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421 responses to “Sandbox – 1jan2020”
WN: “Don’t show your face where we fly drones…”
Just wait until good quality bird-sized (or much smaller) drone weapons come online. I expect that the main design issue at this point is the weight and size of the power source. A security detail’s nightmare, although I’m not sure how they already deal with a Barrett rifle.
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The smart home idea was never smart –
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/01/03/google-suspends-chinese-companys-integration-after-smart-home-systems-show-random-strangers/
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This is coming back to haunt Trump. It’s a direct quote from his tweet:
““I always said Barack Obama will attack Iran, in some form, prior to the election,” Trump tweeted in August of 2012.
“Polls are starting to look really bad for Obama. Looks like he’ll have to start a war or major conflict to win. Don’t put it past him!” Trump warned.
He followed up again before the election, which Obama won without launching a war with Iran.
“Don’t let Obama play the Iran card in order to start a war in order to get elected–be careful Republicans!” Trump warned.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/heres-why-trump-viewed-a-president-starting-war-with-iran-as-a-guaranteed-path-to-re-election/
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Posted by: Waldo’sNemesis | 03 January 2020 at 08:54 AM
Of Course!!! We know that Trump is a 4th dimensional chess player and he has it all figured out!!!
Should have nominated someone who had a chance to win dugsKKKi. Your candidate lost to a Game Show host……a Game Show host!
Really……what were you thinking?
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 03 January 2020 at 12:59 PM
Wow Punch……that’s some crazy assed shit! Given this new information…..you probably shouldn’t vote for him!
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Rawstory again Emery? Now don’t forget to click on ALL the ads there. He needs every dime he can get to pay that judgement.
Gotta go back 8 years to look for something? #sad…..
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No, Obama did not start a war to win in 2016. But he did cut and run with ISIS, the battle for Aleppo with our Syrian allies, and Yemen. He prematurely reduced troop strength to invite our enemies to build up and gain ground, to then have to repeat Bush2’s ‘surge’ in order to slow the ragheads’ gains. As I’ve noted before, Rebane Doctrine calls for Hegemon America to always maintain troops in various locations around the world that are critical to our national interests and maintain world order – it’s troop levels and locations that always require readjustments. And that’s ‘always’ like in perpetuity – that’s the cost of doing business as the global white hat. It is very hard to accomplish that with an anti-American political party that eschews defense spending and maintaining a wealth-generating economy.
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Just one question for Emery.. Since that’s your “goto” place for reliable info,, We then must believe, that you believe, Sandy Hook was a hoax as well.
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,,,scenes at 1244,,,
Here I am checking out the pot garden on the ridge,,,
https://youtu.be/RdwMkC0egNs
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Posted by: George Rebane | 03 January 2020 at 01:25 PM
Ok, Captain Hegemon…
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Awww those poor mutha mullahs have no fallback –
But I do know something of how important Qassem Soleimani was, because he spent more time in the Arabic-speaking world—propping up Iranian allies from Iraq to Lebanon, and from Syria to Yemen—than he did back home in Iran. From a military and diplomatic perspective, Soleimani was Iran’s David Petraeus and Stan McChrystal and Brett McGurk all rolled into one.
And that’s now the problem Iran faces. I do not know of a single Iranian who was more indispensable to his government’s ambitions in the Middle East. From 2015 to 2017, when we were in the heat of the fighting against the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, I would watch Soleimani shuttle back and forth between Syria and Iraq. When the war to prop up Bashar al-Assad was going poorly, Soleimani would leave Iraq for Syria. And when Iranian-backed militias in Iraq began to struggle against the Islamic State, Soleimani would leave Syria for Iraq.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/iran-loses-qassem-soleimani-its-indispensable-man/604375/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=yahoo&utm_campaign=yahoo-non-hosted&yptr=yahoo
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Tozer goes on a diatribe!
MSNBC Distraught U.S. Strike Killed Head of Iranian Quds Force
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/01/03/msnbc-distraught-us-strike-killed-head-iranian-quds-force
*No Surprise Here: Some CNNers Are Not Taking Soleimani’s Death Well
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/01/03/no-surprise-here-some-cnners-are-not-taking-soleimanis-death-well
*CBS: Soleimani Was a ‘Revered,’ ‘Inspiring’ ‘Military Genius
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/01/03/cbs-soleimani-was-revered-inspiring-military-genius
*Nets Seize on Dems Blasting ‘Reckless’ Killing of Soleimani
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2020/01/03/nets-seize-dems-blasting-reckless-killing-soleimani
*CNN’s Cooper, Zakaria Compare Soleimani with French Soldiers, Charles de Gaulle
*Useless Info: CNN Says Trump Had Meatloaf, Ice Cream When Soleimani News Broke
OMG, meatloaf and ice cream!!! Did a trump take two scoops of ice cream? I bet he did!!
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. Supreme Leader looking to replace General who missed his flight. Send resume.
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Democrats Call For Flags To Be Flown At Half-Mast To Grieve Death Of Soleimani
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-call-for-flags-to-be-flown-half-mast-to-grieve-death-of-soleimani
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Here’s your soleimani –
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2020/01/03/flashback-irans-soleimani-hired-mexican-cartel-associate-to-assassinate-saudi-ambassador-on-u-s-soil/
Here’s your left wing news –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/03/reporters-eulogize-terrorist-qasem-soleimani-as-warrior-philosopher-with-snowy-white-hair-and-dapper-beard/
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Administrivia – Gentlemen, you may have missed my 948am. Please move your Soleimani related comment thread to Scattershots. Thank you.
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Did North Korea just make a grave mistake?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/did-north-korea-just-make-grave-mistake-110221
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The year left populism died
From Syriza to Corbyn, the left has capitulated to the establishment.
“Populism continued to shape European politics this year. During the European elections, right-wing populists topped the polls in France and Italy. In Britain, Brexit has transformed the political landscape, with the refashioned Tory Party becoming its primary beneficiary.
Meanwhile, left-wing populism has all but been snuffed out. This year, left-populist experiments have suffered a number of humiliating defeats, others have stagnated, and others have sold out to the political establishment, betraying everything they once claimed to believe in.”……
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“Left populism, as seen in Mouffe’s work, was conceived of as an attempt to move beyond the discredited left-wing models of previous eras. But now left populism, in effectively siding with the elite against the populist moment, has itself become discredited.
Now all eyes are on the US, where Bernie Sanders is left populism’s last hope. But given that he is suffering from ill-health, and given his associations with ‘millennial socialist’ idiots, his victory would be a long shot, even if he somehow won the Democratic nomination. Don’t bet against Trump in 2020.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/31/the-year-left-populism-died/
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Irony. thy name is California.
Can California Top Its Most Ironic Political Stories of 2019?
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/can-california-top-its-most-ironic-political-stories-of-2019/
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This could reasonably be in other threads but I like it here since it has more breadth what with all that’s happening in the theater and our patience running out. Turkeys dictator sucks. Syria and now thinking he can actually support an expeditionary force in Libya.
Did ya hear there are now 2 squadrons of the F-35I’s? –
Methinks thar be stealth craft swarming like mad hornets across the region and Russ is smiling down on all our AF brothers!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-parliament-set-approve-troop-070118592.html
https://news.yahoo.com/turkey-one-country-destroyed-own-150000194.html
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/erdogan-wins-one-year-mandate-to-send-turkey-troops-to-libya/ar-BBYxqB8
https://warisboring.com/turkish-tanks-take-a-pounding-in-syria/
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-Air-Force-opens-second-F-35-squadron-587891
GOD BLESS all our youngsters at the tip of the spear!
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The Biden BS never stops.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-denies-telling-obama-not-to-launch-bin-laden-raid
““Didn’t you tell President Obama not to go after bin Laden that day?” Fox News followed up.
“No, I didn’t,” Biden said.
That’s not the story Biden told almost eight years ago during a retreat in Maryland for congressional Democrats, as he described a tense 2011 strategy session ahead of the raid.
“Mr. President, my suggestion is, don’t go — we have to do two more things to see if he’s there,” Biden had said in January 2012 of the strategy session.”
I’m sure the usual LIB gang will make some good excuses for the um,,,, change of memory.
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I have a new fondness for the Russian people.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/maxine-waters-russian-pranksters-greta-thunberg-trump
First they make Adam Schiff look like a bigger idiot than was thought possible, now MAD Max took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.
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Walt: ” MAD Max took the bait, hook, line, and sinker.”
Who can blame her. When you are fighting the devil, you’ll grasp at anything whether it’s an outright lie or just the barest fib.
To the Blue Mob, Trump is everything bad. To a feminist, he’s a misogynist. POC? He’s a white supremacist. Unattractive? His wife must be some kind of whore. Jewish? Anti-semitic, done and dusted. Pacifist? He’s a war monger, unless he doesn’t move troops into Syria. Skinny? He’s fat. Environmentalist? He hates the planet, especially when he doesn’t go to useless climate conferences. Man wearing a dress? He hates LGBTLMNOP to the extent that he notices them.
It’s probably the stupidest thing I’ve seen in my adult life. Orange Hitler will leave office in 1 or 5 years, life goes on, it’ll be a rousing success (as usual) if we avoid a major war, economic crash, or being overrun by the Third World.
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Posted by: scenes | 04 January 2020 at 09:08 AM
It’s probably the stupidest thing I’ve seen in my adult life. Orange Hitler will leave office in 1 or 5 years,
life goes on, it’ll be a rousing success (as usual) if we avoid a major war, economic crash, or beingat which point we will again resume being overrun by the Third World.Nothing else matters!
So disappointed by the “environmentalists” on this one! I guess membership in Blue Mob™ (and the attendant political power resulting from importing a compliant underclass) is more important than their otherwise ostentatious “concern” for the environment?!
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Democrats ask U.S. Supreme Court to save Obamacare…….
#lame
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-obamacare/democrats-ask-u-s-supreme-court-to-save-obamacare-idUSKBN1Z21YF
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Administrivia – I again draw your kind attention to the 4jan20 update to Scattershots here –
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2020/01/scattershots-2jan20.html
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Walt @ 8:36 am
Trump did not call her ‘low IQ’ Maxine Waters’ for nothing. Maybe I should call her up and ask her if her refrigerator is running.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/01/image026.jpg?w=366&ssl=1
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 04 January 2020 at 10:10 AM
……blessed are the
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,,,Toes at 1010,,,
chuck and duck!
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Posted by: Bill Tozer | 04 January 2020 at 10:10 AM
Trump did not call her ‘low IQ’ Maxine Waters’ for nothing.
The perfect representative for her constituency!
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On a slow news day, one cannot help but what’s next.
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/01/IMG_2463.jpeg?w=898&ssl=1
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The chi coms are loosing their grip in Hong Kong –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-replaces-its-top-representative-in-hong-kong-with-an-enforcer/ar-BBYBXiC?ocid=spartandhp
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Life in the Blue Mob States.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/man-accused-of-chasing-someone-threatening-to-stab-them-with-hypodermic-needle
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This will send Emery and friends into a rabid froth
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/04/poll-republicans-favor-two-trumps-children-top-2024-choices/
Yup, pretty much has MY vote at this stage.
Yet Emery and stooges have yet to even grow a pair to admit who they will vote for THIS time.
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See Lefties what your contributions to the Calif. DNC go to?
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/03/california-democratic-party-settlements-eric-bauman/#disqus_thread
“The California Democratic Party will reportedly pay more than $2.9 million to settle three lawsuits from former staffers alleging sexual misconduct racial discrimination against the party’s former chair, Eric Bauman.
The party is paying more than $1 million to settle one of the lawsuits alleging sexual assault, harassment and racial discrimination from three individuals — former operations director Tina McKinnor, former communications director John Vigna and activist Spencer Dayton — The Wall Street Journal”
Now remember this at your next “begg’n for bucks” event in Nevada City.
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Oh my. They are now coming after the invaders! Darn, I just got to know that new Dollar General in Walt’s neck of the woods.
Unjust Deserts
“Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets.”
The idea that dollar stores are invaders ignores the fact that these retailers are expanding in neighborhoods that want them. And the notion that the stores lower the quality of retailers in an area overlooks how they’ve become popular in prosperous neighborhoods, too. “What’s driving the growth [of dollar stores] is affluent households,” an expert with consumer-research outfit Nielsen Company told the New York Times Magazine, in a story entitled “The Dollar Store Economy,” published before these stores became the latest bête noire of activists.
https://www.city-journal.org/banning-dollar-stores
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I have admit Bill, I had a hand in building the place.
Did some of the finish work around the grounds.
Funny,, the same goods one would find in any corner market.
or big chain store. Just a bit cheaper.
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Walt sez:
“I have admit Bill, I had a hand in building the place.
Did some of the finish work around the grounds.”
And I have to admit Walt, that I always park in the EV parking spaces at the Dollar General. I may be a law abiding citizen, but sometimes I realize I have much work to do. I just can’t resist those two parking spots. Bad deplorable, bad. At least I use turn indicators, turn my headlines on on rainy afternoons, and make complete stops at stop signs. A work in progress. There is just something about those empty EV parking spaces that if find too much temptation to resist. And, I may add, I ain’t the only one. :).
That Dollar General really saves a trip to the big town of GV. And have the cheapest Red Vines around. Half the price (if not less) and not stiff like at normal small markets.
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Just throw the power cord through the window of the buggy. No one here will know the diff.(nor really care)
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The cold hand of Big Brother working to the songs of progressive crickets.
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Kids having kids and trying to be friends or another societal degradation by iPhone? –
Considering the prior statistic that only 25% of Americans know how to install a drywall anchor, the low number of monthly searches on that topic indicates that most are willing to call a repairman instead of fixing it themselves.
Those who grew up without the internet are clearly more comfortable fixing home problems themselves. On average, respondents over the age fo 45 are much more confident in their ability to perform repairs. Meanwhile, nearly half of respondents aged 18-24 admitted they can’t accomplish any of the aforementioned tasks.
If we examine gender differences more closely, 56% of female participants said they were unable to perform any of the listed tasks, while 44% of male respondents said the same. Even among each separate fix asked about in the survey, men reported at least a 15-20% higher knowledge base than women.
Constantly calling the local repair man can add up quickly as well. Researchers noted that U.S. homeowners spent an average of $10,000 on repairs in 2018.
https://www.studyfinds.org/diy-deficiency-2-in-5-adults-cant-fix-a-single-household-problem-without-google/
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Here is an issue: propaganda — follow this link. https://www.espn.com/nfl/scoreboard
on the right hand side is an ad for the “American Patriot Daily’ which is rated by Media bias/Fact check as “we rate American Patriot Daily Questionable based on extreme Right wing bias, poor sourcing, promotion of conspiracies, propaganda and a complete lack of transparency and/or is fake news. Fake News is the deliberate attempt to publish hoaxes and/or disinformation for the purpose of profit or influence”
The ad is a typical “vote” type ad asking people to cast a vote (in order to cast a vote, one must provide a valid email address from which you will receive more of the same propaganda.
The ad asks if people want to “impeach Adam Shiff”. Included is an obviously doctored photo of Shiff portraying him with darkened skin (as is obvious by the color of his ears being white.). One cannot vote without leaving an internet email address.
This is an obvious attempt to play to the racism card in an attempt to gain email addresses and spread yet more disinformation. Comments? Is this good bad or who cares if it favors my point of view?
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Posted by: Roberta Cross | 04 January 2020 at 07:13 PM
The ad is a typical “vote” type ad asking people to cast a vote (in order to cast a vote, one must provide a valid email address from which you will receive more of the same propaganda. The ad asks if people want to “impeach Adam Shiff”. Included is an obviously doctored photo of Shiff portraying him with darkened skin (as is obvious by the color of his ears being white.). One cannot vote without leaving an internet email address.
Really Bertie……you wasted your time on this? When there was a “Ten celebrities you didn’t know were gay …..Number 4 will shock you” link nearby?
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Bobby took the clickbait? Not surprising.
I bet you can’t wait for online voting for state and FED offices. That should be a barrel of fun.
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Posted by: Walt | 04 January 2020 at 07:30 PM
Yeah…….Bertie knows her some propaganda when she sees it! A regular Leni Riefenstahl she is!
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Posted by: fish | 04 January 2020 at 07:46 PM
Aww crap!! Shoulda done that in my Yoda voice…..dugsKKKi would have laughed!
Star Wars aficionado that he is!
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so did any of you follow the Link and look at the photo? Probably not, right?
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There goes 🐠 agin doing weird things with his texts.
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the photo is gone.. one has to be quick.. which none of you are..
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Posted by: roberta Cross | 04 January 2020 at 08:15 PM
Whatever you say Clickbert!
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It’s back and if you click on the link your voting choices are:
Question: should Adam Shiff be impeached?
Answers: Yes: “He should be impeached”
No: “I support his unhinged crusade against President Trump”
Since this is the kind of garbage republicans take in on a daily basis, it is no small wonder your world view is so distorted.
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