224 responses to “Sandbox – 30aug23”

1. 

   Don Bessee

   05 September 2023

   HAHA –
   https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/09/05/wsj-editorial-board-shoots-down-legal-theory-keep-donald-trump-off-ballot/
   😉

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2. 

   fishanthrope

   05 September 2023

   The Spice Must Flow…….
   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12483005/Baby-boys-eye-color-changes-covid-treatment.html

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3. 

   Don Bessee

   05 September 2023

   Appease the white wokesters at the risk of alienating the old minority base –
   “Issues like abortion and threats to democracy [LOL] may also do less to guard against additional losses among Black and Hispanic voters,” the Times continues, “who tend to be more conservative than white Biden voters.”
   Because Black and Hispanic Americans are disproportionately poor and working class, they are almost certainly more concerned with inflation, wage stagnation, energy costs, and crime—four issues Biden has deliberately sought to make worse by shutting down domestic drilling and opening the borders to low-wage workers and third world criminals.
   Biden’s lead over Trump with non-white voters who did not attend college is only 49 to 31 percent.
   As of today, Biden is down 17 points
   https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/05/nolte-far-left-new-york-times-admits-biden-losing-minority-voters/
   😉

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4. 

   Scott O

   06 September 2023

   Oh, what a surprise – the IRA actually causes prices to rise. Another tax on energy. Guess who ends up paying for that? And remember that when the cost of energy rises, the costs for everything that use energy rises. Sweet.
   https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2022/09/inflation-reduction-act-methane-charges
   But the fed govt will be “equitable” and transfer even more money from the producers to the eaters to “offset” the increase.
   It’s for the children.

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5. 

   Gregory

   06 September 2023

   “Scientists are worried, as well they should be.
   The latest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, John Clauser warns that climate science has become pseudoscience. Meanwhile, Jim Skea, the new Chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change criticizes climate hyperbole as his boss UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres promotes “Global Boiling.” Additionally, high profile billionaires from Bezos and Soros to Zuckerberg and Gates throw their wealth into climate alarm. Mainstream media outlets are recruiting highly politicized young journalists to promote hysteria.
   The fate of science is at stake, and consequently the fate of the civilization it supports.”
   https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2023/09/05/restoring_the_scientific_method_and_saving_civilization_977439.html

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6. 

   Scott O

   06 September 2023

   More news about “sorta-sciencey” stuff.
   https://www.thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published
   When you have to alter the facts to make the narrative work – it isn’t science, it’s propaganda.

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7. 

   Scott O

   06 September 2023

   Your tax dollars at work:
   “Facebook Files: White House Peddled Obvious Foreign Lies About ‘Disinformation Dozen’”
   Gee, more lying and censorship – kinda makes you wonder what else they lie about.
   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/facebook-files-white-house-peddled-obvious-foreign-lies-about-disinformation-dozen

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8. 

   Gregory

   06 September 2023

   VDH at his best
   https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/04/what-the-left-did-to-our-country/
   A snippet for Punchy:
   “between 2009-17, Barack Obama was empowered to transform the Democratic Party from its middle-class roots and class concerns into the party of the bicoastal rich and subsidized poor—obsessions with big money, race, a new intolerant green religion, and dividing the country into a binary of oppressors and oppressed.
   The Obamas entered the presidency spouting the usual leftwing boilerplate (“spread the wealth,” “just downright mean country,” “get in their face,” “first time I’ve been proud of my country”) as upper-middle-class, former community activists, hurt that their genius and talents had not yet been sufficiently monetized.
   After getting elected through temporarily pivoting to racial ecumenicalism and pseudo-calls for unity, they reverted to form and governed by dividing the country. And then the two left the White House as soon-to-be mansion living, mega-rich elites, cashing in on the fears they had inculcated over the prior eight years.
   …
   Obama lost his party some 1,400 local and state offices during his tenure, along with both houses of Congress. His presidency was characterized by his own polarizing mediocrity. His one legacy was Obamacare, the veritable destruction of the entire system of a once workable health insurance, of the hallowed doctor-patient relationship, and of former easy access to competent specialists.
   Yet Obama’s unfufilled ambitions set the stage for the Biden administration—staffed heavily with Obama veterans—to complete the revolutionary transformation of the Democratic Party and country.”

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9. 

   Don Bessee

   06 September 2023

   DUH –
   https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-columnist-gives-readers-surprising-reality-check-why-americans-down-biden
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10. 

    Don Bessee

    06 September 2023

    Churning out drones for the left –
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/09/06/poison-ivy-free-speech-org-fire-names-harvard-worst-school-for-free-speech-in-america/
    😉

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11. 

    fishanthrope

    06 September 2023

    Remember though….the left is “well educated”…..!
    

    ‘Promised Land’ Star, Director Stumped by Insane Diversity Question.
    The star and director behind “The Promised Land,” which just screened at the prestigious Venice Film Festival, must have drawn the short straw. They were both presented with a question about their film’s lack of diversity, at least by American standards.
    The historical drama follows an 18th century army captain (Mikkelsen) struggling to raise his social status and maintain his values in an increasingly hostile climate. The film is based on a novel inspired by a real person, Captain Ludvig Kahlen.

    An unnamed journalist from Denmark quizzed Mikkelsen and Arcel about the film’s alleged dearth of diversity. It’s set in a Nordic country circa the 1700s.
    Unnamed huh….I bet I can guess why that is.
    https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/promised-land-mikkelsen-diversity/

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12. 

    Don Bessee

    06 September 2023

    The liberal point of view –
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/06/maher-theres-real-corruption-in-hunter-biden-scandal-and-a-lot-of-the-left-wing-media-will-not-cover-it/
    😉

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13. 

    Paul Emery

    06 September 2023

    re Gregory 9:03 post
    This was from an editorial by Victor Davis Hanson a neo-con who was a big supporter of the war in Iraq that took thousands of American lives and was based on lies. His opinion has no value .

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14. 

    Scott O

    06 September 2023

    Paul “His opinion has no value”
    This, from a liar who helped to push lies about Trump.
    Hilarious.

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15. 

    Scott O

    06 September 2023

    Vivek continues to explode people’s heads. Jump to 11:05
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj0dTg_qD5c
    I’m thinking I’ll register as an R just so I can vote for this guy.
    Who else – who?
    Has the balls to flat out put it on the line so plainly?
    Can he actually do it?
    Doubtful – but he has the correct idea and is willing to run with it.
    Let’s give him the chance.
    Who are you going to vote for? The weenie that caves and just wants a little slow down on the left’s destruction of our country?

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16. 

    Paul Emery

    06 September 2023

    RE Scott 07:41 PM
    Can you document a few of the lies you claim I made about Trump?

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17. 

    🐠

    06 September 2023

    “This, from a liar who helped to push lies about Trump.
    Hilarious.”
    Followed by….
    “Can you document a few of the lies you claim I made about Trump?”
    Tacit admission that he is a liar in general just not about Trump. No denial of the first claim.
    Then again since he just admitted that he is indeed a liar he might be lying about not lying about Trump.
    I’d like to publicly extend my gratitude for him finally admitting it.

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18. 

    Scott O

    06 September 2023

    OK let’s go over this slowly for the slow folk:
    “This, from a liar who helped to push lies about Trump.”
    “…a liar…”
    That would be Paul Emery, who shows up here posting lies – hence – he is a liar.
    “…who helped to push lies about Trump…”
    Paul repeatedly – on this blog – passed along falsehoods such as “Trump is a Putin Cuddler”
    and so forth.
    In fact – Trump railed against Putin and the fact that other NATO countries were not spending what was needed to push back against Putin and that the Euro countries were becoming dependent on Russia for energy. Trump did what he could to stop the pipeline from Russia. Here’s a great link Paul won’t ever click on:
    https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/02/26/old-video-of-germany-laughing-at-trumps-claim-theyre-being-totally-controlled-by-russia-resurfaces-1206085/
    Putin invaded Ukraine based on Biden’s complete failure and bug out in Afghanistan along with Biden’s signalling weakness in Europe as well as Biden’s corruption in Ukraine.
    If Trump had been properly elected there would have been no Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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19. 

    Scott O

    06 September 2023

    “Green” Germany has now re-opened lignite (coal) mines to try to stave off freezing to death in the winter.
    “https://www.npr.org/2021/06/29/1011201118/despite-climate-concerns-germany-bulldozes-land-to-expand-coal-mines”
    Note – NPR – perhaps Paul will now say NPR is a discredited right wing web site so he won’t click on it.
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/lutzerath-germany-coal-protests-climate-intl/index.html
    Oh, boy – CNN – we all know they’re just a front for Trumpers, right?
    Gee – maybe just buy energy from Russia?
    Trump was Putin’s worst enemy. Trump helped to drive down the cost of petro and starve Russia of the funds to conduct war.
    Biden did just the opposite. He goaded Putin into a war that will destroy most of Ukraine, weaken our country’s ability to conduct a war against China (Xi applauds this) and help the military industrial complex that leftists used to complain about.
    We note that the Dems fought back the idea that American tax payers should be appraised of where our money is going in Ukraine. Why? What are the Dems hiding?

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20. 

    Paul Emery

    06 September 2023

    Why didn’t Trump pull us our of Afghanistan Scott like he promised he would? He had 4 years to do it. Biden got us out with minimum casualties compared to what would have happened if we would have stayed.
    Direct quote from twitter:
    “We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!”
    4:28 PM · Oct 7, 2020
    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313984510749544450

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21. 

    🐠

    06 September 2023

    Yes…..a quick change of the subject should work to spare further embarrassment here.
    Well done, stalwart man about town….

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22. 

    fishanthrope

    07 September 2023

    TRANSLATION: We already spent all the tax graft and need more.
    

    Biden’s Green Energy Inflation Reduction Act Needs a Big Bailout Already.

    https://mishtalk.com/economics/bidens-green-energy-inflation-reduction-act-needs-a-big-bailout-already/

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23. 

    D.Pecker, Enquirer

    07 September 2023

    Posted by: Scott O | 06 September 2023 at 07:49 PM
    Vivek says to save the country fire 75% of Fed workers, so about 2,175,000 workers out of 2,900,000.
    At least he is in line with what the Fed wants as far a curbing inflation is concerned.

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24. 

    Scott O

    07 September 2023

    “what the Fed wants” – Ha! What millions of conservatives have wanted for decades.
    Let’s reel in the federal govt and get back to a Constitutional Republic that we are supposed to be.
    Not holding my breath.

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25. 

    Scott O

    07 September 2023

    “what the Fed wants” – Ha! What millions of conservatives have wanted for decades.
    Let’s reel in the federal govt and get back to a Constitutional Republic that we are supposed to be.
    Not holding my breath.

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26. 

    Scott O

    07 September 2023

    type pad acting up again

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27. 

    Individual Juan

    07 September 2023

    No worries Scott, they can all apply for unemployment, food stamps, and Section 8 housing ;

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28. 

    Scott O

    07 September 2023

    Lonesome Johnny – Where did you get the idea I was worried? You lefties are masters of fabricating stuff from thin air.
    Anyway if any are laid off, you tell them what they told the laid off coal miners and pipe line workers:
    “Learn to code!”

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29. 

    George Rebane

    07 September 2023

    [posted for Estonian Fox. gjr]

    fish at 08:11 AM
    A reference (a little long) from the mishtalk website has a lot of interesting information:
    https://manhattan.institute/article/mines-minerals-and-green-energy-a-reality-check
    “A single battery providing a useful driving range weighs about 1,000 pounds.[ref 15] Providing the refined minerals needed to fabricate a single EV battery requires the mining, moving, and processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet (see sidebar below).[16] That’s 20 times more than the 25,000 pounds of petroleum that an internal combustion engine uses over the life of a car.”
    [So the paper says an EV car uses 5 lbs of earth (dirt) per mile traveled, vs 0.25 lbs (of gasoline) per mile for a gasoline car, over a 100,000-mile lifetime. Imagine how much mining waste that 5 pounds of dirt/mile yields for 10,000,000 vehicles.]
    …the embodied energy to produce about 200 pounds of steel is the same as used to produce one pound of semiconductor-grade silicon.[20] The world also uses some 25,000 TONS of (energy-intensive) pure semiconductor-grade silicon, a nonexistent material in the precomputer era.[21]”
    We can consider the implications and lessons for green waste by looking at the 50 million tons of so-called e-waste generated globally from worn-out or outmoded digital devices that are also built using many critical and rare minerals. The tonnage of global e-waste equals “the weight of all commercial aircraft ever built” [54]
    Today, one can trace a straight line from a medical MRI to giant trucks in the mines of Brazil (for niobium in superconducting magnets),[71] or from an electric car to Inner Mongolia’s massive Bayan Obo mines (for rare earths), and from a smartphone to mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (for cobalt in batteries).
    The Hague drily notes that “import-dependent countries may use military capabilities to secure mineral resources.”[94]
    The paper also alludes that the U.S. is import-dependent; though it has the estimated quantities to be non-import-dependent – if only the govt regulations & environmental rules weren’t in the way.
    Estonian Fox

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30. 

    fishanthrope

    08 September 2023

    Your (see….”your”….not “you’re”. Learn, know it, live it! Jeez just how stoned were you in the 1920’s going through California elementary schools) feel good story of the weekend.
    

    ‘Defund The Police’ Democrat Politician Left With Broken Leg, Bloodied Face, After Violent Carjacking In Minnesota

    Predictably there was much whining after the incident by said victim who apparently “just couldn’t understand how this could happen”!
    I’m sure.
    And this after her constant screaming about all that “standing in solidarity” with the “poor lads” (Okay…I embellished a little) who did this to her during the BLM riots.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/defund-police-democrat-politician-left-broken-leg-bloodied-face-after-violent-carjacking

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31. 

    Don Bessee

    08 September 2023

    Just another lefty hypocrite –
    Chicago teachers union boss who denounced school choice as racist has son in Catholic school: report
    CTU President Stacy Davis Gates has voiced strong opposition to private education and school choice in the past
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-teachers-union-boss-denounced-school-choice-racist-has-son-catholic-school-report
    😉

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32. 

    Don Bessee

    08 September 2023

    And they wonder why they cannot meet recruiting goals and one of the biggest sources of troops was legacy yet now active-duty folks say in polls they would not recommend their families enlist! –
    I write regarding the Department’s decision to incorporate ‘gender neutral’ language into decoration and award citations. Our military apparently will now use “themself”—which is not even a word, I hasten to add—instead of “himself” or “herself” to describe heroic or distinguished actions.
    He included a sample of the “absurd” model language:
    (Rank) First M. Last, Jr., United States (Military Service), distinguished themself by superior meritorious service in a position of significant responsibility as (position and duty assignment), from (month year) to (month year).
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/08/tom-cotton-military-citations-using-themself-instead-of-himself-or-herself/
    😉

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33. 

    Don Bessee

    08 September 2023

    Talk about a scam –
    https://www.barrons.com/articles/america-wind-power-woes-606a9c57?siteid=yhoof2
    😉

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34. 

    The Estonian Fox

    09 September 2023

    fish 10:28 AM
    In the words of Harry Callahan-“Anybody can tell I didn’t do that to him.”
    Chief – How?
    H ‘Cause (s)he looks too damn good, that’s how.
    Hey Jussie, phone call for you on line 2.
    J – “yeah, I had the same situation with my broken leg. They used the noose to hold it up until they could get me a crutch. But at least I din’t take no selfie! dumb*tch.”

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35. 

    fishanthrope

    09 September 2023

    Looks like somebody is looking for attention……
    

    New Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque

    https://apnews.com/article/albuquerque-guns-governor-concealed-carry-fc5b4b79bf411b8022c3ad58975724d7

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36. 

    fishanthrope

    09 September 2023

    Hmmm….I guess this year “radical self reliance” means leaving all your shit (both biological and purchased specifically for the event) behind.
    

    Days after Burning Man ends, monumental mess remains

    https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2023/09/09/burning-man-has-3-weeks-to-clean-up-the-playa-since-a-muddy-festival-trapped-thousands-w/70797683007/

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37. 

    fishanthrope

    09 September 2023

    I still think this is highly unlikely.
    

    Biden vs. Trump — the sequel! You may not like it, but grows more likely…

    But if nothing else it should give a local Nevada City resident the strength to live on….for a while longer.
    https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2023-09-08/biden-v-trump-the-sequel-you-may-not-like-it-but-its-growing-more-likely-by-the-day-essential-politics

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38. 

    Scott O

    10 September 2023

    Total lunacy:
    “Today, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) jointly released new government-wide guidance and an accompanying implementation memorandum for Federal Agencies on recognizing and including Indigenous Knowledge in Federal research, policy, and decision making.”
    So – that would include having federal officials doing a rain dance during droughts?
    So much for “trust the science”.
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/09/biden-administration-pushes-indigenous-knowledge.php

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39. 

    fishanthrope

    10 September 2023

    Posted by: Scott O | 10 September 2023 at 08:26 AM
    
    I’m not sure what you’re upset about Scott…..the casting of entrails is performed before each instance of a test at the Large Hadron Collider!
    It’s pretty well established.
    You should learn to just trust your betters.

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40. 

    fishanthrope

    10 September 2023

    Got’s to keep dat Biden graft flowing….
    

    Myth Busted: Europe Also Favored Fired Ukraine Prosecutor As Biden ‘Quid-Pro’ Cover Story Crumbles

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/myth-busted-europe-also-liked-fired-ukraine-prosecutor-biden-quid-pro-cover-story

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41. 

    The Estonian Fox

    10 September 2023

    As the self-appointed resident haruspex, I see in the entrails, a new virus, spawned by a bat. Not a rabid bat, just your normal everyday National Level-2 Biosafety Lab-raised bat with a Mandarin accent.
    Scott O – your spelling is not up to par-
    “include having federal officials doing a ‘reign’ dance”. They seem to do that all the time.

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42. 

    fishanthrope

    10 September 2023

    Posted by: The Estonian Fox | 10 September 2023 at 09:47 AM
    As the self-appointed resident haruspex…
    Really….revealing the temple secrets in an open forum?

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43. 

    Don Bessee

    10 September 2023

    Not buying what they are selling –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/10/poll-california-voters-deliver-resounding-no-to-cash-reparations-for-slavery/
    😉

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44. 

    Scott O

    10 September 2023

    More on Indigenous Knowledge:
    “Biden Admin Hosted ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ Seminars That Warned Scientists About ‘Disrespecting’ Spirits”
    I’m sure the “spirits” they mentioned weren’t fire water.
    https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/06/biden-admin-hosted-indigenous-knowledge-seminars-that-warned-scientists-about-disrespecting-spirits-report/
    So – it looks like the Dems are good with “certain” religious beliefs being used to make policy decisions.
    John Hinderaker at Power Line puts it best:
    “Most of the people involved in this boondoggle are reliable supporters of the Democratic Party, and some are getting paid. Indigenous Knowledge includes the understanding that being politically connected can generate rivers of cash, especially in a Democratic administration.”

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45. 

    Paul Emery

    10 September 2023

    So Scott you say there is no value to the wisdom gathered by previous generations that lived in this continent and there is no point in gathering it?

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46. 

    🐠

    10 September 2023

    Nevada City resident gets to have his his indignant senior moment.
    Film at eleven.

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47. 

    Scott O

    10 September 2023

    re Paul 3:14 – whadda ya say, folks? Should I answer ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or go for what’s behind door number 3?

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48. 

    Don Bessee

    10 September 2023

    Creepy grampa joe is in fine form again and again and again –
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/10/biden-holds-bizarre-rambling-press-conference-vietnam/
    😉

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49. 

    Paul Emery

    11 September 2023

    Just affirming your statements of 11:48 Scott. Do you disagree with me?

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50. 

    fishanthrope

    11 September 2023

    Do you disagree with me?
    If he’s sane….

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