[Anyone willing to offer a guess as to the date on which the Senate will deliver its verdict? I'll even take your MAB numbers to see who has the most accurate view of when this kabuki performance will end. gjr]
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619 responses to “Sandbox – 16jan20”
scenes 1010pm – got it; thanks.
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Good night or good morning, Mr. Fish.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/442017982919984/permalink/856116368176808/
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Don Bessee | 18 January 2020 at 07:10 PM
The war against cops continues as murders surge in Baltimore as well.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimore-states-attorney-blasts-police-unions-political-rhetoric-after-video-shows-mob-attacking-officer
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The Great Divide and other topics
Democrats’ ‘unfixable’ extremism uses Trump as an excuse: Goodwin
.Even the election won’t be a cure. Regardless of who wins in November, it’s impossible to believe that a “Kumbaya” moment is on the horizon.
All of which explains why a new book by F.H. Buckley feels so timely. Called “American Secession,” it examines the growing prospect of a national divorce.
Democrats’ impeachment trial demands are plain ridiculous
“I see us on a train, bound for a breakup,” Buckley writes.
“In all the ways that matter, save for the naked force of the law, we are already divided into two nations. The contempt for opponents, the Twitter mobs, online shaming and no-platforming, the growing tolerance of violence — it all suggests we’d be happier in separate countries.”
To be clear, Buckley, a professor at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law, is not advocating secession. But given the political, cultural, social and geographic divides, he believes it is time to consider the hurdles and whether they could be resolved.
He debunks the notion that it can’t happen here, that the carnage of the Civil War forever consigned the idea to the fringe. After surveying modern separatist movements from the breakup of the Soviet Union to Brexit to his native Canada, Buckley predicts that before long, the topic will go mainstream here as well.“
https://nypost.com/2020/01/18/democrats-unfixable-extremism-uses-trump-as-an-excuse-goodwin/
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From GaffeMaster Joe to hypocritical misogynist Joe…..
Senator Biden Paid Men More Than Women, Now Blames Pay Gap on White Men.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-who-never-paid-female-senate-staffers-equally-blames-pay-gap-on-white-men/
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,,,George 544pm,,,Bill 624pm
You have to go waaay back to my 300pm where I lead with… Trump dream team is hilarious…
As Laura Ingraham said the ”’dreamy team”’ is straight “from one of our legal panels”…on Fox for those light TV viewers…
Collectively the dreamy team has been on Fox 350 times last year…
More evidence that this is a Fox/Murdock presidency…not hard to see where the Conservo talking points come from…
https://www.mediamatters.org/trump-impeachment-inquiry/trumps-new-impeachment-defense-team-has-been-fox-news-over-350-times-past
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Fellatin’ the LIB donkey again Dougy? Proggy mediadon’tmatter
has been buried like a cat turd.
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And here we have Radical Communists living in fear of an armed revolt of their own making.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-braces-for-gun-rights-rally-as-worries-over-violence-hate-groups-and-militias-grow
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Here is a phrase that has been bantered about lately: narcissism of small difference.
Hatred of Donald Trump has been to some extent sidelined while what Freud called the “narcissism of small differences” plays out in bickering, backbiting, and political sabotage.
“Democrats Consume Themselves”
“First, however, since CNN apparently undertook its cheerleading for Warren in order to declare its feminist bona fides, I would like to pose a few questions as a sort of prolegomenon, what Kierkegaard, in another context, called a “preliminary expectoration.” 1) Why are feminists so unpleasant? 2) Why do they insist on whining instead of getting on with the task at hand? 3) Why do they tend to blame other people for their failures?
I do not propose to answer these questions—I am writing a column, not a book—but I would like to register my suspicion that part of the answer to all three is the dim, imperfectly articulated awareness that feminism’s real complaint is not with men or “the patriarchy” but with reality, with human nature.“
https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/18/democrats-consume-themselves/
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,,,Interesting factoids for the Penturkey Peacock…
20 states with the lowest population total 33.5 million people…and are represented by 40 Senators
20 states with the lowest population total 35 million cows
The rest of the country population total is 293 million…and are represented by 60 Senators
The rest of the country population total is 60 million cows…
Cows are more fairly represented than people in the Senate!!!
Thought you might like to know Wally…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/16/are-cows-better-represented-senate-than-people/?arc404=true&utm_campaign=week_in_ideas&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=Newsletter&wpisrc=nl_ideas&wpmm=1
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Good new from Mexico
“I have often said that my first choice for an immigration policy would be Canada’s, but that I would willingly settle for Mexico’s. Here, we are seeing the benefit of Trump’s pressure on Mexico to enforce its own laws rather than passing the “caravan” buck to us. Kudos to Donald Trump and his administration.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/good-news-from-mexico.php
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,,,Yes Bill,,, so I guess that means we don’t need to waste more money on the wall…
Good to know!!!
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,,,Similar size caravan as the 2018 caravan…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-of-migrants-u-s-bound-caravan-cross-mexico-guatemala-border-2018-10-20/
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Gentlemen – the above comments should be considered for ‘The Harvard Reorganization Plan’.
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If the socialist dems start playing games and the Presidents team can call for summary judgement –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/19/the-impeachment-kill-switch-mcconnell-dismissal-rule-corners-democrats-blocks-antics-as-trial-commences/
😉
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The problem that schiff for brains can not fix –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/impeachment-manager-claims-trump-attempted-bribery-dodges-when-asked-why-it-was-not-charge
😉
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Here is how Proggys are trying to rewrite the Constitution.
“Hoyer, the number-two Democrat in the House, defended the House’s impeachment inquiry last month by remarking that Trump was afforded “every opportunity to prove his innocence.”
NO you son of a bitch,, you have to prove him guilty.
Try reading the 6TH Amendment. Or has that been repealed already?
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,,,Here you go Waldo,,,Trump had every opportunity to testify and to provide witnesses…
He chickened out and obstructed Congress by not allowing certain witnesses to testify…
What is he hiding???
‘’’WASHINGTON — Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited President Donald Trump to testify in front of investigators in the House impeachment inquiry ahead of a week that will see several key witnesses appear publicly.
Pushing back against accusations from the president that the process has been stacked against him, Pelosi said Trump is welcome to appear or answer questions in writing, if he chooses.
“If he has information that is exculpatory, that means ex, taking away, culpable, blame, then we look forward to seeing it,” she said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Trump “could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants,” she said.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer echoed that suggestion.
“If Donald Trump doesn’t agree with what he’s hearing, doesn’t like what he’s hearing, he shouldn’t tweet. He should come to the committee and testify under oath. And he should allow all those around him to come to the committee and testify under oath,” Schumer told reporters. He said the White House’s insistence on blocking witnesses from cooperating begs the question: “What is he hiding?”’’’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-invite-trump-to-testify-in-impeachment-inquiry
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Nope. That’s what Proggys would like. That’s a perjury trap waiting to happen. Did you plead guilty when you were caught dead to rights?(Didn’t think so)
There is no evidence, and crimeless charges. Keep dreaming Dougy.
And you got all that fro Progressive broadcasting service.
Kinda like what are you hiding behind a TROLL name? Hummm.. Never an answer to that one.
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This says it all.
“Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said Sunday that Democrats have been focused on impeachment because “they’re pretty concerned” due to the fact that “they believe the American people are now solidly behind President Donald Trump.” ”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/south-carolina-republican-tim-scott-on-the-impeachment-trial-opening-arguments
I’m glad the LIBS feel it was well worth it to lose the house over impeachment.
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@134pm It’s hard for me to believe that Hoyer is really so ignorant as to say that Trump had to “prove himself innocent”. That must be a misquote, else our Republic is indeed in dire straits with people like that passing themselves off as congress critters.
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This is going to be a political earthquake but with actual documents and named sources unlike the crap that the socialist dems have spewed that proved to be SOOOOOO wrong! –
The forthcoming bombshell investigative book Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite contains 1,126 endnotes totaling 83 pages of source material, Breitbart News has learned.
In addition, the book contains no unnamed sources. Instead, it is based on hard evidence and documents, including: foreign and domestic corporate and legal records, tax liens, lobbyist disclosures, property records, White House visitor logs, federal bankruptcies, and federal criminal trial records.
Publishing giant HarperCollins has kept Profiles in Corruption under a strict embargo. The book will reportedly expose how five members of Joe Biden’s family—the “Biden Five”—scored “tens of millions of dollars” in taxpayer money and guaranteed loans. In addition, the book is said to contain never-before-reported bombshell revelations about Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, and Eric Garcetti.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/01/19/profiles-in-corruption-contains-1126-endnotes-no-unnamed-sources/
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Just saw that Trump was to address farmers in Austin now. The leadin had the song “Don’t back down” by Tom Petty. I did a blog post recommending he use that tune now instead of the Rolling Stones one. I wonder if someone saw my blog? LOL
http://sierradragonsbreathe.blogspot.com/2019/11/trump-and-deplorables-new-theme-song.html
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,,,sorry Waldo,,,there are many links that tell the same truth…
Perjury Trap??? That’s a good one. So you are basically saying that Clinton would not have been impeached if he had not testified and that Trump would be impeached as soon as he open his mouth!!! ROTFLOL…
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,,,you know what else is lame???
You cannot even comprehend what you are reading…
It says right there in my quote that PBS is referencing Face the Nation!!!
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,,,Dream on Donnie…335p
I look forward the the ‘’’revelations’’’. It will help me to narrow down the field of contenders…
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comma-dude: “I look forward to the ‘’’revelations’’’. It will help me to narrow down the field of contenders…”
There has to be some answer to your problem.
https://twitter.com/gapprofit/status/1218903856253415425/photo/1
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All fake news Dougy. Just as fake as your TROLL ass sock puppet.
You really like being the Wile E. Proggy of the joint.And Trump the roadrunner.
Every attempt blows up in your face.
It’s SO fun to watch. Just like Saturday cartoons of yesteryear.
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,,,You keep telling yourself that Waldo…chant ”’fake news”’ and cover your ears and eyes to make the pain go away…
A brainwashed mind is a terrible thing to behold…
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Oh… And that’s why you keep getting proven wrong?? Care to explain that?
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Walt sez:
“Oh… And that’s why you keep getting proven wrong?? Care to explain that?”
Those Asians are something else.
ROTHERHAM AND RACE
An investigation by The Times into child grooming in towns across the north prompted an independent inquiry. Its 2014 report found that between 1997 and 2013 more than 1,400 Rotherham children were exposed to severe levels of sexual abuse and violence by groups of men who were “almost all” of Pakistani heritage. To date, 36 men have been convicted for crimes related to the scandal.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/rotherham-and-race.php
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re: BillT@6:35PM
My, that is a nice story. Referred to there (from the London Times):
“A senior police officer admitted that his force ignored the sexual abuse of girls by Pakistani grooming gangs for decades because it was afraid of increasing “racial tensions”, a watchdog has ruled.
After a five-year investigation, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) upheld a complaint that the Rotherham officer told a missing child’s distraught father that the town “would erupt” if it was known that Asian men were routinely having sex with under-age white girls.
The chief inspector is said to have described the abuse as “P*** shagging” and to have said it had been “going on” for 30 years: “With it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to be coming out.””
Another article:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grooming-child-sex-abuse-exploitation-rotherham-rochdale-police-a9215261.html
“Almost 19,000 children have been sexually groomed in England in the past year, according to official figures that have prompted warnings of an “epidemic”.
Campaigners say the true figure is far higher and accused the government of failing to tackle child sexual exploitation, despite promises made after high-profile cases in Rotherham and Rochdale.”
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…which, oddly, led me to this story:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160301203454/https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/rotherham-trial-girl-s-diary-detailing-abuse-disappeared-after-being-given-to-police-1-7686401
The actual story appears to have disappeared from the newspaper. No doubt their server ran out of room.
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Where’s waldo?🤣 Ask him a simple question and,,, gone.
Looking for another set of cloths off a dead clown?
A graduate from the “don’t answer shit” school of Emery.
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What wonderful towns we live in. The South Yuba River Citizen league produced Wild and Scenic Film Festival drew over 6000 people To Grass VAlley and Nevada City this week with over 120 films being presented in 18 locations. The best of the festival will then be bundled up and presented in over 100 locations throughout the country. It’s great to see the streets, motels and restaurants filled with thousands of intelligent young people from all around the country and Europe.
Kudo’s so SYRCL for saving our Yuba River and presenting such a rich and meaningful weekend of events.
Also tomorrow at the Nevada Theatre we will be celebrating Martin Luther King
Day with the Bethel AME Choir from Marysville and our own Trinity Episcopal Choir from Nevada City. The event is produced by KVMR. Hope to see some of RR’s readers there. I’ll be running sound for the event.
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,,,Trump dreamy team lawyer Dershowitz says you don’t need an actual statutory crime to impeach…
…Sorry George…
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/01/20/alan-dershowitz-1998-doesnt-have-to-be-crime-to-impeach.cnn
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,,,Faux News doesn’t want to go there…
They don’t want to talk about Epstein’s dreamy team big shots Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-hasnt-asked-ken-starr-a-paid-contributor-about-the-sweetheart-deal-he-brokered-for-jeffrey-epstein
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,,,Aren’t these states big Trump supporters???
Here’s a look at the 10 most obese states in the U.S. and the percentage of obese adults living in that location, per Consumer Protect.
West Virginia (38.1 percent)
Mississippi (37.3 percent)
Oklahoma (36.5 percent)
Iowa (36.4 percent)
Alabama (36.3 percent)
Louisiana (36.2 percent)
Arkansas (35 percent)
Kentucky (34.3 percent)
Alaska (34.2 percent)
South Carolina (34.1 percent)
https://www.foxnews.com/health/most-obese-states-in-us
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ODlaw 630am – ??
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Well of course it’s Instapundit………
Lev Parnas is Julie Swetnick, and Dems are trying to ‘Kavanaugh’ the impeachment trial.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/01/lev-parnas-is-julie-swetnick-and-dems-are-trying-to-kavanaugh-the-impeachment-trial/
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,,,Yes George,,,weren’t you saying there is ‘’’no there there’’’ regarding any ‘’’crimes’’’ committed by Trump???
Dershowitz says you don’t need any to impeach…
Of course like Lindsay Graham Dershowitz’s opinions are as variable as the wind…
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Scenes
It’s all Kavanaugh now.
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Opps. Make that Fish @7:30 am
It’s all Kavanaugh now.
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Nice articles on the front page of the Union on Wild and Scenic and the Womens March in Nevada City. What great towns we live in.
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 January 2020 at 07:59 AM
What great towns we live in.
Interesting……for all the mewling and puking about racism and the need for “diversity” you choose to live in Lily Whiteistan! A racial and political monoculture of old progressive white people.
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The left gets them confused. Cruz is the Latino who identifies as an American, Beto is the Irish guy who identifies as a Latino. I judge bth on the content of their character….
“I do think what we have seen coming out of the House is an abuse of the Constitution,” Cruz told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo. “And the reason is that they’re using this for political purposes. This is the first time in history any president is alleged – has been impeached without the articles alleging any criminal conduct at all, without alleging any federal crime was violated.”
“They don’t allege any federal law was violated. They don’t even allege as much as that the president has a speeding ticket, and that has never happened in our country’s history,” Cruz continued. “And to use impeachment like the House Democrats are doing, to express their political disagreement with the president, to try to overturn an election they’re unhappy with, that is an abuse of the Constitution.”“
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cruz-democrats-trump-allegations-do-not-amount-to-as-much-as-a-speeding-ticket?
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Most obese states in America are the ones void of a shithole city. Odd.
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re: BillT@7:50AM
That’s the essence of Emerianism. In a sense, we are all Kavanaugh.
Find an enemy, make up any old thing, attack attack attack. Being for something is so tiresome, dahling.
The Blue Mob roars from one target to another.
C’est la vie. Like Mr. Spengler said: “At all times and in all places, the men and women of every culture deserve each other.”, and the Blue Mob Members most certainly do.
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Well, time to toss Stephen King under the bus and de-platform him. He needs to get up to date. Judging an artist’s work on its quality instead of factoring in diversity is so…..so….so 60’s. A throwback to racist America. Out of touch, boomer. Just like MLK.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/stephen-king-backtracks-diversity-comments-after-criticism-n1115436
King’s remarks were quickly rebuffed, with many criticizing the novelist as being out of touch and “ignorant.”
“When you wake up, meditate, stretch, reach for your phone to check on the world and see a tweet from someone you admire that is so backward and ignorant you want to go back to bed,” DuVernay, whose docuseries “When They See Us,” recently won best limited series at the 2020 Critics Choice Awards.
Roxanne Gay, the award-winning author of “Bad Feminist” and “Hunger,” also stated she was disappointed with King’s comments.
“As a fan, this is painful to read from you. It implies that diversity and quality cannot be synonymous,” Gay tweeted. “They are not separate things. Quality is everywhere but most industries only believe in quality from one demographic.”
Imagine judging someone on the quality of their work in this day and age, lol. Where do these people come from?
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odlaW 740pm – You again misunderstand (but in an illuminating way). I have never claimed that actual criminality is required to impeach. My counters have been to you and yours who allege that Trump violated some law as your justification for impeachment. As I and my learned betters have maintained all along, impeachment is a political act, the required justification for which is only the pleasure of the House. Of course, there will also be a political cost to those who gratuitously pursue impeachment and then Senate conviction for the President’s ouster. Dershowitz was merely trying once more to explain the matter to folks like you.
Even you must realize that the Dems would have pursued impeachment in a totally different manner had they any evidence that Trump had committed a crime for which existed a legal citation. The best they could come up with instead was “Obstruction of Congress” (not obstruction of justice) which in an of itself is NOT a crime, especially as one branch of government seeks to maintain its constitutional prerogatives against the encroachment of another branch. I hope all this is not too confusing, because understanding it is important.
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