Scott Walker Advocates Canadian Border Wall

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican race has exposed his competition as a gaggle of not ready for prime time players. With the Donald soaring in the polls and on the cusp of gaining a stranglehold on the 2016 GOP nomination, the rest of the pack has been turned into stammering stumblebums who are having a very serious problem when it comes to going off script. 

The latest victim of Donald Trump derangement syndrome is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, the union slayer and early winner of the lottery for the Koch Brothers campaign funding, and his self-immolation is getting uglier by the day. Walker hit the Sunday morning McNews show circuit and in attempting to out Trump the Donald seemed to advocate for the building of a border wall between the United States and Canada.

Walker’s comments were made during an interview on NBC’s Press the Meat (aka Meet the Press) and are reported by CNN in the story “Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea”:

It's not just the southern border: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says it's "legitimate" to discuss building a wall separating the United States from Canada, as well.

The Republican presidential contender said the idea of a northern border has come up while he has campaigned in New Hampshire.

In an interview for NBC's "Meet the Press" available online, Walker said his tough talk to securing the borders and enforcing U.S. laws extends to the 5,525-mile Canadian border as well.

It's a shift from most campaign-trail rhetoric, which has focused on the United States' border with Mexico, where millions undocumented immigrants have entered the country.

"Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire," Walker said. "They raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at."

Terrorist attacks have been plotted in Canada -- including the so-called "Millennium plot," a foiled 2000 plan in which an Algerian national planned to cross into the United States from Canada and bomb the Los Angeles International Airport.

Walker has focused his immigration remarks on enforcing U.S. laws already on the books in recent weeks.

There must be much consternation going on over at Koch Industries right now, Trump is poaching talent and Walker can’t stop saying dumb things as he tries to close the gap now that he is trailing in Iowa, a state that he presumably had locked down. There is also that thing about using $250 million in taxpayer funds to pay for a new arena for the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks that reeks of crony capitalism. Now Walker is invoking the terrorist bogeyman to float the idea of what would be an extremely costly northern wall along the Canadian border that does zilch to address the millions of illegal aliens coming up from Mexico to take jobs, drop anchor babies and commit crimes. Trump should have a heyday with this.

This dude is either dumber than a bucket of shit - my suspicion - or he is getting some very, very bad advice from his staff. While Walker can’t be called out as a RINO like Jeb! and so many of the rest of the field, he is going end up as road kill run over by the Trump express just like the others unless he gets a clue and gets it quickly. Charles and David Koch must be pulling their hair out as they watch their longtime investment go up like a flaming bag of dogshit before their eyes. 

Dumbed Down and Out in Obamastan

Not that a population that elects a Teflon-coated bullshit salesman like Emperor Barack Obama and then turns around and actually re-elects him can be deemed to be highly intelligent but there are dumbasses and then there are even dumber dumbasses. A few interesting stories caught my eye over the past few days that are a slice of present day Americana. While these are certainly amusing at face value they offer up a grim testimony of how far that we have fallen as a nation.

First, in honor of the recent Fourth of July/Independence Day weekend, a prodigy from Maine named Devon Staples managed to accidentally suicide himself by shooting off a firework from the top of his head. As reported by AP via Yahoo News “Man shoots off firework from top of his head, dies instantly”:

A 22-year-old man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, killing him instantly, authorities said Sunday.

Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday night in the backyard of a friend's home in eastern Maine, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.

Staples, 22, of Calais, a small city on the Canadian border, placed a reloadable fireworks mortar tube on his head and told his friends he was going to light it, McCausland said. But his friends urged him to stop.

"Apparently, he thought that was a great idea," McCausland said. "His friends they thought dissuaded him from doing it, and the next thing they knew, he ignited the fireworks and he was killed instantly."

Staples's brother Cody told the Daily News of New York that he was a few feet away when his brother lit the firework and was the first to come to his side after it exploded.

"There was no rushing him to the hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there," said 25-year-old Cody Staples, who called it an accident.

"Devon was not the kind of person who would do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do something stupid to make people laugh," he said.

Well nobody was laughing at Devon's career ending trick as an amateur entertainer and it must have been one hell of a fucking mess to clean up as well. Next we go to Texas where another yahoo who had been drinking developed that ten feet tall and made of steel attitude that often goes manifests itself with the potent combination of too much testosterone and excessive boozing was killed by an alligator(s) that he was reported to have been mocking only minutes earlier. As CNN details in the story “Man mocks alligators, jumps in water and is killed in Texas”:

A man who apparently mocked alligators, then jumped in the water -- despite warning signs -- is dead after being attacked in Texas.

Orange County Police were called to Burkart's Marina near the Louisiana state line early Friday morning after reports that Tommie Woodward, 28, and an unidentified woman were swimming in a bayou and had been attacked by a large alligator.

Woodward's body was found several hours later. The woman was not injured.

Orange County Justice of the Peace Rodney Price told CNN affiliate KFDM that Woodward ignored verbal warnings and a posted "No Swimming Alligators" sign and seemed to mock the deadly creatures before going in the water.

"He removed his shirt, removed his billfold ... someone shouted a warning and he said 'blank the alligators' and jumped in to the water and almost immediately yelled for help," Price said.

The "No Swimming Alligators" sign was posted this week after a 10-foot alligator was spotted in the bayou waters.

There is not much to say about someone who is so damned stupid that he would intentionally jump into a body of water that is infested with alligators. Hey, even the pros can get killed interacting with dangerous wildlife as the deceased Steve Irwin aka the “Crocodile Hunter” could attest to were he not stung to death on camera by a poisonous stingray.

Another lurid saga comes out of the great state of Florida where I happen to reside. Hey, the place has its ups and downs as far as where to live – you sure as hell can’t beat the weather during winter – but with a population of nearly 20 million there are a boatload of really dumb and angry people who live here too. A Bradenton man was arrested for "battering" his ex-wife because she chose to masturbate with a dildo rather than have sexual relations with him. The website the Smoking Gun ran the story “Cops: Florida Man Battered Ex-Wife After Accusing Her Of Cheating On Him With A Sex Toy”:

A Florida man battered his ex-wife after accusing her of cheating on him with a sex toy, according to police who arrested him yesterday for domestic battery.

As detailed in a probable cause affidavit, Triston Horne, 36, was visiting his former spouse’s Bradenton home last Wednesday when the pair began to argue. Misty Clark told police that Horne does not live at the residence, though she “does invite him over to the house.”

Clark invited Horne over on July 1 to spend the night because “he was going to take her to work” the following day, cops noted.

While in Clark’s bedroom, the duo quarreled. When Clark repaired to the bathroom, Horne barged in and “began accusing her of cheating on him. He told her that she was cheating on him with a sex toy,” according to the affidavit.

After allegedly twisting Clark’s hand, Horne returned to the bedroom, where he “grabbed Misty’s sex toy and went back to the bathroom.” Horne then "snapped the sex toy in half and walked away."

Sounds like Misty Clark had a reason for choosing the dildo over the dude that went farther than sexual satisfaction. And what would dumbness be without a story that involves our over-policed fascist society although at least the SWAT team didn't get called out for this one. An Ohio woman was arrested after calling 911 to register a complaint about shitty Chinese food. This one also comes from the Smoking gun in the story “Ohio Woman, 44, Arrested For Calling 911 To Complain About Subpar Chinese Food”:

Meet Tracey McCloud.

The 44-year-old Ohio woman was arrested yesterday after she dialed 911 to complain that food she ordered at a Chinese restaurant was not up to her standards.

According to the Alliance Police Department, McCloud called 911 from the Main Moon Chinese Restaurant around 4:30 PM Monday.

When a dispatcher asked, “What’s your emergency?,” McCloud replied, “I had bought some Chinese food and it’s not to par to me.” McCloud explained that restaurant workers were refusing to give her a refund.

The incredulous operator requested the caller’s name and asked, “And this is why you called 911?”

“Umm, what am I supposed to do? Jump over the thing and beat em up and get my money back?,” McCloud responded.

After cops were dispatched to the restaurant, McCloud was arrested for misuse of the 911 system. She is scheduled to appear in Municipal Court on Friday on the misdemeanor charge.

Not to suggest that all or any of these morons are either liberals or actually voted for Obama but they are but a sampling of the hundreds if not thousands of stories of nincompoops that are reported every day in the USA circa 2015. There is an underlying reason for why our institutions are failing that goes beyond the greed, incompetence and corruption of our politicians and bureaucrats. 

What is that old saying about getting the democracy that we deserve? Sucks but this is exactly what we get in a land full of idiots who get dumber by the day and breed like rabbits. Popular culture is chock a block with movies, video games and television shows about a zombie apocalypse but what we really should be terrified of is the already spreading dummy apocalypse.

Police Seeking Georgia Waffle House Masturbator

In another of those strange and sordid tales that exemplify the moral and cultural rot in the star-spangled republic of Obamastan, police are seeking a man who was caught on video while masturbating in a Waffle House restaurant where he was employed. The perp, a 36 year old named  Emanuel Williams is wanted on public indecency charges for the act which took place at a Macon, Georgia location on Monday. Williams is reportedly a convicted felon who had previously served time in prison on sex related charges.

As reported by the New York Daily News in the story “Ex-Waffle House employee wanted after co-worker filmed him masturbating in Georgia diner: cops”:

A Waffle House masturbator is being sought by Georgia police after video surfaced of the since-fired employee pleasuring himself in one of the restaurant's booths, authorities say.

Emanuel Williams, who up until the video's discovery worked at the Macon eatery, was filmed committing the unappetizing act by a coworker Monday who told police "no one would believe her" unless she got it on video, the Smoking Gun reported.

Sure enough, investigators who watched the video say the 36-year-old registered sex offender is "clearly" seen masturbating while facing a window as the repulsed coworker threatens to post the video on the web.

As Williams went at it, his fellow employee claims he told her that he "didn't care" if the video went viral and he "continued on until he masturbated."

The website the Smoking Gun provides more graphic details of Williams’ whipping up of a batch of fresh batter in the story entitled “Police Hunting Waffle House Masturbator”:

Investigators who watched the video reported that it “clearly” shows Williams masturbating and “has a shot of his penis.” While pleasuring himself, Williams was “sitting at a booth facing a window,” according to a Bibb County Sheriff's Office report.

As detailed in a second police report, Williams and a female coworker were the only employees in the eatery Monday when Williams announced that he was preparing to pleasure himself. The woman, who said she was on the phone at the time, told deputies that she did not take Williams seriously.

Upon finishing her call, the woman “walked over to the suspect to see if he really was jacking his penis, and he was,” an investigator reported. The woman said that she began recording Williams with her phone because she “knew no one would believe her” when she later recounted the incident.

“She stated that as she was recording him, she was telling him the whole time that she was recording him and that he was a pervert,” a deputy noted. “She stated that he responded by saying he wasn't a pervert he was just a freak."

Freak, pervert or just plain old compulsive masturbator, Williams was fired from his job with the popular chain. But beware that if he manages to evade the long arm of the law he may soon be working the griddle at a Dennys near you. It gives a whole new meaning to the term "loosely scrambled".

Morning After Super Bowl Hangover: Just Run the F*cking Ball!!

When it comes to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory Mitt Romney has nothing on Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll. With a Super Bowl win a virtual lock and the Seahawks having the ball on the one yard line with one time out and the best short yardage back in football, Carroll dialed up a play that will forever live in infamy. Rather than run the surly “Beast Mode” wrecking ball Marshawn Lynch for the winning score, Carroll ordered a pass play right into the teeth of the Patriots defense. It was intercepted

intercepted by a nameless rookie from a backwater Alabama college. Game over, the Patriots win it all and “Deflategate” gets flushed down the memory hole. Fans in Seattle were so stunned that they didn’t even bother to riot after the game.

Granted that the Super Bowl is just an overhyped football game where the biggest winners are the corporations able to produce the most effective sales pitch with their commercials. It is the bread and circuses of the modern era in an America on the downtrend but for sheer entertainment value it will be tough to beat what went down in Glendale, AZ last night. While it is my personal opinion that pro sporting events and sports team/athlete worship are given a disproportionate amount of importance in an America where celebrity is the coin of the realm, I admit that I am a longtime pro football fan. Super Bowl XLIX more than made up for the dismal 43-8 flogging administered by Seattle to the hapless Peyton Manning led Denver Broncos last year. It was truly a game for the ages and the botched call that delivered the championship to the fast and loose duo of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady will be talked about for decades. It had to be the worst call in Super Bowl, if not NFL history. Suicide hotlines must have been overwhelmed in the Pacific Northwest last night.

The day after has the inevitable dissections of the game by the pundits and so-called “experts” but also the scoring of the commercials. This year’s ad spot costs clocked in at an average of $4.5 million for 30 seconds.  It has been a triumph of enormous proportions to not only get millions of Americans to so accept subtle brainwashing – the very purpose of advertising – but to tune into the Super Bowl just to watch the ads. I know many folks who do this and then babble about the inanities for days after the game is over. Most of the spots are perfectly crafted for a dumbed down public and feature silly, sexed-up Idiocracy style ads that hawk everything from soft drinks to high end automobiles.

Super Bowl advertising may have reached a nadir in terms of sheer tastelessness with the Budweiser farting horse spot years ago but 2015 will be remembered for a spot featuring the death of a child. That’s right, Nationwide Insurance actually ran an ad exploiting the emotions of Americans in order to sell their crappy insurance, not that tact can really be expected from an industry that engages in legal extortion. There was also manufactured celebrity Kim Kardashian in typically self-indulgent fashion hawking T-Mobile while taking “selfies” of her body. Toss in multiple commercials with shit blowing up and more celebrity swill and Monday water cooler conversations should have plenty of fodder.

What is rarely mentioned - especially not by the NFL - are the costs associated with the event, particularly the price of providing security. The Department of Homeland Security has classified the Super Bowl as a Level 1 security event and was pushing the "If you see something, say something" government snitch program in the Phoenix area. According to the computer security website "Naked Security":

Military assets will be used to patrol the airspace above the stadium, and the Federal Aviation Administration announced that the Super Bowl is strictly a "no drone zone."

On the ground, fans will see public awareness messages on billboards, in hotels, on buses, and within the stadium telling them: "If you see something, say something."

Naturally there will be screenings to gain entry to the stadium - spectators will go through metal detectors and patdowns by security guards - but fans will be monitored in other ways, too.

Phoenix-based Climatec announced that it had deployed high-definition cameras to provide "complete situational awareness" throughout the stadium.

The Secret Service will also be monitoring social media sites such as Facebook and Al Jazeera Blog, searching for keywords such as "black out," according to Nextgov.
Nuclear device-sniffing and BioWatch monitoring systems will be on hand to detect radiological or biological attacks.

And 4,000 private security personnel will supplement the 3,000 member local police force, who have all been trained in behavioral analysis to identify suspicious activity.
It's difficult to put a price tag on all this security, especially considering that the NFL and the federal government don't disclose how much it's costing.

While the costs are kept from the taxpayers the New York/New Jersey area in which last year's Super Bowl game was played reportedly spent upwards of $100 million for security and other associated outlays. But despite all of the security at Metlife Stadium, a 9/11 "truther" was still able to get into the post game press conference and hijack the microphone from MVP Malcolm Smith. As with the rest of the cash cow Global War on Terror (GWOT) all of the pricey "security" that taxpayers are socked for may not be as good as advertised.  The host city does indeed experience a temporary economic lift from the game but it may not be such a good deal when the final bill is tallied up long after the tourists have departed.

Once the clock struck zero, MVP Tom Brady pranced around with the Lombardi trophy wearing the smug look of a man who knows that Deflategate will now just fade away and that his legacy has been secured. The NFL’s crackerjack public relations wizards have been spinning all week to downplay what was very likely cheating by the Patriots organization. Influential New England owner Robert Kraft essentially threatened NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell with the loss of his $44 million salary if he didn’t publicly apologize or in layman’s terms, kiss the asses of Kraft, Brady and Belichick. The latest on the scandal that should result in an asterisk being added to the Patriots' world champion title is that the league now claims that only one football was seriously deflated. They also have apparently settled on going with the “lone gunman” explanation by placing the blame on a doddering ball handler. But of course cheating pays in America, especially when combined with dumb-assery like Pete Carroll’s ill-fated passing play.

As loathsome as the Patriots may be for pushing the envelope on the rules, many likely enjoyed seeing the smack-talking Seahawks get their comeuppance. The team is a mouthy, undisciplined bunch that is always guaranteed to draw stupid penalties for their on field antics and cheap shots. Before Pete Carroll blew it with his decision to not run the damn ball, infractions greatly assisted the Patriots' fourth quarter comeback including a costly 15 yard personal foul penalty by Earl Thomas. Usually the defense is good enough to overcome the idiotic flags that they regularly draw but injuries and a big time performance by Brady cost them Sunday. And they still should have won the game if only they had run the damned ball.

Wide receiver Doug Baldwin exemplified the classless attitude of the Seahawks with his end zone celebration where he took a pretend dump using the ball as his turd in the third quarter. This sort of thing used be funny back in junior high school but shows a disrespect for both the game and decent society. 

Then there is Lynch's crotch grabbing, Richard Sherman's antics and a myriad of other acts that are unprofessional and insulting. Who knows, maybe Lynch would have fumbled the ball trying to grab his balls before crossing the goal line anyway rendering Carroll's call moot. The post game fighting doesn't exactly portray the Seahawks as good sportsmen either.

Football season is now officially over.

Star Spangled Schmucks Cheer "The Interview" on Christmas Day

The war on Christmas met the unwinnable war on stupidity with the massively overhyped movie The Interview selling out in theaters across the fruited plain on Christmas Day. After a solid week of constant media and official government propaganda selling what now appears to be a hoax the stuffed to the seams stocking full of tastelessness and stupid dick jokes was incredibly turned into a  bizarre“freedom of speech” crusade. We have now passed the point of no return on our long slow crawl towards the dystopian dumbassery of Idiocracy. Nothing shows how free that we are than the patriotic fervor whipped up to defend the rights of a Japanese company to make money selling garbage to Americans.

Give one thing to the repressive dictatorship in North Korea in that they don’t have to work quite so hard to feed propaganda to their people as the U.S. government does. On the day when the world celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ (smothered in consumerism) Americans turned out in droves, dressed up like fools and waving their made in China American flags to strike a blow for “freedom”.  As reported in a story from the website of Reuters entitled “Sony's 'Interview' draws U.S. moviegoers who trumpet free speech”:

"The Interview," the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day, drawing many sell-out audiences and statements by patrons that they were championing freedom of expression.

Co-directors Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, who also co-stars in the low-brow comedy with James Franco, surprised moviegoers by appearing at the sold-out 12:30 a.m. PT screening of the movie at a theater in Los Angeles, where they briefly thanked fans for their support.

Sony Pictures this week backtracked from its original decision to cancel the release of the $44 million film after major U.S. theater chains pulled out because of threats of violence by Guardians of Peace, a computer hacking group that claimed responsibility for a destructive cyberattack on Sony last month.

AND

An afternoon screening at the Van Nuys Regency Theatres in the city's San Fernando Valley was two-thirds full and drew a diverse crowd ranging from teens to senior citizens, who laughed loudly throughout at Rogen and Franco's antics.

"It was much better than I thought it would be," said Carlos Royal, 45, a professor who came with a friend dressed in Santa hats and took selfies for the occasion in front of the theater's Hollywood sign marquis. "I wanted to support the U.S."

The movie, which is playing in theaters in major metropolitan areas as well as in smaller cities ranging from Bangor, Maine, to Jasper, Indiana, features Rogen and Franco as journalists who are recruited by the CIA to assassinate the North Korean leader.

In Asia, online audiences seemed to find the movie tedious.

"There is no drama and not much fun," said a blogger in South Korea. "It's all about forced comedy that turns you off. Couldn't they have done a better job making this movie?"

The Christmas Day premieres were the culmination of what appears to be one of the sleaziest domestic propaganda campaigns in American history. While the true story of the alleged North Korea hacking and vague “terrorist” threats against theaters may never be known there are by now enough holes in the official government fairy tale to show that Americans have been punked again. Whether our trustworthy “leaders" - President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry –were both sucked into the big con or were a part of it from the get go is open for speculation. Both were able to make big gains though, especially setting up the inevitable shoving of yet another Draconian restrictions on free speech in the waiting in the wings cybersecurity bill down the throats of the sheeple.

But sheep, even if they wrap themselves up in red, white and blue trappings are at the end of the day still sheep and as such are easily led to the slaughterhouse. A Washington Post story on the big event entitled “Seeing ‘The Interview’ on Christmas, for fun and patriotism” shows  just how easy it is to dupe the idiots:

From D.C. to Culpeper, they left their cozy Christmases at home to head out to a Manassas movie theater and — they said — to stand up for free speech.

“I’d normally be making music with my boys on Christmas,” said Ron Oley, 64, of Manassas. But this year, he told them that he wouldn’t be showing up at the recording studio. He had to see “The Interview,” a Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy around which a real-life drama has swirled for weeks.

North Korea didn’t like the story line, a plot to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong Un. Sony Pictures Entertainment was so deeply embarrassed by revelations after hackers broke into the company’s computer systems that it briefly hesitated to release the movie.

“This is a free country. I’m sorry they don’t have that over in their country, but we do. I’m an American,” Oley said while he waited in line at the concession stand.

I am sure that Mr. Oley is unable to see the irony in his silly statement of defiance that he was so easily manipulated to abandon his family on Christmas Day to put money into the pockets of a foreign company but as he says this is a "free country". With a populace like this it is easy to see how we have ended up with the Patriot Act as well as an Orwellian NSA surveillance state that expands daily. There really is nothing quite as pathetic as seeing morons boasting that the dictator Kim Jong Un doesn't tell them what to do yet so meekly surrendering their own civil liberties to a government that is far more refined in it's methods.

Merry Christmas and God Bless America Too!!

Harvard Professor's Jihad Against Chinese Restaurant Over $4 Backfires

One reason why America is going to hell in a bucket is that the political establishment is jam-packed with Ivy League snobs who look down on ordinary citizens. The two centers of power in the USA, Wall Street and Washington D.C. are filled with graduates of elitist asshole factories like Harvard, Princeton and Yale who revel in their superiority. Big egos with pedigrees always know better than the unwashed  rabble and never refrain from shouting it from the mountaintops and even worse – implementing policy. Such people are responsible for the squandering of America’s credibility, a loss of morality, endless bankrupting wars, a financial system that is a total scam and unable to  function without government support and the creeping fascist state. 

Not all Ivy League products are able to make it to the big time and they walk among us. They have no less sense of entitlement and over-inflated sense of self-importance though and some may be a bit bitter that they didn’t make the cut to enter the halls of power. An example of such jackassery has been getting attention lately in the case of Ben Edelman who is an associate professor at Harvard Business School.  Mr. Edelman – who can’t be lacking in dough – went completely batshit after realizing that he had been overcharged a measly four dollars by a local Chinese eatery.

As reported by Boston.com in a story entitled “Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Professor, Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food”:

Last week, Edelman ordered what he thought was $53.35 worth of Chinese food from Sichuan Garden’s Brookline Village location.

Edelman soon came to the horrifying realization that he had been overcharged. By a total of $4.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a Harvard Business School professor thinks a family-run Chinese restaurant screwed him out of $4, you’re about to find out.

(Hint: It involves invocation of the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Statute and multiple threats of legal action.)

The story shows a series of emails between Edelman and the proprietor Ran Duan who was featured in stories in Boston Magazine and GQ and seems to be a great example of an immigrant who did it the right way. It seems that the egomaniac Edelman bit off more than he could chew as the story went viral, appearing on such varied websites as CNN,  Fox News, CNBC, The Guardian, The Washington Times, Gawker, Infowars, Raw Story and dozens of others. It seems like there is actually one thing that does unite Americans these days and it is a loathing of elitists getting over on the besieged working folks.

Edelman's idiotic overreaction also sparked a social media barrage and like most bullies the pride of Harvard backed down. Seems like the publicity over his tantrum may not have been good for business (he moonlights as an attorney) and he apologized. As the Washington Post reports "Harvard Business School professor apologizes for e-mail rant over a $4 overcharge":

After having seen the matter referred to the court of public opinion, where he has not fared particularly well, Edelman now says he’s sorry for the hubbub.

In an apology  posted Wednesday afternoon on his Web site, Edelman wrote: “Having reflected on my interaction with Ran, including what I said and how I said it, it’s clear that I was very much out of line. I aspire to act with great respect and humility in dealing with others, no matter what the situation. Clearly I failed to do so. I am sorry, and I intend to do better in the future.”

Edelman, who is an attorney in addition to a professor, said that he’s reached out to Duan and plans to personally apologize to him.

Score one for small business owners as well as against those once referred to by Spiro Agnew as an "effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals". The trouble may not be over for Edelman though, a new story at Boston.com, "There’s More: Edelman Did This Before, And Worse" shows that the man may have quite a history of such harassing behavior.

By the way, it is no coincidence that the biggest asshole in America is a Harvard Law School product. 

Emperor Obama Golfs While America Crawls Towards the Abyss of History

More than anything else, the failure of nearly all of America’s institutions – rotted through with moral corruption - signals the coming downfall of a once great country gone to seed. Rome itself went through an extended period of sleazy decadence before the empire finally collapsed in upon itself and we are on well the way there now. Thanks to the lamentable two terms of Barack H. Obama in the White House and his managing to make even a retard like fucking George W. Bush look good in retrospect we have now rounded the curve of the downtrend of American society and are careening towards the collapse. This is late stage capitalism turned in upon itself and it reminds me of that old Stephen King short story "Survivor Type" where the dude is shipwrecked on a deserted island and has to hack off and eat parts of his own body in order to survive.  

The recent news that the beloved comedian and actor Bill Cosby may been a cruel and vile serial rapist of the worst type is the latest example of how idols have dropped like flies in this new American century. There are many other examples as well. Take Joe Paterno who was for decades viewed as the very avatar of morality as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. It turned out that Paterno was guilty of turning his back on a heinous child molestation scandal involving a longtime top coach, Jerry Sandusky that could have cost the university millions in television and athletic program money. Paterno died in disgrace, a broken man and the Cosby situation eerily mirrors that of Jo Pa but that is just the way we roll anymore.

It is hard to think of any institution in this country that has not been sullied by greed, immorality, big government corruption and the filth that regularly gets vomited up out of the electronic crack pipe that is television. We are a meaner, dumber and more self-centered nation than ever before in history and we can largely thank our elites and the failed political system for it all. Now as we approach Thanksgiving Day perhaps we can take a look at how truly little that there is to be thankful for , that is unless you are one of the lucky shoppers who will be first in line for this year's Black Friday doorbuster sales. 

So in recognizing the coming nadir of the American empire that our putrid leadership and thoroughly debauched culture have led to I would like to recommend an article featured at the libertarian website Zero Hedge. I excerpt from the piece, which is entitled “10 Examples Of The Social Decay That Is Eating Away At America Like Cancer”:

It isn’t just our economy that is crumbling.  Something is happening to America that no amount of money will be able to fix.  Everywhere around us we can see evidence of the social decay that is systematically eating away at the foundations of our society.  It can be found on the streets of our inner cities, in dark basements in extremely rural communities, in the most prestigious boardrooms on Wall Street, and definitely in the halls of power in Washington.   Bringing in an entirely different crop of politicians or printing gigantic mountains of money is not going to solve this problem, because it exists in the hearts of millions of ordinary men and women.  The truth is that we really need to take a good, long look at ourselves in the mirror, because we need to take a 180 degree turn as a nation.  What we are doing now is clearly not working, and the longer that we take to address this problem the worse it is going to get.  The following are 10 examples of the social decay that is eating away at America like cancer.  Individually, they could be dismissed as isolated incidents.  But I could have easily listed 100 examples or 1000 examples.  Every single day, we are inundated with reports like these.  The symptoms of the decay of our society are all around us.  We just have to be willing to look at them…

The piece, written by Michael Snyder of the blog “Economic Collapse” comes up with only ten examples of our social decay but they are serve as powerful glimpse into a nation that has lost it’s very soul. Mr. Snyder writes of an obese Wal-Mart shopper who attempted to steal steaks by hiding them under his fat ass on his motorized scooter. There is also the lurid tale of a Florida woman who killed, dismembered and cooked her neighbor, possibly one of the dumbest spousal murders in modern history, an Ohio pervert capturing and turning women into his personal sex slaves and a woman who was raped and then set on fire in Wichita, Kansas. You just cannot make shit like this up and the most disturbing thing is that on any given day there are literally hundreds of news stories as sick as these and even worse.

But America shrugs and continues to follow jackals and jackasses the likes of Obama off the edge of the cliff and into the great abyss of history. 

Idiocracy: Obama Official Doesn't Know Geography of Country U.S. is to Bomb

In a sign of our sad times of moral and intellectual decline, a White House official involved in a briefing with reporters prior to dear leader's big speech on ISIS divulged the dismal quality of this administration. Going to war is a gravely serious matter and launching a new one - as Obama did with his nationally televised decree - should be seriously thought out. Shooting from the hip, particularly in an election year when politics take priority over reasonable decision making should be forbidden. There are long-term consequences to the nation as well as lives at risk whenever there is a commitment to go to war and it is not something that should be taken lightly nor presided over by idiots.

We are talking about dealing in American blood and treasure here and if our servicemen and women are to be sent into battle in a foreign land the very least that they can expect is that there will be the utmost of competence by those who dispatch them there. It is very hard to find such competence when an administration is as packed with morons, lackeys, cronies, ass-kissers and buffoons as this one is. The case in point being that someone within the Obama Department of Dumbassery doesn't even understand the simple geography of a country that is about to be bombed by the U.S. military.

According to a story in The Washington Post entitled "White House struggles with Mideast geography":

Maybe before they extend the airstrikes against the Islamic State too far, the White House might want to double check the geography.

Obama administration officials, briefing reporters before the president’s Wednesday night televised speech, made it clear that borders, especially the border between Syria and Iraq, will not be an impediment to U.S. airstrikes.

Speaking “on background,” one official said, “We are dealing with an organization that operates freely across the border, so we will not be restrained by that border in our determination to conduct airstrikes against ISIL (or IS or ISIS or the Islamic State).”

Then a second official reemphasized that a number of countries in the region were worried about the ISIS threat moving across borders. One of the briefers noted that the terrorist army “has been I think a galvanizing threat around the Sunni partners in the region. They view it as an existential threat to them. Saudi Arabia has an extensive border with Syria.”

This was truly news. So we checked our own maps. No, Saudi Arabia doesn’t have an extensive border with Syria. Jordan has a rather large chunk of land between them.

Can somebody please start the impeachment proceedings now?  Rank and file, low-information types calling for military action against a country that they are unable to identify on a map is understandable. However, when it comes to government officials the bar should be set much higher. It is like we have finally reached the point where the cult-classic movie Idiocracy has become a prophecy as to the future of America.

Jesus H. Christ, we are totally fucked!