When it's fact that there ARE conspiracies,

then yeah, it makes all kinds of stuff seem reasonable.  When the IRS violated law for political purposes and got away- is GETTING away- with it, why not believe they're doing other things?  NSA violating law, the Director lying under oath with no penalty, why wouldn't you believe all kinds of other things?
Spend a little while on Twitter or in Internet comment sections and you'll see a significant number of people who think that the NSA may have been relaying intelligence about the Mitt Romney campaign to Obama operatives, or that Chief Justice John Roberts' sudden about-face in the Obamacare case might have been driven by some sort of NSA-facilitated blackmail.

A year ago, these kinds of comments would have been dismissable as paranoid conspiracy theory. But now, while I still don't think they're true, they're no longer obviously crazy. And that's Obama's legacy: a government that makes paranoid conspiracy theories seem possibly sane.
I'd dump the possibly; with they other crap they've pulled, why wouldn't those things be sane theories?


"The commoners must not be given information on the First Ladys' party; it might upset them."  Most transparent administration EVER!!


Write a story.  Subject happens to be transgender and a liar.  Outrage ensues from Usual Suspects™, including the usual threats.  'Free press' apparently means 'Free to report what we approve of.'
More here at Ace.


Ah, socialized medicine: selling private insurance to people tired of waiting.
More than half a million Swedes now have private health insurance, showed a new review from industry organization Swedish Insurance (Svensk Försäkring). In eight out of ten cases, the person's employer had offered them the private insurance deal.

"It's quicker to get a colleague back to work if you have an operation in two weeks' time rather than having to wait for a year," privately insured Anna Norlander told Sveriges Radio on Friday. "It's terrible that I, as a young person, don't feel I can trust the health care system to take care of me."


Few years back Limbaugh moved his show out of New York.  The governor at the time said 'If I'd known taxes would make him leave, I'd have raised them more years ago', and great laughter was heard.  Until a state official listed just how much tax money the state lost when he left.

Now Gov. Howler is making some other people say "Screw you, I'm taking my business and my money elsewhere."  Wonder how much the state of New Effing York is going to lose from all this?