Stupid Is A Disease

Something resembling an unexplained missile launched occurred off the coast of California this morning giving all the loonies a chance to wax poetic about conspiracy theories. All the rest of us naturally curious types took note of the incident and waited for some explanation from those "in the know."

Still waiting patiently.

This is one of those times where the government was just trying to be stealthy and hide their own black actions. Instead, we get a whole bunch of people from the Armed Forces saying "Wasn't ours!" and "We have no idea what that was" and finally, "Not detected by radar."

That's awesome. I'd rather Obama was secretly planning to nuke Guam and this was the training exercise for it. Apparently, the America we live in today would rather announce to the world that you can launch a missile 35 miles of our coast and we will be shocked or; that our military is so incompetent that it's firing off missiles willy-nilly. How reassuring. How are those nukes coming in North Korea and Iran? Yeah, that's what I thought.

This really is a symptom of society as a whole though. It's amazing how many supposed adults are so willing to just throw up their hands and admit to the world how incompetent they are. Everywhere you turn there seems to be some jackass staring stupidly at a flat tire, jammed copier, etc. waiting for somebody to come help them. Did they try and solve their problem and fail thus requiring help? Nope, they just packed it in at the start, saving themselves all that opportunity for learning or dignity.

I don't recall this when I was growing up. Back then I assumed being an adult meant you were prepared to display some level of resiliency and self sufficiency. I was led to believe this because all the adults acted that way. If the dryer broke, somebody would try for a week to fix it. Even if it was unfixable, they at least had the dignity to blame it on crappy Japanese workmanship before they called the Maytag man. It would have shamed them to their peers to just be helpless in the world they lived in. Now the world is full of these impotent morons in important positions leading to a situation where a missile could possibly have been launched outside the country's second largest city and the official response is "No clue guys! Sorry, just us dipshits here!" Something tells me MacArthur or Patton wouldn't have accepted that response.

Hopefully the recent elections signal some kind of return to sanity regarding government and society. What we need next is a return to shame. We need to start keeping score and calling out people for being horrible, horrible failures. If the rest of society doesn't let these people know that they are embarrassments, how will they ever know? If they were smart enough to figure it out on their own, they wouldn't be such losers in the first place. Once we get these lightweights away from anything with sharp corners, then we'll know where those missiles were coming or going.

see the video here.