Women of PETA XXXIV

To the delight of some and the chagrin of others, after a long hiatus, we continue with yet one more tribute to those lovely lasses who would bare their assets to further the cause of PETA.

Because the world needs more naked, nearly naked and vegetable clad vegetarians!

Quote du jour

A rifle has rifling (those lands and grooves inside the barrel), calling a musket a "rifle" irks me. Unless the barrel is indeed rifled, then, if you must, call it a "rifled musket". To me a musket is a smooth bore weapon (which have all the accuracy of a news report on MSNBC. Although not quite as grating on the ears. And nerves.)

-OldAFSarge

Samuel Adams - "We Bow to No King"

Hmm. I wonder which "king" they might be referring to?

Connections 2-James Burke: Separate Ways

Best of the Web*

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


Obama’s Melting Wings -Mark Steyn


The DMV as an Allegory of American Decadence


Benghazi Amb. Stevens’ Final Diary Entry: ‘Never ending security threats…’

Living Rich and Famous, Obama Style

Eric Holder's "sixteen scandals"

While The IRS Was Targeting Tea Party, They Were Sending $4.2 Billion in Refunds to Mexico


IRS Gives Illegals at 4 Atlanta Addresses $52 MILLION – Will Whistleblowers Get IRS Bonus?


Ex-OFA: Don’t Discuss Cost Of Obama’s War On Oil


Indiana Dem official sentenced to prison for ’08 ballot fraud


Debunked: #IRS not targeting progressive groups like they did Tea Party groups


European Union Diktats Forcing Energy Rationing in Great Britain


Immigration Reform, now with total amnesty, and forgiveness of DUI convictions too

Videos

Charge dismissed against student who refused to remove NRA t-shirt

Cruz Rallies Tea Party To Help Him Abolish IRS

Krauthammer: Hey Nobody Cares About What Obama Says Anymore


Key Witness John Good Dismantles State’s Case Against George Zimmerman

Boat drinks

Culture


The Glue Holding America Together -Victor Davis Hanson


The Ammo Shortage By the Numbers


Journalism Errors and Character Flaws

"I've seen more cotton in an aspirin bottle!" - the evolution of the bikini

C’mon Man!


CBS’ Sunday Morning Broadcasts Ken and Barbie Dolls Simulating Sex


Lib Tool Tommy Christopher: Trayvon Martin Calling Zimmerman A “Cracker” Isn’t Racist

Alec Baldwin quits Twitter (again) after making bigoted comments (again)


L.A. school district pressuring parents to settle over spoon-fed semen abuse case -Mary Katherine Ham

Space and the American Polity 1: Colony Ships

Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Cartoon of the Day – NRO Home page

Say My Name

Endless Bummer -John Cox

Easiest Logic Puzzle Ever....

Nerdcross -House Stark

President Obama to visit the "New Africa"

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 - Rule Five Late night ladies , Girls with Guns

American Power- Gwyneth Paltrow in her unmentionables (movie trailer)



A View From the Beach -Dolphins do 22

A trainwreck Rule Five


By Other Means

The Daley Gator – Daley Babes - Paola Canas, Emily Scott, Sophie Hanan, Billie Piper


Daily Mail – Audrina Patridge sizzles in a fitted pink dress as she judges Hooters Swimsuit Pageant

Good Monday Morning

Dustbury – Carly Simon

EBL –Nyotaimori Rule 5

Friday Night Babe –Joanna Garcia

Good Stuff's Cyber World

Guns and Bikinis

The Right Way

Hookers and Booze

Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - Good Morning Girl

Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Friday Pinup

Miss K -Coming Clean

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

pitsnipesgripes

PostalDog - Courtney Stodden

Randy’s Roundtable –Thursday Nite Tart

Reaganite Republican – Miss Greece , Miss Russia

Sex in Advertising – Joanna Garcia

Support your local Gunfighter – Anna Chapman

The Classic Liberal – Rule 5 – Rachel Nichols

The Feral Irishman

The Last Tradition – Gywneth Paltrow

The Lonely Libertarian

Theo Spark –Bedtime Toddy , TMZ Takes Down Topless Video of Kate Upton on Horseback , Thursday Totty

The Other McCain- Rule 5 Monday

Three Beers Later – Rule 5

Vintage Babe of the Week – Julie Christie

Rule 5 Woodsterman Style


Your Crazy Uncle Bubba

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

Whenever Alec Baldwin asks, "What's in your wallet?" I reply, "The government's hand!"
-Proof

Obama's Agenda is a Little Flat

Friday Night Babe

Tonight's FNB* is Joanna Garcia !

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

Quote du jour

At the recent G-8 summit, President Obama repeatedly referred to Britain’s finance minister, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as “Jeffrey.” His name is actually George Osborne. Obama said “Jeffrey” over and over. Later, he explained that he was confusing the chancellor with Jeffrey Osborne, the American R&B singer.

-Jay Nordlinger

No other president makes Dan Quayle look like a rocket scientist!
(At least he didn't call him "Ozzy"!)

Vintage Babe of the Week

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











Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!

Quote du jour

When the state has the capability to know everything except the difference between right and wrong, it won’t end well.

-Mark Steyn

Medal of Honor

Sergeant Robert E. O'Malley

Citation:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the communist (Viet Cong) forces at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. While leading his squad in the assault against a strongly entrenched enemy force, his unit came under intense small-arms fire. With complete disregard for his personal safety, Sgt. O'Malley raced across an open rice paddy to a trench line where the enemy forces were located. Jumping into the trench, he attacked the Viet Cong with his rifle and grenades, and singly killed 8 of the enemy. He then led his squad to the assistance of an adjacent marine unit which was suffering heavy casualties. Continuing to press forward, he reloaded his weapon and fired with telling effect into the enemy emplacement. He personally assisted in the evacuation of several wounded marines, and again regrouping the remnants of his squad, he returned to the point of the heaviest fighting. Ordered to an evacuation point by an officer, Sgt. O'Malley gathered his besieged and badly wounded squad, and boldly led them under fire to a helicopter for withdrawal. Although 3 times wounded in this encounter, and facing imminent death from a fanatic and determined enemy, he steadfastly refused evacuation and continued to cover his squad's boarding of the helicopters while, from an exposed position, he delivered fire against the enemy until his wounded men were evacuated. Only then, with his last mission accomplished, did he permit himself to be removed from the battlefield. By his valor, leadership, and courageous efforts in behalf of his comrades, he served as an inspiration to all who observed him, and reflected the highest credit upon the Marine Corps and the U.S. Naval Service.

Sgt. O'Malley: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.



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.”

Trayvon Martin's Hoodie and Skittles Back in the News

Since Trayvon Martin's Hoodie and Skittles are back in the news, here's the dramatic recreation of said evidence originally presented on Proof Positive:

Update: Here is the full post from March 30, 2012, "Don't Bring Skittles® to a Gunfight", for those whose clicking fingers might be sprained:


Too soon? Given the media circus surrounding this shooting, it's hard to tell. Did you know that there were 14,748 murders in the U S in 2010? The vast majority were either blacks killing blacks or whites killing whites. Whether or not the Martin shooting was justifiable in any way shape or form, the carnival like atmosphere that has surrounded the Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman incident is highly regrettable.

First, the reporting is abysmal. How many times were we shown a five year old photo of Trayvon Martin, looking like a fresh faced schoolboy of twelve. Once might have been because of a rush to get the story out. Continually showing the picture of an innocent 12 year old, was done to manipulate people's emotions...as if no one could be outraged over a seventeen year old being shot. Every time that five year old picture was shown, it was a lie of omission. All that was missing was a choir robe and a halo.

And the politics were shameful as well. Democrat congressmen wearing hoodies on the House floor, accusing Republicans of playing politics with the shooting. All the anti-second amendment types are trying to find some way to turn this to their advantage, and a President who doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut, meddling again in a local police matter where he doesn't have all the facts. Seems to be a habit with this one. "Hoodie rallies" filled with people who do not possess all the facts, "making a statement".

Trayvon's mother, who should be able to grieve over the loss of her son in peace, is beset by race hustlers and lawyers. I won't speculate what or who may have prompted her to try to trademark her son's name, but I can't say that greed on someone's part doesn't come to mind.

Then, there are the Spike Lee's and New Black Panthers of the world, calling for vigilante justice, offering bounties, without a single word of censure from the President, Attorney General, or the MSM in general.

There's no way this ought to have been a partisan issue. For what it's worth, Zimmerman is a registered Democrat. But it wasn't his party affiliation that pulled the trigger. It's first a question of whether or not a Hispanic man with a German name was justified in shooting a seventeen year old black youth and secondly, is there enough evidence to prosecute him? The President should have learned from his "the police acted stupidly" remarks, not to make any local crime a national issue.

But, obviously, this is a tragedy. I can only imagine what these parents are going through. And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids. And, you know, I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together -- federal, state and local -- to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened.

Every parent in America? Every aspect of an incident where we may never know all the facts? What makes this shooting different from thousands of others? What makes it different from the shooting of two young British tourists, whose parents sought a comment from the White House? The fact that that one was black on white violence? What's the matter, Mr. President? Did it not fit the narrative?

"federal, state and local -- to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened"

At the risk of being cynical, is it because this is an election year, and the president doesn't have a record to run on?Is it because the facts may never be known for certain, so that race baiting opportunists can shape the narrative to fit their agenda?

So I'm glad that not only is the Justice Department looking into it, I understand now that the governor of the state of Florida has formed a task force to investigate what's taking place. I think all of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen. And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident. But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. And, you know, I think they are right to expect that all of us, as Americans, are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened

And after promising to be the post racial president, Obama tells us we need to "search our souls"? pardon me, but there is no soul searching required. Either the shooting was justified and all the race hustlers are seeking to persecute George Zimmerman solely on the basis of race, which they accuse him of, or the shooting was not justified and the local authorities should prosecute Zimmerman if they have the evidence to do so. And if the local authorities have need of state and federal resources, they should by all means ask for them. But, this should not be driven by a national agenda. Allowing local authorities to handle local crimes might free up federal authorities to investigate obvious voter intimidation at polling places or the murder of border patrol agents with guns provided to the drug cartels by agents of the US government?

Maybe President Obama should call the parents of the dead British tourists and the parents of the dead border patrol agent and call on all Americans to take that shooting "with the seriousness it deserves and...get to the bottom of exactly what happened", or do the victims simply don't look enough like they could be his son?

And while I hope that the Martin family finds some measure of peace and that justice may be both impartial and just, may I ask what ought to be a rather obvious question: Is there any reason why Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman should be judged on the color of their skin and not the content of their character? I didn't think so.



Update II:"take this with the seriousness it deserves" Apparently one more thing the President believes we need to "take seriously".

Cross posted at LCR.

Quote du jour

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

-Mickey Kaus

Sex in Advertising

For all you connoisseurs of advertising...


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

Twinkie Watch 2013

Good news, fellow babies! (Channeling my inner Johnny Fever here!) The Twinkie is back! Well, it will be back July 15th.

And the people rejoiced...

Quote (s) du jour,

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

-Ernest Hemingway

Yeah, but good luck getting a book to go your bail...
-Proof

Bonus Quote du jour

Superman is played by Henry Cavil, who is British. I’m not sure why all our iconic American figures are being played by foreigners. We’ve got a Superman from Britain, a Batman from Britain, a Spider-Man from Britain, and a president from Kenya.

- Craig Ferguson

Quote du jour

Years ago my mother used to say to me, she'd say, "In this world, Elwood, you must be" - she always called me Elwood - "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant." Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.

-Elwood P. Dowd

Quote du jour

"Selective amnesia is always a sign of guilt."

-John Browne

Connections 2 -James Burke: "Photo Finish"

Best of the Web*

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


NSA: They’re Listening In, Reading – WITHOUT Warrants – WITHOUT Breaking the Law


Secret Service (SS For Short) Raids Man For Criticizing Obama On Twitter


Police report filed for lost and stolen items from Dem convention include $30k iPhone and $75k laptop computer -Dishonest? Or merely math impaired?

Insurance Premiums For Single Women Double In CA


CA small-business owner -premium for Silver plan twice what we currently pay


Another small Business' Real-World Experiences with ObamaCare & Blue Shield of California

Phones Leave a Telltale Trail


Culture

An All-American ‘Man of Steel’

Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Cartoon of the Day – NRO Home page

Hey, Baby!


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 - Rule Five Late night ladies

American Power- Rule Five Father's Day,
Phenomenal New Kelly Brook Sunbathing Pics From Cancun , Lucy Pindar

A View From the Beach -Great Russian Ad

A trainwreck Rule Five


By Other Means

Camp of the Saints - Rule Five Saturday

The Daley Gator – Daley Babes - Rosie Roff, Ellen Roche, Bre Tiesi, Paula Andrea Giraldo

Daily Mail – Courtney Stodden, 18, shows off her new DD chest

Good Monday Morning

EBL –Paige Butcher, Woman Swims naked with the whales

Friday Night Babe –Odette Annable

Good Stuff's Cyber World Shaking Shakira (animation)

Guns and Bikinis

The Right Way

Hookers and Booze

Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - Good Morning Girl

Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – Friday Pinup

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…, If All You See…,

pitsnipesgripes – Tiffani Amber Thiessen

Randy’s Roundtable –Thursday Nite Tart

Reaganite Republican –Miss Russia 2013

Effen on a Plane

Sex in Advertising – Madonna


The Classic Liberal – Rule 5 – Jessica Stroup, Rule 5 Keeps On Swinging

The Feral Irishman – Kate Upton Body Paint

The Last Tradition – Lauren Bacall

The Lonely Libertarian

Theo Spark –Bedtime Toddy , Bonus Babe, Saturday Bathtime , Sunday Toddy, Bedtime Toddy, Bedtime Toddy , Monday Mopsies, Red Friday Totty ,

The Other McCain- Rule 5 Sunday

Three Beers Later – Rule 5

Vintage Babe of the Week – Shelly Fabares

Rule 5 Woodsterman Style -Blonder


Your Crazy Uncle Bubba

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

Conservatives criticized Bush for spending too much. So, how come, when Obama spends much more, the criticism is ‘only because he’s black’?

-Proof

Friday Night Babe

Tonight's FNB* is Odette Annable !

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

Quote du jour

The problem, however, is not just that Obama’s declarations of moral intent are deemed more important than his concrete behavior, but also that his moral pieties serve as a psychological mechanism that offers exemption for his unethical conduct. Obama repeatedly declared that citing the bin Laden raid for partisan purposes would be “spiking the ball” of the worst sort — and thereby was freed to do just that without any guilt over his own hypocrisy, much less a worry that there was something untoward in using a national-security operation for campaign advantage.

- Victor Davis Hanson

Vintage Babe of the Week

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












Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!

Barack Bombs in Berlin

Funny that the president's speech suggesting unilateral disarmament once again, should "bomb", in what the Telegraph described as :

"... a weak, underwhelming address from a floundering president".
In stark contrast to that of his presidential predecessors, Barack Obama’s message on Wednesday was pure mush, another clichéd “citizens of the world” polemic with little substance. This was a speech big on platitudes and hopeless idealism, while containing much that was counter-productive for the world’s superpower. Ultimately it was little more than a laundry list of Obama’s favourite liberal pet causes, including cutting nuclear weapons, warning about climate change, putting an end to all wars, shutting Guantanamo, ending global poverty, and backing the European Project. It was a combination of staggering naiveté, the appeasement of America’s enemies and strategic adversaries, and the championing of more big government solutions.

Remember Barry's 2008 Fake Styrofoam column tour of Europe?? (At least he didn't have to rent the Styrofoam columns this time!) He tried to mask his complete and utter incompetence and lack of experience on foreign policy by standing in historic spots where real presidents conducted the nation's business. (I particularly liked his visit to 10 Downing street, home of the British Prime Minister. He didn't actually visit the PM, he just stood outside the door and got his picture taken making a speech. Barry likes making speeches.)

In Germany, sandwiched between two rock concerts, as I heard today, Barry spoke to a crowd of nearly 200,000. The novelty of seeing one who was supposed to be America's first post racial president. (Stop laughing!) Today, I hear 6,000 were invited and maybe 4,500 showed up.

And the Bamboozler-in-Chief had this profound statement* about nuclear arms:

We may no longer live in fear of global annihilation, but so long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not truly safe.

I'd like to challenge the logic, or more aptly the illogic, of that statement. Nuclear weapons can and have stood as a deterrence to large scale convention warfare. If the presence of a nuclear deterrent, in the hands of just and honest men (this leaves you out, Barry!), stops an invading army with guns and tanks and bombs and poison gas, are we not safer than having to stockpile more conventional arms and larger standing armies? In a non-nuclear world, does the nation who can muster the most troops win?

A smaller scale analogy, Mr. President, one you can take back home to Chicago with you when you go: Are there policemen in Chicago Mr. President? Do they have guns? Does your own Secret Service contingent have guns? Is it fair (or rational) to say that as long as guns exist, we are not truly safe? Or do the guns not prevent crimes and protect the law enforcement officers (and your sorry ass) by their presence?

Great Britain has had nuclear weapons for years and no American has ever lost a night's sleep over their intention to use them on us. There is a balance of power to be maintained in this world. But, as you voted "present" as a state senator, as you were absent during the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, as you trade away our missile defenses and strategic advantages around the globe, and disrespect our democratic allies, no one is surprised that you do not have the best strategic interests of the US at heart.

Your pious platitudes, and "combination of staggering naiveté, the appeasement of America’s enemies and strategic adversaries" have not gone unnoticed. Whether or not the Republic survives, historians will note and properly blame you for its rapid decline while you occupied the Oval Office.



*Closed Captioning for the Thinking Impaired: Sarcasm

Cross posted at LCR.

Quote du jour

When Nixon tried to sic the IRS on a few powerful political enemies, the IRS told him to take a hike. When Obama’s courtiers tried to sic the IRS on thousands of ordinary American citizens, the agency went along, and very enthusiastically. This is a scale of depravity hitherto unknown to the tax authorities of the United States, and for that reason alone they should be disarmed and disbanded — and rebuilt from scratch with far more circumscribed powers.

-Mark Steyn

Medal of Honor

Lieutenant Thomas R. Norris

Citation:

Lt. Norris completed an unprecedented ground rescue of 2 downed pilots deep within heavily controlled enemy territory in Quang Tri Province. Lt. Norris, on the night of 10 April, led a 5-man patrol through 2,000 meters of heavily controlled enemy territory, located 1 of the downed pilots at daybreak, and returned to the Forward Operating Base (FOB). On 11 April, after a devastating mortar and rocket attack on the small FOB, Lt. Norris led a 3-man team on 2 unsuccessful rescue attempts for the second pilot. On the afternoon of the 12th, a forward air controller located the pilot and notified Lt. Norris. Dressed in fishermen disguises and using a sampan, Lt. Norris and 1 Vietnamese traveled throughout that night and found the injured pilot at dawn. Covering the pilot with bamboo and vegetation, they began the return journey, successfully evading a North Vietnamese patrol. Approaching the FOB, they came under heavy machinegun fire. Lt. Norris called in an air strike which provided suppression fire and a smoke screen, allowing the rescue party to reach the FOB. By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, undaunted courage, and selfless dedication in the face of extreme danger, Lt. Norris enhanced the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.

Lt. Norris: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.



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

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

-James Naismith

"Lil Wayne" Transforms into "Lil Whine"

Poor baby! Rapper "Lil Wayne" shot a video over the weekend which depicted the American flag dropping to the ground and "Lil Dick", er, "Wayne" then proceeds to step on the flag. Hard to characterize what he did as "dancing", unless it was the St. Vitus variety.

“My country 'his of thee / Sweet land of kill 'em all and let 'em die / God bless Amerika / This ole' godless Amerika.”

Ah! Just a little Valentine to the country that made him prosperous and gave him the opportunity to become wealthy! An ode to the land that made him prosperous! No harm, no foul! Only someone beyond the pretentious and pseudo-anarchist youths that listen to and buy his music got wind of his little Bill Ayers style flag dance.

When he started to catch some flak for it, he backpedaled as fast as he could.

“It was never my intention to desecrate the flag of the United States of America. I was shooting a video for a song off my album entitled 'God Bless Amerika'. The clip that surfaced on the Internet was a camera trick clip that revealed that behind the American Flag was the Hoods of America," he said. "In the final edit of the video you will see the flag fall to reveal what is behind it but will never see it on the ground."

So, it's not disrespectful to drop the flag on the ground just so long as you edit it out of the video? What, there's no gravity on the part of the planet where you live, that you couldn't figure out that if the flag dropped, that it would hit the ground? Did you expect flying unicorns to bear it away while you obliviously continued your vulgar and pathetic rants? And those shots that show you looking down at your feet, while you're stepping on the flag, that didn't bother you enough to stop and make take a second take? Or couldn't you be bothered with that?

And, now, pathetic crapweasel that you are, you aren't man enough to stand behind your anti-American sentiments, are you? You tweet:

"I didn't step on the flag on purpose! It's a scene in a video where the flag drops behind me and after it drop it's just there as I perform."

I suppose you didn't make the video on purpose? The cameras and microphones just dropped in front of you while you were rapping? Just as plausible, Lil Whine.

That's okay, Lil Whine! We won't stop buying your music on purpose. At least I won't. I was ahead of the curve. I stopped buying it before I started.

Sex in Advertising

For all you connoisseurs of advertising...


I may not be sure exactly what she's selling, but, if all my shots were up to date, I'm pretty sure I'd be in the market!

Quote du jour

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

Quote du jour,

Once the government has the power to do something, it is a deadlock cinch that someone will propose an argument for using that power for the "greater good." Sometimes that will be a good idea. Other times it will just seem like a good idea. And still other times, it will be an obviously bad idea. Or maybe it will actually be a good idea that creates entirely unforeseeable negative consequences. And, sometimes, it will be a good idea for some and a tyrannical imposition for others (See, Bloomberg, Meddling Crapweasel)

-Jonah Goldberg

Obama: "We Take This Very Seriously"

What's that we should take seriously, Mr. President? Apparently, everything.

Cross posted at LCR.