Category: stupidity
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Just A little More
I read a letter to the editor of the Billings Gazette that I had to comment on.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/10/opinion/letters/42-methane.txt" >Coalbed methane development supported</a><br />n<br />nThe letter throws out a lot of interesting numbers on why we should support Coal Bed Methane (CBM) development. The final sentence though is a little incomplete in my opinion…
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Drought Aid
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=E1F13B84-EB33-E04B-0E9341A02EF80B79" >Drought aid still dependent on President Bush</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Drought aid may get through Congress by the first of the year, but only if President Bush goes along. That’s what South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson told the Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE) Annual Convention in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Saturday.<br />n<br />nAccording…
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People Are Idiots
I voted absentee a little while ago because it is easier and quicker for me. When i was done I looked at the envelope and felt the weight and knew that it was going to take more than one stamp to return it so I put two on it and sent it in. I guess…
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How Low Can We Go
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_re_us/detained_indefinitely">1 man still locked up from 9/11 sweeps </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a jail cell at an immigration detention center in Arizona sits a man who is not charged with a crime, not suspected of a crime, not considered a danger to society.<br />n<br />nBut he has been in custody for five years.<br />n<br />nHis…
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A Day Late
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/01/news/state/25-burns_z.txt" title="Foot In Mouth Yet Again">Burns' fire request comes late</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns urged <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> to declare a fire state of emergency Thursday and activate the Montana Army National Guard for firefighting – more than a month after Schweitzer had already done so.<br />n<br />nIn a brief letter faxed…
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People Are Stupid
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/30/news/state/55-infant.txt" title="Billings Gazette">Dead infant reported; search finds nothing</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A contracted sanitation worker was doing standard cleanup Friday and spotted what may have been a child. The worker was concerned but bagged the trash anyway, thinking it could have been a doll, Pryor said. Law enforcement was notified once the worker's supervisors learned of…
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Not Good News
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/01/news/local/30-nazi-group.txt">Nazi group adds point person in Billings</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Efforts by a white supremacist group to ramp up activism in Montana, including in Billings, have become successful enough to grab the attention of the Montana Human Rights Network.<br />n<br />nThe National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi organization, has established contact points in three Montana cities —…
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Lottery
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/23/AR2006052300244.html">Ariz. Measure Would Give $1M to a Voter</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An Arizona political activist is placing his bets that a proposal to pay one lucky voter $1 million will drive people to the polls.<br />n<br />nDr. Mark Osterloh, a Tuscon ophthalmologist who has run unsuccessfully for governor and the Legislature, filed paperwork Monday to put…
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Stupid Ideas
A lot of people are complaining about the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EARNS_OIL?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">profits the oil industry</a> is making and have all kinds of solutions as to how to help consumers past this stretch of high gas prices. The stupidest of these I've heard is a $100 fuel-cost rebate for millions of taxpayers and suspending the federal 18.4-cent-per-gallon gasoline…
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Criminally Stupid
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060420/od_nm/breasts_dc">Phony doctor gives free breast exams</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 76-year-old man claiming to be a doctor went door-to-door in a Florida neighborhood offering free breast exams, and was charged with sexually assaulting two women who accepted the offer, police said on Thursday.<br />n<br />nOne woman became suspicious after the man asked her to remove all…