{"id":25842,"date":"2016-08-07T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=25842"},"modified":"2016-08-08T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:30:36","slug":"just-saying-america-the-stupid-bill-mahers-stats-and-defcon-3-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=25842","title":{"rendered":"Just Saying: America the Stupid, Bill Maher’s Stats and Defcon 3 Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the Land of Stupid, Albert Einstein’s funny tongue-in-cheek remark resonates like some prophetic theory of political relativity that gauged the 2016 election. Einstein then suggested that while the universe might have an end, stupidity is boundless.<\/span><\/p>\n

America is in a serious crisis, more \u00a0grave than the Zika and the Ebola viruses.<\/span><\/p>\n

The country is inundated with tens of millions of people who have the attention span of Rhesus monkeys and the intellect of slugs going up drainpipes.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret. The Nigerians have known this for decades, and they are smart enough to tap into American stupidity by duping its obese, dumb and fickle morons as though they are digging for diamonds in an African mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s simply too easy. Send an email that states I want to send a million dollars to America. Can you please allow me to use your bank account to do this?<\/span><\/p>\n

If someone wants to quickly make a lot of money in America, it would be dumb to rob a bank. \u00a0It\u2019s too risky.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just lift a page from the Nigerian playbook, open a P.O. Box and select one of the dozens of scams like phony land deals, get-rich-quick schemes, a pyramid scheme, a loose weight magic potion, miraculous medical cures or some other con.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, there is this jaw-dropping statistic: \u00a0One out of five high school graduates can’t read. Which begs the question, how can Americans enter public school buildings for 12 years, and in the end be awarded a piece of paper, a diploma, that he or she can’t read?<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, these grads aren’t alone. They are among 32 million Americans can’t read.<\/span><\/p>\n

The source of this information is\u00a0Statistic Brain<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0I published a column about it in June:\u00a0<\/strong>Just Saying<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Being unable to read or write doesn\u2019t necessarily equate to being stupid. But it is a contributing factor along with the lowering of academic standards and expectations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maher\u2019s Stupid Comment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Comedian and HBO Real Time Host Bill Maher said during a TV interview in 2009 that, yeah this country was stupid enough to vote for Sarah Palin as president of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

I agreed.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Maher’s remarks apparently offended many. But he backed up what he said with statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n