Argghhh!

We interrupt the all-politico-bashing-all-the-time to bring you a moment of Castle Zen. In context, even . No cat hair for scale, however.

From the KC Star email alert: Obama announces total Iraq troop withdrawal WASHINGTON | President Barack Obama has declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history , announcing that all U.S. troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end. "Longest and most divisive conflicts in US history..." Heh. Clearly the person who wrote *that* line missed the 1960's...

Forgive the rough paraphrase... The world will little note, nor long remember what happened here,

Monty, over at Ace of Spades, lays out pretty well my thinking on the subject. I don't think we're going to find a smoking gun email that lays the IRS issue on the Resolute Desk. It's the culture of government. It didn't have to be explicit. It's just the attitude of the organization. I've been in and around the beast for 55 years, 35 of them cashing checks that originate in the Treasury, even if lately they've been laundered through several other bank accounts before...

It seems that certain politicians are not only enamored of shady fundraisers, they favor shady campaign treasurers, too.But this one bit them, Big Time.And just in time for the campaign season, too:"This appears to be political fraud and theft on a scale I have never seen" in 40 years in politics, said Garry South, a longtime political consultant for Democrats in California. "It looks like she might have removed millions of dollars from Democratic campaign coffers of 2012 and it might...

"If the US Government was a family, they would be making $58,000 a year, they spend $75,000 a year, and are $327,000 in credit card debt. They are currently proposing BIG spending cuts to reduce their spending to $72,000 a year. These are the actual proportions of the federal budget and debt, reduced to a level that we can understand." -- Dave Ramsey ...a family that spends money on their friends, and has the ability to make some of their friends and a whole bunch of strangers give them...

...good times. The aircrew of a UH-1N Iroquois prepares for a sharp tactical maneuver over a forest in southern Alabama, Sept. 19, 2012. The UH-1N belongs to the 6th Special Operations Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman First Class Nigel Sandridge)