[A little while back I asked for feedback on the notion of moderating RR comments in the effort to cut out a lot of the naked ad hominem interpersonal crappola comments that contribute nothing to the discussion of ideas, issues, or events. The plan would be to quit moderating again as soon as the ad hominems were promoted to at least high school, if not churchillian, levels. The response from all you worthies was a massive yawn. Silence is also feedback, so I take that as apparently no one cares. Thank you. gjr]
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232 responses to “Sandbox – 3jan19”
As the worst offender I don’t care! I do worry about an ignorant nitwit like Pelline taking up your valuable time with baseless threats of litigation!
So there’s that!
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GeorgeR, I personally don’t like moderation. Even discussions or attacks on sheep and goats has a place in the lives of some. But it is your blog.
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ToddJ 1103am – Yeah, but I’m not interested in the resolution of such animal husbandry problems on RR. Since you seem to have more tolerance to the discussions of such subject matter, perhaps you can invite their continuance on your blog. I’m not trying to constrain free speech, only recommend venues where it is most welcomed.
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Under the category It Can’t Happen Here, I present to you the rest of the story and the reason behind the brawl inside Mickey D’s:
“Biandudi says the argument started when Taylor went over to the condiment bar to grab a straw. When he noticed there were none, she says he began screaming at the employees.
“He was yelling and walking toward the counter and the young lady behind the counter told him that it’s the law now that we’re not allowed to have straws in the lobby,” she said.
The new law, which took effect January 1 in St. Petersburg says restaurants can’t have straws out. Instead, customers must request the straw. In 2020, plastic straws will no longer be allowed in restaurants at all and businesses will have to find an alternative.
https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/florida-man-arrested-for-attacking-mcdonalds-employee-over-not-getting-a-straw-police-say
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Another shooting up on “the ridge”, as I speak.
Someone named Doug shot some guy in the gut with a .45
A road rage incident it sounds like.
Last seen on Sweetland Road headed for Pleasant Valley.
First ax attacks in GV, now gun play up on the ridge.
And the first week of the new year hasn’t even ended yet.
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The axe job from yesterday…
https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/nevada-county-sheriffs-deputies-arrest-axe-assault-suspect/
Looks like waiting periods and background checks are needed for axe buys.
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To paraphrase a local representative of the media…….Time to pop some corn…..gonna be fun!
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/confused-pelosi-botches-speaker-speech-i-think-i-skipped-a-couple-of-pages-im-not-sure/
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Under the category “What difference at this point does it matter anyway”
“Flynn’s attendance at the RT event was disclosed in advance to the intelligence community, he took proactive steps to ensure he could not be compromised by attendees and he then came back to the United States and reported intelligence designed to benefit America.
“Flynn was never charged with any wrongdoing related to the RT event, so the belated revelations about his pre- and post-event conduct won’t have any effect on his sentencing in the court of law. But in the court of public opinion, they should have a real impact.
“On that score, the first accounts of the Russia-Flynn story — like many others in the still-unproven collusion narrative — should be amended to reflect that the retired general acted like a patriot, not a traitor, when he visited Moscow for the RT event.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/423558-exculpatory-russia-evidence-about-mike-flynn-that-us-intel-kept-secret
Which brings us to the biggest crime concerning the Flynn saga. No, Flynn’s discussions with the Russian Ambassador were perfectly legal and not a crime. Discussions about sanctions and opening up energy exploration is a matter of policy, not criminal. No, the big crime was not failing to report income he made on behalf of the Turks. Neither was the big crime of lying to Pence, which he was fired for. Neither was lying to the FBI the BIG crime which he will probably serve no time for. Nope, none of the above.
The real big crime, the felony that carries years in prison, occured when Flynn’s name was unmasked and somebody illegally leaked that classified info to the press, a big time felony and no-no. Thus, the Deep State and their complicit press strikes again. The enemies of the people are many and situated in high places.
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Amend my 2:12 pm
Instead of: No, the big crime was not failing to report income he made on behalf of the Turks…….it should read “No, the big crime was not failing to to file proper foreign lobbing paperwork for work he did on behalf on the Turks.”
The enemy of the people, who done it?
“That silence was maintained even when former acting Attorney General Sally Yates publicly claimed Flynn was possibly “compromised” by Moscow.
“And when a Democratic senator, Al Franken of Minnesota, suggested the former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) chief posed a “danger to this republic.”
“And even when some media outlets and our own friggin fakenews popinjay opined whether Flynn’s contacts with Russia were treasonous”
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Could it be? Could it be the same woman made famous in the Kavanaugh hearings when Lindsey grew a spine?
First, look at the wack job pale non-Hispanic white lady standing to the far left background on the pick. Forget the article, just look at the pic.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/39863/internet-tees-elizabeth-warren-beer-chugging-video-joseph-curl?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=dwbrand
Now, look at the lady in the background behind Lindsey Graham. Same woman? I report, you decide.
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2018/12/IMG_0919.jpg?w=870&ssl=1
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re: Pelosi and The Speech.
That reminds me of a story told by Victor Suvorov (aka Vladimir Rezun).
Evidently, some time ago, a rather fat and sleek Russian general was giving a speech at one of the military academies. Someone had slipped up and there were two interleaved copies of the speech.
The rather porcine general proceeded to read his speech to the assembled officers. Page 1 followed by page 1. Page 2 followed by page 2. etc. Of course he never noticed. And of course, the crowd sat in rather horrified silence afraid to say anything. A beautiful thing.
I’d have to say that the current gerontocracy isn’t a whole lot different than a batch of Soviet officials. These systems rhyme more than you might think.
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Posted by: scenes | 03 January 2019 at 02:47 PM
I’d have to say that the current gerontocracy isn’t a whole lot different than a batch of Soviet officials…….
Ours are more corrupt.
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,,,Little weenies in big P-U trucks,,,why are they such angrly little rednecks??? Teslas are made in the USA
https://www.yahoo.com/news/tesla-haters-parking-pickup-trucks-234053201.html
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Posted by: M | 03 January 2019 at 03:30 PM
,,,Little weenies ……
Really dugsKKKi….TMI!
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LOL!!! Thanks for the LOL!!! “m”.,,, Now that’s poetic justice.
And not illegal,, and no tickets.
Those deadbeat elec. car drivers not paying their hy. use fees.(fuel taxes)
Serves them right.
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re the charging station story – What a nonsense article. How many times has this happened? Twice?
Call out the National Guard!
M and his sort are easily led by poorly written articles with few or no facts and citations.
Is this really important to M?
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Quotes of the day. The last one is my fav.
Upright: “Good character is not an impediment to success. But it is not sufficient for success, either.” —Jim Geraghty
For the record: “If Senator Romney wants to sound off against Trump’s excesses and character flaws, he should by all means do so in response to Trump’s tweets or statements or actions. But by forcing a ‘Love Trump or Leave Trump’ choice on Republicans, he’s actually doing the work of both the most ardent Trumpists and the most viciously antagonistic members of the Democratic party and the media.” —Ben Shapiro
Friendly fire: “Though [Dean] Baquet said publicly he didn’t want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump. Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis.” —former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson
Fake news: “Extreme weather and dire climate reports are intensifying the mental health effects of global warming: depression and resignation about the future.” —NBC News
Alpha Jackass II: “Donald Trump supporters are older, less educated, less prosperous, and dying early. Their lifespans are decreasing, and many are dying from alcoholism, drug overdoses, liver disease, or simply a broken heart caused by economic despair.” —Hank Johnson
Civility: “She’ll cut your head off and you won’t even know you’re bleeding.” —Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, on her mother’s negotiating style
And last… “If you’re searching for enlightenment in politics, you should probably find a better religion.” —David Harsanyi
https://www.facebook.com/GeekCentral01/photos/a.509671172448212/2042853259129988/?type=3&theater
Toz quotes from various and sundry outlets:
“If Walls are immoral, why does the Vatican have Big One ?”….. Donald Trump and his Twitter machine
“The Left says Trump does not do well in business. [He] sells rice to China”…..Meme.
“180 Texans held off Santa Anna and his 4,000 Mexican soldiers for 13 days because of a Wall!”
“NFL ratings rise as number of National Anthem protests drops.”
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In the its ok if we do it but not you category –
Starting in high school, Malcolm used apps like Tinder and Grindr to meet men from around the state, friends said. On that October night, he had come to Bristol to meet someone younger, purportedly a 14-year-old boy “going on 15,” according to a video posted by the digital vigilante group known as POPSquad.
And here is where things went horribly wrong for Malcolm:
When Malcolm arrived, he found that there was no boy — there was only POPSquad. For the 126th time in two years, the group — an acronym for Prey on Predators — had catfished a man on the internet, posing as an underage teen on hookup apps and luring him into a meetup, this time at an empty home whose owner allows it to be used for the group’s stings, according to POPSquad.
Now, I ask you… Ever, in the history of journalism, has an alleged child predator received five glowing paragraphs of hagiography before his alleged crime was detailed?
This POPSquad that NBC News hates so much just happens to be an online version of NBC’s own Dateline program, To Catch a Predator, which ran from 2004 to 2007–the idea being to use the Internet to lure child predators out into the open where they are publicly exposed and shamed on camera.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/03/nolte-nbc-news-tries-excuse-alleged-child-predator-sob-story/
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“Those deadbeat elec. car drivers not paying their hy. use fees.(fuel taxes)
Serves them right.”
Oh, they’ll fix that soon enough. You already have that problem with high vs. low MPG cars and their use of roads. No doubt we’ll see taxes based on odometer reading at some point, along with 1000 pages of new regulations on design of odometers and illegality of messing with them.
I did like the article. It’s possible that some kids were messing with the stink ass Tesla people, ridiculous if true. What’s really interesting is that some random person can put type up a post on Reddit, get quoted in some ‘news’ website, and then more ‘news’ websites quote the ‘news’ website, and then one of the numerous ‘news’ websites gets quoted here. The opportunities for mischief here are boundless.
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,,,Scotto,,,yes ICEing is a thing that redneck trumpers do as part of Trump’s army of idiots
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6530185/Tesla-owners-complain-ICEd-rude-pickup-truck-drivers-block-supercharger-stations.html
,,,Walter,,,you so Funny!!! As if these boneheads were protesting ”’highway fee inequity”’ LOL
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Sorry M – that article provided little proof that this is an ongoing problem. They actually admit a lot of it could just be people looking for a place to park without any intention of being a part of any animus against Tesla owners. 2 photos actually show that Teslas would still be able to access the ports. Fail. You have TDS and see an ‘army’ that doesn’t exist. There wasn’t any proof of any kind that linked this to Trump.
Rude or inconsiderate peoples’ parking habits cross all political lines.
You can come out from under the bed.
It’s OK – really.
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A paper dragon? Belt road project dead because they did not have that kind of money in the real world and then there is this =
As worries have mounted in recent months, top financial regulators have held meetings with economists at banks and brokerages to instruct them to take into account the interests of the Communist Party when they publish economic analyses – an apparent euphemism for holding back alarming language, Bloomberg reported in November.
But over the past 12 months, bits and pieces of data coming out have been precisely that: alarming.
Car sales have been shrinking for the first time since 1990, when most of the country was peddling bicycles. A key manufacturing survey at the end of the year showed Chinese factory activity actually contracting. And revenue from consumption tax was down 72 per cent in November
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/109725873/apples-stark-warning-may-be-ominous-news-for-china
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from a year ago, Balding said.
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,,,I want my wall!!!
https://www.facebook.com/1831469783567781/posts/1985181071529984/
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And he will get it.
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They ain’t eating the pow wow chow in NH –
If Thursday’s article in the Warren-friendly Boston Globe is to be believed, however, the embattled senator from Massachusetts’ candidacy is already encountering brisk headwinds in the Live Free or Die State, making this weekend’s trek to Iowa becomes a crucial test of her viability as a national candidate.
“Some N.H. Democrats Lukewarm to Warren,” the surprising headline said.
“Following Warren’s announcement [that she was forming an exploratory committee], more than a dozen sought-after Democratic activists in New Hampshire said they had concerns about her candidacy in interviews with the Globe,” the paper continued.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/03/as-warren-treks-to-iowa-early-troubles-arise-in-new-hampshire/
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I admit it “m”,, I would park my truck there just to be a dick.
Screw you, and your self imposed guilt trip. Besides. OUR tax dollars helped build that rolling superfund toxic disaster waiting to happen. The other end of the plug is a coal fired plant.
(and ECO my ass. Those things are not so ECO. I could run my house 24/7 for a week on what a Tesla discharges in less than a day on the road. The power companies love you suckers.
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@846 it may be the fact that we payed 7500 bucks to help millionaires buy an electric car, that’s the kind of socialism that the ultra left 1% like. Everyone else not so much or its virtue signaling.
You know its a bad day when the staged beer blowback is tending epicly and you lose huffpo –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-warrens-insult-native-americans-180649050.html
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I think mad Maxine said it first –
https://www.mediaite.com/online/new-congresswoman-rashida-tlaib-goes-off-on-trump-were-going-to-impeach-the-motherfcker/
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9:48 pm
The truth. Man is it ever the truth.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1517505268383505/?type=3&source=48
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In the “if you tell a lie long enough and loud enough conservative minds will believe it” category: trumpy today said with regard to his wall and his ‘gimme my wall or I will take my ball and go home..errr let the government shut down until they give me my way.. wah wah wah!” approach to deal making.
“The people of our country want it. ..I have never had so much support as I have in the last week over my stance for border security … or, frankly, the wall or the barrier. I have never had anything like it in terms of calls coming in, in terms of people writing in and tweeting. I’ve never had this much support,”
slight problem — the Whitehouse phone system, mail, etc. are not and have not been functioning because of the shutdown. So it must be support from his goombah buddies via cell phone or maybe ‘bat signals’ in the sky.
Another slight problem –most Americans DON”T want his wall, only the minority of the population that support him. A Quinnipiac poll of registered voters that were reached on landlines or cell phones from Dec. 12-17 found that 54 percent of respondents opposed the wall. A Harvard/Harris online poll of registered voters found that 56% or respondents opposed the wall.
The truth is never the truth in trump land.
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No BoobieC, Trump is right about this and those Border Patrol guys and others were there at his presser top confirm his common sense. Something lefties don’t possess. We all know just by common sense that a wall works. So if you want you party to be the party of helping illegals come here to rape and murder, you should get on the Trump train of common sense.
This whole kerfuffle is a political ploy be your ilk and will be rejected.
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Toad 10:19 — you should probably put plywood up over all your windows and doors and landmines in your yard to protect yourself from all those rapists and murderers. They will be coming for you, Toad, by the millions to take away your skillsaw and all your hammers and tape measures and then put you in a re-education camp where you will be forced to finish the 4th grade for once and for all. ‘The trump train of commonsense’ has got to be one of the funniest things I have ever heard. Good one Toad a real classic.
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George–“The response from all you worthies was a massive yawn. Silence is also feedback, so I take that as apparently no one cares.”
No surprise here… many of your regulars have nothing else to contribute so if you can the childish insults your pages will be blank and you will be dialoguing mostly with yourself and the occasional lefty who comes by to stir the embers. On the other hand, perhaps the childish dialogue has a cathartic function and allows some of your followers an outlet besides road rage when they see an old “Bernie” or “Hillary” bumper sticker.
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Oh BoobieC you are just a hoot. At least I finished the third grade. Maybe your white jacket need adjusting? You seem unhinged today, did they forget your fix? Anyway Trump is a common sense man and his voters are as well. You on the left have lost your collective minds and are what we all know and see, sheeple. You can’t even put your socks on without orders from Nancy Pelosi. What a shame.
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Todd 10:19
“we all know by common sense that a ($30 billion)wall works” As does a cheap ladder from Home Depot. When has common sense had anything in common with you Todd?
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If Trump is so great Todd why did he lose 40 seats in the House and 7 governor ships?
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Dan Fife | 04 January 2019 at 09:44 AM
It appears you are a liberal moron without common sense. After the country put in the wall at different locations along the border the trespassers at those locations dropped down to almost nothing. The wall in California got a razor wire added to the top and now we see that it worked really good. I suggest you stay in your third-grade moron clases and leave the adults to run the place.
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Paul Emery | 04 January 2019 at 09:50 AM
Obama, your boy, lost 63. Please explain to us why that happened if Obama was so great.
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Todd-
I guess you haven’t crossed the border at San Ysidro or El Paso in a while. At all times of the day many dozens of kids sit on top of the wall (razor wire is nothing but eye candy) and heckle border patrol. Americans toss up bags of snacks to the kids. They make a mockery of the whole thing and people like you who believe what you are told rather than what is in plain sight.
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Golly, Punch, the Dem edge in the House is much smaller, is it not, than the last time Pelosi was Speaker, and there is still a majority of states with GOP gubernators.
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Barney Fife 944am
There are limits to the number of cheap ladders that can be purchased and brought to the border.
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,,,Looks like it’s going to be fun!!!
”’Freshman U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump just hours after being sworn in.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters Thursday night, the Michigan Democrat and one of the first Muslim woman elected to Congress said of Trump: “People love you and you win. And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma, look you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t, because we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the mother***er.’”
She later stood by her remarks, tweeting she will “always speak truth to power.”‘
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Because he wasn’t so great Todd. I didn’t vote for him second time. Are you going to vote for Trump again?
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Dan Fife | 04 January 2019 at 11:36 AM
You really are ignorant and believe those loons Nancy and Chuckie. You are just a sheeple. I have first hand info about the border. You get yours through the Guardian talking points memos.
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Trump lost 40 house seats and 7 Governorships Gregory. Are you saying that’s a good thing? Goodness you’re delusional along with Todd.
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Posted by: M | 04 January 2019 at 12:21 PM
….and at the end “Rashida” will still be the punchline to a joke (although not such a big punchline as Ocasio-Cortez)!
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Get ready for the tRump smackdown!
https://tinyurl.com/ycvpq7sx
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Paul Emery are you that dumb? Apparently, you are. 63 is greater than 40. Obama was the best thing to happen for the R’s. We also kept the majority in the Senate and gained and we have the majority of Governors. We have 67 legislative houses to your 32. We kicked your ass.
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,,,nice try pubbers!!!
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/apos-leaked-apos-video-alexandria-235129841.html
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Posted by: M | 04 January 2019 at 12:30 PM
Yeah……I was wondering when you were going to tell us what you got for Christmas dugsKKKi? Mmmmm…. the WWE “DC Edition” action figure set by the looks of it!
Cool! Have fun!
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