The Dumbest Idea Ever?

[bondwooley]

From an outside poll asking: "What could be dumber than that idea of burning the Koran?"

... Seems like there could be a few things!

Like electing Sarah Palin president.

What can DU come up with to top it?

Original poll at: http://www.pledge-drive.com/lesterandcharliesurvey.html

[bondwooley]

1. Just to get the ball rolling...

I'd say electing George W. Bush twice was probably a lot dumber in the long run.

[auntAgonist]

3. I don't think he was ever 'elected' ..but appointing him

at any time was DUMB.

:hi:


aA

[bondwooley]

6. He might have been elected at least once... ? n/t

[Capitalocracy]

47. Might've been.

2004 is a bit up in the air, depending on who you ask... fishy but probably still pretty solid, I'd say. Bad voting machines plus hugely differing exit polls, that's suspicious, and the voting machine requirement was a disenfranchising factor for poorer neighborhoods. 2000, there's little question about it... when the Supreme Court overturns elections and decides the leadership against the actual vote, that's called a judicial coup. And considering the entire Bush admin's ties to the military industrial complex and PNAC, it's not too far out to actually call it a military coup.

[scrubthedata]

55. Well, even Gerald Ford got elected once. Oh, wait a minute .... nt

[RandomThoughts]

2. Here is a little something.

A proof.

Another accomplishment, if correlations can be found beyond coincidence, and yet other correlations that should occur can not be found.

Then you prove a couple things.

First you prove that information sources are inaccurate. Second you prove them unjust.


From that proof you are then allowed to correct issues with other means.



In other words, by having shown that correlations can be created, from many different things, yet also showing that just correlations have not occurred.

Then what is presumed to exist can be shown to be a distortion for other reasons, and can be removed.



They will pay, one way or another, they will pay.


:hi: Joe Lieberman, hows it working out for you?

[hobbit709]

5. say what?

[bondwooley]

9. Hmm. That didn't make sense to you? ;-) nt

[RandomThoughts]

13. Go ahead, hit me again.

The Last Boy Scout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKc8m0apNh4

[End Of The Road]

4. 8-track tapes. That was dumb. nt

[pjahn]

12. 8 tracks

My '73 Chevy Van with an 8 track defined smooth when I got out of high school. It had a "If this van is rockin' don't come a knockin" bumper sticker and everything. We load up on beer and the odd nickel bag and head for the beach... Good times at seventeen....

[End Of The Road]

16. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[pinboy3niner]

20. I put a QUAD 8 track in my car

The only song it really did justice to was Quincy Jones' "Soul Saga" (The Song of the Buffalo Soldier)--and it was almost worth it, just for that.

Welcome to DU, pjahn! :hi:

[bondwooley]

21. I remember Johnny Cash's Live at Folsom on 8-track. Dates me! nt

[pinboy3niner]

23. You call that dating you?

I remember showing off my brand-new transistor radio, LOL! (That may explain why so many of us have a 'tinny' ear!)

:hi:

[bondwooley]

24. Oh, I had one of those too! Did you ever have a crystal radio set? n/t

[pinboy3niner]

26. No, I missed that fad

I was having too much fun playing my big brother's 45's ("Great Big Idol With the Golden Head," "Charge," The Belmonts, lots of early R&R that I can't remember now).

We had the dance shows on TV (Dick Clark, et. al.) and R&R on FM radio with Wolfman Jack and 'boss jocks' like KRLA's Bob Eubanks (whom I met at my dentist's office once).

[bondwooley]

29. That brings back memories!

And you met Bob Eubanks!

I actually had a radio that ran on potato power. A lot of fun but kind of a mess after a while.

[Warpy]

7. Voting for Republicans

is the dumbest damned thing anyone can ever do, no matter what their income level is.

Even the rich do much better when Democrats control the government.

[bondwooley]

10. Amen to that. nt

[bondwooley]

27. Like this:

A graph from Maddow at this link:

http://www.thepoliticalcarnival.net/2010/09/video-rachel-maddow-show-why-elections-matter-in-one-graph/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wwwTPC+%28The+Political+Carnival%29

[lunatica]

8. The next thing the media focuses on will be dumber

Because we're inured to dumb anymore. They have to keep lowering the bar to keep our dwindling attention.

[RKP5637]

11. Republican marriage and like offspring. n/t

[givemebackmycountry]

14. FOX NEWS

Dumbest Idea ever.
At least for some of us.

[treestar]

15. Right wingers trying to make signs for their marches when they can't spell

Get a brain morans, etc.

[scrubthedata]

52. Or their complete contradictions ...

... like wanting small government but keeping their Medicare.

[Initech]

17. Palin / Beck 2012

Because the rapture cant happen soon enough.

[scrubthedata]

19. Or Palin/Brown 2012 nt

[bondwooley]

22. Plain/Jesus 2012 n/t

[scrubthedata]

33. Or Palin/Trig 2012 nt

[scrubthedata]

18. Letting the GOP define HCR when they weren't going to vote for it anyway! nt

[Chicks With Dickens]

48. Amen Scrub!! ...

Why did it take Obama so long to realise that "bipartisanship" was a waste of time? I don't tun he got any points for trying, even. Not with this GOP.

[Fuzz]

25. John Bolton is thinking about running for President.

[foxfeet]

30. Ew. Mustache crabs. n/t

[TheKentuckian]

28. Allowing the DLC/New Dems/ Blue Dogs have the keys. They drive like Republicans.

[bondwooley]

31. Oh, and nutcases adopting "Hussein" as a middle name. That gets on my nerves. n/t

[surrealAmerican]

32. Trickle-down economics.

Why must we keep trying it when it has failed every time before?

[alittlelark]

34. Losing control of our currency via The FEDERAL RESERVE.

Not a branch of government - just a funnel from our labor to the same ole' same ole' money families.


It's pretty sick and twisted.

[jgraz]

35. Escalating a pointless war with people who will kill you over a burning Koran.

That seems just a tad dumber.

[CJvR]

36. What could be dumber than that idea of burning the Koran?

Well writing the damn thing to start with...

[pinboy3niner]

37. McCain choosing Palin as his running mate

As Dick Cavett observed, McCain "aimed low and missed." :rofl:

[alfredo]

38. Grapefruit milkshake, fishnet condoms, microwave cantaloupes

[ThatsMyBarack]

39. Eating shit like this:

[unkachuck]

44. mmmmmmm, shit....n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

45. I picked a BIG photo on purpose....

Just to show how BAD this shit even just LOOKS! Know what I mean?

[Chicks With Dickens]

49. Gross. When I saw that....

I thought it WAS shit. Yuggers.

[scrubthedata]

50. Ditto. nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

51. "Yuggers"...I like that!

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[bondwooley]

59. The KFC Double-Down belongs on this list ... n/t

[scrubthedata]

40. The Bush Doctrine. nt

[VOX]

41. Developing nuclear weapons. Absolutely no good could ever come from that idea. n/t

[scrubthedata]

42. Snuggies nt

[ThatsMyBarack]

43. And those awful Snuggie ADS...

"Get Up and Snuggie" and "Snug-arena!" :mad:

[MisterP]

57. of course...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWHlvtWhum0

[bondwooley]

58. The cult element is CrEePy ! n/t

[IDemo]

46. Throwing away a trillion dollars and thousands of lives on a lie n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

62. I'll agree

That is definitely one of the dumbest ideas EVER!

[bondwooley]

63. I second that emotion! n/t

[dems_rightnow]

53. Almost any dumb idea....

.. led by giving this dweeb media time for what would have otherwise been a "Who cares" moment.

[11 Bravo]

54. Allowing Glenn Beck to run around off-leash.

[bondwooley]

56. Ha! Along the same lines, letting Newt back in the spotlight. n/t

[L0oniX]

60. I'm burning a Koran right now and no one seems to care.

:freak:

[bondwooley]

61. OK, but just don't vote for the Tea Party.

[lame54]

64. invading Iraq

[lutefisk]

65. Well, one person's dumb is another person's brilliant idea

I would guess those who made small and large fortunes from the effects of the invasion are quite satisfied with that idea. I doubt those who shared in the $8,000,000,000.00 pallet of American Dollars that "disappeared" in Iraq are thinking it was a dumb idea, for example. No doubt fine homes and resorts around the world are filled with disgusting pigs who know it was a great idea.

[bondwooley]

66. I think you summed up that war - that's exactly why we were there. n/t