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Humourous forward
Saddam Hussein and his chauffeur were rolling down the highway when suddenly they hit a pig crossing the road. They kill it instantly.
Saddam tells his driver: "Go to da farm over dere and hexplain to da honer of da pig what appened."
One hour later, Saddam sees his driver coming back from the farm, his clothes all wrinkled, a bottle of wine in one hand and a cigar in the other.
"What appen to you?" he asks. "Well, the farmer gave me a bottle of wine, his wife, the cigar and their 19 year old daughter made wild passionate love to me."
"My God! What did you tell dem?" asked President Hussein. The driver answered:
"Good evening, I am Saddam Hussein's chauffeur and I have just killed the pig."
Saddam tells his driver: "Go to da farm over dere and hexplain to da honer of da pig what appened."
One hour later, Saddam sees his driver coming back from the farm, his clothes all wrinkled, a bottle of wine in one hand and a cigar in the other.
"What appen to you?" he asks. "Well, the farmer gave me a bottle of wine, his wife, the cigar and their 19 year old daughter made wild passionate love to me."
"My God! What did you tell dem?" asked President Hussein. The driver answered:
"Good evening, I am Saddam Hussein's chauffeur and I have just killed the pig."
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On a side note, I used to have an old joke book that had this same joke with Hitler as the subject.
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yeah I always found the obligation part of lj friends list sort of ridiculous, I tend to add/remove people at whimsy and as often as not when I remove someone, I add em back later.
far too many people treat friend list with too much drama, it isnt like your girlfriend just tried to kiss you [too sooth your feelings] after you walked in on her tossing your best friends salad, its a fucking journal fer chris'sake
you probably havent noticed yet, but I have a strange sense of humour, it is in fact illegal in seven states, so if you come from utah, new jersey, ohio, mississippi, new hampshire, montana or alabama, I will have to politely request that you refrain from laughing in accordance with your local laws.
thank you, welcome and have a swell day
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As it happens I'm a fan of the french, which is to say the french people and culture, not so much the french government. I prefer to populate my friends list with entertaining and sharp people who disagree with me, makes my day more interesting.
What really won me over was the ettiquette guide for dealing with protestors.
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*grin*
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what the protestors have accomplished is to so marginalize the left that we are going to be lockstepping with the conservatives for years to come.
I am not one who believes we should all toe the line with the majority, but if you want people to listen to your protests you have to make them identify with you as a person simular to them, otherwise it is too easy to write them off as goddamn hippies which is what has happened.
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People who are inclined to protest are people who believe that not only is their view morally superior, but in fact they are morally superior as well. When you start thinking of yourself as better it seems reasonable to be really condescending and even inflammatory to people who disagree. It's a kind of short-sightedness that's even worse than the gung-ho chomping at the bit, bomb everyone crowd. The sad fact is that most protestors have little to no interest in convincing anyone or representing their ideals, mostly they just want to show off how conscientious they are and yell at the people they perceive as the enemy.
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its pretty simple, we will win the war, it doesnt matter if it takes six weeks or six months, it will be well won before the election, the aftermath however will be too short to give any opponents justifiable criticism on the sucess or failure of the rebuilding, so bush gets a freebie as the winner of the war.
Next bush starts pumping out iraqi oil to fund the provisional government and help provide humanitarian aid to the iraqi people, this has the "entirely unintended consequence" *grin* of dropping oil price from 25-30 dollars a barrell range to the 15 dollar range. The american economy is built on cheap oil, significant drops in oil prices have always resulted in large improvement to our economic wellbeing. If bush can half the price it costs companys to produce and transport goods, and the cost to consumer to heat and light their homes it will pump massive amount of cash into the economy, and hello jumpstart.
OPEC will protest but seeing as the average OPEC nation produces oil between 2-4 dollars a barrel they wont whine too much, especially since they would have to almost entirely shut down production to counter the effect of iraqi oil being flooded onto the market. Only a very select few of the OPEC membership can afford the hit to their economy that not receiving oil revenues would bring, Saudi could go maybe 6-12 month, while Venezuela could barely manage 3 months.
any president who can stack a win in both the economic and military catagories has pretty much a blank check with the majority of the american people. In fact it will take a serious screwup on bush's part (or congress's) to even wrest the control of both houses from the republicans. I think right now Ashcroft is probably the biggest threat to republican control of congress (but not to bush's relection), and only then if he sends Patriot 2 to congress before the election which I doubt he will do.
as for protestors, I entirely agree with your comments, which is part of the reason why even when I agree with them in part, I have little patience for their ramblings.
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