Please stop being so retarded, people

Who knew that a back to school speech could cause such an uproar? I think it’s pretty sad that people are keeping their children home from school and that some school districts are requiring parents to opt their children in to hear a speech by the President of the United States. I know! The President. Not some random dude in an office or anything. I understand that using the phrases “socialist agenda” and “left-leaning” to critique the President is generally another way to say “I’m a raging idiot and/or racist asshole,” but I still find this pretty disappointing. The worst part is that the text of the speech is up on the White House’s web site, so there’s no reason to speculate as to its content.

This, from the CNN article that I linked to above, is one of the scariest things I’ve ever read, “”I believe this is the greatest country on Earth, and I try to teach that to my children. … I don’t want them hearing that there’s a fundamental flaw with the country and the kids need to go forward to fix it.” I feel so sorry for this man’s children.

So dumb

So Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey believes that ‘not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.’ How convenient that Mukasey, a Republican Bush appointee, doesn’t think it necessary to prosecute other Republican Bush appointees for systemically failing to hire those suspected of being: Democrats, otherwise liberal, or -gasp- homosexual! No crime’s been committed here, folks! I’m kind of pissed off anyway about people not accepting accountability for their actions, so this just makes me angrier. The No Justice Department can go suck an egg.