October 07, 2007

Two Cows


FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the regulations say you should need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.
MILITARISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows if you vote for it. After the election, the president is impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the affair "Cowgate".
BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheep brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates whatyou can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows.
CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly - listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fung shui is bad.
ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallocentric, warmongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

October 06, 2007

Oh, Me..A Meme!


Hmmm..It seems that my friend, Nickel, (Then There Was Sweetthing) has tagged me for a blog Meme. The thing is, that I have no idea what that is, except what I found out by following the links to others who have been tagged, to see what they have to say.

I guess what I am supposed to do, is to tell you how my blog has evolved, and give you five posts to back up my claims. Well, I could do that, except that I don't think that I have evolved, because what I do, I think, is meander. Like the stream in that picture up there. I am all over the place, I think, from telling you some of the sad tales of my childhood, (Papa Why) to telling you about a friend's dilemma, in my grownup years,(Kool Ade or Coffee?), to expressing my thoughts about the immigration problem,( This Land Is Our Land) where I think I actually may have made an enemy, which is something that I certainly never intended to do. Oh, and then there is my interest in Native Americans, Cherokees in particular, so in my post "Two Wolves," I talked about my grandmother. Again.

I only began this blog, less than two months ago, and I have tried to do it on a daily basis, so there are sundry other posts, about one thing or another. Some are silly, and some are serious, and I never know from one day to the other, what I will post, so have I evolved? I don't know...maybe, you could tell me! At least my blog is living up to its name, in a way!

Now, I have to select others to tag, but most of those I know have been tagged, already, and I don't know that many other bloggers.

Hmmm... okay.

I tag: Michael (RFL - Gossip Galaxy), Sue (The Torn Pages), another Michael (Ripple me This), DC (Desert Cat's Paradise), and dnr ( What...?)
I sincerely hope that they will still be speaking to me after they find out!









October 05, 2007

Kids On Marriage



HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY?
"You got to find somebody who likes the same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming." Alan, age 10



"No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who you're stuck with." Kirsten, age 10



WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET MARRIED?
"Twenty-three is the best age because you know the person FOREVER by then." Camille, age 10



"No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married." Freddie, age 6



HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED?
"Married people usually look happy to talk to other people." Eddie, age 6



"You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids." Errick, age 8



WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR MOM AND DAD HAVE IN COMMON?
"Both don't want no more kids." Lori, age 8



WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON A FIRST DATE THAT WAS TURNING SOUR?
"I'd run home and play dead. The next day I would call all the newspapers and make sure they wrote about me in all the dead columns." Craig, age 9



WHEN IS IT OKAY TO KISS SOMEONE?
"The law says you have to be eighteen, so I wouldn't want to mess with that." Curt, age 7



"The rule goes like this: if you kiss someone, then you should marry them and have kids with them. It's the right thing to do." Howard, age 8



IS IT BETTER TO BE SINGLE OR MARRIED?
"It's better for girls to be single but not for boys. Boys need someone to clean up after them." Anita, age 9



HOW WOULD YOU MAKE A MARRIAGE WORK?
"Tell your wife that she looks pretty even if she looks like a truck." Ricky, age 10