Cross posted at LCR
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Quote du jour
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.-Freeman Dyson
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Trouble in Marijuanaville?
It is a long and widely accepted theory that pot smokers, being the mellowed out folk that they are, are not likely to commit violent crimes as, say, a drunk might? Here is some anecdotal evidence to the contrary:
Pot-smoking jail escapee tries to grab officers' guns
Police used a safe-wrap restraint system and a spit mask to subdue a pot-smoking Honor Farm escapee who fought with officers and tried to take their guns Wednesday afternoon in downtown Stockton, authorities said.
A bicycle patrol officer approached a man who was smoking marijuana in the first block of North American Street shortly before 3 p.m., police said. The man lied about his identity and then attempted to run away, officers said.
Run away? I thought the mellowed out weed smoker was just supposed to sit there with a goofy grin on his face and say, "Gee, Officer! It crawled into my hand! Honest!!
The officer and two backup officers attempted to detain the man... At that point, the man, identified by police as 22-year-old Matthew Cook, punched one of the officers, a witness said.
“The guy started punching the officer and the officer started punching him back,” Ruben Mendoza, 30, said. “I think that guy must be on drugs or something because it took three officers to get one guy down. That was a strong guy.”
During the fight, Cook tried to grab three officers’ guns, but he was unable to unholster any of their weapons, police said.
So, he tried to take the officers' guns away because he must have wanted to stick daisies in the barrels?? Might he have been on other drugs in addition to marijuana? Sure. But what we do know is that he was smoking marijuana out on the street, in a state where it is not legal. (Which could support the claim that marijuana damages brain cells). He punched the officers who were trying to subdue him and he tried to take their guns away from them.
At this point, it's merely anecdotal, not necessarily indicative of any larger trend. But the next time one of your pro-pot buddies gives you the line about how mellow and nonviolent pot smokers are, tell them about Matthew Cook.
Oh, and Matthew: Didn't your momma ever teach you it was impolite to spit??
Best of the Web*
*…that I’ve seen all week!
Political/SocioEconomic
Obama and Burger King Demagoguery
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) Has No Home In Louisiana, Claims She Lives With Mommy And Daddy
Videos
The Israel Test
The SKUNK, a weapon that only Israel could think of
Krauthammer’s Take: Warren Buffett is Acting in an “Un-American Way,” as Defined By President Obama
Bill Whittle: Early Check Out
Andrew Klavan: How To Speak Leftist...
Krauthammer’s Take: President Obama is Using the Pentagon as a Scapegoat
Culture
Is it Hustler or a Comic Book: Critics unload on Illustrator's 'Spider-Woman #1' cover features heroine in overtly sexual pose
Moral idiocy on parade
Why Those Damned Masks?
Science and Technology
House with moveable rooms
Hover bikes
U.K. Wind Farms Shut Off Turbines, Earn Almost ‘Double What They Would Have Received for Producing Energy’
Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Cartoon of the Day – NRO Home page
Sunday Funnies
The Cinderella Story...
John Cox- KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD
Earl of Taint - Barry's Silver Tongue
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Linkfests:
The Paste -A Poor Mans Drudge Report....
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 - Morning Mistress, Hot pick, Morning Mistress, Women with Weapons
American Power- Sexy Comes in All Sizes, Kristin Cavallari , Keira Knightley
Smokin'!
Blackmailers Don't Shoot- Jessica Alba
By Other Means - Proposition 1 Critics Vindicated, Cosplay
The Daley Gator – Daley Babes - Zamayra Centeno, Aneta Kowal, Yuu Kikkawa
Daily Mail – Christina Hendricks and friends @ Emmy Awards
E.B.L. - Padma Lakshimi
Fishnet Friday
Naked Ice Bucket Challenge
Friday Night Babe - Viviana Greco!
Good Stuff's Cyber World #153
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World -The Friday Pin Up
Hookers and Booze
Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - Give it a few more years Champ…, Breakfast
Pirates Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup, If All You See…, If All You See…, If All You See…
PostalDog - Hillary Duff
Sex in Advertising - Teri Garr
The Last Tradition - Amber Rose, Liris Crosse , Jordan Borgella
Theo Spark – Bedtime Totty, Bedtime Totty, Teatime Totty, Thursday Totty
The Other McCain- Rule Five Sunday
Vintage Babe of the Week – Valerie Leon
Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
Your Crazy Uncle Bubba - Friday Nite Tite Dresses, Saturday short shorts
...and the obligatory 49'er 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
...you keep shooting until the threat is over. In the movies, where you get shot or stabbed once and crumble like Obama's foreign policy, it's make believe. In the real world, people who are shot multiple times can continue to assault you, even after they have sustained life ending injuries. That's why John Browning invented the 1911 .45 !-Proof
Friday, August 29, 2014
The Least Serious President in the History of the Republic™ on Ukraine, Syria & the Economy, Part Deux
"Next week, I'll be in Europe to coordinate with our closest allies and partners. In Estonia, I will reaffirm our unwavering commitment to the defense of our NATO allies. At the NATO summit in the United Kingdom, we'll focus on the additional steps we can take to ensure the alliance remains prepared for any challenge."
Unwavering commitment? Check.
"Our meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission will be another opportunity for our alliance to continue our partnership with Ukraine, and I look forward to reaffirming the unwavering commitment of the United States to Ukraine and its people when I welcome President Poroshenko to the White House next month."
"Partnership"? Check.
"...Ukraine is not a member of NATO, but a number of those states that are close by are. And we take our Article 5 commitments to defend each other very seriously, and that includes the smallest NATO member, as well as the largest NATO member."
"...and take our Article 5 commitments to defend each other very seriously" (Having trouble suppressing a giggle here!) Check.
Let me see...unwavering commitment to our allies and "partners", taking our Article 5 commitments to defend each other very seriously, then why in the Hell haven't you grown a backbone and done something about the incursions into Crimea, which everyone has apparently already ceded to the Russians, and the continuing invasion of the Ukraine, which you will not call by its proper name?
Didn't we already have a "commitment" to the Ukraine, if not a signatory of NATO?
Let me remind you, Mr. President, since apparently golf
The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances is a political agreement signed in Budapest, Hungary on 5 December 1994, providing security assurances by its signatories relating to Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Memorandum was originally signed by three nuclear powers, the Russian Federation, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents.
The memorandum included security assurances against threats or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine as well as those of Belarus and Kazakhstan. As a result Ukraine gave up the world's third largest nuclear weapons stockpile between 1994 and 1996, of which Ukraine had physical though not operational control. The use of the weapons was dependent on Russian controlled electronic Permissive Action Links and the Russian command and control system.
So, because it was only a "memorandum" and not a treaty, the "assurances of security" are null and void? What happened to "unwavering commitment"? Partnership"?? Taking our commitments to defend each other very seriously???
And, of course, since it is Barack Obama, it gets worse!
As a newly minted Senator, Barack Obama pushed to disarm the Ukraine of not only its nuclear arsenal, but conventional weapons as well. Why would they need them? They have the US and Great Britain guaranteeing their security and territorial integrity!
Senator Obama pushed bill that helped destroy more than 15,000 TONS of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine
* Obama traveled to Ukraine with Sen. Dick Lugar in 2005 just seven months after he became a senator, touring surplus weapons stockpiles
* Most of the small arms and ammunition were left over when Soviets withdrew from Eastern bloc nations, and later dumped in Ukraine
* The two senators secured U.S. funding to help destroy the weapons instead of leaving them intact
And now, the man who helped disarm the Ukraine is in no hurry to ship them any arms with which they could defend themselves, after broaching the promise to keep them and their territory secure.
Barack Obama: The gift that keeps on giving.
Cross posted at LCR
Quote du jour
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.-Georg C. Lichtenberg
Thursday, August 28, 2014
"We Don't Have a Strategy Yet" - Obama
The good news is, they've brought in an adviser from the Carter administration...
The Least Serious President in the History of the Republic™ on Ukraine, Syria & the Economy
Our peerless Narcissist-in-Chief made a few remarks today:
Our focus right now is to protect American personnel on the ground in Iraq, to protect our embassy, to protect our consulates, to make sure that critical infrastructure that could adversely affect our personnel is protected...our core priority right now is just to make sure that our folks are safe...The president is focused. Got it!
It is not just part of my responsibility, but it is a sacred duty for me as commander in chief to protect the American people. And that requires me to act fast based on information I receive if an embassy of ours or a consulate of ours is being threatened.You mean like you did in Benghazi?? Surely I am not the only one to have Benghazi come to mind while the Poseur-in-Chief preens mindlessly about a "sacred duty" to "act fast based on information I receive if an embassy of ours or a consulate of ours is being threatened."
Again, Mr. President, what exactly did you do Sept. 11th, 2011? Did you not say, Mr. President,
"... the minute I found out what was happening, I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure that we are securing our personnel and doing whatever we need to. Number two, we’re going to investigate exactly what happened so that it doesn’t happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we can bring them to justice. And I guarantee you that everyone in the state department, our military, the CIA, you name it, had number one priority making sure that people were safe. These were our folks and we’re going to find out exactly what happened, but what we’re also going to do it make sure that we are identifying those who carried out these terrible attacks.”
-Barack Obama, Oct. 26, 2012
What orders did you give and to whom? Were they carried out? If not, why not? And if not, what were the consequences of refusing to carry out a direct order from the President of the United States? Was this person fired? Disciplined in any way??
Based upon your performance in office, or lack thereof, what makes you think your remarks today have the slightest bit of credibility?
Along that same line, maybe you should go back to letting Michelle pick out your suits for you?
Cross posted at LCR
Vintage Babe of the Week
Tonight's Vintage Babe* is Valerie Leon!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)
Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)
Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!
Quote du jour
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
-George Orwell
-George Orwell
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Medal of Honor
Corporal Tibor Rubin
Citation:
Corporal Tibor Rubin distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism during the period from July 23, 1950, to April 20, 1953, while serving as a rifleman with Company I, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division in the Republic of Korea. While his unit was retreating to the Pusan Perimeter, Corporal Rubin was assigned to stay behind to keep open the vital Taegu-Pusan Road link used by his withdrawing unit. During the ensuing battle, overwhelming numbers of North Korean troops assaulted a hill defended solely by Corporal Rubin. He inflicted a staggering number of casualties on the attacking force during his personal 24-hour battle, single-handedly slowing the enemy advance and allowing the 8th Cavalry Regiment to complete its withdrawal successfully. Following the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, the 8 th Cavalry Regiment proceeded northward and advanced into North Korea. During the advance, he helped capture several hundred North Korean soldiers. On October 30, 1950, Chinese forces attacked his unit at Unsan, North Korea, during a massive nighttime assault. That night and throughout the next day, he manned a .30 caliber machine gun at the south end of the unit's line after three previous gunners became casualties. He continued to man his machine gun until his ammunition was exhausted. His determined stand slowed the pace of the enemy advance in his sector, permitting the remnants of his unit to retreat southward. As the battle raged, Corporal Rubin was severely wounded and captured by the Chinese. Choosing to remain in the prison camp despite offers from the Chinese to return him to his native Hungary, Corporal Rubin disregarded his own personal safety and immediately began sneaking out of the camp at night in search of food for his comrades. Breaking into enemy food storehouses and gardens, he risked certain torture or death if caught. Corporal Rubin provided not only food to the starving Soldiers, but also desperately needed medical care and moral support for the sick and wounded of the POW camp. His brave, selfless efforts were directly attributed to saving the lives of as many as forty of his fellow prisoners. Corporal Rubin's gallant actions in close contact with the enemy and unyielding courage and bravery while a prisoner of war are in the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army.
Cpl. Rubin: 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
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?-Scott Adams
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Sex in Advertising
For all you connoisseurs of advertising...
I may not be exactly sure what she's selling, but, I'm pretty sure I'm in the market!
I may not be exactly sure what she's selling, but, I'm pretty sure I'm in the market!
Monday, August 25, 2014
Quote du jour
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.-Albert Einstein
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Earthquake in Napa Valley CA
It was reportedly a 6.0 quake, causing a lot of damage, much of it from fires from ruptured gas lines. No fatalities or missing persons reported yet. But take a look at the double yellow lines in that picture I just grabbed. CalTrans is filling a crack in the roadway: look how far the roadway has shifted side to side.
Cross posted at LCR
SF 49'ers vs. San Diego Chargers
The preseason continues...
Go Niners!
Update: Final: 49'ers 21, Chargers 7
Quote du jour
"Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does."
-David Rakoff
-David Rakoff
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Best of the Web*
*…that I’ve seen all week!
Political/SocioEconomic
REPORT: James Foley Rescue Mission Failed Because Obama 'Dragged His Feet'
NY Times Reporter: Obama “Greatest Threat To Press Freedom In A Generation”
U.S. helping build border fence … in Ukraine
Cigars, But Not Close -Mark Steyn
DUI D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg bought 23 gallons of vodka in 15 months, at one store
Ferguson Question For The Gungrabbers
Georgia mother hides children, shoots intruder 5 times during home invasion Some people making a big deal about Officer Wilson shooting six times. SIX TIMES!!
Hold up of US missile shipment to Israel reportedly resolved
Videos
A Beautiful and Powerful Video Tribute to Robin Williams
Culture
Overwhelmed -Lest we forget...
Reading the Tea Leaves in Johnson County -a golden oldie from Mark Steyn on the militarization of the police
Random Thoughts -Thomas Sowell
Science and Technology
SpaceX rocket hovers 820 feet and lands
Incredible Footage Shows SpaceX Rocket Automatically Detonate in Mid-Air After ‘Anomaly Was Detected’
Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Cartoon of the Day – NRO Home page
Sunday Funnies
The Drunken Rose of Texas
John Cox- KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD
Earl of Taint - Compare And Contrast
Reaganite's Sunday Funnies
TGIF Toonz
Linkfests:
The Paste -A Poor Mans Drudge Report....
Angry Clingers UNITE!
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 - Hot pick, Morning Mistress, Girls with Guns, Hot pick
American Power- Miss Colombia Paola Builes Stripped of Beauty Crown Because of Racy Bikini Photos, Jennifer Nicole Lee Mighty Bikini in Miami, Sylvie Van de Vaart Perfect Bikini Bod
Friday
Rule 5 Linkfest with Katy Perry
By Other Means - Cosplay, Lydia, Shiny
The Daley Gator – Daley Babes - Mina Asakura, Rachel Skarsten, Tina Huang
Daily Mail – Jessica Simpson
E.B.L. - Viva la France!, Jessica Alba and Marilyn Monroe: Separated by Subway Grates, Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch
Good Monday Morning, Fishnet Friday
Friday Night Babe- Nicole Murphy!
Good Stuff's Cyber World #152
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World -The Friday Pin Up
Hookers and Booze
Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - Attaboy!
Pirates Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup, If All You See…, If All You See…, If All You See…
PostalDog - Adrianne Palicki
Randy's Roundtable - Thursday Nite Tart
Sex in Advertising - Guess
Spurs Realm - G & G southern style
The Last Tradition - Vera Sidika
Theo Spark – Bedtime Totty, Teatime Totty, Bedtime Totty, Saturday Totty, Teatime Totty
The Other McCain- Rule Five Sunday
Vintage Babe of the Week – Lili St. Cyr
Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
Your Crazy Uncle Bubba - Friday Nite Tite Dresses, Saturday Short Shorts
...and the obligatory 49'er 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
Politicians don't pass gun laws to reduce crime. They pass them to "show they care" and that they are "doing something".-Proof
Friday, August 22, 2014
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Vintage Babe of the Week
Tonight's Vintage Babe* is Lili St Cyr!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)
Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)
Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!
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