Can you say "stoopid" idea?

No kidding, this kind of thing is the bane of my existence, gives me a headache, and just puts me in a snit. I want to flip out, and make all kinds of pronouncements about why it's important to love your language and treat it with respect, but for people like this, and their followers (because I can only assume that they have some kind of illiterate following), my arguments would hold no credibility. I'm stunned into silence, actually, as I sit here.

In DC, even the Spelling Bee draws protesters
(AP) WASHINGTON – The nation's capital always draws its share of protesters, picketing for causes ranging from health care reform to immigration policy.
But spelling bee protesters? They're out here, too.
Four peaceful protesters, some dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being held.
Their message was short: Simplify the way we spell words.
Roberta Mahoney, 81, a former Fairfax County, Va. elementary school principal, said the current language obstructs 40 percent of the population from learning how to read, write and spell.
"Our alphabet has 425-plus ways of putting words together in illogical ways," Mahoney said. The protesting cohort distributed pins to willing passers-by with their logo, "Enuf is enuf. Enough is too much."
According to literature distributed by the group, it makes more sense for "fruit" to be spelled as "froot," "slow" should be "slo," and "heifer" — a word spelled correctly during the first oral round of the bee Thursday by Texas competitor Ramesh Ghanta — should be "hefer."
Meanwhile, inside the hotel's Independence Ballroom, 273 spellers celebrated the complexity of the language in all its glory, correctly spelling words like zaibatsu, vibrissae and biauriculate.
While the protesters could make headway with cell phone texters who routinely swap "u" for "you" and "gr8" for "great," their message may be a harder sell for the Scripps crowd. Mahoney had trouble gaining traction with at least one bee attendee.
New Mexico resident Matthew Evans, 15, a former speller whose sister is participating in the bee this year, reasoned with her that if English spellings were changed, spelling bees would cease to exist.
"If a dictionary lists 'enough' as 'enuf,' the spelling bee goes by the dictionary, therefore all the spelling words are easier to spell, so the spelling bee is gone," Evans said.
"Well," Mahoney replied, "they could pick their own dictionary."

Could there be anything more ridiculous than seeing "fruit" spelled "froot" when not on a cereal box? Or "enuf"? My god! These examples, as well as the rest of this ridiculous movement's "dictionary," would (woud) be enough (enuf) to give (giv) me a heart (hart) attack (atak)!!
ACK!!! THIS FRIGHTENS ME!!

p.s. My spell check just went ape shit with this post.