Day: March 29, 2011

2011 Anal-Ocity #13

While reading the blog of Jonathan Turley, a brilliant constitutional law professor, I found yet another anal statement made by a promising (only if you are a deluded redneck) presidential candidate….the Newt-ster…..Newt Gingrich.

What can I say…..hardly a day goes by without someone making a complete ignorant and anal statement, mostly from those on the Right (sorry guys, but the Left seems to be able to talk without making too many anal statements)…..

Like I said this edition of 2011 Anal-Ocity is from everybody’s waffling politician, Newt……

“I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they’re my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.”

OK, after about 3 minutes of side splitting laughter, I came to the realization that the more moronic of his supporters will believe this to be gospel (sorry, no pun intended)……what does that mean?  And where is his proof?  Could it be that because our Constitution allows the freedom of religion that Christianity is so weak that it cannot withstand competition?

This is Bullsh*t!  If you have half a brain……you know it….and Newt KNOWS it!

He Talked And Talked…….

Daily Agitator

I was not going to comment on Obama’s long anticipated speech on Libya……but all that changed after reading and commenting on a few blogs (most notably Spinny Liberal…go to blogroll and visit….SOON!) and decided that maybe I should have my opinion known to my readers….

Personally, the speech was a waste of time!  I did NOT learn anything new…nothing that has not been picked apart endlessly for a week or more….I found it to be a typical political tap dance….he (Obama) reiterated that the US entered into this to stop a massacre in the making…..and to stop an illegitimate regime….huh?

As with any presidential speech I look for something that makes no sense and is a spin by the admin and I found it….an illegitimate regime!

First of all, this potted history fails to explain why it is that over the past decade successive US administrations established ever closer—and more lucrative—relations with the Libyan “tyrant.” In the wake of September 11, 2001, his secret service became one of the most important regional allies of the CIA in the so-called “global war on terrorism.” Bush’s national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, flew to Tripoli to cement the US-Libyan alliance.  (thanx to Bill Van Auken for the quote)

Does not appear that we are treating the regime as an illegitimate one to me….how about you?

And then there was his point about the emerging democratic feelings across the Middle East…

“The democratic impulses that are dawning across the region would be eclipsed by the darkest form of dictatorship, as repressive leaders concluded that violence is the best strategy to cling to power,”

That is true, to a certain point……but Libya is not one of those….the call is for Qadafi’s head….the democracy thing is not as loud as it was in Egypt……so when Obama said “Qadafi Must Go!” he was echoing the people and it does NOT necessarily mean that democracy will break out the moment he is gone…whether figuratively or physically…….

My views are well known to my readers and I need not go on and on….I stop here before I bore the pants off my readers……like I said….Nothing New!  A Waste Of Time!  If you watched looking for something to explain things….you already had your answers….the political spin has told you all you need to know…..

Are We That Dumb?

Daily Agitator

I would like to give a shout out to one of my readers and commenters….Spinny Liberal (go to blogroll and visit her interesting site)….she beat me to the punch on this subject…..kudos!

How shall I answer that question…… diplomatically?……YES!  (there is NO way to answer that question except with the TRUTH)

For years I have been writing and ranting about the ignorance of Americans on their own government and nation….either they have slept through Civics class or they are just dense……I had done a few surveys on my own over the years but nothing that would indicate that the nation was dumbing down…..but now thanx to the Daily Beast there is some proof of my assertions over the years……

NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test—38 percent failed. The country’s future is imperiled by our ignorance. In this week’s issue, Andrew Romano looks at the risks involved in America’s ignorance.

They’re the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink. When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.

How about the rest of the world?  How do Americans do on international surveys?

To appreciate the risks involved, it’s important to understand where American ignorance comes from. In March 2009, the European Journal of Communication asked citizens of Britain, Denmark, Finland, and the U.S. to answer questions on international affairs. The Europeans clobbered us. Sixty-eight percent of Danes, 75 percent of Brits, and 76 percent of Finns could, for example, identify the Taliban, but only 58 percent of Americans managed to do the same—even though we’ve led the charge in Afghanistan. It was only the latest in a series of polls that have shown us lagging behind our First World peers.

This could explain why American voters need issues reduced to a slick slogan that does nothing to inform and everything to manipulate….but wait there is more ignorance is everywhere and people are buying the crap…like……

  • The more you cut taxes the more tax revenue flows into federal coffers.
  • History proves America is a Christian nation.
  • Climate change is either not happening at all or, if it is happening, it has nothing to do with our use of fossil fuels.
  • Slashing regulation of business and high finance is good for business, good for the nation and good for the American public.
  • If the rich are allowed to keep more of their earnings they will share it with everyone else, (trickle down.)
  • School science classes should be “fair and balanced,” like Fox News, when teaching the origins of life on earth by teaching the biblically-inspired “creationist” version alongside Darwin’s scientific theory of evolution.
  • President Obama “may not have been born in America” as he claims.
  • President Obama is “a secret Muslim.”

We just seem to be getting dumber and dumber and we do not want to change that…it is easier to listen and believe irrational BS than to prove it wrong…..

One of my pages is entitled, “Rational Ignorance Effect” and I have NOT witnessed anything that Americans do that would change my mind on just how ignorant we have become……the truly sad part is that NO one seems to care that their IQ drops points when they listen then echo the crap being spread…..being spread by both sides……