Shut Up Fool Awards-Houston's Hot Edition

It's been a little warmer than normal for early June here in H-town.   The week began with back to back record 105 degree F days on Sunday and Monday, but cooled down to just a mere 95 degrees F high yesterday.

The predicted H-Town temperature for today is only 92 degrees F, so it's dropping back down to the temps we normally see for this time of year (thank God).  I'm already cognizant of the fact that June 21 hasn't arrived yet, and neither has the month of August when we usually get our triple digit temps.      

That's okay, as long as I have plenty of Blue Bell in the freezer in my favorite flavors, I'll be alright

It's Friday, and y'all know what time it is.   It's time once again to discover who is going to be our Shut Up Fool Award winner for this week. 

As always, we had a bumper crop of fools across the political spectrum this week.   Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep Eric Cantor (R-VA)  Herman Cain, Rick Santorum,  Rep Anthony Weiner (D-NY), a Fox Noise group award, a group award for the Transsexual Taliban, and the blogger RIPPA.

Honorable mention this week goes to comedian Tracy Morgan for his June 3 comedy routine in Nashville, TN that bombed big time when he went on a homophobic tirade onstage with Truth Wins Out's Kevin Rogers in the audience.   Morgan reportedly slammed President Obama for supporting the LGBT community, called homosexuality a choice, and even threatened to stab his own son to death if he ever came home from school and told his father he was gay. 


When the audience tuned on him, Morgan remarked, "If gays can take a dick up their ass, they can take a joke.”

But this week's award goes to Wanda Sykes, who said during a recent interview with Piers Morgan it's harder to be gay than Black.

 “I’m not talking about the history of black people, of African Americans. I’m talking about at this point right now… I don’t know of organizations and groups like Focus on the Family and such anti-gay organizations who are putting up so much money – millions and millions of dollars – into stopping me from, you know, being black or telling me I can’t exercise my blackness,"

 To quote Maya Wilkes, Oh Hell No! 

Did you forget about the Republican Party and the same conservafool moment are also spending millions of dollars to steal elections, roll back the civil rights progress we fought, marched and died for and love oppressing Black people be they straight, gay, cis or trans?

What you said was another one of the problematic anti-Black statements you've made since you came out, and it's already being seized on by gays wishing to pimp the BS 'Blacks are uniquely homophobic meme.'


Wanda Sykes, shut the HELL up  fool!

Shut Up Fool Awards-WNBA 15th Anniversary Season Edition

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the longest surviving women's sports league in US sporting history, the WNBA.   It started in 1997 with eight franchises in Los Angeles, New York, Cleveland, Utah, Sacramento, Phoenix, Charlotte, and (sniff sniff) Houston.     It added teams and grew to as large as sixteen teams before attrition took it down to the current 12 teams once the NBA big brother arrangement ended.

Out of the Original Eight franchises only four remain.  Los Angeles, New York, and the Utah one that moved to San Antonio.   I'm still royally pissed about the way the WNBA and then commissioner Donna Orender mishandled the Houston Comets situation.

They open the 15th anniversary season with the Seattle Storm aiming to defend their WNBA title and a new commissioner in Laurel J. Richie.   The only game on the WNBA schedule tonight is one in Los Angeles featuring the Sparks (boo hiss) versus the Minnesota Lynx and their super rookie Maya Moore.

That's a nice segue into this week's Shut Up Fool Awards.   Time to make some sparks fly and reveal which fool or fools have exhibited championship level stupidity this week.

I have plenty to choose from this week.  Rudy Guiliani, Charles Krauthammer, Roger Ailes, Eric Cantor (R-VA),  Steve Doocy,  Rep Billy Long (R-MO), Gov Chris Christie (R-NJ), a group award for Fox Noise, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Michael Steele.

This week's award goes to Mitt Romney, who announced his run for the 2012 GOP nomination yesterday on a NH farm.

Not only has Mitt been tap dancing around his own liberal record as the former governor of Massachusetts and Romneycare, he attacked President Obama with the 'European' sobriquet.

"He’s treating Israel the same way so many European countries have: with suspicion, distrust, and an assumption that Israel is at fault ..."

"Here at home, the president seems to take his inspiration not from the small towns and villages of New Hampshire but from the capitals of Europe ..."

"With the economy in crisis, his answer is to borrow money we can’t afford and throw it at Washington bureaucrats and politicians. Just like Europe ..."

"President Obama’s European answers are not the right solution to America’s challenges."

Yeah, right   The Mormon corporate banker trying to play the 'Real American' card.   Well at least he's not throwing shade (yet) at his African heritage like Newt Gingrich did, so I should consider it progress.  

Mitt Romney, shut up fool!

Shut Up Fool Awards-Memorial Day 2011 Weekend Edition

It's Memorial Day weekend once again in the United States.   Not only is it considered the start of the summer season, (the solstice actually happens on June 21) the Indianapolis 500 is run on that day as well    This year's Indy 500 will be the 100th anniversary version of this classic race.

The major reason we celebrate Memorial Day is to remember all the service men and women who have given their lives in service for our country.  

That's a nice segue into our weekly TransGriot business that we conduct every Friday.   We take a moment to memorialize the fool, fools or group of fools who have made stupidity and ignorance an art form.

Have an honorable mention award this week for Harold Camping.    He obviously didn't get the message to read Matthew 24:36 last week, and now claims his 'end of the word' prediction was off by five months.

This week's nominees are Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Fox Noise, the WWBT's,  Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Gov Rick Perry.(R-TX), the Republican Party.

This week's winner is House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)   In the wake of the tornado that devastated Joplin, MO last week, Cantor decided to play politics with the natural disaster by trying to use it as a barganing chip in budget negotiations.

Cantor said any aid would need to be offset by other spending cuts, "If there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental."  The term "pay-fors" means either spending cuts or tax increases, and the Republicans have firmly stated that they would not pass any tax increases this year.   

Funny, didn't say that about the aid for tornado victims in Alabama.   Is it because it has a Republican governor and Republican senator, unlike Missouri, with a Democratic governor and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) facing reelection next year?

And will you say the same thing about aid for the tornado victims in Oklahoma, another state with a Republican governor and Republican senators?

'Compassionate conservatism' at its finest.   I guess what they mean is that they only have compassion for conservatives.

Rep. Eric Cantor, shut the HELL up fool!