The Stupidest Stuff

Ok, it’s been a long time since my last post. So much stupid stuff has been going on it’s hard to decide what to talk about… but now, the first failure of the current administration’s war on “man made disasters” seems to be a good place to start.

In a NYTimes article it says:

“When a prominent Nigerian banker and former government official phoned the American Embassy in Abuja in October with a warning that his son had developed radical views, had disappeared and might have traveled to Yemen, embassy officials did not revoke the young man’s visa to enter the United States, which was good until June 2010. Instead, officials said Sunday, they marked the file of the son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, for a full investigation should he ever reapply for a visa. And when they passed the information on to Washington, Mr. Abdulmutallab’s name was added to 550,000 others with some alleged terrorist connections — but not to the no-fly list. That meant no flags were raised when he used cash to buy a ticket to the United States and boarded a plane, checking no bags.”

Ok, a series of errors here; namely the guy’s DAD calls the American embassy to report him, officials not revoking his visa—but flagging it to be denied to be renewed, adding them to the list of people with terrorist connections but NOT the no-fly list… (editorial note: maybe that’s because the list is to full of 3 year old kids.) But the most important one that should have flagged him is this…

Dude boarded a trans atlantic flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan and checked NO bags. Good Lord, people!

Then Janet Napolitano, the Homeland Security Secretary, (editorial note: a woman going after the hottie look of Cher’s Morticia Adams, Yet blending it with the Rosie O’Donnell Bull Dyke meets Old Beaver … (Subsequent editors note: The beaver reference was a reference to Jerry Mather’s teeth… not Rosie’s taste in fine dining.)… Give it up lady and just dye that grey patch with some Just for Men.) ….. at any rate…during an interview on “This Week” on ABC says “The system has worked really very, very smoothly over the course of the past several days”… are you serious woman?

A Nigerian fingered by his own father as a radical get on a inter-continental Trans-Atlantic flight— with no baggage, after being on a list of people with terrorist connections, and having his Visa flagged as non-renewable manages to get past who knows how much security at the airport in the Netherlands with both a BOMB strapped to him and some way to LIGHT the thing and the only thing that stopped him were passengers… and that’s a success??? If that were GW, the left would be having a field day—congressional hearings and screaming for impeachment… That’s just stupid!.

Today begins a new era at stupideststuff.com. An era where we should have no shortage of political commentary, an era where stupid stuff will likely happen on a daily basis, and yes an era where we’ll be able to get the stupidest stuff news from virtually any source on the net.

Finally, we can get behind us the concept (and excuse, in my opinion) that an African-American person is completely blocked from attaining any great position in this country by racial bigotry. We can get behind us the country wide perception that all blacks are somehow discriminated against because of the color of their skin. I have believed this for some time and simply been told I was blind to the real situation, didn’t understand the deep seated racial tensions because I wasn’t African-American, or simply right wing.

Clearly, as a country as a whole—the color of a man’s skin is not a factor in choosing a president, so why would it be a factor in every other situation. Now we can (hopefully) get to the root cause of an inequality that may exist. Meaning, individual circumstances of bigotry— which are no less terrible. But not a mandate that you are barred from achieving the goal you aspire to attain—just that you won’t achieve it in that particular situation and the hope that the opportunity is there. Or now we’ll have to look at the circumstances that revolve around the individual like; was there a better candidate, was the person not qualified, did the person simply make a bad impression, or was there some other reason.

This is good for the country. As much as it pains me to say it because I don’t believe Barack Obama was the candidate that was the best fit for the Job. Had he lost, we would have had to endure weeks of pundits claiming America wasn’t ready to elect a black president, America by and large was racist, and that would have continued the false impression that African-Americans are somehow oppressed as a whole by the country. That would have created a ton of racial tension, that frankly didn’t need to be there because it wasn’t a valid analysis of the reasons most people hadn’t voted for him.

Last Month, Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Omama tapped Deleware Senator Joseph R. Biden this morning to be his Vice-Presidential Running mate. Shortly before the announcement was made the decision was leaked to the press causing aides to have to scramble to get the promised text messages out to supporters who handed over their phone numbers (Editorial note: Could this be used by Republicans as yet another broken promise by a democrat?)… some of which ended up getting a 3am Eastern Time text message about the choice, for those in California it would have been a Midnight wakeup call.

So, I began doing a little research on the Senator and for that research I have decided to wrote this blog entry where we interview the senator from his past statements to the issues or questions–with quotes from the Senator in bold, followed by a link to where the quote appears, simply because you just can’t come up with a better entry than using the senator’s own words on his views.

On the college front the senator doesn’t care much for Princeton.  “I really didn’t like Princeton, Biden told Alito. I was an Irish Catholic kid who thought it had not changed. I admit, one of my real dilemmas is I have two kids who went to Ivy League schools. I’m not sure my Grandfather Finnegan will ever forgive me for allowing that to happen. But all kidding aside, I wasn’t a big Princeton fan.” here

In 2006 he seemed to really like shopping at 7-11 but by what he said, “In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.” here

His policy on the middle east seems a bit clearer too, “I think it gives suits and not the turbans — the way it’s referred to in the Shiite sector — an opportunity to make their case that they have to, in fact, bring in specifically Sunnis into the Cabinet” fromFox News Sunday, here

In 1975 when he advocated a measure to ban the use of busing to school integration. He argued that busing was counter-productive. here

He voted against the Bush tax cuts here…. then when asked about billion dollar vehicles for our troops he said “I will not cut one single solitary cent of the money that we need to build those vehicles to protect these kids and they cost billions of dollars.” here

Voted against Republican Supreme Court nominees William Rehnquist, Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito here

He clearly believed Sadam had WMD’s, “One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power.” here

In democrat style likes to throw money at a problem when he said, “I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don’t know what those numbers will be, and I don’t know how it’s going to be framed.” here

Clearly has an eye for the future, “And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.” here

Clearly likes the idea of an airline bailout when he said “This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.” here

Last month John McCain named Meg Whitman, former Ebay CEO as a person who he would consider as a top advisor. With my moaning and griping of her ebay policies and the constant squeezing of sellers for more and more money via fees– my question is, does that make me a Democrate?

The recent news of people protesting the Olympic torch relay in Paris, and now San Francisco, because of China’s human rights record got me to thinking about China, the world order of things, the Olympic games, and (of course) Polly Pocket.

First off, I need to be clear here… I’m not a big fan of China, however, let me share with you some of the great products coming out of china last year:

• Tootpaste sweetened with Anti-freeze. (Proving marketing loons don’t know what people want, who needs strawberry toothpaste or Dora the Explorer children’s toothpaste. Fluorescent green is the only way to go!)
• “Stunted growth” Bert, Big “failure at school” Bird,“PMS” Polly Pocket,“Insomnia” Elmo, and“Yo No Oye” Dora toys painted with lead paint. (Editorial Note: Lead paint causes the following symptoms.)
• Overheating Remote Controls that truly must be a engineering marvel! How on earth do you make a remote that has either a watch battery or at most 4 AAA batteries that could at most produce barely enough�voltage to require you to count the volts on two hands— BURN SOMEONE!?!? (Editorial note: The Chinese military is currently looking into building Duracel Bombs with 16 9-volt batteries because they produce much more explosive power.)
• Breakable Bike Frames that, apparently, must have been made of the same material as the cocktail umbrellas.
• Baby Toys with lead based paint (Editorial note: The toys were clearly labeled “Babely, U no chu”)
• �Unguarded Blades on saws where customers were told to remove the�makers logo label from Circular Saws– because the label could become partially detached and expose the saw blade. (Editorial note: SERIOUSLY? The label might come loose and expose the blade so just go ahead and take it off?!?!? Truth really is better than fiction.)
• Toxic Fish, Packages labeled Chinese monkfish were actually deadly puffer fish. Whoops!

In fact, there were a ton of others through out last year. Most noteable would be the the 9 million Mattel toys which might have prompted a Chinese company’s CEO to kill himself. (Editorial note: This was accomplished by hanging– not some method nearly as cool and manly as the Japanese tradition of�Seppuku.) Despite all this, I must admit all is forgiven because while they brought us some crappy products– I do love their General Tso’s Chicken! (Editorial note: Ummmm. No, they didn’t.)

Now, the people protesting the Olympic torch relay haven’t got a clue. Protesting the torch relay because China doesn’t have a good human rights record! Stupid.

One doesn’t have anything to do with the other… ahhh I long for the good old days when people protested for a cause and did something related– like good old fashioned bra burnings to protest the war in Vietnam. (Editorial note:, bra burnings had nothing to do with the war in Vietnam, however, since they were such a time saver this fact will be over looked.)

Truly! They really haven’t accomplished anything except for:

• Robbing young athletes of a great honor.
• They don’t think anyone plans for this sort of thing and that were all complete idiots. Folks… they have a backup flame.
• That they are Neanderthals. It would simply rock if they put the flame out and the runner looked at them like they were stupid (we’ve already proven they are) and lites the flame with a Bic lighter from his pocket right before he punches them. (Protesters: Every one, except Becky and Sundra can make fire– somehow.)
• That they watch to many action movies were the hero runs into a deserted warehouse where the bad guys are quietly sleeping or packaging cocaine for distribution screaming at the top of his lungs a split second before he kills them all with a tooth pick and bubble gum. (Editorial note: I might have gotten Rambo and Macgyver mixed together here.)
• They don’t watch enough horror movies because they seem to be announcing themselves AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS seconds before attempting to put the torch out. (Protesters: If you actually want to put the torch out you’ll learn these facts; the virgin who just had sex with her longtime boyfriend in the last scene and has found him dead in this scene– dies in the next scene, the chick that runs up the stairs with the madman close behind with a butcher knife almost always is next, and most importantly for you—Opps, thse two have nothing to do with you. This one is more what you need to know, the girl hiding in the closet that screams at the top of her lungs when the madman gets close is almost always BUSTED!)

Seriously, Give it a rest people. If you want to protest; buy a ticket on American Airlines to fly to China and do it at the opening ceremony. (Editorial Note: Apparently, American Airlines can’t get you there either this week because they can’t get planes off the ground and those Chinese guys will pull some extreme judo karate stuff on you and kick your pansy butts.) Or better yet, don’t got to the Olympics at all… In fact, don’t anyone go to them. An empty stadium will show them how the rest of the world feels. (Editorial note: That might not work either, the population of china is over 1.6 Billion of the 6 Billion people on the planet. Curses! Foiled again.)

The moral of the story is, your protests are stupid. They don’t do anything to heighten awareness of anything other than your stupidity. Get a life… This is a member of the stupidest stuff I’ve seen.