First the good news: Президент Оба́ма is not bowing to a foreign dignitary:

Now the bad news: he is bowing to the Mayor of Tampa, FL, Пам Йорио, who happens to be a Demo☭rat.
Huh? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! Why is he doing this? I don’t get it.

HAT TIP: Weasel Zippers

Dang! I remember Herschel Walker playing for the New Jersey Generals of the USFL before eventually coming over to the NFL, playing for the Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings.
Now, he’s embarked on a new career at the age of 47: Mixed Martial Arts fighting, and he won his first bout. Good Luck with that, Herschel. There have been a number of athletes who have had two sports careers; Bo Jackson comes to mind, as does Michael Jordan.

Well folks, I had some acupuncture done on me today for the very first time, although not under the best of circumstances. You see, my back got frakked up again earlier this week. It got real bad yesterday, and I found out that I may have a bulging vertebrae….

These photos, BTW, are courtesy of The Mrs., who had her cell phone with her…and for once, I didn’t! Thank the One True God for her!
After my adjustment today with my chiropractor, it didn’t go well; I couldn’t walk again without excruciating pain. So he asked his practicing partner to take a look at me for his acupuncture procedure. I agreed without hesitation; not only am I NOT against it because it’s Eastern medicine…I really didn’t have much else to choose from.
It took about a half hour, and when he was finished, the excruciating pain was gone, although my legs were very woozy, and still are to some degree. But I am standing much straighter, and I still have to go in on Monday for the MRI.

WOW! RDM and Co. are on fire…and this is just the first regular episode! We see:
• Caprica has a National Anthem…we hear it at the beginning of a Pyramid match at Atlas Arena. And of course it ends with “So Say We All!” I can’t wait to hear the whole thing.
• Joe Adama drives a car which makes the Citroën DS ancient. Literally. And how his brother Sam says they fit a 350-cubic-inch engine into that vehicle just goes to show that Caprica doesn’t operate under European standards!
• Oh, did I mention that I think I heard Sam just happens to be married to another guy? Remember, this is Caprica, and societies of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol worship a pantheon.
• And if you thought Sister Clarice is prim and proper, think again! She’s in a group marriage…again, this is Caprica. Whether this group marriage is a cover for her activities with the STO remains to be seen.
Tantalizing, indeed!

Why it’s very simple…he doesn’t believe in Air Superiority for the United States, and wants others, in particular the Russians, to equal it. Here’s their version:

It doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist to figure out how they got ahold of that technology either.

Here’s a list of questions the Demo☭rats will ask their Republican Opponents…and my response:
• Do you believe that Бара́к Оба́ма is a U.S. citizen? No, I do not. Why hasn’t he shown his REAL Birth Certificate?
• Do you think the 10th Amendment bars Congress from issuing regulations like minimum health care coverage standards? Yes. It is not a specific enumerated power given to Congress, and second, NO ONE should be mandated to buy health care coverage lest they be fined for not doing so.
• Do you think programs like Social Security and Medicare represent socialism and should never have been created in the first place? OF course it’s socialist, but guess what, that’s water over the dam isn’t it.
• Do you think Президент Оба́ма is a socialist? No. He is a Dirty F**kin’ Communist!
• Do you think America should return to a gold standard? The world would s**t if we did. It isn’t ever going to happen under a Demo☭rat administration that’s for sure.

And that is why I will NOT run for elected office.

For a while, The Mrs. was concerned I’d want to buy one of these. I assured her that’s not what I have in mind. She apparently was pleased with my answer.
I hope.

Unfortunately, yes:

PORTLAND, Ore.—Oregon has set aside its history of shooting down tax increases on statewide ballots, with voters endorsing higher taxes on businesses and the rich amid a brutal economic slump.
Demo☭rats in the Oregon Legislature made it as easy as they could for the voters to raise taxes on somebody else, and the electorate responded Tuesday by approving Measures 66 and 67.
The increases approved Tuesday will hit people with taxable income upward of $125,000—estimated at fewer than 3 percent of filers. Many businesses who had been paying an annual $10 minimum will see that rise to at least $150.
With 91 percent of the vote counted, the vote was 54-46 on Measure 66 and 53-47 on Measure 67.

Such good little lemmings in that Blue state, aren’t they! Here’s the money quote:

The vote affirms the two-year budget the Legislature controlled by Demo☭rats adopted last year, and spares it $727 million worth of budget cutting during a four-week session that begins Monday.

Yet another example of politicians lacking the intestinal fortitude to make the tough decisions.
It doesn’t take a Rocket Scientist to figure out how my wife’s two friends who live there voted. Watch as the Demo☭rats attempt to take this to other Blue states; if they try it in a Red state, they’ll get their a**es kicked.

Let’s see what Конгрессман Франк is up to:

Have at it!

Watch it some more and laugh your a** off!

Watch it and laugh your a** off!

HAT TIP: Hud

Never mind which Level of Hell they’re on…Saddam and his two sons stood just outside the Quarantine Section, where all newcomers to the Underworld were initially processed. “It’s a good thing we got here when we did,” said bullet-ridden Qusay.
“Yes,” his father replied, “we don’t want to keep the boss waiting, especially when he informed us there was someone special who just got here.”
It took another fifteen minutes before Saddam’s right-hand man, Ali Hassan al-Majid, was released. “Saddam! My cousin!” He rushed to hug and kiss the man who used to rule Iraq, and also his two sons. He was weeping, but not for joy. “It was horrible! This is not what I was expecting.”
Saddam consoled him. “I know. It is not what you expected. There were 72 of them, and they were virgin Demons with anvil-shaped genitalia, is that right?” His cousin nodded and pointed to the backside of his blood-stained trousers. Saddam continued. “Yes, that is over for you. Now, I am to tell you your daily work assignment.”
“And that is…?” inquired the man who once was known as Chemical Ali.
“Why, it’s obvious!” said Saddam. “You are to be gassed to death every day by those Kurds from Halabja who ended up here. That is why in some circles, this is known as ‘Download City.’”
“I…I don’t understand that,” murmured Ali, now fully realizing where he was.
“I don’t understand that either,” said Saddam. “We’ll have to ask those folks over there who say they are Cylons. Strange that most of them look alike.”

Saw this over at The Blogmocracy, and it sure makes sense to me:

I wouldn’t count hellcare out – they are talking about pushing it through anyway. As for the banks, I read here someone discribe obaMao’s economic policy was akin to whack-a-mole…..Everytime obaMao sees a segment of the economy recovering he WHACKS them!

Indeed!

HAT TIP: vapig

After viewing this photo of Президент Оба́ма addressing sixth-graders with…get this!...a frakking TelePrompTer, you’ll undoubtedly ask yourself how or why this man needs such a device to address elementary school students.
For the life of me, I cannot remember the last time a sitting President addressed these youngsters in this fashion. If anyone else can, please let me know.

After he thoroughly got his a** kicked in VA, NJ, and most recently, MA, Президент Оба́ма still expects Republicans to do all the compromising, to the point where Press Secretary Роберт Гиббс says, regarding the upcoming State Of The Union address:

“What you’re going to hear from the president is the same thing you heard from him over the past several years.

Indeed. More lies, more obfuscation, more exclusion, and more bulls**t. Do we expect anything less from the current Президент who strives to split this country apart?