[It looks like a sea change may have occurred in the RR comment streams. Absent are the vacuous critiques of everything not supporting our country’s headlong rush to socialism. These leftwingers seldom countered the message, and always condemned the messengers. And this absence also appears to have reduced the zeal of our commenting capitalists who usually mass to defend open markets, liberty, and smaller government. Perhaps it is time for a respite from the raucous. gjr]

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341 responses to “Sandbox – 28may19”
@ 2:21 pm
Cultural Attitude. That’s the whole ball of wax. The DOJ-FBI- CIA and Intelligence has had the run of the place for years. Never challenged, never spanked. Of course they are going to have a Cultural Attitude. Now that they cannot call the shots or control the narrative, they are acting crazier that two rats in a sock. It’s the process of smoking them out.
Don, did you pick up on what Christopher Steele said the other day? He will not talk to Barr or that fed prosecutor from Connecticut, John Burnham. No way, Jose. He did talk to the Mueller team (rumor has it Steele was one of the contractors the Mueller team used when farming out the Investigation) and said he WILL talk to the IG. Hmmm. It is my understanding that the IG has no subpoena power, no penalty power, and can only talk to current employees. Of course Steele would talk to the IG, lol. Barr is smart to have the IG work in connection with a good prosecutor. Comes in handy when making a referral. :).
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Well, is that the best Nancy can say for a comeback comment? Blame the Russians.
“Pelosi asserted that because Facebook has not deleted an altered video of her that was posted last week, they must have enabled the Russians in 2016. As The Washington Post reports from a transcript provided by Pelosi’s office, she told KQED News:
We have said all along, “Poor Facebook, they were unwittingly exploited by the Russians.” I think wittingly, because right now they are putting up something that they know is false. I think it’s wrong. They’re lying to the public. … I think they have proven — by not taking down something they know is false — that they were willing enablers of the Russian interference in our election.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47802/pelosi-crazily-attacks-facebook-they-were-willing-hank-berrien?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
Well, there you have it. That’s all you need to know….except have you noticed that Trump has a propensity to cuddle up to dictators? Chooses brutal dictators over a former VP of these here United States…on foreign soil!! That Trump is a UFK-Putin lubber! How unPresidential. Impeach the mo fo.
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Holy Smokes. Is Clarance Thomas stepping up and showing his mettle or what?
“…..Seventy-eight percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in minority communities. Blacks make up 12.1 percent of the U.S. population, but 35 percent of the country’s abortions. In his opinion, Thomas cites New York Department of Health data that states, “there are areas of New York City in which black children are more likely to be aborted than they are to be born alive—and are up to eight times more likely to be aborted than white children in the same area.”
“Thomas concludes that the increased use of eugenic abortions is exactly why Indiana passed a law protecting the unborn from discrimination, and exactly why the Supreme Court cannot ignore a ruling on the subject for much longer.
“Enshrining a constitutional right to an abortion based solely on the race, sex, or disability of an unborn child, as Planned Parenthood advocates, would constitutionalize the views of the 20th-century eugenics movement,” he writes. “In other contexts, the Court has been zealous in vindicating the rights of people even potentially subjected to race, sex, and disability discrimination.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/28/justice-clarence-thomas-blasts-abortion-tool-racist-eugenicists/
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Pass the Russian dressing!
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/29/pelosi-facebook-photo/
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that Facebook’s decision not to nix altered photos of her is a clear example that the company willingly allowed Russia to interfere in the 2016 election.
“I think wittingly, because right now they are putting up something that they know is false,” she told a California news outlet, referring to what she believes is Facebook’s role in Russian interference. “I think it’s wrong … I can take it … But [Facebook is] lying to the public.” “
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Geraldo is just sayin’
“If this was cards, Mueller dealt Pelosi a pair of deuces,” Rivera opined. “She’s holding a pair of deuces now, do you go forward with impeachment with a pair of deuces?”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/geraldo-rivera-pelosi-trump-russia-mueller
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Build that wall in spite of the liberal mayor if ya got your stkinkin papers! –
Brian Kolfage: We believe we have the correct permits. We have done everything necessary to remain in compliance. The city inspectors were down and gave the approval last week. This is just a political witch hunt and we are not going to back down.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/liberal-mayor-of-sunland-park-issues-cease-and-desist-order-against-we-build-the-wall-for-building-border-wall-to-protect-americavideo/
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Mueller isn’t looking for justice, he is looking for revenge. 4 take-aways with the Mueller translator on:
1) No way does he want to answer one question on Capitol Hill about exactly when he knew the Russian Collusion was a hoax. We all know by now that Mueller knew it was a hoax before he even got on board. Too many e-mails will be coming out. CYA. Why did it take 600 days if he knew it was a bogus? No way is he going to take those types of questions.
2) The ICA was based entirely on the Steele Dossier (and its several authors)…and according to Nunes, the sick imagination of Glenn Simpson, aka, the man behind the Dossier. That is why Mueller brought up the Russian interference today. To put meat on the ICA bones. The ICA was garage, put out by the Obama Administration, and is about to be discredited by declassification. Back to Russia interfering in our elections…minus Trump. 🙂
3). Shame, shame, shame. Why did Mueller say today he could not charge Trump by the OLC guidelines? That is not what Mueller told Barr. Barr specifically asked Mueller several times if Mueller did not charge Trump because of Office of Legal Counsel guidelines. Mueller said “no, no, no. That’s not why.” So, either Mueller lied today or Barr lied. The story Mueller told today is not what he said previously. Shameful. Shame. I will bet my right arm the person lying to the American people is Robert Mueller. Barr must be pissed to the max.
4) Why did Mueller reiterate the obstruction of justice innuendos? Why did he harp on it? Because he wants Trump to be impeached. He once again put it on Congress and fed the talking heads with what to cry to the heavens about tonight. He could not find chargeable offenses, but keep the drumbeat going! Not enough to bring charges, and he felt no mandate to draw a conclusion, ROFLMAO. A disgraceful display by a broken shell of a man. No to talking to Congress, the report speaks for itself. Darn right it does….perfectly. Speaks volumes Mueller filter off.
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Breaking News! Mueller releases joint statement with Barr “clarifying” Mueller’s lies.
“The Attorney General has previously stated that the Special Counsel repeatedly affirmed that he was not saying that, but for the OLC opinion, he would have found the President obstructed justice. The Special Counsel’s report and his statement today made clear that the office concluded it would not reach a determination – one way or the other – about whether the President committed a crime. There is no conflict between these statements.”
Mueller’s second justification is more obvious: he essentially said he was doing Congress’ impeachment groundwork for them. “The Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing,” Mueller stated. This is an invitation to impeachment.
But that’s not Mueller’s job. He is a member of the executive branch. He is not an independent counsel. He is not a legislative investigator. A criminal investigation that cannot possibly result in charges is a conflict in terms. Mueller never should have agreed to such an investigation under the law, and Mueller’s own standard makes that clear.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47811/breaking-doj-muellers-office-release-joint-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
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Stand up and salute!
Statesville Mayor Costi Kutteh recommended amending the ordinance, which will be voted on July 15 by the city council and needs two votes to pass.
“In speaking with city council members, I believe this is the direction the majority of council would like to go at this time,” Kutteh said in a statement Wednesday. “Some terrible things have been said about our wonderful town and it hasn’t come from our citizens. But people from all over the country have jumped on this issue and called us names I can’t repeat. When our community’s efforts to conduct business in an orderly, lawful manner begins to hurt our businesses, then it’s time to put a stop to it.”
Lemonis, a Lebanese-born immigrant who was adopted by American parents, has 180 other stores with flags the same size as the one in Statesville.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-carola-rv-store-american-flag-rule-change
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Looks like Trump got a different reception than Biden. Listen to the children. 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/410871292591200/posts/929224760755848/
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The Stunning Statistical Fraud Behind The Global Warming Scare
http://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2019/05/30/the-stunning-statistical-fraud-behind-the-global-warming-scare/
The Union has decided to support the fraud, details at the link.
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Aha. Looks like the Clown Car is on the impeachment on ramp. Aren’t these the same characters who tried to publicly kill, crush and destroy a good man AND his family? Yes, it’s the same bunch we saw at the Kavanaugh hearings. Beyond despicable. The Lefty 2020 gang.
Quotes inspired by the Mueller presser:
Upright: “By asking the executive to investigate itself, it was guaranteed — yes, guaranteed — that we’d have a fight over ‘obstruction of justice.’ For the architect of that investigation to keep saying ‘We aren’t exonerating our target’ is extraordinary. Innocence is the default position in this country. If a person doesn’t have enough evidence that someone committed a crime to contend that a crime was committed, he is obliged to presume his innocence. ‘Not exonerated’ is not a standard in our system, and it shouldn’t be one in our culture, either.” —Charles C.W. Cooke
Impeachment hyperventilation I: “Robert Mueller’s statement makes it clear: Congress has a legal and moral obligation to begin impeachment proceedings immediately.” —Sen. Cory Booker
Impeachment hyperventilation II: “I think it’s a fair inference from what we heard in that press conference that Bob Mueller was essentially referring impeachment to the United States Congress.” —Sen. Kamala Harris
Impeachment hyperventilation III: “Mueller leaves no doubt: 1) He didn’t exonerate the president because there is evidence he committed crimes. 2) Justice Department policy prevented him from charging the president with any crimes. 3) The Constitution leaves it up to Congress to act — and that’s impeachment.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Impeachment hyperventilation IV: “It’s time for Congress to begin impeachment hearings and follow the facts. Robert Mueller clearly expects Congress to exercise its constitutional authority and take steps that he could not. We can’t let the president defy basic accountability measures built into our Constitution.” —Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
Impeachment hyperventilation V: “Given that Special Counsel Mueller was unable to pursue criminal charges against the President, it falls to Congress to respond to the crimes, lies and other wrongdoing of President Trump — and we will do so. No one, not even the President of the United States, is above the law.” —House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler
Impeachment hyperventilation VI: “Mueller is playing a game of Taboo with Congress. His word is ‘impeach.’”—Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Impeachment buzzkill: “Many constituents want to impeach the president. But we want to do what is right and what gets results. … But we do want to make such a compelling case, such an ironclad case that even the Republican Senate would — at this time [it] seems to be not an objective jury — will be convinced of the path that we have to take as a country.” —Nancy Pelosi
And last… “Robert Mueller said ‘it would be unfair to accuse someone of a crime when there can be no court resolution.’ So why did he spend the entire second half of his report accusing the president of committing a crime without evidence?” —Charlie Kirk
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Bonus quote from the Enemy of the People:
Leftmedia principles: “Neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn’t really serve us in the age of Trump.” —CNN’s Jim Acosta
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BillT 803am – good collected summary Mr Tozer. The Dems’ statements, especially by Gillibrand and Warren, again highlight why there is no common ground and why there can never again be common ground with the socialists whose fundamental belief is ‘guilty until proven innocent’. Mueller’s rogue assertion re ‘no exoneration’ immediately implies that Mueller has yet to be revealed evidence that Trump is guilty of something indictable, even though Mueller made no claim for the existence of such evidence. By his carefully wordsmithed statement yesterday, Mueller again demonstrated that he is a longstanding, fully paid up member of the Deep State’s sleazebag section.
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…..and in the remarkably unlikely headline category……todays winner!
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/30/f-35-dogfight-accidentally-resulted-sky-penis-officials-say.html
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Does anyone think she even noticed?
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/video-hillary-blisters-trump-during-commencement-address-as-grads-zone-out-yawn/
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TDS might be the cause –
Former Watergate prosecutor questions why Trump has not enjoyed the presumption of innocence in the Russia probe
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-watergate-prosecutor-questions-why-115139853.html
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@ 11:14 am
“Does anyone think she even noticed?” Oh, but others are starting to notice, including John Durham. 🙂
“At a certain point, it can’t be mere coincidence that every major figure involved in probing Trump’s campaign is linked to Hillary Clinton in some manner.”
“Therefore, one would think that incriminating evidence derived from the FBI, NSA, or CIA could have linked Donald Trump to Russian hackers or Kremlin operatives, if that evidence existed. Instead, almost all the major findings used to justify investigations into Trump’s campaign are linked to Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party.”
“Yet all of these conflicts of interests linked to Clinton, or intelligence linked to Democrats, failed to produce any evidence against Trump. In an article titled “FBI couldn’t prove Trump-Russia collusion before Mueller appointment,” John Solomon explains that Lisa Page admitted the FBI had nothing on Trump even before the Mueller probe:
‘It’s a reflection of us still not knowing,’ Page told Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) when questioned about texts she and Strzok exchanged in May 2017 as Robert Mueller was being named special counsel to take over the Russia investigation.
With that statement, Page acknowledged a momentous fact: After nine months of using some of the most awesome surveillance powers afforded to U.S. intelligence, the FBI still had not made a case connecting Trump or his campaign to Russia’s election meddling.
Page opined further, acknowledging ‘it still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing’ to connect Trump and Russia, no matter what Mueller or the FBI did.
‘As far as May of 2017, we still couldn’t answer the question,’ she said at another point.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/30/john-durham-needs-investigate-info-generated-mueller-probe-linked-hillary-clinton/
The only point of contention I have with the article is a pretty big one. Contrary to the disinformation that it was the words a drunk George Demetrios Papadopoulos uttered to a member of the Australian Diplomatic Corps (Downer) in a London bar that initiated the counterintelligence investigation into Papadopoulos, the fact is the young Trump volunteer was LURED to London by Western/FBI/CIA assets already in place in Italy and were approaching and buttering up George Papadopoulos BEFORE he went to that London bar.
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Be careful what you ask for –
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tom-del-beccaro-hillary-clinton-the-queen-of-obstruction-demands-accountability
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I am shocked, NOT!
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/30/lyon-bombing-suspect-confesses-to-attack-isis-allegiance-after-explosive-ingredients-found/
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Civil war in the socialist dems clown car –
“People are becoming more upset and becoming more firm behind Bernie due to mainstream media not covering a lot of his events and the strong push for Biden,” Ms. Cestnick said. “Is 2016 going to happen all over again? It is sure feeling like it. But I tell you, they are going to see a fight like they have never seen before.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/29/bernie-sanders-supporters-distrust-joe-biden-poll-/
Politics
Former Sanders staffer warns his supports will ‘destroy and divide’ if he doesn’t win nomination
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-sanders-staffer-warns-supports-114118240.html
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George
How does Trumps “Lock her up” chanters fit into your evaluation of those who you claim espouse ‘guilty until proven innocent’?
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Lock her up was a chant b regular people. It has nothing do to with law enforcement. You really are dense.
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Emery at 1:28 – “How does Trumps “Lock her up” chanters fit into your evaluation of those who you claim espouse ‘guilty until proven innocent’?”
Poor Paul – dragging around those stinky old dead horses so they are at the ready when he feels a need to whip one.
C’mon Paul – folks who have no legal authority whatever chanting something at a rally is not the same as elected officials going after the president with prosecution powers when they have no evidence.
And say, Paul – what happened to all of your breathless announcements of Trump cuddling with Putin?
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I’m pretty sure that Paul didn’t write that. It was an attempt by a Rebane sock puppet to lift the flagging visits to this page. Sad.
Our input only makes you feel relevant. Our silence is more powerful than your hateful words.
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A one handed clap for the comic stylings @ 255.
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The civil war in socialist dem clown car has spilled over into the fakenews waters –
“Inconsistent, Incoherent, and Poorly Conceived”: As the Times Clamps Down on Reporters Going on MSNBC, Is This a Liberal-Media War?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/the-times-gives-maddow-the-cold-shoulder
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I’m pretty sure Paul did write that… it would be a neat trick to fake the autogenerated icon that has come with Paul’s posts going back a year or more.
No, “Ozz”, it does appear he violated the boycott a’gin RR. Y’all decide on the punishment you’ll mete out to him.
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I did write it and the question was to George not the nest of RR’s Circle of Jerks that are self stimulated and need no outside input.
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Paul, if you want to ask George a private question I suspect you have his email address.
Otherwise, just put up with being called a Jerk yourself.
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Imagine what would happen were Trump to destroy records, on the order of 30 thousand emails, bleachbitted away AFTER they were covered by a subpoena.
I would be personally pleased to see Hillary Clinton frog marched in handcuffs but an indictment would do nicely.
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You may be surprised Gregory but I don’t consider you to be one of the COJ’s.
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This place has been “jerk” free,, then the LIBS showed up.
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“and need no outside input.” @ 402
Especially from the pony tail of ignorance!
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Posted by: Ozz | 30 May 2019 at 02:55 PM
“Our silence is more powerful than your hateful words.”
Wow…..”The Passion of the Ozzbot”!
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As usual the LIBS show up just to gutter snipe.
Never can back up their LIB idealism.
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Being the largest producer of natural gas and massive exports that create high paying US jobs is giving the socialist snowflakes indigestion! FREEDOM GAS! –
The Department of Energy sent out a press release referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas” and “molecules of freedom” on Wednesday, and the response from around the internet was predictably outraged
“Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy,” said Under Secretary Mark W. Menzes in the release.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/freedom-gas-trump-administration-name-13907529.php
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And what is the crime Clinton would be charged with for the intentional destruction of evidence lawfully sought under subpoena? Play the Final Jeopardy! theme, cut a check to Merv Griffin.
What is the one thing Trump did that invited the likes of Adam Schiff to say Trump asked for Russian involvement? The live off-the-cuff joke suggesting if the Russians could find the emails (that had been bleachbitted off her illegal email server, that was sitting on a shelf at the FBI by then) that the news media would likely pay for it.
It was funny as hell and I literally laughed out loud. To get the joke, one had to keep up… the server was off-line and wiped clean. Not with a cloth. Clinton had not been Secretary of State for over three years.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trump-putin-no-relationship-226282
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Since the LIBS showed up,, maybe they can tell us how “O”andCo. (according to Biden) are responsible and should get credit for our great economy.
Yes LIBS,, TELL us just how they did that. Good examples of the taxes they cut ,, regulations they removed.. Yes.. Tell us just what those where, and when.
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We see what you are up to you mutha mullahs –
Iran is engaged in a “campaign” against the United States unlike anything in the past 40 years, the top U.S. officer said, explaining why the Pentagon is dispatching some 900 troops and other assets to the Middle East.
Speaking Wednesday at the Brookings Institution, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford recounted the events that led to his decision. On May 3, Dunford said, he was examining new intelligence on the threat posed by Iran to the United States in the region. He saw “multiple threat streams that were all, perhaps coming together, in time.”
“We saw something that looked more like a campaign than an individual threat,” he said. “It was the geographic span, and the perception that that activity would be synchronized in time that caused us to look at that threat differently than 40 years, by the way, of malign activity by the Iranians. Malign activity and threats to our forces were not new, but a more widespread and almost campaign-like perspective from the Iranians was what we were dealing with.”
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/05/top-us-officer-irans-threats-look-campaign/157341/?oref=d-river
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PaulE 402pm – Yes, my response would be similar to the one ScottO gave. In Hillary’s case it was a raucous crowd chanting their protest to Comey’s July 2016 non-indictment speech in which he outlined her clear violations of US Code, and then lamely and erroneously argued her lack of intent. In Trump’s case it is the years-long repeated and considered lies by elected officials charging the President (and his family, and his staff) guilty without a shred of evidence to support culpability of anything. I would weigh the careless and gratuitous words of sworn elected officials considerably more than the spontaneous ‘wisdom of the crowd’ at a political rally. It sounds like perhaps you and yours have a more difficult time apprehending such distinctions.
BTW, why does that sackhead Ozz (255pm) continue to make a fool of himself every time he comments here? You’d think that after all this time some bulb would begin to glow between his ears and trigger at least a semblance of embarrassment.
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Built that wall part –
Private group building border wall with crowd-sourced funds expects to finish by end of week
https://www.yahoo.com/news/private-group-building-border-wall-120403945.html
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after all this time some bulb would begin to glow between his ears and trigger at least a semblance of embarrassment.”
The power was shut off and the meter locked long ago!
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George… That “bulb” you speak of is one of those twisted hippie
types that contain Mercury. Looks like the glass broke.
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I regularly, with pride, vent FREEDOM GAS myself. It isn’t mentioned directly in the Constitution but I think life, liberty (pffth) and the pursuit (fribbit) of happiness covers it.
Yesterday morning I participated in the Lyman Gilmore Flight Day flyover. It was fun… a nice way to spend a Wednesday morning. Get the plane to the ramp, attend the preflight meeting at the admin building at 0900, start the engine at 0945, at 0950 taxi in flight order to wait one’s turn to take off starting at 1000. There were 12 planes, one T-6 Texan, a Cessna 340 twin, A Cessna 210 (like a Bonanza but high wings), two Bonanzas (like a C210 only low wings)(including mine), a few RV (homebuilt Vans from a kit), a PA-28 (similar to the Cherokee I crashed with vapor lock 14 years ago) and a lone J5 Piper Cub. Together with the practice flight I made the evening before, I burned 6.5 gallons of FREEDOM 100LL (100 octane low lead) AVGAS to do it. The T-6 and the C340 would have burned more, the others less.
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The fake news civil war is more widespread than initially thought –
The New York Times is cracking down on its own reporters, stopping them from appearing on certain primetime cable news shows seen as being “too partisan,” according to a new report.
Vanity Fair published the explosive report, which alleged MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell, as well as CNN anchor Don Lemon, made the newspaper’s no-go list.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nyt-bans-reporters-maddow-lemon-cnn-msnbc-report
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Wow. John Solomon, a true journalist, hits a homerun again. The British tried to warn us about
Steele. Last half worth reading
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446050-did-brits-warn-about-steeles-credibility-before-muellers-probe-congress
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Gregory.. Use that same fuel in your weed eater and home generators.
Your small engines will last plenty longer No need to drain the fuel if it’s going to sit for months on end.
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YOU GO GIRL!!!
She has already begun to reemerge on the public stage, including with remarks Thursday before an economic club in Grand Rapids, Mich., where she echoed Trump’s recent warnings that socialism threatens the U.S. — a message likely to be a key Trump 2020 campaign theme. Though they have not set a firm date, Haley has spoken with senior adviser Jared Kushner and the president himself about joining him on the campaign trail in 2020, according to a source familiar with the discussions.
“Capitalism is the greatest force for ending poverty and lifting up human beings in history,” Haley said. “America’s dangerous flirtation with socialism is in colleges, in the media and in Congress. We have an obligation to remind everyone that if you care about global poverty, you should support capitalism.” She will also deliver the keynote address at the Susan B. Anthony Foundation’s annual gala on Monday.
“She is one of the few female superstars in the Republican Party and our party needs more conservative women,” said Corry Bliss, a Republican consultant who previously served as the executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC dedicated to winning Republican House seats. “As far as the base is concerned, she stood with Trump, and that’s all they care about.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/30/nikki-haley-2020-elections-1348432
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They tried warning My Gal, but nooo. Just another confirmaton of putting convienince ahead of country and sworn duty. No wonder Comey was fired due to his handling of the case and lying to Trump.
https://bongino.com/fmr-state-dept-official-testifies-he-warned-clinton-twice-about-use-of-personal-email/
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Walt, I’m way ahead of you on that.
For everyone else, AVGAS has to be stable and unlike modern UL pump mogas, it doesn’t have alcohols. It does have lead, and that means it will foul spark plugs and get the oil dirty. Don’t even think of using synthetic motor oils in four stroke engines, either, as they don’t deal with lead deposits well… I think it was Mobil1 that came up with a synthetic aviation motor oil and they ended up buying people new airplane engines before it was yanked off the market. Not good.
It’s a grey area to buy AVGAS for garden tools but as long as it is not used for ground vehicles on roads, there’s nothing to stop you. It will trash catalytic converters and foul O2 sensors so don’t even think about using it in a modern car.
If I had my grandmother’s ’68 Mustang Fastback 2+2 with a Ford 289 V-8, I’d be tempted to give it some on special occasions… but it would be wrong.
I’m looking forward to 100UL avgas… it’s the aviation fuel of the future. Always has been, hopefully that will come to an end. It would be nice to not have the lead to deal with. Actually having O2 sensors to help with setting mixture would be very welcome.
If you come to the airport with a gas can, bring a major credit card. Walk in the gate, it’s a 24 hour self serve pump.
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George what is your view of this quote from Trump. He’s accusing several people of treason no less.
“Asked at a White House event which of his adversaries he had in mind when he accused them of treason, he said, “A number of people. They have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person.” He then specified former FBI director James Comey, former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and former FBI agent Peter Strzok.
“That’s treason. They couldn’t win the election, and that’s what happened.”
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Give our LIBS a simple question and,,,,, crickets.
So,,,
https://www.amazon.com/Signs-Woody-Peeing-Pissing-Liberal/dp/B079G3DK4M/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_263_bs_img_1/137-9147454-0485805?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=Y3S4RB5FNH2BG46V1HBA
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