I’ve been following the trails and travails of Washington Times Senior Opinion Page Editor Emily Miller over past several months as she’s navigated her way through Washington D.C.’s ridiculously complex guns laws. Ms. Miller decided to buy a gun after she was the victim of a home invasion while dog and house sitting for friends […]
Stupidity
John Conyers: Idiot
Every member of Congress swears an oath to defend the United States Constitution “… against all enemies, foreign and domestic …” It’s kind of hard to do that if like House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) you don’t know what it says: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) said the “good and […]
United Breaks Guitars
How to turn bad customer service into a public relations disaster: Step 1: Break folk singer Dave Carroll’s guitar. Step 2: Give Dave the run around for 9 months before finally telling him to get stuffed. Step 3: Leave Dave so frustrated that he writes song called “United Breaks Guitars”, records it and then produces […]
Doctor Likens George Tiller’s Killing to Martin Luther King’s
This may just be single stupidest thing ever said by anyone anywhere: Dr. LeRoy Carhart, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions, called on the federal government to treat as hate crimes all activities by “anti-choice domestic terrorists,” compared the slain Dr. George Tiller to Martin Luther King and said planting crosses was […]
Dead People Get Stimulus Checks???
Ever the model of inefficiency and incompetence the Federal Government is apparently sending dead people stimulus checks.
Stupidity: FDA Calls Cheerios a Drug
This is a joke right… The FDA can’t be serious about this? From AFP: WASHINGTON (AFP) – Popular US breakfast cereal Cheerios is a drug, at least if the claims made on the label by its manufacturer General Mills are anything to go by, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said. “Based on […]
John McCain: 9-11 Hijackers Entered U.S. From Canada
Oh jeez… First it was Janet Napolitano now it’s John McCain repeating a the highly dubious claim that the 9-11 hijackers entered the United Sates through Canada: What’s up with Arizona politicians? Arizona Sen. John McCain made the dubious claim Friday that Sept. 11 hijackers entered the United States through Canada — just days after […]
Are You a Rightwing Extremist?
There’s been a great deal of buzz on conservative blogs and talk radio about this Department of Homeland Security report on rightwing extremism. I’m not going spend a lot of time deconstructing the report or pointing out it’s faults, Moe Lane, Michelle Malkin, Ed Morrissey & Roger Hedgecock have already done that. The report provides […]
Suspended Teen Headed Back to School
A quick update on a story from earlier this week… Marie Morrow, a 17-year-old senior at Cherokee Trail High School in Aurora, CO is head back to school. Morrow was suspend on Feb. 5 after other students observed prop rifles used by her Young Marines drill team in her Dodge Durango which was parked at […]
Stupidity Run Amok: Teacher Placed On Leave For Facebook Photo
I’m slowly working my way through the stories that I bookmarked over the weekend… Most of them aren’t blog worthy but this one: Teacher placed on leave for questionable Facebook posting BEAVER DAM (WKOW) — Beaver Dam school officials placed a middle school teacher on administrative leave after discovering a photograph of the teacher with […]