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2005 Foot In Mouth Awards
jollyroger1210 writes "Wired is running a story on the 2005 Foot In Mouth Awards." From the article: "Tech execs say the darndest things. And so do shuffling presidents, and disgraced scientists, and Wikipedia fakers. It's time to relive 2005's biggest spoken gaffes."
Of all teh dumb things Bush has said this year alone... a comment about an iPod is the best they could get??? I guess they are right the internet and print media is a vast left wing haven that preys on the right.
---In a time of Chimpanzees I was a Monkey.
What surprises me is that the very same people who post "Glass Parking lot!!~!@#" to any Mid-East based thread (even on the ones about tall buildings in Dubai!) are able to form semi-coherent statements in other threads.
Perhaps the Web 2.0 will have an IQ requirement...
/Whaddya mean *I* can't get on?!!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
You would think that, but so far, the empirical evidence suggests that is not the case. Scientists are still studying the specimen to determine how this is possible.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
Just the other day we saw some postings arguing, that Bush is much like Hitler. Today -- that he is a "clueless baboon". The two are mutually exclusive, so which is it?
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Probably neither. A better term might be UCT (Upper Class Twit).
Much of the evidence supports the conjecture that he actually believes most of what he says. That long string of broken, bankrupt companies that he left in his wake? He probably believes that he was a good manager, and it's just bad luck that caused all the disasters. The New Orleans disaster? He probably still has no idea that his people had orchestrated the defunding of levee maintenance, that the Corps of Engineers and a massive government simulation study had predicted it all in detail; to him it was an "Act of God" that was totally unexpected. (It may have been to punish all the sinners in NO, but there's no explanation for why the French Quarter was barely touched.
Reports are that most of his associates consider him essentially a "tool", who is smart enough to parrot their ideology and PR phrases to the public, while not willing or able to bother his pretty head with the operational details. In this way, he's not very Hitleresque at all, since the evidence is that Hitler was very aware and really was orchestrating it all. Bush doesn't have the interest or patience for that; he delegates the actual work to his trusted minions.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.