Proof Positive: April 2020

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Vintage Babe of the Week

Back before she was known for her comedic talents, this week's Vintage Babe* was a Ziegfeld Girl and a babe in her own right. Now you know why everyone loves Lucy!
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)

Classic KiRKWOOD

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Quote du jour

"When I was a kid, this was a free country. I remember it. I have been watching, in sadness and anger, for over seventy years as our precious liberty has slipped ever faster from our grasp- and most people don't even know it's happening."

-G. Gordon Liddy

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Classic KiRKWOOD

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Quote du jour

There comes a time in every cop’s career when he receives instructions he knows will waste his time and may even be antithetical to his mission to reduce the fear of crime in his community. Often these instructions are relayed by a sergeant who himself is equally dubious about them, but who is obeying orders to disseminate them. When this happens, it is the wise officer who can say, “Yes, sir,” and then go out and do the right thing, modifying the instructions or ignoring them altogether with the sergeant’s tacit blessing. Every good cop, and every good sergeant, is familiar and comfortable with this arrangement.

- Jack Dunphy

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Secret Thoughts of the Secret Service

(reposted from Aug. 20, 2016)

The picture itself was NOT Photoshopped, just the thought bubble added.

Classic KiRKWOOD

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Joe Is Shooting For Obama Level Transparency

Tara Reade is asking Joe Biden unseal his Senate records that would have record of her accusation against Joe.

Quote du jour

"North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has turned into Schrödinger’s dictator, apparently simultaneously alive and near-death."

-Jim Geraghty

Monday, April 27, 2020

Classic KiRKWOOD

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Quote du jour

“We don’t want war, but if you want a war with United States of America, there is one thing I can promise you, so help me God: someone else will raise your sons and daughters.”

- Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia

A nice look at Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia and his accomplishments can be found here: Chant du Départ
Thanks, Juvat!

Sunday, April 26, 2020

Classic KiRKWOOD

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Quote du jour

Prayer is always the preface to blessing. It goes before the blessing as the blessing's shadow. When the sunlight of God's mercies rises upon our necessities, it casts the shadow of prayer far down upon the plain.

-Charles H. Spurgeon

Saturday, April 25, 2020

A Little Saturday Night Music

GLENN YARBROUGH - The Honey Wind Blows (1964)

Classic KiRKWOOD

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Best of the Web*

*…that Dave and I have seen all week!

(BTW, if you wonder where any of the links will take you, hover your cursor over the link.)

Political/SocioEconomic
Judge tosses Calif. ammunition purchase law

Culture
The Parable of the King’s Four Wives

Shake Shack returning $10 million government loan meant for small businesses

Photoshops/Cartoons/Graphics

Cartoon of the Day – NRO

Flopping Aces -Sunday Funnies

Sunday Funnies 04-19-20

Today's Toons 4/15/20, Today's Toons 4/16/20, Today's Toons 4/17/20

Today's Toons 4/20/20, Today's Toons 4/21/20

Friday Funnies

Linkfests:
Larwyn’s Linx: Why did US elites sell US out to Chinese Communist Party for decades?

Larwyn’s Linx: Biden: China Provides Jobs, ‘Fuels World’s Prosperity’

Larwyn’s Linx: Revealed: FBI Used Left-Wing Conspiracy Theory to Spy on Trump Campaign Adviser

Larwyn’s Linx: Authoritarian Democrat Party Punishes Two Black Office-Holders for Wrongthink

Dave's Rule Five Roundup:

Proof Positive - Vintage Babe of the Week - Tonight's Vintage Babe is Bettie Page.
and Best of the Web

Political Clown Parade - Flowing Curves Of Beauty

By Other Means - Tuesday Tap Rack and Bang, BeCos(play) It's Friday and Seeing Red

Evi L. Bloggerlady - La Traviata

Ninety Miles From Tyranny - Hot Pick, Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress and Blogs With Rule 5 Links

Grouchy Old Cripple - Saturday Boobage

Irons in the Fire - Friday Data and ... Saturday Data Overflow

The Feral Irishman - Friday Femme Fatale.

The Daley Gator - Daley Babe

Diogenes Middle Finger News - A Good Monday Morning

A View from the Beach - Rule 5 Saturday - Ana Alexander - Chemistry in the Land of the Lost

24 Femmes Per Second - Nicole Courcel

Knuckledraggin My Life Away - I’m sure she’s taken, men And ... I’ll leave you with this

American Power - Sheer Lindsey Pelas

Woodsterman - Rule 5 Woodsterman Style

The Other McCain - Rule 5 Tuesday

The Pirates Cove - If All You See ... and Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup #800

Wired Right - A Beautiful End to the Day

The Right Way - Friday Babe and ... Rule 5 Saturday LinkOrama

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

Quote du jour

I often hear that Social Security must be "means tested", so it isn't given out to people who do not need it.
How about means testing Presidential and Congressional pensions and benefits? Why must the poorest of US taxpayers contribute to the pensions of millionaires and billionaires?

-Mike B

Friday, April 24, 2020

(Note: I added the strikeout line through the text at the bottom, because Twitter was apparently shutting down the accounts of people trying to "interfere" with the election process. Apparently they don't think y'all are sharp enough to tell the difference between a real demented Joe ad and a parody.)

"A casino in South Dakota was robbed by a man dressed as a mummy. The suspect was described as being between 25 and 8,000 years old."

-Craig Ferguson

"If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong."

— Joe Biden

In short, I stand by everything I wrote, but by nothing that was written about me.

-Victor Davis Hanson

Virus is a Latin word originally. For the Romans, it meant poison, venom, slime, or even stench. It is not surprising that physicians at some point long ago took this word to refer to diseases they did not understand—diseases that act as mysteriously as poisons...

-W. Robert Godfrey

Monday, April 20, 2020

Classic KiRKWOOD

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

Quote du jour

“The inhabitant of the United States, learns from birth that he must rely on himself to combat the ills and trials of life. He is restless and defiant in his outlook toward authority and appeals to its power only when he cannot do without it.”

-Alexis De Tocqueville

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true
whatsoever things are honest
whatsoever things are just
whatsoever things are pure
whatsoever things are lovely
whatsoever things are of good report
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise
think on these things.

-Philippians 4:8