Comments | therealjae: World Stupidity Awards redux

therealjae

World Stupidity Awards redux

Jul 23, 2005 06:35

The results of this year's World Stupidity Awards have been announced, and the stupidest statement of the year is deemed to be George W. Bush's: "They never stop thinking of ways of harming America, and neither do we." Unfortunately, the quote was a little bit off; the original blunder was actually: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and ( Read more... )

general politics, silly

Comments 13

buhrger July 23 2005, 13:23:51 UTC

thanks to therealjae for a bit of a giggle [however cynical] at the beginning of the day!

nubianamy July 23 2005, 14:05:44 UTC

Those quotes are just appallingly bad.

Hmm, conservative columnist Ann Coulter won the award as Stupidest Man of the Year.

supergee July 23 2005, 14:38:55 UTC

Home court advantage.

laurashapiro July 23 2005, 18:13:34 UTC

What is Canada's award based on, though? How is your government especially stupid? Is it the scandal in the Liberal party that they're referring to? Cuz you have to get up pretty early in the morning to be stupider than the U.S. government.

therealjae July 23 2005, 19:00:24 UTC

Well, using the American rather than the Canadian definition of 'government' (i.e., 'the sum total of elected officials in Ottawa' rather than 'the prime minister and his cabinet'), I suspect the cumulative events of April and May in Canadian federal politics were more than enough to put things over the top.

Honestly, if I'd voted, I think I might have voted for Canada myself this year. Corruption scandals, secret taping scandals, lovers splitting up when one of them switches parties, colossal amounts of namecalling, the ruling party doing everything short of backflips to stay in power, the list goes on and on. I don't know, it all seemed pretty stupid to me. Not horrific policy-wise, but definitely stupid.

-J

laurashapiro July 23 2005, 20:37:22 UTC

Sounds like I have a lot of research to do. (:

therealjae July 23 2005, 20:38:22 UTC

Hey, it was all in my journal. ;-)

-J

Thread 6

lcohen July 27 2005, 02:41:30 UTC

um, congrats?

i remain depressed that we elected a president that i could lick in a battle of wits with one lobe tied behind my back.

therealjae July 27 2005, 15:45:50 UTC

Eek. Please don't use the phrase "we elected a president I could lick" in my journal; it's a little upsetting. ;-)

-J

lcohen July 27 2005, 15:51:06 UTC

*collapses in giggles*

how about "a president i could best?" or even "beat?"

therealjae July 27 2005, 15:52:56 UTC

or even "beat?"

Bwahaha! *snerk*

-J