Senator Jay Rockefeller, You're an Idiot

Well, Senator Rockefeller (Moron-WV), an Obama supporter, really put his foot in his mouth this time:

In the Charleston Gazette Sunday, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-WV, who has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said that Sen. John McCain "has a temper" and, according to the story, "believes McCain has become insensitive to many human issues.

"McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."

OK, in order:

1. McCain was an attack pilot, not a fighter pilot. Big difference. Fighter pilots make movies. Attack pilots make history. Properly utilized, fighter pilots kill other fighter pilots. Properly utilized, attack pilots kill governments.

2. McCain was an attack pilot long before precision-guided munitions were in use; he had to fly close enough to well-defended targets to risk getting his ass shot down, which explains why his ass WAS shot down.

3. McCain endured five years as a POW without any idea of when--or IF--he would be released. He declined an early release offer as part of keeping faith with his fellow POWs. He probably cares more about people than you do, Senator Rockefeller. Frankly, your remarks make me wish that stupidity were physically painful; we'd have a whole lot less of it.

Food Gestapo in the schools...

It seems that now, we have Food Gestapo in the schools. An eighth-grade honor student got suspended because he bought a bag of Skittles. I guess the schools in New Haven don't have any drug or gang problems if they can crack down on candy.

Michael Sheridan claims he was in a school hallway after lunch Feb. 26 when a classmate asked if he wanted some candy. The student had a lunch box filled with candy and a wad of money, he said.

And so, a principal decides to put a big black mark on a student for buying a freaking bag of Skittles with his money, simply because the school district established a "wellness policy" sans input from parents. The kid's mom has every right to be pissed off about this. The principal apparently decided to make an example.

This is what frosts me about a lot of people on the left and right. It's not enough that government practically rapes my wallet, not government is getting into people's refrigerators. What's next? Government in the john?

But the other lesson is what the vending machine bans have wrought. In a day and age where a kid can get to Costco or BJ's and buy a few boxes at about $15 each. Each box usually holds 36-48 candy bars. Sell them at $2 each, and you got yourself the makings of a thriving business.

It would serve the principal right for this suspension to not only be lifted, but for that school's black market in sweets to suddenly take off.

Olbermann's disgusting accusation...

Keith Olbermann is someone from whom the despicable can be expected. But his comments about the video of the Iranian harassment of our naval vessels are a new low.

It's stunning that some in this country are willing to take the word of a regime run by a Holocaust denier who has openly expressed his desire to wipe an American ally off the map over the military that protects his right to make such outrageous comments. But it should not be surprising. Olbermann's done this before, and he will do it again.

But it says a lot that Olbermann tossed his insult from the safety of his studio. I wonderifhe would have the guts to say it to Admiral Mullen's face.

As if you didn't need more evidence...

Nancy Pelosi, it seems, schedules meetings... to discuss the agenda of the next meeting. OK, I can see that happening in a freakin' Dilbert strip, but from the Speaker of the House?

And James Dobson wants to further empower Pelosi with his third-party antics by handing the White House to the Democrats? The foolishness of his scheme should be revealed for all to see with stuff like this.

Oh, fer cryin' out loud!

Texas Tech, apparently is going soft on arch-rival Texas A&M.

It seems a fraternity came up with a T-shirt that is really tame in the long-running rivalry between the schools. When I went to college, they had T-shirts that read "Coe Sux" - a dig at my college's arch-rival.

What was so offensive? They took the Aggie's cry of "gig `em", and replaced it with "Vick `em", and the back had an image of someone in a Michael Vick jersey stringing up the Aggie mascot.

Heck, that T-shirt was tame compared to what some Army cadets did back in 2002!

TEH STUPID, IT BURNS!

Idris Leppla, a senior at Columbia University, is astonished to learn that the Naval Academy exists to educate future naval officers. (Hat tip to Wizbang.)

To paraphrase the classic line from Billy Madison:

Ms. Leppla, what you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent article were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone who has laid eyes on your screed is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

This Degree of Stupidity Should be Physically Painful

Lynn Woolsey wants us to stop arming and training Iraqi security forces.

Great idea. Stop training the Iraqi security forces, pull US troops out of Iraq, and watch Iraq collapse into --followed by a three or four-sided regional war.

Lynn, please do not take this personally . . . you're an idiot. Nay, you are an imbecile.

To paraphrase the immortal line from Billy Madison:

Woolsey, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Talk about dumb...

If you're gonna murder someone, don't describe the crime you pulled off in a novel.

Stuck on stupid in Atlanta

It seems that Atlanta may pass a law that is stuck on stupid.

They must have solved a lot of other problems if they think they can spend the time to ban baggy pants.

Hoepfully, this councilman won't be a councilman after this term is over. Folks who waste time with stuff like this outta be voted out on general principle.

Honesty from the left...

To quote the AP:

In a conference call announcing the campaign, Greenwald and Sanders, I-Vt., said they don't have answers about what to do about Iran, but said they fear the White House will make a unilateral decision to attack.

I bolded something for added emphasis, because it says a lot about the left.

They don't, however, want the White House to do anything about a country led by a Holocaust denier with hopes of bringing about something apocalyptic so some Twelfth Imam can return, thought. Where's the common sense?

And how long would it have taken them to come up with answers about Nazi Germany and Japan in the 1930s? I guess they'd just pretend that things like Mein Kampf and the Panay Incident didn't happen.

Wild comments...

What do Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama have in common?

Both just made statements that are patently absurd, but sadly typical.

Obama's was the typical fare one expects from a Democrat running for that party's nomination to the White House. It was a little milder than past comments from Ruchard Durbin and John Murtha, but he got rigtheously spanked by Mitt Romney.

Gingrich's comments were typical fare for those who are pandering to the immigration hard-liners who have, in conjunction with talk-show hosts and other pundits, made solving the problem impossible. How can we get the gang members and thugs who will shoot people in the head when we are busy raiding meat-packing plants? Oh, and it looks like the a typical "let them loose" judge may have been more responsible - and he could have just as easily let a native-born American citizen out to do that killing.

Whoops, I may be setting myself up to get the usual nonsense responses from those who have successfully imposed an immigration litmus test on conservatism.

Why Obama Still Isn't Quite Ready for Prime Time

There's stupid, there's real stupid, and then there's this stuff:

The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.

(Yeah, I'd kind of hope that we'd end military assistance to any countries we invade.)

Of course, he did this to try to get out of his previous case of stuck-on-stupid:

Obama said he would be willing to meet leaders of rogue states like Cuba, North Korea and Iran without conditions, an idea that Clinton criticized as irresponsible and naive. Obama responded by using the same words to describe Clinton's vote to authorize the Iraq war and called her "Bush-Cheney lite."

Obama's strategy:

1. Dialogue with our sworn enemies
2. Declare war on our allies and coalition partners

Hmm. Now, I have not attended the Naval War College, the Army War College, the Air Force Air Warfare College, or the Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, so I'm just a layman . . . but the above does not look like a winning strategy.

Suing gangs?

OK, let me get this straight: You have a problem with street gangs. And the solution to the problem is to sue them?

Initially, I quoted Chris from Team America: World Police and I really got into trouble. Sadly, there's just no other appropriate reaction to reading about this sort of thing. It's so absurd it is begging for Matt and Trey to turn their awesomely profane comedic genius on it.

You stop gangs by putting them away for committing crimes, not with frigging lawsuits.

NOTE: This is the one and only time this blog will EVER be edited due to complaints about language.

Better Dick than Walter...

Walter Mondale is complaining about Vice President Cheney.

I find it interesting he remains proud of what he did from 1977-1981. The Carter-Mondale Administration gave us the present Iran, stagflation, a hollow military, and finished the gutting of the intelligence community that the Church and Pike Committees started.

I, for one, am not very proud of them - nor do I think they did a good job.

Hugo's big mouth...

Hugo Chavez has a big mouth - we all knew that. But now he's insulting a cardinal.

Is Hugo trying to get his ass kicked? I mean, sooner or later, he is going to mouth off about someone who is not as charitable as a cardinal. Or maybe he'll nationalize the wrong company's assets - and Hugo will find that someone wants to kick his ass. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Holocaust Denial: The Next Generation

Senator John Kerry has once again proven that it is far better to keep silent, and merely be thought to be a fool, than it is to open one's mouth and remove those nagging doubts.

The money quote:

"We heard that argument over and over again about the bloodbath that would engulf the entire Southeast Asia, and it didn't happen," Kerry said, dismissing the charge out of hand as he argued that the American presence only makes the situation worse every day.

Just. Damn.

That much stupidity concentrated into that small a volume may have significant relativistic and quantum-mechanical effects.

165,000 dead in Vietnam after the Communist takeover? That wasn't a bloodbath, according to Kerry. 2,000,000 dead in Cambodia? Nope, not a bloodbath, according to John Kerry's argument.

Well, first we had Armenian Genocide denial. (Still do, in Turkey.) Then we got Holocaust denial. Now we have Killing Fields denial, updating the concept for a new generation. In 2025 or so, we'll have Rwandan Holocaust denial.

Santayana was wrong. He should've said "Those who refuse to remember the politically inconvenient past are doomed to repeat it."

John Kerry's next career move: becoming a contributing editor at the Journal of Historical Review.

USA Today needs help...

On the D section, they announce a poll to pick characters for the new movie, and put up a picture of a Transformer they identified as Devastator.

This page identifies the Transformer they pictured.

Death by texting...

It seems text messaging has caused a fatal crash.

Folks - can you just pull over to the side of the road if you need to text that badly? Or, betetr yet, just call and use a hands-free set? They work pretty well.

One driver didn't think to do so. As a result, five young lives have been snuffed out.

Working herself up...

A Nobel laureate is now spouting off about wanting to kill President Bush.

I'm beginning to wonder when the wheels will come off, not a matter of if.

Looks like there was a big fish...

It seems a Senator has been caught up in the DC madam scandal. It also looks like some other fish may be involved, too.

In this case, the Senator was very dumb. He didn't just pay when he cheated, he's paying for it AFTER he cheated.