Proof Positive: January 2016

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Women of PETA XLVII

To the delight of some and the chagrin of others, 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!

Your Non-obligatory NFL Cheeerleaders

Look, just because no one is playing football this week is not a reason to give the ladies the day off! Or maybe think about what they might do on their day off?

Quote du jour

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

-Yogi Berra

Saturday, January 30, 2016

A Little Saturday Night Music

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - I Couldn't Spell #@!%

Best of the Web*

*…that I’ve seen all week!
Political/SocioEconomic
IRS WIPES ANOTHER HARD DRIVE: Sackless GOP Leaders Issue Sternly Worded Memo in Response

Rep. Mia Love wants to limit congressional bills to one subject at a time

Planned Parenthood Rep Works for D.A. Who Indicted David Daleiden

Trump Won’t Give Specifics on Abortion: “I’m Pro-Life, But I Don’t Want to Talk About It Right Now”

Videos
Charles Cooke of National Review Explains Why Trump Is A Charlatan

Brigitte Gabriel DESTROYS The 'Not All Muslims' Argument

Bill Whittle: We are not enemies...

Culture
Blizzard won’t stop guards at the Tomb of the Unknowns from doing their duty

Ted Cruz Cheats at Golf?

Donald Trump Wanted Vets Kicked Off Fifth Avenue

Is the media secretly trying to help Hillary Clinton by making her look much younger than she is? Hillary Clinton's stock pictures Photoshopped to eliminate wrinkles

NYC pays this fireman $125K a year to do absolutely nothing

Technology
SpaceX’s Dragon 2 Crew Capsule Is One Step Closer To Flight (Video)

NOAA REPORT SAYING 2015 WAS HOTTEST YEAR EVER RESULTED FROM A MATH ERROR

Evidence mounts for hidden ninth planet

The aliens are silent because they are extinct - See what happens when you ignore global warming???

An incandescent light bulb, the most efficient bulb

wind turbine photo of the year

Volvo Plans “Death Proof” Cars By 2020

Are we thinking about artificial intelligence all wrong?

Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics

Cartoon of the Day – NRO

Flopping Aces -Sunday Funnies

John Cox- KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD

Today's Toons 1/20/16

Today's Toons 1/21/16

Money talks

Cartoon Round Up....

Today's Toons 1/22/16

Cartoon of the Day – Tough

TGI Funnies

Linkfests:
Larwyn’s Linx: Yes, Trump Can Win

TRUCK FUMP!

Larwyn’s Linx: Colorblind America: A Malignant Fallacy

In The Mailbox, 01.28.16

Larwyn’s Linx: Trump debate dodge fuels doubts, boosts Cruz

Larwyn’s Linx: The Trump Tapes, Volume 1

Larwyn’s Linx: Trump Pulls Out of Megyn Kelly Debate

Larwyn’s Linx: How the FBI Could Force DOJ to Prosecute Hillary Clinton

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, girls with guns

American Power- Bar Refaeli topless

Angry Mike's Hood - Friday

By Other Means - Cosplay, Tap Rack & Bang, Seeing Red

The Daley Gator – Daley Babe: Karen Vi

Daily Mail – Rita Ora

EBL -Megyn Kelly

Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale, Fire power
, Tuesdeyes..., Thursdeyes..
Friday Night Babe - Camille Neviere!

Good Stuff's Cyber World #226

Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - Good Morning Girl, So ya wanna play doctor…, Legs, Monday MILFs, “You’re getting sleepy…”, Good Morning Girl, Your Good Morning Girl, Your Good Morning Girl, Pattycake, pattycake…, Your Good Morning Girl, Meanwhile, over at Irish’s place…

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...

Flowing Curves of Beauty

Sex in Advertising - Camille Neviere

Eva Padberg

The Last Tradition - Jennifer Lawrence

The Right Way -Friday Babe

The Other McCain- Rule Five Sunday

Vintage Babe of the Week – Mary Healy

Women of PETA XLVI

Rule 5 Woodsterman Style , Let's Hear It For Football

...and the obligatory NFL cheerleaders and their sisters!

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

"Hillary imagined her grandparents were immigrants.
Elizabeth Warren imagined that her grandparents met them when they landed."

-Proof, on Do you know the difference between Hillary and Elizabeth Warren?

Friday, January 29, 2016

Friday Night Babe

Tonight's FNB* is Camille Neviere!

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

"Afluenza" Poster Child Kills Four, Not Held Accountable Because Wealth Clouded Ability to Tell Right from Wrong

The 'Bill of Privileges' is Under Attack!

A while back, in my local dead tree paper, there was a detailed and thoughtful essay on "Going' beyond laws' in dealing with guns". Although I appreciate the time and effort and thought this individual put into these proposals, unfortunately, some of his presuppositions are fatally flawed. Most noticeable was this:

Acknowledge that ownership of a gun is a privilege that carries with it responsibilities — just as does the possession and use of an automobile. Every gun owner should be licensed, every gun registered and an annual fee paid for each weapon owned.

Only, that's not true. Ownership of a gun is a right, not a privilege. The first ten amendments to the Constitution are considered the "Bill of Rights", not the "Bill of Privileges". The Second Amendment, like the First, identified rights bestowed by their Creator, that the government was not to interfere with.

"every gun registered"

Historically this has not worked out well for free people. The government which registers your guns today, knows exactly where to find them if it decides to ban and confiscate them tomorrow.

Cars are deadly weapons if not handled properly. They kill tens of thousands every year — as do guns — and we pay an annual fee for their registration. There is no reason not to treat the ownership of guns in equal fashion and focus the fees on reducing gun violence. We have on the order of three hundred million guns in this country. An annual fee of only $12 per gun would amass over $3 billion a year toward programs aimed at curbing the killings. This would not be "just another tax." Fees should be specifically ear-marked to address not "gun control" but the entire issue of gun violence in our country.

Only, there is no Constitutional "right to drive a car". You can buy a bicycle, take the bus, call a cab, bum a ride from your friends, call Uber. As our friends in gun control like to tell us, there's no "need" for you to own or drive a car. Gun ownership is different in that it is a right protected by the Constitution. As a right, specifically not to be infringed, imagine if we treated your right to vote as such a "privilege". Electing the wrong president might lead to enacting policies that are deadly to portions of the population. He could start a war. You should need a license to vote, to make sure you can can make the best decisions for our country. Of course, there will be a government administered exam to qualify for such a license. Let's call that... a literacy test! Your license fee? we could just call that a "poll tax". It will be worth it if it improves the quality of our government, yes?

Ideas can be deadly weapons, too. The ideology of Communism is responsible for the death of millions. The ideology of radical Islam's jihad has claimed thousands. America has on the order of 300 million people. A small registration fee from each one should cover the cost of the photo ID and the overhead to link that ID to all your electronic and public communication. We could earmark those fees for "thought control", since public speech is a 'privilege that carries with it responsibilities...'

Freedom of speech and the right to bear arms are historically and legally intertwined. We separate or damage them at our own peril.

Quote du jour

One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

-Patrick Stewart

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Vintage Babe of the Week

Tonight's Vintage Babe* is Mary Healy!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five)

On Not Feeling the "Bern"

Quote du jour

"I think the Second Amendment as construed by the Federal courts in recent decades is stupid."

-Geraldo Rivera

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Medal of Honor

Captain James A. Taylor

Citation:

Capt. Taylor, Armor, was serving as executive officer of Troop B, 1st Squadron. His troop was engaged in an attack on a fortified position west of Que Son when it came under intense enemy recoilless rifle, mortar, and automatic weapons fire from an enemy strong point located immediately to its front. One armored cavalry assault vehicle was hit immediately by recoilless rifle fire and all 5 crewmembers were wounded.

Aware that the stricken vehicle was in grave danger of exploding, Capt. Taylor rushed forward and personally extracted the wounded to safety despite the hail of enemy fire and exploding ammunition. Within minutes a second armored cavalry assault vehicle was hit by multiple recoilless rifle rounds. Despite the continuing intense enemy fire, Capt. Taylor moved forward on foot to rescue the wounded men from the burning vehicle and personally removed all the crewmen to the safety of a nearby dike. Moments later the vehicle exploded. As he was returning to his vehicle, a bursting mortar round painfully wounded Capt. Taylor, yet he valiantly returned to his vehicle to relocate the medical evacuation landing zone to an area closer to the front lines. As he was moving his vehicle, it came under machinegun fire from an enemy position not 50 yards away. Capt. Taylor engaged the position with his machinegun, killing the 3-man crew.

Upon arrival at the new evacuation site, still another vehicle was struck. Once again Capt. Taylor rushed forward and pulled the wounded from the vehicle, loaded them aboard his vehicle, and returned them safely to the evacuation site. His actions of unsurpassed valor were a source of inspiration to his entire troop, contributed significantly to the success of the overall assault on the enemy position, and were directly responsible for saving the lives of a number of his fellow soldiers. His actions were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military profession and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.

Capt. Taylor: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.

Hat tip Home of Heroes

There are seventy four 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.”

"Welcome to the Club!"

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Quote du jour

One bright side of the blizzard - nobody in this zip code contracted food poisoning at Chipotle today

-James Bovard

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

― Jack Kerouac

Monday, January 25, 2016

Hollywood Went to War

Fortieth in our series Hollywood Went to War, are Dennis Franz and Don Rickles.

After graduating from college, Franz was drafted into the United States Army. He served eleven months with the 82nd Airborne Division in Vietnam

Rickles enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II on the motor torpedo boat tender USS Cyrene (AGP-13) as a seaman first class. He was honorably discharged in 1946

Gentlemen, we salute you and thank you for your service to your country!

Quote du jour

"Neither runs nor constipation
Can justify this litigation
Whether bowels constrict or flex
De minimus non curat lex".*

-Judge David E. Cain, dismissing an inmate's $2 Million lawsuit over having soiled himself in a waiting line

*“the law does not concern itself with trifles.”