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442 responses to “Sandbox – 14mar19”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The long week in review in pictures. Lots of pictures……more than just Varsity Blues.
    Visual aides for our comprehension impaired.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/the-week-in-pictures-varsity-blues-edition.php

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  2. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Wally 9:20
    “Even the ones who dreamed up AGW are admitting the scam”
    Like who? An “expert” quoted on Breitbart like your guy who “started Greenpeace”?
    I’m guessing your “sources” are the same who insist that poking a steak with a fork will cause it to exsanguinate, or that every household in Switzerland is mandated to have an automatic weapon, or that massive gun restrictions only allow New Zealanders to carry between their home and a gun range, or . . . . good lord you are full of most excellent “facts”. I’m not making this up, these are all from your own mouth in the past few days alone!

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That’s a big lima Oscar lima @ 942 with a I know NZ and you all don’t. Shure you are right, didn’t you tell us so?
    ;-0

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Ozz” 942pm
    Walt’s view of the origins of the AGW scare is no more warped than yours, Jeff… and it’s only accidental that his “sources” are more right than yours.
    Accidents of politics.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Give it up Ozzhole.. Remember” you said there were no shooting ranges in NZ.
    Now tell us all when the climate didn’t change. In the last 10,000 years the seas didn’t rise.
    I prefer the juices IN the meat, not at the bottom of the grill.
    You can stick with your 3RD world cooking.
    OK Folks, a few of you have had a sample of my cooking. Any complaints? The fatman wants to know!!

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  6. Billl Tozer Avatar
    Billl Tozer

    Nothing to see here. Yawn..
    “The assailants reportedly split into three groups, the first of which fired upon the people, the second set fire to buildings, and the third chased down people fleeing from the scene. Victims of the assault included women and children.
    Monday’s incident followed an attack the day before in the Ungwan Barde village in Kajuru, where 17 Christians were killed and dozens of homes were burned.
    In the first week of March, Muslim extremists massacred more than 30 Christians in Karamar village, setting fire to several houses and a church. The terrorists reportedly shot at families trying to escape the fire, killing 32.
    The spate of recent attacks against communities has taken place within the predominantly Christian Adara chiefdom of southern Kaduna.”
    http://metrovoicenews.com/nigerian-muslim-militants-kill-120-christians-in-three-weeks-where-is-the-outrage/

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  7. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Walt-
    I’d rather never meet you in person, but I would cream your peas in a cook off. You are a hobbyist (who can probably knock out 4-5 tasty dishes on your grill, most people can). I have trained with some of the top chefs in the world and am considered by many to cook at a professional level. I cook with a food science background, not by wive’s tales and the wisdom of weekend warriors such as you.

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    OOZE 804
    What a hoot. The guy is the prep assistant at an assisted living home where they buy their food pre-made at COSTCO. Chef? Not a chance.

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well we won’t solve the politicalized Climate Change debate here. I am more into longer term weather forecasts myself. So is my favorite weather forecaster.
    “You can see how muddy the waters have become. The purity of what I love is being destroyed. How can this be? You are being told the numbers are out of control, yet I have provided four major metrics in which that is clearly not the case. I am not “cherry picking.” It is people pushing the issue that keep insisting that the opposite is happening, and they are using their claims to try to drive home a point that I believe is based on an agenda. Their claims are are clearly not in line with the examples shown above. Which is why I tell people that today’s dialogue on climate and weather in reality have little to do with climate and weather. That’s the biggest shame of all.”
    https://patriotpost.us/opinion/61742-climate-crisis-four-major-metrics-that-say-otherwise?fbclid=IwAR2dwCRkB1s5jjJfKbRA8oDhpYUeii88qmop7Iii1ghrwCeiKmG-uGWmxnY
    While some say we should pave paradise and put up a solar lot, I still look for signs of El Niino and weather patterns building up a year in advance. Helps to know if I should buy or not when I see rain gear or warm jackets or shorts in the bargain basement in some store. :). I was delighted to read that they found a fully intact Woolly Rhino with fur when the ice receded. Of course, where they found it the ground is in deep freeze hard with a window of extraction only a few days a year. Baby, it’s still cold outside there. Perhaps it’s a wee bit premature to start an organic farm in Greenland. Satellite imagery reveals there are thousands of acres of previously farmed land under that white stuff. Guess our ancestors moved out of Greenland to be closer to the grandkids. 🙂
    https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/27190?fbclid=IwAR2pzEmSz10GXPF4OoHdAJpu-7YT0FyRRAjywGXHL4QXG_ezZoijyCwgz1E

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  10. Scott O Avatar

    BT at 7:31 – There’s no traction in that old story. Just more ‘sectarian’ violence. No way to tie it to Trump or the NRA. Yawn.. turn the page.

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  11. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 18 March 2019 at 08:06 AM
    The Steve Frisch hand is jammed up Ozz this morning I see! I imagine jeffy will wrest the sock away later and stick his chubby mitt inside at some point later so we can bask in his wisdom!
    Food science……rahhh!

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  12. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    OOZE/Peeline?Swallows?Frisch, all the same. Now Frisch is creepying me on the Union and calling me some sort of slur having to do with German. What a hoot.

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  13. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd 8:30
    Consider it a compliment. It’s the best you’ll get from any honest person.

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  14. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scott @8: 27 am.
    Yep, can’t tie it to the NRA. They usually use machetes to hack up the children, women, and men. Kinda like MS-13 who were brought here at no fault of there own. Listen to the. Children. Machetes are so much more violent and fun, plus the added benefit of not being caught with an unlicensed firearm. Always a silver lining.
    You know, I read about a brutal killing and bust of MS-13 ‘chldren’ in AOC’s neighborhood. You would think she would be aware of what is going on in her district. Guess she hasn’t a clue. She keeps demanding to abolish ICE. Says ICE puts fear in people. Must be a terrorist organization or something.

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  15. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Ozz | 18 March 2019 at 08:45 AM Actually I get a laugh a minute. I see you are not honest though as you are not doing that on the Union comments. I knew you were a dishonest troll.

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  16. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd-
    “I see you are not honest though as you are not doing that on the Union comments.”
    Have you ever considered using the preview button before posting? As they taught us over and over again in grammar school (yes, grammar), check your work. Your sentence structure is all over the map. It is incoherent rambling. I’d hate to see what your house looks like.

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  17. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Rebanistas, please inform us how Trump’s ordering GM to open a plant (and Harley and Carrier) simply to keep employment numbers up is not Socialism?
    “Bbbbbbbut, what about Hillary and Obama??” Nope, not an answer.

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  18. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Ozz | 18 March 2019 at 09:33 AM
    Spell check is the best you trolls do. Nothing of substance. What a hoot!

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  19. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Spell check?? Spell check?? You can’t even comprehend my post Todd. Is Trump a socialist or not? Or do you know what that means?

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  20. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Rebanistas, please inform us how Trump’s ordering GM to open a plant (and Harley and Carrier) simply to keep employment numbers up is not Socialism?”
    I suppose one difference between capitalism and socialism is that in the former, the head of state can press for a business to do something, in the second you can order them.
    It’s all a matter of degree after all. Just remember that the intermediate stage between socialism and communism is alcoholism.

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  21. Paul Emery Avatar

    Trumps Saudi pal Crown Prince Salman is leading a campaign of torture against Saudi dissidents. Disgusting that we are doing business with this demented torturer and killer. But, what the heck, he’s a pal of the Trump family so that makes it ok.
    “A New York Times report from over the weekend claims that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has been engaged in a major crackdown of his political foes that includes multiple instances of kidnapping and torturing dissidents.
    The report, which was based on the accounts of two U.S. officials who have read U.S. intelligence analyses of the Saudi government, claims that the kingdom has taken on at least a dozen operations against dissidents over the past two years, and that most of them took place before the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year.
    In many cases, Saudi operatives kidnapped Saudi women’s rights activists who were living abroad and brought them back to the kingdom so they could be tortured and threatened with rape.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/kushner-ally-crown-prince-salman-led-brutal-campaign-torture-saudi-dissidents-report/

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    OOZE 1029
    You are making no sense. But you are a troll so I’ll give you a break as a moron troll.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Boy, the pinkos reallly hate being called the commie bastards that they are. Fat commmie basstarrds. I am getting away from the textbook definitions and calling a spade a spade. The pinko bastards have already bastardized words to such a degree that, of example, hate now means criticizing. Bernie, the ole shooll Leftinista Marxist Leninist, was running around yesterday trying to bettr explain “Socialism”, ROFLMO. Meanwhile, abolish the electoral colllege, alter the First Amendmentnt to protect people from being offended, protect the media from criticism, go after the 2nd Amendment…all without calling for a Convention of the States to constitutionally change things. Sweet.
    —Back to definitions. It’s all a matter of degrees. The exact second a cucumber turns into a pickle, it don’t matter no more when taking to the control ffreaks.
    -This poor sap tries to explain why the NZ shooter is not a nationalist. Waste of time, but bless his heart for trying.
    “We should be looking for some explanation for the New Zealander’s violence other than nationalism. I submit that his perspective was a globalist, not a nationalist, one. The resemblances between this shooter’s violence and that practiced by the Islamic State (ISIS) are striking. They may give us the right clues to understanding his real motivation.
    Like ISIS, the New Zealand murderer selected soft targets: the victims of his atrocity were innocent Muslim men and women at prayer. Like ISIS, he exploited to the full the resources of modern social media in order to call attention to himself and his actions. Like ISIS, he aestheticized violence: in his hands, the mass murder of the innocent, live-streamed as it was happening, was designed to be a work of art.
    Most importantly here, his violence, like ISIS’s, was addressed to a global audience in the service of a global cause: in their case, the renewal of a caliphate subsuming all Muslims spread across the planet, the umma. In his case, the “white race” throughout the world, faced (in his view) with demographic catastrophe and extinction. He was in effect calling on his intended audience to grasp the seriousness of its condition and to meet its global danger.
    Whatever name we give to this kind of motivation, “nationalism” is not adequate. It is absurd to maintain that the white race throughout the entire planet forms a single, unitary “people” or “nation” in exactly the sense that particular white ethnicities do. Such a position is intelligible only from the globalist perspective that this mass shooter held, in which the differences between (say) Anglo-Australians and ethnic Serb Bosnians are entirely blotted out.
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/03/18/no-new-zealand-shooter-not-nationalist/
    And Ilham 0mar does not speak for Muslim Americans. She speaks for Islamists. But, it’s all Trump’s fault. My goodness, is there anything that man cannot due?

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    These snowflakes are going to stand up to the ascendant communists in China? –
    The survey also pointed to numerous causes of the frustration for this young segment. Many feel their overall stress level is caused by the accumulation of daily micro-stressors — seemingly trivial experiences — such as being stuck in traffic, waiting for appointments, or various smartphone issues.
    https://www.studyfinds.org/survey-millennials-life-more-stressful-than-ever-before/
    😉

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  25. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul Emery: “Trumps Saudi pal Crown Prince Salman is leading a campaign of torture against Saudi dissidents. Disgusting that we are doing business with this demented torturer and killer.”
    In further news: “Paul Emery’s pals the 17 intelligence agencies lead a campaign of torture in black sites throughout the world. Disgusting that we listen to this friend of demented torturers and killers”
    About as relevant and about as true/not true.
    You probably should swing around full-circle to peaking up the skirt of Stormy Daniels, she probably has Russian connections.
    How do these people get jobs in radio for God’s sake?

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @12:30
    That is why I am voting for Pedro.
    https://www.facebook.com/dailycallout/photos/a.1751223728479003/2268369793431058/?type=3&theater
    —————————-
    Figured it out! A. Socialist believes government can take all your stuff. A Democratic Socialist believes in voting for government to take all your stuff.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1570567403077291/?type=3&theater
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    @ 12:22 pm
    Yep, the Saudis are known as women haters. Their treatment of women is horrrifying. That is why we heard all the Women’s Rights and Woman’s Marchers screeched out in unison this past weekend. Sicking how they treat women. They have been going nuts over the issue. Omar, AOC, and the worse one, crying Rashida Harbi Tlaib. Opps, I forgot one of the always outraged, Ms. Linda Sor-sour. The silence was deafening. Guess they were too busy slamming Chelsea Clinton for saying anti-Semitism is wrong. How dare she! At least Chelsea is now being blamed for the NZ massacre. Takes some heat off Trump. Always a silver lining.
    All is not lost. There is one very articulate and highly educated Muslim woman on the speakers’ circuit warning everyone who will listen about the atrocities against women in that region by Muslim men who considered their wives and females as chattel.
    Glad our crack news director is speaking for alll the silent Feminist leaders.. Think we are witnessing the melding together of socialism and Islamism.
    Repost: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216586829641719&set=gm.640970776358036&type=3&theater

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  27. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Moi @ 1:20
    Forgot: That Muslim woman on the speakers’ scholar circuit has been listed by SLPC as a hater. Figures and explains why I haven’t heard from her in awhile. Warned against Sharia Law in the USA. She has been silenced.
    https://www.facebook.com/BetsyLynnGross/photos/a.1079014962118121/2403462763006661/?type=3&theater&ifg=1

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  28. Scott O Avatar

    DB at 12:30 – Gotta love it! Senor O’Rourke hasn’t ‘earned’ his nick name.
    Maybe if he had joined MS-13 instead of that nerdy hackers group.
    Meanwhile – https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/18/donna-brazile-hired-as-fox-news-contributor/
    Fox got so fed up with being called liars they actually went out and hired one!

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Not even NY wants to coddle illegal aliens –
    The latest Siena College Research Institute polling finds that, even in a deep blue state like New York, American voters oppose benefits for illegal aliens.
    About 61 percent of voters said they oppose a plan to give state-issued driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Only 34 percent of voters said they supported the plan and five percent said they were unsure.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/18/siena-poll-6-in-10-new-yorkers-oppose-drivers-licenses-for-illegal-aliens/
    😉

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They done pissed Devin off –
    In a complaint filed in Virginia state court on Monday, obtained by Fox News, Nunes claimed Twitter wanted to derail his work on the House Intelligence Committee, which he chaired until 2019, as he looked into alleged and apparent surveillance abuses by the government. Nunes said Twitter was guilty of “knowingly hosting and monetizing content that is clearly abusive, hateful and defamatory – providing both a voice and financial incentive to the defamers – thereby facilitating defamation on its platform.”
    The lawsuit alleged defamation, conspiracy and negligence, and sought not only damages, but also an injunction compelling Twitter to turn over the identities behind numerous accounts he said harassed and defamed him. The lawsuit is separate from Nunes’ work on the House Intelligence Committee, where he is now the ranking member.
    “Twitter is a machine,” Nunes’ personal attorney, Steven S. Biss, told Fox News. “It is a modern-day Tammany Hall. Congressman Nunes intends to hold Twitter fully accountable for its abusive behavior and misconduct.”
    Although federal law ordinarily exempts services like Twitter from defamation liability, Nunes’ suit said the platform has taken such an active role in curating and banning content — as opposed to merely hosting it — that it should face liability like any other organization that defames.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-files-bombshell-defamation-suit-against-twitter-seeks-250m-for-anti-conservative-shadow-bans-smears
    😉

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  31. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,Team Lefty infiltrates Fox News,,,
    Donna Brazile will be kicking ass and taking names
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/donna-brazile-why-i-am-excited-to-join-fox-news-and-take-part-in-a-civil-and-sensible-debate

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Getting credit where credit is due to the St. Louis NCAAP. Hope they blame Trump for this, but that is asking too much.
    “The denial of due process at Missouri’s colleges disproportionately impacts African American men,” Gaskin said, “And that’s why we call for immediate due process reforms.”
    African-Americans are at a particular disadvantage in campus kangaroo courts. Multiple reports and scholars have noticed the high frequency that they are accused (especially by white women) and are often unable to afford the necessary legal action needed to save their reputation.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/44752/st-louis-naacp-backs-state-bill-providing-due-ashe-schow?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    As if that’s a good thing, they don’t need to burn the books they just delete them from the internet –
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/03/18/julia-roberts-doesnt-think-pretty-woman-would-made-nowadays/3206843002/
    😉

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  34. Walt Avatar

    The ECO brigade has some excuses to make..
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/18/aluminum-cans-recycling-china/
    Aluminum cans just don’t pay like they used to. Not all aluminum is is created equal.
    “Used aluminum cans are piling up in scrap yards as the market for aluminum recyclables shrinks in size and profitability, The Wall Street Journal reports.
    The price for used aluminum cans tanked 30 percent since the summer of 2018. Aluminum rollers are cutting recycled aluminum from cans out of their business models to prioritize more profitable areas of business. ”
    So what next? Blame the mining lobby?

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  35. BillTozer Avatar
    BillTozer

    AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE CIVIL WAR ON THE LEFT: TRANS AND PROSTITUTES VS. FEMINISTS……truscums, terfs, serfs. Lions and tigers and bears.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/18/civil-war-left-trans-prostitutes-vs-feminists/

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Afternoon Walt.
    Could you ever conceive even once in your life apologizing for how you were born? We righties have it easy compared to those wack jobs on the left. Apologize for who you are is screwy. Yeah, he finally apologized.
    “CNN has discovered that Democratic presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke is a white male — and they are not happy about it. The cable network went into race-baiting overdrive following the announcement of O’Rourke’s candidacy, airing hours of feverish handwringing over whether Beto’s “white maleness” rendered him an unacceptable choice for the Democratic Party nominee.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2019/03/15/cnn-hammers-betos-white-maleness-52-times-one-day
    More propaganda
    https://www.facebook.com/TheFederalistPapers/photos/a.112478365457075/2351359218235634/?type=3&theater

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  37. Walt Avatar

    Good evening my good friend Bill. Apologizing is for spineless Lefties. If they can’t apologize their way out, they will find someone else to blame.

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  38. Walt Avatar

    WOW!! Just seen Glenn Beck on the screen. He looks like he’s trying out for the Col. Sanders gig… He wears it better than Dougy none the less.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    I’m sure Nevada City won’t like being outdone.
    https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articleComments/San-Francisco-naked-nude-parade-love-Gypsy-Taub-13696989.php
    FINE… Only when the temp drops below 40 deg. and raining heavy.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    While the littlest commiecongress-critter has crashed and burned her personal rating she is the absolute winner in another poll in NY! –
    The majority of New York voters see Amazon’s decision to back out as an economic blow to the state. The Amazon deal could have created between 25,000 and 40,000 jobs with an average salary of $150,000. The state said total direct and indirect jobs could have totaled more than 100,000.
    The poll found 67 percent of voters said Amazon’s withdrawal was “bad” for New York, and only 21 percent said it was “good.”
    “And by a 2-to-1 margin, voters said they supported the agreement that would have allowed Amazon to receive $3 billion in government incentives in exchange for creating 25,000 jobs — 61 percent in favor and 30 percent opposed,” the Post reported.
    A vast majority of New York voters said they believe the state is hostile to business, with 67 percent agreeing with the statement that the state government — run by Democrats — makes it hard for businesses to succeed. Even among Democrats, 53 percent agreed with the statement.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/18/poll-aoc-leads-pack-as-villain-responsible-for-amazon-new-york-city-pullout/
    It does beg the question why do they elect those bozo’s when they know its baaad for NY?
    😉

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Why they generate graduates who know less history as seniors than the freshmen and spawn antifa thought police –
    In the Times, Abrams wrote about original survey data of a “nationally representative sample of roughly 900 ‘student-facing’ administrators” which found “liberal staff members outnumber their conservative counterparts by the astonishing ratio of 12-1. Only 6 percent of campus administrators identified as conservative to some degree, while 71 percent classified themselves as liberal or very liberal.”
    He added in the October opinion piece, “It’s no wonder so much of the nonacademic programming on college campuses is politically one-sided. … It appears that a fairly liberal student body is being taught by a very liberal professoriate — and socialized by an incredibly liberal group of administrators.”
    Students claimed they were offended by the supposed “anti-Blackness, anti-LGBTQ+, and anti-woman bigotry” of Abrams, professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College, and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and staged a large sit-in. They also presented demands, such as a “tenure review.”
    He said Monday evening that his philosophy was not an attack on students: “Viewpoint diversity is asking that multiple viewpoints are considered on campus and in the classroom. So that means rather than simply attack capitalism and free markets without a deep understanding of history and teach socialism, we also teach the value of markets, choice and individualism.”
    He said his ideology has been to teach students the realities of adult life: “Rather than teach that government needs to get bigger, and is the solution to poverty and improving the welfare of Americans, and this is often the only view taught, we need to also teach how capitalism has lifted millions up, and allowed markets to make the nation efficient.”
    Abrams said 40 professors endorsed the demand list, and 12 percent of the faculty “endorsed the students’ demand to challenge my tenure and my right to free speech and the expression of ideas.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/sarah-lawrence-professor-protested-over-conservative-op-ed-says-college-abandoned-him-to-fight-alone
    😉

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I have a question, if a po’ ol’ fakenewsman has an ongoing solo rant does anyone hear or care? Is that communicable among current or wanna be press?
    😉

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 7:53 pm
    After finding this article (with quotes from 1912), I believe Bernie will not win the nomination. The Old Left Marxist vs the New Left. The old does not satisfy.
    Word of the day: epiphenomenal.
    “In his book Republocrat, Carl Trueman explores the dynamic between the Old and New Left within the context of “liberation.” It turns out that once one focuses on liberation from material deprivation and oppression within the rubric of class struggle, it may not be so easy to stop the progress of liberation with economic phenomena. As Trueman puts it, “Here lies the heart of the problem of the New Left: once the concerns of the Left shifted from material, empirical issues—hunger, thirst, nakedness, poverty, disease—to psychological categories, the door was opened for everyone to become a victim and for anyone with a lobby group to make his or her issue the Big one for this generation.” People seem to want to be liberated in epiphenomenal terms, too.”
    Further yet down the road:
    “When these fundamental realities are weaponized for partisan politicking, the bonds of society begin to dissolve. That’s in part what we’re seeing in political and (un)civil discourse in America today. Identity politics takes the organic diversity of society and absolutizes it, crystallizing it ultimately into an intersectional individualism.
    “The end of identity politics is that you end up in a class of one. And that has always been a very vulnerable (and poor!) class to be in.”
    https://blog.acton.org/archives/107152-class-struggle-and-the-end-of-identity-politics.html

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