Friday, January 08, 2016

Yadda Yadda



                         



For the purpose of this exercise let’s look at parts of The Washington Post‘s 2008 endorsement of Obama. I am using the Post as an example of what we saw so frequetly because even though the Post is a liberal paper, its editorial position regarding foreign policy is generally responsible. However in the Post’s enthusiasm for Obama, all caution was disregarded and they promoted a man who did not really exist.

... in describing the paper’s expectations of Obama’s foreign policy, the editors wrote:

But Mr. Obama, as anyone who reads his books can tell, also has a sophisticated understanding of the world and America’s place in it. He, too, is committed to maintaining U.S. leadership and sticking up for democratic values, as his recent defense of tiny Georgia makes clear. We hope he would navigate between the amoral realism of some in his party and the counterproductive cocksureness of the current administration, especially in its first term. On most policies, such as the need to go after al-Qaeda, check Iran’s nuclear ambitions and fight HIV/AIDS abroad, he differs little from Mr. Bush or Mr. McCain. But he promises defter diplomacy and greater commitment to allies. His team overstates the likelihood that either of those can produce dramatically better results, but both are certainly worth trying.

I do not see a single thing here that has been proven correct. (The Post later expressed concern over Obama’s intent to withdraw troops from Iraq. He did that in defiance of their concerns, but they still endorsed him for a second term.) In particular it is hard to see that Obama’s diplomacy has been defter or that his commitment to allies has been better that demonstrated by President Bush.

For a comprehensive look at what the president has done wrong in foreign policy read Abe Greenwald’s On His Watch in the January issue of Commentary. This is a devastating critique of the multiple mistakes the president has made contributing to even wider spread instability over the past seven year. Greenwald correctly identifies how Obama viewed and views himself. (The full deal)

Why was this written now?  Why am I posting it now?  I don't know, but it's like watching the innumerable accounts of Nazi defeat on the Hitler channels; we know how it ends but it's just too sweet to stop. Even as we watch it happening again.

Thursday, January 07, 2016

Ba BAH?








This is how I told my husband, David, that he will be a Daddy! Video filmed October 8, 2015... I was a few weeks pregnant, and found out earlier that day.

Donald who?

The Humanity              


Poof!  He's GONE




I've not been quite the model citizen this reelection cycle.  Which is a good thing.  Because, by my calculus, this nation have (yes, have) collectively jumped the shark, screwed the pooch, glitched the swing.  So, without too much reasoning I've chosen Donald Trump as the best person to take the helm because he's the obverse of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton (Clinton Can't Distinguish Democrat From Socialist). And, he's never spent a day in congress.  Much of America agrees with me for various reasons (I like that he's promised to throw illegals, especially ISIS , down a volcano).  Over the years it has been true that the GOP candidate who best represents their core is stabbed in the cloakroom by GOP muck-mucks, which is why I cite this FiveThirtyEight Endorsement study.  It solves the Trump problem by simply eliminating him from the equation; poof-he's gone.  Beauty.

Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Bruce Willis Punked




RUH ROH











Ammon Bundy







                                                                                       




Ammon Bundy talked with Megyn Kelly Monday about why he is in an armed standoff with the feds.

"The federal government does not have authority to come down into the states and to control its land," Bundy said.

When Kelly asked Bundy why he doesn't go through the courts, Bundy said, "The plaintiff is the federal government, yet the prosecutor is also the federal government...there is no proper redress."

He finished, "I'm not here to die. I'm here to defend my freedom and my liberties. Will I? Yes. But it's not going to come to that."

Watch the interview above and sound off below!

ca 1990A Maryland man was charged by the EPA for filling in a section of lowland on his property that swamped-up after heavy rain, rendering it useless for farming.  He did, however, dig a ditch on another section of his land that compensated; or so he thought.   After endless court appearances the man was fined a horrendous amount of money and sent to prison.  It was one of those stories where everyone said WTF?; emphasized with the man; felt he'd been wronged; but did nothing to help. 

I still feel guilty that I didn't do a damn thing to outwardly support him, but, you know
I had four kids, a tight budget, and  a sailing hobby that claimed all my free time.  I'd like to think, however, that had some organized citizen militia joined the farmer in his showdown with the gummint, that I would have showed up.  Today I would, because it's near-by. I'm radicalized, and have nothing really to lose.  So I can sit here urging Ammon Bundy on, but do nothing else because it's too far away. 

Awhile back I told my wife that if Texas seceded I'd go there, guns in hand, and fight with them.  She said, "no you wouldn't."

I'm in crisis.

Black Mold

   HELTER SKELTER                          
Provoking Racial Unrest
                                                               
 
Post-Christmas “flash mob” race riots in five cities.


Last year, black teenagers organized pre-planned riots at numerous large malls the day after Christmas. This year, the riots were repeated, but in new locations.

The rioting is pre-planned and advertised on twitter and black social media websites. Young blacks then show up at the mall in huge numbers and procede to beat the crap out of each other, commit vandalism, and steal of shops.

Nationwide the media is CENSORING who rioted. Political correctness has been deemed far more important than public safety. Even “conservative” FOX News censored the race of the perps.

This year huge post-Christmas rioting took place in: [Ahem]

When Cuzzin Ricky sent me this story right after Christmas I, not wanting to harsh my seasonal love for all humanity, filed it.  But it's stuck in my craw. WWRD?

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

43 THINGS


(43 Pics; 12 of which have some merit)

House to Obama !?

                        
    Liberal Culture                   

                      




House appropriations panel to Obama:
Don't even think about funding gun control




The House Appropriations Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to remind the Obama administration that any gun-related executive action should not interfere with financial resources already allocated by Congress.

"I want to express the committee's expectation that the Department of Justice will allocate its resources to the enforcement of existing federal law," wrote Republican Rep. John Culberson, chairman of the House Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies subcommittee.

The GOP-led committee also warned Lynch that any attempt by the Obama administration to implement "unlawful limitations on the unambiguous Second Amendment rights of Americans" would not be funded.
Of course the GOP have this recent history ...


Born to create drama




art is everywhere                                                   







Two from the  "Born to create drama" compilation.  Cracks me up.

'Coon and Candy

Today's Hors d'oeuvre

Monday, January 04, 2016

Bomber Filing System?

cuzzin ricky

Going Regimental



—  You Berks           
    






"You can't make this stuff up" (Stu Tarlowe)

Which reminds me of this Almost Royal episode:

(The series centers on (faux) "Royals" Georgie and Poppy, the 57th and 58th in line to the Brit  throne, continue their examination of American culture, exploring subjects like beauty, holidays, sport and law and order.)

https://youtu.be/fRh8BhjxuNc

100 years after she dies she will still be the nation's biggest lair


 









previously

Biloxi, Mississippi (CNN)Donald Trump on Saturday said the policies of President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "created ISIS," the furthest the GOP front-runner has gone in tying the Obama administration's policies to the rise of the terror group.

Trump offered no evidence for his claim (However....) here at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, in which he also said escalating tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia were signs that the Islamic Republic wanted to take over the longtime U.S. ally in the Middle East.

RELATED: Terrorists use Trump's 'Muslim ban' speech in recruitment video

"They've created ISIS. Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama," Trump said. [Full]

“On Saturday's Good Morning America, co-host Dan Harris suggested Hillary Clinton "may actually have been right" about Donald Trump turning up in ISIS videos. And during the subsequent segment, reporter Mary Bruce said Hillary "predicted" Trump "would become" recruitment fodder. There's only one hitch: Hillary hadn't "predicted" that ISIS would use Trump or that he "would become" fodder. On December 19th, during a Dem debate, Hillary claimed that ISIS was already using Trump in recruitment videos. But no terror group used Trump in a video before today, when he turned up in a video not by ISIS but from an al Qaeda-affiliated group.

The irony is that by mentioning the use of Trump in terrorist recruitment videos, Hillary might actually have encouraged Islamic terrorist groups to do so. These groups are very media-savvy. And after Hillary's statement, what better way to ensure massive media coverage of a recruitment video than to stick Trump in it? Thanks for the idea, Hillary!

 Note: Co-host Paula Faris apparently didn't get the memo about how GMA was going to spin this. She let the cat out of the bag, saying that Hillary had "falsely" claimed (lied) ISIS was using Trump in recruitment videos. Kudos to her for candor, but Faris's message was overridden by the statements by sidekick Harris saying Hillary "may actually have been right," and by Bruce, saying Hillary had merely "predicted" what ISIS would do. From the January 2 Good Morning America:


The  Progressive response:
MEDIA LIES: ABC News Now Says Hillary Clinton (only) PREDICTED Trump Would Be Used In ISIS Videos - Progressives ...
Progressives Today - 2 days ago

However; anyone whom has not by now realized that Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar will never be persuaded.

Saturday, January 02, 2016

SCUM BAG of the Year


                                                           Scum Bag



What a waste of an exoskeleton-Sheesh

Epic Rants


 
EPIC







“We are fighting to end hate, to unite as one and love each other. We are fighting to be treated right without discrimination and for everyone to have equal opportunities.”

Bullshit. You have no quantifiable metrics for injustice, so you have no victory conditions (for a very simplified example, when blacks hold X% of all engineering jobs and are only Y% of all prisoners, racism is ended). That would be fine by itself, but you believe in fighting injustice with injustice (gays have historically been denied gay marriage? let’s get random CEOs fired for opinions they held six years ago). You don’t seek converts, you seek to punish and bully – straight white males who disagree with you must be purged and publicly humiliated. Even the jihadists will spare you if you convert; no apology or future correction will satisfy a SJW.

I could forgive that too if you weren’t all hypocrites and liars. Your treatment of women and minority dissenters is appalling; if they don’t want you acting on their behalf, that’s their choice, not “internalized patriarchy” or whatever. You rob them of moral agency. When called out for these behaviors (as you always insist on calling out others), you lie. You strawman your opponents (criticized a woman? misogynist!), you group them with the worst (you’re a gamer? you’re as bad as the anonymous rape threateners!) and when confronted with your own flaws, you restate them less threateningly (motte and bailey argument). You phrase all arguments as kafkatraps (disagreeing with your assertion that we are evil is taken as proof that we’re evil). You publish manipulated and misleading statistics, then lambast anyone who questions them.

You insist on vigilante justice against random acts of the week for your two-minutes hate. Why is it the NFL’s business to punish domestic violence? And, if it is their business, why isn’t Hope Solo receiving the same attention from your side?

Then you claim to be arguing for equality, but you’ve taken the idea of racism (hatred based on skin color is bad) and replaced it with a new concept where only one race can be guilty of racism. You excuse racial prejudice and hatred based on what I’ve already explained are arbitrary, unmeasured states of being. Your solution for the unequal treatment of whites and blacks is to hold whites to a higher standard. Your side lobbied the FBI to redefine rape so more women victims would be counted, but also so that “made to penetrate” does not count, leaving male victims in the cold. Because male privilege, apparently.

Historically ignorant SJWs think whites hold collective guilt for the awful things our ancestors have done. But they don’t care about the unspeakable atrocities by other races. The only difference between whites and others was that whites had the social and technological prowess to do evil efficiently; Africans, Asians, Indians, and everyone else practiced genocide and slavery, they were just less adept at doing it right. Given the means, they would have done the same. But nope, only whites are guilty; Arab oppression of blacks and caucasians never happened, not to us, nope.

I’ve been lucky enough to grow up in America, so this shit is new to me. But I’m descended from puritans, and I know my history; I know how they treated dissent. I also know how commies treated dissent; I grew up next door to a grizzled old Russian who barely avoided the gulag by smuggling himself out of the country. I know what you petty tyrants have turned into every time you gained enough power.

Worst of all, you turn the very principles of freedom against us. We tolerate you because we believe in free speech and civil discourse, not bullying and violence. But that means we have to watch you advocate against that very freedom. We don’t believe in ruining a stranger’s professional life over an opinion, but that means that we can’t punish your actions.

We believe that the rightness of our actions should speak for itself. You believe in bullying, even as you claim to love the oppressed.

Funny how the evil and all-powerful patriarchy has seen fit to act according to SJW whims for all of recent memory, punishing those they hate and protecting those they love. Funny how the evil oppressor males have to speak anonymously, while the SJWs fighting the power can use their real names and get mainstream media coverage for fun and profit. How when a million straight white male nerds get bullied, no one cares, but the minute one fag hangs himself, suddenly bullying matters – and the solution, of course, is more bullying, but by the “right” people.

That’s the arrogant core of it. You do the same evil, in the same pattern, as so many before you, because mob justice, punishing dissent, and repression of others is just fine and dandy so long as the “right” people are doing it to the “wrong” people.

Eat shit and die. All I ever asked was to be left alone. (Source)

Skoonj!

BRAVO! That this is going viral demonstrates why Trump is winning.

Dad Jokes

Res Ipsa Loquitur
 
Commit to memory; Be a hero to your
kids/grandkids— girls at the single bar




Michelle Roque;QB

Res Ipsa Loquitur
 




TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Michelle Roque never heard back from Jimbo Fisher, so Florida State's most celebrated football player will be watching No. 9 Florida State play No. 18 Houston in the Chick Fil-A Peach Bowl from home on Thursday.

She's the most popular student on Florida State's campus -- as confirmed by the page views, worship from adoring strangers, autograph requests, nods from NFL players and Twitter marriage proposals.

Count Seminoles players among those agog.
Fisher largely ignores social media, so he probably missed Roque's offer and what much of Florida State was buzzing about earlier this month: her 19-play highlight reel that includes 38 avoided "tackles" -- 13 on one play -- 11 touchdowns, seven completions, one reception, one interception, one diving stop on a male quarterback and an all-purpose yards total that would challenge Christian McCaffrey.

"I even tweeted Jimbo," Roque said. She hoped he would consider her at quarterback.

Roque, the Florida State flag football star and a member of Delta Gamma, melted social media with her complete disregard for the emotional and physical well-being of rival sororities. A video of her sending players tumbling as they grasped at air went viral last fall, but that was merely serving as the accelerant for a sequel that ignited the internet -- a full-length highlight tape replete with flailing bodies, slow-motion jukes and an 808 drum beat. [Keeping Abreast ...]

Jimbo Fisher might have told reporters:  "Hey, I have enough problems with these boys raping women to being with; ain't no way I'm serving one up in the locker room."

Friday, January 01, 2016

Obama POW! MAO


The Obamissariat                                      

Beach Boys Llive

Res Ipsa Loquitur        

Help Me Rhonda ...Help Help

trailer

Yesterday I stumbled on The Beach Boys: Live - The 50th Anniversary, on AXS.  Recorded, and just now watched it.  These guys are older than the Stones (and better IMO) but after about 20 min. I forgot wrinkles; it was like being back to the 60's; the last good decade in American history.  Every song triggered a separate memory of a time, a place, or a person.  Recommended. Damn. I gave my guitar to my son, or I'd be tuning up for my own Live crap concert .  Whoops, I threw my back out and can't get out of the chair.  Sht.

Ta-Da-Ta-Ta

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