Author: TSO

Nice cans.

I couldn’t be more ready to head to the ‘stan. Sure, my feet are bleeding from overdoing the roadmarching of late, but just how fricken awesome am I going to look in this kilt?

Kilt + Caucasian Mr. T. look = TSO winning this thing all by himself.

They just can’t help themselves. Here is the email I just got….

Dear VoteVets.org Supporter,

In an appalling new low, Congressman Joe Walsh today slammed his opponent Tammy Duckworth’s military service. Walsh told Politico, “What else has she done? Female, wounded veteran … ehhh.” Duckworth served as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot in Iraq in 2004, and lost her legs and part of the use of her right arm. She was awarded the Purple Heart for her combat injuries.

Let’s stand up for Tammy, and show Joe Walsh that you can’t insult our veterans!

Now, follow me on this….Who is on the Board for VoteVets? Well, one Wesley Kanne Clark (not the dread Pirate of similiar name.)

Quick, someone fire up the WayBack machine!

In case you missed it: Interviewed by CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday’s Face the Nation, Clark said that for all the national security experience John McCain claims, he never held a position of command during wartime. “I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war,” Clark said. “He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces as a prisoner of war. He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee and he has traveled all over the world. But he hasn’t held executive responsibility.” Clark then continued, “But he hasn’t held executive responsibility. That large squadron in Air — in the Navy that he commanded, it wasn’t a wartime squadron. He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall. He hasn’t seen what it’s like when diplomats come in and say, ‘I don’t know whether we’re going to be able to get this point through or not. Do you want to take the risk? What about your reputation? How do we handle it publicly?’ He hasn’t made those calls, Bob.”

Anything else Wesley?

SCHIEFFER: I have to say, Barack Obama has not had any of those experiences, either, nor has he ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down. I mean —
CLARK: Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

Ah, so, if I am looking for a brightline distinction in these cases, it is that getting shot down in a fighter plane doesn’t qualify you to be President, but getting shot down in a helicopter makes one qualified for Congress.

So, Joe Walsh = Bad.
Wesley Clark = Good.

(Go ahead, someone square this circle for me)

I love this dude. He’s seriously good for 5-6 chuckles a day. Take for instance this great piece he writes on the “fix” being in for the Zimmerman/Martin case.

Sayeth the Duffmeister General:

Editor’s notes on ethnicity: Martin may be African American but originates in Spain and most Martin’s are of English background. Zimmerman can be German or German/Jewish. Wolfzinger is German, sometimes Jewish but generally of Menonite background. In a better world, I would so much have enjoyed NOT making these explanations.

I honestly don’t know what is funnier, his mentioning how he would rather not bring ethnicity into it while doing exactly that, or the fact that no fewer than 11 times HE GETS THE GUYS NAME WRONG.

The States Attorney (who does have jurisdiction despite Duff’s assinine legal interpretations) is named WOLFINGER, no “z”.

Go over and look at Duff go through shitty/grainy photos like it is the Zapruder film.

Editors Note: Zapruder is a JOOOOOOish name, and is part of an international cabal aimed at besmirching the name of Castro. Duff is a fictional name, and is appropriately derived from a beer on an animated television series. TSO is a general in China who famously acted like a chicken.

PS- Someone want to head over there and tell Gordon to try to extricate his head from his ass? He really ought to master the Art of Teh Google if he wants to be as intrepid a reporter as he was a desk jockey in Viet Nam.

UPDATE: His level of retardation has no bounds:

Ah, so your name isn’t really “Duff” it is “MacDuff”? Then I suppose this isn’t your DD214? Or did you join the military under an assumed name?

FINAL UPDATE: As expected, it is all about the DURTY JOOOOOOS, and their bucket load of ill gotten Zionist money with which they are taking over the world one States Attorney at a time.

I know that I am in the small minority here that loves Selena, but her Facebook discussion item today is a classic:

I know you guys think she’s a tree hugging, unicorn loving liberal, but here she is going more for the tree hugging, unicorn loving Libertarian, and she’s been doing that a lot lately.

Anyway, to her larger point, I think it is a good one. Obviously a ton of folks think fees and registration for guns is perfectly valid. And her question notes correctly that none of the folks thinking that would agree to a poll tax. In fact, I bet if you took only folks who supported gun control and asked how many thought it was appropriate to pass a law requiring IDs at polling places, it would be heavily skewed.

So, just to throw it out there…..can anyone come up with a cognizable argument why a poll tax is worse from a moral or constitutional frame of reference than similiar measures aimed at gun ownership? I already know you don’t agree with any argument, but can you even think of one?

Come on, channel your inner Democrat Underground denizen.

And, if we want to drag this analogy to the point of exhaustion, BO’s policies are the fahkin shark.

The frustrations of the presidency once had Barack Obama reach for a literary metaphor.

“At times he couldn’t help feeling, as he told one associate, a kinship with the protagonist in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea,” writes David Corn in his new book on the presidency.

“He had, against tremendous odds, caught a big fish, but on the long voyage back to shore, his prized catch had been picked to pieces by sharks,” Corn writes.

First from a recent poll done by Dems:

Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) is barely leading his primary opponent, state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, less than two months before the primary, according to a Democratic poll released today.

The numbers showed the six-term Senator in rough shape but still ahead of Mourdock, 45 percent to 39 percent.

Lugar faces the toughest re-election campaign of his career in the May 8 primary. Since the start of this cycle, Republicans viewed him as vulnerable in a primary, but polling of his race has been scarce in part because Indiana law restricts automated calls, including polling.

I went to a dinner with my wife last night that was for a group called P.E.O. which is some women’s philanthropic group. For those that don’t actually know me, I don’t do well meeting people. Actually, I do well, I just am not very social. I am honestly so fearful of meeting folks that I am afraid I will drop an EFF bomb over dinner. Nonetheless, the wife wanted me to go, so I went.

Glad I did actually. Met a very nice guy, older chap, former professor of Poli Sci for 30 years at Indiana State and then he worked as CoS for a Congressman. I (heart beating) told him I was a conservative (if not a Republican) and was pleased to find he was as well. Anyway, turns out he was a big Mourdock supporter. Spent the bulk of the rest of the night talking to him about how much we both loathed Lugar.

Lugar’s biggest screw up in my opinion was his open and enthusiastic support for Sotomayor and Kagen. Now, if I was a Senator I would have voted to confirm both of them. The biggest problem I has was that he espoused his support long before anyone could even fully digest what these two had done as legal experts. Kagen in particular, having fought tooth and nail against the Solomon Amendment is what really pissed me off. So, I sent an email to the Senator, and heard jack shit back, which is when my vote was decided. If Lugar wins the primary, it might be the first time I forego voting for a GOP in the Senate.

Anyway, I’m really hoping Mourdock can expunge this guy from Hoosier politics. I don’t hold out a great deal of hope, but if this poll is to believed, I feel better about it.

(This is NOT an endorsement of Mourdock, every time I endorse someone they respond with a Macaca Moment.)