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[Our leftwing commenters keep reporting that all of our border problems are nothing but rightwing propaganda, so why have the national news been reporting illegal entry numbers surging, caravans at the border trying to get in, and more caravans on the way from central America?  And how come Dems keep saying that walls don't work, and the border security authorities keep testifying and presenting data that they do?  gjr]

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368 responses to “Sandbox – 6feb19”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Who will fill Kavaugh’s seat?
    “It is dangerous to imply, as Booker did, that any American who holds an orthodox view of marriage cannot hold public office—views held, for millennia, by adherents to the Abrahamic faiths. Worse still, Rao is certainly not the first judicial nominee to face such inappropriate lines of questioning during a confirmation hearing. Such interrogation has become a rite of passage for nominees with documented religious or conservative opinions.”
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/08/cory-booker-neomi-rao-unfit-office-supports-natural-marriage/
    Democrats often accuse President Trump of being anti-women, anti-immigrant, and anti-gay, all while boasting their big tent approach for embracing all races, sexes, and sexual orientations. To show their commitment to diversity and inclusion, Democrats are often at the forefront of enforcing sex- and race-based quotas, from supporting affirmative action in college admissions to mandating quotas inside corporate boardrooms.
    Yet when they confront minorities who disagree with their political rhetoric or ideas, many Democrats not only throw their effort at achieving diversity and inclusion out of the window, but also actively engage in despicable activities to prevent these minorities from advancing in life. The most obvious and recent example is how the Democrats are treating minority judicial nominees of President Trump.
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/opposition-neomi-rao-patrick-bumtay-shows-identity-politics-total-con/
    Humanity will never be free of the scourge of itself. And how could it be? As long as we walk the earth, we will commit violence against one another. Let’s not back ourselves into a corner of whimsy where we believe, for some odd, wishful reason, that women ought not take precautions for their own safety, or that doing so furthers their victimization. It doesn’t.
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/07/no-kamala-harris-telling-women-careful-isnt-excusing-rape/

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Gee I wonder what the reaction in if you switched out white with any number of colors?
    An op-ed was published in Yale University’s student newspaper on Thursday, suggesting that students collect and store evidence on white male classmates, so that it can be used to ruin political careers in the future.
    “I’m watching you, white boy,” says author Isis Davis-Marks in an op-ed published in the Yale Daily News, who claims that she will save any evidence that she finds of white male classmates behaving badly — even if it’s “unintentional” — just in case she needs it to end a political career in the future.
    “Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions,” explains Davis-Marks in her op-ed, claiming that one day, she will turn on CNN to see that the “white boy” has become a “white man” sitting at his “Senate confirmation hearing.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/09/yale-university-student-newspaper-im-watching-you-white-boy/
    😉

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  3. Steven Frisch Avatar
    Steven Frisch

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 08 February 2019 at 10:39 AM
    Wow, now there is an elitist snub from a Hamm’s sort of guy, “he is a renter.”

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  4. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Swallows is a bordello monitor. What a hoot!

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  5. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Steve Frisch 504 Yeah you non-profit types are always renters. Never own a house or pay property taxes. Freedloaders on the front end and the back end.

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 339pm – Wrong again Mr Cross. I have no problem with Dems investigating until the cows come home. My problem is with you guys indicting and convicting before any evidence of wrongdoing comes in (e.g. like our local Berkheimer’s recent column). Capice?
    And BTW, I don’t do crickets. Pay attention.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A little good news from the Syrian front –
    Russia is confronting Iran in Syria for two reasons. First, there is the Israeli-US pressure and the insistence that Iran has no place in Syria. Second, there is the fact that Russia does not now need Iran since the fighting in Syria is almost over.
    Only one rebel stronghold remains in the Syrian province of Idlib held by an al Qaeda-linked group, which now controls more territory than any other opposition or terrorist group.
    On Wednesday, an anonymous Syrian official told the Iraqi Kurdish media outlet Bas News that the Russian military recently “blew up” targets held by Iranian militias, marking “the first time the Russians attacked Iranian targets in Syria,” the Jerusalem Post reported, echoing other outlets.
    Reporting from inside Syria, Ahram Online also highlighted recent clashes between Assad’s allies Iran and Russia in Syria.
    “Military disagreements are erupting between Russia and Iran in Syria, including indirect clashes that could mark the end of their tactical alliance,” the news outlet revealed on Friday, adding:
    Battles have broken out using heavy weapons between Russian-backed militias and Iranian-backed groups in Syria amid disputes over areas of influence, with fighters on both sides being killed in battles. … Russia succeeded in loosening the grip of the pro-Iran forces and attempted to end the fighting before it spread without dismantling all the pro-Iran forces and expelling them from the area.
    Ahram identified the soldiers involved in the fight as members of regime military divisions backed by Russia and the Iran-allied Syrian Republican Guard.
    “Both sides brought in military reinforcements in preparation for future more extensive battles,” Ahram warned.
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/02/08/reports-deadly-infighting-erupts-between-russia-iran-syria/
    😉

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  8. Walt Avatar

    Someone kick the rock Bobby’s under. His crickets are drowning out his answer why walls just don’t work.
    OR why only Right leaning people are getting jacked up for minimal “lying” to investigators and Congress.
    A good explanation should be easy for ya’.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    LIBS are laying pretty low on this rainy night. You would think they owed us money.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You bet your ass we do and are so good at making it! That’s you too Walt, I have had his ribs as have the Rebanes! Last weekend I butchered a full rib roast into 2 inch to 2 and a half inch bone in steaks! Its a visual thing seeing a plate full with just the steak. In the same way turkey leftovers rock so do they, use your imagination and then there is the dog joy too.
    The socialist scolds in the European nanny states tell us –
    You may have heard an increasing number of people vow to reduce their meat eating lately – or cut it out altogether.
    This often forms part of a bid to become healthier, reduce their environmental impact, or consider animal welfare.
    In 2013, the most recent year available, the US and Australia topped the tables for annual meat consumption. Alongside New Zealand and Argentina, both countries topped more than 100kg per person, the equivalent to about 50 chickens or half a cow each.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47057341
    😉

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Funny you should bring up my cooking.
    Been going through BBQ withdrawals. So I fired up the smoker today, and through in a turkey breast. I needed a challenge.
    Trying to keep an even temp was the fun part. Cherry wood was the flavor of the week. Turkey for all to sample. You would think my dogs were wolfs, drooling for the next handout.
    FINALLY!!! Something off the smoker the wife liked.(she’s just no fan of smoked anything.)
    Even the finicky puss gave his approval.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, boyz and fine lady, it’s been another eventful week here in God’s country. We had a SOTUS that pissed off Bernie as well as a bunch of independent women who were told what to wear (white), when to stand, and when to sit. That was immediately followed by the launching of the Green New Deal that needed no wordy thoughtful rebuttal as the punch lines see, to write themselves. All through this was the undercurrent of some embarrassing revelations of the top 3 Dems running Virginia.
    Personally, I felt the Gov and the Virginia AG would both have to go since their crimes were mirrors of each other and in the same timeframes. So, if one stayed the other would stay. Now it looks like they are going to toss the black guy as the sacrificial lamb to the wolves. The silver lining is that some Dems are now saying that maybe they were too quick on the draw to flush Stuart Smiley and maybe it might be better to take a deep breath and do the ole “innocent until proven guilty” thang…or at least wait a beat before the Screeching Banshies scream “I believe her! If the crime could have happened, then it did happen!”
    Nah, just joking. Throw the black dude out and keep the Gov and AG. Politics trumps race which trumps gender which trumps….. As Vince Lombardi said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Virginia is too important to lose to the R’s in 2020 because of a silly costume done in good fun and for yucks and giggles. Let it all hang out.
    Maybe the Dems will keep all three and let bygones be bygones. Interesting that they always referred to the white accuser of Kavanaugh as Dr. Ford and the black accuser (who also is a Dr.) of Lord Fairfax’s spawn as the “accuser.” Heck, Dr. Squeaky Ford did not even know how to contact her Senator’s office and the Dr. accuser is called a bioch. Go figure.
    Oh, lest we forget, we started the week off yapping about some white dude with no political experience who used to run Starbucks and boy was the media pissed. Exciting times, bro-in-laws, exciting times. And the half-time show sucked…like the Rams. One Benjamin lighter. 🙂
    The week in pictures…..these two and so much more…
    https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/02/IMG_9394.jpg?w=960&ssl=1
    https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-09-at-1.47.03-AM.png?w=1204&ssl=1
    The link
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/the-week-in-pictures-state-of-the-union-edition-2.php

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This is something that has bothered me for years. So much so that I have been all for rewriting the child credit (and unearned income credit ) to stop fraud, waste, and ABUSE. We have special rules for the definition of “qualifying depends” written for Mexican nationals who work in the US and all their kids live in Mexico are can be listed as dependents for the (un)Earned Income Credit. This video focuses on only the child tax credit. It ain’t right.
    https://www.facebook.com/WinnersArntLosers/videos/281820539132079/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMTMzNzc0NTUzMzM2MTAz/

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  14. Walt Avatar

    I have my suspicions,,(Ca. Proggyism sets in)
    https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/realtors-california-home-sales-close-year-on-downward-trend/
    Ans with all the capitalists leaving, no is left who cares to buy.

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The final push is on in the last pocket –
    Since the launch of its Al-Qaim operations, codenamed Chammal, French forces have fired off more than 18,000 shells and conducted 1,500 air strikes in support of anti-IS fighters on the ground
    https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/02/10/french-army-joins-syria-front-line-for-final-battle-against-islamic-state/
    😉

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Should I post this under R L Crabb steps in it, or does this go here? Decisions, descisions. Clownshoes and clowncars goes big league.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/43284/major-league-baseball-ditches-disabled-list-over-emily-zanotti?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You can send the jihadi to congress but you still got a jihadi in congress do deal with –
    https://news.grabien.com/story-rep-ilhan-omar-goes-anti-semitic-twitter-rampage
    😉

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    As mentioned above, this article tells you all you need to know about da Mob.
    https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/02/07/davis-marks-evil-is-banal/
    The line to become a stukach forms to the Left.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 6:43 pm. Islam good, Christianity bad, Judaism very very bad.
    Well, Christianity has been under attack for a long time by the secularists. Nothing new with that. To their credit, the Left has kept their anti-Christian bias in check all in all, through the years. Mostly only openly mocked Christianity in classrooms (including our local Sierra College for a decade or so) and some outbursts by Lefty pundits here and there, but kept it under control in the US, all things considered. The Leftinistas in Europe has succeeded in killing Christianity there, but they have been working on it longer and harder. Religion has always been the number one or two threat to statists and relative morality. Post Enlightenment stuff, post modern man.
    Anyway, when the Muslim migration north and west unfolded in the last few years, the attacks in Christianity is coming out in the open. Drives the Far Left nuts. Suddenly Islam got elevated to the good religion. and Judaism and Christianity went from bad to very bad.
    You don’t hear about attacks of Muslim private schools in the USA for teaching their beliefs, do ya? Nope.
    “This is not the first time the Pences have come under attack for their faith. The vice president became an object of ridicule when he revealed that he followed the so-called “Billy Graham Rule” by never dining alone with any woman other than his wife. He also drew fire from ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar, who characterized his faith as being a “mental illness.”
    In an op-ed for the Daily Wire, conservative blogger Matt Walsh took aim at left-wing critics for their relentless attacks on the second family regarding their religious beliefs.
    “The Left is once again shocked to learn that the Pences are Christian. It seems they learn this fact anew every few months or so and are freshly outraged every time it dawns on them,” he wrote.
    He goes on to to say, “I have always had a problem with the idea that religion is something we must keep to ourselves. Indeed, the Christian faith requires exactly the opposite. But in the case of Karen Pence and her new employer, they are doing exactly what the Left demanded. This school is merely trying to operate by biblical principles within its own walls and on its own property.”
    “It is a Christian school simply being a Christian school. It isn’t bothering anyone. It isn’t invading anyone’s home and lecturing them about their sexual behavior. It isn’t preventing anyone from working or living or enjoying their lives,” he continued. “It is just saying, very reasonably, very unobtrusively, ‘We are going to conduct ourselves according to Christian moral tradition. If you don’t want to accept that moral tradition, then by all means go somewhere else.’”
    https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/2019/january/religious-beliefs-are-under-attack-pro-lgbt-critics-target-karen-pence-for-taking-job-at-christian-school
    No solutions, just observing.

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  20. Walt Avatar

    LIBS say they are all for affordable housing..
    Well,, apparently until it moves in next door.
    https://www.foxnews.com/real-estate/rich-brooklyn-tenants-upset-by-sharing-luxury-apartment-building-with-topless-students
    “The building struck a deal to rent some 30 percent of its 150 units to The King’s College, a Christian liberal arts institution based in lower Manhattan.”
    Christian LIB arts??? That don’t even begin to make sense.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Virginia 3? Nay, the Virginia 4.
    https://www.roanoke.com/news/politics/general_assembly/sen-tommy-norment-was-an-editor-for-vmi-yearbook-filled/article_26b83a27-af79-5fda-bcd9-872243253896.html
    To be fair, it was 1968 and that was the first year VMI became intergrated. You can also bet your sweet bibby that people all over the nation are busy scrubbing on-line editions of old yearbooks and old college photos of keggers as we speak. If anyone has the original hardbound yearbooks, it may be worth a bundle to the highest bidder. 🙂

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  22. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 849pm – Mr Tozer, please repost under the proper commentary; thanks.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 9:20 pm.
    I knew you would say that and I purposely and knowingly posted the “Virginia Four” under Sandbox because it does not meet the gist of the post “Redemption of The Virginia Three” ….which is about forgiveness, context, foolish indiscretions of youth, and making the punishment fit the crime decades after the fact.
    Nay, good Doc, my post was in response to Scenes’s 8:49 pm, and was just an excuse for tossing in the punch line of the image of people all over the nation now scubbing their old photos and scrapbooks of things they once thought funny, cute, or harmless fun. Nothing to do with redemption. Nothing to do with the seriousness of The Virginia Three post.
    Truth be told, I have wrestled with your Redemption of The Virginia Three for several hours. I wrote a thoughtful reply hours ago, but did not post it. The cynic in me wants so badly to say, “Yeah, they only want to talk about forgiveness or context or people change now that THEIR side got caught with their dicks in the wringer. I wanted to say how the dispecable Left purposely tried to destroy a man (Brit Kavanaugh) on national tv, destroy his reputation and life in front of his wife and children and slander him relentlessly….and when Kavanaugh fought back against totally unfounded and 100% uncorroborated salious accussations of the worse kind, they said he lost his cool and does not have judicial temperment. They are evil condescending fuckers.
    I wanted so bad to say they let Joy Reid slide after lying about her homophobic writings in her past…they kept quiet last week when photos of Whoopi Goldberg laughing when her then boyfriend Ted Dawson dressed in blackface roasting her,when Joy B on the View dressed up as a black woman for Halloween (I was sooo cute), yet chased Megan Kelly from the air for even talking about her past “cultural appropriation”, and I am no super fan of Megan. I wanted to point out the sheer hypocrisy of the despicable Left LECTURING us on proper thinking….after calling Keyan West and conservative blacks “house niggers” on TV. They let Bill Maher slide for saying nigger….cause it was directed toward a conservative black man.
    Now they that got caught doing worse, it’s time to not rush to judgement and put things in context and not destroy a man for doing what most college kids do…which is sophomoric dumb things…if they are normal young folks. Sexual assualt is different, but now they say “let’s hear the facts, innocent until proven guilty.”
    So, now that I got the finger pointing out of the way, Dr. Rebane, I can now post under Redemption and the Virginia Three….albeit the Fairfax dude may or may not be off the hook….but his constituents seem not to care.
    The “I believe her, I believe all women” mantra is dead because they never believed it is in the first place.

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  24. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 1032am – good, all these considerations belong under and contribute to ‘Virginia Three’. Thanks.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, that’s the current way to silence other POV. Yes, it can happen here.
    Money quote:
    “Miller told the paper he’s been inundated with messages from others who are “terrified” of speaking out on transgender issues due to possible police action against them.”
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/mom-arrested-transgender-activist-misgendered?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=dwbrand&fbclid=IwAR0IOMVR14WT7Al0gkZCTeAps7RBRlnXKrvRO570_nmEBIsFZ5l5KPEu1rA

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  26. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yup G its morning in America again and team lefty is in mourning –
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6691891/Trumps-approval-rating-likely-voters-soars-best-23-MONTHS-52-cent.html
    69% expect their financial situation to improve over the next year
    Optimism about finances over the next year is almost at a record-high level
    50% say they are in better shape financially than a year ago
    https://news.gallup.com/poll/246602/americans-confidence-finances-keeps-growing.aspx
    😉

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  27. George Rebane Avatar

    DonB 940am – but, but, but, …, then where’s all that bad news about Trump and everything American coming from?? 😦

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Polar bears attacking a Russian village. Help!!!

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  29. Paul Emery Avatar

    Thanks to everyone for the tremendous support for this years Nevada City Live events at the Nevada Theatre. Best year ever supporting the original musical “Make Believe” and my production of “A Thousand Kisses Deep, the Songs of Leonard Cohen.” what great support we have in our community for the performing arts. Thanks Nevada County.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Look who comes to the Muslim’s defense! Oh….. And endorsed one of your LIBS!
    The KLAN comes home to it’s roots.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/11/david-duke-kkk-omar-israel-aipac/

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its spreading –
    Erick Erickson, editor of the Resurgent and a leading Never Trumper who voted third-party in 2016, announced Monday in a column that he would throw his full support behind President Trump in 2020.
    “I will vote for Donald Trump and Mike Pence. And, to be clear, it will not be just because of what the other side offers, but also because of what the Trump-Pence team has done. They’ve earned my vote,” he wrote.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/11/nevertrump-erick-erickson-trump-2020/
    😉

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Kamel Tos Harris now says blacks should get reparations. She is not an African-American. But hey whatever, she is just another socialist commie.

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  33. Bocephus Avatar
    Bocephus

    ,,,looks like we got some contenders for the Po Ol Pollster title,,,

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar

    Erick Erickson? Never heard of him. He he someone who is important?

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  35. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    todd 1155am
    Reparations? Finally, I get my 40 acres an’ a mule?! What do I have to do to qualify?
    I’ll believe it when I see it.
    Any chance Nevada County will allow the forty acres to be subdivided into 1/4 acre lots like “Morgan Ranch”?

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  36. Paul Emery Avatar

    SP
    Is he someone who is important?

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  37. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    Paul –
    Erik Erickson was an important psychologist early in the last century. He passed in 1994.
    Now, I want to know who Kamel Tos is.

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Tax time is a time to come together. I feel your pain, girl. Only 40%?
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9ydD6KWTc

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  39. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1257pm – He’s an important voice in the nation’s conservative pantheon. “Erick Woods Erickson is a conservative American blogger and radio host. He hosts the radio show Atlanta’s Evening News with Erick Erickson, broadcast on 750 WSB, and runs the blog The Resurgent.”
    Had you deigned ever to read something from the other side, …, never mind.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Amy Frau Blücher (cue panicked horse whinny) has announced her presidential campaign.

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    He is on KNCO in the evenings

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  42. Bocephus Avatar
    Bocephus

    ,,,Todd,,,check your anatomy,,,it is pretty rare to have ‘’’Kamel tos’’’

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  43. Walt Avatar

    Really “B”?? I’m sure it can be one of those MANY new LIB endorsed genders.

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  44. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “He is on KNCO in the evenings”
    Jeeze, Todd, do all Scandinavians also look the same to you?
    That’s Lars Larson, not Eric Ericson.

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  45. Paul emery Avatar
    Paul emery

    George
    I read breitbsrt and the Wall Street journal everyday

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  46. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Gregory now that’s funny!

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  47. Todd Swallows Avatar
    Todd Swallows

    I feel so left out Todd. What’s a Kamel Tos? I vaguely remember reading something like that in a bathroom stall in the 3rd grade. Did you write it? Ever see the movie Arrested Development?
    GR 1:27-
    “Had you deigned ever to read something from the other side.” What do you call this place? Never mind.

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