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[I've been mulling over the utility of these sandboxes again.  More and more they have become the repository of tripe, with interesting threads and tidbits thrown in by readers who occasionally demonstrate that their abundant acumen lies mostly fallow.  I wouldn't mind it if some of the other posted topics that interest me would get more discussion, but too many of them go over with the existing cohort of commenters like a fart in church.  Many of the interesting emails on my topics come from readers who apparently don't want to join into the online fray.  So I keep asking myself, why do I host these sandboxes of scurrilous shit-flinging.  No good answers have risen to the surface.  Thoughts?  gjr]

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383 responses to “Sandbox – 17jun19”

  1. Scott O Avatar

    I see the problem – “…then how could you possibly support Trump? He is the complete opposite of a Libertarian.”
    Paul is simply an ignorant man when it comes to politics. This isn’t a matter of opinion.
    Look at Trump’s court picks. Look at his record of dismantling unneeded regs. Cutting taxes.
    Is he a perfect classic libertarian? No, but his major accomplishments are in the ballpark.
    Give him the blue pencil and then see if he’s the ‘exact opposite’ of a libertarian.
    Paul’s idea of a libertarian begins and ends at MJ legalization.
    A ‘green’ is the exact opposite of a libertarian, Paul.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Someone explain this one. A “TOP SECRET” briefing on something that that WE are told “does not exist”.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9335899/politicians-briefings-ufos-government-sightings-seriously/
    How many times has it been said,,”It’s just swamp gas”. OH.. Jupiter. That one always works.
    Heat rising and headlights from over the horizon. Sun glare on the camera lens.
    And good ol’ trick photography.
    Just Emery’s “parents” keeping track of him?

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar

    Is a yearly 1 trillion dollar defecit Libertarian Scott? I thought the Libertarians believe in free trade-are Trumps tariffs Libertarian? that’s just a start

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  4. Paul Emery Avatar

    Walt
    You quoted something in your 9:09 post. Where did that come from?

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  5. Scott O Avatar

    Paul is showing his ignorance again. Spending bills originate in the House. And spending is the problem. As I noted, and you ignored, give him the blue pencil. Yes, libertarians believe in free trade. But it has to be free trade both ways or it isn’t free. The tariffs are part of his engaging with China’s ongoing trade war not something he’s doing just because he loves tariffs. You have ignored his major accomplishments. Just because you can show some non-libertarian acts does prove against the major accomplishments that are very libertarian.
    He is hardly the ‘exact opposite’ of a libertarian. AOC or Bernie or Sanders or just about any Dem would fit that bill.

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 June 2019 at 12:22 PM
    Sorry Punch…..still President! Run somebody better next time.

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar

    Big news!!! Riy Moore, Todds favorite guy is making another run for the Senate.
    “I will run for the United States Senate in 2020,” Moore said at an event in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday.

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  8. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 June 2019 at 12:24 PM
    It’s from the Wikipedia entry on Libertarianism.

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    Walt – I don’t believe anyone has said UFOs don’t exist.
    A UFO is just that. An Unidentified Flying Object.
    Where said object originates is maybe what you’re referring to.
    Anyway – no matter where reality lies, I’m sure the military will put on a dog-and-pony show for the pols to assure them everything is under control.

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  10. Scott O Avatar

    Paul at 12:36 – Don’t laugh at Todd – you claimed you’d vote for Roy Moore if he ran against Trump.

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A long record is a double edged sword and its slicing and dicing creepy grampa joe –
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/06/20/biden-praised-long-time-segregationist-man-character-courage/
    😉

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  12. Scott O Avatar

    Walt – that definition from Wiki is pretty bizarre.
    Libertarians are for personal rights – not state control. It’s no different than someone claiming to be a vegan while wolfing down a steak. If we’re going to hash labels up that badly, then no label has any meaning at all.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 June 2019 at 12:36 PM
    Big news!!! Riy Moore, Todds favorite guy is making another run for the Senate.

    He should run in Virginia.

    ”Morrissey’s victory was not unprecedented: Through four previous elections, most voters overlooked or even embraced the lawmaker’s flamboyant history of fistfights, contempt-of-court citations and disbarment. The 57-year-old bachelor, who fathered three children out of wedlock with three different women (One of whom was a 17 year old office staffer) repeatedly won at least 70 percent of the vote as a Democrat.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Come on Scott, We all know just what is implied. You know,, from “out there”.
    No life other than Earth?? They are HERE!! Seen what walks the streets of Nevada City?
    Nope,, we can’t be the only smart things in the great expanse we call space. Vary passably no more than lab rats for another planet.
    (or dinner for the 1000 year annual “dine out” event)
    Now don’t forget what John Podesta was up to.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/clinton-campaign-chief-john-podesta-s-interest-ufos-out-world-n674711
    “In a June 25, 2014 email disclosed by WikiLeaks, the late NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell requested “a conversation with you and President Obama regarding the next steps in extraterrestrial disclosure for the benefit of our country and our plant.” ”
    And Jimmy Carter? He was all set to throw the door wide open.
    Then after his briefing on the “subject” came out white as a ghost and never spoke of it since.
    Little things like that add up.
    I can take the news. I can handle it.
    If it’s another way out of Calif.,, many will take that flight.

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Scott’s 12:50
    That was for LEFT LIBetarians. Not RIGHT Libertarians. A whole different breed of cat.

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  16. Scott O Avatar

    Ha – “Seen what walks the streets of Nevada City?”
    Ever been in a Walmart?
    As I said – the military will put on a show.
    I think what everyone is really worried about is simply stuff flying around that our military can’t account for.
    Sen Snorkle will fume and fuss – “What the hell you boys been doin’ with all that money we give ya’? Whatta ya mean ya’ don’t know what it is? Hells Bells!”
    The scene cuts to a very nervous colonel wishing he were anywhere but in that room.
    “Ha ha – now Senator, if you would just watch this video we have for you…”
    Meanwhile – back at the observatory – “Jeepers Uncle Roger, you really think those objects we saw last night were from outer space?”
    Taking a thoughtful draw on his pipe, Professor Rogers responds grimly “There’s a lot more out there than we know, Jimmy.”

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  17. Scott O Avatar

    Walt at 1:00 – So, we can have meat eating vegans?
    I realize you’re just quoting Wiki, but when labels get that contradictory – they have no meaning at all.

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  18. Walt Avatar

    Scott. Remember we are talking about Emery here. It’s whatever he wants it to mean on any given post.
    The Libertarians I know are Right of center, and I can whole hardheartedly understand their viewpoint.
    I listen to the Libertarian Cowboy whenever I get the chance.
    It’s sure not Emery’s idea of LIBertarianism.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Remember when A.O.C. (Always Off Center) was busted eating a hamburger after condemning beef?(cow farts) She could have used the excuse that she was only helping ridding us of the problem. The cow was DEAD.

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  20. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    RE: Crossdressers reading to the kids at the library.
    So a man dresses like a woman and then reads to children. Perhaps that might be a bit confusing for the children? Why not get a veteran or a cop or firefighter dressed in their uniforms? This PC stuff is out of control and now the kids are forced into it. The adults should be ashamed of themselves.

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  21. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Recently a firefighter in full turnouts read to the kiddos in a “library of the county”. A female firefighter paramedic to be more specific. Old white men might be confused, but the kids get it.

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I am a Green Libertarian Walt. I’ve explained that many times. It’s based on the Utah Phillips Scripture that reads “A bear doesn’t shit in his own backyard”. That should be basic enough for you to understand.

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 June 2019 at 02:47 PM
    Thought you had shucked your camouflage and just come out as a progressive democrat! Gregory mentioned something to that effect. Trump was jutht too thcary for you to continue maintaining the fiction of a boutique political identity!

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  24. Rock Hunter Avatar
    Rock Hunter

    Todd 2:15-
    A firefighter paramedic in full turnouts read to the kids at a “Library of the county” not too long ago. Not only that, the ff/p was a FEMALE! Some day a girl may be hauling your fat ass out of a burning building. Old men like you don’t get it, the kids do.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 2:15 pm
    Like putting lipstick on a pig. I am more concerned with what is going in in mandatory Sex Ed in CA than library reading time. The library is like taking a child to see a children’s play. School is different. The kids are a captive audience, wards of the state, if you will. The transgenders dressed as sensual adult sex goddesses are poor role models to our sons and daughters of women as the stereotypical sexualization of women is what we fought against. And teaching about anal sex to young impressionable minds is a deal breaker for me.
    I actually feel sorry for some adult transgenders. A common story is that a guy transgenders to a woman and finds out the lesbians won’t date the transwoman, The heterosexual males have no interest in her, the gays have no interest, the cisgender females have no romantic interest. Like a man without a country. A big rude awakening and the bubble is popped.
    They say that the most far Lefty folks in the medical profession gravitate to phycology. Yep, some are true basket cases in that field. Be that as it may, I can save those shrinks a lot of puzzlement and study. No matter how you slice and dice it, Transgender Women are not real women, duh. Sorry. Go ahead and send me death threats. I am not a science denier.
    It’s simple. Men and women are different and different down there. Biology stuff. Not complicated. Men have an attraction bell that goes off when they see a woman. Heterosexual women are attracted to heterosexual men and vice versa. A lesbian is attracted to a woman, a real woman. It’s how we are wired.
    But, not so with heterosexual males being attracted to transgender women. Lesbians are generally not attracted to transgender women. Make believe women just don’t cut the mustard, just don’t get the juices flowing. New study out from Psychology Today, hot off the press.
    “If you are a heterosexual cisgendered person who only wishes to date heterosexual cisgendered people, then shame on you for dehumanizing transgenders and the non-binary, according to a recent article published in Psychology Today.”
    “The article explores a study written by Karen L. Blair and Rhea Ashley Hoskins in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, which essentially chastises people as bigots for the sin of being attracted to a man who is an actual man or a woman who is an actual woman — while also arguing that the prevailing attitude contributes to the psychological harm of transgenderism.”…….
    “The authors conclude that while they cannot mandate who people should and should not date, [THANK GOODNESS, my insertion], they stress that transgenders dating hetero cisgenders should be seen as a sign of progress every bit as much as interracial dating.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/48553/psychology-today-people-refusing-date-transgenders-paul-bois
    The Crying Game is more than the name of a good movie. From my Daily Quotes this morn, “Today’s woke culture demands not just tolerance but affirmation.” —Kaylee McGhee

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wow Todd….you have so many admirers! They hang on your every word……

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  27. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Fish 313
    I know. I love driving the PC loons nuttier than they already are. Rock Hunter, all 540 pounds of his fat ass would have to be left in the burning building by the 140 pound babe. Too bad so sad.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Emery sure has no clue about wildlife. Ol’ Utah.. Oky Doky,,,,,….
    “”A bear doesn’t shit in his own backyard” Like HELL they don’t! The whole damned forest is “their back yard”. You have been watching too many Charmin commercials.
    You can keep right on calling yourself any damned thing you want.
    Well,,, your side like to say “identify with”. Make up anything you like. Nevada City Dope society, chapter 420 will do also.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    DAMN… Always think of the good one after posting.
    Hey Emery.. Those bears holding picket signs “Don’t Frisco the forest!”?
    Yup those bears are smarter than the bums in Frisco.

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE, I think you may want to pull back a bit. You don’t answer to Democrat mandated spending, and you don’t recognize fundamental tenets of libertarian thought and ideology (e.g. on taxes on regs). ScottO observed that your “green” libertarianism starts and ends with localized MJ legislation, and it’s hard to see where he errs in that assessment. Your record here is indelible.

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The ninth did what!?! –
    The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals — which previously upheld separate nationwide injunctions on a range of Trump administration policies, including on immigration — issued the order Thursday, giving a major victory to the Trump administration.
    “We are pleased that the Ninth Circuit has cleared the way for this important executive branch action to take effect while our appeals are pending,” Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco said. “The Department of Justice’s position is supported by long-standing Supreme Court precedent and we are confident we will ultimately prevail on appeal.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/appeals-court-lifts-injunctions-on-family-planning-rules-in-win-for-trump-administration
    😉

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 3:11
    I sure hope that firefighter was not Mary, “The Drunk of….er….Cross Fire captain of a nearby Placer County city.. Well, it could be worse. Imagine if it was that supervisor lush, a woman, who read to the kids and then smashed into a car backing out of the library parking lot. Oh boy, the kids would have seen a real life lesson, lol.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hell hath frozen over. A shout out to Joe Biden and Chuck Todd from moi.
    1) “Sen. Cory Booker kicked off the Dem-on-Dem 2020 attacks against former vice president Joe Biden this week, calling on Biden to apologize for invoking his relationships with two segregationist senators as an example of “civility.”
    When a reporter asked Biden on Wednesday if he would apologize for his comments, the Democratic presidential candidate responded, “Apologize for what? Cory should apologize. He knows better,”
    Good job, Creepy Uncle Joe. Apologize for working to get a bill passed? For the first time in your life, don’t waffle. Stand tall and tell the PC crowd to go pound sand. Hey, weren’t you part of the crowd that drove Trent Lott from office because Trent said nice civil things at former Senator Strum Thurmond’s 100th birthday party? Yep, you were. How dare Lott be civil to a 100 year old man! It’s ok. Old news. Tell them commie Leftinistas to fuck off and set yourself apart from the other 23 wack job candidates.
    Apologize for what? Good one.
    2) Chuck Todd: Don’t buckle to the mob….the mob that you are part of. The mob that once loved and adored you. Stand your ground. I want you around so I can trash you. They are a fickle bunch, a ship without a rudder. Stand up for truth for once.
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/48682/chuck-todd-demolished-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-emily-zanotti?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
    Newt was right. The Leftinistas believe a falsehood told from the higher good pure motives is better than a unpure truth.

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  34. Walt Avatar

    Things are getting wild in that murder case against that Navy SEAL.
    The prosecution’s witness just said, “The defendant did’t kill that son of a bitch terrorist. I DID!”(SOB added for effect)
    Yes, the prosecution is MORE than pissed. The witness was granted full immunity.
    A Mattock moment if there ever was one.

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  35. Scott O Avatar

    “A bear doesn’t shit in his own backyard.”
    Right, they used to come and shit in my yard.
    And what does that have to do with being a libertarian?

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  36. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Thanks son, that could draw some attention away from me says creepy grampa joe –
    Meanwhile, former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign is staying mum on the lawsuit, ignoring multiple requests for comment sent to five spokespeople by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
    TMZ reported last week that Hunter Biden married South African-born Melissa Cohen on May 16 in what appears to have been a discreet ceremony. “The couple was married by an L.A. minister who runs an instant marriage company, which makes us think Uncle Joe and the rest of the fam were not there,” the gossip media outlet reported at the time. The development comes on the heels of reports that Hunter split with Hallie Biden, who was the widow of his late brother Beau.
    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s report comes as Hunter Biden faces growing scrutiny over his foreign business dealings. In exhaustive detail, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer’s best-selling book Secret Empires explored how Hunter Biden’s private equity firm secured a $1.5 billion investment from the state-owned Bank of China while his father was negotiating U.S. policy with Beijing as vice president.
    Appearing on the Fox News Channel in March, Schweizer delved into some of the deal’s eyebrow-raising details.
    “In December of 2013, Hunter Biden flies on Air Force 2 to Beijing, China, with his father,” Schweizer told host Laura Ingraham. “His father meets with Chinese officials, he’s very soft on Beijing. The most important thing that happens [is] ten days after they return. And that’s when Hunter Biden’s small, private equity firm called Rosemont Seneca Partners gets a $1 billion private equity deal with the Chinese government, not with the Chinese corporation, with the government. And what people need to realize is Hunter Biden has no background in China. He has no background in private equity. The deal he got in the Shanghai free-trade zone, nobody else had — Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Blackstone, nobody had this deal.”
    Schweizer Secret Empires also revealed how Hunter was appointed to the board of a Ukrainian oligarch-owned energy company, Burisma Holdings, while his father was vice president and negotiating U.S. policy with Ukraine. The New York Times reported in May that Hunter Biden was paid “as much as $50,000 per month in some months” by Burisma, despite the fact that he “lacked any experience in Ukraine and just months earlier had been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/20/hunter-biden-sued-by-arkansas-woman-claiming-she-had-his-love-child/
    😉

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Don’t look now –
    Democrats fear Trump, Republicans are making inroads with Hispanic voters in Florida
    https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article231618473.html
    😉

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Saw a funny t-shirt –
    I AM THAT CAPITOLIST
    YOUR COMMMIE PARENTS
    WARNED YOU ABOUT!
    😉

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  39. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Too damn much leftover PC from team 0 in the military –
    The attorneys said the National Guard’s decision to ban the Christian scouting group is “discriminatory and unconstitutional.”
    John Stemberger, the chairman of the Trail Life USA board, said told the “Todd Starnes Radio Show” that it’s disheartening that a “federal institution like the Army is buying into this leftist idea that faith has to be excluded from the public square.”
    “It’s sad that an institution of our society is treating faith like it is some kind of bacteria or virus that needs to be exterminated from secular society,” Stemberger told me. “We need faith integrated with society.”
    The good news is that once First Liberty Institute and the Independence Law Center got involved, the National Guard quickly backed down and rescinded the ban on the Trailmen.
    “We are grateful that the Guard has chosen to open its doors to the Trail Life troop,” ILC attorney Jeremy Samek said in a statement. “The boys from Trail Life USA’s troop deserve to be treated fairly and equally. I know they are excited to get the opportunity to interact with those who defend our freedom.”
    Stemberger told me he was mighty thankful for the work of the religious liberty law firms.
    “Thank God for good lawyers,” he said.
    Regardless, supporters of Trail Life USA expressed their bewilderment that Christians would have to fight for the right to tour a National Guard facility
    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/todd-starnes-trail-life-national-guard-pennsylvania
    😉

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  40. Walt Avatar

    I can see what Todd is talking about.
    “Drag queen story hour”
    For children? What a way to mess up young minds.

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  41. Don Bessee Avatar
  42. Walt Avatar

    WOW!! Even the sewer plant can’t pass a wizz test.
    https://apnews.com/c4f1611f057340998acd026c684e6a5a
    “The research entailed driving to two sewage treatment plants that serve the 200,000 people of Tacoma, a city whose drug-use trends tend to mirror those of Seattle. The scientists would pick up a cooler full of frozen wastewater samples, thaw them and analyze them using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.
    They were looking for THC-COOH, a substance produced when the body metabolizes THC, the main ingredient in marijuana that gets you high. THC-COOH is excreted mostly in people’s urine.
    Their findings: Consumption of THC doubled from December 2013 to December 2016.”
    Now the fish down steam will be stoned.

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  43. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    so 459wrote
    “”A bear doesn’t shit in his own backyard.”
    Right, they used to come and shit in my yard.
    And what does that have to do with being a libertarian?”
    Absolutely nothing, why should it? Paul never was a libertarian. Of any sort.

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The clowns are starting to feel cramped in the socialist dem clown car –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/20/sanders-wonders-warren-surging-polls-she-woman/
    😉

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  45. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Stoned fish? That seems like something evil Big Pharma would do.
    Walt @ 6:03 pm
    @603 pm
    Yep, just saw the story in the Union myself. Straight them straight in the comment section.
    This ain’t the Huston Library where they had some convicted Pediphile reading to the kids, lol. Oppps. No, it will soooooo tame and everybody will be on their best behavior and give the reader a nice wam Nevada Country solid blue welcome. It is an unreasonable request to have everyone doing cartwheels over it.
    Get this: the girls used to bring over a young man who is the real McCoy. He liked hanging out with them, friends and all. My only beef was everytime we were all ready to head out, we had to wait for him to do his hair and get the makeup on. Took forever. Worse than any woman. Like, been waiting for damn near an hour already. Why the holdup? Then, he would ask me about if what I think of shoes, or does his hair look right. One day he looked like Edward Scissorhands and the next time he was here he was a blonde David Bowie unisex look. The last time I saw him he was some metallic Blue Egyptian Queen look.
    That boy took forever to get ready. He valued opinion, nice kid. But don’t ask me if the shoes go with the jeans. Typical woman. If you say no, they wanna know why and whatz wrong with them!!! If you say yes, they think you are lying.l

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