The new baby...and some other stuff
This post is not witty. It is, simply put, the basics.
Alexander Blake Johnson was born 11/19/05 at 3:04 in the morning. He weighs (or weighed) 9 pounds, 4 and half ounces, and measured 22 inches in length. He is healthy and adorable. I have much to write on this subject but that will come later.
For now, I would like to respond to Nacho Intolerant's question about what kind of party would I nominate for the much coveted status of third. Well, that's a problem and that's where we all get a bit stymied. I want a third party, but I know that no one else would want MY third party. What we hope for is that the people trained in this sort of endeavor, i.e. politicians, would describe the third party, but they have a vested interest in there not being a third party so what are you going to do?
I will say this though, third party values are not hard to generate. Look for places where Republicans and Democrats agree with each other. Both parties believe in corporate cronyism (they simply disagree as to which corporations), so the third party would be against corporate cronyism. In my world, American corporations are taxed 50% of their earnings if they post a profit of 10 million dollars--and if they restructure in another country, we bomb that country in order to keep jobs and money in America. Moving a plant to a place where labor rates are cheaper is a terrorist act. See, I don't think you want my third party.
Both Democrats and Republicans are for war in Iraq...okay, third party is against war in Iraq. Both Democrats and Republicans are for putting drug ads on television...third party is against. I think if you continue this out with all the shit that you see as wrong with this country, very little of it depends on whether the nation is controlled by Democrats or Republicans. Things like welfare and tax breaks sure, but real things like jobs or the growing difference between the rich and the poor or the guy who can't speak English trying to troubleshoot your $2,000 PC that broke the day after it arrived, or the way the media has all but destroyed the ability to deliver justice, or whether we get food to victims of disasters, or whether our food is food at all or just pretty stuff that's chemically engineered to taste like food. Any of the big things that might actually bother somebody with a job will remain untouched by Democrats or Republicans. Basically, our two party system is the system of the unemployed. Either the poor unemployed (democrat) or the "rich beyond the need to get a real job" (republicans). What we need is a party that looks out for people making between $20,00-60,000 a year, which is the major bulk of Americans. But we're working and we're paying our taxes and we're voting for one kind of unemployment or another, so who cares about us.
Well, I'm on little sleep, and I'm done rambling for now.
Alexander Blake Johnson was born 11/19/05 at 3:04 in the morning. He weighs (or weighed) 9 pounds, 4 and half ounces, and measured 22 inches in length. He is healthy and adorable. I have much to write on this subject but that will come later.
For now, I would like to respond to Nacho Intolerant's question about what kind of party would I nominate for the much coveted status of third. Well, that's a problem and that's where we all get a bit stymied. I want a third party, but I know that no one else would want MY third party. What we hope for is that the people trained in this sort of endeavor, i.e. politicians, would describe the third party, but they have a vested interest in there not being a third party so what are you going to do?
I will say this though, third party values are not hard to generate. Look for places where Republicans and Democrats agree with each other. Both parties believe in corporate cronyism (they simply disagree as to which corporations), so the third party would be against corporate cronyism. In my world, American corporations are taxed 50% of their earnings if they post a profit of 10 million dollars--and if they restructure in another country, we bomb that country in order to keep jobs and money in America. Moving a plant to a place where labor rates are cheaper is a terrorist act. See, I don't think you want my third party.
Both Democrats and Republicans are for war in Iraq...okay, third party is against war in Iraq. Both Democrats and Republicans are for putting drug ads on television...third party is against. I think if you continue this out with all the shit that you see as wrong with this country, very little of it depends on whether the nation is controlled by Democrats or Republicans. Things like welfare and tax breaks sure, but real things like jobs or the growing difference between the rich and the poor or the guy who can't speak English trying to troubleshoot your $2,000 PC that broke the day after it arrived, or the way the media has all but destroyed the ability to deliver justice, or whether we get food to victims of disasters, or whether our food is food at all or just pretty stuff that's chemically engineered to taste like food. Any of the big things that might actually bother somebody with a job will remain untouched by Democrats or Republicans. Basically, our two party system is the system of the unemployed. Either the poor unemployed (democrat) or the "rich beyond the need to get a real job" (republicans). What we need is a party that looks out for people making between $20,00-60,000 a year, which is the major bulk of Americans. But we're working and we're paying our taxes and we're voting for one kind of unemployment or another, so who cares about us.
Well, I'm on little sleep, and I'm done rambling for now.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
10:49 AM
4 Comments:
You already know my feelings on third parties, so I'll save my breath for your baby.
Congratulations, Alexander Blake! Welcome to this world! Believe me: you're lucky to have a good set of parents. Yes, dad may seem angry right now, but you happen to have been born into a pretty crappy administration.
But don't you worry about any of that. You have two things you really need to concentrate on. Firstly, you need to keep filling those diapers with the sweet sweet stuff. Mom and dad love that. Secondly, you need to scream every time you want something, and sometimes when you don't. That's right: you need to keep mom and dad on their toes.
Mom and dad are first-timers, so I suggest you go a bit light on them sometimes. Sleep at least a couple hours at a time. Even though you can't smile yet, do something that looks like a smile. They'll talk about it for a week.
And once again, congratulations! It may have taken you awhile to get out of there, but you still arrived fashionably late.
Wild idea. How about a third party of people who do not want to be politicians, or discuss politics, or have politics be an issue either negatively or positively in just their existence? If they have ANY interest in being a politician -- they may not be part of said party. A week before an election comes around the most intelligent and decent members of the party are locked in a room until one of them reluctantly says "I guess I'll do it." That individual is let out of the room. This continues until only one person remains in said room. That person, the one who most does not want to be a politician -- but who is intelligent and humanely decent (I.E. the one actually suited to the job} -- has their name put on the ballot. There is no campaigning, no ads. Just a person who could do the job really really well, who DOESN'T want to do it on the ballot. They serve their four years and get the heck out of dodge
Oh yeah. YEAH Alexander!!!! I won't advise you like Drivler because why the heck would you Ever Ever look at a computer and risk letting anyone know you are already mobile and able to read? You are smart enough to avoid being labeled as a genius at birth and risk those damn programs. The Drivler, being almost as much of a genius as you, should have known this.
Alexander already knows he lucked out in the parent lottery. Most of their decor, investments, and furnishings are books.
Congratulations Monstro! Hope mom is doing great. Welcome to the world Alexander...
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