He's pretty fly for a Jersey guy

And now for something completely different! A WordPress replacement for my Posterous blog!

Introducing — He's pretty fly for a Jersey guy.

Please, hold your applause.

When Twitter bought Posterous I just knew they'd kill it off. Posterous was too darn useful. Simple. Clean. Fun. Now, sadly, today is its last day.

At least they had the decency to provide an "export" function. So the question became, where do I import my wisdom to?

Let's try WordPress!

However, some asshat is already camped out on wyblog.wordpress.com. He's not using it for anything, but the powers-that-be said I can't have it.

Someone once told me, "you're pretty fly for a Jersey guy." Probably in jest. But it's a better name for a blog than WyBlog1.

Spread the word! Tell your friends! Tell your mom! Tell your mom's friends, and your friend's mom! Bookmark He's pretty fly for a Jersey guy and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

UPDATE 01 May 2013 08:57:
Gator Doug spreads the word, because he's The Man.

And Bill Quick not only gives the new digs a shout-out but he bookmarked it too! That's awesome, thanks Bill!

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In a brilliant marketing move, Jason Collins just became the hottest commodity in the NBA

What team wouldn't beat a path to his door, now that Jason Collins has courageously admitted that he's gay?

Pardon my cynicism, but c'mon already, it's pure marketing genius. Being homosexual doesn't make him a better basketball player. But being The First Gay Basketball Player? When he's a free agent journeyman nearing the end of his career? We're talking signing bonus, baby!

If he's not picked up, the NBA is homophobic.

If he's not paid more than his team's average salary, the NBA is homophobic.

If he's benched, or cut, the NBA is homophobic.

Plus, having The First Gay NBA Player on your roster is guaranteed to sell lots of tickets. Or the fans are homophobic.

Brilliant!

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The Nanny State in a nutshell: "Do as I say, not as I do"

Here's one teacher who should have paid attention in her own class.

If only there was a way to educate our kids about the dangers of drinking and driving…

Ah yes, the typical nanny-state educrat — Do as I say, not as I do!

As supervisor of the large regional school's health and physical education and family and consumer science departments, Chronic's salary this year is $135,977.

Money well spent! Because $135,977 a year buys you the best role model the NJEA can provide. They throw in the hypocrisy for free.

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To mark Child Abuse Prevention Month Barack Obama says "God Bless" the abortionists

Maybe I'm old fashioned. Maybe I'm just one of those patriarchal oppressors determined to keep the wimmin folk barefoot and pregnant. But isn't there something just a little bit repugnant about our President saying "God bless you" to the murderers of Planned Parenthood?

And during April no less, which he has proclaimed Child Abuse Prevention Month?

Am I the only person who feels the hypocrisy?

Because if what Kermit Gosnell did isn't child abuse, then I don't know what is. And he's not unique. Not by a long shot.

In a new undercover, investigative video, a staffer at an abortion clinic in Bronx, New York is shown on film telling a customer to flush the body of a baby born alive following a failed abortion down the toilet.

Flush. Your. Baby. Down. The. Toilet. All in the name of "reproductive health care," of course.

Go ahead, tell me that's not child abuse.

Sadly our media and our culture look the other way. People don't want to know. Some atrocities don't have the proper optics.

It's very weird to live in a society where mass death is important insofar as it serves the political needs of the dominant ideology. A white male loner killing white kindergartners in Connecticut is news; a black doctor butchering black babies in Pennsylvania is not.

The usurper in the White House cheers the abortionist, then grandstands for gun control.

I wonder what "god" he worships anyway.

Perhaps he worships Allah. You know, the god of suicide bombers, beheadings, and mass murder. Infanticide fits quite neatly into that paradigm, doesn't it?

As does genocide too. You do know that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, avidly endorsed the killing of black babies as way to weed out the "inferior" race? You could look it up. And then see Kermit Gosnell for what he must imagine himself to be — the crusading successor to Ms. Sanger. He's surely weeded out his share of black babies, hasn't he?

And the silence of our elites is deafening.

Maybe someday we'll atone for the sin of abortion. Not under this president, surely. Not for a long time I'm afraid, because feminist narcissism insists life isn't sacred. But someday.

The judge in Gosnell's trial tossed out all counts involving desecration of a corpse. Dead babies aren't corpses; they're "medical waste." Just so much trash. A byproduct of Reproductive Health Care.

And so we need to build awareness that abusing a child you didn't abort is wrong. It's hard to make the distinction though. One second, inside the womb (or the toilet), it's A-OK to crush that baby's skull, rip the arms from its tiny body, and suck the life out before it's even begun. Or in Gosnell's case, walk the kid to the bus stop first, then snip the neck with scissors. That's Reproductive Health Care the Planned Parenthood way!

BTW, please do click those links. Read about Reproductive Health Care in all its state-sanctioned glory. Revel in the joys of choice. I want you to know — don't look away! — everything that Planned Parenthood and President Obama stand for.

Because I'm thinking that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit wouldn't be blessing that sort of thing.

Abortion is child abuse. Now you're aware.

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Because what the GOP needs is for Mitt Romney to annoint Chris Christie as Heir Apparent

The loser sets himself up as arbiter of his successor. Surely this is a winning game plan, right?

Emphasis on was. Christie was an early and solid Romney supporter until he developed that now-famous man-crush on Dear Leader. He's an opportunist, and if you don't like his principles, don't worry, he's got others. Is he an effective governor for New Jersey? Yes. Is he the guy we want in the White House on January 20, 2017? Hell no. When it comes to a vision for America Christie is closer to Mike Bloomberg than he is to Ronald Reagan.

And really now, I am sick and tired of losers picking losers! Bob Dole begat John McCain, by way of the Bushies. And McCain beat Mitt Romney in Round 1 (with more than a little "help" from Karl Rove), only to go down in flames. Then Romney bought himself the nomination in Round 2 and look how well that worked out.

So yeah, by that kind of logic, Chris Christie is exactly who the GOP needs in 2016. If we want to lose to The Hilldabeast, that is.

Give it up Mitt. Go make a Viagra commercial and take the RINOs with you. The only thing that'll save the Republican Party, and America, is if we can put a Real Conservative in the White House. Chris Christie isn't on the list.

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If Congress goes and exempts itself from Obamacare, it had damn well better exempt me too

No Congressmen and Senators, you are not better than us. You passed this turkey. You're stuck with it just like we are. And surreptitiously working to exempt yourselves from it just proves how dishonestly mendacious you bozos are.

Listen up Congress. You wanna know what's gonna be "extraordinarily sensitive?" Your ass. Right after I, and the rest of America, get done kicking it if you think for one minute you're exempting yourselves from even the smallest provision of Dear Leader's health care socialist utopia. You created it. You had better live with it. Or else.

Do you guys really think Obamacare shouldn't apply to you? Fine. Repeal it. Because you ain't seen political fallout until you've seen the citizenry riled up enough to depose a bunch of effete snobs who believe they're our Lords and Masters. We got rid of that shit in 1776, and we damn well don't want Royalty V2.0. Got it?

UPDATE 25 Apr 2013 12:49:
From a friend on Facebook:

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Sequester nation: furlough air traffic controllers to pay for transgender voice therapy

Gator Doug continues to find amazing examples of Your Tax Dollars At Work. Yes, even in these austere times some federal programs are too important to cut.

Here's two:

Government Spending $152,500 To Study Voice Therapy For Transgenders

"This study will illuminate the capabilities of the human larynx and inform the relationship between voice production and perception," states a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, awarded to George Washington University. "The long term goal of this research is to inform and provide new directions for Transgender (TG) voice care, thereby improving the lives of TG people who feel their voice is a great obstacle to living as their preferred gender."

Presumably, improving the lives of the traveling public is less important. So if you're stuck in an airport waiting for the sequester to end, and you happen to encounter a transgender person, please by all means feel free to ask how the voice lessons are going.

Only in San Francisco! Taxpayer funded Penis Mascot

The health department sparked some controversy when it debuted the three characters, all penises but in different hues, back in 2002. But the penis costumes — worn by health department staff and aimed at encouraging gay and bisexual men to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases — became popular and have been copied in San Jose and Cleveland.

You'll have to click-through for a picture. Because it ain't a parade without a 6 foot penis leading the band. Did I mention they pass out penis-shaped "stress relievers" too? You know, those squishy things you can pick up at trade shows, emblazoned with a company's logo, except, uh, anatomically correct.

Well hey, if you're gonna screw the taxpayer, you might as well do it with your very own souvenir rubber penis. Bring it along on your next trip to the airport, to relieve the stress of waiting while your flight's delayed.

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No it's not your imagination, food is much more expensive this year

Your weekly food bill is about to get a lot bigger.

It's an Obama World. And we're stuck with the bill.

Maybe, and I'm just pointing out the obvious here, maybe if we didn't divert more of our corn crop to the ethanol boondoggle than we use for animal feed, the price of food just might not keep going up so much.

It's insane to burn corn in order to deliver meat and cornflakes to your local supermarket. Then burn more corn to bring the groceries home.

If only there was a humongous domestic supply of dino-juice, maybe in North Dakota, that we could tap into with a new pipeline connected to our network of refineries in Texas and Louisiana.

But instead we burn corn. And the price of energy is double what it was when President Planet Protector took office. I'm amazed that's only translated into a 4 percent increase in food prices. Which must be an average across the nation. Because around here the prices are ridiculous.

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Jon Corzine's day of reckoning may finally be coming

Louis Freeh has had it with Jon Corzine's stalling. The MF Global bankruptcy proceedings are supposed to be in "mediation," but the talks are dragging out. So now it's time to put Corzine in the hot seat.

Take Corzine for every cent he's got. It's not as good as seeing him frog-marched in handcuffs and leg-irons, but penury is a fitting penalty for his colossal arrogance.

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Now that he suckered you fools into re-electing him, Obama plans to raise everyone's taxes

That $40 bucks a month he started swiping from your pocket in January? It's merely the beginning. Open your wallets kids, because Barack Obama is coming for your money.

What's funny is that the story is from Politico, a "news" organization which up to now has never missed a chance to cheerlead for Obama and the Democrats. But it's OK, he's safely re-elected, so a few well-rehearsed potshots will surely re-establish their credibility with all you low-information voters, right?

And if these new taxes start to hurt the middle class? They'll just blame it on Republicans. Again.

My job will be to remind you folks of who really screwed you over.

Do you claim the Earned Income Tax Credit? You'll get a smaller check this year. Smoke cigarettes or drink flavored vodka? The tax man wants a few more bucks from you. Deduct your mortgage interest or property taxes? Sorry, those deductions will be severely limited now.

Pay up suckaz. You voted for this clown. You deserve all the misery your Dear Leader can dish out.

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And when the Lynne Stewart wing of the ABA gets Tsarnaev off, Columbia can offer him tenure

President Drone Killer hath decreed: The surviving Boston bombing "suspect" won't be classified as an enemy combatant. Because he's just a run-of-the-mill murderer now, certainly not a Muslim terrorist hell-bent on winning one for Allah.

Or so his court-appointed lawyer will argue. He's a kid dontcha know, led astray by his Islamist older brother. All Dzhokhar ever wanted to do was emulate his brother's success in the boxing ring. Then he was duped into taking a walk, not realizing the backpacks his brother told him to leave behind were in actuality anti-personnel bombs.

Hey, that "who me? I was just taking a shower" nonsense worked for Kathy Boudin, right?. And Obama mentor Bill Ayers famously proclaimed himself "guilty as sin and free as a bird." Bombings? What bombings? And dead cops? What dead cops? It's all good when you spout the appropriate lefty talking points.

Mark my words. Sooner or later Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will end up as a professor at Columbia too. Or better yet, he'll land a Cabinet slot in the Michelle Obama Administration. Because Islam is a Religion of Peace. And Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is merely a peaceful kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. There's already a Change.org petition saying just that. What more "proof" do you need?

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Obama's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is tracking our credit card transactions

For a government agency that's supposed to protect consumers, it sure seems like we're gonna need some protecting from them. The autocrats at Obama's CFPB are busy vacuuming up the details of your credit card transactions, checks you write, loans you apply for, and mortgage payments you make. All to "study" how Americans use credit. Uh, huh.

Trust your government! They always have your best interests at heart. Really.

Why is the government doing it? Because Shut Up, that's why.

Oh, so not only are they collecting it, they're making the intimate details of your financial life available to anyone with a PC and an internet connection! I'll bet the guys doing "research" into identity theft can't wait to "help the public," right?

Together with the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the consumer bureau is also building a mortgage database that will integrate consumer credit information with loan and property records.

Here's a newsflash. They can't "integrate" those databases without your personally identifiable information. So much for their illusion of privacy. It's a charade, designed to fool low-information voters.

Big Brother knows where you live. He knows what you buy. He knows how much money you make, and what debts you have. Big Brother Richard Cordray knows all. And you can be absolutely certain that the urge to mine that data for "your own good" will be too strong to resist.

What could go wrong?

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It is naive to believe that bad people will obey gun control laws

At churches throughout Caldwell today parishoners were asked to pray for new and stricter gun control laws. I did not join in. Not because I am pro-violence; but because I am a realist.

Here's their spiel:

Except… Cities and states with the most onerous gun control regulations also have the highest rates of gun violence. Surely my brothers and sisters in our religious community could look this up. Chicago. Detroit. Camden. Newark. It's virtually impossible for a citizen in one of those cities to lawfully purchase a gun. Yet a day when 4 people are brutally gunned down in the streets? Those cities call that "Tuesday."

Alas, the perpetrators of gun violence do not lawfully acquire their firearms. So why is it that when a criminal commits a violent act the first reaction of supposedly reasonable people is to restrict my rights?

Furthermore, in states where the Second Amendment is respected, gun violence is significantly lower. As Robert Heinlein said, an armed society is a polite society. Think about it. If gun shows really are magnets for psychopaths and serial killers, how does anyone get out of one alive?

Today's anti-Second-Amendment proclamation is signed by 18 good and decent men and women of God. And to a one I believe they are sincere. But I have to ask, where were they when Kermit Gosnell was murdering babies by the truckload? Where is their statement condemning the practioners of abortion? Compared to the 55 million slaughtered in the charnel houses of Planned Parenthood, the victims of gun violence are a drop in the bucket.

Save the children? Stop abortion. Yet the proponents of gun control wouldn't dream of restricting the invented "right" to abortion. It's only my enumerated right to keep and bear arms which attracts their opprobrium.

Or, as I saw once on Facebook, if guns kill people and cause crime, mine must be defective.

For that matter, when it comes to "a society prone to suicide" you folks might want to regulate trains. Because it seems like every week I read about some tortured soul who walks in front of one.

My point is this. Violence happens. It's not dependent on access to guns. In fact there are numerous situations where gun owners have prevented violence. Yes, really. The gun itself is not evil. It's just an object. Evil takes many forms. As a priest once told me, brother Devil is always there, ready to pounce on our weakness.

Consider — the Boston bombers were not legally authorized to purchase firearms. The existing laws worked. Yet somehow they acquired guns, and bombs. Which of these proposed new gun control measures would have stopped them? And will our churches now call for regulation of pressure cookers too? How about backpacks?

It takes more than slogans to stop evil.

Remember, the Disciples carried swords. It is not a sin to defend your family or your friends. There is such a thing as Just War. And unilateral disarmament is a sure-fire route to extinction.

UPDATE 22 Apr 2013 10:14:
Linked by Gator Doug. Thanks!

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Darrelle Revis gets voted off the island by the Jets

When the Jets first drafted star cornerback Darrelle Revis NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg dubbed Manhatan "Revis Island." That was then. This is now — the Jets voted Revis off his island in a trade with Tampa Bay.

Truthfully Revis has always been a thorn in the Jets' side. When he's good, he's very good. But he's prone to holdouts and injuries and the idea of "waiting" or "hoping" he'll step up this season really isn't that appealing. Not with the team obviously rebuilding this year. They're already released or traded so many of their starters I had one friend snark at my Jets t-shirt: erase the "J" and "S" 'cause they got traded too.

Ha ha. Real funny. We're still stuck with Mark Sanchez. And Tim Tebow. Thank God for NFL Sunday Ticket. I can watch the Niners while the Jets go 4 and 12.

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RINO Chris Christie tries to out-demagogue the Democrats on gun control

Chris Christie really ought to switch parties. Because he's giving Republicans a bad name. Again. Late Friday, since stuff is less likely to be noticed when it's released late on a Friday, our civil-liberties infringing governor issued sweeping new proposals for more regulation of gun ownership in the Garden State.

The plan calls for expanding New Jersey's already strict gun control laws, expanding government-funded mental health treatment, making it more difficult for kids buy or rent violent video games, requiring that would-be gun owners show government-issued IDs and bolstering penalties for gun-related crimes.

Ah yes, another photo ID requirement. When is he gonna propose showing a photo ID to vote? I'm not holding my breath.

"It's hard for me to sit here today and say, 'If all these things got imposed we'd see an 'X' percentage drop in gun violence in this state.' I don't know," said Christie. "Bad people are going to do bad things and so, would greater penalties deter people? You hope they do."

Because all the laws and penalties we have now are taking a bite out of crime. Oh, wait…

He's also going to institute stricter background checks, including searching of medical and mental health records. So if you ever saw a shrink, or took Prozac, or maybe just confided in your family doctor about some stress or anxiety? Sorry, no gun for you!

What part of "Shall Not Be Infringed" is so hard for Chris Christie to understand? New Jersey doesn't need stricter gun laws, New Jersey needs to respect the rights of honest, law-abiding gun owners. And maybe focus on catching criminals, you know, the guys who don't follow the law now, and won't follow these new laws either.

Feh. It's easier to say you're "doing something" if you just create a whole new class of criminals and then crack down on them. I expect that nonsense from Democrats. I don't want it from the guy who thinks he'll be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.

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Obamacare architect Max Baucus now says it's a "train wreck"

That light at the end of the Obamacare tunnel? It's an oncoming train.

Maybe he should've found out what was in it before he passed it. Because only an idiot would believe that the same people who brought us the Post Office and the DMV could ever manage our health care system.

And I might even believe that Baucus was being sincere, except he's up for re-election next year and the folks back home in Montana hate Obamacare with a white-hot passion. So I suspect Baucus's faux-outrage is nothing more than political kabuki, a smokescreen to fool low-information voters.

Dear Montana, please don't fall for his theatrics. Signed, America.

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Barack Obama's very bad, totally not good, completely horrible day

The very bad: Senate rejects background checks on gun purchases in bipartisan vote.

Oops. So much for waving the bloody shirt, eh Barry?

The totally not good: Alleged McConnell Bugger Visited White House

The head of a group accused of illegally taping private meetings of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign visited the White House days before the group's Twitter account began actively attacking the Kentucky Republican, according to White House visitor logs.

Oops. So much for that "no Democrats were involved in this fiasco" theory, eh Barry?

The completely horrible: CBS News has learned that previously unknown whistleblowers on #Benghazi are now speaking to Congressional investigators.

Sixty Minutes Barry. Once they dig in their claws they don't let go. Yes, even if all the evidence points to you. Because the mothers of the four men killed in Benghazi could be reached for comment, since by now Darrell Issa has them on speed dial.

Funny how they never got a radio address to call their own. A "Sinty Minutes" gig? That's better. Unless you're Barack Obama. Because I'm sure he'd rather be golfing.

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Scamnesty V2.0, now with MarcoPhones!

Immigration reform is back in the news. Sigh. The only "reform" I want to see is discounted one-way bus tickets.

Anyway, Fox News has a handy-dandy comparison of the failed 2007 immigration reform proposal with Marco Rubio and The Gang of Eight's new and improved "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act."

That old one died because it was too lenient on illegal alien lawbreakers, and it failed to protect our borders. So what did Rubio's merry men come up with this time? Something worse.

Last time: Go back home and do it the right way.
This time: Automatic "Path to Citizenship," and here's your Green Card! Don't forget to vote Democrat.

Last time: The border must be secured first.
This time: Janet Incompetano has six months to come up with a border security "strategy."

Last time: Up to 200,000 "guest workers" eligible each year, for 5 years.
This time: Welcome Braceros!

It installs a new "W" visa for up to 200,000 low skilled immigrants, and another 120,000 "merit based" visas annually for extremely talented immigrants. It removes any caps for extremely talented individuals in the arts, education, sports and sciences. It also increases from 65,000 to as many as 180,000 visas for U.S. businesses, known as H1Bs.

Last time: All employers have to use E-Verify prior to the start of any guest worker program.
This time: All employers are required to sign up for E-Verify within 5 years. The guest worker thing starts immediately.

Last time: No federal benefits (except Obamacare, ugh) for guest workers.
This time: Obamacare and in-state tuition for everybody, federal welfare eligibility after 13 years, and MarcoPhones!

According to the newly filed bill, immigrants who are allowed to enter the United States under a work visa, will be 'granted' a taxpayer funded cellular phone. Move over "Obama phone," we present the new 'Hola, Como Estas?!' MarcoPhone.

And to what I'm sure is your utter surprise, the company which makes these new MarcoPhones is based in Rubio's district.

Thanks Mr. Conservative Hispanic Wonder-Republican. You're just the kind of guy we need; if by "we" you mean "Democrats." With friends like you, La Raza has already won.

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Figures, Dear Leader snubs Margaret Thatcher's funeral

I guess he's too busy golfing.

"Barack Obama, who sent an official delegation from his administration to Venezuela for socialist dictator Hugo Chavez's funeral, won't send one to Margaret Thatcher's," writes Matthew Burke. One of Marxist Obama's first shamefully embarrassing, classless acts as president was to return a bust of the great British leader, Winston Churchill, a gift from Britain to the U.S. which was displayed in the White House. It was such a disgusting act that the Obama propaganda machine originally lied about it, calling the story "100% false." Finally, they had to admit it was true, but like all decisions made by "Dear Leader" Obama, it was largely ignored by the mainstream media. It should have been a strong warning to Americans about Obama's ideology.

Not to worry, two former Reagan Administration officials will pay our nation's respects.

Two former Republican Secretaries of State — James Baker and George Shultz — will lead the U.S. delegation to the Thatcher funeral on Wednesday.

Ah, remember the days when America had a Real President?

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Thoughts on the Boston Bombing, we don't know what we don't know yet

The kids at school had already heard by the time I picked Sophie up from aftercare. Their teachers were in a somber mood and led the children in a short prayer for the victims of yesterday's Boston bombing.

"Why Daddy?", Sophie asked. She was born 3 months after 9/11. This is her first realtime exposure to terrorism. It probably won't be her last. When Fox News reported the first confirmed death was an 8 year old boy she lost it, and cried.

The death of a child is indeed a tragedy. Unless of course it's under the guise of "reproductive health." Then it's Not News.

Anyway, Stacy McCain is right — at this stage of the investigation we don't know anything yet. Motive? Unknown. Perpetrator(s)? Unknown. Potential followups or copycats? Unknown, but it's prudent to be wary.

Of course we can probably rule out disgruntled Yankees fans, even though the Sawx were playing less than half a mile away at the time. And right on cue followers of The Religion Of Peace™ started cheering the carnage. It's what they do, it's who they are. Then they scream bloody murder when the NYPD puts their secret mosques under surveillance. Yeah, show a little respect, capiche?

There's a 20 year old Saudi national being questioned by the FBI. Chances are he's not a recently converted Born Again Christian, IYKWIMAITYD. And they raided what is probably his apartment in a run-down Section 8 hellhole. It's the kind of place where nobody asks too many questions and there's so much illegal activity going on that one more shady character would fit right in. In other words, it's the perfect terrorist safe house.

Hey, if CNN can speculate about Right-Wing Extremist Groups, or Nick Kristof of The New York Times can blame Congressional Republicans blocking Barry's ATF nominee, while the ever-demented Chris Matthews fulminates against imaginary anti-tax hysteria, then I can hypothesize too.

Except, I don't know anything yet. And neither do they. I just hope we catch the bastards who did this, and fry 'em.

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NJ court rules that bloggers are journalists too; Paul Mulshine hardest hit

"Blog" is not a Four Letter Word, and citizen journalists are every bit as worthy of First Amendment protection as professional reporters. It's nice to see a court recognize that!

This ruling must be devasting to Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine. His contempt for bloggers knows no bounds, because we haven't paid our dues in the ink-stained trenches or something. He really hates bloggers cum "pundits" like Glenn Reynolds, sneeringly referring to them as "pundints". And the few times I've tried to engage him in a dialog he's dismissed me out-of-hand as a "whackjob."

Well, it's time to go cry in your fancy-pants microbrew beer Paul. It'll help you wash down that helping of crow you'd better be eating. Bloggers are journalists too!

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Wouldn't it be great if Obama paid the same tax rate as Warren Buffett's secretary?

In the now legendary anecdote, Barack Obama accused candidate Mitt Romney of paying a lower tax rate than Warren Buffett's secretary, as if this was proof Romney was cheating on his taxes. The MSNBC brain(less) trust had a field day with that, of course.

So wouldn't it be nice if Obama himself paid a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett's secretary? Um, not so much.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama paid $112,214 in federal income taxes in 2012 on adjusted gross income of $608,611, an effective rate of 18.4%, the White House said Friday.

According to my accountant my effective tax rate is 24.2%, mostly because of the Alternative Minimum Tax.

Alas, Obama says I'm still not paying "my fair share," and his proposed budget includes the "Buffett Rule" which calls for even higher tax rates.

But mendacious WaPo libtalker Kirsten Powers says those rates shouldn't apply to Obama. He's special.

Hypocrites.

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Now it's personal: Obamacare guidelines eliminate funding for the treatment that saved my daughter's life

Barack Obama would have condemned my daughter to death. No, that's not an exaggeration. If he'd railroaded Obamacare through before she was born, it's quite likely she'd have died when she contracted a virus called RSV.

New guidelines issued by one of his Medicaid advisory boards eliminate payment for RSV treatment, calling the vaccine "unnecessary," because it costs too much. And when Medicaid speaks, insurance companies and doctors listen.

Sophie got RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) soon after she was born. It was touch-and-go for a few days but she pulled through. Sleeping on the floor next to her hospital bed we did a lot of praying and a lot of worrying.

Left untreated, RSV causes pneumonia and weakens the heart and lungs. It hit Sophie hard, at first she could barely breathe, and the hospital had her on pure oxygen for days. Her doctors immediately prescribed a series of shots, along with inhaled steroids, for as long as she was susceptible to RSV.

Those shots saved her life.

And now Obamacare says paying for those shots isn't worth it. Really. Not. Worth. It. Because his kids never caught RSV? Or because he just doesn't care? There's no bloody shirt to wave for RSV victims. No RSV-control laws to browbeat Republicans with. Just 14,000 kids who die from it every year, none of whose parents were ever invited to the White House for a photo op.

So today a baby in her position probably won't get the same lifesaving treatment.

But remember, there are no Death Panels in Obamacare. There's just a cruel heartless asshole president who wouldn't lose 5 minutes of sleep even if his grand experiment in socialized medicine had killed my baby girl.

And to all you smug Democrats who re-elected him, I have to say "thanks." What's one more dead kid compared to your free birth control pills, right?

I hope all you liberals are happy. And I pray that your messianic lightworker pinko president doesn't eventually decree something that could kill one of your children. But you'll forgive me if I continue to do everything I can to ensure that Sophie never, ever becomes a Democrat. Or marries one.

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When a Republican says "bipartisan," it means the Democrats got everything they wanted

What is it with Pennsylvania Republican senators and the urge to sell out? Snarlin' Arlen was an epic failure, and now Pat Toomey has picked up the habit of folding like a cheap suit at the first sign of bad press.

Is there anything more disgusting than a Republican senator in bipartisan compromise mode? Bloomberg's anti-gun group starts running ads in Pennsylvania and Pat Toomey folds like a cheap suit. Say the magic words: Bipartisan compromise!

Compromise my ass. It's everything DiFi and Mayor McCheese wanted, including the holy grail of a national gun registry. Yup, "universal" background checks == entries in the NICS database == a de facto gun registry.

And once they've got a list of all the gun owners, they can take our guns away, for pretty much no reason at all.

What a disappointment Toomey turned out to be. I like Instapundit's take: "Toomey seems to think he's there to get things done. As a Republican in the current Senate, his chief role is to stop bad things from happening."

Subjecting the Second Amendment to an up / down vote is a Very Bad Thing. You'd think a guy who touted himself as a Tea Party Conservative would know that.

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Another day, another study noting our skyrocketing health insurance premiums

This just in, The Affordable Care Act is unaffordable. Also, water is wet.

If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance! That is if you're independently wealthy, or win the lottery. Otherwise, not so much.

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The IRS is reading your email, and doesn't care a court said they can't

If you aren't encrypting your email, the IRS is probably reading it right now.

The deck is stacked against you. "Privacy" is an illusion.

If you live in one of the 46 other states, you're fair game for the revenuers. Because there's no such thing as due process when you're dealing with the IRS. You're guilty until proven innocent. And the government is holding all the cards. Rights? You don't have any rights where the income tax is concerned.

Oh, don't forget, they're snooping on your Facebook page too.

For those of you who are old enough to remember Freedom, prior to 1913 the government managed quite nicely without an income tax. They built roads, conducted diplomacy, fought wars, delivered the mail, and balanced their budget. What they did not do was transfer wealth from the productive to the unproductive.

The IRS changed all that. They've got what it takes to take what you've got.

Then Congress gives it to slackers, who of course vote to re-elect their benefactors. And if you protest, you're the one being unreasonable.

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The Post Office is keeping Saturday delivery, because Congress says they have to

The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has officially rescinded their decision to cut Saturday deliveries. They didn't really have a choice; Congress inserted language into last month's spending bill which prohibits them from changing their delivery schedule.

But they're not a Government Agency, right? Because every "independent" business has to do whatever Congress tells it to do.

Oh, wait, Obamacare. Sorry. Nevermind. We all belong to the government.

And so, neither rain, nor snow, nor crippling deficits and exponentially escalating pension payments will stop these couriers from the plodding postponement of their appointed rounds.

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Fox threatens to go off the air if courts don't shut down Aereo

What will happend to broadcast TV if they stop actually broadcasting? We may soon find out.

There is so much wrong with that last statement that I don't know where to start. Aereo isn't "stealing" anything. The essence of broadcast TV is the ability to actually receive a broadcast. Aereo merely moves the antenna to a location where the signal is good, vs trying to pull in the new digital TV signals with rabbit ears in your living room. Yes, it's a bizarre technical solution to a silly legal problem, but it's really no different from how TV signals were delivered for decades before cable.

And their "hard-won fees from pay TV systems" are only on the table because of those broadcast signals. It's the FCC's "must carry" rule — cable and satellite systems are required to retransmit broadasters' programming and to compensate them accordingly. That's not true for pure cable channels which have to compete on price and content.

How many people would willingly pay to watch the crap put out by Fox and the other networks? As the "Zero TV" movement gains steam my hunch would be "not as many as they'd think."

Good luck Fox. I hope you think this one through. Maybe you could embrace innovation instead of trying to maintain your anachronistic 1950s business model. Try leading instead of hindering. You might even make some money in the process.

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The IRS wants to friend you on Facebook and follow you on Twitter

Think that only your friends care about the pictures you post to Facebook? Guess again. The IRS could be snooping on you.

Take those warnings seriously.

Your whole life is on Facebook. The new car. That 12 day cruise up the Nile with 8 friends. Dinners at fancy restaurants. The IRS sees it all, and then asks, whaddaya mean you're only reporting $25,000 in income this year?

Or, much more likely, conservatives who regularly criticize Dear Leader will find themselves subjected to enhanced scrutiny. You know, guys like me. We could start being hauled in for proctological audits. All it takes is for them to scour social media sites and the next thing we know we're on a list.

I'm not being paranoid either. He "joked" about doing just that back in 2009. And then Tea Party groups were coincidentally audited in record numbers.

So watch what you post online, and always remember the IRS motto: "We've got what it takes to take what you've got." Now you'll have to excuse me as I go double-check my friends list.

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Top NJ Dem on Christie opponent Barbara Buono: "I'm voting for her, but I'm not inspired"

The Democrats have to run someone against Chris Christie for governor. State Senator Barbara Buono is the designated sacrificial lamb. And her endorsements? They lack enthusiasm.

With friends like these, well, Babs needs all the friends she can get, right? So imagine my surprise when she blew off the Italian-American Police Society.

C'mon fellas, a gal's gotta wash her hair. You know how it is.

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Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti had $1.2 million reasons to fall on his sword

Yeah, most of you guys don't give a rat's ass about Rutgers. But it's Big News here in Jersey! And when Tim Pernetti resigned yesterday I wondered why he bowed to pressure so quickly, because it looked like he did what he was told to do at every step of the Mike Rice controversy.

Well it turns out he was offered $1.2 million very good reasons to take the fall.

Pernetti — under a settlement agreement obtained by The Star-Ledger — will be paid more than $1.2 million in return for his resignation.

And now he also has $1.2 million reasons to avoid answering the obvious question — "what did Rutgers President Robert Barchi know and when did he know it?"

Two major donors are "reconsidering" their commitments to Rutgers. Not because of what Mike Rice did, but in light of how Tim Pernetti was given the bums rush.

Good question. With their upcoming move to the Big Ten, Rutgers is gonna need all the big money donors they can get. Instead it looks like they could lose the naming rights deal for their football stadium too.

Maybe the boys from Garden State Equality will step into the breach.

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More fallout from the Mike Rice controversy: One million reasons he should have kept his job

Rutgers rushed to fire Mike Rice, because the Gay Mafia demanded his head on a platter for uttering the word "faggot." And now it turns out there are a million reasons Rice should have kept his job.

As Doctor Evil would say, "One Meeel-yun Dollars!"

A contract is a contract, regardless of how many knots the boys at Garden State Equality tie their panties into.

Last year when this incident first came to light the lawyers said not to fire him. They specified a series of remedial actions, which according to all accounts Rice fulfilled. Then a disgruntled former employee decided to inflame passions by releasing a heavily edited tape recording of some basketball practices. And as soon as the perpetually aggrieved honchos of homosexual hysteria heard him say "you fucking faggot" it was all over for Coach Rice.

Except, it turns out, for his iron-clad contract.

The Gays claimed another scalp today when Rice's boss, Athletic Director Tim Pernetti resigned under pressure. But they're still not satisfied.

"This morning, coach Rice was fired," Troy Stevenson, the executive director of Garden State Equality, said at a news conference Wednesday. "That's not good enough."

You know what's "not good enough" to me? Knee-jerk appeasement that puts the taxpayers of New Jersey on the hook for a million bucks. But then I'm supposedly out of touch with the scourge of anti-gay discrimination. It's worse than racism, or so a liberal friend told me last night. Because every time I ride the bus the gays have to sit in the back, and I guess I'm not supposed to let them use the same water fountains as me anymore.

Just what I need, more rules for how to maintain my hegemonic status as a scion of the oppressive patriarchy. It really is getting hard to keep up with all the ways I'm supposed to be sabotaging the advancement of those inferior races and peoples and genders.

Yeah, I'm rambling, and the sarcasm-impaired gay goons don't like it when I ramble. So I'll leave you guys with this, via my pal Bob Belvedere. Mike Rice shoulda called his players "Beta Males." It's the new and improved, PC-approved, feminzed pejorative that instantly conveys the light-in-the-loafers affectation you know is necessary while maintaining plausible deniability regarding anyone's proclivities for belting out show tunes.

Now drop your man-purse and give me twenty.

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Unemployment "falls" to 7.6%, meanwhile Obamaville now boasts a population of 90 million

Strike up the band Obamabots! The unemployment rate is down to its lowest mark in four years — 7.6% as 88,000 new jobs were created last month. Oh, wait, that's not such good news…

Every silver lining has a cloud, eh? And the cloud is getting pretty damn big. There are now 90 million people who've given up on ever finding a job. One quarter of our workforce is no longer actively looking for work.

They're livin' in Obamaville, gettin' by on food stamps and government cheese.

Would you like some really depressing statistics?

The youth unemployment rate for 18 to 29 year olds stands at 11.7%.

The youth unemployment rate for 18 to 29 year old African-Americans is 20.1%.

The youth unemployment rate for 18 to 29 year old Hispanics is 12.6%.

The youth unemployment rate for 18 to 29 year old women is 10%.

Hey, didn't all those groups overwhelmingly vote for Barack Obama's re-election?

Well as the man said, elections have consequences! So I suppose it'll really make those kids feel good about their vote to know that if the labor force participation rate was anything near what it should be, that is if all of the youths who want a job were actually looking for a job, then the youth unemployment rate would be 16.2 percent.

Happy days are here again.

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Obamacare, so great it takes a $48 an hour "navigator" to help you figure it out

On one hand, Dear Leader is actually creating some jobs. On the other hand, they're government jobs. Hundreds of thousands of new government jobs are now open for Obamacare "navigators." At a starting salary of $48 an hour. And only unionistas and community organizers need apply.

Does that include Klingon? Because I'm gonna insist that my "navigator" speaks Klingon.

Obamacare, it's so great you need a trained professional to explain it to you! Who's gonna explain it to the "navigators," Nancy Pelosi?

The rules allow navigators to come from the ranks of unions, health providers and community action groups such as ACORN and Planned Parenthood. They are required to provide unbiased advice.

Notice who's missing from that list? Religious organizations. Because the only religion allowed in Obamacare is Liberalism, and abortion is its sacrament.

Planned Parenthood will provide "unbiased advice?" I just shot coffee out of my nose.

Wanna guess what this is gonna cost? Because California alone wants 21,000 of these "unbiased" Oracles Of Obamacare. So let's say Barry hires 250,000 of his best and brightest party apparatchiks. That's $25 Billion dollars a year just in salaries, plus benefits, office space, management, oversight, etc, etc, etc.

Tell me again how Obamacare was supposed to save us money?

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Not that you needed reminding, but yes, Jon Corzine's ineptitude destroyed MF Global

The official report is in. MF Global bankruptcy trustee Louis Freeh lays all the blame for the firm's collapse at the feet of former NJ governor Jon Corzine.

Joe Biden once called Corzine "the smartest guy I know" and the Obama Administration's "go-to guy" for financial advice.

Explains a lot, doesn't it?

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Old and busted? The subprime mortgage bubble. New hotness? Subprime mortgages and car loans too!

Remember the subprime mortgage meltdown? It was in all the papers. No one in his right mind would want to go through that again, right?

Which of course is why Barack Obama says it's exactly what this country needs.

What could possibly go wrong?

But wait, there's more! Still can't qualify for one of Barry The Banker's new subprime mortgages? How about a subprime car loan instead?

Bad credit? No credit? No problem! The taxpayer's got you covered!

Because naturally Mr. Nelson defaulted.

In the ensuing months, Nelson and his wife divorced, he moved into a mobile home, and, unable to cover mounting debts, he filed for personal bankruptcy. His ex-wife, who assumed responsibility for the $324-a-month car payment, said she will probably file for bankruptcy in a couple of months.

I'm sure that nobody could've seen that coming.

But it's all good, Exeter packages those car loans into bonds. Those bonds get sold to "investors" like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. And as we've already seen, those Too Big To Fail banks are backed by the Full Faith And Credit of the United States Government. Which, in case you don't realize it, is you sucka!

We're throwing money at guys like Jeff Nelson because it's what socialists do — redistribute wealth. Since it's not Obama's money, why should he care if the Nelsons of the world don't pay it back? Government Motors sold a car! Isn't that what really matters?

Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

We are way beyond farce by now.

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Coincidental headlines: Atlantic City tourism down by half, Poverty now up to 1960s levels

Atlantic City's bread and butter is day-trippers. And these days the charter bus trade is circling the drain.

Who's got money to gamble when gas, food, and shelter are so expensive? Contrary to anything the White House might tell you, the economy has not improved.

How do I know this? Because poverty in this country has now reached levels not seen since the 1960s, even as the government spends more than ever on the poor.

I'm sure these two statistics are just a coincidence, right?

There is one bright spot though. The Obamas bravely party on. No expense is spared in their relentless pursuit of top quality entertainment and exotic vacation travel. Through thick and thin they courageously live high on the hog, presumably inspiring us all with their stoic disregard for the trials and tribulations of ordinary Americans.

We can eat cake.

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Call the Waambulance! Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice is mean to his players

Remember when Men were men? Yeah, me neither. Now they're whiny pansies.

Gimme a break. He used a gay slur! Call the waambulance.

Rutgers men's basketball sucks. That's what should be "not acceptable." The only way these faggots can get to the NCAA championship is if they buy a ticket. The last time they made it to the Final 4? 1976, when they got their asses kicked by Michigan and UCLA.

I'm thinking a little tough love isn't exactly out of line here.

And before you jump my shit consider this. Every one of their scholarships comes out of my ass in the form of NJ state taxes. We subsidize these losers. You'd think the least they could do is win a championship every 30 years or so.

But no. And Pernetti is moving Rutgers up, from an also-ran in the Big East to what will undoubtedly be a slot as perennial cellar-dwellers of the Big Ten.

I hate to break it to the Rice-haters, but in the Big Ten everybody doesn't get a trophy. Maybe Coach Rice (or one of his predecessors) already tried the sweetness and light approach and the team still sucked. The "bombshell" tape is incomplete so we'll never know. Its purpose is to sensationalize events which were undoubtedly taken out of context.

Man up fellas. And if you want to stop Coach Rice from screaming at you, try winning.

UPDATE 03 Apr 2013 10:47:
Rutgers fired Mike Rice this morning.

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Judge nixes resale of downloaded digital content

If you buy a CD, or a DVD, or a book you can offload it a garage sale whenever you're done with it. But according to a District Court judge, iTunes downloads are yours forever.

Our copyright laws suck. That new "unauthorized" copy nonsense is a distinction without a difference. Otherwise you'd have to buy a new "copy" of every song whenever you switched to a new iPod or iPhone.

The company's planned roll-out to Europe now looks to be in serious doubt after some scathing comments. The Manhattan judge labelled its business model "fundamentally flawed" and said the "first sale" principle, which lets people sell on copyrighted works, does not yet apply to the digital world.

If this ruling stands, the repudiation of "first sale" doctrine within the digital world is a huge blow to property rights. You may have bought a copy of that song, but you don't really own it. You're merely renting. Nevermind that it's the same price as a physical copy (a fact that is especially true for digital books).

Did I mention that our copyright laws suck?

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The $16 Trillion Dollar Man is going to teach you how to budget responsibly

Meet Professor Obama, he knows how to budget responsibly.

I thought this was an April Fool's Day joke momentarily, but apparently, it's for real. The White House has declared that this is the month to give advice to young people on how to budget responsibly.

Borrow. Borrow some more. Send the bill to your grandchildren. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Really. Those are his exact words. As he takes every opportunity to demagogue a modest reduction in the rate of spending growth. As we still await his federal budget. As he prints money like it's going out of style, and borrows more than all other presidents combined.

This just in, May will feature Mark Sanford and John Edwards starring in Be Faithful to Your Wife Month. June marks the 37th annual National Diet Month featuring Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell, with a special guest appearance by Oprah Winfrey. And in July we'll learn the basics of sensual shower massage from Jerry Sandusky.

All of which are, sadly, more believable than pretending that Barack Obama knows thing one about budgeting.

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NJ Obama voters whinge about Medicare cuts imposed by his Sequester

The sky is falling in Geezerville. Dear Leader plans to cut Medicare by 2%, because the Sequester has really gotta hurt. Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin!

Ah, the good old Star-Ledger, never failing to forget that it was Dear Leader Himself who dreamed up the Sequester. Really. They could look it up.

Wait, I thought Obamacare was supposed to bring rainbows and unicorns for everybody. Now they're telling me it's The End Of Hospitals As We Know It? All because of a 2% cut? You guys voted for him, so I should feel bad when he screws you over?

And I'm sure you'll agree that it's a good thing the Sequester hasn't impacted the First Family's already parsimonious vacation budget. The pain would be unbearable.

Speaking of pain, every year I spend Easter Cesar Chavez Day with a gaggle of liberal Obama voters. Consider it a fitting final penance to cap off 40 days of Lent.

This year there was much discussion of economic woes. "My hours got cut," "my job is asking everyone to accept a pay freeze," "my health insurance premiums went way up," "my insurance didn't cover all my lab work and I got a huge bill," and my personal favorite, "my 2 grown sons can't find a job and they won't move out."

Not a one made the connection between their Divine President Lightworker Unicorn Healer and the sad state of their personal econonic outlook.

I held my tongue. But I was laughing hysterically on the inside.

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