In a conversation I had recently with a mentor of mine I
realized how absolutely ridiculous but entirely entertaining and fascinating
politics can be the world over. I’ve
prepared a few case studies to make my point.
However, because I intend to continue to travel to some of these places,
names have been changed and the best cases have been left out. Sorry, but visas are gold and words can hurt
prides as much as snack foods can endanger presidents. *ahem* orge-gay ush-bay!
Many of you have heard me talk of a certain Tstan … no not that one, the first one. I have seen many a maneuvering from this great land, from a book that you can read three times and be assured entrance into heaven and complete knowledge is required in order to gain entrance into college … whose sequels are incidentally used as toilet paper in outlying villages. Recently
it was announced that this one party state – indeed this one person government, would include a
little opposition. A new party is being
formed! Hurrah! This party of industrialists and entrepreneurs
has a leader, and an office, and a newspaper.
Heck there’s even an address … an address where workers can be
found. And yet there are still those
that say this isn’t enough. They wish to
SEE the leader, and learn THINGS about him.
Poppy cock! Ah, to long for the
days before radio. The days of
telegraph, when you never really could be certain if candidates for your
executive office truly existed or not.
Oh wait, you still have telegraph services as a major form of domestic
communication? You only recently had
other options for information sharing?
You win Tstan. Break given.
Careful Murph … I’m not sure that
peanut’s been categorized as “safe”!
The first example doesn’t even involve executive
office. Our friend, we’ll call him Tom
Atkins, trying desperately to grab for a little piece of power in a small town
senate race had the unfortunate gaff that half of the politicians in these
united states fear.
Regardless of the “scientific”
facts that he erroneously began spewing – incidentally, who does he think he
is? Only the governor of Maine is given
quite THAT much leeway on biological misquotations. Anywho, regardless of his mis-statements and
mistakes in all things biological Mr. Atkins feels that rape must be
categorized as legitimate or illegitimate.
This by itself is unfortunate, but the real folly comes from the rest of
his party who frantically danced around hoping you wouldn’t notice the greater
issue. His compadres, vehemently shushed
him like a classroom trying to conceal their mischief from a less observant teacher.
Did they really think we don’t see it? So many politicians believing that babies
should be protected and rapists thrown to the wolves and the victims … well … the
victims are just unfortunate biproducts of the whole sorted affair that frankly
we’d rather just went away. We’ll handle
that later, and by later we mean never.
Well done US of A, luckily for you, you’re not alone in the absurdities.
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| Don't look now Rico ... but I think someone's making you look foolish! |
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| Sorry can’t tell you who this is, but he was a great leader. I’m sure! |
Next in the long history of the world are some silly
shenanigans in east Africa. A female
politician elected by her district to act in a national forum was strongly
opposed to a new constitution. This
woman, a mother, a farm owner and a widow was vehemently against this new constitution. In a place where land disputes can drag on
for 15-30 years or more, and has led to civil unrest, she did not feel that the
new constitution’s changes to land rights were in her country’s best
interests. The issue: The new constitution allowed women to own and
inherit land. She apparently felt it was
more strongly in her country’s interest for her lands to be fought over for 30
years after she died rather than have them inherited and clearly owned by one
of her children.
I could go on and on, and while this post does seem, and
perhaps is, drippingly political.
Ew! My point is less so: People are absurd. Regardless of race, creed, sex, fingernail
polish color preference or any other difference you can find, we quite often
prefer absurdity over logic and intelligence when it comes to forming
partnerships to govern ourselves and our fellow men … and yes by men I mean men
and women, no disrespect intended or derogatory context for using the word
women which is derived from the word “men”.
Ridiculous!
And now, more absurdity:
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| Squirrel |
Not a Squirrel!
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