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AWKWAAAAAARD! Michelle Obama greets White House visitors, including guy in Ron Paul shirt…
“She pretended not to notice”

Foo Fighters, Will Ferrell line up to support… Obama?
$38,000 a ticket event…
Overall median U.S. income: $32,140…

Rick Perry back to being big pharma sellout, requires college students to get meningitis vaccinations…
“even though all students still have the freedom to decline the vaccination as a matter of conscience or for religious reasons, many of them are not being told this by their schools, and are just going along with it”

Pressure grows for recount in Maine GOP caucus…
USA TODAY: “Are the Maine GOP caucus results in doubt?”
Ron Paul contingent secretly taking over…

VIOLATED: NYPD stop-and-frisks up 600% under Bloomberg reign, 88% never charged with a crime…
NYCLU: “It is not a crime to walk down the street in New York City, yet every day innocent black and brown New Yorkers are turned into suspects for doing just that. It is a stunning abuse of power that undermines trust between police and the community.”

WEIRD: Don’t forget: Osama loved Whitney Houston, too…
“He asked if I knew her personally when I lived in America. I told him I didn’t. He said that he had a paramount desire for Whitney Houston, and although he claimed music was evil he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to America and try to arrange a meeting with the superstar.”

New England Journal of Medicine: Memory improved by direct electrical stimulation…

Wikipedia keeps their word, will (eventually) move domains away from GoDaddy after SOPA screwup…

Maine GOP caucus official result: Romney 39%, Paul 36%, Santorum 18%, Gingrich 6%…
CONFLICTING REPORTS: Paul 42%, Romney 33%… WATCH THE VOTE: Paul 43%, Romney 33%…
Ron Paul supporters cry foul during contentious announcement… “Liar!” shouted one supporter when state chairman Charlie Webster announced the results. “How many dead voted?” cried another.
Will Maine give Ron Paul his first win?
Short lull after Maine, then Super Tuesday strategies play out…
Doug Wead lays out Ron Paul plan to winning delegate game…
CPAC HEAD HINTS AT SURPRISE NOTROMNEY AT CONVENTION…
‘We’ll know more in the next few weeks,’ said Mr Cardenas. ‘The pressure’s already been on Mitt Romney to close the sale… and he hasn’t.’

CLEVER: Wired reviews Phantom Menace 3-D, by re-posting original 1999 article in 3-D…

To Catch A Hypocrite: VEVO gets caught pirating Super Bowl…

What dollar store locations reveal about America…

It’s not poverty that’s driving the boom, but anxiety. Though 42 percent of the stores’ customer base earns less than $30,000 per year, Dollar General notes that 22 percent earn $70,000 or more. Much has been written about how post-crash consumers are dialing back their spending, paying down their debts and increasing their savings – a “new normal” in which conspicuous frugality replaces conspicuous consumption.

VIDEO… CPAC: Rand Paul rehetorical to Obama: do you hate all rich people?
“The president doesn’t really hate all rich people, just those who don’t contribute to his campaign”
MEANWHILE: Romney goes behind closed doors with lobbyists at CPAC…

Path to a brokered GOP convention emerges…

The GOP does have super-delegates of a sort, in the form of the 63 RNC members. They aren’t as numerous as they are in the Democratic Party, but they are still there. While many of them have already declared allegiance to one candidate or another, those commitments can evaporate quickly, as Hillary Clinton learned to her sorrow in 2008.

[...] If this split continues — Romney in the West and Northeast, Gingrich in the South, and Santorum in the Midwest — we could easily find ourselves in a scenario where no candidate crosses the 1,144-delegate threshold by the time voting ends.

RUNNING THE NUMBERS: Media reports of delegate counts vary wildly…
Rick Santorum won’t give you up or desert you, raises $1M in under a week to stay in race…

Romney keeps getting weaker nationally despite early wins…
Delegate count so far: Romney 87, Santorum 35, Gingrich 32, Paul 13, N/A 54…
Ron Paul running 3rd in Q4 fundraising, Santorum treading water…

Harvest: ‘a four day project documenting the harvesting of marijuana crops in northern California’…

THOMAS KNAPP: Rule of what?

Imagine, for a moment, that you are driving at 30 miles per hour through a town with a clearly posted speed limit of 35, and are pulled over for speeding. When you object that you were going well below the posted speed limit, the cop points to one of the signs, which now declares that the speed limit is 15 mph. A few seconds later, the sign changes to 20. Then 10.

Hackers leak Symantec pcAnywhere source code to Pirate Bay after $50k extortion scheme turns south…
Email exchange…

After Nevada caucus turmoil, ‘Revolution Super PAC’ organizing exit poll army…

Catholic League hammers on weakened Obama over mandatory birth control payments from religious institutions…
PA Bishop says Hitler and Mussolini ‘would love our public school system’
WAR: Military censors Catholic chaplains from reading letter…

FAILING IS SO MAINSTREAM: New York Times loses $40 million in 2011, will likely shed assets…
“The sword that’s hanging over the neck of the next CEO is the death spiral of print advertising”
FLASHBACK: Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú buys up 8% NYT stake at firesale prices…

MIAMI: Journalist recovers video of his arrest after police deleted it…

Louisiana Rep. John Fleming thinks Onion article is real news… “How exactly did you get elected?”
ONION EDITOR: “We’re delighted to hear that Rep. Fleming is a regular reader of America’s Finest News Source and doesn’t bother himself with The New York Times, Washington Post, the mediums of television and radio, or any other lesser journalism outlets.”

Ron Paul’s Nevada disappointment…

The campaign had identified as many as 24,000 supposedly committed voters in their phone call operation (that’s far more than the 16,486 Romney got, which explains why wild dreams of a win for Paul’s people were not so outrageous). But only a bit more than 6,000 actually voted. Unlike the Paul campaign’s success in actually generating turnout in Iowa and New Hampshire, that final crucial step, the one that’s up to the voters themselves, the one that no amount of Ron Paul campaign staff or volunteer work can do for them–getting off their ass and going to the caucus meeting–was neglected by far too many voters.

Paul camp cries fraud over Nevada Caucus results…