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280 responses to “Sandbox – 31oct19”
Administrivia – I draw your kind attention to the updated ‘Democrats’ Big Lies …’.
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to B…S at 1:15 PM:
There are approximately 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the United States, according to estimates by the American Trucking Association. So a drop of 4,000 is about 0.1%. That’s in the dirt on a national basis. It’s a problem if you are one of the 4000, but insignificant elsewhere.
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Anyone else notice what Trump HASN’T done?
He hasn’t outed the special forces men by name like “O” did.
“O” made sure that SEAL team’s days were numbered. He hung targets on their backs.
Trump wants to keep this latest team on the job.
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The man sure knows how to make the socialist dems howl! –
In announcing the impending visit, Trump again posted an altered image of him presenting a medal to the dog. The Daily Wire had created the image by taking an Associated Press photo of an actual medal presentation by Trump and replacing the human recipient with the canine hero.
“Thank you Daily Wire,” Trump tweeted after midnight Wednesday. “Very cute recreation, but the ‘live’ version of Conan will be leaving the Middle East for the White House sometime next week!”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/military-dog-hurt-al-baghdadi-215751697.html
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I think we should award Bobbie with the Medal of Pawner.
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Good speech Joe!! ” If you REALLY want to make money,,BE a Republican” -J. Biden
Yes! Keep him talking He’s the best salesman to elect Trump, and the LIBS worst nightmare.
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Mismanage a Democrat run city? Why, just sue for Climate Change ‘Damages’.
“A major driver of legal precedent denying the use of nuisance ordinances comes from an Obama-era Supreme Court ruling. In the 8-0 American Electric Power v. Connecticut decision in 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations cannot be sued for greenhouse gas emissions because the Clean Air Act specifically tasks the Environmental Protection Agency and Congress with the proper regulatory authority. Put another way, only the executive and legislative branches – not the judicial branch – may regulate and impose climate change policy. That precedent was properly cited last year when New York City’s climate lawsuit was bounced out of court. Also last year, a federal judge dismissed Oakland and San Francisco’s lawsuit for being outside the court’s authority.”
https://issuesinsights.com/2019/10/31/the-shameless-hypocrisy-of-cities-suing-for-climate-change-damages/
BTW, Spokane, WA just had its coldest October on record. Baby, it’s cold outside and winter is a’coming….in a couple of months.
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Bill.. Don’t tell Emery that. He still things it’s getting warmer.
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Democracy dies in Dankness. Yes, dankness.
“The Washington Post’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Reporting misconstrued facts, making knowingly deceptive omissions, and writing columns defending terrorists are just a few things Washington Post journalists were up to this week.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/01/the-washington-post-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week/
Can’t wait for the next thing the Wa Compost will defend.
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2019/11/image014-copy.jpg?w=450&ssl=1
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Re ‘Climate Change’, a reader/correspondent sent me the following observation and link – “Interesting study you’re not likely to see in the mainstream media anytime soon.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/nasa-natural-causes-behind-polar-melt/?fbclid=IwAR3W1gv2nMaChgO6qkASDbBNbg1p3dkBUQN-oS-qgdQ0lVIeLnrtsOB20Bo
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Careful what you wish for.
“Left Fears Twitter’s Ad Ban Will Remove ‘Climate Change’ Ads”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/techwatch/corinne-weaver/2019/11/01/left-fears-twitters-ad-ban-will-remove-climate-change-ads
Good to see Climate Change has been taken out of the realm of science and put in its proper category, aka, ‘political.’
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I could be wrong, but only 1 in 3 American workers have a college degrees (per memory.). And that should keep the Dems up at night. Trump may have a shot to increase his base…depending who emerges out of the Clown Car which is driving on two wheels tilting far left.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/11/trump-reelection-campaign-white-working-class-democratic-nominee/
Plus the Left’s contempt for all those outside the “in-crowd” always works in Trump’s favor.
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Socialism and the City: Is There a Connection?
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/socialism-and-city-there-connection
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The star chamber is not playing well with actual voters –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/01/poll-65-agree-with-gop-that-democrats-shouldve-held-public-impeachment-hearings/
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Another poll: Go woke, go broke.
98% of Latinos do not want to be called ‘Latinx’
“Despite efforts by woke media members, presidential candidates, and social activists, a new nationwide poll reveals Hispanic people reject the made-up word “Latinx” with near unanimity.“
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/01/98-percent-of-latinos-dont-want-to-be-called-latinx/
Hmmm. The same woke crowd who decries gender inequality in pay out of one side of their mouths also reject the concept of gender out of the other side of their mouths.
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Who runs the joint? The smoking gun revealed.
“Consider for a moment the implications of his term “higher call.” Rather than obey the Constitution’s grant of power over the executive branch to the president, a subordinate official claims the right to subvert lawfully ordered policies because he disagrees with them, and to conspire to engineer his ouster from office. In essence, he is claiming that his former agency, the CIA, has the right to make and carry out policy regardless of what the elected officials chosen by voters want. This is not the constitutional republic, but rather a dictatorship of unaccountable bureaucrats.
“This is precisely the attitude taken by McLaughlin’s counterparts in the FBI, Comey, McCabe, and Strzok among others. It is sedition.
“McLaughlin puts the lie to the claims of many progressive politicians and journalists that the notion of a deep state is a “nutty conspiracy theory.”
“Watch and fear for the future of our republic, unless deep state conspirators are prosecuted for their crimes.“
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/11/a_stunning_confession_from_a_deep_state_member_subverting_the_constitutional_republic.html
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Yup, the local rag that still claims to be a news paper
sure is on the ball with news.
Someone drove off the cliff at the Bridgeport parking lot and
landed in the river, with a fatality.
That was this morning.
You can bet if it was bad news against Trump, it would have been on the website before noon.
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Who runs the joint, Part 2.
The Impeachment Dog Bites Orange Man Scam
We are asked to believe that the nation is being saved. In fact, some very dirty dogs are biting American voters.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/01/the-impeachment-dog-bites-orange-man-scam/
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Where is Emery? I found a couple of AGW real estate agents looking for his business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORyzsMZPPUg&list=RDORyzsMZPPUg&start_radio=1&t=0
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Book these guys Emery!! They look and sound like Nevada City locals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWt6Vu0evs
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Who runs the joint, Part 3.
“Further, long before Trump arrived there was so much institutional pressure and money sloshing around in the federal government, not mention the trips through the revolving door between already well-compensated federal jobs and even better compensated special interests. Any responsible person ought dispense with the idea that civil servants are always, well, civil. And they ought to apply the same level of appropriate scrutiny and suspicion to federal employees in the news as we do politicians. At least with politicians we have ourselves to blame, but nobody elects an “interagency consensus.”
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/01/donald-trump-versus-the-interagency-consensus/
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This somehow sounds like something that we may see when conan goes t the WH –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/02/combat-veterans-call-for-hero-dog-conan-to-receive-purple-heart/
😉
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Don the LIBS even lost that “dog fight”.
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Oh Dear,,,Trumple’s majestic, perfect, Great Wall, is a great fail!!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html
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,,,Rake,Rake,Rake
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/Trump-tweets-on-wildfire-aid-to-California-No-14805737.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email
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Big in’s 751am – When you study the design and function of ‘field fortifications’ – of which border walls are a part – then you are taught that no such barriers work unattended – all such unattended barriers can be eventually breached. Therefore all field fortifications, such as our border wall, must be manned at some level depending on its design. The better the design, the lower intensity manning is required to maintain any given level of porosity or penetration. These concepts have been difficult for progressives and leftists to understand as witnessed from the media, and even from your own naive assessment.
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Guess I will put this here. Inspired by Russ’s Oct 31, 6:17am comment under ‘Sacramento Owns The Blackout’, but touches on too many issues to put under one topic.
Is CA going premodern? The Knowledge Gap
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/how-the-world-to-the-dark-tower-came/
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Since you all are so in tune with the news, you probably know that trumpler was booed at the World Series and later in the week at a MMA event. How come the only place trumpler doesn’t get booed is at his own rallies?
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Good Morning Hobart,, Nice to see the other half of the gullible brothers show up.
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“Hobart Cross” 949am
If you are not Bob Hobart, who sometimes posts here under his own name, you should probably abandon this sock here and now.
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,,,Nice try George@829AM,,,
Just shows to go ya how clueless Trumpski is that he cannot comprehend little details like “field fortification patrols” and only focuses on majestic construction projects he can put his name on…
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Well, The Dems are actually discussing legislation. Good to see the Dems getting back to the new normal.
“Other legislation that has been introduced amid the impeachment inquiry includes a bill seeking to dissolve the Electoral College, a measure authorizing pay raises for federal workers and the federal Green New Deal.”
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Posted by: BigAnus | 03 November 2019 at 10:42 AM
Just shows to go ya how clueless Trumpski is that he cannot comprehend little details like “field fortification patrols”
EXCELLENT! Put dugsKKKi down for belt fed .50 cals on the border!
Jeez dugsKKKi……this is almost as unexpected as you coming out in favor of the cheap labor lobby (Jr. Koch Bros. Division)!
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HobartC 949am – This may come as news to you Mr Cross (you don’t sound like Bob Hobart), but the audience at the more broadly attended events that you cite also cleave more closely to the attitudinal breakdown of the country’s population. There our lamestream media and public educational system have taken their existential toll on the nation’s intellect, knowledge base, and understanding of current events which is on prominent display on such occasions when President Trump attends. Among themselves it’s cool to dis Trump, and demonstrating such membership to each other in the woke society is de rigueur. Most of them want the socialists’ promised fundamental transformation of America, and many of them are willing to give communism a try. Here’s what Harvard found out about young people’s political attitudes.
https://iop.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/content/190419_Harvard%20IOP%20Spring%202019_Topline.pdf
Am glad you’re trying to expand your mind. Next question?
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Fish.. Now don’t forget the landmines, motion sensing lasers.
A great place for aria denial R&D.
Hey Dougy.. Fill every third bar with explosives. The one with the torch can guess just which one.
Have you started selling shovels down at the border yet?
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,,,Yes Wally,,,I have the Husky dealership in TJ,,,
https://www.contractorsdirect.com/husqvarna-k970-concrete-chain-saw?gclid=Cj0KCQjw9fntBRCGARIsAGjFq5HxuQFgndrmiF16DTFYBbPyx5O7ZoqzEAx5Iw1JeIgqH0eEfEk2XjoaAkIYEALw_wcB
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Now the Epstein is back in the news and not as self inflicted as some wanted us to believe. So… How did Hillary do it?
She get the Brits MI6 to do the dirty work? They has a dog in that fight too. They had a Royal’s honor to protect.
I better get the family writer on the job. There is millions to be made here, and no one has the rights to it.
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,,,Trump can only get cheers from his lemmings,,,
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/donald-trump-draws-loud-boos-164436783.html
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,,,Wally,,, I thought you stopped smoking herb,,,but you sound paranoid. Can you say P I Z Z A G A T E???
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Go article.
It’s Time for ‘LGB’ and ‘T’ to Go Their Separate Ways
https://quillette.com/2019/10/26/its-time-for-lgb-and-t-to-go-their-separate-ways/
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Pizzagate? Still can’t get delivery to nowhere ridge?
Yup only you will think that’s a crime.
You can’t get good info up there either.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-homicide-autopsy-michael-baden.html
Don’t see anything in that story about pizza.
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Posted by: BIgAnus | 03 November 2019 at 12:01 PM
Can you say P I Z Z A G A T E???
P I Z Z A G A T E???
Qanon told me to say that!
This is Qanon and I approve this message
Qanon 2020 Info Super PAC
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Tru Dat! –
Following alleged attempts by Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal to stop author Lee Smith’s book from being published, Smith spoke about Russiagate on “Sunday Morning Futures” and claimed the entire saga was a political hit, intended to help Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Smith discussed the involvement of Stefan Halper, who he claimed was a political operative being paid exorbitant sums of money to help bring down then-candidate Donald Trump, under the cover of conducting “studies” on foreign governments.
“What we see is these are not actual studies — we hear that he was reportedly the FBI’s confidential source, sent against the Trump campaign,” he told host Maria Bartiromo.
“What he really is… is a political operative,” Smith continued. “This was a political operation designed to assist the Clinton campaign. We talk a lot about the FBI, and DOJ and we’re right to focus on the very bad, likely criminal things they did. But it’s important to remember that the primary beneficiary was the Clinton campaign.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/russia-trump-clinton-halper-blumenthal
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The littlest commie congresscritter said she will buy her a train ticket from her new green deal money –
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is a long way from where she needs to be. Since a UN speech in New York in late September, the 16-year-old Swedish campaigner has spent weeks traveling overland en route to the COP25 climate summit in Santiago, Chile. But a last-minute change of location due to that city’s anti-government protests—the event will now be held in Madrid, Spain—has left her scrambling for an eco-friendly lift across the Atlantic.
https://qz.com/1741155/greta-thunbergs-options-for-crossing-the-atlantic-again/?utm_source=YPL&yptr=yahoo
😉
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,,,Trump found a new home,,,
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-most-corrupt-in-country_n_1577571
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If it weren’t for the deaths of her children this would be hysterical…….
It is nevertheless what I expect from most progressive zealots.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/a-waste-texas-gun-control-activist-shoots-her-three-children-dead-in-murder-suicide
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,,,Smells Fishy to me,,,
Texas is a wackydoodle region,,,and a place I think you would be happy
Surprised you did not include this link instead of Washington Examiner,,,
https://www.glocktalk.com/threads/liberal-anti-gun-activist-murders-her-three-children-with-gun.1794090/#post-27904834
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Posted by: BigAnus | 03 November 2019 at 03:06 PM
Cuz’n I didn’t see it there……
Sorry dugsKKKi …..no immediate plans to move….to Tejas anyway. Thinking about your neck of the woods though……we might be neighbors soon!!
Won’t that be thpecial.
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You owe it to yourself to watch the video to the very end!!
https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-funniest-video-youll-see-all-day/
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In the “if all else fails, make it up” category — Trumpler said all the polls supporting the impeachment process (58% in favor) and ousting trumpler form office , 49%, are bogus and HE has the Real Polls. “I have the real polls,” he told reporters gathered outside the White House. “The CNN polls are fake. The Fox polls have always been lousy; I tell them they ought to get themselves a new pollster.” trumpler never said where he got his polls. They probably only exist within his own mind.
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