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Calling all bloggers!

You have until Monday night at 10:00 PM to get your entries in for this week’s Carnival of the Clueless.

Last week was the best yet with 32 entries from both the right and left side of the political spectrum hammering those individuals and groups among us who are truly clueless.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Each week, I’ll be calling for posts that highlight the total stupidity of a public figure or organization – either left or right – that demonstrates that special kind of cluelessness that only someone’s mother could defend…and maybe not even their mothers!

Everyone knows what I’m talking about. Whether it’s the latest from Bill Maher or the Reverend Dobson, it doesn’t matter. I will post ALL ENTRIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER I AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED OR NOT..

You can enter by emailing me, leaving a link in the comments section, or by using the handy, easy to use form at Conservative Cat.

We have a record!

This week’s Carnival features 32 posts that skewer the most outrageously clueless numbskulls of the week. And let me tell ya, there’s a passel of them:

1. Our very own President George Bush and his ideas on Intelligent Design.
2. The Democratic Party and their joy at losing the special election in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District.
3. Cluebat Hall of Famer John Kerry
4. The ACLU
5. The left
6. The right
7. What? No libertarians? (We can fix that!)

And on and on.

If variety is the spice of life, have a tall glass of water handy because you’re gonna need a drink to cool your tongue after tasting this superb collection of fiskings of the follies of the foolish. Some will make you laugh. Some will make you think. All will entertain and enlighten.

So kick back and relax and browse to your heart’s content. You won’t be disappointed.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
(Gustave Flaubert )

Yo,Gus! How’d you get Hillary Clinton’s talking points on National Health Care?
(Me)

Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy put on her liberal disguise and ventured into the fever swamps of the Democratic Underground and the dungeons at Daily Kos and came up with some of the weirdest conspiracy theories regarding John Bolton, George Bush, and…well, you just can’t make this stuff up - unless you’re a moonbat. It took Beth not one but two posts to tell the whole story.

Jay at Stop the ACLU wants to stop the ACLU from taking away our Second Amendment rights. Some good points made on the ACLU’s selective interpretation of Constitutional rights that, if you’ve been paying attention the last few years, has become more and more a part of their political agenda.

Pstupidonymous (yes…that’s how it’s spelled. Don’t ya love creative names for blogs?) has an amazing tale of the Nanny State gone wild. As AlexC says: “These are the kind of nanny-state nonsensical ideas that we laugh at over-taxed and under-gunned New Jersey over.” Uh-huh.

Mark Coffey at Decision ‘08 has an explanation why British terror apologist George Galloway has made his “Jackass of the Week:” Some jackasses are more intrinsicially jackassical than others. Hard to argue with that.

Mr. Right is again spot on in a spoof of the Democrats and their laughable joy at finishing second in the Ohio Special Election last week. Says Karl Rove of Kos’ perfect 0 for 16 record in supporting Democratic campaigns: “I think the idea of someone with Markos Moulitsas Zúniga’s track record running as many Democrat political campaigns as humanly possible is absolutely marvelous!” Rove said. “When can he get started?”

Charleston Daily Mail columnist Don Surber submits a post from his “Ooops” department. The West Virginia state government gives us a sterling example of the people’s tax dollars at work…or not.

Elephants in Academia (more bloggy creativity!) talks about the “happy convergence” pointed out by the LA Times in the Administration’s Central Asian strategy. What the Times chalks up to mere chance, the Academic Elephant sees as the Bush Doctrine at work. Let’s see…Lebanon, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain,…sounds like coincidence to me but what do I know? I’m a Republican.

Someone please wake Harvey at Bad Example up from a bad dream. He’s dreaming that the United Nations is talking about controlling the internet. This from an organization that can’t take a collective piss without sending the idea to a Blue Ribbon Commission? What do you think download times of your favorite movies would be if the UN ran the net?

Beatrix at Multiple Mentality gives all you unattached men some excellent advice on How not to Pick Up a Girl in a Bar. ” For instance: “Are those real?” is not a good opening line” I dunno…it worked for me once. Maybe she thought I was talking about the snakes around her neck…

The Carnival goes international this week with this post from Angry in the Great White North who turns his gaze southward to discover some judicial idiocy right here in the good ole USA. How do some of these people get to be judges?

Bergbikr, subbing for The Maryhunter at TMH Bacon Bits illustrates the equivication of so-called “Moderate” Muslims and their attitudes toward the War on Terror. Is he overreacting? “Perhaps my reaction was heightened by the fact that a cell of ‘peaceful Muslims’ - some of their youths recently Jihadist trained in Pakistan - was just exposed in Lodi, CA a few dozen miles east of my home.” I think not.

Cao of Cao’s Blog (pronounced “key”) gives us an excellent history lesson on some of the less than honorable activities of some prominent leftists over the years. Every time I think how close John Kerry came to being elected President of the United States, I shudder.

Raven at And Rightly So wonders what happened to all those Democrats who were going to leave the country and move to Canada following the President’s victory last November. Darnit! All those “Bon Voyage” signs I made and I did it for nothin’.

Ogre at Ogre’s Politics and Views has a post highlighting some cluelessness of his local utility Duke Power and their “Fixed Payment Plan.” Maybe they think their customers are too stupid to add.

Hypnyx at Global Democratic Revolution brings to our attention a story that’s starting to get some legs in the sports media. A San Francisco radio host made some disparging comments about Latin American baseball players that have some prominent Latin personalities up in arms and playing the “victim” card. San Francisco Giants manager Felipe Alou goes off the deep end regarding the comments and refuses an apology from the radio host. Uncalled for cluelessness perhaps on both their parts.

Blog Pin-Up grrrllll Pamela (Ooooh! Check out them gams!) of Atlas Shrugs has an intelligent post on environ-mentalism (deliberate hyphenation) as religion. What are the consequences of listening to these nutcases? “It would be one thing if it were like Scientology and created small brushfires between vapid celebritites, it is quite another when we are clubbed to death with it like baby seals. Yep.

More galling stuff from George Galloway brought to us by Van Helsing of Moonbattery. Mr. Helsing asks the $64,000 question: “Where do we draw the line between the pernicious and irresponsible ravings typical of liberal politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and punishable treason?” My answer would be…it depends who draws the line, n’est pas?

My favorite fallen angel Feisty Republican Whore stops her street walking long enough to show us what life would be like with National Health Insurance - Canadian style. Un. Be. Lievable. Says the Whore: “I thought I’d kicked the Quaalude habit, but s**t like this is keeping the tranquilizer distributors in business.” Um…’kay.

From the “Believe It Or Not” file…Left Noose brings us a story of a 12 year old, local police, and gunshots. Oh yeah…and a mother that makes Joan Crawford look like Mother Teresa.

Elisa at Boxer Watch (No…not a voyeur site) has an interview with the Silly Senator from La-La Land facing off against the Senator from Virginia and potential President George Allen. If you compare and contrast the two, guess which one comes off as a grown-up, reasonable human being and who appears to be an infantile, clueless klutz?

Northstar at the People’s Republic of Seabrook takes President Bush to the woodshed for his excusing baseball player Rafeal Palmeiro his use of steroids. The President is speaking out of both sides of his mouth on this one as northstar rightly points out.

Blue State Republican of Mike Huckabee for President Blog gives us a link to a Paul Begala article at Huffington’s Post the contains possibly the stupidest prediction I’ve seen this summer. Bush Pardons Rove? BSR says: “Bush will pardon Rove when Rove did nothing wrong and will not be indicted, much less convicted of any crime??? Idiot.” That just about covers it.

Mr. Satire is back! Even though his blog is NOT SAFE FOR WORK, it would be worth getting fired to read his hilarious take on the Special Election in Ohio last week. What kind of a man was this fellow Hackett? “I am also an avid hunter and, unlike that sissy Kerry, I don’t shoot dead ducks. I go for the real thing - the RINOS and the yellow-belly elephants,” said Hackett, a gun-slinging NRA member. ”

Ferdy the Cat is on the prowl and has cornered Alan Dershowitz who thinks he has the solution to terrorism. After being reminded by Bruce to swallow the cheeseball in his mouth before talking, Ferdy says: “A satirical piece in the Huffington Post is hardly going to make religious fanatics wake up.” Who says cats are not the smartest animals on earth?

Dan Melson at Searchlight Parade has some off the wall reaction by Democrats to the recess appointment of John Bolton. Opines Dan: “After all the failures of the accomodationists to make the UN into a better organization, it’s time to give someone with a different philosophy a chance. It’s not like they can do much worse. Past time, I’d say.

Orac at Respectful Insolence has a very funny, must read post on the the use and misuse of that feller’s name who ran Germany a while back. He introduces us to the Hitler Zombie: “The creature doesn’t discriminate between left and right! Political activists of every stripe are dropping like flies, their brains eaten, and then making fools of themselves,” Truly spoken.

Mean ole Meany has a response to a request for funds from Hall of Fame cluebat John Kerry. Writing to the Splodeydope, MoM says: “The only thing missing from this e-mail is the mind-controlling subliminal sounds that you would have to play to get thinking people to believe one thing that you have said here.” Heh.

Minh-Duc of State of Flux Blog has a very serious, very sobering look at torture and who’s responsible. Is the military responsible for systematic, institutionalized torture committed against prisonoers? Read Mr. Minh’s entire post.

Jimmy K of But that’s Just My Opinion Blog has a short and to the point article about Israel’s handover of Gaza to the thugs of Hamas. I’m forced to reluctantly agree with Jimmy that this is a very bad move on Israel’s part probably done at the urging of Washington.

AJ at The Strata Sphere is looking in askance at the press and wondering where their heads are at. One would think copies of Who’s Who can be found on the desks of most reporters. Do you suppose it’s because they’re lazy? Naw!

Bill Teach of Pirates Cove has the story of a truly clueless candidate for Mayor of Durham, North Carolina. One more caveat to her candidacy; she’s a racist: Wagstaff is also a major race baiter, and, to put it correctly, a racist…If the roles were reversed, the local media would have coniption fits. Yup.

Finally, my own entry goes after President Bush for encouraging the ID movement who doesn’t just want ID studied…they want it studied in science class along side evolution. While the President didn’t say that, his comments gave the Luddites a boost. Next time, Mr. President; Shut Your Yap!

Part of the TTLB Uber Carnival

Calling all bloggers!

You have until Monday night at 10:00 PM to get your entries in for this week’s Carnival of the Clueless.

Last week was the best yet with 26 entries from both the right and left side of the political spectrum hammering those individuals and groups among us who are truly clueless.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Each week, I’ll be calling for posts that highlight the total stupidity of a public figure or organization – either left or right – that demonstrates that special kind of cluelessness that only someone’s mother could defend…and maybe not even their mothers!

Everyone knows what I’m talking about. Whether it’s the latest from Bill Maher or the Reverend Dobson, it doesn’t matter. I will post ALL ENTRIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER I AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED OR NOT..

You can enter by emailing me, leaving a link in the comments section, or by using the handy, easy to use form at Conservative Cat.

Last weekend, my little Illinois town celebrated it’s “Founders Days,” featuring a parade, fireworks, flea market, and of course, a carnival.

One of my favorite carnival games is the target shooting game with ducks all lined up in a row. The object being to knock down as many ducks as possible in a set period of time. As a kid, those guns were pellet guns and each time you hit a target there was a satisfying thwack as the hapless duck was plunked and went down for the count. Of course, today they use lasers instead of pellets which casts suspicion on whether or not they’re rigging the game to keep the contestant from winning the nicer prizes.

That said, I miss that thwack. There must be an atavistic response programmed in the human brain that releases massive amounts of endorphins when the target goes down after a hit. I can imagine Paleolithic man casting a spear and getting enormous satisfaction out of the sound made when the point penetrates the heart of his prey. Thousands of years of evolution haven’t dimmed that enjoyment. Just look at the ducks we’ve lined up for you in this week’s Carnival.

We’ve got the easy targets like Jane Fonda, Jimmy Carter, Howard Dean, and the usual suspects. But then we’ve got those third level targets who are much harder to hit like network TV executives, Harvard Regency Board member Conrad Harper, and former London Times editor Simon Jenkins. Extra points should be awarded to those posters who go above and beyond to seek out the truly clueless.

With that in mind, here’s this week’s edition of thwacked ducks.

At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
(Aldous Huxley)
Hey Aldo! I see you’ve met Howard Dean.
(Me)

Blogeditrix (wouldn’t you love to see her in a black patent leather one piece?) and world traveler Pamela of Atlas Shrugs is back from Paris just in time to tell us about the cluebats at the EU falling all over each other, lining up to sell the radioactive mullahs nuclear fuel. Here’s some gasoline…how about a match.

Giacomo from Joust the Facts has some lefty reactions to the recess appointment of John Bolton. They seem a might upset. Sometimes I think Bush does stuff like this to watch the moonbats as their heads explode.

Hypnyx at Global Democratic Revolution takes on perhaps the most clueless group of Republicans around; my own Illinois State Republican Party who, not content with picking a Senate candidate (Alan Keyes) who lost by nearly 50 points to Barak Obama, now offer a bounty for anyone with info that will convict Chicago Mayor Richard Daley of a crime…in Chicago…on this planet. Not. A. Chance.

Tom Bowler at Libertarian Leanings has some interesting information about Air America. Not only do they rob from the poor to finance their broadcasts, they also have a “Camp Air America” - a liberal “Madrassa” as Tom calls it.

My old buddy Pat at Brainsters has Part #55 of his series of posts fisking the “Reality Based Community.” This one has the moonbats tying in an “impeachment march” with the massive anti-war demonstration set for September 24 in Washington. Wishful thinking is their strong suit.

Raven at And Rightly So says that Jimmy Carter embarrasses her. Since the lovely and talented blogger is not known as the shy and retiring type, the grinning goober must have done something really clueless - like diss the US on foreign soil.

Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy hates hippies. I’m not surprised. The mentally challenged moonbats at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have now compared human beings keeping animals to slavery. Maybe they’ll be able to find a chicken who can give the Gettysburg Address.

More great stuff from Mr. Right at The Right Place. Anyone for an Air America telethon? Maybe Al Gore will lend a hand as Mr. Right suggests?

The Logical Meme has an excellent post on Pakistani immigration to Great Britain. “Islam, like Marxism, provides a convenient rationale to the most dysfunctional cultures of the world.” Amen.

Is there anything more despicable than Cafepress selling “Kill Bush” merchandise? Cao at Cao’s Blog (pronounced “Key”) doesn’t think so. Who’s worse? The people who sell it or the people who buy it?

Philomathean writes about the trouble Harvard President Larry Summers is in with various moonbats on campus, including Conrad Harper, the only black member of the Harvard Board of Regents.

The People’s Republic of Seabrook has a few well deserved unkind words for ex-Cubs current Astros broadcaster Milo Hamilton. Baseball is the simplest of games. Why do people want to complicate it so?

Charleston Daily Mail columnist Don Surber has the inside scoop on the new ABC drama “Hail to the Chief.” Evidently the movie industry isn’t the only part of Hollywood that recycles ideas from time to time.

Searchlight Crusade has some well chosen words for the Washington Post and their apparent opposition to a media exemption for bloggers who they say “want it both ways.” “As opposed to traditional media people, who are never activist, never donate to partisan causes, and never, ever encourage others to do so?” Uh-Huh.

Josh Cohen is mad at the MSM for forgetting that the Russians also have a space program and a good one. Where would we have been if the Russkies hadn’t stepped in and saved our bacon by resupplying that boondoggle of a space station we’ve got up there?

Harvey at Bad Example has an open Letter to Jane Fonda. It’s not pretty.

Howard Dean is in the news again and Van Helsing has captured the creature and has him caged in his castle in Transylvania. Funny that he only drinks the blood of Republicans…

Mean ‘ole Meany is being really, really mean to the Splodeydopes again. This time, he responds to an email from a moonbat who wants to secede and set up a country made up of blue states. Meany shows her the error of her ways.

Mark Coffey’s Weekly Jackass is Simon Jenkins, former editor of the London Times and, as Mark refers to him, a “useful idiot” in the war on terror. The fact that he appears regularly on Arianna Huffington’s blog should tell you all you need to know about what kind of an “idiot” he is.

Going to the Mat has a post wrestling Senator Chris Dodd to the mat for his total cluelessness of the US Constitution. I’d have to say the match goes to Matt in three falls.

Jay at Stop the ACLU informs us that the group wants to get rid of tax exempt status for churches. What’s next? Banning hot dogs? Passing a law against apple pie?

Tony at More than Loans has a suggestion regarding Jimmy Carter: “Will someone please give this guy a hammer or something shiny to look at to keep him occupied?” And a bib for the drool.

GM Roper has a great article on the cluelessness of the left in general but also the rest of us when it comes to fighting the War on Terror. “Words mean things” says GM. Too bad most of the moonbats try to make words mean something other than what is said.

Ogre thinks that the American people are pretty dense when taken as a group. I actually agree with that to a certain extent. The problem is that the evidence comes from polls which can also show how really clueless pollsters are just by the way they frame a question.

Duncan Avatar at Parrot Check wants the USS Iowa to come to Texas since the anti-military moonbats in San Francisco won’t have her.

The Maryhunter points us to a superb fisking of Arianna Huffington and her cluelessness of ancient history. TMH has a suggestion for why the crone got it so wrong: She ” may have been a little too distracted thinking about the next private plane flight she could beg off of one of her jet-setting friends to have researched a bold claim she made.”

Finally, here’s a little ditty I did on the New York Times calling people who want to see the 9/11 memorial remain about that day’s events and not be made into an anti-American love fest “un-American.”

Calling all bloggers!

You have until Monday night at 10:00 PM to get your entries in for this week’s Carnival of the Clueless.

Last week’s was the best yet with 26 entries from both the right and left side of the political spectrum hammering those individuals and groups among us who are truly clueless.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Each week, I’ll be calling for posts that highlight the total stupidity of a public figure or organization – either left or right – that demonstrates that special kind of cluelessness that only someone’s mother could defend…and maybe not even their mothers!

Everyone knows what I’m talking about. Whether it’s the latest from Bill Maher or the Reverend Dobson, it doesn’t matter. I will post ALL ENTRIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER I AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED OR NOT..

You can enter by emailing me, leaving a link in the comments section, or by using the handy, easy to use form at Conservative Cat.

Maybe its the heat.

Record temps across most of the country seems to have brought the cluebats - both right and left - out of hiding. Like roaches scurrying hither and yon who are flushed from underneath the floorboards by applying liberal doses of smoke, the clueless have emerged this week into the light of day, coughing and hacking up their bilious rants and stumbling into one faux pas after another.

My personal favorite would have to be the Lieutenant Governor from the state of Pennsylvania who, not content to waste away in her office enjoying her golden years of senility, wandered the small towns and villages until she found herself at the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq. Mistaking the gathering of grieving relatives for a Democratic fundraiser celebrating her party’s prospects to maintain control of the state house, she handed out her business card hoping to corral some of the largess being dispensed by the usual suspects at any Democratic party event; mobbed up unions, crooked trial lawyers, and washed up Hollywood actors.

Knowing the best way to get ahead at any event featuring more than two Democrats, she let it be known that the Kingdom of Pennsylvania opposed the war in Iraq. It’s unclear if she ever did figure out that she was at a funeral. She was heard to complain before leaving that the buffet could have been more expansive.

To be fair, she has issued an apology…of sorts. As one wag put it: “When the first words of a personal message are FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, you know it’s a poll-felt communication from a politician.”

Indeedy do.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
(Albert Einstein)
“Hey Al! You forgot about Michael Moore’s appetite!”
(Me)

Cao of Cao’s Blog (pronounced “key”) sends us something from her “Only in America” department. One of her moonbat commenters, a Stephen Pearcy, has recently received national recognition for one of his less than inspirational pieces of art which depicts a map of the USA and superimposed flag being flushed down a toilet. This “artwork” was not graffiti in some public restroom but rather hung in the cafeteria at the California Department of Justice. Cao has a link to a contest for some counterprotest art in response.

Mr. Satire has done it again. In a definitely not safe for work post (nice pics though) Mr. S. takes a hilarious look at Roman Polanski’s recent libel suit against Vanity Fair. A snip: “After reading the article, I had to re-live the horrible sexual orgies and the decadent culture of sex, drugs and rock’n'roll in the good old days,” said Polanski.

The Peoples Republic of Seabrook gives us our first post about that truly clueless Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo who fancies himself something of a strategic thinker in the War on Terror. How nuking Mecca qualifies as thinking at all escapes me.

More Tancredo from AJ at The Strata-Sphere who wonders whether giving the cluebat this kind of recognition bestows a certain status on his ridiculous comments. Given that most disagree with his sentiments, I have to agree with AJ about his reasons for posting.

The Right Place has a wickedly funny take on a secret meeting held at DNC headquarters last week regarding the nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court. It’s worth reading if only to hear our illustrious minority leader: NANCY PELOSI: (Steps forward dressed in a ceremonial black robe and holding a tambourine) There is but one “Supreme” power, and SCOTUS is Her Name! {Shakes tambourine}

Don Surbur has some laugh out loud idiocy from his local government. Reading about this kind of cluelessness makes the old saw “He that governs best, governs least” resonate with meaning.

Mark Nicodemo has the honor of being the first to send us a post on Cluebat Hall of Fame member and Special Lifetime Achievement Award winner Jane Fonda whose anti-war “Crisco Tour” of America in a bus that runs on vegetable oil is a joke waiting for a punchline.

Searchlight Crusade has a truly frightening piece on the number and frequency of air space violations since 9/11. Dan Melson takes Congress and the Bureaucracy to task for this failing. Read it and get educated.

The lovely and talented Pamela, the “grrrlll blogger” from Atalas Shrugs wonders what the Iranian Thuggycrats are up to this week and then, in a stroke of inspiration, decides to see what the State of Israel has been up to during the same period. Um…guess who comes out looking like a grown up civilized society and which one looks like a mental institution for paranoids.

The Maryhunter is back from Hoboken and blogging about People for the American Way and their cluelessness about the Roberts nomination. He asks “If not Officially Opposing Roberts, then surely…”
The answer is yes they are opposing Roberts…AND DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY!

The aforementioned Katherine Baker Knoll, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, is the target of Van Helsing’s wooden stake this week. What better site to highlight this kind of stupidity than one named “Moonbattery?”

More Knollology from More Than Loans. Tony B. has an excellent riposte to the left who are constantly complaining why Bush never attends the funerals of the fallen.

Flight Pundit has an eye opening blurb on John McCain’s cluelessness regarding the definition of “negligent.” Now if John could only learn how to spell “R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N and look up in a dictionary what it means he might have a shot in ‘08.

Giacomo of Joust the Facts is in high dudgeon over the way President Bush has been portrayed in a winning entry to a faux William Faulkner contest. Hey! I thought the left didn’t read anything by dead white, anglo-saxon men!

He’s baaaack! Hall of Famer John Kerry is back and Palmetto Pundit has him! In what can only be called a supremely ironic twist of fate, Klueless Kerry is demanding that someone else release documents.

Freedom is busting out all over - and in some of the most unlikely places. Take Yemen for example. Willisms shows why Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh , like most dictators, doesn’t have a clue as to why people should be revolting against his benevolent rule.

Quick! Stop the ACLU! Jay reminds us how this once respected rights group has now degenerated into partisan hackery and support for the enemies of civilization. Does anyone remember Kerensky?

Mean Ole Meany is being…well, mean. To lefties. To “Splodeydopes.”Strike three! Now sit down and shut up.” Yep…that just about covers it.

Parrot Check has a post on some real classy war protesters. Well at least they weren’t dressed in pink underwear while protesting the funeral of a fallen hero. Sayeth Duncan: “And may God convict the souls of those ignorant protesters who, like a flock of vultures, swooped down on a solemn and holy occasion honoring a fallen warrior.” Amen, bruddah.

Mark Coffey at Decision ‘08 has a post about apologists for terror such as Ali Kazak, the head of the General Palestinian Delegation to Australia & New Zealand and Palestinian Ambassador to Vanuatu and East Timor. I think this particular Palestinian has been sipping some of that beetle nut flavored Koolaid.

Minh Duc at State of Flux has a very personal and extremely well written response to John Derbyshire of NRO’s The Corner and his cluelessness about the Army of the Republic of South Viet Nam. Mr. Minh would seem to know of what he speaks. Too bad Mr. Derbyshire doesn’t.

Harvey at Bad Example has a really good example of hate mail gleaned from Blackfive’s site. Harvey: I’m tempted to put a Drink Alert on it - though whether because it’s so funny or because it’s so pig-ignorant, I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader. Grab a brew and enjoy!

Josh Cohen at Multiple Mentality has some ideas for the cluebats who are launching the shuttle today at NASA. Would you go up in a vehicle that had a 1 in 100 chance of blowing up? God how our once mighty space program has fallen!

Finally, here’s my post on the Pentagon’s refusal to turn over Abu Ghraib photographs and tapes to the ACLU and other moonbats.

UPDATE

Don’t forget the Carnival of the Vanities hosted this week at Partie Place.

Calling all bloggers!

You have until Monday night at 10:00 PM to get your entries in for this week’s Carnival of the Clueless.

Last week’s Carnival was the best yet with 26 entries from both the right and left side of the political spectrum hammering those individuals and groups among us who are truly clueless.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Each week, I’ll be calling for posts that highlight the total stupidity of a public figure or organization – either left or right – that demonstrates that special kind of cluelessness that only someone’s mother could defend…and maybe not even their mothers!

Everyone knows what I’m talking about. Whether it’s the latest from Bill Maher or the Reverend Dobson, it doesn’t matter. I will post ALL ENTRIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER I AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED OR NOT..

You can enter by emailing me, leaving a link in the comments section, or by using the handy, easy to use form at Conservative Cat.

Summer in the Midwest has arrived with a vengeance as heat, humidity, and electricity bills are all on the rise. Also arriving, as if on cue, are what we used to call “The DC Follies.” It seems that as the temps rise in Washington, D.C. there is a direct correlation with the amount of cluelessness exhibited by its hot and bothered denizens.

The most obvious manifestation of this phenomena is the scandal-that-has-yet-to-be-named involving Karl Rove (has something of a clue), Valerie Plame (clueless, but cute), and Joe Wilson (clueless, not cute, and a lying SOB to boot). But the clueless cohort of Wilson-Plame has got nothin’ on the Washington press corps. As the Captain has pointed out on several occasions this week, both reporters and columnists who continue to lionize the lying lickspittle Wilson need to take a remedial reading course so that they can write the facts instead of the spin they concocted to protect the CIA errand boy and pass him off a some kind of “whistleblower.”

But to understand what the weather does to the inhabitants of the swamp along the Potomac, one need look no further than Republican Congressman Tom (nuke ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out). Tancredo’s completely clueless remarks about what the US should do if hit by a terrorist nuke. His solution? Bomb Mecca! Not only does Tancredo’s cluelessness extend to a problem with “enemy identification” in that as of now, we are not at war with the Saudis but he also has a small problem with arithmetic in that he would seem to prefer having one billion angry Muslims as enemies rather than the relative handful we’re facing now. This brings to mind the old Russian joke about a potential war with China:

On the first day of the war, the Russians killed 50 million Chinese.
On the second day of the war, the Russians killed 100 million Chinese.
On the third day of the war, the Russians killed 200 million Chinese.
On the fourth day of the war, the Russisans surrendered.

So hats off to Tom Tancredo! The effort put forth to appear that clueless in public deserves recognition!

“‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
(Abraham Lincoln)
“I wonder if Honest Abe was thinking of Michael Moore when he said that.”
(Me)

Don Surber has one of those “Ripley Believe it or Not” posts that describes the new “environmentally friendly” building named for former KKK Kleagle Senator Robert Byrd. This is a really, really environmentally friendly structure.

Hey! The Gaijin Biker from Riding Sun has joined the Carnival! The MP From the Al Qaeda Party reveals BBC world affairs editor John Simpson to be the real clueless McCoy.

Remember Muqtada al-Sadr? You may recall he thought his Mahdi militia could take on the United States Marines in Najaf? You may also recall what a truly clueless idea that was. Giacomo of Joust the Facts has an interview with the moonbat that’s a must read.

Minh-Duc of State of Flux takes George Bush #41 to task for his “Policy of Shame” from 1991 where we abandoned the Shias to their fate following Gulf War I. Well written and a excellent points made.

Mr. Right at The Right Place writes of the far left’s favorite soap opera and why it should be canceled. Good thing I can still write “heh” although there appears to be a problem with “Ind**d.”

As the lovely Pamela from Atlas Shrugs points out, if the cluebats who put Live8 on would listen to Africans about what Africa needs, maybe they would have done a little bit more than just have a bunch of overpaid, overstuffed celebrities mug for the cameras.

Some “Torturous Investigating” at Willisms that takes on a favorite theme of moonbats that putting a thong on someone’s head is an egregious violation of human rights. I prefer issues of National Geographic - you know, the ones with pictures of island women from the 1960’s?

The Pirate’s Cove has the latest cluelessness from Hilliary. I hope for her sake that she’s leaving a trail of bread crumbs as she continues her quixotic journey from far left to the center. She’s still got a long way to go.

Gullyborg of Resistance is Futile has some water safety tips for Ted Kennedy gleaned from his home state’s website. Did anyone else snicker when Martini Boy complained about “waterboarding” at Gitmo?

The Maryhunter is in Hoboken today. That didn’t stop him from piling on Chuck Schumer for his change of heart in outing secret agents. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately.

Tom Bowler at Libertarian Leanings has the skinny on the “International Convention of Moonbats” or as it was curiously renamed “Campus Progress National Student Conference.” This is where Paul Begala uttered the immortal words “Republicans want to kill me!” No cure for that kind of cluelessness.

Evil Otto (instead of Pink Kitty who I originally gave attribution) at Machine Overlords has some pretty strong words for LA Times moonbat Joel Stein who not only likes to pose with dolls but also has some unkind words for Harry Potter. Stein should pick on someone whose intellect matches his own…like Barbie.

I’ve only got one question for Ferdy the Cat…How do you get your little paws around the microphone to do The Conservative Cat Podcast? I would hope that Bruce gives you a helping hand, although I realize the difficulty in training us dummy humans. Maybe if you gave him a cheeseball…

AJ at The Strata-Sphere gives us a glimpse at collectively speaking, the most clueless bunch of cluebats outside of Moveon; the United Nations. Can’t anybody add and subtract at the UN?

Van Helsing of Moonbattery has some strong words for Oliver Stone and his outer rim ideas about 9/11. I don’t mind so much a film about 9/11 as much as I think Stone will find some way to make it seem to have been our fault.

Mark Coffey at Decision ‘08 takes the nutty professor Juan Cole apart for being…well, nutty. Congratulations professor for being named “Jackass of the Week.” You certainly earned that one.

Beth at MVRWC has a leftard on the ropes for some idiocy about the Rovian kerfluffle. Besides attracting flies, the left’s constant preoccupation with excrement-laden insults makes one think that they’re all suffering from chronic diarrhea.

Two dogs at Mean Ole Meany takes on the splodeydopes who think that laws were broken in outing Mrs. Wilson. I guess some people think Vanity Fair should be marked “classified.”

Fiesty Republican Whore is walking the internet streets again and guess what she’s found? Pornography! Of course, our intrepid whore is just jealous because Hillary found it first.

He’s baaaack! The “Junior Senator from Massachusetts” and Cluebat Hall of Famer John Kerry has once again made our “A” list of clueless cads. Via Raven comes this excellent fisking by Flight Pundit of Kerry’s rant against Rove.

How clueless was Mahdi Obeidi, Saddam’s nuclear Dr. Frankenstein? Read Cao of Cao’s blog and her post on Obedei’s fear and you’ll get an understanding of how near a thing - a matter of a few years once the sanctions were lifted - Saddam’s nuke ambitions became a reality.

Harvey at Bad Example has a suggestion for how to target Islamist scum like Professor Tariq Ramadan who believes the attack on London was justified. At least, as Harvey points out, we don’t have any problem in enemy identification when it comes to people like the professor. “It’s the quiet ones we have to worry about.”

Jay at Stop the ACLU has a project we can all get behind. The moonbats at ACLU think that child porn is just fine and that we should have more of it. That would be the consequences of legalizing it I should think.

TEB submits an article from The Wall Street Journal that highlights some really clueless quotes from Time Inc. Editor in Chief Norman Pearlstine in which he complains about being criticized in “broad brush strokes.” Quoth TEB: “This poor gentleman receives just a stroke from the broad brush that he and his ilk have been slopping with for years, and we’re supposed to feel sorry for him?” Indeed.

Ogre at Ogre’s Politics and Views has some interesting “facts” about the North Carolina Legislature. Attention all you hyped up federalists out there! Please read and then tell me if you’re really all that gung ho for “states rights.”

Northstar at The People’s Republic of Seabrook takes the Bush Administration to task for stonewalling on the Rovian mess. Oh, if walls could talk what interesting things we could have heard in Rove’s office when talking with Matt Cooper of Time.

Mr. Satire catches the “Reality Based Community” engaging in a little unreal speculation involving ghosts. Frankly, I thought the ideological split on this issue would have been the other way around.

Cluelessness is not a mortal sin. For those of you who are Catholic, both practicing and of the fallen variety, you may recall from your catechism lessons the difference between a mortal sin - a sin in which your soul was in danger of falling into the pit of hell, never to emerge - and a “venal” sin, the commission of which would only rate a rap across your knuckles by God’s ruler. So, like thinking impure thoughts about Rene Pignataro during 8th grade geography class, cluelessness does not put you in danger of descending into Dante’s 9th level of hell.

Displaying cluelessness however, does leave you wide open to ridicule and disgust, which given today’s media driven society, can cause you as much suffering as if you had been cast into the outer darkness. For instance, the cable networks this week displayed an inordinate amount of cluelessness during it’s hurricane coverage that saw reporters breathlessly reporting that it was raining outside and really, really windy! Then there was Chuck Schumer who demonstrated a special level of cluelessness by opposing a Supreme Court nominee. The only trouble was that Senator Chuck was opposing someone who hadn’t been named yet.

On the right, there’s Karl Rove. The “architect” may in fact be on his way out the door for letting this Plame business churn out of control when all he had to do was walk into the White House press room at midnight and whisper “it was me” and then run back inside his office. At present, it’s unclear whether Karl is a criminal or whether or not he’s just clueless. Time will tell.

Let’s see what our group of Cluebat Detectors have come up with this week.

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself…”
(Mark Twain)
“Suppose you were to say that to Hillary…DUCK!”
(Me)

Jack Cluth of the People’s Republic of Seabrook takes the Minutemen to task for “making the world safer for good, God-fearing, Christian white Republicans.” He may have a point, although if we could separate the yahoos from the serious minded immigration reformers who are just trying to make a point, I don’t think Mr. Cluth would be so quick to condemn people who want to see the law enforced.

Jay at Stop the ACLU has a great new site design and continues his quest to, well, stop the ACLU. In this post, he shows how the usually clueless ACLU is gumming up the immigration reform works in California.

Harvey at Bad Example is up in arms over what’s going on in the cluebat capitol of the world, Madison, Wisconsin. It’s bad enough we smokers have been banished outside to do our dirty deed. Apparently even that isn’t punishment enough for the anti-smoking crowd.

Mr. Right at The Right Place has a picture just begging for a caption. Go help him out. Check out the look on Howard Dean’s face.

On a much more serious note, the Headmistress, Zookeeper at the Common Room has some cluelessness by the British government that may have cost lives in the 7/7 attack. While I don’t generally approve of these “might have been” scenarios, in this case I think she has a point.

Cao of Caos Blog, my blogmama, takes on the owners of Preemptive Karma and their “Slaughterhouse 5″ award. My advice to Kevin and Carla is that they pick on someone their own size.

GM Roper of GM’s Corner dusts off a foreign troll who thinks America is too “tribal.” . This is typical Euro-bull for unanimity of thought. Well, she’s wrong of course but read GM’s takedown. It’s priceless.

The Maryhunter of TMH’s Bacon Bits shows some real cluelessness on the part of Time Magazine, especially their “Ideological Identification Department.” Un. Be. Lievable.

Submitted by Kender, this post by The Daisy Cutter on Ron Reagan getting bitchslapped by Christopher Hitchens is priceless. I really wish that guy would change his name.

Mark Coffey of Decision ‘08 has “The Worst Piece of Poetry - Ever!” While stomach churning in its own right, Mark has evidently never sat down for an hour with Sylvia Plath.

From the better late than never department, Josh Cohen of Multiple Mentality gives us…um, Better Late than Never.” I don’t think some of our leaders are taking this terrorism thing very seriously.

Holly of Soldier’s Angel has some thoughts on the cluelessness of Live8, G8, and the whole narcissistic culture of celebrity that says “Something must be done, even if it doesn’t work.” Spot on, Angel.

Pamela of Atlas Shrugs and Jackson’s Junction (Atlas Junction) has some rage-inducing news about a Department of Justice grant to a bunch of apologists for terrorists. Something like FDR giving The German American Bund a helping hand during its heydey in the 1930’s.

Ferdy the Cat at Conservative Cat trains his keen eye (and sharp claws) on Bill Scher whose piece in the Huffington Post raised the fur on his back. Calm down Ferdy and have yourself a cheese ball.

Neddy at Kerfuffles has a post on another true-blue cluebat Senator Harry Reid whose interview in the Reno Gazette shows Hapless Harry to be unaware of the term “irony.”

Is there a more clueless bunch on the planet than anarchists? Will Franklin of Willisms doubts it. BTW, check out Will’s own Carnival of Classiness

AJ of The Strata-Sphere has a great post on the cluelessness of Indymedia. An arsonist that can’t figure out why he’s in trouble for destroying someone’s property? You get the picture.

Check out Nickie Goomba. His take on the Mexican Stamp dance done by Vincente Fox and the Mexican government is priceless.

Van Helsing at Moonbattery wonders how Brian Williams of NBC still has a job after comparing our founding fathers to terrorists. It would be clueless to have done this anytime of the year but special points awarded for doing it around the 4th of July.

Anyone who says we Republicans are a stuffy lot should be reading Fiesty Republican Whore. FRW has a jawdropping post on one of our Cluebat Hall of Fame recipients Al (the pal) Sharpton whose call for a march in Howard Beach to protest the beating of some admitted car thieves defines cluelessness for this week. Note to Whore: What do I have to do to get on your “Want to do” list?

Dan of Searchlight Crusade has some suggestions for Kos and his minions about holding Bush and Rumsfeld “accountable” for the war. How about holding them accountable for 8 million purple stained fingers?

Finally, my entry is a fisking of E. J. Dionne and his ideas on democracy in The Politics of 50.7%.

Calling all bloggers!

You have until Monday night at 10:00 PM to get your entries in for this week’s Carnival of the Clueless.

Last week’s Carnival was the best yet with 22 entries from both the right and left side of the political spectrum hammering those individuals and groups among us who are truly clueless.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Each week, I’ll be calling for posts that highlight the total stupidity of a public figure or organization – either left or right – that demonstrates that special kind of cluelessness that only someone’s mother could defend…and maybe not even their mothers!

Everyone knows what I’m talking about. Whether it’s the latest from Bill Maher or the Reverend Dobson, it doesn’t matter. I will post ALL ENTRIES REGARDLESS OF WHETHER I AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS EXPRESSED OR NOT..

You can enter by emailing me, leaving a link in the comments section, or by using the handy, easy to use form at Conservative Cat.