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[To impeach or not to impeach – that is the question.  BTW, it appears that the number of leftwing readers regularly contributing to comment streams now outnumbers those leaning to starboard.  We've always known that the Left are assiduous RR readers, but usually they don't want to debate their politics.  How did such an outrageous fortune afflict us?  gjr]

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232 responses to “Sandbox – 23apr19”

  1. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    It’s been two months since Trump declared a state of National Emergency. How you boys holding up? Can I deliver some fresh water to your stockades? How about toilet paper?

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @ 12:01pm
    I don’t bother correcting them as much anymore. Bobbie said unequivocally that Trump would be gone this Spring. Take it to the bank. He still has time left. It’s not even May. Hate to sound like a broken record, but it would be easier to compile a list of everything they have got right and save a lot of typing and trees.
    Like men playing football against boys.
    “As a cherry on top of this embarrassing schooling, Mukasey also talked about how the origins of the Russia investigation needed to be investigated: “This report begins with a misstatement suggesting that the investigation started in July of 2016 when the FBI opened its file. That’s the kind of half-truth that’s purely designed to irritate anybody who knows the other half.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/04/24/misleading-lot-people-mukasey-calls-out-cuomos-russia

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  3. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Here’s a good PBS Frontline on executive privilege and fighting congressional subpoenas.
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/when-presidents-invoke-executive-privilege/
    It’s Obama and Holder, not Trump and Barr.

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  4. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 24 April 2019 at 12:33 PM
    It’s all good (Insert name of todays “Ozz” puppet driver here)……..emerged from the bunker and went for espresso today!
    You? Filling your death threat, buffet molestation, and/or tax “avoidance” quotas today?

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 April 2019 at 12:34 PM
    “Bobbie said unequivocally that Trump would be gone this Spring. Take it to the bank. He still has time left. It’s not even May. Hate to sound like a broken record, but it would be easier to compile a list of everything they have got right and save a lot of typing and trees.”

    Indeed William! Its almost as though he told us to “MARK THE TAPE”!

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How about some nice non-controversial Daily Quotes.
    You’ve been warned: “Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass gun-safety laws. And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.” —Sen. Kamala Harris
    “How can we trust these people to read the full Mueller Report when they haven’t even read the Green New Deal? Which is five pages.” —Steven Crowder
    For the record: “[Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez rushed to politicize the horrific terrorist attacks in New Zealand last month, tweeting approximately 14 times about the attack. Ocasio-Cortez has not tweeted about the hundreds of Christians murdered at churches in Sri Lanka on Easter by Islamic terrorists.” —Ryan Saavedra
    Friendly fire: “The winner of the economic argument in the last five presidential elections with swing voters has won the presidency. And I think … Bernie Sanders is unlikely … to stand up to the constant barrage that is Donald Trump on economic issues like that. … You have to excite your base and turn out people, and you have to win swing voters. … Today, you would say in a general election context, Bernie Sanders wouldn’t be that candidate.” —Obama campaign manager Jim Messina
    Exhibit A: “If somebody commits a serious crime — sexual assault, murder — they’re going to be punished. They may be in jail for 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole lives. That’s what happens when you commit a serious crime. But I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy. Yes, even for terrible people.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders
    Alpha Jackass: “There is no excuse for terror attacks against innocent people but as a journalist I saw Western Christian missionaries unscrupulpusly [sic] converting Buddhist orphans for food and shelter after the Asian tsunami. Don’t send your prayers. … In fact prayers are proven beyond doubt to have no effect. What might help, however, is ending the Western campaign to convert people of other religions in exchange for charity.” —British TV star Andy West
    The BIG Lie: “This president is a double-digit obstructor, according to the Mueller report, in the number of ways he sought to obstruct justice. Which leads me … to Attorney General Barr. You can be the attorney general of the United States and represent all of us, or you can represent Donald Trump. You can’t do both. And because Attorney General Barr wants to represent Donald Trump, I think he should resign.” —Rep. Eric Swalwell
    Bonus: “VEGAN FEMINIST CAFE THAT IMPOSED 18% “GENDER SURCHARGE” ON MEN CLOSES DOWN
    Bye bye”
    https://www.infowars.com/vegan-feminist-cafe-that-imposed-18-gender-surcharge-on-men-closes-down/
    Bonus II: Frisco Values
    https://www.facebook.com/APIIINation/photos/a.535598709847360/2598116276928916/?type=3&theater

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  7. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    It looks like that OAKIE OOZE and his butt buddy Robbie Cross have not had their white lightning portions today. Two incoherent commies think their opinions matter? Along with Paul Emery who belongs in West Virginia at best, these lovelies supply all the comedy needed. What a hoot!

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I first suspected, now strongly believe, that the Leftinista Industrial Media & Entertainment Complex is more Left than their base…as well as (most) of the Clown Car candidates. Yes, Democrats, your candidates and leaders are really Socialists. Still, the base in this neck of the woods, with the exception of Bobbie Sue, is not as freaky as those who are their mouthpieces in media and politics.
    Just tell any lib here that a councilperson in Nevada City practiced cultural appropriation by co-owning a Mexican restaurant, the Parade of Presidents glories slave owners, or the old iron relics of the mining heyday placed around the Berkeley of the Foothills celebrates the destruction of the environment and genocide of the Native Americans and you will get a blank stare back. They may be Leftinistas, but situational Leftinistas when it comes to their playground. Lefty, but not that far off the rails.
    Money quote:
    “Progressive elites and pundits would do better to consider how little Democrats believe identity matters to electability. Then again, they also would do better to realize that, while the Democratic Party is shifting leftward, it remains 56 percent white and 48 percent older than the age of 50. Indeed, whites without a college degree, whom the woke seem bent on pushing out, remain the largest segment of the Democratic Party. Perhaps the woke will own the party’s future; they have not won it yet..
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/24/democrats-care-winning-identity-politics/

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  9. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Now that the very idea of ‘time’ is considered racist:
    https://pluralist.com/brittney-cooper-time-racist/
    I’m starting to wonder about space.
    At least Ms. Cooper appears to be on time for seconds.

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  10. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 24 April 2019 at 01:51 PM
    “A gender studies professor….”

    Yeah……I stopped after this.

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 1114am – Does your being here and doing your best to debate give lie to any of that? Why continue to prostitute yourself if all you get in return is “not much analysis or critical thinking just blah blah blah and ‘show me the source’ type comments that are nothing more that an avoidance.”
    Also, do you note the links and direct quotes that most of our commenters include with their contributions, and note who are they that have no citations or sources?
    It doesn’t sound like you get much in return for all the time you spend here.

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes. Rationalism itself is a racist concept
    When the left took a more progressive turn, and branded critical identity theory as a guideline for perspective, policy, morality, and social interaction, classical liberals—who believe first and foremost in the rights of the individual and the necessity of critical thought—found they had no place left to call home within the party. These intellectuals became politically homeless. They were reading articles about the problems inherent in whiteness, how men and women were interchangeable based on feelings, how relative oppression levels shape everything, and about how Western culture is apparently the perpetration of pure evil.
    “As the English-speaking intellectual world tightened up due to globalism, social media, the emergence of international online journals and podcasts, and the cross-pollination of writers and ideas, the IDW began to take shape. Writers who dissect ideas for a living were aghast to find that the work they had been doing was now to be viewed through lenses that had nothing to do with intellectual rigor, but were entirely about emotional realities based in grievance, oppression, and identity.”
    “The shifting sands of progressive ideology, where morality shifts depending on the level of oppression of the person holding the moral view or the relative privilege being wielded in service to a moral perspective, does not meld with rational thought. In fact, recently many on the left have begun asserting that rationalism itself is a racist concept, born of whiteness in the Enlightenment, and that its shackles need to be cast off. Some years ago, the very concept of debate was countered by student groups who attended debates, then refused to debate according to the standard terms, instead throwing down spoken word on the basis that the structure of debate itself was racist.
    “What can intellectuals do when everything they believe in regarding individual liberty is recast as cultural imperialism? They find themselves cast out, politically homeless, and yes, aghast when the very foundations upon which they have ever thought everything—foundations based in philosophy, dialectical theory, Kantian metaphysics, Judeo-Christian morality, and then thought about and rethought again for clarity toward human equality—are thrown out for no other reason than that those who conceived of these things are now considered oppressors..
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/23/stop-assuming-intellectual-dark-web-political-movement/

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Best quote of the week goes to Scenes!
    “At least Ms. Cooper appears to be on time for seconds.”
    More Daily Quotes, albeit none can complete with Scenes @ 1:51 pm.
    Upright: “I think there are two big reasons why this country is so great. The first is our Constitution, which guarantees our freedom of speech and expression. The second is our free-market system. … It pains me to see people in this country glorifying socialism. Young people especially have been indoctrinated into believing that free enterprise is immoral because it enriches the greedy and depresses the poor.” —Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus
    For the record: “There’s no collusion, says the special counsel. That takes one sentence. It doesn’t take 200 damn pages. It doesn’t take $35 million dollars.” —Mark Levin
    Braying Jenny: “I’m more Palestinian in the halls of Congress than I am anywhere in the country [and] in the world. ” —Rep. Rashida Tlaib
    Non compos mentis: “Tourist mecca Notre Dame also revered as place of worship.” —AP headline
    Demo-gogues: “I accept that there’s a humanitarian crisis that is being caused by this president. There is a humanitarian crisis when you throw children into cages and separate families. That’s a human-rights violation. We can keep our country safe and strong and honor human rights as well.” —Sen. Cory Booker
    Tone-deaf: “I think there’s enough [in the Mueller report] that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted.” —Hillary Clinton, who actually broke the law on numerous occasions without being indicted
    The BIG Lie: “When it comes to the VA, all I can think of is that classic refrain that my parents always told me growing up. Which is that, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ … This thing … provides the highest quality care to our veterans.” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
    Braying Jackass: “While I am a progressive feminist, I have often debated folks who are citing the Bible and shouting out Sodom and Gomorrah. That’s something they always say. And I would always push back and say, ‘Listen, if Jesus is so great, why weren’t you nicer? Why aren’t you kinder?’ … Jesus needs new PR. I always had that line growing up. Because, honestly, I think what Mayor Pete [Buttigieg] is doing — he is demonstrating how to actually be a Christian, to embrace people, to be more compassionate. I think that’s an example that crosses partisan boundaries actually.” —MSNBC political analyst Zerlina Maxwell
    Re: The Left: “I am thankful [Rep. Ilhan] Omar and her family and countless others were able to escape to neighboring Kenya while we fought to protect those left behind, but I simply cannot comprehend her attitude towards those of us who fought to protect her country and countrymen from warlords who plunged Somalia only further into violence and starvation. I am glad that Omar can now enjoy the very freedoms we fought to protect, like the freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion affirmed in the U.S. Constitution, but I don’t understand why she uses those freedoms to slur the men and women of the U.S. military who made her security and liberty a reality.” —Sergeant Major Kyle E. Lamb (USA retired) rebutting Omar’s ridiculous assertions about Mogadishu
    And last… “The biggest problem America faces are lost adults whose bizarre beliefs are saturating an entire generation of impressionable young minds.” —Rebecca Hagelin

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  14. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Robert C 11:14-
    George 1:59-
    Ignore the people who try to chase your words of wisdom away from this page. I, for one, don’t bother to click into a thread unless I see you or one of the other progressive minds making a comment. No reason to waste time reading in an echo chamber. Makes me dizzy.
    Actually, I must admit clicking into Todd’s posts every now and then just for the comic relief. He is such a world class idiot I often wonder if it is even fair to respond to him or if I’ll get sued under the ADA for not giving him his own mental handicap zone.

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  15. fish Avatar
    fish

    Trump To Be Blamed For Next Recession, But Americans’ Lack Of Responsibility Is Real Culprit

    Ooooh……political pornography for the Palooka Joe social set!
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-24/trump-be-blamed-next-recession-americans-lack-responsibility-real-culprit

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  16. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 24 April 2019 at 02:40 PM
    Ignore the people who try to chase your words of wisdom away from this page. I, for one, don’t bother to click into a thread unless I see you or one of the other progressive minds making a comment.

    …..and yet here you are on multiple threads repeatedly commenting on seemingly everything! For “progressive” thoughts you might consider hanging at the food and travel chat site in the Nevada City gravity distortion zone. Bring up the proprietors Climate irresponsibility due to all that 1st class air travel!
    Toodles…..

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 212pm – Mr Tozer, what these fine counter arguments (e.g. from the Federalist) always miss in refuting the refutation of reason is the most persuasive and impossible to (sanely) dismiss argument. The kind of reason that they/we cite is the same kind (maps one-to-one) with the kind of reason that founds mathematics and science, and forms the basis for all the good things technology has provided us over the last three plus centuries. I don’t think any of these sensitive and inclusive progressives would want to give up their comforts and gadgets in support of the pabulum which constitute their arguments.

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “BTW, it appears that the number of leftwing readers regularly contributing to comment streams now outnumbers those leaning to starboard. We’ve always known that the Left are assiduous RR readers, but usually they don’t want to debate their politics. How did such an outrageous fortune afflict us?” gjr]—lead-in to the current Sandbox
    That usually happens about 18 hours after they (the Leftinistas) are dealt a big set back when their much hyped predictions and unwarranted arrogance blows up in their faces…time and time again.
    Why debate Bobbie? Yes, Congress can subpoena the tax records of anyone they choose…..provided it is for legislative purposes. The last part is confidently omitted every time. Be it out of ignorance, misinformed, or malice, I do not hazard a guess.
    Ozz mostly comes over here to stalk Todd. Wherever Todd goes, Ozzz is sure to follow. Ozz generally offers nothing to a debate. And Punchy, Punchy, Punchy. Breaks my heart to see what untreated psychosis (or sheep syphilis) can do a man. Not that he had much to work with from the get-go. Oh well.
    And there is Dougski. Sometimes I wonder what makes Dougski think he will live to see next week, but what do I know.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane.
    Perhaps I am pissing in the wind. Or, at times, pissing against the wind. When I post from the Federalist, it is not for the Leftinistas to read. I rest assured they would never click on such a link. If they did, it would quickly dismissed and jump to polls or Orange Man Bad. My goal is not to win converts, but to say the same thing we have been observing all along, but from different folks with different voices and perspectives……and to save typing as we watch the destruction of culture, language, borders.

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The man who wrote the AP History textbook: James W. Fraser.
    “Fraser’s] most striking claim [in his contribution to the book “Mentoring the Mentor: A Critical Dialogue with Paulo Freire”] is that the textbooks used under Eastern European Communism were excellent in substance, even if their lessons were hammered home too harshly by teachers: “…in their critique of capitalism and imperialism, in their sophisticated approach to anti-Semitism, Fascism, and revolutionary struggle — [Eastern European communist textbooks] represented a very liberating view of the world…But sadly the pedagogy was as repressive as the content was liberating.”
    “This is a stunning claim. Fraser believes that if only Eastern Europeans had taught communism in a less authoritarian manner, a public freed from the Soviet yoke might not have rejected communism for capitalism. That is, Fraser sees the turn to capitalism by Eastern Europe as an avoidable “tragedy” caused by the unnecessarily harsh teaching methods of communist schools.”……
    “Not surprisingly, then, Fraser rejects the notion of the teacher as an even-handed purveyor of knowledge. Instead, “the teacher must begin with a commitment to social and political liberation.” Education is a form of “revolutionary struggle.”
    “So is Fraser’s AP U.S. History textbook. Fraser’s attack on Trump and his supporters, disgusting as it is, expresses mainstream liberal talking points. But the book is more radical than that. Says Stanley, it “present[s] every leftist movement of the time in glowing, uncritical terms.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/meet-the-man-who-wrote-textbook-calling-trump-and-his-supporters-racists.php

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  21. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “When I post from the Federalist, it is not for the Leftinistas to read.”
    Of course not, it’s a lot to ask for your average person to read something they don’t agree with. Personally, I’ve spent a lot of time in the democraticundergrounds of the world, but the tears are invigorating.
    One thing that would be fun to watch would be to instrument a Blue Mobster’s brain while they read the more heinous articles in places like thecollegefix.com . I mean, no sane person could justify a lot of the insane happenings on the modern campus, but you really don’t want to criticize the other members of your lodge. Better to simply ignore that such things exist.
    There’s just so many things to mock they they aren’t allowed to say anything about. Drag Queen Story Hour at libraries is one of my favorites:
    https://metrovoicenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/120372_w_700-620×330.jpg
    Heck, I’m happy to make fun of fat guys in camo outfits running around in the woods although the time outdoors probably does them good.
    Is it as ridiculous as this? https://tinyurl.com/yxue4cz3 I think not.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 24 April 2019 at 03:57 PM
    Personally, I’ve spent a lot of time in the democraticundergrounds of the world, but the tears are invigorating.

    Generally you get to cause “tears” once……then you’re banned! For such intellectual badasses they have awfully thin skins!

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  23. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    OOZE is my comic relief here. Every OOZE post is total BS and I have to conclude the OOZE is a dimwitted moron without an education at all. His leftwing positions are now the mouthings of Bernie “Crazy” Sanders and BH Obama. All morons. But I have to say OOZE brightens my day by attacking me as I really get under its skin. What a hoot!

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    They wont be inviting him back –
    Mukasey, however, fired back that it was Cuomo and his network that proposed the report itself and the information within it in a misleading way.
    “That letter came at a time when, no criticism of you, but your network were devoting days of people sitting around and talking about a report that they didn’t — whose content they didn’t know, that they hadn’t seen, in essence, panels of people sitting around a table inhaling their own exhaust and getting high on it,” Mukasey said.
    “The country was in a state of absolute hysteria. You had a countdown clock in the corner of not one but several networks about the release of the report. He did the responsible thing,” Mukasey said of Barr.
    Mukasey then clarified that he meant the special counsel could not exonerate Trump, rather than vindicate. On that note, he argued, that it is not even the special counsel’s job to exonerate anyone, because that job lies within the realm of a higher power.
    “It is, in fact, not the job of any counsel or anybody else to exonerate. God does that. Even juries that return acquittals don’t come back and say innocent, they say not guilty,” Mukasey continued.
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/michael-mukasey-chris-cuomo-misleading-mueller
    😉

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  25. George Rebane Avatar

    Speaking of consummate progressive insanity on college campuses; at Yale a simple disagreement between two (possibly looney) female students in a dorm led to the adding on of a whole new administrative bureaucracy under the new “deputy secretary for diversity, equity, and inclusion.” But don’t go away yet, you have to read through ALL of the following.
    “These new positions come on top of Yale’s existing diversity bureaucracy: a deputy provost for faculty diversity and development; the president’s committee on diversity and inclusion; the president’s committee on racial and ethnic harassment; the diversity and inclusion working group; the Yale College Intercultural Affairs Council; the director, representative, and support specialist of equal opportunity programs; the chief diversity officer; the associate dean for graduate-student development and diversity in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the assistant director of diversity in that same school; the associate dean for graduate student development and diversity in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; the assistant director of diversity and inclusion in the Law School; the director of community and inclusion in the School of Management; the deputy dean for diversity and inclusion in the School of Medicine; the assistant dean of community and inclusion in the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies; the associate vice president for student life (a diversity function); the Student Advisory Group on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; sundry Title IX coordinators; and the directors of the Afro-American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Latino Cultural Center and the Native American Cultural Center. … In addition to the new hires, the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration will receive further funding for diversity events and speakers.” More here –
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-yale-diversity-means-more-of-the-same-11556058975

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 4:23 pm
    Dagnapit! Your WSJ post is behind the paywall. If I am going to play, I gotta pay. However, I see your massive college bureaucratic administrative state, and raise you one solitary college lecturer. This one takes the cake.
    “Rashatwar — who identifies as “nonbinary” and “queer” — railed against “diet culture” and “fat phobia” and “size-ism” and “weight bias” and “body-image abuse” and a “rich thin ideal,” tying it all to white supremacy, capitalism, classism, and even a “police state” that engages in “social control.”
    “She also implied that it’s wrong to make health the responsibility of each individual, saying such thinking is a product of the 1980s and the policies touted by former President Ronald Reagan. Instead, Rashatwar said there should be “social supports that also help me to subsidize my food costs.”
    Rashatwar also said that “fat phobic science” is often “eugenic science” and that “eugenic science is Nazi science.”
    “Underscoring her point, she actually brought up the individual responsible for the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand, noting that she finds it unsurprising that he “was also a fitness instructor.”
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/fat-sex-therapist-declares-science-that-says-overweight-people-are-unhealthy-is-akin-to-nazi-science?fbclid=IwAR0Pfjm2bN6ltsmQIKZmnI-fS2cqadJZQ-a9b5-NZ4ANqD5GAkUi64OKQZc

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  27. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 April 2019 at 04:44 PM
    ….sigh
    Just tell her to have another slice of pie and we can put this stupidity behind us!

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish.
    You disappoint me. I was waiting for something a wee bit witty or more upbeat. Never assume. But, the burnout factor is setting in…even for moi. Being exposed to too much lefty insanity is not healthy. Need a break. With that said, I am going out to mow down another section of the back forty.

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 24 April 2019 at 04:57 PM
    Perhaps Bill!
    As mentioned on another thread it seems I’ve offended another Palooka Emery supporter……not that this bothers me…..I just know that Crabbes website isn’t the “free fire zone” that George is kind enough to provide here!
    Frankly I think our Punch could use some help and that Ken Jones is just the chap to provide it!

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 444pm – I’m afraid Mr Tozer that I will have to concede – you win. This person has a number of obvious deficits, but her biggest problem seems to be an overarching refrigerator IQ. Among her minor gaffs is stating that “eugenic science is a Nazi science”. Actually eugenics was refined and practiced in the US at the turn and early part of the last century. It was from America that Adolph got the idea in the 1920s, for which he had more admiration for the Americans.

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  31. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The Yale story led me to this:
    https://www.thecollegefix.com/middlebury-administrators-apologize-to-students-pledge-to-try-and-prevent-right-wing-guest-speakers/
    but I really liked this part:
    “During the meeting, students voiced frustration at the fact that Legutko was invited to campus and at “white male” professors for the so-called educational violence they inflict, among other topics.
    In response, the three administrators did not tell these students that college is a time of hearing differing opinions or having difficult conversations, but rather agreed with and apologized to the students and pledged to work to address their concerns.

    “I hear you, and you should be outraged, and we should acknowledge that and apologize, because that’s the least we can do right now, because we can’t make it right in the moment. But in the future we will do everything we can to make it right,” an administrator told the students.”

    I’d really like to know if the college staff really thinks this kind of nonsense is good or if they’re mostly just doing whatever it takes to hang onto what is really quite a sweet gig.
    The Blue Mob is so crazy that it gives me hope. Belief systems that are this stupid simply can’t last forever. Sadly, they can probably last longer than me.

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Sounds like the jihadi missed those history classes or listened to frakans history of the world. Palestine was never a country, it was an artifice created as a mandate colony for the brits after the break up of the Ottoman empire.
    Rabbi blasts Ilhan Omar, NYT for pushing claim Jesus was ‘Palestinian,’ not Jewish
    https://www.foxnews.com/faith-values/rabbi-ilhan-omar-nyt-jesus-palestinian-jewish
    😉

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  33. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    FISH looks like my stalker Ken Jones is after you now. Hw is a eco-extremist and loves Obama and the lefty loons. I smack him since he moved to Oxnard, the pit of the south state. LOL!

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The commissar cuts the prolls food rations because of cow farts and virtue signaling, oh and the march toward the socialist paradise standards of Venezuela –
    Chloe Waterman, who serves as Program Manager for the Climate-Friendly Food Program at Friends of the Earth, said of De Blasio’s proposal in a statement: “New York City is strengthening its climate leadership by acknowledging the importance of slashing consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions associated with factory farmed meat. Eliminating processed meat and cutting red meat purchases will pay dividends for the health of future generations and the planet.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/24/new-yorks-green-new-deal-will-slash-red-meat-in-city-facilities-by-50/
    😉

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The sisters are not buying what comrade bernie is selling –
    https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Sanders-gets-tough-reception-at-minority-women-s-13793574.php
    😉

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Looks like Scott Israel, the Sheriff off Coward County, days are numbered. The
    duration of every school or mass shooting is the time it takes for another gun to arrive on the scene. duh. Solution: more guns on campus, not less.
    “Today’s @flcourts opinion leaves no doubt of my authority to suspend a government official for neglect of duty and incompetence,” DeSantis wrote on Twitter. “Scott Israel failed to protect the families and students of Broward County and I look forward to the @FLSenate resuming the process of formal removal.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/46363/florida-court-rules-governor-had-right-suspend-ashe-schow?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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  37. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh my. What a great idea coming from the Golden State. This will ready keep the classroom safe for all concerned. Maybe some teacher can sue for hostile work environment.
    https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/04/23/willful-defiance-bill-senate/
    I thought 70% of teaching was maintaining control of the classroom. Silly me.
    Related
    “The abuse and fear teachers are experiencing in the classroom are not unique to the UK. Many American schools offer similar chaotic environments, putting teachers at risk and making them “feel powerless to discipline” the students in their charge.
    “Why the sudden change? Why has the teaching profession turned into a landmine which could send a dedicated professional to the hospital with an injury or nervous breakdown brought on by abuse?……….
    “The question is, who will we allow to be in charge: the teachers or the students? If the latter, then we shouldn’t be surprised when teaching becomes a toxic profession that no one wants to enter. But if the former, then perhaps it’s time to reassess, step away from coddling our students, and begin reinstating a culture of respect for parents and teachers alike.”
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/teachers-report-increasing-abuse-hands-students

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  38. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    This is interesting and well-compiled. You never know what the mail will bring:
    “If you are a Democrat especially a Bernie Sanders supporter or just a plain Democrat who believes in fair elections you must see this and if you are a Republican you will know even more how secretly and carefully crafted this plan went into action. Our electoral process has been so badly damaged that many Americans have lost confidence if elections are ever truly fair.More than nine months after the FBI opened its highly classified counterintelligence investigation into alleged coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, FBI lawyer Lisa Page said investigators still could not say whether there was collusion, according to a transcript of Page’s recent closed-door deposition. The film ends with this statement: Now is the time to heal. If you have fallen out with someone over the past few years over political differences, or if you have pushed away someone close to you because of their opinions, now is the time to realize that it wasn’t their fault, and they were tricked. Don’t school them anymore, just love so we can start to heal.”
    https://www.youtube.com/embed/_VpFNgfbebY

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  39. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    BM 7:02
    Knock knock, anybody in there?
    I look forward to a train of thought hauling a bowl of alphabet soup every now and then. Why even bother with spaces between the words? Now is the time to heal.

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  40. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “Ozz” 754am
    If you want to heal you’ll first need to capitulate. You know, some form of a “how could I have been taken in by the Mueller hysteria” mea culpa admission.

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  41. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    reg
    I hope Todd doesn’t take your reply to heart. He is going to capitulate every word.
    until the school marm slaps his tiny fingers with a ruler.

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    OOZE admit it and set yourself free from your orthodoxy of failure. I am much smarter than you and better looking. I defeat your ideas at every turn. You are a failure in life. Repent your sins and become a human again.

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Lunch bucket is back. His kickoff started with a video of the Charlottesville Confederate monument protests, of course. Cue reference to Trump saying, “There are very fine people on both sides.” That’s his whole spiel. Orange Man Bad, America is packed with racists from sea to gloomy dark skied foreboding sea. That’s all he has, that’s all any of the Dems got. One trick donkeys.
    And to think Obama put Sleepy Joe in charge of the Stimulus. Oh my. No wonder none of the Dems or their media bosses talk about the economy. Orange Man Bad and racists are everywhere.
    “Joe Biden will return the nation’s values to the happy days of 2009-2016, when he was VP of an admin that fanned the flames of Ferguson, let migrants die in US custody, allowed ISIS to grow, caged children, spied on & tried to jail reporters, and used tear gas on immigrants.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
    https://www.facebook.com/DailyWire/photos/a.1448854972076996/2150996755196144/?type=3&theater

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Strange times.
    Tom Friedman comes out and calls for a Wall on the southern border. A high Wall!
    You know you are doing something wrong, Bernie, when you lose the support of Cher.
    “STUDY: Green New Deal Would Have ‘No Effect’ On Climate Change
    The impact would be “barely distinguishable from zero.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/46421/study-green-new-deal-would-have-no-effect-climate-emily-zanotti?%3Futm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
    Move On.org endorses Ilhan Omar. Well, that’s not strange, but good filler.
    https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156343367550914/?type=3&source=48

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Breaking news
    Judge & court officer indicted for allegedly helping undocumented man escape ICE
    Updated: Apr 25, 2019 – 2:57 PM
    Conspiracy to obstruct justice
    Obstructing justice
    Obstruction of a Federal processing
    Perjury
    https://www.boston25news.com/news/newton-judge-charged-with-allegedly-helping-undocumented-man-escape-ice/943390359
    No matter one’s personal beliefs, a local judge cannot interfere with Federal law.
    The indictment
    https://www.masslive.com/boston/2019/04/read-the-indictment-newton-district-court-judge-shelley-joseph-court-officer-accused-of-helping-defendant-avoid-ice-arrest.html

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That honeymoon didn’t last long –
    Joe Biden: AOC-linked progressive group blasts 2020 candidate as ‘old guard’ and ‘no we can’t’ politician
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-aoc-linked-progressive-160921281.html
    😉

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes
    For the record: “We have, in many ways, almost fallen victim to our own successes in health care. Vaccines work, and work so well, that the diseases they’re meant to prevent have faded from our collective memories. Instead of knowing children in our classes forever changed by polio, as parents, we fear side effects from the very treatments meant to spare our children from harm and danger. This false equivalency is ultimately leaving more babies and vulnerable people exposed and at risk, without protection from a vaccinated population around them.” —Holly Scheer
    Alpha Jackass: “It’s a national disgrace that Trump sleeps in the White House instead of a federal prison cell, but it has been a while since I had any expectation that the special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings, many of which were finally released to the public on Thursday, could set things right.” —New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg
    Braying Jenny: “Congress should hold substantive hearings that build on the Mueller report and fill in its gaps, not jump straight to an up-or-down vote on impeachment. In 1998, the Republican-led House rushed to judgment. That was a mistake then and would be a mistake now. Watergate offers a better precedent.” —Hillary Clinton in an op-ed giving advice on following up to Mueller’s report (Sheerly by coincidence, we’re sure, Watergate was when Democrats ousted a Republican president.)
    Collusion! “What’s clear from this administration, and what’s clear throughout the entirety of his business practices, is that they will lie, cheat, and steal. They’ll do anything to win. They have so eroded institutions of democracy. We have to be prepared for lying, cheating, and stealing. They have an approach to undermining our democracy that is shameful and that is why we are organizing everywhere. That is why we are preparing for every eventuality.” —DNC Chairman Tom Perez
    Friendly fire: “I have a hard time seeing the [Bernie Sanders] coalition ultimately coming together.” —Pete Buttigieg
    Gender bait: “I will have a woman running mate. To me it’s really clear that we do that.” —Sen. Cory Booker
    “Not radical” doesn’t make it moral: “More than 30 countries around the world today such as Canada, South Africa and Finland allow prisoners to vote. This is not a radical idea. Every American citizen must be able to vote. Period.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders
    Non compos mentis: “I truly believe that a child cannot consent to being on a diet the same way a child cannot consent to having sex. … I do not think it’s surprising that the man who shot up Christchurch, New Zealand, was also a fitness instructor. … Nazis really love this idea of an idealized body, and so it makes a lot of sense to me that a fitness instructor … might also think about an idealized body in this thin white supremacist way.” —”Fat Sex Therapist” Sonalee Rashatwar at St. Olaf College

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