Ruminations – 10may17 (updated 14may17)

George Rebane

Comey is fired, and as pundits on both sides are now discovering that it was for the reasons apparent to (almost) all of us on RR last July (here, here, and here for openers).  Those who still think the dismissal of this well-dressed doofus will affect ongoing FBI investigations are just whistling past the graveyard.

‘To Set Prices, Stores Turn to Algorithms’ (9may17 WSJ)  Well, no sh!t Red Ryder.  Another belated and breathless discovery by under-educated journalists (and editors).

‘A Philosopher gets Pilloried’ reports on Professor Rebecca Tuvel being attacked by her ultra-left colleagues in academia for daring to generalize inquiries based on accepted specific questions such as “why society is increasingly willing to embrace people who identify as “transgender,” even as it rejects those who identify as “transracial.” Why laud Caitlyn Jenner while vilifying Rachel Dolezal ?”  Read the article to see the next level of what may only be called rabid insanity that lies at the heart of the attack she is currently under.  Jillian Kay Melchior of Heat Street notes that “it’s her opponents on the progressive left that this saga should really frighten. Their reaction suggests their ideas can’t withstand even the most basic critical scrutiny. Such fragile principles (of the Left) aren’t persuasive or enduring.”

[update]  The Canning of Comey Cauldron boils over.  Liberals, nationally and in these pages, have again evoked their ‘gruberized American voter’ audience for which they are playing all versions of ‘Comey was fired to stop the FBI from discovering dirt on Trump’.  You really have to believe that the electorate is stupid to float that one since Comey was not a material participant in or contributor to the FBI’s ongoing investigations, merely the politically clumsy head of the bureau who couldn’t keep his foot out of his mouth.  That both Republican and Democrat MoCs demand the continuance of these investigations has settled the matter in the minds of the more discerning.  But that makes no never mind to leftwing worthies ranging from Chuck Schumer to some of our own commenters – the national Dump Trump chorus must not skip a beat.

Pot Panel Lists to Port.  The county’s panel to recommend its new marijuana ordnance was completed by the Supes yesterday.  Republican Chairman Bob Hren and other conservatives pointed out the obvious list of the 14 originally accepted panelists that included nary a person from the Right.  In response, the BoS decided to appoint two more to the panel, one of whom is Mr Don Bessee, Executive Director of the Northern California chapter of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, RR reader, and frequent commenter in these pages.  We hope that Mr Bessee will keep RR readers up to date with the panel’s doings, and maybe even contribute a byline commentary now and then on his views about the arrival of legalized RMJ in Nevada County.  (more here)

‘The Left’s War on Free Speech’ has a long history which is neatly summarized by WSJ editorial board member and national columnist Kim Strassel.  It is published in the April 2017 Imprimis of Hillsdale College where she spoke earlier this year.  There Ms Strassel not only highlights the tremendous damage that the Left is doing to our national wellbeing with their vitriolic and often violent opposition to free speech in our public forums, but also provides some important remedies still available to those Americans who hold our Constitution dear.

[11may17 update]  NPR is prominent among the lamestream outlets in keeping up the now obligatory daily Trash Trump narrative of progressive politics.  This morning it did a thorough job in reporting on another Republican MoC’s townhall, this one in New Jersey.  The audio recorded the totally one-sided comments by the audience marbled with the loud boos, shouts, and hisses from the audience that drowned out the congressman’s words.  The NPR correspondent’s copy again represented the gathering as comprised of a typical cross section of America, instead of a hall packed full of carefully selected, organized, imported (as needed), and ideologically homogeneous crowd of leftwingers.  The beat goes on.

We all know why the Dems are screaming for special prosecutors for every imaginable investigation that may involve President Trump, don’t we?  What better taxpayer funded circus to continue dunning the administration as operating under the shadow of potential criminality while diverting America’s attention to what the Republicans actually accomplish between now and the 2018 elections?

RR has long advised its readers that the ACLU is a leftwing institutional mouthpiece.  With the current post-election rabid radicalization of what is now the Alt-Left, ACLU has compliantly shifted its public stance to where it is unabashedly the voice of progressivism.  This shift is described in the most delicate of terms by Wendy Kaminer and Alan Dershowitz, two of ACLU’s former board members, in their ‘Where’s the ACLU When You Need It?’  There we read how “its new guard reflects the left’s turn against liberal values and toward progressive politics.”  Of course, the grassroots progressives know nothing of this as also confirmed by the outpourings from our own local liberal leftwingers.

Merrick Garland as the new FBI Director, so suggests Sen Mike Lee (R-UT).  What a great idea.  As a former federal prosecutor, the man is very qualified for the job.  And his nomination by President Trump should either quiet the Left’s narrative that he’s trying to monkey with FBI’s investigations, or put an enjoyable twist in their knickers to see how they will then attempt to continue that line of propaganda and fake news releases (e.g. Comey asking for more resources for Russia investigation which were denied).  In any event, Judge Garland’s nomination should put a cork into the demands for special prosecutors.  It would be hard for Team Chuckie to deny the professionalism and objectivity of Obama’s candidate for SCOTUS and oppose his confirmation.

[14may17 update]  Garland for FBI Director gains momentum.  Now Senate majority leader McConnell is picking up on Judge Garland nomination (here).

Comments

[Account Deleted]

The article on Prof Tuvel is pay-walled, but NR has the same story.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447419/rebecca-tuvel-controversy-campus-radicals-free-speech-social-justice
I've had the same questions about this nonsense of folks deciding to 'become' a different sex and thinking that the rest of society must go along with their delusions and even further, that I must 'celebrate it'.
If a person can entertain that delusion, why not any other sort of fantasy? Age, national origin, weight, height - you name it.
If Mike wants to put on a dress and call himself Mary - it's none of my concern.
But he has to buy his own dress.

[Russ]

A sampling from the progressive idiots, aka Democrats.

-- @SenKamalaHarris: "I've said it before and will again - we must have a special prosecutor to oversee the FBI's Russia investigation. This cannot wait."

-- @RepAdamSchiff: "Firing of Comey tainted by extraordinary conflict of interest. Independent prosecutor must be appointed to restore any public confidence."

-- @RepEricSwalwell: "This is not what an innocent person would do. Firing the guy investigating #RussianHacking -- without cause -- is consciousness of guilt."

-- @RepBarbaraLee: "The Trump Administration is in shambles. What is this Administration trying to hide? An independent commission is needed now! #TrumpRussia"

-- @GavinNewsom: "Trump does Nixon better than Nixon did Nixon."

These are the same people who gave Hillary and her team a pass for breaking national security regulations with an unauthorized private server harboring sensitive classified information. This is where an Independent prosecutor is required, not if Trump concluded with the Russians.

[Bill Tozer]

This Comey thang is as interesting as watching paint dry. The duplicity of the Alt-Left continues unabated as they have lost their last lifeline to reality.

https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10154694677805914/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1085417988258904/?type=3&theater

Finally, someone who can put two and two together.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/10/rand-paul-comey-firing-dems-pushing-huge-myth-about-trump-russia

[George Rebane]

BillT 1007am - What continues to amaze me Mr Tozer is how the Dems are able continue diverting attention to dubiously impactive matters about which there has been no supporting evidence found over the course of long investigations, and all the while ignoring the existential crimes of 'Hillary's emails' discovered, reported, and subsequently covered up, crimes that even their Dem colleagues claim (from the other side of their mouths) impacted the election.

[Paul Emery]

George

trump continues to lose the confidence of the American people as evidenced bu the consensus RCP polls that show him with an astonishing -10.8 % support based on averaging all polls. My guess is he knows that this investigation can take him down and he took that astonishing move yesterday to slow the process down. His polls will take a big slide after this because no one believes that Comey got canned because of the Hillary deal.

My goodness he's desperate,

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html

[fish]

Schemer makes Harry Reid seem competent....that's saying something!

Schumer's Greatest Flip-Flop Yet

0944ET: "What should happen now, what must happen now, is that Mr. Rosenstein appoints a special prosecutor to oversee this investigation."

1500ET: "I have serious doubts over Rosenstein's impartiality... he shouldn't appoint the special prosecutor."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-10/schumers-greatest-flip-flop-yet

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump is doing a fine job. Just like Bush. But when the information is all coming from leftwing fake news poeople, you get this result. If the press was as nice to Trump as they were to the failed Obama, Trump would be at 65% in favor.

[Paul Emery]

Todd

"Just like Bush"

What a stupid thing to say Todd. Bush was +36 in the polls after 100 days and Trump is in the dregs running -10,8. Stunning 42% difference You may like him but that is a minority, unprecedented in modern history for a new President.

[George Rebane]

re PaulE's 1233pm - Here we see an intriguing metric for measuring the performance of POTUS - it is simply the selected polling result number and its interpretation by the selecting apologist. No other factors need be considered. Simple enough for the simple. One could, of course, ask which polling numbers taken when with what questionnaire administered to what sample size, etc; but that would unnecessarily complexify such a simple matter as a universally accepted assessment of POTUS' performance.

[Paul Emery]

George

the polling systems used in the comparison are pretty much the same. Of course the respect and acceptance of a President by the American public is important to their success. You better believe the |Trump team is freaked out about this and are bracing for the storm to come after Trump's latest escapade.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 108pm - Polling systems are vastly different as confirmed by the variance of their results. Nevertheless, evaluating the performance of anything depends on how such performance satisfies the evaluator's utility or fitness function. All utility functions are subjective in that they hue to the current deicticity of the evaluator's current ontology - or overly simplified, beauty is in the eye of the beholder at the time of beholding. But if you prefer the more sophisticated interpretation, please review -
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2017/04/how-deictic-is-your-ontology.html

[Paul Emery]

George

The numbers I used are average of all major polls compiled by RCP and the comparison to Bush is of the average at that time. Are actually contending that Trump is a popular President and the poll numbers aren't important?

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

A blast from the past. Gotta love the interwebs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wPvURDazMk

[George Rebane]

PaulE 125pm - Wow! Another one of your 'have you stopped beating your wife?' questions. I'm not sure whether this is fun or a toothache in disguise.

Your answer tells me that you didn't understand my 120pm. And wherever did you get the notion that I was "contending" anything to do with Trump's popularity?!! What is it between your ears that allows you to bounce off of widely disparate walls of logic with such gay abandon?

But I do hope that our little thread here is providing at least a smidgen of entertainment for non-participating readers ;-)

[Don Bessee]

Fresh on the heels of botox Nancy Pelosi flip flopping on the former FBI director the Dali Lama gets in the mix. The Dali Lama said he would pray for botox Nancy to 'shed her negative attitude.' ;-)

[Todd Juvinall]

Paul Emery | 10 May 2017 at 12:33 PM

What a stupid thing for you to say. If a person likes someone, something you may not have ever experienced, why do you think they would toss that person under the bus on your pretense? I personally did well under Bush. I did not do well under Obama. I guess when your business is dependent on handouts from the government you may have a different view. But to think just becasue a person may be under 50% in polls means I judge them as a failure is ludicrous. I think Trump and Bush are good Presidents. And as I have said many times and you always fail to acknowledge (youdon't read or comprehend very well) if you were bashed everyday by the press, the people will end up beelving it. Go preach your hate elsewhere, you are so tiresome and predicatable.

[Bill Tozer]

https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10154694595740914/?type=3&theater

[Walt]

IF there was anything on Trump, it would have been leaked by now. Comey was playing politics. Hillary had a mountain of evidence against her, yet Comey let her slide.(LIB powers that be didn't let him, and the DOJ wasn't going to do anything anyway. So Comey has an excuse there.) He should have resigned. That would have really made "O"and Co. look bad.
" Hay,, they won't give me any powers to do anything. So why should I even try?"

LIBs are all buttsore Trump is cleaning house, and getting rid of the dead wood. Tough.
Trump will be Trump, and not play to the media. He will do what he believes best for the nation.
In the mean time, every LIB looking to make a name for his or her self, id filing lawsuits for everything under the sun. From boarder protection, to coal mining.(ECO nuts out to stop mines from reopening...You know,,AGW.)

[George Rebane]

Walt 452pm - your point is an important one to reprise now. Had ANYONE in the United States of America, on Earth, or in this solar system had anything really bad on Trump, they would have announced or leaked it way before now. Most certainly that would be true of anyone who wanted Hillary to be inaugurated last January. Having exhausted all other avenues of succor and support, many of secular humanist socialists must by now have availed themselves to the remaining reason behind Pascal's wager (q.v.) for ultimate supplication.

[Paul Emery]

George

Polling results are significant when compared to similar time structures. The polling numbers show comparisons for the first 100 days. Trump is the lowest in history and incredibly behind the last Republican effort George Bush. What more is there to evaluate on this item? Are there other evaluation possibilities sure. Bring them forth.

Is there more on Trump? Who knows but if there is you can beter believe the Russians have all they need do further destabilize him at their whim.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 547pm - Well, that is another bagatelle of 1) nothing to do with my commentary, and 2) one more rehash of evidence-free fervent hope for change.

[Don Bessee]

Po' ol' pollhead PE in high froth, and I mean high. 'the Russians have all they need do further destabilize him..." ;-)

[Gregory]

Paul 5:47 and yet a major poll released a couple weeks ago confirmed that as of that time, Trump would still win the Electoral College vote *and* would win the popular vote 43 to 40.

Your one note sambas are as tedious now as they were over a year ago.

[Walt]

Right on time. Ol' bat Maxine shows her double standard.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/05/10/maxine_waters_i_dont_support_trump_firing_comey_i_would_support_hillary_clinton_firing_comey.html

Yup, it be OK if Hillary had fired him if she wound up Prez,, but when Trump does it, " I smells a rat!"

[Bill Tozer]

Walt, Trump sure is trolling them. Stuck his finger up their nostril and is leading them around in circles, with them crying louder and louder with each step of the way. Mercy.

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1085416601592376/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/848186308664926/?type=3&theater

[Bill Tozer]

Drain the Swamp. Bye-bye #2.

https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/847843262032564/?type=3&theater

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

re: [email protected]:28PM

"Your one note sambas are as tedious now as they were over a year ago."

The Paulbot, while a simple enough troll, does have the advantage of driving traffic to the site. If things slow down, some bit of poll data or Trumphate can easily cause a number of predictable responses.

Heck, I'd like to hear more about his 3000-deductible-and-if-you-need-an-owie-fixed-go-to-Yubadocs thoroughly thought out medical system, but that ain't gonna happen.

[Russ]

Glenn Reynolds: "I continue to think it eminently possible that the whole Russian-collusion thing was hatched after Hillary lost because there was so much illicit spying on the Trump campaign."

I think law professor Reynolds' insight is spot on. It is the simplest explanation for the lack of evidence there was any collusion. Given how leak prone Washington DC is if there was any smoking gun evidence of collusion, it would have leaked by now.

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

re: [email protected]:21AM

Obviously, another reason for ginning up the Russian foofaraw is to draw away attention from HRC's illegal behavior and the DNC's dirty doings (not to mention the Weiner/Abedin mess, why on earth do we give power to people like that?). There's a need to double down on those pesky Russkies in order to draw away attention.

The truth is that the Clintons aren't a bit more sleazy than the Kennedys or LBJ, there's just more opportunities for exposing the inner workings to the public. Generally, I expect we'll have to become more forgiving of our lords and masters as the total surveillance society kicks in.

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

I just had to share this one:

Fraternity reported for ‘bias incident’ of wearing construction outfits on May 5

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32546/

lol. The Green Libertarians are on a roll these days.

[Paul Emery]

George

Did Don Bessee originally apply to be on the mmj panel? Don, you also can answer that question.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 925am - Have no clue about DonB, but I considered applying before coming to my senses and recalling that I would have a snowball's chance in hell of being impaneled. I have suffered the same fate all my life when answering the call to jury duty.

[Bill Tozer]

1). We still have not found out who requested the unmasked names from Susan Rice and who leaked them. A crime has been committed and no investigation. Lest we forget, Comey is under investigation by the IG. Just saying.

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1086010854866284/?type=3&theater

2) For Scenes. Reminiscent of The Rolling Stones fake campus gang rape story. It didn't happen, but it could have.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/racist-note-that-triggered-massive-protest-at-st-olaf-college-was-fabricated/?mod=sm_fb_post

3). Them progressives do what them progressives always do. I hope they cling to Idenity Politics with all their might and never ever let go. Never get tired of winning and never get tired of enjoying their implosion. The gift that keeps on giving.

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1086010301533006/?type=3&theater.

[Paul Emery]

George

I'll do what I can to find out about Bessee if he doesn't respond. The thoughts, if true, that the Supes felt compelled to add members to the committee that didn't apply to achieve some kind of balance due to outside pressure is disturbing. Kinda like the Dems "super delegates" that plagued Bernie.

[Don Bessee]

Ah, the fakenewsman perpetuating the party parrot line again. Watch the video of the BOS for yourself po' ol' PE. ;-)

[Paul Emery]

Don

What "party" am I parroting?

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

re: [email protected]:13AM

" Converting wineries into pot farms?"

It looks to me like it wouldn't take much. A couple of minutes of googling, just to get a quick estimate, gives me something like all US marijuana use could be done on 10% of California winery acreage.

[George Rebane]

Scenes 1139am - Ah, but Mr Scenes, that is a very stasist perspective. Can we not anticipate the joys of a greatly expanded market?

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

re: [email protected]:48AM

A quick history lesson on marijuana.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBjuicpUrE

[Paul Emery]

George Washington was an industrial hemp grower. Growing hemp for industrial purposes is still against Federal law except for a few experimental projects.

Gosh George, do you think Trump will reverse that, being against regulations and all that stumm?

http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-man-the-myth/george-washington-grew-hemp

[fish]

Your "feel good" headline of the day!

#CorrineBrown now faces more than 300 years in prison and $4.8 million in fines

http://twitchy.com/sd-3133/2017/05/11/its-about-time-former-dem-rep-corrine-brown-guilty-on-multiple-corruption-charges/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget

[Paul Emery]

Unbelievable

Trump allows Russian photographers to take photo's INSIDE the White House after banning the American Press. My goodness!!!

"Photos of Wednesday's meeting, taken by a Russian state news media photographer one day after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey amid questions about possible Trump campaign collusion with Moscow, were ultimately posted by Russia's news agency, TASS.
The White House did not post photos of the meeting although an official White House photographer was also in the room, the White House said. The State Department did post photos of Lavrov's meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, but that was open to the press."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/oval-office-photos-donald-trump-russians/

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 May 2017 at 02:08 PM

BEHOLD.....as the chief executive trolls the shit out of Green Libertarians™!

[George Rebane]

PaulE 208pm - I think Trump took the reasonable precaution of not wanting lamestream photogs catch him in an awkward pose - you know, like picking his nose or scratching his crotch - and then paste those all over the nation's front pages with phake captions, etc. Just playing a little prudent defense ;-)

[Bill Tozer]

Behold. More fakenews

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/05/fakenews-doj-says-comey-not-ask-deputy-ag-rosenstein-resources-russia-probe/

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1085239321610104/?type=3&theater

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1085243448276358/?type=3&theater

http://conservative101.com/krauthammer-eviscerates-hypocritical-democrats-furious-comey-firing-amazing-video/

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1085536374913732/?type=3&theater

[Paul Emery]

You're kidding me George with this one! Our President gives photo ops to the Russians but denies access to the American press. Wow.

[Todd Juvinall]

He is the President. He can choose.

[Don Bessee]

Po' ol' PE is deep in his fakenewsman roll again, there were official photographers from the WH and the Russian delegation. No news people @ 422. The fakenews set acts soooo entitled. ;-)

[fish]

Posted by: Don Bessee | 11 May 2017 at 05:05 PM

No kidding! It's not like they're going to be less accurate or more biased than the domestic press!

To quote the always invaluable "Instapundit"......"think of the American press as democratic operatives with bylines"!

[George Rebane]

PaulE 422pm - I don't know what Trump's motives were, but tonight on FN's Bret Baer there was a segment which reviewed the last couple of news cycles showing in detailed videos how the all the major lamestream outlets loudly published and doubled down on one after another item of fake news (aka outright lies). I believe that for all intents and purposes our Fourth Estate has folded its tent, and as seen on FBN's Kennedy, has become the integrated instrument of communications for the DNC. The evidence against these shitbag outlets is now so overwhelming that it takes no mediating commentary to make the case. I'll have a lot more to say about that in the coming days. From your comments here, I interpret that you are not aware of any of this - true?

[Paul Emery]

Trump can't handle the pressure and a critical media without flipping out and doing something stupid .
We have never had such a weak President in recorded memory that can't take the heat like Trump . Gonna be fun.

[Paul Emery]

Don

This is from FOX News. There were news people and they were Russian.

"Reporters have pointed out that the photos of Trump and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Amb. Sergey Kislyak were taken by Russian media at the White House, while U.S. media was not invited."

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/05/10/russian-media-posts-photos-trump-and-kremlin-officials

[Account Deleted]

"It would be hard for Team Chuckie to deny the professionalism and objectivity of Obama’s candidate for SCOTUS and oppose his confirmation."
Really? - It doesn't seem too hard for the left to flip on a dime about anything it used to hold sacred.
How hard was it for Mad Maxine to explain with a straight face that Comey had ‘no credibility,’ and should have been fired, yet when Trump did just that, she flips out and complains.
Chuck Schumer is a total pro. He can hold contradicting views 24/7 and the press would buy every line.
Being on the left is all about never having any sort of fixed flag in the ground. It's always 'different' when the subject changes to what conservatives or Republicans do. Beyond abortion, can anyone ever give one single example of anything the left holds fast to?

[Walt]

Paul. Trump isn't doing anything "O" did't do. As they say, "what's good for one..",,
I don't recall you griping then.

[Account Deleted]

from Paul - "Gonna be fun."
It IS fun! No Hilary as POTUS, AGW nonsense done away with, great SCOTUS pick, Lefties all have their undies in a bunch, less illegals, lower fed govt spending, the possibility of saner taxation, social justice BS being de-funded, Comey shown the door - can I go on?

[Bill Tozer]

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1085240831609953/?type=3&theater

No wonder the Leftanistas are in full meltdown mode. It must be Thursday.

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1086279141506122/?type=3&theater

[Paul Emery]

Walt

Didn't vote for Obama second time and was very critical of his foreign policy and especially Obamacare.

Tell me when Obama banned the American press while inviting the Russians to the White House.

[Account Deleted]

from Paul (repeatedly) - "Didn't vote for Obama second time..."
That's like saying you didn't buy the Brooklyn Bridge the next time it was offered to you.
If I were you, Paul, I wouldn't admit I'd ever voted for that total fraud.
Funny how most of us conservatives knew he was a joke.
Could you tell us why you couldn't see that?
Was it the thrill up your leg or the crease of his britches?

[Walt]

You sure keep shining "O"'s shoes Paul, Like I said. You voted for him once, that was more than enough.You OWN it.
"O" rarely let "the press" in. You should know. "O" only had his "own" picture taker.
Come to think of it, I doubt he allowed ANY foreign photographers in on "one on one" meetings. I could be wrong.(but usually not)
So quit your bitching about what Trump does, without seeing what a predecessor did first.

But DO remind us Paul, when was the last time you called for Hillary to be jailed? You now, that mountain of evidence against her? Russian ties,and plenty of pay to play, Podesta's ties to Russia,, nope not a peep from you or the LIBs or LIB press.
It's OK when "they" do it.

[Don Bessee]

State media in a totalitarian state is not media in our sense. They part of Lavrovs entourage.

[Todd Juvinall]

I say Wow! The last few days have been very exciting. President Trump is causing the left to pee their pants as he proceeds to be and act like President should. He reminds me of me in this Comey thing. Since Comey is a will and pleasure employee Trump can fire him for cause or no caused. I did the same thing as a County Supervisor in 1985. And of course the local press and the supporters of those canned were the same. Too bad, so sad. Comey did things wrong and was righty booted. I say this as it goes against my better judgement, but he should never have had the press conference last July 5 on Hillary and her emails. I thought it was unfair. As I did on October 28. But all this angst by the left and their lapdogs , the media, are hilarious. They are showing hysteria and I am laughing. They say it is a coup. So that tells me they have no clue what a clue is. For goodness sakes, a coup is a group trying to boot the executive, not the executive trying to boot himself. And all the fake news today and yesterday. The reporters make the stories up from whole cloth and "anonymous" sources. Saying Comey wanted more money for the investigation. That the Deputy Director would resign and other ridiculous assertions were all debunked by the facts. No wonder the American people distrust the media.

Trump is doing great. Of course he is not a "smooth talking” politician and to me that is his big plus. So even though there is no evidence after 10 months of "collusion" by Trump and his campaign, the media and the loony democrats keep the fake news going. My guess is this will fail as there really is nothing there. And Trump keeps telling them that is the case. But these rabid liars like Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren will keep their lying going. Americans want to get the country moving and the left as represented by the democrats don't care. That will come back to bite them on the ass next election. And the more we send them packing the better off the country will be.

[Walt]

I see where Paul got his info about Don and the MJ fun and games.

Note to Paul. The Scooper needs to be taken with a grain of salt.

Nice write up about Don none the less.

[Bill Tozer]

Todd, when I see a bunch of adults walking about donning vagina hats, Mexicans in LA shouting Trump is not their President (their President is Enrique Peña Nieto), Maxine Waters as the Lefty new rock star, low lives burning the American flag and smashing Starbucks windows, I am more convinced than ever I voted for the right guy.

[Todd Juvinall]

BillT, yes you did. If you only were with me in Berkeley and saw those lowlifes spraying people in the face and knifing others you know you made the right choice.

[Bill Tozer]

Dr. Rebane @5:50 pm.

In retrospect, the Pinko Progressive Potholes did not become the first to go full blown unhinged when Trump fired Comey's sorry behind. Nah, it was the Fake MSM that blew their corks as the news broke and went into full hyperventilating mode first. Thus, another piece of the new hypothesis I am working on. That new hypothensis is the Democrats and Lefties and Socialists (same thing nowadays) are but an extension of the MSM, not the other way around. Anybody with two brain cells left can see who the Dems get their marching orders from.

Even got our own fake newsman all excited and instantly started salivating at the breaking news. He called it fun times ahead. I say it is more fun watching them thinking their ship has finally come in and only to find out, "Drats, foiled again." Never get tired of winning nor hearing the wailing and gnashing of teeth from those without two brain cells left. Music to my ears and warms the cockles of me heart. Fun times indeed! More, I want more. One thing I never had was too much fun. Thankyou fakenews people, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou.

[fish]

Posted by: Paul Emery | 11 May 2017 at 06:32 PM

.......all dope.....no rope!

[Walt]

I don't recall this EVER happening with any Tea Party folk after any town hall meeting.
http://wreg.com/2017/05/11/police-woman-followed-then-threatened-congressman-david-kustoff/

Leave it to a pissed Progressive.

[Paul Emery]

Todd writes " Since Comey is a will and pleasure employee Trump can fire him for cause or no caused. I did the same thing as a County Supervisor in 1985."

Who did you fire in 1985 and did you do it on your own or was it part of an action by the entire Board of Supervisors. I doubt if one Supervisor alone can fire anyone. Of course we're talking about the Sierra Lizard here, a legend in his own mind.

[Todd Juvinall]

Paul Emery | 11 May 2017 at 09:49 PM But Paul my blog has more readers than you do listeners. So take your snark and shove it.

Anyway, none of your business, do your own homework.

[Don Bessee]

Walt @ 801- What do you expect from the fakenewsman who failed to report the intel committee bosses both confirmed that Trump is not under investigation, yes including DIFI! Straight from Comey they said, in executive session no less. Po' ol' PE may need some extended rest after this one. ;-)

[Todd Juvinall]

Oh and Paul Emery, here is a link to your fav polling agency that shows you are the most distruted job in America, just a tad better thab Congress.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx

So I suggest you be careful who you think should be trusted. I am at 75% you are way less.

[Todd Juvinall]

The Union has a article on a "climate change" youth camp today. I see the propaganda and brainwashing of the hoax is now in the schools.

[Paul emery]

Toddm

NID says climate change is the major reason we need to build the new reservoir on the Bear River Have they been brainwashed as well ?

[George Rebane]

PaulE 909am - Paul, NID is a political organization and will grab onto any lever that helps them meet their objective to control the largest amount of surface water available to them. The new reservoir will markedly increase the product they have to sell both locally and to central valley customers. CC is the new hysteria that will garner support from the econuts who otherwise oppose the dam.

Wiser heads (including in NID) know that we need the reservoir because CA's population has grown over the last decades with no addition of water storage capacity, and that CA is the land of floods and droughts that have nothing to do with the claimed preventable manmade global warming. You should know all this, unless you're just trolling ToddJ.

[Todd Juvinall]

Paul Emery, your hoax is well funded as the eco's and others see this pot of money to be had for simply agreeing to the hoax. Regardless, the dam will store water from rain or snow runoff. So it is a win win. And since the hoaxsters supply the money, I say the NID is pretty smart to rake advantage of the largesse.

[Scenery]

Hey dufuses, build the Auburn dam if you need water! Idiot Trumpers!

[Todd Juvinall]

Good idea. I have always supported it. But those eco freaks prevail!

[Paul Emery]

George

Thanks for confirming my 9:09 that NID is using Climate Change as a major justification for a new reservoir.

[Paul Emery]

George

My 11:53 does not imply that man made climate change is an opinion of NID but that Climate Change and global warming is and it is a major part of their reasoning for the new dam to compensate for the anticipated decline of snow pack which is a respectable argument.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 1209pm - No such implication inferred. And as I said (929am), whatever works to get the job done. Today I expand on this here -
http://rebaneruminations.typepad.com/rebanes_ruminations/2017/05/compelling-camouflaged-corporatism.html

[Bill Tozer]

Well, Gov. Brown and crew say we don't need no reservoirs because with Global Warming ready to fry us like a Frito-Lay corn chip, there won't be any water to store, duh. All we need at big tunnels to be built as soon as the Brown Streak to Nowhere gets completed.
Knowing on occassion some things that others here may not know is that at least 16 years ago the Bay Area water companies where up here trying to buy all the water after it left Rollins. NID charged something like 3 bucks an acre foot to Placer who charged like 8-12 bucks a foot for water leaving their jurisdiction, to the next guy who was charging 23 bucks an acre foot to water heading towards the Bay who was charging 56 bucks an acre foot.

Haven't you numbnuts noticed that NID is expanding towards Lincoln? There is water in them thar hills and flatlanders are willing to shell out a lot of green to get some. I don't care what happens to the agua once it leaves the area....as long as they don't rob us to pay the Urban Rats or lock themselves in big delivery contacts. NID is rate payer owned and thus not under the control of the PUC. Sweet. Less regs to build a road if PG&E needs it and NID puts it in their name. Ever hear of the Yuba-Bear project? The Dutch Flat powerhouse? Been in the old loggers' bunkhouse at Bowman? Nice area, but rough roads and I digress.

NID has come a long way since they were going broke in the early 60's and sold Litton that sweet pristine private Jackson Lake and 200 hundred acres for 60k. Bad cell service out on the canoe there. Not open to the public, unless you be a renegade who is off our Great Father in Washington's reservation.

Discussing NID? Why? Ok, how about the Zepher train to be no more? Or, how about this:
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913.80726.51560645913/10154689989165914/?type=3&theater

Oppps. Back to the dam! Sorry.
How about these apples. The matrix is not perfect.

https://cdfgnews.wordpress.com/2017/05/11/pump-failure-kills-fall-run-chinook-salmon-at-feather-river-fish-hatchery-thermalito-facility/

[ScenesFromTheApocalypse]

re: [email protected]:09PM

"new dam to compensate for the anticipated decline of snow pack which is a respectable argument."

Dams don't make water.

[Paul Emery]

Word is Pense is warming up in the bullpen because Trump is showing signs of an emotional breakdown. Stay tuned.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/22/hundreds-mental-health-professionals-warn-america-trump-mentally-ill.html

[Walt]

Now that every lake is full to the brim, all the water in the snowpack will head out to sea. Sooner than later, we will be right back to where we were, yapping about DROUGHT!
And just like the last time, the farmers will feel the bite first.

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump is far from mentally ill. I think you are once again peddling fake news. In fact I have never met a menal health "professional" that was stable and trust worthy. They are all goof balls.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 111pm - This has all the earmarks of a lamestream fake news release. Since you are compliantly and enthusiastically helping spread this, will you acknowledge your role when it turns out that there was no emotional breakdown or any reliable evidence anticipating such a breakdown?

[Paul Emery]

There are professional that are seriously concerned about Trumps mental stability George so it's worth looking at at least. He's a very weird guy which is ok but in my view he's delusional and paranoid. Better believe there are those in his own camp that are keeping an eye on him.

[Todd Juvinall]

Trump is perfectly fine. All these people claiming he isn't have never tried to build a skyscraper so they have no idea how sane you must be to do so. And this meme is all over the news so it is a "talking pount" for the mentally retarded press members.

[Paul Emery]

Now that last one came from the Sierra Lizzrd Todd Juvinall who is saying that as a Supervisor he had to the ability to hire and fire County employees on his own. That, RR readers, is totally delusional which is why he can't produce any documentation to his statement that "Trump can fire him for cause or no caused. I did the same thing as a County Supervisor in 1985" All you have to say Todd is something like "The board of Supervisors....can do the same thing....... One more chance to correct yourself Todd. You can do it. It's ok.

[Don Bessee]

Professionals like Bill Nye the science guy who is not a scientist po' ol' PE? Big deal that there are a hundred or a thousand of em that hate Trump, they probably could spend hours talking about microagressions and unconscious white privilege, reparations and all of the alt lefts most loved themes. Good for NID stealing a talking point to paint the global warming eco warriors into a corner with their own rhetoric. ;-)

[Don Bessee]

Just to be clear fakenewsman, the Director of the FBI is an appointee who absolutely serves at the pleasure of the President. He displeased and now is a former FBI Director. ;-)

[Gregory]

Golly, Paul, you assured me after the election that Trump didn't want to become President and would not go through the immaculation Jan 20, leaving Pence to take the office.

Also, Todd didn't write he unilaterally fired someone without cause as a county supe; that was your error in assuming he did. If as a Supe he voted with a majority to can someone's ass, his statement was literally true. Nice try though.

[Gregory]

PE 4:56

How many of those 'mental health professionals' had bouts of crying jags Nov 9?

Did anyone at KVMR, on air or the folks behind the scenes, seem to have lost their mojo?

You might begin to worry again... what would happen to California party politics if, by November 2018, neither a Trump breakdown or Russian connection are documented and it really does appear many solar physicists are right, and global warming was primarily a 20th century natural phenomenon as will be a 21st century global cooling?

???

[John]

Paul Emery's posts are a graphic demonstration of why the left is getting their ass kicked all over the country. They are generally fools and the American people are slowly but surely coming to see that. We are fortunate to have our own little real time object lesson several times a day right here on RR.

[Todd Juvinall]

Paul Emery | 12 May 2017 at 05:51 PM

Greg's 709 should calm your nerves. Yopu are alway assunimg ad putting words in others mouths. You are the consumate fake newsman and no one here takes what you say as close to a fact.

Your mental health professionals will almost assurdely be 99% democrat and have voted for Hillary. So right off the gitgo since you were so lazy as to not gain that fact your skills are truly unprofessiuonal. So in th future you and your limousine liberal freinds need to try harder.

[Todd Juvinall]

Paul Emery | 12 May 2017 at 05:51 PM

Oh and calling my blog a name is too childish even for you. Grow up.

[Don Bessee]

To show how much Comey has already become a non-issue for the public (not fakenewsen obviously) all one needs to do is to look at social media metrics. In the totality of the Facebook world only 39,000 post mentions were about the fakenews breathless drum beat on all lefty networks all the time. To give you an idea what that means, the Rachel Maddow taxes fiasco had 43,000. SO the thousands of minutes of air time on Comey couldn't event get as many people to care as the old taxes giant bust for Madow. ;-)

[Bill Tozer]

My, things have a way of leveling out. Never get tired of winning.

https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/849396301877260/?type=3&theater

Oh, this should be fun. Yo Paul, save your strength. You gonna need it soon.

https://www.facebook.com/RowdyConservatives/photos/a.217983685002343.55586.217926015008110/1086627494804620/?type=3&theater