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A note to frothing fundamentalist fruitcakes:

Nicki — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:35:00 GMT

STFU. Please. You make real Christians and other religious people look bad.

Opponents of a new federal hate crime law say the legislation could turn ministers into criminals.

“Our point is that pastors and others are not prosecuted as criminals for speaking out against homosexual behavior and the political agenda that promotes it,” said Gary Glenn, a Midland resident and president of the American Family Association of Michigan.

“It’s all about free speech,” Glenn said.

Glenn and three mid-Michigan ministers filed a civil rights suit challenging the constitutionality of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act that President Barack Obama signed in October.

The act makes it a federal offense to assault someone because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity.

Let me say up front that I completely oppose "hate crimes" legislation in any form. I think prosecuting someone on the basis of what they were thinking when they committed a crime borders entirely too much on "thought crime." Orwell would be proud.

Additionally, creating a special protected class of victims certainly makes me cringe when I think of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, which provides that "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." I don't know about you all; I'm certainly not a lawyer, but equal protection under the law certainly implies to me that creating a special class of victims is a big no-no.

That said, however, I'm sick and tired of frothing fundamentalist fruitcakes trying to create a whole new class of potential victims in themselves!

Ouellette said the ministers are concerned that the law has the potential to allow the government to prosecute ministers for the content of their sermons.

“We believe that the law will be used to stifle free speech and keep people from quoting scripture as it is written,” Ouellette said.

In other words, "WAAAAAH! We're skeered that we won't be allowed to vomit forth venom toward fags, queers, queens, trannies and other freaks whom our God hates with a passion of a thousand burning suns with impunity!"

The Reverend Oullette is a moron. The proposed law specifically protects the right to religious expression (no matter how hateful or odious), so these assholes, along with their Fred Phelps cohorts are safe to spew any kind of hate they want, as long as it's not accompanied by them beating the shit out of some guy because he happens to be a little more limp-wristed than they are comfortable with.

(4) FREE EXPRESSION.—Nothing in this division shall be
construed to allow prosecution based solely upon an individual’s
expression of racial, religious, political, or other beliefs or solely
upon an individual’s membership in a group advocating or
espousing such beliefs.

(5) FIRST AMENDMENT.—Nothing in this division, or an
amendment made by this division, shall be construed to
diminish any rights under the first amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.

(6) CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS.—Nothing in this division
shall be construed to prohibit any constitutionally protected
speech, expressive conduct or activities (regardless of
whether compelled by, or central to, a system of religious belief),
including the exercise of religion protected by the first amendment
to the Constitution of the United States and peaceful
picketing or demonstration. The Constitution of the United
States does not protect speech, conduct or activities consisting
of planning for, conspiring to commit, or committing an act
of violence.

In other words, ejaculate all the hate you want. Just as long as you're not spewing it while killing off some effeminate looking boys, you're safe to be an asshole.

Our Constitution protects your right to be one.

And ferfuckssake, stop screeching about being oh-so-persecuted! If the right of Fred Phelps' and his band of trolls to be complete and total assholes at the funerals of our fallen heroes is protected, so is your right to screech about the eeeeevils of buttseks in your church. No one is going to come drag you off because your sex life revolves around creating oodles of brainwashed offspring to carry on your twisted message.

If you're going to oppose this law, do it because it's morally repugnant to prosecute someone based on what they were thinking during the commission of a crime. Do it because it's unethical to create a law that makes the murder of one protected minority more odious than the murder of another, unprotected human being. Do it because murder, assault, rape, etc. are hideous crimes, and they're equally hideous when perpetrated against a white redneck or a black, gay, tranny.

Opposing the law because you think it will limit your right to vomit forth invective against those you perceive your twisted deity hates, when it's specifically protected, makes you a douchebag.

Period.

Maybe you should have done it

Nicki — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:36:00 GMT

You guys know that I can get very mean and visceral on occasion. Some of the things that piss me off most are hypocrisy, lies, statism and tyranny and abuse of power. So when Phil Jones, the so-called "scientist" in the middle of the “climategate” email scandal announced (in what seems like a bout of a public cry for sympathy for his self-created plight), that he thought about killing himself after the backlash of hate and derision against him, my first reaction is "why didn't you do it, asshole?"

The incident has taken a severe toll on his health. He has lost more than a stone in weight and disclosed he is on beta-blockers and using sleeping pills. He said the support of his family, and especially the love of his five-year-old granddaughter, had helped him to shake off suicidal thoughts: “I wanted to see her grow up.”

Waaah! So the bloody hell what! This guy intentionally tried to hide data that discredited his research - research that can cause irreparable damage to our way of life! If his and his team's lies hadn't been exposed, how many of us would be paying exorbitant taxes to cover petty tyrants' attempts to impose draconian "environmentally friendly" regulations upon us? How many of us would be screwed by new laws that would drastically alter the way we live?

And guess what, folks! This festering hemorrhoid on the ass of humanity has absolutely no remorse about what he did! None! He doesn't think he and his band of rabid enviromonkeys did anything wrong!

Jones has temporarily stood down as director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia. He fiercely defends the unit’s science — “I stand by it 100%” — but now accepts that he did not treat Freedom of Information (FoI) requests for the data as seriously as he should have done. Jones believes that the unit was maliciously targeted with multiple FoI requests by climate change sceptics determined to disrupt its work.

Repeated requests for information about a topic that could drastically alter the lives of billions of people are somehow "malicious,' according to this asshole. The fact that people's earnings (read: taxpayer money) sponsored his research somehow doesn't prompt him to consider that he's somehow accountable to those people. And the fact that his emails reveal intentional and malicious plans to conceal data and discredit scientific critics and negative peer reviews of his work doesn't stop him from defending his fraud.

In emails that were hacked into and seized upon by global-warming sceptics before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, Jones appeared to call upon his colleagues to destroy scientific data rather than release it to people intent on discrediting their work monitoring climate change.
Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”

I submit to you, the reader, that Jones has no business calling himself a scientist. Real scientists have the integrity to face scrutiny of their work, and the open mind to admit that perhaps their research isn't all it's cracked up to be. Real scientists don't try to bury evidence contrary to their preconceived hypothesis. Real scientists don't manipulate their data and selectively choose only supporters to peer review their work, while banding together with other, like-minded scientific fraudsters to shun unfavorable or critical reviews. That is exactly what Jones and his cohorts did.

Another glimpse into what the files and emails reveal was the report by Professor Deming. He wrote, “With publication of an article in Science (in 1995) I gained sufficient credibility in the community of scientists working on climate change.They thought I was one of them someone who would pervert science in the service of social and political causes. So one of them let his guard down. A major person working in the area of climate change and global warming sent me an astonishing email that said. “We must get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” The person in question was Jonathan Overpeck and his even more revealing emails are part of those exposed by the hacker. It is now very clear that Deming’s charge was precise.They have perverted science in the service of social and political causes.

And now he has the unmitigated gall to try and garner some sympathy from the general public by dragging his granddaughter into the Phil Jones Pity Fest????

As far as I'm concerned, Phil Jones should have offed himself. He has no integrity and no honor. His lies affect the rights of billions of people to live as free human beings. He's a coward who can't face the consequences of his actions, refuses to take responsibility for his lies and is deathly scared of scrutiny, because he knows he's a miserable liar and doesn't want his lies exposed. In other words, suicide is appropriate as the coward's way out.

Snowpocalypse 2010

Nicki — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:06:00 GMT

Can I just say this sucks! A lot. I spent last night clearing my property. I spent this morning clearing my property. When I ran out of gas for my snow blower, I had to walk to the gas station in the blizzard to get more fuel. Why? Because the snow plows came through overnight and left me a present - a 5 foot wall of snow and slush that completely blocked my driveway!

Please note the rather large hole in the Great Wall of Snow and Slush... This is where I plowed my car into it, hoping to break up some of the densely-packed, wet, heavy snow and slush. This is also where I high-centered my car on a bunch of snow and sleet that packed itself under my car. If it wasn't for the completely awesome neighbors, their sons and some folks from down the street, my car would still be there, sitting on top of the slush. THANK YOU NEIGHBORS! THANK YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH!

In case you're wondering, that snow currently comes up to right below my waist! It JUST stopped after 36 hours of pounding. My child (the one who stayed here last night, as the older one was trapped at her friend's house and couldn't leave) drowned in the drift up to his tiny little waist.

That would be my driveway, which I spent the entire day clearing, with a potentially torn rotator cuff, I might add.

And now a message to all you environmentalist assholes who still claim the globe is warming, even though it hasn't seen any warming in more than 10 years, and this is one of the coldest, foulest, snowiest winters on record: FUCK YOU! FUCK YOU AL GORE. FUCK YOU every single envirodouche who is screeching for more taxes, more penalties, more legislation, more tyranny in the name of Mother Gaia!

Go fuck yourselves!

I'm amazed by it too

Nicki — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:41:00 GMT

From Svetlana Kunin at Investors Business Daily.

Democratic party leaders speak incessantly of limiting profits and regulating salaries.
It brings back to memory another Soviet line: You pretend you are paying us salaries, and we pretend we are working. If bureaucrats predetermine the value of your work, there is no incentive to be productive. This is the quickest way to kill a dynamic economy.
I never expected to hear this kind of rhetoric in the USA. Today,the American educational machine teaches exactly the same points the Soviets taught.
It idealizes Socialist societies and denigrates America, especially its economic system.
American students are brainwashed to despise economic freedom and to yearn for a big government state.
Freed from their parents' control, but intimidated by the relentlessly negative portrayal of America, young Americans look for politicians to show them the way.

Ms. Kunin hit the nail on the head. Parents have abdicated their responsibility to the nanny state. Schools are expected to be mom, dad and educator. They're expected to teach morals and ethics in addition to the three Rs. And the more resources schools receive from the government, the more diluted their curriculum becomes.

And why not? After all, when an entity - especially a governmental one - pours money into your coffers, you become beholden to that entity. So when politicians pour billions of dollars into the school system, they can demand schools teach what is politically desirable at the time. Facts, logic, rational thought and objectivity be damned!

When politicians in power bloviate about equality and fairness, what they're really targeting is achievement and success. What they're talking about is force - government force that will impose equality and fairness in a world that cannot, by the nature of morality, have both. Equal opportunity? Sure. Equal achievement? Never.

In a fair and just world, there will always be people who achieve and succeed, who perform their jobs better, and who consequently receive more for their efforts. There will always be those who dedicate their lives to succeeding in school, work long days and achieve the highest success at their jobs. They deserve a higher level of compensation than the indolent who sit around and expect everything to be handed to them, who have no ambition and no desire to work. That's justice. That's the nature of the universe. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

The politicians who talk about how unfair it is that some have more than others, aim to tip that precarious balance in favor of the lazy - in favor of the non-achievers - in favor of those who refuse to work, and who consequently have less to show for their lives.

They do so through emotional appeals, targeting the natural sympathy of Americans, instead of their rational minds. They tug at the heartstrings. They emphasize poignant stories of the starving unfortunate, and ignore the inconvenient facts about how those wretched got that way. They discount the numerous charities that are able to help the truly needy - those who honestly have fallen upon hard times - and involve the nanny state in the lives of every miserable mediocrity, regardless of whether or not they were the architects of their own fate.

Speaking of sympathy, I feel the need to address the following that Ms. Kunin wrote in her essay.

As someone who experienced real government-approved anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, I am amazed by the obliviousness of American Jews,the most fervent supporters of left-wing politics.
They support a party that is obsessed with pitting one group againstanother, and that incessantly plays on envy and hatred for bankers,rich people, big business and doctors.
They fail to notice that the success of Jews, as well as otherminorities, in the sciences, business and arts is directly correlatedto their freedom from oppressive, centralized control. American Jews who support big government do not understand what their ancestors escaped from.
Persecutions of Jews throughout history all have one thing in common: a centralized power that manipulates and directs people's anger away from themselves onto an easy target.
No matter how much Jews align themselves with the power structure and work for noble causes, they will remain an easy target.

I never understood it either. I have experienced some nasty anti-Semitism in the USSR as well. I was shunned, ignored and borderline tortured by kids and teachers alike in kindergarten as the kid with the weird Jew name. Teachers encouraged students to bar me from group play. When we went outside to play, I was the one kid on a deserted set of monkey bars, while everyone else played in a group on the other side of the playground. I was the one kid who wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom after nap time and forced to wet my bed. I was the one kid who was constantly ridiculed about my last name.

And knowing all this, I could never figure out why it was that Jews here in America were so anxious to embrace the type of system that perpetually abused them and turned them into second class citizens.

My father, being particularly religious, finally shed some light on the subject. Jews are a naturally sympathetic people. Their faith directs them to fulfill mitzvah, a word that has come to mean "acts of kindness." This compels them to fall victim to cunning politicians who play on their natural tendencies to help when they can. This also many times prompts them to close their eyes to the natural consequences of the kind of policies they support, but instead focus on the immediate gratification of having done something that could help the poor and oppressed.

This is why they fail to notice that they support policies that increase centralized government control. They're too focused on the issue of helping to understand the unintended consequences of their acts.

A great poster

Nicki — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:43:00 GMT

This has quickly become one of my favorite shots of Oleg's. Must be my background in radio.

Zero Tolerance Stupidity, pt. 4,089,309.8

Nicki — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:42:00 GMT

Yet more proof that some school administrators really need a hot tar enema.

Patrick Timoney, a fourth-grader at PS 52, South Beach, was nearly suspended yesterday after playing with LEGOs during his lunch period because one of the action figures was carrying a toy machine gun.

[...]

While the action figure was a standard LEGO policeman figure, the brand of the gun could not be determined.

"She took him into her office in the middle of the lunch period and he was crying," said the boy's mother, Laura Timoney. "He was afraid."
The principal called Ms. Timoney and said she considered the toy suspension-worthy, and that she was going to double-check with a security administrator from the city Department of Education.

You just can't fix stupid. You can eradicate it from the face of this earth, but you can't fix it. This dumb bitch terrorized a child for playing a harmless game with his friends, because she happens to lose bladder control at the mere thought of a firearm.

Cowardly, sniveling morons such as this are teaching your kids! What are they teaching them? How to be petty tyrants? How to fear inanimate objects? How to avoid common sense? How to overreact?

Courtesy of Oleg Volk

I wonder how this school administrator would react to this.

More anti-gun spew from academia

Nicki — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:54:00 GMT

Courtesy of Oleg Volk

The latest "Presence of guns can increase risk of death" screed comes from the Southern Medical Journal, with the latest attempt of supposed medical academics to meddle in politics.

In 1986, Arthur Kellerman conducted a firearms study that claimed a firearm in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a family member than an intruder. Later, Kellerman admitted that his study did "not include cases in which burglars or intruders are wounded or frightened away by the use or display of a firearm." He also admitted his study did not look at situations in which intruders "purposely avoided a home known to be armed." Meanwhile, this same Arthur Kellerman was quoted in Health Magazine (March/April 1994) p 61 as having said the following:

“If you've got to resist, your chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand? Yeah.”

This latest ~~study~~ apparent piece of dreck once again tries to draw a spurious connection between firearms and suicides, among other things.

Based on a review of the available scientific data, Dr. Lippmann and co-authors conclude that the dangers of having a gun at home far outweigh the safety benefits. Research shows that access to guns greatly increases the risk of death and firearm-related violence. A gun in the home is twelve times more likely to result in the death of a household member or visitor than an intruder.
The most common cause of deaths occurring at homes where guns are present, by far, is suicide. Many of these self-inflicted gunshot wounds appear to be impulsive acts by people without previous evidence of mental illness.Guns in the home are also associated with a fivefold increase in the rate of intimate partner homicide, as well as an increased risk of injuries and death to children.

The assumption here is that:

a - the mentally ill people who used firearms to commit suicide would not kill themselves via some other means had the gun not been present

b - intimate partner homicides would decrease if guns had not been present.

Now what the study doesn't seem to take into consideration is that:

Countries with much stricter gun control, such as Japan and Russia, have much higher suicide rates than the United States with our really lax gun control laws. As a matter of fact, Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Iceland and Canada all have higher suicide rates than we do.

According to the National Institute of Justice, intimate partner homicides have declined in the past 25 years. As a matter of fact, the November 2003 issue of NIJ Journal says that "Intimate partner homicide has declined significantly in the past 25 years." And gun ownership? In 2008, gun ownership rates in the United States have risen to an all-time high.

Additionally, the NIJ Journal also assessed that the presence of a gun in the house is less of an indicator that a victim of domestic abuse will get murdered than a partner attempting to "choke (strangle) woman."

In other words, Lippmann and his cohorts tried to once again draw a causative link between the mere presence of firearms and domestic violence, suicides and a whole host of other ills, which they claim cost society billions of dollars per year, and which they claim far outweigh the benefits of owning a firearm.

What is really galling is that doctors in this country command a certain authority. When they speak about health related issues, people listen. And when they attempt to link obviously biased political views to matters of health and life and death, they appear to have more credibility than politicians.

Considering how dangerous doctors themselves are to the health and lives of Americans...

12,000 deaths per year due to unnecessary surgery

7000 deaths per year due to medication errors in hospitals

20,000 deaths per year due to other errors in hospitals

80,000 deaths per year due to infections in hospitals

106,000 deaths per year due to negative effects of drugs

I'd want them to stay the bloody hell out politics.

Time to Shrug

Nicki — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 GMT

Got this in an email from my friend Mike.

It is correctly attributed, and in my opinion, dead on.

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R&B ring tone.

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture," a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me."

Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.

According to Snopes, the Mississippi Ledger Clarion ran the letter in its entirety, but it's the follow up that interests me.

It comes from a Jennifer Sigrest who was appalled at Dr. Jones' letter. Incensed, I tell ya!

I’ve been stewing about an Aug. 23 letter to the editor ("Why pay for the care of the careless?") in which Dr. Starner Jones questioned the worth of a patient to receive Medicaid because of her gold tooth,tattoos, R&B;ring tone on a new cell phone, cigarette-smoking and beer-drinking.

This kind of personal attack is nothing new with the hateful rhetoric of late. But it’s a real slippery slope when one questions whether another human merits support for health care because of appearances and choices. There are a lot of folks in this state who make less-than-perfect choices about finances and health. We are the poorest, fattest state, after all.

Dr. Jones wasn't making a personal attack, but a simple, brutal observation - that someone who is mooching off the taxpayers shouldn't be spending their money on expensive cell phones, gold teeth and other luxuries.

Health care is a service - provided TO someone BY someone. In this case, it's the taxpayers who are providing this service, because the fat bitch is using her alleged "need" as a claim check to their earnings.

I've seen poverty. Stinking, rancid, wearing clothes discarded by other people in their trash, picking through garbage for scraps poverty. People living in poverty do not purchase gold teeth. People living in poverty do not purchase expensive cell phones. People in poverty do not spend hundreds of dollars on tattoos. People who are truly needy in this society spend every penny trying to survive. This fat bitch does not sound like one of those people.

And yet... we, the people, support her fat ass. We pay people like Dr. Jones to give her medical treatment - to use his years of training and hard work to give her a service she should be paying for on her own.

Screw that.

We need to turn off our TVs and radios and do our own research on health care reform. All the Fox-fed and MSNBC-led masses are out spewing the same language the pundits are using.

[...]

his country deserves more. Read the health care reform bill. And learn the real issues of our entire community. We’re all Americans.

This is no “us vs. them” issue. We are all in this together.

No. We are not all in this together. Some of us work our asses off every day. Some of us work two jobs to ensure that our children have everything they need to grow up to be healthy, intelligent, stable adults. Some of us don't waste our earnings on frivolous crap such as tattoos and gold teeth. Some of us get up at 0400 and don't get home until well after 1800.

And those of us who do that, have to pay for someone who uses Medicaid entitlements at others' expense, who apparently has enough to purchase superfluous shit such as grillz for her teeth, body art, expensive, brand name shoes, and top of the line cell phones.

You know what it's called when those who work their asses off daily and make intelligent, responsible fiscal decisions are forced to support those who don't pay a thing for services, but are wealthy enough to make lavish purchases?

It's called slavery.

And when it comes to being a slave and supporting an indolent, wasteful, irresponsible minority (minority as in the minority of the population who are truly in need of public assistance, not racial minority - before anyone starts screeching RAAAAACISM!), it is "us vs. them."

"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?"

"I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?"

"To shrug."

— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)

More proof that unions are ruining this country

Nicki — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:57:00 GMT

I remember my dad telling me horror stories about having to deal with union thugs when he owned his first store. As a new entrepreneur, my dad was so proud that, after years of working for someone else, he was finally going to get the opportunity to own his own business! My dad is an electrical engineer by trade, so he was going to do some wiring to his new place... until union thugs came over and threatened to destroy his business if he didn't allow their slugs to perform the work. If I remember correctly (and my dad can fill in the memory blanks, since he does read this blog), these lazy pieces of rancid crap took twice as long to perform the work my dad could have done himself in several hours, took several union-mandated work breaks, and cost my dad much more than if he had done the work himself.

Nice.

Not.

Want more proof?

Try this guy.

If this guy doesn't look like a child molester, I don't know who does.

Except this particular child molester was a substitute typing teacher in New York, was accused by several kids of being a perverted creep, and he can't be fired. That's right. This scumbag draws a handsome salary sitting on his ass, and he can't be fired. All thanks to unions.

A Queens teacher who collects a $100,000 salary for doing nothing spends time in a Department of Education "rubber room" working on his law practice and managing 12 real-estate properties worth an estimated$7.8 million, The Post found.
Alan Rosenfeld hasn't set foot in a classroom for nearly a decade since he was accused in 2001 of making lewd comments to junior-high girls and "staring at their butts,"yet the department still pays him handsomely for sitting on his own butt seven hours a day.
In 2001, six eighth-graders at IS 347in Queens accused Rosenfeld, a typing teacher who filled in for an absent dean, of making comments like "You have a sexy body," asking one whether she had a boyfriend and making others feel uncomfortable with creepy leers.
Because the Department of Education could not produce all the students as witnesses, he was found guilty in only one case. A girl testified that Rosenfeld stopped at her locker, where she was standing with a friend, and "said I love him because I talk to him so much."
A DOE hearing officer gave him a slap on the wrist -- a week off without pay -- for "conduct unbecoming a teacher." He was cleared to return to teaching.
Instead, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has kept the scruffy 64-year-old in a Brooklyn rubber room, deeming him too dangerous to be near kids, officials said.
The DOE can't fire him.
"We have to abide by the union contract," spokeswoman Ann Forte said.
So Rosenfeld simply collects his $100,049 salary -- top scale for teachers -- plus full health benefits and the promise of a fat pension,about $82,000 a year if he were to retire today.
His pension will grow by $1,700 each year he remains. He could have retired at age 62, but he stays.

Hell, I'd stay too if I was paid that much money for doing absolutely nothing!

At a time when NYC is running painful deficits, and will likely fire thousands of REAL teachers. But they will keep this disgusting disgrace to humanity on the payroll, and continue giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Thanks, unions!

Thanks a pantload!

Don't you feel safe now?

Nicki — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:34:00 GMT

Just remember - these are the people whom the gubmint trusts to examine your belongings, pat you down, and - coming soon to an airport near you - gaze at you nekkid looking for... uh... weapons.

I feel so much safer knowing TSA is on the job!

A federal Transportation Security Administration employee has been arrested in connection with the molestation of a girl, Orange County sheriff's deputies said. The man told investigators he planned to make her his "sex slave," according to the arrest report uncovered by Local 6.

According to jail records, Charles Henry Bennett, 57, works as a TSA employee at Orlando International Airport, and was booked into the Orange County Jail early Friday morning after a 15-year-old girl came forward claiming Bennett touched her inappropriately when she was 12, deputies said.

A TSA spokesperson reached late Saturday night said it would not be possible for her reveal whether Bennett’s employment status with the agency was impacted by his arrest until Monday at the earliest.

Impossible? Hell, if I owned a security company and one of my employees was molesting 12 year olds, he'd not only be fired, he'd be found dead under a rock! But it's TSA. It's the government. I certainly don't expect this foul pervert to lose his job over something as silly as trying to turn a kid into a "sex slave."

Just remember, these are the folks who will be touching you too!

Hallelujah! We'll be saved!

Nicki — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:19:00 GMT

What in the Constitution authorizes the Executive Branch to do this?

The Obama administration is considering several steps that would review the legality of the controversial Bowl Championship Series, the Justice Department said in a letter Friday to a senator who had asked for an antitrust review.

In the letter to Sen. Orrin Hatch, obtained by The Associated Press, Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich wrote that the Justice Department is reviewing Hatch's request and other materials to determine whether to open an investigation into whether the BCS violates antitrust laws.

"Importantly, and in addition, the administration also is exploring other options that might be available to address concerns with the college football postseason," Weich wrote, including asking the Federal Trade Commission to review the legality of the BCS under consumer protection laws.

Well, Hallelujah! Don't have health care? The gubmint will take care of you. Can't afford a cell phone? No problem! The gubmint's got your back. Can't get a local TV provider to broadcast your fave NFL team? The nanny state is there for you.

And now, because you obviously need the Bowl Championship system to switch to a playoff system, rather than the ratings system it uses to determine the teams that play in the championship game, Teh Magic Marxist will take care of you.

My God!

These festering sores on the ass of decency are so drunk on their own power, that even Idi Amin, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular, is shaking his head in disbelief as he roasts in hell.

Not satisfied in growing the size and scope of government in countless ways, Ogabe now wants to dip his greasy fingers into college football! And if you think, Republicans will save you from the oozing power grab of this particular administration, just remember this: this fiasco was initiated by Orren Hatch, a Utah Republican, was steamed that his home state team was deprived of getting a chance to play for the title last year.

We have a war in Afghanistan. We have an economy in the shitter (and yes, I know we registered a pretty good growth at the tail end of last year, and I also know that with a deficit as high as 11 percent of GDP and unemployment at 10 percent, we're far from out of the woods). We have troops dying downrange. We have terrorists that hate us so much, they're trying to blow up their own crotches just to bag themselves some Americans and hoping that Allah will reattach their junk in the afterlife.

But our Great Leader and his band of authority crazed tyrant wannabes at Justice, apparently having saved the world from every other plague and problem have now decided to dip their wicks into college football! Well, Hallelujah! We're saved from the big, bad college football unfairness!

For the record, I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat. I happen to think every last one of the leeches who seek power and promise unwashed, uninformed, ignorant masses entitlements at other people's expense needs to be voted out of office - Republican and Democrat alike. To me, there's no difference. These shitbags don't want to serve the people. They want to wield power over them, and they're willing to use their power to control everything from college sports to the way you wipe your ass.

And the Great Unwashed just keep voting these monkeys into office every election cycle. Is it any wonder they think they can continue to brandish their puny wands and expand their own power?

Crossdressing. Mohammed. On. A. Pogo. Stick.

Update on Johnny Weir

Nicki — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:30:00 GMT

Yesterday, I wrote that PETArds and their drooling ilk have no conscience, no morals and no perspective. Today I will tell you they are a foul, rabid band of sociopathic shitslurpers who all need to be immediately put down for the good of society.

U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir will replace the fox on one of his costumes with faux fur after he and his costume designer were targeted by an animal rights group.
Weir received “hate mail and death threats,” agent Tara Modlin said on Thursday, and he doesn’t want anything to disrupt his performances at the Vancouver Olympics.
“He’s changing it because he needs to focus on skating,” she said.

Death threats. Over a tuft of fur.

Death threats.

What kind of imbecilic cretin do you have to be to threaten to kill someone over a tuft of fur? What kind of hypocrite thinks a tuft of fox fur is worth a human life?

Here's hoping we see video of Newkirk and her psychotic band of domestic terrorists dipped in barbecue sauce and raped by a herd of rabid yak... on YouTube!

Well at least he wasn't choking it

Nicki — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:57:00 GMT

There are a lot of things you can do on a New York City subway. You can read. You can chat with friends and strangers. If you're in the cast of the musical Rent, you can break out in song and dance. And... you can cuddle your chicken.

This dude has to be one lonely loser!

New York City's transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway.
The subway rider who took the video said Thursday that it was one of those New York moments she felt compelled to record.
Kylie Kaiser, a 27-year-old architect from Brooklyn, and two friends boarded the uptown No. 6 train at the 33rd Street station at around 7 p.m. Tuesday.
"He was on his back, rolling from side to side, kissing, hugging and lifting the chicken up in the air," she said.

Is it illegal to snuggle and kiss a barnyard bird on a public subway?

I can't. I just can't. AH SHIT - I DID

Nicki — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:57:00 GMT

I can't watch the STFU tonight. I can't sit there and tolerate that smarmy, self satisfied, self aggrandizing, narcissist spout off about how he's planning to take the greatest, free-est country in the world and turn it into a third-world socialist shithole!

I can't stand the thought of Skeletor Pelosi's face, glowing with adoration (or an extra injection of Botox) as she clings on to every word the Miraculous Maoist utters like a particularly stubborn bit of shit on Harry Reid's ass hair.

But you know I'm going to. It's like a car wreck. I can't look away.

I'll blog about it later.

UPDATE: Here he goes again with his bank penalization idea!!!!!!!! Every time he opens his yap, my mutual funds take a nosedive! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SHUT UP!!!

HE CUT TAXES??????????????? WHAT?????????????????

HE HATED THE BANK BAILOUT????????????? That's a joke right?

Turning. TV. Off. Now. Before I have a stroke.

From the little known nation of Retardia

Nicki — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:36:00 GMT

I'm fairly sure I'll probably get all sorts of hate mail from politically correct morons protesting my use of the word "Retard." So I will preemptively assure you that the Specially Abled Americans (or whatever the politically correct term of the day is) are miles smarter and more functional than the PETArds and their animal rights pals.

I bet you think I'm going to blog about this guy...

Nope! I'm going to write about the tards who waste their time and everyone else's protesting inconsequential things - otherwise known as animal rights activists.

Look, I'm an animal lover. I have a dog, I've rescued numerous cats, and I have a hedgehog. I've been known to scoop up strays and give them homes. I get violent when I see defenseless animals being abused by sociopathic quasi-humans just to dissipate some of that impotent rage they have stored inside. Ya know... when the testicles fail to drop, the testosterone kind of festers inside, causing feelings of inadequacy and suppressed temper... but enough armchair psychology.

The flaming, positively on fire queer above is actually U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir, and the guy is positively awesome! He's a three-time U.S. National Champion (2004-2006), the 2008 Worlds bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final medalist and the 2001 World Junior Champion. He's an amazing athlete and spends a lot of time as a volunteer for a charity that fights childhood obesity.

And Goodness knows this country of McGorging Hogs needs it!

Note: I actually have no idea if Weir straight or gay, and I don't care. I would submit, however, that no man with a shred of testosterone in his body would wear that outfit.

And speaking of outfits... that one apparently has fur. And animal rights freaks don't seem to appreciate the sheer flamboyance of the getup. They're angry. They're bitter because some animal had to give up a bit of fluff to make Johnny Weir look FAAAAAAABULOUS!

So they spent time and energy writing a letter - not just to Johnny Weir, but also to costume designer Stephanie Handler - castigating the skater for daring to exercise his homo sapien superiority over the animal kingdom by wearing some pelt on his sleeve and asking the designer to stop using helpless animal carcass leftovers as art.

Handler's reaction was predictably disinterested.

“I totally get the dirtiness of the fur industry and how terrible it is to animals. But it’s not something that’s the No. 1 priority in my life,” Weir said on Tuesday. “There are humans dying everyday. There are thousands if not millions of homeless people in New York City. Look at what just happened in Haiti."

Perspective? Yeah, they don't has it.

And this Friends of Animals group isn't the first band of tards that doesn't think Weir is FAAAAAABULOUS! The PETArds also got into the act. You know People Eating Tasty Animals... um... I mean... People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area (for those of you not from Virginia, Tidewater is where PETArds make their ecologically friendly home and also where they euthanize thousands of defenseless critters)... um... I mean People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals... you know them right? The same group that sponsors and sanctions the ecoterrorists of ALF (no, not the disturbing-looking alien on the TV show, but the Animal Liberation Front). The same band of misanthropic morons who sent a letter to Yasser Arafat asking him and his homicide bombers to quit using donkeys to kill humans, while, of course not mentioning or bothering to condemn the senseless human death perpetrated by that specific set of barbarian camel humpers.

Yeah. That group.

These residents of Retardia actually sent Weir graphic videos of animals being mistreated by the fur industry! Classy, Ingrid Newkirk! Really classy!

Never mind that every skater wears at least a little dead animal at all times... ya know... those things they wear on their feet - I think they're called skates.

Never mind that humans have been eating and wearing animals since the first Neanderthal dragged his knuckles across the grassy flats of Prehistoria.

And never mind that animals... shhhhhhhh... here's a secret you probably didn't know... they eat other animals!

It's called the circle of life, stooopid! Haven't you seen the Lion King, Ingrid?

Here's the thing. These animal rightstards - they hate humans. They really do. They'd be much happier if the majority of civilization was eradicated from this earth, and what's left (if they had their way, it would be hemp wearing, dope smoking, vegan douchebags) lived in hovels, eating grass and wiping their asses with their hands.

They don't respect human beings. They don't care about the human race or human rights, and human suffering doesn't even register on their moral radar. But these are the same retards who suffer frothing hysteria if you harm a flea!

Priorities? They don't has them.

Respect for the achievement, ultimate goodness, creativity and intelligence of the human race? They don't has them.

Stupid? They has it.

Lots.

Cross posted at Washington Rebel.

Putting lipstick on a pig

Nicki — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:39:00 GMT

Dan compares Stimulus Redux to putting perfume on a hog. I evoke a more familiar simile. It all comes down to the same thing.

Watch. The. Video.

New Friends

Nicki — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:59:00 GMT

A little while ago, I added Washington Rebel to my blogroll.

Why?

They're irreverent, they're fun, they're politically incorrect, they like kittehs (although I'm slightly concerned about the idea of hedgehogging, I know Prickles the Attack Hedgehog can take care of himself, and I'll be training him to fire my 1911 this summer), and they like the Magic Marxist about as much as I do. And for all you healthy, virile men (read: pervs) who visit this site hoping for a glimpse of my goodies, there are a ton of photos of extremely hawt chicks.

What's not to like?

In any case, I just got a very kind invitation to join the site as a co-author, and I am honored to have accepted. I love the idea! Check the site. I think you'll love it too!

Hell hath frozen over

Nicki — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:52:00 GMT

We have entered Bizarro World, the earth has turned upside down, and swine have grown wings and are currently dropping dung bombs on Osama Bin Ladin's turban...

Mark this day on your calendars and remember it for what you are about to read, because hell has truly frozen over. I agree with Hillary Clinton.

"I deeply resent those who attack our country, the generosity of our people and the leadership of our president in trying to respond to historically disastrous conditions after the earthquake," Clinton told State Department employees at a forum marking one year in office.
Clinton did not single out critics but said that "some of the international press either misunderstood or deliberately misconstrued" the US decision to send troops along with civilians to Haiti.
A senior Italian official on Sunday criticized the lack of a coordinated international aid effort in Haiti, saying that the United States had "too many officers" there and could not find a capable leader.

Let's see... according to this article, "Despite a withering recession, near 10 percent unemployment, and asubstantial loss of personal wealth, Americans demonstrated an outpouring of support. Within the first week, US charities had raised $275 million for Haitian relief, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy."

We have dropped food and water to help Haitians affected by the quake.

We have provided doctors and food.

How much has Italy given?

On 13 January, Italy pledged immediate, urgent aid to Haiti.

The Italian government has pledged one million euros in immediate emergency aid for the victims of the earthquake that has devastated the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. While government officials sought to verify whether any Italians were victims of the quake, foreign affairs minister Franco Frattini asked his ministry's development co-operation unit to provide immediate support.

And the disaster "chief" has the unmitigated gall to call our relief efforts "pathetic." Really? A country that has pledged just one million euros in TAXPAYER dollars two weeks ago, and has since then committed just over $8 million in total has the brass cajones to criticize America's response?

That's some staggering hypocrisy there, Luigi!

Oh, and by the way, here's a message to the panty-shitting Fwench, when your level of commitment reaches ours... when your troops create new airfields, distribute food and other supplies to the needy, and when your troops deliver more than 1 million bottles of water and 1 million packaged meals to Haitians, then you can open your fat, worthless yaps and criticize American military involvement in Haiti. Until then, STFU.

I'm with Hillary on this one.

EWWWWW

Nicki — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:24:00 GMT

I may have just vomited in my mouth. I may also need a bath in boiling Listerine and some good brain bleach.

Sources have told us that, in the throes of their affair, John Edwards and Rielle Hunter made a sex tape that contains "several sex acts." And that his aide, Andrew Young found it on an unmarked DVD.
The tape, say both our sources, is explicit and reveals that Edwards"is physically very striking, in a certain area. Everyone who sees it says 'whoa'. She's behind the camera at first."

Everyone who sees it? Really? Just how many people have gazed at the Breck Girl's love worm???

Yeah. I'm sure. Even if he's hung like a clydesdale, he's still a cowardly, child-abandoning, reptilian, cheating piece of rancid shit who has no balls.

The dinner roll (Updated with attribution)

Nicki — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:42:00 GMT

UPDATE: I learned this morning that the essay below was written by Richard Gleaves for Rebirth of Reason. It has been published and republished, and by the time I found this at Misha's, it was tough to tell where the original came from. I'm glad Mr. Gleaves let me know it was his work, and I'm honored to give credit where credit is due.

Nicki

I'm shamelessly stealing this from Misha's, because it needs to be told and re-told and spread far and wide. For those of you who still don't understand why I have such hatred for the Marxist Menagerie currently in power, maybe this will clarify.

Once upon a time I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration,but I paid it no mind. I live in a FREE country. There’s nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws. My wealth was EARNED honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor.
I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined the President in a yellow dining room. We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen. The Great Seal was embossed on the china.Uniformed staff served our dinner.
The meal was served, and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached out, plucked a dinner roll off my plate and began nibbling it as he walked back to the kitchen. “Sorry ’bout that,” said the President. “Andrew is very hungry.”
“I don’t appreciate…” I began, but as I looked into the calm brown eyes across from me, I felt immediately guilty and petty. It was just a dinner roll. “Of course,” I concluded, and reached for my glass. Before I could, however, another waiter reached forward, took the glass away and swallowed the wine in a single gulp. “And his brother, Eric, is very thirsty,” said the President.
I didn’t say anything. The President is testing my compassion, I thought. I withheld my comments and decided to play along. I don’t want to seem unkind.My plate was whisked away before I had tasted a bite.
“Eric’s children are also quite hungry.” With a lurch, I crashed to the floor. My chair had been pulled out from under me.
I stood, brushing myself off angrily, and watched as it was carried from the room. And their grandmother can’t stand for long.”
I excused myself, smiling outwardly, but inside feeling like a fool. Obviously I had been invited to the White House to be sport for some game. I reached for my coat, to find that it had been taken.
I turned back to the President. “Their grandfather doesn’t like the cold.”
I wanted to shout, “that was my coat!” But again, I looked at the placid smiling face of my host and decided I was being a poor sport. I spread my hands helplessly and chuckled. Then I felt my hip pocket and realized my wallet was gone. I excused myself and walked to a phone on an elegant side table.
I learned shortly that my credit cards had been maxed out, my bank accounts emptied, my retirement and equity portfolios had vanished, and my wife had been thrown out of our home. Apparently, the waiters and their families were moving in. The President hadn’t moved or spoken as I learned all this, but finally I lowered the phone into its cradle and turned to face him.
“Andrew’s whole family has made bad financial decisions. They haven’t planned for retirement and they need a house. They recently defaulted on a sub prime mortgage. I told them they could have your home. They need it more than you do.”
My hands were shaking. I felt faint. I stumbled back to the table and knelt on the floor. The President cheerfully cut his meat, ate his steak, and drank his wine. I lowered my eyes and stared at the small grey circles on the tablecloth that were water drops.
“By the way,” he added, “I have just signed an Executive Order nationalizing your factories. I’m firing you as head of your business. I’ll be operating the firm now for the benefit of all mankind. There’s a whole bunch of Erics and Andrews out there and they can’t come to you for jobs groveling like beggars... we need to spread YOUR wealth around…”
I looked up. The President dropped his spoon into the empty ramekin which had been his crème Brule. He drained the last drops of his wine. As the table was cleared, he lit a cigarette and leaned back in his chair.
He stared at me. I clung to the edge of the table as if it were a ledge and I were a man hanging over an abyss. I thought of the years behind me, of the life I had lived.. The life I had earned with a lifetime of work, risk and struggle.
Why was I punished? How had I allowed it to be taken? What game had I played and lost? I looked across the table and noticed with some surprise that there was no game board between us.
What had I done wrong?
As if answering the unspoken thought, the President suddenly cocked his head, locked his empty eyes to mine, and bared a million teeth, chuckling wryly as he folded his hands. “You should have stopped me at the dinner roll,” he said.

I have three words for you: Take. It. Back.