I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Presents From The President: What Obama Gives His Friends . Let’s see . . . he gives them cell phones, zero percent corporate tax rates, IRS harassment of their “enemies”, billions of dollars in corporate welfare, billions of dollars in the other kind of welfare, guns with which to wage their drug wars, guns with which to wage their real wars and (in the case of the friends that might no longer want to be friends) he gives them full transcriptions of all their emails and phone conversations from the last four years.

Paula Deen fired from Food Network after admitting to using racial slur: Too bad Robert Byrd isn’t still around or this gal could engage in a certain amount of public rehabilitation by writing speeches for him. Sadly, however, Byrd has gone on to that great Klan Meeting in the sky -or perhaps a location not quite so north as that. Oh well, maybe Quintin Tarantino is hiring.

Obama Administration Sues Dollar General for Using Background Checks on Job Applicants: To be fair the Federal Government is leading from the front on this one. They too have suspended the use of background checks in hiring and now rely completely on the NSA to provide such information.

Guardian: Documents expose massive UK spying op. Looks like voyeurism is more popular than we originally thought.

Janet Napolitano Forgot We Know About NSA. Forgot? We doubt she ever knew!

IRS SENT $46 MILLION IN TAX REFUNDS TO 23,994 ‘UNAUTHORIZED’ ALIENS — ALL AT THE SAME ADDRESS IN ATLANTA. To us the only surprise is that it wasn’t $46 billion.

Obamacare effects hit local governments, small businesses, temp staffing agencies. “Birmingham, Mich. Commissioner Gordon Rinschler may have summed up best the reaction that countless businesses and governments are having to ObamaCare, saying: ‘We simply can’t afford the Affordable Care Act.'” Something rotten for everyone!

Chelsea Clinton complains that her great grandmother didn’t have access to Planned Parenthood… apparently missing the logical connection to her own existence.

Anal hazing is apparently a thing in American high schools now. Is someone putting them up to this? Or, are they practicing for those rumored new Boy Scout Badges for Buggery?

Climate change: A cooling consensus. “…climate scientists were previously very confident that the planet would be warmer than it is by now, and no one knows for sure why it isn’t. …it is a crisis for climate-policy advocates who based their arguments on the authority of scientific consensus.” The science is unsettled and there’s no reason at this time to make the drastic changes they’ve demanded.

‘Offensive to Muslims’: Dem congressman calls on FBI to take down photos of terrorists. Cair, Hamas and all the local Muslims must be dumping a ton of money in this guy’s campaign fund.

GOLD AND U.S. STOCKS PRETTY MUCH COLLAPSED THURSDAY. Let’s play the manipulation game! We wonder how many insiders knew about this before Bernanke opened his mouth and dumped everything on Monday or Tuesday?

SENATE CHAMPION OF NSA’S MAMMOTH DATA CENTER IS NOW SILENT. Oh Orrin! Can you hear us now? What’s that Orrin? Your pork is spoiled?

Bush-era whistle-blower: Obama was NSA wiretap victim in 2004. After all this time it seems mighty convenient timing to come out of the spy closet. Since he’s supposedly ratting out Bush, Obama will probably nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize while with the other hand he nominates Edward Snowden for permanent resident status at GITMO.

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Homeland Security Abandons Amnesty Background Checks. We don’t think they were planning on ever doing them to begin with. Why would Fat Sis want to send any undocumented Democrats back to Mexico?

Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant. Here is how they justify throwing the 4th Amendment into the crapper.

TED CRUZ LAUNCHES NATIONAL PETITION AGAINST GANG OF EIGHT’S AMNESTY BILL. For those inclined to sign the petition.

PROF. COMPARES CLIMATE CHANGE TO SLAVERY, SAYS LINCOLN WOULD HAVE TRIED TO STOP IT. This guy’s obviously been watching Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter too often.

‘RACIST RANT’: READ THE FIERY EMAIL AN ILLINOIS GOP LEADER SENT TARGETING FORMER MISS AMERICA RUNNING AS A REPUBLICAN. The Republicans should immediately start a course on how to engage brain before mouth or email.

Great news: US scrapping $7 billion of military equipment in Afghanistan. Perhaps they should turn Afghanistan into Afgani Surplus Я US.

House votes to end USDA/Mexico food stamp promotion partnership. If you dangle free stuff in front of people they will come illegally across the border to get it. This needs to stop.

Hagel asks Indian professor if he’s member of the Taliban. A ship of fools would be an improvement. At least Hagel didn’t ask him if he ran a convenience store.

Chicago teachers union chief faults “rich white people” for city’s education mess. Other people’s money is not enough to pay us what we want so other people gotta pony up more. And she made a baseball analogy: “When the Cubs lose a game they don’t call for Wrigley Field to close down. They don’t want the entire team dismantled.” Yeah, but they also don’t pay the same people more money for losing. They fire the manager and hire better players. Check it out.

Birthrate in India about to plummet. The Madras High Court just ruled that any couple having sex shall thenceforth be considered legally married, requiring legal divorce proceedings and the whole nine yards. Even at two in the morning wearing beer goggles, this will temper some passions.

Open Letter to the UC Regents. UC Berkeley tries to continue the tradition of having wackadoodles running the place.