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[So, does a president's responsibility to keep the nation secure, in this case via increasing border security (aka reducing border porosity), constitute a sufficiently important issue to warrant standing firm on his request for a minimal amount of funding ($5B or less) to increase that security and plug our very porous border, which the assaulting migrants are now pouring through at historically high rates?  gjr]

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303 responses to “Sandbox – 28dec18”

  1. Walt Avatar

    Well Paul, I see you subscribe to “Butthurt.com”
    Maybe we should start listing yours?

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Just compar9ng stupid comments between Warren and Trump. Is there any competition. Trump is the master. this is what Trump thinks of the intellegence of his followers Don of which you are one.
    ‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.’

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Sarcasm is lost on Emery. Can’t tell the diff Paul? He was making fun of the likes of YOU. That’s not a lie, as you care to call it.
    (and from the guy who said he dances naked with chicks by a fire down at the Yuba River.)

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Nah Walt Trump is making fun of the likes of you. You are one of the voters he wouldn’t lose right?
    Never said that Walt (dances at the yuba with chicks). You are a liar just like your hero Trump. Just show me and our readers where I did.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    You sure the hell did Paul, and more than once. (but I knew even then you were full of shit)
    Thanks for chiseling that in stone. You know, back when you claimed to be a “Drewboo” (more horse shit from under the ponytail)
    But keep going Paul, your helping write your own list.
    And don’t bother with the “prove I said that” crap. WE both know you did. BTW… Which religion are you going to change to now? One that says it’s just fine to lie? Which one is that? Which is the Greek god for liars?

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  6. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 10:48–
    You are deflecting the issue at hand by turning it into some kind of historical review tinged with 1950’s McCarthyisms about socialism. The issue at hand is not about the past, it is about the future. America’s greatness, global respect, and leadership is going down the drain with trump, in case you haven’t noticed. What does it say that former allies no longer look to America for leadership because there is none, just some twisted form of isolationism that includes climate denial? The person in the Whitehouse is a proven miscreant, whose multiple indiscretions seem to be ignored by his supporters.
    Does such a person really have the moral authority to guide the country as you seem to claim and should moral people, therefore, put their morality aside to accommodate a political agenda (albiet that of a minority of the poplation) they happen to agree with? You, of all people, should know what happens when a people blindly follow a charismatic liar who promises them greatness. There is a famous poem, I am sure you are acauainted with, that starts out, “first they came for the socialists and I did not speak out—Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a trade unionist…..” Sound familiar when compared to the current anti-union anti-progressive rhetoric espoused by conservatives?

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Show me the quote Walt. Give it a go. There is a search function on this blog. Give it a try and let us know what you find.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    The Greek got dor liars Walt is Trumopolus. thought you knew that. He’s an Orange fat guy in the sky that laughs at all the idiots that believe every word he says.

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    typo:
    The Greek God for liars Walt is…

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A little history lesson for the pony tail of ignorance. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
    Combined with the 2017 number, this is a phenomenal total of 85 new federal judges: two Supreme Court justices, 30 appellate judges, and 53 trial judges. The total of 30 for the circuit courts of appeals breaks the previous all-time two-year record of 23, marking a historic achievement by President Trump and Senate Republicans.
    Many of the issues most important to voters turn on competing views of interpreting the Constitution or federal law, and thus depend on the judicial philosophy of the judges deciding court cases involving those issues.
    Regarding immigration, the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii reversed 5-4 the losses from liberal judges over Presidential Proclamation 9645 (the travel ban), after Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation. Similar Supreme Court victories are likely to reverse adverse rulings on DACA and the asylum caravans as well, so long as the White House and congressional Republicans do not give up those fights.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/31/trumps-historic-impact-on-judiciary-in-2018-promises-even-greater-gains-in-2019/
    😉

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Nope, not playing your game Paul. That’s what you do.
    You do a search of your own and think you have it.
    I have a memory. Looks like yours is shot. Or just having a James Comey moment? ( a real bad recall at the moment?) Don’t forget your way to your own gig.
    Once agian your Dementia leaks through… There is no “Walt” in Greek mythology. BUT there is this one, “Dolos” Or if you prefer,
    His female counterpart is Apate. A (fine, new age hippie chick name from Nevada City)
    Yup, you Greeks thought of every precaution.
    Just a few trinkets and kind words to the right GOD, and your good to go.
    Didn’t think you had it in you to fess up the truth.
    (why when you can just slither out of it and deny?)

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar

    Never said there was a Walt in Greek mythology. there is a Trumopolus though as I noted above.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Paul LOVES lists. Read it and weep. But I bet he won’t read it.
    Below are the 12 categories and 81 wins cited by the White House.
    Jobs and the economy
    Passage of the tax reform bill providing $5.5 billion in cuts and repealing the Obamacare mandate.
    Increase of the GDP above 3 percent.
    Creation of 1.7 million new jobs, cutting unemployment to 4.1 percent.
    Saw the Dow Jones reach record highs.
    A rebound in economic confidence to a 17-year high.
    A new executive order to boost apprenticeships.
    A move to boost computer sciences in Education Department programs.
    Prioritizing women-owned businesses for some $500 million in SBA loans.
    Killing job-stifling regulations
    Signed an Executive Order demanding that two regulations be killed for every new one creates. He beat that big and cut 16 rules and regulations for every one created, saving $8.1 billion.
    Signed 15 congressional regulatory cuts.
    Withdrew from the Obama-era Paris Climate Agreement, ending the threat of environmental regulations.
    Signed an Executive Order cutting the time for infrastructure permit approvals.
    Eliminated an Obama rule on streams that Trump felt unfairly targeted the coal industry.
    Fair trade
    Made good on his campaign promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
    Opened up the North American Free Trade Agreement for talks to better the deal for the U.S.
    Worked to bring companies back to the U.S., and companies like Toyota, Mazda, Broadcom Limited, and Foxconn announced plans to open U.S. plants.
    Worked to promote the sale of U.S products abroad.
    Made enforcement of U.S. trade laws, especially those that involve national security, a priority.
    Ended Obama’s deal with Cuba.
    Boosting U.S. energy dominance
    The Department of Interior, which has led the way in cutting regulations, opened plans to lease 77 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas drilling.
    Trump traveled the world to promote the sale and use of U.S. energy.
    Expanded energy infrastructure projects like the Keystone XL Pipeline snubbed by Obama.
    Ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to kill Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
    EPA is reconsidering Obama rules on methane emissions.
    Protecting the U.S. homeland
    Laid out new principles for reforming immigration and announced plan to end “chain migration,” which lets one legal immigrant to bring in dozens of family members.
    Made progress to build the border wall with Mexico.
    Ended the Obama-era “catch and release” of illegal immigrants.
    Boosted the arrests of illegals inside the U.S.
    Doubled the number of counties participating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with deporting illegals.
    Removed 36 percent more criminal gang members than in fiscal 2016.
    Started the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program.
    Ditto for other amnesty programs like Deferred Action for Parents of Americans.
    Cracking down on some 300 sanctuary cities that defy ICE but still get federal dollars.
    Added some 100 new immigration judges.
    Protecting communities
    Justice announced grants of $98 million to fund 802 new cops.
    Justice worked with Central American nations to arrest and charge 4,000 MS-13 members.
    Homeland rounded up nearly 800 MS-13 members, an 83 percent one-year increase.
    Signed three executive orders aimed at cracking down on international criminal organizations.
    Attorney General Jeff Sessions created new National Public Safety Partnership, a cooperative initiative with cities to reduce violent crimes.
    Accountability
    Trump has nominated 73 federal judges and won his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
    Ordered ethical standards including a lobbying ban.
    Called for a comprehensive plan to reorganize the executive branch.
    Ordered an overhaul to modernize the digital government.
    Called for a full audit of the Pentagon and its spending.
    Combatting opioids
    First, the president declared a Nationwide Public Health Emergency on opioids.
    His Council of Economic Advisors played a role in determining that overdoses are underreported by as much as 24 percent.
    The Department of Health and Human Services laid out a new five-point strategy to fight the crisis.
    Justice announced it was scheduling fentanyl substances as a drug class under the Controlled Substances Act.
    Justice started a fraud crackdown, arresting more than 400.
    The administration added $500 million to fight the crisis.
    On National Drug Take Back Day, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected 456 tons.
    Protecting life
    In his first week, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy that blocks some $9 billion in foreign aid being used for abortions.
    Worked with Congress on a bill overturning an Obama regulation that blocked states from defunding abortion providers.
    Published guidance to block Obamacare money from supporting abortion.
    Helping veterans
    Signed the Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act to allow senior officials in the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire failing employees and establish safeguards to protect whistleblowers.
    Signed the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
    Signed the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, to provide support.
    Signed the VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017 to authorize $2.1 billion in additional funds for the Veterans Choice Program.
    Created a VA hotline.
    Had the VA launch an online “Access and Quality Tool,” providing veterans with a way to access wait time and quality of care data.
    With VA Secretary Dr. David Shulkin, announced three initiatives to expand access to healthcare for veterans using telehealth technology.
    Promoting peace through strength
    Directed the rebuilding of the military and ordered a new national strategy and nuclear posture review.
    Worked to increase defense spending.
    Empowered military leaders to “seize the initiative and win,” reducing the need for a White House sign off on every mission.
    Directed the revival of the National Space Council to develop space war strategies.
    Elevated U.S. Cyber Command into a major warfighting command.
    Withdrew from the U.N. Global Compact on Migration, which Trump saw as a threat to borders.
    Imposed a travel ban on nations that lack border and anti-terrorism security.
    Saw ISIS lose virtually all of its territory.
    Pushed for strong action against global outlaw North Korea and its development of nuclear weapons.
    Announced a new Afghanistan strategy that strengthens support for U.S. forces at war with terrorism.
    NATO increased support for the war in Afghanistan.
    Approved a new Iran strategy plan focused on neutralizing the country’s influence in the region.
    Ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airbase used in a chemical weapons attack.
    Prevented subsequent chemical attacks by announcing a plan to detect them better and warned of future strikes if they were used.
    Ordered new sanctions on the dictatorship in Venezuela.
    Restoring confidence in and respect for America
    Trump won the release of Americans held abroad, often using his personal relationships with world leaders.
    Made good on a campaign promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
    Conducted a historic 12-day trip through Asia, winning new cooperative deals. On the trip, he attended three regional summits to promote American interests.
    He traveled to the Middle East and Europe to build new relationships with leaders.
    Traveled to Poland and on to Germany for the G-20 meeting where he pushed again for funding of women entrepreneurs.
    Now make up a lie about that Paul.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt
    For some reason I keep visualizing you are talking to Spinal Tap. 🙂
    —————————
    Issues? Thy don’t need no stinkin’ issues.
    http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/12/31/tammy-bruce-cancellation-womens-march-event-over-racial-concerns-disappointing

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  15. Walt Avatar

    OH LIBBYS!!!!
    So much for the “Trump is a Dictator!”(or Hitler) (or the next Lil’ Kim)
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trump-issues-fewest-regulations-ever-record-low-unconstitutionality-index
    “President Trump has made good and then some on his pledge to slash costly federal regulations, issuing the fewest new rules in recorded history in his first two years, according to a new analysis.
    In fact, the efforts by the White House, Office of Management and Budget, and several agencies to cut and reduce the flow of regulations this year have only ever been topped once: by the same Trump team last year.
    “At year-end 2018, how is President Donald Trump’s regulatory reform project going? Better than Obama, Bush II, and Clinton in terms of fewer regulations; but not as good as Trump’s own first year,” said the Competitive Enterprise Institute.”

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar

    Walt
    If Trump is so greet why is he dying in the Polls an why did the Repubs lose the House in last election?

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Call the Dark Lord of Liberal Lament Land and he can give you some help there ya po’ ol’ fakenewsman!
    is so greet why is
    😉

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  18. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 412pm – Good discussion Mr Cross. I’m not deflecting anything here because the topic is precisely about the historical picture of America that the Left has inserted into the minds of our young. And my first person experience corroborates what the still-free (and extensively cited) academics have been reporting, because I’ve been privileged to work with and listen to our young people. The perceived past in those young minds does indeed shape their perception of the future. In the aggregate, they do not arrive into the present as tabulas rasa – they have been severely injured academically.
    America’s decline did not start with Trump – Obama destroyed America’s hegemony in its perception by our allies more than any president since Carter – but I do agree that Trump’s reversion to American nationalism has been a bucket of cold water on those who thought we would be paying indefinitely their way through a dangerous world, while they continued in the la-la land of irresponsible socialist policies without regard as to who kept their borders intact. They are now coming to grips with their new responsibilities, and that will give western civilization a bit of respite as it continues to be assaulted from within and without.
    Trump and his core will never come for the Rebanes of the world, but the collectivists in all flavors (starting with the communists then nazis) have come for the Rebanes and taken their toll on our family. And listening to you and yours, you people will come again for me and mine as sure as the sun rises tomorrow. To be absolutely frank Mr Cross, I am scared shitless about what your elites have in mind for us and the world. Don’t worry about Trump, he will soon be gone, but hopefully the echoes from the established applecarts that he has upset in his short tenure will linger on a bit longer.

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  19. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 537am – Why? Because, for a start, a large fraction of Americans don’t know the name of the ocean between America and Europe.

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar

    George writes:
    ” Don’t worry about Trump, he will soon be gone”
    Well that’s good news. How soon do you expect that to be?
    Also how do you propose the great “coming” will happen when you write “you people will come again for me and mine as sure as the sun rises tomorrow.”
    Will there be assault teams heading up Cement hill going after people in the houses that have an x marked in from of them? Will it be cyber attacks?

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @ 545- Take heart @ my 459, that pattern will be accelerating! That will have impact for generations.
    😉

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  22. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The AF says Happy New Year!
    US Strategic Command, the unified military force that controls the launch of nuclear weapons, tweeted an unusual New Year’s Eve message on Monday featuring B-2 bombers dropping 30,000-pound conventional weapons at a test range.
    “#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball…if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger,” the tweet from US Strategic Command’s official account said.
    It included a sizzle reel initially released earlier this year, showing a B-2 bomber dropping “a pair of conventional Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP) at a test range,” the Pentagon said.
    #TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball…if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger.
    Watch to the end! @AFGlobalStrike @Whiteman_AFB #Deterrence #Assurance #CombatReadyForce #PeaceIsOurProfession… pic.twitter.com/Aw6vzzTONg
    — US Strategic Command (@US_Stratcom) December 31, 2018
    While the bombs depicted in the video — known as “bunker busters” — are conventional, not nuclear, the tweet seems to serve as a reminder to the rest of the world that the US military maintains the largest and most capable weapons in the world.
    A Strategic Command spokesperson, Navy Capt. Brook Dewalt, told CNN that the post is “part of our recap of command priorities” and is all about reassuring the American people that the US military is ready at all times, even on New Year’s Eve.
    😉

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Enter the legal way.
    Javid also issued a clear warning to migrants considering making the trip saying, “I want to send a very strong signal to people who do think about making this journey is that we will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success in the sense that I do not want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France that then they can get to Britain and then just get to stay.”
    https://www.oann.com/u-k-patrolling-english-channel-for-possible-migrant-crossings/

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Can someone translate this from the original Nevada City dialect please?
    ‘after people in the houses that have an x marked in from of them?’
    😉

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Best of Police Blotter: Thank goodness that GV dispatch got this one right. Kudos, bravo! Instead of Socialists, facists, SUWs, and Snowflakes trying to rewrite the Constitution, they should try reading the Constitution.
    June 11, 2:49 p.m. — A caller from Colfax Avenue and Ophir Street reported a vehicle with profanity and hateful speech toward women. The caller was advised that though the statement on the vehicle was offensive, the subject was within his first amendment rights to display it.
    https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156923794099190&id=702489189&set=a.10150199310694190&source=48

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  26. Paul Emery Avatar

    Typo x marked in front of them?’
    Now you get it Don? Curious as to how Georges prophecy will be enacted.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    @630 hmmmm election season!

    Still needs a translation @ 633.
    😉

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    UH OH! Trouble in comrade Bernie bro zone!
    HuffPost
    Bernie Sanders Alumni Request Meeting To Address ‘Sexual Violence’ On 2016 Campaign
    Alanna Vagianos,HuffPost
    Former staff on Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign are requesting a formal meeting with the politician to discuss “the issue of sexual violence and harassment on the 2016 campaign” in order to “mitigate the issue in the upcoming presidential cycle.”
    Over two dozen Sanders alumni wrote a letter to the senator on Sunday urging him to create actionable goals to prevent “the untenable and dangerous dynamic” that took place during his 2016 campaign. The letter, obtained by Politico, does not specifically state any instances of sexual harassment or assault that took place during Sanders’ run for the Democratic nomination for president.
    “We — the people who worked on Bernie 2016 — know that much of the success of our campaign was due to the intense commitment, passion and sacrifice of women, people of color and LGBT staffers,” the letter states. “In recent weeks there has been an ongoing conversation on social media, in texts, and in person, about the untenable and dangerous dynamic that developed during our campaign.”
    The former staffers requested a physical meeting with Sanders and his top advisers. They also asked that, following the meeting, Sanders advisers create “a follow-up plan for implementing concrete sexual harassment policies and procedures” as well as a “commitment to hiring diverse leadership.”
    The signees told Politico that they did not intend for the letter to go public, and the identities of former staffers behind the letter have not been released.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/bernie-sanders-alumni-request-meeting-161554480.html
    😉

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don,
    You are into China and foreign relations. I don’t know how I missed Pence’s policy speech on China….before the midterms to the Hudson Institute. Alarming stuff. Pence lays it out better than any think tank white paper I have read. Yes, a bit heavy for New Years Eve. Trump was right. What Russia is doing to influence US elections pales in comparison to China efforts. In fact, there is no comparison.
    “And worst of all, China has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence American public opinion, the 2018 elections, and the environment leading into the 2020 presidential elections. To put it bluntly, President Trump’s leadership is working; and China wants a different American President.
    There can be no doubt: China is meddling in America’s democracy. As President Trump said just last week, we have, in his words, “found that China has been attempting to interfere in our upcoming [midterm] election[s].”
    Our intelligence community says that “China is targeting U.S. state and local governments and officials to exploit any divisions between federal and local levels on policy. It’s using wedge issues, like trade tariffs, to advance Beijing’s political influence.”
    In June, Beijing itself circulated a sensitive document, entitled “Propaganda and Censorship Notice.” It laid out its strategy. It stated that China must, in their words, “strike accurately and carefully, splitting apart different domestic groups” in the United States of America.
    To that end, Beijing has mobilized covert actors, front groups, and propaganda outlets to shift Americans’ perception of Chinese policy. As a senior career member of our intelligence community told me just this week, what the Russians are doing pales in comparison to what China is doing across this country. And the American people deserve to know it.
    Senior Chinese officials have also tried to influence business leaders to encourage them to condemn our trade actions, leveraging their desire to maintain their operations in China. In one recent example, China threatened to deny a business license for a major U.S. corporation if they refused to speak out against our administration’s policies.
    And when it comes to influencing the midterms, you need only look at Beijing’s tariffs in response to ours. The tariffs imposed by China to date specifically targeted industries and states that would play an important role in the 2018 election. By one estimate, more than 80 percent of U.S. counties targeted by China voted for President Trump and I in 2016; now China wants to turn these voters against our administration.
    And China is also directly appealing to the American voters. Last week, the Chinese government paid to have a multipage supplement inserted into the Des Moines Register –- the paper of record of the home state of our Ambassador to China, and a pivotal state in 2018 and 2020. The supplement, designed to look like the news articles, cast our trade policies as reckless and harmful to Iowans.
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-administrations-policy-toward-china/
    —————-

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Typo x marked in front of them?? Ahh, the ole Typo X.
    There is an ancient Chinese proverb that reads, “Men see only the present, but heaven sees the future.”

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Here is one for the Common Core lovers. From our own police blotter.
    May 17, 4:27 p.m. — A caller from the 300 block of Pleasant Street reported a father in the apartment harassing his 7-year-old son about homework. Contact was made with the father of the child who was attempting to teach his son common core math. The child was fine and math was postponed pending teacher assistance.

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yeah Don, I’m curious as to how the George types will be delivered to their captors or whatever in the scenario that George lays out in his statement that:
    ” you people will come again for me and mine as sure as the sun rises tomorrow. ”
    Is that simple enough for you Don?

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sounds like election season when the signs are out given the level of vandalism and theft we suffer already. Unless you have cameras!
    😉

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Oh good, the Wall deal is settled and we can restart the government. Trump tweets
    Trump goes off in an all-caps New Year’s Eve Twitter meltdown: ‘MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL’
    It doesn’t have to come from the general fund, we just collect the money and build the Wall. Simple. By the way how about reimbursing the taxpayers the billions that are being spent in farm subsidies because of Trumps trade wars. Where is that coming from?

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Now come on you have gone way off the talking points for lefties @ 8, time to take the device back but who will notice anyway?
    😉

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  36. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Hey you can have your daughter compete as a guy in wrestling other gals and be state champion. All those steriods and other muscle drugs are now OK. But don’t admit it if you are Sammy SoSa.

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  37. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    Bill Tozer 10:15.
    Bless your heart and thank you. I have to tell the rest of the story because of what I see going on in America now. I realize it’s going according to the mistakes of past and prophecy of future. The pschycology to destroy real men who are our nation’s protectors.
    When I was 15 I prayed to God that someday he bring me the right man. Five years later a bunch of us were partying in Nevada City and a young man road up on a beautiful blue Harley motorcycle. I asked someone to ask the rider if he’d give me a ride. The rider was hesitant because he thought I was too young, but gave me a ride. When he learned I was 20, he changed his mind…and we married two moths later, and enjoyed our life together for 65 years. I laugh thinking about how the Harley was how God got my attention. He was a real good, hard working man who always stood up for what was needed.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Happy New Year Bonnie.
    So, this is what got RC so wound up. It’s like he ripped off some parts word for word. Trump is immoral and I am not.
    https://www.lifezette.com/2018/12/media-didnt-like-mcchrystal-until-he-started-bashing-trump/

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE FROM HERE GOT UNDER THE FUES SKIN AGAIN. HE IS ON A RANT against GR!.

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  40. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    George 5:41– You are still avoiding the primary issue I have brought up… that being the issue of morality and politics.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Happy New Year, Todd! I will just have to take your word for it that some folks started the new year off unhinged and foaming at the chops. No thanks. It’s who they are, not who we are. Pity, it is such a gorgeous day. Free rent in their noggins is not a good way to start off the year…or anyday. Better them than me, fa sure.
    ——————————-
    The year in review in pictures. Like the cat pic.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/the-year-in-pictures-highlights-edition.php

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  42. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 1056am – I never avoid any serious issue, but you do have me at a disadvantage. I don’t know what you want to hear from me on “the issue of morality and politics.” Could you please be more specific – pose a question or state a thesis that can be countenanced or countered?

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  43. L Avatar
    L

    Happy New Year to all! Global warming strikes early in Tucson with 3″ snow on the Sonoran Desert. For once, it’s staying on the ground instead of melting. How dat happen? Warmunists? L

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Happy NewYear, Walt. Thanks for the laughs.
    And we also learn,,, some things NEVER change.
    “A drunken man was found on Commercial Street in Nevada City. He was so heavy it took a truck to haul him in.”
    Posted by: Walt | 31 December 2018 at 10:56 AM
    That’s no way to go through life, son…..fat, drunk, and stupid. Nothing new under the Nevada City Moon.

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Happy New Year, Don. Love those ‘Mark the Tape!’ moments.
    Unfortunately, we are all dead and we are too dumb to know it. Or are we?
    https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1079792984810549248?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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    You didn’t tweet this and I didn’t reply because we’re both dead. We died several times this year. Probably gonna die a few more times next year. It just be like that.

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  46. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    I once again would like to pose this question to you. You wrote earlier on this blog that ” you people will come again for me and mine as sure as the sun rises tomorrow. ”
    How will that manifest itself? Are you talking about “me and mine” being physically rounded up and taken somewhere do you have some other scenario in mind. Kind of an astounding statement that I take seriously and not as a joke.

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    As much as I have bashed young people (SJWs) who think life is just like being on a big campus and safe places from words that may make someone feel bad or sad or uncomfortable are guareenteed, I must extend kudos to the young clerk that handled a diffitcult situation with respect and a calm manner. The young man apologized and remained professional. It was simple mistake any of us could have made. The female customer who requested the outraged ma’am to not use profanity also remained calm and did not raise her voice. They done good.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/39757/viral-video-transgender-customer-threatens-fight-amanda-prestigiacomo?fbclid=IwAR3FmA7ST1RTrcqfc_c3-f8E48zwKhvTK-YcSmK1bdwkGfNdvVynrcfVUPc
    https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1514368278697204/?type=3&source=48

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