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[I suppose doing the poll dance will continue as the hot topic and entertainment du jour.  At this stage of the campaign, that's much like watching 'snow' on a TV with signal loss.  gjr]

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451 responses to “Sandbox – 20aug19”

  1. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    George- You are not very good when it comes to describing sets of people. How many times do you ascribe a thought or action to “progressives” (meaning, literally, every single one) when you should more accurately be saying some or most progressives. Who do you mean by “most” people in your 4:07? You would be more accurate to say “many mentally challenged people such as Walt, Todd or Bessee” might erroneously come to some far fetched conclusion because it falls into their strange belief system.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Mentally challenged”? says the krack smoker. Now don’t forget that Liberalism is a confirmed mental disorder.
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101027161452.htm
    Tough titty. You can’t get disability payments for it.

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The jiggly one might want to get some education on the recent goings on as the talking points for lefties has left him ignorant, again. –
    https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753699013/justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-underwent-another-round-of-cancer-treatment-this-sum
    ;-

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  4. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of mental issues jigger. Turned in your guns yet?
    Can’t have a Progressive possessing a weapon. Ten times more likely to use it to hurt someone. Judging by your nuttyness here, and unstable nature, the “red flag” should be thrown on you.

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  5. George Rebane Avatar

    Jig 425pm – You are indeed a gem. In these discussions I use the broad labels ‘progressives’, ‘liberals’, ‘Democrats’, … in the same sense that you use the opposite appellations when referring to or describing someone generally on the Right. That you continue to lecture on things like “describing sets of people” when you apparently have no idea how such are used in common discourse (including by you). Does that mean that you are still defending your moral high ground?
    But as I have remarked before, your hiding your identity under a sack is clearly the proper strategy for the copy you deliver. Doing it under your own name would indeed be unwise.

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  6. Walt Avatar

    OUCH!!!! The good Doc slapps jigger upside the overripe melon..
    Damn,,, that will leave a mark.

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Was the jiggly one in MN? This looks about its speed. –
    Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Jennifer Carnahan tweeted late Friday: “Violence is never the answer. To the Democrats that sexually assaulted one of our volunteers today at the@mngop booth, and the men that harassed the female staff and I at the end of the night-SHAME ON YOU. The MN State Fair is supposed to be a place of fun and celebration.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/police-alleged-assault-minnesota-gop-volunteer
    😉

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @4:45 pm
    “Damn,,, that will leave a mark.” Afraid not. You can’t shame a sociopath. Better folks than us have tried and failed. He will come back as Ozzie Rockclimber thinking he is on top of the world. But, I do agree that Liberalism is a mental disorder and all Lefties should be Red Flagged. That includes ALL the crazy New Democrats, New Left, Progressives, Socialists, Antifas, all old hippies, Leftinistas, and other groups of that suffer from the affliction of diminished capacity.
    —————————————————————
    This makes sense. Best they hide their true intention and colors. The biggest threat to all life on the planet is bearing down on us like a out of control rolling juggernaut ready to crush us all and they do not want to debate their issue. They own it. One would think they would want to run with the issue and put it front and center for all of America to see.
    Oh my. In San Francisco of all places. AOC will be fit to be tied. Bernie had a plan, so all is not lost.
    https://www.apnews.com/580af6ad372745668a14cffec45fd087

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh ya the socialist dem civil war is going public –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/chaotic-scene-dnc-votes-down-005819955.html
    😉

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  10. Walt Avatar

    Yup,, more Lefty mental issues…And you want him as President?
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/24/joe-biden-forgets-state-gaffe/
    Biden seemed to think he was in Vermont while campaigning in Keene, New Hampshire.
    “I’ve been here a number of times. The last time I think was all the way back in 2014, but I’ve been here before that,” Biden said while talking to reporters. “I love this place. Look, what’s not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it?”
    Yet you Proggys say Trump has problems..
    Good luck with that.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Some new meds for Emery and jigger.
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/24/magic-mushrooms-gain-popularity-following-decriminalization-efforts/1999501001/
    That was the excuse for weed. Now shrooms are next on the list.

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  12. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Walt- 7:04
    Ahh, what is the issue here? You and Bessee having a problem about freedom of choice again? Your choice, and no one else’s freedom?
    “Oh, but that doesn’t count.” Any more than Trump telling businesses where and how they can do business and deny he’s a socialist. Hypocrites joined at the hip.

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  13. Walt Avatar

    Well jigger go do business with the fat kid in N. Korea.
    See what happens. Use that excuse of yours.
    Freedom isn’t absolute. Forget we are a nation of laws?
    It’s was your boy “O” who loved to pick and choose just which ones to follow and/or enforce.
    Trump has the law on his side. He sure knows how to get you and yours going.
    Yet you haven’t said one negative word about Comrade Burnie’s
    stated nationalization of targeted businesses and corps. (gov. seizure and operation… You know, Putin style shit.)
    Have a good look at Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977.
    It states
    “Title II of Pub.L. 95–223, 91 Stat. 1626, enacted October 28, 1977, is a United States federal law authorizing the president to regulate international commerce after declaring a national emergency in response to any unusual and extraordinary threat to the United States which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States”
    Tell us how that doesn’t apply to China.
    Now send in your crickets.

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  14. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “There are now more junkies in San Francisco than there are high school students.”
    Now, that’s freedom!

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  15. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    One name. Joe Walsh. Sounds like he’s in for the running and will go independent if need be. If Trump is smart, he’ll start working on a pardon package from the good Mr Walsh. Or another “suicide”.

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “The five stages of grief in terminal illness are chronologically: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.”
    It sounds like Jiggly is working through to the final stage.

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  17. Walt Avatar

    That’s how ya’ do it jigger. Can’t hold up your end of the discussion,, act like Paul and change the subject.
    Can’t tell us how economic powers act DOESN’T apply to China?
    So explain what Trump is proposing is actually socialism
    and dictatorism, when all he is doing is looking out for the best interests of the U.S., unlike past Presidents that have screwed over the American worker in the name of cheap shit imports.

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  18. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Hey Gregory I was hoping \you might analize that old lawyer Dickie Sciaroni’s screed on economics and history in the Union. See if he is right.

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  19. Walt Avatar

    Joe Walsh… Now isn’t he the one who broke up the Eagles?
    President? Not a even a LIB’s chance at winning the election.

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  20. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Walt you mule. Walsh doesn’t need to win the election, he just needs to split the vote. A Tea Party Pubber who despises Trump running as an independent is a great idea. Doncha think? He’s come within an inch of already saying he’d rather see a lib in the White House than Trump. I’ll contribute to his campaign.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    And ain’t going to happen. You can’t even afford the postage to contribute.

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Here you go jigger breath from your horse’s ass.
    “Walsh, who served one term in Congress, acknowledged that he has very little chance of defeating the president in the primaries”
    So who are the fools (like you) who are going to piss their money away for him to even try?
    Yup, you have to be smoking krack to give the idiot the time of day.

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  23. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jiggly Wiggly 920am
    You don’t have a clue as to who you’ll be voting for in Nov ’20 and you’re already scheming how to split the GOP vote… Sad!

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  24. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Walt-
    I guess you don’t grasp the enormity of hatred and disgust in this country for Trump. Money will flow like water to split the vote.

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  25. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Jiggly-poo
    The first primary vote has yet to be held and you’re already expecting no one winning the Dem nomination will take votes from Trump the old fashioned way in Nov ’20.

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Sure thing half/jigger They said the same thing before he was elected the first time.
    Nevermind the nation is in the best shape it’s been in, in such a LONG time. And somehow you believe the masses want to go back to huge unemployment and despair as it was under your boy “O”.
    Keep thinking that.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    HEY jiggernut.. I bet you believe this too.
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/08/25/psychiatrist-on-cnn-trump-may-be-responsible-for-millions-of-more-deaths-than-hitler-stalin-mao/
    CNN?? “Reliable source”???? The most BULLSHIT name in news.
    “Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” psychiatrist Dr. Allen Frances said President Donald Trump “may be responsible for many more million deaths” than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong.”
    No wonder your so “F”ed up in the head.

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  28. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Court ruling.
    “On Tuesday, the Denver-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that the Colorado secretary of state violated the Constitution when he removed an Electoral College delegate who had chosen to vote for John Kasich instead of Hillary Clinton. The secretary of state nullified the vote of the delegate and installed a new delegate who voted in accordance with the popular vote of the state of Colorado……
    “The problem with this harebrained scheme being promoted by the Democrats is that it attempts to circumvent the U.S. Constitution and the process to properly amend the Constitution. In order to amend the Constitution, three-quarters of the states must ratify a proposed constitutional amendment that has already passed by either a two-thirds vote by Congress or via a constitutional convention called for by the states.
    “Democrats know that they cannot get three-quarters of the states to ratify a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College. As such, rather than give up on their desire to abolish the Electoral College, they instead have decided to change the rules on how the Constitution can be amended.
    “The good news is that the 10th Circuit, with its ruling on Tuesday, has telegraphed the beginning of the end of the Democrats’ latest scheme to end the Electoral College. If a state cannot require that its delegates vote in accordance with its own state’s popular vote, it will therefore also never be able to require that its delegates vote in accordance with the nation’s popular vote.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/50915/meuser-federal-court-deals-serious-blow-national-mark-meuser

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  29. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Thanks Bill. Excellent, unbiased piece of work from Koch’s State Policy Network. It is amazing that some people actually treat this as fact rather than propaganda.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well Barron, please do due diligence and dispute Duke’s findings. Or run to Snoopes to find out more about the documents. Or ask Bobbie Cross.
    ————-
    Probable Cause: Kalama the Dirty Cop’s charges against Planned Parenthood COULD be tossed out of court.
    “It was Harris who ordered the search warrant against Daleiden in 2016 that his lawyers are now arguing was “served without probable cause and in bad faith,” and should therefore be thrown out.
    “In the motion, Daleiden’s lawyers include email exchanges between Harris’s office and Planned Parenthood executives working together to obtain a search warrant for Daleiden’s unreleased videos, despite California laws protecting citizen journalists from these kinds of legal attacks. They also include evidence that the state’s own special investigative team did not believe they had probable cause to search and seize Daleiden’s property.”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/23/charges-kamala-harris-brought-planned-parenthood-whistleblower-david-daleiden-dropped/

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  31. Walt Avatar

    Nice try jiggerbreath.
    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/25/g7-trump-smacks-down-macrons-claim-to-leading-role-in-iran-talks/
    ” The first fissures emerged among G7 leaders on Sunday over how to deal with Iran, as U.S. President Donald Trump denied he had signed on to an agreement on giving France a leading role as a go-between with the world’s major democracies.
    Trump had tried to play down tensions among Group of Seven (G7) leaders after an intimate dinner Saturday in the southwest French resort of Biarritz, but came out swiftly to dispute France’s claim that they had agreed to let President Emmanuel Macron deliver a message to Iran on their behalf.”

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Just what is our deal with Iran? It’s classified.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/iran-revisited-2.php

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Student Funds No Longer Tied Up By Cal State Administrators
    “Back in 2017, California State University-San Marcos (CSU-SM) decided to use mandatory student activity fees in a way that produces patently unconstitutional outcomes: Students were compelled to subsidize speech with which they disagree but then denied the right to use a portion of the fees to promote a contrary viewpoint.
    Perhaps the greatest injustice uncovered in this case involves the revelation that CSU-SM collects $1,300,000 in mandatory fees every year and skims $800,000 off the top to pay the salaries of its administrators. Thus, it seems that these mandatory fees are little more than job creation programs for bureaucratic activists who are probably otherwise unemployable. The problem is compounded by the fact that CSU-SM then illegally distributes the remaining half million dollars that is not going directly into their own pockets (hence the term “bureaucratic activists”).
    “The crux of the illegal distribution problem arose when Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) was given unbridled discretion to dole out the mandatory fees. Unsurprisingly, ASI then exercised this unbridled discretion to allocate the fees in a discriminatory manner. Specifically, ASI has favored them — both run by the administration.”
    “In 2017, when the suit was filed, I predicted that their chokehold on the marketplace of ideas would soon be broken and that students at CSU-SM will eventually be granted the right to bring in their own speakers with opposing viewpoints. I stated unequivocally that CSU-SM had absolutely no chance of winning this lawsuit. And, now, my prediction has come true. A federal district court has ruled in favor of Nathan Apodaca, the brave Army veteran who served as the principal plaintiff for Students For Life.
    “CSU-SM never had a chance of winning. By defending the indefensible, these petty administrators gave the impression that they enjoyed inflicting pain upon themselves for pleasure.”
    It’s not as if I didn’t warn them.

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  34. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Aha! Been waiting for a case that pits the 1st Amendment against community/State laws. This is one.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/federal-appeals-court-strikes-powerful-blow-for-free-speech-religious-freedom/
    “One of the key constitutional questions of our time is whether the First Amendment will retain its supremacy and potency even as nondiscrimination rules and regulations expand in scope and reach. In this case, the Eight Circuit answered answered with an emphatic “Yes,” and it did so through a majority opinion that provided a clear roadmap for future courts and future controversies………”
    “If the court did find that nondiscrimination laws can even compel speech, it would invert the constitutional order. It would relegate the First Amendment to second-class status — less potent than a mere state regulation. Indeed, this is the argument that much of the legal Left has been making for years. They view First Amendment–based arguments against public-accommodation laws or other nondiscrimination statutes as a form of special pleading by religious Americans, a request to be exempt from the fair and just rules that govern the rest of us.
    “But this is exactly backwards. The First Amendment is part of our nation’s governing document, and it recognizes the unalienable rights possessed by all Americans — not just people of faith. State and local regulators are engaged in special pleading. They’re seeking carve-outs from the supreme law of the land.
    “Judge Stras understands this reality quite clearly. “Even antidiscrimination laws, as critically important as they are,” he writes “must yield to the Constitution. And as compelling as the interest in preventing discriminatory conduct may be, speech is treated differently under the First Amendment.”
    “Yes. Exactly. He continues:
    “Regulating speech because it is discriminatory or offensive is not a compelling state interest, however hurtful the speech may be. It is a “bedrock principle . . . that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Jig Wiggly | 25 August 2019 at 10:45 AM
    Thanks for showing us your support for the fascist Mullah Jiggy. I knew you were a fascist.
    Did I see this week that Trump is paying off the student debt of 20,000 injured VETS?
    Looks like those darned Israelies don’t waste time destroying Iranian drones. They have pretty good intelligence services. Jiggy and Barron should pay attention.
    In the Bee today was a story on an illegal Mexican that has voted in the last 20 years of elections. And of all the ones the press denies happening regarding democrats, this guy is supposedly a Trump fan. You cannot make this stuff up.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Now, the news you won’t find in your local media.
    Covering (I guess?) the important issues:
    Why Are Fewer French Women Sunbathing Topless? I have my own theory based on the spike of rapes since Angie threw open the doors to those who live by 6th Century rules, but that cannot be a consideration without severe blowback.
    “In 1984, a survey found that 43 percent of Frenchwomen bathed topless on the beach. But a similar poll last month revealed that figure had fallen to 19 percent. Of 1,000 women interviewed, 59 percent of under-25s said they covered their breasts in order not to arouse men, while 51 percent said they were scared of being physically or sexually abused if they went topless. Other reasons stated were a fear of skin cancer, and a lack of self-confidence about their bodies.
    “Someone actually takes polls and surveys on this vital issue? I would think this topic requires lots of on-the-scene field research.”
    • Occam’s Razor, meet the razor blade industry: Procter & Gamble, owners of the Gillette razor franchise, recently took a $8 billion—billion with a B—write-down on its Gillette division in the wake of its woke marketing campaign. Couldn’t happen to a dumber company. (I sold my P&G stock when this idiocy began. It was trending to overvalue territory anyway.)
    Now Gillette is backtracking, at least in Australia:
    Razor brand Gillette says it is “shifting the spotlight from social issues to local heroes” after an ad delving into “toxic masculinity” caused a customer backlash. . .
    “We have a very clear strategy when it comes to how we authentically connect with our consumers,” said Manu Airan, associate brand director for Gillette Australia and New Zealand.
    “We will continue to talk about what is important to Gillette and that is representing men at their best and helping men do their best. That is not changing. We will continue to do that and demonstrate it in different ways.”
    Parent company P&G last month took a nearly $12 billion ($US8 billion) writedown in the value of the 118-year-old shaving business it purchased in 2005 for $84 billion ($US57 billion).
    As Glenn Reynolds like to say, “Get woke, go broke.” P&G won’t go broke, but the $8 billion write-off is a nice comeuppance.

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 25 August 2019 at 09:20 AM
    I’ll contribute to his campaign.

    Don’t you mean “We’ll contribute to his campaign……”? Fan of the “Royal” we and all!

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  38. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Trump up by two 50-48 today is Paul Emery’s most trusted poll.

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  39. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    As Gomer Pyle would say,”surprise, surprise, surprise. Solar panels do not make good roads.
    “Surprise—solar panels don’t make great roads. The French government recently learned this the hard way after debuting a $6 million solar road in Normandy in 2016. The road generated about half as much power as expected, and costs exceeded any reasonable expectation for a road…or even a solar panel.
    “An American experiment in solar roads fared similarly. In 2016, the Daily Caller reported that roughly 25 out of 30 panels installed in a prototype solar road in Idaho broke within a week—after the project received $3.9 million in funding [some of which from the Department of Transportation] and 6.5 years of development.
    “These colossal development failures speak not only to solar roads but also to “renewable” projects in general, where hype rarely matches reality. Lawmakers around the world should think twice before lavishing “cutting-edge” technology with subsidies and making taxpayers foot the bill for the inevitable failures that result.
    “Over the past few decades, a predictable pattern has emerged: Governments tout cool-sounding renewable energy technologies, but promises and funding fall flat because of the biases and inefficiencies of the public sector.”
    https://fee.org/articles/solar-roads-another-government-funded-energy-failure/

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  40. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    And the award for the most boring and irrelevant post of the day: Todd 12:38.
    Don’t you ever get the hint that nobody except your BBF Bessee gives a shit about your piles. Or your polls. Maybe when the elections are a month out they might be meaningful. . . to somebody.

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Jig Wiggly | 25 August 2019 at 01:06 PM
    As usual, you don’t get the point. What a maroon Jiggy.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 25 August 2019 at 01:06 PM
    Maybe when the elections are a month out they might be meaningful. . . to somebody.

    If only somebody could get that across to a certain ponytailed someone….

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  43. George Rebane Avatar

    Couple of important posts on Russ Steele’s blog. One on the recent publication from NOAA showing no US temp increase in last 14 years; the other reports on Michael (‘hockey stick’) Mann’s suit being thrown out of court with prejudice, since the sumbich refused to show the data with which he made up the now infamous hockey stick that continues to be worshipped by true believers world wide. Catch the Collectivists Cricket Chorus on this. More here –
    https://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2019/08/24/climate-alarmists-foiled-no-u-s-warming-since-2005/
    https://sierrafoothillcommentary.com/2019/08/25/michael-mann-refuses-to-produce-data-loses-case/comment-page-1/

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  44. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Wasn’t that lawsuit defamation against Mark Steyn?

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  45. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 25 August 2019 at 01:42 PM
    Wasn’t that lawsuit defamation against Mark Steyn?

    No…..his is still pending!

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  46. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Maybe this will assist him?

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