Too Stupid for Words category archive

Christine O’Donnell gets book contract.

Or else:

A man accused of stealing a car by driving it through a glass showroom door while most people were home digesting turkey, was caught when he ran out of gas, according to an Albany (Ga,) newspaper.

The story starts about 46 seconds in (Warning: mild language):

Via Balloon Juice.

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

A match between 10-year-old girls’ soccer teams disintegrated into a slapping incident Sunday morning in Forsyth County when a 39-year-old mother went onto the field and smacked a 30-year-old male referee.

Dateline Braintree:

A Braintree teenager will face charges of texting while driving after she struck a telephone pole early yesterday, police said.

er, yeah.

Actual portion of actual envelope delivered in actual mail by actual uniformed employee of the Federal government driving a marked vehicle. The occasion is the impending lapse of the first year of a two-year subscription:

Episode 1: Liftoff.

Police said a trooper shooting radar along N.J. 55 clocked Negron running his red Suzuki sport bike at speeds of more than 120 mph around 11:25 a.m.

Negron zipped past the officer in the northbound lanes and shortly afterward crashed into the back of the SUV at mile post 52.8 in Mantua, police said.

The impact threw Negron through the back of the vehicle’s window and into the rear seat, police said.

A rough landing, but the astronut is recovering,

I would suspect these folks already have computers, likely even laptops.

Is there any kind of justification for locking them into the walled orchard:

The Aurora (Colorado) City Council is considering trying out iPads to go green and help save some green.

(snip)

City officials say it currently costs $710 to print each city council information packet and another $200 per council member to assemble and deliver the packets.

It’s happening here in the city and in the state:

This year, the General Assembly is initiating a pilot program that will place iPads in the hands of select legislators as an alternative to the more common PC laptops they have been assigned for about the past decade.

State lawmakers first received laptops as part of a 1999 pilot program which was extended the following year to provide computers to all 140 members of the legislature. Since then, those computers have been replaced every 3-4 years.

It is possible that there are data security concerns that justify the government’s purchasing and setting up the computers, but let’s look at the math: They could get laptops for half the price of iPads and netbooks for a third the price.

They are letting themselves get sucked into the Apple vortex of hype.

Colorado edition.

’nuff said.

A Florida woman who allegedly vandalized a car owned by her beau’s former girlfriend is facing a felony rap after she went on Facebook to brag about causing the damage, which included the keying of the word “BITCH” on the vehicle.

Yes, indeedy, George W. Bush was truly too stoopid for words.

Bob Cesca comments.

Invalid syllogisms in Italy, via the BBC:

“Nothing too revealing” is the new policy Mayor Bobbio wants to enforce, says the BBC’s Duncan Kennedy in Rome.

That means a tough new dress code which would effectively outlaw everything from miniskirts to low-cut jeans when people walk around Castellammare di Stabia, our correspondent adds.

Mr Bobbio, from the centre-right People of Freedom party, says he wants to target people who are “rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved”.

There will also be a ban on sunbathing, playing football in public places, and blasphemy, if the proposals are approved at a council meeting on Monday.

If this were part of the plot of an episode of CSI: New York, you’d think it was too stupid for words.

This evening, I attended a forum for city council candidates so as to show my support (not that anyone knows or cares who I am) for one of the candidates.

During the question and answer session, someone asked a question about taxes.*

One of the candidates (who if he were the only candidate on the ballot would cause me to miss my first election in years) decided to discuss economic policy. I did not record his remarks, but I will paraphrase them to the best of my ability.

Right now, the banks have mucho money in their reserves and they aren’t giving loans. Businesses which are profitable are making lots of money, but they are storing it up and not creating jobs.

Therefore, we must cut taxes so that banks will grant loans and businesses will create jobs.

I am a blogger of small mind.

I do not understand how, if the banks and businesses aren’t granting loans and creating jobs now, giving them more money to hoard will motivate them to start doing so.

I searched this article on logical fallacies but could not find this in the classification, probably because it’s completely illogical.

It boils down to

If A then NOT B,

Therefore if MORE A then B.

I guess I will call it the contradictory fallacy, as illogic is fundamental to wingnut logic.

I need a drink.

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*He asked whether, given that senior citizens (God I hate that term–I look forward proudly to being a cantankerous old man; with any luck, I’m already there) have no need of schools, can some consideration be given to reducing the portion of their property taxes that pay for schools.

I respond, who the hell helped pay for his schooling when he was in public schools?

Public schools are one way to pay it forward, for Pete’s sake.

Give me a break.

So I’m listening to a rerun of “Criminal Minds” while mucking about on LQ.

In this episode, someone has spiked the water supply of a town with LS&D.

Dialog (paraphrase):

FBI Agent A. “Each person received 10 to 12 times the normal dose.”

FBI Agent B. “That’s enough to kill a small child.”

I’m calling bullshit.

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Now the government is deporting citizens, if they look Mexican.

Emphasis added:

Mark Lyttle’s brush with immigration officials began when he was about to be released from a North Carolina jail where he was serving a short sentence for touching a worker’s backside in a halfway house that serves individuals with mental disabilities. Even though they had plenty of evidence that he was a U.S. citizen — including his Social Security number and the names of his parents — corrections officials turned him over to ICE as an undocumented immigrant whose country of birth was Mexico. (Mark is actually of Puerto Rican descent, but I guess when the government is trying to kick a Latino guy out of the country, the easiest place to send him is Mexico.)

It has always confounded me that folks believe stuff simply because they see it on a computer screen, when they would not believe the same stuff if they read in a chain letter.

Mild exercise and contemplation is verboten. Only self-flagellation with a scourge is acceptable.

A Southern Baptist leader who is calling for Christians to avoid yoga and its spiritual attachments is getting plenty of pushback from enthusiasts who defend the ancient practice.

Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler says the stretching and meditative discipline derived from Eastern religions is not a Christian pathway to God.

Follow the link and read the entire article for more perspective on this absurdity than I have patience for.

And Philadelphia fans get a bad rap:

Police say a New Hampshire man has been stabbed in a bar fight over the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry.