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[Ah yes, the filibuster debates are again in season.  Republicans are being admonished by the eternally innocent progressives about messing with the filibuster, as if that were a tradition brought down on the tablets and one that has remained unblemished since then.  It would be utterly       unconsciounable to bring up the recent history of who exercised the 'nuclear option' and under what conditions they pulled the trigger.  In the meanwhile, we are on our way home and thank RR readers for keeping the sandboxes exercised and the comment candles burning.  gjr]

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  1. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 31 July 2017 at 11:11 AM
    ….Pelosi seemed absolutely fearful to me. Afraid she was losing relevancy, afraid she was losing a grip on the body politic.

    That must have been glorious to see….senile old dingbat!!

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Bring back some of the heritage to Nevada City. It needs the tourism.
    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/07/31/worlds-first-sex-robot-brothel-talks-expand/
    It can bring some needed jobs as well. Those “girls” will need repairs and maintenance,
    (High tech stuff) AND of course, cleaning after each “engagement”.(Real LOW tech stuff)

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  3. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Scaramouche is gone!

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Scaramooch!
    Scaramooch!
    He can’t do the fandango.
    The General don’t take no crap.

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  5. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 31 July 2017 at 11:51 AM
    Scaramouche is gone!

    Hell that didn’t take long!

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 31 July 2017 at 11:51 AM
    Todd….you scooped Little Jeffy Scoopito!
    Hat tip!

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  7. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dow has its 30th record close of the year. 😉

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  8. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse
  9. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    and finally, the most Green Libertarian article of the day.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cass-clemmer-trans-periods_us_597101bce4b0aa14ea78a251

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  10. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    The General and Scaramouche were oil and water.

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  11. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Thanks FISH. It was easy to scoop the scoopleter!

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  12. George Boardman Avatar

    That’s a real 3-ring circus the Trumpster is running.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: George Boardman | 31 July 2017 at 01:31 PM
    C’mon George….who doesn’t like the circus?

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  14. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I like the circus too! It is actually how the real world works anyway. Having been a boss I can say employees are the darnest kids.

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Circus?

    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1140886946045341/?type=3&theater

    Scenes: Yep, not one Russian story today, except about Putin kicking out a bunch of our diplomats, Comey’s boytoy lawyer being a big time leaker, the DNC paying big bucks for the Golden Shower authors, and Junior meeting with that Russian gal, who also got money from the Dems. Besides that, no Russian-Trump connection today.
    So, whose afraid of the big bad wolf…… beside brain tumor McCain and our own Green Libertarian fakenews squawker? Get a brain tumor or get drunk enough, I would be howling at the moon as well.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1140886642712038/?type=3&theater

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Yes BT you know its bad for the party parrots when they have to give up on Russian dressing because its starting to focus on the 0 admin’s cast of shady characters. 😉

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  17. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    Real Newsflash–
    The Russian Mafia and the Trump family.. peas in a pod. Are these really the people American’s want in charge of the till? Apparently not according the the former Director of the Government Office of Ethics who said, “His (Trump’s) actions create the appearance of profiting from the presidency” and called Trump an “embarrassment.” Walter Shaub, the former GOE Director who resigned last month in disgust, went on to state, ““The fact that we’re having to ask questions about whether he’s intentionally using the presidency for profit is bad enough because the appearance itself undermines confidence in government.”
    He added: “It certainly risks people starting to refer to us as a kleptocracy. That’s a term people throw around fairly freely when they’re talking about Russia, fairly or unfairly, and we run the risk of getting branded the same way. America really should stand for more than that.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/31/trump-ethics-chief-walter-shaub-kleptocracy

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  18. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse
  19. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Oh bobby, that’s a lame diversion from the intel committee voting for a special prosecutor to go after Lynch, Comey and madam liar liar pantsuits on fire about their dirty election collusion and the real Russian connections. Lets not forget the unmasking scandal too. 😉

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  20. Walt Avatar

    No big deal R.Cross. Hillary and Bill got away with it. Funny how the Left gets all high and mighty , when their own was doing the same thing. Where was the bitch then?
    Gotta love the “ethics” slant. LIBS have none.

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  21. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    I had to wipe away tears from laughing about Pelosi’s super pac doing a poll in swing districts and they found 61% of working class voters hate the Dem brand. Additionally Trump has a 35% advantage on the economy in the same internal poll that was leaked. Snort, giggle, guffaw. Put that in you pipe and smoke ya’ po’ ol pollhead. 😉

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Got polled today on line

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Was it painful Todd? 😉

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  24. Walt Avatar

    I hate being right sometimes.
    https://www.axios.com/many-americans-are-too-drugged-out-to-work-2467304330.html
    OH Yaaa.. Legalizing weed was such a GREAT idea.

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  25. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Lets not forget Walt, its the Chinese who are responsible for the fentanyl and the Mexican cartels switched to heroin after CO. a few years ago. Strong boarders are a civil right and a federal obligation the President is working to fulfill. 😉

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  26. Walt Avatar

    Well, can’t banter with Steve. He has Chinese connections.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Wow a little restraint on the cut and past front from the eco warrior@ 628, saves space on the Dr.’s blog. Of course he does not want to discuss the plight of the dems in the states they need to hold seats. Thanks Pelosi pac for that poll. 😉

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  28. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: SteveF@6:28PM
    I suppose it depends what ‘socially xxxx’ means. My guess is that they throw a standard curve over the population in terms of some question, put a line in the middle, and then are flat amazed that half of them are above and half below.
    It’s kind of a good question. Does ‘socially liberal’ mean that gay marriage is recognized? or that you can put someone out of business for not selling a cake for a gay marriage? or that a man with a wig must be considered a female in the Marine Corps? Lotta axes on the chart.

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  29. Russ Avatar

    Another Dead Man Walking
    Imran Awan the DNC IT guy is walking around with the GPS tracker on his leg, and he is to stay within 50 miles of his residence. Anyone want to guess how long before he has a terrible accident, and will be unable to answer the questions we all want to be answered? Two weeks seems about right to me.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Don’t know about that Russ, He has family in ISIS territory he already gave the incriminating evidence too.
    (life insurance) That would give dirty Deb. reason for concern. (They can’t off the bastard.) Why do you think she is SO edgy?

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  31. Walt Avatar

    I see KVMR has a nice little get together. But where is ol’ Paul in the pics?
    Did they have the shindig knowing he would be in Portlandia?

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    In CA news: Things began to change in 2008.
    “Some observers have blamed the falling success rate on a dip in law school applications that has forced institutions to accept applicants who have not done as well academically.”
    She said the state Supreme Court may not want to lower the passing score permanently if the conclusion is that the decline in the pass rate is the result solely of a drop in qualified students.
    http://www.sltrib.com/home/5572939-155/california-considers-lower-bar-for-its

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  33. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Walt @ 8:45 pm.
    Judging solely by the two pics in The Union, I would say it is impossible to tell if Punchy was in attendance. All I saw was a whole bunch of old white guys with a limited number of over the hill groupie chicks here and there. They all kind of look alike to me, so maybe Punchy was there. Brought to mind the old expression “White on rice.”

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  34. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    I love it when mayors make federal policy.
    http://www.dailywire.com/news/19139/denver-tells-ice-stop-arresting-illegal-immigrants-james-barrett#
    Just one more indication that the Left never ever had any intention of enforcing national borders.

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  35. Scenery Avatar
    Scenery

    Truth,,,”But we conservatives mocked Barack Obama’s failure to deliver on his pledge to change the tone in Washington even as we worked to assist with that failure. It was we conservatives who, upon Obama’s election, stated that our No. 1 priority was not advancing a conservative policy agenda but making Obama a one-term president—the corollary to this binary thinking being that his failure would be our success and the fortunes of the citizenry would presumably be sorted out in the meantime. It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us. It was we conservatives who rightly and robustly asserted our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government when a Democrat was in the White House but who, despite solemn vows to do the same in the event of a Trump presidency, have maintained an unnerving silence as instability has ensued.” Conservative Senator Jeff Flake

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  36. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: Scenery@7:00AM
    While you can argue that Arizona simply needs to find a new Congressman as he seems to have been co-opted by the Borg, you have to give the Republicans some credit in that they don’t have an ex-President actively conspiring against the current one, didn’t aim the intelligence services at the competing party while in power, and didn’t unleash street violence for political advantage.
    I can’t say that sitting Republicans are too different than the swamp they live in, but they appear to have a modicum more decency than their supposed competitors.

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  37. Scenery Avatar
    Scenery

    “Meanwhile, the strange specter of an American president’s seeming affection for strongmen and authoritarians created such a cognitive dissonance among my generation of conservatives—who had come of age under existential threat from the Soviet Union—that it was almost impossible to believe. Even as our own government was documenting a con­certed attack against our democratic processes by an enemy foreign power, our own White House was rejecting the authority of its own intelligence agencies, disclaiming their findings as a Democratic ruse and a hoax. Conduct that would have had conservatives up in arms had it been exhibited by our political opponents now had us dumbstruck.” Jeffery Flake

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  38. Barry Pruett Avatar
    Barry Pruett
  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Russ, looks like the liars on Climate Change hoxers are from Australia too!
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/31/australia-weather-bureau-caught-tampering-with-climate-numbers/

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  40. Inge Bill Tozer Avatar
    Inge Bill Tozer

    According to the left wing blogs, Left wing sites, Alt-Left sites, and Media Matters, the arrest of the Pakastanian conman who had access to a whole bunch of Dem Congresspersons’ computers had nothing to do with Debbie Whatzername, the DNC, hacking, murder, or The Clintons. It’s all about bank fraud, nothing else. Just a bunch of fakenews conspiracy theories perpetrated by the fringe Great Right Wing Conspiratorial Fakenews peddalers. Nothing to see here. There is no there there.
    https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/07/28/Fringe-media-and-Fox-News-push-conspiracy-theories-regarding-arrested-former-House-IT-staf/217428
    Ok, blame Fox News. Obama did exactly that from the first month of his first term. Heck, they blamed Fox News for Gabby getting plugged….and Sarah Palin, and Rush, and….you know those types of dangerous bitter clingers….veterans, white rural po folks, Evangelicals, and Public Enemy #1….da Tea Party Patriots. They peddle fakenews!
    Then I read this. I am soooo confused. Don’t sound like no run of the mill bank fraud case to me. But, I could be wrong.
    http://amp.nationalreview.com/article/449983/debbie-wasserman-schultz-pakistani-computer-guys-bank-fraud?utm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED

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  41. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like the three E no’s on Ocare will get primariedhttps://ballotpedia.org/Senate_Conservatives_Fund by a PAC. Get that Murkowski out! Redo a run with the Tea Party guy.

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  42. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    22,000 almost there!

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  43. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: BillT@8:04AM
    Bank fraud? It’s easy enough to tell. Just pressure those people with serious jail time and ask for some names. Of course, you need investigators who aren’t firmly in the pocket of the Clintons & Friends, so that isn’t going to happen.

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  44. ScenesFromTheApocalypse Avatar
    ScenesFromTheApocalypse

    re: BillT@8:13AM
    It’s a good thing that it’s illegal to kill yourself.

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