Sandbox - 7apr19

[Back from travel.  I hope that some of our readers have been following the trail and travail of foreign correspondent and journalist Lara Logan, recently of '60 Minutes' fame.  She is causing quite a consternation in the lamestream media who have targeted her for destruction since she has blown the whistle on the whole progressives' propaganda machine.  Her interview on tonight's Mark Levin show was superb.  gjr]

Comments

[Bill Tozer]

Lara Logan is just telling the truth. My, how far they have gone off the rails.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-rachel-maddow-turned-into-infowars/

The economy is strong, things are going well, but we have a full blown crisis on the border. The Pelosi crisis.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/04/voters-on-illegal-immigration-the-democrats-are-nuts.php

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump will be in a strong re-election position as the economy is strong. The loons on the left are also helping a lot.

[Russ]

I thought Lara's comments at the end of the interview about Benghazi were very revealing. It confirmed my view that Ambassador Stevens was abandoned by Obama and his spineless administration.

[Paul Emery]

George

Once again you ignore my simple question that is do you believe that Trump is telling the truth when he says he won't release his taxes because he's being audited for all 6 years. he has affirmed that as soon as he is no longer being audited he will release his returns. Do you believe he is telling the truth?

[Ozz]

Todd 8:45
You show your raw stupidity by squirting something like "Trump will be in a strong re-election position as the economy is strong". The election is over a year and a half away, Trump might be in prison. Hillary might be president. Your skirt might blow over your head. 18 MONTHs away. What economy?

[Robert Cross]

trump is incapable of telling the truth. His recently appointed goon Barr issues a 4 page summary of a 400 page legal document and declares 'no harm no foul' and congress will get a redacted version (undoubtedly so trump's goons can cleanse the report of any damaging information) sometime soon. Another recently appointed goon Mickey Mulvaney sets the tone by declaring that "Democrats will never see Donald Trump's tax returns" despite established law and precedent that says Congress is entitled to both the full text of the report and trump's tax returns.

It's all stall to keep any more damaging revelations from seeing the daylight and the voters until after the election when, if he wins, he will refuse once again. Of course, if he loses all of this will be meaningless in the face of prison time for tax evasion and fraud. You know that is what this is all about....keeping the Donald out of the slammer for as long a possible. Why do you think he came up with the whole lock up Hillary mantra...attack out of your weak point to deflect attention away from your transgressions onto your opponent. Why do you think so many anti-gay homophobic politicians get caught with their pants down in airport mens rooms?

[Bill Tozer]

Keep drinking the Kool-Aide, Bobbie.

“Why do you think so many anti-gay homophobic politicians get caught with their pants down in airport mens rooms?” I dunno. I can name one in June, 2007. But, since you said “so many”, that would be five or six. I will go easy on ya. Name four. Ok, considering your arrested development, name three that got caught with their pants down in airport men’s rooms. And the one I can name (2007) got caught playing footsie. Whether his pants were down or not, it never came up. Name three. You can do it Bobbie! Come on cumbreath, name three. Actually, three would be a few. “Many” would be more than a few, but I will cut you some slack.
Remember, we are going to come for you and march pyou up against the wall, roflmao. Where do these wack jobs come from? Be afraid, be very afraid. Boo! Hide under the bed. No wait, the Boogieman is under the bed. Hide in the closet!

With your sterling record of getting everything wrong, how about you tell me what you have gotten right. I have twenty seconds, which should be more than enough time to tell me what you got correct in the last three years.

Barr the goon. Good one. So predictable. If nothing else, you are consistent. And Trump will be gone this Spring. And Trump is going to jail for tax something. And, and, and....

Toss her in the paddy wagon, drive her to the drunk tank, and lock her up! Lock her up!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kXY75UTkdS4

[Gregory]

Punchy... you're just punching the tax return angle? There's no requirement for a President to make his or her returns public. I thought you knew that.

I suspect Trump was audited every year, and Presidents are automatically audited every year.

That's the reason he gave, not that he needs any reason. Tax returns are private, you know.

Yes, Ozz, a year anna half is a long time. You are certainly free to pray for economic collapse in order to assure Trump and the GOP's loss... but if DEM fingerprints are on such a calamity, that might not wear well in Nov 2020 and beyond.

[L]

Ozz @ 9:52 More likely HRC in slam, Orange Man still run show, to put it in terms you might grok. Rx what is that about?

[L]

Good God, George, these people from left land really are nuts! Where do you find them?

[Bill Tozer]

Actually, Congress can request a taxpayer’s return if stated for a legislative purpose, like needed to write tax law. The return (per Law) will be released in executive session of the Committee......which means the committee goes to a safe room. No cameras, no phones, no recording devises, no pen or paper allowed. No notes, no copying. No aides? They can look at the returns there. Knowing how most in Congress on the Dem side are not the sharpest tools in the shed, they can try to make heads or tails of the stack of returns of over 500 companies, but it is a felony to leak one word. The law makes no exception for a President, so Trump is provided the protections of any citizen.

Been waiting for someone to put it in an article to save typing. My understanding may be inaccurate, but judging by comments by both the Dems and the good guys, it ain’t going to happen. First, name the legislative purpose for writing tax law that these particular returns are needed. First things first. This will be tied up in the courts for many moons.
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Geeze Louise, another scandal about foreigners trying to help Hillary win an election.

“Nellie Ohr, wife of a senior Justice official and a researcher for the Fusion GPS opposition-research firm, testified to Congress last year that some of Fusion GPS’s research on Trump-Russia ties came from a Ukrainian parliamentarian. The Democratic Party and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump.

Although Ohr acknowledged the Ukrainian source, lawmakers did not press her to be more specific.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/437719-ukrainian-to-us-prosecutors-why-dont-you-want-our-evidence-on-democrats

[Gregory]

"Trump might be in prison. Hillary might be President".
-Ozz

It takes a fevered imagination for either. Can't happen.

Hillary as President is the sillier of the two, as in no case would the 2016 result be overturned and HRC given the keys to the White House.

It's over. Mueller didn't find what you were dreaming of. Every day. What Rachael, Joe, Mike, Don, Adam, all of them, were promising day after day. It's just about to blow. YESSIRREE BOB!

It ain't gonna happen. There's an election coming up. That's is. Get to work. Or don't.

[Bill Tozer]

This is ‘why why why’ President Donald J. Trump won’t release a thing: TDS works in our favor, bugles. “Welcome to my parlor,” said the spider to the fly. Unhinged people are prone to make grave mistakes. Watching them (the bitter bedwetters) is like watching monkeys trying to hump a football. A real flustercuck.

Think you are going huff and puff and blow this guy’s house down? Go ahead, stamp your feet. Now get all red in the face. Perfect. Hayden Williams took a punch for all of us and now you pissed us off. Sucks to be you.

https://www.facebook.com/LEXITMovement/videos/282981179294439/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMjE3OTQxNDE0OTE5NDE2/

Orange Man is sooooo bad.

[George Rebane]

L 1150pm - they just come in through the open door, knowing here they will be heard. Rejoice that they are a visible dip stick into the mentality of our Left - no need to conjecture.

[Todd Juvinall]

The past is a good indicator of the future in politics. Having been involved in it for 40 plus years I think Trump is in a good position to win again. TYhe economy is humming and he certainly is persistent in the border issues. I actually think people like a semi-scoundrel with brains in charge of the place.

[Ozz]

Gregory 12:15
" Hillary might be Presidentm (sic). . . can't happen."

When Trump and Pence die in a terrorist strike, Pelosi becomes president and appoints Hillary as her VP. Pelosi subsequently commits suicide (see Vince Foster) and Hillary becomes pres. Don't say it can't happen.. . you'll start sounding like one of those many pundits who laughed when Trump ran for president.

[Todd Juvinall]

Ah more conspiracy nutty ideas. And perhaps Adam Schiff will become the AG too.

[Ozz]

Todd 8:45
"Ah more conspiracy nutty ideas." Jade Helm ring a bell? Sandy Hook, A21, Y2K, GW denial, chem trails, vaccines, Deep State . . . . conspiracies are invariably born from right wingers.

[Bill Tozer]

Coming up: This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, 3 performances in 3 cities. Book your tickets now for Spinal Tap. They are back, promising to play their old material. Backstage passes available and going fast. Discount tickets for An Evening with the Clintons Spinal Tap Tour can be purchased on Groupon.

https://news.grabien.com/story-dan-bongino-schiff-unless-can-you-actually-produce-evidence

[George Rebane]

Jade Helm 15 was a poorly communicated military exercise conducted over multiple states that had all the visible trappings of something roguish happening as stealthy units, some dressed in civilian clothes, maneuvered in urban and country areas. Given the Obama era's divisive signs of the times (and Russia’s involvement), an ill-informed population exercising free speech did come up with some pretty draconian theories for all the existential cloak/dagger stuff suddenly happening in their midst. These quickly died down as the government turned up the info spigot and explained the matter to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories

However, as far as organized and enduring conspiracy theories based on no evidence whatsoever are concerned, the now far-left Democratic leadership takes the cake in American history by continuing to pursue multifarious and multi-year fishing expeditions after Team Trump on the pretense that the president is here to do away with American democracy, a nefarious program that began with the infamous Russian collusion that stole the 2016 election from Her Holiness Hillary.

[Todd Juvinall]

The left are the ones that are all in with conspiracy theories. The difference is the ones on the right are fringe people while the democrats are their "mainstream" (AOC and Crazy Bernie?). Too much ganja at an early age by the lefty loons.

[Bill Tozer]

Conspiracy theories? Like Trump is a Russian agent? Chem trails? Think the Left owns that one. “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” Who killed JR? It was the one armed man! Then we had Alex Jones as top dog until Rachel Maddcow became Queenly King of the Hill.

The polls in 2016 that revealed more people believe in the existence of Big Foot than Hillary Clinton is an honest person, 14% to 11%.

http://www.aei.org/publication/more-people-believe-in-bigfoot-than-believe-hillary-clinton/

Now, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. The Demon Haunted World.

https://www.facebook.com/mediaalliance.bayarea/photos/a.97192883494/10156514348453495/?type=3&theater

[Todd Juvinall]

BillT you bet they think that conspiracy is real. Honestly, their momma's dropped them on their heads too many times. Maybe a botched abortion too?

[Paul Emery]

Gregory, George

Trump claims he is being audited and that's why he won't turn over his tax returns. He has said repeatedly that he will turn them over when he is out of audit. My question is simply do you believe him and is he telling the truth? It is a different question as to whether he has to make his taxes public. I am not asking that question.

[Bill Tozef]

Todd: I liked the former NC Scooper’s article that the taco wagon in the Safeway parking lot was really a FEMA wagon in disguise to haul us of to the camps. I liked that on-line satire publication until the crazy wireless signal lady dealt with him later.” :). Never got a chance to say goodbye.
But, the NC Scooper had nothing on our own beloved Robert Cross worrying himself sick that we White Suprematists are going to hunt him down and march his lily white inch worm frame before the firing squad. How silly. We aren’t going to shoot him. We are going to burn him alive tied to the stake. Oak firewood, Nevada County’s most abundant renewable resource. Madrone will also work
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“For people who don’t believe in Global Warming and rising sea levels — I was at the beach last week and the ocean was 3 feet higher in the afternoon than it was in the morning.” —Twitter parody account @AOCpress

and more quotes:

“Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don’t know where to look.” —Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981

Non compos mentis: “You’re paying a price, you committed a crime, you’re in jail. That’s bad. But you’re still living in American society and you have a right to vote.” —Bernie Sanders (Some prisoners are murderers who took away another person’s right to vote.)

Selective outrage: “We cannot have perfection as a litmus test. The responsibility of leaders is to not be perfect but to be accountable; to say, ‘I’ve made a mistake, I understand it, and here’s what I’m going to do to reform as I move forward.’ And I think we see Joe Biden doing that.” —Stacey Abrams

Nothing to see here… “I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done. I have never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or a woman. So that’s not the reputation I’ve had since I was in high school, for God’s sake.” —Joe Biden

A blind squirrel finds a nut: “President Trump is correct and the Republican leadership is correct that we need fierce, strict levels of control on [the southern] border to keep bad people from coming in. Illegal immigrants should not come in. I don’t want to get into a wall or anything, but I agree we should fund whatever we need to do to secure the border. The Democrats are not correct. We should be funding ICE and giving them all the tools and resources they need to secure the borders and arrest the bad people.” —Howard Schultz

Delusions of grandeur: “At least I’m not trying to cage children at the border and inject them with drugs. That’s not a mistake. That is a deliberate policy to attack people based on their national origin. That’s not a mistake. That’s just hatred. That’s just cruelty. That’s just wrong!” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The BIG Lie: “Washington’s famed cherry blossoms threatened by rising sea levels.” —CBS News

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[Bill Tozef]

Todd: I liked the former NC Scooper’s article that the taco wagon in the Safeway parking lot was really a FEMA wagon in disguise to haul us of to the camps. I liked that on-line satire publication until the crazy wireless signal lady dealt with him later.” :). Never got a chance to say goodbye.
But, the NC Scooper had nothing on our own beloved Robert Cross worrying himself sick that we White Suprematists are going to hunt him down and march his lily white inch worm frame before the firing squad. How silly. We aren’t going to shoot him. We are going to burn him alive tied to the stake. Oak firewood, Nevada County’s most abundant renewable resource. Madrone will also work
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“For people who don’t believe in Global Warming and rising sea levels — I was at the beach last week and the ocean was 3 feet higher in the afternoon than it was in the morning.” —Twitter parody account @AOCpress

and more quotes:

“Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don’t know where to look.” —Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981

Non compos mentis: “You’re paying a price, you committed a crime, you’re in jail. That’s bad. But you’re still living in American society and you have a right to vote.” —Bernie Sanders (Some prisoners are murderers who took away another person’s right to vote.)

Selective outrage: “We cannot have perfection as a litmus test. The responsibility of leaders is to not be perfect but to be accountable; to say, ‘I’ve made a mistake, I understand it, and here’s what I’m going to do to reform as I move forward.’ And I think we see Joe Biden doing that.” —Stacey Abrams

Nothing to see here… “I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done. I have never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or a woman. So that’s not the reputation I’ve had since I was in high school, for God’s sake.” —Joe Biden

A blind squirrel finds a nut: “President Trump is correct and the Republican leadership is correct that we need fierce, strict levels of control on [the southern] border to keep bad people from coming in. Illegal immigrants should not come in. I don’t want to get into a wall or anything, but I agree we should fund whatever we need to do to secure the border. The Democrats are not correct. We should be funding ICE and giving them all the tools and resources they need to secure the borders and arrest the bad people.” —Howard Schultz

Delusions of grandeur: “At least I’m not trying to cage children at the border and inject them with drugs. That’s not a mistake. That is a deliberate policy to attack people based on their national origin. That’s not a mistake. That’s just hatred. That’s just cruelty. That’s just wrong!” —Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The BIG Lie: “Washington’s famed cherry blossoms threatened by rising sea levels.” —CBS News

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[George Rebane]

PaulE 1048am - I think that Trump lied when he said he'd turn them over when his audit is over. 1) Given he's Donald Trump, he will ALWAYS be under some kind of IRS audit, and 2) no matter what happens, he won't reveal his tax returns - they contain too much political ammo for his enemies. But not to worry about any material illegalities or irregularities, the IRS would have long ago leaked any of that to beyond the orbit or Neptune.

[Paul Emery]

George

It would seem that he should be cleared for some years since he claims he's being audited for all six years. My tax person says he's never heard of an audit taking that long. We do agree however that Trump lied about saying he'll turn them over when the audit is complete. That's and example as to why I call him our "liar in chief".

[Bill Tozer]

Gillette is embarrassing itself again.

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2019/04/05/gillette-ad-features-an-unapologetic-fat-woman-in-a-swimsuit-heads-explode/

https://www.dailywire.com/news/45687/walsh-if-we-dont-celebrate-anorexia-we-shouldnt-matt-walsh

[Gregory]

Punchy and Ozzie

Here's an article for you... yesterday from VDH, All the Progressive Plotters:
https://amgreatness.com/2019/04/07/all-the-progressive-plotters/

It's painful to see them all stacked together in one place.

[Paul Emery]

Sorry it's difficult for you Gregory. Not to worry, only a year and a half or so and Trump will be out of office and you son'g have to think about these things anymore.

[Paul Emery]

typo: you wont have to think.....

[Gregory]

The list of right wing conspiracies offered by Ozzie:

Sandy Hook
That's just an InfoWars affliction... now a mea culpa psychosis by Jones.

A21
A conspiracy out in the open? It's just the "sustainability" trope.

Y2K
That was Luddites on both sides of the aisle worried about technology they didn't understand. I told the wild eyed that I wasn't worried, that just because real time clock circuits were delivered in the 100's of millions didn't mean every embedded system with the things were relying on the calendar (the ones I was involved with weren't) and the only thing I did in preparation was gather statements in December just in case there was a snafu with the rollover. There wasn't.

The only thing that happened was lots of programmers who were keepers of the old COBOL knowledge got one last big payday patching and rewriting old code.

GW denial
Ahh, the GW deniers... that's just more of the A21 sustainable opposition at its heart, at least for the "deniers" who don't (or can't) read the science journals for themselves and are reacting to their old nemises who are pushing huge socialist remakings of the world's economy. Like the GND.

Then there's the GW Deniers who. like me, have read the science journals for themselves and see how weak the claims are, and are watching the signs of cooling, much like the golf referee at the end in Caddyshack watching the golf ball teetering on the edge...

chem trails
More Luddish folk on the left and right. The Art Bell/George Nori followers I've met or known have mostly been on the hard left. Mostly.

vaccines
Most of the local anti-vaxxers are on the left... with one hard left charter school, Yuba River Charter, having to close for a week (for the half of the kids who weren't vaxxed) when faced with a measles exposure.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-case-shuts-down-california-school-in-area-with-low-vaccination-rate/
Great coverage for Nevada County with that one, eh?

Deep State...
You mean folks like Senator Schumer?:"“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow"

And here I thought Senator Chuck was on the left.

[Gregory]

The list of right wing conspiracies offered by Ozzie:

Sandy Hook
That's just an InfoWars affliction... now a mea culpa psychosis by Jones.

A21
A conspiracy out in the open? It's just the "sustainability" trope.

Y2K
That was Luddites on both sides of the aisle worried about technology they didn't understand. I told the wild eyed that I wasn't worried, that just because real time clock circuits were delivered in the 100's of millions didn't mean every embedded system with the things were relying on the calendar (the ones I was involved with weren't) and the only thing I did in preparation was gather statements in December just in case there was a snafu with the rollover. There wasn't.

The only thing that happened was lots of programmers who were keepers of the old COBOL knowledge got one last big payday patching and rewriting old code.

GW denial
Ahh, the GW deniers... that's just more of the A21 sustainable opposition at its heart, at least for the "deniers" who don't (or can't) read the science journals for themselves and are reacting to their old nemises who are pushing huge socialist remakings of the world's economy. Like the GND.

Then there's the GW Deniers who. like me, have read the science journals for themselves and see how weak the claims are, and are watching the signs of cooling, much like the golf referee at the end in Caddyshack watching the golf ball teetering on the edge...

chem trails
More Luddish folk on the left and right. The Art Bell/George Nori followers I've met or known have mostly been on the hard left. Mostly.

vaccines
Most of the local anti-vaxxers are on the left... with one hard left charter school, Yuba River Charter, having to close for a week (for the half of the kids who weren't vaxxed) when faced with a measles exposure.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-case-shuts-down-california-school-in-area-with-low-vaccination-rate/
Great coverage for Nevada County with that one, eh?

Deep State...
You mean folks like Senator Schumer?:"“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow"

And here I thought Senator Chuck was on the left.

[Paul Emery]

Don't worry Gregory, it will be all over soon.

[Gregory]

Paul, the Trump claim to be in audit seems to be a permanent thing. Maybe someday.

Really, Paul? It will all be over soon?

You'll find something else. Maybe all those antivaxxers at Yuba River Charter can be a post Trump hobby for you. In either two or six years.

[Bill Tozer]

Going blind in Britain.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/thousands-in-britain-left-to-go-blind-due-to-eye-surgery-rationing-report

[Paul Emery]

Do you believe Trump is telling the truth Gregory? There is no such thing as a permanent audit. Were you trying to be clever?

[Paul Emery]

Also, if Trump is having tax problems with the IRS don't you believe voters have a right to know that? Anyone applying for a home loan has to show their taxes to qualify for financing why shouldn't Trump be required to show he is a clear and responsible taxpayer in order to be Pres?

[Bill Tozer]

Saw this and thought of Gregory. Things have a way of panning out..

https://news.grabien.com/story-mark-levin-biden-karma-trying-destroy-robert-bork-and-claren

[George Rebane]

PaulE 144pm - "why shouldn't Trump be required ...?" Because there is no law that contains this requirement. I take it you're writing your senators to get such a law going (you can skip LaMalfa). Otherwise, all this harangue of yours amounts to nothing more than something that you would like to see Trump do.

And, as I have pointed out to you innumerable times, if Trump has any tax problems, the world would know it immediately.

[Todd Juvinall]

Tom Sullivan reported there is a law from the 1920's about tax returns. Congress can ask anyone for theirs as long as there is a legislative reason. So Nadler concocked a phony one to try and get Trump's/. Mulvaney said no way Jose.

[Don Bessee]

Can someone shove the pony tail of ignorance, his record is skipping again.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/08/ex-obama-wh-staffer-joe-biden-called-me-beautiful-grabbed-my-waist/

;-)

[Paul Emery]

George

Your assumption is purely that. My question is why doesn't Trump release his tax returns like all other President candidates have for the last 50 years. Do you think he's doing that out of principal or because he has something to hide? It's a moot question because he said he would release his returns so he has no problem with the idea however gosh and golly he's being audited so he can't. Sure. Even you don't even believe that George.

[Don Bessee]

Falling flat in the real world, whats wrong with those people, don't they know he is hollywoods new god?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beto-orourke-fails-to-fill-auditorium-in-iowa-city

;-)

[Don Bessee]

We told you so! -

After winning her House race last year, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., "swung by" to say goodbye to the Coffee Shop in Union Square where she used to work.
She tweeted: "The restaurant I used to work at is closing its doors. I swung by today to say hi one last time, and kid around with friends like old times."

What she didn't say is that the popular coffee shop was closing its doors because it couldn't afford the $15 minimum pay raise that Ocasio-Cortez has gone on to strongly support.

“The times have changed in our industry,” co-owner Charles Milite told The New York Post. “The rents are very high and now the minimum wage is going up and we have a huge number of employees.”
The American Action Forum calculates that minimum wage hikes will kill 261,000 jobs -- with most of the losses concentrated in New York and California.

In just the last three months of last year, 4,000 workers lost jobs at full-service restaurants, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. By the end of last year, there were fewer restaurant workers in New York than in November 2016, according to Investor's Business Daily.

Last month, Maryland became the sixth state in the nation to approve a gradual minimum wage increase to $15 an hour. The American Action Forum predicts the move could cost the state 94,600 jobs.
"For perspective, this is equivalent to eliminating nearly 50 percent of projected job growth between 2016 and 2026," Ben Gitis, director of labor market policy at American Action Forum, wrote. "Maryland is not in a strong position to absorb this shock, as it continued to experience below-average job growth while the state implemented its previous minimum wage hike from 2014 to 2018."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/15-minimum-wage-hikes-payroll-tsunami-hurt-small-businesses

;-)

[Gregory]

Paul... every President gets their returns audited. Trump's are probably the most complex.

I have no way to decide if Trump is telling the truth regarding being under audit... perhaps someday his audits will me made public. Perhaps not.

I care little about them myself, and it's clear you only care about them as fodder for those looking for political nits to pick at. I kinda like the idea that Presidents current and future can tell the newsy class to pound sand... professional politicians have the time and inclination to sanitize their tax returns.

[Paul Emery]

We're talking about voters Gregory not the "Newsy Class". Don't you think they have the right to know about a candidates financial dealings as essential information in order to make a decision about who to vote for? The issue is why is trump hiding this and other information from the voters.

[Todd Juvinall]

Actually, I think all the media types need to release their tax returns. Since they push their bias and information to influence others I think we need to see their finances and see who is getting paid off.

[Billl Tozer]

Polling shows the public cares little about Trump’s tax returns. They have Investigation Fatigue. They were just lied to for the 2 1/2 years and are tuning out. But, go ahead and knock yourself out. It’s all in the tax returns! The silver bullet is in the tax returns! We mean it this time. It’s true because we say it is true, roflmao. It’s in Al Capone’s vault.

Oh, the Leftinistas are always skirting the law. Lawlessness breeds lawlessness. Subpoena Trump’s legions of CPAs, tax law specialists, and internal auditors. Get their hands on his State tax returns. Weaponize departments of the Executive Branch for political purposes. Its sooooo Leftinista of them. Sooo Banana Republic of them. The Lefties are now both the Enemy of the People and the Enemy of the Constitution. It’s who they are. Lawless. They are enough to turn even a NeverTrumper into a Libertarian. Excluding the lawlesss Banana Republic Socialcrats, we are all Libertarians now.

Now, the silver lining. The hunters are becoming the hunted....and they have no place to hide. They done got smoked out. Pivot to tax returns! That’s where the bodies are buried! It’s true! I really mean it this time!

Welcome to my parlor said the spider to the fly.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2019/04/05/donny-deutsch-forget-mueller-report-trumps-tax-returns-are-real

[Don Bessee]

The great pony tail of ignorance is making up rights again like a good socialist-dem, the law protects the President. You have no such rights that trump any individuals LEGAL right to privacy @446.

;-)

[Gregory]

No, Punchy, we're talking about the newsy class. No one else will read them, if you call looking them over for tidbits to make political hay over "reading".

Tell me, Paul... Kennedy, Goldwater, LBJ, McGovern, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Clinton I/II, Bush I/II, Dukakis, Gore, Romney... how many of their IRS tax returns did YOU read?

I'm going to guess exactly NONE.

[Don Bessee]

Well that's what you would expect a dictator to say -

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/04/08/turkey-erdogan-blames-organized-crime-islamist-party-election-loss/

;-)

[Gregory]

Toes 454pm! Yes, we need to send Geraldo! back to Al Capone's vault to look for Trump's tax returns!!!

It's the perfect place for The Donald to hide them.

[George Rebane]

Right to know your tax returns? Not if there is not an established basis of criminality involved. The 'right to know' everything is the latest Orwellian take by the Left. Along with millions of others, I would have liked to know Obama's college writings before people voted for him. There now was something important for voters to understand about a presidential candidate, then President. But I could not claim that as a 'right'; however every leftwinger believes he can.

[Gregory]

Regarding the right to privacy... forgive me for repeating this story. Call it a privilege of my advancing age (and get off my lawn!).

I remember working with a bunch of Jewish/Israeli/South African immigrants (with several being all three) back when Bork was being Borked, with one VP loudly stating Bork was a "right wing Nazi" (Errol was South African and Jewish). A few months later, the SCOTUS overturned a "right to privacy" case, with the settled law being a specific case that had been found to protect privacy by the SCOTUS a few years earlier.

A friend, David, (one of the combos of all three) came into my office (I had walls and a door in those days) announcing that MY SCOTUS had found there wasn't a right to privacy in the Constitution. Well, sort of. There really isn't, although we've cobbled together a right to privacy out of the barriers to search and seizure etc etc that we call privacy.

I then gave him a big smile... do you know who the lawyer was that originally won the case that was overturned? David looked pained... "Don't tell me it was Bork!" and it was all I could do to not burst out laughing. Yes, it was Bork.

Justice Kennedy got the chair that should have gone to Bork; now Kavanaugh sits in it. Who knows who will sit in the chair that will be vacated by Ruth Vader Ginsberg sooner or later? That is an interesting question.

[Paul Emery]

Hugh George!!!

You are equating Obama's college musings with tax returns??? Really, that's a stretch. I mean audits that last 6 years are a bit of a stretch of credibility but you already admitted Trump lied about releasing his returns after the audit so it's a moot point. I guess in your view it's ok to lie to the voters when you're running for office.

[Gregory]

College musings, Punch? He was on Harvard's Law Review! Not that he wrote much while occupying that role.

Obama's college records were sewn up tighter than the fun parts of a teenaged Kenyan girl and no, most college records are open to anyone who wants to know. Unlike tax returns, there's no criminal penalties for distributing copies.

[George Rebane]

Equating?! where'd you get that. I'm talking about non-existent 'rights'. And do I support Donald's lies over Hillary's? You bet!

[Don Bessee]

G - The pony tail of ignorance is also apparently ignorant of how college's work, whoda guessed. LOL

;-)

[Gregory]

George 536pm

Jesus... "Those who do not work shall not eat".
Lenin... "Those who do not obey shall not eat".

Thoughtcrimes are important.

Amen.

[Don Bessee]

Well it might look that way to an anti-Semitic jihadi -

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/08/ilhan-omar-falsely-claims-jewish-trump-adviser-stephen-miller-is-a-white-nationalist/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

In other news, who would have thunk.

https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.254420818025296/1587175331416498/?type=3&source=48

https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/27272

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220089878425982&id=1495536389&set=a.1339662020363&source=48

And now.....The Daily Scenes’ Gal report! Sorry about the eyes, Scenes. Pretty hard to replicate those eyes. Those eyes are one of a kind.

https://www.facebook.com/wrec.brutallife/videos/1310098289129669/UzpfSTEwMDAwMTEwNzM4NDQ2OToyMjE3OTY3OTU4MjUwMDk1/

[Bill Tozer]

You go girl.

“Paloma for Trump's website indicates that she was born in Mexico and came to America after her biological father died and her mother married an American. She added that "we waited for almost 10 years to finalize our citizenship, we paid our dues, we waited in line, and I feel every person who comes to America should not only do the same, but also learn the language, assimilate the culture, respect and love America like I do."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/psycho-white-leftist-caught-on-video-calling-mexican-american-woman-racist-for-wearing-maga-hat?fbclid=IwAR0HFJZvSTMCh4BTcWFngw3Cmk1QefXHWdcwh6KTyv2YqsG0qv0C2U1mbrE

[Gregory]

Toes,

I generally cringe when I follow your links but the "patriotpost" toon, the DEMOCRAT Ass waiting for the Mueller report with a dryer with two spin cycles was pretty funny. Even better was the latest:
https://patriotpost.us/cartoons/27273

[Bill Tozer]

Oh my. Nunes wasn’t kidding. He, like Lindsey Graham, are going full Trump on them.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-files-150m-lawsuit-against-mcclatchy-alleging-conspiracy-to-derail-clinton-russia-probes

Was heartened to hear that whistle blowers have been approaching Nunes for over two years now begging him to do something...that something smells rotten in government. Bigley rotten. Same with John Solomon being approached by dedicated servants and defenders of the Constitution late one night when he drove home.

To quote another pundit,

“Schiff and Nadler are partisan, power-hungry hacks who are out to do whatever they can to stymie Trump’s agenda and prevent his reelection chances.

“What they are doing in the House every day shows the country what happens when someone really tries to drain the swamp in Washington.”

The hunters are now the hunted.

[Don Bessee]

OH SNAP! When even comrade Bernie admits we can not have open borders you know you socialist-dems screwed the pooch!

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/08/bernie-at-iowa-town-hall-on-open-borders-cant-do-it/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Michael Cohen, persona non-grata.
Cohen was supposed to go to the Federal County Club in March, but got a medical delay until May. Looks like he will keep his date with the Gambino boyz. His usefulness has expired. The Dems will use you up, suck you dry, then kick you out of the car going 90 mph. Just ask Cindy Sheehan and Stormy.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/politics/adam-schiff-michael-cohen/index.html

Hot shot Michael Avenatti said he is scared. Feds coming at him with cases on both coasts and he has a public defender. Yep, I would be scared too. Maybe he can bunk with Cohen.

[Michael R. Kesti]

Paul Emery | 08 April 2019 at 04:46 PM

"Don't you think [voters] have the right to know about a candidates[sic] financial dealings as essential information in order to make a decision about who to vote for?"

No, voters have no such right. They have the power to not vote for candidates who don't reveal their taxes. In 2016 voters decided they didn't such a revelation in order to elect Trump. You're attempting political assassination using good-for-the-voters as a laughably unsophisticated disguise. It isn't working.

[Don Bessee]

I am I the only one to notice the pony tail of ignorance is willfully ignoring comrade bernies refusal to release taxes?

;-)

[Don Bessee]

edit opsie!

;-)

[Don Bessee]

BT @8- Talk about getting the shiffty shaft! So much for the pony tail of ignorance's fevered fantasies about Mullers leftovers having a pearl left in the shit!

;-)

[Bill Tozet]

Don @ 8:33 pm
Guess whatever shocking revelations Cohen has, it must be trivial...or not worth the bad optics of Cohen’s track record. Cohen is a convicted felon for lying to Congress and since his last testimony, he done got himself another criminal referral to the DOJ for lying to Congress again! His Clinton lawyer and fixer Lanny Davis should have never put him in that situation...if he cared about his client. Cohen got his 15 minutes of fame and tried peddling his book...a book that praises Trump of all things. :)

And the Dems got what they wanted. They got Cohen to say that Trump is a dictator and Cohen fears Trump has no plans to ever leave office while offering no supporting evidence. Dictator for life! Dictator for life and a threat to our democracy fed exactly into the narrative....a narrative that confirms Robert Cross’s and Bill Maher worse fears and deeply held beliefs.
Trump has powers that made Cohen do bad things without Trump ever coming out and telling him to do bad things. Is there nothing Orange Man cannot do!! Such power! Power to get into their minds. Called TDS.

Now, since Cohen received a medical delay in reporting to prison, how could he possibly have the strength to go through 14 million zillion gazillion files?? Me thinks his medical condition is not that serious.

Now that they got Cohen to say the exact things they wanted him to say, long time no come see. Yet another who was dusted off, cleaned up, used, sucked dry, and kicked out of the Dem car going 90 mph. Next!

[Bill Tozer]

One bumper sticker and the even Governor gets involved. Heads roll. A good reminder that the 1st Amendment does not protect you from being offended. Or, my rights do not stop where your feelings begin. A small bumper sticker that says, “Black Rifles Matter.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/agency-director-suspended-over-complaint-regarding-black-rifles-matter-sticker_2869137.html

Follow up. The Alaska human rights commission’s Executive Director, Marti Buscaglia, has resigned.
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Following-Black-Rifles-Matter-controversy--508294161.html

Pushback against the thought police. It’s not angry white men, it’s fed up citizens.

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[fish]

The next time a Stevie, or a jeffy (journalism…….might as well just go smoke a pistol now!), or a Roberta laments that there are those who post here who are not adequately educated……..

"Over the weekend, I met a friend in Cambridge, Mass., for lunch. He’s a foreigner studying at Harvard. He told me that his experience there has been quite an education in how the American elite constructs its worldview and reproduces itself. In fact, that is perhaps the most important lesson he has learned from his experience at the top US university.

I’m writing this with his permission, but I want to be careful about what I say, to protect his privacy. In general, he said it has been a real shock to him — and to the other foreign students in his circle — to observe how “coercive” (his word) the intellectual atmosphere at Harvard is, at least in the areas he’s been studying. He explained that it is quite simply impossible to discuss certain things, and ask certain questions, because of the ideological rigidity of the American students and their teachers. My friend made clear that this is the consensus view of the foreigners he knows there, whether they are on the left or the right.

My lunch companion said that the elites formed by this most elite American university are people who have set up a world in which they never have to encounter an idea, or a person, that they don’t already endorse or embrace. We were joined at the table by a third person, a left-wing Baby Boomer who works in a very liberal Boston institution (I’ll not name it to protect his privacy), and who said that he finds the ideological rigidity of Millennials and the generation behind them to be insufferable. Such joyless, humorless, incurious people, he said. The foreigner, though a Millennial himself, agreed.

On our way to the restaurant, I had mentioned to my foreign friend something I’ve heard from several of you readers of this blog who are conservative academics: that as long as old-school liberals remain in charge of faculties and academic institutions, there will be a place for right-of-center scholars. But when the Jacobin-like younger generation moves into leadership, that will be the end. He agreed, and brought up several examples from academia and academia-adjacent institutions (e.g., publishing). He told me one story about a left-liberal scholar he knows who has been turned into a non-person for questioning out loud some of aspects of au courant progressive dogma. I’m not easy to shock about things like this, but this particular story — my foreign friend named names — was for me a sign of how advanced the ideological militancy has become.

It recalled in fact an e-mail conversation I had last week with a liberal journalist friend who hates to see this closing of the left’s mind. My journalist pal said that he’s seeing on the left a moralistic refusal even to consider ideas, people, and data that contradict these leftists’ moral code. Understand: it’s not that this new breed of progressives disagrees (though they do); it’s that they believe, and believe strongly, that even to confront information that contradicts what they prefer to believe is intolerable."

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/harvard-glass-menagerie/

Looking forward to the time when the state pulls funding for 90% of these places of "higher learning".

[Don Bessee]

Lets get the pony tail of ignorance all spun up to start the day -

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 36% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1. (see trends).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_apr09

;-)

[AVMan]

,,,Is Trump mad at Iran's Revolutionary Guard???

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-business-ties-irans-revolutionary-152123174.html

[Don Bessee]

Looks like bibi holds the line -

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2019/04/09/netanyahu-declares-incredible-victory-as-revised-exit-polls-show-his-clear-path-to-winning/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

“AOC: ‘BLOOD ON OUR HANDS’ IF U.S. DOESN’T PASS LAW BANNING CLIMATE CHANGE”

Ok, go down to the beach and order the waves to retreat. Make a law ordering water to run uphill. Then, if you are so powerful, next time you have diarrhea, hold it back. Make it stop. Or pass a law banning it.

https://news.grabien.com/story-aoc-blood-our-hands-if-us-doesnt-pass-law-banning-climate-ch

[Don Bessee]

Creepy grampa Joe is test marketing a campaign slogan -

Biden *2020*
Cant stop the feeling

;-)

[Don Bessee]

TRAITOR!

At the White House, Jain led a team responsible for cyber incident response and was chairman of an interagency group that reviewed proposed cyber operations by the U.S. government.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/09/ilhan-omar-cair-formed-because-muslims-were-targeted-after-some-people-did-something-on-9-11/

;-)

[Bill Tozer]

No bounce back yet for Rachel Maddcow. Home & Garden and Nickelodeon surpasses
Communist News Network.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/msnbc-cnn-rachel-maddow-ratings-drop-april/

[Don Bessee]

OH MY!

Prime Minister Mcdreamy closes the knauck border to the ones that should be in mexico!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47874012

;-)

[AVMan]

,,,The Whiny Douche in Chief wants the FBI to investigate SNL for mocking him,,,you cannot make this stuff up!!!

[George Rebane]

AVman 756am - Au contraire Mr AVMan, you most certainly can make this stuff up - link please.

[Todd Juvinall]

Watching Barr at the heatings on his budget is quite entertaining. The democrats are stuck on his four pages and he is making them look pretty stupid.

[AVMan]

,,,your wish is my command,,,link follows

https://ew.com/tv/2019/03/17/trump-threatens-snl-twitter/

[Gregory]

AVMan you blew it

You wrote "The Whiny Douche in Chief wants the FBI to investigate SNL for mocking him"

The link you provided didn't mention the FBI but two other three letter bureaus... the FCC and the FEC.

You made it up!

To everyone besides "AVMan"... he does appear to be a Jeff Pelline sockpuppet who has taken on some superficial 'tics' to appear like his Keachie lickspittle.

[Paul Emery]

You got it backwards Don. Your provided link reads:

"The latest figures include 36% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 37% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1"

Did you make that number up or do you have reading problems

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_apr10

Also if you compare that number with January 2017 when Trump had a +13 you get a total drop of 14%.

Don what is good about that?

Here's a link. Stroll down to January 17, 2017

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

[Gregory]

Paul, your continuing referrals back to the Inauguration Day numbers is getting old. Your desperation is showing.

[George Rebane]

AVman 952am - Looks like you did make it up - wrong agency, and no expressed imperative to investigate. But I do agree that he should have left well enough alone; we all suspect that the steady anti-Trump drizzle does have what some may call collusion between the lamestream and the Dems. Though I don't think there is anything illegal about it.

[AVMan]

,,,white nationalist racists,,,or Jusse Smollet???

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/naacp-president-calls-series-church-fires-louisiana-domestic-211800429--abc-news-topstories.html

[Don Bessee]

The left on the decline in the west -

On the contrary, the most far-reaching consequence of the 2019 Israeli election may well be that it verified, beyond any reasonable doubt, that there is functionally no left left in Israel. It has become a country with a center, a right, and a far right, but no electorally viable left to speak of.

Center-left social democratic parties have been in sharp decline in recent years across the Western world. But nowhere has the collapse been more stunning than in Israel, whose founders and ruling class for the first 30 years of the country's existence were very deeply linked with the labor movement. Labor has been in retreat ever since the collapse of peace negotiations with the Palestinians in 2000. But its showing on Tuesday was truly astonishing: With 5 percent of the vote, the Israeli Labor Party is now less than two percentage points away from failing to clear the minimum threshold (3.25 percent) for winning seats in the Knesset. The party is approaching the possibility of extinction.

https://theweek.com/articles/834287/there-no-left-left-israel

;-)

[scenes]

re: AVMan@11:10 Good question. There's been such a tremendous number of false flags in the last decade that I'm not sure who does that kind of thing until there's a fingerprint and a perp in custody.

There's a lot of crazy people out there and there's plenty of Trumphate to produce even more.

re: DonB@11:21 One nice thing about Israel is that they have a purity of vision based on survival. It simplifies matters. Only the fat and comfortable can afford to argue about men in dresses using the womens' restroom.

[scenes]

re:Gregory@10:19AM "To everyone besides "AVMan"... he does appear to be a Jeff Pelline sockpuppet "

As good a guess as any given the "you cannot make this stuff up" tagline. I don't much care as long as he doesn't spill pie anywhere.

Interestingly, Pelline is the only person here I've ever seen do his thing in person. He was being breathtakingly rude, so I admit that it might nudge my responses now and again. I really should only respond to the text I see.

The TRUMP THREATENS SNL 'news' from the non-news site is a typical example of how the internet makes people crazy. The original tweet is inconsequential, somebody writes a clickbait story, some other politically motivated site picks it up in a list of current Trump crimes, some idiot reads it and does some handwaving. It's the nature of the times I'm afraid, and it ain't gonna get any better.

It would be nice if the Blue Mob authors would stick to genuine issues like healthcare, but I suppose that their ideas (or their own Fearless Leaders' ideas) really aren't any better. It isn't like Maxine Waters, the guy who looks like the old men on The Muppet Show, or AOC are capable of cooking up something, although AOC does have those dreamy dreamy eyes.

[Bill Tozer]

Education

Learning Hasn’t Improved, But Indoctrination Is Amped

“If you are under the impression that there are good white people and bad white people, you’re wrong,” UnboundEd CEO Kate Gerson told the teachers this year, according to Hess and Addison. “Gerson informed her charges that racial biases are pervasive, universal, and something ‘you cannot be cured from.'”

“Once upon a time, Common Core critics were roundly mocked for fearing that the reading and math standards would somehow serve to promote sweeping ideological agendas; today, Gerson and her team are doing their best to vindicate those concerns,” write Hess and Addison.“

https://thefederalist.com/2018/11/05/9-years-common-core-test-scores-indoctrination/

[Bill Tozer]

Black church burnings

https://www.apnews.com/52296e1ac72b4c699f5d2d1cad71461a

[Bill Tozer]

Spying.

“The FBI informant, Stefan Halper, is a former Cambridge professor who helped the CIA oversee a spying operation of the 1980 presidential election.”

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/19/the-fbi-informant-who-monitored-the-trump-campaign-stefan-halper-oversaw-a-cia-spying-operation-in-the-1980-presidential-election/

Spying:

The FBI acknowledged placing informants in the Trump campaign as part of what it called “Operation: Crossfire Hurricane,” but insisted the project was merely intended to ensure Russia was not unduly interfering with the United States’ presidential election.

“Barr suggested the purpose was less innocent.”

“The generation I grew up in which is Vietnam war period, people were all concerned about spying on anti-war people and so forth by the government and there were a lot of rules put in place to make sure there’s an adequate basis before our law enforcement agencies get involved in political surveillance,” Barr continued. “ I’m not suggesting that those rules were violated, but I think it’s important to look at that. And I’m not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly.”

The FBI informant, Stefan Halper, is a former Cambridge professor who helped the CIA oversee a spying operation of the 1980 presidential election.”

https://news.grabien.com/story-attorney-general-william-barr-i-believe-spying-trump-campaig

https://news.grabien.com/story-attorney-general-william-barr-i-believe-spying-trump-campaig

[Don Bessee]

People don't like being lied to and they will never get back their former audience -

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/fox-news-beats-msnbc-cnn-combined-on-night-cnn-hosted-kirsten-gillibrand-town-hall

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