America. land of the free, home of the F'n STUPID.

For the people out there who have taken me to task for stating fact-based opinion that Americans are FUCKING STUPID, and that a disturbing--but growing--portion are borderline retarded, this is for you.

Enjoy.
(Although I predict at least one person will prove my hypothesis to be correct by reacting with self-righteous indignation)


Chances are that by now you've heard about the Aug. 19, 2010, Pew poll that found that nearly one fifth of Americans (mistakenly) believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Perhaps you think that a terrifying outlier; or perhaps you're a believer, and then you are in good company. Either way, you're wrong: in fact, remarkably high numbers of Americans believe the most unusual things. Although the portion of poll respondents who believe Obama is a Muslim has risen recently, some of these oddball opinions contain more consistent numbers of believers.
More disturbing then the assholes who continue to shout this bullshit claim of Islam, is the fact that those same people seem to think that being a Muslim would make you unfit to lead this country. Because so-called "christ"ians have done such a BANG-UP job over the last 40 years.....right??






Opponents of President Obama have been spreading false rumors about his religion for quite some time. Recently, however, it seems that the number of Americans who believe these untruths is on the rise. Among respondents to a Pew poll, 18 percent believed Obama was a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. A Time magazine poll last week found similar results: 24 percent believed he was a Muslim, while only 47 percent correctly identified him as a Christian. There's some evidence that the best indicator of belief that Obama is a Muslim is opposing him politically, casting doubt on the accuracy of the results. Then again, it wouldn't be the craziest thing Americans believe, would it? After all, just 2 weeks ago, 27% of respondants believed that Obama was not born in the United States.


To mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, Gallup thought it might be a good idea to poll Americans on their beliefs of the British naturalist's theory. But the results must have had Darwin spinning in his grave, since only 39 percent of Americans believed in the theory. The good news: only a quarter said they didn't believe it; the remaining portion either didn't have an opinion or didn't answer. (Also, only 55 percent correctly linked Darwin's name with the theory.) However, it appears that views may, um, evolve: younger people believe in evolution at far higher rates than older ones.
Maybe that is because older people are more afraid of their impending entry into the unknown? Or did they really not teach this most basic of concepts to older generations??

**NEWS FLASH**
...Darwin's Theory of Evolution applies to more then just "man come from monkey", retards. There is AMPLE evidence that virtually EVERY form of animal life in the 6-Billion year history of the planet Earth has evolved.

It seems obvious that it's not a good idea to put too much stock in witchcraft. But it turns out that 21 percent of Americans believe there are real sorcerors, conjurers, and warlocks out there. And that's just one of the several paranormal beliefs common among Americans, according to Gallup: 41 percent believe in ESP, 32 percent in ghosts, and a quarter in astrology. In fairness, the numbers in this poll are a little old—they date back to 2005. But then again, if people haven't changed their mind since the Enlightenment, it's not clear another half decade would make much difference.
I myself am amongst the 41% who believe in ESP. I believe that there is untapped potential in that 85-90+% of the human brain that we are not currently using.
I furthermore find it no more ludicrous that 21% of adults believe in real-life witches/socerors/warlocks then I do the incredibly high percentage of people who believe that the Bible is the 100% uncorrupted word-of-God.

From Facebook to faith: that's how a spurious rumor became part of the national dialogue. On Facebook, Sarah Palin wrote in August 2009 that Obama would institute a "death panel" as part of health-care reform. Soon pundits and politicians were demagoguing the issue into common currency. Even in August 2010, one year after the initial burst and five months after health reform was signed into law, the belief lingers. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, four in 10 Americans mistakenly believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a panel that makes decisions about end-of-life care.
::facepalm:: man..................fucking ::FACEPALM::

Even years after claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or had any links to the September 11 attacks had been debunked, not all Americans were convinced. In a June 2007 NEWSWEEK poll, four years after the invasion of Iraq, 41 percent believed Saddam was involved in 9/11—even though President Bush had said otherwise as early as September 2003. Wild views on 9/11 are in fact still rampant. In September 2009, Public Policy Polling found that a quarter of Democrats suspected Bush had something to do with the attacks. Meanwhile, many Americans also remain convinced that Saddam had WMDs, even though inspectors haven't found any in the seven years since the invasion. Still, as of 2006, half of Americans believed that, according to Harris. Who knows where they got that idea?
I myself am in that percentage of Americans who questions the "official" 9/11 (cover?) story.....but the number is MUCH higher then 25%, and my own opinion is based up factual research, not hyperbole.
The REAL "Axis of Evil" -






















Didn't we clear this one up in the 16th century??!?!? Copernicus be damned, 20 percent of Americans were still sure in 1999 that the sun revolved around the Earth. Gallup, the pollster that conducted the study, gamely tried to dress it up by celebrating the fact that "four out of five Americans know Earth revolves around the sun," but we're not buying.
What the fuck man. Seriously..........what the fuck.

If mutual understanding is the key to tolerance, we're in trouble. According to NEWSWEEK's 2007 What You Need to Know poll, barely half of Americans were correctly able to state that Judaism was older than both Christianity and Islam. Another 41 percent weren't sure.
In case you're that uninformed, here goes: Judaism is the oldest of the Abrahamic faiths, followed by Christianity—which reveres the Jewish prophets (including Moses, above)—and then Islam, which reveres the Jewish prophets and also hails Jesus as a prophet.

It's hard to imagine what inspired the pollsters at Zogby to ask THIS question, but the answer is striking: in a 2006 poll, more than three quarters of Americans could name at least two of the seven dwarfs, while not quite a quarter could name two members of the Supreme Court.
NEWSWEEK's response is a split decision, if you will: on the one hand, Disney is as much a symbol of America as the high court, and those dwarfs are adorable. On the other hand, it should be easy to name only two out of a pool of nine options. Objection sustained!


Lost? Don't ask an American. Sixty-three percent of young Americans can't find Iraq on a map, despite the ongoing U.S involvement there. Nine out of 10 can't find Afghanistan—even if you give them the advantage of a map limited to Asia. And more than a third of Americans of any age can't identify the continent that's home to the Amazon River, the world's largest.
These are the very people being sent to die in Iraq & Afghanistan in wars of economic conquest.....their blood currency lining the pockets of a few super-elite multi-national corporations that control EVERYTHING.

What a bunch of knuckleheads: according to Zogby, the majority of Americans—three in four—can correctly identify Larry, Curly, and Moe as the Three Stooges. Only two out of five respondents, however, can correctly identify the executive, legislative, and judicial branches as the three wings of government.
Yes....I quoted a Fox News article. Such is the depth & breadth of my blog post. >:)

Who needs constitutional constructionism? Not one in three Americans, apparently: that's the proportion that said in a 2008 First Amendment Center poll that the constitutional right to freedom of religion was never meant to apply to groups most folks think are extreme or fringe—a 10 percent increase from 2000. In 2007, two out of five Americans told the FAC that teachers should be allowed to lead prayers in public schools. You can see several years of the reports here.
This isn't just retarded.....it's fucking scary. We already had this christian vs. Muslim "my religion is better then your religion/my dick is bigger then your dick" conflict before.....about 1,000 years ago. It was baseless then....it's baseless now:
BOTH sides believe a whoooolllleeeeeee lottttttttt of asinine shit.


Still proud??


I love my country the way a parent loves it's child. I am not afraid to say something when my child acts out or fucks up in an attempt to correct the problem--that is my responsibility as a parent, or in this case citizen.

The retards who will defend these people usually reside firmly on the right...........and they love their country the way a Justin Bieber fan loves Justin Bieber: it can do no wrong, and everything it says & does is WONDERFUL.



Want to guess which child is more likely to become a quality adult??

Bill Ayers

It seems, based on conversations amongst my friends, family, associates, and various message boards I am a member of, that I need spend some time (serious time) de-bunking what I like to call:
"The Obama bullshit machine"

Chapter 1 - Bill Ayers.

*sigh*



People on the right are having a ball accusing Obama of "palling around with terroristS" (plural). These "people" include, but are not limited to, Faux "News" and the Republican Presidential ticket itself.
Let's forget for a second that they refer to "terroristS" (I guess "pals around with a terrorist--singular" isn't scary enough), and instead examine who, exactly, is William Ayers.........the linchpin of this bullshit claim.









William Charles Ayers (born December 26, 1944) is an American elementary education theorist and former 1960s anti-war activist. He is known for the radical nature of his activism in the 1960s and 1970s as well as his current work in education reform, curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the radical left organization the Weather Underground, which conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s. He is now a professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar.

By his own admission in his 2001 book Fugitive Days, Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and The Pentagon in 1972. No one was killed or hurt in the bombings that Ayers participated in, as warning were delivered ahead of each blast. It appears that the intention of each was property damage. Ayers writes:
"Although the bomb that rocked the Pentagon was itsy-bitsy - weighing close to two pounds - it caused 'tens of thousands of dollars' of damage. The operation cost under $500, and no one was killed or even hurt."^[Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days, pg. 261^]

Because of a water leak caused by the Pentagon bombing, aerial bombardments during the Vietnam War had to be halted for several days. I would venture to guess that this was the intended consequence of the actions of the Weather Underground.

Bill Ayers has never been convicted of a crime. Period. In 1973, the federal government requested the dismissal of the charges against Ayers and his future wife Bernadine Dohrn in the interest of national security following accusations of government misconduct.

He is a respected and tenured Professor of Education. He has come so far from his radical anti-war past that in 1997 Chicago awarded him its Citizen of the Year award for his work on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a grant proposal that in 1995 won $49.2 million over five years for public school reform. McCain supporters have denounced Ayers as an "unrepentant terrorist", but no less then William C. Ibershof (the lead federal prosecutor in the case against Ayers in 1973) said he believes people deserve a chance to redeem themselves, "a human reaction anyone would have."

Obama meets Bill Ayers

The two men first met in 1995, when Obama was tapped to chair the board of the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Ayers was instrumental in creating the organization, which was to dispense grants for projects that would improve Chicago's schools.

The Challenge was one of 18 projects supported by a $500 million grant announced at a White House ceremony Dec. 18, 1993, by the Annenberg Foundation, founded four years earlier by Philadelphia publisher Walter Annenberg. It was the largest single gift ever made to public education in America. The Chicago project received a $49.2 million grant in 1995, and officials administering the grant funds at Brown University announced at the time that the Chicago proposal was developed through discussions among “a broad-based coalition of local school council members, teachers, principals, school reform groups, union representatives and central office staff” convened by three educators – one of whom was Ayers. Mayor Richard M. Daley, a Democrat, and Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican, took part in a ceremony announcing the grant.

The Chicago Tribune, after examining the Annenberg records, said they showed Ayers and Obama "attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way." It also said Obama and Ayers "continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program." According to the New York Times, the documents show the two attended just six board meetings together, Obama as chairman and Ayers to inform the board on grantees and other issues.
(In a press release, the McCain campaign puts the number of meetings at seven, 5 of them in 1995, 1 in 1996 & 1 in 1997.)

"He launched his political career in the guy's living room"

The same year the two men met through the Annenberg Challenge, Ayers hosted a meet-and-greet coffee for Obama, who was already running for state Senate and who lived three blocks away from him. Read that again--Obama was already running for state Senate when Ayers hosted the meet-and-greet.

Obama and Ayers also were on the board of an antipoverty charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, where their service overlapped from 2000 to 2002. And Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's campaign for the Illinois state Senate on March 2, 2001. That's it--200 bucks.

Wow.

Ayers has never endorsed Obama.
Obama has never endorsed Ayers.
Ayers does not advise Obama on policy of any kind.
Ayers does not advise Obama on anything. Indeed, since their Woods Fund days, their interactions have been sporadic (at best) and accidental. Ayers and Obama have not spoken on the phone or exchanged e-mails since Obama began serving in the U.S. Senate in January 2005, and last met more then a year ago when they bumped into each other on the street in Hyde Park (their neighborhood in Chicago).

"He's a terrorist"

That, I suppose, would depend on how you define "terrorist".
Ayers himself doesn't see himself that way:
"We weren't terrorists," Ayers told an interviewer for the Chicago Tribune in 2001. "The reason we weren't terrorists is because we did not commit random acts of terror against people. Terrorism was what was being practiced in the countryside of Vietnam by the United States."

Like I said--it depends on how you define terrorist. Here is how Dictionary.com defines it:

TER*ROR*IST
-Noun
1. a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.
2. a person who terrorizes or frightens others.
3. (formerly) a member of a political group in Russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.
4. an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
Adjective
5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of terrorism or terrorists: terrorist tactics.

Of all of these definitions, only #1 applies........and only partially. Why only partially? Because Ayers clearly does not advocate terrorism; his own or others:
In a letter to the editor in the Chicago Tribune, Ayers wrote, "I condemn all forms of terrorism — individual, group and official". He also condemned the September 11th attacks in that letter. "Today we are witnessing crimes against humanity on our own shores on an unthinkable scale, and I fear that we may soon see more innocent people in other parts of the world dying in response."
You can make the argument that Bill Ayers "used" terrorism in that he bombed building with the intent of causing property damage.......but I think it is a stretch to equate blowing up an empty bathroom in the Pentagon with strapping 5lbs of C-4 to your body and detonating in a crowded marketplace.

Is Bill Ayers a terrorist?? Absolutely not. That question implies present tense.

Was he a terrorist when he was part of the Weather Underground? If he qualifies for that titled, it is tenuous as best....

"TerroristS"

I have yet to hear any others examples to make up the terroristS, plural.....so let me borrow a page from the Dubya Doctrine and offer a pre-emptive strike:

"Obama was endorsed by the KKK!"
-Total bullshit. Easily disproven with a 10-second trip to Snopes.com

"Obama was endorsed by Hamas!"
-Questionable, at best. Ahmed Yousef, Hamas' chief political adviser, has in fact spoken highly of Obama and expressed hope that he will win the election. In an April 2008 interview with WABC Radio in New York, Yousef was asked whether he thought the Palestinian prime minister would be willing to meet with Obama and Clinton before the election. He responded:

Yousef: "We don't mind. Actually, we like Mr. Obama, and we hope he will [inaudible] the election. I do believe he is like John Kennedy, a great man with great principles, and he has a vision to change America, to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with domination and arrogance."

(Yousef is often quoted as saying "we hope he will win the election," but this part of the audio is garbled. "We hope he will win" is a reasonable interpretation.)

Whether this constitutes a political endorsement is debatable, as Yousef is in no position to vote for Obama himself, nor did he recommend that others vote for him. And endorsements are usually sought-after and greatly publicized, whereas Obama has in no way welcomed Yousef's supposed endorsement.

Also, saying that Hamas supports Obama is not saying that Obama supports Hamas, or that he would acquiesce to the group's demands as president. Indeed, Obama has explicitly condemned Hamas. When former president Jimmy Carter met with Hamas leaders in April, Obama criticized his decision, saying that "we must not negotiate with a terrorist group intent on Israel's destruction." And both Obama and McCain were among 90 cosponsors of the 2006 Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, which would make it U.S. policy to "urge members of the international community to avoid contact with and refrain from financially supporting the terrorist organization Hamas until it agrees to recognize Israel, renounce violence, disarm and accept prior agreements." Obama has said many times that he would not meet or negotiate with Hamas as president, and he has criticized McCain for implying otherwise. "To engage in that kind of smear," he told CNN in a May 8 interview, "is unfortunate, particularly since my policy toward Hamas has been no different than his."[factcheck.org]

"Obama has been endorsed by Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam!!"
-See above. While it is true that Farrakhan endorsed Obama, Obama himself rejected that endorsement, and has been a consistent denunciator of Louis Farrakhan.

Hey.....did you hear that Jeffrey Dahmer endorsed Ronald Reagan?? That's because even if he did--who gives a shit??