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193 responses to “Sandbox – 16apr18”
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! What was mission? What did we accomplish?
I’m waiting for “Great job Brownie.”
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jons 233pm – For once, Mr smith, I totally agree with you. Miracle of miracles?
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In the “we ain’t no grifters and besides it’s taxpayer dollars anyway” category; It seems that Scott Pruitt broke the law by building a $43K sound proof phone booth in his office without getting congressional approval. This according to the GAO. Any idea what is Scott afraid someone is going to hear, maybe backroom deals with his oil buddies?
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/epa-gao-report_us_5ad4c289e4b077c89ceb3656
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I could be wrong, but this is what I think the message was for Assad. You are defenseless; we can turn your bedroom into a pile of rubble just like your research institute. As I recall, it was a missile through the palace bedroom window that got Gaddafi’s attention in Libia. Next time there will be no warming, and it will come in the middle of the night when you are least expecting it. Your Russian defense systems in no match for our smart weapons.
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Did mission accomplished? Who are we to say it wasn’t? They blew a few buildings up and if that was the mission, they then accomplished it.
Regarding Pruitt. He ans his family get a lot of death threats from the eco-warriors and global warming loons. And with all the leaks going on in the EPA with those “deep state” employees, I think his soundproof bubble is just fine. Maxwell Smart had the use of one so why not Scott?
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Gregory
Different polls have different methods. That’s why the RCP consensus poll is the most reliable overall look at public opinion. They were one point off in the Presidential general election polls in Nov 06. They called for Clinton 3.2. It ended up being Clinton 2.1, only 1.1 points off. Rasmussen uses likely voters most of the rest use registered voters (rv-lv). not sure what “A” means Gregory. Perhaps you could help me with that.
Any RCP was right on the number in ’16.
Interesting to note that all polls in the final ’96 were LV’s
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html
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Todd-
Do you truly think this wasn’t a coordinated spoof? No one was home at the secret poison plants? Not even a single security guard? No poison escaped from the facility? It was cleaned out. No missiles defenses deployed? Call me naive, but I’m not stupid. International eyewash, nothing more.
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that’s Nov ’16
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As if we didn’t know already –
“The idea of ‘domination’ seemed as much a half-serious, half-joking fantasy as a hard-set mission,” declared Losse, who added that eventually, “the idea of domination started to become plausible.”
“My worry began to deepen when, around this time, Zuckerberg began using the language of states to talk about Facebook’s burgeoning power,” Losse proclaimed.
According to the former speechwriter, Zuckerberg started to use slogans such as, “Companies over countries,” and would tell employees, “If you want to change the world, the best thing to do is to build a company.”
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/16/mark-zuckerbergs-ex-speechwriter-he-declared-domination-and-companies-over-countries-during-meetings/
😉
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,,,robert,,,, maybe little scotty pruitt saw too many GET SMART TV shows,,,
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,,,in the ”’what is trumpski hiding”’ department,,,trumpski is walking back nikki haley’s proposed sanctions,,,
,,,still dreaming about that moscow hotel trumpski???
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jon smith | 16 April 2018 at 03:49 PM
Where did you get that info?
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A nice example of modern political activism.
https://i.redd.it/4vnmcaejmas01.jpg
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TJ 4:42-
Give me a body count. I can’t recall when a body count isn’t soon released after any kind of public raid. As of now, official body count is a big fat goose egg after 3 disparate bombings that included over 120 missiles. If there have been casualties announced, I simply missed that in the news, and it is my bad.
If there had been a single person on the scene, I’m pretty sure we would have heard about it by now. From my perspective, it looks to have been pre-planned with all personnel evacuated and any poison gas receptacles removed in advance. Just a sneaking hunch.
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“it looks to have been pre-planned with all personnel evacuated and any poison gas receptacles removed in advance.”
What exactly would be the point in killing personnel and/or throwing a bunch of poison gas up in the air?
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little buddy Smith is probably right. The Syrians were moving their hardware to Russian bases and missles flew right over Russian heads to hit the targets. An attack on the Russian fleet or a Russian base or a group of Russians could be an act of war. Pearl Harbor, Fort Sumner stuff.
Missile strike, not a air strike (to ‘splain it to MSM and the far left pay TV cable outlets). Words and term conjure up images. Kinda important to be more precise, as in precision Missle strike. Sure, there might have been an air strike out in the sifting sand. Good target, the lab braincenter and R&D Center. The lab and building can be replaced, but never my favorite microscope. I loved that thing. They don’t make them anymore.
Was it last April we Swiss cheesed a runway that was up and running two hours later, as Punchy has often mocked?. Well, that was strike one.
What threat to our homeland does Syria pose to our nation that we would ATTACK them? Well, that is Strike 2.
I am only counting to 3. Dodged the war bullet and got 2 out of the 5 Pernament Members of the UN Security Council on board.
Or, maybe it was Wag the Dog. Maybe, maybe not. 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1297209920413042/?type=3&theater
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Well, this explains it.
https://i.imgur.com/tIvaMSN.jpg
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scenes 5:34
“What exactly would be the point in killing personnel and/or throwing a bunch of poison gas up in the air?”
The point is obvious, because no one got killed and no toxins were released.
Three HIGH VALUE targets destroyed and not a single casualty? Those targets were also high value to Syrian rebels and you can believe they were hardened to some degree and protected by defensive troops inside and out. Until a few hours before we destroyed them.
What was the mission? To save face.
What was accomplished? Nothing particularly strategic, but to those with blinders it looked like we accomplished something. Still waiting to hear what.
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jon smith | 16 April 2018 at 05:17 PM
Just as I thought, you made it up. Thanks for confirming. You and Jim Comey cut from the same cloth.
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,,,the 3 Stooges,,,,trumpski,,,,trumpski lapdog hannity,,,and fellow Playboy bunny humper and convicted Republican briber elliot broidy,,,
,,,,slimeball lawyer cohen’s only clients,,,
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,,,Comey,,,Rosenstein,,,Mueller,,,all Republicans,,,
,,,all thrown under the bus by trumpet meatheads,,,
,,,and trump whisperer Hannnity!!!
,,,,total douche!!!
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Talk about a Shithole. Can’t we just level the hellhole or something? Who wants take open sewer to be part of our new state? Anybody? Anybody want Frisco to be associated with Northern California?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Clean-up-San-Francisco-s-streets-tourist-12839281.php
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Marilyn, it just proves we are nonpartisan and we want what is right. You libs go to your grave defending your scofflaws and even promote them. We have the high groun=d bub.
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Anyone else read the little vignette in today’s Union about the prison riots on South Carolina? Apparently, the inmates used their cell phones to spread the riot. I was wondering how they are allowed a cellphone? Amazing.
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BillT go over and read this stuff.
https://www.theunion.com/news/local-news/sabrina-distura-returned-to-merced-county-jail-reports/
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,,,todd,,,total race baiter,,,sounds about right,,,oh my she has slanty eyes!!!
what an ass!!!
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Yeah Marilyn, Trump is toxic for sure. He has no friends, a wife that has to put up with daily humiliations as almost daily there is a new trump romp reported, the latest being a love child with kitchen help and Stormy and her lawyer out witting him at every turn.
It’s just a matter of time before the repubs jump ship. I guess that will likely be after the midterms. Here’s an example of how bad things look. In Arizona 8th District Special Election – Lesko vs. Tipirneni, the Dem os up by 1 in the Emerson Poll in a district that Trump carried by more than 20 points last election.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/house/az/arizona_8th_district_special_election_lesko_vs_tipirneni-6499.html
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Doug Keachie/Marilyn Lock-Heed
Your ellipses are using commas ,,, rather than decimal points …
You might want to find the point key… it’s probably just to the right of the key you keep using. I realize looking to the right might be difficult for you but give it a try.
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Trump is foing just fine Paul Emery. He is at 50% and climbing in the approval zone. The R’s will hold the House and the Senate and probably gain seats.
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Punchy 345pm
I saw this yesterday but when I sat down to respond, typepad was belly up.
“Different polls have different methods”
No Shite, Sherlock.
“That’s why the RCP consensus poll is the most reliable overall look at public opinion”
Not really. The RCP is all the numbers put into a blender which doesn’t get poured out very often.
“They were one point off in the Presidential general election polls in Nov 06. They called for Clinton 3.2. It ended up being Clinton 2.1, only 1.1 points off. Rasmussen uses likely voters most of the rest use registered voters (rv-lv). not sure what “A” means Gregory. Perhaps you could help me with that.”
I already did, Paul, but I’ll repeat myself: “A” means “All”. At least RV means that if a sample is entirely Democratic Party registrants, they claim to be citizens with voting rights.
“Any [sic] RCP was right on the number in ’16. Interesting to note that all polls in the final ’96 were LV’s”
Yes, it is. You see Paul, polling organizations want their final numbers in a campaign up to an election to match reasonably well with the reality of the election results, so in the final weeks and days, they tighten up their standards for tallying opinions, and compensating a bit for oversampling and undersampling of voting groups. By the last days of an election, all polls are on their best behavior… even the ones who are paid toadies for their guy or gal.
Right now, NONE of the polls included in the Presidential Approval blended number are Likely Voter polls, save Rasmussen, and your insistence on claiming the blended number is the cat’s PJs gold standard for polling is misguided at best BECAUSE only one of the polls is apparently trying to adjust for the mix one would get in an Election and that poll is the one you are throwing out as an outlier.
Think, Paul, think. Why is that?
Sometimes the truth is the outlier. There are a few polling orgs I tend to believe. Rasmussen is one, Pew is another, Gallup isn’t bad, but an opinion poll surveying All people (as their current polling of presidential approval is) needs to be taken with some very large grains of rock salt.
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Two faced Gorsuch should be jailed!
Tomorrow’s tweet today.
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js 1019am
Two faced? Goresuch?
He’s a Jeffersonian textualist, not a doctrinaire Republican. I found his opinion to be reasonable.
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Gregory-
Tell that to Trump. He’s a good listener.
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Gorsuch? Naw, he is fine. Ginsburg and Kagan need to go. And Breyer is the biggest liar. Appointed by GHW and then when seated becomes the biggest liar on the planet.Liberals are so phony.
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Todd, the “wise latina” Sotomayor has been in lockstep with Ginsberg and Kagan, has been identified as the hardest Left justice on the bench and in the top three of all time.
Kagan will probably outlive you, Todd. She was born in ’60 and has no health issues I’m aware of. Sotomayor is 63 and has lived with type 1 Diabetes since she was seven, so, you have half a chance of outliving her.
Sotomayor fell and broke her shoulder yesterday at home. Not sure if it’s her left wing or her right wing that is in a sling today.
I suspect, in hindsight, Ginsberg is wishing she had resigned in the summer of 2015. Perhaps Garland wishes it, too, though Garland, a Democrat, probably would have too moderate for left-liberals among Dem senators as a replacement for Ginsberg who is now probably close to her pull date. Another two years?
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RCP was right on the money on Nov 6. What has changed that would make them wrong today.
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punchy, 1130am
I anticipated that question, Punchy. I’LL REPEAT THE ANSWER FOR YOU, LOUDER THIS TIME:
YOU REPORTED ALL POLLS USED BY THE RCP AGGREGATION ON NOV 6th, 2016 WERE OF LIKELY VOTERS.
At this time, only Rasmussen reports their Presidential Approval poll is of LIKELY VOTERS.
DID YOU HEAR ME THIS TIME?
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Walt,
I am a day late and a dollar short. RIP gunny. Semper Fidelis, Ooh Ra.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1035056876644534/?type=3&theater
The resistance strikes back.
https://www.facebook.com/236428160266935/photos/p.240661576510260/240661576510260/?type=3&theater
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Toes, here’s a clip from Full Metal Jacket that was the introduction for most of us of “Gunny” R. Lee Ermey
https://youtu.be/3j3_iPskjxk
major snowflake warning!!!
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@12:21 pm
You are correct, sir. Gallup as well as most of the rest poll all voters, registered voters, or folks that say they are R’s, D’s, or Independents this far out before switching to likely voters in the waning days (month or less) before the election….with the exception of Rasmussen.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1035060103310878/?type=3&theater
Who was Alexander Graham Belloski? The first telephone pole as well as the inventor of the first telephone poll.
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I got that when you first posted it Gregory. Let me ask you this. Do you believe Trump is a popular President? According to you Rasmussen is the only poll that shows Trump reasonably breaking even so all the others must me wrong. I understand your point but there is other evidence that Trump is in the pits such as my citation of the Arizona special election which shows a Democrat sunning close to a Republican in a district that went 20 points for Trump in the last election. The Repubs are pooping their pants about that and having to spend much money on what was considered a sure thing. Sure things also crashed for the Pubsters in Alabama and Penn. We’ve been through that before so no need to dwell.
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Libs ALWAYS ignore the law of unintended consequences.( even when well warned)
Thanks Pigglet.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/04/16/report-hogg-advertiser-boycott-campaign-backfires-as-the-ingraham-angle-viewership-jumps-20/
Same thing happened with the NRA Membership WAY up,, donations WAY up.
The only one getting burned are butthurt Proggys, and the advertisers who got bullied into yanking their ads. (Delta, the biggest loser)
When will Lefties ever learn? ( this coming election? You clowns are great at counting ballots long before they are cast.)
All is not lost,(yet) Proggys might have their young’ns out “inspecting” mailboxes for forgotten ballots..(EVERY residence gets one.. What could possibly go wrong?) Just to help them find their way back to the ballot box.
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punchy 210pm
If you got that the first time, Paul, why the hell did you challenge me with “what changed?, indicating to me you slept through my prior post.
I’ve every reason to believe Trump is recently hovering in the high 40% range, from maybe 46% to 51%, among likely voters. That’s LV in the RCP parlance.
While I don’t particularly care for Trump, the schadenfreude I get from observing the seething set who can’t see straight through the fog of their hate is often delightful.
How does the song go?
“Schadenfreude Goetterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium.
Wir betreten, Feuertrunken, Himmlische dein Heiligtum…”
🙂
I also have every reason to think that the average “progressive” DEM absolutely hates Trump, including the mindless haters who challenged everyone here who didn’t believe Trump should be hounded from office and thrown in jail for being a traitor, collaborating with Putin to throw the election, as traitors themselves.
Incredible how single minded hate has taken over the party of enlightenment.
When a Republican with the baggage carried by the Alamaba senate candidate runs against a reasonable Dem, no one should be surprised with a loss. And they guy who won the special election in Penn. would be a GOP candidate in Taxachusetts. Maybe even California, compared to the last three winners here.
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Gregory
What criteria do pollsters use in determining someone is a likely voter?
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@ 2:37 pm. Oh my, they just get more and more crazy. I did not think that could be possible.
Trump is an unpopular Prez? Really? You don’t say, duh.
Kermit the Frog could have beaten Roy Moore. In fact, Jones said we should all slow down on this anti-gun crusade and think where it is heading, ie, almost warning that the same people who said we can keep our doctors are saying we can keep our guns. A pro life Democrat (is there such a thing allowed in the Big Tent Party?) won in PA.
Local congressional candidates win or lose on their appeal to the local voters and local issues, not merely who the Speaker of the House or President is. There is such a thing as coattails, but it ain’t the only thing.
As of today, I would give the Blue Wave better than a 50% chance of winning back the House. The pendulum is in constant motion and swings both ways. The only constant in life in change. With that said, there are not a lot of R congressional candidates who are running from Trump, but a hell of a lot D’s in swing states that are begging the D leadership to stay the gluck away. Only need a shift of 23 out of…what, something like 435 seats. That is doable for the Dems. A 60 member swing is even double at this moment in time. The Senate? Not likely.
If the Dems win the House, they will start impeachment proceedings. Draw up some charges with 50% plus one vote and send it for trail in the Senate, which requires 2/3 to convict. Ain’t ever going to happen. But, who cares. The Leftist have been foaming at the mouth to get revenge for impeaching Bubba for a long time. They can almost taste it now.
I love it when the Leftists get their juices flowing and start making pronouncements of massive sweeping victories, sweeping the land and finally total annihilation of the R’s to the point they will never rise out of the dust again. Thy have already begun to tell us exactly how it is going to be, the mass extinction of not only the R’s, but of the right and especially those conservatives. Get those dreams soaring ever higher and higher. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Warms the cockles of me weary heart.
See, the Lefties alway forget the advice of Walter Winchell:
“It pays to be nice to the people you meet on the way up, for they are the same people you meet on the way down.”
It is a weird quirk of human nature (especially of the extreme far left as well as stock market watchers) that when things are going badly, they always make it out to be worse than things actually are. And when things are goong good, they think it will always be that way forever.
What goes up, must come down, usually at a faster speed in descent. Watch out below, the Blue Wave is coming!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VNtsVP42bOE.
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Here ya go ya po’ ol’ pollhead –
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/17/backfire-plurality-now-want-james-comey-prosecuted-leaks/
😉
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Well Tom Brady is a dead ringer for the sketch and I know he was tight with the president I am sure he was not doing enforcer work for him. Perhaps ol’ stripper stormy was just having a po’ ol’ fakenewsman like fantasy!
http://toofab.com/photos/tom-brady-and-7-other-stars-that-could-have-threatened-stormy-daniels/
😉
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@ Paul’s 3:00,,, They answered the phone. DAMN Paul,, forget again so soon? I TOLD YOU just the other week I got polled. YES by a PHONE CALL. Question #1. ” Are you likely to vote?”
“criteria” enough for you?
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In the “do what you are told, boy, or we release the piss tapes” category..trump tricked everyone, even those in his own party, by reversing his decision to place new sanctions on Russia. Nikki Haley had said when asked whether Assad’s patrons will see any consequences in the wake of a horrific chemical weapons attack in Syria, “And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used.” In other words, the sanctions would on on corporations that sold chemical weapons related products to Syria. Now, oops!! No sanctions!! After the Kremlin denounced the sanctions as “international economic raiding,” trump changed his mind because, according to Haley,”he was not yet comfortable” with executing them as yet. He will probably get comfortable only after his Ruskie buddies dump their stock or never. Didn’t Mueller say the Ruskies could have information that would allow them to blackmail trump? Connect the dots is the new game in town.
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The gross ignorance of the cross one keeps shining on. Notice how much of that is a recycle on the last sanctions he said were not going to happen then miraculously the russians got hammered.
😉
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