Bob Dole (R hold your nose) Loser, endorses Mitt.

John McLame (R hold your nose) Loser, endorses Mitt.

Wait! Mitt lost to McLame? Did he pick up any one in the draft? Has he been practicing?  Just how does he win? He is a loser endorsed by losers.

Why can he beat Obama? Things are different you say Obama is weak. He is a (R hold your nose) candidate. I am tired of holding my nose.  He Lost to McCain last time, we cannot afford to have him lose to Obama this time.

Am I voting for Newt? Unlike Romney who I wonder if he believes what he is saying. I wonder what Newt is going to show up. The conservative articulate one with solid ideas, or the babbling moon base one with  really bad ideas. No I cannot vote for Newt I admit that I like some of his ideas, however between his baggage and record absolutely not. Let me be clear baggage to me means his character has been assassinated and reassassinated so many times that John Q Public could never see the truth.

That leaves Santorim and Paul. Rick is a nice guy and has run a good campaign keeping it focused on the issues that matter mostly. He is a big government social conservative or his record in the senate was. All I have to say is he supported Allen Specter  over Pat Toomey, need I say more?

Just so you know the final candidate, nope not a chance. Not gonna go there.

From the founding of our country there has been a fight between limited government and big government. There were Federalists and non federalists. Guess who wanted a big government? Over the past 230 odd years our government has grown and grown. Isn’t it time to limit it?

Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin once said “Those who will trade freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”

We get a choice between Obama who thinks that 16 trillion in debt is a good start but we really need to spend more to turn the economy around or Romney who wants to work within the system to bring us back to 2008 level spending. Or Newt the pragmatist who is willing to sit on a bench with Pelosi and talk about globull warming.

All I have to say is Stop the damn spending stupid!

So we have a government that tells us what kind of light bulbs to buy and how many gallons of water your toilet can flush. It even says how much water your shower can spray on you. Wait I forgot that breaking a CFL light bulb releases more mercury into your home than a coal fired power plant. But we need to shut down coal fired power plants and use CFL bulbs because the government says so.  I think I forgot to mention the government tells me what kind of mattress I can sleep on and tells me that if I remove the tag on said mattress I can go to jail.  Intrusive overbearing government, don’t get me started.

My point is, how is Big Government and temporary security working out for us? Isn’t it time for a change? Not Hope & Change but kick the bastards out and change!

Here is what I want my candidate to say/do.

Tell me your vision.  Share how you came to be where you are now, and where you want to be. Give me a look at how we are going to get to this future goal. Show me how this vision is based on the principals that made us great. Tell me how you are building on these foundation principals and how you are going to lead us to a future America that is greater than ever. If you think something is wrong with America tell me how to go about correcting the problem.

This election is about jobs, the economy, and Obama.

If I was running for president I would say that America is a nation of innovation. Innovation creates jobs regulation interferes with jobs. As president I will slash regulations and expand innovation by expanding DARPA / ARPA funding. Energy creates jobs, inexpensive energy fuels jobs.  As president I will cut regulations on nuclear energy, and open areas that previous administrations have closed for drilling. To further stimulate the economy I will implement tort reform. Lawyers and frivolous law suits are stifling the economy. I will slash spending and come up with a plan that can have us debt free by the end of my 1st administration. Lastly I will do all that is possible to undo everything that Obama has done starting with Obamacare. Once that is done for my second term I will see if we can innovate our way into making the moon our 51st state. That is American Colonialism.

Unimportant Update (leoncaruthers):

That’s fine. Because I’m drinking my coffee from a mug emblazoned with the logo of my favorite charitable organization, and y’all can’t get me down. Like Carin says, it’s all about balance, and my life? Pretty much there.

I get up when I want to.

Work my ass off when necessary.

Carry exactly the right burden on my shoulders.

So I’m ready for Monday. I can take Monday. So can you. Monday will not see it coming. It will be in shock and awed.

Now get out there and whoop Monday’s ass.

Okay, just a little cheesecake.

Hey Michael!

Oh, no, Tagnash is going to be PISSED!

Why XBrad flunked math:

Scott composing a poem for Valentine’s Day:

Shouldn’t have let that stump get out of hand.

There, new poat for your abuse.

OK, maybe the next dance?

How about this one?

OK, but I brought you to this shindig so. . .

Bitch. . .

*sits on the curb in the parking lot waiting for his mom*

It’s not glamorous and you won’t see it on any recruiting posters, but it is the reality of service. Now, some people say that offering high school students an opportunity to do this for some spending cash is racist. Really?

The young man pictured on the Mess Deck here cost the taxpayers quite a bit of money. First there was his public education from kindergarten to 12th grade. Then, the intensive effort to recruit him, send him to Boot Camp and on to his specialty training (in this case as an aviation electrician). Yet, after all this money spent on him, the Sailor has been assigned to spend 90 days sweeping and swabbing decks, serving food to his shipmates or providing laundry service.

Yup, that is 3 months out of a 6/7 month deployment that this young man will be engaged in these “menial” tasks. He probably isn’t really enthused about the tasks assigned to him and won’t be incorporating any of these endeavors into the sea stories he’ll be telling the folks back home. It’s not a lot of fun and it’s not what he signed up for.

So, why does the military, in this case the Navy, take this young man in whom they have invested so much and have him perform these mundane duties for so long? Couldn’t they just hire some civilians to do it? Isn’t it demeaning?

Some of you already know the answer. Some of you can guess. If you worked in fast food as a youngster, if you started on the loading dock, if you cut lettuce, picked tomatoes or baled hay in the summer, you know the answer.

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This week’s model is a young beauty that originally hails from the Check (fuck you and your fancy spellin’) Republic. Now a Brit, she is in he twenties and can’t seem to keep from looking sick, confused, or high as flippin’ kite. Please welcome some deranged chick with big knockers.

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Test time! Please form an orderly line and pick up your No 2 pencil and a Scantron form. MCPO, please just pick up a hammer, chisel, and a black piece of granite.

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98 – Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.

661 – The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.

1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: Henry Knox’s “noble train of artillery” arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.

1870 – The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.

1939 – First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.

1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
1961 – Soviet submarine S-80 sinks with all hands lost.

1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

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And there you have it. One fucked up, Check-Brit. I’ll be busy doing nothing this weekend. You should stop by. We’ll put a few steaks on the grill and talk smack about everyone. Bring beer. Bring good beer.

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Damn it Roamy!  What have you done?

Yes.  Thank you for elucidating, Mare.

The auto bailout cost about $23.6B, which means that the average, federal income tax paying citizen paid about $310 to help support the auto industry in 2011 (this would represent total cost).  Most people would look at this and think that it’s not that big of a deal–except that all of it was completely unnecessary.  The administration used TARP funds to bailout GM and Chrysler so that union pensions and wages would not be reduced as part of the normal bankruptcy process.  The investors took the cut rather than the entire organization, thus preserving a core voting bloc for Obama.  Your $310 was transferred directly to a UAW worker, that averaged $40.33 per hour in wages and benefits, or $83,886 per year.

As part of the reelection campaign, the Obama administration is going to constantly tout the ‘saving of the auto industry’ as a positive accomplishment.  The amount of money poured into the gaping maw of the auto industry is staggering–50 times that of Solyndra–and should be called out for what it is: corruption, straight up.

TURDSDAY MORNING POAT UPDATE by Hotspur