WTF, CNN.com?

I'm sorry, but if I remember correctly, CNN.com used to have actual relevant news! If you've been a frequent visitor to CNN.com over the years, you must have noticed that the headlines have become quite sensational lately.

Sure sure... they're no Onion. They still report on the major headlines, but take a look on the right side of the screen under "Latest Headlines". When I see some of those headlines, I say to myself, "WTF, CNN?" What is happening? Is America becoming that dumb? No wonder we have stupid, evil assholes in Washington! No one is paying attention to ANYTHING that matters anymore!!! Don't even get me started on local news broadcasts.

Here are some actual CNN headlines for ya...

Crocs, kids, escalators could be dangerous mix
Armless man quizzed in neighbor's death
Man puts rattlesnake in mouth, gets bitten
Bikini-clad 'Obama Girl' now hot for troops

They've obviously changed their approach to news to attract more, dumber people!!

This sucks. Now I've worked myself up into a tizzy.

If I were in charge, I would require that every person must take a basic test before voting in a general election. It would be a kind of "politically stupid" test to weed out the people who don't know anything about our country, political issues, and the candidates.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to make this "test" so hard that it eliminates too many voters. I would definitely avoid limiting the voting base to only college-educated Americans. It seems to me that people should be able to correctly answer questions like "How many states are there?", "What state was George W. Bush the governor of before becoming president?", or "How many illegal immigrants did Mitt Romney have working on his lawn?" (just kidding on that last one). If you can't answer simple questions to demonstrate your basic knowledge of what's going on, your vote should not count.... or at least... not count as much.

If we can spend millions and millions of dollars on bullshit space probes to check out Pluto, we must have some cash lying around to employ some really smart people to come up with a fair test like this. We could call it the "Voting Qualification Test" or something like that.

Pluto is cold. It's fucking far away. There's nothing there. Get over it.

Let's face it. The reason we're knee-deep in shit right now with the war, global warming, oil prices, the struggling economy, etc is because we have an "elected" fucktard in the White House. People in 2000 and 2004 heard all sorts of soundbites and talking points repeated over and over and over again... until they accepted these little nuggets of shit as the one and only truth. Hearing the term flip-flopper was starting to make my ears bleed in 2004. Unfortunately, I think it was this simplistic, dumbed-down horseshit that too many people actually believed that resulted in our situation. Some of those idiots could have been weeded out with my little system!

And I don't want to hear any shit from you guys saying I'm disenfranchising people because that's exactly what my little test intends to do! It eliminates the lazy assholes (republican, democrat, independent alike) who can't pick up a newspaper, watch a debate, or god-forbid check out CNN occasionally to become more informed about the issues.

Voting Qualification Testing for all!!!

Rant over.