February 18, 2009 archive

i wish i wuz not DED

mbye you herd about mee my name was eeCHEEna but no wun new that becus i cudnt tell them my reel name so thay all call me travus. they sayed i was a kind of pepl not like the pepul that had only har on top of there heds i has hare all over me so that meens i am a CHIMP. i not sure what means chimp cept that ws what was me. i liv with lady for yers an yers. sometimes had fun. wun time i got out and played in the middle of lost of pepul OUTSYFDE. i luved outside an specilaaly cars. I rember the time I got out like that lots of peupl came to see me it was relly fun an then they gived me treats an I wnt home. they use to take picture of me an put me on tv an on the computer.

it was ok but i never relly felt i belond with the no hair pepul. i no there was oter CHIMPS becus I saw them befor. i dont thnk nun us CHIMPS ar spos to liv in haus with no har pepl. but still sotims it was fun cuz i lik to wath tv and i like to be in bath. i wuld get really gud eat sumetimes i wuld drink drink that make me silly an sleepy. and what i like bset i was to ride OUTSIDE in the CAR.

was ony thing i wanted was ride in CAR. I did not FELL GUD. feld very bad an want to ride out in car. an lkady say no travus not ride in car now becus we r bizzy. not sure what bizy is ecept it means i cant do what iwant to do cuz something else was bester than play with travus.

i hat name travus. never liek it.

so if lady so busy then why can other lady come over and play when i live here? i was SICK not her an only waned ride in CAR and iwas other lady falt that i could notr GO in CAR.

I got MAD! i wanted other lady to go away and so i got mad and hitted her and hitted her in her face.

then my lady cut me with NIFE! Hurted travus!

then everyone scream an i mad and scred and I go OUTSIDE an RUN and I heared WEEE OOO WEE OOO and got real loud. lots of cars comed and they were fulled with the mans that wear the blu sutes. theys were the mans that com wen i was OUTSIDE with the cars before and they wre nice that time but this tim they were MAD. and can’t be mad at ME caz it ws not FAIR tell travus cant go for rid in CAR becus bizy then some lady come to play! so i saw on of blue man in CAR an I want to go HIT him an then

bad thing happn

he poin at me a thing an it made BANG i think maybe thre time.

it hurt me very bad

so i go INSIDE. I lay on my bed

and still hurt till i cundnt see or mov any thing more.

then

I DIE.

CHIMP shuldnt be with no hare pepul. i saw chimps on tv when i was live an theydon live in no house and they run in play in trees an GRASS. Always OUTSIDE. and they find friend chimp an luv and make baby chimp.

i never dod non of the things becus i had to liv in hous wit no hare pepul.

And nowe I am ded an i didnt do nothing i would done if i nevr liv in house with peupl with only head hare.

now i don think no hare pepul shud have CHIMP in there house we done belong ther.

now i am ded an i just know

no won

will call me travus

no more.  

Lifted straight of Daily Kos in the spirit of solidarity…

Siegelman: Rove Trying to Cut Deal, Call Conyers by Ralph Lopez

Governor Don Siegelman has learned that Karl Rove is in some sort of negotiation for immunity or exec priv before he testifies on Feb. 23.  He is asking for people to flood Judiciary Chairman John Conyers with calls to make sure he “stays strong,” no deal, no immunity….  

Chairman Conyers’ Office

Office: (202) 225-5126

Fax: (202) 225-0072

Go read the rest and then make the call!

The battle for hearts and minds. Apparently the biggest problem after eight years of Bush policies….unsurprisingly… is a culture of corruption. So, why fight it, why not use it?

According to the CIA’s World Factbook Afghanistan has a population of 32,738,376.

Apparently Afghanistan’s per capita income was around 335 U.S. dollars a couple of years ago. Probably not, haha, counting opium profits.

Estimated cost of the Afghan war per year is loosely $70,000,000,000.

Now I SUCK a math, so I (and my calculator) could be wrong….but if we pay each person in Afghanistan $500 a year, well over the per capita income…that comes out to $16,500,000,000 per year. A relatively small percentage of the cost of war. An even smaller percentage of the money we are printing to give to the assholes bankers.

70 Billion for war, less than 20 billion to help buy peace. Now obviously the Afghan populace is not the only obstacle we face. So let’s try this…

Take that 70 billion, use half of it to build infrastructure, schools, hospitals, roads etc. and pay off every Afghani. That still leaves 35 Billion in the budget to…kill people.

Simplistic? You bet. But a great illustration of ‘Soft Power’ as opposed to the ‘Hard Power’ that doesn’t seem to have worked very well. For some reason, the Afghanis look askance at us semi-indiscriminately killing civilians, like their Moms and kids. Would they perhaps like us better if we gave all of them more money than they earn in a year?

Heck, buy them all TV’s and cable. It seems to have worked very well in completely pacifying Americans!

Soft Power works. Hard power has never ever worked in Afghanistan for long. Never. But soft power is …hard werk. You have to think and plan and you have to think and plan outside the box. You have to listen to DFH’s like social planners and cultural anthropologists….you know eggheads. You have to spend money on social programs and such, the stuff Republicans hate….especially when they can just kill people instead. Especially Brown People, who as we all know just don’t count as Real People to Republicans. Republicans like force, I am fairly sure that just as they maintain that poverty doesn’t breed crime. I am sure that they don;t think that poverty breeds terrorism either. I am betting (tongue in cheek quite a bit, because I don’t believe in imposing our culture on others) that if every male in Afghanistan who comes of fighting age gets an X-box instead of an AK-47….that would drive the Taliban’s recruiting numbers down.

Of course that is not the way things work in the real world. In the real world, the Powers That Be need to be bought off. And they are far more expensive than your average Afghan family, since their per capita income is lightly higher than $500 a year. For some reason. Since they were the ones who fucked everything up. Taking 35 Billion dollars a year away from the MIC might run into a bit of resistance.

But just as some people point out with all of our stimuli and bailouts, if we just divide all of those trillions up between each taxpayer who will end up paying for it, and give it directly to them, instead of banks and brokers …that is a LOT of money per person, money that people would spend, iow…bottom up stimulus.

For nearly 30 years we have been officially a top down economy. That doesn’t work. For eight years we have been killing people, and spending trillions to do it. That doesn’t work. Maybe we can try something different?

Maybe we can…….change?

At least change our perspective, our way of thinking.

The old way, the Bush way, the MIC way, doesn’t work. Let’s try something else. Let’s invent a new way.

Oh yeah, and before I forget to mention this part….killing people is wrong. Let’s stop doing it.

There is a fallacy that the Dog falls into far too often, and he bets there are lots of other folks that do it too. The fallacy is that if you have the facts on your side you always win in persuading people. Yeah, when you write it out like that is seems pretty silly to anyone over the age of say 15 but it is still a problem that the Dog runs into on a regular basis. What is strange is that we, as Dems, run into this problem a lot as well.  

By choosing the East Asia to make his first trip abroad  

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