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Attention everyone: Gov. Rick Scott has something to say.

​Gov. Rick Scott would like to add himself to the endless list of people with an opinion about President Obama's State of the Union Address last night, so here we go.

Here's the short version of the governor's opinion: Businesses don't want to come to America. Except Florida. Florida's cool. And he's doing such a great job as governor.

"Companies from around the world should continue flocking here, but instead they are being deterred by a nation facing a trillion-dollar deficit and a federal government with an insatiable appetite for more debt and intrusion into the lives of its citizens," Scott says, apparently not even reacting to the president's speech at all.

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​If you ask Floridians if they approve of Gov. Rick Scott's job performance, between 26 and 38 percent would say yes.

In the last week, though, two "polls" have been released that claim the governor's approval rating is much, much higher.

According to a public relations/communications firm hired by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the governor's approval rating is 48.31 percent. According to the lobbying organization National Federation of Independent Business, it's 69 percent -- well, among "small business owners."

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​It might seem a little ridiculous that PolitiFact took the time to find out whether Gov. Rick Scott really sold more than 240 dozen doughnuts over a couple hours, as he claimed during his State of the State address.

It's a little more ridiculous that PolitiFact returned with a verdict of "mostly false."

Scott, the former doughnut-shop owner, worked at a Tampa doughnut joint for a day last year during his reincarnation of the "Let's Get to Work" days.

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​For the first time ever, more people approve of Gov. Rick Scott's job performance than believe that houses can be haunted by ghosts.

Scott scored his highest approval rating ever in a Quinnipiac University poll released this morning, with 38 percent of folks thinking he's doing an OK job.

According to the last Gallup poll that tested people's belief in haunted houses, just 37 percent were believers -- the same score as Scott's previously high score for an approval rating.

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It's always nice when a governor you have repeatedly ridiculed finds time in his busy schedule to send you a holiday card. Having neglected my mailbox for the past several weeks, I'm not sure when this gem arrived. But it sure is breathtaking. And the inside is even better...
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​Gov. Rick Scott confirmed that another vacation "trade mission" is in the works, with Spain being the next target.

This would be "trade mission" number four with Enterprise Florida, after already hitting up Canada, Brazil, and Israel.

How much "trade" is actually being done is hard to tell, since the only job and investment announcements stemming from the "trade missions" have all been in place before the governor's visits.

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Gov. Rick Scott givin' the eyes to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

​According to the results from our highly unscientific reader poll yesterday, nearly 44 percent of our readers thought Gov. Rick Scott's "Israeli trade mission" was more of a political vacation.

Nearly 37 percent of readers really didn't care why the governor was in Israel, as long as he stayed there.

Shortly after we posted the poll yesterday suggesting that it might be a political vacation for the governor, he (or his staff) posted a picture on his Facebook and in a press release, showing him with Senate President Mike Haridopolos and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Gov. Rick Scott, with gentlemen who may or may not be job creators.

​Going through the list of Florida's top 50 trading partners -- compiled by Enterprise Florida -- you may notice Israel sure isn't on the list.

Apparently, Florida engages in more trade activity with countries like Guyana, the Netherlands, and Malaysia.

Call us crazy, but with a 26 percent approval rating, it looks like the governor's trip to Israel is more of a political stunt than a "trade mission," as his office describes it.

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The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi (left) with a cup of pee and Rep. Darryl Rouson.

​Apparently trolling Gov. Rick Scott during his budget announcement yesterday was just one part of the quest for urine by the staff of the Daily Show With Jon Stewart.

Now, "correspondent" Aasif Mandvi is hitting up some more law-making pee at the Capitol in, of course, the men's room.

Rep. Darryl Rouson was interviewed by Mandvi -- who had a microphone in one hand and a fresh urine sample in the other -- and according to the Florida House Democrats, the segment on the state's welfare drug-testing is expected to hit the airwaves on the Daily Show at some point in January.

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