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Sandbox – 16apr18

[Well, the topics du jour are Comey and Cohen,…, well OK, throw in the Syria attack, lame as it was.  gjr]

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193 responses to “Sandbox – 16apr18”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    RCross sez:
    “Didn’t Mueller say the Ruskies could have information that would allow them to blackmail trump? ”
    Come on, be logical about this. I’d say that there’s a near certainty that all sides have enough on each other to cause a form of intelligence MAD at any time. Putin’s bank accounts, Big Bill’s trips to the Island of Young Girls, a few decades of sketchy payoffs in New York by the Trump organization, GRU interviews with the guys kneeling before Saint Obama at Man’s Country in Chicago, Russian oligarch financial doings, Miss Hillary’s influence peddling complete with audio tapes.
    I know it’s tough, but I wouldn’t get so excited about the mere thought of some Trump info release. If anything, we all need to get more forgiving about the chicanery of our lords and masters. There’ll be a boatload of private information sleazing into the mainstream from here on, including perhaps your own.

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  2. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    They just keep getting crazier and crazier.
    “Women are dying because we are losing elections.” —DNC Deputy Chief Keith Ellison
    “People will rot in hell for besmirching the reputation, the integrity and the professional history of [Comey and Mueller].” —Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT)
    “I’m so furious I can barely write this email. President Trump is inches away from firing Robert Mueller and derailing the entire Russia investigation. … I need a MASSIVE 24-hour fundraising surge to send [Republicans] a powerful message: If they let Trump fire Mueller, we’ll kick each and EVERY one of them out of office.” —a Nancy Pelosi fundraising email deceptively titled, “Mueller FIRED”

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  3. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    While team lefty is spewing its vomitus rhetoric we are getting some s%^t done in the real world –
    WASHINGTON/PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State nominee and CIA Director Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea over the Easter weekend and met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-u-extremely-high-level-talks-north-001402724.html
    A peace treaty between the North and the South under discussion!?!?! You could have gotten better odds on that happening than Trump winning!
    😉

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ah, the new history textbooks are out.
    —The textbook concludes that Trump’s political positions and views are “not-very-hidden racism.”
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/55398-ap-us-history-textbook-promotes-leftist-bias

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The end of the wonton technology transfers under team 0 –
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-17/u-s-ban-risks-leaving-china-s-rising-tech-star-half-dead?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=bd&utm_campaign=headline&cmpId=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo
    😉

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Religious wars
    https://patriotpost.us/articles/55375-the-left-hates-chick-fil-a-because-of-christianity
    Article VI of the U.S. Constitution provides, “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office of public Trust under the United States.”
    “This is essentially imposing a religious test on officers of the United States, something explicitly forbidden by Article VI of the Constitution,” added Eastman….
    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/04/15/sen-booker-violating-constitution-voting-pompeo-religious-beliefs/

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scary tee shirt sez…”I will control my guns, You control your kids”
    “I cannot believe how the media has convinced so many people that guns are scary,” he told the website. “This lady was having a literal panic attack.”
    He added, “I love my shirt. I’ll probably order more just so I can wear them every day I’m off of work.”
    https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/04/16/woman-calls-cops-on-man-playing-with-his-kids-at-park-because-she-was-afraid-of-his-pro-gun-shirt?utm_content=buffer6e5fa&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=theblaze

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  8. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 300pm
    “What criteria do pollsters use in determining someone is a likely voter?”
    Why are you asking me, Paul? Isn’t it bloody well enough that all polls used by the RCP aggregation switched to LV before the ’16 election and as a result, they came real close to reality?

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  9. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sorry Don
    Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump told Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner that the President will support efforts to protect states’ that have legalized marijuana, according to a statement from Gardner released Friday.
    “Late Wednesday, I received a commitment from the President that the Department of Justice’s rescission of the Cole memo will not impact Colorado’s legal marijuana industry,” Gardner said in a statement. “Furthermore, President Trump has assured me that he will support a federalism-based legislative solution to fix this states’ rights issue once and for all.”
    https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/marijuana-colorado-white-house-cory-gardner-trump/index.html

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  10. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Emery?
    Every?
    Every?
    Every?
    You dodged my 1013pm.

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  11. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    1). Odd that @ 10:49 pm would suddenly out of the blue believe Trump after posting hundreds of times that Trump is a LIAR, LIAR, LIAR,. Can’t believe anything he says, The Liar-in-Chief, right? But, pot is different, I reckon.
    Oh no, Trump is going to send the Feds to arrest every grower in them thar hills who are just trying to provide for their families! What about States rights? The sky is falling. Trump is a liar. And you guys call yourselves conservatives.
    Whatever…….
    2). In other news concerning the passing of Barbara Bush, I am so glad I will never meet this woman. It’s who they are, through and through.
    Jarrar continued, writing: “PSA: either you are against these pieces of shit and their genocidal ways or you’re part of the problem. that’s actually how simple this is. I’m happy the witch is dead. can’t wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise the way 1.5 million iraqis have. byyyeeeeeeee.”
    sweetie i work as a tenured professor. I make 100K a year doing that. i will never be fired. i will always have people wanting to hear what i have to say. even you are one of them! ❤ https://t.co/AMx9onyMD9
    — Randa Jarrar (@randajarrar) April 18, 2018
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/29564/fresno-state-professor-celebrates-barbara-bushs-ryan-saavedra

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  12. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    yesseriiieee bill,,,gotta love that free speech,,,dint know that fresno was such a hotbed of political activism!!!!

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  13. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Your kind of teacher, Keach?

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  14. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT@5:48AM
    Nothing to see, move along.
    http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-fresno-professor-paid-leave-20170419-story.html
    I wonder what Victor Hanson thinks of his ex-coworkers.
    It’s worth considering whether public university liberal arts is savable. These articles are scarcely worth posting given how much craziness there is. There may be a bit of economic pressure to rid schools of non-academic subjects, I can’t imagine too many students are happy with their Latina Studies degree in terms of student loans.
    The Green Libertarians aren’t going to justify behavior at universities, so it makes for a poor subject for argument. It’s the kind of millstone hung ’round their neck that the KKK is for the Right. Of course, there’s a multitude of insane college professors being paid from the public till for proper indoctrination of the young while the KKK makes up a couple of thousand marginalized poor people.

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  15. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,oh dear,,,roger stone on babs bush,,,such disrespect from a trumper!!!
    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/roger-stone-disses-barbara-bush-nasty-drunk-news-132928624.html

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  16. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,the rich are loving their trumper tax breaks!!!
    https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/bella-gigi-hadid-did-coachella-222218957.html

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  17. Marillyn Lock-Heed Avatar
    Marillyn Lock-Heed

    ,,,trumpksi has lost all credibility!!! from nikki haley fiasco,,,comey comments,,,stormy,,,
    trumpski is an immature old man,,,concerned about ”’hand size”’ ,,, obsessed with large breasts,,, makes shit up all the time,,, a 13 year old stuck in a 70 year old body,
    wasnt there a movie with a similar plot,,,Bigly???!!!!
    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-comey-trump/trump-contradicts-himself-over-comey-firing-idUSKBN1HP1O9

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  18. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    This is genius:
    http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=58274
    More school news:
    https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local-education/texas-state-student-president-connor-clegg-removed-from-office/CauVaR483vu9E7G2lzLD1O/
    “Clegg faces impeachment charges related to threats he made to de-fund the school newspaper following the publication of a controversial column on whiteness called “Your DNA is an abomination.””
    and to keep Paul interested.
    https://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/Daniels-Thug-Sketch-Has-Some-Pointing-at-Lookalike-Celebs-480019833.html
    https://dr35ey0x3otoq.cloudfront.net/uploads/default/original/3X/c/5/c5738f7ce62055e8f42200492442356d915d36dc.png

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  19. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    more on the abomination DNA:
    https://cdni.rt.com/files/2017.12/article/5a222f3dfc7e9398798b4567.jpg
    https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59aef3bacd39c38dabcb0dc2/t/5a26a3270d9297bd22e47dc3/1512481575990/Opinion%2BColumn%2B%239.pdf
    and just to show that nothing is sacred anymore:
    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/students-triggered-by-steve-martins-king-tut-on-snl/article/2640679

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  20. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    RE your 11:58
    I already noted that. I used the comparison to the 2016 presidential poll to verify the veracity of the consensus process RCP uses. This is a job approval poll in a non election year. There is no election happening that they may “likely” vote on at this time. Sorry you’re confused. Hope I helped you out.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, now the sudden interest in polling techniques and metrology yesterday makes sense. If the Left does not like the results, attack the messenger.
    “It is not just television pundits who mock Rasmussen’s divergent results. Coombs recalled that Lanny Davis, a longtime friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, sent him a nasty email three days before the 2016 election asking if Rasmussen was going to apologize for getting the race so wrong and skewing the RealClearPolitics average.
    “We have not heard a word from Lanny ever since Trump was elected and we were proven right,” he said.
    Coombs said Rasmussen conducts polls more or less the same way it did when Barack Obama was president, except for adding more cellphone users.
    “In many instances, we had Obama, his favorables, higher than some of the other pollsters did,” he said. “And, of course, they didn’t complain about that.”
    https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/rasmussen-defends-design-amid-allegations-of-pro-trump-bias/
    Speaking of Lanny Davis, he will always first, foremost, and forever be a FOB at heart and, by default, a Friend of Hillary.
    Marilyn will love this and agree wholeheartedly. He called him a narcissist and a liar!
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/15/clinton-james-comey-lying/
    .

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  22. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Just like all liberals, Paul Emery cites poll after poll to deride Trump but when the worm turns against him he is now an expert in why that doesn’t matter. You cannot make that stuff up.

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  23. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Gregory
    Also note that the Rasmussen poll shows only 33% “strongly approve” of Trumps job performance which is the likely size of his shrill right base of supporters and is pretty dismal.
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

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  24. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Sorry you’re having trouble following the conversationn Todd. Easier for you to talk about your infatuation with Melania and how you’e like to date her.

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  25. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Well, I knew that somehow Meuller and the unhinged Leftynistas would find a way to tie Stormy into the Russian Collusion narrative. I did not know how, but I knew they would try. A no brainer.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1035660006584221/?type=3&theater

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  26. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    “I already noted that.” — Punchy
    How is “What criteria do pollsters use in determining someone is a likely voter?” ‘already noted that’ in my challenge of why are you asking me how they determine it?
    It’s a job approval poll in a non election year (except it is… for all of the House and a third of the Senate) … of people who are likely voters in the next election, and the election after that. People who vote. If they’re young without a track record of voting/not voting, they could ask “are you looking forward to voting in November?”. It’s polling, not Rocket Science.
    Sorry you’re confused. Hope I helped you out.

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  27. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LIBS still trying to get that indoctrination going.
    http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/17/ap-us-history-textbook-christians-conservatives-racists/
    ““The Angry Election of 2016,” describes Trump supporters as “mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white.” It also calls Trump supporters from Hillary Clinton supporters’ perspective “people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender, and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history.”

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  28. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Just made a comment on the Black Lives Matter article in the Union. Honest to goodness these people are nuts.

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  29. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Paul Emery | 18 April 2018 at 09:05 AM
    Why thanks but I don’t date married women even though they want to. That Melania is a beauty and Trump is a stud. And you are not.

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  30. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Thanks Gregory
    Non election year for President that’s why it is an unnecessary filter for a job approval poll. The current Rasmussen is not a voter preference poll. That comes later.
    Thats what we do Gregory. We help each other out.

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  31. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Trump’s numbers are better than Obama’s at the same time.

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  32. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    In what poll Todd?

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  33. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    punchy 936am
    A job approval poll of people who are likely to vote in Trump’s first midterm, widely seen as a referendum on… Trump. Even by you.
    You’re welcome, Paul. Always happy to rub your nose in it.

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  34. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    that should have read punchy 932am

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  35. jon smith Avatar
    jon smith

    Todd 9:29
    “I don’t date married women”
    But it’s ok to cheat on married women if they happen to be married to you?
    “The party of family values is proud of you.”

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  36. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Keeping moving the goalposts there. Gone from approval ratings….don’t like the results, then make it strong approval. Nothing wrong with making lemonade out of lemons.
    The pollster I watch is Pat Caddell. He follows sentiment. I remember 3 weeks out he was saying that the anger at Washington has not gone anywhere, but is not showing up in the polls. That anger in a nutshell was simple, yet behind the reason we have a President Trump instead of a president Hillary Clinton: A goodly percentage of the American people feel the country is moving in the wrong direction and for the first time in his polling experience, the growing belief that the voters will leave the country worse off for their children than they were handed to by their parents. That belief has always been shared by a small minority, but grew in 2012, 2014, 2015, and by July of 2016 it reached heights that we (he) have never seen before, including the Great Depression. In effect, the American Dream was dead to a growing percentage of the electorate. Unheard of as each generation felt it was their duty to pass off a better America to the next generation.
    More than three weeks out and that sentiment was not showing up in the national polling, albeit it was surfacing in some states. Pat was scratching his head. Three weeks out and it was a done deal according to all the other polls. Over.
    The Huff-n-Puff Post gave Trump a 7% chance of winning, or was that 3% or was that the NYT? 5-38 was crucified as a heretic for giving Trump a 29% chance and three weeks out, the Hillary Campaign stopped polling. Just waiting for the fat lady to sing. Then, the sentiment started showing up Cadell’s polling as movement and Trump knew he had Michigan, but the polling gurus did not have a clue. In fact they mocked and ridiculed Trump for even campaigning in Michigan, lol. What is he thinking, he does not have a clue that it’s a waste of time! How naive can he be? Yeah, tell it to the hand.
    Comey did not cause Hillary to lose. All Comey did was to get those off the fence and make their already pre-determined decision sooner than holding back until the last second. The sentiment of America moving in the wrong direction, nay, that America is in decline did not go anywhere, Coney or no Comey. He just solidified that sentiment.
    33% strongly approve is within the margin of error of that steady line of 36-42% Trump approval rate which is a constant. That is all he needed in 2016.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xnmHknA2sEM
    More on Pat. Pat likes to quote his former foe, the former Democrat Ronald Reagen,
    “ I did not leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me.”—R. Reagen and P Caddell.
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanmichaelsmith/the-man-who-predicted-the-rise-of-donald-trump-in-1976?utm_term=.qjVz1DAvrx#.igZxzK9GRr
    Keep you nose buried in those polls. I look at sentiment, those long simmering feelings that build for years.

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Wow
    trump down 15.6 Favorable/Unfavorable RCP consensus poll
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/trump_favorableunfavorable-5493.html

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  38. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    That’s all we need. Holding steady as she goes

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  39. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    jon smith | 18 April 2018 at 10:56 AM
    Your transgenderist medicines are affecting your brain.
    Paul Emery, Rassmussen has Trump even.

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  40. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Ok, bury your nose in the polls 6 and half months out and before the primaries. By all means, enjoy yourself and have at it. Whatever it takes to get your jollies off. I will look at the polls 3 weeks out, or sometime after labor day. It’s always seems intelligentally lazy to report polls instead of news or ideas, IMHO. But, you got to work with what you got, I suppose.
    https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1033666070116948/?type=3&theater

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  41. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    I give up. You guys win.
    https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1298502126950488/?type=3&theater

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  42. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    More prove of TDS
    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/nyregion/schneiderman-trump-mueller-pardons.html
    “Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York is moving to change New York state law so that he and other local prosecutors would have the power to bring criminal charges against aides to President Trump who have been pardoned ”
    Taking a page out of Calif.’s playbook.
    Just pass a law, and Constitutional powers are gone. Good luck with that.

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: BillT
    I think this explains a lot.
    https://i.redditmedia.com/4SCPXHoocWMRY_ArRGDqeLWWJ8jqqTMLujej2ff9nBc.jpg?s=52c8adc30eaf4e61700c590b74590ea5

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  44. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    These are the people who decide what comes up on searches –
    A document brought to light by James Damore’s class-action lawsuit against Google and drafted by the company’s HR department instructing managers at the company on how to be “inclusive” cautioned managers against rewarding employees for traits “valued by the U.S. white/male dominant culture”, including individual achievement, and meritocracy.
    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/18/lawsuit-google-instructed-managers-that-individual-achievement-and-objectivity-were-examples-of-white-dominant-culture/
    😉

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    re: DonB@2:07PM
    lol. Thanks. You made my day. That is pure gold.
    You know, they really are crazy. Arguing about Stormy Whatsherface or poll methodology is an enormous waste of time and rarely produces anything amusing.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Here is one for the po’ ol’ pollhead, will this have an impact on the upcoming primary?
    About 24 percent of the survey’s participants said it’s “very important” for the U.S. to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants, while 35 percent said it’s “somewhat important,” according to the poll. That viewpoint even held true in the Bay Area, where 25 percent of those surveyed said increasing deportations is very important and 35 percent said it’s somewhat important.
    http://www.dailydemocrat.com/general-news/20180418/poll-finds-half-of-californians-ok-with-travel-ban
    😉

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  47. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    DonB 207pm – Google is spot on about such rewards reflecting the “US white/male dominant culture.” Having said that, if Google is stupid enough to implement that in their workforce, they will put the reward structure of the former USSR into a good light, and then it will be time to sell Google short – we’ll make a mint.

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  48. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    More news to give the Repubs Trump burn. Cruz is only up by 3 in the Texas Senate race. That makes it a State in play for the Fall.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/tx/texas_senate_cruz_vs_orourke-6310.html

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  49. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    PaulE 249pm – By what logic do you deduce that public sentiment about anything, let alone a politician, is monotonic in its behavior – once Cruz has started going down, he’ll only keep going down???? You drew those conclusions all throughout the 2014 and 2016 campaigns. Did the results of those elections not give you even a bit of a pause in continuing to make such pronouncements?

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  50. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Under the category “Don’t hold your breath”..
    1). If the Koreas can get together and make an end to war on the peninsula with US involvement, wouldn’t that be a hands down favorite for President Trump to win the Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe share it with Rocketman and his S. Korean counterpart, like Yassir and Jimmy and the Jewish guy.
    2). Time to charge McCabe for lying to the FBI? The FBI agents did indeed go over to Justice to question the 2nd in command.
    http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/andrew-mccabe-lied-so-will-fbi-apply-same-rules-against-him-it-applies-all-us

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