Shut Up Fool Awards-Championship Weekend Edition

It's the first Saturday weekend in December, and that means it's Championship Saturday.   The title games for the Big Ten, Pac-12, SEC, MAC and ACC are all happening tonight or tomorrow. 

The one I'll be most focused on will be taking place just a few miles up the road from me at Robertson Stadium.  It's the C-USA title matchup at 11 AM CST between my number 8 BCS ranked C-USA West Division Champion University of Houston Cougars and the number 24 BCS ranked C-USA East Division Champion Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles.

Eat 'em up Cougars!

Okay, now that I've gotten my gratuitous shout out to my favorite collegiate footballers out of the way, time to segue to the championship level stupidity that the Shut Up Fool Awards seeks to ferret out on a weekly basis.  I'm also looking for nominations for the 2011 Shut Up Fool! of the Year Award which I will announce on New Years Eve in plenty of time for you peeps to get your party on.

Okay, this week's nominees for the Shut Up Fool Award were the group nominations for the Republican Party and Fox Noise, Gov Chris Christie (R-NJ), Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Gov Rick Perry (R-TX) and Herman Cain.

This week's runaway winner is retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)  No sooner had I chilled and wrote the post noting his contentious 32 years in Congress did he show his transphobic azz in a Washington
DC MetroWeekly interview that mentions ENDA  

It's blown up in the comment threads at the Project

Regarding ENDA, specifically, he said, "There were two problems. First of all, there was a crowded agenda. ... And then there was this issue of transgender inclusion. My own state of Massachusetts ... showed a way to break thorough that. Now, I might get an argument with some of my allies and friends here about the dimensions of that. The Massachusetts legislation just passed and the governor signed a bill that prohibits discrimination against people based on gender identity -- they already had one about sexual orientation -- but it's about employment, it does not include public accommodations. It avoids the whole issue of what happens in locker rooms and bathrooms."

He concluded: "The next time we have a Democratic president, House and Senate, I think you could get that type of Massachusetts bill through."

As I said in the comment thread on that post, "No way in Hades do I want that unjust abomination of a trans rights bill in Massachusetts replicated on a national level."

And I'm beyond sick and tired of your fixation on bathrooms when there have been far more gay and ostensibly straight men caught engaged in inappropriate behavior in showers and bathrooms than you and the loud and wrong radical lesbian separatists accuse transpeople of.  

And weren't two of those men caught in inappropriate bathroom behavior former Congressional colleagues of yours?  

Can't wait until January 3, 2013 gets here and you are no longer a liberal trans oppressor blocking the advancement of trans human rights in Congress.

Rep. Barney Frank, shut the HELL up fool!

2011 Shut Up Fool Of The Year Nominations

Since 2008 I have been selecting a weekly winner of the TransGriot Shut Up Fool! Awards that shine a bright spotlight on the people or groups of people who have exhibited mind blowing stupidity and ignorance through the year.

The 2009 Shut Up Fool! Of The Year was Michael Steele, and the 2010 Shut Up Fool! of The Year winner was Sarah Palin.

It's time for me to determine who will get the 2011 Shut Up Fool Of The Year, and I'll announce the winner of the award on New Year's Eve.  But I'd like a little reader input in terms of who you think deserves it and you can leave those nominations in the comment thread of this post, or hit me up on Twitter.

Just do so before December 30.   

So who will be revealed as the Shut Up Fool! of the Year award winner for 2011?  You'll need to surf back to TransGriot on December 31 to find out.

Shut Up Fool Awards-Post Thanksgiving Edition

It's exactly one month to Christmas Day and I'm still scarfing down the leftover turkey, ham and all the trimmings after getting my grub on yesterday with the family.  I also checked the scale to make sure I stayed close to my target weight. 

Hey, I worked hard to get my Coke bottle shape back and I'm not going to allow myself to snack my way out of a size 12 ever again.

Speaking of other things I'm avoiding, I'm also not going near any strip shopping center or mall today>  Not down with getting trampled by crazed shoppers stampeding for bargains at the post-Thanksgiving sales as the door opens.

I can think of better and more noble things to sacrifice my life for than a deep discount at a department store. 

Now let's move on to our weekly business of determining what fools or group of fools earned our weekly Shut Up Fool Award.   Nominations were Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Rep Joe Barton (R-TX), Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Herman Cain, Rep Joe Walsh (R-IL), Pat Robertson, and a group award from Fox Noise.    

But this week's post-Turkey day winner is.Newt Gingrich for hos comment during another (ho hum) Republican debate  in which he said that child labor laws were 'stupid' and that they should fire the unionized janitors and make the kids clean the schools instead.   .   

Where do I even begin to start blasting this conservaignorance? 

Child labor laws are in place for a reason.  They exist and are strict because kids were exploited by businesses during the 19th century.  Child labor laws exist so kids spend their time focused on getting an education, not busting their azz on a J-O-B that doesn't pay them well or lift them out of poverty.  They'll have the next 30 the 40 years of their lives after their teen years to do that, assuming your fat cat conservafriends haven't moved all the jobs overseas.

Besides, teenagers are already working near minimum wage jobs at fast food restaurants.  Stop hatin' on the SEIU and custodians and show them the money.

And you conservafools call Gingrich an intellectual?   Oh yeah, forgot that's a low bar to clear in the Republican party.   
 
Newt Gingrich, Shut Up Fool!