Re: The War On HLA

From: Beth (BethStone21_at_hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com)
Date: 10/14/03 

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:04:47 +0100

Randy wrote:
> Beth wrote:
> > Well, the Terminator is now your governor, Randy...so there's a
> > machine pretending to be human for you right there ;)
>
> Hey! I *had* to vote for Arnie!

Didn't fancy being governed by porn stars and, I quote, "a smut
peddler who cares" (they had an article all about the "candidates" -
if we can be so bold as to dare to call them that - and that
particular campaign slogan just deserves to be repeated :)?

That's what I like about Californians...you're all ever-so-slightly
nuts (meant in a good way ;)...which is just great in my book...that's
why I have a fondness for Japanese culture too because they seem to
believe that some mild insanity and delibrate surreality is a good
thing for the spirit...I completely agree...

[ A quick gag for the Japanese or Japanese watchers (or anyone who
watches "Adam and Joe in Tokyo" like I often do...a brilliant TV
programme that basically just reports all the mad, mad things the
Japanese are currently doing and shares in the surreal, mad fashions
of those friendly feudal funsters, the
Japanese..."ichi-ni-san-chi...go! Go! Go! GO!" :)...

*points index fingers to the right*

"Gets!!"

Yes, no-one else will be able to get this joke...but it's hilarously
funny for those who do...there's basically some mad craze in Japan,
apparently, about this guy who wears a white suit, wears big fake
hands and points with his index fingers, saying "gets!!"...that's all
he does, mind you, but they make entire shows out of it and he makes a
healthy living just going around doing this...there's even a fun game
that goes with it(!!!)...what exactly this whole cultural phenomenon
actually means is anybody's guess...but it's totally mad, utterly
surreal and hilariously funny...so it gets ten out of ten from
me..."Gets!!!" ;) ]

> After all, the LA Times, great example of journalistic truth that it
is,
> told me that Arnie is a *nazi sympathizer* so, being the right-wing
> conservative nazi that Rene claims me to be, I had to vote for Arnie
:-)

Pro-choice and gay marriages? Oh, he's that "Liberal Dutch" kind of
"Nazi", eh? Heck, how on Earth is he allowed to be republican with
concepts like that, let alone a Nazi?

> P.S. Before we had a human pretending to be a machine.
> Probably won't be much difference.

Heck, we're talking poltics and politicians...there's NEVER any
difference, whoever you choose...they all suck up to business, raise
taxes, play with the statistics to make it seem like their policies
are getting unemployed people into jobs (but they aren't...it's just
that when they are on the new "let's all go to work" scheme then they
are still actually unemployed but don't count as that - because
there's some "course" involved so they can notch them up as "students"
rather than "unemployed" on their charts - for the purposes of
creating phoney statistics...in the UK, they call this "the New
Deal"...but politics is the same everywhere so I'm sure it exists
elsewhere, just given a different "catchy" name ;), start some wars,
ignore poverty, knock down a hospital or school in order to allow some
business to build a warehouse for their stock or something, etc....and
then end on the "finale" of getting involved in some terrible
"scandal" (taking bribes, adultery, allowing terrorists to attack so
as to give "reason" to a pre-planned campaign of invasions to create
an empire supported by commercial interests (what? I'm talking about
Hitler, not Bush...whatever made you think otherwise? ;), etc.
:)...and then everyone calls for someone else to do the job...who, of
course, immediately goes and does _exactly the same thing_ all over
again...

What actually happens to a state or country or whatever is completely
unrelated to them, as the world economy goes up and down - putting
people in and out of work - regardless of what scheme they've set up
behind the scenes with some construction company to build a highway
straight over the Alamo...or through a Native American
reservation...or to fill up the Grand Canyon with cement, paid
straight to their wealthy business friends out of everyone's public
taxes, of course (intriguingly costing three times as much as would be
reasonably expected for the job)...or something ludicrous like that,
where local interests of human beings are, of course, completely
ignored because, well, that would mean the politicians actually doing
their jobs, rather than just having fun "power games" in
publicly-funded office buildings to make themselves rich...sorry, I
mean _richer_...especially in America, they're already rich before
they take office...it, ummm, gives them, errr, an "insight" into the,
ummm, needs of the "ordinary" common man on the street and, errr, his
concern for the welfare and education of his, ummm, children and the
protection of his family...

Ummm, something like that, anyway...

Nope, on reflection, that Japanese guy with the white suit has
probably got the best idea...let's all just point in random directions
and shout "Gets!!!"...

?????,
Beth :)