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Tweeting Oprah On The Outs

2012-02-14T12:55:00.001-08:00

Oprah Winfrey got spanked trying to resuscitate ratings at her failing cable network OWN. Broadcasting a plea on Twitter and violating Nielsen company policy Ms. O did a no-no.

Oprah panicked as her ratings plummeted even lower during the Grammy Awards on Sunday. Who wants to watch Oprah when they can tune into the Whitney Houston train wreck on the Grammys?

Oprah's plea tweet, 'Every 1 who can please turn to OWN especially if u have a Nielsen box.' Twitter followers accused her of 'being desperate'.

Nielsen also noticed and the tweet was deleted, Ms O said, 'at the request of Nielsen', which prohibits clients from attempting to influence ratings.

Oprah is riding a rare loser and she is getting testy. Oprah and 'failure' uttered in the same breath? Oprah's presence on screen along with her being in control full-time is not turning the corner on the ill-fated Discovery Channel show.

Oh well. Maybe Obama can find a job for her before he too is fired.

Electric Cars Pollute More Than Gas Cars

2012-02-14T10:05:00.000-08:00

Counter intuitive? Cannot be? Some kind of trick? What the F?

A study in 34 Chinese cities found the electricity generated by power plants to drive electric vehicles POLLUTES MORE fine particle emissions than gas-powered vehicles.

The study was done in China because e-cars and e-bikes outnumber conventional vehicles 2:1.

In China, 85% of electricity is from fossil fuels Of that 90% from coal. In the USA 57% of electricity comes from coal, another 12% from oil fired plants.

Obama's new budget hikes GM Volt subsidies from $7,500 to $10,000 per car. Only 600 Volts sold in January. Hey Barry, heard of Rube Goldberg?

The takeaway continues to be apparent. Electric cars are a horrible value proposition. The cars have a poor range, lack of torque, and long charge times. They will not sell on their own, and must be subsidized. And now they are found to pollute more than gas cars. Help!

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Rasmussen: 59% Catholic Disapproval Of Obama

2012-02-14T08:57:00.000-08:00

Rasmussen Reports this morning that Catholics have taken notice of Obama's shocking attack on religion now rating his disapproval at 59%. In recent polling, Jews have also taken a dim view of Obama's remarks in regard to Israel. Orthodox Jews disapprove of the failed president by 72% margins. And 4 in 10 Jews in general disapprove of Obama.

Jews supported Obama in 2008 as did Catholics by wide margins. Whether the angst felt by these two voting blocks remain negative through the election remains to be seen.

For now, Obama seems to be cruising along on the latest jobs report. Obama is trying to set a tone of 'recovery' and 'progress' knowing full well himself that no such recovery is in play. Privately he admits it will be two years or more before a possible recovery can take place in jobs, housing, and debt reduction. But it will be up to voters to figure out the truth - a task they usually miss.

Meantime, gas prices are rising at a record pace again. National prices are over $3.50 very early in the driving season. Many are predicting the price to rise above $5 nationally. Voters will not be able to miss that event.

Israel and Iran will eventually tangle. At a time Obama and Panetta are busy dismantling the military. And eventually voters will see the jobless rate rise again because the net job losses continue to mount.

Timing is everything. The backdrop of disaster is as present now as it was when Obama took office. The big question remains, will the curtain draw down in time for voters to see through Obama's dog and pony show...

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Obama Election Year Budget In Your Face

2012-02-13T14:58:00.001-08:00

A preview into what Obama would be like in a second term is found in the $3.8 Trillion monstrosity just released. The budget continues to grow red ink ($1.33 Trillion) on top of reshaping spending priorities and adding taxes in bizarre ways.

A massive uptick of $1.4 Trillion in new taxes, and a shifting of costs for TSA patdowns to airline passengers just some of the new fees. The cuts to Defense and other key departments combine to cripple the most important functions of government. Obama's priorities are utterly backward.

Obama wants to double-down on the failed GM Volt upping subsidies to $10,000 per car - remember just 600 of these monsters sold in January. Unsurprisingly Obama pours new billions into teachers and construction unions. And even more fun, loses more money on the failed TARP programs that keep the housing industry on its butt.

And lest we not forget the Arab Spring turned Winter In Libya and Egypt. Obama wants nearly a billion new bucks to feed the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam taking over there.

The wheels are fully off the wagon at the White House. Gene Sperling head of Obama's goofy economics council has actually suggested a world-wide minimum corporate tax instead of addressing the serious concern that US Corporations already pay the world's highest tax rates.

Pay attention folks. Obama is coming for the rest of the cow - and you are not invited to dinner.

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Whitney Houston Died Drunk Not Drowned

2012-02-13T09:11:00.000-08:00

Same old story. Different day, different celebrity. This time it's Whitney Houston unsurprisingly taking her final combination of sleeping pills and booze.

Houston was a singular talent, a three-octave wonder. Again, yea yea we know.

The point is not about her singing talent. The predictable dive from pinnacle of fame to the diving depths of drug disabling degradation had been a spectacle since the early 90's. It was just a matter of time. And that time came, a little sooner maybe, but it came nonetheless.

Born in 1963 in Newark, New Jersey, Whitney’s mother was the well-liked gospel singer, Cissy Houston. Her cousin was Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin was her godmother. She had it all. The best female voices of her era were in her genes and in her network of friends.

Houston went thru at least $150 million bucks, having sold over 200 million records.

But behind the glamor exterior was a flimsy, decadent, bisexual, drug-prone mess. Nothing in Houston's personal life was 'right'. Not her marriage, not her narcissism, not her immature, inability to stay off drugs - cocaine the primary culprit. In the end, she died in a hotel room, in a rented bathtub on a tab others picked-up.

One daughter and a battering ex-husband now her legacy - along with millions of 'fans' willing to bypass Houston's weak personal life in favor of the records she left behind.

Sad. Senseless. Apparently unavoidable.

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Yale University Eugenics

2012-02-12T16:28:00.000-08:00

Eugenics is a dirty word and discredited social movement. The concept emerged during the second world war when Adolf Hitler launched a program to 'breed' Aryan supermen. Hitler's idea was to state-sanction a 'racial hygiene' in purging 'mongrel' human characteristics with the intent to produce the Nietzsche's Übermensch.

Eugenics was widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century. Famous Eugenics advocates dating as far back as 1910 were Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, the Darwin brothers. And by 1940, Yale University?

Yale offered to evacuate the kids of Oxford University staff in 1940. The motive is now clouded in the possibility that a sinister Eugenics plan was hatching.

Eugenics advocates at the university may have extended the invitation because they planned to repopulate a pummeled Britain with a replacement race of intellectually superior children.

The 'Yale Faculty Committee for Receiving Oxford and Cambridge University Children' invited and recieved 125 Oxford kids and 35 mothers. The group sailed the SS Antonia from Liverpool to New Haven, Connecticut on 8 July 1940.

Gaddis Smith, Emeritus Professor of History at Yale, describes Yale's president James Angell, who ruled in 1937, as 'a fanatic eugenicist in the worst meaning of that word.' And that once the group arrived, there was a 'concern' that one of the mothers was Jewish.

Yale is home to the 'Skull and Bones' secret society. Maybe a little conspiracy witch-hunt is in order at Yale?

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Primer: How To Spot Left Wing Media Bias

2012-02-12T15:43:00.000-08:00

Liberal bias reflects a conscious choice by the reporter or editor to spin the facts.

The left-wing isn't interested the public's trust. The left-wing media has been a willing and useful set of idiots for the Democrats for decades. But that is ending. The Internet has given access to a new breed of scab-pullers. These guys are saving the truth again.

As you read, listen and watch news stories look for the following telltale signs of bias. These 'techniques' are subtle, malicious, even destructive. Test them on your media experience and see who does what, when, how, and by who.

Samuel L. Jackson: I Voted for Obama Because He's Black

2012-02-12T10:04:00.000-08:00

Ebony interviewing Samuel L. Jackson got some down-to-it, N-word laced, ebony-on-ebony honesty from the star regarding his motive voting for Obama. Jackson said he voted for Obama solely because he is black. Period.

No shock really. When 90% of blacks vote for one candidate it's pretty clear campaign promises are not the reason. And true, since all presidents have been white and not Asian, or black, Indian, or any combination in between some white voters are voting white also.

The more striking comment Jackson uttered is troubling, "When it comes down to it, they wouldn't have elected a N-. A N- is scary. Obama ain't scary at all...I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected."

Jackson is correct in one important regard. Obama may well 'get scary' if reelected. All indications are, he will drive the country into a left-wing nightmare of Greek-like decline.

Psst. Sam, Obama is half-white, you know his baby-mommy was a white women. Maybe you wasted half your vote?

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Ann Coulter: ‘All pretty girls are right-wingers’

2012-02-11T14:12:00.001-08:00

Women of the left are a sad combination of coyote ugly and jack-ass ornery.

Ann Coulter even says so when she notes that the best looking and most intelligent females also happen to be conservatives.

Ann Coulter pisses off left-wingers like few others. The reason is obvious, she has them by the nads in the IQ department. Oddly liberals have this child-like fantasy that they are intelligent themselves. But liberals are mistaken, they are arrogant, not intelligent - and they are too dim-witted to know the difference.

Ann adds, “the reason unattractive..liberal women are liberal is because they have to date liberal men and as we’ve seen from Bill Clinton and Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anthony Weiner, we’ve seen how liberal men treat women. I’d be angry too.”

She is referring to the rogues gallery of liberal losers. Consider the rage and distressing looks of Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Striesand, Jeanine Garofalo, Rachel Maddow, Nancy Pelosi, Helen Thomas, Janet Napolitano, Janet Reno, Shiela Jackson Lee, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, and Hillary Clinton.

Contrast the women above with women with the likes of Ann herself, Janine Turner, Bo Derek, Michelle Malkin, Angie Harmon, Sarah Palin, Liz Stephans, Pamela Gellar, Star Parker, Rachael Marsden, Katie Kiefer, Katie Pavlich, and S.E.Cupp.

Coulter is right. Liberal women are angry, ankle-biting, pissie, petty, pretentious, pandering, frumpy, and puffing. Worse, they never miss a chance to eat their own young if political power is the prize.

NRA: Obama Will Outlaw Guns In 2nd Term

2012-02-11T10:48:00.000-08:00

Scare tactics. When you don't agree with the prediction it's a scare tactic. When you do agree, it's a warning. Is there evidence a 2nd term for Obama will result in more attacks on the constitution? Of course.

Obama jumped the 1st amendment again. During his gruesome tenure Obama has not been shy challenging the Commerce Clause, 10th amendment, separation of powers, and due process clauses.

Expect Obama to negate more constitutional basics when he is unbridled from public pressure entirely.

Is it a surprise the NRA expects the 2nd amendment to be obliterated finally by Obama?
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, "We see the president's strategy crystal clear: Get re-elected and, with no more elections to worry about, get busy dismantling and destroying our firearms' freedom, erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and excise it from the U.S. Constitution."

Mr. LaPierre said the president's two Supreme Court appointees — Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan— are "two of the most rabid anti-gun justices in history." He also accused Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of being a foe of gun rights. Remember, Ruth Ginsberg exposed her astounding bias against the US Constitution characterizing it as 'old' and largely irrelevant.

The country has not been at a cross-road as clearly marked since the Civil War, as now.

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911 Victim Going Home After 11 Years

2012-02-11T09:55:00.000-08:00

As the years pass, the trauma of 911 continues to fade.

New York City isn't even having a small parade for the veterans who went to Iraq to kill the perpetrators that were behind the tragedy. But victims families are still out there still waiting for proof their loved ones are actually dead.

So far, 1,633 victims have been identified and 1,120 remain missing or vaporized.

Karol Ann Keasler, 42, is the latest to be identified by advanced forensic DNA science. Karol's toe-bone is all that remains of her.

The 'bride-to-be' was in the South Tower on the 89th floor talking to her mother in Nevada when the plane struck.

In 2005, Karol’s business cards, an emery board and a nail clipper were found at the site and returned to the family. The toe-bone was found but not matched to her positively until today.

Karol's mother says she will add her daughters toe-bone to her own ashes when the time comes. Mom and daughter laid to rest together.

Shocking New Sport: Ultimate Taser Ball

2012-02-11T09:15:00.001-08:00

How are modern professional sports different than the Roman gladiator spectacles in stadiums of yore? Replace the Gladius Hispaniensis with a large running body mass, a gloved fist, or a taser - close enough for a cigar.

Professional football's dirty secret is that once the 'athletes' are used up, they retire with their old injuries, crippling arthritis, even early death due to head and organ damage. The 'average' size NFL player can make a hit with an equivalent force of over 1600 pounds. The larger players hit you like a truck. Ball carriers targeted 100 times per game.

Last year, the NFL saw 100+ concussions. Concussions cause brain damage. See the parallel now? Though boxing, and football players are not killed on the 'arena', they are either crippled for life, or at least risk death on the field. The fans lap it up, just as they did in ancient Rome.

In the quest for more ways to tantalize fans, and get closer to the brutality of ancient Rome a new 'ball' game is emerging. Started in Canada were the one-million volt Taser is illegal to use outside of law enforcement, promoters have begun to stage a game where players zap a ball carrier with a Taser, rather than a tackle.

“It’s not technically a police grade Taser,” said Eric Prum, 25, one of the founders of Ultimate Taser Ball. “That being said, the first thing the [players] will tell you is that they hate getting tased. Those things really do hurt.” Oh goodie, it hurts. Now we are getting somewhere!

Rome's Colosseum was center stage not only in Rome but across the known world. Today, the NFL Superbowl game is the modern world's most anticipated and watched event. Human evolution has not advanced much in 2000 years.

Junk Food Horror: Bacon Flavored Milkshakes

2012-02-10T15:53:00.001-08:00

Jack In The Box is a hardcore junk food leader. The chain has claimed many firsts in the race to make an obese nation.

McDonald's who pretend to concoct the occasional 'healthy' junk food offering bends to public outcry.. An example is the 'pink goo' the company felt compelled to remove from their burgers.

Jack In The Box takes no prisoners and makes no apology - it's about feeding the insatiable, gluttony masses and dad-gum they are gonna get 'er done!

The marriage of salty, high-fat, nitrite-laced carcinogenic, high-cholesterol bacon dumped into a white-sugar-loaded, high-fat, artery-clogging, high-calorie milkshake has arrived. Strap it on in two sizes, the larger jamming 1,081 calories, 37 grams of saturated fat and 108 grams of sugar into your palpitating obese future.

Sadly, it's a hit among the decadent, degraded diabetic diners.

As bad as this thing is, it pales compared to other fat-body menu items at the eatery. The company's large Oreo shake, for instance, packs more than 1,400 calories and 75 grams of fat. Order two.

Jack In The Box was not first. Incredibly. Denny's has been feeding the unsuspecting public the same thing since last April. Are you on this Michelle Obama?

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Mother Hits Young Son DURING Anger Class

2012-02-10T15:33:00.000-08:00

Misty Lawson, 30, of Louisville, KY was arrested after punching her pre-pubescent son while both were attending an in-home anger management counseling session.

Ms Lawson confessed she 'smacked' her son twice but 'only' because the 10-year-old called her a 'bitch.' Rationalizing the violence, she added 'They make it sound like I beat my child like an adult.'

Not her first arrest, in June 2011 Lawson was arrested for allegedly leaving her kids in a hot car outside a grocery store. Misty has also been arrested for pot, resisting arrest, receiving stolen property, and contempt of court.

Lucky for her two sons authorities have taken them from her. Mom is a mess. One more thing, Misty...TEN YEAR OLDS ARE NOT MEN. Being called a bitch by a child is not an insult, its a behavior problem that a healthy 'adult parent' would deal with, not react to with violence.

Wonder if Misty can guess who her sons mimic when they misbehave?

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Reverse Racism Struck Down In Buffalo

2012-02-10T11:20:00.000-08:00

Twelve white firefighters won over $2.5 million from the city of Buffalo, NY. Buffalo had engaged in 'preference promotions' pitting black firefighters against white firefighters based primarily, and solely on race.

The 'liberal' premise behind quotas, set-asides, and affirmative-action is flawed. Two wrongs do not make a right, a truth lost on the defective liberal mind.

The men contended they were passed over though they were more qualified, and had better testing scores. The city wanted to promote minorities, though the minority candidates had not scored well on the tests. The city of Buffalo was wrong.

The era of preferences must end. Discrimination is destructive even if rationalized in the name of rectifying past wrongs. The ugly era of Jim Crow was tragic. The new era of Jane Crow is not the answer.

After 45 years, it is time to accept everyone on the same basis, and make the eye blind to skin color. Martin Luther King was not calling for reverse racism, he was calling for an end to racism. His wise words that children "will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" applies to all kids, not just minority kids.

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Failing Schools: Obama Lowers Standards

2012-02-09T17:00:00.000-08:00

Last year Education Secretary Arne Duncan issued a new waiver system to give failing public schools a pass.

The No Child Left Behind law is just too tough.

The plan to offer waivers to all 50 states is a direct request of President Barack Obama, Duncan said.

No Child Left Behind requires every student proficient in math and reading by 2014. Failing public schools have been unable to meet the scaled requirements, and have been lobbying Obama to get out.

Duncan warned 82% of U.S. schools are in danger of failing under NCLB. The first 10 states have just been granted waivers. They are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee. New Mexico is pending.

The ever-failing Obama is allowing schools to fail. The kids, of course, will not be able to compete in the labor market with crippled skills. Some future president can take arrows for what Obama does today.

The public school failure is a direct result of collusion between teachers unions (NEA, AFT) and the Obama Administration.

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Madonna Fans Beg Netanyahu: Hold Iran Strike

2012-02-09T12:38:00.001-08:00

Madonna's rock show in Israel is on May 29th. Fans in Israel are using Facebook to ask PM Netanyahu to hold off the strike on Iran until after the show. Gotta have a little fun before Armageddon.

Israeli Madonna fans' fears are not unwarranted. A long list of artists are bailing out on Israeli shows in the last minute over war fears.

Iran has stuffed much of its weapons-grade uranium in a new, deeper, heavily fortified bunker in a 'secret' place only the Israeli's know about. This is the biggest reason Israel must act sooner rather than later. If Iran can protect its nukes, Israel will be doomed in the longer run.

The rock fan plea is an interesting one. There is a precedence for worry, in the past, other rock concerts have been cancelled just prior to other wars started by the Arabs. So this reaction makes sense.

In related news. Hillary is rattling her saber again this time it's Syria. Hillary is a proxy for the limp-penised Obama on such matters. The duo have run an illegal war in Libya, and run CIA ops inside Egypt. Sharia is all the rage in the Islamic countries. Hillary has a 'thing' about seeing women in the middle east run-rough in this way.

Iraq's Hanging Judges Working Overtime

2012-02-09T12:01:00.000-08:00

The hard fought, high sacrifice the US made in Iraq is being wasted. New York is not offering to honor returning Iraq veterans. New York should be especially ashamed given these vets fought to avenge 911.

A full 65 people were executed in the first 40 days of 2012, including 14 in a single day. Iraq authorizes the death penalty for over 50 crimes including terrorism, kidnapping, and murder, but also for damage to public property.

Even the Sunni VP of Iraq Tariq al-Hashimi is suspected of running 'death squads' and of being a terrorist himself. Hashimi may be the man behind recent bombing deaths of Shiite government officials.

The terror leader Al-Sadr is planning a comeback as soon as he 'finishes his religious studies' while in Iran! When he returns, Al-Sadr will have full ties to Iran. An Iraq run by Al-Sadr will mean a Sharia dictatorship as is now the rule in Libya, Egypt, and Iran.

Obama has been a disaster not only for the US, but for the world at large.

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Caffeine Inhaler Hits Market

2012-02-09T11:00:00.000-08:00

We live in a nuclear paced world. Many react to their demands and stresses by looking for outside help. Drugs are used to heal, escape, cope, stimulate, and deflate in our ever increasing pressure-filled days and nights.

Caffeine is the legal drug of choice for billions. Until now, caffeine laced liquids like coffee, chocolate and sodas were 'eaten' in order to load up.

Harvard University engineering professor David Edwards, creator of AeroShot has a faster way to get the job done. A toke on the grey-and-yellow plastic canister contains 100 milligrams of caffeine powder, about the amount in a large cup of coffee.

The danger of course is the ease, speed, and low volume of the delivery method. Ten puffs of air as compared to ten cups of coffee represents a magnitude difference in effort. But the effects are equivalent.

Some still yearn for the days when it took an entire day to travel ten miles. That same ten mile trek in an aircraft takes less than a minute.

How will we fill the time taken to eat that morning croissant? Oh yea, soon we will be able to download it directly via a bio-implant no doubt.

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Zebras Evolved Stripes To Keep Horse-Flies Off

2012-02-09T10:19:00.000-08:00

If Zebras evolved striped coats to keep dangerous horse-flies off, then why didn't all the other four legged beasts in Africa do the same thing? ooops.

Researchers from Lund University in Sweden claim Zebra stripes repulse horse-flies. They setup glue-covered cardboard cutouts with and without stripes to test the idea. The flies stuck to the mono-colored cutouts but seemed to shy away from the striped ones.

That is fantastic! Solved! Junk the old theories that black and white stripes on a Zebra provide camouflage, thermoregulation, or let Zebras find other Zebras to make more Zebras. The Swedes have broken the code...

Zerbra's alone must have figured out how to keep the parasitic flies off. The Addax, Gazelles, Antelope, Oryx, Bongo, Bontebok, Buffalo, Camel, Eland, Kudu, Impala, Oribi, Topi, Wild Ass, Wild Horse, and Giraffe must like the flies - they don't have stripes.

Here is a good example how science goes sideways. One must reject the obvious that these flies are not just landing on Zebra's in Africa. Other horse-like animals ignored the same problem and allowed themselves to be bitten freely? Baloney.

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CA Union Pension Fund Goes After Facebook

2012-02-08T13:53:00.000-08:00

Hubris. A female executive at the large California teacher's union pension fund (CalStRS) has sent a veiled threat to Facebook board chairman Mark Zuckerberg.

"We are disappointed that the Facebook board will not have any women members," wrote CalSTRS director Anne Sheehan. Sheehan added, "We believe that investors and the company would benefit from a larger, more diverse board." CalStRS owns pre-public shares in Facebook and plan to own common shares once the Facebook IPO pops.

Translation: Facebook will place a female on the board or lose a large shareholder. How is this different from the race hustle Jesse Jackson uses threatening civil rights lawsuits? Or when unions strike? No different.

Why does Facebook need a female on the board? Why does Facebook not have an Asian, Black, Gay, Eskimo, Midget, Chimpanzee, Homeless man, Al Gore, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Bill from shipping, or a Charlie Manson on the board? Because Mark and the other board members decided their board and their company runs fine without them.

While we are questioning things has Anne checked into CalStRS operations lately? Can you smell that smell?

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Werewolf Sisters Dream Of Marriage

2012-02-08T13:38:00.000-08:00

Three sisters have the same genetic condition known as Hypertrichosis or the werewolf syndrome - a cruel fate that dooms them to a life of unmated spinsterhood at best, death at worst. In their poor Indian village, an unmarried female is unthinkable.

Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and 16-year-old Savitri Sangli, live near Pune, central India. All three inherited the disorder from dad. Their mom was forced int an arranged marriage to the affected man at age 12. Under the rules, mom did not lay eyes on her betrothed till her wedding nite.

'I was only 12 when they forced me into marriage, and if you don't agree to marriage as a girl they will kill you off,' mom recalled.

The girls prodigiously apply hair removal creme daily in a vain attempt to control the hair growth. But the real answer involves an expensive laser surgery - about $7,200 per girl. A sum completely out of the families reach given the father died in 2007.

Eldest daughter Savita recalls the taunts and insults while at school. That is the least of it, 'marriage is not an option for us, it's not likely to happen, who is going to marry us when hair keeps growing on our faces,' Savita warns.

A tragic story indeed.

9th Circuit Fumbles Prop 8

2012-02-08T12:47:00.000-08:00

The 9th circuit circus has struck again. The voters in California will not be denied. The US Supreme Court will throw out yet another activist 9th circuit decision.

The gay marriage issue is tragic. Why aren't liberals trying to pry marriage out of government control entirely?

The underlying premise behind gay marriage is flawed - the government should not be issuing marriage licenses at all! Not for anyone, straight, gay, or any combination in between. If ever there ever was an example of church and state mixing, its marriage licenses.

The real answer is to make civil unions the standard, for everyone, with all the authority the government has to make and enforce contracts. Let people get married in their religious settings with state-issued civil union contracts in hand.

A grand irony for gays pushing for marriage is the obvious risk that straights face in marriage, the divorce. Divorce rates will be no different for gays as for straight, now over 50%!

Case in point, Robin Tyler filed for divorce from Diane Olson on January 25. The pair were among 14 gay couples originally challenging the Prop 8 ban in 2008.

The tragedy for gays is not about marriage. Gays are discriminated against as government employees, and by the IRS. And of course, the civil union statutes are inconsistent between states. Often a civil union is not as binding, or as protective as a marriage license.

Gays should attain equality in all contract relationships. The IRS does not allow gays, for example, to file joint returns. The IRS embeds the term 'marriage' in their filing status and even goes further to say that the marriage must be between a 'man' and a 'woman'. A simple fix is to make the IRS recognize domestic partners, and/or civil unions and forgo the word marriage entirely. And of course, remove the language requiring opposite genders.

Until the religious aspect of state-sanctioned marriages is untangled, this struggle will remain. Why isn't anyone pushing for real equality?

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Obama Fears The Koch Brothers

2012-02-07T12:35:00.000-08:00

Some wonder why Obama has singled out a pair of billionaire brothers in 'Chicago Politics' style for demagoguing. Others wonder why Dem Henry 'Pig Nose' Waxman insists the Koch brothers be blamed for Obama's cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline.

The Koch brothers can hurt Obama, in fact, the Koch brothers have said out loud they will raise money $100 million to defeat Obama.

Charles, 76, is putting $40 million and David, 71, has pledged $20 million to do battle. At the not-so-secret conference the Koch brothers organized other mega-wealthy conservatives promised millions more. Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson was there. So was Karl Rove's PAC standing by with another $200 million.

Remember, MONEY is the MOTHERS MILK of politics.

Obama said PACs were evil in 2008. But that was then, and this is now. Obama has a horrible record, and the GOP are bringing guns to Obama's knife fight. So Obama sent his cabinet over to the Priorities USA Action super PAC to schmooze the crowd.

Obama cannot be trusted. The guy has flopped on everything except keeping his promise to make debt. This time he will face Mitt Romney and a matching billion. This time he has a record of failure and a base absent Jews, Catholics and Independents. Bring it baby.

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Vanity Epidemic Threatens Healthy Adults

2012-02-07T11:04:00.000-08:00

Vanity is among the 7 deadly sins. The Romans used the term vanagloria, or 'boasting'. So when the Catholics compiled their list, Pope Gregory folded Vanity into the 7th sin, Pride.

Avoiding a theology a debate, remember, these sins are there for a reason, they are bad for you. Vanity or Pride in one's physical looks is a killer. A new study proves it.

Volunteers who stared at themselves for ten minutes or more in a mirror became anxious and depressed about their looks. And why shouldn't they, anyone that can stand their own face for that long has to be looking for trouble.

Scientists didn't expect people who already accepted their looks to get jacked-up. A neurosis called Body Dysmorphic Disorder leads to self-hate. BDD affected starve themselves in an anorexic spiral 'vainly' trying to correct the problem.

According to these guys, women stare in the mirror averaging 38 times in a typical day and men 18 times a day. Yikes. Stay away from the mirror people, the world is depressing enough, you don't need this kind of grief.