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Sandbox – 14mar19

14 March 2019

[“USC, Yale University among colleges sued by Stanford students amid college admissions scandal” (more here and here) Boys and girls, this is going to get big, real big. gjr]

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Robert Cross

14 March 2019

““More U.S. adolescents and young adults in the late 2010s, versus the mid-2000s, experienced serious psychological distress, major depression or suicidal thoughts, and more attempted suicide,”
I wonder to what degree social media plays a role in this. There have been incidents where teens have killed themselves after being humiliated on social media.

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Walt

14 March 2019

Now is this thinking common in Nevada City?
Ya,, I own the property,, but It’s not my problem. Someone else can fix it.
https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/fix-on-horizon-for-stone-house-sinkhole-in-nevada-city/
“Jonathan Rowe, who purchased the Stone House building in February 2016, took the position it was not his responsibility.
“We could help with some portions,” Rowe told The Union in December 2017. But, he added, “I can’t afford to fix it myself. And I feel like the city is putting it in my lap.” ”
It’s your property! It’s YOUR parking lot.
YOU fix it.. Welcome to the joys of property ownership.

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Bill Tozer

14 March 2019

Oh my, Trump is going to eat the Platitude Boy alive. He owns him, put a collar around his necks and walk him around the stage.
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/TwitterTsunami?src=hashtag_click

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Walt

14 March 2019

Cooking tip of the week. Like a hint of bourbon in your next cut of meat? This is what I did tonight.
Take about a half cup of your favorite BBQ sauce ( just some cheap stuff I had in the fridge) and add a half cup of the better stuff.
Put both in a small pan and heat and mix well. Take off the heat when you see the alcohol vapors starting to rise.
Take the meat, and the mix, put in a ziplock bag. Let sit for most of they day.
Fire up the charcoal( just a small pile) Turn the cooking critter every few minutes. (chicken tonight) Have a thermometer? Use it.
I go to 170 on the clucker.
Oh… No forks.. Use tongs.

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Don Bessee

14 March 2019

Football in the air, a good life example where the market drove them back from woke to being respectful. –
https://sports.yahoo.com/an-nfl-team-asked-a-38-yearold-retired-qb-to-come-back-as-colin-kaepernick-remains-unemployed-204710253.html
I used to hate brady but now I are one –
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/newly-signed-patriot-michael-bennett-says-he-used-to-hate-tom-brady-bill-belichick-180744617.html
😉

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scenes

14 March 2019

BillT: “Oh my, Trump is going to eat the Platitude Boy alive. He owns him, put a collar around his necks and walk him around the stage.”
He crawls on his belly like a reptile!
We should have a pool on Mr. O’Rourke’s upcoming nickname. My money is on ‘Kooky Beto’, it’s less dignified than ‘Crazy’.

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Ozz

14 March 2019

Walt 8:31=
To paraphrase Anthony, I love it when cooks jab holes all over their meat with a thermometer then admonish bystanders to use tongs and never a fork. You can rest regardless Walt, the myth about sticking a fork in your meat has long been disproven. Meathead and Raichlen both say so in their books.

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Bill Tozer

14 March 2019

Walt.
Did somebody marinate the poultry all day? Rumbly in my yummy.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=542705769552637&set=gm.2324684504523441&type=3&theater
Scenes:
Great minds think alike. Kooky works. I need to kick it around before I throw out something lame and think of something better later. It’s so darn hard to think right now. I am so distracted by those Hands. Those Hands. Stop with the Hands already, Kooky Beto. You’re Irish, not an Italian woman!
That James Woods has a way with words. Fearless.
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1564490080351690/?type=3&source=48
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216586829641719&set=gm.640970776358036&type=3&theater

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Gregory

15 March 2019

Beware the ides of March.

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Walt

15 March 2019

I see Ooozzz like his meat hard and dry. Have at it.

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Steven Frisch

15 March 2019

I just thought I would drop this here to gloat…..
GM going 100% fossil fuel combustion free.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/gm-going-all-electric-will-ditch-gas-diesel-powered-cars-n806806

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Todd Juvinall

15 March 2019

Sort of going all in on the VOLT eh? They will be BK sooner than later.

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Todd Juvinall

15 March 2019

And hurry and buy all the stock you can.

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Steven Frisch

15 March 2019

Yes, Todd knows better than GM…and Volvo…and BMW…and Subaru… all having made commitments to go internal combustion free in the next 20 years.
Hey Todd, I have a buggy for sale if you want to go back to a horse. The buggy whip makers guild would be happy to have you.

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Ozz

15 March 2019

Yeah Steve-
Only a few days ago some Luddite in the herd (probably BC, he is the most fearful) was clapping his tiny hands in joy because a Tesla had crashed and NTSB was going to investigate. Haven’t figured out why reds hate electric and autonomous vehicles so much. Probably a conspiracy by Agenda 21 types to take away their lump of coal. I’m glad those big Boeings are are still hand driven by mechanical yoke and rudder. So much more reliable and safer.

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Todd Juvinall

15 March 2019

Buy all the stock you can Steve. Take out a second on your apartment you rent and buy buy buy.

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Ozz

15 March 2019

Walt-
I know you don’t believe in science but a slab of meat is like a sponge comprised of millions of fluid containing cells. A steak is not under pressure nor is it a single vessel of juice like a water balloon. When you poke a hole in a sponge does any appreciable amount of fluid leak out and dry up the sponge?

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scenes

15 March 2019

StevenF: “I just thought I would drop this here to gloat…..
GM going 100% fossil fuel combustion free.”
Nothing to gloat about, I’m all for electric cars. You have an unseemly need for a strawman. I haven’t seen any breakthroughs lately, though. They’ve been stuck on 18650 cells for some time. The battery packs need to be cheaper, lighter, faster to charge to be reasonable.
Heck, the alternative is going to be absurdly complex IC engines as they add more cams, direct injection, optional cylinders, moar and moar layers of complexity in order to get fewer emissions on the margin. No thanks. Stuff a hybrid setup on the side and it gets crazy, and not so valuable for people who don’t live in a stop ‘n go traffic world.
If there is a breakthrough, they’d best get cracking to do more fracking since we’ll be powering cars with natural gas and transmission lines rather than liquid fuels. I don’t see solar panels conquering the world any time soon except through government diktat.

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Robert Cross

15 March 2019

In the ” tin pot dictator” dept. — tin pot dictator “An autocratic ruler with little political credibility, but with self-delusions of grandeur.”
Little trumpy the personality disorder king has threatened the American people with a coup (a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government) if he doesn’t get his way. In an interview on Breitbart (where else but this racist white supremacist website) he stated, “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of Bikers for Trump.” He went on to say “I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”
These statements should bother every American regardless of political orientation. The crazed man is actually literally threatening the country and our democratic institutions with a takeover if our elected and appointed officials don’t cave in to his demands.
THIS WOULD BE TREASON. How say all of you about this? Do you agree with trump’s threats?
prediction : when the poop hints the fan PR wise trumpy will resort to one of his classic dodges (lies). ” I was only kidding.. yeah right..

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Scott O

15 March 2019

Oooooze – There’s very little you have figured out, buddy.
“Haven’t figured out why reds hate electric and autonomous vehicles so much.”
I wasn’t aware any conservatives ‘hated’ electric or autonomous vehicles.
Perhaps some sort of proof of that BS remark might be forthcoming?

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Robert Cross

15 March 2019

Trump’s threat of a coup goes right along with Michael Cohen’s statement that “Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power.”

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scenes

15 March 2019

Angry Bob @ 9:16AM sez: some stuff. tl;dr
@ScottO
My guess is that electric cars are viewed as Blue Mob transit because that’s who bought them when they didn’t make any sense. Failed battery packs, dirty manufacture in Asia rather than in Sunny California, short ranges, short life spans, high refuel time, the need for large .gov subsidies…those are all the kind of product the secularly religious buy in order to do good, regardless of the actual load on the environment.
Once electric cars are practical, the grown ups will flow in. Not dealing with them bastids at the smog station is enough reason on it’s own. For all I know, they’re politically well-connected enough to force us to take our e-vehicles down every two years for a ‘safety’ inspection.

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scenes

15 March 2019

“I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power.”
The enormous irony of that is breathtaking. It’s my favorite statement of the day.
It’s a bit too long for a bumper sticker or tattoo, but I love it anyhow.

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Todd Juvinall

15 March 2019

What the ecpo nuts like Frisch think cracks me up. I know I am all for every kind of energy and hell if it works I’ll buy it. I just don’t want Frisch and his fascists telling me I have to buy it.
BoobieC is spewing his DNC talking points this morning. Trump will veto the crap that just passed and BoobieC thinks that makes Trump a dictator. Well hell, FDR vetoed something like 700 bills and BoobieC reveres him. Just a bunch of leftwing BS as usual.

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scenes

15 March 2019

In the useless pastimes department:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-google-engineer-beat-the-pi-world-record-by-calculating-314-trillion-digits-2019-03-14
My guess is that they are searching for the hidden message at byte 32 trillion: “Paul Is Dead”.

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George Rebane

15 March 2019

Lest We Forget: A cardinal rule of progressive behavior – they only debate when they can speak for both sides. They need no debate partner, only a target for attribution in their solo performance.

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Ozz

15 March 2019

George 9:53
The cardinal rule of ultra conservative behavior – they only debate when they understand one side. . . which is always.

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Robert Cross

15 March 2019

or the other cardinal rule of ultra conservative behavior is to ignore any debate that might call into question trump’s behavior. Case in point:
Toad –these were direct quotes from trumpy –not DNC talking points —
So the question remains unanswered– do you think a president should threaten the American people with a violent coup if he/she doesn’t get what they want? Isn’t that why we have the check and balances against executive misuse of power in the constitution? Yea or Nea boys which is it?

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Bill Tozer

15 March 2019

@9:24 am
“Once electric cars are practical, the grown ups will flow in.”
That’s how I feel. Just waiting for the technology to slowly evolve and the price to drop. Like Henry Ford building cars that his workers can afford. There is a fellow that has one of those high end luxury Telsa’s In his garage in GV. Like a Maserati. They have the high end electric cars that can go 0-200 mph now and a 300 mile range. Cool.
The number one selling vehicle in America is still the SUV types. That’s what the consumer wants or needs. And pickups. Commuter cars are a different story.
Someday we will all be driving those electric go carts or fancy golf carts. I remember back in the day a guy handed his go-fer a wad of cash and told her to buy VCR’s as Christmas presents for his top clients and friends. They were around $1,100.00 each. Then they dropped to 900 clams. The first calculator I bought was 100 clams and had a power cord. Boxy thing. Then the bank passed out free credit card sized calculators if you had a saving account and those tiny calculators had more functions than my box calculators with AC cord. 🙂
It’s coming. Give it time. Just not today. I looked at solar panels. It just don’t pencil out to bother. Conservation is the key. Maybe someday. Like the GND literally said, charging stations “everywhere”. Everywhere? Well, they best get quick charge down to 2-3 minutes first. Range anxiety? As if we need something else to get stressed out over.
“Range anxiety is the fear that a vehicle has insufficient range to reach its destination and would thus strand the vehicle’s occupants. The term, which is primarily used in reference to battery electric vehicles (BEVs), is considered to be one of the major barriers to large scale adoption of all-electric cars.”

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George Rebane

15 March 2019

Ozz 1001am – Interesting. Can you outline some aspects of progressive or socialist ideology that are NOT understood in these pages?
BTW, a metric to evaluate understanding something is how well you can predict its behavior. It seems clear from the record that the Right has an extremely good understanding of Left since its predicted behavior has been nailed on every issue. Can that be claimed in the obverse?

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Bill Tozer

15 March 2019

Birds of a feather: fundraising
https://pagesix.com/2019/03/14/mom-ensnared-in-college-admissions-scam-hosted-gillibrand-fundraiser-last-week/
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More birds of a feather. Venezuela and Nicaragua and Cuba
“What is he, by the way? At various times, Ortega has presented himself as a Communist, a socialist, a populist, a conservative, a man of God. Maradiaga has a blunt and almost funny answer: “The Ortega of today is basically a criminal.” If he has any ideology, it’s what is known in Nicaragua as “orteguismo,” i.e., Orteg-ism.”
Listen to the children
“Paramilitaries roam the country, looking for enemies of the state. These thugs are, if anything, worse than the “official” thugs. The Sandinista Youth are a particular menace. We have seen these situations in other times, in other places, such as the Duvaliers’ Haiti and the Castros’ Cuba.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/nicaragua-daniel-ortega-government-crackdown-resistance/

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Don Bessee

15 March 2019

So he was weird before the hand flaying announcement –
Democrats’ newest presidential candidate’s past as a teenage hacker who posted bizarre fiction about killing children is revealed
Beto O’Rourke was member of hacker group called Cult of the Dead Cow and called himself Psychedelic Warlord, he will admit in a new book
He posted on ‘bulletin boards’ – primitive equivalents of websites – and has left some of his writing intact
One story when he was 15 described running over two children in the street and said: ‘I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head.’
Group stole credit card and calling card details to avoid running up large phone bills on modems which would have been a potential felony at the time
O’Rourke admitted he pilfered long-distance service ‘so I wouldn’t run up the phone bill’ but did not admit whether that involved credit or phone card fraud
Democrat says in new book that Cult of the Dead Cow taught him how to be ‘apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you’re doing it’
Group also posted pirated software, tools to hack Windows computers and distributed an essay called ‘Sex with Satan’
Members later tried to keep O’Rourke’s hacking past secret when he ran for El Paso city council
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6814145/SPECIAL-REPORT-Beto-ORourkes-secret-membership-legendary-hacking-group.html
😉

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Ozz

15 March 2019

Rebane 10:31-
Exhibit A:
As a whole, the left wants to leave this planet a better place for our future generations. Clean air, clean water, and unspoiled wild places. As demonstrated by Trump with huge approval from the right is dismantling of environmental protections for the sake of profit.
It is fine to have disparate points of view, but when I talk to my friends on the right, they not only disagree that the environment is worth protecting – they ask why? That is hard for me to fathom. But then again, some mucky muck from the National Park Service recently quoted some census that showed that only a fraction of Park visitors view themselves as conservatives. Different brains.

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AVMan

15 March 2019

Posted by: George Rebane | 15 March 2019 at 10:31 AM — ‘a metric to evaluate understanding something is how well you can predict its behavior. It seems clear from the record that the Right has an extremely good understanding of Left since its predicted behavior has been nailed on every issue. Can that be claimed in the obverse?’
,,,that you ask the question is illuminating…

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Don Bessee

15 March 2019

No chi com cuddling here –
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-administration-approves-sale-of-f-16s-to-taiwan/
😉

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Todd Juvinall

15 March 2019

Ozz | 15 March 2019 at 11:10 AM
You are spouting the extremist lefty crap again. We on the right like clean air, water and we love the planet. But we like our personal freedom from fascists like you. You want to control all aspects of human life and we don’t. Your ilk is ravaging the planet every time you get the reins. Venezuela is the latest example of your ilk’s governance. Murder the people. Starve people. Control th people. Well bub, we will meet your attempts to take over every time it rears its ugly head here and elsewhere. Liberals have become morons and along with you smoking the weed 24/7, you leave our country open for exploitation.
And profit is a wonderful thing. It has brought humans out of the cave and put him in great shape.

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Gregory

15 March 2019

A headslapper… my kid was accepted by USC twice and he didn’t go… was there any way I could have monetized that? Maybe sell the coveted USC ticket to some lucky parent who didn’t care the family and the given name would have to change?

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Scott O

15 March 2019

AVMan 11:11 – The fact that you can’t answer his question is the illumination.
Seems all you lefties can do is simply parrot some talking point or just repeat what George writes.
Case in point – Ooooze claims that ‘reds hate electric cars’.
When asked for proof, none is forthcoming.
Instead he launches into a virtue-signalling mode of worry about the condition of the planet. Our air is getting cleaner, Trump hasn’t stopped anyone from buying electric cars or hybrids. There is no proof that any rule relaxing has harmed our dear planet.
Your cherished beliefs and self-proclaimed weeping for the planet do not excuse you from the responsibility of backing up your BS with facts.
As soon as I see the left’s eco-idols actually living in the manner they expect the rest of us to, I’ll give them some credence. Ooooozes heart felt desire for our planet always seems to involve some one else changing their lifestyle, some one else losing their livelihood, some one else doing without. And as always – the taxpayers have to pay for whatever hair brained scheme the left comes up with.

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Don Bessee

15 March 2019

The economy is rocking!
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/03/15/job-openings-ripped-higher-in-january-outnumbering-the-unemployed-by-1-million/
“The early March gain in sentiment was entirely due to households with incomes in the bottom two-thirds of the distribution, whose sentiment rose to 97.4 from 90.0 in February,” Richard Curtin, the survey’s chief economist, said.
Both the index for current conditions and the outlook improved. All income groups voiced more positive prospects for growth in the overall economy during the year ahead, according to Curtin.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/03/15/consumer-sentiment-soars-in-march/
😉

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Scott O

15 March 2019

Remember – we only have 12 years left!
I’m trying to remember the exact year the countdown started. Was it 10 years ago? 20?
C’mon, lefties – it’s settled science!
How much time do we have?
Tick, tick, tick…

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Robert Cross

15 March 2019

I refer you all to my 10:14 post…

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Bill Tozer

15 March 2019

AV man @ 11:11 am
Just took back over the last 100 years at the violence in the USA. WHO did the lynchings of blacks? It was always the Democrats. Who fought desegregation? Who fought the Civil Rights Act? And not just in the South. Who had big Klan rallies with the white hooded ones on the White House lawn and in our capital? Who held marches of tens of thousands down the streets of New York? Those were not Klan rallies with hordes of white hooded marchers. They were Democrat Party rallies. Official Democrat rallies. The violence comes from the Left.
Who were the firstgroups to be designated by the FBI as domestic terrorist organizations? The eco-nuts torching new housing developments to the ground, bombs, and spiking trees so the guys in the mills would be maimed or killed by the big band saws shredding, snapping, and flying steel wrapping around the workers?
Turn the page past The Weather Underground to today. How many hundreds of articles do we have to post here of men, women, and minors being attacked walking down the streets and chased out of places for wearing MAGA hat? School bus drivers hitting kids for wearing MAGA hats. Look at the rhetoric coming out of colleges (leftist institutions) and the abuse hurled at those of a minority viewpoint (non-Leftist). Look at the ones in front of the microphones in the entertainment business. Listen to their words. They ain’t promoting peace or harmony.
Dr. Rebane is spot on. It is quite easy. “The metric to evaluate understanding something is how well you can predict its behavior. It seems clear from the record that the Right has an extremely good understanding” based on the past, present, and stated future goals. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist….’so simple a caveman can do it.’
The Great Divide is that the Right and Libertarians just want to be left alone. The Left does not want anything or anyone to be left alone.
It’s not about redistribution of wealth, i.e., taking someone’s money or stuff and giving it to someone else. Nah, it’s so much more. It’s about distribution of power. The Left wants to take other’s power and redistribute it to themselves…by force. And they want complete control of everything by any means necessary. Mob is good description.

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Todd Juvinall

15 March 2019

Robert Cross | 15 March 2019 at 11:50 AM
BoobieC wants to refer us all back to his original lies. What a hoot!

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Robert Cross

15 March 2019

Todd doesn’t want to answer the question because supports trump even if he is a dictator. Screw the rule of law. What’s next Toad, book burning and concentration camps for Democrats? #sad and scary

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Robert Cross

15 March 2019

By the way Toad.. didn’t you notice that my “lies” came from a trump interview with Breitbart… One of your favorite sources?

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Barry Pruett

15 March 2019

“So the question remains unanswered– do you think a president should threaten the American people with a violent coup if he/she doesn’t get what they want? Isn’t that why we have the check and balances against executive misuse of power in the constitution? Yea or Nea boys which is it?”
Of course not, but didn’t Obama’s DOJ and FBI do just that? A soft coup of the will of the people?

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George Rebane

15 March 2019

RobertC 1210pm – “book burning”, “concentration camps” ??? where do you guys get that crap from? Is that another one of your solo debates? Show some evidence that people with conservetarian values have ever stifled free speech or sought to persecute their political opponents. The only evidence available is that the collectivists are the only political factions that kill and incarcerate their opponents. People who support smaller governments, open markets, and personal liberties have neither the stomach or time for that shit.

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Bill Tozer

15 March 2019

Daily Quotes.
Non Compos Mentis: “I myself have always been for lowering the voting age to 16. I think it’s really important to capture kids when they’re in high school — when they’re interested in all of this and learning about government to be able to vote.” —Nancy Pelosi, trolling for more Democrat votes
Endless hot air: “What is going on in the public square right now is more important than any time since the Civil War. We are facing an ecological crisis that can bring about the end of civilization.” —Al Gore
The BIG Lie: “Let us all be well aware that life will be a lot tougher for the generations that follow us, no matter what we do. It is only a matter of degrees. Along this current trajectory, there will be people who can no longer live in the cities they call home today. There is food grown in this country that will no longer prosper in these soils. There is going to be massive migration of tens or hundreds of millions of people from places that are going to be uninhabitable or under the sea. This is the final chance. The scientists are unanimous on this. We have no more than 12 years to take incredibly bold action on this crisis.” —Beto O’Rourke
The BIG Lie II: “Democracy should mean taking power and wealth from those who hoard it, and making sure it belongs to everyone.” —Democrat strategist Waleed Shahid
What could possibly go wrong? “Every knife sold in the UK should have a gps tracker fitted in the handle. It’s time we had a national database like we do with guns. If you’re carrying it around you had better have a bloody good explanation, obvious exemptions for fishing etc.” —UK parliamentarian Scott Mann
Braying Jenny: “What good are your thoughts & prayers when they don’t even keep the pews safe? … (‘Thoughts and prayers’ is reference to the NRA’s phrase used to deflect conversation away from policy change during tragedies.)” —Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
And last… “When I say thoughts and prayers are with these folks [in New Zealand], I mean it. I mean that this is a time where we need the God of the universe to step in and to change people’s hearts.” —Rep. Adam Kinzinger

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Bill Tozer

15 March 2019

Scenes @ 8:50 pm last night.
How about weirdo? Weirdo works.
“The source of the angst is evident: Beto is a brainless rich kid who yearned to be cool and wasn’t very good at it. He flunked out of punk. He failed as a fiction writer. He belly-flopped as an alternative-newspaper publisher. And he’s so clueless that his apartment was once robbed while he was sitting in it. At his pricey Virginia prep school (Woodberry Forest School these days carries a sticker price of $48,000 a year), he thought he “just stuck out so badly” because of the “monoculture” there, which the Dallas Morning News called “white, wealthy and southern.” O’Rourke was and is white, wealthy, and southern, so he couldn’t have stuck out much more than Miracle Whip at the mayonnaise convention, yet he was wounded and alienated. Or maybe not. He put this in his high school yearbook: “I’m the angry son. I’m the angry son.” Below that: “I owe you everything, Mom, Dad . . .” You have to pick one, though, don’t you? You can’t be a seething rebel and a dutiful child. You can’t be Kurt Cobain and Kenny G. One pose nullifies the other. Or maybe O’Rourke was even then trying to position himself as acceptable to all constituencies.
But I don’t think so. I think Robert (as he called himself at boarding school, having shed his childhood nickname because he wanted to fit in) didn’t even spot the contradiction. Hey, you’re not a phony if you genuinely don’t know who you are. O’Rourke is a guy who was trying to make it as a punk rocker at the same time he was working as a nanny. Leonard Zelig wasn’t a phony, he just had this involuntary nervous reaction that turned him fat when he was next to a fat guy or Chinese when he was next to a Chinese guy. Zelig was . . . weird.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/weirdo-orourke/

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fish

15 March 2019

Here you go Roberta……..on the internet there is a supply niche even for your “unique” predilections!
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/old-fat-lesbians-who-smoke-pot-find-captive-instagram-audience-n983736

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