["Policy makers should view the problem from the starting point of today, and resolve to take action on every front. America must restore the norm of gainful employment for all who are mentally and physically able and are not working in the home. The private and public sectors must share responsibility for equipping every American, college-bound or not, with marketable 21st-century skills. Congress and state legislatures should restructure public benefit programs to encourage work and ensure that workers earn a living wage. Finally, the nation must enact public policies that sustain the labor market through downturns, making it possible for every able worker to find a job." From the dreams of disconnected policy pundits. (more here) ]
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264 responses to “Sandbox – 23nov18”
Rasmussen poll is continuing to make a joke of themselves by being off by 11 compared to polling averages of Trump job approval. They were off by 8 in the final congressional poll so it is apparent they can no longer be considered a legitimate polling service being no more than a vanity poll for Republican causes.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html
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Never saw you criticize your favorites polls when they said Hillary wins by 6. And Trump is still President.
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List of the missing in Butte County.
https://www.buttecounty.net/Portals/24/CampFire/Unaccounted%20For%2011_22_18.pdf?ver=2018-11-22-140157-250
Glenn Prichard was mom’s BF many years ago.
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@ Todd. :(.
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Oh Todd you of all people should refrain from expressing an opinion on polls being a disciple of the unskewed polls that picked Romney by 6. I supported the RCP average polls that showed Hillary by 3 in the total votes. She won by 2, within the margin of error.
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Paul. the only damned poll you should care about is which nursing home is within your price range.
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Do you remember when I was told in no uncertain terms, “While I appreciate your euntusiasm, Bill, Trump has a ZERO chance of winning.” About 2-3 weeks out from Nov. 06, 2016, a day burned into the annuals of Infamy. The Reckoning. Judgement Day.
Yep, no way feasible. Path through the electoral college is blocked. Twenty minutes into the night when the polls close on the East Coast they will call Florida for Hillary and it’s all over except the big lower lips and a Republican Party that is destined to the trash heap of history. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Sad day for you bitter clingers.
Or was that “While I appreciate your passion, Bill, Trump has NO CHANCE of winning.”
Not even a teenie wienie itsy bitsy chance. Thank you for the condolences. Much appreciated.
So, tell us again how nada chance was within the margin of error. 3%? Yep, you called it right. Don’t think Todd’s prediction of a hopeful wishful gut feelings holds a candle to your confident and solid prediction…nay, make that a Declaration Proclomation that Trump and his bitter clingers would be vanshied once and for all. The s ience is settled, right?
Knock yourself out and attack the polls Gregory cites or prefers. Attack! Attack select pollsters til the cows come home. You will never ever live 2016 down. Zero chance? Hillary has six ways to Sunday to win. Make that eight ways to Sunday and Trump doesn’t even have a popcorn fart’s chance.
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The ECO nut cases are at it AGAIN!!!
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/11/23/scientists-suggest-dimming-the-sun-to-solve-global-warming/
Never mind it’s already started it’s cooling cycle.
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Paul Emery has PDS, Poll Derangement Syndrome. Your panties are really up your crack Paul Emery, untwist them so you can find peace.
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Yo Walt. Hey proud Papa
Hey good looking, what’s cooking?
https://m.facebook.com/keepwyomingfree/photos/a.193747951391737/342413993191798/?type=3&source=48
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The joys of socialism –
The opulent lifestyle of the Andrade family was as spectacular as the economic collapse of the country it left behind.
Venezuelan immigrants, the family lived in a mansion in Florida surrounded by show horses, as neighbors peeked over the property line in awe. The family patriarch, Alejandro Andrade, had been a bodyguard of the late-president Hugo Chávez before rising to powerful positions in his government.
This month, Andrade will be known for something else: On Nov. 27, he is expected to be sentenced for taking bribes as Venezuela’s treasurer, in a money-laundering scheme that made him a billionaire.
https://www.wral.com/jets-horses-and-bribes-how-a-venezuelan-official-became-a-billionaire-as-his-country-crumbled/18015844/
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Yo Walt
Opps, I forgot
https://www.facebook.com/remingtonarmscompany/videos/756981394639192/UzpfSTEwMDAxODQ5NTA5NDI5MDpWSzo1MTQ4MDk4MjU3MDExODg/?fref=nf
https://m.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343/1471944312939601/?type=3&source=54
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Todd
Can you tell me the humor in making jokes about sexually assaulting women like your role model Donald Trump.
Trump quote
” “When you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump continued, as Bush laughed. “Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
RR readers let me remind you that Todd considers Trump to be a real stud that he strives to emulate.
Here’s a quote from Todd about our President.
“Trump is a stud, a rich guy and famous. Women want what he has. They give what they have.”
Posted by: Todd Juvinall | 31 March 2018 at 09:24 PM
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Here’s a question for a poll derangement syndrome sufferer… did 538 predict a 7% margin overall for House Democrats… or a 1 in 8 chance of the House remaining in GOP hands?
If he can give that some thought through to a conclusion, that might go some distance to putting his head on straight. But in general, Punch doesn’t allow himself to think too hard or too long on difficult problems. Just throwing a punch is his style.
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At the marijuana shop in Nevada City they are selling pre rolled joints called Bessee blunts!!! And now a cannabis campus is going in. Boy does Don know how to hitch his wagon to a winning cart. The sun is setting on the geriatric good old boys redneck club. Don’t want to say I told you so, but I did.
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Nothing difficult here Todd. Rasmussen had Repubs winning the Congressional vote by 1%. The Pubsters ended up losing by over 7%. What’s so difficult about that? You were a supporter of the Rasmussen Poll as being the best gauge of public opinion on this matter. What is so difficult about that? Can you clarify?
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Posted by: Gus Gustafson | 23 November 2018 at 05:02 PM
Really jeffy…….why not just go with Fats Fatterson!?
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Thanks Bill,, those are pretty good.
Really Paul? I don’t think the women would mind a little “grab” if the other act of uh,,,, “affection” was getting a beat down. You DO actually read some news,, don’t you? The pimp who calls himself a lawyer? He sure was respectful to his woman.. Right? Then there is Keith Ellison,, A wife beater.. But since LIBS really gave him a pass, Keeping your woman in line is OK.
Now don’t forget,(I know…. WAY toooooo late on that one) Trump NEVER said “he did”.. His words were “you could”.
If you dare try and tell us, YOU,,have NEVER told an off color joke in any way, shape or form,, in your “on borrowed time” life span, I will surly call bullshit.
Yet we have on record the asswipe you voted for, admitting to doing drugs.
Now what other crime did your boy do? You don’t turn in your law licence for shits and giggles. The LIB press sure didn’t go digging at all. (yet for two years now are saying Trump will go down for collusion.. And you have yet to name the crime)
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Paul, your 506pm facts are not correct.
The Rasmussen generic Congressional poll was not about the House. It was the Congress… House and Senate.
538 had a chance of 1 of 8 that the GOP would retain control of the House. So how does Punchy integrate that into his memory?
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Paul Emery | 23 November 2018 at 04:46 PM
If you had some nards you would get it. Alas you don’t. I stand by my words. Just like you do with your words of love for Obama.
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Oh and I think you really do have PDS. Get help.
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On an entirely different topic KVMR has been conduction a one day on air fundraiser for the folks of Paradise and as of 5:00 have raised nearly $40,000. Well done KVMR!!!!
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Gregory
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Do you know the difference between odds of winning an election and polling numbers? I hope so. Apples and oranges for sure.
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Gregory
My numbers reflected the Congressional vote . Look it up.
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Punchy
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Yes, 538 was saying that it was possible, based on their views of the polling, that the GOP would remain in control of the House. Something of a long shot… about what they had forecast for Trump winning in ’16.
Your numbers reflected the House vote. Not the Congressional vote. Let that rattle around in your head for awhile… and any poll number is a guess, outside of the real Poll before, on and, unfortunately, after the polls close.
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So Gregory you are still standing behind Rasmussenas the most accurate poll.
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Punchy, is that the best you’ve got?
You’re basing this trashing of Rasmussen upon the Generic Congressional Poll, which samples about four or five potential voters for every seat in the Congress. The one poll number that is nearly meaningless.
It’s a bright shiny object you’ve been staring at for all the wrong reasons.
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Fox got it right Gregory. rasmussen did not. Pure and simple
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RR readers note
this Todd Juvinall is really something. He just wrote about his support for Trump and his bragging about assaulting women
“If you had some nards you would get it. Alas you don’t. I stand by my words.”
Unbelievable. Hope this gets on his online dating profile.
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KVMR raised $43,200 for Paradise folks. That’s what Community and Community Radio is all about
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Paul Emery, I am a successful dating man who does not care to be married. I am having the time of my life. Trump is a stud and has been almost as successful as I have been in the dating world. I know you comb the homeless shelters for a date so you have a different view than I. Keep trying though.
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Why do I think the IRS will be talking to the original safe owner –
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/23/buyer-finds-7-5-million-cash-auctioned-california-storage-unit/2094781002/
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Nothing in polling or statistics is “pure and simple”. It’s messy and complicated, and nobody gets it right all the time.
CNN does get it wrong every time, but they are trying to.
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OH NO socialists she really is running again!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/23/hillary-for-more-amnesty-in-us-after-european-migration-comments-cause-backlash/
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Todd writes:
” Trump is a stud and has been almost as successful as I have been in the dating world. ”
Add that to your online dating bio Todd. You bragging about being more successful than Trump in finding women. You are really strange one Todd and getting weirder by the day.
I’m all settled in with my sweetheart of several years so “dating” is not what I need to do.
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How boring @852
Those pesky facts, but its still caused by global warming somehow –
Don’t Tell Anyone, But We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling
Inconvenient Science: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you’d know it, since that wasn’t deemed news. Does that make NASA a global warming denier?
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-global-warming-earth-cooling-media-bias/
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Paul Emery | 23 November 2018 at 08:52 PM
Why is it that very odd people like Paul Emery call the normal people odd? I am so normal I can’t drink cold coffee. But you Paul Emery are very strange and your posts here prove it. If there is a need for some mental help, it is for you not I. And I am glad after all your trolling homeless shelters you finally found someone.
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Another 0 swamp creature bites the dust –
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ncis-agents-affair-with-terror-suspect-damaged-fbi-probe-authorities-say
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Even the dems, socialist notwithstanding have to cheer for acknowledging the truth for a change with the chi coms –
n May, the Pentagon banned retail outlets on US military bases from selling smartphones produced by Huawei and ZTE, another Chinese manufacturer.
British spies warned earlier this year that the UK’s phone and internet network is at risk due to its continued reliance on products made by Huawei.
A report written by the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) found that the “identification of shortcomings in Huawei’s engineering processes have exposed new risks in the UK telecommunication networks and long-term challenges in mitigation and management”.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/us-presses-allies-stop-using-173448256.html
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And yet another item in the “we ain’t no grifters” category: The New York State Supreme Court has rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. , Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump. The suit alleges that the foundation (which for tax purposes characterizes itself as a charitable organization) was “little more than an empty shell” and was used like a personal bank account, violating tax laws.
Trump’s lawyers tried to argue that a “sitting president may not be sued” but could not cite a single case in which a suit against a president based on “unofficial acts” (actions not taken in his capacity as president) was dropped. In other words, if a crime was committed by a president that was unrelated to his/her duties as president, they cannot claim any executive privileges. The lawsuit alledges numerous violations including using the charity’s funds to finance Trump’s political campaign (an illegal campaign donation) and benefit Trump’s for-profit businesses. Isn’t that theft and fraud?
Trump blamed the suit on “sleazy New York Democrats.” Trump was a Democrat from New York before changing parties and running for President. Coincidence or Freudian slip?
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You guys sure bust Paul’s chops a lot, but I have to tell you, it is a pleasant conversation and an honorable person who does the right thing. Keep that in mind when typing. Lol
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That came out all messed up. Paul is a pleasant person to have a conversation with and fair-minded honest person. It is way too early in the morning on Ohio State – Michigan day for me to be multi-tasking among College Game Day, running, and commenting on my friend George’s blog. Good day folks! 😂
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Yet Bobby doesn’t say a peep about the Clinton foundation.
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Assualt weapons in a combat zone? The horrors. Bring back Ashley Carter’s pink tie.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101879209461446&set=gm.518686985313472&type=3&theater
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More on the theme on anti-Semitism in the Women’s Movement.
The old “While we may share a tiny tweenie weenie bit of the blame, the other guys are the real problem!. Look at them, not us!” So predictable.
“In response, the Women’s March released a statement condemning Farrakhan’s comments, but defended Mallory and Sarsour, stating that they have “risked their safety to build a bold direct action strategy that addresses the real threat against our communities and country — the threat of white nationalism, which is fueled by anti-Black racism and anti-Semitism.”
“We recognize the danger of hate rhetoric by public figures,” the statement read. “We want to say emphatically that we do not support or endorse statements made by Minister Louis Farrakhan about women, Jewish and LGBTQ communities.”
“We all know the real cause of violence and oppression of our communities,” the statement continued. “This is well-documented and inspired by vile rhetoric coming from the Trump administration and from members of the Republican Party.”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/23/anti-semitism-threatening-unravel-womens-march/
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That lecture from Macron to Trump looks funny now. The French are rioting over their 6 dollars of tax on fuel. So Macron, tell us how you are going to deal with this “shoot myself in the foot” regulation you made.
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,,,Bessee Blunts,,,Donnie, Donnie, If you can’t beat em join em!!!
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Thanks you Barry. I always appreciate our conversations.
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The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion…
When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.” Alexander Hamilton 1792
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,,,sad trumpski tried to bury the Climate Change Assessment on Black Friday,,,
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/climate-change-report-bn/index.html
,,,any word on the report by Fox News???
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