Ignorance and stupidity in the news.

I shouldn't read stuff like this before coffee...it just doesn't pay.

What are they teaching in schools nowadays? How did we get to a point where people know the three stooges better than the three branches of government, and can recognize Harry Potter (and who he is) faster than they do British PM Tony Blair. It's just sad, really sad.

Then, in the same news section (a report by Brit Hume at the fox news web site) Cynthia McKinney tries to blame her election loss on electronic voting machines. Open letter to Cynthia McKinney. If electronic voting machines go away, so does independent voting ability for the blind and visually impaired. You lost, so just get over it, and stop trying to (inadvertently, I admit) rid the blind of access to something as important as the tools to vote independently. As things stood for many, many years, the blind had to ask people to read the ballots and/or punch the holes in the ballots, thus robbing the blind voter of precious privacy. Oh, and BTW Miss (or Mrs.) McKinney? Sad to say, even if I had access to a voting machine, and I were in Georgia, you wouldn't have gotten my vote...especially not after such a paranoid-sounding comment about voting machines.



Oh, and one last mini-rant to the people protesting against Israel over the weekend. How dare you insult the people of Israel by comparing them to the very regime that wanted them exterminated in the 30's and 40's. What an insult! It amazes me because black people would scream about being compared to the KKK, and certain groups of women would pitch a fit if you said they behaved too much like men (I know, weak example...but you get the point), so why should Jews have to put up with being compared to the people who tortured them, drove them from their homes, and killed them by the millions?
This just shows me what the anti-war/anti-Bush/liberal democrat/Hezbollah supporting crowd doesn't understand, and probably never will. Israel is God's chosen people. He is going to protect them from any and all harm, and those who oppose Israel (militarily or otherwise) ought to be very, very careful.

Okay, enough ranting. I'd better stop before the word "liberal" makes me want to spit nails, you know?