Saturday, November 30, 2013

Connections III - James Burke: A Special Place

Best of the Web*


*…that I’ve seen all week!
Political/SocioEconomic


Solyndra On Wheels: Energy Dept. Loses $139M In Fisker Auto Loan Default



Bankrupt Obama-Funded Electric Car Company Fisker Sold To The Chinese, American Taxpayers Lose $139 Million…


Cry ‘Havoc!’ and Let Slip the Dogs...-Mark Steyn

Iran President Brags Deal Allows It To Continue Enriching Uranium, Proves Obama Recognizes Their Right To Do So In Perpetuity

Democrats Own Obamacare, and Its Political Cost Keeps Rising

Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out After Losing His Insurance Because of Obamacare Now Being Audited By The IRS…


The last red line in the western world is made of maple leaves
-Steyn

Alec Baldwin MSNBC Show Cancelled, Disappointing Dozens of Viewers

Videos

I'm Thankful for Toby Keith

Family of 5 yr. old heart patient gets life saving generator donated

Gun Control becomes Gun Safety


Krauthammer’s Take: Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Care



Culture

Hey – Maybe It’s Just A Sandwich


Ann Coulter's Defense of Alec Baldwin


Seasoned MSM Journalist Asks: 'Time to Pull the Plug on MSNBC?'

Aftermath of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case

Bar Owner Forced to Remove Sign Honoring Vets


Technology


The Future That Never Comes



Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics

Cartoon of the Day – NRO Home page

Sunday Funnies


Hillary Wins At Irony



Reaganite's SUNDAY FUNNIES

Humpday humor

Breaking America

Did You Know JFK Owned 2 of Original AR-15s? He was #NRA Member, too.

My Heartfelt Tribute to President Obama's Tribute to John F. Kennedy


Obamacare give new meaning to the "Hunger Games"



The Obamacare of Fire Prevention


John Cox Cartoons

Democrats Running For Re-election, Run From Obamacare


"Pilgrims Elect to Receive"

The Obamacare Weasel


Rule Five Roundup:
(While all Rule Five posts may be NSFW, I generally only flag the ones that are certainly NSFW)

90 Miles From Tyranny - girls with guns, women with weapons, Women with Weapons

American Power- Hot Beth Williams, Stacey Poole, Smokin' Sunday #Rule5, Thanksgiving Roundup


Blackmailers Don't Shoot - This Crazy Week, Undaunted Edition

By Other Means

Camp of the Saints - Rule Five Saturday

The Daley Gator – Daley Babes - Mercy Saidi, Azusa Togashi, Sasha Barrese, Anna Anjyo, Kim Glass

Daily Mail – Christina Aguilera is a svelte shadow of her former self

Good Monday Morning

EBL –Vintage Thanksgiving, Cheerleaders, Wilma and Betty's friends


Friday Night Babe – Katie Vernola

Good Stuff's Cyber World Black Friday

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World -The Friday Pin Up

The Right Way - Friday Babe

Hookers and Booze

Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - Good Morning

Miss K - Classic Curves ;)

Pirates Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup, If All You See…, If All You See…, If All You See…, If All You See…, If all you see..., If all you see...

PostalDog -Chloe Bennett

Randy’s Roundtable – Dallas Cheerleaders

Reaganite Republican- Behold 'Race Queens' of Japan & Korea


Concealed Carry

Sex in Advertising

The Classic Liberal

The Feral Irishman – Basting

Theo Spark –Bedtime Totty, Bonus Totty, Bedtime Totty, Bonus Totty, Bedtime Totty, Bedtime Totty

The Other McCain- Rule Five Sunday


Vintage Babes of the Week


Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

Your Crazy Uncle Bubba -Friday Nite Tite Dresses

the obligatory 49 cheerleader

Use the comments as an open thread on any of these topics. Please send links of news, commentary, choice humor or Rule Fivage to: Proof.Positive@Hotmail.com

Quote du jour

#Obamacare: The Only Nursing In Your Future Is a Grudge.
-Proof

Friday, November 29, 2013

Friday Night Babe

Tonight's FNB* is Katie Vernola!

(*a.k.a. Rule Five Friday)

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Quote du jour

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
-George Bernard Shaw

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Vintage Babe(s) of the Week

Tonight's Vintage Babes* are Vera Ellen, Marilyn, Barbara and Friends!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)

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Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!

Turkey Day Football: Packers Vs. Lions

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A long standing holiday tradition has been to watch someone beat the snot out of the Lions on Thanksgiving day. But the Lions actually have a decent team this year. Will the tradition continue???

Update: Lions win first Thanksgiving game in ten years, beat Packers 40- 10.

"As God as My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly"

Happy Turkey Day! (And You Know Who You Are!)

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Quote du jour

"I was thinking about Thanksgiving and I realized who we should put in charge of the Obamacare website – the Butterball hotline people. Have you ever called them? They always pick up. They're friendly. They have all of the information you need. And they're used to dealing with big turkeys."
–Jay Leno

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Medal of Honor

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Technician 5th Grade Robert D. Maxwell


Citation:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 7 September 1944, near Besancon, France. Technician 5th Grade Maxwell and 3 other soldiers, armed only with .45 caliber automatic pistols, defended the battalion observation post against an overwhelming onslaught by enemy infantrymen in approximately platoon strength, supported by 20mm. flak and machinegun fire, who had infiltrated through the battalion's forward companies and were attacking the observation post with machinegun, machine pistol, and grenade fire at ranges as close as 10 yards. Despite a hail of fire from automatic weapons and grenade launchers, Technician 5th Grade Maxwell aggressively fought off advancing enemy elements and, by his calmness, tenacity, and fortitude, inspired his fellows to continue the unequal struggle. When an enemy hand grenade was thrown in the midst of his squad, Technician 5th Grade Maxwell unhesitatingly hurled himself squarely upon it, using his blanket and his unprotected body to absorb the full force of the explosion. This act of instantaneous heroism permanently maimed Technician 5th Grade Maxwell, but saved the lives of his comrades in arms and facilitated maintenance of vital military communications during the temporary withdrawal of the battalion's forward headquarters.


Technician 5th Grade Maxwell: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.

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Hat tip Home of Heroes

There are fewer than a hundred living MoH recipients today. Their names and their stories should not be forgotten. My mission is to honor one of those heroes here each week, and salute them for their courage and sacrifice. In the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors; the men it remembers.”

Quote du jour

Healthcare.gov would " be a consumer experience unmatched by anything in government, but also in the private sector.”
-Dan Pfeiffer

He got that right!

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Sex in Advertising

For all you connoisseurs of advertising...

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I may not be sure exactly what she's selling, but, I'm pretty sure I'm in the market!

"Pilgrims Elect to Receive"

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Quote du jour

Tiger Woods had nine mistresses. And that was just the front nine.

-Robert Stacy McCain

Monday, November 25, 2013

Above the Fold

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Yes, Obama ate dog, too! (The pictures actually belong to a story about dog shows below the fold.)

Monday Night SF 49er's Vs. Washington Indigenous Persons of Color, Which Color We Can't Use Here

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Go Niners!

Updaate: Niners 27, 'Skins 6

Valerie Jarrett on the Intellectually Challenged Barack Obama*

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*And we're not talking about his bowling skills.

"I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is...He knows how perceptive hs is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them, and make sense out of them, and I think he has never been really challenged intellectually. I mean, he's the kind of guy you'd hate in law school, who would pick up the book the night before the final, read it, [buy a crib sheet from someone ] and ace the test. So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but someone with extraordinary talents that they had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy."
-Valerie Jarrett, [Editor's commentary ]

Obama's closest adviser, Valerie Jarrett made the above comment to David Remnick, in an interview for his book, “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.” May I say, what complete and utter hogwash! How does that work out in the real world?

If the President is soooooo smart that he is perpetually bored, because nothing challenges his 'intellectual superiority', then why can't he solve any of America's problems? Why have his 'solutions' only made things worse?? Let's examine the fruit of Barack's Intellectual Gifts & Supposed Intellectual Superiority (BIG SIS):

Candidate Obama said he would go through the budget line by line to eliminate waste and fraud, you'd think that BIG SIS would have the ability to discern those things better than anyone else. Yet, the only way he can claim to have reduced the deficit is by fraudulent math and deception.

Unemployment? Shouldn't BIG SIS be able to discern on his own what John Kennedy had discovered over fifty years ago, that tax cuts stimulate the economy and job growth? Syria? Edward Snowden? Benghazi? The Arab Spring??

And what about his signature piece of legislation "Obamacare"? Wouldn't someone with BIG SIS's unparalleled and unchallenged intellect have been able to anticipate problems with the website and the prospect of millions of people losing their healthcare and done something in advance to prevent or at least minimize the problems from occurring in the first place? At least knowing what questions to ask, so as not to embarrass himself by declaring things that simply were not true?

No, it seems like there is a more plausible explanation for President Lead From Behind. Obama is not bored because he's not intellectually challenged (although he may be), but precisely because he can't be bothered with details. He's a "big idea" guy. And an autocrat. When he makes a pronouncement, he expects the little people who live to serve him, to take care of the details. He's got a round of golf to play. That's one of the reasons he farmed out Obamacare to Nancy Pelosi and company. Actually governing the country is boring to an intellectual lightweight like Obama. Obama is a campaigner. It is much easier for him to spout things like "Hope and change", "We are the people we have been waiting for", "If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it", than to actually work out the nitty gritty details that might actually allow some of those things to come to pass.

Obama is much more eager to rub shoulders with Oprah, the vapid harpies of The View, Hollywood stars and musicians than his own cabinet members and heads of state. Does that sound to you like someone yearning to be intellectually challenged? Hardly!

In Ms. Valerie's defense, I do not believe she is delusional, no matter how delusional these things sound in the clear light of day. I believe that she and her fellow travelers are on a quest to gain and retain power, and if building a mythology around Obama is a means of doing so, she will attempt to do it with a straight face. And she is, after all, the genius who convinced Obama on at least three occasions NOT to make the 'gutsy call' to get bin Laden.

Cross posted at LCR


Re-Branding Obamacare

How the mighty (in their own minds) have fallen! The signature accomplishment of Obama's tenure was to enact some form of universal healthcare, the "Holy Grail" of Democrats and progressives for the last century. Originally dubbed "Obamacare" in derision, Obama came to embrace the name: "Because I do care", and, after all, it is all about him! Now, Obama wants to "re-brand" the (Un)Affordable Healthcare Act, as if giving it a new name somehow would change any of its odious attributes. I'm thinking he should take a page from the "Geico gecko" campaign, although, I'm not sure that the "Obamacare Weasel" has quite the same cachet. Next time you see roadkill, for example, just think of it as a "random alternative to life". Hey! That's pretty good! Maybe Obama could re-brand "Random Alternative to Life Panels" in Obamacare?

So, in Obama's mind, the way to fix a bad law, that caused millions more to lose their affordable insurance than to gain it, is with more words, by re-branding it, and by delaying it for a year? That presents several problems:

A) if all these plans Obama would allow people to keep are, as the liberals keep telling us, "faux" insurance, substandard and inadequate policies, how is it doing anyone a kindness to keep these people in them another year?

B) if the law, as enacted, will cause millions of people to lose their healthcare plans and millions upon millions more to see their costs doubling and tripling over what they have now, how is merely delaying a bad plan for a year any more than just a band-aid upon a life threatening condition? Why not go for a cure, instead?

C) The Big "C", Obama has no Constitutional right or authority to randomly rewrite portions of the law all by himself. Obama assumes for himself the powers of the worst kind of banana republic, tinhorn dictator when he attempts to do so. All of the liberals who bleated that conservatives should accede to Obamacare because it's "the law of the land, passed by Congress, signed by the President and affirmed by the Supreme Court", should at least have the shame to admit that every change Obama makes in the law illegally, goes against both the spirit and the letter of the law they claimed to uphold.

But getting back to the re-branding. The Geico gecko tells us us that 'Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance'. If the Obamacare Keystone Kops can ever get the website functional, and there's any truth in advertising: "Fifteen hours and triple your premiums can put all your personal information at risk from hackers".

Operators are standing by.


Cross posted at LCR


Democrats Running For Re-election, Run From Obamacare

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"Silence Of The Dems"‏

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Quote du jour

"Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes."
-Kathy Reichs

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Meanwhile, In Neville Kerry Land

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"There is no 'right' for Iran to enrich uranium. It is not in the document."
-John Kerry

Oh, well! If it's not in the document, what could possibly go wrong???

The administration also claimed it wasn’t recognizing Iran’s right to enrichment uranium, while Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araqchi, specifically told Iranian media that the agreement recognizes the country’s “enrichment program” and they wouldn’t have accepted a deal that didn’t recognize the right to enrich.

So, our Secretary of Stasis, John Kerry, has negotiated a deal where we transfer seven billion American dollars (much of it in cash), remove trade sanctions against them and in return, we get a document that both sides can't even agree upon what it says??

No wonder Teresa doesn't trust him with the checkbook!

Cross posted at LCR


Quote du jour

The opera want bankrupt and shut down. It was over before the fat lady sang.
- David Letterman

Saturday, November 23, 2013

A Little Bit of Housekeeping

You may notice a little problem accessing the comments. We're going to give Discus the old college try for commenting. They said it could take up to 24 hours to migrate the comments here. I've personally asked Eric Holder if he could speed things up a little bit, but he said that only works with illegal migration. Please be patient and then drop us a line as to whether you like or don't like the new system. Thanks!

Connections III -James Burke: Elementary Stuff

Best of the Web*


*…that I’ve seen all week!
Political/SocioEconomic

I’d like to toe the party line on insurance cancellations, but it keeps changing! -Mickey Kaus -excellent commentary from the left side of the aisle

Obama Didn’t Consult Insurers Before Making Change

Charles Krauthammer – Isn’t It Remarkable How Obama Discovers Things?


Byron York: Obama wasn’t the only Democrat who made the like-it-keep-it pledge


Videos

Bill Whittle on Obamacare

Best Fifteen Seconds of High School Football, Evah!

Narcissist in chief strikes again on 50th anniversary of JFK’s death [pic, bonus Photoshops]

Culture


OPRAH WINFREY: Millions Who Lost Health Insurance Are All Racists For Being Furious With Liar-In-Chief




Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics

Cartoon of the Day – NRO Home page

Sunday Funnies


Obama and the other turkey


Zombie Vs. Brain Dead....


The Fix


Random Second Amendment

John Cox Cartoons/Graphics

Best Portrait of JFK in the Last 50 Years

A Modest Proposal


"Help! I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!"


Nuttier Than Squirrel Poop

Canadian Bakin'

Rule Five Roundup:
(While all Rule Five posts may be NSFW, I generally only flag the ones that are certainly NSFW)

90 Miles From Tyranny - girls with guns, girls with guns, girls with guns, Rule Five links

American Power- Sunday Rule Five, Some Afternoon Alice Goodwin #Rule5 , Rachel Williams: Zoo's Great British Babe Search Winner 2013

Blackmailers Don't Shoot - Pretty Girls on a Thursday

By Other Means

Camp of the Saints - Grand Theft Tatas


The Daley Gator – Daley Babes - Moyoko Sasaki, Shizuka Miyazawa, Evelyn Lozada, Nozomi Aso, Friday Beauty

Daily Mail – Scarlett Johannson

Good Monday Morning

EBL , Marta Kirsten, Maria Bartiromo


Friday Night Babe – Ana Serradilla!


Good Stuff's Cyber World

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World -The Friday Pin Up

The Right Way - Friday Babe


Hookers and Booze


Knuckledraggin' My Life Away, Your Good Morning Girl

Miss K - Warm Redheads

Pirates Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup, If All You See…

PostalDog - Kendall Jenner

Randy’s Roundtable – Thursday Nite Tart


Concealed Carry

Sex in Advertising -Versace

The Classic Liberal -Rule Five

The Feral Irishman

The Last Tradition - Katya Zharkova

Theo Spark –Bedtime Totty, Bonus Totty, Benghazi Black Friday Bonus Totty, Red Friday Totty, Thursday Totty, Bedtime Totty


The Other McCain- Rule Five Monday

Vintage Babe of the Week – Jean Trent

Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

Your Crazy Uncle Bubba -Friday Nite Tite Dresses

Obligatory Niners Cheerleaders

Use the comments as an open thread on any of these topics. Please send links of news, commentary, choice humor or Rule Fivage to: Proof.Positive@Hotmail.com

Quote du jour

The First Lady has launched a new campaign: "Drink up". At last! A solid suggestion as to how to endure the last few years of Obama's term!
-Proof

Friday, November 22, 2013

"Oh, What a Relief it Isn't!"

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Inspired by Time Magazine

Friday Night Babe

Tonight's FNB* is Ana Serradilla!

(*a.k.a. Rule Five Friday)

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The Best Portrait of JFK in the Last Fifty Years*

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*Or possibly, ever. I may be biased. I may not know art, but I know what I like. This portrait is both poignant and compelling. I was blown away by it.

Editor's Note: John draws the pretty pictures, I write the headlines here. Just so you know John wasn't patting himself on the back. If I use his title for the headline, it will show up in quotes. Otherwise, assume I wrote it.


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November 22, 1963 - In Remembrance

From the archives (updated):

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of a great man. One who left his mark on his country and his culture. One who is still quoted to this day. On November 22, 1963, the world little noted his passing in the shock and outpouring of grief over the assassination of JFK. That man was Clive Staple Lewis…oddly enough, like JFK, ”Jack” to his friends.

C. S. Lewis, author of The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia, was a contemporary and friend of J. R. R. Tolkien. He was also an atheist who came to Christianity, in his own words, “kicking and screaming”, who became one of its strongest apologists.

You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
-Surprised by Joy

His books have been translated into dozens of languages and sold millions of copies over the years. Anthony Hopkins portrayed him in the movie Shadowlands (1993), the story of his romance with American poet Joy Gresham, who died of cancer a mere handful of years after they met.

His life was rich and varied. His sorrows deep and vast. His legacy is enduring.

In our remembrance of those who passed this day, one might do well to remember what can be accomplished with just a pair of Jacks!

Quote du jour

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
- C.S. Lewis

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Vintage Babe of the Week

Tonight's Vintage Babe* is Jean Trent!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)

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A Modest Proposal

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I was watching a news story about the president’s plummeting popularity and trustworthiness numbers, when the reporter attributed the president’s lack of credibility, in large part to the failings of the Obamacare website, particularly in regards to its security. They showed a clip of congressional hearings where one congress critter asked four men directly responsible for security at the Healthcare.gov site, point blank, if the site would be secure by Dec 1st. To a man, they all answered “No”.

Now the White House insists that Healthcare.gov is secure. Hmm... Given the track record of this administration, that could hinge on what your definition of “is” is, or “secure”. But I had an idea. Here is the opportunity for Obama and the Democrats to show true leadership. Having exempted themselves from all the wonderfulness that is Obamacare, there’s no real reason for them to go to the Healthcare.gov website, right? So, here’s the deal. President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and all the Democrats that voted for this catastrophe , er, boon (doggle) to mankind, should all personally open an account at Healthcare.gov and enter all the private information required of John and Jane Doe, average Americans.
Like that guy from Life Lock who bought mobile billboards with his real Social Security number on them, because he was confident in the security of his own system. If the White House “insists” that the site is secure, then the President and Congress Critters who voted for it won’t mind at all personally inputting their own Social Security numbers, bank accounts and whatever else in the way of personal or otherwise private information required of them, would they?

And, of course, they should sit down and do this personally, and not delegate it to some paid staffer. Mr. and Mrs. America don’t have paid personal staff to do this sort of thing for them. The President and Congress should lead by example here.

Anyone care to wager that if the President and Congress were personally required, or shamed into going on this site, that they would make sure it is a darn sight more secure than it is for you and me?

So, make the darn site more secure, or scrap it.



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Quote du jour

"The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled."
- Alexander Hamilton

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Medal of Honor

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Private First Class Arthur J. Jackson


Citation:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with the 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on the Island of Peleliu in the Palau group, 18 September 1944. Boldly taking the initiative when his platoon's left flank advance was held up by the fire of Japanese troops concealed in strongly fortified positions, Pfc. Jackson unhesitatingly proceeded forward of our lines and, courageously defying the heavy barrages, charged a large pillbox housing approximately 35 enemy soldiers. Pouring his automatic fire into the opening of the fixed installation to trap the occupying troops, he hurled white phosphorus grenades and explosive charges brought up by a fellow marine, demolishing the pillbox and killing all of the enemy. Advancing alone under the continuous fire from other hostile emplacements, he employed similar means to smash 2 smaller positions in the immediate vicinity. Determined to crush the entire pocket of resistance although harassed on all sides by the shattering blasts of Japanese weapons and covered only by small rifle parties, he stormed 1 gun position after another, dealing death and destruction to the savagely fighting enemy in his inexorable drive against the remaining defenses, and succeeded in wiping out a total of 12 pillboxes and 50 Japanese soldiers. Stouthearted and indomitable despite the terrific odds. Pfc. Jackson resolutely maintained control of the platoon's left flank movement throughout his valiant 1-man assault and, by his cool decision and relentless fighting spirit during a critical situation, contributed essentially to the complete annihilation of the enemy in the southern sector of the island. His gallant initiative and heroic conduct in the face of extreme peril reflect the highest credit upon Pfc. Jackson and the U.S. Naval Service.


Pfc. Jackson: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.

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Hat tip Home of Heroes

There are seventy nine living MoH recipients today. Their names and their stories should not be forgotten. My mission is to honor one of those heroes here each week, and salute them for their courage and sacrifice. In the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy:
“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors; the men it remembers.”

"Help! I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up!"

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"Brokeback Numbers"



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Quote du jour

"This is a cover up of cosmic incompetence."
-Charles Krauthammer, on Obamacare

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Obama Proves Once Again the Liberals are Irony Impaired

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"On Capitol Hill, one side is invested in failure."
-Barack Obama

Barack Obama finally speaks the truth and doesn't even realize it! The party of Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, barricading the veterans' memorial, the stimulus that didn't, high unemployment, multiplying the national debt, the 'Arab Spring', IRS targeting, NSA spying, reporter eavesdropping, Healthcare.gov, and turning NASA into a self esteem program for Muslims, has been invested in failure for years.

Their biggest investment in failure stood in front of Styrofoam columns, prattled on about lowering sea level, being more flexible with the Russians, keeping your healthcare and doctor if you like them, and brandishing a Nobel Peace Prize he didn't earn.

I've often said it about one of his disciples, but it appears to be true of Obama as well:
He has more projection than a multiplex!

Best Fifteen Seconds of High School Football, Evah!


"Wrong ball!"

Headline du jour

Exeter? I Hardly Know Her!

Sex in Advertising

For all you connoisseurs of advertising...

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I may not be sure exactly what she's selling, but, I'm pretty sure I'm in the market!

Nuttier Than Squirrel Poop

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"The Handout"



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