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[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”

  1. Scott O Avatar

    Paul would have a hard time understanding the difference between a 2 year old saying “I’m gonna kill you” with a 20 year old with a knife at your throat saying “I’m gonna kill you”.
    But, but, but – the words are the EXACT same!!!
    Poor Paul – I knew it was he as those were the same words he has posted so many times.
    Just as Marley was doomed to drag around the chains he forged in life, so Paul is doomed to drag around all the dead equines he has acquired in his life.
    So many dead ones to whip – so little time.
    The Putin Cuddling horse rotted to the point of just a dusty bag of bones inside the desiccated skin of some old nag.

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  2. Paul Emery Avatar

    Here’s convicted felon Michael Flynn LEADING chants of “lock her up” at the RNC no less.
    What is your view of this George?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx94428MYcc

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  3. Scott O Avatar

    Paul at 6:42 – How about sharing your views, Paul?
    Showing up here to always ask, but never answer questions make you appear to be a total dick.
    Is that your goal in life?
    Or don’t you have the wherewithal to answer questions?

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    My posts are going into the twilight zone.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Thanks Gregory for the extra info. Didn’t know about the syn. oil end of things… Now I do. So good old dinosaur blood is the way to go.

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  6. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy,
    It doesn’t meet the Constitutional definition of treason, but I’d say the attempted extraconstitutional negation of an honest and fair election in accordance with Federal and all state laws is pretty f’ing bloody close.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Look in the sky. Its a bird, its a plane, its Gregory! Good job, Gregory.
    Walt: The SPD Saw Shop told me last year that CA gas should not be older than 30 days…dump it out, do not use per factory recommendations. I used stablizer to save the gas mux once over winter and it worked fine. Now I buy just 1-2 gallons at a time and drain them out and put the mix in the old beater

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  8. Walt Avatar

    So Paul still thinks trying to overthrow an election with manufactured evidence is fine and dandy. Not TREASON in Paul’s book.
    Go ahead Paul,, push for impeachment.. Go for it LIBS!! It will come back to bite you in the ass. So Tell us,, just how will the Senate vote on that?
    And not a damned one of you can even state the crime that Trump has done.(never mind the lack of any evidence.)

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar

    Thanks for agreeing with me Gregory that Trump does not understand what Treason is.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Yup,, Cal fuel is garbage. I got tired of replacing carburetors
    on all my small engines. If not the carb. the fuel lines and any push pumps dissolved every other year.
    Started getting avgas a few years back.
    Good job LIBS,, your ECO gas ain’t so “ECO”.
    Good luck getting your elec. weed eaters to do the same job…
    Now how many batt.s you need to buy to get through the day?
    Good luck with that.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Paul.. Your Queen said Trump is involved in a cover up…
    Just what did he cover up?
    That accusation sure went far. Desperation setting in?

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar

    I mean Gregory shouldn’t we expect the President of the United States to know the legal meaning of Treason before he accuses at least four people of it?

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Pot meet kettle @744!
    😉

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  14. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    OMG, can you smell the dead houses Paul keeps dragging in here? Pass the Airwick!

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  15. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    dead horses, not houses.

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  16. Paul Emery Avatar

    Russ
    Wouldn’t you expect Trump, the President of the United States no less, of knowing the meaning of Treason before he accuses at least four people of being guilty of it?

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The dictionary definition of treason is
    n.
    The betrayal of allegiance toward one’s own country, especially by committing hostile acts against it or aiding its enemies in committing such acts.
    n.
    The betrayal of someone’s trust or confidence.
    n.
    A betraying; treachery; breach of faith.
    Yep, it sure fits.
    Paul, your “thanks for agreeing with me” shtick is getting old. Especially since it’s NEVER true.

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  18. Paul Emery Avatar

    Pathetic response Gregory-dictionary defination-really. You can do better than that. The definition of Treason as defined by law is:
    “Definition: In Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution, treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Conviction requires two witnesses or a confession in open court.[2]
    Penalty: U.S. Code Title 18: Death,[8] or not less than 5 years’ imprisonment and not more than life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (minimum fine of $10,000, if not sentenced to death). Any person convicted of treason against the United States will permanently lose the right to ever hold or run for public office anywhere in any capacity within the United States.[9][10]
    Can you show me where the Trump accused have violated these laws?

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  19. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Here’s another take on treason:
    “Anyone that does not believe that the Russians have tons of personal information about Trump and his associates are hopelessly naive and don’t have a clue about international espionage. How can you possibly imagine they don’t? Totally explains Trumps ass kissing and cuddling of Putin. Some might call it treason. Of course some of you might not consider Russia an enemy but that’s another question. George, you of all people with your Estonian heritage should be especially concerned.
    Definition of treason
    “The betrayal of one’s own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies.”
    Posted by: Paul Emery | 04 June 2017 at 10:45 AM

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  20. Scott O Avatar

    Paul nails it!
    “…treason is specifically limited to levying war against the US, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
    Anyone trying to negate an national election for POTUS by means of lying and subterfuge would certainly be an enemy of the US.
    So – I assume Paul will be working for Trump’s re-election?
    Or would he side with America’s enemies?
    We know that China and Russia are our enemies – and who’s been making financial deals with their govts?
    Oh – that’s right – Democrats.
    Good to see Paul has seen the light and will become a Republican.

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  21. Scott O Avatar

    “Of course some of you might not consider Russia an enemy…”
    Only the Dems, Paul, only the Dems.
    ttps://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/hillarys-biggest-scandal-russia-and-her-reset-pal-vladimir-putin/

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar

    Thanks for re-posting my piece Gregory. I appreciate it.

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  23. Walt Avatar

    Paul just got his pony tail handed to him. And all he can do is say thanks for getting his own words used against him.
    Good job Emery. With logic like yours, LIBS will help get Trump re-elected.
    You pal Biden has plenty to answer for. His boy has taken PLENTY of money from those Russians. They vary same ones you accuse Trump of dealing with.
    Have fun explaining that away.

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  24. George Rebane Avatar

    We’ve circled the ‘treason barn’ several times before. Clearly, the word is bandied about by both sides in a wide variety of situations and contexts. Every now and then TV talking heads take up the matter without resolution. My approach in these things is to give my own definition of it so readers can understand my use of it in a commentary. This has been my practice for poorly understood words and concepts since I was taught it, beginning as a freshman studying physics.
    If you have a specific definition of ‘treason’ and would like to use it to assess the correctness of its public uses by various people, then that would be a helpful contribution. Else, just asking people whether this or that utterance of treason was appropriate, appears as a preamble for another boring gotcha game.

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  25. Scott O Avatar

    “If you have a specific definition of ‘treason’ and would like to use it to assess the correctness of its public uses by various people, then that would be a helpful contribution.”
    It’s simple, George – anything Trump or the Rs do is treason.
    And anyone on the left is incapable of treason.
    Now, back to our show…

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  26. L Avatar
    L

    The crime is sedition- the domestic version of treason where the beneficiary is not a foreign power, but one’s self. This describes the thirty of so ‘coupsters.’

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  27. L Avatar
    L

    or so, not of. Glad to see Paul’s ok- he actually disappeared a couple of days ahead of the welcome ozzcott, and I was starting to think ol’ scratch mighta caught up with him, but no.

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  28. L Avatar
    L

    Kinda surprised Trump isn’t more aware of his real enemies. McCabe, Rosenstein, Comey, et al so far named aren’t really even central figures in the coup attempt. At dead center (cui bono?) HRC. Comey doesn’t let her walk on his own nickel; not even Lynch would have the stones to do that, only Obama had the horsepower to let this happen. Clapper, Brennan and (their final throw) Mueller are fare more culpable than Trump’s nominees. Page, Strozk, Orrs, etc about thirty in all should see some serious prison time for sedition (see above).

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  29. L Avatar
    L

    And before you ask, Paul, yes, Hillary should be locked up most of all. OF ALL!

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  30. Don Bessee Avatar
  31. L Avatar
    L

    In fact, she should probably be publicly hanged.

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  32. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Say WTF @ 1044 !?
    ;- )

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    L
    Perhaps treason is not the accurate word in legal terms. Abuse of power will be the charges most face, along with obstruction of justice, leaking.classifoed materials, perjury, conspircy, etc. Make no mistake that Abuse of Power will be the easyist charge to get convictions on.
    Bottomline: the defendants will owe millions more in legal fees than they ever earned in their lives. They will be broke and forced to move in with relatives when this is all said and done. The Feds will keep coming at them over and over again until they are destitude, at a minimum.

    Then Congress will revoke their pensions of the convicted ones. This is one of the biggest scandals in US history. Makes Watergate look like Romper Room. Right up there with Presidential assasinations.

    In unrelated news, more on Mueller
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/29/mueller-just-proved-his-entire-operation-was-a-political-hit-job-that-trampled-the-rule-of-law/

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: L | 30 May 2019 at 10:15 PM
    Glad to see Paul’s ok- he actually disappeared a couple of days ahead of the welcome ozzcott, and I was starting to think ol’ scratch mighta caught up with him……

    I don’t imagine that the Prince of Darkness wants to suffer an eternity of Punchys constant complaining and incessant questions…..
    Consult O’Henry…….
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ransom_of_Red_Chief

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  35. Scott O Avatar

    Ah yes – Oregon discovers gravity!
    https://www.apnews.com/eaea113eee94421789b24fcf047f6bae
    Supply and demand aren’t capitalist theories.
    It’s a law of nature. Another fun fact – MJ is just an easy to grow weed.
    The states were going to make all this money in taxes from it’s legalization and regulation. Now they find out about reality. Basically the state govts are trying to force a low value crop to become a high value one by govt dictat.
    Have fun!

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Under the ‘Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction’ category….just when I thought I seen it all, I thunk wrong.
    https://nypost.com/2019/05/30/hillary-clinton-will-give-keynote-speech-at-cyber-defense-summit/
    BTW, the laws handling Classified Materials are one of the few on the books that remove intent from the equation. Just possessing classified docs outside of an approved server/setting is Gross Neligence. Just transmitting/coping them on a non-gov’t approved system is quilty. Remember the sailor on the sub whotook a selfie on himself to send to his sweetie with the sub’s screen in the background? He has been in prison a long time. Wondet when he gets out or has been released.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar

    L writes:
    “In fact, she (Hillary) should probably be publicly hanged.”
    For what crime and can you show me the Federal statute that supports public hangings.

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  38. George Rebane Avatar

    BillT 910am – Yes, this is perhaps the most recent and egregious comparison of what Crooked Hillary has been able to get away with all of her life, with what happens to rest of us poor schmucks when we run afoul of the Deep State. It is simply another piece of existential evil that only Leviathan can and will gratuitously perpetrate in its normal mode of existence.

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar

    George
    Are you in support of a public hanging of Hillary as proposed by L?

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    It’s tempting to make Peter the fall guy. But we know it is so much bigger than one agent who spearheaded the Clinton e-mail probe, wrote out Comey’s Gross Negligence draft, then spearheaded the Russian Collusion Delusion. More details dribble in,
    “Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Thursday:
    “There was a defensive briefing of candidate Trump on Aug. 17 of 2016. And I can tell you what he wasn’t told: He wasn’t warned about a Russia investigation that Peter Strzok had opened 18 days earlier.
    “Why would Peter Strzok, who would participate at Jim Comey’s direction in a defensive briefing designed to protect and warn a candidate, be the same person who is in fact at that time already investigating the candidate’s campaign? That shouldn’t happen. There should be answers to those questions.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/47868/breaking-new-damaging-info-comes-out-disgraced-fbi-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
    The above is not breaking news. All this stuff has been out there for a couple of years.
    From Dec. 18, 2017.
    “That text is dated August 15, 2016. Strzok texted Page, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in [deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe’s] office that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40…”
    “This looks an awful lot like motivation for launching an investigation into Trump in order to sink Trump as a hedge against Trump’s victory. The FBI’s investigation into Russian governmental interference in the election began in July 2016, just weeks before Strzok’s text message. And that means that there is now more of a smoking gun of FBI corruption against Trump than there is of Trump colluding with Russia.
    “How can Mueller come back from that? He’s fired Strzok and Page, but if the investigation was initially a political hit job, how can it now turn into something good and decent, particularly in the absence of a smoking gun regarding collusion? It’s not just that this is fruit of the poisonous tree — there’s no fruit to show, just the poisonous tree. And as Victor Davis Hanson has written, the Mueller team is filled top-to-bottom with political activists who have a specific anti-Trump agenda.
    “All of which means that President Trump isn’t wrong to suspect that Mueller wants to aim for a political skull-blow against him. Trump could theoretically use these texts as a reason for firing Mueller altogether — and that wouldn’t be completely unjustified. It would be politically unwise. At this point, Trump’s best tactic is to sit tight — now, no matter what, half the country is going to believe that Mueller’s investigation was never motivated by truth. That’s a win for Trump, and an automatic loss for Mueller.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/24643/one-insane-text-message-may-have-just-fatally-ben-shapiro

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Expect more of this sort of blackmail from the SJW/Corporate alliance.

    Why You Never ‘Cloud’ Mission-Critical Software…….


    Salesforce has now decreed that “certain types of guns” cannot be sold using its code.

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=235945
    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/30/salesforce-bans-some-gun-sellers-from-using-its-software.html

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Here is the latest Trump numbers.
    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/446347-trumps-approval-rating-hits-highest-point-in-two-years?fbclid=IwAR1gONJUqGRufwMUPB5WuehSGNcDe0R_3e0INNjteX016geC9Zk8GQiFL8c
    Regarding hanging Hillary. I would only pillory her in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Drug dealers selling to kids would get the hangman’s noose.

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    That’s what you get from the masters of the universe for telling the truth –
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/05/31/twitter-suspends-researcher-who-exposed-antifa-journalist-connections/
    😉

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Quote: “I think Hillary Clinton had more to do with getting Donald Trump elected than the Russians.” —Erick Erickson
    Meme
    https://m.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156421522195914/?type=3&source=48
    Meme 2:
    https://www.facebook.com/SurviveOurCollapse/photos/a.391023311018021/2238040522982948/?type=3&theater
    Quote 2
    “There may not be tanks in our streets but make no mistake we are witnessing an assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our democracy.” —Hillary Clinton

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy McPunchface is at it a’gin.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Black Plague in our one party Blue State? Not even the Third World would put up with whats going on here.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/47888/bubonic-plague-likely-already-present-los-angeles-joseph-curl

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  47. Walt Avatar

    Well,,, SPILL IT!!! No one is stopping you from “getting the facts out”.. Maybe just a little problem about actually having any facts?
    “House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Friday “there certainly is” justification for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, but said it was critical for the American public to agree before launching the process.
    During an interview on WNYC, Nadler, whose committee would lead impeachment proceedings, cautioned the move, noting the importance of having the American public on board first.
    “Impeachment is a political act, and you cannot impeach a president if the American people will not support it,” said Nadler, D-N.Y. “The American people, right now, do not support it because they do not know the story. They don’t know the facts.” ”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nadler-says-there-certainly-is-justification-to-begin-impeachment-proceedings-against-trump
    They keep saying they have some.. Yet not one LIB has produced any.

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