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We spend a good deal of time here mocking doofus celebs, so why not highlight one who demonstrates that intelligence isn’t necessarily what you know, but rather the ability to know what you don’t know.

Kid Rock is one of those celebrities who thinks celebrities should keep their mouths shut about politics:

“I’m good at writing songs and singing. What I’m not educated in is the field of political science. And so for me to be sharing my views and influencing people of who I think they should be voting for … I think would be very irresponsible on my part.”

Because that it takes brains to realize this, Kid Rock is our Intelligent Celebrity of the Month (of the year if we don’t find another intelligent celebrity in the next few months).

This is a refreshing sorbet after reading about all the Hollywood dunces with more money than brains who have been on parade all week at the Democratic convention cuckoo’s nest.

Sure, it may be a tad irresponsible for a stupid celebrity to tell people who to vote for, but how stupid does that make the person who followed the advice of the stupid celebrity, and exactly how bad must the politician in question be if so many stupid people are voting for him or her?

Peddling wares using a pyramid scheme of stupid (”You tell two idiots, and they tell two idiots, and so on and so forth”) is big business, and Hollywood is the Amway of moronic leftist activism.

“Hey, I heard that!”

We Irish will bet on anything after a few drinks.

From CNS News:

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power says Sen. Barrack Obama (D-Ill.) is the undisputed master of cliches this election season, and his well-known mantra — “Change” — is sure to show up in Thursday’s speech when he accepts the Democratic presidential nomination. The odds are 10 to 1 it will, the Dublin-based oddsmaker said.

The odds other cliches will show up, according to Paddy Power, are “I’m fired up” at 6 to 1; “I’d like to thank my wife,” “As I stand here today,” “fundamental belief,” “defining moment,” and “God Bless America” clock in with 12 to 1 odds (says something about Obama when “God bless America,” which would usually be at 1 to 1 odds for a politician, is at 12 to 1 for the Deliverer).

“Let me be clear,” “war on terror,” “politics of hope,” and “common purpose” come in at 14 to 1 odds.

“Crossroads of history,” “I have a dream,” “pursuit of happiness,” “I’m fired up” and “building a better America” are at 16 to 1.

“We cannot lose hope” is at 25 to 1, and “an eye for an eye only winds up making the whole world blind” is at a measly 100 to 1.

Odds of other potential Obama cliches during his Invesco Field acceptance speech

They left a few out of the above story, so here are some of my best guesses for other potential cliches along with the odds:

10 to 1: “Iraq and a hard place.”

40 to 1: “My family doesn’t put on Ayers… uh, I don’t mean ‘Ay-yers’ but rather ‘airs’ without the ‘y’… you know what I mean don’t you?”

60 to 1: “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Hey, yeah, that’s all I was doing!”

75 to 1: “A penny for your thoughts. Think about it. This means that if all of us here at Invesco Field had just one thought, we could feed my half-brother for over two years!

90 to 1: “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch — not that I don’t think they count as chickens before they hatch like that lie the right is telling everybody about me.”

100 to 1: “Speaking of that, you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs… just as long as that omelette isn’t made in the last trimester because I never ever said that should be legal.”

115 to 1: “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Save the water just in case there’s a drought.”

125 to 1: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions and named after Robert Byrd… just kidding Senator.”

130 to 1: “My white grandmother calling the kettle black.”

140 to 1: “Plato said that an unexamined life is not worth living. Those actor kids from Diff’rent Strokes were indeed wise.”

150 to 1: “Remember, big brother is listening — well, not mine because he can’t afford a radio. I’m just messin’ wit cha, bro!”

165 to 1: “It was the most historic day since the Wright brothers took flight. Jeremiah’s got a brother? See, I told you I never listened to anything he said!”

175 to 1: “Let me tell you a cock and bull story… hey, why’s President Clinton leaving?”

And coming in at 200 to 1 odds is the unintentional tribute to Ted Kennedy cliche trifecta: “Water under the bridge,” “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” and “Asleep at the wheel.”

Have a good speech, Senator Obama, and cliche away!

Penn and Teller try to answer the above question in an episode of their Showtime program that should be required viewing for everybody from school kids to nursing home residents: “Bullshit!”

Below is the first third of the half-hour show. Click here to view the other two parts. (there’s a bit of harsh language in it so don’t play it around sensitive ears)

If you do nothing else, speed up to about 2:23 in and watch Penn catch up with peacenik actards Martin Sheen and Mike Farrell and ask them what “world peace” means to them. Naturally they believe it has something to do with “love,” but in the second clip of the show, Teller points out something that would put Sheen’s boxers in a wad: World peace has nothing to do with love — it’s about money, business and financial interdependence:

(h/t LGF)

The latest enviro-craze is this: Reusable toilet paper. It’s highly recommended that you wash your clothing in a separate load — unless you work for UPS and then it won’t really matter.

I’m proud to say that I’ve been ahead of the game in saving the environment from global warming, because this was my reusable toilet paper way before the other guys came out with their product:

This is a potential election-buster for the Democrats if I ever saw it: Gas prices continue to decline.

The horror! Somebody call the police, because the Democrats demagoguery muse is being stolen right under their noses.

What’s next? A dramatic drop in the abortion rate? Concrete evidence that lower taxes expand the economy?

“Oh the humanity!”

Update: Great news for Dems! Oil prices spike as Hurricane Gustav nears Gulf. But it could get better — Limbaugh just said that one computer model has this thing ends up heading to New Orleans as a possible category 5, and it would strike on or about day one of the Republican convention.

Cue Geraldo.

As Democrats speaking at the convention continue to take the stage to tell us how America is the greatest nation on the planet, and how we need to change it, there is some odd drama:

US police are investigating whether they have foiled an assassination plot against Barack Obama after four people were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver in the possession of high powered rifles.
[...]
The suspects were arrested on Sunday when local police arrested a man, identified by the television station as Tharin Gartrell, 28, who was driving a rented pickup truck erratically. CDS4 is reporting that in his truck police found two high powered rifles with telescopic sites, as well as camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, a bulletproof vest, a high powered spotting scope, licences in the names of various people, and the drug methamphetamine.

Gee, it’s getting so a savior can’t gather 75,000 worshippers together in a huge open-air stadium without somebody trying to screw it up.

First off, a meth freak couldn’t hit Michael Moore from 15 feet away let alone the 750 yards that’s reported in the story. And what’s with the camouflage clothing? They’re in Denver fer cryin’ out loud — unless the “camouflage” is buildings and sidewalks I’d imagine this would only stick out like a sore liberal. Of course, this is near Invesco Field, so maybe the guys had Bronco uniforms in the truck.

So, why are a few white cracker meth-heads talking out their asses making big news while the Somali Muslim who was found dead in a Denver hotel room a couple of weeks ago with a hundred pounds of cyanide was downplayed and dismissed as a benign coincidence? The question answers itself.

If the men found with the guns were Muslims, this would be downplayed in the same way. The last thing the Democrats want is for the focus of the convention to turn to Muslim extremism. Osama Bin Laden himself could parade through Denver setting off dirty bombs and the Democrats would blame a backfiring car that had improper tire pressure.

But crazy white people with guns… that they don’t mind focusing on, and that’s why this story will be followed up on for some time.

The answer to the “question of the day” comes to us courtesy of a brave Fox News reporter and his cameraman. The two waded into the moonbat surf near the Democrats convention to get some quotes from the “Recreate 68” bunch who obviously have way too much free time and not nearly enough Thorazine.

Here’s the question, and put up your umbrella before you read it, because it drips with irony: Is there anything more angry, hateful, violent and vitriolic than “peace activists” in large groups?

The answer, as evidenced by the video below, is “not usually”:

He’s baaaack. Well, maybe.

If Ted Kennedy shows up tonight for the “tribute” to him or not, the occasion promises to be so syrupy that Aunt Jemima will sue for copyright infringement.

I’ll be watching. There’s nothing like honoring one of the politicians who is responsible for bankrupting the country on bad ideas paid for by unwitting dupes who haven’t been born yet — all while exempting his own family from the destruction he hath wrought. What a hero to the workin’ man!

Cue the video and keep the Kopechnes away so they don’t try to ruin it.

Update: Looks like Ted will indeed be there tonight to receive his Lifetime Liberal Achievement Award. Mary Jo will not be able to attend.

Today’s column at WorldNetDaily contains the unthinkable: A Brady Bunch reference in relation to a presidential candidate and his running-mate.

Barack Obama has always reminded me of a character — a publicists creation named “Johnny Bravo.” Who’s Johnny Bravo and what does that have to do with Obama and Biden? Read “Johnny Bravo chooses a sartor” for the whole story.

Email update: Laura D. has a good recollection that ties in with something I wrote:

Your statement “What good is a member of Congress who can’t spot a lie that isn’t theirs?” reminded me of a recent comment by Bill Daley (yes, of the Chicago political crime family):

“I assume Clinton actually believed it when a lot of supers said privately they would be with her. But why would you believe them? They are politicians!”

And John M. educates me on Chicago gangs and Obama:

You’ve made a good case showing the only real qualities this candidate has, and his entire lack of preparation to be a senator from Illinois, far less a president, even of a small, dictatorial country.

I would suggest you retract that comment about being attacked by the south side of Chicago, I lived on the west side for some ten years, from 67 to 76, and the “south side” was attacking the United States during that whole time. We had “gangs” organized to keep “south side gangs” from entering our neighborhoods and stealing our bikes and everything else not nailed down, and the most interesting part of it was the makeup of our “gang”.

We were probably the only Italian, Irish, Scots, Polish, German, “gang” in the history of gangs, probably because we all had been targeted by the invading gangs. Obama is not qualified to be president especially if we are attacked by the “south side of Chicago”, he would be leading the charge.

Madonna’s head-first dive into the shallow “Whatever happened to Baby Jane?” pool continues, and now even the “controversy” is getting old and repetitive:

As Madonna kicked off her international “Sticky and Sweet” tour Saturday night, she took a none-too subtle swipe at the presumptive Republican nominee for U.S. president.

Amid a four-act show at Cardiff’s packed Millennium Stadium, a video interlude carried images of destruction, global warming, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, Zimbabwe’s authoritarian President Robert Mugabe — and U.S. Sen. John McCain.

It’s this kind of a grasp of historical scope and solid perspective that makes me surprised that Obama didn’t choose Madonna as his running mate.

“Is there anything more pathetic than an aging hipster?”