Useful Fools

Some Arizonans (Democrats, of course) are proposing to use some lottery profits to create an incentive for voting… by turning voting itself into a lottery”

…would reward one lucky voter with $1 million from the state Lottery every two years.

Just what we need… ignorant people sending in randomly marked ballots in a faint hope of winning the lottery.

That people believe it should be easy to vote is indicative of the rise of the idiotarian left in our society! Voting should be important. If you don’t care enough to work at it, you shouldn’t do it. But don’t tell that to the liberals - they aren’t so fond of work in the first place.

They created motor-voter laws, so you don’t have to go out of your way to vote, increasing registration of lazy people for Democrats. This same trick allows non-citizens and illegal aliens who get driver’s licenses (there are many) to vote. Another idiocy allows absentee and early voting without a compelling reason, so you don’t have to even been seen voting (increasing the odds of voter fraud - helping Democrats).

Now they want people to vote so they might win a lottery? Only fools would vote just to win a lottery, again increasing votes by Democratic leaning voters (although who they actually vote for is questionable… they may be no more competent than Florida’s year 2000 voters).

Voting used to be a social function. You went to your precinct, were verified (an alien, so to speak, concept) and cast your vote. Now we are turning it into gambling?

Of course, when one reads in the article that the same group wants to dramatically increase per-pupil educational spending (a long disproven attempt to improve educational success), the suspicion that these folks are idiots confirmed!

Pah!!

North Korea has apparently agreed to six-way talks, a result the US has been trying for months to achieve.

Now comes the fun…
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Assume you are a fanatic Islamist - say, Bin Laden himself (If you really are, please stop reading and turn yourself in to the nearest U.S. Marine). You still have quite an organization and probably a lot of money salted away. You want to do the worst possible damage to the non-lunatic (i.e. non-Islamist) world. You notice that Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, has a nuke for sale.

The question is: after you buy it, where do you set it off?

Read on to see my choice…
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Sometimes Ann Coulter goes over the top (like naming her book “Treason.”)

This, on the other hand, is just plain funny and sadly, correct (and, of course, guaranteed to infuriate the left).

For example:

Al-Qaida has apparently sized up the new security measures put into place by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta and has discovered some areas of vulnerability. Among the weaknesses the terrorists hope to exploit is the fact that airlines are prohibited from looking for Arab terrorists.

Enjoy!

The Washington Times reports that stores are making rebates easy to spend.

WOW,I thought! I can go buy a disk drive or other widget and actually spend the rebate!
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Bill Quick (Daily Pundit) is conducting pledge week. Useful Fools doesn’t have a tip jar. However, if you’ve ever felt like there’s been something on this site that’s worthy of a contribution, please consider a contribution to Bill Quick instead. It wouldn’t be the blogosphere without him.

(If these words look familiar, it’s because I stole the whole item from Zonitics, because I agree with his sentiment, and beyond that, am shameless.)

Do you remember former Senator William Proxmire’s “Golden Fleece Award?” The was handed out to silly sounding scientific projects - projects usually with real value. But that didn’t bother Proxmire, who regularly bathed in the resulting publicity. Responsible scientists despised the man and his grandstanding.

Something similar is afoot with the Pentagon’s “Terrorism Futures Market.”
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I heartily recommend the Chief Wiggles blog.

The Chief is working with Iraqi POWs in the Middle East. His blog describes his work, his thoughts about it and his feelings. Not only is the blog fascinating, but his attitude towards his work and his wards represents the best of America. He is a thoughtful, humane man with a hard job to do, and he puts deep thought and vast experience into doing so. He then writes it up in an eloquent and moving fashion.

Here is an excerpt which describes his professional background and attitude:

To continue my remarks regarding our treatment of prisoners, I can only speak from my own experience and from my own perspective relating to the area of the process that I am responsible for. I am an interrogation team chief, senior interrogator, been in the Army National Guard for the past 33 years. I have been on two deployments, two wars, and been on over 40 exercises in South Korea. I have personally participated in or witnessed countless interrogations of all types of detainees or sources. In all my years I have never witnessed or felt a need to use inhumane or cruel punishment in order to extract intelligence from the individual. Quite on the contrary, I personally feel that the utilization of psychological approaches is by far more affective in obtaining true information. Gaining the prisoners trust and respect is by far the most affective method

Read his blog and be thankful that this man is serving our nation!

I found a new blog well worth reading.

Just as my blog friend Jon Ray keeps track of PC madness and in general dissects leftism with Aussie flair and an academic expert’s knowledge, Greg Yardley applies his expertise to commiewatch, focusing specifically on the American communist left.

Greg used to be a member of a communist organization before he saw the light, and he knows what he is talking about.

The “commies” are still out there, nasty and crazy as ever. Greg’s expertise in the subject is demonstrated by his staff position with David Horowitz’s Center for the Study of Popular Culture.

Check it out!.

An old article on this blog has stirred up a heated discussion with a self-identified German lawyer. I think it is quite interesting as a look into the mind of one apparently educated German who is apparently very angry at America and our “arrogance.”

I don’t know quite what to make of this, but it is interesting.

See this article and the following comment section.

Feel free to chime in… but please try to preserve decorum!