Stupid, or What?

New Jersey ex-con
arrested for urinating on
women at bus stop.

Are people really stupid or what? At a meeting of the U.N. to discuss a ban on fishing for bluefin tuna, because they are rapidly disappearing, the ban was turned down because many nations felt it would harm their fisherman. What in the hell do they think will happen to their fisherman when there are no tuna? Commercial fisherman for years have refused to practice any genuine conservation and are now coming under increasing pressure to do so. This is the source of the absurd claim that Obama is going to stop recreational fishing, because commercial fisherman have tried to drag recreational fishing into the argument to bolster their opposition to any controls. People seem to have learned nothing from their hundreds of years of experience, they still seem to believe that you can cut all the trees, catch all the fish, use all the oil, dam all the rivers, kill all the animals and birds, and so on, without having to pay any consequences. There actually are some pretty smart humans. You can tell who they are, they’re the ones being ridiculed and laughed at by the no-brainers. The idea “there’s always more where that came from” wasn’t appallingly serious when there was still a frontier, it is humanicidally serious at the moment.

When someone becomes known as a genuine loony-tunes, like Michele Bachmann for example, or an always wrong pathological serial liar, like Dick Cheney, or a pathetic idiotic bumpkin like Glenn Beck, or a disgusting witch like Ann Coulter who would suck the blood out of children for a buck, or even an evil, dishonest, bloated, blowhard, druggy hatemonger like Rush Limbaugh, why does the MSM continue to inflict them on the public at every opportunity? It must be simply because there are a lot of people like them out there (a thought so frightening I don’t like to think about it). But what this really means is (I guess we should already know) the networks will do anything for money, anything at all. Nothing seems beneath them anymore. They don’t even pretend to offer news now that they have discovered how well “infotainment” pays off. While this makes the purveyors of all this pig pucky lots of money, it is truly a disservice to the broader community, and does, in fact, contribute to the break-up of communities. I guess it is pretty silly to speak of the American community as any sense of community was lost quite some time ago. We still are a nation, however, and as a nation we are not well-served by any of the above “celebrities” who serve no useful purpose while constantly promoting hate and conflict. They make shouting “FEAR” in a crowded theatre look like mere child’s play.

Somewhere on the Internet today someone suggested there must be a Republican “Stupid Farm” someplace in the South that produces all these stupid Republicans. I hadn’t thought of that but it could be true. I wonder if Bachmann spent some time there? Maybe she had a scholarship. I wondered for a long time why so many Republican “Spokepersons” were dumb blonds until it finally dawned on me that because the Republican Party is almost exclusively White there would naturally be a lot of blonds (sometimes it takes a long time for something to dawn on me). I think they must be required to attend the Stupid Farm in order to become Spokespersons as they tend to always say the same things the Party tells them to say, they’re like parrots. Instead of saying “Polly want a cracker,” they just mindlessly repeat “Tax breaks,” “Socialism,” and “Big Government.” By the way, how does one get to be a Spokesperson? There seems to be an endless supply of them, mostly all blonds. There are also an inordinate number of Democratic Spokespersons, but at least they are much more diverse. Does merely claiming to be a Spokesperson make you one? Is it a real job? Do you volunteer or have to be drafted? Does it pay real money? Does it pay at all? Does anyone pay attention to whatever these Spokespersons say (I know I don’t).

Well, after all these months and all the speeches, and all the arguments, and all the lies, it appears that on Sunday we will finally get a vote on a rather questionable bill on Health Care. No one seems to like this bill but everyone will hold their nose and vote. It will probably pass by a slight margin. Some say it has lots of good things, some say it’s awful. It will certainly be awful if it is not seriously improved by reconciliation.

On the 43rd State Blues: Democracy for Idaho blog today there is a wonderful short piece by Sisyphus. Idaho Republicans should be forced to read it, at gunpoint if necessary. Perhaps they might at least partially come to their senses (probably this is beyond hope). They apparently are proud of the fact that Idaho is going to be the first state to sue the Federal Government if the Health Care Bill passes and mandates insurance for everyone. This will be another lost cause, a complete waste of time and money, and just another stupid thing for Republicans to do. I’m not sure I understand the logic behind this move, but I think they will claim it is unconstitutional for the Federal Government to force people to buy insurance. They will no doubt do this while on their way to their insurance company to pay for their mandated auto and truck insurance. Sigh.

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S. Eliot