So thoughtful and considerate

A young man's business

Clean and elegant

Canoe, faithful beast, and a calm reflective lake.

We don't have to imagine it in our world turned upside down.

Remember when the media here vigorously promoted the notion that President Bush was despised around the world?

Looks like they might have been wrong about who it was that was despised.

This was printed, apparently in a Russian newspaper.

Basically, Obama is dressed as the Russian version of a boy scout.  Putin tells him, "Be ready!"

Obama responds, "Strong, Uncle Volodya."

They don't respect us, and with a former KGB officer in charge, the propaganda will continue to be relentless and unanswered by our boy scout in chief.

Via Curmudgeonly and Skeptical  

Devi the hippo calf

Syrupy sweet

After the ice age

Svalbard

Where "Brrr!" was invented.

Why Obamacare is good for conservatives

Kentucky just elected its first Republican governor in a long time, and one who was trailing in the polls until right up to the time folks there walked into the voting booth.   One thing Tea Party activist Matt Bevin had promised were he to be elected was to eliminate the state's Obamacare exchange.  Since a quarter of Kentucky residents are enrolled in some form of Obamacare, you'd think that would be an overwhelming constituency to not change things so drastically.  Well, at least that's what the vote buying Democrats thought.  However, with premiums going up, that didn't turn out to be the case.

 “Even some residents who are enrolled in the expanded Medicaid program or an exchange plan supported Bevin. Stanley and Deborah Harp, who own a business in Georgetown, Ky., were among Americans who saw their policies canceled after the Affordable Care Act went into effect. They now qualify for Medicaid, but they aren’t happy about it and they voted for Bevin.”

Just like Merkel's muslim invasion in Europe will supercharge the far right parties which she despises, and who will eventually throw her out of power, here the gross excesses of Obamacare will turn many to voting Republican, and more specifically, Tea Party Republican, in order to escape the smothering hand of big government.  Kentucky just demonstrated how it will be done.

As an aside, Kentucky also just elected its first female, black, Tea Party Lt. Governor.  That ought to send chills down the spine of every Dem and Rino in the country.

Actions have consequences, but not necessarily the consequences expected.

It's a snowy morning in Yosemite

Morning fog, eucalyptus and vineyard

Old school bad ass

Andrzej Wiktor, Polish Hussar.

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