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Obama budget plan defeated 99 - 0 in the Senate

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:17:00 GMT

The Obamessiah failed U.S. Budgeting 101. The plan he touted during his State of the Union speech, the economic framework he's counting on for Hope And Change V2.0, his hand-crafted schematic for debt reduction and massive tax increases, can't pass muster with even a single Senator.

It went down in flames today, 99 to 0.

President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it.

Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year.

Republicans forced the vote by offering the president's plan on the Senate floor.

They don't teach budgeting (or economics) in Community Organizer school.

Harry Reid doesn't have any Democrat alternative, so he'll use parliamentary tricks to ensure Paul Ryan's sound, sensible, serious plan never makes it to the floor.

It's been more than 1100 days since the do-nothing Senate has passed a budget.

Democrats call that leadership.
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Ashley Dupre: from escort to entrepreneur

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:28:00 GMT

I imagine she's got a good head for business. Former escort Ashley Dupre is going legit, with an upscale lingerie and swimwear boutique in Red Bank, NJ.

Ashley Dupre, the former escort from New Jersey whose tryst with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer created a blockbuster political scandal that led to his resignation, is back in the Garden State and starting a new chapter in her life.

Dupre has opened a lingerie and swimsuit shop in the trendy town of Red Bank and says she is moving forward with her new career and not regretting the past, according to a report by RedBankGreen.com.

There's a website — Femme by Ashley — although pictures of the one-time Playboy model won't be featured.

A reporter from the hyperlocal website landed a rare one-on-one interview with the former call girl, who said she likes to maintain her privacy and refused to allow any photos or videos during the interview.

"I'm very private. People don't believe that, but I'm a very private person," Dupre told the website. "I don't want that life. I'm not looking to be in the press. I'm just looking to get on with my life."

Dupre told the website her Red Bank business venture "is almost like the beginning of the rest of my life... I made a bunch of mistakes when I was younger, and I feel like, for the first time in my life, I'm growing into an adult, and I'm really excited about that."

Everyone deserves a second chance. But I suppose if Eliot Spitzer shows up with his new girlfriend things might get a little awkwward.

And on the plus side, a quick 5 minutes of Internet research turned up one interesting fact about the new and improved Ms. Dupre. She's a Jets fan!

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Why voting "not Romney" would be a disaster for America

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:17:00 GMT

Some of my libertarian friends are proudly proclaiming their intent to vote "not Romney" come November. They're standing on principle dontcha know. Since the Republicans didn't nominate Ron Paul nobody else is good enough for their tastes.

Um, OK. Line up behind Gary Johnson. He won't win. There, I said it. Gary Johnson will never be president of the United States. Neither will Ron Paul. They took their shot during the primaries. They lost. In the general election they'll get creamed.

I was a Rick Perry guy. He lost too. Should I take my marbles and go home? Or should I try to influence the presumptive GOP nominee to listen to Governor Perry, and weigh his advice?

In other words, which of the two candidates is more likely to seek out and consider conservative (and libertarian) viewpoints?

Every vote for Johnson or Paul (or Nader or Donald Duck) is one less vote for the only guy who stands between us and four more years of Obamunism. All those things you guys say Romney might do? Allow me to let you in on a little secret — Obama is already doing stuff that's worse. In a second term he says he'll have "more flexibility." Trust me, that's not going to be good for America.

Doesn't the idea of a further leftward shift scare you guys even a little?

Because it terrifies me.
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The Obamacare dominos fall: Franciscan University drops health insurance

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:29:00 GMT

Barack Obama's war on the Catholic Church has claimed its first scalp.

Franciscan University appears to be the first casualty of the new Obama HHS mandate that requires Catholic colleges, groups and businesses to pay for drugs that may cause abortions and birth control for their employees.

Although President Barack Obama declared "If you like your health care coverage you can keep it," when it came to passing Obamacare, a Catholic college in Ohio has determined it will no longer offer a student health insurance plan.

"The Obama Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover 'women's health services' including contraception, sterilization, and abortion-causing medications as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)," the university says in a new post on its website. "Up to this time, Franciscan University has specifically excluded these services and products from its student health insurance policy, and we will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life."

Kathleen Sebelius was seen cackling hysterically as Nancy Pelosi and Debbie Wasserman Schultz danced a jig under the Capitol dome. Their evil plan is working.

Soon Catholicism will be marginalized, and Americans will worship the one true Obamessiah, provider of the free stuff and champion of the Hollywood sodomite elite. In his name they will supplicate, and upon his visage they will gaze as their liberty is suborned to the power of the Democratic Party.

A new messenger of perpetual dependency has emerged — Patricia Henry (played in the never-ending Obama biopic by Sandra Fluke) — proclaiming "give me free birth control or give me death!"

Alas in the land of eternal narcissism, death is reserved for the unborn.

And thus it was written: As Dear Leader hath decreed, so shall it be done. Thou shalt have no savior but Obama. Honor thy Independent Payment Advisory Board and thy unionized caregiver political action committee. Keep holy the solstice. And remember, Thou Shalt Not Vote Republican.

And of course coveting thy neighbor's wife is encouraged, and thy neighbor's goods so long as he is vilified as a member of the 1%.

Our children will never know freedom. They'll never know responsibility either. And what they don't know can't derail the dystopian future our Obamunist overlords hath established.
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As Obama goes gay, more states are in play

Chris Wysocki — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:47:00 GMT

I had a fellow come up to me over the weekend, he's a die-hard Democrat, big Obama booster, never voted for a Republican in his life. First thing out of his mouth — what the hell was Obama thinking with this gay "marriage" thing? To say my friend is pissed off would be an understatement. He knows the issue's a stinker.

The latest CBS News / New York Times poll shows he's not alone in thinking that.

According to the survey, conducted May 11-13, 46 percent of registered voters say they would vote for Romney, while 43 percent say they would opt for Mr. Obama. Romney's slight advantage remains within the poll's margin of error, which is plus or minus four percentage points.

Except when you drill down into the data the really interesting numbers come out.

Romney is up with Women? But…but we've been told that Romney, Rush Limbaugh, and the GOP HATE women!

And

You mean this poll has more democrats than republicans, In fact 70% of the poll (75% unweighted) respondents are not republicans and not only is Ronney leading but he is leading among women?

Yet another example of what Glenn Reynolds calls #NarrativeFail. Add in blowback from Black churches and the once-vaunted Obama electoral machine seems dangerously close to coming off the rails.

Meanwhile Gallop released their state-by-state presidential approval numbers, and translating them into an electoral map spells D-O-O-M for our first gay president.

Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers yesterday, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very worried. If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48 percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215.

So naturally last night Obama doubled down on unnatural marriage, calling for repeal of DOMA while wooing LGBT donors in Manhattan.

When that doesn't work, and unless you live in a New York Times induced bubble you know it's not going to work, he'll probably dump Joe Biden in favor of Jim "I am a Gay American" McGreevey. Hey, once you go gay, you may as well go all the way!

They could call their campaign "Modern Bromance". Or, with a nod to Chris Matthews, "Hope and Evolve".
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TSA, keeping us safe from Henry Kissinger

Chris Wysocki — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:40:00 GMT

Henry Kissinger got groped by the TSA.

The man who once advised U.S. presidents on foreign affairs — Henry Kissinger — became the latest passenger to trip the Transportation Security Administration's radar, when he was subjected to a pat-down at New York City's LaGuardia airport.

The former Secretary of State was asked for his name while passing through an airport scanner on Friday before he was taken aside for a search, the Washington Post reports.

A freelance reporter who recognized Kissinger, 89, said he was subjected to "the full Monty" of groping.

Because if Henry Kissinger isn't viewed as a potential threat, the terrorists have won.

TSA is a joke.

Sadly, the joke is on us.
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New Jersey's government-subsidized solar energy "market" needs more subsidies

Chris Wysocki — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:06:00 GMT

Solar energy in New Jersey needs a bailout.

The market that New Jersey officials set up to subsidize solar energy needs a rescue or there will be disastrous layoffs in the industry, business leaders, politicians and regulators say.

Those in the industry say if the government doesn't step in to raise subsidy prices paid to solar panel owners, a bust in the market will kill jobs created in the last few years as New Jersey's solar capacity has more than doubled, putting the state second only to California.

A "market?" Yes, a market for subsidies. Which of course translates into higher electricity prices for you and me.

That market works because electric companies must buy solar credits, called SRECs, from panel owners, or produce their own solar power.

Gee, government holds a gun to their heads, and thus the "market works."

But when you subsidize something, the Law of Unintended Consequences rears it's ugly head.

But SREC prices dropped dramatically in the last year after a boom in solar panels produced a glut of the solar credits, which are traded on a market.

The credits, once valued at over $600 each, cost a little over $100 on the spot market last week, according to Flett Exchange.

Who'da thunk it? Subsidize solar panels and you get too many solar panels!

"Many, many jobs being lost, many good companies going out of business, and we don't know why," warned Lyle Rawlings, head of the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents more than 100 companies in New Jersey.

Of course you know "why." The subsidies dried up, because solar energy is not cost-effective. It can't compete in an open marketplace.

So, what's a regulator to do?

With the rallying cry of jobs, Board of Public Utilities head Robert Hanna said either the state Legislature or the BPU must step in soon to raise demand for SRECs.

"(SRECs) are at a level where they will not sustain the solar market going forward, so we do need a legislative solution," Hanna said this week.

Hanna said the BPU could take action, but he hopes the Legislature does first.

"A legislative solution would be much longer-lasting and much more comprehensive, and I think it will send the signal we want to send to the solar industry," Hanna said.

What "signal" is that? One that says we're not fans of the law of supply and demand? There's a glut of solar panels. So naturally the solution is to pass a law forcing people to buy more solar panels.

The bill would have raised SREC prices by increasing the number utilities are required to buy, speeding up a planned increase already unfolding through 2026.

There's the heavy hand of government, requiring folks to buy a commodity that in actuality no one wants to buy.

Here's a better idea. Let solar compete on the merits. Either it turns a profit, or it doesn't. Yeah, I know, that's crazy talk.
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In humor there is truth, here's a great joke from today's church bulletin

Chris Wysocki — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:51:00 GMT

Monsignor Desmond gets two thumbs up for printing this joke in today's bulletin:

A layman walked up to a Franciscan and a Jesuit and asked, "How many novenas must I say to get a Mercedes Benz?" The Franciscan asked, "What's a Mercedes Benz?" The Jesuit asked, "What's a novena?"

Father Z would approve!

Georgetown University, I think they're talking about you.
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Mothers Day needs more mothers

Chris Wysocki — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:19:00 GMT

What hath feminism wrought?

Quite possibly the irreversible decline of Western Civilization.

The 55,000,000 babies murdered since Roe v. Wade were unavailable for comment.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us.
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Justice is blind, and so is the Second Amendment: Blind man can keep his guns

Chris Wysocki — Sat, 12 May 2012 17:11:00 GMT

A blind Rockaway, NJ gun collector can keep his guns. NJ Superior Court Judge Thomas Manahan ruled that the Second Amendment does indeed apply to all Americans, even blind gun collectors.

A blind gun collector can keep his gun permit and will have the weapons previously seized from his house by police returned to him, following a judge's order handed down Friday in Superior Court in Morristown.

Steven Hopler, 49, of Rockaway Township won the latest battle in an ongoing war over his Second Amendment rights. The Morris County Prosecutor's office had asked Judge Thomas Manahan to revoke Hopler's firearms ID card and seize all guns in his possession, arguing Hopler abused alcohol and posed a danger to others by being a gun owner.

The anti-gun zealots really put Mr. Hopler through the wringer. An avid collector all his life, he lost his sight to diabetes in 1991. The authorities immediately moved to revoke his Second Amendment rights, the beginnings of a vendetta which culminated in this latest victory for Mr. Hopler. At stake here were the firearms police seized in 2008 when he accidentally shot himself in the shin while cleaning one of his guns.

The drunkard charge was bogus from the get-go, based solely on the hearsay testimony of a convicted burglar. Trumped up charges are good enough for the gun-grabbers, but alas not particularly relevant when compared to Mr. Hopler's Constitutional rights.

In his written decision handed down Friday Manahan said he believed Hopler, who completed an NRA Home Safety Course, is well-versed in how to handle a firearm. He also noted two Superior Court judges previously permitted him to purchase firearms.

In 2004 Hopler successfully challenged the Rockaway Township police chief's refusal to give him a gun permit because of a municipal court conviction for being unruly in a bar.

And in 1994 when the township police revoked a gun permit after learning he was blind, Hopler appealed and was allowed to keep his permit on the condition he fire weapons only in the presence of an adult trained in the use of firearms. This condition still stands.

Guns aren't scary. Having your Constitutional rights stolen by bureaucratic fiat, that's scary. It shouldn't require three separate court decisions to affirm the equal protection of the Second Amendment. But sadly, there are no "emanations of penumbras" at the Brady Campaign.

Fortunately the Constitution has a friend in Judge Manahan.
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Mitt Romney's "Mothers Day" ad offends my favorite feminist

Chris Wysocki — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:12:00 GMT

It turns out that National Offend A Feminist Week is so darn much fun even Mitt Romney is getting in on the action. His latest ad, entitled "Mothers Day", got my favorite feminist's knickers in a twist.

Wishing America's women a Happy Mother's Day by reminding them of this episode and putting Ann on that motherhood pedestal — five boys, cancer, multiple sclerosis and then being attacked for "never working." I hate to break it to the GOP, but reminding Americans of the comments of a DNC adviser and a comedian aren't going to resonate as families across the country buy moms flowers and take them out for dinner and, hopefully, letting them skip one day of laundry duty.

Yup, that's the main purpose of Mothers Day, so PunditMom can skip one day of laundry duty. Does the washing machine even fit onto her motherhood pedestal?

Works her fingers to the bone, she does.

Well, maybe when she's not carping about Republicans being mean to Michelle Obama, aka SuperMom. Sarah Palin's wardrobe was fair game, but notice Mrs. Obama's five hundred dollar sneakers and you're a racist as well as a misogynist. And Ann Romney wears fancy blouses!

But here's the best part. PunditMom is really upset because calling out slimy attacks on Ann Romney is a distraction.

They forget that people tire of these distractions, especially when it's about candidates' spouses. They're not the one's we're electing, so maybe they should save their campaign dollars and leave these two high profile moms out of it on Mother's Day.

Distractions are only OK when it's her team doing the distracting. (cough, gay "marriage", cough)

Romney's ad is effective precisely because it dramatically illustrates just how divergent the two camps' views of motherhood really are.

On the Republican side we have Ann Romney, raising five boys without complaint, joyfully nurturing them through the pain of her own personal trials.

On the Democrat side they have Sandra Fluke, demanding free birth control so as to eliminate her need to contemplate motherhood at all, while she cavorts recklessly with whatever partner suits her fancy.

Yeah, I can see how pointing out the futility of the feminist ethos could be a major bummer when they're trying to garner the soccer mom vote.

So I stand in awe of Mitt Romney, who hands down wins the title of Feminist Offender Of The Week, just because he dared to praise motherhood. I can't wait for his next ad, extolling the virtues of baseball and apple pie. There's gotta be some kind of Title IX angle in it that'll drive the feminuts even battier.
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NJ state test requires 3rd graders to disclose their deepest secret

Chris Wysocki — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:02:00 GMT

Imagine you were designing a standardized test for 3rd graders. One that every public school has to administer, with the results tabulated by unionized bureaucrats in the state Department of Education.

Times tables? Sure.

Name the fifty states? Probably.

Measure reading comprehension? Of course.

"Reveal your deepest, darkest secret, and tell why it's hard for you to keep?"

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Yes, that is an actual question on this year's NJ ASK exam. An exam developed by the finest minds our public education system can muster.

A spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Education says any question that goes on the NJ ASK test is first developed with a test group -Measurement Inc.- they administer the NJ ASK test….then it's reviewed by a New Jersey Department of Education expert — a content expert — and then it goes through a teachers advisory group — to see is it appropriate, etc — if it passes through that, they do test groups — for a couple of years — field testing — they review the results, and if it passes then it goes on as an actual test question…

Nothing is left to chance. Nothing.

So what possible educational rubric necessitates exposing a child's secrets to Big Brother? And how will his teacher, his principal, and the educrat thought police use the revelations?

Only for the child's betterment, of course!

As an added bonus they're conditioning our children to erase the bounds of privacy. The state should know all. You don't want to fail the test, do you? Tell us everything. What 3rd grader is going to disappoint his teacher?

Yeah, creepy doesn't begin to cover it.
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Chris Christie vetoed New Jersey's Obamacare Exchange!

Chris Wysocki — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:40:00 GMT

In theory the idea of a health insurance exchange sounds intriguing. Who doesn't want to save money, right? But when you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it, sometimes the stuff you find out isn't copacetic.

In states that implement an Obamacare insurance exchange employers are whacked with a $3,000 per employee tax. Hey, somebody's gotta pay for the occupods' treatments for TB and scabies! But taxing hiring? In a recession? Only a Democrat would do that.

So today NJ Governor Chris Christie vetoed New Jersey's Obamacare exchange.

I do believe that VP slot is within reach.
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Already offending feminists, "Rush Babes For America" more popular than NOW

Chris Wysocki — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:23:00 GMT

Serendipity comes to National Offend A Feminist Week.

After a scant two days "Rush Babes For America" has more followers than the feminuts at the National Organization for Womyn.

On Tuesday Rush Limbaugh launched the "Rush Babes for America" Facebook page. The group was organized as a counterweight to the far left National Organization of Women, who are behind a boycott of the Rush Limbaugh radio program.

The nattering nags at NOW are not amused. Which might be relevant, if they weren't a bunch of hapless harridans harping helplessly. Perhaps NOW could step back from the abortion abyss long enough to recognize the 53,321,000 women who've given up on looking for work in Barack Obama's America.

Or not. Apparently Sandra Fluke's birth control is more important. Which is one reason why so many Real Women aren't keen to be known as "feminists."
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Key bundler for Bob Menendez pleads guilty to making $100K in illegal contributions

Chris Wysocki — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:24:00 GMT

The stench of curruption surrounding U.S. Senator Bob Menendez still hasn't ensnared him. But with friends like Joseph Bigica he's definitely skating on thin ice.

A major supporter of Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez pleaded guilty today to using straw donors to funnel nearly $100,000 in illegal contributions to the Menendez campaign.

The federal investigation targeted Joseph Bigica, 46, a politically connected North Jersey insurance broker with tens of millions of dollars in no-bid municipal insurance contracts who also admitted to $2 million in tax fraud.

Authorities said Bigica lived in wealthy Franklin Lakes, drove a Lamborghini and a Ferrari and vacationed in the Virgin Islands, but claimed he did not have a dime to pay his taxes.

What is it with Democrats and tax evasion? An insurance broker, eh? Maybe he's getting ready for when Barry appoints him to run the Obamacare exchange for New Jersey. Lots of opportunity to evade taxes in a lucrative gig like that.

The Menendez campaign claimed they were "victims" of Bigica's fraud. Uh huh. A guy shows up with $100 grand in checks and they're too busy slapping him on the back to worry about where those checks came from. Come on in Joe, have a cigar, and let's talk about what we can do for you!

That's how the game is played. And Bob Menendez is a master at the game.
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Q: How will Obama's endorsement of gay "marriage" help the economy?

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:45:00 GMT

A: Shut up.

That's really all we need to know. Obama's launched another distraction, designed to appeal to his base, and bring wealthy gay donors back into the fold.

When Mitt Romney is inevitably hounded for a reaction he ought to point that out.

"No, we aren't better off today than we were four years ago. Next question!"

As for Barry's gutsy "evolution" on the issue — he supports it "personally" but leaves it to the states — well let's just say hooray for North Carolina.
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Butane fuel cell gadget puts two weeks of smartphone charging in your pocket

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:12:00 GMT

Smartphone battery life isn't what we'd like it to be. My BlackBerry Torch barely lasts a whole day before I'm cozying up to a wall wart. My wife's Droid Razr needs a mid-day recharge or it's dead before bedtime.

And face it, when your phone is tethered to the wall, so are you. Somebody should market a coiled USB cable so we can at least pretend to harken back to the halcyon days of wall-mounted princess phones while our lithium ions absorb their daily dose of electrons.

Enter Lilliputian Systems and their portable butane fuel cell pocket charger.

Retailer Brookstone will sell a portable fuel cell able to charge smartphones a dozen times before running out.

Fuel cell maker Lilliputian Systems today announced that Brookstone will be the first retailer to carry its portable USB power source, which will be sold under Brookstone's brand. The fuel cell device is about the size of a thick smartphone, and the lighter fluid-filled cartridges are about the same size as a cigarette lighter.

The new fuel cell will charge any device that has a USB cable.

Lilliputian's fuel cell will be able to fully charge, for example, an iPhone 4 between 10 and 14 times with one cartridge. That can mean a couple weeks of use for many people.

Who knew your dad's old Zippo could be reborn as an iPhone juicer?
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Just in time for Mothers Day, it's the Patricia Krentcil Tanorexic Mom Action Figure!

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:17:00 GMT

HeroBuilders.com strikes again. Meet the Tanorexic Mom Action Figure! She's got a burnt sienna face and flashy golden hair. Yours for only $29.95, plus shipping and handling.

It's the perfect Mothers Day gift for your sun-worshipping beach-babe mom.

The John Boehner action figure wants her number.
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Does the Obama White House count your unborn fetus as three-fifths of a visitor?

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:24:00 GMT

On Tuesday it was reported that the White House visitor's bureau required pregnant women to register an unborn baby into their security system.

It is interesting that the Obama White House, a place where everyone thinks a pre-born baby is just a lump of "unviable cells" and not really a person, is now insisting that pregnant mothers must register themselves and their unborn baby on the visitor log when they visit the White House.

Well, HuffPo now has a "clarification".

White House Tours Do Not Require Fetuses To Be Counted As Full Humans

Max Milien, a spokesman for White House Secret Security, said it's not accurate to say that fetuses are counted as people on White House tours.

This notation device "simply serves as a placeholder for the baby once it's born," Milien said. "All White House guests are required to provide information at the time of their request for the tour, including for children and infants, and those expected to be on the tour once born."

So, if you're pregnant, and you sign up for a White House tour, and you think you might give birth between now and then, Barack Obama will count your unborn child as 3/5 of a person. Or something.
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Joe Biden, International Man of Gaffe-istry

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 09 May 2012 01:06:00 GMT

Blame America First, it's the Obama - Biden way!

"When we took office, let me remind, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran. We were the problem," the vice president said. "We were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in Europe."

Joe Biden, Gaffe-bag. Five U.N. resolution, countless diplomatic efforts, and a strong U.S. presence in the region. Yeah, that's "virtually" no pressure on Iran.

And yet, Sarah Palin wasn't qualified to be vice president?

The mind reels.

Who gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the go-ahead to pursue "peaceful" nuclear development? Hint — it was Joe Biden's big effin friend.

But at least Smart Diplomacy has led to new tougher sanctions and a unified international community, right? Right?

The visiting Iranian trade delegation started its first round of discussions with Indian representatives for increasing trade and commerce between the two countries, while overcoming the US and European sanctions against Iran.

Maybe Joe thinks they're talkin' about Slurpees.
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Feminists are the sodium chloride of the earth

Chris Wysocki — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:45:00 GMT

Yesterday my favorite feminist gushed like a giddy schoolgirl over this Funny or Die clip.

You know, I thought Funny or Die was a comedy site, but it turns out they are going to a major political player this election year. In a mere two and a half minutes, Kate Beckinsale and some of her friends have summed up the entire Republican world view!

I've never been a huge Kate Beckinsale fan, except for the movie Serendipity, but that was more because of my love for John Cusack (yes, I'm looking at you, Bossy!) But I am totally rethinking that stand after this political statement!

I filed it away, because it is National Offend A Feminist Week after all, and how better to offend my favorite feminist than with logic and facts?

But then Smitty went and beat me to it.

What a creepy, sick, Orwellian world these feminists live in. Remind me again why any mature, masculine male would want to be in the same room as these abattoir-vaginas, much less offering them any essence to destroy? I guess I should say "choose to destroy".

The sickness of the government-worship implied in this clip is only exceeded by the crypto-incest of talking about their dads and their vaginas at the end, if you can make it that far.

"Ye are the sodium chloride of the Earth," to paraphrase the Sage. He did not follow up: "And if the chlorine hath lost its mind, and formeth not the good salt of a family with the sodium, then it shall have lost its savor to feminism, and be fit for going under the wheeled conveyance* of history, with the rest of a godless culture." And why was such an addendum unnecessary? Because a couple thousand years ago, people weren't post-Modern crack-addled Feminist nitwits, that's why.

Word.

And as he notes, the good news is that feminists are unlikely to reproduce, thus reducing the long-term prospects for their dementia. But only if we stand up now to deconstruct its obvious shortcomings, lest such feminist writings lead future generations to repeat the mistakes of their bitter spinster ancestors.
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Kicking off National Offend A Feminist Week - feminuts kick boy off girls field hockey team

Chris Wysocki — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:50:00 GMT

Hooah! It's National Offend A Feminist Week!

Did somebody say "War on Women"? OK, we're not actually anti-woman. More like, anti-Women's Studies majors. Which is why, for the fourth consecutive year, we are pleased once more to inaugurate this annual festival of fun, quoting the immortal words of our charter:

Hey, sweetheart, when I say "bring me a cup of coffee," I mean bring me fresh coffee, OK?

Nothing warms the cockles of a feminist's heart quite like seeing girls playing on boys' sports teams. Female place kickers on the varsity football squad? You've come a long way, baby. Title IX rulez!

But when there's a boy who wants to play field hockey? Well let's just say that gender equality is definitely a one-way street.

Keeling Pilaro has been told that after two years as a member of the Southampton High School girls' team, he is now too skilled to qualify for an exemption allowing him to compete with, and against, girls next season. There are no boys' field hockey teams on Long Island.

He's too good. Feminist lawyers hate that.

Keeling's chances of winning on a Title IX argument are slim, said Joanna Grossman, a law professor at Hofstra University, because the law was established to benefit those who claim their opportunities to compete are underrepresented. Most of the time that favors women or girls, because schools provide more opportunities for boys to play athletics.

Who cares if there's no boys' field hockey team? He's got "more opportunities" to play athletics. Pick up a basketball kid and leave the little lasses alone. They might start thinking they aren't as good as you if you keep showing them that they aren't as good as you.

So in honor of National Offend A Feminist Week, here's a picture that's sure to boil the blood of every Womyn's Studies major on the Eastern Seaboard.

A boy playing field hockey. Truly an example of the right-wing War on Women.
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The French think they've voted to give themselves more of Germany's money

Chris Wysocki — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:00:00 GMT

Socialist Francois Hollande is the new president of France. He takes the reins of power from Nicolas Sarkozy with the expectation that austerity will be a thing of the past.

As will sanity, apparently.

Socialism is the belief that you can live forever on other people's money. And the French left is joyfully singing "Jours Heureux Sont Ici A Nouveau." Why not? They're not gonna pay for it.

How long the Germans will put up with that remains to be seen. They're the only country in Europe with money, and they've already tired of bailing out the Greeks. Not to mention the Portuguese, Spaniards, and Italians. A bunch of greedy Frenchmen aren't exactly their dream date.

The world is one giant step closer to the European Union's demise. And Vladmir Putin is licking his chops in anticipation.
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Moonbats choose Super Moon worship over Techno-Dazzle Obama campaign rally

Chris Wysocki — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:09:00 GMT

Hey, where did all those cheering throngs go? Barry kicked off his re-election campaign at Ohio State University yesterday, and pretty much everyone had better things to do. The seats, they were empty.

Oops.

That didn't stop ~~Pravda~~ The New York Times from gushing over how "rock star" Obama brought "the techno-dazzle of an Apple product introduction."

Yeah, it must have been for that new iFail gizmo we keep hearing about.

Did I mention there were empty seats?

It's a campaign faux pas to hold an event in a room that isn't full; to promise the media a more-than-capacity crowd then fall this far short of that promise is utter incompetence. In 2008, Obama ran a near-flawless campaign, buoyed by enthusiasm and effective organizing. But it's not 2008 any more, and on day one of the 2012 campaign, Team Obama has already made an embarrassing blunder.

In 2008 he didn't have a record to run on.

And he didn't have to compete with three huge reasons to party hearty.

Karl Marx's birthday. All the commies were crowded into gloomy coffeehouses, scowling menacingly at the bourgeois tea drinkers.

Cinco de Mayo. Get your drunk on! Barry can wait until tomorrow.

And ... Super Moon!

There's a reason we call Obama's most passionately clueless supporters moonbats you know. And obviously they felt the pull of their harsh mistress, which left (almost) no one to turn out for Dear Leader's recycled pep rally.

You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
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Obama to SCOTUS: We're not smart enough to reset Medicare back to 2009's rules

Chris Wysocki — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:33:00 GMT

The White House fired a shot across the Supreme Court's bow this week, warning they'll have to Throw Grandma From The Train if Obamacare is overturned.

The Obama administration warned the Supreme Court this week via papers filed with the Court that if Obamacare is struck down, there will be an "extraordinary disruption" in Medicare. Medicare was not discussed during the Supreme Court arguments, since it was not a Constitutional issue. This is a practical argument, not a legal one; it.' the Obama administration applying pressure to the Supremes.

An "extraordinary disruption?" To reset the Medicare rules back to what was in effect prior to March 23, 2010? Perhaps they don't remember the old rules? No worries, I'd imagine Google has a copy of them somewhere.

I'm an IT guy. Every project we implement has a "backout plan," a set of steps which revert back to the prior version in case there's a major problem.

The Medicare folks can't come up with a backout plan? Why? Aren't they smart enough?

In effect Obama is telling the Supreme Court, "We're too imcompetent to undo the damage we did." Yeah, that's a convincing argument.
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Dozens just laid off at The New York Times - lawyers, minorities hardest hit

Chris Wysocki — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:57:00 GMT

Will the last person to leave The New York Times please turn off the lights?

More than 50 people were laid off on the corporate side. The layoffs include George Freeman, one of their well-known in-house lawyers. The worry is this is just the begginning of cuts — and that the company is putting pressure on the unions. Several of the people who were laid off were minorities, including African Americans and Hispanics.

Ooh, they're sacking minorities, including African Americans and Hispanics now. And lawyers! Things must really be serious over there.

The entire legal floor is in shock.

I love the smell of schadenfreude on a Friday afternoon…

Yes, amazingly enough, printing nothing but Obama White House propaganda does not actually result in any jobs created or saved.

A Real Newspaper might want to report on a story like that.
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Obamunism, the movie

Chris Wysocki — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:34:00 GMT

Tomorrow Barack Obama officially kicks off his re-election bid. Because even though he's held more fundraisers than the past 5 presidents combined he hasn't really been campaigning yet.

May 5^th is also Karl Marx's birthday. We're supposed to believe that isn't a coincidence.

Or not.

Exhibit A: Obamunism, the movie.

Surely, this is already a parody; why, I doubt that even David Kahane could have created its combination of myopia, stupidity, mendacity, effrontery, and misandry so artlessly — although I suspect he will soon give it a go. "Julia" appears to have no males — certainly not a husband when, at 31, she "decides to have a child" after disporting herself sexually consequence-free in previous years, thanks to the wonders of Obamacare. (Where did "Zachary" come from — a test tube?)

"Julia" is the Obama vision for America's future. One in which cradle-to-grave socialism has replaced the American dream. Why do for yourself when ~~Uncle~~ Comrade Sam can do it for you? Julia is the New ~~Soviet~~ American Woman — at each milestone in her life there's Dear Leader to guide her along the path, and of course pick up the tab for her every need.

Left Coast Rebel piles on the mockery, complete with a more realistic alternative ending.

Barack Obama's patronizing view of America is one which is all to common among our new nomenklatura. The Marxist professors and structural feminists who control our colleges and universities make sure to inculcate a visceral hatred of traditional American values into every student they encounter. And so each May a fresh crop of automatons emerges from campus eager to join the battle against our greedy capitalist oppressive patriarchy.

No wonder Obama is so gung-ho to have every student attend college. What amazes me is that parents willingly shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars in pursuit of a diploma which is in reality nothing more than a certificate of progressive brainwashing. Drink the bio-degradeable Kool-Aid and pick up an application for Food Stamps on your way out.

Curiously though in all those classes on fairness and gender equality and the evils of global capitalism they never seem to mention communism's body count. American imperialism is what ails the world, not forced poverty, mass sterilizations, centrally-planned famines, and more than 100 million deaths.

Stupid kulaks, we don't know what's good for us. That's why we need Barack Obama to show us the way.

Exhibit B: Seen on Facebook.

I can't count how many times I've actually heard that "argument" from a liberal.

If Mitt Romney can't philosophically annihilate such sophistry, if the American people fail to see there's no future along the road to serfdom, if somehow the siren song of socialism lures the country into four more years of Obama, then we no longer deserve the legacy of Ben Franklin's republic.

It's now or never. Will we wake up on November 6^th to a rebirth of freedom and liberty, or will we blindly have sold our children into bondage?

The choice is ours. I pray we choose wisely.
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Amid the latest round of dismal economic news there is one small bright spot

Chris Wysocki — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:56:00 GMT

That bright spot? It's named "Spot."

Just in to the WyBlog news desk — the demand for dog meat is now at an all-time high. The country's solitary Indonesian grocery store has seen their online sales take off like a beagle chasing a jackrabbit after it was revealed that President Obama eats dogs.

Bo the White House dog was unavailable for comment. But Administration spokestool Jay Carney did say there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that President Obama's Cinco de Mayo luncheon menu will feature Chihuahua Chimichangas.

Elsewhere today, retail sales sank to a new low last month as consumers held back on spending amid renewed worries about the nation's economic outlook. However sales of a new Obama bumper sticker seem to be picking up.

Adding to the gloom U.S. worker productivity dropped by the most in a year as companies continued to muddle along with their existing workforces rather than hire additional employees.

Of course the Obama spin machine (aka "the media") wants you to pay no attention to the bad news behind the curtain. They'd rather we read about Ann Romney's "expensive" blouse (cheaper than Michelle Obama's ugly sweater!) and Young Obama in love, wearing a sarong while reciting poetry to his composite girlfriend.

And if the country goes to the dogs, Que Sarong, Sarong.
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Woman bites dog! And her mother! Yes, alcohol was involved

Chris Wysocki — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:41:00 GMT

When a dog bites a man, that's not news. But a woman who bit a dog? That's news!

A 19-year-old Chicago woman is being charged with animal cruelty, domestic battery and underage drinking after she allegedly bit her English bulldog and scratched, hit and bit her mother in a drunken rage.

Analise J. Garner reportedly returned to her home early Sunday morning and bit the 80-pound dog several times. Police said the bulldog finally bit her back in self-defense, but had puncture wounds visible against its fur.

Garner's 37-year-old mother was also bit on her right hand, police said.

Instapundit's gotta link this, right? His favorite snarky line is "dog bites man." Well today, woman bites dog.

And, a 19 year old has a mother who's 37? That family puts the "fun" in dysfunctional!

Barack Obama was heard to say, bulldog goes better with mustard.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers sign paralyzed Rutgers player Eric LeGrand

Chris Wysocki — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:40:00 GMT

Your feel-good story of the day:

Rutgers University player Eric LeGrand's on-field football career ended on October 16, 2010 when he was paralyzed from the neck down after making a tackle on special teams.

His dreams of playing in the NFL ended that day, but LeGrand will still be part of an NFL roster. His former coach Greg Schiano signed him to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Wednesday to honor LeGrand and help bring attention to the issue of spinal cord injuries. LeGrand wants to raise money to help find a cure.

"Leading up to the draft, I couldn't help but think that this should've been Eric's draft class," said Schiano. "This small gesture is the least we could do to recognize his character, spirit, and perseverance. The way Eric lives his life epitomizes what we are looking for in Buccaneer Men."

LeGrand had a media conference call on Wednesday to talk about the signing. He was composed, upbeat, and deeply appreciative of the gesture.

"It came out of nowhere," LeGrand said. "He told my mom about it I believe Monday night. Didn't tell me until Tuesday . . . I said I don't even know what to say right now. This is amazing, coach, thank you. Dreams do come true if you really believe."

Classy move on the Bucs part. Godspeed Eric.
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