Too Stupid for Words category archive

I have enough reality of my own. I’m not interested in anyone else’s, especially when it’s unreal.

A nugget:

Like the fiftysomething guy with the bad dye job, who was screaming at the top of his lungs that “Government sucks!” at anyone who tried to engage him. I stood nearby trying not to laugh as he screamed at a younger man “Of course i like my Medicare! It’s the government that sucks! I’ll bet YOU never spent a DAY in the Army!”

It is difficult to have a reasoned debate with someone who lacks the pre-requisite.

No conscience. No self-awareness. No shame.

ASZ has the dope.

When not doing so gets you fired.

Via GNC.

You can’t make this stuff up:

Florida investigators say a man accused of downloading child pornography is blaming his cat.

Yeah. Right. 1,000 pictures worth.

H/T Linda for the link.

Words fail me.

The stupid is unbearable.

Please make it stop,

Details here.

(Actually, as I wrote the title, I realized that the Creationists’ cosmology and biology positing that humans and dinosaurs co-existed is apparently based on the Book of the Flintstones.)

A ruling by U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers states that the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land as well as two bank accounts associated with the park will be used to satisfy $430,400 owed to the federal government.

Kent Hovind, who founded the park and a ministry, Creation Science Evangelism, is serving 10 years in federal prison for failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service more than $470,000 in employee taxes.

He was found guilty in November 2006 on 58 counts, including failure to pay employee taxes and making threats against investigators.

“Failure to pay employee taxes” may refer to more than failure to send the income tax witholding payments to the IRS. It may also refer to failure to remit the employer’s and employee’s portions of Social Security and Medicare taxes. Employers are obligated to do this periodically throughout the year. At my church, we do it quarterly using a form 941.

Not do so defrauds not just the government, but also the employees who may later find that they owe taxes they thought had already been paid through withholding.

As a general principle, it is not a good idea to mess with the IRS.

If Mr. Obama were pink like me, this just wouldn’t be.

Mithras has more.

Via Instaputz.

To quote John Cole, “Nucking futs.”

Afterthought: Bigotry is a constant undercurrent, the bassline as it were, of wingnuttery.

A subcommittee of the Human Space Flight Review panel said turning over transport services to the International Space Station to private firms would allow the U.S. space agency NASA to focus on new challenges, such as extending human presence beyond low-Earth orbit.

Three letters. K B R.

All joking aside, if someone tried to get me busted for attempting to enter my own house, I might be a little non-plussed.

Being non-plussed is not and should not be a crime.

When a cop finds out no crime is being committed, he or she should just leave. Not make one up.

Via BartBlog.

It’s bigger than any one of them: The racist innards of the right-wing keep spilling out.

See more examples here.

What amazes me is that, when they get caught out, they really don’t see why what they’ve done is offensive.

It is to be ashamed.

Congressman Castle inadvertently gives Birthers a platform.

The video of the June 30 town hall meeting on health care reform shows a woman toting an American flag and her own U.S. birth certificate asking why people are ignoring the president’s birth certificate. She said Obama is a citizen of Kenya, not the U.S.

The crowd applauded and cheered as she yelled, “I don’t want this flag to change! I want my country back!”

Castle, attempting to correct her, said, “If you’re referring to the president there, he is a citizen of the United States.”

If you want to see the video, follow the link to the news story. I decided not to embed it after inspecting the YouTude poster’s other offerings. We’re talking serious wingnut here.

If Mr. Obama were pink like me, this birther fantasy would be unimaginable–and unimagined.

You know it and I know it.

I know I’ve seen a traffic stop on World’s Dumbest or some similar show where this happened because Mama wanted to make room in the back seat for some purchase or other.

Now it’s happened again.

Almost everywhere I click on this here box, someone is speculating about the reason Sarah Palin threw in her frozen Alaskan towel.

Here are some examples (the last one is most intriguing): Link. Link. Linkety–link.

There is a fallacy that informs this speculation:

The touching faith that reason was in any way involved.

Genetic purity. How Aryan.

That fits right in with this.

And the irony is they just don’t see the connection.

Via the Booman.

It’s 20 miles long and 30 feet high and they still run into it.

Not.

For South Hampton Roads teens like Knight, getting a gun is as easy as making a phone call or sending an e-mail.

It took just $70 for a young person to buy a .32-caliber revolver from “some guy” at a Portsmouth gym. In Suffolk, gang members share handguns hidden under bushes and beneath houses, taking them and returning them like spare pennies at a convenience store.

Weapons pilfered by teens and adults from homes in neighboring Gates County, N.C., last year filtered back to southeastern Virginia within months on the black market.

In Virginia, it’s against the law for anyone under 18 to buy a gun or to possess a handgun or “assault” firearm in public unless they’re hunting or carrying out duties in the armed forces. It’s also illegal for juveniles to possess any gun on school property, unless it’s an unloaded rifle or shotgun that’s in a closed case or on a vehicle’s firearms rack.

But authorities say guns are widely available to youngsters. That has turned teenage disputes into crime scenes time and time again, and has ratcheted up the violence in felonies committed by juveniles – particularly robberies.

And, in other news, the National Rifle Association opposes efforts to require legitimate gun owners to report when guns are stolen.

They keep coming.