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Sandbox – 23jan20

23 January 2020

[Sure would like to hear some candidate preferences from our leftwing readers. Seems that no one here actually has a favorite whose creds they would put on display and defend. Probably the safest route to avoid embarrassment ;-) gjr]

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292 responses to “Sandbox – 23jan20”

fish

31 January 2020

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 31 January 2020 at 11:05 AM
How exciting. I did not know he was still in the race.
Hey…you’re right! We need a presidential race update. I need to see just how far back I’ve fallen!

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fish

31 January 2020

….dugsKKKi?

Man’s intense headaches caused by tapeworm in his brain.

https://www.ajc.com/news/health-med-fit-science/man-intense-headaches-caused-tapeworm-his-brain/0Xt8F4xmU0LcA2qlaxuVYM/

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Bill Tozer

31 January 2020

Why did Trump go to Iowa? Why, why, why? To bring some life to the Dem funeral party!
Byron York: In Iowa, Trump dwarfs Democratic competition
“But Trump’s appearance was for a higher purpose: To mess with his Democratic opponents. Just zoom in on Air Force One, stage a rally bigger than anything they could muster in their wildest dream and zoom back to Washington, having shown again that he is big and they are small.
Trump talked about many things — he spoke for 1 hour and 27 minutes. But he spent perhaps the most time on trade and the economy, touting his U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement and the recently completed first stage of his trade deal with China. Iowa farmers stuck with Trump through the tariff battles, and now both deals will improve the Iowa economy, he said over and over and over. Farmers will need bigger tractors. They’ll need bigger harvests just to deal with all the new business.
Just to drive home the message, on either side of the giant blue “KEEP AMERICA GREAT” banner behind Trump were two red banners, nearly as big, with the same message: “JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!”
Amid all the talk of the drama of the day in Washington, in Iowa, Trump is pushing one big point, and that is: My presidency is making your lives better, and you would be crazy to vote for anybody else in November.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/in-iowa-trump-dwarfs-democratic-competition

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Don Bessee

31 January 2020

The new red guard in full effect –
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/01/31/northwestern-u-student-government-refuses-to-adopt-free-speech-bill/
😉

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Scott O

31 January 2020

I think I’ve found one of the reasons odd-law and his lefty friends don’t like the current economy:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/income-inequality-in-america-how-98-trillion-of-household-wealth-is-distributed/
Money quote – “The gap between rich and poor in America is the worst it’s been in more than a half century. It’s a concern cited by every leading Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 election, but many may not realize what it actually means.”
Wow – “…every ‘leading’ Dem…”
So, it must be true.
Further – “The poorest Americans, people in the bottom 20%, wouldn’t get any.” Really? None? So how is it they are better off than 90% of the rest of the world?
Now – what sort of material goods did the ‘poor’ have 50 years ago vs today? Anyone thought about that?
Obviously not CBS News.

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Walt

31 January 2020

Well, at least they didn’t drop their pants and tell the EU to kiss their sovereign British asses on the way out!
Nigel Farage’s final speech to European Parliament cut short after he waves flag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBMvZRf9Scs

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odlaw

31 January 2020

,,,Racist!!!
”’Donald Trump Levels Travel Ban Against Foreign Travelers from China to Block Coronavirus”’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/31/donald-trump-levels-travel-ban-against-foreign-travelers-from-china-to-block-coronavirus/

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fish

31 January 2020

Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 01:37 PM
,,,Racist!!!
Hey dugsKKKi……you’re the one who lets fly with the epithet “chink” in every other post!

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odlaw

31 January 2020

Posted by: fish | 31 January 2020 at 01:40 PM
,,,Dugskkki, and Trumpskkki are of a like mind…both very stable geniuses!!!

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fish

31 January 2020

Posted by: odlaw | 31 January 2020 at 01:51 PM
..both very stable geniuses!!!
Delusions of grandeur…….make a note to up dugsKKKis meds!

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Walt

31 January 2020

Fish. Inform Dr. Emery of that. Emery claims to be the resident
authority on mental illness.(He’s always accusing Trump of being insane.) I will take Trump’s mental status over Dougy’s(and Emery’s) any day.

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scenes

31 January 2020

As usual, the world isn’t All Trumphate all the Time.
Here’s your chance to watch a bit of history, you can tell your grandchildren about it. Fifteen more minutes from now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-bXt8EewDA

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Don Bessee

31 January 2020

Another one bites the dust –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-killed-a-top-al-qaeda-leader-in-yemen-reports-say-215555178.html
😉

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odlaw

31 January 2020

Posted by: Don Bessee | 31 January 2020 at 02:53 PM
”’U.S. forces had been tracking al-Raymi for months, and there was a $10 million price on his head.”’
I wonder how much was left of him??? Maybe a sandy head rolling around in the desert worth some bucks 😉

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fish

31 January 2020

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Elizabeth Warren Vows to Let a ‘Young Trans Person’ Choose Her Education Secretary.

Big opportunity for work in the Warren Administration as a eunuch dugsKKKi! You used to be both in education and a Eunuchs programmer didn’t you?
https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/31/elizabeth-warren-vows-to-let-a-young-trans-person-choose-her-education-secretary/

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Bill Tozer

31 January 2020

Nigel Farage celebrates Brexit with an invitation to Trump’s big night.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/nigel-farage-celebrates-with-invitation-to-donald-trump-s-big-night-7j3m37gwh
Wait a minute. Did not Hillary say in her book that Nigel appeared at one of Citizen Trump’s campaign rallies and said bad things against My Gal? She place the blame of her most embarrassing loss squarely at the feet of Niguel. Well, at least on that page. You got to flip to page to find out who else she laid the blame on. Fills up a whole book.
Be that as it may (and forgive the regression into the dour topic), it’s just another reason to love Nigel. I ❤️ 💕 💗 Nigel. And there ain’t no leftist around that is going to wipe that smirk off Nigel’s face. He ain’t no little Covington school boy…a child they can bully.
Job well done, Nigel. You may join Trump in the winner’s circle Tuesday night.

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scenes

31 January 2020

a shot across the bow.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zerohedge-suspended-twitter

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Bill Tozer

31 January 2020

Scenes @ 6:44 pm
Right on schedule. Dr. Evil’s diabolical plot hatched in his liar hidden beneath the bowels of the House basement has been to start ratcheting up the clamp down on social media sites. Put it out like a shoe on a cigarette butt grinding it into on the ground. Been waiting for it. We haven’t seen nothing yet….not by any means. No sireee, they are just doing little trail runs. It’s not just the warning from Twitter. It’s happening in increased frequency across a wider spectrum and only toe ones with a good sized following. I reckon it will be almost shut down the last week of the 2020 election. 85% maybe. They have ways to kill the mic.
Notice how Biden’is going nuts over one social media outlet is not going to police political speech by the campaigns for accuracy. Man, their melons are exploding over that. Can’t win on a level playing field. Gotta turn up the heat a bit and give it the Full Monty after Labor Day.
In preparation, some of the righty sites are joining together and forming their our sites…especially Youtube where that is their current platform and vulnerable. Blaze has already moved, Ben Shapiro and friends joined together, Levin making his move.
Think they are calling this new social media outlet ‘My Space.” Ok, I made that up.
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Just because and for no particular reason….a meme or something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS1xnfHYEgw

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Don Bessee

31 January 2020

Collateral damage from the ill-advised sham in the house and the dems epic fail in the Senate –
After Bondi’s presentation, Iowa Republican Senator Jodi Ernst was practically giddy as she suggested to reporters that Biden’s presidential ambitions may have taken a hit.
“I’m really interested to see how this discussion today informs and influences the Iowa caucus voters, those Democratic caucus-goers,” she said. “Will they be supporting Vice-President Biden at this point? Not certain about that.”
Biden has tried to turn Republican interest in damaging his political prospects into a strength, tweeting last week that Ernst and Trump are “scared to death I’ll be the nominee”.
An October poll, however, showed that 40% of Democrats and majorities of Republicans and independents think Hunter Biden’s Ukraine dealings are a valid campaign issue.
In a Democratic nomination contest that is close, as will be the general election in the fall, even a shadow doubt could tilt the scales.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51331363
😉

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Walt

01 February 2020

I guess we don’t have enough terrorists gaining entry.
The swamp queen is pissed.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-democrats-fume-after-trump-expands-travel-restrictions-six-new-countries

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

Is it time for the 49ers to change their name to something less evil white devilish?
Think ‘The Chiefs’ Is a Bad Name? How About the White Male Prospectors?
“The franchise is named after those who participated in the California Gold Rush of 1849. They were avaricious speculators who heard “There’s gold in them thar hills!” and came like locusts to despoil pristine California wilderness and displace the indigenous people. They “staked claims” to land that wasn’t theirs and stripped it of resources. Some got wealthy from it. Most, just spent what they made on whiskey and prositutes, er, sex workers. And they were white men. While their beards would be to die for among today’s hipsters, can you imagine the toxic masculinity of the average mining camp?
Does the thoroughly modern, social justice-conscious city of San Francisco really want its NFL team named after such monsters? Surely, there are names that reflect more enlightened and inclusive aspects of SF’s history and culture.“
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/matt-philbin/2020/02/01/think-chiefs-bad-name-how-about-white-male-prospectors

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Walt

01 February 2020

Frisco GoogTweeters?? Maybe?

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

The Frisco They/Them? The Frisco High Steppers? I dunno. I will come up with something after I scrap the soles of my Birkenstocks.
More Football news and headlines:
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-01-31-at-7.46.43-PM.png?w=1160&ssl=1
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/01/Screen-Shot-2020-01-29-at-10.34.27-AM.png?w=898&ssl=1
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-01-27-at-12.56.01-PM.png?w=1002&ssl=1
And, finally, just for Walt. (Rated G)
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/82479271_855987884849119_3606600844381782016_o.jpg?w=698&ssl=1

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Walt

01 February 2020

Thank Bill,,,, thanks a lot.

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

Walt.
Was it too much? The Raider one was below the belt. Remember when they called the patch pirates around here the Oakland Raiders? Ok. Perhaps it was the pink volcano.Too much?
JOE BIDEN’S ACHILLES’ HEEL: “TOO DUMB TO BE PRESIDENT”
“Chaser: Why, on God’s green earth, would you plagiarize Neil Kinnock, one of the greatest losers ever in British electoral politics? I know Bernie Sanders channels Jeremy Corbyn, by my God man. . .. “
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/joe-bidens-achilles-heel-too-dumb-to-be-president.php
Oh, you are welcome. 🙂

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

Sounds eerily familiar.
“A glorious victory for democracy”
“We did it. Against all the odds. Against the barbs and defamations and underhand tactics of a hysterical establishment. Against a Remainer Parliament that had been hell-bent on reversing what we voted for. Against the best efforts of Remainer agitators at home and the bureaucratic machine in Brussels to prevent our democratic voice from being heard.
London mayor Sadiq Khan is even fretting that tonight’s Brexit bashes could give rise to xenophobic hate crimes.
Of course he is. That’s how they see us: as a pogrom-in-waiting. As a racist blob. As an unthinking mass driven almost entirely by hatred of the Other. They’ve been hurling these insults at us, at the millions of men and women who voted for Brexit, for three-and-a-half years now.“
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/01/31/a-glorious-victory-for-democracy/

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Walt

01 February 2020

Yaa,,, that pink volcano was just too much.

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scenes

01 February 2020

“Does the thoroughly modern, social justice-conscious city of San Francisco really want its NFL team named after such monsters? Surely, there are names that reflect more enlightened and inclusive aspects of SF’s history and culture.“”
The San Francisco Poops?

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

The San Fransisco Gold Diggers? Nah, too much like the 49ers. The Frisc Scoopers? The Paper Straws? The Stink-Asses? Wharf Rats. Dock Denizens? Leather Teddies?

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scenes

01 February 2020

lol. I like the ‘Stink-Asses’, even Paul could root for that. Need to start working in a logo.
From the brexit article:
“Which is that it embodies the patient but determined assertion of ordinary people that they have as much right as the rich and the well-educated to determine the political fate of the nation. ”
huh.

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

Coronavirus
“Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration’s lack of diversity”
But the visuals that have come to define the Trump administration say something else, too. They signal which people in a multi-racial, half-female country Trump values the opinions of: mostly white men who are mirror images of the President himself.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-diversity-obama/index.html

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

Hillary fesses up. It wasn’t the Russians who cost her the election, it was Bernie and those awful Bernie Bros.
https://www.oann.com/hillary-clinton-says-bernie-sanders-worked-against-her-in-2016-lost-her-the-presidential-election/

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Don Bessee

01 February 2020

Just sayin’
hile various forms of palindrome dates are fairly common, 02/02/2020 has the unique distinction of reading the same backward and forward when written out in eight digits in multiple date systems, according to University of Portland professor Aziz Inan.
“We are so lucky to have such a special palindrome date occurring in our lifetime because it’s so rare,” Inan told USA TODAY Saturday.
For starters, it’s an eight-digit palindrome: 02022020. Many palindrome dates are only symmetrical if you write the date with seven digits (1-10-2011) — or in some cases even fewer (9-10-19).
But even more rare, according to Inan, is that Sunday’s date is an international palindrome: It works whether you write the date as “Month/Day/Year” or “Day/Month/Year,” as many countries do.
Inan calls such dates “ubiquitous palindromes,” and there won’t be another one for 101 years. After that, you’ll have to wait until March 3, 3030.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sundays-date-rare-palindrome-hasnt-215126981.html
😉

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scenes

01 February 2020

Well…an anagram for ‘coronavirus’ is ‘carnivorous’. On the ironic side I’d say.

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Bill Tozer

01 February 2020

Coronaviorous.
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Virus-Masks.png?w=1086&ssl=1
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/02/Eboila-beer.png?w=1082&ssl=1

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fish

02 February 2020

GUILTY…….

Tanden: Rashida Tlaib’s booing of Hillary at Sanders rally just another example of ‘white male rage and misogyny.’

…….as charged.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/02/01/neera-tanden-rashida-tlaibs-booing-of-hillary-at-sanders-rally-just-another-example-of-white-male-rage-and-misogyny/

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Walt

02 February 2020

Yup,, we love to elect idiots to pass laws. Especially ones about things they have no working knowledge of.
MAKE THE AR16 ILLEGAL!!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/02/john-kerry-endorses-biden-to-fight-against-ar-16-with-long-clip/
Just stop the manufacturing of “long clips” and they will just be used up over time.

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Walt

02 February 2020

This is really going to screw up Emery’s AGW argument.
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/reykjanes/news/97289/Mt-Thorbjorn-volcano-Reykjanes-peninsula-Iceland-increasing-earthquake-intensity.html
You DO realize Buzzard man, Mamma nature has was of cooling things WAY down.
Oh That’s right, you were stone silent on that Glacier national Park factoid I gave ya’ as well. (same thing from your pal as well)
That’s OK.. I understand…..

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George Rebane

02 February 2020

Administrivia – regarding the ongoing debate on relative smarts, I invite your kind attention to the 2feb20 update of Scattershots.
https://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2020/01/scattershots-28jan20.html

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scenes

02 February 2020

As per usual:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/01/i-cant-believe-amount-people-here-over-3000-rally-sanders-influential-iowa-survey
“”I Can’t Believe the Amount of People Here”: As Over 3,000 Rally for Sanders, Influential Iowa Survey Shelved”
Ya can’t have Bernie do well, after all. Too funny.
It’s one of those pure plays in contrast. At least in recent years, two separate philosophies:
1) Republican. Skeleton crew working for populist helps give speech-makin’ guy the nomination. Scarcely any money spent, Republican establishment does their best but loses to the FNG.
2) Democrat. DNC old regime cheats and cheat and cheats to get their annoited one the nod. Steamrollers alternative candidates.
You can argue about which party is more corrupt, but in the primary process there really is no comparison.

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Bill Tozer

02 February 2020

Liz Warren’s plan to control online speech is straight out of Orwell
https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/liz-warrens-plan-to-control-online-speech-is-straight-out-of-orwell/

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Walt

02 February 2020

See the empty seats at the Superbowl? OUCH!

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