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March 19, 2003

Ultimate Idiotarian Contest

by Joe Katzman at March 19, 2003 4:33 PM

That's it. We're throwing down the gauntlet. For the past 18 months the blogosphere has been abuzz covering crackpots and weirdos peddling notions that range from the merely illiogical to full blown psychosis. Jimmy Carter may have won the Fiskie, but even he can't match these people for sheer unhinged looniness.

Reader Tom Donelson suggested an ultimate idiotarian contest, and I liked the idea a lot. So, here's the challenge: top this one... if you can. I don't think you can. You see, it's all about the Stargate:

"This study provides an exopolitical analysis of the policy dimensions of an historic extraterrestrial presence that is pertinent to Iraq and a US led preemptive attack. It will be argued that competing clandestine government organizations are struggling through proxy means to take control of ancient extraterrestrial (ET) technology that exists in Iraq, in order to prepare for an impending series of events corresponding to the 'prophesied return' of an advanced race of ETs. The Columbia Space Shuttle may well have been a high profile victim of such a proxy war intended to send a message to US based clandestine organizations over the preemptive war against Iraq."

Dr. Michael Salla is a Researcher in Residence in the Center for Global Peace, a department of American University that also lists as a partner the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. Biiig Hat Tip to Right Wing News for uncovering this one.

Readers, any suggestions on an accompanying anti-war slogan?

More to the point, can you find someone to top it? Idiotarians from all political points of view are eligible. Just use the Comments to post, or to link to your blog post, or use Trackback. We need a quote, a source, and the accompanying anti-war slogan. Organizational affiliations for your idiotarian are optional, but suggested.

War may be depressing, but this is fun. Get your dog in the game!

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Dhimmeh Carter Isn't Even In The Running from Dailypundit

Excerpt: It had to come eventually, and now it has. With all the unhinged lunacy running through the blogosphere, and/or uncovered and exposed by it, a contest to determine the looniest of the loony couldn't be put off forever. Well, it's

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#1 from PhotoDude at 5:09 pm on Mar 19, 2003

"Readers, any suggestions on an accompanying anti-war slogan?"

"No Blood for ET"

"Bush has been ZAPed (Zionist Alien Plot)"

"Don't Enslave the Aliens"

"Close Encounters of the War Kind: Not in My Name"

"ET Belongs to the World, not the US"

"Bush = Alien Genocide"

Chanted: "The ... Whole ... Galaxy ... is watching!!!"

#2 from Hermetic at 5:13 pm on Mar 19, 2003

No Blood for Dilithium!

#3 from Robert Crawford at 6:16 pm on Mar 19, 2003

Dilithium? If this over a Stargate we're going for naquada.

"Fight the real enemy: Ba'al!"

#4 from Chuck at 6:35 pm on Mar 19, 2003

Tough to compete with the good professor, but his ability to alter world (this or any other) seems to be circumscribed by his tinfoil hat. I have another nomination: Hans Blix. Too many quotes, too little time, but here is the most recent one I have seen:

"I think political pressure, and even more military pressure, was essential to get the Iraqis to declare and to co-operate," Mr Blix told Radio France International.

"But I think that when pressure is transformed into the use of force, then that's a disaster."

(from BBC News site, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2863065.stm)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't military pressure without the threat of going to war in the case of non-compliance just a waste of good diesel or JP-5? Seems like faulty logic circuits in a man deemed fit by some in the world community (including a former President) to make a determination of disarmament compliance in Iraq. This man had his head in the dike, not a finger.

#5 from Celeste at 7:03 pm on Mar 19, 2003

Blix is also the man who said "I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict."

#6 from Fredrik Nyman at 7:07 pm on Mar 19, 2003

Is this somehow related to Democrat presidential candidate Kucinich's bill to ban orbiting mind control lasers?

#7 from jds at 7:22 pm on Mar 19, 2003

Bush = Apophis!

#8 from PhotoDude at 8:27 pm on Mar 19, 2003

Yes, Blix might be a good choice, based on his opinion yesterday about whether Iraq will use WMD against US troops:

"I think it is unlikely they will do that because I think world public opinion, which they study quite a lot, is in large measure feeling that going to war is too early."

"So there is a fair amount of skepticism about armed action," Blix said. "That skepticism would turn immediately around, if they used chemical weapons or biological weapons," he said. "My guess is they would not."

My keyboard has no characters for the guffaw/snort/scoff sound that elicits from me.

#9 from michele at 10:01 pm on Mar 19, 2003

The rallying cry of "Fight Plaque, Not Iraq" was seen at the Code Pink rally in D.C.

#10 from the Diablogger at 10:18 pm on Mar 19, 2003

Hard to beat the one I saw here in Tallahassee:

Who needs oil? I ride the bus.

#11 from Holly at 4:09 am on Mar 20, 2003

I've known for some time that Gore is a Goa'uld. There's your slogan: Gore's a GOA'ULD, people. It may have some effects on events, you can't be sure.

#12 from Tom Doneson at 12:20 am on Mar 21, 2003

Here is a group effort for the contest.

Tom

08:41 PST -- In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the Federal Building staged a "vomit in,'' by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the building to show that the war in Iraq made them sick, according to a spokesman

#13 from John SF at 4:24 pm on Mar 21, 2003

I haven't got a single quote but you really need to check this fellow out as candidate Lord High Idiotarian.

Well, two quotes:
"I renounce my human rights."
"Art is wrong because it is the past, because it perpetuates itself, because it is transgenerational, because it is culture, and because it requires the suppression of anti-art to exist."

No stargate, but the skies on his planet are really funny colours.

Ladies and gentlemen,I give you...Paul Treanor!
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/

#14 from The Iconoclast at 7:42 am on Mar 23, 2003

Bush=Anubis!

We support our troops when they shoot the Asgard!