Barack Obama knows how to do one thing: elect Barack Obama to public office. … Obama certainly doesn’t know how to govern effectively; take away a Congress that will rubber-stamp the Democratic agenda and he flails about. He’s so bad at this, in fact, that when confronted with a situation where all he had to do was do nothing to fulfill a campaign promise (the tax cuts) we somehow ended up with a situation where Obama gave in on 98% of those tax cuts and voluntarily signed up to take the blame for the AMT fix. In short: Obama was woefully unprepared for the Presidency, and he hasn’t really spent the last four years trying to catch up. Instead, he goes from situation to situation either trying to recast the problem in ways that he does have some skill in (permanent campaigning for office), or else… flail about on the scene while hitting people’s buttons quickly and/or at random, in the hopes that eventually the laws of probability will allow him to bull on through anyway.

– Hot Air’s Allahpundit

subatomiconsciousness:

and then he kills palpatine ; perfect moment 

This is great.

jxpx777:

beefranck:

Colored Pencils #001 by Pixel Seeker on Flickr.

I think you mean Chromato-American pencils…

n-a-s-a:

The Moon shining over the Chilean Andes.

Credit: ESO/H.H. Heyer 

An Obama-Seinfeld mashup? Too fun to pass up.

miriamparker:

Click on this Google Doodle and fun things will happen. There will be robots and babelfish and noises and joy. (via Google)

2012-13 DSYTHL Squirt Green Champions on Flickr.

I’m so proud of these kids and the hard work they put in this season. It was humbling and amazing to watch them on their journey as a team, bonding and learning to play together.

I told our coach at the beginning of the season that I didn’t care if we lost every game, so long as the kids had fun and all ended up a better hockey player than they began the season. I meant it.

For there to have been across-the-board improvement, AND the team finishing in second place for the regular season, AND going undefeated in a tournament in Colorado, AND winning the league championship to cap it all off: the stuff dreams for your kids are made of.

ruckawriter:

archiemcphee:

“I asked for a Kitchenaid mixer for Christmas, I pointed my wife toward a broken one on eBay so that I could refurbish it, as I was taking it apart I got some inspiration for the paint job and this is what came out of it, still needs a phase board for speed control and two decals to be applied to the sides but I couldn’t wait to share.”

We were really excited when we finally got our very own KitchenAid mixer,  but looking at this awesome customized Boba Fett Mixer, painted by DeviantARTist tommyfilth, we’ve realized that just having and using the mixer isn’t enough. Now we’re scheming to come up with our own way to turn the mighty appliance into an outlet for geeky self-expression.

[via That’s Nerdalicious!]

@hopelessjen needs to see this.

I am insanely jealous of this.

I bow down before your Tolkien nerdery, sir.

chroniclebooks:

It’s World Read Aloud Day! Pledge to read a book to a child today, because… Reading, it’s our only hope.

Download and print your own free PDF of this 11×17 poster here.

Preorder your copy of Vader’s Little Princess, Jeffrey Brown’s new follow-up to the runaway hit, Darth Vader and Son