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Open thread March 9, 2018

Dan Crawford | March 9, 2018 1:06 pm

Hi folks…I am in a next town over at a friends and am online again.   Am also thinking getting a generator due to changes in climate….:)

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  • CoRev says:
    March 9, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    Trump’s 1st year accomplishments. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_richard_baris/trump_s_first_year_accomplishments_compiled_in_shockingly_long_list
    1) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
    2) Repealed Individual Mandate
    3) Opened Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR)
    4) Justice Neil Gorsuch
    5) Set Record for First-Year Judicial Appointments to Federal Appellate Courts
    6) Historic Reduction in Illegal Immigration
    7) Crushing ISIS Caliphate
    8) Resurgence of U.S. Economy — the American Spirit
    9) Stock Market Records, Wealth Creation
    10) Deregulation: Rolling Back the Militant Administrative State
    11) Reviving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
    12) VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act (VA Reforms
    13) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Reforms
    14) 81 Signed Legislative Accomplishments
    15) Opening US Embassy in Jerusalem
    16) Opening direct negotiations with N. Korea
    17) Withdrawal from the costly Paris Climate Accord
    18) Record black unemployment
    19) Large number of jobs created
    20) The US Manufacturing Index soared to a 33 year high

  • EMichael says:
    March 10, 2018 at 7:56 am

    geez

  • ilsm says:
    March 10, 2018 at 8:09 am

    We were out about 12 hours. In land Rockingham Cty NH.

    Wood stove cranked up until power restored.

  • CoRev says:
    March 10, 2018 at 9:21 am

    EM, geez, indeed!

  • EMichael says:
    March 10, 2018 at 10:43 am

    yeah, geez

    Half are bad, bordering on disaster. Most of the rest he had nothing to do with, and a couple have not happened. But I do love the idea of signing statements being called “Signed Legislative Accomplishments”.

    Straight out of Frank Luntz.

    Your attempt to turn this into a RWDW blog continues.

  • CoRev says:
    March 10, 2018 at 10:56 am

    EM, hee, hee, hee! 😉

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