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Place your bets: Online gambling company offers odds on Weinergate outcomes

Anthony Weiner was a man who believed in taking risks. Stupid risks. What he really needed was someone who could have computed the odds for him. Someone like Bodog, the online gambling company.

The Daily Caller has the details:

anthony-weiner-shirtless — Odds that Anthony Weiner's pecs have been surgically enhanced: 1-1

All y’all gamblers out there, heads up! Odds are set for Anthony Weiner’s resignation and divorce.

The gambling company Bodog is accepting bets for two Weiner related categories:

1. Will Anthony Weiner resign by July 4th 2011? Odds for “yes:” 5 to 4, for “no:” 1 to 2.

2. Will Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin file for divorce in 2011? Odds for “yes:” 2 to 1, no odds for “no.”

Adam Young, head odds maker at Bodog, explained that a lot of research goes into making the odds such as these because, unlike a sporting event (which is what Bodog primarily does), there is no empirical data.

“We get a feel for what the actual story is and what the opinions are in politics. After we assess that we try to put it into a percentage,” Young said.

Offering odds on unusual situations is nothing new for Bodog. In 2007 it offered odds on Heather Mills [the ex-wife of Paul McCartney] losing her prosthetic leg during her apparance on “Dancing with the Stars”.

Weinergate is very similar. Except instead of wondering if Heather Mills will lose her leg, they’re wondering if Anthony Weiner will lose his ass.

Source: Daily Caller

Pacifists on parade: Indiana college bans national anthem because it’s too militaristic

This story irks the hell out of us. So may we suggest that you let out a big sigh before you read it. There. That’s it. Let it all out. Relax. Calm yourself.

OK, now it’s probably safe to read about the lunatic pacifists in the Midwest:

goshen college students — Oh, say can you see that not all the students at Goshen College agree with banning the National Anthem

A small northern Indiana college has decided to stop playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at sporting events after starting to do so for the first time last year.

Goshen College’s board of directors says it will find an alternative that honors the country and the Mennonite Church-affiliated school’s pacifist traditions.

The 1,000-student college has been playing an instrumental version of the national anthem, followed by a peace prayer, before games and other events. Some were upset with the school’s decision last year because the song’s lyrics contain references to using war and military might to defend the country.

Art professor John Blosser tells The Goshen News that there is much national pride at the school, but that most people aren’t going to blindly accept what the country does.

Wouldn’t you just know the whole thing would be explained by an art professor? It’s never a professor from the business schoool nor someone from the athletic department. It’s always an art professor.

Source: WTHR.com

What are the odds? Gennette Cordova named “Most Likely To Be Involved In A Tabloid Scandal” in high school yearbook

Cordova, the Washington co-ed who received the fateful Tweet of Anthony Weiner’s weiner, was named “Most Likely To Be Involved In A Tabloid Scandal” in her high school yearbook.

It looks like Gennette Cordova’s classmates in the Shorecrest High School Class of 2007 were psychic.

Cordova, the Washington co-ed who received the fateful Tweet of Anthony Weiner’s weiner, was named “Most Likely To Be Involved In A Tabloid Scandal” in her high school yearbook.

We just have one question: What the hell happened to that slacker Alex Murphy?

A recipe for disaster: British intelligence hacks al Qaeda website

Britain’s MI6 and their Communications Headquarters hacked into Al Qaeda’s online magazine “Inspire” replacing bomb-making instructions with cupcake recipes.

We’ve discovered that the real reason nanny state nags like NYC Mayor Bloomberg and First Mama Michelle Obama are obsessed with our diets lately is concern for national security. There’s a good chance that Al Qaeda may have shifted their focus from shoes and underwear to death by cupcakes.

cupcakes-uk-intel — Make cupcakes, not war!

Fox News has the ingredients of a very odd story:

British intelligence agency MI6 and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters cooked up a cyberattack and hacked into terror group Al Qaeda’s online magazine “Inspire” — replacing bomb-making instructions with cupcake recipes, according to the Daily Telegraph.

When followers of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula tried to download the 67-page instructions for how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” by “The AQ Chef,” the terrorists were instead greeted with a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the newspaper reported.

Terrorists could then learn how to make a mojito cupcake made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream, instead of making a lethal pipe bomb using sugar.

The inducement to become a TSA crotch-grabber may have just increased exponentially. Besides getting to ogle backscatter X-rays of hot babes, they may now get to eat Ellen DeGeneres’s cupcakes.

We were dying to know if the modern-day Ayers and Dohrns figured out the scam:

The terrorist group was able to reissue the magazine two weeks after the cyberattack and has produced four other issues.

Damn it. Now the only way to get that mojito cupcake recipe is to watch reruns of Ellen DeGeneres. And we’re pretty sure the Supreme Court has already defined that as cruel and unusual punishment.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Fox News

President Obama: The dog ate my economy

If the Bump-In-Chief wishes to find the real culprit, he should consider Pogo’s line, “We have met the enemy and he is us!”

Someone once said that success has a thousand fathers while failure is an orphan. But when the prodigy in question is today’s rotten economy, President Obama sees more sperm donors than there were unread pages in his health care bill.

guilty-dog — President Obama should look this guilty every time he appears in public

President Obama is pointing to problems in Japan and Europe as challenges for the U.S. economy, placing some blame on events abroad for a domestic recovery that is showing signs of slowing down.

…U.S. unemployment rose to 9.1 percent, up from 9.0 percent in April.

That bump is a political challenge for the president, whose re-election in 2012 may depend on his ability to convince voters that his economic policies have been successful.

We concur. For some reason, convincing folks policies are successful is much harder when those policies are failures. Go figure. Since the “Bush’s fault” meme is getting old, Obama has turned to “Casablanca’s” Captain Renault: “Round up some NEW usual suspects”…

“Lately, it’s high gas prices, the earthquake in Japan, and unease about the European fiscal situation. That will happen from time to time. There will be bumps on the road to recovery.”

The bumps he alluded to are called “Obamacare”, “stimulus” and “excessive regulations” to name a few. And those high gas prices are partially because he feels about the domestic oil industry the way Khruschchev felt about capitalism: “We will bury you.”

If the Bump-In-Chief wishes to find the real culprit, he should consider Pogo’s line, “We have met the enemy and he is us!”

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: CNBC

Symbolism 101: Obama is in the dark

This official White House photo says it all. President Obama’s in the dark when it comes to economics. He’s in the dark when it comes to domestic policy. He’s in the dark when it comes to foreign policy. He’s in the dark when it comes to the Second Amendment. He’s in the dark when it comes to fuel prices. He’s in the dark when it comes to … well, it might be easier to tell you what he’s not in the dark about.

(pause)

There. That was it.

Chris Matthews: Weinergate is no big deal, but those Republican sex scandals are horrible

To summarize Matthews’ position: Hey, Weiner didn’t get caught with another woman. This is nothing more than high school level embarrassment. A mere trifle. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Chris Matthews. In this video clip the MSNBC host downplays Anthony Weiner’s recent, shall we say, indiscretions. To summarize Matthews’ position: Hey, Weiner didn’t get caught with another woman. This is nothing more than high school level embarrassment. A mere trifle. Nothing to see here. Move on.

Well, may we suggest that you don’t move on too quickly. Because we’ve found a couple other video clips where Matthews seems absolutely horrified by the sexual hijinks of Republicans Mark Foley, Larry Craig and David Vitter.

First, here’s Matthews downplaying Weinergate:

The video clip above makes it clear that Chris thinks it’s no big deal that Anthony Weiner sent a photo of his weiner to a young man, but in the following clip he is horrified that Mark Foley asked young men to come to his apartment for a drink. He actually compares it to the last days of the Roman Empire.

And here’s Matthews calling for the heads of Senators Larry Craig and David Vitter.

We’d say Matthews is a hypocrite, but he’s on MSNBC so that’s probably not necessary.

Prominent feminist offers advice to the little people: Kill your dogs

Outspoken Australian feminist Germaine Greer has launched a stinging attack on domestic dogs, blaming them for the ruination of a protected perennial flower, the English bluebell.

Germaine Greer’s fifteen minutes of fame expired years ago. The once prominent feminist is now struggling to find a new cause célèbre that can restart the clock. Oddly enough, she seems to have settled on the plight of her favorite flower.

Outspoken Australian feminist Germaine Greer has launched a stinging attack on domestic dogs, blaming them for the ruination of a protected perennial flower, the English bluebell.

Addressing Britain’s Hay Festival on Thursday, the 72-year-old Melbourne-born academic who owns a patch of land covered in the plant that flowers in spring, pointed the finger at toxic dog poo for the plant’s scarcity.

”If you love your bluebells, kill your dog,” said Greer dramatically…

Overdramatically, actually.

Toxic dog poo. Watch out, Rachel Carson. Here comes Germaine Greer with a new book called “Silent but Deadly Spring.”

H/T: Sydney Morning Herald via Andrew Bolt

And in art news: Environmental artist carves polar bear out of ice, lets it melt to sound warning

Let’s say you’re an artist. A hack artist, perhaps. Your work really isn’t very good and under normal circumstances you’d either starve to death or have to go get a real job. What to do? What to do?

This is the post-television age. The iPod age. The iPad age. All an artist need do is figure out a good scam and hornswaggle the media into promoting your “art.”

ice-polar-bear — Interesting that Coreth created his latest ice sculpture in Australia, because it looks far more like a wombat than a polar bear

News24 offers a case in point:

A ten tonne polar bear camping out at Sydney’s majestic Circular Quay isn’t likely to survive for more than a day or two. The bear, made of solid ice, will slowly melt into a great puddle of water under Sydney’s 20°C winter sun, and sculptor Mark Coreth is just fine with that.

In fact, he hopes this slow and painful “death” will remind people of the plight of the real thing.

Here comes the part we love. The part where he tells us he was inspired by the noble native:

“When I was [in the Arctic], the Inuit guides were saying look, you can sculpt a polar bear, that’s fine, but how on earth are you going to sculpt the real issue we got, and that’s the warming arctic?” Coreth said in front of Sydney’s Customs House.  

Turns out the Brit has been traveling the world with these frozen polar bear sideshows since 2009. He’s got the spiel down cold, you might say:
“Sitting in the sun, it’s going to melt that bear, that’s the natural warming of the planet, as is happening,” he said.  

“But when people touch it, when they touch that bear, they melt it, you can feel it melt under your hand, that’s a human impact. Big hard touch, big hard melt.”

But don’t get the impression Coreth is some kind of starving artist. He may love the hell out of the polar bears, but as AFP notes, he’s figured out how to turn a profit by melting hearts with his melting art.

Bypassers can pay Aus$2 to touch the creature, feeling “the ice melting under your hand,” said Coreth, who hopes to raise awareness about global warming and its effect on polar bears, an endangered species.

Touch the creature. Sounds like an online conversation with Anthony Weiner.
H/T: Mike Power

Source: News24, AFP

James Carville thinks we may have riots in the streets

He told Don Imus that he’s worried that extended unemployment may cause civil unrest, which is merely a euphemism for riots in the streets.

James Carville is the Democrat political strategist who coined the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid.”

When he gets that Cajun accent going we only understand about half of what he says. But we understood every word when he told Don Imus that he’s worried that extended unemployment may cause civil unrest, which is merely a euphemism for riots in the streets. And that, he says, may have a destabilizing effect on American politics.

Of course, it might be wise to keep in mind that when Carville speaks of destabilization of American politics, he means Democrats may get voted out of office.

“It is going to be very difficult,” Carville said. “But the country, if that is what we are doing, this is gruesome on people. This unemployment rate for this long is humanitarian crisis of the first magnitude. This financial crisis, people have studied this by the way, they know that the things take this long to work their way through. The aftermath of these things — kind of an academic book that is dry entitled ‘This Time is Different.’ What it concluded it is not different this time. They studied it, the aftermath of the financial crisis. What we are going through is imminently predictable. But this is a terrible thing that has happened to people’s lives. I think the president at one level understands that, you know. But he is limited in what he can do. So we’ll just have to see. But it’s going to be hard. If 54,000 jobs is the new norm – this is going to be very, very tough. Some people say it just might be one more thing. We don’t know.”

But Carville said the consequences aren’t limited to politics alone. He warned of heighten risk of civil unrest with the bleak economic picture.

“You know, look – this is a humanitarian — you know, you’re smart enough to see this,” Carville said. “People, you know, if it continues, we’re going to start to see civil unrest in this country. I hate to that, but I think it’s [eminently] possible.”

Translation: Riot all you want when Republicans are in office. But hell’s bells, people, don’t do it when a Democrat is sitting in the Oval Office.

H/T: Daily Caller

Obama & Geithner, the funniest comedy team since Abbott & Costello

We hate bad-news good-news jokes, especially when the punch line is “there is no good news.” This is one of those occasions.

We fondly remember the old Abbott and Costello routine “Two Tens For A Five.” Fondly, because the routine was funny, but also because fifty years ago it was just a comedy routine and not government policy. Two tens for a five would be a huge improvement over what’s actually happened:

The Federal government borrowed and spent $5.1 trillion over the past four years to generate a cumulative $700 billion increase in the nation’s GDP. That means we’ve borrowed and spent $7.28 for every $1 of nominal “growth” in GDP.

We hate bad-news good-news jokes, especially when the punch line is “there is no good news.” This is one of those occasions:

In constant dollars, GDP is flat: we got no growth at all for our $5.1 trillion: zip, zero, nada. In constant dollars, the GDP in 2011 might return to the 2007 level, if the economy continues “growing” at the same pace reached in the first three months of 2011. If not, then the GDP will actually be lower than pre-recession levels.

We’re glad to find out it wasn’t just our imagination that last year’s vaunted “Recovery Summer” seemed like a typical summer in Anchorage – both lasted about a day. And we have noticed the “unexpected” change in the Democrat and media (yes, still the same thing) rhetoric from “good times are a’ comin” to “things could be worse.”

Unfortunately, we are compelled to add “and thanks to that mountain of useless debt, they will be.”

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Charles Hugh Smith

The Michael Jackson Diet: You’ll not only lose weight, you’ll lose pigment

Apparently the makers of this product expect you to believe that it will turn you from a fat black woman to a slightly less fat white woman.

Let’s just call this weight loss ad what it is – the worst ad of the year. Apparently the makers of this product expect you to believe that it will turn you from a fat black woman to a slightly less fat white woman.

H/T: Buzzfeed

Hollyweirdo Sigourney Weaver: Global warming discriminates against women

Actress Sigoruney Weaver explaining how global warming discriminates against some very unexpected victims: women.

We try to give you an amusing take on the day’s news here at IHateTheMedia.com. Sometimes we’re funny, and sometimes we’re not.

But the simple fact of the matter is that nothing we sweat bullets to create can possibly compare to the unintentionally funny crap that comes from the mouths of Hollyweirdos.

sigourney weaver climate change — Sigourney Weaver: Still kind of hot, still completely nuts

Take, for example, actress Sigoruney Weaver explaining how global warming discriminates against some very unexpected victims:

Over the past month, I have been speaking to women in Canada and the American Midwest about a powerful force that discriminates against us. I am not talking about the glass ceiling or sexists bosses, although we all know those still exist. I am talking about climate change.

You might think that a force as sweeping as global warming would be an equal opportunity threat: that it would endanger men and women alike. But the fact is climate change exacts a heavier toll on women.

Women produce up to 80 percent of the food in the developing world. Drought and unpredictable rains brought on by climate change will make this work far more precarious. Women will have to labor harder and longer to ensure their families have food, fuel, and water…

Far be it from us to express a strong opinion, but that Alien chick is nuttier than Aunt Dodie’s fruitcake.

Source: Huffington Post

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney: Gaddafi-style socialism will solve America’s problems

Fresh off an appearance on Iranian television, the lunatic and former Congresswoman from Georgia appeared on Libyan television to announce that Gaddafi’s “Green Book Socialism” could cure all America’s ills.

Quick. Can you think of anything this woman has ever said that wasn’t (a) anti-American, (b) nutty, or (c) both?

We can’t. But perhaps you’re smarter than we are or perhaps you have a better memory than we do or perhaps you’re just as whacked out McKinney is.

Fresh off an appearance on Iranian television, the lunatic and former Congresswoman from Georgia Cynthia McKinney appeared on Libyan television to announce that Gaddafi’s “Green Book Socialism” could cure all America’s ills.

Certain rebels currently operating outside Tripoli beg to differ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDwcJ3Uof3E

Feel good story of the day: Florida couple forecloses on Bank of America

In an age when foreclosures are rapidly becoming the norm, a Florida couple has literally reversed the trend by foreclosing on a bank. And not just any bank, but Bank of America.

This may be our favorite story of the day. In an age when foreclosures are rapidly becoming the norm, a Florida couple has literally reversed the trend by foreclosing on a bank. And not just any bank, but Bank of America.

warren nyerges foreclosure — Feel good story of the day: Warren Nyerges foreclosed on Bank of America

WINK-TV has the story:

The foreclosure nightmare started when Warren and Maureen Nyerges paid cash for a home owned by Bank of America in the Golden Gate Estates. They never had a mortgage whatsoever. But, the bank fouled it up and wound up issuing a foreclosure through their attorney.

The couple took their case to court and after a year and a half nightmare the foreclosure was dropped. A Collier County judge said Bank of America has to pay the couple’s $2,534 legal fees for the error. After more than five months the bank still hadn’t paid up. So, the homeowners’ attorney did just what the bank would do to get their money, legally seize their assets.

“I instructed the deputy to go in and take desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets, including cash in the drawers,” Attorney Todd Allen told WINK News….

Allen says the manager was visibly shaken, “Having two Sheriff’s deputies sitting across your desk, and a lawyer standing behind them, demanding whatever assets are in the bank can be intimidating. But, so is having your home foreclosed on when it wasn’t right.”

After about an hour the bank finally cut a check to satisfy the debt, and no furniture was taken….

Don’t you kind of wish you could have been there to see it all go down?

Source: WINK-TV

Administration official reveals how easy it is to avoid ObamaCare’s individual mandate

President Obama’s solicitor general told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

Besides being a ridiculous bureaucratic monstrosity destined to fail, one thing we’ve always found troublesome about ObamaCare is its individual mandate provision. Now there’s good news: a way to avoid the mandate which is so easy, one need do nothing at all!

neal kumar katyal — Neal Kumar Katyal: From the halls of academe to the halls of stupidite

The Washington Examiner reveals the details:

[Neal Kumar Katyal] President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.

You’re probably asking “Why didn’t I think of that?” We posited this would also be a foolproof way to avoid taxes. But, as usual, there is a catch….

The so-called “hardship exemption” in the health care law is limited, and only applies to people who cannot obtain insurance for less than 8 percent of their income. So earning less isn’t necessarily a solution, because it could then qualify the person for government-subsidized insurance which could make their contribution to premiums fall below the 8 percent threshold.

No problem. ObamaCare is driving premiums up and Obama’s economy is driving wages and employment down. Shortly, everyone financially south of Donald Trump will be exempt.

But what would happen if large numbers of folks employed this tactic? Wouldn’t that cause economic calamity? Well, more economic calamity? And with the economic pie shriveling, who’s gonna pay for all those subsidies? Perhaps we’ve stumbled upon a flaw in Obamacare and socialism in general.

And for once it wasn’t Joe Biden who inadvertently blurted out the truth.

– Written by Bonfire of the Absurdities

Source: Washington Examiner

New study says your name impacts how others judge you. Two words: Anthony Weiner

Based on our cursory reading of this study, it appears that his last name set Anthony Weiner on an inescapable path to be a complete dick.

Well, this explains it all, doesn’t it? The name your parents give you determines how you are viewed by others and what they will expect of you.

Based on our cursory reading of this study, it appears that his last name set Anthony Weiner on an inescapable path to be a complete dick.

Live Science has the penile particulars:

“The name you give your kid is sort of a proxy for a whole bunch of things in our culture,” study researcher John Waggoner of Bloomberg University of Pennsylvania told LiveScience. Names have been linked to many life choices, including what kind of work people do and how they donate to charity.

The study looked into whether people’s names affect what others expect of them.

The researchers asked a group of 89 undergraduate students (about half of whom were prospective teachers) to guess, on a scale of 1 (“not very successful”) to 10 (“very successful”) how they thought a student with a certain name would perform academically.

Participants tended to judge those with names that have been correlated with lower maternal education and socioeconomic status as low educational achievers, compared with the possessors of higher-status names.

“What future teachers expect is that Cody will do a lot worse in school, relatively, than Benjamin and Samuel,” Waggoner said. “The more things you have going for you, the better people expect you to do.”

Our interpretation: You cannot run from your fate. The name Weiner is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Unfortunately, this sets up a brand new category of Democrat victimhood: Namists.

“I can’t help being a complete tool. It’s my parents’ fault.”

Source: Live Science

Despite aversion to pots of gold Fed flies a rainbow flag

The Richmond Federal Reserve Bank’s attempt to show inclusiveness in the workplace by flying the rainbow flag outside its building has reignited a divisive gay-rights debate.

We here at IHateTheMedia.com try to live by a philosophy best captured in ancient and time honored rhyme:

If you want to get funky, please feel free
Just don’t spread that funk on me

rainbow-flag-fed — The Fed is inclusive: They're going to destroy all of us

The Federal Reserve of Virginia has decided to let its freaky flag fly just a bit higher than we fly ours. It’s a decision that has caused a bit of a flap.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch runs it up the flagpole for us:

The Richmond Federal Reserve Bank’s attempt to show inclusiveness in the workplace by flying the rainbow flag outside its building has reignited a divisive gay-rights debate.

Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, is calling on the bank to remove the flag, terming its presence “a serious deficiency of judgment by your organization, one not limited to social issues.”

Far be it from us to tell this supposedly non-governmental agency how to conduct its affairs. Not even if it does exercise a large amount of control over our economy and, therefore, our lives. But if the Fed must fly a flag might we suggest the white one? Especially when it comes to any number of their inflation inducing policies.

PS – We would like to clarify our reason for suggesting the Fed fly a white flag. It is not, as some trolls might have you believe, because we are racist. It is because this flag has traditionally been associated with surrender. Were we more cultured and euro-centric we might have suggested the drapeau tricolore instead. Thankfully we are not.

– Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch

Google Maps: Obscene anti-Obama crop circle crops up in Louisiana

Down in St. Landers Parish, just outside Lafayette, Louisiana, someone has carved a “crop circle” that is not complementary to President Obama. Not favorable at all.

Down in St. Landers Parish, just outside Lafayette, Louisiana, someone has carved a “crop circle” with two not so kind words for President Obama. We say “someone” but who knows? It may just as well be “something” because we’re pretty sure Obama’s pissed off the entire universe at this point.

No one’s stepping forward to take blame (nor credit) for the horrible descecration, this thoughtless crime, this farmland folly.

But we do know one thing: If it had said the same thing about Bush instead of Obama, the artist would undoubtedly be eligible for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Here’s how you can see the artwork yourself, right from Google Maps: Just start clicking on the zoom button (the + sign, and only the plus sign) in the upper left corner of the embedded map below, until you close in on the crop circle.

Better look quickly, before the Google Maps department pulls out their Photoshop expert.

If you’re interested in Google Maps discoveries, you will love our story of a structure discovered on Google Mars. You have to see this one.

Pot calls kettle red: EU spends more than $30 million a year pushing socialist schemes in USA

The clowns in Brussels decided to free up a little cash to promote similar success in the United States. And when we say “a little cash” we mean thirty million smackers a year.

The European Union, the political pipedream of one world European socialists, is a joke. It’s falling apart socially and economically. Nevertheless, the clowns in Brussels decided to free up a little cash to promote similar success in the United States. And when we say “a little cash” we mean thirty million smackers a year.

The Daily Mail UK has the story:

The EU Human Rights Fund is intended to help promote Western values in the developing world. But a shock report has found at least £17million of cash – around £2million from British taxpayers’ – has been ploughed into promoting the pet causes of Eurocrats in the U.S.

It is being spent on promoting abolition of the death penalty, discussion of climate change, green energy, and the International Criminal Court – all controversial subjects in the U.S.

The study by the Heritage Foundation, a centre-right Washington think-tank, found a further £4million has been ploughed into pro-EU propaganda in the U.S., including funds for advertising and publicity material.

More than £3million has been funnelled to American universities to promote the benefits of European integration and a further £3million to think-tanks who want to study EU affairs.

The European Commission’s own accounts show millions have also been paid to unnamed individual opinion formers in the U.S.

The report’s British author Sally McNamara said: ‘It is impossible to justify EU human rights budgets being spent in one of the world’s freest nations.’

Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: ‘The U.S. was founded by North Americans fed up with Europeans interfering in its internal affairs.

Just think, if these efforts are successful the United States can look forward to having the freedom of speech of the Dutch, the well-integrated Muslim population of the French, the ingenius political system of the Italians and the economy of the Greeks.

On second thought…

Source: Daily Mail UK

Dr. Kevorkian dies. Authorities uncertain whom to charge.

There have been a number of stories linking the name Jack Kevorkian with deaths. And now, after 83 years, we come to a story where the death detailed is his own.

We found this story, in both name and sentiment, at Yahoo:

Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who captured the world’s attention as he helped dozens of ailing people commit suicide, igniting intense debate and ending up in prison for murder, has died in a Detroit area hospital after a short illness. He was 83.

Kevorkian, who said he helped some 130 people end their lives from 1990 to 1999, died about 2:30 a.m. at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, close friend and prominent attorney Mayer Morganroth said.

He had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia and kidney problems, Morganroth said.

An official cause of death had not been determined, but Morganroth said it likely will be pulmonary thrombosis.

News of the man’s passing is hardly likely to dampen the debate or the controversy that has surrounded this figure for so long. Some will see him as a man of deep compassion. Others will believe him to be Dr. Death and little more than the world’s most famous psychopathologist.

Either way one thing is certain. He was very good at the mechanics of what he did. And when the time came Jack Kervorkian required no assistance in the ending of the life that was his own.

Written by Kip Hooker at TheVitaminPress.com

Source: Associated Press

What the hell is this thing they just discovered on Mars?

David Martines was playing with Google Mars when he stumbled across something that is absolutely inexplicable – a structure that is 700′ x 150′.

This is not the kind of story we typically cover at IHateTheMedia.com, but we’re making an exception because THIS IS FREAKIN’ STRANGE.

David Martines was playing with Google Mars when he stumbled across something that is absolutely inexplicable.

Let’s let David describe it:

“This structure is 700′ x 150′, and is colored white with blue and red stripes against the red Martian soil. This is not a rock or mountain. It is a manufactured structure. This is not something that I created, this is something that is currently on Google Mars. NASA won’t talk to me about it. I’ve sent them a few emails, and no reply. Go see for yourself. The coordinates are: 71 49’19.73″N 29 33’06.53″W.”

Watch the video and you’ll say the same thing we did:

WTF? What the F-in’ F?

http://youtu.be/GDwkpYHX-Wk

Update: If you’re into discoveries found on Google Earth, you’ll might find it interesting to zoom in on this anti-obama crop circle in Louisiana.

Obama bombs: Autoworkers boo when he makes a joke about the car they make

Obama told the automakers “that the recovering U.S. economy took a hit that even a Jeep Wrangler couldn’t rebound from quickly.” Didn’t go over well.

Know your audience. That’s the basic rule of public speaking that President Obama violated in Toledo on Friday.

He told a audience of autoworkers who build the Jeep Wrangler “…that the recovering U.S. economy took a hit that even a Jeep Wrangler couldn’t rebound from quickly.”

He hasn’t dropped a bomb this big in Libya.

But putting his lousy joke aside, does it not appear that his Teleprompter isn’t working? He’s delivering his remarks with the same hesitance and awkwardness that are usually the hallmarks of a recalcitrant TOTUS.

http://youtu.be/Px20jWN4ifQ

The truth revealed: The real reason Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea

So why did we bury Obama bin Laden at sea? Was it in accordance with strict Islamic law? Some Islamic scholars say it violates Islamic tradition. This video explains it all.

We’ve been told that Osama Bin Laden was buried at sea in accordance with strict Islamic law. Unfortunately, many Islamic scholars contend that such a burial actually violates Islamic tradition.

So why did we do it? This video explains it all.

H/T: CJ

Applying for welfare in Florida? Here. Go pee in this bottle.

That sound you hear is the ACLU howling in protest. Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, just signed a bill that requires welfare applicants to get drug tested.

That sound you hear is the ACLU howling in protest. Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, just signed a bill that requires welfare applicants to get drug tested. The theory behind it is that if taxpayers are required to get drug tested at work, then the people supported by their tax dollars should be required to meet the same strict standards. Seems fair to us.

drug-test — Congratulations, Mr. Smith. You're not a drug addict, so you can now be a leech.

CBS Miami has the pee particulars:

The bill also requires that those who apply for welfare must pay for the drug testing out of their own pockets. However, the cost would be reimbursed if the person passes the drug test.

Republicans said the measure was needed because if taxpayers are screened at their place of employment, so should welfare recipients. The drug testing bill was a priority for Scott.

“While there are certainly legitimate needs for public assistance, it is unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Governor Scott said. “This new law will encourage personal accountability and will help to prevent the misuse of tax dollars.”

Next stop? We say candidates for political office should also be drug tested.

Overuse of controlled substances may be the only way to explain Democrat policies.

Source: CBS Miami

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