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[On the face of it I am not in favor of withdrawing US troops from Syria, especially viz the Kurds.  My own long-stated Rebane Doctrine is that the US must continue its role as the world's white hat policeman (hegemon) using responses and methods that will evolve with needs and time.  But before we continue hyper-ventilating on the withdrawal, can someone cite the exact parameters of Trump's withdrawal announcement – e.g. is it more than pulling a few tens of troops back from the 20-mile buffer zone?  gjr]

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  1. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Gregory 9:56 — You are quickly earning the top spot in the Clouseau sweepstakes. It is good thing you print your own money because you have made so many bad bets that if you were dealing in dollars, or franks, or rubles you would surely be destitute by now.

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  2. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    J. Barron | 16 October 2019 at 08:19 AM
    Your Doug Keachie impressions are just too funny. What a moron.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, it’s getting closer and closer to Obama. Sumbitch, it is all about Obama
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/top-diplomat-testified-that-obama-admin-not-international-community-orchestrated-ukraine-prosecutors-firing/
    ———————-
    In other news, the 3rd Baltimore mayor in a row leaves office in a cloud of shame. Dem born and Dem breed.

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Daily Quotes
    For the record: “2020 Democrats doubled down on their radical, socialist ideas that would bring our great American comeback to a halt. Their proposals would destroy millions of jobs, kick hundreds of millions off of their health care plans, increase government control over nearly every aspect of their lives — and it would all come at an astronomical cost to taxpayers.” —RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
    Political futures: “It is clear that Warren has supplanted Sanders as the leader of the progressive movement in the Democratic field. As a result, it will be difficult — if not impossible — for Sanders to reestablish himself ahead of Warren.” —Doug Schoen
    From the Lack of Self-Awareness Department: “Democratic politicians seem to spend about half the day accusing President Trump of trashing vaguely defined Constitutional norms — and the other half explaining how they plan to trash enumerated Constitutional rights.” —James Freeman
    Hyperventilating hyperbole: “There are states that have passed laws that will virtually prevent women from having access to reproductive health care. And it is not an exaggeration to say women will die. Poor women, women of color will die because these Republican legislatures in these various states who are out of touch with America are telling women what to do with their bodies.” —Sen. Kamala Harris
    Socialist bloviating: “The truth is, we cannot afford to continue this level of income and wealth inequality, and we cannot afford a billionaire class whose greed and corruption has been at war with the working families of this country for 45 years. If you are asking me, ‘Do I think we should demand that the wealthy start paying — the wealthiest, the top 1% — start paying their fair share of taxes so we can create a nation and a government that works for all of us?’ yes, that’s exactly what I believe.” —Sen. Bernie Sanders (“I remember when Bernie Sanders used to believe billionaires AND millionaires shouldn’t exist. Why does he just attack billionaires now? Because he’s a multi-millionaire who made all of his money stealing from the American people.” —Charlie Kirk)
    Non compos mentis: “I hate when people talk about black women being obese. I hate it because it becomes a way to blame us for a set of conditions that we didn’t create. We are living in the Trump era. And look, those policies kill our people. You can’t get access to good health care, good insurance. … It’s literally that the racism that you’re experiencing and the struggle to make ends meet actually means the diet don’t [sic] work for you the same.” —Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper
    “So, just so we’re clear, you can say ‘my body, my choice’ when it comes to killing your baby, but I can’t say ‘my money, my choice’ when it comes to paying for it?” —Allie Beth Stuckey

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Creepy grampa joe has a cash flow problem at the same time he is falling in the pols –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/joe-biden-bleeding-cash-spent-163455869.html
    😉

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  6. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Looks like the socialist dem clown car crashed! –
    CNN fails to draw viewers as Dem debate ratings sink to new low for 2019
    https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-debate-ratings-low-viewership
    😉

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Kind of hard to do anything significant when you are dragged behind the socialist clown car like botox Nancy. –
    Exclusive Video — White House’s Peter Navarro Pushes Nancy Pelosi to Pass US-Mexico-Canada Agreement: ‘More Important than Any China Deal’
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/exclusive-video-white-houses-peter-navarro-pushes-nancy-pelosi-to-pass-us-mexico-canada-agreement-more-important-than-any-china-deal/
    😉

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  8. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    Odd that non our beloved Lefties who frequent here have any desire to discuss last night’s 4th Democrat Debate.
    I missed the exciting attention grabbing Dem candidates on parade due to no interest myself, but rumor has it that nary a question on Climate Change (our extinction) or immigration was brought up. I ain’t no rocket science neither a brain surgeon, but it appears to me that the Leftinistas are out of step with the majority of the American voters when it comes to third trimester abortions and open borders.
    With the above laid bare for all to see, I did read two Pat Sajak tweets that summed up all the reporting pretty accurately.
    1). With one minute left before the debate started, Sajak tweeted, “I’m all goose-bumpy waiting for it to start.”
    2). Three minutes later and two minutes into the debate, Sajak followed with, “I’m done.”
    Yep, some of us ain’t in to that masochistic stuff.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Bill. The pet LIBS don’t want to go anywhere near any debate.
    They know they lost.

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  10. Walt Avatar

    What did they expect? Trump to lean over and kiss their ass?
    Chucky and Nan got what was coming to them.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-dems-trump-syria-white-house-meeting-storm-out

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  11. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is some context for what the socialist dems are really up to with the faux impeachment –
    Certainly not former Vice President Joseph R. Biden. If anything, Mr. Biden has been set ablaze atop the altar as a sacrifice in this massive international cover-up by Democrats.
    The sleaze and dishonesty and self-dealing that oozes from the Biden name these days will leave a permanent stain on his nearly half-century political career.
    “I don’t know. I don’t know,” said Hunter “The Leech” Biden, when asked whether he could have gotten a job making $50,000 a month from a Ukrainian gas company if his last name hadn’t been “Biden” at a time when his daddy was vice president of the United States.
    “Probably not, in retrospect,” The Leech allowed. “But that’s — you know — I don’t think that there’s been a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn’t Biden.”
    Game. Set. Match.
    That is all anybody needs to know about the Biden family and whether they were open for bribery in Ukraine or China or anywhere else in the world.
    The key to understanding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s coup conspiracy against the president has nothing to do with Mr. Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine. Instead, it has everything to do with all the fake Russia nonsense they have been barking about for the past three years — but are suddenly very quiet about today.
    When was the last time you heard any major Democratic persecutor in Congress utter the word “Russia”?
    As Sherlock Holmes would say, it is the dog that DIDN’T bark. Which brings us to the “whom” that Democrats are sacrificing all in an effort to protect: former President Barack Obama.
    Currently, there are a handful of very, very serious probes by nonpartisan prosecutors bound by rules of fairness and due process looking into the origins of the Obama administration’s spying operation on the campaign of a political opponent at the height of the 2016 election season.
    This is and always has been the most gravely serious matter in the whole fake Russia “collusion” saga. People go to jail for doing things like this in America. And it’s not just former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper or ex-CIA Director John Brennan and dirty FBI agents like Peter Strzok who face devastating consequences if it can be proved they used their massive government powers in an effort to destroy a political opponent.
    It could reach deep into the White House. It could reach the top.
    This is why Mrs. Pelosi has dropped Russia and collusion and stopped talking about the Mueller report or all the fantasies laid out in the “dirty dossier” that Democrats paid foreign agents to dig up on Mr. Trump from Russian sources.
    It is also why Mrs. Pelosi refuses to run the current impeachment “inquiry” with even a hint of due process or fairness. If the minority — or the executive branch — were afforded the fairness that attended past impeachments, Republicans would gain subpoena powers to call witnesses.
    Do you think Republicans might like to question Mr. Brennan or Mr. Clapper under oath about who authorized espionage against political opponents during the height of a presidential campaign?
    Of course they would. But Mrs. Pelosi will never let them get that close to Mr. Obama.
    So … Ukraine! Joe Biden be damned.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/the-nuclear-option-democrats-sacrificing-biden-to-protect-obama/
    😉

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Howdy Walt.
    I guess we live in different universes than the criminally insane.
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/aiden-jackson/2019/10/16/msnbc-analyst-media-concerned-not-offending-trump-voters
    Can anybody say, “Lack of Self Awareness?” t’s the surest sign that somebody is a Lefty
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2019/10/16/pompous-chuck-todd-insists-hes-someone-who-doesnt-live-partisan
    Anybody seen the whistleblower lately?? It’s like he/she vanished. Maybe the mystery person took a job with the Post Office. They have a track record of hiring the disgruntled. Come to think of it, I heard there was nary a word about Russians interfering in our elections at last night’s debate. If someone actually sat through all the boredom without nodding off, please set me straight if I am incorrect. Anyway…..
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/10/16/bozell-graham-column-incredible-vanishing-whistleblower
    Man, with all the excitement from the debate last night, one would think the Dems here would be all pumped up and overflowing with confidence and euphoria…like a Trump rally energizes his base. Odd. Not even a peep. I guess it is out of respect watching the Dem death march. A solemn affair, for sure.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    And Pig Wiggly-Ozz-Rock Humper-Von john smith Barron will call us ‘Musk Haters’ in 5…4…3….2……1. “I know you guys don’t like Elon Musk, but….”
    “SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s infamous pot-smoking incident last year prompted NASA to order a mandatory review of the federal contractor’s workplace culture — but taxpayers, not the company, are bearing the cost, according to contracting records reviewed by POLITICO.
    “The space agency agreed to pay SpaceX $5 million in May to cover the cost of the review, which includes educating its employees and ensuring they are following strict guidelines for federal contractors barring illegal drug use.”
    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/nasa-musk-weed-048099
    Dope for the boss, not the underlings. The worker bees have to focus. Musk has the best grass.

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So team 0’s swamp creatures are in cahoots with the Nazi/Soviet secret courts the socialist dems are gaming us with. Screw them! The last time I checked foreign policy is an executive branch function. No tail wagging the dog bitches! –
    “It’s partly because this shadow foreign policy that the president was running was so deeply offensive to people in his own administration who took pride in overseeing a professionally run and arguably exemplary policy in support of Ukraine,” said Representative Tom Malinowski, Democrat of New Jersey and a former State Department official involved in the inquiry. Referring to Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, he added, “And then to see the official policy undermined by this clownishly corrupt effort led by Rudy Giuliani on behalf of the president was just more than many people apparently could bear.”
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-impeachment-blockade-crumbles-as-witnesses-agree-to-talk/ar-AAITzEc?li=BBnb7Kz
    😉

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  15. Walt Avatar

    Why THANKS Adam the Schiv..
    ““Let the chips fall where they may,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff declared, seemingly throwing some of his Democrat colleagues under the bus.
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/16/schiff-not-worried-about-impeachment-probe-hurting-vulnerable-dems-let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may/
    Nothing like knifing your own.

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  16. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    How about a happy ending! Lawsuit against gun manufacturers tossed by Federal Judge with prejudice. So much for Judge shopping.
    “WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) welcomes the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division’s dismissal with prejudice of the Primus Group v. Smith & Wesson, et. al. case. The decision was delivered Oct. 9, brushing aside the frivolous claims against several AR-15 firearms manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson, Remington Arms Company, Sig Sauer, Sturm, Ruger & Company, Colt’s Manufacturing and Armalite.
    “This decision by the federal judge to dismiss with prejudice this frivolous case is pleasing, if not unexpected,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Public Affairs and General Counsel. “These are lawful and federally-regulated AR-15 modern sporting rifle manufacturers that make semiautomatic rifles for lawful purposes. The judge was absolutely correct to assert that the proper venue to establish public firearms policy is through the legislature and not the courts.”
    https://www.nssf.org/nssf-welcomes-federal-courts-dismissal-of-case-against-firearms-manufacturers/
    Fun facts: There are more AR-15’s in America than Ford F-150 trucks. (14 million)

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  17. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Roflmao.
    I think we just witnessed a tiger changing its stripes in quick fashion. With one billion potential new customers with lucrative contracts, money talks and social justice bull pucky walks.
    Now shut the f up and entertain us. It’s your job classification.
    “NBA superstar LeBron James announced Tuesday that he’ll no longer be talking about the league’s latest scandal concerning Communist China as it’s a “huge political thing” and basketball players are “not politicians.”……
    “James, of course, has been unflinchingly political in the past. In 2016, the Ohio native endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president, even attending one of her campaign rallies. He also spoke out against the Trump administration’s immigration policies in February 2017, as reported by USA Today, and ironically emphasized, “It’s important that we as athletes continue to use the platform we have to speak up for what we believe in.”
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-hyper-political-lebron-says-he-wont-talk-china-because-were-not-politicians?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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  18. Walt Avatar

    The Queen of the DAMNED got told where to shove it. Not the ass kissing she was expecting.
    “The President was measured, factual and decisive, while Speaker Pelosi’s decision to walk out was baffling, but not surprising,” Grisham said. “She had no intention of listening or contributing to an important meeting on national security issues. While democratic leadership chose to storm out and get in front of the cameras to whine, everyone else in the meeting chose to stay in the room and work on behalf of this country.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-dems-trump-syria-white-house-meeting-storm-out
    So triggered jiggered BOOB,, just when is you mistress from hell going to impeach Trump?
    She’s as gutless as you are.

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Shifty Pencil Neck Shiftylipps swings on and misses….again. Byron York
    When Volker repeatedly declined to agree to Schiff’s characterization of events, Schiff said, “Ambassador, you’re making this much more complicated than it has to be.”……….
    “Much of the coverage of Volker’s testimony focused on his opening statement, which made its way to the media. (Washington Post headline: “Volker defends Biden as ‘man of integrity’ in testimony to Congress.”) But there was much more to the testimony than the opening statement. Among other things, it showed how Schiff, as a powerful chairman in charge of impeachment, pursues his theory of the case even when a witness gives testimony that does not support it.”
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 10:37 pm sez:
    “The Queen of the DAMNED got told where to shove it. Not the ass kissing she was expecting.”
    Aha! It all makes sense now. Those ladies and young children giving that uncomfortable look when Biden was fondling and smelling their hair was not due to Biden’s unwelcomed violation of space. It was because Biden’s breath smelled like Obama’s ass.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4OYPiV1GsY

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  21. Walt Avatar

    Think twice ECO bastards, the masses are turning on you.
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/london-climate-change-protest-commuters-rush-hour-snarl-tube-train
    Better no glue anything important to anything.

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Jig Wiggly | 17 October 2019 at 08:55 AM

    Again….your profound blindness to nuance is probably why journalism attracted you…….

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar

    For your reading pleasure:
    Fox polls show Warren, no less, up by 10 over Trump.
    This is the current situatin. Trumps call of “see you at the polls” doesn’t look very good.
    “Pelosi and Hoyer stood and left the meeting. As they did, Trump said, “Goodbye, we’ll see you at the polls.”
    https://www.apnews.com/4fd1feb8a5f0403993fa1e4669758c7b

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 17 October 2019 at 09:20 AM
    Fox polls show Warren, no less, up by 10 over Trump.

    ….yawn……

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  25. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Paul-
    You are correct. And as Swamp Trump is drained, page by page, his standing will only worsen. Public perception is everything when it comes to voting, and The Donald is neck deep in bad swamp quick mud. He can only stage more side shows when events like his turning over American military bases to the Russians, thousands of ISIS being released, and of course the impeachment hearings (being drug along slowly by choreographer Pelosi) proceed. The strong economy Trump inherited from Obama is finally starting to slide. Straw grasping is at hand.

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  26. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Looks like the democrats are now the warmongers. And they are being exposed as the most corrupt people and party since Teapot. Obama is right in there too. Now he has a fifteen million dollar house on the beach. I wonder how that works. At least Trump has his own money he actually earned. So there it is. Paul Emery and Jiggy etal are now the warmongers and crooks. What a hoot!

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  27. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Is this clown trying to lose the next election? Holding a G7 summit at his own hotel is proof of his need to fill his ego and pocket book over common sense.

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Jbaroom, war monger. Sad

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I certainly hope that Elijah’s corpse does not get eaten by rats. Oh Lord, you can smell the rats.
    Wonder how this will affect Rockymoore’s investigation? The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out.
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/top-democrat-elijah-cummings-wife-may-have-gained-illegal-private-benefit-from-his-committee-activities
    Man, you can smell the rats.

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  30. J. Barron Avatar
    J. Barron

    Go for it Toddy-
    Not sure what your comment means, but that seems to be the story of your like. You are your own inside joke.
    Mr Orange pointing fingers at Biden and soooo incensed that Biden’s son may have used family ties to enrich himself is . . . so rich. At the same time Trump is renting his own resort to governments around the world. Nothing to do with amassing wealth due to family ties.

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  31. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    J baroon, you are a war monger and a baby killer. That is you and your ilk today. Why deny it? Sad.

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    You are a disgusting human being. Making jokes about a dead mans body while his family is in mourning.

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Punchy,
    You should hear the jokes we (The Royal We) will be saying when you meet your demise. I may even stop by your carcass and have myself a cold one followed by a cigarette. A smoke and a pancake.

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  34. George Rebane Avatar

    I draw your attention to the latest ‘Ruminations’ post for your relevant comments. Thank you.

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  35. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Who would have thought you would be seeing this a year or two ago? –
    (Reuters) – Mexico has deported over 300 Indian nationals to New Delhi, the National Migration Institute (INM) said late on Wednesday, in what it described as an unprecedented transatlantic deportation.
    The 310 men and one woman that INM said were in Mexico illegally were sent on a chartered flight, accompanied by federal immigration agents and Mexico’s National Guard.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexico-flies-300-indian-migrants-175147045.html
    😉

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  36. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Elijah became a millionaire while a Congressman. His District is a rat-infested garbage dump. How did that happen?

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  37. George Rebane Avatar

    ToddJ 200pm – I imagine he made his millions like all the rest of the congresscritters make theirs – careful budgeting, prudent investments, a solid savings program, shopping for bargains, and avoiding a lavish lifestyle.
    To illustrate this man’s financial acumen, he got admitted to the bar in 1976 and entered politics in 1983. He continued practicing law while a Maryland legislator, no doubt managing to keep separate his private practice and public service finances until 1996 when he was elected to Congress to become a full time public servant. Coming from an intrinsically corrupt constituency, he clearly showed extraordinary character in not being swept up in the sleazy deals and payoffs that his colleagues in the both the Maryland and Congressional legislatures were involved. A self-made man if there ever was one.

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  38. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Toddywhack-
    Elijah had a very successful law practice for 20 years before he decided to retire (a wealthy man) and serve the public. What have you done with your life other than try cut down others to your level of crap?

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  39. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    More Trouble for Trump as described by Fox news legal analyst Napolitano. Trump is such a total idiot and thinks he’s above the law.
    “In the wake of acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s announcement this Thursday that next year’s G7 summit will be hosted at President Trump’s Doral golf club, Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano pointed out that Trump would be violating the emoluments clause if he were to go through with the move.
    At the outset of the segment, Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto said that the announcement is “effectively saying the president has given himself this contract.”
    According to Napolitano, the Constitution “does not address profits, it addresses any present, as in a gift, any emolument as in cash of any kind whatever. I’m quoting the emoluments clause, from any king, prince or foreign state.”
    “[Trump] has bought himself an enormous headache now with the choice of this,” he continued. “This is about as direct and profound a violation of the emoluments clause as one could create.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/a-profound-emoluments-clause-violation-andrew-napolitano-slams-trumps-hosting-the-g7-at-doral/

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  40. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yeah Jig
    Todd can’t even keep a job in an organization he helped to found (CABPRO).
    Everybody knows what happened so he can’t deny it.

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  41. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Paul- know an entire county who will be visiting Todd’s grave, and it won’t be raining flowers.

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Jig Wiggly | 17 October 2019 at 02:25 PM
    Oh my Jiggy-pooh, you crack me up. You are a troll so I give your criticism and jealousy no mind. What a hoot.
    Paul Emery knows nothing about what he implies and that too makes me laugh. And he was one of those hypocrites that cry about low-income housing and got one himself in Nevada City I heard. Does it have toilets? What a crack up.

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  43. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Jig Wiggly | 17 October 2019 at 02:59 PM
    Don’t care. What a hoot!

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT: “Punchy,
    You should hear the jokes we (The Royal We) will be saying when you meet your demise. I may even stop by your carcass and have myself a cold one followed by a cigarette. A smoke and a pancake.”
    I was thinking more along the lines of a hot one, but I hope the cops don’t catch me.

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  45. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Close your eyes and imagine Napolitano as a Supreme Court justice.

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  46. Jig Wiggly Avatar
    Jig Wiggly

    Todd, you asked the question how did Elijah come into money. You simply can’t bear the answer. A black liberal with multiple college degrees out performed you in every measurable way.

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