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Sandbox – 3mar19

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334 responses to “Sandbox – 3mar19”

  1. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Did everyone get the news? A GREAT Winter no longer means a lower fire danger come Summer. It’s permanently “worst fire season on record” year after year now. That opens the door to SOOOOoooo many new regulations and laws to “prevent” catastrophic wildfires.
    If you can dream it up, SAC will make it a law.
    But will the state start doing the right thing by allowing trees to be cut? Clearing of undergrowth? Maybe if you pay all the fees, EIRs, hire the expensive “foresters” and yet to be named “experts”.
    Oh… And of course,, new taxes to pay the new soon to be required inspectors.

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  2. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    HEY Emery,, has your Ann C. Doll said anything new? Any words of wisdom from the shelf? But she did say this.
    “Neither the media nor Cohen seem to realize that Cohen wasn’t doing anything illegal when he paid the “hush money.” (Just because Trump thinks every Jewish lawyer is Roy Cohn doesn’t mean you have to, too, New York Times.)
    Words like “hush money” and “porn star” make the payments sound unsavory — especially to The New York Times, known during the Clinton era as Defender of Inappropriate Presidential Sex — but there’s nothing criminal about paying money to suppress embarrassing information, even in the middle of a political campaign.
    If it wasn’t illegal for Cohen to pay the hush money, it’s certainly not illegal for Trump to reimburse him for it. Cohen was, after all, Trump’s lawyer. He got reimbursed for a lot of things.
    But we have to have days of hearings in hopes of establishing that Trump violated the campaign finance reporting requirements with these payments, in which case, OH MY GOSH, HE’D HAVE TO PAY A FINE.
    I’d be more impressed if they got Trump on a jaywalking charge. ”
    Still love her Paul? This might mean a falling out between you two.

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  3. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Don’t you love listening to learned Constitutional scholars who never got past high school? Walt? Todd?

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 05 March 2019 at 06:09 PM
    Don’t you love listening to learned Constitutional scholars who never got past high school? Walt? Todd?
    Yeah …….to take a document written for the common man…..you know, the guys who have to live under it and screw the interpretation up as badly as you guys have takes years of advanced educa…..err I mean political indoctrination!

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  5. Oz Avatar
    Oz

    Yes Russ, I understand, Supreme Court and all that.
    But Walt has a handle on it though. Self described expert on Constitutional law and what the president can and can’t do. Wonder if he if he is an expert on medicine too?

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Ozz | 05 March 2019 at 06:09 PM
    Well we know you git through third grade. What happened? Pregnant in the barrio?

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Oz | 05 March 2019 at 06:25 PM
    Did you suddenly wake up and start talking? Go back to sleep. Must have been a nice dream.
    Russ?

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  8. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So is ozz sleepier than oz?

    Winning!
    Bloomberg News noted the new forecast from Premier Li Keqiang uses a range of 6 to 6.5 percent growth as the target, rather than a fixed number, giving the Chinese government “room to maneuver” and cushioning the drop from last year’s 6.5 percent target. The premier’s office broke with recent tradition by declining to offer targets for retail sales or fixed-asset investment growth.
    Economists outside the Chinese government predict 6.2 percent growth in 2019 and further “easing” in the two years after that. Stabilizing the currency, maintaining employment levels, and preventing further debt accumulation appear to be high priorities for Beijing.
    Business Insider took a considerably gloomier view of the revised Chinese economic forecast, calling it “a sign of how much pain Trump’s trade war is causing.”
    BI noted the Chinese premier explicitly discussed the “adverse effect” of “economic and trade frictions” in his report, making a “rare acknowledgment of weakness.”
    “Beijing is generally hugely reluctant to acknowledge economic weakness, and Li’s words on Tuesday suggest the true gravity of the situation in an economy that not only faces external headwinds from the trade war but is also grappling with major internal issues,” BI explained.
    Another important indicator mentioned by Business Insider is the remarkable collapse of optimism about the future among China’s financial elite. Two-thirds of them were “very confident” about the future in a survey two years ago, while only one-third expressed similar confidence in the 2019 edition of the poll.
    The L.A. Times also found Premier Li Keqiang’s warnings “unusually stark” and “surprisingly frank,” particularly his admission of widespread public unhappiness with the performance of their government in key areas such as education, health care, and corruption.
    “In an unusually frank summary, Li admitted that China’s business environment has fallen short of what business expects – a central complaint from Washington in the trade conflict – and admitted that Chinese innovation is weak,” the L.A. Times wrote in its analysis on Tuesday.
    The LAT noted Li’s report was peppered with promises of reform, including reforms demanded by the Trump administration, such as superior protection for the intellectual property of foreign companies.
    The report also included a surprising amount of fretting about social unrest due to mounting public unhappiness with the government, something authoritarian China rarely admits to being concerned about. The premier was especially concerned about military veterans angry about unpaid benefits and Chinese parents furious about a series of vaccine scandals.
    Conspicuously absent from Li’s report was any mention of the bold “Made in China 2025” initiative to take high-tech manufacturing by storm, which could represent a soft climb down from boasts Li worries China can no longer keep, and/or a tacit acknowledgment that other nations are deeply apprehensive about China’s aggressive agenda.
    “Our capacity for innovation is not strong and our weakness in terms of core technologies for key fields remains a salient problem,” Li wrote, nodding toward the climb-down hypothesis.
    The L.A. Times alluded to China’s demographic crisis – the growing realization that coercive family planning policies might leave China without the young workforce it needs in the decades to come – and the unsatisfying results of China’s attempt to control pollution, which have been expensive enough to shutter some factories but not effective enough to reach environmental targets.
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/05/china-reduces-economic-growth-forecast-announces-tax-cuts/
    😉

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  9. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Sez the dude who can’t identify a guy who he’s seen the face of day in and day out.
    Seems I know the document plenty better than you.
    So now I never made it through high school? Better get some new people to “talk to” about me. You know,,, some of that “not taking a minute to dig up dirt” on me. They got that wrong too.
    See what smoking dope does? Your just made a bigger ass out of yourself. Keep up the fine work.

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  10. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Nope…. NO problem on the border.. NONE what so ever.
    “As Breitbart News reported, more than 76,000 border crossers attempted to enter the U.S. in the month of February — the most apprehensions of illegal border crossers and migrants in this month in 12 years.”
    That’s damned near three Divisions in military lingo. Just a new for of invading army.

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  11. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    DB at 6:37 – “The premier was especially concerned about military veterans angry about unpaid benefits…”
    Oh – don’t piss off the army.
    I’m surprised the Chinese govt would be remiss in taking care of that. That govt really has no other problems.
    If millions of citizens complain about something you get rid of them in labor camps or shoot them. They’ve been doing it for decades.
    Always take care of your power base.

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  12. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Ozz at 4:15 – “If I recall in the not-so-distant past, a few righteous members of this fine circle didn’t take but an hour to claim a poster was a Nazi simply because he had a Germanic name.”
    Really? Name them.
    As I recall, you didn’t seem to mind that at all at the time. You didn’t post any protest. Why does this bother you now?

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Scott O @659-
    We have seen this before, think Brezhnev era, da comrade we met ALL quotas! ALL! Legions of clapping apparatchiks in the propaganda film. Yet today the chi coms peoples congress is going along with intellectual property rights, Trump owns that!
    Now the chi coms have a massive time bomb on local debt outside the gov bond structure. Worse than what happened to Japan. Massively worse than the CA pension issues by orders of magnitude that do not generate revenue. The gov. is the brother of the mayor who has a developer nephew and they borrow billions in local bonds to build yet no one comes. Vast development of towers and infrastructure that is unused and rotting. There will be no asset recovery money. If you look at the totality of the internal debt and the chi com owned corps that will not have the old advantages anymore that will drain the false paper capitol reserve pool faster than the
    socialists think.
    SWEET!
    😉
    Let the littlest commiecongress-critter explain that! Hey it was just a million bucks we cheated on, didn’t people go to jail for this before many times?

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Ozz 609pm
    “Don’t you love listening to learned Constitutional scholars who never got past high school? Walt? Todd?”
    That list includes Paul Emery. Might also include Ozz.
    Walt and Todd have their moments… it really doesn’t take a constitutional scholar to have a good sense of what’s constitutional. I trust them more than a lot of other folks round here to know their right to swing their fist is limited in the vicinity of other folk’s noses.

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  15. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    It was Todd Scott that implied someone was a Nazi because of his name. Ask him

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Here’s a note for Jeff Pelline, who we all know reads this blog.
    The FUE wrote that neither the attacker or the victim at UC Berkeley were affiliated with the university, but that isn’t the case.
    “Although Greenberg is not currently affiliated with UC-Berkeley, that wasn’t always the case.
    The university confirmed to Campus Reform that Zachary Greenberg was once an employee of the university. Specifically, the university told the site, he “was employed by UC-Berkeley from May 21-July 9, 2010 as a lab assistant in the Department of Psychology.”
    Furthermore, he was “briefly a non-degree seeking student at UC-Berkeley,” Campus Reform reported. It’s not clear why he was on campus when the attack occurred.”
    So, officially, he’s a hanger-on. A short term employee who never left town. The place is full of them.
    Stay tuned.

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  17. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Trump: I ‘trust’ Kim’s promise he won’t resume nuclear, missile tests
    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/world/asia/north-korea-rebuild-missile-tests.html
    Trump has a knack for picking people with character.

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  18. Bill Tozer. Avatar
    Bill Tozer.

    Ozz
    You STILL have not answered my question about the first time you laid eyes on the Fat Fue. Did you think “freak of nature” like I did? Were you feel revulsion or astonishmen? Did you catch yourself staring and unable to stop yourself? Did you pretend that nothing was wrong and simply turned your head and walk away? Ah, you don’t have to answer.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 5:45pm
    “I stand corrected.”
    I too, stand corrected. I have oft repeated the Blue Mob has only one arrow in their quiver. That arrow is the race card. I was wrong. They have two arrows in their quiver. Their ace in the hole calling everyone on the right racists, of course. But they also have the hate card.
    The hatred of Trump always works in our favor over time (or to their detriment) because hate blinds a person. The vast majority of the contraire comments here are driven by pure unadulterated hate for Trump. Blinded by hate, driven by hate. Leads to not only shooting one in the foot, it blinds them to the fact that they have neglected coming up with new policies and ideas to solve big problems our nation faces near and abroad, now and in the future. Hating Trump may or may not be enough to carry them to the promised land. Who will go toe to toe with Trump on the debate stage in the late summer/early fall of 2020? Who?
    We have watched from afar (on TV or the net) those out of their ever loving minds driven by hatred of Trump splash their hatred of President Trump upon Trump supporters. The unhinged irrational uncontrolled hatred for anyone wearing a MAGA hat (male or female, child or elderly) and the violence directed at anyone deemed associated with Trump in anyway. Those on the sidelines are becoming guilty for the crime of not sharing said hatred. Hate or die, Nazi scum! And with every blow of the fist and with every vandalizing of a car with a Trump sticker on it and with every ripping to shreds a Trump sign, they are saying with their fists “I hate you, you are racists and Nazis and deserved to be pummeled!”
    So, when Trump at CPAC brought out the guy Hayden who got beaten up at UC Berekely recently (a story that received next to nil MSM coverage) and Trump said,” He took a punch in the face for all of us”, it was a powerful moment. “He took a punch in the face for all of us”.
    No one else has our backs—not the Republican Party, not the Democrat Party, just Trump. (The attacker grappled with Williams, punching him several times in the face and calling him “bch,” “fker,” and “c**t.”) The fakesnewss Enemy of the People remained silent. No one in the press or Left condemned the act, as they ALL continually demand we condemn Trump. Go pound sand. Push back time.
    ————————————————
    If nothing else, this article contains a great cartoon. Quite apropos.
    “Rep. Doug Collins, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, deftly called out the Democrats for their obvious witch hunt, stating, “We don’t even know what the Mueller report says, but Democrats are already hedging their bets. After recklessly prejudging the president for obstruction, Chairman Nadler is pursuing evidence to back up his conclusion because, as he admits, ‘We don’t have the facts yet.’”
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/61566-dems-launch-phase-two-of-obstruct-trump-crusade?fbclid=IwAR1ulABFS-uHLHEHBV7rMLYBrwFzl8DffP27lIccrSakW6Nk-scyyKEJ7fw

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Russia, Russia, Russia
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2019/03/04/proof-bias-poll-finds-99-cnn-viewers-think-trump-lied-about-russia
    Makes me feel sorry for Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu. Israel does not have even one outlet close to Fox News Network.

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  21. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery’s logic and hypocrisy is endless. He and his pals call all of Trump’s supporters Nazis and Racists and pat themselves on the back.

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  22. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    “He and his pals call all of Trump’s supporters Nazis and Racists and pat themselves on the back.”
    You know what they say Toad, if the shoe fits wear it.. and wear it proudly.

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  23. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Care to show any proof of that accusations Babs?
    Yet it’s your Proggys who have elected the anti Semites.
    You know,, those two Muslim chicks.
    Your part of that Socialist bunch known as LIBS,, Hitler was a Socialist.
    Looking in the mirror as you stated that?
    Like you said.. “if the shoe fits”.. Thanks for trying on those shoes right here.

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  24. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Paul at 8:59 – Having trouble with reading comprehension again, are we?

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Well at least she is consistent –
    https://freebeacon.com/politics/wapo-gives-clinton-four-pinocchios-for-voter-suppression-claims/
    😉

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  26. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Robert Cross | 06 March 2019 at 08:32 AM
    So you are saying Paul is a nazi? I think it fits you better. Your shoes are made from the blood and wsweat of child labor. Good call.

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  27. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Bill 10:50-
    “You STILL have not answered my question about the first time you laid eyes on the Fat Fue.”
    I’ve only seen the guy on TV. He was making rambling speeches about how he and R. Kelly are “victims” of the Deep State. I had to correct the hue (is that what you meant by fue) to keep the orange peroxide hair from burning the screen.

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Ozz is Swallows.

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  29. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like Pelosi is as well liked as Trump! LOL!
    Donald Trump 41.6 54.6 -13.0
    Nancy Pelosi 36.4 49.5 -13.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Circling the barn again. Mimiumn wage
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/minimum-wage-hike-15-wipes-out-jobs-illinois-and-new-york
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/new-york-city-experienced-worst-decline-restaurant-jobs-911-after-15-minimum-wage-win

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  31. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Trumpers enthusiastically wave Russian flags at CPAC. How come FOX didn’t carry the story? We looked for Todd’s face, but it was apparently hidden behind his flag.
    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cpac-russian-flags-trump_us_58b0ca06e4b060480e0827ab?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003&fbclid=IwAR209yNQWNBZiTvgaJYTevmpe6Ufx4nKsAFLFX4MqBZYP_7C5KArJBniTPY

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 06 March 2019 at 11:38 AM
    Way to keep it current “Ozz”…….Feb 2017. An eternity ago in internet time!

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  33. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Ozz is swallows

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    CPAC crowd “duped” into waving a Russian flaf\g. My guess is they have no idea what the Russian flag looks like so the point is subterfuge not complicity. The left is trying every trick to win. But they won’t. Florida polls have Trump up, Wisconsin is going to be fine and after this “wall” fiasco, he democrats will be deemed anti-American. All good for R’s and Trump.

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  35. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    The Russian flag has ‘Trump’ on it?
    Who knew?

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  36. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd – all yap no snap. Check your fact. Florida polls show Trump on the down elevator. 23% of Florida REPUBLICANS say Trump doesn’t deserve to be president.
    https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/06/biden-trump-2020-florida-poll-1206260

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  37. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd 12:02-
    CPAC crowd “duped”
    No way Jose, say that ain’t so! Easy to dupe Trump is proof.

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  38. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    OZZ is swallows

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another fake by leftie fakenewsmen –
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/06/phoenix-airport-disputes-claim-of-obscene-aoc-graffiti-from-mother-jones-david-corn/
    😉

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  40. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Don Bessee | 06 March 2019 at 12:45 PM
    Graffiti on a bathroom stall…….the horror!! The modern left…..50% iron fisted authoritarian, 50% Flouncy Nancy Boy!

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  41. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    ToddJ 1235pm – I think we get it Todd, and so what?

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  42. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Russian flags at CPAC – Good prank by the Left, but from the lib site’s comment streams it turns out the ones who were most fooled by it were their own political brethren who spouted vitriol against the flag wavers thinking that it was the Repubs who handed them out.

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  43. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Well if you think Ozz is fine then I will be quiet.

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  44. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    In the “you know it’s getting bad when you start eating your own” category .. the Mistress of Misinformation Sarah Hucklebuck Sanders lashed out at the four Senators who have indicated they will support the bill to stop trump’s emergency money grab by telling them to “do their job” and “If you had done what you were elected to do on the front end then the president wouldn’t have to fix this problem on his own through a national emergency.” in reference to the Senate’s refusal to fund trump’s stupid unnecessary wall.
    Apparently toeing the party line comes before voting one’s conscience and/or moral values. The heat is on to turn the tide that is washing the trump mob out to sea in a leaky rowboat.

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A mistake the left keeps making and fails to learn the lessons and you know the littlest commiecongress-critter will never read the facts –
    In Maryland, another Whole Foods worker said their regional management is forcing stores to cut full-time employee schedules by four hours, to 36 hours a week. “This hours cut makes that raise pointless as people are losing more than they gained and we rely on working full shifts,” the worker said.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/06/whole-foods-amazon-cuts-minimum-wage-workers-hours-changes
    https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/minimum-wage-new-york-jobs-recession/
    https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/workforce/wage-hikes-prompt-nyc-restaurants-slash-jobs-hours-study-finds
    😉

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  46. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 06 March 2019 at 01:40 PM
    …….the president wouldn’t have to fix this problem on his own through a national emergency.” in reference to the Senate’s refusal to fund trump’s stupid unnecessary wall.
    Always the “Crazy Cat Lady” …..eh Roberta! Hondurans instead of Calicos.

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  47. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    OOOPS!
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/03/05/china-suspends-sales-of-tesla-model-3s-after-customs-officials-find-irregularities/
    😉

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  48. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Prayers for a thousand Alex –
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jeopardy-host-alex-trebek-says-hes-been-diagnosed-with-stage-4-pancreatic-cancer
    😉

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  49. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    OK BILL!!! ENOUGH already! You can do a rain dance with the best of’m.. You have proved your point!

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  50. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Have any of our crack socio-political analysts considered that one man’s ‘voting your conscience’ is another woman’s ‘voting the party line’ – or do those who can reliably tell the difference have a direct line to someone on high?

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