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Sandbox – 29mar19

29 March 2019

[Well, the Dems are looking to an approach to 'Medicare for All' designed by a couple of Univ of Mass economists that promises "You'd be able to keep your doctor with no premiums or copays, and overall spending would decline." Now where have we heard all that before? The many holes in this plan (here) also recommend its alternative use as a sieve. gjr]

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326 responses to “Sandbox – 29mar19”

Don Bessee

29 March 2019

The impact of the relentless snowflake attacks on men in the socialist/antifa educational cabal –
But changes at the other end of the age spectrum may be playing an even bigger role. The portion of Americans 18 to 29 reporting no sex in the past year more than doubled between 2008 and 2018, to 23 percent.
Jean Twenge, professor of psychology at San Diego State University and author of iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood
https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2019/03/29/share-americans-not/
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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Who is taking odds that grampa joe wont make it to the projected announcement date?? There is a picture on this one too!
I was taking deep breaths and preparing myself to make my case to the crowd, I felt two hands on my shoulders. I froze. “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?” I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, “I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused. There is a Spanish saying, “tragame tierra,” it means, “earth, swallow me whole.” I couldn’t move and I couldn’t say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me. My name was called and I was never happier to get on stage in front of an audience.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/29/democrat-makes-metoo-claim-against-joe-biden-he-smelled-me-and-kissed-my-head/
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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Oh that’s going to leave a mark on the dems –
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/03/29/ben-rhodes-blames-jewish-donors-for-obama-not-being-more-anti-israel/
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Walt

29 March 2019

Here is a lie for Emery,, all the LIBS claiming “no crisis on the border”. Noever mind ICE just turned lose twice the population of Nevada co. due to fake asylum seeker overcrowding. Not deported, turned lose on American soil. And NON will show for their hearings.
(three years from now.)
Naaa, no crisis. You and yours need all the illegal votes you can get..( yes,, Illegals have been voting.. No, I’m not going to give you a link… What? Not happening you say? Well show us otherwise.
Your supposed to be a news expert.. You lying about that too?)

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scenes

29 March 2019

re: Medicare for all.
An oldie but a goodie:
“The Cost Conundrum What a Texas town can teach us about health care.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/06/01/the-cost-conundrum
‘Medicare’ strikes me as a brilliant marketing concept. Since it’s highly subsidized, and the payments you made were hidden if you’re an employee (or nonexistent if you play music in bars for a living), it feels free. It’s pretty hard to subsidize absolutely everyone though.
Any substantial changes to healthcare that don’t involve radically lowering the cost aren’t worth listening to. I can’t believe that having a single payer will make much difference. A lot of counties have only one or two operational insurance companies to begin with, so how does merely moving it to a single private company under contract to the .gov really make any difference?

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scenes

29 March 2019

DonB: “The portion of Americans 18 to 29 reporting no sex in the past year more than doubled between 2008 and 2018, to 23 percent.”
lol. Wait a minute. The article said that slightly fewer women have sex, but that the percentage of celibate men has doubled. Besides reflecting marketplace reality, maybe all you are seeing is the internet at work combined with a continuing disinterest in marriage.
Just wait until the robot waifu hits the market, all hell will break loose.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

The eco/sjw are ruining the environment –
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/burningman/article/Burning-Man-Environmental-Impact-Statement-BLM-13704768.php
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Gregory

29 March 2019

The large capacity magazine ban in California has been found to be u constitutional on 2nd Amendment grounds by a Federal judge.

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Gregory

29 March 2019

Unconstitutional…
Darned phone autocorrect…

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Ya G I hate that too! @514.

I can see why they had to bribe the little brats way in to USC!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lori-loughlin-apos-daughter-olivia-030600689.html
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Gregory

29 March 2019

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that:
1. Defendant Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and his officers, agents, servants,
employees, and attorneys, and those persons in active concert or participation with him,
and those duly sworn state peace officers and federal law enforcement officers who gain
knowledge of this injunction order, or know of the existence of this injunction order, are
enjoined from enforcing California Penal Code section 32310.
2. Defendant Becerra shall provide, by personal service or otherwise, actual notice
of this order to all law enforcement personnel who are responsible for implementing or
enforcing the enjoined statute. The government shall file a declaration establishing proof
of such notice.
DATED: March 29, 2019 _______________________________
HON. ROGER T. BENITEZ
United States District Judge
Takes effect immediately.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Troll @ 412 – Not so fast –
https://www.theunion.com/news/business/nevada-county-enforces-fda-rules-on-cbd-sales/
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Walt

29 March 2019

HALLELUJAH!! Gregory.
Now if I had a high capacity mag. for MY AR,, that would be 80 bucks down range in about 30 seconds. 30 cal. is still a tad expensive.

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Walt

29 March 2019

Gregory. I hope that goes for handguns as well.

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Paul Emery

29 March 2019

Isn’t that great Bessee. I thought as a Conservative you were opposed to big government. CBD is derived from hemp plants and has no thc that is what makes you high from pot plants. You are a phony Conservative Don. So now we have the government sorting through vitamins and herbs rooting out the evil CBD products.
Is this what you refer to George as the power of a runaway government?

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

There is always the internet Walt now that their legal!

So it has always been one of the chicken or the egg kind of thing with the crazy cat ladies. Were they crazy first or was it the cats? Now there appears to be and answer –
Scientists Now Say Owning A Cat Might Cause Mental Illness And The Evidence Is Scary
Recent studies reveal there is evidence linking cats to human craziness in more than just the metaphorical sense. That’s right: your precious kitty could actually be driving you bonkers
http://honesttopaws.com/new-cat-evidence/2/?as=712yoe&bdk=a712yoe&ch=bt
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Bill Tozer

29 March 2019

Another American murdered
https://www.oann.com/illegal-alien-charged-in-connection-with-death-of-okla-mother/

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

The State says otherwise oh great pony tail of ignorance.

Yo bro, socialism rocks that’s what the chicks and profs say. What? NO wait! Not if it takes something FROM ME DUDE!!
With far left candidates and policies on the rise in America, it’s no surprise that for the first time ever, more young people say they’d prefer to live in a socialist country over a capitalist one.
Whether it’s free healthcare, free college tuition, or universal basic income, students around America increasingly support higher taxes on the wealthy in order to pay for these progressive policies. But would they support similar policies if they had skin in the game?
To find out, Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips went to Florida International University in Miami to test the waters on a “Socialist GPA” policy in which students with higher GPAs would be forced to “spread the wealth” and give some of their GPA points to students with lower GPAs.
Despite the overwhelming number of students who initially said they’d support socialist policies, few agreed to go along with such a plan.
[RELATED: VIDEO: Students all about Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’…then find out what’s in it
]
“I’m all for helping, but I wouldn’t give some of my points… I’ve lost a lot of sleep so I don’t know if that would be fair,” one student said, while another answered no because “I like, study all day for my grades.”
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12038
Sounds like budding capitalists! LOL
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Bill Tozer

29 March 2019

Nature or nuture? Greenland ice sheet. The models need to be adjusted.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/cant-win-now-vital-glacier-growing-scientist-says-bad-news/?fbclid=IwAR0P0v6t5cT-sPTC3Kt9NFPtdT69_KOU9k8AWux4jJqZneYbQIys7yROlnY

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Walt

29 March 2019

Poor Emery. When you demand something be considered a “medicine”, then expect it to be treated, and regulated as such.
So stop your damned infernal whining. With MOST drugs,, there is that FDA approval. Yet you messed up hippies think your exempt.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Hey there is a consolation for the po’ol’ fakenewsman, he still has Al Sharpton on his shrinking side. Did you loose a third of your KVMR audience like all the other fakenews? When will you have your photo op with Shakedown Sharpton?
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/03/29/sharpton-we-need-to-know-if-trump-obstructed-justice-just-like-nixon/
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Bill Tozer

29 March 2019

Is there notthing Orange Man Bad cannot do? He must be in the wind. He is everywhere!
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2019/03/29/msnbcs-soboroff-blames-trump-spike-illegal-crossings
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/29/rahm-emanuel-blames-toxic-trump-for-jussie-smollett-hate-hoax/

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Alan Schiffty says the prez killed cock robbin too!
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Bill Tozer

29 March 2019

Former Obama DHS Chief Jeh Johnson: We are truly in a crisis
“ And I’d look at them (border apprehensions) every morning, it’d be the first thing I’d look at. And I probably got too close to the problem, and my staff will tell you if it was under 1,000 apprehensions the day before that was a relatively good number, and if it was above 1,000 it was a relatively bad number, and I was gonna be in a bad mood the whole day.”
“On Tuesday, there were 4,000 apprehensions. I know that a thousand overwhelms the system. I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like, so we are truly in a crisis,” Johnson explained.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/29/obama_dhs_secretary_jeh_johnson_we_are_truly_in_a_crisis_on_southern_border.html

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Oh look, grmpa joe is suffering with the same issues that dragged down the great pony tail of ignorance! OR is it that there too many of these to remember???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-doesnt-recall-alleged-kissing-incident-2014-224803056–election.html
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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Well of course they did!
https://freebeacon.com/culture/author-nyt-anti-israel-piece-works-group-funded-qatar/
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Gregory

29 March 2019

Walt, it’s about all firearms.
He’s struck down this:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&sectionNum=32310.
Now, I’m not a lawyer, I don’t even play one on the Internet, but if I’d been stuck in Reno having some guy shove fiber optics up my butt, I might stop by Cabela’s on the drive home and buy a magazine or two that are larger than 10 rounds to celebrate.
Thanks be to the Great Prophet Zarquon for the 2nd Amendment.
I’m also happy that I didn’t get rid of the magazines I’ve had since the ’70’s that were 13 rounds or larger… the judge that just struck down the thing is the guy that stayed Bustamonte from enforcing the ban that was to start July 1, 2017. Neither Brown nor Newsom have acknowledged loudly that yes, a federal court judge had rained on that parade.

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Gregory

29 March 2019

FYI it’s been over four days since anyone (even Annie Fox) has left a comment at Pellini’s sandbox. Those of you who pretend to like the guy might go over and say Hi. Especially with the return of large capacity magazines to the State of California, Jeff must be in bad shape.
Me, I’m celebrating.

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scenes

29 March 2019

Gregory: “…if I’d been stuck in Reno having some guy shove fiber optics up my butt, I might stop by Cabela’s on the drive home and buy a magazine or two that are larger than 10 rounds to celebrate.”
An excellent plan. If not a doctor, it would be the State of California doing it.
I always wondered what was going to happen to people who had rifles that they simply don’t make 10 or less magazines for. Were you supposed to weld in a block or something?
Magazine size law is one of the stupider gun control measures I’ve run into although it’s impossible to beat bayonet lug restrictions. At least there’d be a little intellectual honesty in a one round magazine limit.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Well G it might be that there has been a lot of self medicating going on since Sunday. Barr letter and all and then there is this about people with lots of debt. Some things are becoming clearer –
Average error rates in the cognitive function tests fell to 4% after the debt was paid down, compared to a 17% error rate beforehand.
• The proportion of participants showing generalized anxiety disorders went from 78% to 53% after the debt relief.
• Numbers of people showing so-called “present bias,” which favors instant gratification, dropped to 33% from 44%, a sign that their impulse control had improved.
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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Yo scenes, don’t give them any ideas or we will only have one shot shotguns left too!

Given the narrow kind of demographics that support her they would have to google that one! Perhaps its a guilt trip for the old farts in her party? God knows no one on our side supports other than from a you go girl and ruin it for socialists in 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-mocks-critics-of-green-new-deals-93-trillion-price-tag-they-sound-like-dr-evil
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Bill Tozer

29 March 2019

@ 9:13 pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lgrr48ELPM

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scenes

29 March 2019

I think I like AOC. She has that kind of precocious-kid-with-a-mic combined with crazy-lady-Shining-Path vibe going on. If BillT can own Hillary, I think I’ll lay claim to AOC as My Gal.
The real test would be to stick her in front of a crowd sans notes and do an hour of speaking. King O was incapable of it, but I’ll bet she could string together noises for quite some time, plus you have to appreciate her enthusiasm. If nothing else, she could stop the government from poisoning us with chemtrails, our Precious Bodily Fluids need a break.

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Don Bessee

29 March 2019

Well scenes it has a much longer root –
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233131446_Is_the_shining_path_the_New_Khmer_rouge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge_Killing_Fields
According to R. J. Rummel’s book Death by Government (1994), about 110 million people, foreign and domestic, were killed by Communist democide from 1900 to 1987.[31] In 1993, Rummel wrote: “Even were we to have total access to all communist archives we still would not be able to calculate precisely how many the communists murdered. Consider that even in spite of the archival statistics and detailed reports of survivors, the best experts still disagree by over 40 percent on the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis. We cannot expect near this accuracy for the victims of communism. We can, however, get a probable order of magnitude and a relative approximation of these deaths within a most likely range”.[18]
Grrrrr
Never again!
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Walt

30 March 2019

Fiber optic? More like Comcast’s main trunk line cable.
Once was bad enough! They must have found something worth sharing with Google, they did me twice!

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Oz

30 March 2019

Mr. ” bigger government makes America greater”, Don Bessee, must be rubbing himself for joy over Jelly Belly getting into the marijuana pushing market.
http://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/article/cbd-infused-jelly-belly-beans/

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Todd Juvinall

30 March 2019

Why do you trolls persist? OOZE is now OZ? Go away.

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Bill Tozer

30 March 2019

Don @ 8:08 pm
Well, of course they did. Foreign money in politics is legal if it’s foreign money in the press, lol. Like they say about Khashoggi: once a Qatari asset, always a Qatari asset.
From the Wa Compost
“Khashoggi also appears to have accepted significant help with his columns. Salem, the executive at the Qatar foundation, reviewed his work in advance and in some instances appears to have proposed language, according to a voluminous collection of messages obtained by the Post.’
and……
‘Other texts in the 200-page trove indicate that Salem’s organization paid a researcher who did work for Khashoggi. The foundation is an offshoot of a larger Qatar-based organization. Khashoggi also relied on a translator who worked at times for the Qatari embassy and the foundation.’
Another source:
“Rumors have floated inside the Beltway about the contents of Khashoggi’s text messages and, potentially, evidence of wire transfers from Qatar found at his residences in Turkey and in Virginia. The Post’s pre-Christmas release of this information is almost certainly in an effort to get ahead of a story that another outlet is pursuing, and frame some rather explosive revelations in the least damaging way.’
https://spectator.us/jamal-khashoggi-qatari-asset/
Heck, Bob Dole worked for a law firm that did PR work for Tiawan and the other Orange Man, aka, John Boehner, is on the board of Acreage Holding. Acreage Holdinga is all ready to roll out cannabis across 11 states (and Canada) once the class 1 drug no longer classified as such. In politics, Boehner was unequivocally opposed to changing pot from a Schedule 1 dope drug. But, give the man a fistful of dollars and a cut in the action, and he will sing a different tune, lol.
“I’m convinced de-scheduling the drug is needed so we can do research, help our veterans, and reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities.”—Boehner.
Reverse the opioid epidemic ravaging our communities by smoking dope? Rightttt. That’s a new one. Looks like Boehner has been sampling the wacky tobaccy. lol.
Well, money talks, Bull Pucky Punchy walks. Former Gov (R-Mass) joined the board. Amazon is bidding for the distribution rights. Maybe a little drone will deliver it to your door. Beats going to some overpriced brick and mortar. :). Gotta plan ahead.

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Bill.Tozer

30 March 2019

Walt @ 8:25 am
Oh my. Reamed twice? Sounds like you had a Lefty working on ya? Did you bring back something for Show &Tell to share with the class?

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Gregory

30 March 2019

Another blog mentions the COSMOS program for four week science enrichment summer camps. Lectures by professors, but the kids mostly interact with high school science teachers paid $5k for four weeks of their time and no grading, “recharging their batteries” with kids who want to be there (or at least kids whose parents want them to be there).
It costs $4k for kids to attend. But priceless for a proud papa whose kid will be spending four weeks at UCSD learning (a life science/engineering program) and spending a month out of the house, and can crow about their kid being in a group of possible future leaders in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
At least the large blogger in question has dropped the A from STEM… perhaps the T and E will be next. Math and Science is what K-12 should focus upon.

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Bill Tozer

30 March 2019

This guy needs to be reamed more than twice. From spittle to flop sweat.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F3vwsvdWjbw
A collection of the Hall of Shame candidates:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/john-brennan-from-spittle-to-flop-sweat.php
String ‘em high. Or, as our furry friends on the dark side of the street have often stated, “The noose is tightening”. Ream and scream.

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Walt

30 March 2019

Well Bill,, I have proof our LIBS don’t. The photo to prove I don’t have my head up my ass.

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Don Bessee

30 March 2019

Its all slipping away as the rancid Russian dressing narrative is soundly rejected –
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/30/only-37-believe-mueller-investigation-justified/
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Bill Tozer

30 March 2019

Glad you are home safe and sound.
Rule of thumb. To find the truth, believe exactly the opposite the Leftinistas say.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45325/prager-assume-left-lies-and-you-will-discover-dennis-prager?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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Bill Tozer

30 March 2019

Aha! Their worse fears have come to fruition.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-26-at-5.11.24-AM.png?w=1160&ssl=1
More where that came from…..
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/the-week-in-pictures-smollett-favors-edition.php

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Walt

30 March 2019

If you like a good drum line,, these guys are REAL good. Never heard of them till now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrbAiA1yffY
Just a small taste of what they can do. Been hunting down whatever they have on the net.

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George Rebane

30 March 2019

Walt 126pm – good stuff, thanks.

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Don Bessee

30 March 2019

That’s what you get when you mass import jihadis and can not deport them –
French churches are coming increasingly under attack with an average of nearly three churches per day targetted for vandalism alone over the past three years.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/30/macrons-france-average-of-three-church-attacks-per-day/
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Bill Tozer

30 March 2019

Walt….to lift your spirts on this fine day, those Deplorables can been such silly savages.
Lifted from Dr. Rebane’s post Kim Strassel on the Real Scandal 27mar19 update]
“Here is the dirt on the 50+ journalist scumbags who kept the Big Lie about the Russia collusion going for over two years. These are the very same people that our Left, especially the local loonies, revere as their source of truth and light.”
Hmmm. Which reminds me, anybody see Robert Cross lately?
Pucker up, buttercup.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1109275164171223042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1109275164171223042&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Ftrending%2F50-journalists-politicians-celebrities-and-grifters-who-peddled-the-russia-collusion-hoax%2F
As a bonus for my beloved Brother Walt, Shifflips is puckering up as well.
(Apologies in advance to our long suffering and gracious host, Dr. Rebane, for overlooking the fact this belongs in the Kim Strassel post. It’s for Walt’s speedy recovery.)
“In the letter, the lawmakers appear to suggest that Schiff leaked information to the media in order to sustain the Russia-collusion narrative.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nunes-to-make-criminal-referrals-on-officials-involved-in-spygate-in-1-or-2-weeks_2857456.html

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George Rebane

30 March 2019

DonB 243pm – that looks like an Islamophobic comment and link there Mr Bessee.
BillT 247pm – Yes Mr Tozer, a special dispensation for Bro Walt’s recovery and health. To that end and blessing, I will shortly hoist a wee bit of Knob Creek on the rocks to me parched lips.

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