1543 – Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.
1966 – The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
-– Mark Twain
"I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever."
- – Daniel Boorstin
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:
a) Arlington Skule Distrikt, deep in the heart of Teksass
They banned President Obama's talk to their skule kids, but they will be sending a bus load of kids to hear former president Bush talk football at Texas A&M.
This explains so much about that state.
In unrelated news, Teksass, the largest buyer of skule books in the country, demanded changes in their hystery books, requiring students to learn about Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Ronald Reagan and other conservative heroes. Unfortunately for real Americans, given Teksass' size and purchasing power, the rest of the country is given no choice as to content, and must buy what Teksass orders. The publishers readily cave in to Teksass demands, but refuse to provide real hystery books to other states.
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b) "SO I AM GETTING INTO SPANKING HER"
These wonderful words were spoken by a family values, conservative, christian GOP California Assemblyman Mike Duvall (his website is here: http://arc.asm.ca.gov/...
on an open mike at a public meeting. He was bragging about one affair he was having with a married lobbyist, 19 yrs his junior, after which he bragged about another affair he was having at the same time. Duvall is married, two kids, and last year won a coveted 100% rating as a social conservative.
What is it with conservative christian GOPhilanderers, anyway? At least he wasn't from Teksass. Or Florida. North Carolina. Louisiana. South Carolina. Georgia. Kentucky. Tennessee. Alabama. Misery. Missississippi. Utah. Montana.
UPDATED NEWS: Republican Mike Duvall was just stripped bare today.
No, not by young female lobbyists who enjoy a good spanking, but by his fellow pols, who removed him from all California legislative committees.
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c) Whitewashing Stalin?
Only recently did Russia open its archives, allowing historians to see just how deadly Uncle Joe had been to his own people. Now, all that will change, as Stalinists are successfully "repairing" his reputation.
A Russian court has agreed to hear a libel case brought by Josef Stalin's grandson. Yevgeny Dzhugashvili says a newspaper commentary stating that Stalin ordered the killings of millions of his country's citizens damaged the dictator's reputation.
Historians and human rights activists say the case is yet another effort by the government to airbrush Stalin's image.
http://www.npr.org/...
If anything, Russia's effort to rewrite history matches the State of Teksass, in terms of illegitimacy, ineffably stupidity, and chutzpah.
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d) Ohio ties Teksass and Florida for latest Ineffably Stupid Title
A robbery suspect was arrested when he returned to the scene of the crime to ask the victim out on a date, police said.
Columbus police allege that Stephfon Bennett, 20, was among three men who robbed a couple late Sunday.
Sgt. Sean Laird said the woman recognized Bennett as one of the robbers when he returned to ask her out about two hours later.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
The Church of Ineffable Stupidity bows its head in thanks to Mr. Bennett, for the best Palin-free laugh Pastor Agnostic has had in years. If the laughter were any harder or more sustained, a change of underwear may be in order.
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e) Representative Charles Boustany (LA), congressman, GOPer, nutcase.
Ole Chuck will give the offical (sp?) GOPhilandering response to President Obama's health care speech tonight. One wonders if he will disavow his previous statements that Obama could not be president because he was born in Kenya.
Sarah Palin creates death squads in her own mind, and confirms it in today's Wall Street Urinal. Michelle Bachmann is waiting for a conference call with god in order to run for president. James Inhofe refuses to read any bill on health care, but plans to vote against it anyway. This is the state of Grand Old Philanderer's Party.
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f) Wasilly Sarah
The woman incapable of finishing her term as governor of I'll aska, ghost wrote an article in today's Wall Street Urinal:
"Given such statements, is it any wonder that many of the sick and elderly are concerned that the Democrats' proposals will ultimately lead to rationing of their health care by -- dare I say it -- death panels?"
We know that Rupert Murdoch has no shame, nor integrity, so Wall Street's article is no surprise. What is a surprise is the rumor that the Tribune Company has hired her as a regular columnist.
Today's GOPhilanderers are, simply put, ineffably insane.
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"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin