A Chicken Is Not Pillage

The Dumb Is Strong With This One.

I admit to being impressed.  Just when I thought Andy Hammond was a shoo-in for being Montana's Dumbest Blogger, other entrants come crawling out of the gutter to vie for this low prestige.  Take this anonymous twit for example:

Why would the Governor of Montana call young innocent college students “mean people?”

Excuse the piss outta me?  Innocent?  This idgit is obviously too young to be a college student, or has never been around them.  To admit otherwise is to admit that the use of that word is a bold faced lie.  After all, we have this timely reminder of just how *not* innocent (and completely screwed up dishonestly wrong) college students can be.

And, in the coveted category of contradicting oneself in only one post:

It is a good University despite some of their liberal professors like Wilmer and others.

Brian, just in case you forgot, the University is a place for Ideas and debate,

Apparently, that's ideas and debate that don't include anything the writer considers "liberal".  A pass can be given on that bunch of stupid, on account of them being bitter, spiteful and mean that Franke is once again going to kick Republican ass in HD 64.

But lest we think this the only entry into the Stupid-stakes of 2008, someone really ought to clue Carol into the fact that 'dead-beat home borrowers' didn't cause this financial crisis.  Neither did California, or Chris Dodd.  It was caused by banks which leveraged debt at 30 to one for their own book-based profit.  They lent money they didn't have, which is in many opinions worse than borrowing what you can't afford if your backing asset falls flat because someone lent you money they didn't have.  And in case you haven't noticed Carol, living in your little Republicant bubble,  Gingrich is flat-out lying.  Obama hasn't called the terms of this bail-out plan, and most Democrats don't like it any more than you do.  All we want, and you apparently don't, is for the people who profited at our expense to pay up.  But you just continue demanding recompense from those who don't have anything to pay with.  See how that goes over for you.

And not to be left out, Wiley Cody enters his exhibit of the dumb.  Somehow or another, Obama and the UAW don't understand economics because John McCain lied his wrinkly ass off about what cars he owns.  McCain doesn't buy foreign cars, unless he does.  And who can fault him for misspeaking (lying) when he owns 13 of the damned things?  McCain really doesn't get it.  But that won't stop Wiley from spinning like a crashing kite to misdirect you from McCain's out-of-touch elitism.

As much as I really want to think Carol pulls off clueless with a total effortlessness, I think I'm going to have to award this heat to the newbie.  Wiley made a good charge at the end, with the truly dumbshit move of lessened expectations of the truth, but still ...  Ideas and Debate don't involve liberals ... that's gold medal contention for the Dumbest Blogger in Montana.  I look forward to Rocky Right Raccoon's submissions in the future.  (But don't count out Victorian Lady.  She's got a style of stupid that seems unmatched.  And there's always Andy ...)

This Politician Thinks You're An Igner't Pup

Steve Eschenbacher is running for office.  He thinks that the people he is running to represent are stupid.  He thinks that they're a bunch of commie pinkos.  And now we find that Steve Eschenbacher, idiot for HD 96, thinks that those who support and work to elect Barack Obama are just dumb little kids.

That money would be put to better use elsewhere, along with the staffers, those sweet young innocent naifs who actually believe in (Obama) because they don't know any better.

That's right, Missoula.  If you support Barack Obama, Steve Eschenbacher thinks you're a idgit pup who just don't know any better.

I'm not going to waste any more time insulting him than he wastes insulting you folks, and insulting himself.  I'll just remind you that Steve is an elitist that thinks you're a tool.  Vote accordingly, Missoula.

Hockey Mom

"You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull?  Lipstick."

Steve Eschenbacher Writes Political Porn

Or at least his version of it.  Say it with me now ...

Ick ...

I Can't Believe This Crap

I just read a comment on an ultra-right-wing website, (I'd die before I'd link) that Sarah Palin's experience as mayor counts towards her experience to be Commander In Chief.

I actually know a guy who runs a ton of World-of-Warcraft guilds.  He coordinates over 8000 players, in military tactics, economy and deployment.  He's done this for two years.  That means, quite simply, that he has more administrative experience than Sarah Palin does as a mayor of Wasala.  And he's done so while holding a full time job and 'playing' 30 hours a week.  He's got more administrative experience than Sarah Palin does ... in war zones.

And you don't think that McSame choosing Palin was part of a fantasy?  Think again. 

Dear Todd

When I have to go across the street to have one of your more dim customers move their car from in front of the rather obvious driveway, I expect your BARtenders to deal with me with at least a small amount of sympathy and respect.  After all, I have to attempt to live peaceably across from your BAR.   I don't appreciate dirty looks, or fracked up snottiness.  I'm the one who lives here while you attempt gaining tax-breaks to make more money.  I'm the one being illegally inconvenienced for your profit,  not you or your BARtenders.

So I would sincerely appreciate it if you would clarify to your employees that I don't need their shit.  You have a BAR, and I just live here. Show some gratitude for the neighborhood, would you please?

No Credibility At Bullshit Cairn

As if that should be a surprise.  Over at the All Bullshit Zone, Wiley Cody put up a post in which he basically got his ass kicked for throwing out stupid Straw-man fallacies, and completely misunderstanding the InterTubes.   All was good: it was web-history.  But a little birdy informed me I might want to revisit the encounter, and what did I find?  Wiley has actually inserted a comment where none existed before.

One of the saddest things is that the comment was weak.  After all it came from the idiot politician wanna-be, Steve Eschenbacher.  One wouldn't expect much from that, and that would be wise (vote accordingly, Missoula.)   Steve attempts to show that "liberals" believe that GW is an idiot (link to me) and yet we're silly enough to believe that he has orchestrated a huge conspiracy (link to a 9/11 conspiracy website.)   So, in Steve's sad little universe, all "liberals" share a hive mind, the same stupidity that Wiley posted originally. 

I'm used to Steve being a fucking dunce.  He's shown it time and again.  No, what is shocking is this:

The comments at Bullshit Cairn are sequential, like most websites.  They are not threaded, and one cannot respond to an individual commentor ... unless the website administrator is commited to pretense and lies.  And that is exactly what has happened here.  Steve's comment, which should have appeared well after my last comment, instead appears as if it is in direct response to an earlier comment of mine from more than a day earlier.    Now, Steve's a dunce.  He didn't do that.  That was Wiley, desperately flailing around for anything to cover his ass, even if only a foolish comment from Steve.

It is possible that Steve's comment was in a moderation queue.   But it seems ... odd ... that Wiley responded to me a day later without checking the queue, don't you think?   And shouldn't it have been noted if the moderation queue was actually the problem?  If one wants credibility, that seems like a "contriction", to use Wiley's word.  Once again, Wiley fails at the Internets.  Go home, child.

Nothing Racist 'Bout That At All, Huh?

Dave Rye really needs to learn how to shut up before saying (writing) something totally stupid.  Before the memory hole can even swallow his statement referring to a fallen a U.S. soldier as an ignorant tool of a biased media, Rye spouts crap yet again.  Carol Minjares penned a post (with even more extra SCARY buzzwords) about Denise Juneau, running for Mt. State Superintendant of the OPI.  I've little interest in eviscerating Carol's shallow analysis save for two things.  Not once does Carol appear to understand that the OPI position is an administrative one, not one of an educator, and that Carol seems inordinately proud of her remarkably weak effort.

No, the only cockroach that needs a light shown upon it is her first commenter, Dave Rye.  With minimal commentary from me, this is Dave's contribution to rational discourse of Montana politics (emphasis mine).

When the Primary had three actual educators running against a professional Indian, you thought one of the educators might get the nomination for the OPI job?

I can't wait to see who will defend that statement, or how.

Political Time Is Linear

Since I'm mostly too tired and disgusted to come up with original content, a reminder from Atrios:

I've never quite been able figure out why the image of the burning twin towers is seen by Republicans as something in their favor. In my universe the timeline goes something like this:

Jan 20, 2001 Bush Inaugurated
Jan 25, 2001 Richard Clarke sends Condi Rice memo, warning about al Qaeda. Rice does nothing.
August 6, 2001 Bush gets memo titled "Bin Laden Determined to strike in US." Bush responds by telling the briefer, "All right. You've covered your ass, now." Then does nothing.
September 11, 2001 Bin Laden strikes in US.

UPDATE:  In which Wiley Cody fails the Internets.

I was sincerely of the belief that Wiley Cody at BullShit Cairn was smarter than your average garden slug.  I was sincerely wrong in that belief.  In his first virginal steps into the selling Republicant outrage, he meets the World Wide Web, falls down and goes boom.  Lets see if we can spot how many ways Wiley can be full of shit in one post:

1)  The post, this post, over which Wiley has an outragegasm, was mostly just a copy of a post from Atrios.  It's bad enough that Wiley attacks me for thinking there was a point to the writing, but far worse that Wiley doesn't have a clue that I didn't write it.  Strange he could have missed that, but not surprising considering the number of righty websites who appropriate others words without attribution.  Yup, he's an idiot.

2)  He completely missed the link in that quote, which would have given context to the quote itself.  The link pointed directly to the same billboard pictured here.  Again it is unsurprising that many right-wing idiots won't follow a link.  When that was harshly pointed out to his dim self, Wiley tried to cover his stupid ass with a comment a) telling me what I should have written to please him, b) dismissing the exploitation of 9/11 from the guy who really committed such an act,  with a fantasy that he was really just profiteering.  That's 'worse than what I did' (remember, I didn't do a thing, Atrios did) but obviously understandable when the real outrage should be the fact that I would notice and comment on the stupidity.  It's hard to believe that someone can have a website and truly be that partisan ... and dumb.  It's easy to forgive Wiley, if only because he was flailing around trying to hide the fact that he was too idiotic to even know what the discussion was about because he was too stupid to follow a simple link.

3)  Wiley doesn't understand English.  He accuses me of painting all Republicans with the shame of the asshole who purchased the billboard.  I never did that.  And since he remains utterly confused by who wrote what, I should point out to this toddler that Atrios never wrote that either.  What was written is that Republicans who politicize 9/11 are denying reality.  The evidence was the billboard.  The Internets could come up with a helluva lot more.  Wiley can deny it, and lay the blame at my feet, but I have to ask:  which more stupid, denying reality or claiming that I am morally responsible for it?

4)  I have some questions for you, Wiley?  What "line" do you wail that I crossed?  You never clarified.  And precisely what do you think you can do about it?

5)   In the perfect convergence of  stupidity and hypocrisy, Wiley clutches his pearls at my having 'crossed some unspecified line' of politicizing 9/11, and then Wiley himself does it.

Maybe he’s noticing that conservatives are more likely to remember that the world has evil in it - the evil that was demonstrated in September 11, 2001 - while liberals have forgotten that such evil exists outside of the Bush Administration.

Actually, I/Atrios was suggesting that the asshole with the billboard doesn't understand history, any more than Wiley does (which means not at all).   Ya see, I've read the 9/11 commission report.  I even have a hard copy.  And I remember full well how the Bush administration tried to politicize even that, and how few of it's suggestions for the administration have been implemented, or work if they have.  FEMA, anyone?

But what's striking is that the timeline I/Atrios portray is absolutely accurate.  The remedial garden-slug Wiley can't show one inaccuracy to it.  To his credit, he was smart enough not to try.

6)  Wiley pulls a well known Republicant tactic out of whatever passes for an ass on garden-slugs.  9/11 was Bill Clinton's fault.  Whatever Clinton didn't do completely excuses George Bush from the shame of doing *nothing*.  In fact, we can excuse W because Osama's mother didn't abort him.  Or let's blame Thomas Jefferson for writing the Declaration of Independence.  Or we can point to one holy hell of a lot of circumstances that still cannot exonerate Bush for having been warned ... and doing nothing.

7)  Wiley can't resist an attempt to demean my employment, though he's too stupid to realize that a)  he's just crossed a well known line of discourse on the Intertubes (don't stalk people, you fucking moron.  That works in real life too), and b) there is nothing wrong with my employment at all.  There is nothing wrong with my employment.  You got a problem, specify.

Wiley writes:

The fact remains, however, that his time line by itself warrants the title “idiot”…

I've shown quite clearly that it doesn't.  It's accurate.  Wiley calls the completely unestablished point a "fact", the true sign of an idiot.  Thus he is a hypocrite, yet again.  When I was growing up, back when common sense actually meant something, there was a term my peers and I used for people so willfully stupid that only profanity could get across the depth of our derision for them.  That term was "Dumbass".  To this day, I don't use it lightly.  But Wiley has earned the moniker.  After this episode of having his ass kicked by reality, he truly deserves the title.  He's a dumbass.

(And SteveT, I'd really like to know exactly what points you "disagree" with me/Atrios on.  Do you care to clarify?)

Well Done, Little Davey Budge

Oh yes.  I see your point.  Let's not take our 40 cents from the people who have robbed us, and don't give a flip about the largess we have offered in the past.   Let's instead, take it from our infrastructure funds.  Let's rob our neighbors instead of the robbers.  How bold you are, sir.

(Golf clap ...)