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[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”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Talk about being out of touch and putting an exclamation point on it! –
    People wonder if Michael Bloomberg has ever pet a dog after awkward moment goes viral
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-wonder-michael-bloomberg-ever-160026225.html
    😉

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  2. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Talk about deep state swamp creatures –
    The Flynn filing also slammed former FBI Director James Comey’s “bragging and laughing on national television about his own cleverness and violations of FBI/DOJ rules in dispatching agents to the White House to interview the President’s National Security Advisor.” (In 2018, Comey admitted on-air that sending agents to the White House was “something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.”)
    Flynn’s attorneys further asserted that his previous lawyers at Covington & Burling had “betrayed him” by advising that he plead guilty without providing adequate assistance of counsel. The Covington team was constitutionally deficient, and had not even informed him that the agents who interviewed him initially didn’t think he was lying and “saw no indication of deception,” Flynn’s lead lawyer Sidney Powell said.
    Nor did the Covington attorneys alert Flynn that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was focusing on Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations — which created conflict of interest issues for Covington, which helped Flynn prepare his FARA filings. Even after government lawyers told Covington to tell Flynn about the issue, Covington “kept it all a secret” from Flynn and left him “defenseless,” without urging Flynn to seek independent counsel.
    Powell provided the court a bombshell internal email from Covington lawyers discussing whether some of Flynn’s statements concerning FARA issues, which they advised him to admit were lies, were even made by Flynn at all.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michael-flynn-motion-to-withdraw-guilty-plea-egregious-fbi-misconduct
    😉

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Don @ 2:30 pm
    Yep. And the gov’t (Mueller) slapped an gag order on Flynn, which is still in effect, so the man can not defend himself in public while Punchy screams, “Liar, he’s a liar. He cannot be trusted, Flynn’s a LIAR!” Sad. Wonder if I am hauled off and our sock puppets attack me and my counsel first, facts be damned. They truly hate justice. They seek convictions, not the truth.
    —————
    Golden State News: California to ban flushable wipes from being flushed down the toilet. Oh, they are not banning the sales of flushable wipes, just making sure you don’t put them down the toilet.
    So, what are they going to do? Send out a bunch of people to inspect your output? Maybe if Schiffilis ever comes back to CA without a camera rolling, he can go door to door and inspect your crapper. He is well versed on the topic. They are already regulating what we eat, now they are regulating the other end, lol.
    https://www.kcra.com/article/california-could-limit-flushable-wipes-tied-to-sewer-clogs/30649156

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  4. Scott O Avatar

    Since the ‘homelessness’ crises is ongoing and a constant bullet point item in every Dem candidate’s web page, I thought it pertinent to link to a person who might help.
    https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/the-only-plan-to-end-homelessness/
    Alas – he doesn’t offer any of the sort of answers that the left wants to hear about. Most of the talk I see printed in newspapers and on-line is total blather. The ‘cost’ of housing has almost nothing to do with why there are so many homeless. But this is wrong-think and so we are going to have the homeless in large numbers for quite a while longer until the homeless shape up and become the people the left wants them to be.
    Meanwhile the left postures and virtue-signals in order to elevate their own stock in the eyes of the non-thinkers.
    The homeless be damned.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Oh….to be a “Ward Heeler”…..like that dreamy Mr. Obama…….!

    IT ONLY TOOK THE GOP 50 YEARS TO CATCH ON:

    Trump Boosters Accused of Using Democratic Tactic of Handing Out Cash in Black Communities. “Walking around money” — it’s just a cute American tradition when Democrats do it, but it’s oh-so-wrong when the GOP starts.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-boosters-accused-of-using-democratic-tactic-of-handing-out-cash-in-black-communities/

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  6. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    The pathetic tiny “wall” that Trump has managed to build can’t even stand up to a gentle breeze and fell into Mexico. What a hoot.
    Trump’s border wall blew over in the wind — and landed on the Mexican side
    “President Donald Trump’s much-hyped border wall suffered an embarrassing setback when newly installed panels in his fence blew over in the wind — and landed on the Mexican side of the border.
    “Mexicali police have confirmed with News 11 that a portion of the new border wall fell on the Mexico side of the border, landing on several trees,” KYMA-TV reported Wednesday. “A portion of the wall landed on the trees, preventing it from hitting the ground. It runs about 130 feet in length.”
    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trumps-border-wall-blew-over-in-the-wind-and-landed-on-the-mexican-side/

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Those mutha mullas tagged us and i wonder if we will even hear about the response until long after?
    Ransomware Linked to Iran, Targets Industrial Controls
    Gwen Ackerman
    January 28, 2020, 4:12 PM PST
    (Bloomberg) — An Israeli cybersecurity firm said it believes a new strain of ransomware was created by Iran and has the ability to lock up or even delete industrial control systems.
    Tel Aviv-based Otorio, a cybersecurity firm which specializes in industrial control systems (ICS), said that the ransomware called “Snake,” like others of its kind, encrypts programs and documents on infected machines. But it also removes all file copies from infected stations, preventing the victims from recovering encrypted files.
    Snake, which was recently discovered, searches for hundreds of specific programs — including many industrial processes that belong to General Electric Co. — in order to terminate them and allow it to encrypt the files, Otorio said.
    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/snake-ransomware-linked-iran-targets-141730534.html
    😉

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Checking this month’s calendar. . It’s been quite a January with more to come. The trade agreement (Phase One) with China signed, USMCA signed, the second Terrorist sent to his virgin with 72 genders, New Jersey Hit it’s lowest unemployment rate in the state’s history, the Mid East deal, more records in the stock market, and the most people working in US history. I could go on and one, but I am trying to post shorter comments. 🙂
    With all that is going on, let’s not forget my beloved Nigel Farage. Brexit! Great goodbye speech,p start to finish (5 minutes), but one can start the 2:50 for time restraints.
    NIGEL FARAGE BIDS FAREWELL TO THE EU
    “Populism turns out to be popular!” Heh.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/nigel-farage-bids-farewell-to-the-eu.php

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The Road to the White House. Well, don’t need a road, we are already there. 🙂
    Stunning Data From Trump’s Ohio Rally: 42.8% of Attendees Identified as Either Democratic or Independent….and more.
    Battle Creek Michigan:
    ✅ 15% haven’t voted in last four elections, WOW!
    ✅ 15% have voted in only one of the last four elections
    ✅ 17% Democrats
    and more.
    https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/01/13/stunning-data-from-trumps-ohio-rally-42.8-of-attendees-identified-as-either-democratic-or-independent

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  10. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,President Bone Spurs says soldiers with traumatic brain injuries are sissies…
    They just have headaches…

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  11. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,having fun with the impeachment questions…
    Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) posed a question that quoted from a line in the infamous Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump was caught on hot mic telling host Billy Bush that “when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
    Harris’s question, read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts, compared that remark to President Richard Nixon’s quote that “when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”
    “If the Senate fails to hold the president accountable for misconduct, how would that undermine the integrity of our system of justice?” Roberts, reading Harris’ question, asked.

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  12. George Rebane Avatar

    odlaw 858am – Is that a general purpose shibboleth you’re quoting, or do you have in mind some specific presidential “misconduct” for which there is evidence? Or are you still offering allegations as evidence? In short, what again is your point?

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  13. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: GeorgeR@9:25AM
    It’s just another one of the unattributed quotes you get whilst checking out your favorite sites every morning. Perhaps from here:
    https://deadline.com/2020/01/impeachment-donald-trump-john-bolton-2-1202845479/
    Typically, comma-man reads like a highly specialized ELIZA program.

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  14. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 30 January 2020 at 09:34 AM
    “Many academics believed that the program would be able to positively influence the lives of many people, particularly those suffering from psychological issues…..”

    Hasn’t helped Comma Man or those forced to read his drivel!

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    @ 9:25 am. & 9:34 am
    Hunter’s quote has nothing to do with impeachment! Opps, strike that. Harris’s quote has nothing to do impeachment!
    Looks like Bernie has learned a lesson Kamala. Sanders released this morning his new plan for 2020: Don’t die.
    —————-
    Day Old Quotes
    Political futures: “The problem with the [Doug] Collins [Georgia Senate] run is that it allows the Democrats to unite behind a single candidate while the GOP is divided and will also deprive other key races of money needed to win. There’s no primary in this special election. It’ll be two R’s against one D on one ballot.” —Erick Erickson
    Grudge-in-chief: “I certainly feel the urge [to run] because I feel the 2016 election was a really odd time and an odd outcome. And the more we learn, the more that seems to be the case. But I’m going to support the people who are running now and do everything I can to help elect the Democratic nominee.” —Hillary Clinton
    This. Changes. Everything. “I just think we have to win. I don’t think we can afford another four years by the current incumbent. I think that would be absolutely dangerous to our democracy, and I’ll do whatever I can to make sure the Democrats win this time.” —Hillary Clinton
    Not sorry at all: “During an interview on Saturday night, one of my guests said something that made me laugh and while in the moment, I found that joke humorous. And I didn’t catch everything that was said. Just to make this perfectly clear, I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people.” —CNN’s Don Lemon
    Shooting yourself in the foot: “I can think of at least eight women, at least four or five people of color, that I think are totally qualified to be vice president of the United States. But for me, it has to be demonstrated that whoever I pick is two things. One, is capable of being president, because I’m an old guy. No, I’m serious.” —Joe Biden
    —————————
    170,000 people tried on line to get tickets to the Trump rally in New Jersey. Wonder if the shockingly high number had anything to do with the above quotes.

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  16. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,more fun with Impeachment quotes…
    Reporter to Schumer…Did you ever take Alan Dershowitz’s class at Harvard???
    Schumer…No…[emphatically]…
    Schumer…That is why I can make a cogent argument…
    …Heard on C-Span

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  17. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Bill
    Trump cannot even build a silly wall let alone be President

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  18. Todd Juvinall Avatar

    Paul Emery | 30 January 2020 at 10:59 AM
    Another comment from the Twilight Zone. I think you need some mental help.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Somewher the Gaffe Master quietly weeps…………..

    New polls show Bernie Sanders opening up large lead in California Democratic primary

    https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Bernie-Sanders-California-poll-Warren-Biden-new-15016831.php

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hey Todd perhaps you can explain to the pony tail of ignorance the dynamics of concreate curing.
    😉

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Warren
    Warren wears her ancestral headdress while vowing to criminalize election ‘disinformation’
    https://genesiustimes.com/warren-wears-her-ancestral-headdress-while-vowing-to-criminalize-election-disinformation/
    —————————————
    An olive branch from CNN to Trump!!!!! Oh my, that so magmatic of them.
    CNN Airs Free Commercial For Trump Campaign
    https://babylonbee.com/news/don-lemon-stars-in-new-commercial-for-trump-campaign

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  22. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Xi sneezes and the whole world gets sick.

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  23. fish Avatar
    fish

    Uh Oh……..major narrative FAIL!

    Feds Back Off Jailing Michael Flynn After Stunning New Evidence That Gov’t ‘Lied’ and ‘Framed’ Him

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/feds-back-off-jailing-michael-flynn-after-stunning-new-evidence-that-govt-lied-and-framed-him/

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  24. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Meanwhile back at the Sandbox, Carter Page is going to sue the crap out of the DNC and whoever is in his signs. Every slithering reptile he can find. He has been done wrong.
    If nothing else, it will be good gossip and reminder who was at the Jan 5 meeting in the WH…the Susan Rice CYA e-mails and Obama and Biden and Kerry CYA’s written two weeks later on Inauguration Day as Trump was being sworn in. They did him bad.
    “Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, law firm Perkins Coie and its partners tied to the funding of the unverified dossier that served as the basis for highly controversial surveillance warrants against him.
    The lawsuit is venued in the Federal District Court in Northern Illinois. More defendants are likely to be added:……..
    Finally, a fun fact: Page is represented by the same lawyers who are representing Tulsi Gabbard in her defamation case against Hillary Clinton, who called Gabbard a Russian asset. Which, of course, is what she and her minions also called Carter Page, an equally absurd lie.“
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/carter-page-sues.php

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The Prez just told Iowa that they are going after the remittances from illegals to further fund the wall. About time! –
    😉

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Frisco has come to town. Blame a Liberal.
    9:29 a.m. — A caller from a business in the 700 block of South Auburn Street reported a woman ripped signs off the building, left them in front and proceeded to defecate on top of them. A report was taken.

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  27. Walt Avatar

    Must have been the news of Trump about to be acquitted.
    4:11 a.m. — A caller from Cottage Street reported hearing a woman screaming who sounded like she had “internal suffering.”

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  28. Bill Tozet Avatar
    Bill Tozet

    Tennessee State Rep Submits Bill to Recognize CNN, WaPo As ‘Fake News’
    https://amgreatness.com/2020/01/30/tennessee-state-rep-submits-bill-to-recognize-cnn-wapo-as-fake-news/

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  29. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Troll: We lose Kobe and you’re still around wasting oxygen. Life is truly unfair.
    Elder: Uncle Toms never die.
    #ElderDerangementSyndrome

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  30. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,BillyT and George were doing their ”’see I knew it!!!”’ dance yesterday because they thought they had proof that Fake News Lib Media was not reporting breathlessly that ARABS WERE IN ISRAEL!!! at Trump’s real estate deal…
    …But of course all media were reporting on it…
    Now Scotto is saying on another thread… ”’If the economy sours and the Dems can figure out how to run a candidate like Tulsi Gabbard, I think they can win.”’
    But guess what???…The GDP is as it was in 2016 and worse than the GDP at the same time in Carter and Clinton’s presidencies…
    And this shitty GDP is the result of the biggest corporate and high income earner tax break in many years!!!
    Where was cheerleader Donnie with this significant news??? Where were BIllT and George…Fox News not keeping you guys up to date???
    Trickle Down Baby!!! …yeah trickle down all right…trickle down to diddly squat for most people…

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  31. fish Avatar
    fish

    Maybe you should do two wedding shoots a weekend instead of just one dugsKKKi!
    C’mon man …..a little personal initiative could do wonders!

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Looks like Odlap woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Not feeling zero gravity, little buddy?
    Helpful hint: You can always hop (crawl) back in bed, turn over, get up, and start your day over in the happy sunshine of life.
    The Empire Strikes Back
    “Trump Tells Iowa Crowd Dems ‘Want to Kill Your Cows’”
    Well, that is true. Wonder why it was even a headline.

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  33. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Year Zero keeps on keepin’ on
    https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2020/01/30/university-california-berkeley-removes-boalt-name-from-law-school-over-racist-past/
    “Boalt Hall – home of the law school was built in 1911 — and actually named after John Boalt in respect for his wife, Elizabeth, who had made a large contribution to the university after he died in 1901.”
    Hopefully the school hands back the contribution (with a decent ROI) to his heirs.
    Next thing you know, the Blue Mob will notice that libraries are filled with books written by meanies of yesteryear.

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  34. fish Avatar
    fish

    Finally…….the democrat on democrat violence inherent in the system.

    Jerry… Jerry… Jerry”: Schiff Stunned After Nadler Snatches Closing Remarks

    After all the hours of grandstanding and preening for the camera upstaged at the end by somebody’s ventriloquist dummy!
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/05/the-week-in-pictures-nadlering-nabob-of-nihilism-edition.php
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jerry-jerry-jerry-schiff-stunned-after-nadler-snatches-closing-remarks

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  35. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    comma-man@8:10
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Real_median_US_household_income_through_2018.png
    I expect that you are far removed from the world of people who go out and find full-time jobs in order to get their daily bread, but it really is better.
    Why is that? Beyond my pay grade to really understand.

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes
    ,,,Comma-man,,,,always gets this way when he starts gathering together his papers for taxes. His taxes are too damned high!
    Have you seen the price of deck screws lately??? Friggin Trump!!

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  37. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Jerry…Jerry…Jerry!!
    lol. Perfect.
    Of course, that’ll suck the air out of whatever words they bleated for this news cycle.
    Central casting couldn’t have come up with better characters than those guys.

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  38. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 08:45 AM
    Of course, that’ll suck the air out of whatever words they bleated for this news cycle….

    Looks like Jerry the Ventriloquist Dummy decided that at the very least he needed some footage to run for his next set of campaign commercials.
    Be a shame to get absolutely nothing for all that effort!

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    Now this is starting to piss me off………! Democrat Primary season is only fun when democrat hacks (Biden, Harris) and crazies (Bernie, Beto, etc.) are featured prominently! If semi-serious candidates start getting traction…..well…..that’s bad for everybody!

    POLL: AMY POPS TO 3RD IN IOWA

    https://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2020/primary/dem/iadem.html

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    What is there about historic low unemployment (especially for minorities), and rising wages for the low and mid-class worker, and high consumer confidence, and pension funds doing well in the markets, and … do progressives like our odlaw not understand? However, it does sound like another Democrat whistling by the graveyard.

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 8:48 AM
    “Be a shame to get absolutely nothing for all that effort!”
    Ah contraire, my fine fellow. Nadler The Penguin can get something for all that effort, but, in full transparency, it will cost him a mere $19.40.
    https://ncrenegade.com/editorial/nancy-pelosi-sucks-commemorative-pen/
    Video on the new Commemorative Nancy Pelosi Sucks Pen. Get your while supplies last!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONaNeNNmIpI

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  42. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    BillT@9:50 I wonder what it says on them?
    I went to an ATTEMPTED_COUP and all I got was this lousy pen.

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  43. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Hits and Misses…..
    “Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college “declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels”. They say that the college, the richest in Oxford, has £8 million of its £551 million endowment fund invested in BP and Shell.
    Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off.”

    “The first ever drag queen? Seems altogether America-centric to me. I have a hunch this will run afoul of the intersectional/de-colonial matrix somewhere.”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/01/loose-ends-107.php

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Not looking good for the Chiefs this Sunday!

    Fiona the hippo attempts to make Super Bowl pick, vomits on Kansas City

    The story doesn’t make clear if this a negative in Hippospeak! Wonder if there is someone who lurks on these boards who we could ask!
    https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Fiona-the-hippo-attempts-to-make-Super-Bowl-pick-15019802.php

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  45. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    Posted by: scenes | 31 January 2020 at 09:56 AM
    ,,,BillT@9:50 I wonder what it says on them?
    I went to an ATTEMPTED_COUP
    Wow!!!
    A coup attempt by Pence.. who knew???

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  46. odlaw Avatar
    odlaw

    ,,,Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was formally indicted on corruption charges Tuesday, just hours before he was set to meet President Donald Trump for the unveiling of the US administration’s long-anticipated Middle East plan.
    ,,,I guess Trump will be investigating…
    BatBoy Rudy is probably end route…

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Finally, some news
    JOHN DELANEY DROPS OUT OF THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RACE AHEAD OF IOWA CAUCUSES
    https://news.grabien.com/making-john-delaney-drops-out-2020-democratic-primary-race-ahead-io
    How exciting. I did not know he was still in the race.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Sounds rather Biblical. Some of those swarms are 35 miles long.
    Africa’s Worst Locust Plague in Decades Threatens Millions
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/africas-worst-locust-plague-in-decades-threatens-millions-11580475600
    Odd, I got around the paywall. Thank you President Trump.

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  49. fish Avatar
    fish

    I do miss her so……..

    Hillary Tweets “No One Is Above the Law” Then Refuses To Accept Lawsuit Against Her

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hillary-tweets-no-one-above-law-then-refuses-accept-lawsuit-against-her

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