The same applies to the 2nd Amendment..

But that doesn't stop the Left Wingery from yapping and yapping about it..

Michale

Just like all your cheery picked polls are opinion polls..

You just don't like the poll because it doesn't say what you want it to say..

If ya'all want to go with solely the RCP Poll Of Polls daily average, I am game for that..

Michale

Trump's numbers CONTINUE to rise while Clinton's continue to sink... :D

CLINTON UP BY A SINGLE POINT
http://cesrusc.org/election/

So... We went from Clinton up by 12 to 15 to Clinton up by 7 to 9 to Clinton up by 3 or 4 to Clinton up by only a SINGLE POINT...

Trump has COMPLETELY erased Clinton's bump.... :D

Do those who have CONSTANTLY predicted Trump's demise in the last couple days what to admit that they were wrong.. *AGAIN*

{{{chhirrrrrrpppppppp}} {{{chirrrrrrpppppppp}}}

Didna think so.. :D

Michale

Star Trek: Discovery: Everything We Know About the New Series
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/community/post/star-trek-discovery-everything-we-know-about-the-new-series-9360086168981030566/

My thoughts??

Diversity SOLELY for diversity's sake really REALLY sucks..

Making a Trek series that is NOT Captain-centric?? Stoopid... They had to make SISKO a Captain to get DS9 ratings back up..

Kudos for making the series in the Prime Universe as opposed to the Kelvin Universe. Double Kudos for creating the distinction meme :D

Not real thrilled about the setting being between STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE and STAR TREK TOS... Caveat on the lack of thrilled-ness if they can create awesome back-stories that dovetail nicely with TOS, as ENTERPRISE did with the whole KLINGON/LOBSTER HEAD issue... Would have preferred to see something POST-VOYAGER, but it's not a total wash if they can create awesome back-stories...

All in all, I'll watch it if it comes out in torrents, but am already turned off by all the political correctness that is ooozing from the announcements..

The original Star Trek CHALLENGED the Status Quo and slammed up against Political Correctness and conventional wisdoms..

This new series, if the announcements are any indication, is going to WALLOW in Political Correctness and the status quo... :^(

Anyways, just wanted to throw that out there...

Michale

ISIS operative Shaykh Mahmood Omar Khabir has reportedly been training militants near the US border near Ciudad Juarez for the past year.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/isis-terrorist-tells-feds-jihadist-brothers-mexico/

Ya'all just HAVE to know that Hillary, Odumbo and the Demcorats are going take a massive hit in the polls when these terrorists start streaming across the borders and hitting their various targets....

Donald Trump's numbers are going to skyrocket and he will win in a landslide...

Michale

"Let it go, Let it go...
Can't hold it back anymore...."
-Let It Go, FROZEN

:D

Michale

I have a comment stuck in the NNL filter... Could ya set it free?? :D

Michale

Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital. … For all these reasons, next year’s tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital."
-Donald Trump

Once again, I see nothing wrong with this...

Michale

Right?? :D

If it makes ya feel any better, I am kinda bummed that it was you that got snared in my little trap.. :)

Michale

They will think their best chance to make Hillary a one term President will be obstructionism. In the current climate, if Trump were to win but the Senate were to go Democratic (unlikely), the Democrats would do exactly the same thing.

Now yer making MY arguments!! :D

My work here is nearly complete... :D

We are at an impasse from a governing perspective and there is plenty of blame to go around. Mostly we need to blame ourselves, we have divided ourselves into Red and Blue, and the Internet has given us the ability to reflect our worldview back to us and justify our prejudices while vilifying "the others".

WOW...

WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH OUR NEIL!!!!???

will result them losing the Senate and the House eventually (2020 or 2024 probably).

Not necessarily...

A lot can happen that would put the Demcorat Party in the shithouse for a millennium...

Michale

Ooops... I made a mistake... My bust...

"We need to get rid of anchor babies. No sane country would decree that a child of illegal immigrants was a citizen just because he was conveniently born on its soil.”
-Harry Reid

There.. Now it's factually accurate..

So, now you would say that "Reid can't change it just because he and his band of fanatics don't like it"

Right?? :D

Michale

I ask ya'all..

What's the problem with that???

It's unconstitutional, Michale. Trump can't change it just because he, you and his band of fanatics don't like it; you'all will need an amendment to change it.

We are at an impasse from a governing perspective and there is plenty of blame to go around. Mostly we need to blame ourselves, we have divided ourselves into Red and Blue, and the Internet has given us the ability to reflect our worldview back to us and justify our prejudices while vilifying "the others".

Fortunately for the Democrats, demographics are against a white Christian nativist party (aka the GOP), so even with the gerrymandering to keep the House, and the off-year national election turnout that favors Republicans, the rejection of Latinos, Blacks, Muslims, Asians, etc. etc. will result them losing the Senate and the House eventually (2020 or 2024 probably).

I ask ya'all..

What's the problem with that???

Michale

Trump is playing the media and the Demcorat Party like a well-used fidddle.. :D

Michale

"Yea!!! Ain't it kewl!!"
-John Travolta, BROKEN ARROW

:D

Michale

And many Democrats will insist that Trump has no mandate to govern.. They will constantly try to de-legitimize him and do everything in their power to make sure he's a one-term president...

What's the point???

Michale

I think I heard Mitch McConnell actually say that on TV about seven and a half years ago ...

Only if she lets herself be hounded by it.

Judging by how she has run her campaign since becoming the official Democratic nominee for president, I think she'll let herself be hounded by it. :(

It's too bad her very own explainer-in-chief has, for all intents and purposes, had to take himself out of that role due to his own actions, recently and otherwise.

By the way, look for an insightful essay in the next Foreign Affairs issue by none other than Vice President Biden. And, with any luck, that won't be the last we hear from him before November.

This morning's headline:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/08/11/daily-202-hillary-clinton-s-agenda-would-flounder-in-congress-here-are-seven-reasons-why/57abd94bcd249a2fe363ba11/

He lists seven points. Point #3:

Many Republicans will insist Clinton has no mandate to govern. They will try constantly to de-legitimize her and do everything in their power to make sure she’s a one-term president.

Gee, I think I just read that somewhere...

:-)

-CW

Unrelated to the commentary, but I know that it's of interest to you....

CBS News Source: Marijuana To Remain Classified As Dangerous Drug In U.S.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/CBS News) — An announcement is expected Thursday that the federal government has rejected petitions to loosen the classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no medical use, CBS News reported.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/08/11/marijuana-classification/

On the positive side, the government IS going to allow more medical research.....

Just thought you would be interested...

Michale

Liberal attacks on Trump are so unhinged, it might get him killed
http://nypost.com/2016/08/10/liberal-attacks-on-trump-are-so-unhinged-it-might-get-him-killed/

Looks like someone at the Post agrees with me...

"TAKE THAT!!! Bembridge scholars!!!"
-Rachel Weisz, THE MUMMY

:D

Michale

A sidebar question about your model prompted by your comment No. 3 in the 3 Dot-Tuesday column:

Is there a structure to State behaviors or do States behave independently in your model?

My random simulation model partitions the random variance of all 50 States and D.C. into 2 components: a National Component common to all 50 States and D.C., and a Local component that varies from location to location. The rational is to simulate the fact that States tend to move as a herd, every year is to some extent a "wave election." As a practical matter, this matters not for most States, which have probabilities of voting Democrat very close to 1 and 0. For the small number of competitive states ("swing states") it's a big deal, it gives the underdog candidate a better chance of "running the table" of Swing States. Underdog Trump can gain or lose about 5% probability of winning the election depending on how high I set the local variance factor. Historically, the % of local variance on election day seems to be roughly in the range of 30% to 50%

If the local factor is set to zero, (100% wave election) there is no need to run the sim. Just arrange the States in rank order of their voting Democrat, one at the top, zero at the bottom, with the running sum of their electoral votes tabulated to the right of each State. The probability of the Democrat winning the election is the same as the probability associated with the State bring the electoral total to 270 or more. Due to the structure of the US electoral map, this Quick and Dirty model is a pretty good approximation of my random sim.

Of course... Stewart has a '-D' after his name.... :^/

Michale

If it starts looking like Trump will actually WIN the election, then all the "dog whistles" ya'all and the entirety of the Left Wingery, and some on the RIGHT Wingery have been blowing will give ample justification to anyone who would want to take out Trump...

No one here (NEN) seems to have a problem with THOSE dog whistles, eh??

"Gee!! I wonder why that is!!!"
-Kevin Spacey, THE NEGOTIATOR

Michale

What I thought was an even more dangerous and irresponsible remark was Trump talking about how the entire election is obviously going to be "rigged" if he doesn't win.

And along those same lines, the talk from the Left Wingery that Trump is "unstable" and "can't be trusted with nuclear weapons" and "Trump is likely to start a war that will destroy the planet" etc etc etc...

Isn't THAT talk just as "dangerous" and "irresponsible"???

Ever see THE DEAD ZONE with Christopher Walken???

Michale

So only white people own guns???

Hmmmm.. That sounds a bit.. yunno... racist... :^/

Once again, I would ask you to step back and look how absolutely and unequivocally BIGOTED your comment is...

I would ask.. But I know it would be for naught.. :^/

Michale

Just as Democrats tried to do the same thing with Bush.. Siding with Al Qaeda against the President over practically EVERY issue...

That's not a "sound political strategy" as much as it is TREASON!

Then you agree that Demcorats working against Bush was ALSO "treason"??

No??

Of course not.. :^/

Michale

Yer absolutely right, Stig!!

NO ONE should vote for Trump because he can't play volleyball and he is ugly!!!

{{sssiiggggghhhhhh}}

I wish you could take a step back from yourself and see how utterly inane and ridiculous your comments are...

But I guess this is what passes for "serious" discussions around here...

Trump's double chin and fat ass... :^/

Michale

OR by Demcorat candidates...

But at the same time, I think this'll blow over in the same way almost all of Trump's off-the-cuff remarks have already blown over.

Yup... Much ado about nothing...

All along I've been saying that Hillary's campaign has been peddling one particular fantasy to her supporters, the idea that she will "get things done" because she'll be so much better at "working with Congress" than that pie-in-the-sky dreamer Bernie Sanders (or, now, Donald Trump). She paints the picture of congressional compromise in glowing colors, and for the most part her supporters seem to believe it could become reality. I don't, to put it mildly.

Yup...

Those on the right simply hate it whenever any Democrat occupies the Oval Office. Period. Plain and simple.

As do those on the Left...

If Hillary Clinton wins, Donald Trump has already signaled that he's going to do everything he can to delegitimize her victory.

Just as, if Trump wins, Hillary (and every Demcorat on the planet) is going to do everything they can to delegitimize HIS victory...

Bill Clinton worked through this problem twice, and Hillary can work through it as well.

We have ALL agreed that Hillary is no Bill....

Michale

In contrast, John Stewart has aged very gracefully.

http://politistick.com/watch-donald-trump-play-beach-volleyball/

Most law makers work extremely hard to get any piece of legislation that they introduce through Congress in the hopes that it might be signed into law by the President. It is a BIG DEAL when that happens, and is an honor that members of Congress strive to achieve. That is why is was historically unheard of for legislators to vote against legislation that they, themselves, had introduced, but ONLY AFTER Obama had indicated that he would sign it into law if it made it to his desk!

The fact that the Republicans bragged about how hard they worked to prevent legislation that would be viewed as positive to most Americans from passing still makes me angry. They only admitted to this because they believed they had cost Obama his re-election bid and wanted the credit for it! They boasted of intentionally voting against the best interests of their constituents and this country out of a desire to prevent Obama from getting the credit for signing good legislation into law!!! That's not a "sound political strategy" as much as it is TREASON! I do believe that most Republican supporters would rather they do their jobs and work towards passing good laws than to work to make life as bad as possible for Americans so people might vote for them next election!

Alas, you are spot on about the mandate problem. It's going to be a problem. It matters not that Clinton plays well with others. The others don't play well with others.

Trump's whistle was slyly aimed at a very specific demographic. White male, 20-26, IQ 75-85, looking for a father figure, easily led, lives in his mom's basement, with a respectable number of firearms and a few thousand rounds of ammunition.

John Warnock Hinckley Jr. is a about to be released... I don't know, but some people are probably thinking: Hinckley dinkly parlez vous.

Well, the Republicans would never make that accusation. When there was talk about the Orange One arriving at the RNC short of a majority, they were all about the one with the most votes. They even hate Cruz now.