Posts Made By: Brian McFarland

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi James, Rod, Brian, Russ:

Sometimes when I look at the cross tabs of polls I think that some respondents are just messing with the pollsters.  Otherwise how do you explain 10% of the Independents not having heard enough to form an opinion of DJT?  Seriously, there is no way that 10% of our independent voters are living in caves with no media access whatsoever!  Also, the lean R and weak R numbers seem flipped.  Maybe the respondents are misunderstanding the shades of grey between "leans" and "weak."  I am in that camp and do not know how the pollsters would have categorized me.

Anyway, it is fun, but not that informative to nit-pick the cross tabs.  I certainly hope you, Brian, and Russ are right and that this sort of data, and the news, and maybe Divine intervention come through and that Trump and his minions will rapidly lose influence.  I am always cheered up when I read your opinions...then Rod brings me back down.  I will be stunned and dismayed if the SOS candidate Rod describes in AZ wins.

By the way, we had two sets of guests Sat and then Sunday evening.  The seeing here was incredible "for Colorado."  Perfectly transparent skies, no moon, the observatory was much appreciated by our guests.  Saturn was the best I have seen it from Colorado, ever.  The Milky Way was well defined and stunning, M31 was an easy, obvious, naked-eye object with direct vision, even people who never before tried to see anything upward could make out our big companion galaxy with the naked eye.  The eyepiece views of M31, 13, 8, the Double Cluster, M27 and of course Jupiter and Saturn drew gasps from the guests.  Very cool!

Jim

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I see you have no answer to the content of the original posting.  

Is this what complete failure for you looks like?  Typically you just walk away and ignore the tough questions.  

I guess I'll just chalk it up to that.  

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Regarding the number of agents involved in the raid and their conduct, the only source of information I've ever seen is from an interview with Houck's wife. She said that 25-30 agents with 15 vehicles swarmed the Houck property, kidnapped her husband at gunpoint, and terrorized her children. If there is another source of information regarding exactly what happened, who was involved, and their conduct, I can't find it.

Originally Posted by James Brown

I'll go on the record and say that 25-30 Agents and 15 vehicles seems excessive.  And a waste of gasoline.  I expect that the FBI's black SUVs have back seats!  

I'll also go on record and say that I'll be very surprised if Ms. Houck's account ends up being proved accurate.

Jim

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Wrong, you completely uninformed leftist! They are facts! They are Richard's facts! Facts that you are too busy hiding under your desk to understand and facts that are too superior for you to refute!


The interview she gave was to a news publication called LifeSite News. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about  them:

LifeSiteNews (or simply LifeSite) is a Canadian Catholic conservative to far-right anti-abortion advocacy website and news publication. LifeSiteNews has published misleading information and conspiracy theories, and in 2021, was banned from some social media platforms for spreading COVID-19 misinformation.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

If I'm not mistaken, Brian first called you that, and most of us merely echoed the moniker. Why did he call you that? I assume it was due to your habit of screaming into the internet in all caps and your penchant for long-winded tirades. There is no doubt we all trade a barb or two here and there, but no one, and I mean no one, comes close to the consistent outpouring of name-calling and insults you produce. It permeates almost every post you make. We mimic it sometimes as an inside joke, other times to try and hold up a mirror of self-reflection for you to gaze into possibly, and other times merely because we feel like giving you a taste of your own medicine. But to equal the amount of venom you pour out routinely, any of us would have to hurl thousands of insults daily even to begin to catch up.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Do you think the GOP will investigate this?
"A Trump administration staff member crammed pictures of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden into the White House’s air conditioning unit during the presidential transition, breaking it, according to a new book set to be released on Tuesday."
"The action by the employee, who worked for then-Presidential Personnel Office Director John McEntee, was one of several examples of ways members of the Trump administration sought to undermine the incoming administration,..."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3670267-trump-administration-staffer-crammed-pictures-of-hunter-biden-into-white-house-ac-unit-book/
Additionally, Trump's team was dumbfounded by Biden's requests to see daily intelligence briefings because Trump never looked at them... 

Originally Posted by James Brown

He really isn't irrelevant Jim.  After a lifetime of seeing weakly supported but opportunistically times allegations against candidates and nominees, my default position is "wait and see," not "believe the woman."  I am confident that  many voters feel the same way.  

As an aside, our D governor in Colorado has remained free of allegations of impropriety to my knowledge.  Good for him.  But the two Democrats who proceeded him in the Governor's mansion were well-known womanizers.   At least Hickenlooper was single.  Romer was caught canoodling his aide in a car at the airport.  I don't know if that was when he was Governor or chairman of the DNC.  Apparently he had an open marriage.  At 70!  My point is not that this sort of behavior is OK, or that Walker's hypocrisy is OK if the allegations are true.  My point is that politics seems to attract immoral men.   So does any sort of celebrity.  Power corrupts and so on.  Wilt Chamberlain claims to have slept with 20,000 women.  Probably an exaggeration,  but I am pretty sure that he or any sort of male celebrity, including national politicians, has slept with more women than any of the anonymous regular citizens I know.  Obama and Bush seem to be exceptions.

So, it is hard to get too worked up about it.  Sad but true.  

Originally Posted by James Brown

p.s.  I have never been a pot smoker, not even in high school or college.  But, I know plenty of folks our age who do or have, and according to them, the pot strains nowadays are wickedly strong compared to the weed of the 70s and 80s.  I imagine that's the case everywhere, not just here in the "Mile High" city!

Originally Posted by James Lacey

I was talking about the GOP's organizers and leaders. Not individuals. Until the GOP leadership takes a principled stand to jettison Trump and everything his MAGA politics stands for, they have lost their moral compass.