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Overnight Open Thread (7-30-2014)John Kerry: Cargo Cult Politician And it struck me also that this might be the sum total of why he has risen to the heights he has, that and his ability to promote himself. He has never seemed especially bright or accomplished, and certainly never especially likeable. But he always looked like a senator, and so instead of playing one on TV he became one. I think my first ever impression of John Kerry came from a 1986 PJ O'Rourke article ("Goons, Guns, and Gold") in Rolling Stone on his experiences during the Philippines election in which Marcos was attempting to stuff the ballot box against the far more popular Corazon Aquino. Senators Kerry and Lugar were sent there by Reagan as election observers. But when the election workers walked out over Marcos' chicanery with the vote totals and asked for his assistance, John Kerry was the waste of human skin that we've all come to expect. Here is PJ O'Rourke's recollection of the events: Village Voice reporter Joe Conason and I had been tipped off about the walkout, and when we got to the church, we found Bea Zobel, one of Cory Aquino's top aides, in a tizzy. "The women are terrified," she said. "They're scared to go home. They don't know what to do. We don't know what to do." Joe and I suggested that Mrs. Zobel go to the Manila Hotel and bring back some members of the Congressional observer team. She came back with Kerry, who did nothing. O'Rourke noted in 2004 that he's "had a nonpartisan grudge against John Kerry for 18 years" over this incident. And ever since I read O'Rourke's account I have as well. John Kerry had a chance to actually do something meaningful as a US Senator and instead he chose to uselessly walk around and preen as the well coiffed empty-suit that he is. You can read the original article here. It's still funny even after 28 years and entertaining to read now since we know what nemesis eventually had in store for the feckless members of the US delegation. Another Contender for Dumbest Member of Congress I hate to say it but the ladies of Congress seem to have more than their fair share of borderline retardation. Just having a uterus may get you elected in some districts but it clearly does not convey any special knowledge or mental prowess or even guarantee average faculties. Here is Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) talking about the need for high speed rail (as well as anything else that darts through her brain) at a hearing in 2012. TRIGGER WARNING: This audio will make you dumber and Sanchez's near-ultrasonic screeches may cause feeling of alarm and anxiety about the country's future.
The Social Security Time Bomb Keeps Ticking Away Public trustee Charles Blahous warned that the ongoing refusal to fix Social Security means the program's troubles are already worse than when the program was last bailed out, in 1983. Blahous said fixing Social Security's shortfall would require either a 21% increase in payroll taxes or a 16.5% benefits cut for all beneficiaries, including current retirees. Of course neither of these options will happen and so either future retirees will get nothing or more likely benefits paid off in massively inflated dollars. But not to worry Matt Yglesias is ready to Voxplain to you why Social Security is so awesome that we should expand it to everybody - retired or not. Always alert to even a whiff of Islamophobia the media themselves end up treating Arabs (and Muslims in general) as retarded children. There's an unconscious soft bigotry in the press coverage of the region. Nobody wants to accept that these exotically caparisoned militants are serious. They're not out to 'end the cycle of hatred' or to 'promote reconciliation' or to 'seek justice'. They are out for conquest. They are out for blood. They are determined to grind their heel into the enemy's face and carry off everything he owns. Or, as one Iranian general put it: they are out to hunt the Jews house to house. Great: IRS Strikes Deal With Atheist Group To Monitor Sermon Content Alliance Defending Freedom asked the Internal Revenue Service Tuesday to release all documents related to its recent decision to settle a lawsuit with an atheist group that claims the IRS has adopted new protocols and procedures for the investigation of churches. Granted some churches (particularly black ones) have been acting in violation of their tax-exempt status for a long time but I'm pretty sure they're not the ones who will be investigated. More on Why Jesse Ventura Won His Defamation Case How, then, did Ventura prevail in court against Kyle? We can blame the judge and the jury and call the verdict a travesty, yet there is one element of Kyle's case any newspaper editor would immediately spot as a vulnerability: He asserted private knowledge. That Innocent Kilowatt Radio-Frequency Device in Your Kitchen AKA the Microwave Death Ray Note that the oven's magnetron is putting out radio waves approximately the same frequency as typical WiFi devices - just with a giga-shitload more power. I've long been tempted to mount one of these on the rear bumper of my car to deal with persistent tailgaters. Je$$e Jack$on Has a New Civil Right$ Target: $ilicon Valley As the WSJ points out, not only does the IRS have a partisan streak, it also has a foreign policy. Students With Laptops != Learning Or why the Hoboken school district is throwing away hundreds of laptops after just a few years of trying to use them. There is no technological magic bullet when it comes to education - and I'm old enough to have lived through TV/calculators/VCRs/graphing calculators/CDs/laptops/tablets as the learning panacea that would change everything. They didn't - but a whole lot of money was wasted in the process. In the end there is no substitute for direct instruction by a human, student attention and focus, and a lot of hands-on practice. Five Scenes from the Post-Star Wars Film Craze That Unexpectedly Terrorized a Generation of Kids And I think I saw nearly every one of these. The Flash Gordon scene still gives me the willies whenever I have to reach into something dark and start thinking about the scorpion. Eminem Lyric or Line of Lesbian Poetry? 1. "I knew I shouldn't go/and get another tattoo/of you on my arm/but what do I go and do." Answers here: Eminem Lyric: 1, 3, 4, 8 The Snobbiest Cities in America Are Palo Alto, CA, Bethesda, MD, and surprisingly Hoboken, NJ. The Group knows what you did. Tonight's post brought to you by official identification: Notice: Posted by implicit permission of AceCorp LLC. Please e-mail overnight open thread tips to maetenloch at gmail. Otherwise send tips to Ace. | Recent Comments
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