This video has over 1.8 million views and I just can’t figure out why… Maybe you guys can help me out?

I mean, it’s just a chick playing tennis. Is there something interesting about this video I’m not noticing?

It strikes me as odd that in some states, the unborn child of a pregnant mother constitutes a second victim in cases of murder, assault, and other violent crimes. Wait, stay with me. That’s not the odd part. By itself, I think it’s a laudable thing to have on the books. No, the odd part is that in those same states with these laudable laws, we have legalized abortion.

Charleston, WV (LifeNews.com) — A West Virginia man is the second person to be indicted under a law that provides protection and justice for pregnant women and their unborn children. The state’s unborn victims law, one of three dozen across the nation, allows prosecutors to hold criminals accountable for killing or injuring both mother and child.

James Louis DeGasperin, a 35 year-old teacher from Preston, is charged with killing his 25 year-old girlfriend Lori Casteel and her unborn child.

Casteel, her son Collin, and her unborn baby, were all killed when DeGasperin hit her with a baseball bat and then killed Collin with a shotgun blast.

In addition to his indictment on first degree murder in the deaths of Casteel and Collin, DeGasperin was indicted for first degree murder in the death of the baby as well because Casteel was six months pregnant at the time.

That can happen because the West Virginia legislature, in 2005, approved Senate Bill 146 and it became law that May when Gov. Joe Manchin signed it.

Under the statute, “a pregnant woman and the embryo or fetus she is carrying in the womb constitute separate and distinct victims” for purposes of the state laws governing murder, manslaughter, and certain other crimes of violence.

How the hell did we allow the pro-abortion lobby to garner so much influence that we can change the definition of a living being under certain circumstances so as not to offend?

Think about it. In the state of West Virginia, if Lori Casteel had gone into a clinic and asked for her child to be murdered by a so-called medical professional, she’d be protected under the law. In fact, so sancrosanct is that law that you dare not even protest outside of a clinic lest you be charged with racketeering and conspiracy. Yet, because that same killable fetus was done in by Ms. Casteel’s boyfriend, it’s murder.

If killing something in the womb is murder for the sake of a murder rap, how can we morally justify killing something in the womb and protecting it in the name of allowing mothers the right to “choose?”

Governor Paterson warned that a tax on the “wealthy” may be hitting New York State soon in an effort to close the budget gap that no one saw coming. In a prepared statement to the media, Paterson warned:

“Taxing the wealthy is probably going to be part of the solution if the deficit gets any worse, and all indications are that it probably will. If the deficit starts to grow again, then we’re out of moves. I’ve cut as much as I could.”

While the Governor gives his doomsday scenario and tells everyone that he’s already made cuts to everything, anyone in the know can just sit back and laugh because despite the “cuts,” Paterson’s plan for FY 2009 will see spending go up 5.5% from where it is right now. The question is, what did Paterson actually cut that caused spending to actually rise 5%?

Well, nothing. In a word, Paterson has done what politicians (particularly activist Democrats) have been doing for years; they call a slowed rate of growth a cut.

Allow me to give you an example.

Let’s say your allowance is $5 a week from mom and dad. Every year they raise your allowance one dollar, so that after five years, your allowance is now ten dollars a week. Realizing they can’t keep up the pace, they decide to raise it in year ten by only fifty cents. Your allowance after five years is now $10.50 instead of the $11.00 you were expecting it to be. In any normal mind, you got a $0.50 raise because your allowance went up $0.50. In the activist Democrat mind, your allowance was cut $0.50 because you didn’t get the dollar you normally got.

For example, while people gnash teeth about things like the “$700m cut to education,” buried in the explanation is that most of that relies on a four-year delay in increased aid to pre-kindergarten classes and a hike to tuition for CUNY and SUNY schools. The “doomsday” budget also includes “cuts” to Medicaid that, by some miracle, manage to raise spending on Medicaid by $1.1bn. How does that exactly work?

In the end, the New York State budget is a damn joke. Albany has no idea how to balance a budget, and for years has done so by increasing taxes and fees but rarely ever makes any cuts in their budget. This year is no exception because despite the “devastating effects” of the budget and the huge deficit we face, the Governor’s new budget is higher than the one that got us into this mess to begin with.

From Fox News, Wednesday December 17th:

Twenty-two of the 36 states facing budget deficits this fiscal year are increasing spending. Yes, increasing. Many states are collecting significantly less revenue than they counted on when budgets were drafted six months ago.

Spending cuts or tax increases will be necessitated because a number of states are required by law to balance their budgets. Cybercast News reports a survey from the National Governors Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers released this week says the biggest offender is Nevada which at mid-year was $115 million in debt but plans to increase spending by just over 11%. New York will spend about 5.5% more despite being $1.8 billion in the red. Rounding out the top five are Ohio, North Carolina and Connecticut.

If that doesn’t stand out to you as utterly ridiculous, nothing will.

Celebrate and eat corned beef, of course!

Drew Curtis wants everyone to calm down…

About the NSFW Trademark Application, I can say three things:

1) Yes, we applied for it.

2) Can’t comment on the prank angle other than “stay tuned.”

3) Muhahaha.

I’ve gotten a few email complaints about the NSFW trademark ap. It bears mentioning that I received 10x as many complaints about the DealNews ad with the picture of some guy’s ass in it (removed already, whoever over at DealNews thought that was a good idea needs to be punched in the face), and 100x as many complaints when we moved all the boobies links over to Foobies.com (NSFW™). There’s an interesting yet unsurprising cross section of the priorities of an Internet audience for you.

I’m guessing the complaints are from people who don’t read Fark, otherwise they’d know our end goal couldn’t possibly be suing everyone using NSFW out of existence.

Actually, Drew, I never thought you were going to sue anyone out of existence, and I do regularly read Fark, but that doesn’t change the fact that until proven otherwise, your application for a trademark on a phrase you didn’t invent makes you look like an asshole until further notice.

I await being proven wrong.

Hmmmm… Something seems fishy here, and it isn’t the anchovies on the pizza…

Health inspectors closed a Pizza Hut restaurant in east Raleigh after a worker found live mice inside it. The employee who notified the health department about the mice says she was fired for reporting the problem.

[...]

That employee called the Wake County Health Department, and an inspector ordered the Pizza Hut closed. The inspector also pulled the restaurant’s permit so it can’t operate until the rodent problem is corrected.

I don’t know… I tend to find that people who report their bosses to OSHA, the Health Department, and all these other agencies are usually doing so out of spite for something. I don’t know if it’s the case here, but I do find it odd that an employee at a restaurant would endanger their job and the jobs of others without some kind of bone to pick.

Something in my gut tells me that this is one of those cases where the employee was having a rough go of it and decided to get back at the boss; the boss then picked up on it and fired her ass. I really don’t know that to be the case, but I’d be utterly stunned if it wasn’t.

WFMY News via Consumerist

Technorati Tags: pizza hut, health, rodents, oopsies

What is it about the piece of shit poet, obsessed boy lover, gay drug using piece of shit Allen Ginsberg that the left loves so much?

I was flipping through Boing Boing and Cory Doctorow goes off on a glowing post to this piece of garbage maintaining the left’s consistent love of this talentless hack.

I just finished listening to the 3-CD Allen Ginsberg Audio Collection — I was mostly interested in the classics like Howl and Kaddish, Pull My Daisy and Don’t Grow Old, but the poem that totaly took me away was “Put Down Your Cigarette Rag,” a poetic song that can make me laugh, dance, and sing along even after about 20 listens. It’s also totally stuck in my head and I find myself singing it under my breath as I walk down the street.

There’s a link to the “lyrics” in the post and a link to this piece of garbage performing the video.

My question is a simple one: Why does anyone think this guy has any talent? Something tells me if he was a right wing pro-war type and didn’t lust after young boys, the left would want nothing to do with him, but by and large, he’s an icon.

I don’t get it.

Technorati Tags: allen ginsberg, pedophilia, leftism

That’s one cute little mutant kitteh…

Her human family noticed there was something different with the three-month-old kitten when she started scratching more than other cats.

“You would sort of want to wear boxing gloves when you play with her,” says Kaelene Gerrard, who lives with her partner Eli Eliu and daughters Mercy, six, and 12-year-old Shardae.

She examined the frisky feline’s paws and did a double take at what she found.

“We counted and then recounted but we had it right the first time,” she says.

Extra has seven toes on each front paw and six toes on each back paw – instead of the normal five on each.

“Her mum Star is a normal cat but her grandmother had six toes on each paw as well and so does her brother. But we’ve never even heard of a kitten with seven toes on each front paw,” says Kaelene.

“Extra’s a good climber and runs really fast.

Wow!

Technorati Tags: kitty, cat, kitten, polydactyly

Let’s see if this works… The Bloglines folks say if I use a YouTube video’s link, it’ll show.

Try as I might, I couldn’t find a mention of South Park on Wizbang, though, despite their anger over Bill Maher.

Does politics dictate anger?

Technorati Tags: bill maher, south park, steve irwin, selective outrage

Via Little Green Footballs:

Hmmm… Hitler on one side, chimps on the other…

Both slang names the left uses for the President…

Total coincidence in placement…

Technorati Tags: hitler, bush, chimp