Idiots are Wrecking Our Nation!

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Friday October 02, 2015 · 10:16 PM PDT

2015/10/02 · 22:16

Everybody knows what the word "idiot" means, right? It means a person of low intelligence, somebody who doesn't know grits from granola, somebody who couldn't find his or her ass without a flashlight and a map. Maybe you think the President is an idiot. It's likely that you think that Congress is a bunch of idiots. The mayor of your town, the sheriff of your county, the bloviating jerkoffs on teevee, the driver who cut you off on the exit ramp on the freeway: they're all idiots.

We keep using that word. I do not think it means what we think it means. Please read on for a brief history of idiocy, and why we should not insult the developmentally disabled by comparing them to mere idiots.

Weezle

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Monday August 17, 2015 · 1:37 PM PDT

2015/08/17 · 13:37

According to libertarian website The Free Thought Project, the domestic terrorist group Oath Keepers have proposed to arm fifty black residents of Ferguson, MO with AR-15 assault rifles for a "Flex Your Rights" march.

The Oath Keepers, best known for their role in coming to welfare rancher and BLM fee-dodger Cliven Bundy's defense last year, are apparently trying to change the perception that there are racist elements in the group.

Weezle

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Monday May 25, 2015 · 9:13 AM PDT

2015/05/25 · 09:13

Today we pause to remember and thank all of the men and women who laid down their lives in service to our country. Every young life cut short is a tragedy. Every body in a flag-draped casket is cause for mourning.

But the tragedy of a slain American service member must surely pale in comparison to the toll that our bottomless appetite for war has taken on the civilian populations of the nations in which we fight. How many dead noncombatants does it take to equal the life of one slain Marine? How many innocent children are killed and maimed from unexploded munitions left on the battlefield long after the soldiers are gone? How many babies will be born with leukemia and other incurable diseases caused by depleted uranium anti-tank rounds?

How can we, as people of conscience, simply accept the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents as "collateral damage" or "non-combatant casualties"?

So, anyway, happy Memorial Day, America. Enjoy your hot dogs and your beers and your used car supersales.

9 dead in Tx. shootout. No "Good Guys with Guns" to stop it.

Weezle

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Monday May 18, 2015 · 1:56 AM PDT

2015/05/18 · 01:56

So, yeah. This happened today: a number of motorcycle gangs shot each other up in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant. http://www.dallasnews.com/...

See below the swirly engraving from a Harley's chrome-plated air-filter cover for my short-but-poignant rant on the subject.

Weezle

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Thursday April 02, 2015 · 10:55 AM PDT

2015/04/02 · 10:55

It has been nearly two weeks since senator Ted Cruz (nutjob-TX) announced his candidacy for the highest office in the nation. And while I don't believe for one moment that he has a snowball's chance in hell, we must note that he is only one of several dozen potential candidates who would love nothing more than to turn the United States into a totalitarian theocracy.

Weezle

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Tuesday November 11, 2014 · 11:36 PM PST

2014/11/11 · 23:36

When I was a young Weezle, there was a bumper sticker that read "What If They Had A War And Nobody Showed Up?" The idea behind the slogan was to point out the moral and political emptiness of the war in Vietnam.

Last week, more than 150,000,000 Americans did not vote. Did they refrain from voting out of laziness and apathy? Were they all busy working at Wal-Mart and Wendy's? Or did two-thirds of the American electorate stay home because they recognized that the political process in the United States is a sucker's game, devoid of substance and meaning?

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