I HATE THE MEDIA ™

 

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Virginia moves closer to creating state’s own currency. “Lawmakers in Virginia say they want to keep their options open in case the value of the U.S. dollar ever collapses…” It’s as if they don’t trust the hackers at the Fed or something…

Is Senator Menendez Doomed? “There are rumors that powerful Democrats are now working to hasten the downfall of Menendez. …if [he] tries to hang on, it might inspire greater scrutiny to other politicians connected to Dr. Melgen, and those other politicians don’t need that scrutiny.” Then by all means, hang on… take the others down with you. Take the whole damn senate if that’s where it leads.

Jerry Brown gets smacked by Rick Perry over California’s business climate, and reacts… poorly.

Gov. Jerry Brown publicly scoffed at Gov. Rick Perry’s attempt to draw Californians to Texas for better business, saying that the ad campaign is “barely a fart.”

Rumor is that this is similar to what Linda Ronstadt allegedly told him years ago when they were dating. “Jerry, that’s barely a dick.”

GREAT NEWS: Costs of Obamacare Exchanges Spike 29%… Before the Program Even Starts!. Yes we can’t!  Obamacare will be affordable, providing your name is Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. The rest of you peasants can get affordable healthcare in India or Thailand.

Paul Krugman channels Sarah Palin, admits Death Panels will be required to keep Obamacare solvent Hey Paul, you forgot to say the death panels are also a terrific way to make social security last longer!

EPA plans cleanup of lead danger in Chicago. The real lead danger in Chicago isn’t dying from the lead in this factory, it’s dying from all the lead flying around in the nation’s gun control capitol.

CHRIS ROCK: OBAMA LIKE ‘DAD OF THE COUNTRY. AND WHEN YOUR DAD SAYS SOMETHING, YOU LISTEN’. Well, so much for George Washington, who Chris Rock just threw under the bus.

The Competence Deficit. “The fundamental problem with the Chicago school of ‘we won’ politics is that it so disproportionately rewards the hacks, scoundrels, mediocrities, pitchmen, liars and swindlers who have a talent for conning low-information voters that it eventually delegitimizes itself. It turns itself into a big shambling joke. The final result of this style of power-grabbing is total corruption and total incompetence. ‘We won’ is inevitably followed by ‘now what?’” Why, tee time, of course.

FBI sources: Menendez investigation moved to Newark, NJ. “…change of focus away from the bureau’s Miami field office indicates that the government is focused primarily on Sen. Menendez and not on his longtime donor Dr. Salomon Melgen…” Maybe this is about more than hookers? “Damn those right-wing blogs for making the FBI investigate me!”

Southern Poverty Law Center website provided Family Research Center shooter with his targets. Suspect Floyd Lee Corkins told the FBI that “he wanted to kill anti-gay targets and went to the [SPLC’s] website for ideas. …he said that he intended to ‘kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-Fil-A sandwiches in victims’ faces…'” It’s time for a national conversation about groups like the SPLC. When’s a newspaper gonna publish a list of names and addresses of SPLC donors?

Now that the Justice Dept. released its memo justifying assasination of American citizens… let’s take another look at the assasination by drone of 16-year-old Aabdulrahman al-Awlaki, an American citizen who was neither a member of al-Qaida nor a member of an associated force. He was a kid. He was targeted and killed by a drone in October of 2011 along with some other kids who happened to be eating with him. His father was a member of al-Qaida but his father was already dead from an earlier drone assasination about which President Obama bragged. Is this murder then?

Fed confirms it was hacked by Anonymous. Color us embarrassed: all this time, we thought it was hackers that were running the place.

If imaginary guns and grenades get grade schoolers kicked out of school… then why is Joe Biden allowed to shoot François Hollande, the president of France, with a finger gun? How is that fair?

Blue on Blue in CA – Eco-glitterati versus the unemployed. “California’s Monterey Shale Formation, which is a ‘vast source rock’ that contains potentially billions of barrels of oil, could be a significant source of job and wealth creation for the Golden State.” Big deal. It’s not like the state needs the money or anything.

Women’s Unclean Breasts Cause Diarrhoea, Says Egypt Prime Minister Hisham Qandil. In his case they probably would because he’d crap his pants if he ever saw a pair of bodacious ta-ta’s.

Bruce Willis: Don’t infringe on Second Amendment: We can’t wait for Piers Morgan to try and grill him on this. (H/T StrinaM)

Washington Post: Critics of Michelle’s Weight are Racist: It isn’t the ass the Michelle Antoinette sits on that we object to, it is the one she is married to that is the cause for concern.

“Now the president always has to back up his words with proof?” NBC’s (no surprise there) Matt Laurer “worried about the precedent that had been set: ‘So like releasing the birth certificate a year or so ago, this is the next step, that now the President always has to back up his words with proof?'” This from the “we hardly edited that recording much at all and you can’t prove it!” network. Yeah Matt, we trust him as much as we trust you.

EXCLUSIVE—ZIMMERMAN BROTHER: OBAMA ‘BULLIED’ MY FAMILY. We say be glad Obama didn’t send a drone to visit.

Ahmadinejad Visits Egypt, Signaling Realignment. Dictators of a feather, flock together.

Feds Investigating Sandi Jackson: In a sane world the Feds would be concerned with justice and we would wonder little why Sandi Jackson was being targeted. But this is not a sane world and this is not a sane Federal Government. It is a corrupt one that has given the green light to drone strikes on Americans, voter suppression, fraud and even gone so far as to run guns to drug lords and narco kingpins. So it must be wondered . . . why (given that they ignore everything else) are they are going after Jackson?

Jon Favreau, President Obama’s head speechwriter, is departing: His time in the White House should serve Favreau well, David Plouffe said. “He can write comedy, history, drama, suspense,” he said. “He’s got the whole range.” Notice he didn’t mention tragedy. That is something Obama has been crafting just fine without any help from anybody.

How do you spell “retaliation”? The DOJ is suing S&P purportedly for ignoring “its own standards to rate mortgage bonds that imploded in the financial crisis and cost investors billions.” Or is it really for downgrading U.S. sovereign debt for the first time in history in 2011? Not retaliation, it’s the Chicago Way.

Obama calls for a delay in his sequestration plan. “Pres Obama will call for spending cuts and revenue hikes to give Congress more time to come up with long-term plan to avoid the sequester.” Obama calls for a new plan to make plans to talk about stuff he might want to plan. Hey, how about a blue ribbon panel to create plans to spawn more blue ribbon panels? More here.