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Maybe that's why they have so many NUTS around....

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Yes, I can see why you got banned.

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I love how the nuts latch onto a word or phrase and work it and work it and work it as they try to turn dross into gold. Today we have Fox News on in the break room and I bet I heard "unmask" and it's various permutations about eleventy-beeellion times while I was waiting for my corporate coffee to finish. We can only hope they, like Rumpelstiltskin, self destruct...and the sooner the better.

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It's good to know that liberals are ok with this. They won't mind at all when Trump and his associates use the intelligence services to "legally" conduct surveillance on their political opponents.

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We in fact are okay with surveillance on foreign agents. If American citizens are talking with foreign agents and get caught up in that surveillance, that is something our government ought to check on, don'cha think?

My wife called Russia to speak with my sister-in-law's mother, to let her know her daughter was safe after Hurricane Rita. My wife (a person who has never worked in government) understood that her phone call was likely to be monitored by both the NSA and FSB (because my sister-in-law's mother once worked in the Kremlin as a baker).

You'd think if my non-political wife could figure this out, that people like Michael Flynn and someone running for President could as well.

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So if the Obama administration have been monitoring Trump and his associates for over a year, how come there's still no evidence of Russian/Trump collusion that altered the election?And even if American citizens are caught up in surveillance, leaking their unmasked names to the press is illegal and highly unethical, doncha think?

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I can't say where you're getting the "no evidence" assertion, as it has been all over the press.

I don't think you understand what "unmasking" actually means, so here is a definition:

Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the names of U.S. persons are supposed to be obscured in intelligence reports “unless such person’s identity is necessary to understand foreign intelligence information or assess its importance.” Such reports can also be disseminated for law enforcement purposes if it involves evidence that a crime has been committed or will be in the future.

Since there is quite a bit of evidence already available that a crime has either been committed or one is in progress, there is nothing improper about unmasking those involved to conduct an investigation.

You know what? If a Democrat was involved in such shady business I would want that investigated as well.

I wonder what Saint Ronald of Reagan (if he was still alive) would think about his beloved GOP even having the appearance of colluding with Russia?

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For one thing, the investigations are not yet over, and secondly, the IC has been investigating Trump for money-laundering of Russian Mob assets for a while now.

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There is evidence. Non circumstantial as well as circumstantial. It's classified of course because why wouldn't it be? We're talking about a hostile foreign power literally hijacking our democracy. You don't care only because your guy won. So any talk of patriotism from the right has been forever proven to be laughable.

If any democratic president had the scandals this admin has, Democrats across the country would be calling for resignations and investigations, because unlike conservatives, we actually hold our elected officials accountable. You guys gleefully clasp corruption to your breast, because nothing matters to you other than winning.Get clapped.

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But you're so cute when you're angry.

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Actually, new research points to potential toxicity to bees and other beneficial insects through low level contamination of nectar and pollen with neonicotinoid insecticides used in agriculture. Although these low level exposures do not normally kill bees directly, they may impact some bees’ ability to foraging for nectar, learn and remember where flowers are located, and possibly impair their ability to find their way home to the nest or hive. Though it is not established as the cause of hive collapse syndrome, it is in the mix of suspected contributors. And no, they aren't made by Monsanto, they are made by Bayer. As for Monsanto, that bunch wants to monopolize every food seed planted on earth. Fuck them.

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I'm not anti-science, dumbass. Talk to farmers about Monsanto and its policies. And research is not nonsense. Seems you're the one that's cherry picking. And no, I will not fuck off.

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That's not at all what I'm saying, which means that you have superpowers of projection. My problems with Monsanto is its efforts to monopolize food seed production through its patents and restrictive reuse policies. Bees are in deep trouble, but the problem is extremely complex and may have a host of interrelated causes. What is at stake is the fate of the single most effective pollinator in the world. Since I was a newspaperman for probably longer than you have been alive, and worked in agriculturally rich areas, I can assure you that I have talked to many farmers over the years. I also remember when my hometown in New York state dumped sewage, legally, directly into the Allegany River, and how the EPA helped the city construct a sewage treatment plant. I also remember the original Earth Day, the Clean Air Act and subsequent clean water legislation that Trump is attempting to fuck inside out and backwards. We actually agree on far more than you believe, but you need to dial down the projected rage. We are all pissed off these days, my friend. Let us reason together and find a way to fuck these fucking fuckers who are against all of us.

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It's pretty clear that you are a dipshit. You know, over the course of 32 years in newspapers, writing and editing facts, I had to deal with a lot of morons who complained about our stories, but had no idea what they were talking about. You are a classic example of just such a cheese dick, onion-eyed, fen-sucked, bloaten-bellied, lilly-livered son of a wet-assed sick monkey, and frankly, toward the end, I began to lose my patience. So I have no fucks left to give to you. Adios, eggplant.

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Seems to me there's lots of evidence. Susan Rice is involved and she may very well end up in prison :)

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No she wasn't, Trey Gowdy just announced on Thursday that there will be a seperate and complete investigation into her activities. I think you just make things up.

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