Too Stupid for Words category archive

This has gotten mostly derisive play in the West, but think about it:

Change the phrase “Islamic cleric” to “Christian evangelist.”

It is really no crazier nor more hate-full than the stuff many of our home-grown religious fanatics say (think Pat Robertson on Haiti or James Dobson on anything).

Promiscuous women are responsible for earthquakes, a senior Iranian cleric has said.

Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi told worshippers in Tehran last Friday that they had to stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.

“Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes,” he said.

Addendum, the Next Morning:

A commenter at Balloon Juice links to BlagHag, who’s fomenting a protest:

On Monday, April 26th, I will wear the most cleavage-showing shirt I own. Yes, the one usually reserved for a night on the town. I encourage other female skeptics to join me and embrace the supposed supernatural power of their breasts. Or short shorts, if that’s your preferred form of immodesty. With the power of our scandalous bodies combined, we should surely produce an earthquake. If not, I’m sure Sedighi can come up with a rational explanation for why the ground didn’t rumble. And if we really get through to him, maybe it’ll be one involving plate tectonics.

Glomarization takes down the practice of registering kids’ birthday wishes at stores. Read her post, then follow the link to the article which prompted it.

There really is only one reason for merchants to promote this: It’s to get you to come to their store, not go to the one down the street. Like much American marketing, it is a slimy, manipulative practice masquerading as a service.

According to the lady in yellow, “Nothing’s better than a dead liberal.”

Via DelawareLiberal.

Afterthought:

No more self-awareness than a ceramic floor.

Words fail me.

Via Kiko’s House. Read the whole post at the link. It collects a bubbling stew of stupid.

People of Walmart Dept: He couldn’t stop playing with his warm gun:

At one point, a clerk working the electronics section told police that Walters took the gun out of its holster and then removed and replaced the gun’s magazine. The woman feared she was about to be robbed and notified the store manager. Walters continued through the store, apparently with a video game he told the clerk he would pay for at the front registers.

Walters wound up near a register where he later told police he intended to purchase the game. Several customers were nearby.

He removed the Jennings from the holster again, causing the magazine to come loose and fall to the floor. Walters re-inserted the magazine and continued manipulating the handgun when it fired, sending one round into the ceiling, Peoples said.

At Kiko’s House.

God forbid persons should be able to go to the doctor.

Road rage.

Then he cleaned their teeth with Rustoleum, no doubt.

A former Fall River (Mass.–ed.) dentist accused of using paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals, then billing Medicaid for the more expensive parts, goes before a judge.

Firearms do have a way of going off, even at the Easter Parade:

The family of a woman who was killed during a fight that police say started over a skimpy Easter outfit — jean shorts and a green T-shirt tied up around her midriff — said yesterday that her style was well known among relatives.

(snip)

A woman who called 911 after the shooting told the dispatcher she shot her niece. The woman does not give her name. The woman says in the 911 call that she got a gun to prove a point during an argument and the weapon went off.

The “nuts” in “wingnuts” do boggle one’s mind.

Via Atrios.

Bachmann trumps Blackstone, until it doesn’t:

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s office is conceding that Virginians must provide household-income information if requested by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Cuccinelli’s director of communication, Brian Gottstein, said he erred last week in stating that residents could legally refuse to provide “basic financial information, such as salary range, … if they do not feel comfortable giving out that information.”

The 2010 census, which is under way with Thursday marking national Census Day, does not include a question about household income.

However, such information is requested by the agency’s American Community Survey, which is conducted with a sample of about 250,000 U.S. households per month.

‘twould be nice to have an AG who cracked the occasional law book.

Via Not Larry Sabato.

And they got it:

Just after midnight Thursday, the Norfolk-based guided missile frigate Nicholas reported taking small-arms fire from a suspected pirate skiff west of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

Follow the link for the rest of the story.

April 2, 2010 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Too Stupid for Words | Bookmark this post

Leavened with ignorance.

Following-up to this post, the court agrees.

A jury has awarded no money to a couple in their lawsuit against the Chesapeake Airport Authority, in what airport officials said vindicated their decision to defend against noise-pollution lawsuits rather than settle.

George and Margaret Osipovs sued the authority in 2004, saying the airport’s noise and traffic decreased the value of their home. Chesapeake Circuit Court Judge Randy Smith ruled in 2007 that the Osipovs’ property had been harmed, but a jury decided Friday not to award any money in damages.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers vow to appeal.

Though not a hunter himself, my father quite happily allowed hunters on Pine View Farm.

When hunting season rolled around, he advised us not to go walking in the woods. And the largest game at the time was wabbits.

This is both stupid and sad, even sadder because it’s so stupid.

“Concealed carry to go! Get your concealed carry here!”

So say Utah and Florida, who don’t care whether you actually live in Utah or Florida, so long as your find happiness in a warm gun (emphasis added).

Gun-rights activists say states that unnecessarily restrict concealed-carry gave rise to the practice of licensing non-residents.

“It’s not Utah that has made the permit so valuable,” said W. Clark Aposhian, chairman of the state’s Concealed Weapons Review Board. “It’s other states that have made it so valuable.”

But the permit’s surge in popularity with out-of-state gun owners has given pause to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, who last September expressed fears that his state could become known as a “wholesale clearinghouse” for concealed-carry licenses.

(snip)

As to why Utah appears almost eager to help non-residents get concealed-weapons permits, Aposhian said, “I’d look at it from another way. We don’t just deny a permit based on a subjective line in the dirt where a border is. If you fit the requirements to possess a firearm legally and pass a background check on that, you’re entitled to the permit.”

These folks tend to claim to believe in states’ rights, that is, that states are sovereign within their own borders. Except when they don’t.

Full Disclosure: I have nothing against guns. Used properly by skilled shots, guns can be useful and shooting guns can be fun. Some of my leftie buddies go to the range frequently.

Packing heat in Starbucks does not proper use constitute.

Packing heat on The Hill in Wilmington is just asking for trouble.

I have nothing against guns. I’m against stupid.

H/T Karen for the link.

But the South shall uprise again:

Attorneys general in three states – Virginia, Florida and South Carolina – have indicated they will file legal challenges to the (health care–ed.) measure, on the grounds that it violates the Constitution by requiring individuals to purchase insurance.

Pardon me. I fear my breakfast will uprise.

Take the quiz. From DelawareLiberal:

1. How much does the federal government collect in taxes as a % of GDP?

2. How much does the typical family making $50,000 per year pay in federal taxes?

3. Are taxes higher, lower or the same since Barack Obama was inaugurated?

Follow the link to check your answers and to see how yours stack up against teabaggers’ responses.

Relax. You can’t do much worse than they did.

I lost interest in college basketball when the Carolina Four-Corner was effectively banned by the introduction of a shot-clock and, in the intervening period, have become skilled in tuning out much ado over not much of anything sports coverage in March.

It is with sadness that I note that the ex-local rag has decided to extend brackets to beers. I have no interest to lose in that.

Brackets are for holding up shelves.

Now, if they wish to bracket cheap relatively inexpensive Scots whiskey, maybe I’ll pay attention. I’m a common sewer of cheap relatively inexpensive Scots whiskey.

So you’re driving down the street and some clown cuts you off. Then he decides to really cut you off.

Two men were arrested Wednesday afternoon in Hockessin after one of them pointed a gun at another man in what police are describing as a road rage incident.

I wonder whether the gun came from a police department:

Did you know that there’s a good chance that the guns your police department confiscates from criminals are being sold by the police and finding there way back on the street? Cross my heart, it’s all perfectly true.

In fact, the mentally disturbed man, anti-government terrorist and conspiracy theorist who attacked the Pentagon on March 4th of this year wounding two guards before being killed by return fire, John Patrick Bedell used a weapon he purchased at a gun show in Las Vegas to commit his heinous crime, a gun the Memphis police had sold to a local gun dealer.