Obama's EPA is deliberately trying to destroy your car's engine

Obama's Green Goons are determined to put Karo Syrup into every gas tank in America, and they don't really care how many car engines they destroy while doing it. Their latest ethanol concoction — E15 — is toxic to your engine. Which matters not one whit to the EPA; their regulations say we have to use it, and so use it we will.

We already know that E10, the current ethanol blend, gums up the works in small engines like snowblowers and lawn mowers. Now a new study proves that E15 is like Kryptonite to your car.

Remember too that every ear of corn which ends up in your gas tank is one less box of cereal for a hungry child. The EPA hates children! And cars.

Don't discount that warranty thing either. My wife's Land Rover came with a big bright sticker warning that the use of E15 fuel would void the warranty. But I suppose the EPA isn't interested in hearing about that. They're on a mission to Save The Planet. What's a few (million) ruined cars compared to that?

In 2010 and 2011, EPA gave the green light to use E15 - the 15 percent ethanol gasoline blend - in model-year-2001-and-later cars and some other vehicles. EPA's action was irresponsible. EPA knew E15 vehicle testing was ongoing but decided not to wait for the results. Why did EPA move forward prematurely? Part of the answer may be the need to raise the permissible concentration level of ethanol so that greater volumes could be used, as required by the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. Most gasoline sold today is an E10 blend, but rising volume requirements under the law can't be met much longer without going to higher blends.

Perhaps this is their master plan to force people into buying a Electric Edsel Chevy Volt from Government Motors? Because if you were trying to turn every gasoline-powered car in America into scrap metal, mandating E15 would be the perfect way to accomplish that.

UPDATE 02 Feb 2013 15:38:
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ChiComm hackers infiltrated The New York Times? Why, aren't they both on the same team?

Really, all they had to do was ask and Pinch Sulzberger would've given 'em the passwords!

But apparently for the last 4 months, Chinese hackers have been surreptitiously rattling around inside computers at The Peoples Daily The New York Times.

Honestly, how would we even be able to tell if communist hackers had completely taken the paper over? eHarmony doesn't match like interests this well.

No wonder Thomas Friedman seemed especially chipper at the office Kwanzaa party!

UPDATE 01 Feb 2013 09:25:
Many thanks to Doug Ross for the link!

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Unexpectedly! 4th quarter GDP cratered after Obama's re-election

C'mon now, what did anyone really expect when they re-elected the guy whose ecomomic policy is "destroy America." The Food Stamp president and his magic unicorns still haven't fixed our economy. In fact, it's gone into a nosedive. And it doesn't look like he's in any kind of hurry to change course either.

What's their plan? More of the same!

Federal Reserve policy makers, meeting today, are projected to press on with plans to pump money into the world's largest economy.

Because, to their credit, printing money like it's going out of style has worked so gosh-darned well for what, going on four years now?

Don't blame me, I voted for the capitalist.

UPDATE 31 Jan 2013 09:01:
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The best friend our enemies could have: Genghis John Kerry, Secretary of State

By a vote of 94 to 3, Senator John Kerry is now Secretary of State John Kerry.

Republican senators Jim Inhofe, Ted Cruz, and John Cornyn were the only dissenting voters, with Cornyn's spokesman offering that the senator couldn't go along with the vote because "Sen. Kerry has a long history of liberal positions that are not consistent with a majority of Texans."

Substitute "Americans" for "Texans" Senator. Don't be shy. We applaud your principled stand.

As for Mr. Kerry and his fabled magic hat, I for one can't wait for him to spend Christmas in Cambodia. Again! And should he find occasion to meet with one of our current enemies, say Iran, at least he'll have permission to be there. But who knows what he'll actually say, especially if he brings Jane Fonda along for old times sake.

But I suspect that this time it's the Israelis who will play the part of Genghis Khan.

UPDATE 30 Jan 2013 08:47:
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Time Warner Cable bans gun ads, will still air all the violent movies Hollywood can churn out

Wanna buy an ad on Time Warner Cable? It'd better not have any scary guns in it!

Airing right now on Time Warner channel 36, Goodfellas. Nope, no scary guns in that movie, nosirree! On channel 46? A CSI: Miami and Criminal Minds mini-marathon. Good thing there are no scary guns in shows like that either. Later today, when the kids get home from school, they can settle down to watch Law and Order on channel 16, or screen A Bronx Tale.

Curiously, Alex Dudley's sanctimonious preening doesn't extend to the TV programming his company chooses to air, complete with "visual images of weapons pointed at people."

Do you suppose WCBS 880 reporter Monica Miller "forgot" to ask him about that? Of course she did! I think that's called "journalism." Isn't it?

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Dear Leader lays off his Jobs Council. The election is over, he kept his job, how about you?

The economy must be really humming along now, eh? Dear Leader sacked his vaunted Jobs Council.

Now that the election is behind him President Obama no longer needs to appear to be concerned about job creation in the United States. So he's officially killing his jobs council.

Because, who needs a job when there's so much Free Stuff available just for the asking! Food Stamps for everybody! And it's past his tee time anyway.

Really. He's not even going to pretend to care about the economy anymore. The second term is All Progressivism All The Time! Gun Control! Amnesty! Tax The Rich! Nuclear Disarmament! Sharia Law! Unions! HotColdWetDry!

Are you hungry and unemployed? Eat your "Obama - Biden" bumper sticker. And don't blame me, I voted for Romney.

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Sandy aid hasn't passed the Senate yet? Where's the Chris Christie temper tantrum this time?

Remember when Chris Christie lambasted John Boehner for holding up his precious Hurricane Sandy relief bill? Remember when it had to be Passed Right Away Or Else?

Yeah, me neither.

Here it is, four weeks later, and that very same aid bill is languishing in the U.S. Senate.

So is Christie slamming Harry Reid? Why, no. No, he isn't.

Imagine that.

I guess people aren't still freezing in the dark. Oh, wait…

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Hey, why not create millions of new welfare recipient Democrat voters overnight?

When John McCain and Chuck Schumer both endorse an idea, you know it's gotta be bad. But Marco Rubio too? What are they smoking in the GOP cloakroom these days?

Marco Rubio leading the RINO Squish Amnesty Parade? After so many conservatives personally vouched for Marco's bona fides as The Real Deal?

"Comprehensive Immigration Reform" is not a winning issue for the GOP. The Democrats own the La Raza vote. Any "path to citizenship" will be sold by the media as their triumph, and spun as a total Republican defeat. You'd have to be an idiot (or a U.S. Senator, but I repeat myself) to believe otherwise.

But if your aim is to put millions more guaranteed Democrat voters on the welfare rolls, well then Rubio's plan is just the ticket.

As a nation, why do we want to bring in people to collect welfare, food stamps, end up on disability and generally take more than they give? Yes, that's not every illegal immigrant, but it is a good description of the majority of illegals and we're being told we essentially have a choice between "all" or "none." Again, there's nothing wrong with any honest job, including picking oranges and strawberries, but as a nation we'd benefit much more from bringing in scientists, engineers, and computer programmers than people who bring nothing of significance to the table other than a willingness to break the law in order to do manual labor at below market labor rates.

Here's my idea of immigration reform. Enact Mexico's immigration law. Word for word. If it's a good enough system for how they can treat us, why can't we use it as a blueprint for how we treat them?

Oh yeah, because people who cry "racism" can't be racists themselves. Sorry, I forgot.

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Starting today retailers can charge you an additional 4% credit card "checkout fee"

Get ready to pay 4% more for your purchases if you use a credit card in New Jersey and 39 other states. Starting today retailers are permitted to add a "checkout fee" to your bill, to cover the merchant fees banks charge them on credit card transactions.

And who do we get to blame for this? Why the Dodd-Frank financial regulation reform law, of course. It's one of the many "consumer friendly" provisions instituted by Senator Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Board in response to a class-action lawsuit recently settled by Visa and MasterCard.

Here's the best part:

Only a lawyer could spin a surcharge as a "discount." And only our "looking out for the little guy" betters in Washington, D.C. could enact a pro-consumer law that ends up costing us money.

It will be interesting to see how this new surcharge plays out.

Smaller stores are typically charged higher merchant fees, so it stands to reason they'll be the ones levying the new checkout fee. Yet a major lament, especially around Caldwell and other small towns, is that people don't "shop local." Jacking up prices by 4% probably won't encourage folks to stop driving to the mall.

Or, everyone large and small will charge 4% more to credit card users. That seems more likely to me. All it'll take is one airline or hotel chain to start doing it and the rest will follow suit. It's not like you can easily pay cash for that kind of stuff anyway. So you're stuck.

Want a little good news? There are 10 states which outlaw credit card surcharges — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas. As for everybody else, it's time to relearn the old adage: Cash is King.

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My heart bleeds: Senators whine "No Budget, No Pay" is unfair to their family budgets

Somebody call the Waambulance!

Instapundit: "To be fair, they charge extra for XXXL."

Ouch!

I mean seriously, you hosers screw with our livelihoods every day. It's about damn time we returned the favor.

"As much as I love my job and my constituents, I have bills to pay," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).

Gee Lisa, if you really cared about your "constituents" you wouldn't have screwed over Joe Miller. You remember Joe Miller, don't you Lisa? He's the guy your constituents chose fair and square in the primary election. Maybe you can take out a mortgage on your big ego to pay some of those bills.

Oh, and here's a thought. Do your job.

"As a non-millionaire senator, I am certainly in a different spot than someone who is independently wealthy," Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said.

Debbie's got the time to cavort with Rachel Ray. And she's a central planner on a scale that would make the old Soviet Politburo proud. Which I suppose doesn't leave her a heckuva lot of room in her schedule to worry about trivial stuff like the National Budget.

Hunger focuses the mind Debbie. Take it from the residents of Detroit, where 50 years of Democrat rule has pretty much ensured everyone there is hungry. Except for the Ruling Class, of course. You guys always manage to take care of yourselves first.

Think of what John Boehner and the House did as leveling the playing field.

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Acting Governor In Waiting For Life Dick Codey won't try for the real thing

The day New Jersey instituted the position of Lieutenant Governor pretty much sealed Dick Codey's political fate. As former president of the State Senate, he was next in the gubernatorial succession line. "Acting Governor" was the state constitution's term. And there was Dick, always waiting in the wings, until the day Jim I-am-a-gay-American McGreevey dumped his job, wife, and kids for a boy-toy back in 2004. Codey milked that fiasco for all it was worth, and he's been flirting with a run for the governor's mansion ever since.

But now, with Chris Christie's popularity riding higher than ever, Dick sees the writing on the wall — running for governor is a lot harder than falling into the job. And so he'll sit this election out.

After months of speculation, state Sen. Richard Codey told The Star-Ledger this morning he will not run for governor.

Which is actually bad news for me and the town of Caldwell. Why? Because Codey recently moved his funeral home business here, and he often spends his days hanging around town hall sniffing for trouble and sticking his nose into township affairs. All in the name of trying to "help," of course. As in, helping to oust the current Republican mayor and council so he can replace them with Democrats loyal to him.

So yeah, it's fun to watch the mighty fall. But it sucks when they fall on me.

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Hey smokers, has anyone told you about Obamacare's 50% insurance premium surcharge yet?

Starting next year health insurers can charge smokers 50% more.

And if you thought that the health insurance tax credit Dear Leader promised you would help here, you're sadly mistaken.

So let's see. Health insurance premiums are already doubling. And a 50% surcharge on smokers really puts the affordable into the Affordable Care Act! Aren't you glad they passed the bill so you could find out what's in it?

UPDATE 25 Jan 2013 22:15:
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Sandy victims still freezing their butts off in Obamaville

Hey, remember all the folks who lost their homes in Hurricane Sandy? Yeah, I'm lookin' at you Barack Obama. You promised them "assistance." And you too, Chris Christie. You said you'd cut red tape.

So why are thousands of people still freezing their butts off in the dark?

There are more than 2,600 homes on Staten Island still without heat. Three months after the hurricane hit. And long after Dear Leader and his celebutard buddies packed up their "relief" vans and moved on to the next cause. Gun Control is where it's at now! If you're still freezing in the dark, they don't have time for you anymore. Unless you need a gun to protect what's left of your house. Then they'll say "no."

Remeber when George Bush was vilified for sending a bunch of trailers to New Orleans after Katrina? Yeah, I suspect Staten Island would welcome a few of those trailers right about now. Too bad Dear Leader sold 'em for scrap.

Like I've said all along: we're on our own up here. If you rely on the government to come to your rescue, you'll be one lonely dude. Thank God for guys like Mr. Hodge. Although, given Dear Leader's track record, it's only a matter of time before the EPA shows up to put a stop to the space heater give-aways. After all, those things contribute to Global Warming.

UPDATE 24 Jan 2013 21:05:
So, right after posting this I go onto Facebook and what do I see?

Is FEMA the best, or what?

UPDATE 25 Jan 2013 08:48:
Many thanks to Doug Ross for the link!

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An anti-Obama dissident is banished from Washington, D.C. What is Dear Leader afraid of?

Rives Miller Grogan is a pain in the ass.

That's not illegal. Until now.

Banished. From the entire city of Washington, D.C. For exercising his First Amendment rights.

Who wants to bet me that Mr. Grogan would be in the same boat if he'd been agitating for gay "marriage." Or gun control?

I recall a high school history teacher describing a Soviet practice that declared dissidents "Minus 1", meaning they couldn't enter the city of Moscow. Or "Minus 10", which banished them from the 10 largest cities in Stalin's Workers' Paradise. "Minus 50" effectively gave you a one-way ticket to Siberia.

Obama's Amerika has it's first "Minus 1" dissident.

I'd like to imagine that if George Bush had declared a protester, Cindy Sheehan perhaps?, as persona non grata in our nation's capital it just might have made the evening news.

But chances are you've never heard of Rives Miller Grogan. Until you wake up one day and discover that he's your cell mate. Don't say I didn't warn you.

UPDATE 24 Jan 2013 10:02:
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UPDATE 24 Jan 2013 12:17:
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NJ Democrats plan an end run around the First Amendment and Citizens United decision

New Jersey Democrats are selling "transparency." Sometimes. Mostly when it comes to corporate political donations to candidates and causes they don't like. So they've concocted a scheme which would force all businesses in the state to report their political donations to the government.

Pretty much every company applies for tax breaks or state grants. Who doesn't appeal their property taxes at some point? And when you do, you'll have to wear your political affiliations on your sleeve.

Why do you suppose they want this information? To decide whether or not you're worthy, of course.

Assemblywoman Linda Stender, D-Union, the committee chairwoman, said the bill had particular focus on incentives from the Economic Development Authority, and would require the authority to look at the official disclosures as part of its considerations.

Contribute to the "wrong" candidates or causes, and no grants or tax breaks for you! In the interest of transparency.

I gotta wonder though, why no transparency for unions? Or non-profits? They get tax breaks and incentives too, don't they? Oh, but they're safely in the Progressive camp. So there's no need to scrutinize their political donations! Because why would they contribute to the "wrong" causes!

Yeah, the Democrats are so transparent, aren't they?

UPDATE 23 Jan 2013 16:43:
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UPDATE 24 Jan 2013 09:14:
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This just in... Hip Hop performer Beyonce is changing her name to Milli Vanilli

A fake National Anthem for a fake coronation.

Beyonce Knowle's flawless performance of "The Star Spangled Banner" at the inauguration was entirely lip-synched, Page Six has confirmed. A rep for the United States Marine Band revealed that she decided to perform to a pre-recorded track at the last minute.

I'm not sure how "flawless performance" and lip-sync go hand-in-hand, but then I'm just a blogger and not an Important Main Stream Media Obamabot Cheerleader Journalist.

It figures though. Dear Leader's potemkin presidency is personified by an artificial star's inability to honor the country we all know they both loathe.

And of course from now on anyone who actually sings the National Anthem will immediately be labeled a racist by the MSNBC idiot patrol.

It would appear we've finally reached the "twilight's last gleaming" part of our nation's destiny.

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40 years after Roe v Wade an aging feminist laments there aren't enough abortions

Can we at least agree that abortion results in a dead baby?

Apparently not.

Today is the 3^rd annual "Ask Them What They Mean When They Say 'Choice' Day." Each year pro-life heroine Jill Stanek organizes this rebuttal to NARAL's "Blog For Choice Day" (put on because, hey "celebrating" abortion is liberating, or something.) It's a way for us to highlight the inherent contradiction in the feminist mythology. Abortion doesn't make you un-pregnant. Abortion makes you the mother of a dead baby.

Of course, pro-choicers don't like to talk about that part. They're all about flowers and clouds and privacy (although I wonder just how "private" your privacy really is when you're dancing around town in an I-had-an-abortion T-shirt).

So Jill's idea is to get them talking about what "choice" really means. To show them what "choice" really means. If they'll listen.

We have our work cut out for us.

Joanne Bamberger, aka PunditMom, joined the 9Rules politics community a few years after I did. And it turns out that no one could be more "pro-choice." In fact, she's put up two posts this week already "celebrating" the 40^th anniversary of Roe v Wade, both lamenting that there aren't enough abortions being performed.

It's the ultimate feminist sacrament, abortion is. Apparently you aren't really a woman until you've vacuumed at least one child out of your womb. And Ms. Bamberger is determined to ensure that every women in America is afforded the joy of watching that unwanted clump of cells splosh into the slops bucket.

In her eyes, any attempt to prevent an abortion, any suggestion that a woman might want to reconsider her decision and keep her child, any chance that a woman might want to treat having an abortion as something more important than having a hangnail removed, well that's completely unacceptable.

With 40 years of judicial precedent that has incrementally rolled back abortion access to work with and a panel of Supreme Court justices who appear more willing than ever to re-open an issue that is considered settled law, women's reproductive rights have never been more vulnerable. And thanks to a handful of state legislators determined to make their political names and reputations by advancing legislation meant to crumble those protections offered by Roe, we may fragment into a new Confederacy of pro- and anti-women's health states sooner than anyone could have imagined. To prevent that from happening, we need to move away from just defending a woman's right to choose and back to an aggressive stance where we once more demand that bodily autonomy belong to all woman, regardless of their race or class.

Wow. How much sophistry can she cram into one paragraph? A new Confederacy! Brought to you by men hoping to make abortion a political issue! As if the most pro-abortion president in history wasn't just re-elected by politicizing vaginas and attacking the Catholic Church as "anti-woman."

Planned Parenthood performed more abortions than ever last year. 55,000,000 to date. To Ms. Bamberger, that's merely a good start.

Now I could do as Jill suggests and go on over to PunditMom's site to ask her about "choice." But Ms. Bamberger has admonished me against commenting there. She doesn't like my questions. And I respect her wishes. It's a free country. She's entitled to cocoon herself within the confines of her narrow little mind.

But hey, I've got a blog. And pixels are free. So I've put my comments here. If Ms. Bamberger or any of her ya-ya sisters want to come on in and explain "choice," I'll listen. And I'll suggest they watch The Silent Scream.

Because that's what feminists mean when they say "choice."

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They put 47 million Americans on food stamps, no naturally Dear Leader and Moochelle pig out on a 3,000 calorie inaugural luncheon

You can't destroy America on an empty stomach.

Let 'em eat cake!

The first course is lobster tails in a New England clam chowder sauce. The second course is bison with a red potato horseradish cake. The dessert is apple pie with sour cream ice cream.

Although Obamacare requires restaurants to post calorie counts for all their menu items, Dear Leader's inaugural luncheon got a pass. It's good to be king!

Of course, if you tried to serve this lunch in your local high school cafeteria, Moochelle would have you arrested.

And if you tried to serve it to the homeless in New York City, Obama surrogate Nurse Bloomberg would force you to dump it in the trash, because you forgot to put a label on each plate noting the transfat contents therein.

As for the 47 million Americans on food stamps, many of whom will wonder tonight where their next meal is coming from (hint: not the White House!), they nonetheless voted for this horse's ass. Serves 'em right.

UPDATE 22 Jan 2013 10:17:
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Phil Mickelson may give up golf thanks to Obama's tax policies

Nothing says "give up" quite like a 62% tax rate. And so golfer Phil Mickelson is thinking about calling it quits. Why work hard when you only get to keep 38 cents of every dollar you earn?

Once football is over Mr. LC likes watching golf. Well, thanks to the big taxing democrats there may be one less American golfer for him to root for. Phil Mickelson says that he needs to re-think his career thanks to the tax code. Not only is he a victim of the federal tax code, but also California's. The man's been through a lot in the past few years, who can blame him for thinking it's a waste of time to keep it all up?

Not me. You'd have to be an idiot to want to live in California. And Phil Mickelson is no idiot.

My liberal friends like to pretend that people don't make life and career decisions based on tax policy. Tell that to Phil Mickelson, and all the other folks who are fleeing California. Sorry golf fans, John Galt called, and the PGA Tour's favorite lefty is no leftist. Phil Mickelson values freedom over indentured servitude.

You da man, Phil.

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Abortion: it's not about "choice," it's about selfishness

Nothing saddens me more than to see well-intentioned people championing the "right" to abortion. Because they have to know what it is. They have to know it's murder. And they don't care. I don't want to believe that proponents of abortion are evil. But I can't help but notice that they turn a blind eye to evil.

Abortion should be "safe." That's their refrain. Safe for whom? Certainly not the child. Almost every abortion results in a dead baby. I imagine if you could ask the baby about that, she'd say it wasn't particularly "safe."

Child molesters have more "rights" today than an unborn baby. Our society has all but disavowed the death penalty as "cruel and unusual." Except for abortion, of course. One death penalty is a Constitutional right. It's a contradiction that is perhaps lost on Roe's cheerleaders.

So here's today's Star-Ledger — Happy Anniversary, Roe.

Hey, let's make a cake! And blow up some balloons too. Throw a party, to celebrate 40 years of legalized infanticide. It's the ultimate in feminist nirvanna, the mothers who eat their young. "Mothers" who are taught to live for themselves, and to ignore the need to nurture future generations. They call it "choice." In reality, it's selfishness.

Bearing a child is the ultimate act of love. And of sacrifice. But our hedonistic society eschews personal sacrifice. And so a woman can discard her inconvenient child in the morning and go out dancing at night.

Or can she?

Read the whole thing. Her evidence suggests that post-abortion trauma is very real.

That's feminism's Big Lie. That abortion is just a "choice." Like what to have for dessert. Choose cake, or pudding. Choose motherhood, or not.

Who will weep for the children? Who will mourn the 55,000,000 dead?

I will. And if you don't have a heart of stone, so will you.

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Arrest all the NY cops! Andy Cuomo "forgot" to exempt them from his gun ban!

Are the police above the law? Do they get the "David Gregory Exemption?" Because in his haste to Do Something New York Governor Andrew Cuomo forgot to exempt them from his draconian new gun control law. That's right, if a cop is carrying more than 7 bullets, he's breaking the law.

Even better, if a cop brings a gun to a school, he's breaking the law.

Arrest the cops! I'd pay to see that. And to see the egg on the faces of the stupid liberals who created this mess in the first place. Knee-jerk liberal idiots, turning everyone into felons — even the police!. For the children of course.

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Even in Blue Jersey gun permit applications are soaring

Barack Obama, gun salesman of the millenium!

Here in the bluest of blue states, where lily-livered liberals recoil in horror at the sight of nerf guns, more people than ever are applying for firearms permits.

It takes months before the government will, maybe, graciously allow you to exercise your Constitutional rights. And Dear Leader wants to make it even harder. Somehow though I think his plan might be backfiring.

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OK, now it's fascism: Dear Leader deputizes doctors to report on gun ownership

Your doctor is spying on you. And depending on what you tell him, he'll rat you out to Dear Leader faster than you can say "Second Amendment." Because it's now his duty to ask you about your guns.

Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker started us down the fascist trail by offering a $1,000 bounty to folks who turn in their gun-owning neighbors. Dear Leader took it one better. Your doctor can't tell you if your teenage daughter asks for birth control pills. But now he's required to tell the feds if you own a gun.

Remember when asking librarians to report "suspicious" reference requests was tantamount to detonating the pillars of our civilization? Me neither.

Yeah, so much for that patient confidentialty and "right to privacy" thing. It only applies when it doesn't conflict with progressive groupthink. Like I said, fascism.

Because the goal isn't to prevent the next school shooting. The goal is to disarm the populace. So he can control us.

I wonder if he'll make us build our own camps.

UPDATE 17 Jan 2013 09:03:
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And, just to hammer my point home, here's some graphics that are making the rounds on Facebook.

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Media deathwatch alert: Star-Ledger announces massive layoffs, subscription price hike

Nothing says "winning business model" quite like providing less service at a higher price. On the other hand, it doesn't take an army of highly paid reporters to reprint DNC press releases as "news."

Yeah, about that declining readership thing. Stop raising the price! The Ledger just sent out a letter announcing a home delivery price increase to $7 per week. A dollar a day. For left-wing propaganda I could get from DailyKos for free. And sports. Is it worth $365 a year to read about the Jets while I'm on the can? I'm thinking "no".

Which is exactly what Vezza said last time, in 2008, when he axed 304 people, including 151 from the newsroom.

But I'll bet he's keeping senior editor Tom Moran. Gotta continue spewing that gay-marriage-cheering, gun-controlling, abortion-on-demand, tax-the-rich agitprop!

You know, thinking about their declining revenues, maybe Vezza should implement Moran's tax ideas as a pricing model. Wealthy towns should pay more for the paper! Sell the Ledger for a quarter in Newark, but charge $10 in Alpine. It's not like they can't "afford it," right? Practice what you guys preach. I'm sure the dollars will really roll in.

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Obama to announce gun ban while surrounded by children. And guns.

Everywhere Obama goes, he's surrounded by guns. Lots and lots of guns. The Secret Service makes sure that he's well-protected. With guns.

Tomorrow he's going to announce that you and I won't be allowed to have guns anymore. Ever. Maybe he needs more guns and that's why he's taking ours? He did recently sign an order granting himself and his entire family the right to armed security for life. They'll probably have to use a lot of guns for that.

Oh, did I mention that he'll also be surrounded by props children while making this announcement?

Fox is reporting that this gun ban will be demagogued announced as Dear Leader Obama is surrounded by sweet-faced props youngsters.

Sweet innocent children. Telling you why you can't have guns. While they're protected by guns. Temporarily, anyway. When they leave the sanctuary of the White House though, no more guns! Except for the criminals of course. The criminals always have guns.

And what happens when the criminals figure out that no one else but them has guns?

Remember victims voters — when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

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Obamabot NJ college students shocked to learn the truth about their Obamacare premiums

From the "sucks to be you" file:

Hey, that individual mandate's a bitch, ain't it?

The poor dears. They rallied for Obama. The believed his mendacity. They never bothered to learn the sad truth — exhorbitant premiums for young people isn't a bug, it's a feature. Using the young and healthy to subsidize the sick and elderly is a central tenet of Obamacare's Marxist mandate. From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

You've got the ability. Geezers got the need. Pay up suckas.

UPDATE 16 Jan 2013 09:55:
Linked by Doug Ross. Thanks!

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Obama: Budget? We ain't got no budget. We don't need no budget! I don't have to show you any stinkin' budget!

Once again, the Obama White House fails to produce a budget on time.

But trust him, he'll just keep borrowing and spending and everything will be totally hunky-dory. Really. Because asking Dear Leader to follow the law is like holding a gun to his head. Or something.

And besides, if he submits a budget, those evil Rethuglicans will use it against him!

How dare the Republicans play politics with our nation's financial system! Only Democrats are allowed to do that.

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Another Obamacare oops: Electronic medical records add to costs rather than reducing them

As surely as the sun will rise in the east, Obamacare's "cost cutting" promises will come up short. Converting every doctor's office in the known universe to electronic medical records was supposed to save us $81 billion a year. At least that was the theory. Reality? Not even close.

And lest you think I'm parrotting some Right Wing Rag, the link above goes to Pravda The New York Times. You know, the Official Media Outlet of the Obama Administration, where they print all the news that's approved by the DNC.

Wanna guess who paid for that overly optimistic RAND report?

Did you say "the electronic medical records industry?" You did? Bingo!

RAND's 2005 report was paid for by a group of companies, including General Electric and Cerner Corporation, that have profited by developing and selling electronic records systems to hospitals and physician practices. Cerner's revenue has nearly tripled since the report was released, to a projected $3 billion in 2013, from $1 billion in 2005.

Ain't crony capitalism grand?

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Bad Flu, Bad Flu, Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when it comes for you?

It's flu season. Cue the media hysteria!

Influenza is rampant across the nation, and New Jersey is smack in the middle of what local physicians are calling an epidemic.

Phew, for a minute there I thought it was a pandemic.

Eighteen children have died! Why hasn't Joe Biden convened a White House task force yet? I demand a sensible germ control program!

Got that? Worst. Flu. Ever.

Better hide in a cave until it blows over.

OK, sarcasm aside, yes we should take the flu seriously. But overwrought hysteria just scares the children. Last night Sophie went out with a friend, and her friend's mom was glued to the radio reports, hushing the two girls when they wanted to talk about something other than Death!, Doom!, and Infection Vectors!

Scared the crap out of her, she did. Especially the tearful, wrenching admonition to Get A Flu Shot Before You Die! Um, OK. Please don't terrify the children. Thanks. Really. Sophie was pretty upset. "Am I going to die, Daddy?" No, Sophie. We'll get you a flu shot. "Thanks Daddy! Can I have a hug?" Sure!

Adding to the fun, it's a new flu.

This winter has been worse than previous years because of the type of influenza. It's a new strain (H3N2) and few people have built up an immunity.

Uh, oh.

Physicians say it is not too late to get a flu a shot and this year's vaccine is well suited to the strain they are seeing. The state's Department of Health says the best way to combat the problem is by getting the flu vaccine, and offers a Find a Flu Shot Locator on their website.

Whew. There's a flu shot clinic right across the street. I'm saved!

The rest of you. Feel free to panic. Just not in front of my daughter, OK?

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Chris Christie is now more popular with Democrats than Republicans

You reap what you sow. Chris Christie sucked up to Dear Leader during Hurricane Sandy, then bashed House Speaker John Boehner, and now the Democrats are swooning over the big guy.

Is there an acronym for "Democrat in all but name only"? Because if Chris Christie is supposed to be some kind of standard-bearer for the GOP, well, the GOP is doomed.

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The annual legacy of Planned Parenthood: 333,964 dead. That's 12,844 Sandy Hooks.

The same people calling for restricting Second Amendment rights have no qualms with celebrating the charnal houses of Planned Parenthood. Feminism is a religion, and abortion is its sacrament.

It's the equivalent of a Sandy Hook massacre every 41 minutes.

You disagree? Then you just might be a liberal. Tell me, if "choice" is so sacrosanct, why can't I "choose" to drink a 32oz soda in NYC? Or eat fois gras in California? Or wear a seal fur coat?

Because baby seals are more important than baby humans, that's why. Right? Go ahead, tell me how baby seals are worth protecting but your own species, your own flesh and blood, isn't! And Big Gulps are Bad. Not as bad as Sopher Clamps, but Mike Bloomberg wouldn't dare ban the tools of the abortionist. Ban AR-15s instead!

You create a culture which devalues life. That says life is not worth protecting. Where the unborn are disposable. And children are an inconvenience.

Then you wonder why a guy walks into an elementary school and opens fire.

Here's a thought. He learned everything he needed to know about respecting life from Cecile Richards and her henchwomen at Planned Parenthood.

UPDATE 09 Jan 2013 14:40:
Linked at Maggie's Notebook. Thanks!

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These are the people teaching your children: "Kill the rich", said the union president

Indoctrination. There's no other word to adequately describe what the public schools do to our children. Day after day, they indoctrinate impressionable young minds into the cult of Progressivism. And we let them. Because they smile and nod and assure us how noble and benevolent they are.

But once in a while the mask slips.

"Kill the rich." So you can take their money. Because apparently, and this is how insidious the progressive worldview really is, you can't "legislate their riches away from them."

Working to get rich? That thought doesn't enter their puny little minds. Bill Gates is evil because he got rich. W.E.B. DuBois is a hero, because he embraced communism and denounced capitalism.

Yes, that's what they're teaching your kids.

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Do these platinum-iridium cylinders make my kilogram look fat?

When is a kilogram not a kilogram? When it puts on weight while hanging out in the lab!

From the Stuff That Makes You Go Hmmm Once You Find Out About It File — there are about 40 of these platinum-iridium cylinders, which were created in 1875, and distributed to countries who signed on to the Convention of the Meter. The problem is, over time the cylinders became slightly different due to disparities in how they're handled and cleaned.

To clean them, a skilled technician will rub the cylinders with chamois leather dipped in alcohol. But because every country cleans their kilograms differently and at different times, each kilogram in the world is off by a different, unknown amount.

To solve the cleaning problem scientists developed a nifty new gadget that uses ozone and ultraviolet light to really get those cylinders shiny and bright. It also has the added bonus of providing a uniform cleaning procedure, so the fundamental unit of mass could soon be more consistent.

Long-term though the world needs to get away from defining the kilogram based on what is essentially a glorified beer can. What happens if the cleaning guy drops it? You can't really order a new one from Amazon...

One possibility is to use a fundamental law of nature instead. A precision electromagnetic device could be created to produce a uniform amount of force, from which mass can then be calculated. Of course adopting such a procedure will entail years of international negotiations so we're pretty much stuck for now.

So… The next time your scale says you've packed on a few pounds, you can probably get away with blaming it on "inconsistencies" in the international definition of a kilogram. I mean, if Real Scientists say they aren't sure, how can that el-cheapo bathroom scale possibly be right!

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Barack Hussein Obama, President For Life?

Dear God, you mean this isn't a joke?

Kinda makes you see all this "gun control" hoopla in a new light, doesn't it?

I mean, if conservatives are somehow no longer "armed to the teeth," well…

…Hello President For Life!

That's crazy talk? Yeah? Says who! Mike Bloomberg did it in NYC, and he's not half the narcissistic megalomaniac Barack Obama is. There was no army of "Bloombergbots" ready to rumble for his cause either. But faster than you could say "term limits," there was Mayor Mike, "re-elected" to a third term.

So, do you like the 22nd Amendment? Then you're a racist. Only a racist would deny the First Black President his due. In fact, you're a racist if you think he even needs to go through the charade of another election. You know that no one but a racist would vote against him, and you're not really a racist, are you?

Don't worry, they have camps to help you get over that. I'm the guy in the 3rd cell on the right.

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Who won the 2012 Zilla Award for Best New Jersey Blog? I did! I did!

And for the second year in a row too!

Oh yeah, I am the man!

Thanks Zilla, when it comes to Awesomeness In The Dextrosphere, you are the awesome-est! I'm honored to be listed in such good company. And I owe it all to you guys, my loyal fans, who keep me honest and put up with my crazyness day after day. You're cheaper than therapy, and whole lot more fun too!

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Memo from HR: Yes, your paycheck is smaller. No, it's not a mistake.

A friend forwarded this memo from his HR department:

Apparently a lot of people were complaining about their paychecks being unexpectedly smaller.

Here's the explanation from ADP:

The reduced 4.2% rate for employee Social Security taxes that was in effect for 2011 and 2012 has expired. The employee Social Security tax rate will return to 6.2% for 2013 wages up to the taxable wage limit of $113,700. Consequently, employees' net pay under the taxable wage limit will decrease accordingly. The maximum Social Security tax that an employee would pay will be $7,049.40 for 2013.

And as it turns out, workers making $30,000 will take a bigger hit on their pay than those earning $500,000!

Silly Obama voter, you believed Dear Leader when he said he gave you a tax cut.

Sucks to be you!

UPDATE 05 Jan 2013 11:24:
Linked by Doug Ross. Thanks!

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Another Obama Green Jobs success story: Delaware taxpayers on the hook for failed Fisker plant

In 2009 VP Joe Biden touted it as a sure-fire way to create 2,500 green jobs. Today the Fisker Automotive plant in Wilmington, Delaware sits idle. But its bills keep on piling up. And thanks to crackerjack Obama Administration planning, Delaware taxpayers are ultimately on the hook.

When are these Green Dreamers gonna realize that it's the taxpayer who's on "life support"?

Fisker's success was dependent on batteries from another Obamunist failure — A123 Systems — the remnants of which were recently bought up by the ChiComms at fire sale prices. No A123? No Fisker.

But not even the Chinese are dumb enough to buy out Fisker. Nope. Only a bunch of fellers like the Obama Administration, who've never actually owned a Real Business in their lives, would put their money on something so ridiculous.

Except of course, it isn't actually their money. It's ours. Flushed down the Green Jobs toilet. Aren't you glad they just raised your taxes to pay for this shit?

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If Dear Leader can't run again why does he still need a re-election campaign?

To disseminate propaganda of course!

He's gotta keep his army of Know-Nothing Libtard Progbots foaming at the mouth dontcha know!

And so, even before the ink is dry on his odious Tax The Rich for Wealth Redistribution Act of 2013 our Dear Leader has Reichsminister of Public Enlightenment Jim Messina circulating another salvo in the neverending War on Success.

And yet, at the explicit insistence of Dear Leader Himself, "the wealthiest Americans" somehow does not include any of these guys:

General Electric, Citigroup, Diageo (makers of Puerto Rician Rum) Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, American Wind Energy Association and The Motion Picture Association of America.

Also NASCAR track owners and the guys behind StarKist Tuna.

They all got their taxes reduced. Curiously though, that little fact was left out of Herr Messina's agitprop. Which almost makes me think the whole "fair share" thing is a load of malarky.

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Thanks Chris Christie, you just wrote the DNC's 2014 midterm election TV ads

Who's side is Chris Christie on? Because the Democrats will surely turn his tirade against John Boehner and the GOP into must-see-TV in the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections.

Wow.

All the DNC needs to add to those quotes is, "I'm Nancy Pelosi and I approve this message."

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9 New Years resolutions that Conservatives can actually keep

This just popped into my Inbox. It's too good not to share!

Someone please forward this list to John Boehner and Mitch McConnell. Stat.

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2013: The culmination of Fascist America

Mark Levin asks, Is the Democrat Party becoming a fascist party?

I'm starting to think the Democrat Party should rename itself the Fascist Party. Its love of an all powerful, centralized government, and contempt for independent, successful individuals, are traits of a fascist mentality.

Nice Deb answers, yes.

The full-court press against Liberty is on.

Madam Justice Wise Latina refuses to read the First Amemdment as protecting religion from the excesses of government, unless that religion is Islam.

The United States Senate is openly calling for fingerprinting, photographing, and mandatary registration of all gun owners. The media yawns.

Newspeak abounds. The Bush Tax Cuts, which until last month the fascists had derided as the ultimate evil — cutting taxes created massive deficits and prolonged a deep recession — were suddenly the centerpiece of their triumphal "deficit reduction" plan. Because $47 of new revenue paired with $1 of phantom spending cuts "reduces" the deficit by adding $4 trillion to it.

Day by day Big Government inserts itself into every nook and cranny of our lives.

Fascism is neither virtuous or polite. It's driven by the desire to control. Control what we say, what we do, what we eat, what we drink, the things we buy, where we go, and when we die. They've planned our lives, because they sincerely believe we cannot be trusted to plan life for ourselves. It's tyranny of the intelligentsia; they're smarter than us and they know what's best.

Really, you can't imagine how many Libtards on Twitter start out by telling me how smart they are, and thus I'd better listen to them. Because I'm just a dumbass Rethuglican who gets up and goes to work every day hoping he can earn enough money to keep the doors open until tomorrow. It's my duty to bow before Dear Leader and accept the wisdom of his benevolent munificence. And write checks. Big fat checks to lazy-ass takers so they can opine on the virtues of Class Struggle while feasting on the fruits of my labor.

Yup, these fascists are smart alright. Alas, they still haven't figured out how to make the trains run on time.

UPDATE 02 Jan 2013 19:57:
Adrienne links, and adds an excellent summation of Elitist Obamabot Syndrome.

UPDATE 03 Jan 2013 09:05:
Also linked by Doug Ross. Thanks!

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