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Sandbox – 11jul20

11 July 2020

[Given this week’s SCOTUS ruling on Indian lands in Oklahoma (here and here), the future of all 19^th century abrogated treaties with our indigenous Americans will come up for review. All this will create chaos in the governmental jurisdictions involved, not the least being the status of non-Indians and their property rights. gjr]

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fish

11 July 2020

Just another selfish white person depriving their state of its hard earned revenue!

It Takes 3 Weeks to Escape Illinois

On February 12, Wirepoints noted If the wealthy flee, ordinary Illinoisans will be left holding the progressive tax bag.
Yep, and we have had enough.
We were paying about $15,000 a year in property taxes on a home now worth about $380,000 or so. We have a beautiful 1 acre lot, surrounded by 30 white or and burr oak trees 100-200 years old. \
But property values are sinking. We will sell the house for a lot less than we paid for it 20 years ago.
Property taxes are a killer and taxes in general are going to rise in Illinois.

I guess we now know why other Illinoisans have bailed……
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/escape-illinois-get-the-hell-out-now-we-are
https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/it-takes-3-weeks-to-escape-illinois

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Barry Pruett

11 July 2020

#truenews
My parents left Illinois in 1995 and moved to Indiana. Lower property taxes. Ten times more land. They went from a postage stamp to 2.5 acres, and they live about 15 miles from where we lived in Illinois.

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Scott O

11 July 2020

Here’s another take on how states differ in spending:
https://www.kivitv.com/news/education/making-the-grade/no-51-again-iea-decries-idahos-per-pupil-spending
Oh no!! We’re in LAST PLACE!!
And what’s the one area of concern that the NEA doesn’t mention?
Student achievement.
Oh, that.
I guess that just isn’t important to the National Education Association.
Here’s a national ranking on student achievement:
https://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/quality-counts-2018-state-achievement-success/state-grades-on-k-12-achievement-map-and.html
So Idaho is last in spending but manages to equal or be very close to other states spending vastly more money.
There are 2 people that live in our neighborhood that are teachers and I’m pretty sure between their golf and ski trips they aren’t starving.
Anyway – 15K a year prop tax is just nuts.
Some one has to pay to rebuild after the ‘peaceful’ protests
No wonder there’s an exodus from the high tax states.

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Bill Tozer

11 July 2020

‘L.A. teachers union says schools can’t reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded’
They also want Medicare-for-All, a wealth tax, a federal bailout.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/la-teachers-union-says-schools-cant-reopen-unless-charter-schools-get
I’m confused. “…..and re-designing school layouts in order to facilitate “social distancing.” They already demanded that “re-designing school layouts in order to facilitate” safety from school shooters. Now, they have defunded the LA Unified PD, drove them off campus, and another re-designing in school layouts for social distancing? Next time just build school buildings from Legos and have students re-design them for fun and for free.

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scenes

11 July 2020

re: BillT@12:50PM July 11, Year Zero.
‘L.A. teachers union says schools can’t reopen unless charter schools get shut down, police defunded’”
It’s not surprising really. Until some Man of Steel takes hold of the Blue Mob revolution, you’ll see a bunch of power centers, each with their own kinks.
Spend a couple of minutes doing a 10,000 foot view of the early days of the 1917 Russian Revolution and you’ll see what I mean. It’s enough to make anyone’s nictitating membranes shut right down. Factions aplenty.

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fish

11 July 2020

But I didn’t vote for Obama a second time….second time

MATT MARGOLIS:

Obama Granted Clemency to Terrorists and Traitors, But Democrats Are Angry About Roger Stone.
Just before leaving office in 2017, Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Bradley Manning (you may also know him as Chelsea), who leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks. A traitor in every sense, in 2013 Manning was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison. But, Bradley Manning became a hero of the political left for declaring himself to be transgender, and Obama made his controversial commutation literally just days before leaving office. Manning maintains hero status amongst the left today.
Obama also commuted the sentence of convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera, the leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN), a Puerto Rican terrorist group. FALN was responsible for 130 attacks in the United States, and at least six deaths. An unrepentant Lopez-Rivera was serving a 70-year sentence when Obama set him free. The Congressional Black Caucus had repeatedly lobbied for Lopez’s release during the Obama years, and the commutation was met with praise from Democrats like Bill de Blasio, Congressman Luis Gutiérrez, Bernie Sanders, and others.
Obama also granted clemency to hundreds of drug offenders he claimed were non-violent offenders who deserved a second chance, because of racism or something. It later came out that many of the people he released were actually violent offenders guilty of gun crimes. Obama granted more acts of clemency than any president since Truman, though he saved much of that executive use of power for the latter months and days of his presidency.

But, but, but…….Obama!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/07/11/obama-granted-clemency-to-terrorists-and-traitors-but-democrats-are-angry-about-roger-stone-n631640

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Bill Tozer

11 July 2020

Charter Schools and Their Enemies. The whole article:
Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published “Charter Schools and Their Enemies.” He presents actual test scores of students in traditional public schools and charter schools on New York State Education Department’s annual English Language Arts test and its Mathematics test. Sowell gives the results of student tests in charter schools such as KIPP, Success Academy, Explore Schools, Uncommon Schools, Achievement First as well as the traditional New York City public schools. On the English Language Arts test, a majority of charter school students, most of whom were black or Hispanic, tested proficient or above. Their achievement ratio was nearly 5 to 1. On the Mathematics test 68 percent of charter schools’ 161 grade levels had a majority of students testing proficient. In the traditional public schools, 177 grade levels, just 10 percent had a majority of their student testing proficient.
In April 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported that 57 percent of black and 54 percent of Hispanic charter school students passed the statewide ELA compared to 52 percent of white students statewide. On the state math test, 59 percent of black students and 57 percent of Hispanics at city charter schools passed as opposed to 54 percent of white students statewide.
Sowell says: “In a realm where educational failure has long been the norm — schools in low-income minority neighborhoods — this is success, a remarkable success. What is equally remarkable is how unwelcome this success has been in many places. What has been especially remarkable is that it has been the most educationally successful charter schools that seem to have drawn the most hostility, both in words and in deeds.” The most common form of that hostility are simple legal limits set on the number of charter schools permitted without regard to whether charter schools are producing good or bad educational outcomes.
The education establishment, having the nation’s most powerful labor union, has the ears of political leaders. They see a huge loss potential if more parents are able to opt-out of poorly achieving public schools. For example, in New York City there are more than 50,000 students on waiting lists for admission to charter schools. The per-pupil expenditure tops $20,000 a year. If all the students on the waiting list were able to be admitted to charter schools, that would translate into a billion-dollar loss by the traditional public schools. A substantial decline in traditional public school attendance would mean fewer teachers employed. That would mean declining union dues since most charter school teachers are not union members. Charter schools’ rate of growth since the 1990s has been significant. From 2001 to 2016, enrollment at traditional public schools rose 1percent while enrollment in public charter schools rose 571 percent.
Sowell points out that not all charter schools are successful. Failing charter schools can have their charters revoked, cutting off access to public funds. That is in stark contrast to failing and corrupt traditional public schools that continue to dine at the public trough. Successful charter schools are the real threat to traditional unionized public schools. No charter school in Sowell’s study has been more successful than Success Academy charter schools in Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant and the South Bronx — and none has been more viciously attacked in words and in deeds. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio explicitly campaigned against charter schools saying: “I am angry about the privatizers. I am sick and tired of these efforts to privatize a precious thing we need — public education.
In another venue, Sowell said: “We keep hearing that “black lives matter,” but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media.”
At a 2016 meeting, the NAACP’s board of directors ratified a resolution that called for a moratorium on charter schools. Among the NAACP’s reasons for this were that it wanted charter schools to refrain from “expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate” and “cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.” That is a vision suggesting that no black children receive decent educations until all black children receive decent educations. Black people cannot afford to entertain such a vision and other attacks on educational success.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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I remember when….a Lib with credentials first ran for County Superintendent of Schools. On his first KNCO radio show, he was asked about Charter Schools. His immediate response was he is opposed to charter schools, no ifs, ands, or butts about it. As the election neared, he used the ‘I was molested by Catholic priests’ card and the rest is history. Somethings stick. I never forgot his introduction to the community via that radio interview.

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scenes

11 July 2020

‘I was molested by Catholic priests’
You have to admit it would make a heckuva bumper stucker.
The counter argument to charter schools is always that they cherry pick students. Of course, the underlying assumption is that your good kid will somehow improve the bad kids in public school. There’s never any thought given to the daily life of the good kids.
There’s no point in simply following the money as it’ll just annoy anyone with a whit of honesty.

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Walt

11 July 2020

Well,, 2 outa three ain’t bad.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-homeowner-shoots-home-intruders-sheriff

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Walt

11 July 2020

AAaahhhhh… Cheat by mail.. And it’s always better when “the mail” helps! Right “no voter fraud” Emery?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/11/mail-carrier-pleads-guilty-election-fraud-altered-party-affiliation-absentee-ballot-requests/
It’s just a bummer he got caught. Biden needs all the help he can get.

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Scott O

11 July 2020

BT 1:32 – So NY state spends an average of over 3.5 times what Idaho spends per student and gets the same C- score for achievement.
But –
NY is tops in ‘equity’. Whatever that is.
That makes mama so proud!

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scenes

11 July 2020

re: ScottO@4:03
Washington DC is always the canonical example of school spending v. results.
It would be fun to audit a place like that, just where does all the money go?

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Scott O

11 July 2020

scenes 5:09 – “It would be fun to audit a place like that,…”
You have a strange sense of ‘fun’.
It would probably make me sick.

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The Estonian Fox

11 July 2020

A bus driver in the Basque country of south-western France was severely beaten on July 5. His wife removed him from life support yesterday. Four passengers were arrested for the beating. Two were 22 and 23 years old. None were identified in the English reports (all of which were identical in wording, so news seemed to come from a single source). Agence France Presse & Paris Match did not identify the attackers either, even though they were arrested days ago.
Good time for a test. Help the journalists complete their article. These 4 accused are likely to be:
4 drunken Italians;
4 members of the Religion of Peace;
4 Brits who hate the French – OK, OK, 4 MORE Brits who hate the French;
4 Estonians who lost their connection to the universal Tallinn USB digital port.
4 Basque Separatists
4 BLM members who lost their way

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Bill Tozer

11 July 2020

More and more evidence of the DNC-Hillary Russian Hoax comes. Finally, the Dem State Department is under the light of truth.
‘New Steele evidence strengthens Durham prosecution as frustration over inaction grows’
A British court decision unmasks new evidence of FBI abuses in the Russia collusion probe.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/new-steele-evidence-strengthens-durham-prosecution

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Don Bessee

11 July 2020

RIP our brothers in blue. God bless their families. –
Two Texas police officers were killed in the line of duty on Saturday after they were reportedly ambushed while responding to the call, according to authorities.
“We have lost two brave public servants who sought only to keep peace in our City,” McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said via text message Saturday, The Monitor reported
https://www.foxnews.com/us/2-texas-police-officers-killed-line-of-duty
😉

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fish

12 July 2020

Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Manipulators Are More Likely To Engage in ‘Virtuous Victim Signaling,’ Says Study
…….this surprise anyone?
https://reason.com/2020/07/07/narcissists-psychopaths-and-manipulators-are-more-likely-to-engage-in-virtuous-victim-signaling-says-study/

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fish

12 July 2020

‘I finally got into Harvard’: Man trades garbage collection job for Harvard Law acceptance letter
I don’t know dude……as bad as US colleges are getting……and Harvard in particular. Might want to hang on to that sanitation gig.
If only to retain your self respect.
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/i-finally-got-into-harvard-man-trades-garbage-collection-job-for-harvard-law-acceptance-letter

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fish

12 July 2020

Gun fight on the middle of the Dan Ryan in broad daylight when all doze yootz waz supposin to be’s in skool. Who would have thunk that taking a stray in the hip was easier then studying for your Calculus finals? He is still running pretty well though……a testament to his atalektic skillz!
https://www.facebook.com/1463694143/posts/10218165389353896/
https://www.dredds.info/2020/07/chicago-gangs-shoot-it-out-on-busy-expressway-during-rush-hour.html

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Barry Pruett

12 July 2020

Wtf?!

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Walt

12 July 2020

It’s all good.. Now why should the cartels just El South a’ of the border have all the fun?
Just wait for the automatic weapons to proliferate Chicago.
Then they can blame those on the White guy too.(OR,,” We got’m from the po po,, so if they didn’t have them,, we would have had to steal’m”)

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2020

‘NBC Virus Expert Who Claimed He Had ‘Undiagnosed’ COVID-19 Reveals He Never Had Virus’
“And now we know Dr. Fair never had coronavirus, despite nearly a dozen appearances on NBC and MSNBC where he talked about having it or recovering from it,” media watchdog Steve Krakauer writes in his Fourth Watch newsletter.”
“In the end, NBC’s viewers were left with two very alarming — and false — impressions. First, that an expert virologist can take every precaution but can still catch COVID-19 through his eyes. False. Second, that tests can be so untrustworthy that you can have multiple negative tests and still have coronavirus. [Today co-host] Craig Melvin described them as ‘false negative tests’ in that initial report on May 14. Hoda Kotb said, ‘every time it came back negative, but clearly you have it.’ False.“
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-virus-expert-who-claimed-he-had-undiagnosed-covid-19-reveals-he-never-had-virus?
Liars, cheats, and thieves.

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George Rebane

12 July 2020

BillT 1012am – Mr Tozer, your report again confirms the useful conclusion that lamestream outlets are sources of wholesale ideologically motivated lies and fake news. Why anyone still wastes time with such ‘news’ is a growing mystery.

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2020

@DeAnna4Congress
“Now that Trump finally wore a mask in public, is this the part where liberals CANCEL masks and make the case for how terrible they are??”
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‘Liberals Lose Their Minds After Trump Dons Mask For Hospital Visit’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/liberals-lose-their-minds-after-trump-dons-mask-for-hospital-visit
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On any given Sunday…..except this Sunday. :).
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/07/IMG_2366.jpg?w=511&ssl=1
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/07/IMG_2316.jpg?w=600&ssl=1

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Walt

12 July 2020

I’m sure all the reading LIBs here will agree with AOC..
The rioters were just out to feed the children… Yaa… That’s it,,, it makes it ALLL justified….
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nyc-crime-shoplifting
Now how do you cook that 72IN. flat screen?

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fish

12 July 2020

I usually expect my bartenders to be smarter than AOC.

Ocasio-Cortez: NYC Crime Surge ‘Maybe’ Due To People Being ‘Scared To Pay Their Rent,’ Don’t Have Jobs

Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion that the increase in crime is simply people stealing bread to try to feed their families ignores the widespread looting of luxury stores that happened in the city during the recent riots. It also ignores the fact that New York City Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio resisted calls from top Democrats and Republicans to deploy the National Guard to restore order and stop the violence and looting.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-nyc-crime-surge-maybe-due-to-people-being-scared-to-pay-their-rent-dont-have-jobs

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fish

12 July 2020

Posted by: Walt | 12 July 2020 at 04:12 PM
Now how do you cook that 72IN. flat screen?
Marinate this shit out of it……?

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Bill Tozer

12 July 2020

The jobless working poor folks are using the shut-down as a splenid time to get Christmas shopping done. Defund the Police…they get in the way of those 72″ flat screen and real nice jewelry items.

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scenes

13 July 2020

Steve Bannon speaks:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8513631/Scientists-Wuhan-virus-lab-defected-West-reveals-Steve-Bannon.html

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Bill Tozer

13 July 2020

Something I have kicked around in my head for 20 years: Environmentally and Social Responsible mutual funds. Had one once with a fund out of the Sanctuary Poop City by the Bay. When I looked at the rate of return PLUS the management fees, I dropped them like a hot rock and never looked back. Sin companies were where it was at back them; booze, tobacco, and guns. Anyway……
‘Panic on ESG Street’
“The sub-headline in a Financial Times story on the anguished reaction of some asset managers to the Trump administration’s belated (if modest) efforts to protect the threat to pensioners’ investment returns represented by “socially responsible” investing (SRI) shows where the paper’s sympathies lie (not that there was any doubt about that):
Funds say Department of Labor rule would hamper ability to incorporate ethical principles into pension portfolios.
“Ethical” sounds so much nicer than ideological.
The Financial Times
“Late last month, the Department of Labor proposed a new rule that would require private pension administrators to prove that they are not sacrificing financial returns if they put money in ESG-oriented investments. [ESG-oriented funds, amongst other considerations, look at how a company measures up against somewhat variably defined environmental, social and governance standards]
“Private employer-sponsored retirement plans are not vehicles for furthering social goals or policy objectives that are not in the financial interest of the plan,” said Eugene Scalia, the labour secretary.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/esg-investing-pensions-fund-managers-balk-at-proposed-rules/
What’s a socialist to do with “fiduciary duty to shareholders”? It’s a complicated world out there. My bottom line is I don’t care if a fund invests in chemical warfare products or Nike shoes. Like Colin Kap show me the greenies.

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paul emery

13 July 2020

Fro, Breitbart no less…Trump down by 5 in Texas.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/13/poll-joe-biden-leading-president-trump-in-texas/

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scenes

13 July 2020

re: PaulE@10:33AM “(some poll or the other)”
At least the way forward has been shown, as this column sez:
“And that’s how to understand what is happening. We’re not to object to the riots because the bigger issue is defeating Trump. Nothing much else matters, and if an Antifa mob attacks a federal court building in Portland, don’t call this a riot. Say rather that it’s a campaign event, led by the good guys.
We’re in the middle of a chicken game, where the Left tells us they’ll let this go on as long as Trump is president. The liberal media will ignore the riots, the liberal mayors will tell the local police to stand down, the liberal prosecutors will promptly release anyone arrested. Try to defend yourself, and you’ll find yourself prosecuted.
The message is: this is what you’ll get, America, if you reelect Trump. Elect our guy, and the madness will stop, pronto. A Democratic president would forcefully suppress the riots without a peep from the press. But until then we’re held hostage.”
https://spectator.org/america-held-hostage/
It’s always good to know the rules of the game.

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Bill Tozer

13 July 2020

Cruz was down to Beto in Texas by 7-10 in 2018. Then common sense and Trump stepped in. 🙂

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paul emery

13 July 2020

I don’t recall those numbers bill. It got close a couple time but Cruz was always ahead. Can you provide me a source for your numbers.
Either way at this time Texas is in play which means Trump is going to have to put bucks into his campaign there. He won easily over Hillary-by 9. Not so this time at this point Here’s a link
https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/texas
Just checked out RCP and there are no Texas polls in 2016 that are anywhere close to your numbers Bill. Here’s a link. What was your source?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/tx/texas_trump_vs_clinton-5694.html

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scenes

13 July 2020

Hey Paul. Is the Blue Mob going to win or lose this one? It’s an interesting situation.
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1282718861469429762

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Bill Tozer

13 July 2020

Hey Paul,. You don’t recall how giddy you were that Texas was going to flip and asking why Cruz was sooo far down in the polls? Oh course you don’t remember jack. ‘Senior moments’ is being kind. Why do you think Cruz is doing so poorly? Why, why, why? And Georgia is in play, too!!!!
Paul Emery, once again you have proven yourself to be an imbecile. And you do not have enough integrity to make that squeeze of yours into a honest woman. Just like fat Utah. Why buy the cow when the milk is free…as you resort to your Victorian moral preening and moral outrage. Shacking up shows no respect or commitment to the lady. Are you living in sin?

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Don Bessee

13 July 2020

Botox nancy is looking for a memory hole –
Pelosi says ‘no’ regrets after initial downplaying of coronavirus earlier this year
Pelosi said in February there was no evidence of widespread infection in the US
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-no-regrets-initial-coronavirus
😉

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scenes

13 July 2020

Jim Kunstler on polls…
“It’s certainly in the interest of the Woke Resistance and its inquisitors in the Woke media to keep the volume up on Covid-19 hysteria. It’s crucial to their strategy of forcing a vote-by-mail system that would easily invite voter fraud. It also provides a cover for keeping their mummified lead candidate, Joe Biden, moldering silently in his basement like the ghost of Hubert Humphrey, as well as an excuse to avoid a real convention in Milwaukee, which would force Mr. Biden to step up and speak before a huge, live audience. Imagine the mortification.
Just as I’m unconvinced about the meaning of the Covid-19 surge, I don’t buy the polls that show Mr. Biden ten points up on Mr. Trump. I suspect many actual voters were not pleased by the June reign of terror unleashed by Democratic mayors and governors, and did not fail to notice exactly how all that went down. And it is well-known now, four years after the last election and its janky polling, that many voters won’t reveal their true intentions to pollsters — fearing the vilification they’d invite.
I’ve gotten a lot of letters and comments lately condemning my failure to go all-out against Mr. Trump. So, I’ll state my current position plainly: I didn’t vote for him last time, but I would vote for him this time to keep the Democratic Party out of power. There’s a lot to not love about Mr. Trump in his persona and manner. There’s a great deal more to fear about the prospect of Democratic Party control of government. Their enmity to free speech cannot be doubted after a decade of promoting cancel culture. Their appetite for coercion is at odds with the Bill of Rights. Their bad faith and dishonesty have been on display through all the concocted melodramas of RussiaGate and its offshoots. Their economic program is a mashup of all the failed central planning regimes from the bygone 20th century and is wholly inconsistent with the new imperatives to downscale and re-localize the real productive activities of daily life in this country.”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/position-statement/

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Walt

13 July 2020

Yup,, Crabbman has it right for once… Every time he and Emery shows up here.
https://www.theunion.com/opinion/cartoons/r-l-crabb-it-takes-a-village-idiot-481/

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Don Bessee

13 July 2020

Those mutha mullahs are watching their advanced tech facilities, centrifuge underground facility and rocket fuel production facilities get blasted. –
Black smoke rose as flames engulfed the Shahid Tondgooyan petrochemical plant in the Khuzestan province of Iran late Sunday afternoon.
Hours earlier, more than 500 miles away, detonations rocked the basement of an old, nondescript home in a northern pocket of Tehran. The two-story dwelling was said to have housed at least 30 gas cylinders that were used for unclear purposes.
Both incidents came fewer than two days after a string of explosions – and power outages – were reported west of Tehran in the early hours of Friday. Local reports indicated that multiple “mortar-like sounds similar to anti-aircraft missiles” were heard.
The blasts reportedly took place at an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) missile depot.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/irans-nuclear-facilities-are-mysteriously-under-attack
😉

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Don Bessee

13 July 2020

It looks like the NBA is ok with anti-Semitism now what was the name of the commissioner??? –
NBA Store Allows ‘Defund Police,’ ‘Beware of Jews’ on Custom Jerseys, But Not ‘Free Hong Kong’
https://freebeacon.com/culture/nba-china-cowards/
😉

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Walt

13 July 2020

The LY’N Proggy Press tries and fails again.
Don’t ya’ think telling the WHOLE damned story is your real job?
Leaving out how the dirtbag fired on cops BEFORE they sent him down for a dirt nap was an important piece of information?
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/12/twitter-users-correct-nbc-nightly-news-lester-holt-police-shooting-detroit-hakim-littleton/
NBC is part of the cop hating Left.

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Don Bessee

13 July 2020

UH OH! Creepy grampa joe is not pulling the black vote like shrillary –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/13/zogby-poll-joe-biden-underperforming-among-black-voters/
😉

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George Rebane

13 July 2020

We should all note that the Left is totally silent about today’s atrocities and only contributes to them with their own lies.

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fish

14 July 2020

Fuck off NFL…….never another penny nor moment of my time……!

Wokism Erases Native American Who Designed the Redskins Logo, and the Real Lady A

It was designed by Native American Walter “Blackie” Wetzel to depict a member of the Blackfeet tribe.
Wetzel grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and was eventually elected president of the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C.
He was instrumental in the Redskins franchise logo change from an “R” to the current depiction of a Native American.
According to Wetzel’s son, Lance, the logo is not offensive, but rather evokes a sense of pride.
“Everyone was pretty upset (about the change),” Lance Wetzel said. “Everyone understood the name change we were all on board with that. Once they weren’t going to use the logo, it was hard. It takes away from the Native Americans. When I see that logo, I take pride in it. You look at the depiction of the Redskins logo and it’s of a true Native American. I always felt it was representing my people. That’s not gone.”

https://pjmedia.com/culture/bryan-preston/2020/07/13/wokism-erases-native-american-who-designed-the-redskins-logo-and-the-real-lady-a-n637454

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fish

14 July 2020

Turns to confidant Chris Dodd to help him choose running mate…

That can only mean the Joey Fingers will select a diner waitress that he and Chris Dodd sandwiched at the slophouse where she worked!
https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-chris-dodd-biden-vice-president-20200713-ukrephnva5d7bmnls2cgm2mmg4-story.html

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Bill Tozer

14 July 2020

It don’t matter if 90% of the Native Americans do not think the Redskins logo is offensive or derogatory and either have no negative opinion or think it’s a good thing to have a Native American highlighted on TV every Sunday. Since of pride. Hey, they remembered us and even named a football team after us to honor our warriors and chiefs. Our people, our leaders in a savagely fierce, cruel, or violent game of contact, aka, most ferocious. This ain’t Wiffle Ball we are talking here.
Bottomline: The only thing that matters it is offense to the Liberal Supremacists, ironically, the most easily offended.
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WEISS OUT AT NY TIMES
“Ever since the defenestration of James Bennet at the New York Times last month I’ve been expecting that Bari Weiss would soon follow. And today Weiss handed in her resignation to the Times with a long open letter to the publisher. Very much worth reading the whole thing, but here are some highlights:“
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/weiss-out-at-ny-times.php

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Bill Tozer

14 July 2020

Fish @ 10:03 am
Re: The DC Redskins
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/07/IMG_3160.jpeg?w=960&ssl=1

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fish

14 July 2020

Posted by: Bill Tozer | 14 July 2020 at 10:38 AM
<a href="https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/07/IMG_3160.jpeg?w=960&ssl=1“>https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/07/IMG_3160.jpeg?w=960&ssl=1
I’m going to buy that jersey today!

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Don Bessee

14 July 2020

Fla not so bad afterall –
The Florida Department of Health’s stated positivity rates and associated volume of coronavirus cases does not match claims made by the testing facilities, reported FOX 35:
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 found that testing sites like Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive.
How could that be? FOX 35 News investigated these astronomical numbers, contacting every local location mentioned in the report.
The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
https://www.breitbart.com/health/2020/07/14/fox-35-investigation-reveals-inflated-florida-covid-19-numbers/
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