All three were submitted by readers who wish to remain anonymous and their winning entries -- each of which was based on continued media reports of earlier blatherings -- were:
* Secretary of the Treasury Tubo Tax Timothy Geithner for his insisting, in the course of testifying before a congressional committee, that increasing government revenues (known as taxes outside the beltway) is necessary to avoid having to shrink the government. The tax evading buffoon apparently doesn't comprehend that shrinking the government is the goal.
* Time Magazine managing editor Richard Stengel for arguing that "[i]f the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn't say so." That ludicrously erroneous proposition was only part of a longer piece of drivel, described in this report, questioning whether the Constitution still matters. The lackwit buffoon maintains that the nation's founding document and fundamental law now can and should be read as meaning whatever the ruling elitists wish it to mean. Stengel obviously prefers the rule of men to the rule of law.
* The final winning entrant is an organization -- the always laughable Transportation Security Agency -- for the way it security checked troops reboarding the aircraft bringing them home from Afghanistan after they had been compelled to deplane at an en route domestic stop:
One of our Soldiers had his Gerber multi-tool. TSA confiscated it. Kind of ridiculous, but it gets better. A few minutes later, a guy empties his pockets and has a pair of nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA informs the soldier that they're going to confiscate his nail clippers. The conversation went something like this:
TSA Guy: You can't take those on the plane.
Soldier: What? I've had them since we left country on the way over.
TSA Guy: You're not suppose to have them.
Soldier: Why?
TSA Guy: They can be used as a weapon.
Soldier: [touches butt stock of his rifle] But this actually is a weapon. And I'm allowed to take it on.
TSA Guy: Yeah but you can't use it to take over the plane. You don't have bullets.
Soldier: And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?
TSA Guy: [awkward silence]
Me: Dude, just give him your damn nail clippers so we can get the f__k out of here. I'll buy you a new set.
Soldier: [hands nail clippers to TSA guy, makes it through security]
To top it off, the TSA demanded we all be swabbed for "explosive residue" detection. Everyone failed, [go figure, we just came home from a war zone], because we tested positive for "Gun Powder Residue". Who the f__k is hiring these people?
This might be a good time to remind everyone that approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns - but nothing that could have been used as a 'weapon'.
Can someone please tell me What the hell happened to OUR country while we were gone?
The above is from Lee Rodgers' always worth visiting blog that can be reached by clicking here.
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