“I’m not a pacifist,” Paul said, “but I do think it unacceptable not to hate war. I’m dismissive of those who champion war as sport and show no reluctance to engage in war. Any leader who shows glee or eagerness for war should not be leading any nation. I believe truly great leaders are reluctant to go to war and try mightily to avoid war.” — Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, as quoted in Economic Policy Journal.

If the good Senator keeps this up, I foresee me supporting his presidential campaign in 2016 or 2020.

I guess Boo got hold of my pen. This is either pizza sauce or dried blood.

You don’t want to mess with me!  I’m crazy!  You know how crazy I am?  I gotta take little white pills so I don’t kill little white privates!  That’s how crazy I am!  — Staff Sergeant Willie P. Dunlap, Drill Sergeant, Day 0 of my basic training, Fort Leonard Wood, August 21, 1989

Vegan, it’s what’s for dinner. — Weer’d, on last night’s Squirrel Report

I have to agree.  Like I said a few days ago, some of my favorite dishes are made with strict vegans.  Of course, omnivores are quite tasty when properly cured and smoked.

I’m not attacking you, but what the f@#k!? — DaddyBear, once again displaying his massive reserves of people skills.

Update – Edited to remove the inadvertent dead email link in my somewhat edited expletive.  Sorry about that.

Now I realize that California liberals fleeing their State couldn’t get a clue if they smeared themselves with clue musk and did the clue mating dance in a field full of receptive clues at the height of the clue mating season, but here’s to tilting at windmills:

California is doing something wrong. Texas is doing something right. Quit trying to turn Texas into a carbon-copy of California. Leave us the hell alone.

— Lawdog, “This Is My Surprised Face”

 

I lived in the Bay Area for 18 months at the end of high school and was stationed in Monterey for a year.  I love Monterey, but every time I go back to California I leave like my hair was on fire and my ass was catching.  There are things about living in California I miss, but not many of them, and none of them are important enough for me to try to model my adopted home of Kentucky on that waste of good beaches.

Romney, Obama — they’re different faces of the same guy. Oh, their masks wear different shades of lip gloss but they’re both gleefully shoveling tomorrow’s babies into the fire to fuel the engines of bread, circuses and power for the sake of power and they don’t realize — or care — how near the precipice they dance or how far the fall will be, just as long as they can keep on keepin’ on. After all, the Feds have been dancing on the brink for a long, long time, and they’ve never fallen over it yet. Never, ever happen, right up unti– Whups! — Roberta X

Couldn’t  have said it better myself.  To quote JayG and Weerd, the only difference between Obama and Romney is that Obama is 50% more African.  Romney will sway with the winds of political fortune, and Obama seems to be gleefully driving the car further down the ditch, into the cesspool, and through the treatment plant.  If things don’t start turning around right quick, we are going to be lucky to only live under a tyranny.

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum [“I am a Roman citizen”]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner!”… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!” — President John F. Kennedy, 26 June, 1962.

Heute bin Ich auch Berliner.  Wann Mann sagt das er Freiheit liebt, dann ist er Berliner.  Wann jemand will in Friede leben, dann ist er Berliner.  Wenn wir fur Freiheit und Friede arbeiten, dann mussen wir immer sagen “Wir alle sind Berliner”.

I think that “private sector” is a phrase only used in Washington. The rest of the world just calls it “work”. — Emily Miller on Facebook