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Post by Raymond306 on Apr 20, 2017 18:41:45 GMT -6
Seems like the University of California at Berkley is wavering. Yesterday university officials said they were banning conservative Anne Coulter from speaking at the University after she had been invited to speak by a campus Republican group. Fears of violent demonstrations were the listed reason for the ban. But today the University reversed itself and said Coulter would be allowed to speak.
This is a story worth following and I'll sure do that to see how it comes out. I have a couple of idea about how to solve the "Okay-for-me-but-not-for-thee" 1st Amendment understanding exhibited across the county by the radical leftists at our major colleges and universities. But I'll wait until I see how this story pans out first.
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Post by Raymond306 on Apr 20, 2017 21:10:08 GMT -6
Whoa ho! A few hours later and there is a bit of an update on the Berkley/Ann Coulter story. True, UC Berkley reversed their earlier decision to allow Ann Coulter to speak on campus but they have changed the proposed date form from April 27 to May 2, which, coincidentally (I'm sure) students are scheduled to be out of class. However, Coulter is saying, "No deal" and vowing to stick with the original date of April 27. I believe this story is oh-so-not over.
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Post by Raymond306 on Apr 21, 2017 20:14:43 GMT -6
Oh my, but there's another important election coming up, this time in France. French presidential voting starts this Sunday. According to a story in the UK Telegraph, the race has come down to a 4-way contest: I'm curious to see if France is going to follow a growing trend in Europe of choosing to move to the political right to solve its economic problems, increasing Jihadist attacks and discontent with the European Union.
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Post by chrunch on Apr 21, 2017 23:08:16 GMT -6
On some other forum, a French guy said that after Thursday political talk/news is not allowed in the French media leading up to the election. So it seems the last political news the French people got to hear was the immediate aftermath of the latest Paris terror attack. He seemed pretty worried that the "far right" Le Pen would win.
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Post by Raymond306 on Apr 22, 2017 18:31:20 GMT -6
I have no doubt a great many in the French political establishment are terrified of Marine Le Pen. A few months ago nobody in France was giving Le Pen a snowball's chance in hell of winning. But like a certain U.S. presidential candidate she has spend all her campaign time saying what a great many French voters have wanted to hear from a politician for a very long time. And she has been making some campaign promises a great many are eager to see fulfilled.
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Post by chrunch on Apr 23, 2017 12:18:14 GMT -6
The polls have closed in France. Sky news is reporting that the second round will be Macron v. Le Pen.
23.7% Macron 21.7% Le Pen
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Post by Raymond306 on Apr 25, 2017 17:40:23 GMT -6
I listen to this crap from nearly every news outlet: "Oh boo hoo hoo, we have to get the budget passed or..or..or (gasp) THE GOVERNMENT WILL SHUT DOWN. Oh God, what'll we do? What.will.we.do??"
What I want to know is when are Republicans finally going to grow some balls? You run the damned House of Representatives. Draw up a budget and send it to the Senate. If Senate Democrats don't want to go along with it then let THEM shut down the government. If Democrats want to throw down the gauntlet then by god pick up and run with it. And if Senate Republicans want to vote it down the call them out by name. All day, every day. And keep calling them out until they come around or get primaried out of office.
But, but, but the government will be shut down! OK, and the problem with that is...uh...help me out. What's the problem?
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Post by Raymond306 on May 13, 2017 10:02:05 GMT -6
It was so encouraging to see the state of Missouri's legislature vote for their state to be included in any upcoming Convention of States. This follows last week's decision by the Texas state legislature to sign onto the project. There are now 12 states that have officially declared themselves to be in favor of convening an Article V Convention of States in an effort to return our federal government to its original purpose as designed by the framers of the Constitution. Let us hope we can reach the magic number of 34 states (which is not at all impossible) which will trigger the constitutionally provided method for We the People to begin taking back our government.
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Post by Raymond306 on May 18, 2017 16:48:57 GMT -6
I fear Donald Trump made some serious miscalculations.upon winning the presidency. The first was an apparent assumption that Democrats could generally be considered faithful,patriotic Americans who could be counted on to do what was right for the country even if disappointed by an election result. The next miscalculation was an assumption was that those Democrats to whom he had donated money over the years would treat him with personal and professional courtesy even if they couldn't support various of his program goals. Perhaps his greatest failure has been to exclude political conservatives from his personal advisory circle, surrounding himself with left-wing lunatic leftists such as his daughter and son-in-law along with a plethora of anti-Trump/never Trump RINOs and other Republican establishment insiders who would just as soon screw him as eagerly as any Democrat leader. And because of those miscalculations his was, is continues to suffer from his most serious lapse in judgement, in failing to fire every last damned Democrat in the government and replace them with his own people. And now he's paying the price for his naivety regarding the true nature of Democrats and those Republicans who campaign as if they are Constitution-supporting conservatives at re-election time, but who rule like any other big government socialists after they are returned to office.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 1, 2017 16:28:38 GMT -6
I must admit I'm pretty impressed, at least so far. I know there's always the chance for a slip up down the road, but sometimes you take it as it comes. Today President Trump formally announced he was pulling America out of the American bashing, Socialist Climate Change Hoax Paris Climate Accord * and naturally the lunatic left, world purveyors of rampant socialism and RINOs of every stripe and color at pissing on the president for all they are worth. (you can find THAT all over the world wide web.) I had to search several places before I could find a " Just-the-facts-Ma'am" story about what happened leaving out all the virulent Apocalypse hysteria of the loons" If nothing else I have to admire Donald Trump for standing up to the tidal wave of opposition he undoubtedly faced including that from his own inner circle: Democrat advisors, Democrat son-in-law, yes even his Democrat daughter. "Oh Daddy, don't be a poo-poo head! You HAVE to save the polar bears. Please? For me?" Who knows what disgusting acts of the left-wing hate mongers tomorrow will bring (can you say Kathy Griffin?) but at least those who still have hope for America can celebrate tonight. * NOTE: all the other 195 signatory nations refer to it internally as a treaty. Only the U.S. government and praetorian media call it an "accord." Why? Because Obama knew that submitting this treaty to the U.S. Senate (as required of treaties by the Constitution) was doomed from the start. So to get around the Constitution Obama simply called in "an Accord" and the gutless Republicans in the Senate, led by liar-liar-pants-on-fire Mitch McConnell did nothing about it.
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Post by chrunch on Jun 1, 2017 18:56:00 GMT -6
He gave a good speech and made and made a very compelling case for why we are pulling out. I watched it live on ABC. Snuffleupagus was there, and some woman who was explaining that coal was no longer viable and how many coal jobs had been lost over the last several years, and how many new jobs were created in green energy. Of course she forgot about the new regulations that have been killing the coal industry, and about all of the government subsidies green energy gets.
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Post by ChickenLittle on Jun 4, 2017 14:03:51 GMT -6
"Who knows what disgusting acts of the left-wing hate mongers tomorrow will bring (can you say Kathy Griffin?) but at least those who still have hope for America can celebrate tonight." I will sleep good tonight.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 5, 2017 10:41:33 GMT -6
Britain 1940: Britain 2017 Winston Churchill must be turning in his grave.
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Post by ChickenLittle on Jun 6, 2017 21:24:11 GMT -6
What ever happened to stand your ground?
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 6, 2017 21:40:11 GMT -6
I think it died in a whirlwind of political correctness. The enemy you are afraid to name is most likely impossible to defeat.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 14, 2017 7:50:13 GMT -6
In hours of testimony before a Senate Intelligence Committee Attorney General fired back at Democrats and their often contemptuous questioning. According to a story in the Washington Times:According to everyone who isn't a Democrat, Sessions acquitted himself well. Happily Sessions wasn't left on his own debunking the hysterical "Russian Collusion" nonsense. In fact the entire "Russian Collusion" hoax was summed up perfectly during Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton's questioning of Sessions: However, I understand that after nearly a year of fruitlessly trying to prove their conspiracy allegations Democrats are now pivoting away from "collusion" and turning to "obstruction of justice" as their chief only campaign issue. They're likely to be as disappointed with that as with the "collusion" fantasy.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 14, 2017 9:38:02 GMT -6
I have a feeling the MSM are going to be rather disappointed about this morning's shooting of Republican House Whip Steve Scalise. But here is the real story: I guess we can come to at least one (if not many) conclusions from this reportorial thunderbolt; the opposition media are not likely to spend much time scrounging through garbage cans to see if they can find a Tea Party connection to the shootings. Another conclusion is that won't see a single reference to Bernie Sanders in their reporting, either.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 14, 2017 15:01:46 GMT -6
I guess we can come to at least one (if not many) conclusions from this reportorial thunderbolt; As an update it seems Steve Scalise's condition has been downgraded to "critical" Stopping his bleeding is proving to be a major chore. Democrats are expressing shock and rage over the shooting. At least in Congress. On the twitterverse the lunatics are celebrating with great gusto, which brings me to the point. An editorial by John Moody seems to tell the story accurately: And can we ever forget that great advocate of law and order and peace, Barack Obama, when he said, "If they bring a knife we'll bring a gun!" It would be natural to assume this bringing of a gun was in reference to figurative political "knife fights" but apparently it also applies to literal political baseball games.
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Post by chrunch on Jun 14, 2017 22:48:01 GMT -6
About today’s shooter.
I don’t so much blame the “arts”, as I do the media. Trump getting killed on stage, or having his bloody head being held by his orange hair, I don’t think they encourage anything, I just think they are tasteless.
It is the media that this guy paid attention to, especially MSNBC.
Put yourself in this guys shoes.
You’re a Bernie supporter.
First you find out the Russians hack the DNC, and you find out the DNC stole the election from your guy.
Whoa, your mad.
Then a racist, misogynist, tax cheat, a totally evil guy, becomes the president.
THEN, you find out it was Trump working with the Russians that stole the presidency.
Now you're really mad.
You are watching/reading left wing news. Trump with hookers in Russian, now we got him! Nope.
Trump gave top secrets to the Russians, NOW we got him!!! Nope.
But don't you remember, Trump was working with the Russians. He stole the election. *crickets*
He obstructed justice! *more crickets*
OMG, your furious!
Well, somebody has to do something, dammit!
It is the far left press pushing the lies, and the main stream press doing little to correct it, and even encouraging it. This whole Russian story, was never a story, the same with the obstruction of justice story.
I believe the shooter today was a true patriot. He loved his country and truly believed that Trump and the Republican Party were trying to destroy the democracy.
But he believed those lies.
I blame the media.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 15, 2017 9:37:47 GMT -6
I don’t so much blame the “arts”, as I do the media. Trump getting killed on stage, or having his bloody head being held by his orange hair, I don’t think they encourage anything, I just think they are tasteless. It is the media that this guy paid attention to, especially MSNBC. I agree with everything you said in your posting but I cannot absolve the effects of popular culture (e.g presidential assassination plays) from the role it plays in conditioning people to think a certain way. I ask anyone, with even the slightest capacity for critical thinking, to look back and tell me when was the last time you saw a politician or political office holder purposefully identified as a "republican, who was NOT portrayed as a despicable character. Particularly on TV where the term "republican" is used as a prelude to a nasty punchline about whatever "ism" of "phobia" is the flavor of the month. And we have had a constant deluge of anti-republican negativity spewed at us, and particular our children, in movies, on TV, in books, magazines, in college and pre-secondary education classrooms for decades. You think liberals don't understand and appreciate the value of the emotional/intellectual damage being wrought by such thought conditioning? Tell me, when was the last time you saw an advertisement for cigarettes? I guess somebody thinks what you see in popular media has plenty of effect if seen often enough.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 15, 2017 10:00:30 GMT -6
While making the rounds of the Internet I came upon an opinion piece by conservative commentatory Ann Coulter. I have strongly disagreed with Coulter on some issues in the past, but her recent column on the Scalise shooting was spot on:
Even more devastating that the foamy mouthed headlines is Coulter's compilation of media commentary following the debate:
Is it any wonder the MSM ranks below Congress, Lawyers, and Use-Car salesmen in public trust?
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 20, 2017 21:38:33 GMT -6
Oh deary me! Looks like another Democrat special "This-will-show-everyone-how-much-Trump-is-hated" bellwether election has gone down the toilet. According the Wall Street Journal "Republican Karen Handel, former Georgia secretary of state, beat Democrat Jon Ossoff, a onetime congressional aide, in the most expensive House race in history." In tonight's other Congressional run-off the Associated Press reported another Republican victory: Republicans are now 4 - 0 in "bellwether" elections that Democrats enthusiastically claimed would put the nail in Donald Trump's casket or drive a stake though his heart or whatever it was Democrats were just sure would vindicate them once and for all. Democrats haven't figured it out yet, have they?
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 25, 2017 9:43:22 GMT -6
Saw an editorial in The Federalist in support of the Senate's current efforts to pass a health care bill. Part of the editorial went like this: ...and that sounds all fine and well except for one minor detail. Every last damned Republican running for office in 2016, plus those who were elected or re-elected in 2012 promised, PROMISED that if they were elected they would vote to REPEAL "Obamacare." Every last word, period. Before the last election, Paul Ryan was seen on every news broadcast in the country saying "Yes we can repeal Obamacare, every last word, guaranteed and this is how we're going to do it." NOW it seems the prevailing theory is "Well, I guess we really can't repeal it, the best we can hope for is the repair it." Crap! Here's my question: Were the Republicans lying then or are they lying now? Can none of you tell the truth about anything, ever? I'm beginning to think it's time to repeal and replace some more RINO's in the next election.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jun 26, 2017 12:16:10 GMT -6
This week is starting off nicely. Earlier today SCOTUS temporarily lifted the lower courts' temporary injunctions (or at least, the important parts) against President Trump travel ban, saying they'll go ahead and take up the issue in full this fall after their regular summer hiatus. In other news of interest to political conservatives, (and liberals by default) Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is hinting around he may retire from the court. You think the Senate confirmation battle over Justice Neil Gorsuch was a donnybrook? Wait until you see how Democrats foam at the mouth at the prospect of replacing swing-vote Kennedy with another strict constructionist conservative. The only show that would be bigger would be the battle over a conservative replacement for radical leftist Ruth Bader-Ginsburg. That will be "must see TV."
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Post by Raymond306 on Jul 5, 2017 10:16:58 GMT -6
About a month ago Pueto Rico held another non-binding statehood vote, and the overwhelming majority of those few who actually showed up at the polls voted to become the 51st state of the union. Puetor Rican leaders are gearing up as if statehood is a fate accompli: Bilingual, eh? This is good. It is nice to have representatives in the U.S. Congress who can actually speak English. Naturally Democrats are overjoyed with the Puerto Rican vote. President Trump's efforts are having an effect to quash Democrat hopes of increasing their numbers by flooding the country with disease-ridden, illiteral, welfare dependent undocumented Democrats from South of the border. Now the Dems see great opportunity in adding millions of welfare dependent voters from the financially failing, "taxpayer-money-down-the-rat-hole territory in the Caribbean. Mind you I don't anything against Puerto Ricans. I don't know any Puerto Ricans. I don't know anyone from Illinois, either, but I can recognize a debt-ridden disaster looming when I see one. It is time for fiscally responsible representatives in Congress (yeah, I know, a real oxymoron there right?) to stand up and say NO to adding Puerto Rico to the union until they get their indebtedness under control. And while Congress is at it, they might try get our debts under control, too. Just saying.
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Post by chrunch on Jul 5, 2017 22:24:02 GMT -6
Oh my God Ray, did you know that a baby born in Puerto Rico is already in debt for nearly $18,000? How could a people let their government get so out of control?
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Post by Raymond306 on Jul 6, 2017 6:19:28 GMT -6
Yes, thinking about how a government can get so out of control does boggle the mind more than just a little bit. But I can see how it happens by reading my own Congressional representative's FB page.
I live in a state that exports agricultural products and he serves on the House Agriculture Committee. Among his usually conservative pronouncements he'll now-and-then include some reference to a "price support" certain farmers will be getting or some other example of agricultural largess. He'll get a round of applause for every bit of pork coming out of Washington from some of the same district voters who otherwise urge him to do something about profligate spending.
If we expect our representatives to "bite the bullet" on the tough issues it requires voters to be just as willing to go the extra mile. When the doo-doo well and truly hits the air conditioner, how much our farmers get for a bag of grain is going to be WAY down on their list of concerns. But then it will be too late, won't it?
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Post by Raymond306 on Jul 13, 2017 17:57:17 GMT -6
I've repeated the quote often enough: "If you want to know what Democrats are guilty of doing, just listen to the lies they tell about Republicans." That's what has been going on since Donald Trump was elected. Collusion with Russians to affected the election outcome? Democrats! Obstruction of justice? Democrats! Violation of the Espionage Act? Democrats! TREASON?? DEMOCRATS!! But the Democrats have learned a handy trick. They started it under Barack Obama and are not continuing it during the Obama Deep State coup against Donald Trump. Here's how it works, If you're going to commit an act that could certainly be considered unethical if not out right illegal and/or un-Constitutional the don't just commit one scandalous outrage. Commit a dozen. One a week. While the Republicans are trying to wrap their minds around the first scandal and deal with it, 4 more outrages crop up in quick succession to completely overwhelm everyone. - Obama’s Iran nuke deal
- Obama knew about Hillary’s private email server
- Obama IRS targets conservatives
- Obama’s DOJ spies on AP reporters
- Obamacare & Obama’s false promises
- Illegal-alien amnesty by executive order
- Benghazi-gate
- Operation Fast & Furious
- 5 Taliban leaders for Bergdahl
- ‘Recess ‘ appointments – when Senate was in session
- Appointment of ‘czars’ without Senate approval
- Suing Arizona for enforcing federal law
- Refusal to defend Defense of Marriage Act
- NSA: Spying on Americans
- Solyndra and the lost $535 million
- Cap & Trade: When in doubt, bypass Congress
- Refusal to prosecute New Black Panthers
These are just some of the impeachable offences committed by President Obama. And we don't even get to Hillary Clinton on her own in this list, such as her approval of transferring 20% of our uranium reserves to Putin and the Russians. Talk about collusion, huh?
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Post by Raymond306 on Jul 18, 2017 7:02:57 GMT -6
It is the opening paragraph of the story that tells it all:
Bingo! After pissing around for 6 months trying to pass Obamacare Lite and Obamacare 2.0 and ObamaTrumpCare 1.0 some folks in Congress are suggesting that maybe, just maybe they ought to do what they have been promising the voters they would do since 2010, if only the voters would vote for them: REPEAL OBAMACARE..period!
Is that so damned tough to understand? Apparently so, since all we've heard and all we've read for 6 months is repeal and replace, repeal and replace, repeal and replace, etc, etc, etc, and the only problem being that none of the plans Mitch McConnel (in the Senate) and Paul Ryan (in the House) actually proposed an honest-go-god repeal of Obamacare, but only a papering over of the healthcare fiasco.
We've wasted 6 months as big government Republicans fought to hold onto their power despite their promises to the voters. Last night Donald Trump came out with a tweet: "If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!"
Seems pretty clear to me.
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Post by Raymond306 on Jul 26, 2017 17:13:21 GMT -6
Bingo! After pissing around for 6 months trying to pass Obamacare Lite and Obamacare 2.0 and ObamaTrumpCare 1.0 some folks in Congress are suggesting that maybe, just maybe they ought to do what they have been promising the voters they would do since 2010, if only the voters would vote for them: REPEAL OBAMACARE..period! And now we get our update. Today 7 Republican senators voted to end private medical healthcare in America. Voted to put the final nail in the coffin of what was once recognized as the greatest healthcare system in the world. Today, those 7 Senators, 6 of whom voted to repeal Obamacare two years ago took the bull by the tail and voted against the same bill they voted for two years ago. Voted against what they and nearly every other Republican candidate for office has promised to do since 2010. LIARS! Here are the 7 names: Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine; Senator Dean Heller R-Nev.; Senator John McCain, R-Ariz.; Senator Shelley Moore-Capito, R-W.Va.; Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Senator Rob Portman, R-Ohio. Today these 7 senators voted to take America one step closer to the cesspool of socialized, single-payer healthcare. Today they voted to take us one step closer to enshrining the much-maligned VA medical system and making it the law of the land for all Americans, like it or not. Today, I am ashamed to call myself a Republican. I'll shall never refer to myself as such again.
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