No Wonder

Former University of Texas and 2006 Rose Bowl MVP Vince Young, who led his Longhorns to the 2005-6 College Football National Championship, and is now in the NFL Draft, has a little something missing upstairs.

Those who come out for the NFL Draft are administered the Wonderlic Test.  It is 50 simple questions in 12 minutes, and your score is meant to measure your reasoning ability under pressure.  The test is scored one point for each correct answer, meaning the top possible score is 50.

Some sample questions from the Test were read on a sports talk radio show in St. Louis on Monday, and I can assure you that it doesn’t take Albert Einstein to answer them.  Here are some sample questions of the Wonderlic, on ESPN.

Teams want Quarterbacks to score relatively high, because that’s a position that requires decent reasoning skills under pressure.  Mr. Young expects to play QB in the league like he did in college, yet, with a Wonderlic score of 6 in his first try, and 16 in his second attempt, doubts can be raised about his reasoning skills.

By comparison, Rams wide receiver Kevin Curtis scored a 48, and Rams third-string QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, a Harvard graduate who took some live snaps this past season, scored a perfect 50.

Statistically speaking, if you take this test and just guess at the questions that have multiple choices, you would be very likely to get more than six right.

Six – you really have to be as dumb as a box of rocks to take the test, actually try, and score only six.

This begs the question:  How did he get admitted to the University of Texas, and how did he continue to remain academically eligible to play intercollegiate athletics?

If I don’t know the answer to that one, then I’m as naive as a box of rocks.

Another Bromide Rebuked

Another fashionable argument among the pro-Dubai crowd is that, if we reject the deal, it would turn a relatively friendly Arab-Muslim government hostile.

A caller to Drudge Radio this past Sunday advanced a theory that our rejection of the Port Deal would be the best thing for the UAE ruling government. 

His line of reasoning was this:  If the deal was approved, Al Qaeda would ambition to carry out terrorist attacks against one or more of the ports that the UAE would then “own,” and it would do this even if the UAE would not give them any help. 

In doing this, Al Qaeda would kill two birds with one stone – it would hurt America, and hurt the UAE, which it considers to be a “traitor.”  The UAE would be hurt physically and financially, and, so goes the theory, the American government would blame the UAE government for weak security, instead of Al Qaeda, thereby severing ties between the two.

The trouble with the last part of this theory is that I hardly doubt our intelligence-gathering mechanisms are that bad to where we wouldn’t read Al Qaeda’s fingerprints on any such attacks.

There’s A Mouse In The G.O.P. House

According to Variety.com, the Disney Corporation, via its PAC, and unlike most Hollywood entertainment companies, has given a slight majority of its political contributions to Republicans, 56% to be specific.

Phyllis Schalfly solved this riddle more than seven years ago.  The bread and butter of Disney’s existence is its continuing ownership of the intellectual property rights (copyrights, trademarks) of things like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and so on.

Disney PAC will scoop up politicians who will then extend Disney’s I.P. rights far beyond their original time limit.  Since a typical Republican is more sensitive to Big Business than a typical Democrat (though not by much), this 56% figure is no surprise to me.

They’re Just Cartoons

From World Net Daily:

Tom and Jerry, the lovable cat and mouse locked in cartoon combat, is a Jewish conspiracy, according to an Iranian official…..”The Jewish Walt Disney Company gained international fame with this cartoon,” said Bolkhari…..According to the professor, “Tom and Jerry” was created to irradicate the association between mice and Jews created in the minds of Europeans by Hitler.

The article then goes on to say that Tom and Jerry is a creation of Hanna-Barbera, not Disney.

C’mon people.  They’re animated cartoons.  They are figments of people’s imaginations.

Only a stupid, moronic, juvenile mind could attach any more meaning than that to an animated cat and mouse whose pretend antics are meant to entertain a six-year old.

You’re getting yourself all worked up over CARTOONS~!  Then again, you all have proven in the last several weeks that Cartoons seem to be very important to your sensitivities.

When Hate Is Really Hateful

In most European countries, it is a crime to deny that the Holocaust happened, or to diminish the generally accepted circumstances of the Holocaust; that is, if you’re a white right-winger.  Non-whites and Muslims are exempt, so it seems.

Apparently, European governments are exempt as well.

Many European governments have now communicated the message that they approve of the murder of Jews, because they are going to prohibit El Al airliners equipped with missile defense systems from landing at European airports.