[Time to revisit the national education scene with the just published critique Common Core by Nicholas Tampio (review here), and also enjoy the comedy of ‘Doomsday Climate Scenarios Are a Joke’ by Oren Cass (more here). Of course we can also re-circle the Trump and Stormy imbroglio a few more times. gjr]
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242 responses to “Sandbox – 12mar18”
Yes 😉
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Posted by: jon smith | 13 March 2018 at 10:15 PM
Charming as always!
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Getting fired by Trump is the new Red Badge of Courage that shows the world you are not the average meat head and are willing to let your conscience be your guide – not some moron (something Tillerson never denied calling Trump).
As CEO of Exxon Tillerson must not have been fired too many times on his way up the corporate ladder – now he can add “Fired by Trump” to his resume. What a hoot!
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Forget about Coattails Don. Republicans have to deal with the new reality of Don the Magician, who can make a 20-point edge disappear in a New York minute.
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Xeno 736am – And in what circles is your assigning Tillerson that “red badge” celebrated?
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All politics is local. Bad candidates at any level gt beat. Lamb was more moderate and won by 700 votes. Saccone was not sexy enough. Oh well.
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George, the red badge is celebrated in all sentient, non-meathead circles.
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Well, the Dems have shown how to win.
1) Lamb ran on the promise he would not vote for Peloski for Speaker of the House/House Minority Leader. Very wise move.
2).Lamb is pro-gun. Very wise and knows his district well.
3). Lamb avoided taking the bait about Trump, avoided talking about Trump. Went to great lengths to avoid mentioning Trump. Fantastic strategy.
4) Lamb ran on pro-manufacturing. US manufacturing that is.
5) Lamb is more moderate right than Lindsay Graham, Mc Cain, and Corker. Hard to find anything wrong with Lamb as the district was offered a choice of Right and Right.
Good strategy.
Doug Jones in Alabama ran on the promise to not impeach Trump. The Dems are coming up with a good strategy…..move to the Right, flee from the Far Laft. It may work.
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Xeno 901am – Ah yes, another ephemeral non-answer relying on ad hominems to substitute for substance. So I take it that your continued presence in this ‘meathead circle’ represents the expression of some sort of progressive missionary zeal to enlighten the more benighted among us, or did you just lose a bet.
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So it begins
Armed teacher injures 3 students when he accidentally fires gun during firearm safety lesson
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/armed-teacher-injures-3-students-accidentally-fires-gun-firearm-safety-lesson/
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 March 2018 at 09:17 AM
Interesting! Might be better at this point to just start winding down the existing public school model! It’s outdated and wasteful!
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With the Repubs losing the 20 point edge they had in the last election in Penn you’d better believe Trump won’t be invited to the party this fall. Midterms look bleak
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Posted by: Paul Emery | 14 March 2018 at 09:26 AM
…….yawn.
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I recall Obama being shunned at all the elections as well. All politics are local and it matters not if a R or D is in the oval orifice. The recount might change the outcome but regardless this district is kaput under the Penn redistricting model.
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Paul 9:26 – Midterms look bleak? Not for Todd and Bessee, who have never seen a right wing loss they can’t rationalize as a win.
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LIBs will just produce enough absentee ballots to win. They did it in Ca,, they can do it there.
The old “by any means necessary” is alive and well.
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I recall all those libs telling us in 2010 the Tea Party was a big nothing. And they lost 63 seats. Delusional liberals like Ms. JoeSmith need to stay off the drugs.
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Oh course Lamb won. He is pro-life, supports tariffs, and 100% agrees with Trump and moi that we don’t need more gun laws, we need to enforce the ones on the books. What is there not to like about the 33 year old Marine that proscueted law breakers before he tossed his hat into politics?
Trump not invited to the Party? Well, internal R polls, internal D polls, and other polls showed Lamb up 5-7 until Trump showed up on the last weekend before the PA election and the lead suddenly collapsed overnight. Tight race, no doubt.
As long as the Dems run more pro life, pro gun, pro law and order candidates who are trying to make America great again, it will bode well for the Democrat Party. Very well.
Of course Trump was not on the ballot and any hint of Hillary orThe Far Left was mssing. No where to be found. In fact, the entire Hillary- Peloski-Shummer stank was missing from the ballot as well. Looks like we do it all over again come November.
Speaking of Hillary, I noticed she is still blasting those backward Red States. Hmm. Albeit Pennsylvania is a blue state, she said look at the map where she lost and there are the folks who believe that blacks should not get ahead, women are put in their place, and xenophobia run amok. She was talking about Lamb voters, I reckon. Those clingers must be part of her Vast Russian Conspiracy.
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Bill- I’m largely with you on this one. Give me a law and order, pro guns (at least not knee jerk ant-gun), pro environment, and more raise-em-by-their-bootstraps social programs rather than handouts, and I don’t care the label. He’ll get my vote. I’m not so thrilled by his anti-choice stance though.
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Hillary
Read late last night that Hillary sprained her wrist when she tried to steady herself on the stairs during her slip. No biggie. But what grabbed my attention and concern is that because of her sprained wrist, she is taking several days off her schedule in India and canceling her appearances peddling her riveting best selling book.
This is what has me so deeply alarmed and worried sick. I have had a sprain or two in my time. I would say other readers have had sprained wrists or thumbs before. It would be apples and oranges to compare Hillary’s sprained wrist with a sprain on a big strapping hunk of toxic male masculinity such as this humble commentator.
I have seen, talked to, and been served by quite a few female waitresses, delivery gals, cashiers, or even hostesses with sprained wrists. Not uncommon. In fact, it’s a nice conversation piece.
So, if all these women (including my aged mother, God rest her soul) had sprained wrists and kept doing what they were doing, why is Hillary taking days off to recover from a sprained wrist?????? It’s not like she is scrubbing floors (like my dear mother) or digging ditches, or chopping wood. All she has to do is show up and speak….while sitting down.
I fear with much nervous anxiety that My Gal may have something seriously wrong with het. What a brave soul to keep it hidden and soldiering on as if it’s only a little “sprained wrist”. Opps, she isn’t soldiering on right now. Can’t. Oh my. Something is seriously wrong with My Gal. This disquiets me greatly. Get well soon, I’m with her. Alas.
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Nail that swamp creature!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/14/sessions-mulling-firing-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe-before-retires.html
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It looks like she sprained her brain at the same time BT –
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/14/hillary-clinton-criticized-by-fellow-dems-for-trashing-female-trump-voters.html
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Don @ 11:49 am
Well, if Hillary is correct and she is favored by those who are “looking forward” and blames those repulsive males for her humiliating loss……it explains the SJWs in academia in addition to the Deep Deep Blueist of Blue States’s politicans war on boys. Blame toxic masculinity. Now, if they can get those rambunctious young men’s minds right with proper thinking, then Hillary will win n 2020 or 2046! I’m with Her!
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Dr. Rebane and Scenes:
I have been stuck on labels since your brief exchange on March 13, 12:20 pm. It’s haunted me. “Something deeper, it’s deeper”
Ok, here is the only explanation my pea brain has come up with: “Burn it down.” Yep, Burn it down. The Democratic Socialists don’t want our history and hate our “content of character” culture. Individualism and Liberty is what stands in the way…two things that must not be chipped away at like a slab of marble in the sculptor’s studio, but destroyed. No remnants to remain. Burn it down and you stand in the way. It all has to go.
Burn it down and the brave new social order will arise out of chaos. Yep, it’s deeper. Much deeper than hurling labels of racists and White Priveledge. We are the enemy and the only thing standing in their way. To eliminate the blockage, we must be dehumanized. Then it’s easier to destroy us and ship our sorry asses off to the Gulag. .
“My own rough approximation is that what we are seeing is a battle between Western Civilization and some other force of chaos, best defined as being anti-Western. I wouldn’t bother about getting wrapped up in gun rights, abortion, tax law, free speech, etc. It’s something deeper.
Posted by: Scenes | 13 March 2018 at 12:20 PM
George Rebane
Scenes 1220pm – Yes it is something deeper.
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BillT 1245pm – Quite true Mr Tozer, and that ‘something deeper’ is what RR’s ideological effort is all about. And thank you for your continuing contributions to the discussion.
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It is funny that GeorgeR brings up ad hominem attacks when he feels they are directed at him or his ilk, yet statistically, he and his ilk are the primary movers of ad hominem mudslinging.
BillT – Something deeper? Who are the democratic socialists? Democratic Socialists of America Corp.? Are they a major force in not-Right politics?
http://www.dsausa.org/constitution
Check out the American Nazi party here for something deeper also,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DscOydV6R0&bpctr=1521060102
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Xeno 115pm – You continue to amaze and satisfy. What evidence of an ad hominem attack by me on you do you have Mr Xeno?
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“xeno” might care to look in a mirror. Yaa,,, that’s who.
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Oh no….Xeno is quite correct….. we hurl ad hominem constantly! But knowing what you know about them isn’t his complaint really that we just got better at it then they?! Posters here used to try and engage them with facts and reasonable arguments and really got little more than lefty smug and ostentatious virtue signaling in return!
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Nikki Haley is toast. How dare she accuse Trump’s campaign team of using nerve gas? You heard it here first. She (and Kelly) better be watching their Twitter feeds.
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That’s about as lame as a snowflake gets @ 155-
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/nikki-haley-warns-russia-could-use-chemical-weapons-in-new-york
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Boy, Trump has a huge grin going today. Very happy man. He just watched the footage of Lamb leading a group of supporters through the streets chanting, “Lock her up, lock her up”.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1015924515224437/?type=3&theater
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With all the saber rattling going on, and so many of our taxes being diverted from health, science, and education and redirected toward military expenditures, I find it perplexing that aerospace and defense stocks would be tanking.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/aerospace-and-defense-stocks-flirt-with-worst-week-in-years
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Well its a good place to protest if its raining.
https://knco.com/ghidotti-students-hold-small-anti-gun-violence-event/
About half-a-dozen held signs under the marquee of the Del Oro Theatre in Grass Valley.
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UH OH, don’t tell gov moonbeam or we are next!
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/14/french-baker-fined-3700-for-working-too-much/
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Don, did Occupy Broad Street Bridge show up?
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Karma is a bitch, a bitch with patience –
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/14/man-who-claimed-cremated-natalee-holloway-killed-while-attempting-kidnapping-police-say.html
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Hummmmm… No Rancher Bundy style help from fellow growers..
Did’t his rights just get violated?
No yapping the FEDS have no right?
https://www.theunion.com/
“A Nevada City man accused of having $1 million worth of suspected marijuana and pot plants has been transferred into the custody of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said.”
Jerry Brown is going to be pissed. At 60% taxation,, well that’s gotta sting.
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Nothing to see here, move along, move along people –
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/14/watch-whistleblower-says-illegal-aliens-have-taken-over-every-trade-in-ca-construction-driven-down-u-s-wages/
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The results of weak governments, hmmmm what does that remind you of….
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/03/14/gangs-block-roads-with-burning-cars-in-western-mexico.html
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While I am at it here is a fly in some peoples rancid Russian dressing, a reality flying in the face of po’ ol’ fakenewsmen and co. –
http://www.businessinsider.com/russia-navy-frigates-mediterranean-threatening-us-strike-2018-3
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Wow
From one of the big time Republican fundraisers, Tim Davis
A Republican former congressman who used to lead the House committee to elect more GOP members to Congress said Wednesday that the party has expected wins like Conor Lamb’s in Pennsylvania for months.
“They’ve seen this coming,” Tim Davis, a Virginia Republican who led the National Republican Congressional Committee, told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd.
“It’s a different kind of year,” the former congressman said of Lamb’s win in a district that voted for President Donald Trump by nearly 20 points more than Hillary Clinton in 2016.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/former-gop-fundraising-head-republican-seats-particularly-vulnerable-democrats-2018-trump/
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So the po’ ol’ putin party parrot says running as a centrist or a conservative is a winning formula @919, that’s blasphemy in Nevada City! God, guns and pro-business, well that’s a refreshing change from the doldrums of team 0! I will take some blue dogs but somehow I think that they won’t get any money from team Farrakhan, Ellison, Pelosi, Sousour et al going forward.
Just sayin’ 😉
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Lamb is a pro 2nd Amendment, anti-abortion Democrat who doesn’t like Pelosi. Paul and friends in California would run him out of town on a rail were his doppelganger to move into town and try to run as a DEM.
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Lamb is almost a Deplorable. Probably a White Supremacist Bible thumping Gun toting clinger.
At a rally Sunday night, United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts came out hard for Lamb, calling him “a God-fearing, union-supporting, gun-owning, job-protecting, pension-defending, Social Security-believing, health care-creating and sending-drug-dealers-to-jail Democrat.”
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“Your Right to Free Speech, Like My Right to Self-Defense, Isn’t Open to Debate
Rallying to call for restrictive laws is a whole lot easier than getting people to submit to them.”
http://reason.com/archives/2018/03/14/your-right-to-free-speech-like-my-right
Oh, and beware the Ides of March.
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re: Gregory – “Paul and friends in California would run him out of town on a rail” referring to Lamb
This I don’t doubt. I guess what you are seeing is a hard right swing by parts of the Democratic party rather than the typical midterm swing of the electorate generally.
The California story is different. Since these groups always fission over time, I would expect for there to be a coastal white liberal (D) party and a Latino one as the years progress. Since the Democratic dominance is near-total in this state (which accounts for the utopia we find ourselves in), it’s probably about time for the party itself to split into it’s major interest groups.
It could be that part two of that is for the coastal white liberals (CWLs?) to break camp and move to Idaho, but the attraction to the beach and good weather is a strong pull. Hopefully they can keep their good deeds restricted to sunny CA and not spread the magic elsewhere by the millions.
Anyone listen to CoastToCoast last night? That was some funny stuff. A ‘debate’ between a somewhat pro-Trump John Curtis and Green Libertarian Howard Bloom. The first guy answered questions, the second guy always responded with incredibly long riffs about the 17 intelligence agencies and Trumps son in law and Russia and and and. It’s all starting to sound like a crazy conspiracy theory, which is ironically 99% based on Russians leaking HRCs evil doings. Somehow her sketchiness is always lost in the mix.
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Lamb suppports a woman’s right to choose, universal background checks, wouldn’t vote for Pelosi, thinks the tax cuts were a give away to the rich. He does not really sound like a RINO.
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“He does not really sound like a RINO.”
I won’t say that, but he sure doesn’t sound like most Democrats I’ve heard lately…and he aint’ feeling the Bern.
He’s against any new gun restrictions. Supports the new proposed tariffs (is that an R or D position?). Opposes abortion but goes with the Supreme Court decisions, ie. he doesn’t have an opinion. Supports tax cuts for the middle class and is against any new deficit. Appears to be somewhat neutral on healthcare (will work with anybody blah blah blah).
This is per CNN.
Honestly, this just looks like someone who let the polls choose their philosophy. He is better looking than his opponent though.
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I sure hope ICE will make an example out of this illegal.
AND those who allowed it to happen.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/15/california-appoints-illegal-alien-state-office/
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