Jesse Ventura is NACHO LIBRE! (Photoshop)

Jesse Ventura has had a long and colorful career, and it isn't over yet.  He has been the Governor of Minnesota, a Navy Seal, a professional wrestler and a 911 "Truther."

Now he's apparently reprising the role once played by Jack Black, the role of "Nacho Libre," the professional wrestler of Mexico!

Miffed because his lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was thrown out, he has denounced the U.S. as "the Fascist States of America" and says he will apply for citizenship of Mexico, where he will spend a lot more time. He reportedly stated: "I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist." (What a schmuck.)

Ventura has an artificial hip, and was annoyed by the extensive procedures used to check him out every time he boards a commercial airline.  Well, he has a point.  For previously screened people, the TSA procedures need to be streamlined.  I thought they had already done this, but apparently not.

I too sometimes become ticked off at the government, but calling your country the "Fascist States of America" is a bit juvenile, and moving to Mexico?  Be sure to duck when the firing starts, Jesse, and nos vemos, compadre.  If Obama is reelected, I may even join you.  I'm not taking Spanish for nothing, and one third world country is as good as another, I guess.


Read more here.

Jesse Ventura: "9/11 Was an Inside Job" UPDATE

Jesse Ventura has made a collossal jackass of himself by voicing the inanity of the so-called Troofers movement, i.e., that 9/11 was an inside job.

Now this political has-been can get invited to all the best Hollywood parties where such tripe is considered brave instead of insane.

Get a life, Jesse.

...

Update: Jesse Ventura proved himself a jackass when he made ignorant comments about the WTC 7 without doing any reading on it whatsoever. His statements are irresponsible in the extreme and, therefore, he has earned the title of Jackass. He says:

Two planes struck two buildings....but how is it that a third building [WTC 7] fell 5
hours later?" asked Ventura, "How could this building just implode into its own
footprint 5 hours later - that's my first question - the 9/11 Commission didn't
even devote one page to that in their big volume of investigation," added the
former Governor.

Well Jesse, why don't you try reading some peer-reviewed engineering and other reports about WTC 7 instead of just mouthing off? Like the ones found at this links page, for example. Then you might discover that WTC 7 had a huge bite taken out of the southwest corner by debris hitting it from the other buildings. On the south side, there was a huge hole about 20 stories high, according to the firemen who were on the scene. There were numerous fires on almost every floor that were out of control. These are the causes of the building's collapse.

Below is video footage of WTC 7 (the "pink building" as one fireman called it) in its last couple of hours before collapse. Conspiracy theorists like to show pictures of the north side of the building, which appears almost pristine. The south side, however, had huge clouds of smoke emanating from the entire length of the building. The building was buckling and debris beginning to fall off. Firemen on the scene described the building as "creaking and moaning." The support columns were weakened by the fire and the weight of 40 stories on these weakened supports caused the building to pancake.

Watch the video and see for yourself. Jesse Ventura, if you're out there, watch it too. We will be expecting a public withdrawal of your remarks and an apology to the FDNY, the Bush Administration, the families of the 9/11 dead and to me in particular for having to rebut you.