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[Again a Happy New Year to all RR readers and its diligent band of commenters of all political shades who do their dharma battles on these pages.  This year promises to be even more exciting than 2016 – who knew that Trump would win? – if one can conceive that possibility.  Last New Year’s day I opened a new sandbox with these words.

Happy New Year! to all RR readers.  This year will turn out more exciting and surprising than any of us can anticipate.  From the socialists' perspective, they are at the cusp of a victory from which they can deal a deathblow to American capitalism and institute their new economic order as part of the country's fundamental transformation that Obama promised and has already launched.  We conservatarians also see this as a cusp year, but given the disarray of the Republicans, it will be one from which a 2016 Democrat defeat will deliver little besides delaying the day of reckoning between collectivism and open markets capitalism.  So I thought it would be appropriate to start the year with a fresh sandbox.  gjr]

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  1. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Happy new year. I whole heartedly agree with your predictions.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Happy New Year. With all the gunfire last night, from mouse guns to heavy ordnance, no calls on the police scanner for shooting victims.

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  3. Walt Avatar

    Speaking of victims,, the “Russia did it” crowd got “victimized” again.
    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/01/01/russian-hacking-white-house-fail/

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Jan. 01, 2017 9:31 am. A hummingbird buzzed my head. Let those who have ears, hear. The omens have begun.
    2017 will be the year the liberals’claws really come out. They will become meanies. I might even care about their feelings as the year progressives and there is the possibility I might even get my feelings hurt by their nastiness. The line is 250-1 for that to happen, but it is still a possibility.
    The New York City ball drop concert was a fitting end to the Leftists’ 2016. The New Year’s Possum Drop in North Carolina went off without a hitch. Those who have ears….

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Might be a good time to invest in the ‘sin stocks’.
    Congress considered bills to prevent the IRS from hiring or retaining people delinquent in their tax payments. Unions in New York and California lobbied for exemption from the $15 minimum wage they lobbied for. It was splendidly appropriate that when Cuba buried the architect of its ramshackle socialism, the vehicle carrying Castro’s ashes broke down and had to be pushed by soldiers. “Thou swell, thou witty, thou sweet, thou grand” were not lyrics that many Americans sang about either presidential candidate, but one of them had to win, so as you steel yourself for 2017, remember H.L. Mencken’s timeless wisdom: A martini is “the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.”
    http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4765864-155/george-f-will-good-riddance-2016?ref=yfp

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  6. Walt Avatar

    Good job Brad,, good job. Happy New year to ya’.
    How you feeling this fine arctic day Bill? Shoot any holes in the ceiling?

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    Questions for the new year: Given the ongoing admonishments and reminders by the local Left that we are now a ‘blue county’, how and why should that influence an individual’s political actions and expressions in our community? Same question given that we live in a ‘blue state’.

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  8. Walt Avatar

    As I see it Dr.R.,,, Ca isn’t really a “blue” state. It’s RED… As in “Socialist Red”.
    Not a flattering tinge.

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  9. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 1201pm – Well yes, but we are now stuck with the reversal of our political colors all caused by, I am told, by another abysmally ignorant cohort of ABC journalists who misassigned the colors back in 2000 which were then accepted by everyone, supposedly for the sake of consistency.
    Now the conspiracy theorist in me sees the Left deriving another public bamboozling benefit from painting themselves blue. True blue has always been the natural single color of our Union, and red the color of our enemies (from the redcoats to the dirty commies). Our military veterans naturally see the blue/red differentiation as denoting us/them. Since red has always been the color of communists and socialists, that was the natural identification of our enemies during the Cold War. In military maneuvers and war planning we continue to see ourselves and our allies as the blue forces and the enemy red. According to leftwing theorists from Stalin, through Goebbels, to Alinsky, that is enough reason to switch the colors and fool the lightly read public who start with few dots and then have trouble even connecting those.
    So now the Republicans take their subliminal place as the enemies of a true blue socialist America.
    http://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363762677/the-color-of-politics-how-did-red-and-blue-states-come-to-be

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Democrats have been avoiding Red for as long as I can remember… “Better dead than Red” being one cold war slogan I can remember. Pinko being another taunt.
    George, all the Right needs to do to change the colors of the map is to draw maps with their preferred color scheme. It’s a free country. Don’t expect the Watermelons on the left to do it for you.

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  11. Walt Avatar

    Gotta like this one. The LIBS have their “Rules for radicals”,, now someone has penned “Rules for Righties”.
    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/01/2016-just-start-going-win-2017/
    It’s a great read.

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  12. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    Yes Dr. Rebane…I’ve noticed how the manipulators have changed the meaning of words in our minds. The reversal of blue and red politics bothered me also, because it confuses history…especially to those who remember. Looking back to some of my childhood storybooks clearly shows how they’ve changed the impression of other words into something different, and not as innocent and uplifting.

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I thought we were purple here. I liked the movie The Color Purple. It has a big obese woman that looked like a man which launched her career and the rest is history.
    As far as the color Blue goes, this explains a lot.
    Positive and Negative Traits of the Color Blue:
    Positive keywords include: loyalty, trust and integrity, tactful, reliability and responsibility, conservatism and perseverance, caring and concern, idealistic and orderly, authority, devotion and contemplation, peaceful and calm.
    Negative keywords include: being rigid, deceitful and spiteful, depressed and sad, too passive, self-righteous, superstitious and emotionally unstable, too conservative and old-fashioned, predictable and weak, unforgiving, aloof and frigid. It can also indicate manipulation, unfaithfulness and being untrustworthy.
    Hmmm. I don’t know, Dr. Rebane. The positive aspects is what the Blue folks try to project. Maybe that is how they see themselves under the influence of powerful narcotics or self delusion.
    The negative aspects of sad, depressed, emotionally unstable, spiteful, self-righteous, untrustworthy (if you ever hired a Blue)……well, that is what the Blues are.
    The sad lot makes me feel blue.
    Judging by the positives and negative connotations, it is readily apparent blue is the color of schizophrenia.
    To answer Dr. Rebane’s 11:51am, I see no need to alter the expressions now that we are in a Blue state and county. The Blues are doing a good job all by themselves of self destructing. Rejection is such a bitter pill to swallow.
    http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/13/hollywoods-latest-anti-second-amendment-movie-has-historically-horrible-opening-weekend/
    .

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  14. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Political maps are not the only maps the left has changed. Weather services that lean left use stronger shades of red to portray temperate regions, giving the impression that sunny areas are frying, and hot areas are beyond redemption. It is all part of the world is warming and we humans are responsible. Yes, we are, as it is people who are adjusting past temperatures lower and current temperatures higher to increase the slope on charts and graphs. More trickery to promote the AGW myth.

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  15. Walt Avatar

    To ride Russ’s coat tails, gun sales in Ca.went through the roof. In this last month before the Commiefornia anti gun laws too hold, more guns were sold than in the last year.
    For those that enjoy the trigger time, may I suggest learning to reload? There are classes on that locally.(if you live in Nev. Co.) I’m sure there are more elsewhere.
    You can bet the soon to be required permit to by limited ammo will be pricey, on top of the other fees when you buy that box of ammo. Unless I missed it, I see no rectal exam for buying powder, projectiles, primers, or brass. Someone correct me if I’m mistaken.

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I have a new stalker. Steve Frisch. Pelline finally quit chasing me all over the internet and he has handed off the duty to SF. Oh, SF! Now I see why he is such a odd duck.

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  17. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    A fresh sandbox! That reminds me, we have a brand new un-baptized catbox at the ready, a Christmas “gift” to our House Lion. I’ve been waiting for the old one’s current litter to be at the end of its useful life.
    The new present is just a larger version of the one that’s been here since the cat was transplanted from our Casa de Lost Wages to Nevada City a couple months ago. Perhaps the greatest invention to come out of Canada in my lifetime, a very clever thinking out of the box (pun intended) solution of the problem of scooping out a litterbox. Some electric boxes use infrared sensors to detect Her Kittyness doing her business, waiting a short time and then, using motorized combs, scooping out the lumps. This does play to my electronic Rube Goldberg sensibilities but in practice, I don’t think they do the job all that well.
    At the Las Vegas house, Rosie just let the cat go out the cat door and find a good spot herself. Cat box problem solved by not having a catbox in the house. However, in our house in the boonies of unincorporated Nevada City, with coyotes loudly announcing their presence at the first light of dawn just feet from the house, having an El Gato aging cat not wise in the skills of Not Being Eaten, that solution is more akin to feeding the local carnivores. So, I go looking for a catbox.
    This is the answer: the Omega Paw Roll and Clean. Only four major parts, the top, the bottom, the tray and the internal plastic dam with slats that sift the lumps from the litter to be reused.
    http://www.omegapaw.com/products/roll-clean-litter-box.html
    You roll it to the right, letting the litter to be kept sift into the volume behind the slats, then continue rolling until it’s upside down and all of the material to be removed falls. Rolling it back deposits the stuff into the tray. The remaining litter flows back out, you remove the tray and dispose of the deposits. Add clean litter as needed.
    Clever, these Canucks.
    The first one I bought from Amazon for about $20 exceeded all expectations, but the cat is so large it’s clear she doesn’t have much room to do her thing (think Jeff P. in an airliner’s latrine) but when there’s a will, there’s a way. That’s their standard size.
    The replacement is the Large size, holding more litter and more, umm, of the lumps and clumps. Cost in the low $30’s, delivered to the door.
    This cat was a rescue from a vet in Vegas that nursed the malnourised scrawny half dead stray back to health, and my wife fell in love with it. Not bad as far as cats go, but the last cat I kept in this house did most of his business outside. Wife wanted a cat (this was circa 1994) and I didn’t want to feed the coyotes. Soon after moving in, Teri took our son down south to visit grandparents and I decided to see if the half wild orange cat that was managing to survive outside wanted to share the house. It took a can of Pounce and some canned people tuna to lure it in, with an open door so it didn’t feel trapped, but by the time Teri and Joey got back, we had a cat. Using the Back to the Future physicist naming convention, the cat was Christened Richard P. Feynkatt, and he died after his kidneys failed about 14 years later, a very old cat who continued doing most of his living outside but was very good about coming back inside at dusk, or climbing onto the roof or once of his other safe places the wild canines couldn’t get to.

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Russ, red hot, blue cold predates the GOP/DEM coloring issue by at least a couple of centuries, maybe a few millennia.

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  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Walt- It is funny to watch the NYT go after the Washington Post for its fake news story about the ‘power grid’ being hacked. One laptop that was not connected to the grid had managed to pick up a virus. Are the lamestream picking up bad habits form madam liar liar pantsuits on fire? 😉

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  20. Walt Avatar

    That’s a lot of technospeak there Scenes,, browsing through the comment threads of said post, even the geek squad posters ain’t buying the Russian Gov. involvement. Still plenty of “might, could, maybe”. Not one bit of “Yup, they did it.”
    AS I see it, ANYTHING from “O” or his minions is damaged goods. Progs lie. The leaked emails prove that.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, Thankyou for the 1:21pm, Rules for Righties.
    I must confess that I have beginning to feel sorry for the Left. I am concerned that they will be committing suicide in their despair. Lena Dunham is on the edge and I am feeling a twinge of pity for them. I was even thinking of being nicer and overlooking their childish behavior, Drama Queen theatrics, and fallacious reasoning. I never believed in teasing the retarded kids on the special bus.
    But, I just have to recall how vicious they are in victory. They do not want us defeated, they want us annihilated. They are evil in their bloodlust d are hell bent on destroying our culture, our borders, our history, our country. Just recall the last 8 years and how they taunted us mercilessly 24/7.
    I realize now that is why RINOs must go. I was thinking like the way Republicans always behave….be nice to them, cut them some slack, let them back in the circle in the name of taking the high road and letting bygones be bygones. I was thinking as a RINO and following the path to our own annihilation (in my moment of weakness!).
    What a fool I am for even entertaining such dangerous, yet passing thoughts. These are same people who when you extend a hand to pull their gasping selves from drowning, they drive a knife deep into your belly while you are in a vulnerable position. Their hatred literally knows no bounds. Decency is a foreign concept to them.
    Thankyou again, Mr. Walt. The day before the election, Trump called into a radio show I was listening to. Donald sounded out of breath, and basically was catching a breather. Sounded like he had given it all and now it was up to the voters. Then he said “you cannot believe how dishonest these people are”, and the host started laughing. I started laughing. We may think we know how dishonest the Left is, but they are even beyond that. You cannot believe how dishonest they are. We cannot even conceive their dishonesty.
    Later that night on election eve, Citizen Trump was running about 90 minutes late to a midnight rally in Michigan. 30,000 people stood out in the freezing cold waiting for him. We cannot forget those 30,000 people standing the dark waiting for The Donald to give it his last ounce of strength. We must not forget those grave souls, we must not let down our guard for a minute or ever turn our backs to the vile enemy. Even in winning, are backs are full of arrows, with more arrows in our backs with each passing day. Imagine if we lost!
    From Walt’s link: “We should remember at all times that in the culture wars, we are the Greek city states and the enemy are the Persians.”
    I recall how the MSM and the Left ridiculed Trump for going to Wisconsin or Michigan, or Pennsylvania. They laughed and laughed at the thought of how ridiculous it was for Trump to even campaign Blue States. They told us Trump was wasting his time. That is the Leftist Media, telling us what to think, how to think, and the folly of our thinking.
    Another example:. . Remember the recent electoral college vs popular vote debate?
    From the Department of Corrections: “An earlier version of this editorial incorrectly stated that the editorial board has been opposed to the Electoral College going back 80 years. It failed to note an exception: in 2000, the board defended the college after the election of George W. Bush.” —New York Times correction
    Finally, what a fool was I to briefly feel sorry for these lying sacks of shit. They hate us more each day. We must finish them off to finish the job! It’s for the 30,000 standing in the subfreezing cold who refused to give up in the predawn hours of Election Day.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4079790/Bitter-Lemon-doing-shots-getting-ear-pierced-Don-Lemon-MIC-cut-starts-talk-2016-awful.html

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Your welcome Mr. Bill.. This half broke clock can be right maybe once a day.
    Your should LOVE this one….
    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/01/01/brazile/
    “Brazile: Trump has ‘Enormous’ Opportunity to Find Common Ground with Dems”
    Brazile said, “If it’s ‘my way or the highway,’ what you’re going to see again is another round of gridlock in Washington, D.C. You’re going to see retribution and retaliation. He has an enormous opportunity as every president in the first 100 days to show that, you know, he’s eager to find common ground, to meet with, you know, Democrats, Chuck Schumer. I mean Chuck Schumer knows Donald Trump, both New Yorkers. Have him over for breakfast, have him over for afternoon tea and see if you can find some common ground.”
    OH Yaaaaa…… Just like “O” and Co. did.. Right? I guess she forgets the “WE won, sit down and shut up” the Right was told. Every time the Right gave an inch the Democraps took a mile.
    Now the likes of Brazil want “peace”? LOL! I hope Trump gives it to the Left hard and dry.

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Hi Walt, to expand on your half broke clock theme, broken clocks like team lefty are right twice a day. In their case the 2 times are sunrise and sunsets. Beyond that……. 😉

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    RIP to the 140 LE Officers killed in the line during 2016 and God Bless their families. All lives matter. 😦

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt, you mean this Donna Brazile? The one that claims she is a Christian woman who is being persecuted? Persecuted I tell ya, persecuted for being a Christian woman!!! Or did you mean That Woman, the other Donna Brazile? Don’t think it would be wise to take her advice, but that is just me. Does that make me a misogynist? 🙂
    http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2016/10/20/donna-brazile-tells-big-fat-lie-gets-caught-humiliated-video/

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Ol’ Boardman is in panic mode.
    http://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/george-boardman-california-prepares-to-man-the-barricades-against-trumps-hordes/
    First it was his McCarthy reincarnation about the pesky Commie pinkos, now this.
    Yes Boardman, I can smell that fear all the way in PV. Did you buy a gun or two for the coming revolution lie the rest of the fearful Left? (You said you made some good money when ya’ bailed from the stock market.) I bet he forgot to buy his ammo permit.

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Walt 1041,
    One or two Scalia mold Justices on the SCOTUS, it’s likely California will be dragged kicking and screaming to a must issue, if you like your large magazines you can keep your large magazines, gun rights state.
    I suspect we’re even on our way to a 50 state constitutional carry finding. The tragic Dredd Scott decision was as a result of that Court horrified that freed slaves becoming citizens will allow them to go anywhere at any time like a white man, carry their gun(s) wherever they go.
    Wouldn’t it be nice to have the same rights a freed slave would have nearly 200 years ago?

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  28. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 1041pm – Reading Mr Boardman’s column this morning, I didn’t notice that he evinced any “panic mode”, but instead reported the ongoing and determined efforts of CA to resist any federal diktats from the Trump administration and remain on our determined and steady course toward socialism.

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  29. Walt Avatar

    I’m all for that Gregory.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Yes, Dr.R.,, I do believe “panic” is the proper word. Loo at some of his “terminologies”.
    “This war posture”,,” Marauding hordes of federal agents”,,”California will be rendered naked”,,”apocalyptic picture”,, Now here is a nice one,”vowing to defy the feds”,,
    ” You can bet many of his political appointees to federal agencies will be looking for ways to stick it to us”,,
    Just some of his doom and gloom. Yes,, those are “stir the pot” words.

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  31. George Rebane Avatar

    Walt 839am – I guess I didn’t make my 810am very clear. I meant to point that there is a difference in a person describing someone else’s fear, and ascribing that fear to himself. Boardman used all those terms to describe the angst that CA’s govt types have. Where in his piece did you see him ascribe those terms to his own sentiments?

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh Walt, I just took it as Mr. Boardman’s understated and under appreciated wry humor. Mr. Boardman was merely pointing out the abject terror being formated by the “war council” of the Looney Left. The war posture is a good way to describe the popping heads of our socialist Kaliforkneeia comrades. A few steps above the usual and overused term ‘civil disobedience’. This is War!
    “That’s the apocalyptic picture painted by our elected Democratic officials, who have suddenly become big fans of states rights now that they view the federal government as a possible foe instead of a friend.”
    Friend or foe? We be the foes, but we currently be the foe of both the local and state Stalinists as well as the Islamic Cryptofacist Maoists issuing forth decrees from the Royal Palace in Washington, DC.
    We be surrounded, but do not despair. Help is on the way. Might be too late save us all, but put your ear to the ground. There is the sound of galloping horsemen crying “Remember the Alamo”. Smoke signals rise from yonder ridge. We just need to make it through the night.
    Boardman accurately portrayed the panic, the fear….nay, the paralyzing fright, the call to arms by the very ones who believe in self genital mutilation. Nothing to see here. Funny to see the neutered suddenly trying to grow a pair. They are desperate now. As per the link you kindly shared yesterday, they are very dangerous, so must not give them any quarter. They seek our heads on the platter more than ever.

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  33. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Poor baby boy Trump. He wont let a writer that said bad things about him play in his yard. I’ll bet he’d let Putin play with his toys. Trump has skin as thin as soup.
    Trump kicks biographer off golf course
    Harry Hurt, who was golfing with David Koch, had written a critical book about the president-elect.

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  34. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    So? You censor as a “journalist” so what is the problem. Don’t we American have the right to pick and choose our friends? I think it is great that Trump stands up for himself and his family against you lames in the media we call democrats.

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  35. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 02 January 2017 at 09:33 AM
    Somehow I don’t think that you would be nearly as upset at a similar Hillary Clinton style retaliation at a member of the media you ol democrat you…..

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    PE, heard the owner dude of some restaurant in your neck of the woods died. Friar something. Must had gone to your New Year’s bash….just a tidbit from the rumor mill. Fake news?
    Walt…..Boardman continued. Read Boardman’s concluding sentence.
    “Whatever Trump decides to do, the legislators in Sacramento should remember they pledged to uphold the laws of the United States when they took the oath of office last month. That includes the legitimate laws they don’t like”
    Agree. We are a nation of laws, not governed by the whims of Snowflakes and nation hating psychotic Globalists. The rule of law cuts both ways. The galloping horsemen are getting closer by the moment.

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  37. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    For your evaluation:
    Absolutely Stunning – Leaked Audio of Secretary Kerry Reveals President Obama Intentionally Allowed Rise of ISIS…
    There are moments within investigative research when your jaw can stand agape as you recognize the scope of what you are reading or hearing. A brutally down-played audio of Secretary John Kerry is just such an occasion.
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/01/01/absolutely-stunning-leaked-audio-of-secretary-kerry-reveals-president-obama-intentionally-allowed-rise-of-isis/

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump boned Robin Givens? Well, I have had worse.

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  39. fish Avatar
    fish

    I tell you before all is said and done Mutti is going to find herself at the end of a rope……
    https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/02/german-development-minister-eight-to-ten-million-refugees-are-still-on-the-way/

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  40. George Rebane Avatar

    Scenes 724am & Russ 950am – Good pick-up gentlemen. The evidence that the lamestream is in the tank for the Left has been overwhelming and becomes more so with each passing day. Imagine the worldwide deaths that ISIS has caused and continues now almost daily, and what our lamestream (and lefty neighbors) would be screaming had such a thing happened from the other side. Do not expect anything but crickets from any leftie.
    BTW, this morning’s Union again illustrates the impossible chasm that defines our Great Divide. We live in separate universes –
    http://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/michele-spencer-going-forward-we-need-all-the-help-we-can-get/

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  41. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gosh and golly Todd I’d welcome you to any of my concerts despite all the bad things you’ve said about me. That’s not the style of the thin skinned baby boy Trump.

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  42. fish Avatar
    fish

    Wow…….

    But look out if Trump starts destroying Democratic successes e.g.: the Affordable Care Act; the Paris Climate Accord; the Iran Nuclear Agreement; drug law and criminal justice reform; our social safety net including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and Public Education; women’s and minority rights; proper immigration reform; voting rights; a peace-promoting foreign policy; or a stable economy, etc.

    Those are the successes?

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  43. Walt Avatar

    OK,,,,OK…. I stand corrected. For the moment. I will heed the opinions of those more educated than me. I just haven’t forgotten the Leftie “drive by” shots taken at me by Boardman on a semi regular basis. He “is” one of “them”. So please excuse my not so preconceived opinion of the guy.
    One more thing. Boardman’s claims of deportation of illegals by “O” are grossly exaggerated.

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