Today's potpourri of WTF, 2/1/13

Another thrilling episode of crazy and maddening things that are going on in the political scene today:

• The Navy will scrap a minesweeper rather than repair it.  Why?  It will damage a reef too much.  This administration's priorities aren't to defend the country, but to defend areas that aren't even in US jurisdiction.  These areas aren't even populated with people.  Furthermore, the budget is already strained and the administration is throwing away a ship which is difficult and expensive to replace.
• Looks like Obama is backing out of his goal for a million electric powered vehicles on the road by 2015.  Demand for hybrids are weaker than expected, Reuters says.  Could it be the lithion-ion battery has some safety issues?  There's a guy in Pompano Beach, Florida with a battery that is probably better than lithium-ion batteries, and he isn't a new kid on the block.  This company and this battery has been around for decades, yet this government isn't even interested in it.  The goal isn't important as Obama said, apparently.  If he were really serious about it, they'd be checking Apollo out.  But noooooo.
• Yellow Journalism is alive and well.  I thought that was 19th century thing.  Oh, well.  MSNBC has been busted again--- doctoring videos to push an agenda.  MSNBC has a problem with the Second Amendment, it seems.  They can't let the matter speak for itself, so they have to doctor the videos to influence the public in the way they want.  Anything to get an audience or push an agenda.
• "Sauce for the goose."  That's a quote of Spock from the Star Trek movie The Wrath of Khan.   What sauce for the goose?   It would appear that New York has defied a Supreme Court decision with its passage of the new draconian gun-control law.  Citizens should defy the law, which isn't even valid anyway.   That's the "sauce".
• The government must believe that they can order what they want into existence at the stroke of a pen.  The EPA once again raises its biofuels standards — for biofuels that still do not exist.  Quote: "The EPA is out of control, and they don’t particularly care who knows it."  More sauce for the goose?  The courts have ruled against the EPA on this very issue once already.  By the way, the increased concentration of ethanol will ruin engines.
• The long awaited "pivot to jobs" is stillborn, as Obama shuts down jobs council.  I guess it doesn't matter anymore since Obama has been re-elected and is now safely in office for another term.  No need to worry about unemployment anymore, you see.  Young people can still find jobs, just don't expect Obama to help you with that.  He has other priorities---like wasting money and acting like a king.
• ObamaCare in trouble?  Unions Supported ObamaCare, Now Some Don't.  They don't support it anymore because it doesn't do what it has been billed that it would do.  What a surprise. /sarc