Too Stupid for Words category archive

’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.

Not to mention bad judgment. (I don’t know how the last line of the story slipped by the editors.)

Addendum:

The Smoking Gun has a picture.

The article is a little unclear, but it seems as if they were friends before Facebook.

No more.

A Lumberton (New Jersey–ed.) woman has been charged with aggravated assault after a fight with a pregnant woman triggered by Facebook postings, police said.

Columns like this are a waste of time.

They are, at best, intellectual jello. A moment of sweetness with no lasting value.

Furrfu.

Signal 30 the wireless way.

I have a friend who has had diabetes since she was a teenager. She is no longer a teenager, though she is not so old as me.

She received a letter this week from her health insurance carrier informing her that, because of her claims, they suspect that she may have diabetes.

We wondered.

Was it 40+ years of prescriptions for insulin? for blood test strips? for syringes? for blood tests for sugar counts?

What, exactly, tipped them off?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Hidden in Plain Sight Dept.

. . . is going to the dogs.

A toaster that burns an impression of Jesus into your toast.

This will kill the Jesus toast market on Ebay.

H/T Susan for the link.