George Rebane
Having strong or well-formed political beliefs doesn’t always mean that one is also willing or able to reason about them.
Now some keenly honed liberal minds around here think that we should consider the source and therefore ignore the evidence against Hillary. That’s like telling the DA he can’t prosecute because the police got the goods on the defendant from shady informant Vlad the Snitch. Only in America.
In the 3jan17 Union there’s a letter from a Mr Ron Lowe, another leftwinger who lights off on President-elect Trump. The man shows his union school education by citing the non-existent “60s Republican war playbook” that is the source of Trump’s “obvious inferiority complex”, “fear mongering”, and “openly flagrant nuclear war talk”. Now since none of this is happening during his current efforts to set up his administration, Mr Lowe must be getting such reports from one of the many fake news manufactories that have sprung up within the usual lamestream media outlets.
I’m happy to know that our neighbors on the Left will now have at least four enlightening years of the Trump administration during which they will know exactly how we felt and why we protested during the last eight years under the ministrations of Barack Hussein Obama whose domestic policies increased regulations, decreased freedoms, raised taxes, stifled the economy, grew corrupt government; and whose foreign policy can be summarized by ‘Protect Muslims, Ignore Christians, Blame Jews’.
We’re told that former POTUS Obama will have to remain in DC to guard his legacy and provide much needed leadership to the Democrats. Apparently there will be no one else from the Left who is willing to spend much political capital to secure fPOTUS an acceptable place in history. So he’ll just have to do the job himself and become the festering fly in the federal ointment and also his own monument around which today’s over-wrought socialists can rally while they seek to preserve the swamp.
[4jan17 update] Read if you dare Victor Davis Hanson’s most recent report on the state of the Golden State. Abetted by the toxic coastal elites and as we witness daily, our local Left is doing all it can to expand their progressive septic tank to Nevada County. Here is a paragraph, suitable for family reading, that summarizes the details of Hanson’s piece –
Abstract idealism on behalf of the distant is a powerful psychological narcotic that allows caring progressives to dull the guilt they feel about their own privilege and riches. Nowhere is this paradox truer than in California, a dysfunctional natural paradise in which a group of coastal and governing magnificoes virtue-signal from the world’s most exclusive and beautiful enclaves. The state is currently experiencing another perfect storm of increased crime, decreased incarceration, still ongoing illegal immigration, and record poverty. All that is energized by a strapped middle class that is still fleeing the overregulated and overtaxed state, while the arriving poor take their places in hopes of generous entitlements, jobs servicing the elite, and government employment.
rebanesruminations.com 
264 responses to “Scattershots – 3jan17 (updated 4jan17)”
And please show us the incontrovertible facts to back up your assertion please.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XWW9oyQLq0w
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/blaming_russia_is_irresistible_to_the_democrats_20161222
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kJdXDGhKJ40
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Not looking good for Paul,, the subject change is soon forthcoming. OH Man. What will be the new “Look over there!” be?
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https://judithcurry.com/2017/01/03/jc-in-transition/
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I just read that the Washington Post just admitted in writing it made up their stories on the Russian hacks. You go Paul Emery.
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Todd
Thanks for affirming that you trust the opinion of Jullian Assange over our entire intelligence community. I have a hard time encompassing that. What do you know about Assange Todd. When I have a little time I’ll refresh you.
My view on Bush and the war in Iraq is well documented on these pages Todd. I’m going to pull a George on you and say take the time to review my record on the matter then we’ll talk.
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Paul Emery, thank you for agreeing with me that the whole Russian thing was contrived and is false. I knew you would see the light.
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Looks like the “racist” Trump is hiring blacks again. Dang, those libs are hanging in the breeze with Paul Emery.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/04/omarosa-gets-job-in-trump-white-house.html
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Just for Paul
http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/bombshell-new-york-times-reports-wmds-found-iraq/
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/10/16/new-york-times-reports-wmd-found-in-iraq
And this one is ADDRESSED to Paul.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/02/21/show-this-column-to-anyone-who-claims-bush-lied-about-wmds-in-iraq-n2122278
OK Paul,, dig into your box of polls to feel better.
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PaulE 1203pm – “The difference is that Bush and the CIA were deliberating secretly on the matter.” Wow! that’s a new one. If there really was any evidence then or now that such a secret conspiracy to get the US to invade Iraq, then should we not have had that presented at Bush2’s House impeachment and subsequent Senate trial? Where can one go to see such evidence?
But it is interesting that the CIA was then a traitorous rogue organ of government that has now rehabilitated itself to ‘Veritas über Alles’ without so much as a ripple of an intervening investigation or prejudiced reorganization. My, my, the mysteries you bring to us.
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Todd @ 12:52pm. A retraction?
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/washpost-is-richly-rewarded-for-false-news-about-russia-threat-while-public-is-deceived/
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So George do you also agree, along with the most of your contributors that Assange rather than the intelligence community is the one we should believe in this matter?
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Todd
Help me follow the logic of your 1:04. It is beyond my simple brain to comprehend.
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PaulE 125pm – Paul, I think that you’re more than a few answers behind before asking any more (subject changing) questions.
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Paul Emery,you agree with me and I really think you finally have seen the light. Good.
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“is beyond my simple brain to comprehend.” No agrument here.
Todd, you don’t mean mean this CIA, do you? Everything the Clinton-Obama touched became politicalized.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/exclusive-benghazi-talking-points-underwent-12-revisions-scrubbed-of-terror-references/
I dunno, ABC has a bad track report with fake news.
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George
It is it not appropriate to ask you, our host, what your opinion is on this very timely topic that is under much discussion on these pages?
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DEFCON 4 and rising
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Lnz64vXB8
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This is the view of a former CIA analyst on Trumps latest tweets
As a former CIA analyst, I never thought I’d see a U.S. president link arms with a man whose mission is to steal America’s hard-won secrets……
I was once one of them,(CIA) and I can only imagine how my former colleagues are feeling now. Never in our history has a U.S. president openly chosen to trust the word of a foreign adversary ahead of his own analysts.
Never, that is, until Donald Trump—who last night began a series of astonishing tweets expressing skepticism about U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that Russia had hacked into Democratic Party institutions.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-julian-assange-cia-214598
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Damn Paul,, your taking on the image and desperation of Nancy Pelosi.
I do think it’s time you took a good pull off that bong. Looks like you need it.
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Walt
What in hell does Pelosi have to do with the opinion of a former CIA analyst about the actions of our President elect?
This is his opinion in a sentence.
“Never in our history has a U.S. president openly chosen to trust the word of a foreign adversary ahead of his own analysts. “
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Just listened to the CIA Director and Trump on the meeting. They both disagree they had agreed to a date this Friday.
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More breaking news
“Leading Republicans broke with Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president-elect appeared to put more faith in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange than in US intelligence agencies.
The sharp differences on a highly charged national security issue are the latest sign that matters of intelligence and policy towards Russia reflect a deep fault line in Trump’s relationship with the Republican party establishment.
The House speaker, Paul Ryan, called Assange “a sycophant for Russia” on a conservative radio show and GOP Senator Tom Cotton told MSNBC that he had “a lot more faith in our intelligence officers serving around the world … than I do in people like Julian Assange”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/04/republicans-break-donald-trump-tweet-julian-assange-dnc-hacks
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No proof Paul, NO proof. Besides. The DNC is a civilian org. The “U.S. gov. election” wasn’t hacked. Except by the LIBS who tried to rig it in their favor. That, there is evidence of. But you don’t care one bit about that. Your ignoring of the facts I posted on that in the past makes it clear.
YOU are our “Pelosi”.
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What is the “evidence” Walt that the LIBS were the hackers?
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Good GOD Paul. Your in your “X” file mode. You now damned well LIBS do their best to manipulate the ballot box every election. that’s nothing new.
Your pissed the truth got out about,and from the DNC. I don’t give a shit WHO did it.
Sunlight is always the best disinfectant. The garrot is now gone from the American throat.
Look at the bright side. You still have Jerry and the kids in Sac. I can’t wait to see the turmoil in the tarnished dome in Sac. when they lose FED funding, for everything from AGW to hiding illegals. Then watch the LIB convulsions.
Let the games begin!
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I’m specifically talking about the alleged Russian intel hacks. Do you have any specific info that the LIBS did it?
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Gave it to you a LONG time ago. Inside job Paul, inside job. He got killed for it.
I bet you can find that out… I know, your heart is set that Putin personally did it.
Heck! I bet you have a picture of him at the computer doing it.
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Can you refresh me on that Walt? Wasn’t that a couple of years ago? That was floationg along with the JFK is still alive i n Cuba rumors I believe.
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Walt @ 2:52 pm. X file mode? Too funny. Did you mean “Jerry and the kids in Sac” or did you mean Jerry’s kids….
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/998484293618941/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/998874070246630/?type=3&theater
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Sorry,, not doing your homework for you. If you refuse to read supplied info that’s your problem. And why bother at this point? You have already dug up McCarthy, and broke out the ouija board.
Couple of years? ( Someone check on Paul. He might be huddled in the corner switching the light on and off.)
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I see no links from you Walt. Refresh me where they might be found. Thanks
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Please pass the bleach I need to wash my eyes out. No warning Bill? I thought we were friends? Now I just might have to dig up the emergency, emergency MMJ stash out in the back 40 in the pouring rain. All that just to kill the vision of Rosi you forced upon me.
Trigger warnings Sir.. For the love of GOD and all things sacred. ( yet Paul would put a candle in the window.)
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“he got killed for it”
Do you have police reports or investigation information from some agency? News reports?
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Paul. You have a search tool. Use it.
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Looks like a disgruntled Bernie supporter was the hacker.
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Where do you get that info Todd? New to me.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HJaUTrSNMbI
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Enjoy the new me.
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BillT, if you finish the video with Boehner smacking Pelosi, Dennis Miller comes on and is he right? Absolutely!
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I will throw Paul a bone.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/10/assange-implies-murdered-dnc-staffer-was-wikileaks-source.html
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Holy Smokes Walt. Say it ain’t so! Is that you? Really? My my. Must say I do like the red bandana and the winter look. Now you can go out and spend time in that shed on the back forty without getting your baby face cold. Don’t drop any cherries in that beard……. 🙂
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Weather report. No snow here
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/latest-blizzard-conditions-close-reno-tahoe-highway-44558256
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Oh that Todd. It was just a casual utterance by Assange with not a shred of proof. I guess according to you the source of all truth comes from Julian Assange who, by the way, was helpful in providing asylum for Edweard Snowden in Russia. Snowden has been accused of what some call Treason by the US. I suppose you support Assange’s assistance of Snowden in avoiding arrest as well. Strange bedfellows, Todd Juvinal and Jullian Assange. Who would have ever believed Todd would take the word of someone who provides assistance to an person accused of theft of defense information over that of our Intelligence community.
Edward Snowden has been charged by the US government with theft, “unauthorized communication of national defense information” and “willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person”. The last two charges fall under the 1917 Espionage Act.
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Todd
Assange-Snowden. pretty sleazy crowd for a Conservative like you to be paling around with wouldn’t you say?
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Sorry Todd, Meant for Walt
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Paul Emery thanks for agreeing with me that the Russians were not involved.
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Walt: here is your trigger warning.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1515732935122640&set=p.1515732935122640&type=3&theater
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Actually that’s for Todd as well. I assume that’s the”evidence’ you base your 3:45 on. If not correct me.
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