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319 responses to “Sandbox – 14dec18”
Here we go again!!!! The snow pack is going to SHRINK!!!! WE are DOOOOMMMMED!!!!!!
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/15/water-shortages-ahead-sierra-nevada-snow-pack-on-track-to-shrink-79-percent-new-study-finds/
“a 54 percent drop in the next 20 to 40 years and 79 percent in the next. . .”
But,, but, snow was to be a thing of the past,,, TODAY!!!!!!
That’s what the AGW experts SAID!!!!!(15 years ago)
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Why can’t we be more like France?
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Yup,, you got that right for once Paul. Good for the people!
Gov. overreach has consequences. Tax the shit out of people, and it comes back to bite. LIB lawmakers better take notice.
Like I said. You need a refresher on the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
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So there is no need for the Centennial Dam right Walt? NID has it wrong when they pitch Global Warming as an urgent need for more dams.
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We need ten more Centennial Dams in California. Grab all that water or watch LA come take. You are simply naive.
And as far as France and the yellow vests? That is what happens when you piss off the little guys. They band together and kick ass when injustice is rampant and all those important people forget who is really in charge
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No need for you. I like dams. I like farmers to have water.
LIBS love to cut off water for crops. LIBS think they are GODs to keep a fish alive that should have gone extinct, by natural law.(adapt of die)
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Paul is a big gov. guy. He still believes we should be subjects of England. The Revolutionary was was “unjust” in his opinion.(no, I didn’t forget that Paul)
People have no right to rise up against the overlords. Right Paul?
Paul would LOVE Cuba.
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Dams leave a nasty footprint. Tear down Hetch Hetchy! Plant low income housing, not almonds or (gasp), deadly romaine lettuce from Ca. Stop the deaths. Stop the bloodshed.
In America, we tear gas invaders charging our border. In France, they tear gas their own people.
If barring even one reporter from the WH is an violation of the 1st Amendment, then barring one gun is a violation of the 2nd Amendment.
https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156067515180914/?type=3&source=48
https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156065556550914/?type=3&source=48
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Todd
https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156069736395914/?type=3&source=48
When the British told us to turn over our guns, we shot them.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 15 December 2018 at 05:18 PM
So at what point did you just decide to become Pelline Paul?
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OUCH!
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Blue Lives Matter –
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/12/15/blue-ornament-christmas-tree-honors-fallen-officers-across-country
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Ouch is right.
https://bongino.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/GettyImages-621952930.jpg
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Stock up on popcorn this winter the House-Trump show will be on the air. He will have to dump Giuliani and get some real lawyers to get through this. this is what happens when you lose elections. sorry Todd, if the Republicans would have won the midterms this would not be happening.
“During a CNN discussion on Donald Trump’s legal woes and the multiple investigations looking into every aspect of his life and his presidential campaign, a White House correspondent for the New York Times said the administration can expect a “subpoenas every week” when the Democrats assume control of the House.
Speaking with host John King, the Times’ Julie Davis said that Democrats –who will be assuming chairmanships on House committees — will be walking in the door with plans to go after the Trump administration.”
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 December 2018 at 10:43 AM
He will have to dump Giuliani and get some real lawyers to get through this.
Excellent….keep gumming your popcorn Paul……and please do realize that Guliani is merely the “Spokeshole”, you know….the guy sent out to entertain the mouth breathers in the press!
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,,,woohoo!!! Donnie,,, Trump and McConnell are legalizing hemp!!!
Trump/McConnell 2020!!!
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First its fakenews and now its fake front groups funded by the socialists claiming to be republicans –
Despite Lim’s claim that they were supported by donors across the political spectrum, the PAC does not show any Republican contributors after Reid’s initial donation.
The PAC pulled in an additional $200,000 from Kathryn Murdoch, the progressive activist daughter-in-law of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and $400,000 from Daniel Tierney, the president of Wicklow Capital, a Chicago-based investment firm, filings show.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/republican-pac-attacks-gop-bankrolled-liberal-billionaires/
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Once you scrape away the rancid Russian dressing you get to –
“Tomorrow is going to be a very different day for Comey, particularly in light of what we’ve learned — the misconduct during the Flynn investigation was all about, thanks to a judge that demanded to understand what had happened,” Issa told host Maria Bartiromo, referring to U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s order last week that led Mueller to turn over key documents in the case.
He continued: “I would not be surprised a bit if the conviction of Flynn is overturned, because of the Justice Department and FBI’s misconduct — and that in fact, we go potentially all the way to the Supreme Court, with new protections — when the FBI and the Department of Justice lies to someone and tricks them into making statements, and then charges them with a lie they entrapped them in. … This kind of conduct we haven’t seen in a long time.”
In explosive court documents filed last week by Flynn’s legal team, it was revealed that FBI agents in his case deliberately did not instruct Flynn that any false statements he made could constitute a crime, and decided not to “confront” him directly about anything he said that contradicted their knowledge of his wiretapped communications with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
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Oh yeah fish he’s a fake lawyer like Cohen got it. Trouble is Trump refers to him as my lawyer. If he’s not a real lawyer then he would not be protected by Attorney-Client privilege right like Cohen.
By the Trump was Cohen’s biggest fan just four months ago. Here’s a quote from the NY Times
When The New York Times reported Cohen could cooperate with federal officials, Trump took to Twitter and defended his longtime (and, by then, former) personal attorney, while taking shots at the media outlet.
Cohen, he said, was “a fine person with a wonderful family” and, as a businessman, Trump said he had “always liked and respected” him.
Trump also expressed faith that Cohen would never “flip” on him.
“Most people will flip if the Government lets them out of trouble, even if it means lying or making up stories,” he said. “Sorry, I don’t see Michael doing that.”
http://fortune.com/2018/08/22/donald-trump-michael-cohen-tweets/
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 December 2018 at 12:39 PM
Oh Paul……you just don’t get it! Guliani is his attorney and spokeshole…..I imagine that this imposes constraints on any prosecutors line of questioning. That whole Attorney/Client privilege thing again. Cohen can flip all he wants but how much will eventually be allowed into evidence is a question that remains.
There is a reason that all of these guys are attorneys.
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Don writes:
“FBI agents in his case deliberately did not instruct Flynn that any false statements he made could constitute a crime”
My goodness Don, do you actually believe that Flynn, of all people had to be reminded that lying to the FBI is a crime? My oh my you are naive.
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WOW!! Emery is a lawyer now….
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And apparently the Judge that is opening the files and both 302’s fits your definition @ 107. The Judge who has a history of hammering government misconduct. Or does that go into the pony tail of ignorance zone?
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Let’s keep inventing “possible, maybe, could be, have no real idea or proof,, but it sounds good” conspiracies.
“California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff suggested that President Trump’s business with a multinational bank might reveal a “form of compromise” during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet The Press” Sunday morning.”
So “compromise” is taking the place of collusion? The cu de tah continues.
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Posted by: Don Bessee | 16 December 2018 at 01:20 PM
Careful Don……you’re about to have a “Gosh and Golly” dropped on your ass!
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Flynn was never Mirandized. I think the Judge may have some last words for the Mueller team of democrats. The Judge also asked for the 302’s and was given redacted one’s and the one missing is the one he wanted as well. I think we may see some sanctions against some prosecutors.
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Nah Todd, not likely. He plead guilty to lying besides he met with prosecutors something like 19 times to spill the beans on Trump and his den of crooks. “Lock em up”, as Flynn used to say about Hillary. He’d be in the slam himself if he hadn’t turned fink.
“The filing by special counsel Robert Mueller provides the first details of Flynn’s assistance in the Russia investigation, including that he participated in 19 interviews with prosecutors and cooperated extensively in a separate and undisclosed criminal probe. But the filing’s lengthy redactions also underscore how much Mueller has yet to reveal.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/12/05/prosecutors_recommend_no_jail_time_for_cooperative_flynn_138839.html
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Talk about a nothing burger @ 229!
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Talk about messed up values at bazerkly –
so a delivery robot caught fire on berkeley’s campus and students set up a candlelight vigil for it
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11:42 PM – Dec 14, 2018
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Delivery-robot-catches-fire-at-UC-Berkeley-13470063.php
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Here’s an interesting piece …
“If you want to see the worst impacts of blue policies, go to those red regions—like upstate New York or inland California—in states they control”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-arrogance-of-blue-america
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Flynn may have been shanghaied. No Miranda. And he and his familt were threatened and he lost his house. The man was/is a decorated military man. The Judge may have something to say about this. Maybe justice will actually take place rather than a man going to jail for nothing.
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Hear the LIBs whine? “how dare Trump shut down Gov.. And JUST before Christmas,, Blaa blaa blaa……
The Gov. doesn’t run Christmas, can’t stop Christmas. Can’t even cancel it.
But what a GIFT to the people. No harm can COME from government.
No Paul, open air monuments will stay open. “O” ain’t here to play King. Turnouts in Yellowstone won’t be closed off, and looking at the view won’t be criminalized.(Like when your boy was around)
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I think that Corna Diddily is actually Dick Sciaroni.
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Worse than not being Mirandized, Flynn, when he asked if he should bring a lawyer, was assured it wouldn’t be a serious interview.
Even his non-interviewing interviewers said they didn’t think Flynn was lying to them.
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,,,gov’t shutdown,,, who needs the gov’t,,,for sure shut the White House down!!!
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“Corna Diddly” as the big dick sciaroni?
It’s possible, I suppose. Why finger that dick?
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Too true G –
The fondest hope among the blue bourgeoise lies with the demographic eclipse of their red-state foes. Some clearly hope that the less-educated “dying white America,“ already suffering shorter lifespans, in part due to alcoholism and opioid abuse, is destined to fade from the scene. Then the blue lords can take over a country with which they can identify without embarrassment.
Marie Antoinette Economics
In seeking to tame their political inferiors, the blue bourgeoisie are closer to the Marie Antoinette school of political economy than any traditional notion of progressivism. They might seek to give the unwashed red masses “cake” in the form of free health care and welfare, but they don’t offer more than a future status as serfs of the cognitive aristocracy. The blue bourgeoisie, notes urban analyst Aaron Renn, are primary beneficiaries of “the decoupling of success in America.” In blue America, he notes, the top tiers “no longer need the overall prosperity of the country to personally do well. They can become enriched as a small, albeit sizable, minority.”
Some on the left recognize the hypocrisy of progressives’ abandoning the toiling masses. “Blue state secession is no better an idea than Confederate secession was,” observes one progressive journalist. “The Confederates wanted to draw themselves into a cocoon so they could enslave and exploit people. The blue state secessionists want to draw themselves into a cocoon so they can ignore the exploited people of America.”
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Don’t fret Dougy, Amazon will still deliver your uh,,, “needs”.
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A decorated liar is still a liar Todd.
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Don’t worry Todd he won’t go to jail. He made a deal and he’s a squealer spilling the beans on Trump 19 times for something like 96 hours. that’s two weeks full time yapping about all he knows about our liar in chief Trump and his sleazy friends and family. Way too late Todd. Do you think at this point he’s gonna refuse the plea deal? If he does he’ll be cell mate with Manifort who has been convicted by a jury for 8 felonies. Great people Trump picks to work for him.
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WOW GOLLY GOSH ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman! “spilling the beans on Trump 19 times for something like 96 hours. ”
That’s the totality of all his interviews on every subject, since there is nothing in the court papers to support your TDS flashback how would you know? You Don’t!
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LOL Paul,,”A decorated liar is still a liar”
Yet you still bet the shack on Cohen. “I was lying, but not now”.
You sure set yourself up for the good ones.
That’s the Nevada City way? Pick which liar to believe when the mood fits?
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Muller may have destroyed evidence?
“The evidence indicates Mueller has destroyed or is suppressing Brady material. There was an original 302 created within five days — by FBI protocol — of the Jan. 24, 2016 ambush interview of General Flynn by two agents — Strzok and Special Agent Joe Pientka. It is mentioned in the Strzok-Page text messages and on page four of the recrafted 302 Mueller filed. Comey read the original 302 before he was fired.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/16/mueller-destroyed-evidence/
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STARBUCKS’ NEW BATHROOM POLICY NOT WORKING OUT AS HOPED.
…A half-dozen toilets were locked or barricaded for no clear reason. Others were closed for prolonged “cleaning,” which an insider said was needed after extreme soiling caused by drug-using, incontinent vagrants.
“Letting everybody in has resulted in nobody getting in,” an employee at one branch fumed.
“Rest Room closed,” declared signs at 399 Seventh Ave. (entrance on West 32nd Street) and at a branch at Pearl Street and Maiden Lane. At 252 W. 31st St., the road to relief was blocked by garbage cans. Furniture and boxes formed a barrier at 61 W. 56th St.
A rope and traffic cones barred the way at 38 Park Row. When a desperate visitor asked if the loo would reopen any time soon, a barista directed him to a Dunkin’ Donuts nearby.
Other than pretty much everybody except the ozone layer of Starbucks’ executives, who could have seen this coming?
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/12/starbucks-new-bathroom-policy-not-working-out-as-hoped/
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Now come on Russ, its all clearly the Marie Antoinette syndrome as explained @ 331. The too rich to care don’t give a shit about the little people. The rest is all virtue signaling that they don’t have to suffer the consequences of.
That’s why they keep getting newer armored SUVs with darker and darker windows, wouldn’t want to have to set eyes on the public transit drones and the homeless obstacle courses.
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PS it was nice to see the young niners deliver a lump of coal to Seattle’s play off stocking!
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Oh look, the grinch of Canada contest has a winner, so can anyone explain why they chose a Montessori School? Anti Military etc… Duh
During an email discussion about elf ornaments in November 2014, Mangel wrote he didn’t “think it’s appropriate to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or any other religious/political event at preschool (including Remembrance Day),” noting that his child was only three years old “[and] cannot consent to being involved in decorating military wreaths or Christmas trees or lighting Hanukkah candles.”
“As a side note, I certainly hope that there will be no discussion of Santa Claus at BIMS,” Mangel added. “I am absolutely against anyone blatantly lying to my daughter…”
https://www.foxnews.com/world/preschool-that-refused-atheist-family-who-complained-about-christmas-hanukkah-celebrations-is-forced-to-pay
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19 meetings with Flynn and Mueller investigators. The meetings are between 4 and 6 hours so that’s where the numbers come from. Common knowledge of average hours. That’s what earned him his light sentence Don. thought you knew that.
Do your research and get back to me.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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Why did it take a year to finally get to the sentencing? Cohen was done a few weeks. Anyway, I would hope the Judge tosses this out and let’s Flynn alone. Afterall he was a decorated man in the military and had 33 years defending America.
Funny how the FBI guys said they thought he was innocent and what he did was without the Miranda or a lawyer. Entrapment. We will see.
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Yes we will Todd. He already plead guilty and has a sweetheart deal. Why would he want to mess it up. What he’ doing is lobbying fo a pardon which he might get eventually. Won’t matter, he, like Manifort have already spilled the goods. Mueller is very smart and has his eye on the finish line.
Meanwhile Barbie Trump and the Greaser Twins are up next. Good luck on a Happy New Year for them.
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,,,Tin Foil Hatters Unite!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=los9WulxBjM&feature=youtu.be
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No mobs Paul? No violence you claim? Then I wonder why these thugs are in front of a judge.
The two Marines testified they were in Philadelphia to attend a Marine event at a local hotel and were touring attractions around the city when they were approached by Keenan, who allegedly asked the men if they were “Proud Boys” – an allusion to one of the rightwing groups behind the Nov. 17 rally, the Philly Mag reported.
Torres said he didn’t know what “Proud Boys” meant. It was after that interaction, Godinez said, that Keenan, Massey and approximately ten other people – men and women, some masked and some unmasked – began attacking the Marines: punching and kicking them, using mace and hurling slurs and other insults.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/marines-testify-about-antifa-mob-they-say-attacked-them-in-philadelphia
Sorta shoots your claim of “just no proof of violence from the Left” full of holes.
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