By Debbie Schlussel
If you’re keeping track–and I’ve lost track–so far we have banks, foreclosed mortgage holders, the porn industry, auto companies, brokerage firms, failed liberal mainstream media newspapers, and pretty much everyone else asking for a hand-out, many of ’em getting one.
Now, it’s empty minor league sports stadiums owned by rich developers:

Take the case of Reno, Nev.’s proposed new entertainment district next to the city’s new minor-league baseball stadium. The stadium, near the Truckee River several blocks from the casinos on Reno’s Virginia Street, is set to open next month when the Reno Aces face off against the Salt Lake Bees.

Aces Ballpark: Empty Minor League Stadium
Owners Are All Aces @ Taking Taxpayer Money for Failed Project

But the swooning economy and frozen credit markets have prevented the stadium developers, a group called Nevada Land, from completing construction on even the first phase, which is planned to contain 40,000 square feet of restaurants and nightclub space.
So the developer has asked the city of Reno for help. The $50 million stadium was financed partly with about $30 million of county-issued bonds backed by a car-rental tax set up in 2003. Now Nevada Land is asking the city for at least $10 million in additional assistance, to help finance the entertainment district’s retail space, says Stuart Katzoff, the managing partner of Nevada Land.
The Reno city council, acting as the board of the city’s redevelopment agency, is scheduled to take a final vote on the request today. “It’s kind of like a little stimulus package,” says Reno Mayor Robert Cashell, who supports the measure. . . .
But some experts are skeptical of blindly financing projects just to get them done. “One thing we know about recessions … is local officials get very anxious to grow the economy and they will throw stupid money at deals,” says Jeffrey Finkle, president and chief executive of the International Economic Development Council. . . .
In Reno, the developer’s request for city help has drawn some fire. Reno City Councilwoman Jessica Sferrazza says she has received many emails and phone calls from citizens concerned about providing additional money to developers during an economic downturn. Ms. Sferrazza says she supports the stadium and doesn’t like the vacant site next to the stadium, but she maintains that it isn’t prudent for the city to help out the developers any more than they already have. “I think it should be on the developer’s dime,” Ms. Sferrazza says.
But Ms. Sferrazza was the only dissenting vote when the city gave an earlier general approval to the subsidy request. Four other members voted for it, eager to transform an area of town that Mayor Cashell describes as a former slum, once home to a motel and a fire station. He says the additional financing assistance will help the developers deliver it in about a year. “It’ll really give life to an area that’s been down,” he says.

Good luck. If people are taxed to death, they won’t have any money to spend–especially in this economy–and it’ll be yet another slum, only with newer, chicer empty buildings.

By Debbie Schlussel
The Religious Workers Visa program is one of the worst enforced programs there is in U.S. immigration policy. And now, thanks to Federal Judge Robert Lasnik (a William Jefferson Clinton nominee), it’s even easier for extremist Muslims looking to invade America to get in.
Although there are plenty of gentile federal judges who’ve issued similar terrorist-friendly decisions, it’s sad to say that Judge Lasnik is one of my liberal co-religionists who just doesn’t get it. It’s funny to read about the acrobatics litigants in his courtroom used to avoid uttering the word “imam.”
Say Iran wants a dangerous imam, who inspires his Muslim congregants to become jihadist killers, to come to the U.S. to make Shi’ites at large Dearborn mosque less liberal and absorbed into the country (this actually happened when Iran and Hezbollah sent Imam Mohammed Ali Elahi here to radicalize Dearbornistan-area Muslims). He can come here on a visitor’s visa and say he’s touring the country (as Elahi did). Then, he applies and gets citizenship based on some phony asylum or other claim.

“Thanks, Stupid Evil Zionist Judge Lasnik
for Making it Easier to Invade Your Country and Kill You.”
But we know better. So we developed the religious workers visa, a form of visa that is much tougher . . . or rather, it was supposed to be because it made it harder for clerics to apply for green cards and U.S. citizenship. They had to wait longer to apply for those “immigration benefit,” because a separate immigration petition by their employers had to be approved. But we didn’t enforce it well.
Under the religious worker visa a number of extremist imams with connections to terrorist groups, like Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, and the Government of Iran, made it into America without much of an immigration check. Worse, others who weren’t even religious leaders, but here to do no good posed as Islamic “religious workers” and easily got the visas. And rather than making the applicant wait and do the full background check before the imam entered the country, we gsve him the temporary five-year visa to come here and preach his hate until we might discover he’s a bad guy and face endless legal battles while he stays here and continues to preach the hate.
Still, this wasn’t good enough for a number of extremists holding these visas. So they filed a class action suit because, you know, when some temporary visas expired, a scant few of these people who were here under false pretenses were actually forced to leave the country and their radical followers behind (though they’ve already planted the seed of hate here and it has grown and flowered beyond our control).
Well, we can’t have that. We can’t have a few extremist imams being forced to leave the country because they couldn’t continue to successfully game the system. So says Bill Clinton appointed Federal Judge Robert Lasnik.
This major dumbass in a black robe struck down the law, making it easier for Islamic clerics to stay here and get citizenship. He says it wasn’t the intent of Congress, you know, to secure our borders like this. He just can’t believe that any religious worker from a foreign country could possibly be dangerous. That could nevah evah happen, right? He apparently took the ludicrous words of religious worker class action lawsuit lawyer Robert Gibbs of Seattle to heart:

They’re saying priests, nuns and rabbis are more likely to be fraudsters than everyone else, which is absurd when you think about it.

Well, notice in his obtuse comments which religious cleric is specifically NOT mentioned.
That’s the real absurdity here.
More:

A federal judge has struck down a long-standing government policy that made it tougher for religious workers from other countries to remain in the United States.
Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik wrote in an order issued Tuesday that the policy was at odds with the intent of Congress.
Under the Department of Homeland Security’s policy, religious workers who came to the U.S. on a typical five-year temporary visa were not allowed to file for permanent residency – their green card – until a separate visa petition by their employer had been approved.
The problem was that it frequently took a long time for the government to approve those visa petitions – and by the time it did, the religious workers had left the country because their temporary visas had expired.
“They had to return home, leaving behind their religious work and congregations,” said Seattle attorney Robert Gibbs, who represents the workers in the class-action case.

So sad, too bad. Is there really a shortage of religious clerics in this country that there’s a dire need for an import business? Only for extremist Muslim imams (redundant adjective).

Workers in other categories, such as aerospace and technology, are allowed to file for permanent residency before, not after, their employer’s visa petition is approved, and can remain in the country while their application is pending. That amounted to discrimination against religious workers, Gibbs argued.

Gimme a break. It amounts to discrimination against those more likely to harm this country. That’s called national security. And we need to discriminate to have it.

Religious organizations bring foreign workers into the U.S. for a variety of reasons.

Like terrorist attacks. Indoctrinating kids away from Western culture. Instruction on which special prayers to say while building explosive devices.

Native speakers are sometimes needed to communicate with immigrant populations, and expertise in certain traditions can be hard to find in the United States.

Yes, native Arabic and Farsi speakers are needed with expertise on easy wife neck-slicing tehchniques.

The Roman Catholic Church has brought in many priests from other countries to replenish its U.S. ranks.

PUH-LEEZE. This visa wasn’t created to keep out “dangerous” Catholic priests from Ireland. Hello . . .?

In court documents, Rodger Pitcairn, an adjudications officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said religious workers were singled out by the policy because of the “historically high incidence of fraudulent petitions” filed by religious workers.

Let me guess–the vast majority of that fraud came from the same people who regularly say, “Allahu Akbar.” Just a guess, you know. After all, we can’t utter the “secret word of the day” (Imam), or we’ll lose points on the PC scoreboard of American life.

Gibbs called that laughable.
“They’re saying priests, nuns and rabbis are more likely to be fraudsters than everyone else, which is absurd when you think about it,” he said.

Um, no, that’s not what they’re saying. And Gibbs knows who they’re talking about. It’s the phrase you can’t dare utter here–“Islamic clerics.”

Religious workers from many faiths – Catholic, Ukrainian orthodox, evangelical Christian, Buddhist and Hindu, among others – filed affidavits with the court last year saying they feared they would have to return to their home countries unless the policy was changed.

Again, so sad, too bad. If you fear going home, don’t leave in the first place. This isn’t your country, and you just helped a gazillion more Islamic clerics get into America that much more easily with your stupid affidavits. Islamic clerics who will seek to convert your followers in the only safe place left for them.

Lasnik told lawyers on both sides to try to agree on a new policy consistent with his order within 20 days.

Translation: You have 20 days to make it easier for extremist Islamic clerics to get inside and stay. And recruit terrorists.

By Debbie Schlussel
The Obama White House announced it’s looking for new “revenue streams.” Translation: New ways and things to tax.
It’s hardly an Einsteinian insight that more taxes send more businesses–and jobs–to the grave, something we already have more than enough of, right now.
And the status of Lucas “King Fu Banana” Keyes is yet another lesson, another microcosm of the larger damages to come with Obama’s taxes. They’ll put America out of business, like Washington State’s new taxes put Seattle Semi-Pro Wrestling–a lampoon of WWE wrestling–out of business for now.

Among the enduring questions of modern times is whether professional wrestling is real or pretend. Washington-state bureaucrats have opened a new chapter in the debate by ruling that wrestling is a real form of sport even when it consists of a man in a banana suit performing fake kung-fu moves in a tavern.

Ronald McFondle Gets McFondled by Washington State Taxmen

A group called Seattle Semi-Pro Wrestling has for six years packed bars around this city with its lampoons of World Wrestling Entertainment, the pro league. Cast members have included a husky everyman who likes to tick off environmentalists by boasting about chopping down trees, and Ronald McFondle, a raunchy rendition of a clown character, who finishes off his opponents with a lewd gesture. They grapple on foam pads placed on stages in bars, not in rings.
The SSP, which calls itself a “fight cabaret” — theater with singlets, suplexes and sweat — has entertained crowds for six years in simple settings, fighting on foam pads placed on stages in Seattle-area bars.
Washington state’s Department of Licensing takes the high jinks seriously. Earlier this month, it classified the performances as “sports entertainment.” The ruling means the spoofers must meet safety regulations and could force the league to post a $10,000 bond, station medical personnel at events and buy a regulation wrestling ring.
The league, “SSP” for short, says those costs would bust its shoestring budget. It says it will appeal the ruling but has halted matches for now.
The Seattle league calls itself “fight cabaret” — in essence, theater with singlets, suplexes and sweat, as unworthy of regulation as a Shakespeare play. “It’s a bunch of grown men and women in costumes pretending to be professional wrestlers,” says David Osgood, the league’s lawyer. “It is to wrestling as ‘West Side Story’ is to actual gang relations.”
The licensing department says it doesn’t care that SSP is faking it. State laws define a “wrestling show” or “wrestling exhibition” as “a form of sports entertainment in which the participants display their skills in a physical struggle against each other in the ring and either the outcome may be predetermined or the participants do not necessarily strive to win, or both.” . . .
The Seattle league debuted in 2003 as an “art joke” to make fun of pro-wrestling antics, says Nathaniel Pinzon, a bouncer at a gay karaoke club who started it with friends. There’s little in common between the physiques of muscular WWE wrestlers and those of SSP members, many of whom are under 6 feet tall and don’t appear to spend much time in the gym. SSP wrestlers are volunteers who don’t earn money from performances.
SSP performers do mimic the choreographed violence of pro wrestling, clobbering each other with folding chairs, hopping from ladders onto opponents and pile-driving them headfirst into the floor. The league used to encourage spectators to pelt wrestlers with empty beer cans but stopped when unruly patrons threw full cans; the league began passing out plastic balls, instead. There was usually a cover charge to get into bars where its matches were held, typically between $5 and $8. The league says most proceeds go towards costumes and props.
Most SSP performances are more racy, political or downright absurd than pro wrestling. Mr. Pinzon wrestles as the vainglorious Deevious Silvertongue, dressed like a glam rocker in a satin outfit and cape — a “mix between Liberace and David Bowie,” he said as he tried on the costume in the dingy backroom of a bar near the Seattle Space Needle where SSP has performed.
The smackdown by the state started because of a grudge match between the league and The Banana, played by a wrestler named Paul Richards. Mr. Richards, a driver for a mail-services company, says he left the league in April because of plans to sideline his character.
The league had named Lucas Keyes, a videogame programmer, as the Second Banana to be a sidekick to The Banana. In a match, the league says it planned to have the Second Banana betray The Banana, defeating Mr. Richards’s character. Mr. Richards says he quit rather than lose top-banana status.
After he says he heard that members were making fun of him behind his back, Mr. Richards says he took retribution by emailing the licensing department in June and telling officials he believed SSP was violating the law. “The guy in the clown outfit kept running his mouth,” says Mr. Richards, 40 years old, who says he enjoys playing a real-life “heel” — the wrestler that audiences love to boo.
The clown in question is Josh Kuntz, who plays Ronald McFondle, a perpetually mock-soused sendup of Ronald McDonald who has eyebrows shaped like the McDonald’s arches and wears red high tops. . . .
The SSP league is “a living cartoon,” says Mr. Keyes, the other banana. “The Banana is a joke,” says Mr. Keyes, 28, whose character evolved into the Kung Fu Banana, who boasts of his potassium power. “It’s like you’re given a role in ‘Dumb and Dumber’ and try to act like Sidney Poitier.”
In a document containing its March 6 ruling, the state licensing department said two unnamed Seattle police officers reported on an August match. “Although the physical contact was light, there were acrobatic stunts such as the performers jumping into the air approximately four feet and landing on the neck of another performer,” one of the officers wrote in his report. “There were flips, kicks and face slapping all in the show.”
Later, an SSP performer got onstage and boasted: “I’m telling you and the whole world this wrestling is not fake. It is for real!” according to a report from one of the officers.

Ha. Things must be very slow in Seattle when they’re sending out cops to go “undercover” at fake wrestling.
It seems to me that the better case here is not the case for taxing this lampoon of wrestling (which I thought was already a lampoon), but the case McDonald’s has for the attack on its intellectual property with Ronald McFondle (even if it’s parody).
Since the SSP is appealing the tax ruling, I can only imagine the testimony at the hearing:

And then Ronald McFondle said . . . . And then Kung Fu Banana said . . . . No, wait, he’s Second Banana.

The tax man cometh, no matter how ridiculous or absurd his entry.
VIDEO:

By Debbie Schlussel
The utter gall, nerve, sheer chutzpah of this Palestinian immigrant family–that of Octomom Nadya Suleman–is incredible. This is a recent past report from ABC News’ “Nightline,” featuring an interview with the Octomom’s media-whoring father, Ed Doud, a Palestinian immigrant.
The OctoGramp actually has the nerve to say that the million-dollar plus expenses his nutty daughter cost taxpayers is no big deal because people should be angry at General Motors and Wall Street, instead. Hmmm . . . did that excuse work for John Dillinger? At least he had the guts to admit he robbed a bank. These people won’t admit that they rob taxpayers. And none of the OctoMom money she’s getting for blogging and doing videos is going to reimburse you, the American taxpayer who funded her Medicaid and other forms of public assistance.

By Debbie Schlussel
If you’re like me, you’re tired of seeing the annoying commercials showing teen girls proclaiming, “I want to be one less,” and singing the praises of Gardasil, the vaccine against a strain of cervical cancer that can only be passed on through sexual intercourse via HPV.
And if you’re like me, you’re also disgusted at the zeal with which state legislatures around the country have responded to fat cat Merck lobbyists by passing laws requiring young public school girls (as young as nine) to be vaccinated with Gardasil, a license to go have sex without worrying about a deadly consequence.
Now, though, as U.S. News and World Report notes, the “I want to be one less” ads sound even more ridiculous because at least two girls vaccinated with the drug have contracted ALS a/k/a “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” from it and died. And others have been paralyzed from it.

Given this information, when you vaccinate your daughter with Gardasil you have chosen to vaccinate her against only one of very many diseases she might get from having sex versus complete paralysis and death even though she might not have sex.

Phil Tetlock and Barbara Mellers were in a race against time to save their 15-year-old daughter, Jenny. . . . Jenny developed a degenerative muscle disease nearly two years ago, soon after being vaccinated against the cervical-cancer-causing HPV. She became nearly completely paralyzed. . . .
Phil . . . had been holding out hope that they would be able to find a cure for his daughter–or to at least determine if the human papillomavirus vaccine called Gardasil had caused his daughter’s illness, most likely a juvenile form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease). Sadly, the clock ran out last Sunday, and Jenny passed away.
Through their efforts to publicize Jenny’s case on their blog, Jenny’s parents have connected with two other sets of parents whose daughters developed what appears to be ALS after being injected with Gardasil. One was 22-year-old Whitney Baird, who died last August, just 13 months after receiving Gardasil. Another is Alicia Olund, a 12-year-old who began having trouble walking after getting her third shot last September. She now uses leg braces and a walker at home as her muscles continue to deteriorate. After ruling out other conditions, her specialists at the University of California-San Francisco Medical Center–who also treated Jenny–suspect that Alicia may have the same condition. “They don’t know what she has,” her mother, Barbara, tells me through tears, “but it’s destroying her nerves and muscles, and none of the treatments they’ve given her are working. Before the vaccine, she was a perfectly healthy child, going for her brown belt in karate.” (They’re awaiting the results of the ALS test.) . . .
Reports of adverse events for Gardasil are about five times as high as the overall average for any vaccine, [John Iskander, the CDC’s associate director for immunization safety] adds. . . .
“They are aware of these cases and that we’ve started discussions with neurologists and immunologists to determine if there are mechanisms that could explain how a vaccine could cause ALS,” Iskander says, adding that “I haven’t heard a good answer yet from these experts” when it comes to explaining a mechanism.
Shapiro says her suspicions are raised enough that she’s decided not to give her own 11-year-old daughter the Gardasil vaccine. “Let’s say it causes just one or two cases of ALS every year out of a million doses that are given. What if your daughter is the one?”

Yes, what if? Do you really want to take that chance with your daughter’s life?
Hmmm . . . maybe those girls in the Gardasil commercial need to say, “I want to be one less . . . of the walking living.” At least, that would be truth in advertising.

By Debbie Schlussel
Longtime readers know I’m no fan of FOX News Channel’s hypocritical moral prognosticator, Bill O’Reilly. He was a failed liberal mainstream media reporter, who realized that in order to be a success at FOX News, he had to pretend to be a conservative. He supported gun control, campaign finance reform, abortion-on-demand, and gay adoption and pretended to dump all of those positions (except gay adoption) to suit his mindless, easily-convinced audience. He tried to be Rush Limbaugh, but you can’t do that with neither the talent nor the true belief in conservatism.
Then, there’s O’Reilly’s open statement on his failed and now defunct nationally syndicated radio show that Jews were only in Gaza because Jews want cheap land. Yes, thanks Bill, for repeating the “Jews are cheap,” lie. I hear you “Jew down” your staff all the time, except the former falafal/loofah girl, Andrea Mackris (who reportedly got $8 million).
And then, there was O’Reilly’s pandering appearance on Oprah, on which he told her she’s a traditionalist. Uh-huh. If this anti-marriage, anti-male, pro-deviance mind-eraser is a traditionalist, then I’m the Pope . . . or the the Grand Ayatollah.
And there’s my favorite O’Reilly topic: hip-hop and Black rappers. He repeatedly attacks them, and I agree with that. But he’s a hypocrite. He’s repeatedly praised a White guy, Kid Rock, who has also glorified drugs and sexual deviance . . . because “he’s a friend of the show.” And now he has a book on tape, which is no less offensive–and just as stupid–as most rap songs I’ve heard. Yes, there’s no mention of “bitches and hos,” but you get the point.
This hilarious video captures the hypocrisy well, complete with response from O’Reilly’s fans [may NOT be safe for work]:

Do It Live, Bill! Do It Live!
And finally, there’s O’Reilly’s statement that a drunk, scantily-clad woman deserved to be raped. It reminds me of the Australian Grand Mufti’s statement that “uncovered women” are like “uncovered meat” and deserved to be raped. There’s really no difference between the two men’s statements.
First, let me say that I don’t support the far-left Alternet site, nor do I support the Nazi George Soros-funded Think Progress. But a liberal writer from both, Amanda Terkel, pointed out that Bill O’Reilly was going to be the featured speaker at an event for the Alexa Foundation which is supposed to support rape survivors. She also pointed out some of O’Reilly’s absurd comments on rape. Because of that, she was tailed and harassed, while on vacation, by an “O’Reilly Factor” producer. It’s really getting ridiculous over at that show, as the host tries to remain relevant amidst the surging success of his equally phony colleague Sean Vannity.
Yup, someone at the O’Reilly household needs to start looking in the mirror. And it’s not his wife or his kids. Or the hired help.

By Debbie Schlussel
As you’ve probably heard, Octomom Palestinian Nadya Suleman kicked out of her house the free 12 nannies she was getting for free from a charity. You know what that means: taxpayers will probably be on the hook for more funding for childcare of this nutjob’s 14 children.
And on a related note, here’s my favorite picture from the continuing Octomom saga. It’s from the March 30th issue of US Magazine, and it’s a photo of kids from her new neighborhood. I’d guess their parents wrote the signs and put them up to it, but I still like it.

By Debbie Schlussel
If you’re familiar with USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan, then you remember her as the extremely masculine chick who made a federal case (with her butch friend Martha Burk), back in 2003, out of Augusta National not having female members. She lost. And all of her feminist fights for the brush-cut pseudo-female set in the sports world are losers, as is she.
Dumped from her little-read perch as a Washington Post sports columnist, Brennan was picked up by the McLiberals at USA Today, where she’s whined in print on and on and on with the same old message:

Figure skating and male-looking, substandard “chick” basketball players–good; men in any sport (especially football)–bad . . . veeeery bad.

I debated Brennan on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” back in 2003, regarding Augusta National and female golfer Annika Sorenstam getting special exemption entry in men’s tournaments, and I wiped the floor with her. She resorted to having a temper tantrum over my earpiece once we were off the air, consisting of her slurry of C- and F-words (and calling me dumb, to which I responded that I’m a member of MENSA and she’s a member of DENSA). Yup, a class act, this one.

USA Today Sports Columnist Christine Brennan (right) (With “Special Friend” Billie Jean King):
Upset Obama Didn’t Fill Out Butch Hoopsterette Bracket
Now Brennan is whining that Barack Hussein Obama only did his ridiculous NCAA basketball tournament bracket for the men’s tournament and not the wannabe men a/k/a the college “women”‘s basketball players.
Lady (at least we think you’re a lady, but only your physician knows for sure), no one cares about the chick hoopsters. I can’t name a single one. And I challenge my readers to do the same.
It reminds me of a hilarious “Saturday Night Live” sketch years ago, in which Kevin Nealon and someone else play ESPN sports analysts forced to call the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. At first, they majorly screw up on the names, and then they finally admit it’s an embarrassment to be sentenced to this horrible work. And that’s the truth. No-one in sports broadcasting wants to do play-by-play of the women’s games because they know it’s like doing community cable television.
Here’s Brennan’s not-so-fine whine, which is so inane that it didn’t get it’s own web page and is merely a sidebar:

As the father of two athletic daughters, President Obama should know all about the importance of sports for women and girls.
Which is why he should have filled out not only a men’s NCAA tournament bracket but also a women’s tournament bracket in his well-publicized appearance on ESPN last week.
I realize the men’s tournament is much more popular than the women’s, and Obama is a big men’s hoops fan and avid player, but the fact remains there is another top-notch college basketball tournament going on at the same time, and he absolutely should have acknowledged it.

“Top-notch”? College Women’s Basketball? What’s this woman smoking?

He also should have insisted on saying his bracket was for the “men’s NCAA tournament.”
Those who don’t use that pesky little adjective — and you know who you are — are acting as if there’s no women’s tournament at all, or it’s so beneath them, it’s not worth mentioning.

You got that right. Hey, it’s true what they say about that broken clock.

This is rather silly. It is 2009, after all.
While we’re on the subject of adjectives, why do some schools still insist on calling their women’s teams “Lady” this or “Lady” that? Is there any men’s team out there that calls itself the “Gentlemen” (add the nickname)? Of course not. The best-known of the tea-and-crumpets set is the Lady Vols, who were upset by Ball State Sunday night in a tough, bruising, very unladylike game.
Defenders claim the use of “Lady” is tradition. It might be that, but it’s also degrading and entirely unnecessary.

Yeah, why do they call these butch freaks of nature, “lady”? She does have a point there. If you’ve ever accidentally turned your television to a channel featuring this substandard sequence of slow-motion underhanded shots, you’d know there isn’t nary a real lady in the bunch.
By the way, at the bottom of her column–surprise!–there’s this:

Click here for blog updates from the World Figure Skating Championships

Then, there’s this:

Click here for Twitter updates from skating

Hmmm . . . I wonder what the line in Vegas is on figure skating. Hint: There isn’t a line. And if they aren’t betting on it in Vegas, it’s not sports of any import.
Hint #2: If women are playing in it, it’s not sports of any import.
Christine Brennan, typical WNBA season ticket holder.

By Debbie Schlussel
Last year, I shared with you an e-mail sent by a reader and justifiably concerned parent who was worried by her daughter’s desire to attend an event honoring cold-blooded killer Charles Manson.
It’s distressing that it’s somehow considered cool and chic to glorify this cretin, murderer, and cult leader, who also brainwashed others to become cold-blooded killers and tried to start a race war. This nut job believed a Beatles song, “Helter Skelter,” was actually talking to him and telling him to murder people. That’s cool?! Only if you’re an imbecile.
Unfortunately, this August will mark the 40th anniversary of the “Manson family” killings. And I’m sure these idiotic Manson worshippers will be out in full force. I hope L.A.-area law enforcement will be on full alert to prevent Manson copy-cat “tribute” killings at that time.

Not Cool Looking Now And Never Really Was
If there’s any antidote to this absurd fantasy of Manson coolness, it’s a photograph. On Wednesday, officials at California’s Corcoran State Prison took this photo of Manson, which they released to the public. Hopefully, this “vision” of the older, balder (and probably fatter), washed up Manson who wasted so many lives, shows that there’s nothing cool about him. He’s just a sorry case of an aging cultist and bizarro. Nothing here to worship or make heroic. Just a scumbag who is 74 and who will, G-d-willing, leave us for his next destination down below as soon as possible.

In case you were wondering about what this waste of human skin is doing in his free time in the Big House, here are the details. Sadly, he gets a lot of mail and visitor requests, when he should be ignored and left alone for the rest of his life.
Manson should have been put to death long ago, as his original 1971 sentence required (it was reduced to a life sentence). He’s been in prison for decades, and it’s a shame that taxpayers have paid to feed, house, and clothe this scumbag for so long. And he’s even been up for parole. It’s disgusting.
Charles Manson deserved his own taste of “Helter Skelter.”
Oh, and in case you forgot, Barack Obama’s friends saluted this incredibly worthless piece of trash who took human lives.
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(No offense meant to my readers who are “follicularly-challenged.” This is about the inhuman Charles Manson, not the civilized you.)

By Debbie Schlussel
As most readers know, I am a religious Jew, and therefore, I do not believe in the Christian Bible a/k/a “The New Testament.” I only believe in the Jewish Bible a/k/a “The Old Testament.”
Still, I am a tremendous defender of religious Christians and respect their rights to practice their faith. And that’s why it’s disappointing to note that a security guard snatched and tore a fan’s “John 3:16” sign at the NCAA Basketball Tournament Midwest Region game between Siena and Ohio State. The sign wasn’t bothering anyone, and I’ve seen far more offensive signs (and, for the record, this sign doesn’t offend me) at NCAA March Madness games.
It starts at 14 seconds in, when the fan briefly lowers his sign and the security dude swoops in: