Stupid is.. as Stupid does: Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma

[Bullwinkle]

      Thank's to Capt. Kirk, I'm all set. Big chunk of bamboo, sulphur, coal, saltpeter, rocks ( no diamonds), stir and light. Kills the big lizard every time. 

[Warph]

Why I voted Democrat

1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.

2. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

3. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

4. I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

5. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.

6. I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

7. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits.

8. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.

9. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

10. I voted Democrat because I think that it's better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.

11. I voted Democrat because while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised "HOPE AND CHANGE".

12. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass it's unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.

[Warph]

Great nations and proud empires have always collapsed from within before they were conquered from without.  Obuma's re-election mirrors the self-indulgent, greedy and envious nation we are rapidly becoming.

Michael Barone and Dick Morris got it horribly wrong.  Both predicted a 300 electoral-vote win for Romney.  It was  Obuma who reached that mark.  The central message coming out of the election seems to be that we are no longer the America of our Founders, or even the America that existed during World War II, which produced our "greatest generation."  Instead, the election validates the enormous cultural shift that has been taking place since the '60s when a countercultural bomb was dropped on society, producing moral fallout that continues to this day.

I am a child of the "greatest generation."  My parents believed I should learn to take care of myself.  They would have been too embarrassed to ask for help, if they needed it.  If they did, they would turn to family first, or to a friend or neighbor.  There were alot fewer social programs then, so people mostly did without... living only on what they truly needed.  It said something about your character if you refused to strive toward self-sufficiency.

In 2012, nothing appears to embarrass us.  Snooki.  Honey Boo Boo.  Reality TV wives.  The Kardashians.  Look at what is paraded before us as normal.  Oppose the new normal and it's you who are the anomaly.

Young people are taught in public schools, at major universities, on television and in movies, that every life choice is acceptable and every tenet open to interpretation. When it comes to politics, some proclaim it is right to oppose the successful and envy the rich to the point where they must be denigrated and penalized for their success with higher taxes.  No one has to be personally responsible.  No education... no motivation.... no life plan?  No problem.  Hey, step right up... the government will take care of you.

One of many things Romney might have done better is to have featured more people who had overcome government dependence by embracing the values he was promoting.  "Example trumps philosophy and success should trump victimhood."  "Inspiration follows perspiration."  But in our "entitlement" age even that might have been impossible to overcome.

Other signs of cultural decay are accepted with little notice.  According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 percent of babies born in America are born to unmarried women.  *Shrug*  Abortion clinics continue to operate.   *Yawn*

There is no longer any cultural corrective because we have abandoned the concept of objective truth. Nothing is right or wrong, because that suggests a standard by which right and wrong might be defined.  Personal choice is the new "standard" now.... which is no standard at all.  One might as well develop individual weights and measures.

Politicians bid for votes, making promises they can't keep to voters who will believe anything, as long as it appeals to greed, envy and their sense of entitlement.  Needless to say, this undermines our culture.  This fuels our massive debt, weakening our economic power and America's standing in the world.

Standards used to be defined and mostly accepted, if not always universally practiced.  Many grew out of religious principles.   According to a recent Pew Poll, a growing number of people, especially young people 18 - 29, no longer believe in God or religion. In this, and in our increasing flirtation with socialism, America is becoming more like Europe.  Government seems to be replacing God as the only acceptable deity.

So what the hell is the answer?  Should conservatives throw in the towel and say America, as passed down to us by previous generations, is no more?  That was Obuma's announced goal four years ago when he promised to "fundamentally transform America."  He's doing it and sufficient numbers of Conservatives appear happy to let him.  When they realize what they have done, however, it may well be too late to reverse course.

....Warph

[Teresa]

Its obvious Fire Elk that you are talking out of the end that your underwear is located...( seems to be the norm with you)
Firearms Stocks MOST CERTAINLY DID soar as soon the markets opened the next morning after ODumbo was elected.
Ruger went up 7 pts immediately just as soon as the market opened that day and is continuing to do as the other gun and ammo manufacturers are rising..
AR's sold faster than toilet paper in a diarrhea ward ( Derek sold the pile he had in 4 hours.. and Ellett Bros had over 1500 in stock and they were all gone within 18 minutes after Ohio announced that Obama had taken that state. and all the future shipments for them are already on allotment.. Ammo is gone in many warehouses..waiting new shipments..much of that is already allotted for.. Reloading supplies like primers are gone..and people are already on back order waiting lists..
Ohhhh yeah~~~ guns, ammo, food, water.... better have plenty on hand..

[Patriot]

Well, well, well.  It would seem that if the firearm market were an election... Fur Pelt would have lost hi pass!  I guess I won't be seeking any investment advice from the pseudo-broker.  So much for a first hand knowledge of the markets - or Elk Politics.

[Warph]

Here's some good news... all they have to do is speed up the process.

MIT breakthrough could lead to paper-thin bullet-proof armor

Stronger than a speeding bullet.  New tests of nanostructured material could lead to better armor against everything from gunfire to micrometeorites.

David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
November 7, 2012


Providing protection against impacts from bullets and other high-speed projectiles is more than just a matter of brute strength. While traditional shields have been made of bulky materials such as steel, newer body armor made of lightweight material such as Kevlar has shown that thickness and weight are not necessary for absorbing the energy of impacts. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and Rice University has shown that even lighter materials may be capable of doing the job just as effectively.

This electron-microscope image of a cross-section of a layered polymer shows the crater left by an impacting glass bead, and the deformation of the previously even, parallel lines of the layered structure as a result of the impact. In this test, the layered material was edge-on to the impact. Comparative tests showed that when the projectile hit head-on, the material was able to resist the impact much more effectively. Image courtesy of the Thomas Lab, Rice University


The key is to use composites made of two or more materials whose stiffness and flexibility are structured in very specific ways — such as in alternating layers just a few nanometers thick. The research team produced miniature high-speed projectiles and measured the effects they had on the impact-absorbing material.

The results of the research are reported in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper co-authored by former postdoc Jae-Hwang Lee, now a research scientist at Rice; postdoc Markus Retsch; graduate student Jonathan Singer; Edwin Thomas, a former MIT professor who is now at Rice; graduate student David Veysset; former graduate student Gagan Saini; former postdoc Thomas Pezeril, now on the faculty at Université du Maine, in Le Mans, France; and chemistry professor Keith Nelson. The experimental work was conducted at MIT's Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v3/n10/full/ncomms2166.html

The team developed a self-assembling polymer with a layer-cake structure: rubbery layers, which provide resilience, alternating with glassy layers, which provide strength. They then developed a method for shooting glass beads at the material at high speed by using a laser pulse to rapidly evaporate a layer of material just below its surface. Though the beads were tiny — just millionths of a meter in diameter — they were still hundreds of times larger than the layers of the polymer they impacted: big enough to simulate impacts by larger objects, such as bullets, but small enough so the effects of the impacts could be studied in detail using an electron microscope.

Seeing the layers
Structured polymer composites have previously been tested for possible impact-protection applications. But nobody had found a way to study exactly how they work — so there was no way to systematically search for improved combinations of materials.

The new techniques developed by the MIT and Rice researchers could provide such a method. Their work could accelerate progress on materials for applications in body and vehicle armor; shielding to protect satellites from micrometeorite impacts; and coatings for jet engine turbine blades to protect from high-speed impacts by sand or ice particles.

The methods the team developed for producing laboratory-scale high-speed impacts, and for measuring the impacts' effects in a precise way, "can be an extremely useful quantitative tool for the development of protective nanomaterials," says Lee, the lead author of the paper, who did much of this research while in MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. "Our work presents some valuable insights to understand the contribution" of the nanoscale structure to the way such materials absorb an impact, he says.

Because the layered material has such a predictable, ordered structure, the effects of the impacts are easily quantified by observing distortions in cross-section. "If you want to test out how ordered systems will behave," Singer says, "this is the perfect structure for testing."

Which direction works best
The team found that when the projectiles hit the layers head-on, they absorbed the impact 30 percent more effectively than in an edge-on impact. That information may have immediate relevance for the design of improved protective materials.

Nelson has spent years developing techniques that use laser pulses to observe and quantify nanoscale shockwaves — techniques that were adapted for this research with the help of Lee, Veysset and other team members. Ideally, in future research, the team hopes to be able to observe the passage of projectiles in real time in order to get a better understanding of the sequence of events as the impacted material undergoes distortion and damage, Nelson says.

In addition, now that the experimental method has been developed, the researchers would like to investigate different materials and structures to see how these respond to impacts, Nelson says: varying the composition and thickness of layers, or using different structures.

Edwin Thomas, left, and Jae-Hwang Lee holding a polymer material containing three bullets.
(Photo: Tommy LaVergne, Rice University)

Donald Shockey, director of the Center for Fracture Physics at SRI International, a nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, Calif., says, "It's a novel and useful approach that will provide needed understanding of the mechanisms governing how a projectile penetrates protective vests and helmets." He adds that these results "provide the data required to develop and validate computational models" to predict the behavior of impact-protection materials and to develop new, improved materials.

"The key to developing materials with better impact resistance is to understand deformation and failure behavior at the tip of an advancing projectile," Shockey says. "We need to be able to see that."

The work was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office.


Related articles
http://www.gizmag.com/boron-t-shirt-body-armor/14907/

http://www.gizmag.com/liquid-armor/15771/

[srkruzich]

Interesting warph.
I wonder if it can absorb the.500 effectively enough so that it doesn't turn the innards into puree.  I know that the body armour today can stop a .500 but the mass and velocity is a guarantee the target will not get up anytime soon if at all.

The other thing will it stop solid core ammo? Not too hard to turn your average every day ammo into penetrating ammo with hardware store supplies!

[Warph]

                 


....So what is perceived as cool, when it's really the opposite?

- Bureaucrats spawned in teacher's lounges chiseling at your income, to the cheers of a pliant media
- Creating dependency as a romantic lifestyle, independent of achievement
- Ridiculing women, minorities, and gays who reject the culture of dependency
- Fake work that doesn't require building, moving or doing things. In 2008, a community organizer beat a war hero who spent years in a prison camp. Apparently that's cool.
- Movements that reject American values in favor of American guilt (Occupy)
- Anti-Americanism as a needy appeasement to our international adversaries
- Hero worship of celebrities based on artificial edginess (Johnny Depp is not really a pirate)
- Destroying things. Did Pete Townsend ever think of the maid as he trashed his 25th hotel room?
- Victimhood. The elevation of the David and Goliath myth as a universal storyboard dictating that evil can be good, as long as it's smaller than the good. If America was a house, the left would root for the termites.
- Code words. Language that aptly describes things is uncool. However, euphemisms created to avoid hurting the feelings of our adversaries is not. Hence, Ft. Hood terror is workplace violence. Which, I guess that makes Hurricane Sandy a pool party.
- Talking about your identity. If you're gay, bisexual, transgendered, Raelian, or Eskimo, chances are I'll hear about it. If you are less proud of what you do than who you do then you're considered cool.

Where does the tyranny of the cool begin?

As soon as you realize being cool pays off. When you're a kid. In classrooms across the country, kids are learning to gain favor from teachers and peers, and the elevation of "pretend-caring" as a function of cool gets you grades and girls. Stretch this over a decade or so into college, and it's no wonder the streets are flooded with beta males who talk from the back of their throats as they bowl in Brooklyn — ironically.

The cool's hold on society's throat is seen everywhere. Remember that Jon Stewart rally a few years back; that was a celebration of the cool over the uncool (the uncool being the Glenn Beck rallies, the Tea Party, FNC watchers). The cool owns the film industry, as villains take on intriguing personalities, while anyone with a blackberry or a briefcase is considered worse than evil — uncool.

Being pro-choice is cool. Speculating too much on what abortion really means — that's way uncool.

It reminds me of my old joke. "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "You'll never know."

Not cool.

Assorted slugs on death row are cool; their victims are uncool — for never really getting over it.

Sometimes coolness can be confusing. Nobody smokes in LA. But they all do in movies. Somehow smoking is cool, only if you're already cool. When you see a truck driver or a postman smoking, the tolerant break out the phony cough. They'd never do that around Brad Pitt.

Being political is cool, as long as it's progressive. Conservatives by nature hate politics and politicians. Liberals love it, because it makes them feel cool. Talk to any liberal friend, and they're running for office when they're running their mouth. "I must tell you about the bake sale we had for the Guatemalan water snake." No you don't, but you will. Shut up.

Immigration as an idea is cool neutral. But discussing the definition of a border? Uncool, dude. Sure, other countries have them (the ones people are fleeing from); but discussing the possibility of an American border is smeared as racist in origin — the ultimate in uncool. I'm probably racist for writing that.

Who pushes the cool? The media, of course, who seeks to portray anything traditional as silly, dorky, and outmoded. The stuff that worked, apparently, is stupid, because it worked. Witness how the media mocked a gentle mess like the Tea Party but embraced the soiled rag of Occupy Wall Street. To the network and newspaper hacks, one was simply way cooler than the other. One reminded them of their parents, the other reminded them of themselves. Without a bath.

Why is this duopoly, the cool vs. the uncool, so important? It won an election. Showbiz beat substance. Style creamed success. This happens in a culture that salivates over youth, glamour, and glibness. Fashion has no use for Mitts.

The funny thing about cool? It's not cool. At all. In fact, what's truly cool is the rebellion against the perceived, predictable rebellion of the cool.

Why aren't conservatives cool? Why are they perceived as intolerant when it's the other side who are truly the hateful ones? It's a fair question.

We have the cool message. It's "Step off." Or, for you old schoolers, "don't tread on me," which applies domestically and internationally. It's not cool to have a government intrude into every aspect of your life, under the guise of "help." The new electorate must learn this, or we are doomed!

[Warph]

Obama epitomizes "uncool"
by Sharon Sebastian 


There is a time in everyone's life when they need to grow up. The President that sits in the White House clings to immature associations and views himself through the "cool" vagaries of youth long gone with every year that passes. Being "cool" is the empty vessel that floats his boat both personally and politically. The maturity that provides the gravitas to deal with America's and the world's problems escape him.



Personalities desperate to remain "cool" are either narcissistic or stunted or both. They yearn for "coolness" long after their expiration date. Barack Obama turned 51 years of age in the White House. It appears nothing is more important to this man, that is half a century old, than remaining "cool." That he perceives himself more "celebrity" than president, explains his need to surround himself with celebs and rappers to confirm his "cool" cred which by now should have lost its patina.



Sure, he prefers daytime talk shows instead of meeting with world leaders while the Middle East is on fire. In the wake of an American Ambassador left mutilated and dead, this sitting president goes on TV to goofily refer to himself as "eye candy," flashing a winning smile that he hopes no one can see behind.



Immature politicians find it is easier to be glib, poke fun and hope to get by on a "cool persona." Leadership in the White House requires maturity and an experienced skill-set to take on serious issues that impact the lives and livelihoods of over 300 million Americans. Unfortunately, this president demonstrates behavior that is not only decidedly "uncool," but damaging to this nation. After the first presidential debate, Obama and his camp were so devastated by Mitt Romney's strong leadership, acumen and vision that they twisted reality. "That was not the real Romney," they decried. Really? Fact is, "the real Obama" deep-sixed his socialist agenda during the debate. Obama would be forced to admit socialism's history of unmitigated failure that cannot compete with free market economics. Compared to Obama's pad-locked past, "the real Romney" is an open book with a proven record of leadership and a solid record of fiscal success as governor of Massachusetts. The Obama that has devastated this nation and buried its middle class is the Obama that Americans have come to know. The one thing that is more "un-cool" than the last four years of Barack Obama, is four more years of Barack Obama.



Under Obama, more people including Hispanics, Blacks and women, have been forced out of the middle class into either part-time work or joblessness. Example is that current unemployment has dipped to 7.8% based on the hiring of what the New York Times cites as 582,000 "involuntary workers" who are forced into PART-TIME jobs leaving Americans still under-employed or unable to find full-time jobs. In a statement, Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney clarified: "This is not what a real recovery looks like. We created fewer jobs in September than in August, and fewer jobs in August than in July, and we've lost over 600,000 manufacturing jobs since President Obama took office." Romney further wrote, "If not for all the people who have simply dropped out of the labor force, the real unemployment rate would be closer to 11 percent." Obama's disastrous jobs record – harsh and deceptively "uncool."



Obama's modus operandi is destructive no matter your race or economic status. By stirring up racial unrest by portraying Blacks as victims in every perceivable way, it turns out that it is Obama who is doing the victimizing.Blacks desperately want to think of him as cool, yet they have been the most damaged. But, Obama always knew they would be first to be severely hurt as his socialist policies moor them to perpetual poverty. After four years of excruciatingly bad economic policies, Obama clearly owns the rampant unemployment among Blacks that stands at over 14%. Young Blacks suffer the most under Obama with 50% unemployed. Futures truncated, hopes dashed, families suffering under Obama is not only callous, it is the epitome of "uncool."



To send our valiant military onto the battlefield with orders not to use their weapon unless the enemy first raises his with deadly intentions not only hamstrings our fighting forces, but is reportedly costing lives. Yet, that is what an inexperienced Commander-in-Chief Obama demands in his politically-correct military Rules of Engagement. Politico reports the following: "American soldiers, Marines and sailors have seen casualty rates more than double when the Obama administration issued new 'Rules of Engagement' that significantly favors the enemy and put our troops in danger. American troops are being killed in Afghanistan where the Obama administration is protecting the enemy in the name of political correctness which is getting our troops killed." ..."[Obama] is ensuring our failure in the one place he said we needed to win." Obama has also promised young Hispanics an alternative path to citizenship if they serve in our military—should they be fortunate enough to survive. Deadly and "uncool."



Truth about ObamaDoesNotCare, formally known as Obamacare, was exposed by New York Times Contributor, Steven Rattner, who worked in Treasury under Obama. Rattner brazenly wrote, "WE need death panels." Though once vehemently denied, Death Panels are real and are a part of Obamacare. They are made up of an Obama staffed panel that puts a price on your survival – no matter your age or the age of a desperately ill child or parent. Rattner goes on to write that: "At the least, the Independent Payment Advisory Board should be allowed to offer changes in services [blocking treatments] and costs." Meaning, number-crunching bureaucrats will decide what medical services you and your family will be allowed, not you or your doctor. You will have nowhere to appeal. Invasive, controlling, deadly and "uncool."



Required by Obamacare, every American will have blood on their hands by paying for abortions via tax payers' dollars. Obama has a stark history of assault on our most innocent. As a state senator, Obama stood on record before the Illinois Senate and adamantly sought not only late-term abortions that allow crushing the head of a living baby, but also strongly advocated that newborns that survived an abortion and are already breathing be left to die in a bin or on a shelf without medical care. Vile, inhumane and unspeakably "uncool."



Obama gives away hundreds of billions of dollars to political cronies, failed green projects, irresponsible unions, and to Middle East infrastructure and mosque restorations while cutting Medicare by billions of dollars and financially strapping Medicaid for our mentally and physically disabled. He has aggressively blocked oil permits and a pipeline that could lead not only to jobs, but energy independence. Spinning his actions as positives—deceptively "uncool."



The Obama campaign put out a series of creepy e-cards. One incredibly irresponsible one encourages young female students to write home to their parents: "Dear Mom, Mitt Romney says he would repeal the Affordable Care Act. So here's a quick question: Can I borrow $18,000 to help pay for my birth control?" The Family Research Center writes that, "If your daughter needs $18,000 worth of birth control, you have far more serious issues to deal with than the cost." At that level of promiscuity, as encouraged by the Obama administration, it is not only "uncool," it is creepy. What's next, e-cards detailing how to deal with the aftermath of venereal disease and shattered self-respect? Immaturity + creepy = 51 year-old Obama and his Liberal pals running your college student's sex life. Uncool to the point of needing a hot shower.



As his party's nominee at a Democratic Convention where half of the delegates shouted down and denied their Creator God, by not addressing or condemning it as President of the United States either at the convention or on the campaign trail, implies consent. Eternally uncool.



One article cannot cover the "uncool" actions by Obama and his cohorts. From betrayals of the middle class, Blacks, and Hispanics to pending U.N. treaties that will usurp America's sovereignty and safety, the list appears endless with more to come [now that] Obama is re-elected. Suggestion to readers. Stand for your values and your country.

[Warph]

          


         


Just how bad is the economy?

Per a joke Jay Leno told last night during his "Tonight Show" monologue, "The economy is so bad MSNBC had to lay off 300 Obama spokesmen."

Rimshot!

And this: "The economy is so bad President Obama sent Susan Rice out to defend it.  That's how bad the economy is."

Another rimshot!

The Obama administration's USDA withheld the latest damning food stamp numbers, surging the most it has in a year to an all-time record high, until after the presidential election, in a not-so-very-veiled attempt to help Obama in his reelection efforts. Now, unemployment jobs claims have also "mysteriously" skyrocketed after the election.

This time the USDA delayed its release nine days past the semi-official deadline, far past the election, and until Friday night to report August foodstamp data.  One glance at the number reveals why: at 47.1 million, this was not only a new all time record, but the monthly increase of 420,947 from July was the biggest monthly increase in one year.  One can see why a reported surge in foodstamps ahead of the elections is something the USDA, and the administration may not have been too keen on disclosing.

Sorry, Pennsylvania and Ohio swing-state voters. Your states were hit the worst with the increase in jobless claims. You were instrumental in helping to reelect the Destroyer in Chief, so enjoy him, enjoy his deliberate, systematic destruction of the coal industry and his feckless leadership for the next four misery-burdened years. .

Story at: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/15/Surprise-Jobless-Claims-Up-Over-75000
From Joel B. Pollack, Breitbart's Big Government:
SURPRISE! JOBLESS CLAIMS UP 78,000 WEEK AFTER ELECTION; PA, OH. WORST HIT