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[I was perusing RR's hoary past to note the constant torrent of comments predicting the assured and imminent demise of the Republican Party for this or that outrage according to our tireless local progressives.  I also note that no one from the Right has been foolish enough to predict the Democrats' demise for doing some really dumb things over the last decade of these pages.  So does that mean that there is no learning taking place on the Left (my favorite hypothesis), or do these adamant worthies subscribe to and unabashedly place their hope on the unfortunate truth that it is possible to fool most of the people most of the time? (This is my own observation over the decades that completes the standard shibboleth 'You can fool some people all the time, and all people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.'  Well, you don't have to; fooling most people most of the time works out quite well as confirmed by most astute observers.)  gjr]

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277 responses to “Sandbox – 28jan17”

  1. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery why do you not acknowledge the poll that says we now have a fifty-fifty on the course of America. Under your pal Obama it was 20-25 points headed in the wrong direction. Seems to me we have a dichotomy you fail to accept. Obama was personally liked but his policies were hated. Now we have a Trump who is disliked more by libs and yet he is inspiring the country and gives people hope. You need some meds?

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Polls down, approval for temp ban 57%. Polls down, policy approvals up across the board. 🙂
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1018487574951946/?type=3&theater

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Oh let Paul have his polls. He will be daily tracking them anyway and it’s the only thing he can hang on to. It’s his last lifeline to keep him from being carted off to the funny farm in a straight jacket. I like Paul watching the daily polls because it keeps him from seeing the forest from the trees. He can have the polls, I will never get tired of winning.
    While Paul was watching Obama’s polls, the Dems were bleeding votes across the amber waves of grain….big time. And the hemorrhaging flows unabated.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kVWdRsq-v2g

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  4. George Rebane Avatar

    What happens if we ‘accept’ the published poll results of PaulE? None of that requires we accept his numerous predictions, say like in his 452pm, which he believes have a strong causal link to the polls. These causal links failed miserably to materialize in the general election. Trump is an historical first in the Oval Office, and applying same ol’ same ol’ rules has not worked so far, nor is there any evidence that they will work during his term in office. PaulE should be given the joy of his staid predictions as we all watch reality unfold.

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  5. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Paul confuses populism with patriotism. Populism is but a rallying cry. Patriotism is love of country. Love of country demands our borders secured by the Federal Government and foreign threats to the homeland thwarted and prevented. That is a concept the leftist hate.
    Nullification and secession is what the southern states declared when following South Carolina’s lead to secede from The Union.
    Nullification is what the Snowflakes are having their temper tantrum over.

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  6. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery uses the polls like all the dishonest news sources do and did last year. As a tool to breed discouragement. But as we see the “alt-news” sources of the internet gave a contra POV and that prevailed. So I really think Paul Emery simply gets off on thinking we are bummed when we see his poll talk. Nope, I am a happy guy. And so are the rest of us tat voted in Trump. So sure PaulE can post every day yet it will not have the effect he wants. Beating the old dead horse. What a hoot!

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  7. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    Sorry I didn’t keep up, but the Teddy Roosevelt quote finally got my attention, because he was a business partner of my grandfather in the good ol’ days. Teddy Roosevelt once said, “To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.” Politically questionable Snopes said it was false. But Truth or Fiction says “Because it’s impossible to definitively prove that a historical quote does not exist, we’re going to report this one as fiction until evidence proving otherwise surfaces.” So from what I know about Teddy Roosevelt, I have to go along with Truth or Fiction rather than Snopes.

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Bonnie, no. Historians are never kind to quotations that first appear years after the death of the claimed utterer of the words.
    Let this one go no matter how the words ring true to you. Personally, I can’t imagine TR ever saying it.

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  9. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Lets toss out some troll chow and see what happens. The acting Secretary of the Army has ordered the Corps. of engineers to grant the easement to finish the Dakota access pipeline. The Corps. advised it will have the paperwork done in a day or two. Now that was ease wasn’t it. 😉

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  10. Bonnie McGuire Avatar

    Yeah Gregory …I noticed that the New Mexico website thinks a lot like you. Yet I remember when we visited a museum in Silver City, they felt that our government discriminated against them, because it wouldn’t grant them statehood. A worker in the museum told me, “Is it just a coincidence that we finally became a state the same week that your grandfather and President Taft invested in the Mogollon Mine? But you’ll never read it unless you do the research and just happen to stumble onto the truth. I’d searched the Britannica etc. regarding the first Representatives of western states. Often the only answer was that they were miners. No names. Because a historian/newspaper journalist wanted a picture I had taken for a story he wrote…he gave me the site they use that lists the names and pictures of the first Representatives. And that’s the rest of the story that most are not aware of….

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  11. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    While we’re talking polls Todd let’s look at the polls for congress the Republican Congress Polls show the Republicans only getting 20%
    Another historically low number
    http://www.pollingreport.com/cong_rep.htm

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  12. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, will wonders never cease. CNN (on line edition) actually did not tear Trump a new one. Quite fair and balanced and even with begrudging admiration for Trump’s masterful showmanship and demeanor. This is one for the record books, but I doubt it will be repeated.
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/31/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-announcement/
    Did like the part about the nominee giving the press camped in front of his house the slip by sneaking down a dirt road. My kind of guy. 🙂
    Predictably, Nancy already said what they always say:
    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi described Gorsuch as a “very hostile” appointment well outside the American mainstream.” Yawn, yeah, too extreme for Amerika no doubt. Yo Demorats, try a new line. Your playbook is so not working. Maybe too extreme for your Amerika, but well inside the American mainstream. Thank you for sharing Sea Haggie, you withering Botox Beast, you.

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  13. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    Veterans of the Great Political War of 2017:
    http://i.magaimg.net/img/vv.jpg

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  14. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    CNN finally hits the bottom of the barrel.
    https://twitter.com/CNN/status/826534525773762562

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  15. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    The left never learns, thinking that now is time to double down on climate change reporting, when the sun is going quiet for the next 5-6 years, maybe longer. At least for the 4 years of the first Trump term.
    Politico this morning.
    REVOLVING DOOR: NEW YORK TIMES NAMES EDITOR TO RAMP UP CLIMATE COVERAGE – The job goes to Hannah Fairfield, a 15-year veteran of the Times’ graphics team. “Besides leadership skills that have impressed everyone in the Washington bureau and the graphics department, Hannah has tremendous visual storytelling power that is vital to telling the story of the havoc wreaked by climate change,” the Times’ top editors wrote in a staff announcement yesterday. “She grew up in Alaska, where the effects of rising temperatures are real and measurable, and she has two master’s degrees from Columbia, one in journalism and the other in environmental science … Hannah will assemble and lead a team of reporters and editors to cover the science of the globe’s changing climate and its political, economic, technological and social consequences.” Full memo: http://bit.ly/2jAapQN
    This will be a key beat in the Trump era given the climate-change skepticism emanating from the president and some of his aides. For starters, an announcement that Trump will pull the U.S. out of last year’s Paris climate deal is expected any day now.
    Ignoring the real climate change problem which Trump recognizes:
    http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/EPA-torture-600-AEA.jpg

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  16. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery | 31 January 2017 at 10:28 PM
    Paul Emery, 20%? That is a uptick. Congress always gets that range but they are headed north now. So it appears your “historic low” is fabricated.

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  17. Russ Avatar
    Russ

    Politico: CALIFORNIA IN THE TRUMP ERA:
    — “23,000 California scientists write to Trump over climate fears,” by SacBee’s Adam Ashton: “With this letter, we aim to express the degree to which the scientists and intellectual leaders of our state, speaking for themselves and not on behalf of their respective employers, agree on the facts of climate change,” reads the letter, which was drafted by UC Berkeley associate professor of astronomy Aaron Parsons. http://bit.ly/2kRHloS
    Well, it is really just 2,300 state climate researchs who are about to lose their jobs as the climate change research money dries up.

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  18. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like the Senate R’s finally got some balls. Treasury and Health cabinet picks headed for a floor vote in spite of the demoncrats boycott of their duty. So here is the link.
    http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317302-gop-changes-rules-to-push-through-nominees-after-dem-boycott

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  19. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    Meanwhile, in Sweden:
    http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/01/sweden-took-162k-refugees-last-year-494-got-jobs
    Maybe they all play in bars for tips.

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  20. fish Avatar
    fish

    While it’s getting harder and harder to scare me with any of the dire warnings routinely offered up by the political and major media outlets, I feel I must draw your attention to an area of legitimate concern!

    Nation’s Bacon Reserves hit 50-Year Low

    My fear is that people have “cried wolf” so often that no one will give this looming threat the attention it deserves!
    http://www.9news.com/life/food/united-states-bacon-reserves-low/395271986

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  21. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: ScenesFromTheApocalypse | 01 February 2017 at 08:18 AM
    But if they aren’t working who’ll pay for all those Scandohoovian social welfare benefits that “jon” promised?

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Bill Tozer | 01 February 2017 at 08:57 AM

    Therein lies your problem Bill! I imagine that Porcine Avionistas are not going to be easy to pen!
    I don’t see them helping us fix the problem!

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  23. Walt Avatar

    It’s time people on the Right, send a box of adult diapers to the crybaby LIBS who are now boycotting hearings and just not doing their jobs.

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Nuclear option has now been invoked. Onward!

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