Its useless to get upset over stupid people

I like the web. I really like using it as do hundreds of people. I like that fact that I can find out about a lot of thing I'm interested in but never had the resources to indulge. One topic of interest is politics, more specifically American politics.
Before heading to college in the states, I grew up in Hong Kong. Admittedly, I wasn't interested in politics any more than I was in Baseball (now I love Baseball!). What's really impressive now is that everything, and I mean everything is available for everyone to read up on. If so and so did this or said this, its online. In the past, if was deemed newsworthy it made the evening news and the paper in the morning. The fact is there's so much news out there, it very important for the editors to filter out the gems from the junk.
So what does this have to do with my title, ' Its useless to get upset over Republicans'? Well, its to do with their whining I guess.
This morning I was reading The Huffington Post, a mainly political blog but includes interesting snippets of pretty much everything. The story that kind of got me going, then eventually made me laugh was a story about  Tanning Salons and the headline that ran was

Tanning Salon Tax Is Racist, Says Doc Thompson, Fill-In Host For Glenn Beck

Now if you don't know Glenn Beck, I suggest you should find out what this writer regards as 'dumb and ignorant commentary who's soul purpose is to berate the Democratic Party' (I'll admit it took me a little while to make that sound good). Anyway, Beck recently had a guess host recently - whom I've never heard of - Doc Thompson, said this unedited:

'For I now too feel the pain of racism.'

This guy is a Caucasian. Now, this was interesting. Why would a Caucasian man say he felt the pain of racism? And how do tanning salon's fit in? Well, here the complete transcrīpt and then I'll comment:
THOMPSON: For years I've suggested that racism was in decline and yeah, there are some, you know, incidents that still happen with regards to racism, but most of the claims I've said for years, well, they're not really real. But I realize now that I was wrong. For I now too feel the pain of racism. Racism has been dropped at my front door and the front door of all lighter-skinned Americans. The health care bill the president just singed into law includes a 10 percent tax on all indoor tanning sessions starting July 1st, and I say, who uses tanning? Is it dark-skinned people? I don't think so. I would guess that most tanning sessions are from light-skinned Americans. Why would the President of the United States of America -- a man who says he understands racism, a man who has been confronted with racism -- why would he sign such a racist law? Why would he agree to do that? Well now I feel the pain of racism.
The audio version is available here.
So he's feeling racism because he's getting taxed 10% more on his tanning salon fees because he thinks that dark skinned people don't need to? He's basically saying the recent health bill discriminates against light skinned people and he's calling that racism. Its probably the stupidest thing I've heard from a 'smart person'. Would he be more happy if African Americans we taxed for knowing how to rap, or if Asian Americans were taxed because they know to cook Asian food? I mean really. It's better not to fake bake, they mean for it to keep you from getting skin cancer.
But then I laughed and thought, 'Why am I getting upset about this?'. Its just foolish thinking. I get my laughs out of stupid cat pictures, duct tape fixes and 'fail' videos. This is just a different sort of humor.
 
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