Participation Trophy

In case you were wondering, this election cycle did not improve my opinion of liberalism and its adherents.   Nope, pretty much confirmed it, from the fact that liberal women could support a woman who enables a sexually predatory husband and is richly supported by regimes like Saudi Arabia but the same liberal women have the hypocritical gall to call Trump anti-woman, to the repeated hate crime hoaxes, to the comparing of us bitterly clinging deplorables to the KKK and Nazis, they displayed and continue to display the self-declared superiority, hatred of true diversity of opinion, and pure ugliness that I've come to associate with them.

And then there's Obama, who is having a temper tantrum as he goes out the door and would clearly happily opt to push us into a war with Russia rather than admit that he has been repudiated. Fortunately, I know that Putin understands exactly what is going on, is having a good laugh, and as long as we don't actually shoot anyone this will be over in a few more days.  He's not stupid enough to go to war with us because of an incompetent spoiled brat.

An aside:  Apparently the FBI insists that they know that Russia hacked the Dem's computers while at the same time the same FBI says it never actually examined those hacked computers before coming to that conclusion.  I'd find that amusing if it wasn't just more despicable and glaring proof of the politicization of our highest law enforcement agencies.  Next time, Dems, if you are warned that you are vulnerable to hacking, return the phone call and take steps to prevent it.  Until then, hey, which of the e-mails is false?  And which voting machine was changed because of the hack?  And let's talk about what the recount in Detroit found, shall we?

But back to Obama.  He's a little old for it, but apparently he grew up in the "everybody gets an award for participating" generation.  So he has given himself one.  Really.  When you see "Really." read "ARE YOU FLIPPIN KIDDING ME?!"  He gave himself a Distinguished Public Service Award.  GAVE HIMSELF.  Really.  Because, according to the speech that followed, there have been no attacks planned and carried out by foreign entities on our home soil during his tenure as president. Maybe he meant Kenya.  Because without even doing a search I can think of Fort Hood, Orlando, San Bernadino, Boston... Really.

Fifteen days until that sociopathic narcissist is out of office.   Fifteen long days.  Never wanted time to move so fast in my life.

Really.

Informal Poll - Update

1/18/2016 - I finally got around to doing a count.  Compared to the Chief Narcissist's past efforts, this year was surprisingly short and relatively lacking in self-references.  Although if you looked at it proportionally, self-reference per word count it might come out the same.  Don't know, not interested in finding out.  Anyway, only 58 occurrences of "I", "me", "my", or "mine."  Not even up to his "I'm stupid about guns and I demonstrate that you are too" speech a couple weeks ago.

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So, because I'm lazy and because my "how to" search turned up "the Blogger poll widget is broken", I'm doing this the old fashioned way.  To whit:

Tonight is Obama's last State of the Union Speech.  I don't watch speeches - people can say anything they want in one and have no connection to reality.   But we have a sociopathic narcissist as president, so people have been counting things for grins and giggles.  Like how many times he references himself in each speech.  I think it was 76 times in the anti-gun, Vicks-under-the-fingernail-for-faux-tears speech last week. (Side comment - I stopped by a local gun shop while out yesterday and their cases looked like locusts had descended.  The nice lady on the counter said they were swamped on Saturday and won't get restocked until the end of the month.)

So, my question is "How many times do you think Obama will refer to himself in tonight's speech?"  I'm starting the bidding at 150.

The Problem Is...

Or at least one of our many problems.

We shouldn't be putting troops into Iraq.  Not advisers (and make no mistake, those advisers are fighting), not air strikes, not boots on the ground.  We have no real strategy.  We have rules of engagement that guarantee that our soldiers will die.  And we will be acting as functionaries of Iran, who people seem to forget are well on their way to nuke power.  The bad kind.  The kind they can use to make a big mess in the Middle East.

We should be streaming materials to anyone in the area that wants to fight isis.  And at the same time we should be sealing our borders and doing some man-hunting here in our own country.  And not sending major bad guy leaders back to the field.   

But you know what the Dems need right now?  A war.  All the excitement and rallying.  They aren't looking good going into November.  So, suddenly, isis isn't j.v. league anymore.  In a couple weeks time, the yawning has turned into war drums beating.  Hagel, Kerry, Elizabeth Warren - a ton of people who have have been silent for months as isis slaughtered its way across Iraq.  I realize that their victims were only Christians, but, still.   I realize that the danger is coming across our open border, but still.  Look at those polls.  Something has to be done.  So, war.  And does any one want to take bets on whether or not Obama, once they get him off the golf course, bothers to go to Congress to get authorization?

Isis is a horror that I would like to see turned into a smear on the sand, with no pieces or fragments left.  I'd say they are animals but that would be an insult to animals.  They need to be removed from the face of the earth.  But if we go in there in our current state, under our current "leaders", all we are going to have is a lot of dead Americans and only some of the heads of the Hydra cut off.   Give the people looking into the eyes of the Hydra the means to cut its heads off over there, and concentrate on cutting off the heads that have come here.

h/t Jeff Kuhner, whose reasoning goes against my impulses.  But I have to agree.

A Commonality

A question:

What do this gun...

...and these two presidents have in common?

If you said that the TEC DC9 was explicitly banned by the Clinton-era "assault weapons" ban that was in place from 1994 to 2004 and is also on the Obama list of banned firearms he would love to impose on us you would be correct.

Why is that significant?  Because a TEC DC9 was one of the weapons used in the Columbine High School massacre in 1999.  1999.  That would be a date that falls between 1994 and 2004.

Bird Brained

"If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things." Barack Obama, Aug. 28, 2008

Exactly.

A Definition

ass

1.  a long-eared, slow, patient, sure-footed domesticated mammal, Equus asinus,  related to the horse, used chiefly as a beast of burden. 

2.  any wild species of the genus Equus,  as the onager. 

3.  a stupid, foolish, or stubborn person.

Works for me.