The Council Has Spoken!

This week's results for the Watcher's Council vote are in, they've been posted over at Watcher of Weasels.  The winning council entry for the week was "To win the future, conservatives need to give voters a positive image of a can-do America and a can-do Republican Party" by Bookworm Room, and the winning non-council entry for the week was Caroline Glick's post "Bye Bye London" over at her eponymous blog.  Congrats!

Obamapalooza 2013

My, what a disgraceful inauguration that was.  Everything about it disgusted me: the way President Obama tried to superimpose it upon the celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday, the hyperpartisan inaugural speech he gave (and the insipid inaugural poem that accompanied it), the awful-looking Romulan outfit that Michelle Obama was wearing, and her utter classlessness as John Boehner tried to make polite conversation.  So now we have to suffer through an orgy of media sycophants falling all over themselves to wash Obama's feet and anoint him with oil, and to remind us all for the trillionth time how profoundly historic he is... brace yourself for four more years of failure, and four more years of him (and these same sycophants) blaming Bush for that failure.

Sure, Obama is historic.  He's the first black president--if you don't count Bill Clinton--but so what?  He's also got the thinnest resume of any president in our nation's history, and probably the thinnest skin.  In only one term he's already added more to the national debt than any of his predecessors.  And, as I like to joke, it turns out the first president to eat a dog will be the last to eat a Twinkie.  Not everything you could call historic is inherently good.  If Obama ate a baby on live television, that would be pretty historic too.

These days, I find myself thinking a lot about another historic president.  Calvin Coolidge was the first president to have his inauguration broadcast on the radio, and the first to have his State of the Union address broadcast on the radio... he was also the first president to appear in a sound film:

Calvin Coolidge left office with a budget that was smaller than than the one he inherited... how many presidents managed to do that?

The Council Has Spoken!

This week's results for the Watcher's Council vote are in, they've been posted over at Watcher of Weasels.  The winning council entry for the week was "Disunity in the Republic" by The Right Planet, and the winning non-council entry for the week was Rob Kerby's post "She survived Hitler and wants to warn America" over at Beliefnet.  Congrats!

Update: And last week's winners can be found here.

Scats and dogs

Have you heard of Dog Shaming?  It's this hilarious website that posts pictures of dogs being shamed by their owners for various bad behavior.  (Lots and lots of pictures... it goes on for hundreds of pages.)

Here are a few of my personal favorites:

I'm not sure why but all my favorites seem to involve poop for some reason... hmmmmm.

The Council Has Spoken!

This week's results for the Watcher's Council vote are in, they've been posted over at Watcher of Weasels.  The winning council entry for the week was "Corporals of the United States Marine Corps" by The Mellow Jihadi, and the winning non-council entry for the week was Bob Owen's post "What You’ll See In The Rebellion" over at his eponymous blog.  Congrats!

Why is Jack Lew so loopy?

This man's signature could soon be on our money:

That mess of loops is supposed to be Jack Lew's signature.  He's currently serving as White House Chief of Staff, but he's been nominated by President Obama to replace Tim Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury... if confirmed, his signature would have to be printed on our currency.  Presumably, the signature will be fixed beforehand in the same manner that Geithner's was... but I just wonder what it says about him (about both of them, actually) that such a thing is even necessary.

What kind of a man can't be bothered to spell his own name right?  Is this laziness?  Arrogance?  Something else?  I don't know, I can't make sense of it.

Are those loops even supposed to be letters?  If they are, I count eight of them... is one of them meant to be his middle initial?  Or maybe it's meant to be read as Jacob Lew, not Jack Lew... that's another weird thing about this, why does everyone call him Jack?  Jack is usually a nickname for John, isn't it?  Never in my life have I met a Jacob who went by the name Jack... Jake maybe, but never Jack.

I'm not saying this should be a reason for Republicans to oppose him at his confirmation hearing... I just find it odd, that's all.  I know nothing about the guy, I can't say whether he's qualified or not... I take it as a given that anyone Obama picks is going to suck anyway, so all I can do is shrug and hope that Lew somehow manages to not suck as badly as Geithner did.

The Council Has Spoken!

This week's results for the Watcher's Council vote are in, they've been posted over at Watcher of Weasels.  The winning council entry for the week was "A Game Change In Syria" by Joshuapundit, and the winning non-council entry for the week was Larry Correia's post "An opinion on gun control" over at Monster Hunter Nation.  Congrats!

Screw you, Chris Christie!

So I'm guessing that Chris Christie has no plans to run for president in 2016, or ever, unless maybe it's as a Democrat.

I wouldn't mind seeing some more video of him yelling at teachers who need to be yelled at, but other than that I'm pretty much done with him.