Moron Hall of Fame: Kim Jong Il "Dear Leader"

On the right I give you a 50 won North Korean "scrip" note. I have kept it all these years after a friend of mine John Byrd gave it to me after a visit to North Korea. Yes, that's right, he went to North Korea. You see, he is a big shot at the Central Identification Lab out of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and goes all over the world looking for US MIAs. He found a WWII US bomber and crew off the coast of Morocco and finally let their family have some rest. He has been to Vietnam, and the Killing fields of Cambodia identifying bodies. He even had the task of identifying who was killed at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Well, back a few years ago when things were not so tense, the North Korean government let the identification team into the Korean DMZ and beyond to look for MIAs. The whole time, the speakers from the North blared propaganda over and over, louder and louder. What did the South Koreans do? They just played a tape of a cow mooing to remind the North Koreans what a hamburger must taste like. John also told me the countryside of North Korea is beautiful and should have some of the best trout fishing in the world. I asked him "so why doesn't it?" He looked at me like the fool that I am and said "because they netted all the rivers and streams and have eaten all the fish." Kinda obvious eh? He also said there were only two programs on TV. It was either propaganda where some peasant farmer discovered the wonders of collectivism and shouted Socialist victory slogans or it was some program of the communist world defeating the Yankee imperialists. When you are told this over and over again from the time you come out of the womb, you should not wonder why the North Korean population feels as they do. John spoke to one North Korean military commander who had to go everywhere they went and asked if he ever thought of visiting the US. He said he would love to but if he left, the regime would murder his whole family all the way down to all of his first cousins. How charming.

Anyway, all you young folks out there, you do not have to wonder what Hitler and Stalin were like. They live in North Korea. I got a real bad feeling about how this is going to go down.
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Moron Hall of Fame: Steve Forbes

Steve Forbes calls for Bernanke's ouster for shrinking the Fed's balance sheet. Here read it. I am not making it up.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0330/023-incapable-commanders.html

Randay Parker Moron Hall of Fame: Wilbur Mills

This ladies and gentlemen is Wilbur Mills. You can read about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Mills . The main reason he got into trouble in the first place was he was stealing electricity from the power company by jumping the line to his house boat before the line got to the power meter. That is what put the cops on to him and ultimately got him pulled over with his headlights off riding down the road. The rest of the story took off from there. Now we can't go telling the rest of the story here. For all our itsy bitsy econ bloggers out there, let's just say Congressman Mills ran out of bedtime books to read for his friend and companion with whom he wrote poetry Fanne Foxe. And remember kids, don't take nothing that don't belong to you. Always pay your power bill fair and square.

Randy Parker Moron Hall of Fame

Let me clarify. There is: 1. The Randy Parker Hall of Fame occupied by the best of the best the human condition has put forth like Jackie Robinson, Frank Robinson, "Ralph" whom you will meet on Friday, Lee Elder, Ronald Reagan, Walter Payton and others who have made a positive impression on my life. I have indicated who these people are and will continue to do so over time. 2. The Randy Parker Schmuck Hall of Shame occupied by miscreants and other low lifes and degenerates that did something without shame and admit to nothing or act like it is no big deal. We have seen John Edwards, Mark Foley and Tim Mahoney take up residence here. 3. The Randy Parker Moron Hall of Fame occupied by me (based on general moron principles) and folks who were trying to help but did something diametrically opposed to what should have been done and yet did not realize it and steadfastly maintained their correctness even in the face of overwhelming counter evidence.

Anybody know who these Moron Hall of Fame members are directly above? That's right Senator Reed Smoot and Representative W.C. Hawley the guys who gave us trade protectionism in response to the downturn of 1929-30 and thus contributed to the Great Depression. And since we are here, that's ole Herbert Hoover on the right. The same guy who raised taxes to balance the budget and crashed the economy in 1932. What do we know from economic history? Right, you don't choke off trade nor raise taxes when you are staring into the teeth of an economic downturn. Seems I have been hearing the same Depression-era mumbo jumbo lately. Those who do not know the lessons of history are condemned to repeat the same dumb mistakes. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122445840565148489.html?mod=djemEditorialPage