Too Stupid for Words category archive
Because Isolationism Worked Out So Very Nicely the Last Time* . . . . 0
Werner Herzog’s Bear comments on the New Isolationism. A snippet:
It might be tempting to be happy about this. But the retreat of America on Trumpist grounds does not mean an end to imperialism, but rather an amoral Realpolitik grounded in the fickle whims of our idiot king. It also means a global power vacuum and coming instability. Just look up the end of Pax Romana in the third century CE. It wasn’t pretty, and this shift won’t be either.
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*Learn about the last time.
Providence Lost Spurned
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Headline: Republican Congressman Says God Will ‘Take Care Of’ Climate Change
A man is climbing to his roof as floodwaters rise.
A fellow leaving the area in his Range Rover shouts as he passes by, “Do you want a ride? I have to go now before the water rises higher.” The man replies, “No, God will provide.”
Now the man is on his roof. Two fellows come by in a boat and ask if he wants to be picked up. He says, “No, God will provide.”
A little later, a helicopter flies over and, using a megaphone, a crewman asks if whether he wants the winch lowered. He says, “No, God will provide.”
By now, the house is immersed. As the waters rise, the man cries, “God, why have you forsaken me?!” A voice from the heavens replies, “What do you mean? I sent you a car, I sent you a boat, and I sent you a helicopter.
“Why did you ignore me?”
Twits on Twitter 0
Afterthought:
It’s really not difficult to recognize racist behavior in oneself or others. All one must do is open one’s eyes.
Twits on Twitter 0
Shorter Chris Freind: You can’t believe this twit.
Kitchen Cabinet, 21st Century Style 0
You can’t make this stuff up.
Sentenced Friday to 1½ years in prison, Brent Meisner was found to have left about $170,000 in income off his 2009 tax return. Federal prosecutors continue to contend, though, that the omission to the IRS was the least among Meisner’s crimes.
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“Meisner was not merely a tax cheat,” the prosecutors said in court papers. “He was a bully, a narcissist, and a white-collar gangster. He felt entitled to things to which he clearly was not. He took things from others, justifying the theft with an oversized sense of self-entitlement and self-worth. …
By the by, does that last bit of the remind you of anyone else?
Football uber Alles 0
Signe comments on the NFL Draft’s invasion of Philadelphia this past weekend.
Honest to Pete, from all the hullabaloo, you’d think football mattered.
Breaking! 0
Penn State University discovers that drinking is a problem at college fraternities!
In other news, Penn State announces that preliminary studies indicate that the sky may be blue and that it is applying for a research grant to determine the color of grass.