Chelsea Clinton Gets Married

New York Post

Theyre hitched!

Chelsea Clinton and her longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky said their "I dos" tonight at a lavish ceremony on a 500-acre estate overlooking the Hudson River.

The couple got married in front of a close-knit group of friends and family as the sun set at the historic Astor Courts building in Rhinebeck, New York.

The brides proud parents Bill and Hillary Clinton confirmed their daughters newly-married status in an emotional statement released around 7: 20 p.m.

PHOTOS: THE CEREMONY

PHOTOS: VIPS ARRIVE

PHOTOS: RHINEBECK PREPS FOR CHELSEA'S WEDDING
"Today, we watched with great pride and overwhelming emotion as Chelsea and Marc wed in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts, surrounded by family and their close friends," the Clintons said.

"We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning of their life together, and we are so happy to welcome Marc into our family."

The couple had a rabbi and a reverend perform their interfaith ceremony. Chelsea was raised Methodist, and Marc is Jewish.

Details of the wedding were highly guarded in the weeks leading up to the marriage, with vendors told to sign confidentiality agreements and guests being sworn to secrecy.

More than 400 guests were at the historic estate, and some of the celebrities spotted in Rhinebeck for the event included actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, fashion designer Vera Wang and Madeleine Albright, who was secretary of state during Bill Clintons second term as president.

The wedding capped off a star-studded frenzy in sleepy Rhinebeck, N.Y.

"I’ve known her since she was a baby, so this is a big moment," Steenburgen, a pal of former President Bill Clinton since his days as Arkansas governor, said earlier this afternoon.

She is a lovely girl."

Hubby Danson of "Cheers" fame blurted out, "I’m certainly excited!"

Earlier today, Rep. Anthony Weiner of Queens – who is married to one of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s closest aides – was spotted lunching with Steve Bing, movie producer and longtime Clinton friend.

"I’m very happy for them. I hope they have a wonderful time," said Weiner, as the two men downed beers and fried food at an outdoor table.
Roads and airspace around Rhinebeck were closed today as security officials prepared to handle throngs of well-wishers lining the streets, hoping for a glimpse of the blushing bride.

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Omar Minaya is Worst GM in Baseball

I got something for you Omar, right here!

You suck!

You’re a bum!

You’re the genius who gave Luis Castillo a 4 year deal. You’re the idiot who signed Ollie Perez when nobody else wanted him.

You’re the guy who put the 2007 Mets together who choked a 1st place lead away in September. You kept the same together in 2008 and they choked again.

Again no changes in 2009 and the team this time physically fell apart.

Now, in 2010 you sit with your thumb up your ass and do nothing to improve the team.

You’re a bum!

You suck, Omar!


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A Mets Fan’s futile Plea to Fred Wilpon: Sell the New York Mets and Get Lost!

As the trade deadline passed at 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, the New York Mets did nothing to improve the team.

So what else is new?

Rumors are that Fred Wilpom, owner of the Mets has been financially devastated by swindler and con man Barnie Madoff who is currently serving a 150 year prison term.

And to add to that miserable news, former Wilpon employees filed a lawsuit against the Mets owner for lost retirement funds that has left them with no nest egg for their retirement years.

Let me speak for all Mets fans by saying we don’t care about Fred Wilpon’s financial problems.

For far too long before the Madoff thing ever happened, Mets fans has suffered the pain of having an owner who has always operated the Mets as if he were living in Kansas City instead of New York.

We have to suffer the indignity and the taunts by Yankee fans year after year for having a team that is just good enough to be mediocre.

We are tired of this and are tired of the Wilpon regime!

Fred, I have a solution for you.

If you no longer have the financial wherewithal to compete in New York as a big market team, then sell the Mets to some other wealthy New Yorker who does.

You’ve owned the Mets for nearly 30 years and have only 1 championship to show for it. That may be better than what the Chicago Cubs have done, but it’s not good enough for Mets fans anymore.

Sell the team, repay the money you lost for your employees, and free Mets fans from the purgatory you have us all in.

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Immigration Law Protesters Interrupt Mets Game

How dare these two idiots run out in the field in my house! Bad enough I have to suffer through the Mets falling apart as usual.

Hey, maybe Jeff Wilpon could sell the Mets to Carlos Silva, the country’s richest man who is from Mexico. It isn’t like he’ll have a hard time getting across the border.

CBS News

Two men carrying Mexican flags in protest of Arizona's immigration law ran into the outfield during the seventh inning of the New York Mets' game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night at Citi Field.

The men were apprehended by security fairly quickly without much incident.

Prior to the game, about 40 people across the street from the ballpark chanted "Oppose racism!" and "Boycott Arizona!"

Others stationed closer to the subway exit handed out leaflets that requested Major League Baseball move next year's All-Star game out of Phoenix.

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Rift in Democrat Party Over Charlie Rangel: Obama Wants Him Out But Hill Dems Eyes Only a Wrist Slap

Watch this video



Although you won’t find this reading in the Obama suck up media, I don’t see how anybody can interpret the president’s comments yesterday concerning the situation New York Rep Charlie Rangel is in facing an ethics trial as anything other than, “Resign now and go far away from here!”

Obama’s approval ratings continue to plummet thanks to his job-killing, big government policies and the last thing he needs is for Charlie Rangel to be given only a slap on the wrist despite the mountain of evidence pointing to his sleazy corruption.

Has Obama lost that much juice within the Democrat Party that his call for Rangel’s resignation as subtle as it was, falls totally on deaf ears?

Personally, I hope Rangel fights tooth and nail because it will be better than watching Snooki falling down drunk on Jersey Shore.

But, this is defiantly a rift in the Democrat Party that “state controlled” media doesn’t want to report it as such.

New York Post

If Rep. Charles Rangel was looking for support from President Obama, he'd better not get his hopes up.

Obama last night called the ethics charges against Rangel "very troubling" and sharply noted that the embattled Harlem Democrat is "at the end of his career."

"I think Charlie Rangel served a very long time and served his constituents very well. But these allegations are very troubling," Obama said on the "CBS Evening News" in his first comments on the Rangel scandal.

"He's somebody who's at the end of his career. Eighty years old. I'm sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity. And my hope is that it happens."

Earlier, it was revealed that the House ethics panel has recommended only a slap on the wrist for Rangel -- a formal reprimand.
Government watchdog groups and other critics ripped the proposed punishment -- the weakest in the House's arsenal -- as outrageously lenient given the severity of the allegations.

"The substantial number of violations against Congressman Rangel make a reprimand totally inappropriate. It's ridiculous," said Melanie Sloan, director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

The charges include failing to pay taxes on the villa he owned in the Dominican Republic; not reporting huge amounts of assets and income on his financial disclosure statements; improperly soliciting funds from entities with business before his committee to finance a "Charles Rangel Center" at CCNY; and receiving a rent-stabilized apartment that he improperly used as a campaign office.

The House ethics committee report showed that Rangel failed to report as much as $1.7 million in personal assets over the past 12 years.

That's much higher than previous estimates of less than $1 million based on the congressman's financial disclosure forms for 2002 to 2007.

Meanwhile, nervous Democratic Congress members are beginning to abandon Rangel's shaky ship.

Two -- John Yarmouth (Ky.) and Zack Space (Ohio) -- yesterday called on Rangel to resign.

But the head of the investigatory panel that conducted the two-year probe of Rangel revealed that they want to let him off with only a reprimand.

"The recommendation that we have is a reprimand," Rep. Gene Green (D-Texas) told reporters.

A reprimand would have to be approved by the full House ethics committee and then the House itself.

The light admonishment falls short of censure or expulsion from Congress and doesn't even require an apology.
Full story

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Drama Queen Anthony Weiner (D NY) Throws a Hissy Fit on the House Floor

And the winner for the Best performance by a male actor in a leading role goes to….Anthony Weiner my homebody from Brooklyn.

The House voted down a bill to help 911 First Responders.

But, the Democrats who can’t run on Barack Obama’s agenda because the president (community organizer-in-chief) has an approval rating in the low 40s and falling fast, desperately needed something to take to back home to the voters for the summer recess.

So the Democrats fabricated a set-up for the voting of the 911 bill by requiring a 2/3 majority vote for passage instead of a simple majority of 50% plus one.

Thus, the deceitful Democrats knew all along that they wouldn’t get the 2/3 they needed, by design, to pin the blame on the Republicans.

This is what’s known in New York as a Charlie Rangel special screw.

Ladies and Gentlemen, here is Weiner Theater



Did you see the spit flying off his face?

Outstanding, Anthony, Bravo!!!

Today, Weiner and Pete King both appeared on Fox, and Weiner continues to make Charles Rangel proud by lying his ass off concerning the bogus vote.


It’s Friday, and the Democrats needed a bone thrown their way.

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Jennifer Lopez Signs Deal to Judge on American Idol

I’ve stopped watching A.I. for a couple of years. But, if they snatched up Jennifer Lopez, I may have to find my way back for a looksee.

The National Enquirer is reporting that with Ellen DeGeneres' abrupt departure from the show, sources say JENNIFER LOPEZ is close to inking a deal to be a judge on the declining star making show.

The superstar was close to signing, a source divulged after DeGeneres announced her sudden departure.yesterday."

A couple months ago, I let Fox and the `American Idol' producers know that this didn't feel like the right fit for me,"

DeGeneres said in a statement. She was brought on to replace Paula Abdul as judge.But with creator Simon Cowell now gone as well, there's a quest to replace him as well.Reports of folks like Elton John or Jessica Simpson have been fueling the media guessing game.

J.Lo first made her mark in show biz as one of the original Fly Girl on In Living Color on Fox before becoming a back up dancer for Janet Jackson. She launched her first hit album in 1999. With audition episodes looming in September, the pressure is on for Fox to sign new judges ASAP. Full story




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Drunk as a Skunk Jersey Shore’ Star (Snooki) Busted for Disorderly Conduct

The no talent little guidette got pinched for acting the fool. Isn’t that basically how she earns her money in the first place?



Nothing like a little “cuff time” to gain some more street cred and pump up more interest in the show.







New York Post



“Jersey Shore” star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was reportedly taken into police custody earlier today for disorderly conduct.



The pint-sized guidette was nabbed by police in Seaside Heights, NJ, at about 3:45 p.m., but the details of her arrest remain unclear, according to TMZ.com.



The celebrity gossip site also reported that Snooki was partying on the beach with a beer bong, but she was only filling it with Coca-Cola. She was also reportedly seen taking body shots at a local bar earlier in the day.



MyFoxPhilly.com reports she appeared to be intoxicated as she was taken away by police.



“She didn’t hurt anyone or get in a fight,” a source told People magazine's website. “She just needs to be in a drunk tank for two hours.”



A rep for the show declined to comment.

This isn’t the first time a member of the cast has been arrested while filming the hit reality TV show.









In season one last year, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro was taken into custody after punching a heckler in the street.



Snooki’s arrest comes one day after the season premiere of “Jersey Shore,” which became the most-watched cable television show of 2010, bringing in 5.3 million viewers



UPDATE:



America's beloved pint-sized troublemaker Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the breakout star of MTV's hit reality show "Jersey Shore," was arrested for disorderly conduct in her Seaside Heights roaming grounds yesterday while she was staggering around drunk, sources told The Post.



An intoxicated Snooki spent the day boozing on the New Jersey beach with cast members when her antics attracted the attention of cops.



Cameras were rolling for Season 3 of the insanely popular show -- which embraces "Guido" culture, hedonism and rock-hard abs -- for Snooki's embarrassing arrest at 3:30 p.m.



PHOTOS: NICOLE "SNOOKI" POLIZZI

VIDEO: SNOOKI ARRESTED AT THE JERSEY SHORE



"She was drunk in public and had an argument with the officers," a source close to the cast told The Post. "This is 100 percent real, and not a set-up for the show."



She was so drunk "she couldn't stand up," E! Online reported.



The "guidette" was dressed in a tight pink leopard print tank top with the word "Slut" and an even tighter miniskirt that revealed the bottom of her buttocks.



One witness said: "She was on her knees and kept falling on the beach. People were laughing and taking pictures of her before the cops arrested her."

MTV spokeswoman Emily Yeomans declined to comment.



"When our police went to deal with the situation -- not Mike 'The Situation' -- they found the need to arrest her," Seaside Heights Borough Administrator John Camera told The Star-Ledger of Newark.



Camera said the 4-foot-9 Snooki had been "bothering" people not involved with the show.

Seaside Heights police said poof-sporting Polizzi was charged with disorderly conduct and was "under the influence."



"When she got in [the station house] she got a little better, but her behavior wasn't good," a source said.



She was issued a summons and was released.



Last night Snooki dined with housemates Jenny "JWOWW" Farley, and Dina at a swanky Italian restaurant. Afterwards, the trio strolled back to their house flanked by police.



Earlier, paparazzi snapped pictures of Snooki, 22, sitting on a bench and pouring liquid into a beer bong.

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Tokyo’s 'oldest man’ dead for 30 years

UK Telegraph

Sogen Kato was born July 22, 1899, which would have made him 111, Tokyo's oldest man

Police visited the home of Sogen Kato at the request of ward officials updating their list of centenarians ahead of Respect for the Elderly Day in September. Kato was born July 22, 1899, which would have made him 111.

Japanese welfare officials have tried to meet Kato since earlier this year, but his family members repeatedly chased them away, saying Kato was well but didn’t want to see anyone, said Tomoko Iwamatsu, an official at Tokyo’s downtown Adachi Ward, where Kato lived.

Officials grew suspicious and sought an investigation by police, who forced their way into the house Wednesday. Police said the mummified body believed to be Kato was lying in his bed, wearing underwear and pyjamas, covered with a blanket.

His granddaughter told investigators Kato holed up in his room about 30 years ago after declaring he wanted to be a living Buddha, police and Tokyo officials said. They believe Kato died soon after that.

Tokyo police were investigating possible crimes on suspicion Kato’s family received pension money of the man and his dead wife.
“His family must have known he has been dead all these years and acted as if nothing happened,” said Tokyo metropolitan welfare official Yutaka Muroi.

“It’s so eerie.”


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Court Upholds Expulsion of Christian Student (Julea Ward) Who Opposes Homosexuality

“Public universities are imposing the ideological stances of private groups on their students,” he said. “If you don’t comply, you will be kicked out. It’s scary stuff and it’s not a difficult thing to see what’s coming down the pike.”

In Bamazuela, (aka United States under the Obama regime) intolerance towards the Christian point-of-view has been given the courts stamp of approval.

Americans are being asked to accept the building of a Muslim mosque at Ground Zero as a demonstration of her religious freedom, but a Christian student at Eastern Michigan University is being ordered to set aside her Biblical beliefs and undergo “thought control” re-education classes that imposes the “Leftist way of thinking” as prescribed by the State of Michigan.

And all because she has the audacity to believe what the Bible, and incidentally the Koran and Torah teaches, that homosexuality is immoral.

Begging the question, “What happened to America?”



Fox News

A federal judge has ruled in favor of a public university that removed a Christian student from its graduate program in school counseling over her belief that homosexuality is morally wrong.

Monday's ruling, according to Julea Ward's attorneys, could result in Christian students across the country being expelled from public university for similar views.

“It’s a very dangerous precedent,” Jeremy Tedesco, legal counsel for the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, told FOX News Radio.

“The ruling doesn’t say that explicitly, but that’s what is going to happen.”

U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh dismissed Ward’s lawsuit against Eastern Michigan University. She was removed from the school’s counseling program last year because she refused to counsel homosexual clients.

The university contended she violated school policy and the American Counseling Association code of ethics.

“Christian students shouldn’t be expelled for holding to and abiding by their beliefs,” said ADF senior counsel David French. “To reach its decision, the court had to do something that’s never been done in federal court: uphold an extremely broad and vague university speech code.”

Eastern Michigan University hailed the decision.

“We are pleased that the court has upheld our position in this matter,” EMU spokesman Walter Kraft said in a written statement. “Julea Ward was not discriminated against because of her religion. To the contrary, Eastern Michigan is deeply committed to the education of our students and welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds into our community.”

In his 48-page opinion, Judge Steeh said the university had a rational basis for adopting the ACA Code of Ethics.

“Furthermore, the university had a rational basis for requiring students to counsel clients without imposing their personal values,” he wrote in a portion of his ruling posted by The Detroit News.

“In the case of Ms. Ward, the university determined that she would never change her behavior and would consistently refuse to counsel clients on matters with which she was personally opposed due to her religious beliefs – including homosexual relationships.”

Ward’s attorneys claim the university told her she would only be allowed to remain in the program if she went through a “remediation” program so that she could “see the error of her ways” and change her belief system about homosexuality.

The case is similar to a lawsuit the ADF filed against Augusta State University in Georgia. Counseling student Jennifer Keeton was allegedly told to stop sharing her Christian beliefs in order to graduate.
Keeton's lawsuit alleged that she was told to undergo a reeducation program and attend “diversity sensitivity training.”

University officials declined to comment on specifics of the lawsuit but released a statement to FOX News that said Augusta State does not discriminate on the basis of students’ moral, religious, political or personal beliefs.

Tedesco said both cases should be a warning to Christians attending public colleges and universities.

“Public universities are imposing the ideological stances of private groups on their students,” he said. “If you don’t comply, you will be kicked out. It’s scary stuff and it’s not a difficult thing to see what’s coming down the pike.”

The Alliance Defense Fund told FOX News it will appeal the ruling.

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Levi Johnston Other Baby Momma Drama: May Have Gotten Other Girl Pregnant

The one thing I really had a problem with Levi Johnston was the way talked too much. A man doesn’t do that kind of stuff. Women do it all the time, but not men.



Looks lie Levi has some more ‘splaining to do.

National Enquirer

SARAH PALIN's future son-in-law LEVI JOHNSTON is embroiled in a NEW baby scandal, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

In the wake of handsome Levi Johnston's announcement that he's engaged to Palin's oldest daughter Bristol, one of his old girlfriends is about to give birth to a child she believes may be Levi's!

During his breakup from 19-year-old Bristol, after she gave birth to their son Tripp, Levi briefly reunited with his old girlfriend Lanesia Garcia, The ENQUIRER has learned.

During that time, she became pregnant - and believes Levi could be the daddy!

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Going Private

If you're reading this you are one of the select few that I've verified as readers of my blog. In an effort to avoid attracting interweb creepers/predators/older men with mustaches and perve glasses I decided that I needed to make State of Polarity private. This means two things:

1) I will now be missing out on the external validation that comes from tracking my web hits, seeing the following I've gotten, and feeling like my own little musings are actually being read.

*I've had hits from Russia to India and I even had an Australian 'follower.'*

...and...

2) I can now dish more freely knowing that my words are not being creeped on by people I don't want reading this blog... particularly the boys I am dating.

*This might actually be fun.*

Anyway, I tenatively plan to go public again once I've combed said blog for personal details I may have let leak in previous posts. We'll just see how it goes.

Until then, thanks for reading.

Sean Hannity Interviews Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer - 07/28/10 for Reaction to Court Injenction-Arizona’s New Immagration Law.

A Clinton appointee judge (aka activist judge) stroke down certain aspects of Arizona’s new immigration essentially making an illegal immigrant “legal” in Arizona.

This is liberal insanity will not stand!

Gov Jan Brewer has vowed that she will take this fight all the way to the Supreme Court.

Despite what you may hear from the Obama suck up media, 70% of the American people AGREE WITH ARIZONA!!!!

Like Yogi Berre once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over!”

Go Jan Go!



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Maxine Waters Revisited Socialism on the Mind

Time to go down memory lane and remind everyone how dumb Maxine Waters really is.

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Fixer Uppers

Boys. I kinda like 'em. And while I'm by no means an expert at dating, I have learned a few lessons over the last year worth writing about.

You see, in the last year I fear that I've broken a couple of hearts or at least caused a few cases of mild angina (*sorry boys, it was not intentional*). Likewise I've had my own mini heart-break this year as well. But this post isn't to whine about heart-break, it's to write about the lil pattern I noticed through these recent endeavors in dating...

That being, in each scenario/dating misfire either myself or the guy I was dating was what I like to call a... Fixer Upper.

Not following?
Let me explain...

With boy #1 I was just coming out of a serious long-term relationship. A relationship that was in all reality still being drug out by phone calls, emails, and intermittent hang-outs. This was not the premise to start something new and I told boy #1 that, but we still continued to hang out as friends. Things were great, we got really close, and had a lot of fun until an 'end all kiss' that caught me by surprise and made it clear that our relationship had a very different meaning for him than it did for me. Cut to now and that's one friendship that's more or less gone by the wayside.

Now for my own dose of rejection with boy #2. This boy caught me by surprise. He was smart, philosophical, and could talk (grr...), so I let it slide that I met him at a Halloween party in which he'd been attracted to me whilst wearing a none-too-conservative costume making me doubt the kind of girl he thought I was. I also overlooked the fact that he was a bit of a party boy and frequently wore the issued uniform of the tool army:

...MEK denim for men...

Anyway, I gave this guy way more credit than he deserved. In the end he kind of snubbed me after a few ups and downs in which I initially told him I was done, he convinced me to give him a second chance, and then pulled the old turn-around reverse dump. *This was of course after the passive aggressive stab at me he made via Fb status. Classic* But alas, though this break-up merited but a moment's pause, I spent the next half of the semester feeling retarded and more or less rejected every time I saw him on campus.

And finally, boy #3. Oh, boy #3. This guy is literally one of the greatest guys I've met. Smart, funny, handsome, encouraging, everything a girl could ask for. In the last couple months of the semester we got really close. He was there for me during one of the most stressful times of my life while I was applying to med school and confronting some issues from my past and he was nothing but supportive. Seriously the kind of supportive that transforms your bad days into good days and that finds a way to make you laugh when you really just feel like crying. Even as I type these words I get this frantic feeling that I might have let 'one of the good ones' slip through my fingers, but regardless, you can't force attraction, it just wasn't there for me, and I really wasn't in the place to start anything anyway. Sadly even seemingly perfect boy #3 is now just a chapter in my dating chronicles.

*So, back to my original point.*

The common factor between the demise of my relationships with boys #1, 2, and 3 is simple. In each case a Fixer Upper was involved.

With boy #1 I was the fixer upper on the rebound and not ready to start anything new. With boy #2, it was more or less the same problem only this time it was him that needed fixing in his own apathetic state and Neitzsche fueled angst. And with boy #3, once again it was my own outside issues and need of an emotional tune-up that prevented sparks from flying.

Now, you might be thinking the moral of this story is:

Don't Date a Fixer Upper

...But, actually I don't agree...

You see, while my recent tirades in dating didn't lead to anything bigger, they taught me a lot. In fact, I think I'd be a lot worse off right now if not for boys 1-3. Boys #1 and 3 taught me a lot about what I want in a guy and what I deserve in a relationship. And while admittedly not as healthy, even my relationship and fall-out with boy #2 taught me a lot in regard to what I don't want in a boy and improvements that I myself need to make in communication and conflict resolution.

So, I guess the real moral of the story is...

If you're looking for something serious or to settle down then a Fixer Upper probably is not what you're looking for. But if you're just into casual dating, having a good time, and learning more about yourself, then by all means hook it up.

Just do it with the knowledge that if you insist on being the one to 'fix' up a Fixer Upper you'll be doing for the next guy or girl, because anyone in need of fixing is going to be too into their own problems to be into you. That's right whether you're dating someone on the rebound, a party boy that expresses dissatisfaction and apathy for life, or a girl in the middle of a stress bomb, I'm afraid odds are that it's not going anywhere. But don't let that stop you...Let yourself be fixed and why not try doing a little fixing?

In the very least...
It's good dating Karma.

Randy Travis Begs Wife To Forgive His Cheating Because it’s Cheaper to Keep Her

You can do better than that, Randy.

Now, don’t ever visit that cheating side of town ever again.

The National Enquirer reports that cheating RANDY TRAVIS has begged his wife of 18 years to take him back - to save $50 million!

But pals say the 51-year-old country music legend is still holed up with his married sweetie - the pretty wife of a Texas dentist - and doesn't plan to move back home unless wife Libby Hatcher, 69, promises she won't file for divorce!"

After talking to his accountant, Randy's suddenly had a change of heart.

He realizes Libby will clean him out if they split," a close pal told The ENQUIRER. When the country legend realized he could lose $50 million if she divorces him, his fling began to lose its luster.





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Can Somebody Spare $1 for Barney Frank for a Ferry Ride to Fire Island?

My co-warrior against the insanity of the Left, Tim Daniels of Left Coast Rebel fame, is really hot this week. This is his second Op Ed in the Daily Caller in week.

This time Tim takes aim at Barney Frank the second most obnoxious Democrat congressman next to Charlie Rangel.


Barney Frank’s one dollar fare
conundrum and the ruling class

By Tim Daniels


From California to New York state, Arizona’s illegal immigration law has been making headlines. In what is perhaps a last ditch effort, the state chose to enforce border security and stop criminality that comes with undocumented immigrants.

But last Friday residents thousands of miles away in New York witnessed something similar but quite different: an aggravated, disheveled, undocumented senior citizen.

70-year-old Representative Barney Frank, (D-MA) was heading out to New York’s Fire Island. The New York Post reported that the Massachusetts congressman failed to contain his exasperation when a ticket clerk at the local dock rejected his request for a $1 discount ferry
fare to the island. Frank did not possess the necessary Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID to take part. Something quite fascinating then unfolded.

The New York Post recounts a witness claiming that, “Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.”

One can imagine the horror of a Congressionally-pampered power broker confronted with a simple, everyday incident like this. Barney Frank lost his cool and that says it all.

And so the story unfolds. In many corners of our society a seemingly trivial incident like this from a man of such high authority would bring pause for no concern. Perhaps, instead – a laughing matter, or an excuse to muse over the representative’s strange proclivities, personality and arrogance.

But the story of the $1 discount fare points to much, much, more.

As Angelo M. Codevilla described in his stunning essay, America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution, Barney Frank’s actions are emblematic of the ruling class mentality. Frank would not have objected more if the Sayville, New York dock clerk had shorted him $5 or even five cents. Either would have signaled a failure to recognize the ongressman’s ruling class authority and the power that thus brings over the public at large. It is through this prism of elitist thought that the ruling class and thus those like Frank, gaze upon the masses.

The ruling class disease of entrenched hubris and elitism has echoed the halls of the United States Congress for far too long and is the cause for many of the ills that we face now as a nation. In fact, it is a valid explanation for many aspects of the so-called ‘progressive’ agenda that simply do not make sense to many citizens.

Power begets corruption, corruption begets more lust for power, and powerful congressmen berate trivial, everyday life issues.
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The Myth of Sean Bell

Sean Bell got shot trying to protect a frail old woman from being mugged on the subway.

Wait a minute, that’s not what happened.

Okay, how about this?

Sean Bell got gunned down trying to save a blind little boy from being kidnapped by a notorious and vile pedophile.

No wait, that didn’t happen either.

How about this?

Sean Bell got slain for trying to protect a stranger from being set on fire by a disreputable street gang.

By now you probably already know that neither of these things actually happened. However, each one of those scenarios would have been well deserving of receiving the high honor of having a street renamed in your memory for performing an unselfish and heroic act to safeguard his fellow man.

There is no greater love than giving one’s life for someone else, right?

Nevertheless, the New York City Council voted on a resolution to have a small stretch of a Queens street renamed after Sean Bell for attempting to run over New York City cops with his car while driving drunk.

Of course, the picture the Left paints of Sean Bell is quite different. To them, he was an innocent Black man that was tragically assassinated in a hail of 50 bullets by racist NYPD police in the early morning hours of his wedding day. That’s all the Left needed to perpetuate another fraud in their long line of frauds upon the public and imbued a common street thug into an angel of light.

The fact that Bell was twice arrested for dealing crack cocaine and weapons possession was society’s fault, not his.

That fact that Sean Bell’s companions were quite familiar with the criminal justice system along with Bell himself was truly an inconvenient truth.

The bitter reality was that Sean Bell was a thug that was hanging with his fellow thug friends at a seedy strip joint getting sloshed on Hennessey and enjoying lap dances galore before he took the plunge into matrimony that was only hours away from fruition.

But, we dare not say that young Bell acted stupidly for trying to use his motor vehicle as a deadly weapon, and got clipped for his trouble by public servants in the performance of their duties.

Is the Black community so bereft of legitimate heroes that White Liberal politicians think that Sean Bell is the best they can offer?
Or is this yet another cynical bone being thrown to Black folks by theses same Lib pols to fool the public come re-election time and hide the broken promises they’ve made year after year?

Sean Bell died a thug’s death!

Let’s make him a hero and name a street after him. And don’t forget to give me your vote, because you know I really care.


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New Sexy Russian Spy (Anna Fermanova )Busted for Smuggling Night-Vision Scopes

Well, if you ask me, this Russki gal is much prettier than the first one busted here in New York.



New York Post



Looks like the Cold War is really heating up.



A young Russian beautician faces federal felony charges in Texas for allegedly trying to smuggle night vision scopes to Moscow -- just weeks after the feds broke up a massive Russian spy ring, according to a bombshell new report made public today.



Anna Fermanova, 24, was busted July 15 when she returned to the US after spending four months overseas. She was charged with "knowingly and intentionally" attempting to export "from the United States to Russia defense articles on the United States Munitions list," according to documents posted on thesmokinggun.com.







The state-of-the-art vision goggles cannot be exported without pre-approval from the Department of State since the items are considered weapons, officials said.



Fermanova told thesmokinggun.com that the charges were "false allegations" and "too sensitive to be discussed."



Fermanova works in Moscow giving English lessons to Russian students. Her lawyer, Scott Palmer, called the case "really silly," adding that Fermanova's husband planned to resell the night vision scopes to hunters.



Palmer declined to discuss where Fermanova came up with the $15,000 to purchase the three devices (two devices were purchased for $4,000 each and a third was $7,000).



He also said Fermanova emigrated with her parents to the United States from Latvia when she was a young girl and is currently an American citizen.



According to her Facebook page, she is a 2005 graduate of the Ogle School of Hair Skin and Nails,and Texas state records show that she holds a cosmetologist license expiring next August.





Federal prosecutors in Dallas asked a judge to jail her without bail -- a request that denied denied by Judge Renee Harris Toliver.



She was eventually released on $50,000 bond, but her passport was seized and she was placed on 24-hour-a-day home incarceration because the feds argued she was a flight risk.



The arrest warrant for Fermanova was signed a day after Russian spy Anna Chapman and nine others pleaded guilty to federal charges and deported.



The Immigration and Customs Enforcement began to probe Fermanova in February when a confidential informant reported that she was seeking to acquire a $7,000 "Raptor 4X Night Vision Weapons Sight."



The source told officials that Fermanova "had previously acquired a similar night vision scope."

In a sworn affidavit, ICE Agent David Mondanaro said the Raptor 4X was an advanced "generation 3" sighting device "designed to be affixed to a rifle, such as the M4 assault rifle."

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Lutherans Offer Warm Welcome to Gay Pastors

This is a very unfortunate story to report. Like so many other things in our society, Liberalism has infected the Body of Christ-The Church.

But, it’s all part of what Scripture foretells anyway.

Of course I expect to called intolerant or homophobic for even writings this.

Take your best shot!

The bible says that homosexuality is immoral. These Liberal theologians disagree and interpret Scripture to suit their own sinful life style.

New York Times

With a laying on of hands, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday welcomed into its fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been barred from the church’s ministry.

The ceremony at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in San Francisco was the first of several planned since the denomination took a watershed vote at its convention last year to allow noncelibate gay ministers in committed relationships to serve the church.

“Today the church is speaking with a clear voice,” the Rev. Jeff R. Johnson, one of the seven gay pastors participating in the ceremony, said at a news conference just before it began. “All people are welcome here, all people are invited to help lead this church, and all people are loved unconditionally by God.”

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, known as the E.L.C.A., with 4.6 million members, is now the largest Protestant church in the United States to permit noncelibate gay ministers to serve in the ranks of its clergy — an issue that has caused wrenching divisions for it as well as for many other denominations.

Since the church voted last summer to allow noncelibate gay clergy members to serve, 185 congregations have taken the two consecutive votes required to leave the denomination, said Melissa Ramirez Cooper, a spokeswoman for the church, citing a tally that she said was updated monthly.

There are 10,396 congregations nationwide.

The Episcopal Church and the United Church of Christ also allow gay ministers. And the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s general assembly voted at its convention earlier this month to do so, though the vote will become church law only if is ratified by a majority of the church’s 173 regional presbyteries.

Two smaller Lutheran denominations, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, do not ordain ministers in same-sex relationships.

The seven ministers welcomed at the ceremony on Sunday had already been ordained and have been serving at churches or outreach ministries in the San Francisco Bay Area, but they had not been officially recognized on the clergy roster.

“The effect of them being brought onto our roster is they will now be part of our national database of pastors who are available for service in any of our 10,500 churches,” said Bishop Mark W. Holmerud, who leads the Sierra Pacific Synod, which includes San Francisco. He noted that while some congregations were open to consider hiring openly gay ministers, others were not — and each congregation is free to choose.

The Evangelical Lutherans designed Sunday’s special “rite of reconciliation” to mark the formal inclusion of gay ministers who were ordained in “extraordinary rites” that were not recognized by the church but were conducted by a group called Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries.

Three more gay pastors will be welcomed at ceremonies in September and October, two in the St. Paul-Minneapolis area and one in Chicago, Ms. Cooper said.

Amalia Vagts, executive director of Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, said, “It’s been a long and hard journey for a lot of people, and it feels like this is a new beginning in the history of the E.L.C.A.”

Some who opposed it are now poised to leave. The Rev. Mark Chavez, director of Lutheran CORE, a coalition of theologically conservative Lutheran churches, said his group expected to form a new denomination, the North American Lutheran Church, in August.

He said of the ceremony on Sunday, “It’s just another steady step taken by the E.L.C.A. to move the denomination further and further away from most Lutheran churches around the world and from the whole Christian church, unfortunately.”
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Cross Ref Memorandum

And a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his WIFE, not husband!

Keep playin' around!

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GOP Rep Paul Ryan Bitch Slaps Chris Matthews on Tax Hikes, Budgets and Eco 101

I occasionally watch Mr. Thrill Going Up My Leg, (Chris Matthews) who briefly forgot that Barack Obama was a Black man during the SOTU. One of Mathew’s favorite tactics whenever a Republican comes on his show is to badger and over-talk them.

Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many punk-ass GOPers like Mike Pence and others fall into this trap and never go head to head and toe to toe with Matthews. They always let Matthews get the best of them

But, not Paul Ryan, Republican congressman from Wisconsin. Every time I’ve seen him, he’s always prepared, not afraid to speak his mind, and as you will see in this video he stands up to Matthew’s bullying tactics.

As you may know I have dubbed the current GOP leadership the Pussies-R-Us club because they’re all a bunch of cowards.

I hope Paul Ryan refuses to become a member.

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Video courtesy of NewsBusters

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Jersey Shore’s Newest Curvy Cast Member Deena Nicole (Photos)

Looks like Snooki isn’t the only chubby on set. Thick White Girls are taking over the planet.

Radar Online

The third season of Jersey Shore has just started filming and RadarOnline.com has the first exclusive photos of the newest addition to their cast.

She calls herself Deena Nicole on her Facebook page (although her last name is not confirmed) and she fits right in with her hard-partying cast mates. Deena is a friend of Snooki’s.

“All I need is beats, my broads, and booze... Let’s drink to us,” Deena posted on her Facebook page just days before she began filming with her new GTL buddies.
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The Case of Bell, California Liberalism and Government Workers and Government in the Red

My buddy and fellow Conservative warrior, Tim Daniel who runs the outstanding blog, Left Coast Rebel wrote an Op Ed for the Daily Caller about high paid government employees.

Ringing the bell at the top: Paging Chris Christie
by Tim Daniel

Consider Bell. A diverse, poor offshoot of Los Angeles, Bell’s population in 2000 stood at 37,000 and its median per year household income clocked in at $29,000. But according to a blitz of media reports, city manager Robert Rizzo’s yearly salary clocks in close to $800,000.

Rizzo thinks he’s worth every penny recently claiming:

“If that’s a number people choke on, maybe I’m in the wrong business. I could go into private business and make that money. This council has compensated me for the job I’ve done.”

No kidding. But that’s not where the buck stops.
Investor’s Business Daily has the city manager’s yearly retirement pension at a cool $600,000, starting at age 50. Such sweetheart scenarios were written by lawmakers during the Davis administration, exemplifying the unison of politicians, powerful unions, and the corruptocrat state attorneys at home in Sacramento.

In addition to Rizzo’s sub $800,000 salary, Bell police chief netted over $456,000 and assistant city manager Angela Spaccia earned $376,000. The Los Angeles Times reported today that all three of these high-income earners got the boot today. We’ll see if they “go into private business and make that money” as the Bell city manager claimed.

The local issue of overpaid, zealous administrators in Bell, California, demonstrates a far more troubling macro picture for both the state and the nation a whole. California’s pension system alone now comes with a price tag that dwarfs the estimates of 10 years ago. This is due mostly to the 1999 California enacted pension ‘reform’ based on ludicrous investment gambles that assumed (among many other things) that the Dow Jones Industrial average would be trading at 25,000 by 2009.
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Chelsea Clinton Afraid Hubby-to-Be Will Cheat

Despite having a $10 million dollar cheating clause in her prenup if future husband Marc Mezvinsky cheats on her, Chelsea Clinton is nonetheless freaking out.

Thanks Dad!

The National Enquirer is reporting that CHELSEA CLINTON in full meltdown mode after severe panic attacks - that new hubby will be a cheater.

Panicky bride-to-be Chelsea Clinton is secretly undergoing emergency prenuptial counseling ordered by her mom Hillary, insiders say.
"Chelsea is a nervous wreck as her wedding approaches. She's terrified that she'll disgrace herself and her family," a Clinton family friend told The ENQUIRER.

The 30-year-old former first daughter is set to wed Wall Street-er Marc Mezvinsky in a $1 million dream wedding on July 31 at the Astor Courts, a 50-acre private estate in Rhinebeck, N.Y. But now she's having second thoughts.

"Chelsea never wanted a royal-style wedding with hundreds of guests. Now, she's scared to death she's going to freak out," said the source.
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Chelsea should take advice from Carrie Underwood who recently got married herself.


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