. Stay tuned.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    PualEmery says: “By the way there’s talk of a Biden-Romney ticket.”
    Yeah, I see that.
    https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1072584541943054339
    A graphic I like:
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhCq3e_WkAEnvgl.jpg:small

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 11 December 2018 at 03:29 PM

    She really does look like the cute but totally psychotic chick that you have no business thinking about!

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “When Trump dumps, which won’t be long,…..”
    Wish I had a dollar for everytime I heard that one since….well, some even before the Inauguration. Big sigh. No, I don’t fieel like running down the list again. 30 day max, 60 days max, 6 months, guareented. Mark the tape.
    Correct me if I am wrong, but zero chance does not fall in the margin of error of 3. Dude, there is no margin of error with zero chance, is there? Leaves no wiggle room. 🙂
    Dumber than a Wa Po journalist. Love that pearl. Warms me up all over. This one is better:
    (I can’t believe that I just went through all this again. It’s like talking to 2x4s with faces painted on them.)
    Remember that time CNN hired 3 crack investigative journalists (producers) to dig up the goods on Lying Trump and Putin sitting in a tree, k. i.s.s.i.n.g or obstruction of justice, ….and they pumped all that money and time and long hours into that story and get it out on the air…only for the 3 to get fired shortwith.
    If I only had a dollar for everytime……..

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  21. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    ” Those Trump supporters, who believe that ‘building the wall’ means that only a high and deep physical barrier will secure the southern border, probably are dumber than WaPo readers.”
    -George R
    Actually, the WaPo readers a’gin the wall ALSO think the big wall will keep people out… which is why they’re so against it.
    Thar’s plenty of dumbth to go around.

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  22. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy 311pm
    There hasn’t been an election so I’ve not had a reason to quote Rasmussen, Paul.
    They were off on one number and only one number. Not a big deal to anyone but you.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mike Hucklebee nails it. Good timing. A day before today’s TV cameras were invited into Oval Office. Two against one, eh? Huck comes up with good ones from time to time.
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1498142313653134/?type=3&source=48
    Boy, a lot of R congressmen are cleaning out their DC offices right about now. A lot of them were the ones who opposed the wall. Go figure. 🙂

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery was quoting Rasmussen just last week as a good source. It must hav been something in his favor. Now he hates them again.
    Biden and Romney? Jeeze, keep te oxygen close by.
    The wall? Trump schooled the two dipshits this morning. And if it gets built it will supply a endless number of acrobats for the circus. Well if we had a circus. Nimble chaps only.

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  25. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Nancy Palotti and Crying Chuck were sure sputtering in the driveway after their spanking. Love it!

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  26. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Planet wide Gallup poll. 158 million want to move here now. Hay Paul Emery, how many can you take in?

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    On no. Trump is in legal jeopardy now. Uncovered footage is about to hit the fan. I will keep you posted.
    https://www.facebook.com/KidRockForUSSenate/videos/2118480675046088/UzpfSTEwMDAxODQ5NTA5NDI5MDo1MjcxMjI1NDExMzY1ODM/

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Mike Flynn defense memo tidbits:
    “In one striking detail, footnotes in the Flynn memo say the 302 report cited was dated Aug. 22, 2017 — nearly seven months after the Flynn interview. It is not clear why the report would be written so long after the interview itself.
    The brief excerpts from the 302 used in the Flynn defense memo will likely spur more requests from Congress to see the original FBI documents. Both House and Senate investigating committees have demanded that the Justice Department allow them to see the Flynn 302, but have so far been refused.”
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/memo-fbi-recommended-michael-flynn-not-have-lawyer-present-during-interview-did-not-warn-of-false-statement-consequences

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar

    The swamp is draining. Trumps lawyer Cohen heading for the slammer. Will join Manifort for years of lifting weights and reminiscing about the good ole days with the Orange one.

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  30. ***M*** Avatar
    ***M***

    ,,,the nails are in the coffin,,,the stake is being sharpened,,,Trump is sweating bullets,,,Vlad sent to nuke jets to Venezuela to show support for Trumpski

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  31. Paul Emery Avatar

    Next up the greaser twins- Don Jr and Pretty Boy Kushner. Stay tuned!!!

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Oh I think your heros Hillary and Billary are next. They did so many illegal things they will be roommates with Cohen. Also the issues Cohen and Manifort are being jailed for are before the campaign.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar

    Gosh and Golly Todd. Can you tell me what Hill Bill are being charged with? The greaser twins are next up on the docket. Trump has a Republican Congress and his appointees in the Justice Department but nothing on Hill-Bill. How do you explain that?

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Senior citizens arrested after ‘large amount of cocaine’ found stashed on cruise ship.

    The septuagenarians, who are thought to be a couple, were detained in Lisbon……! I would have thought that you and dugsKKKi had more common sense!
    https://q13fox.com/2018/12/11/senior-citizens-arrested-after-large-amount-of-cocaine-found-stashed-on-cruise-ship/

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  35. '''M''' Avatar
    ”’M”’

    ,,,fish,,,coke mule pays better than Walmart greeter,,,except for Depends discount
    + if you get prison time you could fare better than at old folks home!!!

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ”’M”’ | 12 December 2018 at 10:53 AM
    Well at least you’ve owned up to it! And hey, those Depends™ discounts are nothing to be sneezed at!

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Quote of the day
    “But Trump sent the military instead of social workers.” Lol. Now, why would all those hard working famly folk need social workers? Why? Why?
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/caravan-migrants-in-mexico-demand-trump-either-let-them-in-u-s-or-pay-them-50000-each-to-go-back-home

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  38. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Wow oh Wow
    RR’s favorite Judge and a commentator on Fox news is saying Trump committed a felony. Read this carefully:
    “On Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney pleaded guilty to crimes involving a scheme to pay off two women Trump had affairs with.
    Fox News host Shep Smith discussed the developments with the network’s legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, who said Trump appears to be in deep trouble.
    Fox News host Shep Smith discussed the developments with the network’s legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, who said Trump appears to be in deep trouble.
    “We learned that the federal prosecutors here in New York City, not Bob Mueller and his team in Washington D.C., career prosecutors have evidence that the president of the United States committed a felony by ordering and paying Michael Cohen to break the law,” he said. “How do we know that? They told that to a federal judge and under the rules, they can’t tell that to a federal judge unless they have the evidence.”
    Napolitano said the prosecutors who handled this are pros—and that this increases his confidence they got it right.
    “The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, a Donald Trump appointee taking a page from Jeff Sessions book, recused himself, leaving this case in the hands of the full-time career professional prosecutors,” he said. “They’re the ones that prosecuted Michael Cohen, told the federal judge that Donald Trump orchestrated these unlawful payments.”
    Trump appears to be guilty of a felony, said Napolitano.
    “The felony is paying Michael Cohen to commit a felony. It’s pretty basic,” he said, explaining how hiring someone to commit a crime makes you guilty of that crime. “You’re liable, criminally liable for the commission of that crime. That’s what the prosecutors told the federal judge.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2018/12/president-trump-felon-fox-news-legal-analyst/

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 12 December 2018 at 02:00 PM
    RR’s favorite Judge and a commentator on Fox news is saying Trump committed a felony.

    I know it’s difficult Paul but you should acknowledge the Napolitano is your favorite judge. I don’t recall any substantive praise from anyone else here directed towards him or his opinions!

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    How long have you been reading this blog Fish? RR used to gush over the Judge when he had good news about Trump. the news is not so good anymore. Did you follow the link and listen to the conversation with Sheb Smith? If not you don’t have a clue what this is about.

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    No Paul Emery, no gushing. He has an opinion just like you and many times he is wrong just like you. Trump is guilty of nothing.

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  42. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Superised you guys missed this. Just passed yesterday by the BOS
    “New Nevada County firearm rules go into effect Jan. 10
    People in Nevada County will be prohibited from firing a gun between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. starting next month.
    The restriction is one of many included in an ordinance passed unanimously Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors. Also prohibited are discharging a gun in single- and multi-family zones, or on agricultural residential land under 5 acres; firing a gun within 150 yards of any dwelling; and firing a gun within 1,000 feet of a school or park.
    People also are banned from continuously firing a gun for more than two hours without at least a two-hour break.
    Supervisors first discussed the ordinance in November, approving it on Tuesday. It becomes effective Jan. 10.
    The 150-yard prohibition won’t apply to people firing a gun on their property, to members of his or her family and invited guests.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/new-nevada-county-firearm-rules-go-into-effect-jan-10/

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Did you follow the link and listen to the interview Todd?

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 12 December 2018 at 02:40 PM
    I confess to not knowing who “Sheb” Smith is! Again I don’t remember any overly effusive praise for Napolitano from anyone but you! I certainly don’t remember any “good” news from Napolitano about the Trump administration since it’s been a full court press (Russia, Russia, Russia….!) since the inauguration!
    If you can show me posts that gushing over Napolitano and his opinions I’ll retract my previous statement.

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  45. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump is now suggestion there will be a revolt in this country if the House fulfilled it’s Constitutional responsibility and Impeached the President (him) because they felt it was necessary. Is this inciting violence?
    “the president told Reuters reporters about his potential impeachment during an interview in the Oval Office. “I think that the people would revolt if that happened.”
    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/11/trump-impeachment-white-house-1058779

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Typo Shep Smith. Thanks for the correction fish

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  47. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Oh Paul Emery, keep your orgasms to yourself. I think you have mistaken the law and the Constitution.

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