[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”
Major disappointment: 2nd Amendment Rally ends peacefully. No speaks shot.
https://www.facebook.com/Brian.Kolfage.jr/photos/a.1568649443348666/2602697213277212/?type=3&theater
Ok, not all was peaceful. There is always one in every crowd. We gotta do something about the vagrant issue.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296/1861925803941448/?type=3&theater
Never leave your cave without your club.
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Bill.. Ain’t the local scanner traffic fun to listen too?
And the good stuff NEVER makes it to the police blotter.
I was wondering if the ghost at the Nevada theater has had enough of Emery.
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Little Piglet has a potty mouth.
“Gun-Grabbing boy wonder David Hogg (Parkland HS survivor) referred to Second Amendment supporters as “Nazis” the night before the rally, tweeting out video about how “the second-amendment is being “used as a right to oppress our first amendment, as children, to say that we should be protected, not guns.” Hogg also claimed that “the second-amendment is being used to actively threaten to kill people, including children.” Oh, no hyperbole there.
Hogg ended his speech with “Fuck Nazis,” because if you support fundamental, God-given rights, that’s what you are.
Hollywood lefty idealogues couldn’t resist slandering the rally goers, with several of them stoking fear about how intimidating many of them looked with their guns, or going lowbrow with the commentary and calling into question the pro-gun folks’ collective manhood.“
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/gabriel-hays/2020/01/20/lefty-activists-celebs-smear-pathetic-rambo-wannabes-va-pro
Well, nothing we haven’t been called before. It’s comforting in a way.
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George.
The same folks demanding Trump’s impeachment sure had a different opinion of the “rules” when it was Clinton’s nuts on the block.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/20/supercut-mrc-media-personalities-witness-bill-clinton/
Even the media was against what “they” are demading today.
Required reading for Proggys.
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Walt
Careful now. That Nevada Theater mishap will make Punchy call you a most vile and despicable person again, followed by you apologizing for making light of someone almost dying, followed by Punch’s “I don’t believe you really are sorry. You are just saying that.” Well, duh. 🙂
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BillT: “Well, nothing we haven’t been called before. It’s comforting in a way.”
Well, according to the comma-man, you’re fat, uneducated, and poor. Of course, the underlying idea is that you deserve to be. God wills it.
I guess that until things get friskier on the street, all we can do is look rather sour.
https://i.redd.it/jum23iatp1e21.jpg
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No Bill, Emery ended any compassion I had for his sorry ass the last time. Then I actually cared for his well being. His stinkass attitude fixed all that. The real Celtic in me holds a grudge.
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lmfao. These people really are crazy you know.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/10/795366630/boogaloo-is-the-new-far-right-slang-for-civil-war
https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war
Somebody at 4chan is high fiving at this point.
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Walt
If it’s any consolation, the falling object may turn out to be just one of the choir members who has a history of Mini-strokes. Folks after wait in the lobby while they are caring to the fallen one. Some people will do anything for attention.
Punch will be over here
in due time to vent his contempt.
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Good pic (from Richmond and the current gun boogaloo).
https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2020/01/20/image-91_custom-b65d70c22a87caf3dbac04a1f9715cf072643f9c-s800-c85.jpg
Every once in a while, someone has real eye for news photography.
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re: BillT@2:02PM
Almost a haiku there…
Punch will soon be here
in due time to vent his spleen.
Pure vandalism
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Electric Boogaloo. I like it.
It’s how we militant right wingers communicate in pop culture. Busted!
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I didn’t seem to be able to find any ANTIFA in the pics of the Proggy horror show. None of the violence the Progressive bedweters said would happen.. Looked like a good old Tea Party rally. There was word of an extra delivery of Depends to the back of the statehouse though. GOD help the poor union trash guy who has to empty that dumpster tomorrow. I guess union employment has its drawbacks. No hazard pay for that one.
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LOVE THIS LAW!!!! Proggys are REAL PISSED.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/florida-gun-firearm-regulations-local-governments-sue-state
“A growing number of cities in Florida are suing the state to challenge a 2011 amendment that inflicts steep penalties on local governments that choose to pass gun-regulating ordinances.
The amendment enforces Florida Statute 790.33, which was implemented in 1987 and states that the power to regulate firearms belongs solely to the state. Prior to 2011, the law was difficult to enforce.
“Except as expressly provided by the State Constitution or general law, the Legislature hereby declares that it is occupying the whole field of regulation of firearms and ammunition, including the purchase, sale, transfer, taxation, manufacture, ownership, possession, storage, and transportation thereof, to the exclusion of all existing and future county, city, town, or municipal ordinances or any administrative regulations or rules adopted by local or state government relating thereto. Any such existing ordinances, rules, or regulations are hereby declared null and void.”
Try and restrict gun rights,, Get fined and kick to the curb from office.
And of course LIBS don’t like it.
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So George you are contending that Trump did not make “false and misleading claims” ?
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gregory
the films I attended were filled with young people averaging in their mid 30’s. Were you there? If not how would you have a basis for an opinion?
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George 1:12– “I wonder what the count would be if, say, the claims of Obama or Nancy or Chuck or Adam or … were subjected to the same reckoning.”
Get real! LOL …you really do live in a cloistered world of selective information.
For openers, in trump’s first 10 months in office, he made more misleading or false claims than Obama did during his entire presidency. All of the above alleged villains put together do not equal the output of bullcrap that trump has spewed upon the American people and the world.
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,,,George from your 844a,,,
”’My counters have been to you and yours who allege that Trump violated some law as your justification for impeachment”’
You refer to me as thinking Trump broke some law…but I have been saying he used his official position to try to get a foreign leader to help him smear a political rival…
not a crime but an abuse of power by a man who would be king.
And we agree with Dershowitz that he can be impeached for bad behavior as well as statutory infractions. So I guess we understand each other…
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Kick and scream, hold your breath till ya’ turn blue.(even more than you usually are) GREAT economy. A job for anyone who wants one. Millions off the public doll. Taxes down. Regulations down.
Yet you BITCH!! Must be one who lives for the free stuff.
One of the GIMME generation.
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,,,yes Walt at 239p,,,you will like Florida…plenty of exotic meats to smoke…when is the move planned…
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It’s funny George……they so desperately need to convinced you of one thing, something…..anything…..really.
Whatever is posing as Roberta Cross knows Obama was an ardent liar……less prolific than Trump…..probably, but a liar nevertheless.
They don’t care about the sin as long as their side is committing it!
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OK Dougy, Trump Jr. is off limits from investigation when he runs for President. “political rival” and all that crap.
Thanks for admitting to being in the “pro corruption” camp.
You know,, VP. Joe using his office to protect his Son from a corruption investigation. Getting the investigating prosecutor fired and all.
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Move? Naaa.. Will be here to piss on your grave.
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,,,Walt your logic circuits are fried…seek help…
Maybe George can help you understand…
Any real or imaginary Biden corruption is a smokescreen,,,not part of impeachment…
That little wimp Don Jr. is a punk…
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Posted by: odlaw | 20 January 2020 at 03:46 PM
That little wimp Don Jr. is a punk…
Damn right…….go ahead dugsKKKi…..give him a little chin music….. see……that be the Bees knees…..see!!!!
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So your in the “Protect hunter Biden” camp? Yup Team LIB REALLY don’t want him talking. Better get him suicided before trial.
What is Daddy hiding?
Yup, a Trump dynasty is a real diaper filler for ya’ isn’t it?
How dare the nation run like it’s supercharged.
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WOW!! The Bidens are real pieces of work.
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/01/20/joe-bidens-brother-frank-linked-to-projects-receiving-54000000-in-taxpayer-loans-from-the-obama-administration-despite-no-experience/
“One of those projects was the building of a 20-megawatt solar power plant in Jamaica, for which OPIC had approved a $47.5 million loan. Around the same time that project was announced, Sun Fund Americas confirmed that signed a power “purchase power purchase agreement to build a 20-megawatt solar facility in Jamaica.”
In total, between 2009 and the end of the Obama administration, Frank Biden’s Caribbean projects benefited from more than $54 million in U.S. taxpayer loans.
The loans, though, are not the only example of Frank Biden’s business interests intersecting with his brother’s political influence, as Profiles in Corruption reveals.”
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Just wait till she stars selling franchises.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/01/20/restaurant-owner-defends-2a-all-our-waitresses-open-carry/
“It’s the safest restaurant in the country,” said Lauren Boebert of Shooters Grill in Rifle, CO, a restaurant she owns and operates where all waitresses open carry a firearm.
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About time –
President Trump’s administration is readying a new rule to crack down on foreign nationals arriving in the United States on tourist and visitor visas only to deliver their children in the country to secure them birthright American citizenship, a new report states.
According to Axios, the new rule cracking down on what is commonly known as “birth tourism” could be issued this week and will give State Department officials the ability to deny B-1 and B-2 visas to foreign nationals whom they suspect are only coming to the U.S. to win birthright citizenship for their children.
“This change is intended to address the national security and law enforcement risks associated with birth tourism, including criminal activity associated with the birth tourism industry,” a State Department official told Axios in an interview.
One senior administration official said consular officers who issue B-1 and B-2 visas “are remarkably skilled at sussing out true versus false claims” and thus giving them the authority to deny visas on suspicion of birth tourism would be an effective tool to prevent foreign nationals from abusing the nation’s birthright citizenship policy.
As Breitbart News has chronicled for years, nearly 400,000 “anchor babies” are born every year in the U.S. to illegal aliens, foreign workers on temporary visas, and foreign nationals on visitor visas.
In 2019, the Justice Department led one of the largest criminal crackdowns ever on the birth tourism industry in California, where Chinese nationals allegedly ran businesses to bring foreign nationals to the U.S. on visitor visas for the sole purpose of winning their children birthright American citizenship.
Justice Department officials said the case revealed that more than 8,500 U.S.-born children to foreign nationals, almost exclusively from China, secured birthright American citizenship thanks to just three birth tourism businesses in California.
To date, the U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens must be granted automatic American citizenship, and a number of legal scholars dispute the idea.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/20/report-trump-readies-plan-to-crack-down-on-birth-tourism-in-u-s/
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“400,000 “anchor babies”” ….just think about that. four hundred thousand per year.
A good news pic of the other southern Wall. Lotsa women and children needing entry.
https://i.redd.it/10p9lya450c41.png
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@527 400k and their extended families be they spy’s terrorists or who knows what.
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….and who is fellow in the middle, wearing the Yassir Arafat headress??
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Walt @ 2:39 pm
“A growing number of cities in Florida are suing the state to challenge a 2011 amendment that inflicts steep penalties on local governments that choose to pass gun-regulating ordinances.“
Careful Walt. Little Piglet will fire off a nasty-gram calling you a Nazi if you don’t watch out and cease talking like that.
Me thinks it’s time we have another KVMR Community Sponsored Townhall Meeting up at the Art Deco City Hall and this time we will tell Judge Anderson to shove it and we will indeed talk about the 2nd Amendment. Imagine having a discussion on guns and shootings while barring the topic of the 2nd Amendment, roflmao. Oh, how they love to control the narrative and rules up in My Little Pony Fairytale Land, Ponytail Land for short.
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“….and who is fellow in the middle, wearing the Yassir Arafat headress??”
A future rocket scientist. His career is being interrupted by the Mexican cops.
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Scenes @ 5:27 pm
Well, you have to admit their green wall is prettier than our earth tone wall. Mexico is more progressive, I reckon.
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And who is the guy in the middle wearing an Alabama tee-shirt? He looks rather plumb and dumb.
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Let the terrorist in and keep the redneck out.
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PaulE 305pm – Paul, your continued attempts to put words in my mouth have not worked out for the last ten years. I recommend giving up on that. I contend only my statements around which you can put legitimate quotes. That should be easy enough. The rest are your embellishments.
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punchy 309pm
I saw them in the light of day. And middle 30’s, even if your estimate was correct, ain’t ‘zactly young. In the past, folks in their mid 30’s could be grandparents soon.
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Young people from all over including Europe? Oh, that is just the trimmers still hanging around. Indoors makes it year round if done right. See any dreadlocks?
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BT @ 547 – shouldn’t that be wispy little grey ponytail?
😉
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Bob forgets that us Rednecks are natural born Americans.
Good luck with that “keep them out” noise.
Great start to living up to that Baghdad Bob tag.
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Seethe, oh seethe.
“
Democrats, meanwhile, have seethed openly ever since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., failed in her gambit to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s hand before the House would turn over the articles of impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi had sought a commitment allowing Democrats to call witnesses prior to arguments in the trial — but, with just hours to go until the proceedings commenced, McConnell, R-Ky., dashed those hopes.
McConnell specifically revealed Monday that he wanted a condensed, two-day calendar for each side to give opening statements, at 12 hours per day. After the four days of opening arguments, senators would be allowed up to 16 hours for written questions to the prosecution and defense, followed by four hours of debate. Only then would there be votes on calling other witnesses, likely next week. At the end of deliberations, the Senate would then vote on each impeachment article.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txmBNCAXg8
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Bill
You’re so out of date on this. There are no more trimmers Bill. Haven’t been for several years. Business in Nevada City and grass valley are lamenting the loss of trimmers because they brought a lot of cash to town.
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George
Would your opposition to the impeachment charges against Trump arouse the same concerns if all things being equal the charges were against Obama. Would you still argue the same principles?
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Nailed that one and NO one misses the human locusts that were drawn to the illegal pot farms oh great pony tail of ignorance. Especially the needy who had food taken out of their mouths or the neighborhoods they abused.
re: BillT@2:02PM
Almost a haiku there…
Punch will soon be here
in due time to vent his spleen.
Pure vandalism
Posted by: scenes | 20 January 2020 at 02:07 PM
😉
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It can’t happen here.
Swedes Vote Climate Policy Biggest Waste of Tax Payer Money in 2019
“In 2014, the Swedish national government spent 5.2 billion Swedish krona (£419 million/$547 million), a number that has more than doubled to 12.6 billion krona (£1 billion/$1.3 billion) for the planned 2020 budget.
The government has more than doubled the appropriations for climate policy, but despite this, emissions no longer decrease. In 2018, emissions even increased. That is why climate policy has been voted the worst waste of the year,” Johan Gustafsson, Waste Ombudsman at the Taxpayers’ Association, said.“
…….
“The wasteful spending poll results come as many Swedish municipal governments face financial hardship or even bankruptcy due to a lack of money to support recently arrived migrants who have largely remained out of the labour force.
An estimated 90 per cent of migrants who came to the country during the height of the 2015 migrant crisis and received permanent residency are unemployed.“
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/11/swedes-vote-climate-policy-biggest-waste-tax-payer-money-2019/?
Greta needs a Snickers Bar.
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PaulE 728pm – indeed I would, and I did so when Obama was screwing around with his national scandals. While I didn’t approve of any of it (as the record here shows), neither did I think they were impeachable offenses – presidents have a lot of latitude as provided in the Constitution.
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/commentary/obamas-scandal-free-administration-myth
https://www.dailysignal.com/2016/10/24/9-controversies-obama-didnt-mention-when-he-denied-any-major-scandals/
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Those mutha mullahs are watching the sand castle wash away from under their feet. They need to start watching their backs! Gotta love it –
A number of Iranian TV hosts and other public personalities have denounced the regime in the wake of Iran’s missile strike on a Ukrainian passenger jet that killed 176 people after the military mistook the jet for an enemy target.
“Apologies for lying to you for 13 years,” state TV host of “Good Morning Iran” Gelareh Jabbari posted on Instagram last Monday. “It was very hard for me to believe our people have been killed, forgive me for believing this late.”
The post, which was seen by NBC News, has since been deleted.
Taraneh Alidoosti, one of Iran’s most popular actors and a star of the Oscar-winning 2016 movie The Salesman, also criticized the regime in a post to her 5.8 million Instagram followers.
“We are not citizens, we are captives, millions of captives,” Alidoosti wrote. That post has also been deleted.
“The Islamic Republic is facing the worst legitimacy crisis in its 40-year history, and the pressures are mounting from every angle,”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sorry-lying-13-years-iranian-201452298.html
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When the chi coms say don’t worry we better get ready for a rough ride –
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/01/20/china-says-no-need-to-panic-as-deadly-virus-goes-international/
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