Tumblr mocks media for obsessing over Petraeus scandal while ignoring Hurricane crisis

A new Tumblr blog popped up over the weekend called, “David Petraeus Affair Photos,” except the pictures show the brutal images of the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy instead.

“The Petraeus scandal is dominating the “news” as a real national crisis is being ignored,” wrote the Tumblr owner to an interested commenter.

The Tumblr selects headlines from Petraeus-related stories from across the nation and accompanies them with a photo from the destruction that faces hundreds of thousands of Americans in the Northeast.

By /// November 14, 2012

Pelosi puts her foot down, will remain Democratic Leader

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi announced Wednesday morning that she intends to run for minority leader again and will remain the figurehead for Democrats in the House until 2014.

It was originally unclear whether Pelosi, 72, who has already held the minority leader position for 10 years, would use 2012 as a chance to step down especially after her wild predictions that the Democrats would finally win majority in the House.

Pelosi is most likely hoping for a mid-term election rally in order to redeem herself from the embarrassing 2010 episode where she was forced to give up the Speaker of the House gavel to John Boehner and an overwhelmingly Republican floor.

By /// November 14, 2012

Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells Sesame Street that being a princess is not a career

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made an appearance on Sesame Street on Sunday to make a point about the word “career.”

As Sotomayor told Abby from Sesame Street, being a princess is not a career because a career is “a job you train for, or prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.”

It might be a good thing for young girls to keep in mind, but it just sounds funny coming from the mouth of the Princess of government programs that require absolutely no work at all, like, affirmative action, the Dream Act, food stamps and welfare.

By /// November 12, 2012

Three ways the GOP can reach out to Latino voters

President Barack Obama won the election with the help of the Hispanic vote, which went more disproportionately for Obama than any other ethnic group other than African Americans.

The GOP made more efforts to reach out to Latinos in 2012 than in 2008, but the Republican Party’s measures were weak. The GOP spent 2012 scrambling to catch up with the Democrats’ well-thought out Hispanic outreach campaign and the party talked about issues that, frankly, don’t appeal to the majority of Latinos at all.

By /// November 10, 2012

Americans in 15 states issue White House petitions asking permission to secede

If at first you don’t succeed, just secede!

More than 3,000 Louisiana citizens have signed an online petition to the Obama administration to allow the state of Louisana to, “withdraw peacefully from the United States of America and create its own new government.”

The petition, posted to the online White House petitions page, cites the Declaration of Independence stating that it is the right of the people to form a new government when the current one is not respecting the, “consent of the governed.”

By /// November 10, 2012

Young voter turnout increases from 2008 to 2012

Young voter participation in the 2012 election jumped 1 percentage point from 2008 levels, although young voters were slightly less likely to vote for President Barack Obama than in 2008.

Youth eligible to vote are estimated to be around 21 percent of the population and around 19 of those 21 percent voted this year, which is an extraordinarily high turnout given the difficulties associated with voter registration and voting absentee.

The statistic is especially surprising given that most major media outlets and pollsters, including The Associated Press, the Huffington Post and Pew Research, reported a significant expected drop in youth enthusiasm and participation for 2012.

By /// November 8, 2012

VIDEO: Funny new “Bad Lip Reading” debate compilation

If you need something to pick you up from your election woes, check out Bad Lip Reading’s new compilation of the 2012 U.S Presidential debate.

The video features funny lip reads from President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Republican candidate Mitt Romney and his running-mate Paul Ryan as well as all of the debate moderators.

By /// November 7, 2012

VIDEO: Romney concession speech songified: “I’m still rich”

According to the Gregory Brothers, what Mitt Romney was really saying in his concession speech was that he didn’t mind losing the election because in the end…he’s still rich.

“I’ve got a secret weapon that keeps me happy and gay,” sings Romney in the songified version of his Tuesday night speech after he lost the election. “I’m still rich, filthy rich, as far as I’m concerned this election thing went off with out a hitch because I’ll get the best tax write-offs I could ever get while he has nothing but getting blamed for the U.S. going to H-E double hockey-sticks.”

He never really wanted that low-wage paying government job anyway.

By /// November 7, 2012