
Y'all enjoy ringing in the New Year. I plan on turning in early and catching up on my sleep.
Let us pray that 2016 does not offer the same gaudy flowering of stupidity that 2015 featured. I am not optimistic.
"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Only under socialism could Fidel Castro become the richest warlord, relative to his subjects’ wealth, in recorded history. (And that was the least of his sins.) Only under socialism could Maria Gabriela Chavez, daughter of socialist tribune of the people Hugo Chavez, beloved by the American left, waltz off with a $4 billion fortune. But then, she was a piker: Chavez’s Minister of the Treasury stashed $11 billion in Swiss bank accounts.
Herring’s announcement came three weeks before the start of the General Assembly session, which is controlled by Republicans. In November, a bill was filed that would require Virginia to recognize permits from other states. If approved, it would reverse Herring’s ruling.
Carrico said he’ll address the issue come January.
“A lot of the governor’s power is deferred to the General Assembly at that point and I’ll be getting with my colleagues to circumvent everything this governor has done on this point,” he said. “I have a budget amendment that I’m looking at to take away his executive protection unit. If he’s so afraid of guns, then I’m not going to surround him with armed state policemen.”
China’s largest social networks have partnered with the country’s Communist government to create a credit score system that will measure how obedient its citizens are, a chilling prospect that could one day arrive in America if social justice warriors get their way.I know, it's Alex Jones, but still...
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said Tuesday that old, smart Jews with cigars picked who would succeed in the 1930s movie business in an apparent effort to draw an analogy between Hollywood’s recruitment process in the old days and how today’s Republican Party chooses presidential candidates to support.H/T: Friend and commenter Bruce.
As a matter of policy, the Department of Homeland Security — the bureaucratic behemoth created after 9/11 to enhance protection of our country — avoids looking at, much less scrutinizing, the publicly available social-media commentary of aliens who seek visas to enter the United States, including from Islamic countries that are jihadist strongholds.This is what happens when you elect a pseudo-intellectual, knee-jerk leftist, "citizen of the world" as president.
The mother of an injured Army veteran of the Iraq war is selling a rare letter from President Obama to cover her son's medical and personal expenses despite the president's handwritten promise to do "everything we can over the next four years to support your family."
The Google Mail algorithm has determined emails from the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign are fraudulent because anything that promises so much free stuff must surely be a scam, according to reports Wednesday.There you go; scientific proof that socialism is a total fraud.
Liberalism is a suicidal political philosophy that focuses on non-problems and ignores real problems. We’ve got an actual death cult massacring people? Well, we’d better crack down on regular Americans civil liberties. Hey, there’s a conservative organization in rural Nebraska that has absolutely nothing to do with militant Islam, better tap their phones and sick the IRS on them. We do security theater at the airports, while having a foreign policy that makes zero sense and no border. Bad guys are massacring people with machine guns they smuggled into a country with incredibly strict gun control? Well, we’d better double down on gun free zones to minimize the number of people who could effectively fight back.Via Ace of Spades.
Dis here is Björn Lyvall, Svedish Ambassador to de Yew Ess.Well…um…I guess he sure told us.
By yimminy, who dew yew fellers t’ink yew are, makin’ de slander against my countrymen (an’ against my contryvimmen and, er, dee transyenders and all dem udders in betveen)! Vee ain’t no more galen in de hjära dann yew Americans (an’ iff yew really vant to talk crazy, I could go on about dem “blooks” from “dawn oonder” fer hours!) By gawly, yew better be glad vee done gib up all dat Vikin’ shit a long time back, yessirree, uddervise I vould be over dere at de Paco Command Center a’burnin’ and a’pillagin’ to beat de band, by t’under, yah, I vould! Now, yew fellers cut it out, yew hear? I got bigger problems on my hands an’ don’t haff time fer dis here libel talk. I know vhat: Paco, vy don’t yew stick to writin’ about how de second amen’ment is de best t’ing since sliced kringler; and dat udder guy, dat dere “blook” from Australia, vy don’t he yust go shake some platypurses out ov dem yewcalyptus trees?
The Islamic State knows the Americans’ rules of engagement. The terrorists are well aware that U.S. pilots won’t hit anything if there is even a chance of hurting a civilian. So of course the Islamic State positions its fighters and equipment near civilians.
Even in obvious cases, like a gathering of 300 oil trucks — more than one-quarter of the Islamic State’s entire fleet — American pilots have held off attacking for more than a year, while the oil smuggling business made the Islamic State richer and richer and the terrorist organization extended its reach to the streets of Paris.
“What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect the people in the region who are getting killed and to protect our allies and people like France. I’m too busy for that.”Well, there's at least one unintended true thing he spoke: he's definitely not interested in "pursuing some notion of American leadership".
“Earlier today, I announced that as president, I will take steps to ban the box, so former presidents won’t have to declare their criminal history at the very start of the hiring process”.Guess she's thinking ahead.
A major American party doesn’t nominate Donald Trump. I just can’t believe it. I will have to go to Canada after that.Great idea, Dave! In fact, just to make sure that you stick to your vow, I am establishing a special non-profit organization to facilitate the relocation of you and other establishment putzes north of the border. I hope you and your like-minded friends will take advantage of Progressive
For Australia there is one possible thought. Its greatest prime minister, Sir Robert Menzies, was, like Abbott, deposed by his own party (the same Liberal Party) after two years’ leadership. The second most successful, John Howard, was also deposed when leader of the opposition. In both cases they bided their time and eventually returned in triumph.
Abbott is a fighter — an outstanding amateur boxer with an unbroken nose. I hope that stands for something.
During his 2008 presidential campaign, my two daughters, partner, and I ate every meal in our house on Obama placemats. We bought these at our local supermarket, plastic-coated, plate-sized paper rectangles with an image of his face framed by colors of the flag. While politically minded, I am not overly patriotic, so this mealtime ritual of American allegiance was odd for me. Still, we looked at the image of his face each day and we believed that he really could be the change in America.This person is a classic example of what psychological experts refer to, in precise scientific terminology, as a "dumb ass". You can almost visualize her willing Obama to flap his ears and create a mighty wind to blow down the factories of Ruger, Smith & Wesson and Mossberg.