I HATE THE MEDIA ™

Euro and risk currencies rally, China PMI looms. Tumble, tumble, tumble! Watch the dollar tumble! RAWHIDE!

Proposed SF tax break to hire felons clears hurdle. First no free toys in McDonald’s Happy Meals and now Hire-a-Felon. We suggest SF test all applicants for the Board of Supervisors and Mayor for mental illness before they’re allowed to run for office.

Drama in Thailand as Israeli lifeguards save two drowning Iranians. “When we told them we were Israeli they just got up and fled.” You’re welcome.

Occupy LA’s legacy: Stench, trash, property damage. Police had to wear Hazmat suits to clean up the feces and urine. Pepe Le Pew remarked that it smelled worse than he did and that OWS really must stand for Oh We Stink.

McDonalds has devised a workaround that appears to comply with Frisco’s “Healthy Meal Incentive Ordinance” – they’ll sell you the Happy Meal and make you pay 10 cents extra for the toy. We’re lovin’ it.

Whotta surprise! The Obama Admin has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to Fast and Furious. The most transparent administration in history – their lies and bullsh!t excuses are tissue-paper thin. Otherwise, they’re about as transparent as a brick, make that stone, wall.

It’s “the gridlock alert day of the decade” as President Obama arrives in Manhattan for three fundraisers, coinciding with the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. And the doofus is coming in at 5pm, just in time to screw up the evening rush hour. Paging Chris Christie… you asked what it is exactly this useless fool does? Here’s your answer.

“Solyndra was just the beginning, we’re going to see a lot of [solar] companies go bankrupt.” Of the few hundred or so solar panel makers worldwide, just 20 to 40 are expected to remain standing in a few years time. Why? Slack demand, oversupply, loss of gubbermint subsidies, things anyone with business experience would’ve predicted. Obama’s magical green economy turns brown…. unexpectedly!

Kidnapper sues his hostages for $235,000 to cover emotional stress and hospital bills after he was shot by police. This should get the dumb lawsuit of the year award.

NY Times describes in one headline exactly just how far up its butt its collective head is: “Barney Frank, Moderate”. There was an old joke that went “You can tell you’re drunk when you brush something off your shoulder and it’s the floor.” How do you tell when your moribund newspaper leans far left? You brush something off your right shoulder and it’s Barney Frank.

For years the liberals have assured us that Barney Frank is a towering intellect, a paragon of virtue and a champion for the little people. Obviously these terms mean very different things to them than they do to us. Otherwise there is no way they would be applied to a man that ran a brothel out of his residence and received kickbacks from the fat-cats he was bailing out with money ripped away from the tax payers. Ah, but if his hand were the only thing that got caught in the cookie jar. This is also the man that destroyed the economy. Here is some video of him assuring the country that all was well with the housing market . . . while he was doing his damndest to push it off a cliff.

Obama administration rejects Republican states’ health law waiver requests. Is there anyone who doesn’t get an Obamacare waiver? Sure, and coincidentally they’re states with Republican governors that Obama is has very little chance of carrying next year! Wow, what’re the odds of something like that happening, huh? Why, it’s almost as unlikely as a big donor to Obama’s campaign getting a huge loan from the Dept. of Energy!

Retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) announced on Tuesday his support for the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a significant portion of President Obama’s health care overhaul. The IPAB is the “real death panel” in the health care law, according to Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) who authored the bill to repeal it. Barney Frank, no longer bound by political obligations, does what he thinks is right. Too bad we can’t get people who do that before they retire.

Chris Christie remarks on Obama’s “present” vote in the deficit reduction negotiations: “What the hell are we paying you for?” Obama knew the stupor-committee was doomed to fail and so he didn’t get invovled… “Well, what HAVE you been doing, exactly?” Asking the raaaaacist questions the media can’t be bothered with. BTW, why the hell is anyone paying the MSM, for that matter?

Obama’s Job Approval Drops Below Carter’s. Gallup put Obama’s job approval rating at 43 percent compared to Carter’s 51 percent. It’s official! Jimmy Carter is a happy man today!

All in the name of ‘art’: The 65-year-old professor who poses nude with students. No wonder the price of education has gone up – liability insurance is expensive! Oh, and extra credit is a b*tch.

Treasury Sec’y Paulson tipped off hedge funds before 2008 gov’t takeover of Fannie and Freddie. “You just never ever do that as a government regulator — transmit nonpublic market information to market participants,” says a former general counsel at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. “There were no legitimate reasons for those disclosures.” Of course, there ARE illegitimate reasons for it… crony capitalism, for one.

Obama in 2006: I “stole” book title “Audacity of Hope” from Rev. Wright, “my pastor”. Wait, we thought Obama was asleep when Wright spoke and never heard a word he said. The video (at the link) was shot in 2006; to paraphrase something another pompous fraud once said, maybe Obama heard Wright before he didn’t hear him or something.

Washington Post’s Aaron Blake tweeted: “Hey Tweeps: Looking for outlandish/incorrect predictions and quotes from Newt Gingrich’s past. Any ideas for me?” Yeah, he said his “stimulus” would hold unemployment under 8%, his health-care “reform” would lower insurance premiums and the deficit, and then there’s “57 states”, “corpse-man”,… oh wait, you said NEWT Gingrich… our error.

NBC’s Gregory: Idea that tax hikes hurt economy “one of the falsehoods that’s peddled in Washington”. Sure, everybody remembers JFK’s tax hikes to stimulate the economy, right? Some of the other falsehoods peddled in Washington: NBC is a news organization and David Gregory is better than an empty chair as host of “Meet the Press.”

Hillary Rosen Lavishes Praise on Barney Frank: Who is Hilary Rosen? She used to head up the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). It was her job to make sure that most artists never made any money from their music; that a CD costing around $2.00 to make, manufacture, advertise and distribute cost the consumer $20.00; and to see to it that the masses were only exposed to the music she wanted them exposed to . . . even if it meant resorting to practices that rather closely resembled racketeering. So it comes as no surprise that she is a Democrat.

Meghan McCain: Hillary Clinton “Is A Woman Who Kicks Ass In Politics”: 14:59 Miss McCain. The only thing left now is the sex tape.

Carney: Obama To Push For More Unemployment Benefits: Maybe Barry should be pushing for more employment benefits. Like the benefit that comes when the worker is entitled to as much of their labor as the tax eater is.

“I think the problem is that the poor children, keep in mind it’s 42% of poor children who live at or near poverty, it’s 25% in poverty. Our audience needs to keep that in mind.” Cornel West said on MSNBC this afternoon. “Poor children need more than just a $1,000 for their family, they need a war against poverty to make it a major priority in the way which we have a priority for Afghanistan, and a priority to bail out banks, and a priority to defend corporate interests when it comes to environmental issues,” West said about more and new entitlements for the poor. Professor West didn’t just call for another war on poverty (the first war was fought by Lyndon B. Johnson), but went on to say that the push for more entitlements “is going to be fought in the streets.” Hey Cornel we already had a war on poverty. And it cost the tax paying class trillions. You’d think a guy that made an entire career decrying the evils of a slavery that existed over a century ago wouldn’t be nearly so keen on bringing it back.

Canada to pull out of Kyoto Protocol next month. Danger, exploding green head shrapnel incoming: “Canada will be a pariah globally if it goes through with this.” No, Canada is just acknowledging what everybody already knows, Kyoto is a sham.