Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #675
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Quote du jour
Senator Elizabeth Warren was campaigning for president in Iowa where she rolled out her signature proposal she called Universal Child Care. Believe it or not, it's been tried before. Baby Boomers had universal child care when we were growing up in the Fifties, it was called parents.-Argus Hamilton
Sunday, April 28, 2019
Quote du jour
"But seriously, I think we should treat all of our presidents like stars...if their ratings are low, we should be able to cancel them!"-Bob Hope
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Best of the Web*
*…that I’ve seen all week!
(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)
Political/SocioEconomic
I Fought In The Battle Of Mogadishu. Here’s What Rep. Ilhan Omar Gets Wrong About ‘Black Hawk Down’
Federal Judge Rules Obama’s EPA Knew Flint Officials Weren’t Warning Residents About Lead In Water
Golden Oldie: 'Voter fraud'? California man finds dozens of ballots stacked outside home
ANALYSIS: 57% disapprove of Trump but… -Sharyl Attkisson
Massachusetts judge who helped illegal immigrant escape ICE arrest indicted
Cook County Judge GOES OFF On Kim Foxx, Calls Out Double Standards On Jussie Smollett Case
Culture
Why we shouldn’t abandon the faith that nourished Western civilization -Andrew Klaven
Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis 'Fine People.'
CW Drama’s Attack on Gun Laws Backfires
Al Jazeera Reporter: It’s “Islamophobic” To Report Name Of Sri Lankan Attack Mastermind
Technology
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Suffers Capsule Anomaly During Florida Tests
After discovering critical flaw in gun, DPS quietly replacing guns issued to all troopers
Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Cartoon of the Day – NRO
Flopping Aces -Sunday Funnies
John Cox- KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD
Today's Toons 4/17/19, Today's Toons 4/18/19, Today's Toons 4/19/19
Sunday Funnies, 04-21-19
Today's Toons 4/23/19
Cartoon Round Up
Sunday Funnies, 04-28-19
Linkfests:
Larwyn's Linx: Adam Schiff Proven A Liar As The Bruce Ohr Transcript Is Released
In The Mailbox: 04.22.19
Larwyn's Linx: Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’
In The Mailbox: 04.23.19
Larwyn's Linx: Victor Davis Hanson: “It was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency…”
In The Mailbox: 04.24.19
Larwyn's Linx: Russian ‘Collusion’s’ Greatest Hits
In The Mailbox: 04.25.19
Larwyn's Linx: “Attempted Coup”: President Trump Gives Extensive Interview to Sean Hannity
In The Mailbox: 04.26.19
Top of the News
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
American Power- Playboy Model Kate Great
By Other Means - Cosplay, Tap, Rack & Bang, Seeing Red
The Daley Gator – Daley Babes: Sunday Babes, Monday Babes, Tuesday Babes, Wednesday Babes, Thursday Babes, Friday Babes, Saturday Babe
Good Monday Morning
EBL - Babes of the Ten Commandments, Maureen O’Sullivan
Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale
Friday Night Babe - Jessica Szohr!
Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - I’m sure she’s taken, men
Pirates Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup, If all you see..., If all you see..., If all you see...
Flowing Curves of Beauty
Joyce Vieira
The Right Way -Friday Babe, Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama
The Other McCain- Rule Five Sunday
Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
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 apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but sometimes it gets bruised in the process!-Mike B
Friday, April 26, 2019
Quote du jour
We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.-Alyssa Ahlgren
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Quote du jour
"At least now we know how Michael Avenatti got into law school"-Jimmy Failla, on the college bribery scandal
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Shazam! - A Movie Review, Sort Of
Shazam! as a superhero origin story is simply magical! No, really, I mean his origin is magical...like Harry Potter's. He's not the strange visitor from another planet, no one gave him a lantern powered ring, and he wasn't bitten by a radioactive anything. Billy Batson is an orphan, who wants nothing more in life than to find his real mom. Even if it means calling in an occasional false police report. Young Billy is a bit of a troublemaker.
Family is a theme that runs through the film. The stern father and sterner grandfather of the kid who turns into a super villain, the foster parents and foster kids that young 14 year old Billy finds himself living among. An exploration of what family really means.
Billy Batson made his first appearance in 1939 as the boy who uttered a magic word to turn himself into "Captain Marvel". The magic word Shazam was an acronym for
The wisdom of Solomon
The Strength of Hercules
The stamina of Atlas
The power of Zeus
The invulnerability or courage of Achilles
And the speed of Mercury
We we have an admixture of magic and mythology here, too. And theology. Billy was supposed to acquire the wisdom of Solomon as he fought against the embodiment of the Seven Deadly Sins. The element of theology is downplayed in the movie. The foster kids give thanks before every meal, but it isn't exactly clear who they're thanking. Solomon's wisdom is clearly non-existent, as the wizard picks a delinquent 14 year old boy to be his champion, whereas I might have picked a police detective or a Navy SEAL. The fourteen year old exhibited all the wisdom...of a fourteen year old!
In many ways, Shazam! is the movie you would have had in "Big", if the Tom Hanks character had told the magic fortune teller "I want to be Superman!" There's even a small homage to Big as Shazam, nee Captain Marvel, fights the villain in a toy store.
Zachary Levi does a yeoman's job as the "Big" superhero, expressing childlike wonder at all the new and wonderful things he is able to do, yet reluctant when called upon to fight real evil. Shazam is a good solid popcorn movie, suitable for most children and some adults. It's entertaining, without being preachy about anything (a rarity in today's atmosphere). I don't remember a single call to save the planet over global warming, or saving the whales or the rainforests.
It's a comic book movie. No enduring truths. No stirring calls to action. Just sit your behind in the seat, or rent the Blu-ray, and absorb a little semi-mindless fantasy for an hour or so. I'd give it three out of five stars.
Quote du jour
"This country has racism ingrained in its bones. The original sin of this country is slavery. That started from the beginning of our DNA."- David Burstein
Editor: Countries don't have "bones". People sin, countries do not. Countries don't have DNA. In order to impute some sense of national guilt, liberals must use false analogies to make their implausible arguments somewhat plausible.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Ah, Earth Day...the Irony!
Monday April 22nd. was Earth Day. A day dedicated to saving the planet through energy conservation and...recycling!
STOCKTON — A thick, billowy plume of black smoke visible for miles scarred an otherwise pristine blue sky over the Port of Stockton on Monday afternoon, caused by a stubborn, wind-blown fire at... a recycling center.
...The blaze was fueled mostly by pallets of paper, plastics and other recyclables.
Forget your carbon offsets! Ain't no thicker, blacker smoke than a good plastic fire. Burning tires come close, if you have enough of them, but the irony of filling a pristine blue sky with thick black smoke from recyclables on Earth Day was just too precious not to take note of! And, lest we forget, April 22nd. is also Vladimir Lenin's birthday!
Happy Earth Day from Stockton, California! Happy belated birthday, Vlad!
Quote du jour
"We live in a society where if you don't have a job, you're left to die."-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
So, the unemployment office is like the "elephant's graveyard"?
Monday, April 22, 2019
Quote du jour
"White guilt" is not the feeling of guilt, white guilt is acting guiltily because you are terrorized by being seen as a racist.-Shelby Steele
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Saturday, April 20, 2019
Best of the Web*
*…that I’ve seen all week!
(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)
Political/SocioEconomic
The Sacred Cow
Man Uses AK-47 Against 5 Home Invaders, Killing 3 And Injuring 2 - But! But! No one needs an AR-15 for self defense!
Videos
Seattle: The Utopian Lie
Culture
Four Arguments for GOP Politicians Serious about Defunding Planned Parenthood
Disc Sales Collapse Nearly 50% over 4 Years (Because Movies Suck)
Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
Ilhan Omar and 9-11: Never Forget
Technology
Stratolaunch, World’s Largest Aircraft By Wingspan, Makes Historic First Flight
Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics
Cartoon of the Day – NRO
Flopping Aces -Sunday Funnies
John Cox- KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD, KiRKWOOD
Today's Toons 4/10/19, Today's Toons 4/11/19, Today's Toons 4/12/19
Sunday Funnies, 04-14-19
Today's Toons 4/15/19, Today's Toons 4/16/19
Freedom Works updates Obama’s official portrait
Cartoon Roundup
Linkfests:
Larwyn's Linx: Adam Schiff Proven A Liar As The Bruce Ohr Transcript Is Released
In The Mailbox: 04.16.19
Larwyn's Linx: "Justice Is Coming"
In The Mailbox: 04.19.19
Larwyn's Linx: The Corruption and Influence of Jessie K Liu
Larwyn's Linx: Devin Nunes looking for 'some type of setup' in 3 areas of Mueller's report
Larwyn's Linx: What To Expect From Democrats When Mueller’s Report Drops Thursday
Larwyn's Linx: Mueller’s Despicable Parthian Shot
Top of the News
Rule Five Roundup:
(While all Rule Five posts may be NSFW, I generally only flag the ones that are certainly NSFW)
24 Femmes Per Second - Karen Jensen
90 Miles From Tyranny - girls with guns, Hot pick, Hot pick
American Power- Delilah Belle Hamlin
By Other Means - Cosplay, Tap Rack & Bang, Seeing Red
Daily Mail - Wearing nothing but DUCT TAPE, Jennifer Lopez
The Daley Gator – Daley Babes: Sunday Babe,Monday Babes, Tuesday Babes, Wednesday Babes, Thursday Babes, Friday Babes, Saturday Babes
Good Monday Morning
EBL - Louise Brooks
Feral Irishman - Happy Humpday
Friday Night Babe - Liz Vassey
Knuckledraggin' My Life Away - I’m sure she’s taken, men; A Knuckledraggin PSA
Pirates Cove - Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup, If all you see..., If all you see..., If all you see...
Flowing Curves of Beauty
The Right Way -Friday Babe, Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama
The Other McCain- Rule Five Sunday
Vintage Babe of the Week – Rebecca Holden
Giada De Laurentiis
Rule 5 Woodsterman Style
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
"Economic inequality" is a funny thing. When I was born, there was economic inequality between me and my parents. For decades they were far wealthier than I, although their income was quite modest.-Mike B.
When they passed, after a modest inheritance, we still weren't economic equals.
Friday, April 19, 2019
Happy Birthday, Ashley Judd!
Ashley Judd turns 51 today!
Ashley was our Friday Night Babe January 9th, 2009, and one time candidate for the Senate, from the great state of Kentucky. If the phrase "Nuttier than squirrel poop" came up in regards to her candidacy, we apologize for the accuracy.
Ashley is currently boycotting the state of Georgia for their stance on their "Heartbeat abortion" ban.
Ashley was our Friday Night Babe January 9th, 2009, and one time candidate for the Senate, from the great state of Kentucky. If the phrase "Nuttier than squirrel poop" came up in regards to her candidacy, we apologize for the accuracy.
Ashley is currently boycotting the state of Georgia for their stance on their "Heartbeat abortion" ban.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Quote du jour
"Given our current budget realities, the federal government cannot fund every worthy program, particularly those that enjoy robust support from private donations."-Betsy DeVos
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Socialism in All its Flavors
Pick any flavor of socialism you like...
Sorry. We're all out of that one!
Sorry. We're all out of that one!
Quote du jour
“I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”-Ilhan Omar
Support for another country is not "allegiance". I support Israel, Canada, & Great Britain among others, I owe them no allegiance.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Monday, April 15, 2019
Quote du jour
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.- Herman Wouk
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Quote du jour
"As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales."— Dave Barry
Saturday, April 13, 2019
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