YubaNet
White House Blog
Watts Up With That?
The Union
Sierra Thread
RL “Bob” Crabb
Barry Pruett Blog
[OK boys and girls, here’s your Happy Summer Solstice sandbox, all ready to receive another tranche of exhilarating polling reports with follow on debates guaranteed to boost sales of all caffeine-related products. However, those wishing to consider other topics may gain inspiration from the winning entry in a Dutch artwork contest depicting Europe’s multi-culturalism problems that is making the rounds. My only criticism of it is that there is way too much rope in the coil. gjr]
Well, Dr. Rebane is correct as usual. Besides, It is not wise to take off the armor before the battle begins. Pride cometh before a fall and Bill Nye is not a real scientist, but he slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
We must indulge our suffering and dismayed fellow citizens and travelers with their little ray of sunshine, aka, Da Polls. That is not too much to ask, now is it? Think of your fellow man suffering yet another crushing blow to his hopes, his dreams, the way things he was told and most assuredly believed it would be. His whole worldview has been turned on its head.
The walls are crashing in upon him and we taunt? Shame, shame. Bad dogs, bad.
Let’s not kick a man when he is down, especially one afflicted with so much contempt and disdain for all things Pubber, coupled with TDS and outbursts of uncontrollable urges to kick us even harder when we are down. We must be better than them. No rioting, no burning cars, no calling the First Lady a whore or the President’s son a retard. And no being mean to the mentally disabled in our midst. Charity begins at home.
Man alive, they will be out for some serious payback now and we all should be concerned. They can’t keep losing. What are the odds? Hmmm. Cubs win the Series after108 years (108 stitches on a hardball), no team had ever been down 3-1 in the NBA Finals and came back to win on the opposing team’s home court, the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, Trumps wins the election, and Army finally beat Navy. Looks like the Year of the Reckoning continues on and on. Nevermind about that “what are the odds” question.
The solution to alleviating our fears and anxieties over our personal safety and payback is simple: Never get tired of winning.
Allow me to be the first to extend the hand of comfort to our local radio personality and all around fine fellow.
. Yo, Mr. E, you are doing great! You really got him where you want him and he is reeling backwards on the ropes. You got him now! Opps, darn it, saved by the bell. I have full confidence you will be standing over him while he is out cold on the canvas. Maybe next round. Or the round after that. Or maybe a TKO.
Poor Rock and Poll. He is hitting the sauce pretty heavy tonight. We must keep him in our thoughts.
Aha! President Donald John Trump had led the way and had shown us all how to be magnanimous in victory.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1112616908872345/?type=3&theater
LikeLike
So – does anyone here think that Trump will cause Idaho to go red in the midterms?
What about any other state?
Michigan? Iowa? Florida?
Yes – everything could crash. That could happen no matter who was pres at this point. Low interest rates and a pumped up stock market always gives the financial market jitters.
Now Trump has to play a game of ‘keep it going til the next election’.
Politicians always do. Fun.
LikeLike
Something tells me that the Presidents public event tomorrow will be talking about where the beef is. If Clara Peller was still with us she would likely be an opening presenter saying ‘here is the beef’ as the Presidents intro. I hope they have fun with this tomorrow. 😉
LikeLike
Here’s one for our resident expert on gun violence.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/15/seattle-gun-tax-failure-firearm-sales-plummet-violence-spikes-after-law-passes.html
Paul?
Crickets.
LikeLike
Now stop that, Kellyanne. That is no way for a lady to be gracious and magnanimous in victory. Bad girl, bad.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1112669185533784/?type=3&theater
Oh, come on fellars, control yourselves. This is getting old. And stop all that hootin’ and hollerin’ and dancing around the pole with the pig head on top chanting, “Kill the Beast, Kill the Beast!” Stop it.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1112615405539162/?type=3&theater
Great, you just had to bring Russia into the mix just as we got things to settle down for 14 hours.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1474650562580878&set=p.1474650562580878&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214202590325289&set=p.10214202590325289&type=3&theater
Stop it, out there. Remember, when they go low, Trump goes lower….er…..we go high? Control yourselves!! Ah, forget it.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1631502986908497&set=p.1631502986908497&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1455801421134389&set=p.1455801421134389&type=3&theater
Enough you Deplorables, I say enough.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209052682782360&set=p.10209052682782360&type=3&theater
LikeLike
Mea culpa. Mea culpa.
Forget everything I said about being nice, gracious, and magnanimous in victory. In a serious lapse of judgement, I forgot what subhuman scum our Fakenews Media and their water carriers are. A vile reprehensible collection of grunt sandwiches, boneless browns, puke buckets, and maggots. Best to squish them like the vermin they are. Mega mea culpa.
https://patriotpost.us/posts/49744
LikeLike
For your reading pleasure
Trumps and Besse are not bragging about Rasmussen any more. He’s dropped 10 points in 5 days. Currently at -10
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/
LikeLike
Sorry to break it to you, Paul, but a move from 50% to 45% is a five point drop, not ten.
The DEM record in special elections since Nov is zero of four. GOP candidates won 100%. And that is despite the utterly false belief of half of the DEM rabble that the Russians are the reason Trump is in the White House.
LikeLike
Back to fuzzy math Paul? Whatever helps you sleep at night.
LikeLike
Thanks for sharing the polls, Mr. E. Good news indeed. Welcome the latest numbers. Everytime Trump’s numbers drop like a lead ballon, he wins. Just don’t make sense, now does it? Boy, they sure dropped after Grab the Kitty and every R and Indie abandoned him.
I love it when the Talking Heads go running around waving pieces of paper with numbers on them in the face of the viewers and anyone they can find to share those babies with. Shout it from the mountain tops, break forth in song in the village square that Trump is DOA.
What goes up must come down. Boy, I heard a big thud last night. Something dropped like a rock and it wasn’t the Deplorable Party.
Don’t know why Mr. EEEEEEEEeee! finds the Libertarian Party wanting or has some principles he finds bothersome. They should be more Green, I reckon. I dunno. I can agree with them on numerous policies and guiding compass. But, I can see why Mr. EEEEEeee may not be happy as a Libertarian Party member. It all is starting to come into focus.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1111895512277818/?type=3&theater
And now, a blast from the past. Unlikely source to be so spot on.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1089381444529225/?type=3&theater
LikeLike
“But, I can see why Mr. EEEEEeee may not be happy as a Libertarian Party member”
Paul isn’t a Libertarian Party member, nor is he registered to vote as a Libertarian.
LikeLike
Greg
RCP calculates the difference between support and non support. They were 50-50 on Saturday. Now it’s 55-45. 10 point difference. that’s the way all polls calculate their reporting numbers.
LikeLike
Ahh, Paul, so if 60 people are for something and 40 are a’gin it, if one person moves their opinion, and its 59/41, they get counted twice?
So, what if there’s three folk running for the same orifice? Or if for and against doesn’t add up to 100%
No, a move from 50% to 45% is a five percentage drop.
100% of Congressional special elections have gone to the GOP. Four for four. What does that tell you, Paul?
LikeLike
Whatever Gregory. 5%drop 10% difference. Can we agree on that?
LikeLike
Let Paul play with his poll till his heart is content. It ain’t much, but its all he has to try and stay stable.
LikeLike
Paul, can we agree that no votes were changed by interference by Russia in the 2016 Presidential election?
And no, just because RCP reports the spread doesn’t mean everyone does it. If you go to Rasmussen, they report the 45% as the percentage of Likely Voters who support him, and report the spread between Strongly Approve and Strongly Disapprove as an Approval Index, currently at -14.
LikeLike
@ 10 am on the nose:
Touchy, touchy. He is one if he says he is. Today me, myself and I be whatever I choose to be. Afterall, political parties are just social constructs. 🙂
About last night……..
The Deplorables down in Georgia dodged a bullet. In the April election for the vacant seat, all it took was 50% plus one vote to go straight to D.C. Jon Ossoff came close, got 48% with his closest challenger getting a distant 20%, who just happened to be some R woman named Handel.
I could see why the Dems tried so hard. Man, they tried. They gave it their all. On the Mr.Ossoff side, 500,000 doors were knocked on, a paid staff of 100 workers, 12,000 organized volunteers and they did the full court press media blitz covering every outlet from Korean newspapers to Christian Gospel stations since the primaries. Celebrity endorsement galore, money rolling in like grows on trees. And they fell short.
Yep, we dodged a bullet, but the roadmap to winning was laid out for us. Ossify had the anti-Trump wind at his back.. But, but, but…..Karen Handel tied her young opponent to Nancy Pelosi. She stuck to that theme over and over again. A vote for Jon Ossoff is a vote for Nancy the Botox Queen. A vote for the Ossoff-Pelosi is a guarantee absolutely nothing gets done for the next two years on jobs, the economy, and other issues important to you, my dear neighbors. A vote for Osoff-Pelosi is a vote for thwarting the work to be done that your family and our country needs. Maybe ‘they’ don’t care about you. Hmm, not bad.
Ossoff the youthful Trump Slayer brought out the image of The Trumpmeister as his rallying cry and that image was red meat for the riled up foaming at the mouth rabid dogs. Handel brought out the image of the obstructionist Pelosi the Botox Queen who is approaching 80 years old, and blocks working on jobs and the economy on purpose.
Thus, it is fair to say when they go low, we go lower. You may quote me on that and I feel no shame. 🙂
LikeLike
Paul, can we agree that no votes were changed by interference by Russia in the 2016 Presidential election?
LikeLike
“Paul, can we agree that no votes were changed by interference by Russia in the 2016 Presidential election?”
Au contraire, Mr. Gregory. I can think one one vote swayed by the Russians.
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1112659082201461/?type=3&theater
Yo Mr. Eeeee! Have you seen the approval numbers of Pelosi verses Trump? That is the answer to why Dems keep on losing in a nutshell. When will they abandon her??
LikeLike
Emery?
Emery?
Emery?
Emery?
LikeLike
re: Gregory@10:58AM.
Heck, I’d just like to know what ‘interference’ even means. Having lunch with an ambassador appears to be part of the definition.
In more polling news:
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/875112655836643328
LikeLike
Maybe that carpetbagger Ossoff may have stood a better chance if he actually lived in that district. But then again, maybe not. The people voting can see Trump is keeping his word, when history shows LIB promise anything and everything to pander that vote, then deliver on nothing. LIBS have been great job killers. Great at separating people from their money, stripping us of freedoms, and can’t write laws and regs. fast enough.
The people are seeing that diff. today. Nope, it’s going to be a real hard sell to elect a LIB anywhere except Ca. But that will stop in due time. More regs and taxes are in our future. ENJOY….
LikeLike
Administrivia – please continue your election and polling comments under the next post. Thanks.
LikeLike
OK,, a change of pace.. It’s time to close the local rivers to the public. They are killing people just about every day. Just look in the local rag for proof.
This year alone the rivers have killed more people than guns around here. We need river control!! As our Progs like to say, “if it saves one life..”
LikeLike
Thanks to our great leader in The White House, Ford won’t be making the Focus in Mexico. They’ll make it in China instead.
All of those American manufactured parts that would have gone into the Mexican cars? They won’t go in the Chinese cars.
We’ll see how good the new beef deal with China is for America. The new sugar deal with Mexico means higher consumer prices in the U.S. Some victory.
LikeLike
Posted by: George Boardman | 21 June 2017 at 01:59 PM
Thanks to our great leader in The White House, Ford won’t be making the Focus in Mexico.
More appropriately thanks to the 1 billion in savings China vs Mexico.
Bloomberg reports Ford to Save $1 Billion Building Focus in China Instead of Mexico.
Ford Motor Co. is canceling controversial plans to build the Focus small car in Mexico, saving $1 billion by ending North American production entirely and importing the model mostly from China after next year.
The U.S. automaker will start making the next-generation Focus in China from the second half of 2019, a year after output ends at one of its plants in Michigan. Ford will trim about $500 million in costs by shifting production to China, adding to the $500 million already saved from canceling construction of a small-car factory in Mexico earlier this year.
The company will be testing both consumer appetite for China-built cars and the tolerance of President Donald Trump, who has criticized automakers for importing vehicles from overseas.
“We’ve done a lot of research and consumers care a lot more about the quality and the value than they do about the sourcing location,” Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s president of global operations, said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. “iPhones are produced in China, for example, and people don’t really talk about it.”
LikeLike
Whoooo! As bad as the political class is in California I think Illinois is worse……
Bruce Rauner spent a chunk of his personal fortune running for Governor in 2014 to save Illinois from its tax-and-spend political class. More than two years later it looks like the former private equity star has made better investments.
On Tuesday evening the Governor with the worst job in America explained why he and his fellow Republicans have offered to raise taxes for the sake of ending a multiyear budget impasse with Democrats. He said he’ll accept a four-year increase in the flat state income tax to 4.95% from the current 3.75%, expand the sales tax and implement a cable and satellite TV tax.
This is a political defeat by any definition since Mr. Rauner campaigned on lowering the income tax to 3%, not on restoring the rate close to what it was under the last Democratic Governor. The “temporary” 5% rate partially sunset in December 2014. Democrats who run the legislature refused to negotiate over a budget unless Mr. Rauner agreed to a tax increase, and now they’re refusing to make notable spending or economic reforms in return.
The political tragedy is that Mr. Rauner didn’t make this mess; he was elected to clean it up. Former Governors Rod Blagojevich and Pat Quinn, a crook and a schnook, borrowed some $17 billion through pension obligation bonds. Since 2009 the state bond rating has been downgraded 21 times. The biggest culprit is state House Speaker Michael Madigan, who fronts for the government unions.
Mr. Madigan hasn’t said if he’ll accept Mr. Rauner’s offer, and perhaps he’s holding out for even more concessions. Mr. Rauner may come out the political loser, but the citizens of Illinois will suffer the most.
Proposed Deal
1) Four-year tax hike to 4.95%, up from 3.75%
2) Expansion of sales taxes
3) New taxes on cable and satellite TV
4) Four-year property tax freeze*
5) No right-to-work reform
6) No collective bargaining reform
7) No pension reform
8) No workers’ compensation reform
9) No spending cuts
10) No term limits
11) No gerrymandering reform
*That alleged property tax freeze is just at the state level. It does not include a freeze by home rule districts.
https://mishtalk.com/2017/06/21/governor-rauner-screws-illinois/
LikeLike
Hey ladiy, let me explain something to you
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/if-youre-white-and-have-opinions-youre-now-guilty-of-whitesplaining/?mod=sm_fb_post
LikeLike
http://www.wbng.com/story/35662696/watch-details-of-major-weapons-bust-in-broome-county-announced
‘Abdullah’.
Nothin’ to see here. Move along.
LikeLike
Well now, that is embarrassing.
https://i.redd.it/rpvyx9hfn65z.png
LikeLike
Gregory. That shameful fakenews story about millions voting illegally is making the rounds. However, this is from a legit feed (Laura Inghram) and is taken from a different angle with seemingly credible sourced quotes.
Just passing it along……for your discerning eye.
http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/researcher-claims-millions-of-non-citizens-voting-in-u-s-elections/2/
LikeLike
FISH: : For your eyes only. Ok, Scenes can take a peek, but nobody else…..except maybe Walt, but not Mrs. Walt. 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1113393948794641/?type=3&theater
LikeLike
Toez 1220
Yes, that link passes the initial smell test…
LikeLike
Environmental Fire Traps
“At least seven high-rise apartment buildings in England have combustible external panels similar to what was found at the London tower that went up in flames last week, killing 79 people,” the government said.
Total building engulfed in 1 hour.
The number of clad buildings could be as high as 600. Unintended consequences of environmentalism — fire traps
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/22/london-fire-local-administrator-resigns-amid-criticism.html
LikeLike
Gregory again!
FYI: You recently asked what ever happened to Glen Beck. Heard him for a few minutes this morning on my transistor radio. The Glen Beck Show, 1410 AM out of Marysville or somewhere in the State of Jefferson. Don’t know where it is found on its FM broadcast, my transistor radio does not have FM. 9-noon slot, up against Rush.
Glen played a audio clip of Trump and I starting rolling on the ground laughing. I get Trump’s humor and his bravoing. You get it, most get it. Those who don’t it get confused and most perplexed, to say the least.
I was thinking the fact checkers would be gearing up to full speed now and the pundits would be looking with stern faces at what he meant by what he said, lol. So, I found the audio clip and sure enough, the fact checkers were counting beans. Love it.
Short clip.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40363390
LikeLike
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article157974029.html
Why isn’t our single payer poster telling us how wonderful it would be?
Apparently there are a few problems. As in – how do we pay for this?
Our free heath care nut-case-in-residence has no answer other than we want to see folks die.
There is no truth in that, but it’s all he has.
He doesn’t care who has to pay anything. As in Illinois.
LikeLike
Its starting to sound like the President is going to get another SCOTUS appointment. AP reports that Justice Kennedy had a clerk reunion party scheduled for next year but has moved it up to next week. Monday is the last public session, a normal place to announce retirements. 😉
LikeLike
The progressive left……devouring itself! Truly Magical!!!
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/jonathan-kay-on-the-tyranny-of-twitter-how-mob-censure-is-changing-the-intellectual-landscape/wcm/c94cb9be-3eef-4982-9e65-7f4e934c2afb?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+(National+Po
LikeLike
Fish @ 6;44. Score! Goal! Great link. Makes me sad for today’s starving Fakenews wannabe’s trying to make a buck. Baby, it is a cold hard world out there if you are booted from the “in group”. Banishment is kind of a downer to those who are exiled. Like that line from A Chorus Line, “one fart and they call you stinky for the rest of your life.”
You should post that link over on Safe Places, Great Divide, Progressive Report, but only if you want to. I ain’t the boss of you! Liked this money quote:
From my time as editor-in-chief of a left-leaning Canadian magazine, in which capacity I had to monitor the online response to my content, I can attest that the true enforcers of Twitter’s journalistic gossip chamber aren’t exactly household names. Many are quite young, and have relatively few followers. What they do have are markers of authenticity that allow them to speak authoritatively on matters of race and gender. They also tend to inhabit professional domains that signal a devotion to purity of thought and cause: artists, academics, musicians, street activists, poets” and local fakenews directors for obscure counterculture FM stations. Ok, just the part in quotes for the purists out there.
Actually, the reason I am trolling you is I have a question. Have you heard or seen from Maxine the largemouth bass in the Waters lately? Seen or heard anything??? They must have put her on ice or the deep freeze.. Haven’t seen nary a hide not hair from Maxine since they all replaced the words ‘influenced’ and ‘hacked’ with the simple new buzzword ‘meddle’. Yes, corellation does not equate to causation, but sometimes you gotta wonder. Did see get banished?
LikeLike
Maybe I missed it somewhere else here.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/presidential/cnn-deletes-retracts-story-linking-trump-and-russia-20170624.html
Will the Paul retract his fake news?
Then this hits the news wire.
http://nypost.com/2017/06/24/inside-the-shadowy-intelligence-firm-behind-the-trump-dossier/
“A secretive Washington firm that commissioned the dubious intelligence dossier on Donald Trump is stonewalling congressional investigators trying to learn more about its connections to the Democratic Party.”
Man O man if this leads right back to the Dems. It puts “by any means necessary” on a whole new level.
LikeLike
How did the truth slip out on cnbc, they are usually better party parrot fakenewsmen than that? 😉
LikeLike
At least we can settle one thing.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-open-letter-to-gay-white-men-no-youre-not-allowed_us_5947f0ffe4b0f7875b83e459
LikeLike
…plus, the professional Left antes up on Otto Warmbier.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/professor-otto-warmbier-deserved-article-1.3274691
“His parents ultimately are to blame for his growing up thinking he could get away with whatever he wanted….Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women. Not so much in North Korea.”
lol. Hey, I don’t write this stuff. I’m just a reporter.
LikeLike
rebanesruminations.com 
Leave a comment