and the Mars Pheonix lander died, and Fox News wasn't allowed into Obama's press conference (i love him), and a submarine died while looking for a lost nuclear warhead under greenland, and Alaska found 1/3rd of "misplaced" ballots.

Oh, and the Fed has spent $2 trillion to 11 undisclosed sources. Poof! Gone! Bloomberg has filed lawsuit demanding the information via FOIA.
Then there is lobbying from large companies to get the '96 Pension act repealed and all sorts of other fun things making us ever more unheedful of Eisenhower's warning of not letting companies gain more power than the government, else we become a fascist society. Approaching Hobbesian nightmare...narghbleishchuu...