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Sandbox – 1may19

[The $2T infrastructure bill is going to be a problem that the Dems hope will choke Team Trump.  What about letting the several states plan and do the infrastructure work in their states under a coordinated plan from the feds.  The states can come up with novel public/private funding schemes which may involve the feds only to the extent of guaranteeing loans and bond issues of those they approve.  Thoughts?  gjr]

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231 responses to “Sandbox – 1may19”

  1. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Winning!
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/05/02/u-s-productivity-gains-unexpectedly-soar-to-highest-level-in-nearly-a-decade/
    😉

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  2. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    LoL so queen Nan things Barr not saying anything is lying and a crime.
    Libs have gone crazy nuts

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  3. Robert Cross Avatar
    Robert Cross

    todd– do you remember the ‘Chatty Cathy’ dolls? you pulled their string and they repeated the same 10 or so phrases.. over and over again. That is you. pull your string and you spout the same 10 phrases.. over and over and over whether it is on the blogs or the newspaper’s comment section. The funniest ones are about how smart you are.

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  4. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Did Emery ever find his way back from the county after getting high?
    Sorry Emery,, the Celts don’t claim you.
    No Emery in the Book of Celts either. I checked.
    Your stuck will being Greek.
    My kilt is becoming a plad Speedo.

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  5. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Dirty deeds from the swamp –
    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-sent-investigator-posing-as-assistant-to-meet-with-trump-aide-in-2016/ar-AAAOePQ
    😉

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  6. fish Avatar
    fish

    “Did Emery ever find his way back from the county after getting high?
    Sorry Emery,, the Celts don’t claim you.
    No Emery in the Book of Celts either. I checked.
    Your stuck will being Greek.
    My kilt is becoming a plaid Speedo.”
    Walt….that almost works as modern verse! Nice!

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  7. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Roberta Cross | 02 May 2019 at 01:14 PM
    We had one of those too Roberta……it was called the “Joe Koyote” doll! Pull the string in its neck and it repeated talking points from there DNC.

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  8. Walt Avatar
    Walt

    Fish.. you can thank the three or four pints of what ever it was I was drinking.

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  9. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Looks like I get under the skin of the two resident trolls. Too bad so sad. When you have my smarts and looks I can see why the trolls get crazy and jealous.

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  10. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Swamp creatures run amok –
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-informant-reportedly-tried-to-probe-papadopoulos-on-trump-russia-ties-seduce-him-during-campaign
    😉

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  11. Russell Steele Avatar
    Russell Steele

    Inverse Strategy Newsletter: How to Spot a Bullshitter
    BY JAMES DENNIN
    Bullshit, you may be surprised to hear, has a rich scholarly history.
    A few years ago, anthropologist David Graeber reinvigorated academic interest in bullshit, applying it to labor studies. In Graeber’s context, “bullshit jobs” describe the jobs people do that have no meaning and create little value, but we do them anyway because late capitalism demands it.
    Other academics describe and study bullshit in a completely different context. These efforts date back to 1988, when the famous Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt published this essay called “On Bullshit.” In Frankfurt’s view, most forms of bullshit stem from a disregard for the truth, which he argues is distinct from lying. A liar knows the truth is bad; that’s why they lie. Bullshitters, by contrast, don’t care about the truth at all.
    This is the kind of bullshitting that was the subject of the Shure study. In 2012, the Programme for International Student Assessment — a test taken by kids around the world, including 40,000 English-speaking students — featured a few extra questions as part of the questionnaire that students completed at the end of their test. It was all biographical stuff, like where they were from and what their parents did. But in addition to this biographical information, the questionnaire also asked the students to say how familiar they were with 16 mathematical concepts. Three of the concepts were completely fake. Bogus. Pure imagination.
    “This is kind of one of those situations, where there’s not a clear reason why they would pretend to have knowledge of these fake concepts. There is this disregard for the truth,” Shure says. “They ‘know and understand’ these fake concepts? That’s obviously bullshitting.”
    Shure says this data set was particularly unique because bullshitters usually have something to gain for their non-truthfulness. Other studies, she said, relied on assessments of over-familiarity with certain concepts or sometimes with popular culture. Shure says these studies may have been limited by still offering an incentive to bullshit in the form of social desirability.
    “You don’t want to look stupid,” she points out.
    Faced with this new, totally anonymous, totally stakeless evidence of bullshitting, Shure says her paper provides something like the first-ever taxonomy of bullshitters — at least, the first-ever taxonomy for bullshitting teens. In addition to some regional distinctions (North Americans bullshit the most; Scottish bullshit the least), there were also differences in terms of gender (Tt should surprise none of you to read that men bullshit more than women.) and socioeconomic status.
    “People from wealthier backgrounds had a higher propensity to bullshit, as opposed to their poorer peers. Immigrants also score really high on the bullshit index compared to native, which I found somewhat surprising, but there may be some linguistic issue there,” she says.
    This isn’t just a funny study (though if you’re going to actually read any of the papers I’ve ever written about in this newsletter, you could do a lot worse.) You might recall a strategy I wrote a few months ago about why terrible men often get promoted at work. In the story, leadership expert Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic argues that bad men often ascend to leadership positions because most people don’t know what makes a good leader, so when it’s time to choose one, we’re highly susceptible to their bullshit.
    While Shure’s new study doesn’t look at how bullshitters fare in the labor market, her team’s data does align with Chamorro-Premuzic’s argument that terrible men get promotions because they’re more likely to bullshit their way to the top.
    We now have solid data suggesting that young men, particularly wealthy young men, are more likely to claim skills they don’t have than virtually any other group.

    It occurs to me, then, that in order to close the wage gap between men and women, we’ll have to find a way to stop women from paying an honesty tax via a lower paycheck.

    Look around, lots of opportunities to check for some local BS artists.

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  12. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    The county 501c3 infrastructure seems ripe with bs’ers.

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  13. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    The realists are saying no they are not going to take the senate –
    “These embarrassing recruitment failures are devastating to Chuck Schumer’s dream of a Democratic Senate,” emphasized Jack Pandol, communications director for the Senate Leadership Fund, the top outside group backing Senate Republicans.
    “Now that top-tier Democrats in nearly every competitive state have all said no to Chuck Schumer, the picture is becoming clear: Democrats simply do not believe in Schumer’s ability to lead them into the majority,” Pandol added.
    National Republican Senatorial Committee communications director Jesse Hunt argued that the news points to the increasingly leftward shift among Democrats.
    “It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Democrats, watching their party begin to trend closer to socialism, are ducking out of competitive races against well-funded, accomplished Republican incumbents,” Hunt told Fox News.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-democrats-recruitment-setback
    😉

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  14. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    News Flash Water for the People!
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-scraps-16b-plan-for-tunnels-to-deliver-water-to-southern-california
    😉

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  15. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    When your candidate’s IQ is as low as Low IQ Moe Biden, you can’t let the press anywhere near him. Block the press physically. No pics, no questions, no videos, period.
    https://freebeacon.com/politics/reporter-biden-campaign-physically-blocking-press-from-asking-questions/

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  16. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Its going to take a crane to get creepy grampa joes china foot out of his mouth –
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/ceo-china-economy-war-with-us
    https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/05/pentagon-report-warns-chinas-rise-arctic-missile-subs-influence-operations/156726/?oref=d-river
    😉

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  17. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Money quote –
    “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden said in Iowa City. “They’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.”
    The report seemed to indicate otherwise, recapping some of the past year’s highlights for the Chinese military including the deployment of surface-to-air missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles to its man-made islands in the Spratly chain in the South China Sea and warning of Beijing’s “continuing improvements” in missile technology to allow its military to operate “further from China.”
    In 2015 in a speech alongside then-President Barack Obama, China’s President Xi Jinping pledged that “China does not intend to pursue militarization” of the man-made islands.
    😉

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  18. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What the wa po?!?!
    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/washington-post-heat-louis-farrakhan-far-right
    😉

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  19. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Bessee-
    C&P, C&P, C&P, C&P
    Half your life is regurgitating other people’s writing and the other half must be spent in front of a mirror with a straight edge razor and a beauty mask. Nearly as vain as Todd.

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  20. Bonnie McGuire Avatar
    Bonnie McGuire

    Regarding those who think their college deplomas make them elite. It’s becoming more obvious what a teacher told me many years ago…that those street wise individuals with hands on experience were the smart ones. And I’ll add that they produce everything we really need. The rest running America are nothing more than high paid parasites blabbing and shuffling regulations and regulations for their own benefit.

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  21. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    This is making a stir in investigative circles. Russian Collusion Delusion.
    “She said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S. and working with Putin against the U.S. interests. She indicated if we could find the evidence they would introduce it in Congress in September and try to build a case that Trump should be removed from the ballot, from the election,” he recalled.
    “After the meeting, Telizhenko said he became concerned about the legality of using his country’s assets to help an American political party win an U.S. election. But he proceeded with his assignment.”
    ~
    “Though Chaly and Telizhenko disagree on what Ukraine did after it got Chalupa’s request, they confirm that a paid contractor of the DNC solicited their government’s help to find dirt on Trump that could sway the 2016 election.
    “For a Democratic Party that spent more than two years building the now-disproven theory that Trump colluded with Russia to hijack the 2016 election, the tale of the Ukrainian embassy in Washington feels just like a speeding political boomerang.”
    https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/441892-ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016

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  22. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 02 May 2019 at 09:03 PM
    Oh ozzie why do you hate? You never get this mad at jeffy when 90% of his “work” is merely linking to stories written by others.

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  23. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Community Garden Alert.
    “I am SHOOK, like honestly, gardening, FOOD– that comes out of dirt… it’s Like magic ” ~ @AOC
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2019/05/02/aoc-and-her-garden-n2545697
    Wow. Food comes out of dirt. It’s like magic. Wait until she discovers hydroponics. Food swimming, it’s like magic. I am shook.

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  24. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    OOZE is another Pelline sock puppet.

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  25. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Bonnie 10:46
    Your lack of education has hurt you none . . . only if you’re brain dead.
    Next time you visit the hospital, bring that bible of yours, keep on thumping, and pray the doctor didn’t go to college and that the people who designed your therapies got their cred on the street instead of a university. Maybe you could call high school junior Todd Juvinall to recalibrate the MRI to Aqua Velva standards rather than those useless modalities developed by college educated engineers, doctors and scientists.
    It’s okay with me if you don’t trust those butt ignorant college educated people who developed vaccines which have saved countless thousands, perhaps millions, of lives. Visit your local homespun homeopath and blow smoke over your unvaccinated children when they come down with polio or smallpox. And for god sake, never step foot in an airplane that was engineered by some college graduate.
    Those cell phones are deadly and 5G is 200 times more dangerous. Believe it. Only a college educated fool would fall for the lie that you get exposed to many times more radiation from a walk under the sun than from the iPhone in your purse. Ignorance is good. Education is not. Uneducated people produce everything we need? It only makes sense if you are one loony toon.

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  26. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Aha, the royal We rears it’s ugly head again.
    “Usually, they refrain from using the royal We when discussing Democrat strategy.”
    “Vossoughian subbed for Ari Melber on his MSNBC show The Beat on Thursday. Interviewing ultraliberal Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Vossoughian three times asked Raskin which was the best way that “we” should go after Attorney General Bill Barr and/or the Mueller report and testimony by Mueller.
    “You’re bringing up a really good point here. Because one of the, I think, directives here, and the big question here is, do we pursue the Attorney General until he provides testimony for the House? Or, do we pursue the unredacted Mueller report along with testimony from Bob Mueller? Is that where we put our energy?”
    https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2019/05/03/msnbcs-vossoughian-strategizes-dem-rep-how-do-we-go-after-barr

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  27. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Ooooze goes off the cliff again – “Ignorance is good. Education is not. Uneducated people produce everything we need? It only makes sense if you are one loony toon.”
    Not what she said, idiot.
    Ooooze is proof that a college edu-ma-cation doesn’t always equal an educated person.
    My wife once had a ‘discussion’ (polite, but tense) with a woman who declared that she had the correct view of the subject solely because she graduated from Stanford. She offered not one bit of reasoning beyond that one single fact. She would simply state, over and over, “but, I’ve graduated from Stanford”.
    A person can get a good education from a college or university but just because you can wave a sheepskin doesn’t always mean you can be a productive citizen or a qualified leader of any sort.
    Please recall Brother Bill from 1963 – “I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.”
    Buckley was hardly a loon.
    Let’s look at Bonnie’s lead – “Regarding those who think their college deplomas make them elite.”
    A valid point and nothing to do with the nonsense fabricated by Ooooze.

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  28. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    BT at 7:01 – Remember that AOC has a college degree – and dirt farmers that never went to school kinda knew all about food and its origins for thousands of years.
    But Ooooze is on AOC’s side.

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  29. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Speaking of loons –
    https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/regional/oregon-set-to-become-1st-state-with-mandatory-rent-controls/277-e4e87532-aa8b-4dd2-8970-15c748b2d45b
    Talk about shooting yourself to stop the headache.
    And of course, the authors and backers of this travesty are all college educated.

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  30. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Spying? Spying everywhere you look.
    “The NYT also admits in its article that the aggressive and unprecedented action of deploying spies and luring American targets overseas to collect intelligence on a rival political campaign “yielded no fruitful information.” It is not clear whether information collected by Halper and “Turk” was used to justify formal spy warrants against any U.S. citizens.“
    “The New York Times has repeatedly been used by FBI officials who ran the anti-Trump spy operation to launder damaging information that reflects poorly on the agency. Nearly a year ago, the Times confirmed that the U.S. intelligence apparatus was used to spy on Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.
    “While that article included explosive revelations, it downplayed their significance and later curiously denied that any spying had ever occurred:”
    https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/02/new-york-times-admits-multiple-spies-deployed-against-trump-campaign/

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  31. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Scott-
    Deny that Bonnie wrote this: “. . . . those street wise individuals with hands on experience were the smart ones. And I’ll add that they produce everything we really need.”
    This is the heart of her post. It is ludicrous at best. We can all agree that plenty of ignorant and stupid people have been processed through the education mill with nothing added to their potential except debt from a school loan and a useless diploma.
    Does anyone but Bonnie, Juvinall, and Chairman Mao truly believe that an uneducated society can “produce everything we really need”? Grubbing on a subsistence level and a life expectancy of 26 years old, maybe.

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  32. AVMan Avatar
    AVMan

    ,,,is the Team Rebane Patrol of Constitutionalists heading out to do battle at the Constitutional Challenge in Grass Valley tonight???

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  33. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    So tell us what that is about.

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  34. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Sorry Ooooze – the heart of her post was the lead premise – “Regarding those who think their college deplomas make them elite.”
    Maybe she didn’t follow up as well, but far better than your ridiculous post that was totally off the rails and nothing more than a lot of false assumptions.
    Go back and read your 7:33 – full of stuff she never wrote nor hinted at. Trying tilting at windmills, you might do better than character assassination.

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  35. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    Our Publisher wrote quite the Trump attack today. Of course no bias, LOL!

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  36. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd 9:00
    Bet none of the self-professed experts is willing to go public with their lunacy.
    https://www.theunion.com/news/community/league-of-women-voters-to-host-constitutional-challenge-quiz/

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  37. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I would win it all if I was attending.

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  38. Ozz Avatar
    Ozz

    Todd 9:33-
    If memory serves me well you were bragging how much money the Marching Presidents brought into our community. You should be supporting them. You must have an exciting date with Mr. Beam and Mr Ed on the tube tonight to keep you from performing your civic duty supporting these guys.
    Kind of like CABPRO, it seems you are now persona non grata with them. You do have the magic touch.

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  39. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    re Ozz 923am – Unfortunately, this event is a fundraiser for the heavily progressive LWV, and its choice to conduct a Constitutional quiz promises to be a leftwing propaganda tour de force. Save for questions of banal historical nature, almost everything else about the Constitution’s meanings, citations, and court rulings are more than tinged in partisanship. Therefore the choice of questions and their ‘correct’ answers promise to generate more heat than light. It is unreasonable to expect that such a backwater quiz’s answers will resolve questions that have been hotly debated by opposing political parties for decades. But the evening promises to be a feel-good event for local liberals.

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  40. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Winning!
    ENVY OF THE WORLD
    UNEMPLOYMENT 49-YEAR LOW
    WAGE HITS $27.77/HOUR
    STOCK MARKET ENDLESS RALLY
    TRUMP APPROVAL 50%
    😉

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  41. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 03 May 2019 at 08:21 AM
    We can all agree that plenty of ignorant and stupid people have been processed through the education mill with nothing added to their potential except debt from a school loan and a useless diploma.
    ….and yet after years of posting this is the first concession you’ve ever made on this point.
    Go ahead convince me that the last 20 years of college graduates in liberal arts are even slightly “educated”. I’m sure they’ve mastered proper use of pronouns so as not to offend and learned to recoil in horror at any display of wrongthink.
    But educated….not really seeng it.

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Jihadi indoctrination in our own back yard –
    Disturbing footage of Muslim kids saying they would sacrifice themselves and kill for the “army of Allah” surfaced from an Islamic center in Philadelphia.
    The Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted the video to its Facebook page celebrating “Ummah Day” in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves sang and read poetry about killing for Allah and the mosque in Jerusalem.
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/video-philadelphia-muslim-society-children
    😉

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  43. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    What, the truth out of them!?!?
    The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near “genocide” levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
    Christians were the most persecuted religious group, it found.
    Mr Hunt said he felt that “political correctness” had played a part in the issue not being confronted.
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48146305
    😉

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  44. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Ozz | 03 May 2019 at 08:21 AM
    Does anyone but Bonnie, Juvinall, and Chairman Mao truly believe that an uneducated society can “produce everything we really need”? Grubbing on a subsistence level and a life expectancy of 26 years old, maybe.
    More Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads,more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads,more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads,more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads, more Poly Sci grads!
    Because if there is one group that can prevent humanity from, “Grubbing on a subsistence level”, it’s Poly Sci grads!
    Really……is there nothing they can’t do?
    …..and don’t get me started on the gift to mankind that are journalism majors!

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  45. Todd Juvinall Avatar
    Todd Juvinall

    I recall years ago the only R on the LWV was Joan Lancaster. Her hubby was the USFS boss of the Tahoe and he was a R as well. After he retired the government had one flop after another managing the Tahoe and we see the results today. Anyway I debated in their forums many times back then and yes, they are lefty.

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  46. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    DonB 1015am – Good pick-up Mr Bessee. Islam will have to go through an historical worldwide shift in its theology before anyone can claim that Muslims no longer remain devoted to rapacious teachings of their prophet while using the liberal application of taqiya when they are not yet dominant in the infidel countries that they are quietly colonizing. Such organizations as MAS should be strongly denounced by CAIR were Islam truly the religion of peace. But both organizations are opposite faces of the same coin of global dominance by Islam.

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  47. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    AOC is a college grad, Bill Gates is not. Just saying…..
    Biologists and chemists brought us miracle cures and college grads brought us 39 different genders. Highly educated scholars tell us math racist, along with time and clocks with hands on them. Wonder what they have to say about snow? Oh, never mind. They say we will never see snow again, starting about 7 years ago.

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  48. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Somewhere on some past post Dr. Rebane penned that whatever shameful dirty deed the Lefties are doing, they blame the R’s for doing that which they are doing. Like intolerance, tearing asunder free speech, assaults on our constitution, tyranny, threat to the rule of law, etc.
    Well, it’s called projection. We have BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome, not to be confused with Barr Derangement Syndrome), TDS (not to be confused with Todd Derangement Syndrome) and now we have Clinton Projection Syndrome…or CPJ.
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/hillary-clinton-fears-indictment/

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  49. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    BillT 1128am – It’s also the prime lesson from Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’ – accuse the other side of the bad stuff that you do (ends justify means), and, if possible, accuse them first, loudest, and longest.

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  50. George Rebane Avatar
    George Rebane

    Administrivia – tech readers please check the 3may19 update to the most recent Ruminations. Thanks.

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