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Big Brother and Best Buy Compete in a “Who Can Be Stupider Contest”

We don’t usually get to see the internal policy manuals for companies or government agencies, so we have to guess at their contents based on the actions of their employees. Based on this article, the policy manual for Best Buy evidently states:

• When you make a mistake installing a car stereo, apologize to the customer and tell him the installation is free.
• Call the customer the next day and demand payment, threatening to call the police if he doesn’t come in.
• If he shows up and tries to pay with $2 bills, check the bills with a counterfeit detecting pen.
• If they pass the test, call the police.

And the Baltimore Police Policy Manual must say:

• Hire Police Officers who are too dumb to know that $2 bills are legal tender.
• If a citizen uses $2 bills, handcuff him.
• Then put him in leg irons.
• Drag him off to the police station and chain him to a pole for three hours.
• Call the Secret Service.
• When the Secret Service arrives and confirms that $2 bills are legal tender, blame it all on 9/11.

Last year John Edwards charged $55,000 to give a speech at University of California at Davis.The subject? Poverty.

Back in 1971 there was another Jonathan Edwards who had a #4 hit with the song Sunshine. The lyrics included:

Sunshine go away today,
I don’t feel much like dancin’
Some man’s gone, he’s tried to run my life
Don’t know what he’s askin’

He tells me I’d better get in line
Can’t hear what he’s sayin’
When I grow up, I’m gonna make it mine
These ain’t dues I been payin’

How much does it cost? I’ll buy it.
The time is all we’ve lost. I’ll try it.
He can’t even run his own life,
I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine

At least I think it was a different John Edwards.

Here’s a bit more commentary on the issue.

Finally, after 73 years, Jerry Falwell made the world a better place, by leaving it. With his passing there is a little less evil and hatred in the world.

You can’t polish a turd, but you can put it in a two thousand dollar suit, slap a smarmy smile on it’s skull, and watch in horror as millions of moronic minions do obeisance to it. Legitimate religious leaders try to appeal to our finer qualities and inspire us to be better than we are. Falwell appealed to his follower’s worst, most base emotions, encouraging their ignorance, intolerance, and downright stupidity.

His goal in life was to tear down the wall between church and state, and he was remarkably successful. We can see his legacy as The White House, Congress, and The Supremes continue eviscerate the constitution, especially the Bill of Rights.

This is one of those very rare times when I envy the faithful, because it would be comforting, and appeal to my sense if justice, to believe that Jerry is in one of the deepest and darkest places in hell. A special a place reserved for his ilk, where the most vile and disgusting tortures are carried out, for eternity, on the most vile and disgusting creatures who have ever infested the human race.

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