Paulnut upstages Obama

I can't support Ron Paul, but do like this picture:

Hat tip to Tom Williams at Facebook: Oregon: Tillamook County Republicans


Caption is part of the picture so I couldn't punctuate it properly. 
It wasn't my fault; I inherited the caption and it proved to be in much worse shape than anybody thought.
 It will take more than four years to fix it. TD

Grim Fairy Tale: The Budget

Hat tip to the California Chronicle

PJ Media: Obama’s Farcical Budget Betrays a Crisis-Driven Electoral Strategy   "Reelection through orchestrated upheaval?"
...."Obama’s Republican challenger and his party had better have a unified rapid-response strategy ready for such a contingency. In 2008, John McCain clearly wasn’t prepared, and as a result lost any chance he may have had of defeating Obama. This time, the country literally cannot afford for Obama’s opponent to fail."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/14/96285

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/02/15/96314

Navy ship-naming by Secretary mired in controversy

Rick Moran  "The USS Medgar Evers? The USS John Murtha? The USS Cesar Chavez?

Ray Mabus

"Our Navy Secretary, Ray Mabus, has this diversity thing down cold. Each one of those ships was in a class that previous names of their sister ships had nothing to do with civil rights, or corrupt Democratic politicians. Ships are usually named after states, cities, even famous explorers and war heroes.

"But Mabus has injected partisanship into this tradition, naming another ship for Democrat Gabriel Giffords, who has shown courage in her recovery from an assassination attempt but had expressed little interest in the military during her career on Capitol Hill."

Leftists run wild politicizing Navy ship names  "The catalyst for the amendment was the announcement last spring that the newest supply ship in the Navy’s inventory would be named after labor leader Cesar Chavez. This radical served briefly in the Navy after World War II but did not accomplish anything noteworthy while in uniform. His claim to fame was solely from organizing migrant laborers and agitating for the rights of illegal immigrants. 
...."Mr. Mabus was also wrong to name the amphibious ship LPD-26 after the late Rep. John P. Murtha, breaking with the tradition of naming San Antonio class ships after U.S. cities. Although Murtha was a Marine, he was criticized by veterans groups for calling the U.S. Marines facing charges for killing 24 Iraqis in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 “cold blooded killers.” Almost all the charges were later dropped. When Murtha died in 2010, an extensive federal corruption investigation was underway against him. His name is not fit to carry our heroes to war."


Down to the Sea in Ships'--Names   "Like everyone else in the Navy, I knew vaguely that each category of naval vessels is assigned a general source from which the names of all ships of that type are drawn; states for battleships, cities for cruisers, and so on. But this is only an easy beginning. There are a lot of classes of ships, I learned."


Chart of US Navy ship's names  All you ever wanted to know on this subject here. Maybe more, but it seemed very interesting. TD

Pictured: the USS Texas. Or is it soon to be the USS Che Guevara?

How do you see our military?

From the US Infantry Facebook page.

Celebrate Black History Month: Slap a Leftist!

Andrew Klavan


"This leftist witchcraft transformed the once-great gains of the Civil Rights movement into a virtually inescapable structure of government hand-outs and dependency, establishing the Democratic Party as masters of a new plantation with black front men like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton playing the role of go-betweens and overseers. Unlike the original forms of slavery which the Democratic Party defended and upheld for so long, this program of dependency introduced a new wrinkle: it enticed blacks into facilitating and supporting their own subjection."
...."This is Black History Month. Celebrate it by watching the trailer above through to the end. Then visit the movie’s website and give it what love you can. The film is finished and the filmmakers are in the process of rolling it out with showings city to city and could use some help. If there’s any hope for our fellow Americans trapped on the government’s plantation, it’s in the fearless voices of people like the Reverend Bryant — and you."
Emphasis added. TD
Black Quill and Ink Blog:   Those "leaders" who keep scraping the scab off the healing wound;  If there are race riots in America, here are the sources of their "legitimacy"

   




Here Black, Quill and Ink quotes Booker T. Washington:

“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do do not want to lose their jobs.”

                                                                                            - – Booker T. Washington circa 1901

For a change of TW pace, lets discuss tattoos

Neal Boortz started this, not me:  

Let's start out with something completely asinine  "Clearly I’m on to something here.  Just look at this website.  It’s a Facebook page for something called change.org.  The title is “Include Body Modification in Equal Opportunity Employment.”  These fools are seeking 100,000 signatures from people who want the federal government to make it illegal to consider someone’s tattoos or other body modifications in a hiring decision.  Take a look at the girl in the picture!  Wouldn't you just be oh-so-proud to have her greet customers or clients at your professional office? 

Look, my friends.  If you want hockey pucks in your ear lobes and tattoos up to your nostrils … go for it.  But don’t ask someone else to consider your behavior as anything close to normal .. and don’t presume that you have the right to affect some business owners bottom line by forcing him to hire your absurd self to place before his clientele." 

http://www.filthylucre.com/humor/your-tattoo

http://becauseilive.hubpages.com/hub/ReallyBadTattoos

Chevy Volt Awarded Car of the Year...by Cartoonists. Lets discuss it, shall we?

http://terrellaftermath.com/

http://evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=23754

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/pulitzercartoons/ig/2011-Pulitzer-Prize-Cartoons/Chevy-Volt.htm

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Obama Hikes Failing Chevy Volt Subsidies   "The White House intends to boost government subsidies for wealthy buyers of the Chevy Volt and other new-technology vehicles — to $10,000 per buyer.
"That mammoth subsidy would cost taxpayers $100 million each year if it is approved by Congress, presuming only 10,000 new-technology autos are sold each year.
"But the administration wants to get 1 million new-tech autos on the road by 2015. The subsidy cost of that goal could reach $10 billion."

Motor Trend: "A Car of the Future You Can Drive Today"  "The Volt boasts some of the most advanced engineering ever seen in a mainstream American automobile. The powertrain allows the car to run as an EV, a series hybrid, or a parallel hybrid, depending on how far you drive and how you drive." 

Independent Sentinel takes issue with Motor Trend:   "Motor Trend Magazine picked the Chevy Volt as car of the year last year before they knew a thing about it so if you ever wonder whether these magazines are legitimate or based on politics, wonder no more. You won’t find me buying a Government Motors car."

Mediaite: Motor Trend Editor To Rush Limbaugh: “Driving And Oxycontin Don’t Mix”
MT editor Todd Lassa  then debunked some of the political and economic rumors surrounding the Volt, calling out both Limbaugh and Washington Post‘s “partisan clown” George Will for characterizing the car as “un-American.”


RedState responded to Lassa: Todd Lassa, Is it that time again?  "While Motor Trend hails the Volt as a “game changer,” Car and Driver and Investor’s Business Daily give a less glowing report.

"Car and Driver points out the fact that it is government intervention that pushed the Volt forward, and the many detracting qualities of the Volt, namely, it’s many hidden costs.  "Investor’s Business Daily was very caustic, calling the Volt a fraud, and bringing up many concerns including,

...".Lassa is a fool for his attack on Rush. All Rush did was give an opinion, Lassa lashed out like menstruating woman would."  Oh, did I mention this response was written by Jennifer Kuznicki?