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307 responses to “Sandbox – 15nov19”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    BREAKING: KAEPERNICK’S KAPER
    Paul noted a couple days ago the very public “workout” publicity stunt of Colin Kaepernick, which was scheduled to go off at 3 pm eastern time today at Atlanta Falcons stadium. But suddenly this morning Kaepernick complained that the media were being overly restricted, and suddenly moved the event to a local high school and delayed the start time.
    ESPN reported about an hour ago:
    Colin Kaepernick’s NFL workout is being moved to a new location in the Atlanta area and will now start at 4 p.m. ET Saturday, representatives for the quarterback announced Saturday afternoon.
    The NFL had previously declined to allow media and cameras into the workout, as Kaepernick had requested for transparency, attorney Ben Meiselas and agent Jeff Nalley said in a statement. They said media would now be allowed to attend the workout.
    No idea if it is going off right now or not (I’m at an airport). Former Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson was supposed to run the workout, but TMZ reports there are doubts whether this will still happen:
    Colin’s team is now saying that if the guy’s still up for it, they’d like to keep the invite open for former Browns coach Hue Jackson to oversee the drills and workout Colin will now go through at the Atlanta-area school. Jackson was originally scheduled to lead Kap through QB drills at the Falcon facility — time will tell if he’ll show to the new location.
    Stay tuned for updates. My hunch is, this workout may not come off at all, but if it does and if teams are unimpressed with his readiness to play, he’ll blame it on the NFL’s conditions that “forced” him to change the venue, and we’ll start a new round of stunts.

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    CarlosC 1014am – So, as I surmised in my 915pm, you have absolutely nothing to offer that is substantive to back your TDS tirade. All you can do is repeat your fervent hope that somehow he won’t make it to November and face someone from the clown car in the election. Recall, that only you of the Left equate allegations with evidence.

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  3. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    “Schiff’s reading it to her seemed to be a purposeful political ploy to unsettle the witness and get more lamestream media points on the air in real time.” WRONG
    trumpler’s twitter rant seemed to be a purposeful political ploy to unsettle the witness and get more fake news on the air in real time. RIGHT
    Everything trumpler put on twitter was a lie, plain and simple. It was a purposeful and laughable attempt (yet again) to discredit a detractor. This time is was a woman (hmmmm is there pattern here?) who spent her lifetime (unlike his own self-serving 3 years) of public service to the people of the United States. It is unfathomable as to how you people can’t see through trumpler’s 4th grade shenanigans. The man is mentally incapable of doing his job.

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  4. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    ““When the U.S. Tried to Control Hurricanes”
    From the 1940s to the 1970s, Project Stormfury and other government efforts tested the limits of the power of science.”
    They failed to bring forth the awesome power of weaponized 5G.

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  5. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Hmmm George quote:
    “that only you of the Left equate allegations with evidence”
    How about the chants of “lock her up” aimed at Hillary during the campaign led by Flynn?

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  6. George Rebane Avatar

    RobertC 404pm – So you seem to have missed my point again about Schiff’s timing.
    PaulE 416pm – Re Hillary, Comey brought up and told everyone of all the evidence that over 30 prosecutors across the country signed a letter stating that they were willing to prosecute on what the FBI dug up. Why do you think Comey came up with that historical press conference to defend Hillary on the totally irrelevant assumption of intent?

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  7. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory writes about last Wed’s Town Hall Meeting:
    It’s also a shame that it was a bait and switch… it was about funneling folks to the sunrise movement and their Green New Deal push.
    You’re wrong again Gregory. The youn man who spoke about the Sunrise Movement spoke for a total of 7 minutes 34 seconds showing it was hardly the focus of the Town Hall and not close to being a “bait aned switch”.
    I know because I edited the piece for later broadcast.
    You’re not doing too well today Gregory. You’re 0 for 2 so far today.

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    The total time of the Town Hall was two hours and 12 minutes.

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  9. Walt Avatar

    Keep trying Babs, Trump has done a better job than most. Including Reagan. Just because Trump is scrapping LIB ideals wholesale,, I can see where you would be pissed and flail wildly.

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So George in your view it’s ok for the Trump Campaign to orchestrate chants of “lock her up” before she’s even charged with anything?
    Also who were the 30 prosecutors you referred to and under what circumstance were they summoned.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Meds not working anymore Emery?
    The kangaroo court not going your way, and have to crawl back into the wayback machine?

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  12. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery | 16 November 2019 at 04:36 PM
    Seriously you think you have some sort of a point on “lock her up” That is one of your lamest allegations I have heard from you lately. My friend Susan started that chat in Cleveland and you loons of the left still repeat it. I suggest you take your tirade to ANTIFA and their pals who beat people up and destroy property to keep a conservative from speaking on campus. Now that is something real. People in an audience screaming that chant are pussycats next to Black Lives Matter seeking to fry the police like bacon. You have lost your little mind.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Toad or excuse me Todd, that chant was advocated by the Trump campaign. Antifa is an outlaw anarchist group with no connection with the Democratic campaign.

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  14. Walt Avatar

    Emery. You go right ahead and explain to us why Hillary is innocent of the charges that were laid out by Comie.
    From felony mishandling of gov. secrets to destruction of evidence. And the pile of other charges in between.
    Yet there is no evidence whatsoever against Trump. After three damned years of looking and trying to fabricate evidence.
    Clintons can do no wrong in your addled mind.

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  15. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    scenes 246pm
    The drop in CO2 emissions in the USA is almost entirely due to fracking, as the natural gas recovered is cheap and has been displacing coal.
    Fracking is therefore to warmistas a lot like appendicitis is to a Christian Scientist.

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  16. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 422pm
    That’s 1 for 1 from me by The Union coverage.
    And 4 for 4 for me for correctly pegging your Toad Juvinile hallucination for what it was… you just couldn’t resist claiming George’s fealty to the Constitution was suspect because he didn’t jump to denounce it.
    That was a round minus 5,000 points for bad faith for you, Punch.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Gregory@5:44PM
    That’s interesting. I’ll google a bit for that.
    It sounds like the craziness concerning oil pipelines. It’s as if trucks, trains, and tankers are somehow more safe at moving gas and liquid substances than an underground conduit. Go figure. No doubt there’s always that push to decommision nukes in order to drive the numbers back up again.
    Upside-down world must be a fun place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Gregory. So hang on a minute. I admit that I don’t follow climate news closely.
    Looking at this:
    https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-04/documents/us-ghg-inventory-2019-chapter-executive-summary.pdf
    US CO2 emissions have been dropping for years. Slightly above 1990 numbers and far below 2005. Methane dropping since 2005. So what is all the new-found uproar about, complete with horrid hectoring Swedish child activists?
    Am I missing something?

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Libs circulating doctored photo of Rep. Elise Stefanik giving the finger after Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony”
    “You can tell that Rep. Elise Stefanik hit a nerve during the impeachment hearings Friday, as George Conway and a bunch of follows are posting their donations to her opponent’s campaign and celebrating already that she won’t be reelected. Don’t be too sure though; they tried to shut her down Friday, but she persisted.
    You know they’re desperate when they’re passing around a Photoshop of Stefanik giving the finger as former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was receiving a standing ovation from the Democrats.”
    https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/11/16/libs-circulating-doctored-photo-of-rep-elise-stefanik-giving-the-finger-after-marie-yovanovitchs-testimony/

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  20. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    THE “WITNESS INTIMIDATION” FARCE
    “Unfortunately for the Democrats, Trump didn’t engage in it today. And if Trump’s tweets of his opinions about witnesses become the basis for an article of impeachment, I think the public will laugh the Dems out of court, so to speak, on that one.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/11/the-witness-intimidation-farce.php

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The chi coms think they can impose censorship on people in other countries the fools –
    Australia’s parliamentary intelligence committee head, who has previously criticised Beijing, said he had been blocked from entering China due to his “frankness about the Chinese Communist Party”.
    Andrew Hastie warned several months ago that the world’s approach to containing China’s rise resembles the “catastrophic failure” to prevent the advance of Nazi Germany.
    He said Australia’s sovereignty and freedoms could be threatened by Beijing — much as France lost its territory to Germany at the beginning of World War II.
    Hastie, along with fellow government politician James Paterson, had planned to travel to China for a study tour next month but both have been banned from entering the country.
    “We regret the decision of the government of the People’s Republic of China… that at this time Mr Hastie and Senator Paterson are not welcome on a China Matters study tour to Beijing,” tour organiser China Matters said late Friday.
    In an opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald in August, Hastie wrote that Australia, like France during the war, has “failed to see how mobile our authoritarian neighbour has become”.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/australia-intel-chair-blocked-china-criticising-beijing-044327362.html
    😉

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  22. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Trump is 0 for 2 in recent Gov races. This last one in Louisiana.
    “Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards won reelection Saturday, the second gubernatorial victory for Democrats in a red state this month.
    Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, narrowly defeated Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, 51 percent to 49 percent, according to The Associated Press. His victory came despite President Donald Trump traveling to the state twice over the final 11 days of the race to campaign for Rispone.”
    https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/16/louisiana-governor-race-edwards-rispone-071288

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    So we can surmise that the pony tail of ignorance is in full support of the highly restrictive abortion bill signed by Edwards from @843. As for Kentucky we swept every other office and have super majorities in both houses.

    Somehting that needs better attention to get our students learning again –
    ‘It’s Really Refreshing And Relaxing’: College Students Say Ditching Their Smartphones For A Week Changed Their Lives
    Seven days later, “who’s excited they’re getting their phones back today?” Professor Donna Freitas asked.
    Gone were the nerves and the shakes.
    “Everything is perfect right now. I’m having a lot better relationships… it’s a stress free environment no pressure about social media,” Jacob Dannenberg said.
    “I think it’s really refreshing and relaxing… I was able to fall asleep a lot easier,” student Adrianna Cigliano.
    They managed to find their way, even without GPS for a week.
    “I just had to take the same route everywhere,” one student joked.
    They were also more productive.
    “Doing homework was 100 percent easier. I got it done faster, I was in the zone,” Cigliano said.
    Prof. Freitas says it’s important for everyone to assess their addiction.
    “Are the conveniences worth it because the drawback are pretty significant,” Freitas said.
    “The face that no one can focus, that my students can’t sleep… They feel bad about themselves because of social media, the list goes on and on.”
    The sweet reunions went sour quickly as endless notifications piled up.
    “Oh my God this is so bad!… I just want to shut it off now!” the Adelphi class said.
    Students say they’re not quite breaking up with their phones, but promise the relationship will change.
    “I want to keep that balance and figure out the healthy relationship that we deserve to have with our phones,” Cigliano added.
    “My screen time is definitely going to go down and I’m going start to appreciate my surroundings more because usually I’m looking at my screen all the time,” Ashley Castillero said.
    https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/11/14/students-ditch-phone-changed-lives/
    😉

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Even 0 is seeing a disaster in the making with the socialist dem clown car and the congressional jihadis –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/16/obama-signals-concern-about-radical-2020-field/
    😉

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Also Don the Pubsters lost big time in Virginia. Looking pretty grim for the Pubs under Trump. They will soon be asking him to stay home.
    “Virginia Democrats won both the House of Delegates and the State Senate on Tuesday. All 140 legislative seats were on the ballot and Democrats took full control of state government for the first time since 1994. ”
    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/05/us/elections/results-virginia-general-elections.html

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  26. Walt Avatar

    So Emery is all in for Proggyism It must be great. And monkey farts smell like bananas.
    Keep cheering for the downfall of a great economy.
    Must feel good from your perspective of being a Neocom.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    No comment Emery? I will take that as a yes.
    Thanks.

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  28. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Anyone care to bet on the chi coms canceling the Hong Kong elections? =
    The Latest: Hong Kong extends suspension of school classes
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-hong-kong-extends-suspension-051936865.html
    😉

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  29. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 16 November 2019 at 09:30 PM
    Punch……good news…..Hillary is thinking about getting in! What could possibly go wrong?

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  30. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul/Punchy
    You’ve ignored the last couple challenges.
    I accept your forfeit. Shmuck.

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  31. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey G @ 1001 – We are eating vlads lunch and picking his pocket when it comes to energy independence and for our friends too! OH YA! and we are filling the Iranian sanction holes, they just had to ration gas which caused major civil unrest that let to Iraq closing the border. –
    The US natural gas export business saw record-breaking growth in 2018, and the trend is set to continue in 2019 as well which makes the Democrats new green deal look even more like a Hollywood fantasy tale.
    The latest data collected by the US Department of Energy shows that liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports hit a new record in November 2018 with approximately 110 Bcf. This is a substantial 35% increase from November 2017.
    https://www.energycentral.com/c/gn/us-natural-gas-exports-set-scale-new-heights-2019
    https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/u-s-oil-production-reaches-record-high/
    😉

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  32. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Carlos Castaneda | 17 November 2019 at 08:14 AM
    Sorry dugsKKKi Democrats normalized these kind of reprisals……everybody is playing off their sheet of music now!
    Go whine on Yubanet…….

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: CC@7:58
    “Bloomberg Opinion” lol. Wonder where that came from.
    It’s not a bad idea though, offering to help out his family. Rogue elements in the Justice Department can look over every bank transfer, phone call, email, private conversations of everyone in Trump’s family. A fishing expedition like that can surely turn up something. Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.
    The multi-decade takeover of the Federal apparatus by partisan Democrats finally yields fruit. Between that and the schools, it’s a pretty done deal.
    The Blue Mob has made such a wonderful world for us all to live in. I salute you.
    I wonder at what point you have to destroy the village in order to save it.

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Rasmussen Friday, Trump 50-50. Paul Emery will need meds.
    The homosexual candidate is in the lead in Iowa. All PC from the PC party.

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  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    —-,,,not sure how these State Department officials that have served under both Republican and Democrat administrations for decades suddenly became Demo Deep Staters???
    Political contributions from DOJ employees ran 79% (D). State Department ran 88% (D) in 2016 and 96% (D) in 2020.
    —-‘’’you mean like what Ken Starr did for years during the Clinton administration???
    Yes, but orders of magnitude larger in terms of both staff and technology, in a partisan and most importantly, independent investigation. That wasn’t line staff actively bringing down an administration.
    Honestly, if you can’t see the danger of the current situation (let’s say that the intelligence agencies and DOJ executives were trying to bring down President Hillary, the same thing would be true), there’s no point in the conversation. Those ex-executives at NSA/FBI/CIA are truly a danger to the republic.
    Dude, just go back to your partisan bickering. Not a moment is spent criticizing any kind of real Trump foreign policy or legislative position, it’s just trash talk. Being an unwitting militarist is a tough gig, but I guess someone has to do it.

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  36. fish Avatar
    fish

    ’Posted by: dugsKKKi Assteneda | 17 November 2019 at 08:45 AM
    ’you mean like what Ken Starr did for years during the Clinton administration?

    Time to move on dugsKKKi….. !
    #moveon.com or .org…..whatever you progressive twatwaffles are using now?

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  37. fish Avatar
    fish

    Man…..what a ghost town over at Pork Linkersons page? Can’t even get a sniff over those two “MASS SHOOTINGS” in SoCal recently!
    #nobodyislistening

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  38. Walt Avatar

    Here ya’ go Emery,, Now what were you saying about the wall not going up?
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/15/donald-trump-seize-texas-border-land/
    And yes, national security is a valid eminent domain proceeding.
    It’s to keep the riff raff out. Unlike the Berlin Wall (that you surely supported,, being a Commie and all,,) to keep the people IN.

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  39. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: Walt@9:29AM
    I like the idea of mentioning to the property owners that you could simply build the wall north of their land.

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  40. Walt Avatar

    Nice concept Scenes,, then they can pay the cartels protection money

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  41. George Rebane Avatar

    Administrivia – Gentle people, I’m doing my best to have you keep your comments under the relevant commentary posts. Current impeachment comments belong under the recent Scattershots where I again raise the issue. If your comments disappear, it could be because Typepad erroneously put them into the spam folder (from which I rescue them as often as possible), or I delete them because the commenter is not paying attention to my posts. If you don’t care about what I write, you’re on the wrong website. RR always has an open Sandbox for topics I don’t cover, but when there’s proximal post with the topic of your comment, then PLEASE place it accordingly. It’s a pain in the ass to take time deleting otherwise fine comments in the wrong place. Thank you.

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  42. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane (@10:13 am), forgive us as we know not what we do. In regards to Scenes (and my concern) of the DAMAGE the Administrative State is doing to our democracy and future Presidents, it is an valid concern that extends beyond the current “ low rent sequel to Russia, Russia, Russia”.
    The next President will not feel free to discuss confidentiality with his advisors and kick around complex ideas lest he be called up before Congress. Future Presidents will be surrounded with heads of the FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, State Department and the multiple of the Alphabet Soup agencies that’s he/she may consider back stabbing leakers and so forth. Obama had his wingman (Holder) who he could trust to carry out his priorities and many more such people in the Executive Branch. Not so anymore. A future President will naturally shield him/herself from such employees that work for him/her out of distrust and not avail himself to all information to set policy.
    “The impeachment hearings going on in the House right now are a joke.
    Anyone who understands the process knows that Trump isn’t going to get thrown out of office, especially not with Republicans in control of the Senate, where the impeachment trial would have to take place.
    But don’t underestimate the damage that the impeachment is causing.
    Trump has no chance of getting a trade deal done — or any deal for that matter — with other governments when foreigners think there is even a tiny chance he’ll lose his job.
    What’s going on in Washington right now is a disgrace. What it is doing to the country is unconscionable.”
    Hmmm. I noticed the Dems in the Senate blocked Trump’s plan to reduce the cost of prescription drugs….under the guise that it does not go far enough. It goes pretty far, but 1/2 to 3/4 a loaf is a non starter in this current climate.
    Thank goodness there are people like William Barr who are well versed in the separation of powers and that an assault on the Executive Branch is an assault on the Constitution. Now there is a chorus to impeach Bill Barr, as well as Pence and the local mayor of Nevada City…..without a crime that can be named. No lol.
    ——————
    “Recall that after Dems took the House in 2018, Trump complimented her, saying, “I give her a lot of credit . . . She’s worked long and hard.”
    He added: “Hopefully, we can all work together next year to continue delivering for the American people, including on economic growth, infrastructure, trade, lowering the cost of prescription drugs. These are some of things that the Democrats do want to work on, and I really believe we’ll be able to do that.”
    None of that happened. Pelosi aligned her power with the resistance and rejected Trump’s offer of bipartisanship, especially on immigration, where she refused even to negotiate.
    Worse, she made the fateful decision to join Schiff and others in pushing Russia, Russia, Russia. When Robert Mueller gave them nothing to work with, they instantly seized on Ukraine, which GOP Rep. Devin Nunes rightly called a “low-rent sequel.”
    https://nypost.com/2019/11/16/goodwin-pelosi-has-gone-full-coup-coup-in-trump-impeachment-push/

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    More is being revealed.
    10 Terrifying Facts about the East German Secret Police
    The Stasi’s sole function was to keep the Communist Party in power. They didn’t care how.
    https://fee.org/articles/10-terrifying-facts-about-the-east-german-secret-police/

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  44. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    You have been given notice, with the word ‘might’ and ‘possible’. No excuses.
    PG&E: Power shutoffs possible for NorCal counties this week
    https://www.kcra.com/article/pgande-power-shutoffs-possible-norcal-counties-november/29823534

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  45. Walt Avatar

    Refuel the gennys and uncoil the extension cords.
    The wind may hit 10MPH?
    And all the markets just restocked all the freezers.

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  46. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    But, but, but humidity may rise Wednesday….

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    These blackouts are putting the hurts on Christmas budgets….only in CA. 🙂

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  48. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    todd not “Toad” 907am
    No, Rasmussen has Trump at 50% for, vs 49% a’gin.
    It might be just the usual trading range, might be a reaction to the Schiff Show. I’d bet it’s the easy come, easy go trading range.

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