Washington D. C.: A great place to waste tax payer's money

• The story that Washington doesn't want you to hear: Freddie Mac -- already propped up with $52 billion in taxpayer funds used to rescue the company from its own mistakes -- recorded a loss of $6.7 billion and said it would require an additional $10.6 billion from taxpayers to shore up its financial position.

• The real divide today is the government union workers who've retired with fat pensions. On the other, the rest of us, about 280 million Americans. In short, there's a gulf between the bureaucrats and the people.

• Oh, and this... In the course of throwing a hissy-fit over how the new media criticize him, our super-genius president admits he's too dumb to work an iPod or other electronic devices routinely mastered by ten-year-olds. 

"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation," Obama said.

One of our trolls asserted a few weeks ago that "Obama is smarter than you." Evidence is still wanting.

Do you know how to operate these devices? Do you know how many states there are, how to pronounce "corpsman," and that there is no such language as "Austrian?"