# You gotta love the stupidity of our government **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281 "2013-06-30T19:46:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/101 "2013-07-03T02:14:07Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Reading these responses is like watching the chimps in the monkey house fling shit at each other. Most people don’t offer themselves as the target when they do that. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/102 "2013-07-03T03:59:26Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Sigh. As I posted earlier, I found the story on another message board. I wouldn’t nitpick, but since you’re _sighing_ about it … No, you posted nothing about any message board in this thread. You wrote “I happened to quote the Blaze because that is what the original story I read quoted.” And what I asked you was to _identify that source_. You didn’t answer so we’re left to guess. Was it the _other_ “SDMB” – Silly Dunces’ Message Board? ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/103 "2013-07-03T06:35:16Z")
Hey guys, what’s your favorite part about humpy threads? My favorite part is the feeling of intellectual superiority they give me. Lasts for most of the day. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/104 "2015-10-16T13:51:42Z")
[Here’s a source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/watch-him-pull-a-usda-mandated-rabbit-disaster-plan-out-of-his-hat/2013/07/16/816f2f66-ed66-11e2-8163-2c7021381a75_story.html) regarding the following. > [@Clothahump](#): > > [This speaks for itself](http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/29/hare-brained-usda-reportedly-orders-childrens-magician-to-produce-disaster-plan-for-his-rabbit/). > [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Hey guys, what’s your favorite part about humpy threads? My favorite part is the feeling of intellectual superiority they give me. Lasts for most of the day. 😃 > [@Clothahump](#): > > I gotta admit… > Reading these responses is like watching the chimps in the monkey house fling shit at each other. I get that now. The same thing happens if you question global alarmism or anything else that the really stupid big government does. It won’t matter what the truth is, it’s all about what the truth should be. But sometimes some good shit creeps in. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Some hospitals in New York also lost years of research, except it was due to Superstorm Sandy and not Hurricane Katrina. And now some of those hospitals and many large buildings in the New York area are rethinking where they locate their mechanical systems and electrical closets, so that they’re not vulnerable to flooding. > > Another example. New York City found that restaurant grease that was illegally dumped in the storm drains was causing a lot of clogs. The city required that restaurants certified that they had contracted with a vendor to legally and properly remove the grease. They cross-referenced the locations of the grease clogs with the locations of restaurants that hadn’t filed the paperwork, and was able to identify many of the illegal dumpers. [My reaction to reading that.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13641923&postcount=24) ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/105 "2015-10-16T14:06:51Z")
nm, got ninja’d on Rocky joke. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/106 "2015-10-16T14:08:13Z")
Reading this thread (part of my ongoing Clothahump research) was funny, tragic and educational, all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/107 "2015-10-16T14:42:59Z")
What the fuck did you resurrect it for? Hasn’t he suffered enough? ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/108 "2015-10-16T14:48:55Z")
I needed to have it active for research purposes ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/109 "2015-10-16T16:30:48Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > research You, “research”, ha, I’ve never Lets go down to the quarry and ride camels 'd so hard before. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/110 "2015-10-16T16:35:58Z")
Perhaps your research could be published alongside my ground-breaking work, _Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality_?\* - stolen - don’t remember where, but stolen… ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/111 "2015-10-16T16:52:54Z")
It’s not complicated, I wanted to see who posted and how many times. Bringing it to the front page makes it easy to see, and it would drop off after that. (which would have worked except you fucktards started posting in it) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/112 "2015-10-16T17:02:13Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > I needed to have it active for research purposes What, you’re not happy having only one fucking useless thread perennially active in the Pit? ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/113 "2015-10-16T17:03:35Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > What, you’re not happy having only one fucking useless thread perennially active in the Pit? No you idiot, I wanted to figure out why liberals call names and throw shit instead of arguing what is on the page. The answer was pretty easy to find. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/114 "2015-10-16T17:15:22Z")
After the Republicans invaded Iraq (over non-existent WMDs), they disbanded most of the Iraqi army. Many of those officers helped form ISIS - probably the most dangerous terrorist organisation ever. Once part of one of the most brutal dictator’s army in the Middle East, over 100 former members of Saddam Hussein’s military and intelligence officers are now part of ISIS. Now they make up the complex network of ISIS’s leadership, helping to build the military strategies which have led the brutal jihadi group to their military gains in Syria and Iraq. The officers gave ISIS the organization and discipline it needed to weld together jihadi fighters drawn from across the globe, integrating terror tactics like suicide bombings with military operations So let me get this straight, Clothahump. You think that a regulation designed to protect animals (which would simply require a magician to write a short reply) is worse than being responsible for hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, millions of refugees and setting up ISIS? :smack: :smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/115 "2015-10-16T17:22:53Z")
See what you’ve done, **FX**? I hope you’re happy. I bet you say “Beetlejuice” three times, every chance you get. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/116 "2015-10-16T17:23:48Z")
Since the changes to the law/refulations mentioned in the topic happened in 2006 … ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/117 "2015-10-16T19:03:19Z")
> [@glee](#): > > After the Republicans invaded Iraq (over non-existent WMDs), they disbanded most of the Iraqi army. > Many of those officers helped form ISIS - probably the most dangerous terrorist organisation ever… > So let me get this straight, Clothahump. > You think that a regulation designed to protect animals (which would simply require a magician to write a short reply) is worse than being responsible for hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, millions of refugees and setting up ISIS? :smack: :smack::smack: I’ve always wondered what the real reason was for the Iraq invasion. Are you saying it was to protect the rabbits? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/118 "2015-10-16T19:12:44Z")
Really? You couldn’t figure out how to get the Who Posted without resurrecting the thread? That’s embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/119 "2015-10-16T19:17:55Z")
You are assuming something, you idiot. > [@FXMastermind](#): > > Bringing it to the front page makes it easy to see, It makes it easy. Of course I first checked using the harder method. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281/120 "2015-10-16T19:22:37Z")
Checked what using what method? You know, what? I don’t care. The fact that you posted in the thread to bring it to the top of the forum means you’re either stupid, lazy or both. Regardless, it’s embarrassingly simple to get the info you wanted without rezzing a thread and you should feel bad. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-gotta-love-the-stupidity-of-our-government/662281.md?page=7)