It's not a problem with revenue - it's a problem with spending.

Looks like the federal government got more tax money in this year than they ever have.  Now there is more to waste!

Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace in fiscal 2014, as the federal government’s total receipts for the fiscal year closed April at $1,735,030,000,000, according tothe Monthly Treasury Statement.

Despite this record revenue, the federal government still ran a deficit of $306.411 billion in the first seven months of the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1, 2013 and will end on Sept. 30, 2014.

And the government spendthrifts will grow the debt and the deficit until they destroy us.  What the solution is, short of revolution, I don't know.

Kite foiling.

Another example of those crafty caucasians using their white privilege to come up with something new and totally cool.  I want one.



Via Lloyd Kahn

A close call for Jihadi Joe

A Canadian Vickers Vedette flying boat

Michelle is sad

Obama = Communist

Sultan Knish knocks another one out of the park.

A snippet, but go read it all to understand exactly where Obama and the progressives are coming from:

As the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution approaches some of the former students who participated in its Red Guard terror have been trying to make amends to their victims. If China's former leftist fanatics feel some remorse for the atrocities they participated in, the same can't be said of their American counterparts.

Even as the Cultural Revolution was dying down in China, it flared up in the United States. The Weather Underground drew inspiration from China's Red Terror. Their founding manifesto cited the Red Guard as a model for a "mass revolutionary movement."

Bill Ayers, among others, had signed a letter, "Long live People's China. Love live Comrade Mao."

The American counterparts of China’s Red Guard remain largely unrepentant because here the  Cultural Revolution never ended. Instead it went mainstream. Its members were never disavowed and their acts of terror continue to be celebrated, minimized and whitewashed by a left that finds them alternately embarrassing and thrilling.

The terrorists became celebrities and the radicals became part of the system and set the rules. There was less violence, but more authoritarianism. Instead of carrying on a futile campaign of bombings and bank robberies, the radicals used the vast wealth and power of the system to train the next generation of the Red Guard. And that next generation did the same thing.

Each wave of the Cultural Revolution in the United States has eroded civil rights and illiberally undermined a liberal society. Though the Red Guards have chosen to work within the system, they are animated by an unmistakeable contempt and hatred for the country and its institutions. Their endgame has not changed. Only their tactics have.

Barack Obama, a child of the Cultural Revolution, is the very model of a modern Red Guard. The mark of a successful revolution is that the revolutionaries no longer need extreme rhetoric since they can do anything they want. The Weather Underground engaged in extreme rhetoric and actions. Obama dispenses with the extreme rhetoric and gets right down to the extreme actions. He is calculating enough to avoid the verbal vindictiveness of an Ayers or a Wright, but he still chose them as his mentors.

America under the Red Guards is run by liberals without liberalism. Locke's "No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions" is as alien a sentiment to them as if it were expressed in binary code.

Mondays, they're like that

Now working as editors at CNN

Obama visits the farm

                      Right after speaking Austrian to a corpsman in some other of the 57 states

Andrew Jackson - my favorite president.

“You would think that Andrew Jackson was giving you his undivided attention, and then you would glance over and notice that he had devoted the last several minutes to making a laborious sketch of an alligator.

“Mr. President!” you would gasp, indignantly.

“I have a bullet lodged inside my body,” he would say. “From killing a man in a duel. A better man than you.” He would resume drawing the alligator.”

More here.

Fluid dynamics and dunes on Mars

Dunes are a fascinating interplay between fluid and granular flow. This satellite photo shows a dune field on Mars, Nili Patera. The dominant direction of wind flow is from the upper right, pushing the dunes themselves slowly toward the left. Many of the dunes along the edge arebarchans, crescent-shaped dunes with a long, gradual slope facing the wind and a steeper leeward side. As the wind blows, it erodes the sand on the windward slope and deposits it on the leeward side. This is how the dune migrates. Check out this close-up of a barchan to see the changes in its ripples and shape over the past couple months. (Photo credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona)

Via FYFD

Swimming hole of dreams

What I just heard here at home

Wife to daughter:  Have you ever had Kale?

Daughter to wife:  I put it in a smoothie once.

Me, thinking to myself:  Kale?  In a smoothie?

I live with weird people.

Layers and layers of fact checkers and editors

And this is what these dim bulbs put out on national TV.

Michelle is sad