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359 responses to “Sandbox – 12sep19”
“The t-shirt style comes in “Unisex” and “Ladies cut.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/13/beto-orourke-campaign-sells-hell-yes-were-going-to-take-your-ar-15-shirts/?
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Breaking….
“Earlier today, Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz notified Attorney General William Barr of the completion of his investigation into possible abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance of Act (FISA) by DOJ officials during the 2016 presidential election,” Collins said. “After the DOJ has a chance to review and comment on the report, it will be sent to the Judiciary Committee and made public.”
In a tweet, Collins added: “#FISA oversight falls squarely within the Judiciary Committee’s jurisdiction. We must address concerns outlined in the IG’s report. I’m calling on the chairman to schedule a hearing as soon as possible after Congress receives the report.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/51756/breaking-doj-inspector-general-has-finished-fisa-ryan-saavedra?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mattwalsh
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Well done Airman, well done! –
The Air Force Cross is the nation’s second-highest medal for combat valor, only after the Medal of Honor, and is “bestowed on members of the armed forces who display extraordinary heroism while engaged in action against an enemy of the United States,” according to a release from the Kentucky Air National Guard.
“[Keller] controlled the most aircraft, he dropped the most bombs — by a long shot I might add — and saved the men he was with,” Goldfein said during the Friday ceremony.
After 15 hours of combat, his force struck an improvised explosive device that killed four personnel and wounded 31 others, the release said. Keller, who also suffered a traumatic brain injury from the explosion, managed to direct airstrikes while returning fire, “repulsing an enemy assault” less than 500 feet away.
The award citation states that Keller helped move 13 critically wounded casualties to a helicopter landing zone “under a hail of enemy fire.”
“When medical evacuation helicopters were unable to identify the landing zone, he sprinted to the center of the field, exposing himself to enemy fire in order to marshal in both aircraft and aid in loading causalities,” according to the citation.
Keller then “repulsed a three-sided enemy attack by returning fire with his M-4 and passing enemy positions on to another joint terminal attack controller, allowing friendly forces to break contact” with the enemy. He later had to be medically evacuated for his injuries.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/special-operations-airman-awarded-heroic-actions-during-combat-193554875.html
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Looking to get some ink?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9922286/donald-trump-fan-tattoos/
Any one of this fine tats is sure to twist off the Nevada City TROLL farm.
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Just which one of 100 is a jiggered TROLL? It’s not good ol’ male and female.
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2019/09/13/bbc-tells-schoolchildren-there-are-over-100-genders/
“The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) tells primary schoolchildren that there are over 100 genders as part of its “Teach” video series, which has some concerned parents and observers up in arms.
“You know, there are so many gender identities,” declares the head teacher in response to child’s question. “We know that we have got male and female, but there are over 100, if not more, gender identities now.” “
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Financial impriority? Say it aint so. He gives white people a bad name.
http://dlvr.it/RD01bV
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A blast from the past (2017)
Dilbert 1, Scientists 0
“Her most telling comment was the Freudian slip at 1:06 when she says “There is incredible agreement about the drivers of climate science.” What she meant (and quickly corrected herself to say) was “climate change.” But her comment is revealing as regards the incredible agreement—i.e. groupthink –that drives climate science, and the individuals who do the driving. Myhre’s Freudian slip comes right after a clip in which Michael Mann emphatically declares that there are dozens of lines of evidence that all come together, “telling us the same thing,” adding “that’s how science works.” Really? The lines of evidence regarding climate do not all lead to one uniform point of view, nor is that how science works. If that’s how science worked there would be no need for research. But that’s how activists see it, and that’s the view they impose to drive climate science along in service of the activist agenda. As Dr. Myhre herself wrote in a recent op-ed:”
https://www.cato.org/blog/dilbert-1-scientists-0
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Child Exploitation? Greta Thunberg
“Speaking as a mother, I have a different perspective. I’m following Greta’s journey and I am appalled to see a minor being exploited to advance a political agenda. I would never permit one of my own children to be used in this way.
Greta already faced significant challenges before she rose to global fame. She talks openly about the fact that she’s been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She also has Selective Mutism, a condition defined by Britain’s National Health Service as “a severe anxiety disorder where a person is unable to speak in certain social situations, such as with classmates at school or to relatives they don’t see very often.”
Right now, Greta is the ideal spokesperson for climate-change alarmism. Her youthful fresh face and her braids are a novelty. She makes authoritarian pronouncements like: “Everyone and everything has to change so why waste precious time arguing about what and who needs to change first?”
Since Greta is only 16, no one can ask her tough questions – like how to square her goals with representative democracy. Anyone who criticizes her is vulnerable to the charge of bullying a child.”
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/stop-exploitation-greta-thunberg
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Flynn’s Lawyer is going after The Swamp.
“Also intriguing is Powell’s request for: “All payments, notes, memos, correspondence, and instructions by and between the FBI, CIA, or DOD with Stefan Halper—going back as far as 2014—regarding Michael Flynn, Svetlana Lokhova, Mr. Richard Dearlove (of MI6), and Professor Christopher Andrew (connected with MI5) and Halper’s compensation through the DOD Office of Net Assessment as evidenced by the whistleblower complaint of Adam Lovinger, addressed in our brief.”
What is fascinating about this request is that the uninformed will see the 2014 date as evidence that Powell is on a fishing expedition, while in reality, her bid for this information shows that Powell has in three short months pieced together more tiles in the mosaic of the Russia collusion fraud than Robert Mueller did in two years.
That is because the spying on Trump likely began with spying on Flynn, and involved not just the FBI, CIA, and Department of Defense, but their British counterparts, and dated back to Flynn’s time as President Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency director. Then after Flynn joined Trump’s team, Halper and the British crew peddled a fake story that Flynn was having an intrigue with a Russian agent named Svetlana Lokhova.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/12/sidney-powells-latest-motion-michael-flynns-case-russiagate-bombshell/
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,,,Republicans at work,
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjvea/north-carolina-republicans-tricked-democrats-on-911-because-otherwise-the-terrorists-win
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Dougy is going to those clickbait sites again,,, and believing it.
That’s what one does who lives on BrokeBack Ridge.
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Posted by: Walt | 14 September 2019 at 09:05 AM
The next time posters here object to being characterized as homophobic lets remember this post 🙂
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stevenf 918am – could you please elaborate for those of us who missed your keen insight about the real message in 905am?
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Hey Russ-
Remember when nigger and boy were neutral words?
Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 08 August 2019 at 02:34 PM
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@9:53 Apparently they still are, since those they designate use them to address each other all the time. What’s that all about?
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Posted by: Steven Frisch | 14 September 2019 at 09:18 AM
……what’s that sound…….dog whistle…….who heard it?
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Posted by: MM | 14 September 2019 at 08:50 AM
……..cough, cough……deemed as passed…….pass it to find out what’s in it…..cough!
Oh dugsKKKi……not everyone has reached your degree of memory loss!
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,,,yes Steve, Wally is in his own World,,,not Third World but Third Grade World
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MM = Mangled Mind…..
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Stevey.. You have money to beg for… Get to it.
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Cat fight: AOC’s claws come out after Elizabeth Heng’s ad:
“AOC predictably played the race card after Heng’s ad called her out for her support of socialism.
“Republicans are running TV ads setting pictures of me [AOC] on fire to convince people they aren’t racist. Life is weird!” she tweeted.
“She later added, “Know that this wasn’t an ad for young conservatives of color — that was the pretense. What you just watched was a love letter to the GOP’s white supremacist case.”
To which Heng replied:
“@AOC response is the Democratic party in a nutshell. They are more offended by truthful words than the acts of their political ideology that has killed millions of innocent victims. I don’t care about @AOC feelings — I care about stopping her lies about the lies of socialism,” Heng tweeted.
“Elizabeth Heng
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@ElizabethHeng
Not Republicans. Me. Are you really calling me a racist @aoc? I’m calling all Democrats out for supporting an evil ideology. Or are you just in Congress to hang out with celebrities and tweet out ridiculous ideas like the green new deal?”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/09/13/young-conservative-in-burning-face-ad-i-dont-care-about-aocs-feelings-824798
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When referencing a filthy TROLL sock puppet, any characterization is fair game.
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,,,Wally,,,check yourself,,,you are the poster of filth,,,own it!!!
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Bill,, The jehaud squad chick didn’t take issue with the image of Trump’s severed head raised high. That was OK.
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,,,file under the ”’Cowards”’ department,,,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-trumps-republican-challengers-canceling-gop-primaries-is-a-critical-mistake/2019/09/13/7a951c84-d665-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html?arc404=true
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Gotta do better mangled mind,,, Your PROGGY DNC has done the same damned thing. MANY times.
No need to post that fact.
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Those CA anti-vaxers are creating a bloody mess!
Protester hurls apparent menstrual blood in California Senate
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/protester-hurls-apparent-menstrual-blood-in-california-senate
What, was Milo addressing the issue?
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This is how you put a bullet in your own election bid.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/13/beto-orourke-campaign-sells-hell-yes-were-going-to-take-your-ar-15-shirts/
“The campaign’s web store is now selling a shirt with red, white, and blue letters promising widespread gun confiscation.
“Hell yes we’re going to take your AR-15” the shirt reads, followed by the “Beto for America” slogan.”
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Shades of Hillary:
NOAH: 2020 DEM CANDIDATES ARE WRAPPING THEMSELVES IN OBAMA’S LEGACY
‘He was getting so much love at tonight’s debate’ (when convenient). Short video.
https://news.grabien.com/story-noah-2020-dem-candidates-are-wrapping-themselves-obamas-lega
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Did Julián Castro commit elder abuse against Biden?
I do believe Kamala the Dirty Cop was tipsy during the debate. Laughing at her own jokes a wee bit too much.
Beto’s “Hell yes” words will be replayed over and over again for years to come. Well, no use wasting anymore ink on no-hopers like Kamala and O’Rourke.
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Looks like AB5 is making the Union Newspaper crazy. The state has decided that a “contractor” is really an employee and that will overhaul almost every business in the state and it ain’t good. Well, the newspapers all support these idiots of the left and this is what they get.
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ToddJ 1100am – Todd, pay attention. Please post this under the appropriate commentary. Thanks.
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OK folks, Better top off your gas tanks TODAY.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/massive-fire-after-drone-strike-hits-worlds-largest-oil-processing-facility-saudi
LIBERALS,,, you don’t need to worry. You guys don’t like oil as it is. So “be happy”.
Good thing we are exporting oil.. Thanks Trump…..
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Greece: Tensions Rise Again As Migrant Crisis Escalates
https://quillette.com/2019/09/13/greece-tensions-rise-again-as-migrant-crisis-escalates/
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Beta male beto’s selfishness came back to bite them in the ass –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/14/democrat-senators-fear-beto-orourke-torpedoed-gun-control-with-confiscation-push/
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Cruz nailed it –
https://www.breitbart.com/podcast/2019/09/13/flashback-politifact-rated-cruzs-claim-beto-wants-take-our-guns-false/
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DonB 1254pm – That’s an important point Mr Bessee. Liberals constantly cite PolitiFact as the issuer of stone tablets from the mount.
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Posted by: George Rebane | 14 September 2019 at 09:39 AM
Kind of surprised I need to source Walt’s cultural reference….Brokeback Mountain, by Ang Lee
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@ 12:54 pm.
Ain’t PolitiFact, but Politico!
Politico doubles down on stupid. Petty, unhinged, and stupid.
“One of the many rules of the road that have changed in the Trump era is that reporters have taken to blasting out their BREAKING NEWS about scandals that they haven’t actually proven to be scandals. There is so much hay to be made during this administration, so many reporters are becoming superstars, so many comfy houses in Bethesda are being bought with so many large book deals. Any fresh angle you can find on the iniquity of the administration is going to be lapped up eagerly by everyone you know. But what if your new angle isn’t . . . actually. . . the truth?
Danger lurks. It’s damned annoying how many watchmen there are to watch the watchmen these days. But in the end the temptation wins. The shaky story gets blasted out to everyone, it falls apart, and the soiled and tattered reputation of the news media acquires another stain. Short term, no biggie: Reporters know they won’t get fired for being wrong. They get a little dopamine hit of glory from the ersatz scoop, they go on with their lives. They live to fight Trumpism another day. Did Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier of BuzzFeed suffer for falsely reporting that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress? Nope. Their position is merely that maybe the story will turn out to be true someday. They haven’t even retracted the story, much less tendered their resignations, much less placed themselves in the stocks of the town square so that passersby can fire tomatoes at them. (BuzzFeed appended a weaselly note to the original story feebly expressing hope that more information would emerge that would back up their story. That ain’t how it works. You get it right first, then publish.)
Politico reporters Natasha Bertrand and Bryan Bender suspect President Trump has been directing Air Force flights to an obscure Scottish airport and fuel stop in order to generate business for his nearby hotel. Since the Obama-era Air Force also used the fuel point (which Trump has no interest in) scores of times, and since those troops also understandably stayed at the hotel because it’s affordable and close to the airport, there is only a scandal here if Trump, or someone operating at Trump’s direction, is ordering the Air Force to do things differently than it ordinarily would in order to benefit Trump. The numbers at issue here are paltry. The hotel is charging $130 a night. How much of that winds up in Trump’s pocket, 11 cents? Bender and Bertrand inform us in dire tones that Air Force crews have made “at least four stays” at the Trump resort in the last year. How much do four stays at a cheap hotel really mean to a billionaire?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/trump-turnberry-hotel-air-force-stays-no-scandal/
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 14 September 2019 at 01:16 PM
Billionaire?
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Keep it up socialist dem clown car occupants. –
The emphasis there was on people who had criminal records, people who posed a danger, a public safety risk,” Holder, who served under former President Obama, said of the Obama administration’s policy in a CNN interview released Saturday.
“Democrats have to understand that…borders mean something,” he added.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2019/09/14/eric-holder-democrats-need-to-know-that-borders-mean-something/
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,,,Inquiring minds want to know,,, Will the Trump character in the upcoming Constitution Parade be sporting a pocket protector full of Sharpies???
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“Liberals constantly cite PolitiFact as the issuer of stone tablets from the mount.” ruminators constantly cite Breitbart.
“Overall, we rate Breitbart Questionable based on extreme right wing bias and publication of numerous false claims.”
Politifact: minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes). The reporting is factual and usually sourced. These are the most credible media sources.
source: media bias/fact check
so you all tell me which is more reliable Politifact or Breitbart?
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This could cement the farmers for the R’s –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/13/democrats-propose-to-block-trumps-farm-aid-program-putting-u-s-farmers-at-serious-risk/
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and in the ” if you tell a lie loud enough and long enough ruminators will believe it” category : the Donald tweeted this morning “A Very Stable Genius! Thank you. ” Just who is he trying to kid? He tells so many jokes like seeking a third term, that he wanted to give himself the medal of honor, being the chosen one.. etc. it’s hard to know when he is being funny. You know like the jerk who says something rude and then says they are only kidding when you know they weren’t.
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It’s OK Stevey,, a LIB has to have “lite in the loafers” tendencies to stay in political good standings of the Proggy party.
Your supposed to be out by the stoplight with your cardboard sign seeking SBC funds. Not whining about what others post.
Oh.. Yes… now don’t say a word about the predicted early SNOW. You know,,, AGW and all.
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,,,Yes Wally,,,we all know that random snowstorms are proof positive of global cooling!!!
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Nice try mangled mind… “random” LOL!! That’s your reasoning?
But you and yours claim global warming. Think about that.
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Walt doesn’t believe that the Sierra can and does get snow every month of the year. It’s kind of like he was amazed when a volcano erupted on Hawaii. 103 in Santa Cruz yesterday – proof of global warming?? Idiot. No wonder he is unemployed when there is only 4% unemployment.
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We rate PolitiFact as half baked.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/08/31/politifact-slams-associating-biden-kkk-leader-robert-byrd
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Keep going O jiggered one. your BS keeps getting better and better “Gets snow every month of the year”. Step back and away from the crack pipe.
Not “amazed” the Hawaiian volcano blew.. I was expecting it.
All the signs were there. Nice try fool.
And just makes you think I’m unemployed? WRONG again wheezr.
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AAHhhhhhh…. The “peaceful” Liberal…..
They don’t like it when you refuse to bow to the anti gun crowd.
““People try to use the law to silence dissenters in America, and I will not bow down or kneel down to it,” he continued. “I’ve not deleted the tweet and I’m still waiting on Twitter to reauthorize me to go back on.”
Cain said police are “currently protecting my wife and children from death threats from these very peaceful liberals.” ”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/13/defiant-texas-lawmaker-speaks-says-family-death-threats-beto-tweet/
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