Thursday Thermionic Thunder, the Mark Zuckerberg (Almost) Endorses Mitt Romney edition

Facebook needs an irony button. Mark Zuckerberg "liked" a snarky comment someone added to a Mitt Romney link. But Facebook's software propagated the "like" onto the link, and in the process stripped the comment. The end result? Mark Zuckerberg appeared to "like" Mitt Romney for president.

Cue the hotheads!

Heh. Of course, this being the internet, along with the outrage there were also a handful of comments trying to convert Zuckerberg over to Ron Paul.

Good luck with that.

Here's more proof that Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter V2.0 — now Barry's got his very own Middle East hostage crisis to mismanage. Egypt is holding 19 Americans on trumped-up charges of "plotting unrest." Among the group is the son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. So far the Administration is making some feeble noises about cutting off Egypt's foreign aid, but otherwise they're ignoring the whole thing in the hopes that it'll just go away.

Must be more of that Smart Diplomacy we keep hearing about.

Bob Menendez, our he's-probably-corrupt-but-we-can't-prove-it U.S. Senator, is up for re-election this year. The good news is his poll numbers are down. Way down.

The bad news? The guy the NJ GOP picked to challenge Menendez would have more name recognition if he was in the witness protection program.

80 percent of respondents don't know GOP challenger Joe Kyrillos, the veteran state senator from Monmouth County who launched his campaign last week.

I'm pretty sure "Who Dat?" isn't a viable campaign slogan. Listen, I follow NJ politics pretty closely and I couldn't pick Joe Kyrillos out of a lineup. Can't think of a single thing he's ever done either. But he's not Bob Menendez so I suppose he's got that going for him.

Vote for good ole what's his name!

Back on the presidential campaign trail I'm now getting spam from Rick Santorum, begging me to send him money. Guy's feeling his Cheerios I guess. Do people send him money? Why?

And the Union Of Telephone Solicitors For Newt Gingrich is indeed relentless, or else they just really like hearing me say "no mas." I sort of backed into a seat on the Newt bus and I'm not nearly enthused enough to write a check.

Given my druthers there's only one candidate who'd get me off the couch. Need a hint? Morgan Freeburg breaks it down for you, far better than I could.

Finally for today, Fishersville Mike has uncovered Obama's latest super-secret plan to reduce the deficit. Trust me, it's better than anything Harry Reid's proposed.

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