Analytics

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Miscellany: 2/16/16

Quote of the Day
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa

Tweet of the Day

Just an explanation of why you might occasionally see duplicate tweets: for some reason, the Tweet embed code works as expected, including parent tweets and attachments; but quite often this is not the case. I often really don't know until I publish the post, so I'll sometimes provide redundant checks.

The original tweet:
My reply:
Moving on...
Image of the Day


Wage Mandates: Recipe for Unemployment



Choose Life: Daddy and Baby Have the Talk



George Will On Political Correctness



Little Sister Bought Her Big Brother A Surprise With Her Birthday Money



Sing, Sing a Song



Facebook Corner

(Lew Rockwell). Media types keep comparing Trump’s remarks on W’s lies, and his criminal anti-Iraq war, to Ron Paul. Twice on Morning Joe today, once praising Ron and once criticizing him. Isn’t it sad that no one would ever bring up Rand in this context? His non-interventionism was nuanced out of existence so as not to offend the neocons, and to make him, we were assured, more electable. In fact, Ron’s greater political success in 2008 and 2012, let alone Trump’s on the issue now, is due to telling the truth. I do not mean to compare Ron, the great antiwar public intellectual, to Trump, of course. But in this race, the guy closest to non-interventionism has always been Trump.
Okay, I'm now done with Lew's senility. I'm gone after this comment: any moron who thinks Trump has called for an end to meddling in the Middle East, an end to the drone wars, is simply in a state of denial. Not just that, but the Fascist has called for restoration of torture and for confiscating Iraq's oil. Not just that, but as the Gray Lady has pointed out, Donald Trump came out against the intervention--AFTER it had already begun. Is this the kind of support Rockwell champions? Idiot!

Political Cartoon
Courtesy of Gary Varvel via Townhall
Musical Interlude: My Favorite Vocalists

Laura Branigan, "how Am I Supposed To Live Without You?"