Who's the Guy in the Turban?

Saw this picture over at Argghhh!!! 

While service in the military is not a pre-requisite for the presidency, nor should it be, it certainly helps as commander-in-chief. 

It didn't help Jimmy Carter, however. 

In case you're wondering, Ronald Reagan did serve in the army reserve but never deployed overseas because of near-sightedness.

Not pictured is Harry Truman, who was the last U.S. president to see ground combat (battery commander during World War I) as well as the last president without a college degree.

Bill Clinton told an ROTC advisor that he despised the military. Naturally, Americans, who are a good-natured lot and suckers for charisma, elected him president.

If Obama seems out of place, well...

Guys like that were probably the last thing General Charles "Chinese" Gordon saw before being speared in Khartoum.

Returning the bust of Churchill to the Brits makes perfect sense now. 

Inspiration

Wishing For Bush in the Middle East

This picture of dissident Syrians is making the rounds on the internet. I guess they're not big fans of President Obama's "leading from behind" foreign policy.

The administration's outreach to Bashar al-Assad has failed, Syrians are dying in clashes with government forces and U.S. efforts to dissuade Syria's nuclear ambitions are ineffective.

Meanwhile Assad and Iran continue to support the terrorist group Hezbollah, making Lebanon a vassal state of Syria. Hezbollah effectively rolled-up U.S. and Israeli intelligence assets in Lebanon, an achievement beyond the capabilities of many nation-states.

With U.S. troops out of Iraq and the push to withdraw from Afghanistan, Americans are unlikely to support military intervention in Syria.

These young folks need to help themselves. And we should help them to do just that: Provided we could get "Light-bringer Obama" off the golf course in Hawaii. 

North Korea's "Dear Leader" Dies at 69

Kim Jong Il, son of a Stalinist thug, and absolute ruler of some of the most destitute people on earth, has died from a heart attack while riding a train.

Kim succeeded his father Kim Il Sung, when he died in 1994.

Kim's third son, Kim Jong Un, is his likely successor, having the right DNA, ruthlessness and cunning to continue the absolute tyranny over 20 million Koreans unlucky enough to be born north of the 38th parallel. Yes, a real chip off the old communist bloc.

Kim's legacy includes the wholesale starvation of his people while he and the 3,000 man mafia that ruled the country lived in luxury, much of it funded by boobs like Jimmy Carter, Bill Richardson and Madelene Albright.

On his first try at golf Kim scored 11 holes-in-one on an 18 hole golf course, coming home in a world record 38 under par; a fact verified by all 17 of his personal bodyguards.

He also got the bomb, making everyone in northeast Asia nervous and single handedly brought back the bouffant among the walking small, tinpot dictator class.

But I'll always fondly remember Kim for his supporting role in the classic Team America.

It's a rule of polite society that one seldom wishes ill on anyone.

That's not the case here. 

The Difference Between Liberal and Conservative Thinking

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be very liberal, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch conservative, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

Men Lacking Supervision or Thinking Outside the Box?

Obamopoly: It Was Only a Matter of Time

The object of the game is to destroy American capitalism. By having the government take over everything!  Want to play? No??? Too bad, you're already playing... And just don't know it. And by the way You're not winning!!!


H/T Mike Staves

Memorable Medical Exams

A man comes into the ER and yells....'My wife's going to have her baby in the cab.'

I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's dress and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs and I was in the wrong one.

Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald, San Francisco
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At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall.

'Big breaths,'. . . I instructed.

'Yes, they used to be,'. . . replied the patient.

Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes, Seattle , WA
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About Obama's Lincoln Fetish...

President Obama has made many references to Abraham Lincoln and likes to freely quote our 16th president.

This quote, however, is conspicuously absent from the great teleprompter's repertoire:

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.    --------        Abraham Lincoln

In other words... 

So I said to him, "Barack, I know Abe Lincoln,

And you ain't Abe Lincoln .."

H/T Ray Manzano

How We Really Feel About Obama?

One sunny day in January, 2013, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue where he'd been sitting on a park bench.

He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine looked at the man and said, "Sir, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here."

The old man said, "Okay," and walked away. The following day the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Obama is no longer President and no longer resides here."

The man thanked him and again just walked away. The third day the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying, "I would like to go in and meet with President Obama."

The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Obama. I've told you already that Mr. Obama is no longer the President and no longer resides here.

Don't you understand?"

The old man looked at the Marine and said, "Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it."

The Marine snapped to attention, saluted and said, "See you tomorrow, Sir.

H/T Ray Manzano

Army Begins Job Cuts: What About Other Government Agencies?

For those concerned with rampant government growth, and contrary to what many defense hawks might think, these initial cuts to the Army's civilian workforce are welcome:

The Army said Thursday it is moving forward with plans announced in July to cut about 8,700 positions, using a mix of early retirement offers, buyouts and attrition to trim the jobs by the end of the fiscal year in late September.

The cuts will come in 37 states at 70 different locations across eight commands and agencies with nearly 90 percent of the cuts taking place within the Installation Management Command, Army Materiel Command and the Training and Doctrine Command. Most of the cuts are likely to occur in Virginia and Texas, where most of the DOD’s civilian workers are located.

The three commands mentioned, like all areas of government, are riddled with multiple bureaucratic layers of inefficiency, redundancy and make work jobs, most of which comply with dumb regulations that have little or no impact on the war fighting business of the Army.

One can only hope that nanny state functions within these commands, like diversity and political re-education programs, bloated safety infrastructure and overstuffed civilian facilities staffs are hardest hit. Do we really need to send 40 year old sergeants majors to check-book balancing and unwanted pregnancy classes?

And there should be a special place in hell for network administrators who invariably believe that the rest of the Army exists so they have a job.

If we were really serious, we'd privatize most of the installation and material command functions and completely eliminate Training and Doctrine Command, since nobody really uses doctrine anyway and all really effective training is learned on the job.

Finally, defense cuts alone will not trim the deficit; all government needs pruning.

Guns and butter are not fungible commodities, so don't expect a peace dividend.

History will likely have other ideas. 

Don Surber Asks a Good Question of Obama

His Adolescency

December 8, 2011 by Don Surber

Over the centuries, Americans have had many scornful titles for their presidents. John Tyler, the first vice president to take over the top job following a presidential death was referred to as his Accidency.

Following this remark, add His Adolescency to Barack Obama’s many monickers: “Ask Osama bin Laden, and the 22 out of 30 top al Qaeda leaders who have been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement — or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.”

Maybe a better question to ask is where the hell did that $5 trillion that Obama borrowed went. Maybe Osama will know.

But hey, Barack Obama personally killed those 23 men with his bare hands, right?

In 2012, let us elect a president who does not act like he’s 12.

The NYT's Selective Hand Wringing

The once great "paper of record" is now universally known for shamelessly shilling progressive viewpoints. Today's caterwauling is over the dangers to Mexicans from the recycled lead in batteries imported from the United States:

The spent batteries Americans turn in for recycling are increasingly being sent to Mexico, where their lead is often extracted by crude methods that are illegal in the United States, exposing plant workers and local residents to dangerous levels of a toxic metal.

I wonder if the big government friendly, sensitive and compassionate people at the NYT noted the irony that:

The rising flow of batteries is a result of strict new Environmental Protection Agency standards on lead pollution, which make domestic recycling more difficult and expensive, but do not prohibit companies from exporting the work and the danger to countries where standards are low and enforcement is lax.

Anyway, here's a pop quiz for the slow learners at the Times -

What's killed more people in Mexico, lead batteries from the U.S., or the lead from Eric Holder's Gunwalker program? 

Obama Caught in Book Lie by Karl Rove

It's doubtful Obama wrote the books he's credited with, and apparently, he hasn't even read Audacity of Hope:

Karl Rove tells of running into "the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln" soon after the latter's second book, Audacity of Hope, was published. "Hey, I understand you got me in your book," said Rove. "I don't think so," Obama replied. Rove continued, "I think you got me in your book saying, 'we're a Christian nation.'" Said Obama, "Where'd I say that?" Rove showed him.

Maybe the president forgot his teleprompter for that conversation with Rove.

This Day in Obamaland

Obama advisor Corzine can't show us the money. The economic illiteracy of democrats continues.

Senate blocks Obama consumer watchdog pick. Senate Republicans worried about agencies sweeping new powers and vow to block any nominee until changes made.

A Janus like Obama talks up his irrational jobs program while killing real job creation by threatening a veto of the Keystone Pipeline Bill.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: A Bleak Alliance. Relations with Pakistan crumbling, while Putin tells Hillary to mind her own business about Russian elections and can't agree on a missile shield, and China preps navy for war against the U.S.

On the domestic front, Government Motors might be heading for a Chevy Volt recall.

Fast and Furious was really about gun control.

Obama crony Blago doing big time in the pen.

Acorn is still operational, seeking taxpayer spoils at the White House.

Convicted cop killer and international cause celebre Mumia Abu-Jamal cheats a righteous death. 

Ray Mabus Redux

Stickin' it to the man, one ship at a time. 

Just when he thought it was safe to go into the water, Congress calls to account the worst Navy Secretary in memory for his odd ship naming conventions. More specifically, for giving us the USNS Cesar Chavez and the USS Jack Murtha:

How did Navy Secretary Mabus arrive at the decisions to name two of our newest ships after these two controversial political figures?

That’s what Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) would like to know, so he added an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that requires the Navy to ‘fess up. Blunt’s amendment, No. 1134, requires the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on the policies and practices of naming Navy ships. The amendment also requires Defense to note how current practices may have varied from historical patterns, and to assess the feasibility of establishing a fixed, politics-free policy for naming ships going forward. SecDef Panetta has 180 days to comply from the day the bill becomes law. It has already passed the House and Senate with Blunt’s amendment intact, and awaits conference.

 Cesar Chavez was a marxist farm organizer whose two years in the USN he described as "the worst in his life."

Rep. John Murtha was disgraced in the Abscam Scandal and falsely accused Marines of war crimes in Iraq from his perch as a congressman from Pennsylvania.

Mabus' latest initiative, as reported in the last post, is to make the USN a "great green fleet."

I'm sure the Chinese are impressed, especially if we continue to waste valuable defense dollars on bio-fuel that's eight time more expensive than traditional fuels that now run the fleet. 

Ray Mabus, Hipster Doofus!

This Wired report has the U.S. Navy buying 450,000 gallons of biofuels, at 8 times the cost of regular fuel, as part of NAVSEC Ray Mabus' "Great Green Fleet" initiative.

This while the U.S. became a net exporter of oil products for the first time since 1949.

With defense bucks under increasing scrutiny, you'd think the services wouldn't have discretionary funds to chase political fads that, were they cost efficient in the first place, would have been done by now.

Mabus is the guy who likes to name navy ships after marxist community organizers.

And as far as a fleet's "greenness" I doubt the secretary has thought through how utterly ungreen is the act of sinking your enemy's ships. Large scale naval operations in say, the Pacific, will result in oil spills that make the Exxon Valdez look like the ring under your can of WD-40.

But like every progressive, what matters most to Mabus is displaying the fineness of his moral weave.

So, damn the torpedos and full speed ahead to the most earth friendly navy, ever.

Whether or not it can fight, seems secondary to the crew from Obamaland. 

Counterpoints: Winning Back Academia

A must read  including some of the most important conserative essays of the past few years.

Chuck Woolery for President

Saw this over at Diary of a Mad Conservative. Game show host Chuck Woolery picks the perfect door to get us back to fiscal sanity. Enjoy.

Hillary and Suu Kyi: Which One is the Real Deal?

Fake political courage and the real thing.

On Barney Frank's Retirement....

By Henry Payne

Adam Carolla on OWS

For a rip roaring good time, check out Carolla's radio show where he gives it to the newest poster children for slacker nation, the OWS crowd, and tosses a few bon mots to Kanye West, Russell Simmons and the right Rev. Al Sharpton. 

A Good Read for Bloggers

Making it in the Political Blogosphere

Trace Your Lineage at no Cost

DEAR ABBY:

'I have always wanted to have my family history traced, but I can't afford to spend a lot of money to do it. Any suggestions?'

Sam in California.

DEAR SAM:

'Register as a Republican, and run for public office.'

Abby