New Book:
 | GOP | DEM |
| Republican +5 | 220 | 215 |
TEXAS POLL – Fox News (C-)
GOVERNOR
🟥 Greg Abbott (inc): 50%
🟦 Gina Hinojosa: 49%
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🟦 James Talarico: 51%
🟥 Ken Paxton: 48%
Fox News | July 23-27 | RV
MICHIGAN POLL – Senate
🟥 Mike Rogers: 42%
🟦 Abdul El-Sayed: 41%
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🟦 Haley Stevens: 44%
🟥 Mike Rogers: 42%
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12% of Stevens primary voters say they would back Rogers if she loses the primary to El-Sayed.
SoCal Strategies (B) | 7/28-30 | LV
FL-08 POLL
🟥 Mike Haridopolos (inc): 51%
🟦 Jennifer Jenkins: 42%
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Inquire LLC (R) | 7/27-29 | LV
Phil, exactly. Fox News has a horrible track record. And if Abbot is up by more than one, and he is, the poll is also good news for Paxton.
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Agreed, DW.
In other news, how about the Spanish city of Ceuta being overrun by 60,000 North African migrants (in 24 hours). Looting stores and destroying the city. That socialist PM is a piece of work. Take a long hard look. This is a preview of what the socialists have in mind once they implement their no borders policy here in America.
“This is a preview of what the socialists have in mind once they implement their no borders policy here in America.”
And it will be much worse than that. Everyone needs to read The Iron Broom book I linked above.
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Well, up all night and still no luck in finding all the free this and that and goofy socialist/community stuff in the Dec. of Ind and constitution.
Goofball called early this morning to see if I could tax his butt to see the doctor as he has a sorr throat.. No dice…getting ready for soiree.
So unfortunately I have nothing on calendar dar for tomorrow so I will be driving Mr. Goofball on Sat.
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James Talarico is winning 68% on independents according to the Fox poll. Not buying it.
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Bitter,
Your idea to have a character In the musical about the ancient cliffdwellers being a prostitute named Heidi Hoe is excellent.
I will see about workering her in…
Maybe I will also have some Indiann twins named Hardy Hahr Har and Hardy Hee Har. Sons of Paw He Haw and Maw HE Haw
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“This is a preview of what the socialists have in mind once they implement their no borders policy here in America.”
On second thought, it could go the other way. Where they keep the wall and security, so that none of US can get out. Bernie Sanders already signaled support for Trump securing the border as something good going forward.
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Goofball called early this morning to see if I could tax his butt“
Some things are beyond the call of duty, Walt.
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TWO (or actually 3) NEW characters in the musical about the ancient cliff dwellers. ..
Duke Skywalker while vacationing on a beach in the Gulf of Mexico (aka Gulf of Trump) watches a big ship sink offshore. He is stunned to see a cow (who had been cargo on the doomed shipwreck) splashing and swimming toward shore. Duke helps rescue the cow and calls her Splash Cow. He rides her back to the Grand Canyon.
Duke Skywalker becomes enamored with the chief’s daughter, Princess Sleah.
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things like this are why you don’t get invitations to the soirees.”
Snifff…
Was just trying to be helpful and save you from butt taxing.
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Heidi Hoe is excellent.
I will see about workering her in…”
Has Mrs. Walt given you a waiver on “workering” the hooker in yet?
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So Buffune trusted schumah to make a deal to avoid a shutdown? This after last years lengthy shutdown
Rs need better leadership. Not leadership that retreats and surrenders.
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One of the sub-story lines is that the obstacle to Duke Skywalker wining the hand of Princess Sleah is a rich Indian by the name of Hulett Plackard.
He became wealthy by copywriting the most popular pictrogtaph designs and required other Indians who wanted to use those designs to pay him one dead lizard and 5 bird feathers for each pictrogtaph they put up.
Hulett Plackard then made and sold tasty lizard stew and fried lizard fingers and had many lizard stew/finger franchises up and down the cliffs.
He also made and sold feather stuffed pillows. He also got the defense contract to make arrows for the tribe, and implied first dibs on Chief Charlie Cumquat’s daughter Princess Sleah. He continually gave her the finger and stew of lizard and fluffy pillows. Hulett’s wealth went to his head and he became a snooty, condescending liberal.
Huwett Plackard lived in a big 3 story kiva located in the best part of the cliffs.
Duke’s assets were his wit and pluck and his talking cow. [Duke taught the cow to talk on the long ride from the Gulf of Mexico to the Grand Canyon.]
The Indians had never seen a cow before so THAT was really something. It really did not impress them that the cow talked, as they assumed all cows probably could talk…
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Another sub storyline is about Ine Eyed Eddie and wooden legged Patsy Swine.
At the Saturday night dance down at the creek bottom, Patsy was hobbling along as she manned the peyote beer stand. Eddie thought the hitch in her get a long as she walked was sexy and it caught his eye.
He went to the bar and asked for a glass of fruit punch. Patsy said “If you want that, you have to wait line.” He looked around and then realized… there was no punch line.
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Then shy One Eyed Eddie got up enough courage to walk across the dance area and ask wooden leg Patsy if she wanted to dance. She was delighted and said,”Oh, wouldn’t i”! Which self conscious Eddie heard as “old wooden eye”…so he got offended and fired back a nasty commen about her wooden leg…so this interaction got off on the wrong foot.
Eventually, they overcame the misunderstanding….and gor kind of sweet on each other.
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Eddie invited Patsy Swine up to hs ledge where he built a fire for them to sit beside while the stargazer and talked.
Patsy got to close to the fire and her leg caught fire.
Another time they were laying on the cliff having a picnic and a rattlesnake suddenly appeared. Eddie pulled off her wooden leg and beat the snake to death. But it caused ot to have a big crack in addition to char marks from the fire the week before.
Eddie repaired the wooden leg the best he could with honey and dirt and vine twine. But it looked awful. Then she woke up one morning and discovered termites had begun living in her leg.
Eddie decided he had to make her a new and improved leg and toss the other one…before the termites migrated to his wooden eye.
Party decided to whittle a new and better fake eye for Eddie. She used a white ash and glued a black round stone in a hole she make for the eyeball pupil that matched Eddie’s good eye.
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Another sub story line…
Polly Darton (who looks very much like an Indian version 0f Dolly Parton) a d Cliff Dweller (who looks like Cliff Montgomery).
Polly was a wl derful singer with a great voice. But all she wanted to do all day was draw doodle characters of a guy she named Wally.
Cliff said you should be singing. Not Polly Wally doodling all day.
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So Ply began to write and compse songs. She went down by the creek near islands in the stream and worked 9 to 5 writing hits like Coat of Many Colors and I Will Always Love You and Jolene.
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@Just think of what else I might be able to come up with if not encumbered with work to get ready for the soiree….
In my mind while peeling potatoes I am working on the words to various songs in this musical…
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You know, when you think about it the ancient cliff dwellers did not have it so bad.
Did not have to dust…had nothing TO dust.
No weekly vacuuming. Recycling to deal with. No running to the store to buy things. No TV to watch to get you all worked up. No cell phones going off at all hours to hound you and disturb your peace.
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That is the worst legacy of Fauci.
Not the vaccines, not the masks, not even the hit on the economy. Not even the “origin” of the virus.
It was, in fact, setting millions of children back in their education, including their ability to socialize during formative years.
Children let’s say 7-17 were set back educationally, physically and socially and many, especially lower income, will never overcome that deficit.
For that he deserves to burn in hell.
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Walt has a short memory. When HE was a cave dweller, his wife Ugha had lots of chores for him, most of which required him to climb down from the heights and climb back up several times a day.
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The freepassers are happy with this marxixdt jusge.
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I am sorry this is happening to Janzam, Tina and Chicon.
“In a resort town on the southern coast of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, ice cream vendor Anatoli was at his wits’ end.
His shop would typically sell up to 400 ice creams a day. But a series of Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula this summer has seen the visitors dry up.
“The season is completely ruined, it’s practically non-existent,” he told AFP from Simeiz, a beachside community of around 2,500 people.
Once a magnet for millions of Russian holidaymakers each year, Crimea’s tourism industry has collapsed in recent months, as Ukrainian drone attacks have starved the peninsula of electricity and fuel.
Hotel bookings have fallen more than 70 percent compared to last July, while restaurants and swimming pools lie empty.
The Russian government has pledged to support the sector, offering a one-time payment to tourism workers equivalent to three months’ salary, but the amount is based on the minimum wage and is not a long-term fix.
Anatoli said he was now trying to make ends meet on just a fraction of his former business.
“We’re still carrying on, because everything had been prepared in advance: the equipment, the repairs, the licence, the taxes,” he said.”
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Luckily for Putin, Tina is still giving him a free pass.
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Mamdani not permitted to speak at funeral for fallen soldier.
https://nypost.com/2026/07/31/us-news/mamdani-blocked-from-speaking-at-fallen-nyc-soldiers-funeral/
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And Harris goes even more Left.
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Of course she does. Just drifting with the rest of the party.
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Yesterday, it became apparent that the folks here do not want to discuss the arts…and musicals about ancient cliff dwellers.
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So, today’s topic of discussion is social isolation and cultural fragmentation.
Many things have contributed.
One clue I latched onto was the abrupt decline of large front porches on houses. This has led to people living inside to turn away from their neighbors and community to focusing more and more on the inside of their house, becoming more socially isated and self centered and having less concern for others. And what their own pea brained brain happens to come up with as to views and opinions about everything.
People feel less connection to society as a whole. Everything begins to revolve around their self centered selves.
Most activity is connected to inside the house (or at least inside their own high fenced yards hidden from the eyes of their neighbors). Today, people spend way too much time inside their own home. Kids are frightens of the thought of going to take a hike or play in the woods
Heck, it has gotten so bad that people even have others do their grocery shopping and have it delivered so they do not have to leave the “safe” confines of their home. People order food on the phine and have it delivered to their house so they do not run the risk of being around others in public who might have differend and therefore “unpure” views about all subjects different from their own.
And when they do want to leave the secure intellectual fortress of their home where there is no challe ge to what tbey create in their own mind (where they experience zero challenge to their thinking), they order a driverless car to come pick them up and take them here and there so they do bot have to interact with some driver who may have views that would challenge their own.
This isolation leads to more and more people getting no societal check on their (often very weird) views and thinking which lead to more radicalization of the odd views they begin to develop, and further feed, inside their own heads.
Discuss
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[I know it is hard for some of you to think these deep paragraphs above come from the same mind as the one which comes up with silly drivel about a musical performance of ancient cliff dwellers.]
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Add to this the huge growth of people who want to home school their kids…
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BTW, I am wondering about the possibility of making the musical “relevant” to today’s society by including in the play one Indian cross dresser (let’s call him Bruce) who is gay and flys the gay pride flag on his house built into the cliff.
That would appeal to the LBGTQ community today and liberal supporters and hopefully boost ticket sales.
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On another subject, you may want to discuss the top 3 reasons why we have devolved from the cooperative society we used to have to having now having such a contentious one fall of strife and chaos.
Could top 3 reasons include:
–big spike in the distain for all authority (of course, now we have to dig into the reasons as to why that has happened…)?
–distrust of everything by everybody?
–no consequences for behavior exhibited by individuals that are contrary to societal norms?
–man made global warming?
–others?
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HOW have these societal shifts impacted the political scene, who runs, what their platform is, etc.
[just trying to jump start discussion here…]
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I think some of what Walt says is true but those are not the only reasons for people staying at home or ordering in.
The fact is that today there are many more entertainment option in the home than previously. Before if you wanted to experience the world, gamble, play games, see movies, etc. you had to go out. Now you can do all that sitting on your couch. Before, if you wanted fancy food (as opposed to what you could cook), you had to go out. Now you can order Indian, Greek, Nepali, you name it even if you live in Bittersville, PA. I don’t think kids are necessarily frightened of hikes or woods, its just that they have other options such as texting all day long.
So its kind of what comes first the chicken or the egg issue. Do people stay home more and thus need more home entertainment/service options, or do the more home entertainment/service options keep them more at home.
If you were a political campaign operative, how would you successfully tap in to the ongoing societal changes so you and your people could win more elections?
What strategy would you employ?
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Which party today is doing the best at these things?
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Goofball is now at the doctor’s office to deal with his sore throat, and I an in the car waiting and musing about the impact things in life.
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On another subject, you may want to discuss the top 3 reasons why we have devolved from the cooperative society”
I think its the opposite.
We used to be more independent and self reliant.
Now we have the nanny state. People expect government help for every disaster, downturn, or anything that impacts them negatively.
And do we really have more disdain for authority? A little Napoleon wanabee like Fauci got 90% of Americans to wear masks outdoors.
The two main political parties have become much more separated ideologically, that is true. The country is much more fragmented on social issues.
But I think we have a much more “cooperative” society now than in the past.
Which party today is doing the best at these things?”
Democrats are better at convincing people the government has money and can distribute it at will.
The educational system has people convinced that redistribution of wealth is much more important than creation of wealth.
So people are more receptive of the Democrat’s redistribution scheme.
The concept that if you take 1 million houses away from people who have houses and give them to people who don’t have houses you will still have the same number of houses is not understood.
Last night I had trouble sleeping and was thinking about my 4 and 1/2 years spent in college.
Some people do not think much about their college years. Some think a lot about them.
it was a place where I gained much.
I learned and gained knowledge…experience…life long friends…a chance to develop and grow as a person…maturity…more trust in myself…opportunity to live more on my own (lived on campus), mostly good memories, chance to develop my abilities and lomitations, chances to overcome adversities, learned that life eas not always fair and you coild not get everything you wanted…etc.
But I also lost some things…(temporarily, thankfully)…
At one time, I lost trust in myself…lost trust in others…lost my optimism about life…my idealism. my belief in god…had all my believes turned upside down…
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Nice to see you join the discussion, jason.
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As to Fauci, TODAY you have a huge number if people who want to drag him through the streets like Mussolini….
I inadvertantly tuned into CNN today on the car radio and a guy was talking about some poll where a huge majority of people favor giving Fauci immunity in exchange for him giving testimony and not taking the fifth for every question including what is your ba.e and what color tie for you have on.
The citing of a poll showing huge numbers in support of immunity foe Fauci shocked me.
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Discuss (or at least thing about it)
Teaching everyone to read is both the best thing ever and the worst thing ever.
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In contrast, teaching people to think critically is definitely the best thing ever.
Very little downside.
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Teaching readi g with teaching critical thinking skills is dangerous.
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Coupe de Ville
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Bummer. I watched several documentaries with this guy, including the one of his incredible feat of scaling the 14 highest peaks in the world in just over 6 months.
“Renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 people killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan, his company has said.
Elite Expeditions said it confirmed with “profound sadness and immense heartbreak” that Purja, 43, had died in Thursday’s avalanche. His brother Kamal later wrote: “We will miss you every single day”.
Purja, who was born in Nepal and later served in the British army, was known for scaling the world’s 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.”
At some point, your luck is going to run out. I am sorry he didn’t stop before that happened.
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I am conducting a multi month experiment. How many times do papers that you put on the dash have to fall off when you accelerate or make turns until you learn not to put them up there?
For Goofball that answer is somewhere north of 112 times.
No make that 113 times.
Check that 114 times…
The experiment continues…
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I am pleased to share the WORDS OF THE FIRST SONG I have created for the musical about the ancient cliff dwellers.
It is sung to One Eyed Eddie BY Patsy Swine–the Indian girl with a wooden leg.
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“Since I met you my life’s not the same,
When my leg caught fire, you doused the flame.
You pulled my leg off, to death clubbed the snake,
Saved me yet again–for my goodness sake!
Then when termites infested my leg they did gnaw
You sprayed the Roundup killing them all.
You whittled and whittled, to make me a new leg.
Held securely in place by a fine wooden peg.
You built us a cliff dwelling–a cute double decker,
Now I’m safe inside from that pesky wood pecker.”
I have contacted Carol King to do the music score… She was excited to asked to get involved.
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Patsy Swine was so grateful to him that she decided to make a new, more realistic wooden eyeball and gift it to One Eyed Eddie. The words to that 2nd song will be sung rousingly to the tune of “I’ve Been Working On The Railroad.”
I’ve been working on your eyeball, all the livelong day
Just whittling my fingers away…”
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Uh oh.
BAD NEWS.
My wife has discovered my writings about the ancient cliff dwellers musical play.
Sho first wanted to have me hauled off and committed to some institution.
But then she backed off when she realized she would be losing 100% of her workforce.
Heh.
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jason, I am concerned. Where are all the other HHR posters?
Has the rapture started, and are we the only ones left?
Uh oh…
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Wife let Manny The Cat out this morning to lay on the padded bench on the patio under the deck.
Now he has disappeared…
I am leaning more and more towards the rapture…
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Two Michigan only pollsters battle it out in a duel:
MICHIGAN POLL By Mitchell Research
SEN
🟥 Rogers: 45%
🟦 El-Sayed: 45%
🟥 Rogers: 45%
🟦 Stevens: 41%
Glengariff previously had Rogers +10 over the guy who fantasized of torturing Fetterman on a pike, and Rogers losing to Stevens.
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DW,
I have done my best to stir up discussion here today..and failed miserably.
I will throw out one last thing.
When did we become the society where if someone espouses a view different from their own, then the reaction is to verbal attack the other person any way they are stupid mfers, or physically assault them, or cut off all contact with them?
I am reminded of the story of a guy driving by a mental institution and having a flat tire. He pulled over, jacked up car…etc. and just as he reached for the lug nuts he accidentally knocked all 5 of them and all into a storm drain.
Some mental institution inmates had silently gathered on the other side of the fence to observe the man changing the tire. One inmate ask “Whatcha gonna do now?’”
Guy says ‘guess I’ll have to walk to that garage a mile back to get lug nuts.’
Inmate says “why don’t you take a lug nut or so off the other 3 tires and drive there.”
Fraudci already had immunity based on the pardon. He could not plea the 5th after receiving said pardon
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jason yupanqui
Coupe de Ville
Well, at least it’s not as bad as the old joke about the acronym “PONTIAC;”
Poor old ****** thinks it’s a Cadillac.
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Sorry to hear of the Nepalese mountain climber, it’s a dangerous bsuiness, and avalanches seem to get more people than mishaps on the ropes.
Speaking of mountains, my five year old son scaled Mt. Lassen wit me yesterday. I’d post a picture of us on the summit, but no way to do that here.
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GF, 5 years old is a very young age to be taking on mountain climbing!
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