Are You This Stupid?

I grew up in a fairly rural area in south Alabama where you could actually see the night sky. Not just the Moon and a few major planets like Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, but back in the 60’s you could see the Milky Way on a clear winter night.

Now that we live on an island located on the Atlantic Ocean, we have an excellent view of the night sky, particularly looking to the east. One of my favorite websites is Spaceweather.com. I get a regular E-mail update from them each week that tells me about things like sunspots, eclipses, and meteor showers.

The Perseid and the Leonid Showers occur in August and November each year and have, in recent history, provided a spectacular display of “shooting stars” if you were willing to stay up late or get up early to watch.

There was a minor meteor shower predicted for this past weekend—the Lyrid Meteor Shower, caused by the earth passing through debris from the tail of a comet. There apparently were a bunch of DUMB ASSES up in New England that are not used to being able to see anything in the sky other than the moon, airplanes, and UFO’s.

"BOSTON (AP) - A meteor shower Sunday night sparked a flurry of frantic phone calls to police departments across New England from people who saw bright lights moving in the sky, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The meteor shower was seen as far north as Portland, Maine, and as far south as Long Island. Some witnesses apparently mistook the meteor shower for a plane crashing in Connecticut, the FAA's Holly Baker said.

"We've checked all around. There are no aircraft unaccounted for," she said."

I just have two questions…


Are these people are allowed to vote?

Are they allowed to have kids?


(I bet if they voted at all, they voted for John sKerry)