[Another hectic week has passed in the Trump administration. Even FN is aping MSNBC and CNN with gotcha questions to their talking heads, questions like, ‘Now that no person experienced in military affairs would consider serving under a nationalist president like Trump, how is he going get someone qualified to fill the SecDef position?’ To those afflicted with TDS, this question is raw meat, and they will make the most of it describing a hopeless situation that will now compromise US national security. On the other hand, none of those not so afflicted have brains to say, ‘Whoa! To begin, I don’t accept your preamble to that question. You need to make that case before you ask anyone to accept your question.' Instead, the best these innocent snuffies are able to gurgle up is something like, ‘Well yes, it is a difficult situation and we hope that someone qualified will step up to the job.’ gjr]
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129 responses to “Sandbox – 23dec18”
Todd
You are such an innocent . He was paid for his influence in promoting the war and the results being them awarded the contract. Did you know there were not even any competing bids allowed?
Cheney’s staff aided Halliburton no-bid contract award
WASHINGTON – Pentagon officials have acknowledged that Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff and other Bush administration political appointees were involved in a controversial decision to pay Halliburton Inc. to plan for the postwar recovery of Iraq’s oil sector, a Democratic lawmaker said Sunday.
https://trib.com/news/cheney-s-staff-aided-halliburton-no-bid-contract-award/article_96129521-5236-5fae-8f2a-858137dc34e4.html
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I told you once already. I won’t repeat myself.
Maybe if Paul could put out an oil well fire, he could have got a no bid deal too.
He got stuck singing for some old chick with a title.
Think she even remembers you Paul?
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Paul Emery, your response is BS. Here is the question again. Please answer it or stay quiet. “Did Cheney receive the 30 million before he got sworn?:”
Thoigh I never agreed with “no-bid” contracts, it is a fact of life at all levels of government.
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Well, some things have not changed my whole life. Unfair labor practices from the the local.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39646/union-manages-tick-bunch-ups-holiday-employees-james-barrett?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=dwbrand
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Juvinal 4:05-
“As you have been schooled here many times about this, there are a lot of ways to get Mexico to pay.”
Yeah? I guess you missed the part that us taxpayers are being told to front the cost of a $30B wall that Mexico will (supposedly) pay for by paying higher tariffs that go … drum roll please . . . to the Feds (not back to us taxpayers). Higher tariffs on Mexican imports will theoretically create more American jobs (at the expense of Mexican jobs) that will only increases incentives for illegals to come here looking for work. How many $4,000 tunnels can be built for the $30 billion it will cost us taxpayers for a wall? The only benefactor will be Halliburton or some other colossal government/industrial hybrid who will be tasked with building the thing (probably at secret or no bid, because it’s ostensibly for emergency homeland defense).
Your turn Todd. Please share with us your clear and concise vision of how Mexico is going to pay for a wall if they don’t pony up for it, up front, with cold hard pesos (as promised over and over and again by Trump). Trump’s sleight of hand about costs and who will cover those costs aren’t so slight (much less subtle), but some people are too slow to see how the deck is getting cut over and again (by a casino owner at that)..
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‘No bid’ contracts don’t exist. Halliburton was awarded a sole source contract because it was the only company that could deliver what was required in the short time it was needed in the field. Sole source contracts are common in government contracting when time, money is short and sources are few. As a DoD contractor I received sole source contracts all the time because I delivered unique products and services that the govt could not get elsewhere without going through a long RFP process, and then take the time to teach other contractors what they had already invested in my company to develop.
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I differ George- No bid contracts can be contrived in several ways, The easiest is working among partners: Working Time and Materials with an X ceiling of cost is one of the most common. It seems Nevada City is playing that game by renting s bunch of weed eating goats at an open price for entry but with fluid capacity/capability and no exit date or plan, of animals and, their vanguard. Ambiguous and arbitrary set points and benchmarks of completion are simply not being given the credit it desires
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A new troll? Sorry I guess you missed the answers I gave numerous times.
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So George Halliburton was there to receive any war based contracts that Cheney and the Neo Cons could muster up. He did his job and earned the 30 million.
All for now
todd
already answered the question about Cheney. have a happy ho ho day.
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1132pm
See Paul.
See the dead horse.
See Paul flog the dead horse.
Flog, flog, flog.
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I loved doing on a job that read “Not to exceed….X dollars”.
Nothing says Christmas Eve like Dick Cheney. Gives new meaning to Blue Christmas. What a glum lot.
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
https://m.facebook.com/LibertyMemes.007/photos/a.1918902528413002/1946737418962846/?type=3&source=48
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Goat Fund Me!
https://youtu.be/9vtq9t08ktU
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,,,Bone spurs??? It’s good to be richy rich
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/daughters-late-podiatrist-claim-diagnosed-donald-trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war-favor-134618527.html
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Trump visits Troops in Iraq during the shutdown, where was the press, moaning about the shutdown, making up stories about Trump alone in White House over Christmas? Heh!
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As Trump was flying t Iraq the loons in the media were claiming he was the first Prez not to visit the troops on Christmas. The press robots are so shameful it makes me laugh.
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,,,you loons need to read the article. Trumpski just got there today. He was so sad about being alone on Xmas he went to Iraq today!!!
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“Trump visits Troops in Iraq during the shutdown”—- Hooray for trump. Only AFTER it was pointed out by numerous media outlets that he had NEVER visited troops in a combat zone to go along with all the rest of his neglect of tradition as it relates to presidential visits and recognition for the military. Get real….He only went on this trip to quiet critics otherwise he would be playing golf.
“where was the press”. The press was covering more important issues than trump’s obviously staged PR stunt to deflect attention away from issues like the shutdown and the second little boy who died in ICE custody.
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Robert Cross: The first was a little girl, not a boy. More details here:
The father of the Guatemalan child who died Christmas Eve denied further medical treatment from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents after the child vomited following an initial examination from doctors, a spokesman from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on a call to reporters Wednesday.
Government officials provided further details, including the startling disclosure of the father’s behavior, regarding the timeline of the child’s deteriorating condition. According to officials, the 8-year-old boy, Felipe Gomez Alonzo, was given multiple medical examinations by doctors before being released with prescription medications.
Following the child’s first discharge from the hospital, both he and the father were put into a temporary holding facility where agents were aware of the child’s illness and provided the child with his medication. A few hours after the father and boy entered the facility, the child complained of being nauseous and later vomited.
It was at this point the father declined further medical treatment for his son and told officials he “had been feeling better,” an official said.
During a subsequent welfare check, agents at the facility noticed the child’s condition and transported him to the hospital. The child later lost consciousness during transit and was eventually declared dead just before midnight.
Government officials did not comment on why exactly they think the father denied further treatment for his child, despite him exhibiting more severe symptoms.
Source Daily Caller
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is requesting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigate the cause of the growing number of sick migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, officials revealed to reporters Wednesday morning.
Source Daily Caller
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Russ 150pm – Thanks for the clarification. Our leftwing readers somehow (predictably) miss such news.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 26 December 2018 at 12:55 PM
”THERE’S A SNAKE IN MAH BOOT!!!”
– Sheriff Woody
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EODN04c9PiE
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Honestly if Trump cured cancer the loons like BoobieC and “M” would claim otherwise.
Tom Sullivan just did a play by play about the little boy. He was given a hospital stay and Doctor but it appears to me his killer was his daddy.
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OK, the first child was a girl and blah blah blah from the Daily Caller blaming the father, doesn’t change the fact that they both died in custody. All I said was their story was more important and I get this barrage of cherry picked blame. The righties somehow (predictably) fail to notice or respond to the notion that trump is a sham and a con and his trip to Iraq was just a PR stunt as is most everything he does and says. Does the term “Reality TV Huckster” ring a bell? How about ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians?’ The trump family is probably negotiating a new show of their own as we speak: White House Goombahs: How we pulled off the Greatest Heist in US History and left the right wing scratching their heads.
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“How we pulled off the Greatest Heist in US History and left the left wing scratching their heads.”
FTFY!
Scratching our heads……? You 60’s retreads were just certain a certain menopausal thief from generation pretension was going to be comfortably ensconced in the Oval Office right about now…..
How’s that working out for you bobsy??
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as usual fishy– nothing of consequence from your side of the pond.
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BoobieC is a cherry picker. The daddy of the boy is his killer not the Border Patrol. They did all they could to save him but his daddy had pushed the little boy too far. So BoobieC, bite me and get back in that white outfit you escaped the asylum in. You are truly a moron.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 26 December 2018 at 04:54 PM
He’s still president and the Menopausal Avenger isn’t…..that’s “consequential” bobsy! Is it enough to undo all your progressive damage…probably not! We’re baby steppin here bobsy…
“The righties somehow (predictably) fail to notice or respond to the notion that trump is a sham and a con and his trip to Iraq was just a PR stunt as is most everything he does and says.”
As long as he can hang on for the next six years until a significant percentage of you lefty trouser nuggets die off he will have served his purpose. What happens after that….well who can say?
Toodles bobsy……
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Who gave Sponge Bob a squeeze? He’s leaking all over the thread.
Nope, it’s NEVER the parent’s fault.(who drag their kids through Mex.) Nope, it’s not Mex.’s fault. It’s only ours, because the Proggy Left of the likes of Sponge Bob up on his Cross say so.
LIBS are all for a “fence” just as long as there is air drops of of wire cutters on a regular basis.
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Man….I thought I was kidding last week when I responded to Gregorys call for someone performing a “Welfare Check” on jeffy being premature! There was indeed a travelogue…..Fatacular just hadn’t gotten round (heh) to posting it!
Looooove…..exciting and new……!! Come aboard…..We’re expecting YOUUUUUUUUUU!
Oh jeffy…….you bring me great joy! Hope you’re digging “The Lido Deck”…..sure they call it the Mozart Deck”…..but they’re not fooling me! You’re a fat old man who finally gave in to the urge to cruise! No worries jeffy…..it was bound to happen….all the oldsters succumb eventually!
Give my best to Doc, Captain Stubing, Isaac, Purser What’s his Name, Cokehead Cruise Director….the rest of the Love Boat crew!
Let us know how it goes next week when you visit Fantasy Island!
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Ignore it all you like Proggys!
Rat bastards, one and all!
“He poured $750,000 into the organization, much of it going to the project, the report notes. Democratic operatives associated with the plan explained in an internal report leaked to The New York Times how the project sought to implant ideas into people’s heads.
“We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore campaign was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” the operatives recounted in the internal report, which was published on Dec. 19.
The cost of the effort — Project Birmingham — totaled $100,000 — the identical amount Facebook says the Russian Internet Research Agency spent trolling people on social media leading up to the 2016 presidential election. (RELATED: Democrats Spent Same Amount Of Money Building Fake Russian Bots As Russia Did On Real Russian Bots)
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/26/facebook-democrats-russian-ads/
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Here’s one for the LIBS!
https://www.gofundme.com/support-tunnels-under-trumps-wallhttps://www.gofundme.com/support-tunnels-under-trumps-wall
For those that don’t like to dig,,,
https://www.gofundme.com/build-a-giant-escalator-over-the-wall
Then the real favorite,
https://www.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall
What’s REAL funny,, is that there are idiots that WILL give money to do this stupid shit.
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Nice….!
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/the-plan-was-to-steal-tools-then-customers-drew-their-guns/
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Thanks fish. I have had the love boat theme song stuck in my head for two days now. My wife has been cracking up every time I bust out in song. “ The love boat..soon will be making another run…” 😂
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Posted by: Barry Pruett | 26 December 2018 at 05:49 PM
Shhhh……Barry…….you shouldn’t talk to me! jeffy will think we are lovers!
As far as the Love Boat song goes…..
Wait…..what??? That’s not it…..!
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Posted by: Walt | 26 December 2018 at 05:27 PM
No doubt Punch will along smartly to complain and object mightily to this underhanded threat to the sanctity of our hallowed electoral system!
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Fish.. Was Paul out being the Grinch of Nirvana City?
We know how he gets with anything Christian.
Maybe he’s celebrating KWANZAA! Ya’ never know who or what he will “identify” with from day to day.
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Posted by: Walt | 26 December 2018 at 06:43 PM
Ya’ never know who or what he will “identify” with from day to day.
I’m not so sure….it seems that he’s most often in agreement with the modern Democratic Party!
(Pssssst…..I’m sure he votes for Republicans to keep it balanced…….! You know….Mr. Even Handed!)
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Just “once”….. Right?
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The plane! The plane!
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Did we not say that it was a new faith……..?
So whyn’t y’all come on down and take in some of that “New Time Religion” with Reverend Steve and listen to the “Fattest lil Choir in California” with choirmaster jeff …..while you was away we had the floor under the choir reinforced so we won’t have a repeat of last years service when the singers spilled like tenpins after the floor collapsed during one of the choirs more rollicking numbers! Then later over tea and cookies we’ll decide how long to scourge brother jeffy for having the same carbon footprint as an entire Bangladeshi village ….that of course after he drives back home (Chevy 4×4 with top-o-the line V-8 power…..natch!) following his blatantly carbon non-neutral flight, after a remarkably self indulgent ocean cruise!
Can I gets a hallelujah?!?!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/as-the-old-faiths-collapse-the-greens-social-justice-warriors-and-techno-futurists-aim-to-fill-the-void?ref=home
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,,,Why do we swear to tell the truth while putting a hand on a work of fiction???
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,,,How do you like Bill Clinton now!!!
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11515132/iirira-clinton-immigration
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Posted by: M | 27 December 2018 at 07:47 AM
,,,Why do we swear to tell the truth while putting a hand on a work of fiction???
Still smarting from honeymoon night eh dugsKKKi…….
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,,,building border fences since 1990,,,
In 1990, a 14-mile, triple-deep fence was constructed in San Diego. In 1996, the IIRIRA authorized the federal government to build additional barriers. And in 2006, the Secure Fence Act was passed, authorizing completion of still more. Today, there are 700 miles of fencing along the southern border.
,,,and net immigration has been negative for years,,,but MAGA men are running scared
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Posted by: M | 27 December 2018 at 08:07 AM
,,,and net immigration has been negative for years,,,but MAGA men are running scared
Really….? With the native population on the decline yet the population still growing as a whole?
Wow me with you explanation dugsKKKi.
PS: Were you ever going to respond as to just how many you felt should be invited in to burden the taxpayer dugsKKK or was this merely another case of you running round the double wide with your fingers in your ears going……”la la la la la la la la…..?
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Told the Krazy Leftinistas that Khashoggi worked for the Ministry Of Propaganda, but would they listen? Nooooo. Khashoggi was a much of a journalist as Al Gore or Baghdad Bob. Screw the Muslin Brotherhood, the beloved terrorist organization of Obama’s Dreams Of My Father.
“Khashoggi may have been operating in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act by doing this on behalf of Qatar. This is the same law that caused both Gen. Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort legal jeopardy by not filing their attempts to influence the U.S. government on behalf of a foreign entity. The op-eds published in the very influential Washington Post certainly qualify as attempts to change U.S. policy against Saudi Arabia and in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood, which Qatar supports in spite of its status as a terrorist organization with most other Gulf countries.”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/27/bombshell-khashoggi-foreign-governments-influence-agent/
I don’t call it Wa Compost for nuthin’. The enemy of the truth.
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Fish @6:20 pm…..last night. A wee bit long.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOryJvTAGs
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IN the “enemy of the truth” dept. — During his PR stunt trip to Iraq, the liar-in-chief claimed he got soldiers a “giant pay raise” of 10%. “Is anybody here willing to give up the big pay raise you just got? You haven’t gotten one in more than 10 years. More than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one. I got you a big one.”
The truth is military members have seen a pay raise in each of the last 10 years, ranging from 1 percent to 3.9 percent, according to the Defense Department. They even got a raise when pay hikes for other federal employees were put on hold during the Great Recession. However trump said “We had plenty of people that came up. They said, ‘You know, we can make it smaller. We can make it 3 percent. We can make it 2 percent. We can make it 4 percent.’ I said, ‘No. Make it 10 percent. Make it more than 10 percent’.”
How can you all continue to believe anything he says?
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Oh BoobieC I watched him talking to the troops and they are all in for him. You are just jealous as your mate claims you are the local liar in the household. Cleanup your own mouth and try again.
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Posted by: Robert Cross | 27 December 2018 at 09:38 AM
“You’re my favorite deputy!”
-Sheriff Woody
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Nutter than a fruitcake, nutritionists tan squirrel poo. The enemy of the people.
“But The Post appropriately added more quotes from Trump’s remarks at various stops in both Germany and Iraq, but when it goes beyond adding quotes to rewriting the story’s tone and tenor without a correction, that’s when there’s a problem.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/12/27/sneaky-washpost-stealth-edits-story-attacking-trumps-troop-visit
Year. In review. Nuttier than a outhouse rat.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2018/12/27/year-review-most-idiotic-analysis
The wheel is spnning but the hamsters died.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/12/23/11-most-outrageous-moments-cnns-cuomo-prime-time-2018
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