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[Lots of stuff happening – members of Congress shot on baseball diamond, public housing fire in London, old basketball player negotiating with young idiot in NK, Dylan accused of plagiarism, … .  What’s the world coming to, or is it already there?  gjr]

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178 responses to “Sandbox – 14jun17”

  1. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Trump is amazing! Is there not anything that man cannot do? He is curing Bush Degrangement Syndrome as I write this. It is happening on his watch. Truly he is the Emperor God….or is that the God-Emperor? No matter.
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/212633/george-bush-barack-obama-popular-retirement.aspx

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  2. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    “Scott, in the view of Brad Carver the repercussion are a good thing because in his view it furthers Republican ambitions by tilting an election.”
    Oh – the ‘repercussions’. That’s a far cry from saying that it was a good thing that a Republican elected official was shot.
    I wonder if Paul thinks that the ‘repercussions’ of the Sandy Hook shooting resulting in action on ‘gun violence’ that he approves of is good?
    Or is Paul going to claim that no one ever, ever tied the shootings into proposed legislative action or regulation?
    How does that shoe fit, Paul?
    Just try to pull it out of your mouth.

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  3. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Scott, Fish, Todd and especially Don. Have you had the time to look at the po9ll numbers I have to possibly avoid the embarrassment of being so ignorant of facts? Trump says he’s ahead of Obama in the polls at this time. Sure. Liar in Chief.

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  4. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    What does that have to do with anything I have posted, Paul?

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  5. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/06/18/california-gun-owners-legal-limbo-assault-rifle-ban/
    There you go, Paul – new regs making use of the San Berdoo shootings.
    Did you rush to descry the folks making hay out of a tragedy?
    Of course not.
    Talk about ignorant.

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  6. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Oh – I forgot. Paul no longer ‘engages’.
    He just shows up to display his nonsense and then runs away as usual.
    His poll numbers prove everything I claim is wrong and everything he says is correct.
    What ever.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scott, the only topic worth replying to is polls and pot, pot and polls. We have gone from “name one poll where Trump hit 50%” (Saturday’s Rasmussen poll) to “Trump, the big fat liar, said he is ahead of Zerobama at this stage.”
    Excellent Bob & Weave. A moving target. Kudos. Got off the ropes. About time. That other strategy of having his opponents wear themselves out beating on him needed to go back to the drawing board. Excellent improvision and going to Plan B.
    Now, which came first. The pot or the polls?
    Speaking of moving targets, what a gift from the Almighty that the progressives in general and those afflicted with TURDs in particular are such bad shots. Horrible shots. Plumb embarrassing. Gives a perfectly good firearm a bad name.
    I am surprised they can hit the broad side of the barn or FUE. Otherwise with the caliper of ammo the gruntled former Bernie worker had, it would of/should of been a real blood bath. Guess TDS (TURDs) really affects one’s vision , not to mention one’s grasp of reality. Interesting to see when the political assassin got that ammo.

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  8. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery you said adios to us and that you were not engaging us anymore. So please, practice that.
    Polls the other day had Trump at 50-50/ And of course you disregard that. But hey, new people are all the same now. Fake.

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  9. Russ Avatar

    BLACK MONDAY FOR THE CLIMATISTAS
    Most climatistas are going to call today “Black Monday,” because today has dealt a double-whammy of what Al Gore would call inconvenient news.
    More here: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/06/black-monday-for-the-climatistas.php
    Power quotes on two studies showing that models are not up to the science:
    First Study: Over most of the early twenty-first century, however, model tropospheric warming is substantially larger than observed; warming rate differences are generally outside the range of trends arising from internal variability. The probability that multi-decadal internal variability fully explains the asymmetry between the late twentieth and early twenty-first century results is low (between zero and about 9%).
    Second Study: In particular, we point out that this work used invalid modeling tools, contained modeling errors, and made implausible and inadequately supported assumptions. Policy makers should treat with caution any visions of a rapid, reliable, and low-cost transition to entire energy systems that relies almost exclusively on wind, solar, and hydroelectric power.
    These two studies were done by ardent decarbonization promoters, they just could not deal with the scientific BS that was being promoted by their Climatistas Academic lounge mates in previous studies.

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  10. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory writes
    “Interesting news” seems limited to polls that have Trump holding the short straw.”
    Gregory why do you find it to be of no interest that Trump is either delusional, ignorant a liar when he claims that he is even in the polls and ahead of Obama at the same stage of his Presidency? That is so easily refuted yet participants on this blog refuse to even acknowledge the fact that he is totally wrong. If we cannot even agree on such a simple and documented matter of fact then why should we engage in more subtle conversations. Of course you still believe that the Russians had nothing to do with interfering with last years election so what’s the use?

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Paul, one, I think polls (outside of the real polls on election days) to be a sideshow nothingburger and am amused by your continuing breathless reports of GOP polling doom since we started chatting during the primary season. Second, I don’t know exactly what Trump said or wrote and what, if any, basis there might have been for his actual words.
    There are reasons I didn’t vote for him, Paul, but given the DNC/Podesta/Hillary role in pushing their media partners to push Trump as a “Pied-Piper candidate” to lead the GOP astray, I think the Dems should live with the results.

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  12. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Po’ ol’ PE is a bore as well as being boorish. Keep your word and leave the TURDS eruptions for KVMR, if they even let you. 😉

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  13. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Anybody notice the statement issued when we shot down the Russian jet? It was the first time I heard our new policy. “We are NOT fighting the Syrian Army, we are fighting ISIS in Syria. Boy, that is good to hear.
    The “no fly zone” Crooked Hillary, Puppet Mc Cain, the Deep State, and the Internationalists proposed may have worked in the now respected George W Bush’s Iraq War, but not in Obama’s Syria of today. The skies over Syria that Trump inherited are buzzing with Syrian jet fighters, Iranian jets, Russian jets, and US jets. Boy, that is a powder keg waiting to explode, escalating out of control to War with some bigger boys involved. Didn’t we have a poster here who thought the solution was a no fly zone in Syria, ROFLMAO.
    Seems when Secretary of State John Kerry said the only way we would not cut loose on Assad’s head with our arsenal was if Assad would turn over all his chemical weapons. Putin jumped in and said he would take care of that and we held our horsemen back. Putin was elevated to an instant world celebrity as a man of peace and problem solver in addition to being propelled to the position of an instant credible player on the world stage. Now, Obama the war monger got a Nobel Peace Prize for “Potential” and Putin should have gotten one too, per the crazy way the peaceniks think in Olso. Akin to Sierra Pacific Industries being called a green company and selling carbon offsets as well as timber. That was not what being a green company means! Too funny.
    Good thing HRC’s no fly zone coupled with taking out Assad and directly fighting the Syrian Army never got to see the light of day. Too many jets from too many countries flying over Syria now. Good to hear our policy is not to directly fight the Syrian Army. They have the Russians and Iranians covering their flank. Its how The Great War escalated (WW 1).
    Fighting ISIS is a real existential threat to our Constitution, females, gays, rule of law, and our wonderful civil liberties. Cooler heads have prevailed. Thank goodness for John Kerry disengaging his brain when he engaged his mouth. Otherwise, we would be fighting the Syrian Army, the Iranian Red Guard, and the sophisticated new generation of Russia anti-aircraft batteries as well as Russian jets screaming overhead. What was Obama-Clinton thinking? Their no fly zone solution was worse than our national security problem, which is ISIS.

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  14. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    from Paul – “Of course you still believe that the Russians had nothing to do with interfering with last years election so what’s the use?”
    OK Paul – fill us in on exactly what the Russians did to alter the last pres election. What did they do and how did it alter the election?
    Paul? Paul?
    Oh – that’s right – he doesn’t ‘engage’ us any more.
    And he wants people to take him seriously?

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ok, since Paul is beneath talking to some of us uncivilized in-bred knuckledraggers and instead addresses “dear readers”, can some Dear Reader out there explain to me how one “hacks an election”???? Sure, the Russians play mischief and sow discord for their perceived geo-political advantage (think backing Neo-Nazis in Germany and counter-cultures in countries closer to their border), but HOW DOES ONE HACK AN ENTIRE NATIONAL ELECTION in the USA when our polling booths are not hooked up to the internet??? Sway an entire election, influence an entire Presidential election, HACK an entire national election to achieve a desired outcome for the most unfavorable candidate ever to win a primary in my lifetime?
    Someone explain the mechanics of hacking an election. Hillary’s private server damaged her more than Wikileaks ever could do and all Wikileaks did was embarrass the DNC and a handful of top campaign staff, all of which were seasoned veterans of winning the Big Prize.
    How does one hack an election? Guess if you repeat the lie to yourself long enough, you actually come to believe your own BS. A rather perverse phenomenon, yet a very effective defense mechanism. Keep saying that lie until it, and it only, becomes your truth, the whole truth, and nothing but your truth.
    Reality, what a concept. Now, how does any person, place, or thing hack a US Presidential election??? Hmmm. Crickets again? Darn. I was foolish enough to give it another go. “Ain’t no fool like an old fool” me says slinking away to my hole in the ground. I am such a worm. But, how? How? How?

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I continue to find it amusing that a member of one of the most hated professions tries to posture here as having moral superiority while being a party parrot. 😉

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  17. George Rebane Avatar

    For the record, i remain puzzled as to why we are still discussing the possibility of Russia’s impacting last year’s election either through the criminal negligence of Hillary or collusion with Team Trump. Long ago on these pages we established that no one has yet to identify the means of such Russian meddling, and no one has surfaced with a shred of evidence that such meddling occurred. Nothing there has changed. Mueller has been charged with putting a bow around the whole affair. What possible contribution can we here make by trading unsubstantiated allegations and idle thoughts with each other? Until we hear from Mueller, let’s concentrate on the fate of Trump’s agenda wending through a Congress ranging between resistive and recalcitrant. That is a more visible process that will have a real impact on the country.

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  18. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    The truce of playing nice and pretending to be an adult after the baseball practice political assasian affair lasted all of one day. Geeze, that is a no brainer. I could have told you that. Where’s their waterboy?
    http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/19/steve-scalise-shooting-joy-reid-politics-greg-gutfeld-monologue
    http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/19/tucker-carlson-battles-hunt-republicans-democrat-over-steve-scalise-shooting-james-devine

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  19. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Dr. Rebane @ 8:03 pm
    Agreed. It’s just so much fun watching the boxer staggering about swinging at the air trying to hit something tries to make it to the bell….after getting his bell rung and clock cleaned. Ok, I will give The Punch Drunk One some dignity and let him think he floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
    You are doing great Punchy. You really got us on the ropes now!! Here’s to looking at you with my night vision goggles. Over here, no, over here. This way. Marco, Polo.. Look for the guy with grass stains on his knees. Look up, look down, look at my thumb, boy you are…adorable. Best pull the shades. Boo!

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    The words from Trump were a direct quote of his tweet. Trump must think polls to be important because he follows them so closely. Here’s his exact tweet unless you think they are fake.
    “The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating.That’s higher than O’s #’s!
    4:02 AM – 18 Jun 2017 ”
    MOre from the same article
    “Trump suggested that his approval rating was higher than that of his predecessor, Barack Obama. That does not appear to be the case – at least not when comparing statistics from similar stages of the two men’s presidencies.
    Rasmussen poll results released about five months into Obama’s first term – on June 16, 2009 – had his approval rating at 56%. An average of the major national polls compiled by Real Clear Politics put Obama’s approval rating on June 16, 2009, at 59.6%.
    Trump also celebrated the results of the Rasmussen Reports poll on Friday, tweeting that the 50% approval rating was “great news.”
    Still, most other major polls conducted during the same time frame yielded lower numbers. The Real Clear Politics average estimated Trump’s approval rating on Friday, June 16, to be just 40%.”
    http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-updates-everything-president-1497822841-htmlstory.html

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  21. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Paul Emery – the laughing stock of Nevada County. Shows up here with shock and dismay about a fabricated bunch of BS he read at HuffPo. He gets schooled and off he goes to another subject.
    Once again he’s slapped down on the mat, but wait – he’s up and swinging!
    Now it’s another poll!
    Please don’t stop posting here, Paul – you are one amusing piece of work.
    And you provide us with the best of Nevada County’s leftward thinking.
    Meanwhile, it seems the Obama admin has managed to once again bury info re their activities against the American people.
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/06/19/judicial-watch-susan-rice-unmasking-documents-moved-from-nsc-to-obama-library/
    Nothing to see here, folks. And you never will.
    Remember that Rice was named to the post of NSA to keep her from being questioned after she went on 4 TV shows to repeatedly lie about Benghazi.

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  22. Scott Obermuller Avatar

    Walt – you beat me – that’s what I get for taking a break in mid post.
    Really – is there anyone right now more cold bloodied evil in American politics than Susan Rice?

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    All this tit for tat vitriol. When will it ever end? Trump should address this more. Hmm, the word vitriol is back in fashion. Haven’t heard that word since Gabby got plugged by that Dem who never listened to Rush or any talk radio. Vitriol caused it. Oh, the catalysis was Sarah Palin targeting vulnerable Dems. When will it ever end? Poor Nancy. They say such unflattering things about her.
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/5474181758001/?#sp=show-clips
    Oh yeah. Trump said his Inaugural had bigger crowds than Obama and the buttercups were running around like chickens with their heads cut off posting pics With arrows on them and side by side comparisons and 24/7 exploding talking heads proving that Obama’s crowds were bigger until they were blue in the face. Hmmm. I am not so convinced. Yep, I was rolling on the ground laughing over that one. Boy, Trump lit their hair on fire with that one. One of many countless ones. He said he won in a landslide and won the popular vote or something just to watch them breath into the paper bags that the WH so generously provided to the Fakenews Press Corps. Loved that one. And who can forget the recent break of etiquette, a foo-pay if you will, by putting the NYT and Washington Compost in the farest nosebleed seats in the back row. In fact, it was a 3 chair back back row. Sorry, can’t hear ya, can’t even see ya. Funny guy.
    So, Trump tweeted that his numbers are higher than Obama’s at this time? Lol. Yep, someone took the bait hook, line, and sinker. How does that worm taste, Punchy? Better than crow I bet. Yum, yum. Boy, talk about walking into that one. Think it’s called leading with the chin in rope-a-dope lingo.
    That Trump is one funny man. A gift. He has spent some time with a lot of Liberals and knows they simply are incapable of wrapping their heads around any semblence of sarcasm and where tragically born without a sense of humor. Play them like fiddle, President Trump. It’s fun watching them dry humping knot holes in oak trees.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iLAf52jMWdo

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 June 2017 at 05:26 PM
    Scott, Fish, Todd and especially Don. Have you had the time to look at the po9ll numbers I have to possibly avoid the embarrassment of being so ignorant of facts?

    I’m not sure which is sadder at this point…….that you think, that after delivering poll numbers on a near daily basis that you think anybody cares.
    Or that you simply forgot that nobody cares! Which I suspect is really the case!

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    For you reading pleasure-Trump now down by 6 in Rasmussen poll. Don B. take note. He dropped 6 points in less than a week. Down by a remarkable 21 in CBS poll. Trump says he’s ahead of Obama-Sure Donny anything you say.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

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  26. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 20 June 2017 at 08:32 AM
    ….still president Paul.

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  27. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Yes Fish he is. When Clinton had similar numbers early on in his first term he lost both the House and Senate in the mid-terms. Trump is lower that Clinton at this stage.

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