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Blogger and professor Daniel Drezner tweeted over the weekend: “So, in all, this has been a pretty crappy week for people who dislike conspiracy theories.” Well, yes.

The week started out with President Obama disparaging those who worried about tyranny as conspiracy theorists, and telling college students to reject them:

“Still, you’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.”

The rest of the week consisted of scandal after scandal, suggesting that maybe our government is . . . a sham with which Obama, at least, can’t be trusted.

After IRS, Benghazi, should I trust government? Column

Apparently we do have tyranny after all. But you can trust Obama with two billion rounds of ammunition and 7,000 fully automatic rifles.

It had been reported that CO2 reached the catastrophic level of 400 PPM, but nothing catastrophic happened.  Apparently the reason we didn’t evaporate in a cloud of blue steam was because CO2 actually missed 400 PPM by 0.00000011 mole fraction.

Carbon dioxide measurements in the Earth’s atmosphere did not break the symbolic milestone of 400 parts per million at a Hawaiian observatory last week, according to a revised reading from the nation’s climate observers.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revised its May 9 reading at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, saying it remained fractions of a point below the level of 400 ppm, at 399.89.

Carbon dioxide in atmosphere did not break 400 ppm at Hawaii site – latimes.com

Obama promises to handle ATF background check information in the same open and transparent way which he has the IRS handle your tax information.

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“And suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there’s something new to the story,” Obama said in response to a question about Benghazi. “There’s no there there.”

The president continued, “Keep in mind by the way these so-called talking points that were prepared for Susan Rice, five, six days after the event occurred, pretty much matched the assessments that I was receiving at that time in my presidential daily briefing.”

Obama on Benghazi: ‘There’s No There There’ | The Weekly Standard

So Candy Crowley says he knew it was “terror” immediately, but over the next week worms ate into his brain and convinced him that it was actually a spontaneous YouTube protest.

Just months after being slimed by President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, Mitt Romney supporter and businessman Frank VanderSloot was informed that he was going to be audited not only by the Internal Revenue Service, but by the Labor Department as well.

Romney donor vilified by Obama, subjected to 2 audits | The Daily Caller

When you elect a third-world community organizer thug, oddly enough you get a third-world community organizer thug.

Obama says that it is Bush’s fault that he sicked the IRS on the Tea Party in 2010.

IRS IG Report: Targeting Conservatives Began In 2010 – ABC News

The tea party didn’t exist while Bush was President, but Obama says that Bush did it.

Obama is blaming Bush and his choice of IRS leadership through Jay Carney:

“Two things need to be noted; which is the IRS is an independent enforcement agency. Which I believe, as I understand it contains only two political appointees within it. The individual who was running the IRS at the time was actually an appointee from the previous administration.”

IRS Apologizes To Tea Party, But Jews Also Targeted While Obama Blames Bush

In Obama’s world – when government employees get caught committing treason and other felonies, all they have to is lie about it for a few months – and then issue an apology.

By FRANCES D’EMILIO

ROME (AP) — The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.

The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets.

Most insects are likely to produce fewer environmentally harmful greenhouse gases, and also feed on human and food waste, compost and animal slurry, with the products being used for agricultural feed, the agency said.

UN says: why not eat more insects? – New York News | NYC Breaking News

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The trend has been upwards for the past decade.