Animal Farm and Eco System

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!

 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. 

Don't look now Rico ... but I think
someone's making you look foolish!
 

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.



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: 



Squirrel

 

 

Not a Squirrel!