Let's start with the dumbest of dumb this week, the terrorist group ISIS. First they pissed off the Japanese, who can be the cruelest people on Earth and if you don't believe me read any book describing POW camps there during WW2. They made the Nazi's look cuddly. Then just to top it off, burned a Jordanian pilot alive, turning pretty much the rest of the Arab world against them. Jordan in turn immediately executed two ISIS prisoners and all but guaranteed that any others captured would face swift justice as well. They also are increasing air strikes against them. This was the equivalent of batting down a hornet's nest and then standing in it.
If you want to lose a war, this is the way to do it. The fact that these ISIS towns had young children cheering on the immolation of a POW, means that there is no reason to honor a Geneva Convention code anymore. We should be carpet bombing the cities and killing every man and woman and child in it. But, as they have pissed off the rest of the world, that may happen with or without our blessing. I hear Obama is standing in the way of just such actions, and if true, screw him. You cannot win a war without mass causalities. Not in today's warfare. And the longer we hold off on such a terrible yet necessary action, the more innocents on our side will suffer. ISIS just royally fucked themselves, as even countries like Iran want nothing to do with these guys as well as terror groups like Hezbollah and Al Qaeda turning their backs, these guys have gone to classic over reach. ISIS's days may be numbered.
But here at home, we have our own level of stupid people. The Republican party this week has been inundated with so many dumb statements and dumb actions that the Democrats must be secretly squealing in glee. Christie and Paul imploded after disastrous anti-vaccine comments caused them to backpedal so fast, Christie actually lost a few pounds from the strain. You guys really didn't know that the anti-vaccine crowd is NOT Republican? Democrats can be morons too and this proves it. Scott Walker gave an interview which should be a blue print for how little this idiot knows about anything. He is very much the male Sarah Palin, and to prove my point, at a Jewish meeting recently he said "Molotov," when toasting the group. That's funny. He spent most of the interview demonstrating forcefully his "new ideas" are the exact same GOP discredited crap that screwed us all over in the first place.
The king of dumb Republicans comes courtesy of Thom Tillis, the junior senator from North Carolina who said he wanted to get rid of the regulations that says signs must be placed in restaurant bathrooms reminding employees to wash their hands. Instead, he would require them to place a different sign that says this restaurant doesn't make their employees wash their hands. How is that regulation better? It's still a regulation dumb ass. And I do not want Hep-C for Christmas thank you. You can eat at all those kind of places you want but don't expect to live long stupid. And people voted for this ass over Kay Hagan. This is why we have become Dumbfuckistan.
As for the American public, I swear most people can't walk and chew gum at the same time. How many of the readers out there have had some run in in the last week with someone so dumb you can't believe they haven't accidentally killed themselves by now? A lot I would guess. Not everyone is a moron and I am willing to guess that if you are on this site, stupidity is not your forte, so congrats on that.
But let's look at a specific case of rampant stupidity courtesy of the great state of Vermont, which I love and have vacationed there many, many times but proves that just because you live in blue, blue New England, there are pockets of stupid people there as well. Recently, an eighth grade girl (not a moron and brighter than most of the adults who will comment on this story) wrote a letter to the Minority Leader of the Vermont Senate and suggested that the state have a Latin motto in addition to the English one, Freedom and Unity. So, thinking this a good idea, the Senators people came up with this: Stella quarta decima fulgeat. which means: “May the Fourteenth Star Shine Bright,” which is appropriate as Vermont was the 14th state to join the union. The legislature passes the resolution takes little time and costs zero money. Everyone's happy right?
"If you live in the United States, you need to learn English!"
"Vermont ain't no Latino area."
"This is America, not Mexico or some other Latin-American country."
This is what we have become: a nation of people who do not know that Latin is a classical language and not something George Lopez speaks when he is at home. If this was the game show, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? the answer would be an emphatic NO! Jeff Foxworthy is a Noble Prize Winner compared to anyone who confuses Latin with Spanish.
But this is what we have become. A recent poll said a whopping 77% of Millennials cannot name one of their state's Senators. I have been able to do that since I was six or seven. Yet 90% say they plan on voting in the next Presidential election. Yikes!
We have become a nation of fools. Science is being attacked from all sides from the global warming deniers, even though the evidence can be seen with the naked eye, to vaccinations based on discredited studies that got the writer to lose his medical license. No one knows how to do critical thinking anymore and our schools are to blame. They have been getting worse and worse and the people they are literally throwing out into the street have no chance of getting ahead in today's super cut throat world. Something has to change. Unfortunately it will most likely be society changing from necessity rather than desire on the part of its inhabitants.
But this is what we have become. A recent poll said a whopping 77% of Millennials cannot name one of their state's Senators. I have been able to do that since I was six or seven. Yet 90% say they plan on voting in the next Presidential election. Yikes!
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