I am beginning to wonder not only if intelligent life might not exist eleswhere, I don't think it exists on certain parts of this planet

QVC hosts think moon is a planet, or maybe a star (http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/shopping-channel-hosts-think-moon-is-a-planet-or-maybe-a-star/story-e6frfmyi-1227185788293)

I have to ask, because it begs the question, how intelligent do you have to be to be a TV show host? Does selling dumb things to dumb people lower your intelligence? Don't mind me it's a slow news day when the market is stagnant and even the government doesn't have a clue what it is doing. First they reduce medical benefits, then they reverse their decision after causing a great deal of angst to poor people and the population at large.

There are the strains of blown in the wind wafting by as even the PM won't play in the PM's eleven

There is a difference between being intelligent and being book smart. Consider what I know being who I am, I would be crappy at being a detective, or a chef, or being a television professional. There is nothing wrong with ignorance. Just because you can't carry on a conversation with stephen hawking doesn't make you a lesser person.

QVC hosts are only hired to be pretty and to be able to talk a lot. They must always say glowing things about every product and lie about how many are left and little time you have to get it.

"Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life on this planet!"/ Kirk to Enterprise.

And that was in the future.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
― Stephen Hawking (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/author/show/1401.Stephen_Hawking)

I feel stupid at least once a day. If people on YouTube and Court shows and Cops didn't make me feel better by being stupider, I'd ... I dunno

You feel stupid at least once a day... heck I can top that..

The frightening part is that there are enough people that believe the QVC hosts to keep THREE networks in business.

Yes the shopping channels are supported by a level of ignorance

Here is a picture of their offspring.

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Well smoothy what do we have here, a coutch patato?

Then there are those who believed all of Brian Williams' lies. He's not a QVC host . He's an anchor of a major news network. NBC is certainly supported by a level of ignorance.
For those who are upset that Williams has temporarily taken himself off air ;take comfort , you can still watch Al Sharpton on MSNBC .

Can we talk about Fox News now?

go ahead . Tell me which Fox anchor embellished a personal story in an attempt of 'stolen valor ' .

Okay Williams got caught in an 12 year old embellishment. That all you got?

12 year old ? He recently repeated it . But I understand . The Dems love it . Richard Blumenthal got caught in a similar stolen valor "embellishment" about serving in Vietnam . His lie was discovered during the Senate campaign and the people of Connecticut still sent him to the Senate .

At least Williams wasn't walking the Appalachian Trail at the same time.

We would have to go some to top Bush's mission accomplished in a flight suit, or great job Brownie during Katrina. Or even Jindal's no go narrative started by Fox.

Just saying.

I get cranky too, Tom, at the end of football season.

WG Mark Sanford's "walk in the woods" was about extramarital affairs. I was under the impression that the Dems were ok about lying about affairs and infidelity .....the Clinton precedence. Now if you are looking for a better comparison then perhaps you should look at Evita's 'dodging sniper fire ' in Bosnia . She never paid a price for that obvious embellishment ,but you know that the Clintoon's have a special immunity .

I was considering lies about where someone claims to have been when he was somewhere else -- and what advantage that gave him.

tal if you don't believe there are no go zones throughout Europe then I suggest you take a field trip to "Roubaix, or northern Marseille ,or Evry, and Grignya ,suburbs of Paris, or downtown Perpignan, or the Les Izards district of Toulouse , where police will not step foot, where the authority of state is completely absent, where mini Islamic states have been formed.

Btw ,it's not only Jindal or FOX that called them 'no go zones ' . The NY Slimes reported on them in 2005 .

La Courneuve is a town that menaces, but also welcomes. Branded by France's police intelligence agency as one of the country's 150 "no-go zones" where police officers should enter only with major reinforcements, La Courneuve was caught up in the violence in which rioters torched cars, trashed businesses and ambushed the police.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/world/europe/11iht-paris.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

And this is different than our own riots, looting, and burning cities of gone by decades, how? Isn't the history of man littered with these instances of disharmony as kingdoms fall and nations are built? Its one thing to note conditions, but quite another to ignore the context of them.

What were the Causes of Discontent that Resulted in the French Revolution? (http://www.preservearticles.com/201107159172/what-were-the-causes-of-discontent-that-resulted-in-the-french-revolution.html)

This is hardly the first go round for French, or any other nations dishevel. Hard times tends to bring that about.

you just refuse to admit a Muslim connection to any problems .

I cannot recall a time in our history where the civil society ceded ground to either lawlessness or communities setting up their own law systems outside of the national ,state or local rule of law .

or is it arrogance? are playing out in the Australian parliament today as the Prime Minister is being challenged and may be replaced

Tony Abbott: His political gaffes and slip-ups (http://www.news.com.au/national/tony-abbotts-political-gaffes-and-slip-ups/story-fncynjr2-1227212200851)

Let's face it Abbott was at best a bushesk character apt to bumble his way through a speech and until recently one might have thought a savvy politician but you can have one too many captain's calls. A're well, back to budgee smuggling on the beach or being a mamil. Tony thinks "defeat can be a better teacher than success" I think he is about to learn a valuable lesson

Where were you in the 70's Tom with the emergence of communes and cults? Now it's the Muslims scaring you and deserving of scorn, it use to be the KKK, or the communists, the socialists, the Chinese, the Russians, not long ago.

That's the difference between us Tom, you see this one event as unheard of, and I see it as one of many. These latest events are but a snapshot in time for the human condition.

Where were you in the 70's Tom with the emergence of communes and cults? Tell me which ones the police were instructed to not go into to enforce the law ? Tell me which ones the government told that it was ok for them to establish their own judicial system in violation of the laws of the land ?

You defended Koresh, when they did go in, and blasted government for doing it, while he made a bunch of babies.

I had no problem with the law being enforced . My objection was twofold. 1. The military was used . 2 . It was heavy handed and killed a lot of innocents.

Let's face it Tal Koresh should have enjoyed that religious freedom you guys are proud of. What was his problem, he combined religion and guns a perfectly acceptable stance today with many owing even more guns. if you had left him alone he would have drunk the koolaid