Apparently American adults are stupid

166,000 adults in 20 countries were tested in basic problem solving skills such as tip calculation, e-mail sorting, and car mileage. The dumb US adult population scored dismally compared to other first-world countries. 

I would have predicted this very outcome 100 times out of 100. What else would you expect from a population, many of whom regard the government paternally, is obsessed with stupid celebrities, and elected not once but twice, an utterly unaccomplished community organizer as President? 

Of course, the world knew we were a nation of drooling, mouth-breathing idiots even before we were tested.

John Kerry looks like an aging lesbian

John Kerry took Obama's place at the Asian-Pacific Economic Summit today, presumably so Obama could stay home and shoo veterans away from their memorials.

Kerry's primary mission is to reassure the Chinese and Japanese that the US fully intends to honor it's enormous debt to these two countries as the debt ceiling will have been reached by next Thursday the 17th. The US can either raise the debt ceiling or print some more money, devaluing what we have already. Neither is a good option for our creditors as the value of the bonds they hold will drop as well.

China holds trillions of dollars in US debt. If you were China and you wanted face-to-face reassurances of US credit-worthiness, would what looks like an aging lesbian dancing around in that shirt really be all that reassuring?

President Deplorable

Today on the "closed" national mall there is an SEIU-sponsored illegal-alien demonstration so illegals can complain about how badly they're treated. Boo frickin' hoo! 

Obama is allowing people whose first act in this country was to spit on our laws, to use the closed park, but elderly veterans who've traveled across the country to visit their fallen brothers at war memorials are being chased away by verminous park-service rangers. 

But I guess you democrats are A-OK with this since having voted for a black guy lets you sleep smugly at night without guilt for being born white. 

I'd like for somebody to make the case, and with a straight face, that Obama isn't the most corrupt, lying, despicable goon that ever held public office.

Jerry Brown commits state suicide

The idiot governor of moribund California just signed that state's death warrant by officially making all of California a sanctuary state for illegal aliens. He's already started a mass exodus of businesses by raising taxes to pay for union labor contracts and immigrant entitlement programs. Who's going to pay for the flood of illegals that will overwhelm that state's public services? 

I'll give you one guess, the rest of the country will pay for it. California will need bailing out in just a few short years and all Americans will be on the financial hook for their lunacy. 

If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor.....
If you cross into China illegally, you are considered a spy and you get prison time.....
If you cross into Germany illegally, you get a hefty fine, work it off or pay it off, then get deported.....
If you cross into England illegally, you immediately get arrested then deported.....
If you cross into Iran illegally, you are detained indefinitely.....
But if you cross the US border illegally you get at the expense of others......

1. A drivers license
2. A social security card
3. Welfare
4. Food stamps
5. Free health care
6. Free education
7. Free breakfast and lunch for your kids
8. A license to practice law if you want one
9. And if ACORN can work it, voter registration

What kind of President?

First Obama arbitrarily closed open-air monuments and cemeteries in France to visitors. Then he pointlessly closed the road to Lake Meade, effectively preventing an elderly couple from accessing their home. Then he shut down the Amber Alert system, evidently hoping a child would be abducted, raped, and murdered so he and the despicable media could blame it on republicans. Now, he's even closed the ocean around Florida's Biscayne Bay.

Because the Bay is technically a national park, NPS officers have been told to prevent any boats from using the 1,100 square miles of open ocean for fishing or recreation. Seriously?

What kind of deplorable man would do this to his own people just to score political points with the media?

Good grief what a horrible person Obama is!

Media pulling out all the stops to promote Obamacare sign-up

Heh heh, how pathetic is it that on the day when all 310 million of us are supposed to log on to the Obamacare exchange sites and happily buy insurance from our paternal government, the lapdog media could only find one kid who actually did it. And then that kid, Chad Henderson from Flintstone, Ga, turns out to be an Organized For Action volunteer. (OFA is an organization that mobilizes the young and stupid for Obama)

More hilariously, Chad never actually bought a policy. He looked at them, but he didn't actually buy one. So to demonstrate how wonderful Obamacare is, the media could only find one kid who attempted it and even he didn't buy anything.

Giant Chinese hornet, possibly worse than killer bees

This is the giant Chinese hornet or Vespa mandarinia. In three villages, it has killed in three years, 41 people and injured like 1,600. This terrifying hornet is highly aggressive and uses a large black tooth on the front of its mandible to burrow into the victim and inject its toxic venom. The venom is extremely potent and kills flesh leaving huge holes in the flesh, and destroys red blood cells so quickly that if the victim is attacked by multiple hornets, enough venom might be injected so that the kidneys and liver can fail, that is if the victim survives the anaphylactic shock from the venom's toxicity.

Good grief! I have an elevated sensitivity to normal yellow-jacket stings. I can't imagine living in a part of the world where this was an environmental threat. My skin is crawling just thinking about these things in my yard.

Mesa, Az parents affected by the desert heat apparently

This is how absurd the zero-tolerance, anti-gun hysteria at US schools has gotten. In Mesa, Az. a uniformed police officer dropped his daughter off at school and some deranged, hysterical parents evidently were terrified that he had a gun on his hip. The moron that serves as the principal actually called the officer and asked him not to wear his uniform on school grounds again.

If you're terrified of a school shooting, isn't a police officer in uniform the BEST thing you can imagine being at your school every morning?

No doubt the principal also called all the violent lunatics in town and asked them not to bring guns to the elementary school, just to be fair.

If this guy shows up at your kid's school, wouldn't you want an armed police officer there?

Muslims' self-esteem hit hard by shutdown

Of NASA's 18,000 employees, 17,500 were deemed non-essential and were furloughed during the shutdown. The remaining 500 work on the Space Station project keeping astronauts alive.....I'd say that was essential.

What did the rest do, work on Obama's Muslim Outreach Program to make Muslims feel good about their entirely imaginary historical contributions to math, science, medicine, literature, the arts, philosophy, technology, architecture, engineering, etc.? Muslims' self-esteem must be suffering now that no NASA personnel are available to lie to them about their usefulness to the world.

I think we can do without those 17,000 people on the payroll. In the embarrassing absence of a flight program, NASA has but three jobs to do in my opinion, 500 for keeping people alive on the ISS, 75 for running the Space Camp in Huntsville, and like 6 or 7 for keeping an eye out for aliens.....so that's 582 people that are doing anything worthwhile over at NASA these days. 

Railroaded toward a collectivist oligarchy

Fed up reader David had this to offer this morning:

"The Fed government is partially shut down. First, despite warnings of the sky falling, I doubt few will notice. In a way I'm glad for the shut down. I think it demonstrates just how f#cked up our politicians are. I mean they haven't produced a budget in years, they are paralyzed buy their differences so as to be ineffective. I hope the silver lining to the shut down is that they are all voted out of office, republicans and democrats. Really, this is no way to run a country.

Oh, and I was sick listening to all the talk about the affordable healthcare act. The first words out of their mouths were the admission that no one knew how much it was going to cost. And then they would quickly shift to talks of federal subsidies for those with need, WTF! If it's so affordable why all the talk about subsidies? I was sick with anger at the stupidity of all the reporters as they talked about this. Is it just me or do people really not see what's going on?"


David

My good friend Dave has a right to be pissed. The Tea Party sees what's going on in 20/20 vision, but the vast majority of Obama voters do not. The media know, but they view themselves as part of the elite ruling class, above the burdened daily lives of the vast unwashed underclass to which we belong. And they have too much professionally invested in the perceived success of the first black President to dare question his motives or even the disastrous outcomes. 

The quisling American media are unembarrassed by their support of European-style collectivism being imposed on the US, so they'll support Obama no matter what he does and blame intransigent Tea Party republicans for anything that goes wrong. 

Regular reader Isaac asked simply, "Where is John Galt"?

Where is our John Galt, where indeed?