Cowards

Joe Teh Plumber at CPAC, talking about shooting members of congress. It's not a joke. The link includes a video.

I know that threatening the President is a crime, but isn't it also a crime to threaten members of Congress? I'm not sure about that.

Joe is a Conservative "hero", but in actuality, he's a coward. It's amazing to me how mentally damaged these people are.. talking tough about violence on other people all the time.. constantly dreaming of killing.. guns.. destroying cities.. when in fact, they are cowards.. total cowards who do not have the balls to stand up in a real fight.

Joe the tax dodging not-really-a-plumber wants to shoot members of Congress.. Really?

I seem to recall that Federal agents used to infiltrate and investigate anti-war peace groups. I wonder what they might do with people who threaten Congressmen.

Still, it's 5 weeks into the Obama administration. These are some seriously deranged individuals.. crazy.. just completely off their rocker crazy.. and it's quite apparent they are highly dangerous. But Joe is the Republican poster child. uneducated.. anti-intellectual.. just basically a very stupid person.. and a model of the new Conservative movement.

And Rush Limbaugh rules their world.

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And speaking of depravity;

Nobody knows depravity like Elie Wiesel knows depravity.

And does he ever see it in Bernie Madoff.

Wiesel, whose charitable foundation was wiped out by Madoff, has until now mostly kept quiet about the alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme. But today, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient spoke passionately about his betrayal by Madoff, whom he referred to variously as "a crook, a thief, a scoundrel," as well as a "swindler" and "evil."

Wiesel acknowledged that in addition to having lost his foundation's assets, he lost his personal wealth to Madoff. "All of a sudden, everything we have done in forty years--literally, my books, my lectures, my university salary, everything—was gone," he said during a panel discussion hosted by Condé Nast Portfolio.

His foundation, the Elie Wiesel Foundaton for Humanity, lost substantially all of its $15.2 million in assets to Madoff; including his personal investments, total losses may be as high as $37 million. "We gave him everything, we thought he was God, we trusted everything in his hands," Wiesel said.

I don't understand people sometimes. You'd think a bright and intelligent guy wouldn't turn over the sum of his life to somebody else. I understand making mistakes. We all make them.. it's one of the great themes on my blog.. that people fuck up, and it's okay - pick yourself up, dust yourself off, give the middle finger to anybody who would judge you, and do better next time..

But really.. give everything to one guy? There are mistakes.. and there is just being dumb.