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[Epstein, Epstein, Epstein – how many politicians will you threaten to take down if they send you to the big house?  gjr]

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325 responses to “Sandbox – 9jul19”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Ahhhhh, fresh kitty litter!
    😉

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    You got that right!
    Black Entertainment Television founder and longtime Democrat Robert Johnson said in an interview that aired Tuesday that the Democratic Party has become too liberal to defeat President Trump in 2020, unless major changes are made.
    “The party in my opinion, for me personally, has moved too far to the left,” Johnson told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.
    Johnson – the country’s first African-American billionaire, according to Forbes – went on to say that because the party has become so liberal, he isn’t supporting a particular 2020 candidate at this time.
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bet-founder-robert-johnson-says-democratic-party-moved-too-far-to-the-left
    😉

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
    Is this another NY Madame story, or much more? I don’t see how anybody comes out of this unscathed. Most of us have already said all our Lolita Express jokes years ago. A billionaire with many friends and acquaintances is bound to provide much fodder, even to those who were unfortunately (for them) at the same restaurant at the same time as Epstein.
    Some Dem candidates should tread gently. Kamala Harris, then California AG came under fire when the victims of sodomy practicing priests sought her help. She not get her to lift a finger to investigate or prosecute the priests. To be fair, the statue of limitations had run out, but the victims faced a closed door on Kamala’s office door. The victims had their day in court (civil) by hiring their own lawyers after Harris buried their accusations.
    The good news is that there is a new sheriff in town, thus Epstein does not face a rosy future. Yes, Barr did not start this latest investigation, but the DOJ will prosecute it.
    The biggest losers are the Clintons, as this could finally put the coffin nail in their relevance. Some speculate that this is the Clinton’s biggest takedown, politically.
    Politically, the Left will paint this as a Trump Administration scandal, lol. That’s a no-brainer. Ironically, Robert Mueller was the FBI Director from 2001 to 2013, a period when Epstein was last investigated and charged. Same faces, different year.
    Why can’t be be more France?

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  4. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    A paper straw could have saved her life. Free the straw! That’s some costly virtue signaling! –
    BOURNEMOUTH, England – A retired jockey died when she fell onto an eco-friendly metal drinking straw which impaled her eye, an inquest heard.
    Elena Struthers-Gardner, 60, who was known as ‘Lena,’ suffered brain injuries in the accident at her home in Broadstone.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/07/09/metal-drinking-straw-fatally-impales-woman-england/1684768001/
    😉

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  5. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    H. Ross Parrot has gone to the big birdcage in the sky.
    I’ll take this time to help bury Mr. Perot… his idea was that trying to fix the country with the Constitution in place was akin to trying to fix a car while driving on the highway, and his voters were good with his solution… put the Constitution to the side, giving him absolute power… and after the country was fixed he’d put the Constitution back into place.
    And had Milton Friedman done something different, we might have had a 3rd Party emerge in ’92. On a PBS NewsHour (back when it was McNeil/Lehrer), Uncle Miltie was talking about the candidates and let fly with the thought that the ONLY candidate making any economic sense was Andre Marrou, the Libertarian Party candidate with a history of being the peacemaker between REP and DEM in the Alaskan state legislature.
    MacNeil had an astonished look on his face as if he’d not given even a single thought to the LIB candidate, and asked Friedman if Marrou had a chance to win. To this day, I think Friedman threw the Libertarian Party under the bus by telling PBS the answer they wanted to hear… No, Marrou didn’t have a chance.
    An open ended answer like “Why not have him on your program to find out?” might have worked wonders.

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  6. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    Epstein-Acosta,,,Trump will always defend a pussy grabber

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The usual suspects will make hay with this. Poor man should have been given another chance.
    https://nypost.com/video/kill-me-knife-wielding-man-dies-in-police-shootout/

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar

    Todd writes on RR 26 October 2017 at 12:54 PM :
    “Liberals run the porn industry and most of the media and Hollywood. Perverts on the left and you support them?”
    George, what culture does Todd represent when he accuses millions of being perverts? How does this relate to your post when you wrote 09 July 2019 at 11:23 AM on the Sandbox that “The very definition of perversion indicates that it is culture-specific, since abnormality is also culture-specific. ”
    Todds statement link
    https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2017/10/sandbox-25oct17.html?cid=6a00e54f86f2ad883301b8d2b85e6b970c#comment-6a00e54f86f2ad883301b8d2b85e6b970c

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Does this go here, or under Looney Tunes? How about the Looney Tunes Left.
    “Therapists are supposed to alleviate trauma, not add to it.”
    “Her website and about page are proud of the fact that Rashatwar peaked in popularity when she was featured in Breitbart in 2018 “for naming thinness as a white supremacist beauty ideal.” Since then, she has become a “sought-after speaker who travels internationally to curate custom visual workshops that whisper to our change-making spirit and nourish our vision for a more just future.”
    “Really. It says that.
    “And finally, putting a child on a diet “can be a violation of consent,” according to Rashatwar.
    “Previously, Rashatwar made headlines when she claimed that “fitness trainers” were like Nazis. But of course, in a world where everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi, that must mean nothing.”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/corinne-weaver/2019/07/09/anti-us-government-fat-therapist-wants-undo-western
    Breitbart made her a star!

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  10. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 119pm – The real answer will come from ToddJ. But it sounds like his message is from a pre-Great Society American culture framework. For what passes for culture in today’s America, the people he references are not considered to be perverts, but probably members of our new ‘woke population’.

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    I think my words speak for themselves Paul Emery. Do you think porn is our culture and do you agree that it is perversion?

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  12. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Regarding the culture I represent. I am into a nice, sweet and non-mean culture. There are some boundaries of what is good and bad and I know goodness when I see it. Just like you see porn when you watch it. Paul Emery is a sick puppy.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Now, I have had mixed feeling about Cocaine Mitch, the Grim Reaper. But, by golly, he certainly is more nibble on his feet than Joe Biden….which is not saying a lot, but still, you won’t catch that ole cagey hillbilly and clone of Satan (R-KY) with his pants down.
    NBC News did an ancestry check on Mitch and his great great grandpappy owned slaves, 14 of them. Then the Clucking News Networks gang circled back and wondered if that was why Mitch was opposed to reparations. An rather sick, yet not unexpected, connecting the dots of the Resistance. Why? Because the Enemy of the People are pushing for reparations, that’s why. They be true Leftinistas. So long old liberals.
    Anyway, Cocaine Mitch has eyeballs and he can read as well. Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly. Snared them in the trap they laid. The internet exploded. Huff-n-Puff Farting Post and their band of misfits became unglued. Sweet. Keep high stepping, Grime Reaper. Let that hair down and go a jig. Well done sir.
    “At a press conference following a closed-door luncheon with Senate Republicans, McConnell was asked whether he was aware that two of his great-great-grandfathers were slave owners in Alabama before the Civil War and whether the revelation would cause him to reconsider his position on reparations.”
    “I find myself once again in the same position as President [Barack] Obama. We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners,” he said, before moving on to another question.
    As Willy Brown would say, “Va-va-va-voom!”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-likens-himself-to-obama-we-both-are-the-descendants-of-slave-owners/ar-AAE5v5G?li=BBnbfcL#page=2
    Icing on the cake:
    Presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker’s (D., N.J.) Iowa press communications director called Sen. Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) a “piece of s–t” for agreeing with President Barack Obama on reparations in a tweet posted Tuesday afternoon.
    “”[T]his man is, truly, a piece of s–t,” Tess Seger tweeted, referring to the Senate Majority Leader’s statement that he agrees with President Obama’s stance on opposing reparations. “You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama,” McConnell said when asked if revelations about his family’s past history of owning slaves changed his stance on the topic. “We both oppose reparations, and we both are the descendants of slaveholders.”
    https://freebeacon.com/politics/booker-press-sec-upset-mcconnell-agrees-with-obama-on-reparations/

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Stories of tortures used by debauchers
    Lurid, licentious and vile…
    make me smile 🙂
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs
    Paul, it seems as though there’s room in your thoughtworld for unrestrained buggery but not room for someone who views it as perverted. Is that the case?

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  15. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Less than the fireworks cost! LOL
    The Pentagon estimates the “Salute to America” Fourth of July parade held in Washington, D.C., last week cost it $1.2 million, according to the DoD comptroller’s office.
    Military aircraft flyovers and static displays of equipment were included in the cost, according to a DoD statement.
    Officials on Tuesday said New York Fleet Week costs the DoD $1.3 million, by comparison.
    https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/09/heres-how-much-salute-america-flyovers-cost-military.html
    😉

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Team lefty is alienating those it wants to court –
    The majority of Hispanic and black Americans support President Trump’s effort to ask all respondents on the 2020 Census whether or not they are an American citizen, a new poll finds.
    The latest Harvard/Harris Poll reveals that a majority of five-in-nine Hispanic voters, or 55 percent, and nearly six-in-ten black American voters, or about 59 percent, said they support a question on the upcoming census that would ask U.S. residents whether they are American citizens or not.
    Overall, about 67 percent of U.S. voters said the citizenship question should be on the Census, including 72 percent of white Americans, nearly nine-in-ten Republican voters, 63 percent of swing voters, and 64 percent to 69 percent of working class Americans.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/09/poll-5-in-9-hispanics-6-in-10-black-americans-support-citizenship-question-on-census/
    😉

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  17. Scott O Avatar

    “President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,” the statement reads. “In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: One to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation.”
    And the other 22 trips?
    Bill can’t even lie very well any more.
    Pathetic.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/08/bill-clinton-distances-himself-from-jeffrey-epstein/

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Awww isn’t that cute, he is working so hard to be like his big city socialist dem utopias –
    https://freebeacon.com/politics/south-bends-violent-crime-continues-to-skyrocket-under-buttigieg/
    😉

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Nice, take the mutha mullahs frozen cash to pay for the drone and then there is this –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-proceeding-with-plan-for-coalition-to-deter-iran-threats/ar-AAE5z5M?ocid=spartandhp
    😉

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    We had our homes air ducts switched out for double the size to maximize airflow to make our overkill hvac system not ever have to strain in the worst. Bigger 3M everything grabbing filters. Good luck taking it away –
    The left — and by the left I include the media — are already coming for our guns, our health insurance, our private schools, our churches, our automobiles, our backyard grills, and now they want to take away our cooled air.
    So this is nothing to laugh at. Yesterday’s insanity almost always becomes tomorrow’s reality. The Luddites are dead serious. And this is not the first time the far-Left Times has come for our A/C, and it won’t be the last.
    There is an oft-cited study published in Nature.com that notes how building temperatures, once set to the comfort preferences of 1960s-era men in suits, disregard the “thermal comfort” of female staffers.
    Come summer, Twitter invariably lights up with charges that air-conditioning is sexist, an engine of the patriarchy, in threads that in turn fire up conservative commentators eager to prove the daftness of the opposition.
    Building temperatures are largely controlled by building managers, to industry standards that aim for the thermal comfort of 80 percent of a building’s occupants — which means, of course, that 20 percent will be uncomfortable, if not miserable.
    And air conditioning is wounding Mother Gaia:
    On an overheated planet, air-conditioning becomes more and more desirable, solving in the short term the problem it helped create.
    https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/07/09/nolte-new-york-times-wants-ban-on-sexist-air-conditioning/
    Hey brother can you spare some Freon? 😉

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Speaking of sexist…….are cat fights gender based? Patriarchy is not gender based? I got up my woke game.
    “Yes, Kellyanne is sexist towards women. That makes total sense.”
    “Boothe responded by tweeting a screenshot of the definition of “patriarchy” to Ocasio-Cortez and writing: “Patriarchy by definition is gender based.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/49327/patriarchy-has-no-gender-aoc-claims-conway-sexist-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro
    ————-
    Speaking of upping my woke game…..
    WHO NEEDS WOKILEAKS?
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/who-needs-wokileaks.php
    —————
    “How many times is @JoeBiden going to say something stupid?“‬
    ‪—Sen. Barack Obama, during the 2008 campaign, from the book “Game Change”‬

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Epstein.
    Have you seen the list of people who flew with Jeffery on the Lolita Express? Tony Blaine, a Koch Bro, a bunch of Hollywood liberal perverts…the list is long.
    The day of Trump kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. Get out of here, Democrat mega donor perv. First Harvey, now Epstein. No wonder the DNC is hurting for money.
    “Perino asked Patterson about Trump’s remarks: “President Trump said earlier that he had a falling-out with Epstein about 15 years ago. Do you know what that was about?”
    “Patterson responded: “Well, I know that there were some complaints about Epstein at Mar-a-Lago and also I spoke to the head of the spa there. I said ‘did you ever meet Epstein?’ She said, ‘oh yes… he was inappropriate with some of the younger women there.’ She said she went to Trump and he threw him out of the club.”
    At another point in the interview, Patterson said he “knows Trump didn’t know” about Epstein’s alleged criminal activity.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar

    My goodness, how does Trump fit in your “culture”? You certainly have no problem when your hero Donald Trump bonks a porn star ans pays her off to keep her mouth shut while his wife is home with a babe in arms. Is Trump part of your culture Todd. Here’s how you described it earlier today. “Regarding the culture I represent. I am into a nice, sweet and non-mean culture.”
    Is that how you characterize Trumps character?

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    I see the Paul Emry poop droppings here again. TDS and perversions are galore.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    TDS is a perversion and a law against nature. TDS really buggers the mind, emotions, and will. A warped soul, if you will. But enough about the pervs.
    ———
    By golly, Boardman may be right about the old hippy aunt in his Union column. Never know. It’s not the first article I have read advising the reader to not dismiss The Old Hippy Aunt.
    “In the 1990s, Camille Paglia wrote about New Age mysticism. Given her fascination with the low-brow, Paglia was rather non-judgmental about the trend, condemning only the turn to self-help that she observed in occultism. Everyone who loves Paglia also hates her some of the time, and this is one of these times I find it difficult not to hate the firebrand cultural critic, since contemporary witchcraft practices are such shallow garbage.
    “Parliament noted that most practitioners of New Age are women and gay men, which I think remains true. There is a self-conscious feminist dimension to neo-paganism—the drive to get past both the patriarchal monotheistic religions and the cool logic of science, back to the goddess worship.
    “The kind of feminism Williamson offers might just have a future within the progressive movement. The metaphysician shared the debate stage with several women. These women have all risen, as instructed, through the ranks of established institutions. Yet their career path leaves many lefty women feeling conflicted.
    “These women are asked to “lean in” into their jobs so that one day a woman can become a president, inspiring our daughters… to lean in some more. Yet most occupations are kind of boring, and ordinary women are ill-advised to sacrifice family time on the altar of employment. They know it, too. On this level alone, the women aspiring for Democratic nomination are not very relatable.
    “Williamson stands out among these women: she is her own person, a cult leader. Most of her followers are female; many are young. There is a demographic of suburban swing voters that she may appeal to. She can perhaps peel away some nutty right-wingers (Alex Jones pushes the same wellness catalog as Gwyneth Paltrow). It might not be Williamson who hijacks the Democratic Party for the voodooists; it might be with someone like her who will show up in the near future. The demographics, a burgeoning millennial pagan movement, might just be the progressives’ destiny.
    “Of course, women are just as capable of reason as men, and not every middle-aged mom enrolls in yoga classes to experience universal consciousness. In fact, most do it under the impression that it will help reduce their weight. And, certainly, the country as a whole is not at all like Santa Cruz, California. Yet, I’m sure there are plenty of true believers in places like Austin, Texas, to whom a progressive heathen cult leader may appeal.
    “Left-leaning outlets, interestingly, published soft-glow features of Williamson. Allowing a charismatic cult leader into the debates must be very embarrassing for the party of science, so somebody in the major media has to run interference. On the other hand, the puff piece writers might be genuinely enamored of Williamson. Another Age of Aquarius might just be coming.
    “Humanity needs a mental shower: we need to wash off all prejudices of the 20th Century and stand naked beneath the waters of eternal Truths,” Williamson once proclaimed. She’s sort of right about the 20th century. But, considering that the worst atrocities of the last century have been perpetrated by pagan regimes, I shudder to think of what folks who share Williamson’s views ultimately might be cooking up for us..”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/08/might-laugh-marianne-williamson-millions-across-country/
    Hmmm. A party of pagans and gay men. No wonder someone is a wee bit touchy on the perversion topic. Epstein had a friggin blow up doll hanging on his Palm Beach chandelier and if that ain’t bad enough, there is a Nevada City dude who is rumored to have a Ann Coulter doll prominently displayed in his workstation. Sick stuff. Rumor also has it that the doll is looking rather tattered lately.

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, it may be time to retire the “bonk a porn star” meme. It didn’t work back when Stormy had a worse reputation than her lawyer, and it doesn’t work now.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar

    Just testing Todds moral aptitude Gregory by asking If he includes Trump in his culture he describes when he writes: “Regarding the culture I represent. I am into a nice, sweet and non-mean culture. There are some boundaries of what is good and bad and I know goodness when I see it. ”
    Todd is too easy and not much of a workout but it’s kinda fun now and then to lob a few jabs in his direction.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    But you never land anything oh great pony tail of ignorance and here is another one you were totally wrong on –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-declares-victory-over-deep-state-after-court-tosses-case-over-businesses
    😉

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  29. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Good point –
    Tucker Carlson: Ilhan Omar Is ‘Living Proof’ Our Immigration Laws Are ‘Dangerous
    Tucker Carlson says Rep. Ilhan Omar despises Americ
    Fox News host Tucker Carlson ended his primetime program on Tuesday night by taking aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), claiming the Somalia-born congresswoman despises America and is “living proof” that America’s immigration policies are “dangerous.”
    Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in the House of Representatives, has long been targeted by Carlson, who has devoted numerous segments to calling the progressive lawmaker “ungrateful” and a “symbol of America’s failed immigration policies.”
    This time, however, the Fox News star took his anti-Omar stance even further.
    “Ilhan Omar has an awful lot to be grateful for, but she isn’t grateful, not at all,” Carlson said. “After everything America has done for Omar and for her family, she hates this country more than ever.”
    Referencing a recent Washington Post profile on the freshman representative, the conservative commentator said the piece showed that Omar was “enraged” by America and that she has “undisguised contempt for the United States and for its people.”
    “That should worry you, and not just because Omar is now a sitting member of Congress,” Carlson warned his viewers. “Ilhan Omar is living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-ilhan-omar-living-021143583.html
    😉

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  30. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,here is your boy Toddler,,,just another lowlife business decision. Casinos, strippers, it is all in a day’s work for Trump!!!
    https://politicaldig.com/trumps-mar-a-lago-to-host-a-stripper-filled-party-for-shady-charity-event/

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  31. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,more embarrassments for Faux News lovers,,,
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/fox-news-duped-seth-rich-192907577.html

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  32. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery | 10 July 2019 at 10:16 AM
    I love it when you take my baiting you. You are so dumb. Thanks.

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  33. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    No more bs from the chi coms –
    One CV appeared to show a person who simultaneously held a position at Huawei and a teaching and research role at a military university through which they were employed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Balding linked that employee to a section in the PLA that is responsible for the Chinese military’s space, cyber, and electronic warfare capabilities.
    “The circumstantial evidence appears quite strong to support valid concerns about the relationship between Huawei, the PLA, and concerns about intelligence gathering,” Balding said in the paper.
    Another CV describes an individual who worked at Huawei but was a representative of a government entity responsible for espionage and counterintelligence. That individual “engaged in behavior that describes planting information capture technology or software on Huawei products,” according to the study.
    https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/07/09/study-reveals-links-between-huawei-employees-and-chinese-military/
    😉

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  34. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Babs has the same virtue signaling pass as Al ‘I invented the internet’ Gore and his G-VI –
    https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/07/10/barbra-streisand-flew-her-dogs-to-london-to-watch-her-sing/
    😉

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  35. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,yo Bessie!!! You are on a junk food diet of Breitbart and Fix news.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @5:56 pm.
    Babs did say that Trump is making her fat. Each time she comes down with a TDS conniption fit, she runs to her comfort food and starts shoving into her pie hole in massive quantities . Just imagine her carbon footprint hauling her or her dogs to France.
    Why can’t we be more like France: Epstein.
    “Perhaps the most historic, in the sense of era-defining, moment in the history of the Academy Awards was that standing ovation Roman Polanski got when he was given Best Director honors in 2003. There they are, leading Hollywood liberals, leaping to their feet to cheer for a man who, at age 43, gave a 13-year-old girl Quaaludes for the purpose of having sex with her and sodomizing her. Polanski suffered in no significant way for his crime, and today it seems obvious he should at the very least be denied the highest honor his profession can bestow.
    “In 2018, Polanski (along with Bill Cosby) was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which suddenly discovered 40 years after his crime that he was no longer in accord with “ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy’s values of respect for human dignity.” They meant “moral standards,” but acknowledging the existence of morality is still too much to ask of the Academy. Before Harvey Weinstein, the only person ever expelled from the Academy was Carmine Caridi, an actor who appeared in The Godfather. His crime was sharing a DVD screener with a friend, who put it on the Internet.
    “The Jeffrey Epstein case should end a nearly 50-year era in which the mandarins of our cultures — the intellectuals, writers, and artists — almost unanimously ignored, laughed off, or even outright celebrated sexual exploitation of girls and very young women, even in many cases prepubescent ones. Humbert Humbert somehow became the culture’s idea of a barrier-breaking hero whose predilections provided jokes such as the nickname for Epstein’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ jet, the one stocked with young flesh. Epstein’s habits were so unremarkable that Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were happy to be associated with him. Clinton and Trump were not outliers. They were simply symptoms of a disease.
    “Hugh Hefner fired up a flare lighting the way to an almost anything-goes view of female sexuality, and it reached its apex at the 2003 Oscars. Under the regime of Hefnerism, conservative prudes and often the law stood charged with being uptight and repressive about sex involving girls just over or even under the age of consent. That Polanski became an exile from this country after his crime made him Hollywood’s favorite martyr. The Academy was eager to give him the Oscar both to showcase its view that he had been victimized by prudery and to dunk on conservatives. Attendees didn’t just applaud, they let out a mighty whoop of approval when Polanski’s Oscar was announced by a smiling Harrison Ford. Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, Weinstein, and others all jumped to their feet to participate in a chilling standing ovation. Jack Nicholson, at whose house Polanski’s assault took place, looked confused and joined in the applause, but remained seated. So did Nicolas Cage. No one captured by the cameras looked particularly peevish. As far as I know, no one in Hollywood had any problem with lionizing Polanski at the time.”
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-roman-polanski-hollywood-sexual-exploitation/

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  37. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Update on the latest mutha mullahs mess up –
    But the HMS Montrose quickly trained its 30mm deck guns on the enemy fleet and warned them off, they added.
    The British Heritage tanker was being escorted through the flashpoint region by the Montrose amid feverish tensions between Iran and the West.
    But the Navy frigate was scrambled into action when the rival boats reportedly approached the oil tanker and demanded it change course into Iranian waters.
    According to the anonymous officials, the Montrose came up from the rear of the tanker and aimed its fierce weapons at the Iranians – before issuing a verbal warning to get away.
    One of the officials said: “The Royal Navy HMS Montrose, which was also there, pointed it guns at the boats and warned them over radio, at which point they dispersed.”
    The other added: “It was harassment and an attempt to interfere with the passage.”
    A US aircraft was flying overhead at the time and recorded footage of the standoff, the officials said.
    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9482610/iran-standoff-royal-navy-oil-tanker/
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    Bill Tozer

    Iranian boats vs one British frigate equipped with 30 mm deck guns is the perfect weapon to take out all the little rival boats. Blow them pesky pests out of the water. Protecting International waterway passages is a no-brainer. Not up for debate Those guns on the frigate are customer ordered for the present task at hand. 🙂
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    END OF A ERA: From Nazis to Hippies, end of the road for the VW Bug.
    Farewell my old friend(s). May I never own one again. But, thanks for the memories. It was great and will be always great in the backroads of my mind.
    https://news.grabien.com/making-nazis-hippies-end-road-volkswagen-beetle
    This is the last time I will play this short clip. Epstein has changed everything. 14 sec.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA

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    Don Bessee

    Yes sir BT at close range the 30’s would chew them up nicely and should one survive to get out of range then the 4.5inch auto deck gun would get them as they fled!
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    Don Bessee

    I don’t think the grim reaper was worried but its pretty much over now she’s pissed off both ends! woke too much, woke too little. No goldilocks here –
    The dramatic public stumble blunted McGrath’s momentum on the same day she announced her campaign had raised $2.5 million in its first 24 hours. It also fueled criticisms from both Republicans and Democrats that the Marine combat aviator may not be a winner in congressional politics, following her claim on Tuesday that President Trump’s election was similar to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and her defeat in a House race last year.
    “You know, I think that with Judge Kavanaugh, yeah, I probably would have voted for him,” McGrath told The Louisville Courier-Journal on Wednesday. She also said that it was a “good question” to ask.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mcgrath-flip-flops-now-says-she-wouldve-opposed-kavanaugh-after-left-wing-backlash
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    Bill Tozer
  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Will we see Indian and Japanese frigates soon? –
    WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) – Five boats believed to belong to Iranian Revolutionary Guards approached a British oil tanker in the Gulf on Wednesday and asked it to stop in Iranian waters close by, but withdrew after a British warship warned them, U.S. officials said.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-iranian-boats-harass-british-004431336.html
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    A lefty that almost gets it, but fails:
    https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/452285-youtube-star-says-platform-algorithm-isnt-sophisticated-enough-to-address
    Money quote – “Wynn argued that, as a result, YouTube winds up “banning a lot of the stuff that we don’t want to be banned and not banning the stuff that we may want to be banned.””
    Ah – there’s the rub. Once you let some one else decide what speech is hurty speech, they may just decide it’s you.
    And just who is this ‘we’?
    Another useful idiot. Turns out she really still believes in censoring content she doesn’t like and thinks it won’t end up biting her in the ass.
    Fool.

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    Bill Tozer

    Looking around the bend
    “Other problems have now arisen for the Democrats because of the issues that have come to the fore: race, radicalism and the border.”
    “None looks like a winning Democratic issue in November 2020.
    “Bottom line: If the 2020 campaign becomes a conversation about reparations for slavery and the bussing of white kids from the suburbs into inner-city schools to achieve greater integration, the Democrats will be in a world of hurt.
    “On border security, indispensable to Trump in 2016, Democrats in the debates came out for ending criminal detention of people invading our country and for providing free health care for migrants who successfully break into the USA.
    “Detesting ICE as they do, and supporting sanctuary cities, left-wing Democrats routinely describe the Border Patrol as neo-fascists who run “concentration camps” where migrant children are forced to drink toilet water. The Democrats are becoming an open borders party.
    “What is their solution to the hundreds of thousands of migrants who annually arrive at our borders? Foreign aid. They want to create a Marshall Plan for Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador so refugees will stay home rather than come to the USA for the health care Democrats will provide at taxpayer expense.”
    https://buchanan.org/blog/are-democrats-ceding-the-center-to-trump-137283

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  45. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The Greeks flushed their socialists down the drain too. Its looking like a trend. Lets watch their GDP in the next year or so –
    New Greek PM Mitsotakis says tax cuts to be legislated
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/greek-pm-mitsotakis-holds-first-102413464.html
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