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Much of the wackiness so far in the Virginia General Assembly’s 2013 session has come out of the state Senate. I’m talking about their silly redistricting plan and Sen. Bill Stanley’s constitutional amendment establishing a right to shove your religion down someone else’s throat.

Evidently the House of Delegate is feeling overlooked in the crazy department. They must feel it’s necessary to play some catch-up. Because they’ve come out with some doozies just this week.

Del. Bob Marshall | AP photo

The nuttiest, by far, passed the House Monday night. Sponsored solely by Del. Bob Marshall, R-Prince William (no wonder, and who else?) it’s a resolution establishing a commission that anticipates the collapse of the Federal Reserve and would figure out a Virginia state currency to replace the dollar.

No kidding. This actually passed the House Monday night by a vote of 65-32. I am not making this up. Click on that tally to see how your lawmakers voted.

It’s never occurred to me Virginia would need a replacement currency in such circumstance. After all, if the Federal Reserve goes belly up, a lot of other things — and nations — are going down with it. Read more »

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• Secessionist gun store owner bans Obama voters from his joint. (How’s he gonna know — because they’re brown or black?)

  • How you know there’s a God: The recount demanded by king-hell crazy Rep. Allen West puts him further behind, oops!

  • A dramatic reading from Paula Broadwell’s book about Gen. David Petraeus, “All In.”

• A rotten prognosis for non-voter whose Obama-hating wife ran him over.

• The REAL reason they despise FiveThirtyEight blogger Nate Silver?

• GOP poobahs scheme to ban Tea Party candidates who lecture on rape.

• A new snack for hicks!

  • Business owner kills himself because Obama was re-elected, write “F— Obama” on his will.

• “So while there is no proof . . . there are a lot of smoke that would indicate that voting fraud occurred and occurred in a wide spread fashion in key states.”

  • Georgia Tea Party briefing for state senators segues from Agenda 21 to Obama’s top-secret mind-control program (codename: Delphi) to turn the U.S. into a communist nation.

  •  6.4 million evangelicals voted for Obama, who won by 3 million votes.

  •  Tea Party darling Rep. Allen West will not concede.

• Gingrich nomination to be House Speaker fails for lack of a second.

• Petreaus – Broadwell: Neocon honeytrap?

• Denny’s owner suggests patrons stiff servers on tips to cover restaurants’ Obamacare surcharge.

• Birthers launch robocall campaign to impeach Obama