USA: Beacon of Stupid

Add Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-AZ) to the growing list of people who are getting non-terror death threats. I particularly like the content of this message left for him:

Caller: You are going to have to look over your f*&king shoulder because people in your district hate your f*&king face. I love my insurance company and to have you come between me and my f*&king doctor. I cannot tell you how much I wish a panty bomber would come in and just f*&king blow your place up.

The problem that we're experiencing now is quite possibly the biggest indictment against our educational system. The level of ignorance and outright stupidity, and the absence of critical thinking skills, are only helping to cultivate a totally details-illiterate mob that is easily susceptible to any suggestion, no matter how ridiculous or how not grounded in actual fact. And if you take a mob that has no value for information or any capacity to debate an issue, the mob resorts to violence to defend itself.

"I love my insurance company"

I'm at a loss as to how one could love their insurance company. If I was 100% healthy and never needed to see a doctor, I don't think I'd love shoveling my money to them for no reason. If I need to see a doctor, I can't say I love the fact that I must choose a doctor that's within my carrier's network or else I pay through the nose.

"and to have you come between me and my f*&king doctor"

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK AN INSURANCE COMPANY IS, YOU IGNORANT FUCKING DIPSHIT?! WHO DO YOU THINK DECIDES WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL PAY FOR YOUR TREATMENT, EFFECTIVELY COMING BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR??!?!

I know I can yell 'til I'm blue in the face and that it won't help. Heck, these people are even lost on the fact that Mike Vanderboegh, leader of the Window Smash Movement, collects social security (aka government handouts). They don't even understand or know what they are fighting for.

They claim they are against big government and government intervention, yet they still manage to come up with this award winning stance:

70 percent of those who sympathize with the Tea Party, which organized protests this week against President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, want a federal government that fosters job creation.

They also look to the government to rein in Wall Street, with almost half saying the government should do something about executive bonuses.

Sure sounds like bigger government and government intervention to me!

But hey, what does it matter if something makes sense?