Probably the only good thing to ever come out of California (besides In-n-Out), the bacon wrapped hot dog, is a doomed foodstuff.

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Just fall off into the Pacific already. We don't need you in this country.

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This boggles the mind.

A man heckling First Lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna outside the 92nd Street Y was arrested after he punched a wheelchair-bound girl whose parents had told him to shut up, authorities said yesterday. German Talis, 22, was shouting obscenities at the Bushes, who were leaving the building Tuesday, when he crossed paths with Wendy and John Lovetro and their daughter Maureen, 18, who has cerebral palsy.

They had been in the audience to hear the Bushes talk about their children's book, "Read All About It."

"He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, 'What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,' " said John Lovetro. "He was unperturbed. I said, 'Get out of here! You're being a moron!' "

The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen - a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004.

"I heard my daughter hysterical yelling, 'He's hitting me!' " said Wendy Lovetro.

"He punched her on the shoulder blades, but that wasn't enough," she said.

"My husband pushed the wheelchair away from him and he reached beyond my husband and began pounding my daughter in the thigh." {...}

Pardon the language, but WHAT THE FUCK?

Apparently it's all right to start punching a young lady who's been put in a wheelchair by cerebral palsy when her family tells you to stop heckling the First Lady and her daughter? Oh, yeah, you're the big man, aren't you? Striking a blow for Free Speech by putting the smackdown on a crippled young woman? This is the best way to get your point about the "atrocities" in Iraq across? What are you doing? Trading brutality for brutality?

What the fuck?

There are days when I want eugenics and I want them now, simply because idiots like this one would be the first ones to go.

{ht: Laura W. over at Ace's)

Posted by: Kathy at 08:51 AM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
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While there have been some pretty dumb letters to the editor over the course of publishing history, I think this dude takes the cake...or at least comes pretty close to doing so.

Sir, As a former US Army Reserve officer who witnessed the Cuban missile crisis, I find it abhorrent that George W. Bush presses vigorously for Nato membership of two countries bordering Russia. Compounding his lack of depth is his proposal to install missile defence systems in east European countries. The Cuban crisis was as close to global nuclear war as anything I have seen. We were ready to drop bombs. A war was averted because clear minds prevailed.

Now, let us imagine how the Russians feel when their “spheres of influence” spanning centuries are threatened. The Soviet Union lost millions of citizens during the second world war, and we Americans had little or no comprehension of that horror. We were separated from much of the world's anguish by thousands of miles of ocean. But Russians recoil today as they see their borders menaced.

In the name of democracy, Mr Bush is exporting his brand of governance to many regions, including the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. It may be a laudable goal to some observers, but we know the results and the consequences. It is time for clear minds to prevail.

William Sprecher,
Fairfax, VA 22033, US

{my emphasis}

Poor widdle Wussia.

By this guy's reasoning, any eastern European country should be left to the whims of Russia, because---ahem---we've failed to understand how badly the Russians suffered during Hitler's eastern campaign in WWII. The Russians are only acting belligerently because they're scared that NATO's going to invade, just like Hitler did when he reneged on the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Never mind the Cold War, even though he prominently references it; it apparently never happened. Heck, the Cuban Missile Crisis was probably our fault for daring to dream that there---ahem---shouldn't be Russian nuclear missiles ninety-miles off our coast! Bad America! We failed to understand how damaging Stalingrad had been to the Russian psyche, so we deserved to be blown to bits!

One wonders how hard Putin laughed after he read this.

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