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For every 6 barrels of oil we consume, we produce 1.

For every $20 we spend, we have $19 incoming.

You might see numbers like this and wonder how it ever got to be this way. The sheer thought of this Herculean task is so overwhelming it would make anyone want to go take a nap instead.

It’s no wonder news doesn’t sink in anymore since our “reporters” look like they’re about to film the “money shot” right after reading the headlines. Seriously….the newscasters are distractingly hot!

Back in the days when I had a television AND cable, if I had a hard time falling asleep, I’d just turn on Headline News for a bit, let my mind run free and presto!….asleep in 15.

I’ll admit that if Linda Stouffer came on the air, I’d stop to hear the news. She makes a crisis so much easier to bear…

But being a business news junkie (I get it all online baby….makes sense….porn is still the number 1 mover and shaker on the net…), I do appreciate Maria Bartriomo…though she’s far from the “investigative” breed of journalist.

How did our news get to here from there?…..

….I have no idea….but I’ll guess that it’s a “top down” operation as evidenced by the “jedi mind tricks” that are played on us daily by the White House’s own Ice Vixen, Dana Perino:

I tune into the White House Press Briefings podcast every day to hear Perino shut-down press maven, Helen Thomas, like the “mean girl” she is. Interestingly, the podcast gets routinely cut-off during Helen’s inquiries on the Iraq war. I’d use the word “redacted”, but that would imply that it happens somewhere in the middle of the briefing. Nowadays, they just cut her off in mid-sentence and let the podcast end.

Seeing as the podcast is only audio, it only makes Helen Thomas questions ugly, but one look at Helen herself makes a case for the “powers-that-be” not wanting any ugliness anywhere in our lives…

Difficult as she may be to look at for extended periods of “de-briefing” on world affairs, I sure wish that Helen was the one delivering the news since she *actually* asks real questions with actual research in them. Plus, she’s the only one that can put Perino off her game.

The world’s going to hell in a hand-basket, oil, war, torture, a global economic crisis….but don’t worry…our hot reporters will give you a happy finish and everything will be just fine…..you don’t need to see the papers..