[… and I would also draw your kind attention to the 28jan19 update of the last Ruminations. gjr]

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286 responses to “Sandbox – 28jan19”
It’s a burn day!
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PaulE 1054pm – it’s the best they can do when they run out of argument. You all resort to obvious ad hominems and ludicrous insinuations which no one believes.
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,,,here you go Great Wall booster club,,,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/videos/historic-texas-church-would-end-up-on-mexico-side-of-the-wall/vi-BBSYNSH
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Don Rogers the Publisher has a Column today. Honest to goodness I feel sorry for the fellow. Mediocrity is just fine as long as you don’t try to succeed. Read it and see if the message has escaped me. And he even singles out FOX in a backhanded way to give them credit for reporting the Indian drummer boy and the kid. Looks like a FOX hater to me.
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Pennsylvania in the news.
Dougherty was charged with embezzlement, bribery, and theft in a 116-count indictment that alleged he and others stole more than $600,000 in union funds and repeatedly strong-armed public and private officials with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Dougherty, who is the leader of the Philadelphia electricians union as well as the city’s building trades, has long denied any wrongdoing. Several top lieutenants in his union’s political operation were also charged.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pennsylvania-democrats-rocked-by-indictment-of-top-political-boss/ar-BBSZql6?ocid=ob-fb-enus-580&fbclid=IwAR2EHU0YXB9l4JpzEleDIm5NFpwh9n64ckWB4rCrCcttub951B-0-FXGllU#page=2
In related news:
As Jazz Shaw at Hot Air notes, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf had blocked the release of the results using legal maneuvers, but the information is finally out. More than 11,000 non-citizens are on the Keystone State’s voter rolls, according to the Washington Times. This is far less than the estimated 100,000 – a number that could have changed the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
“Pennsylvania officials have admitted to finding names of 11,198 non-citizens registered to vote on the state’s rolls — though top lawmakers suspect the number could still be higher,” the Times reported.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42889/pennsylvania-finds-thousands-non-citizens-voter-ashe-schow?fbclid=IwAR3U8Ma7MD_D6iqi9SQ0x0Xx5fpp5AFKMyoccS3VAlIgTiMkGn2_EYGoG-A
And even more related news, isn’t Shotgun Joe from PA?
https://www.facebook.com/Rowdier2/photos/a.1499270640284886/2103070879904856/?type=3&theater
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Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2019 at 08:30 AM
Yes, it should scare the hell out of everybody. You don’t need the secret police when you have taught people to police themselves according to your totalitarian principles.
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,,,what’s wrong with this wall???
https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2019/01/donald-trump-steel-slat-barrier-mexican-border-wall-hero.jpg
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,,,now on sale at Patriot Contractor Supply or Home Depot Tijuana,,,
https://youtu.be/4mIi0mPJe1A
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News flash
Todd and others of his ilk have been put on the endangered species list since Republicans are nearly extinct in California due to Trump
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Robert Cross | 01 February 2019 at 10:25 AM
Sorry you are just as wrong as you always are. You really have no clue.
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Paul Emery you are just too funny. What about the democrats in Indiana and some other states. I don’t see you saying the same thing aboyut their demise. Why is that?
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,,,how is trumpski’s big embargo workin’ ???
https://tinyurl.com/y8maqp5y
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That’s Todd Juvinall folks please nsupport him. He’s now on the endangered species list in California.
Go Todd, show us like it used to be. Next stop for you is a petting zoo where children can be reminded how it used to be when Republicans controlled the Governors office for 30 of the last 50 years ending with the Swartz.
Thanks Todd for making yourself so available as a relic of what used to be.
So Todd is thinking of moving to Indiana where the climate is more suitable for his types. Don’t go Todd. We need you here to remind us of what used to be before Trump exterminated the Republicans in California.
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PaulE 1053am – Ah yes, the old ‘controlling the Governors/Presidents office’ argument. Paul, are you still counting on RR readers being sufficiently ignorant to somehow conflate that with absolute power and controlling governments in the USofA?
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Oh my Paul Emery is on a babbling spree about me. I realize you have always been jealous of me and my success but this is over the top. Do you need a EMT or ambulance? I look at myself and my beliefs in the same vein as the Founders and their documents. You heroes went under as a country in 1989 and on;y a couple are left on the planet. I realize that your lefty propaganda does works with the great unwashed and maybe you will see a overtaking of freedom in your lifetime. But is that what you want? Apparently so. But as long as I have a breath in me I will fight you and your socialist/communist attempts to enslave the planet.
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No George, just equating the demise of the Republican Party in California to historic, in our lifetime, lows. Because of Trump we no longer have a two party system in California and that is a real problem.
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Not because of Trump. It started long ago. Hell we had a one vote majority in our Assembly once in 1996 and the dems have had it all the rest. So your TDS is showing again.
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PaulE 1129am – How simple the world has become with the availability of “because of Trump”, marvelous! ToddJ’s 1141am is germane.
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Ahhh, the Schwartz!
“May the Schwartz be with you!”– Spaceballs, the Movie
Punchy, if Dems wanted GOP or Libertarians on the November ballot, they wouldn’t have pushed the horrible top two system, and would embrace the Janus decision to stop illegally financing Democratic union activity.
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/ventura-county-professor-files-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-union-window-period-scheme
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The Pakistanis like their border wall –
https://aminewswire.org/stories/pakistan-works-finish-border-fence-along-disputed-afghan-border/
😉
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Perhaps this is not the right time to bring it up, but am I the only one to notice that Donald J.Trump and Paul Emery have much in common. Let no slight go unanswered, jab, counterjab, and punch, punch, punch. Sorry Todd, but have you noticed that you and Punchy have some similarities as well? One slight is slung, one returned.
Sure, I got blood on my hands and sometimes believe “the meek will inherit nothing west of Chicago.” A line from a Western movie based on a Zane Grey paperback checkstand novel.
The main difference between Trump and Punchy is Trump is cool until attacked…and he is quick on the draw to blast back. Many feminist authors have pointed out that it was Rosie who drew first blood, not the other way around. Trump was cool until one day, out of blue and for no particular reason, Rosie arose out of bed and launched gernades against private citizen Trump, a wealthy TV personality. Trump blasted back, “Rosie the pig.” Insert big lol here.
Sometimes the Punch Drunk one gets out of bed and for no reason in particular starts punching and jabbing away. Draws first blood. Sure, there is always a reason or some rationalization that leads to justification. Revenge works. But, how else can any rational human explain launching into a six hour tirade over the footwear FOTUS donned while boarding a plane? Did enjoy the quoting LBJ to justify the meltdown of rationality, to be honest. No stone left unturned. LBJ quotes are cool.
The other difference between Trump, Punchy and Todd (until yesterday as a sole expection) is neither Trump or Todd goes running to Dr. Rebane or, in Trump’s case, go running and whining to anybody crying mean names hurt their feelings. Not their style. Suck it up, buttercup.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words…jab, jab, jab, combo. It is obvious to me that some posters here have never been knifed, but I could be wrong. That last line was for shock value…or was it? I’m rubber, you are glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you, ass hat.
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Tick tock –
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/02/01/tom-mcclintock-trump-declare-national-emergency-build-wall-pelosi-not-even-pretending-negotiate/
😉
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Bill
Thanks for the tips. I’ll pass them on to my coach.
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,,,yo donnie bluntski,,, it is nothing more than a wire fence. Thanks for showing us we don’t need a concrete or steel picket fence!!!
https://goo.gl/images/ZEponp
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,,,love,Russian style,
https://tinyurl.com/yc594c3k
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Gregory
You don’t know your history very well if you think it was the Dems who originated and supported Prop 14 in 2010. It was authored by Republican State Senator Abel Maldonado who was also Lt Gov under the Swartz. It was publicly backed by Governor Swartz and opposed by the Democratic Party. It appeared on the ballot and unfortunately became law by winning 54 % of the voters .
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Is this how the po’ ol’ fakenewsman gets his news?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/01/china-propaganda-app/?yptr=yahoo
😉
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They like theirs and we will too!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/as-trump-makes-border-wall-pitch-other-countries-say-theirs-work
😉
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DonB 214pm – Nice try Mr Bessee, but our progressives are not allowed to acknowledge certain large swaths of reality, and this is one of them.
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Bill Tozer | 01 February 2019 at 01:27 PM
Yes you got me BillT about punchback And here is my reason.
When I was an elected official I decided to do my best to be a statesman and not respond to the lefty attacks and the media lies about and to me. I put up with that for 10 years and was really responsible about it. But then when the day arrived that I was no longer the elected official I said to myself, “I am no longer going to take their crap and I will respond in kind”. I learned that no matter how nice I was when I was in office, the pricks were relentless and it did not matter to them. A conservative was fair game to them to trash and lie about. And they even attacked my wife and kids. That is why I am like Trump and I was Trump before Trump. You want to attack me, get ready for blowback. And because I do I have exposed those lousy liberals as the snowflakes they really are. Cowards and slime.
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Oh Todd I’m really scared!!!! As a boxer we knew your types and referred to them as pencilnecks.
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Scared of what? I am non-violent but when I was in boxing class I was pretty good. But you are tiny so you need to stay in your own wimp weight class. What 120 poinds?
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George
Speaking of reality I inserted a bit of historical correction to Gregory in my 2:03. I thoroughly covered the story in the news of the day.
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,,,here is an idea for MAGA men, how about a bounty on illegals? Race around the desert in your quads capturing illegals for fun and profit!!!
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Bill T 1:27-
I wasn’t the least bit surprised when Todd Juvinall went running to daddy when he got his feelings hurt. He’s a bully and bullies are the first to curl into a fetal position when stood up to. Todd has less spine than a jellyfish.
It would be short sighted, even for Trump, to declare a national emergency so he can build his vanity wall. Every climate change denier in America better shut him down, or face the 100% probability that the next science literate president will declare his own national emergency and all bets will be off. If Trump declares a state of emergency, fossil fuel dependent stocks will crash before the next sunrise.
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More on prop 14
“The most prominent backer of the proposition is Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has raised money for the measure and cites the current Republican gubernatorial primary between Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner as emblematic of the type of primary partisanship that would be eliminated under the proposed system.
Supporters believe the initiative would lead to more moderate elected officials and alleviate the gridlock that has characterized the state’s politics in recent years.
Proposition 14 is the brainchild of Republican Abel Maldonado, a former state senator who recently was confirmed as the state’s new lieutenant governor. “
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link
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Media/proposition-14-puts-primaries-shakeup-california-ballot/story?id=10809262
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Todd Swallows | 01 February 2019 at 02:50 PM
You are a troll and you just crack me up. But that attitude you have is one of a wimp snowflake. No guts no glory. What a hoot! Trump is building the wall and you socialists will just have to get used to losing.
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,,,Juvinall,,,every time your ilk parrots the carny-in-chief,,, Duh,,, Build Da Wall,,, Duh,,,you confirm that you are brainwashed and can only relate to monosyllabic chants… hammer time!!!
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You mean losing like the Republicans in California Todd?
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Todd 3:06
“Wimp. Snowflake”. Just a reminder, who went running to hide behind mommy’s skirt and cry for help.
Get with the issue. Do you think Trump should declare a national state of emergency to build his wall? Do you understand the long term ramifications? I’m open to a logical response.
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No that would be you a wimp snowflake troll. My life has been one of having to fix things your ilk and “MMM” screwed up. America is a better country for my efforts than yours and you know it.
Trump will do whatever necessary to secure our border in spite of you leftwing open border saps. He is already building parts of the wall and he will get the rest done in spite of Pelosi and Schumer subterfuge. Hey you could get a job digging the trenches. Get on your Harley and get going.
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Todd
Have you ever accomplished anything to compare with Wild and Scenic South Yuba preservation and the state park that followed? That’s something that I assisted with many other dedicated citizens.
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The Blue Mob keeps on keepin’ on.
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/san-francisco-area-restaurant-bans-make-america-great-hats-compares-to-white-hoods-and-swastikas
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Hey, it’s a burn day and it’s so overcast the little bedwetters of who see one whiff of smoke then race to squawk into the phone to the Smoke Police and Suicide Hotline simulationly won’t even fit finger. They can’t see it, lol. Got green stuff going now and my left handed smoke shifter purring along just fine, thank you.
All you guys talk about fire prevention and nobody does nothing about it except the goat lady. Air raid siren ain’t going to get er done.
I am surprised that it is a burn day considering the wind picking up and all. All that smoke disperses all over the place and the week kneed melting snowflakes can’t pinpoint where it be because of the cloud cover, lol. Sweet.
Catch me if you can, I’m the Gingerbread Man. Those old rotten wet logs covered with pretty fungi and weird stuff sure send up the smoke signals.
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Since this link is behind the paywall…..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-gov-northams-medical-school-yearbook-page-shows-men-in-blackface-kkk-robe/2019/02/01/517a43ee-265f-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1PTvZ9QiXdvLflM2WH4iuE9T1KiTEaSMaxCsR4eSaLgzPK1EYolSBhWTo&utm_term=.bac3e991f24a
con’t ….is behind the paywall and I can’t read it, let me help the reader understand that wild and crazy guy, Gov. Ralph.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR20oJ9bQJOlUkItGOaCDoPmqXK4X_3A7DhWHomG17ibgUIvsWsfmeP28ys&v=_tuu5YtkPIo
Oh yeah. That huge drug bust (that could kill something like 57 million Americans if ingested in 2mg doses at the border crossing….well, that’s just a perfect reason why we need the Wall. It’s to free up agents to help inspect the cars crossing at legal points of entry, silly. Where a good barrier is, illegal crossings are down 90% or a tenth of what it was before a good barrier. All Trump is asking for a measly 180 miles of new barrier fence and money to fix the old jokes of a border fence and take some of those vehicle barriers (to prevent cars from driving across the border out in the boonies on remote dusty roads) and put up pedestrian fencing instead of vehicle fencing. Heck, it is starting to look like a Mad Max scene out there with old cars stacked on each other to be a vehicle crossing barrier. Ain’t cutting it, especially when you consider Greyhound Mexico is dumping hundreds upon hundreds of folks off at “vehicle barriers”.
Oh yeah. All a drone is doing to do is tell our guys that a bunch have crossed over, now go out and find them. We need more manpower at our ports and ports of entry. Walls will free up previous resources and perhaps save the lives of precious little children of illegal crossers. And what’s up with those TSA guys who just got busted in a 100 million cocaine smuggling scam?? Yep, the Wall would free up a lot of personel to plug some more leaks.
Oh yeah. Hey Swallows, only a faggot uses the terms like pud and wetback anymore. Get with the times.
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54% voted for Prop 14? Blame the voters in a state with large Lefty majority? Are you calling your the California voters stoopid? Look a 2018. I rest case. Ha!
The voters ay have had a a role in it, but the Republicans are more to blame!
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Scenes.. Justice was swift.
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/restaurant-owner-who-banned-customers-in-maga-hats-takes-back-remarks-apologizes-for-amplifying-the-anger
Has any attack on Conservatives by Lefty owned business worked out?
Word has it that the Little Red Hen, who got national coverage, went BK because of their stunt.
Every one that’s hit the news winds up in damage control.
“Oh.. that’s not what I “REALLY” meant…..(as he bleeds money.)
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Scenes @5:04 pm and Mr. Walt @ 5:39 pm
MAGA Hat Derangement Syndrome rears it’s ugy head again. I can ‘assume’ it won’t be the last time and that you agree with me.
A ball cap is triggering! Triggering to who? Not triggering to moi. Long haired freaky guys in Che tee shirts aren’t triggering to me either. So, upon who does the responsibility of being triggered fall on? Those who run to safe places to look at pictures of puppies and start trying to stay within the lines on coloring book outlines or ttttte paying patrons minding their own business with smirks and letterig on their ballcaps? Hey, barkeep, buy the house house round and put it on my bill….the bill just below the lettering.
I am sorry but the First Amendment does not protect you from being offended. Besides, the Blue Mob is always is offended. The Blue Mob is coming and boy are they pissed.
Is not like yelling “Fire” inside the Miners Foundry or the old playhouse. If I am triggered, the blame falls squarely on the man in the mirror.
https://www.facebook.com/EvilPatrickStar/photos/a.281754859025107/463579404175984/?type=3&theater
Come on guys, let’s not blame the chef. He was told what to think by CNN….the enemy of the people.
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Play it again, piano man. Once more around park, James.
—Come on guys, let’s not blame the chef. He was told what to think by CNN….the enemy of the people.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/02/01/cuomo-argues-favor-allowing-banning-maga-hat-wearers
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Paul Emery | 01 February 2019 at 04:34 PM
No I never through subterfuge did what you and your ilk did to the Yuba. And 897 private property owners. You all did that. As soon as you did there were terrible algae blooms too from all the guests you invited that came and crapped in our river. Nope, never accomplished that myself. And you do it with taxpayers money!
I dare say though you probably drive on roads and bridges I got repaired and built as well as the bridge at the Colfax Bear and the Hwy 49 over the Yuba. But you see I don’t brag. Just like most successful people we just get the job done. You libs have to have your pals pat you on the back for every little thing. What a hoot!
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