I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Guess what book is rocketing up the Amazon sales ranks. 1984 by George Orwell, of course. Sales climbed 5,771% in a couple days after the NSA spying scandal broke, propelling the book from number 12,507 to number 213.

The problem is not just IRS lawyers – the problem is all federal government lawyers. “…The IRS is near the top in terms of partisanship, but does not stand out as being markedly different from the other agencies. Some agencies, such as the Department of Education and the NLRB, did not have a single lawyer who contributed to Mitt Romney, even though dozens contributed to Barack Obama.” The notion of a non-partisan civil service system is another myth shot to hell. Time to bring back the old patronage system – at least you can get some non-Democrats in there occasionally.

Let’s bet on the Zimmerman trial. No prizes other than bragging rights. Will Zimmerman be found innocent, guilty or will it be a hung jury? Please post your bet in the comments and if you like, why you think that way.

Who goes Nazi? A parlor game from Harper’s Magazine, August 1941, seeks to predict which people at an imaginary cocktail party will join the Nazis: “Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t-whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.” Thought-provoking article which may be relevant again.

PBS NEWSHOUR CLOSES OFFICES, LAYS OFF STAFF, TURNS TO FREELANCERS. Racing to the bottom against MSNBC? Keith Olbermann should have waited a few more days before signing with TBS. Perhaps the ex PBS employees can get jobs with Al Jazeera.

Forensics Proves Zimmerman’s Account Was Fabricated. Very interesting take on things. Looks like Zimmerman better hope the DA doesn’t read this.

Venezuelans use smartphone app to find toilet paper. Socialism can fix that – once the benevolent gubbermint starts controlling the price of smartphones, those will vanish as well.

Catalytic converter thefts on the rise in NJ. Thieves crawl under vehicles with high ground clearance, like SUVs, and remove the converters in broad daylight with battery-powered saws. Platinum goes for $1500 an ounce these days – it’s a lot easier to steal a buck this way than with copper wire.

ACLU files lawsuit over NSA call tracking. This is amazing. About time someone there woke up.

N.J. Bill Seeks Crackdown On Distracted Driving By Forcing Drivers To Hand Over Phones: Legal Experts See Possible Showdown Pitting Safety Vs. Fourth Amendment: So removing a cell phone from a citizen after the event has occurred can make that event -that has already occurred- safer? Time travel, there’s an app for that!

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden left more than his family behind… when he fled to Hong Kong. He also left his pole-dancer girlfriend. She’s upset and feels “adrift.” But she’s flexible – she’ll survive.

Another electric car company declares bankruptcy. Sub-headline: Another “Green” Entrepreneur Looks Foolish. How many failed electric car companies is this now? Anybody keeping count? On a side note, the U.S. Department of Energy has backed off on President Barack Obama’s goal of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. Sub-sidenote: Obama was clueless when he set that goal.

Psst: There are four separate scandals going on at EPA right now. It might be easier to just start listing the gubbermint agencies NOT embroiled in scandal in Obama’s Hopelessly Changed Amerikka.

You commit three felonies a day. “The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague.” Unlike North Korea, they won’t have to arrest you for not crying enough when Obama misses a putt…

Judge Napolitano: NSA Leaker Andrew Snowden “An American Hero.” This guy should be the next appointee to the Supreme Court. With our luck we’ll get Janet Napolitano.

TENSE: ED HENRY CONFRONTS JAY CARNEY ON OBAMA STATEMENTS DURING WHITE HOUSE PRESS CONFERENCE. We wonder what they shoot Carney up with before every press conference? Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) would consider this stuff too unbelievable to make an episode out of.

Obama: We still have “too many kids in poverty in this country.” Yes, yes we do. Can we almost be on our 4th summer of recovery with massive unemployment and a stagnant economy? Yes, yes we can.

Rangel is okay with NSA spying as long as Obama is president. “You have to have some confidence in this president, and quite frankly, if it was a different president I might take a different look at the legislation.” What are we seeing here from the congressman? A lack of principles, malfunctioning neurons in his brain, or simple racism?

IRS Agent: Keep Faith to Yourself. Wanna bet no one from the Gestapo IRS even mentioned this to CAIR?

Krugman: Government Tilting Towards “Authoritarian Surveillance” State: After years of advocating a state powerful enough to control every economic aspect of our lives Krugman seems suddenly concerned when such a state might be looking to spy on every aspect of our digital lives. We’ve no doubt that Krugman will soon put forward a solution to this momentous issue that includes another trillion dollars in federal spending and a whole new spate of regulatory agencies intended to regulate all the regulatory agencies that we already have. This man, whom can predict nothing with accuracy, is nothing if not predictable himself.

Ex-Energy Secretary Chu: Our green-energy loans were “more successful than Wall Street.” Well, crony capitalism does produce really good returns for the cronies.

CBS News: State Department covered up misconduct, interfered with IG probes. “In one specific and striking cover-up, State Department agents told the Inspector General they were told to stop investigating the case of a U.S. Ambassador who held a sensitive diplomatic post and was suspected of patronizing prostitutes in a public park.” It must be that this is how the hopey-changey administration thinks these things are supposed to be dealt with.

Obama gives Chinese president Xi fabulous gift on departure. It’s inscribed “Presented to His Excellency Xi Jinping President of the People’s Republic of China By Barack Obama President of the United States Sunnylands Annenberg Estate June 7-8, 2013”. Because nuthin’ says “thanks for coming” like a… bench.

NSA memo pushed to ‘rethink’ 4th Amendment. This is what the Republicans and Democrats alike think of us. Both sides want to shred the Constitution. Both sides want to eliminate the Bill of Rights so they can control everyone and everything by fiat instead of law.

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance. Hero or traitor? There’s no doubt in our minds that Obama will view him as the latter and go after him with a vengeance. Going public has probably prevented him from being “dissappeared.”