Race, Religion and Nonsense

Many "leaders" of today can't talk about about issues pertaining to the organization/country, so what can give them an "edge"?

Why .... the answer is simple. It's race and religion.

Race and religion are the very things that people without much substance use in order to gain attention and power. The reason is because it's something everyone can not only relate to, but feel superior/threatened, depending on how the other party uses it.

I somehow find the use of race and religion to be rather disturbing. I mean, haven't we learned anything from our history books?  I have an example from history books for both race and religion.

RACE:
Remember Adolf Hitler? The SOB from Germany started WW2 with the premise of wiping out the Jews, who were flourishing and became wealthy at the expense of the original citizens of Germany. He eventually came up with the idea of a Master race and eugenics, stating the idea of the blond and blue eyed race of Caucasians are the superior race that should not be tainted (which later helped form the idea of White Supremacy). Thus Hitler and his fanatics decided to "clean up" Germany and the rest of the world of the "inferior" beings. In fact, I believe he had called the rest of the world "rats".

Fast forward to the present day, Hitler committed suicide, America the melting pot of races is the current King of the World, and we all love our mixed blooded celebrities. In fact, most of us want to hook up with a person of foreign descent just so our kids might grow up to be beautiful people.

RELIGION:
The Crusades for God's sake (pun intended). For the expansion of their own kingdom, envy at the Arabs' wealth, and the thought of Jerusalem being in the hands of "pagans", the Pope and various Kings in Europe waged a "Holy" war, and eventually lost. the 3Gs was the Key things that fueled the war.

1. God: The pope gave "indulgences" - Sin Discounts - to those who participated in the Holy War.
2. Gold: Arab = Riches = GOLD!!
3. Glory: Recapturing and thus saving Jerusalem from the pagans.

Fast forward to the present day, they are STILL fighting. I think Jerusalem is pretty much in shambles. The Holy City of Jews, Muslims and Christian is actually a Bloody City.

'nuff said.

Procrastination, Apologies and What not.

SHOOOOOOOOOOOTTT.

I never realised how long since I last post in this blog until I posted up some stuff a few minutes ago. I just thought it was sometime I last posted stuff over here :(

Anyways, I'll try to pick up the pace here again, however I must say that I'm currently more active at Twitter. So...add me on Twitter lah~ look for Adeliyn.

Thanks! and hope to write here again soon. :)

Bar Stool Economics

Got this from an email and thought it might be cool to share :)

Bar Stool Economics   A professor of economics put this together to show how our current tax system works based on each segment of our population. ~~~~~~~~   Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:   The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay $1. The sixth would pay $3. The seventh would pay $7. The eighth would pay $12. The ninth would pay $18. The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.   So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. 'Since you are all such good customers, he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.   The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free.  But what about the other six men - the paying customers?  How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.   And so:   The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings). The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings). The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings). The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25%savings). The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings). The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59  (16% savings).   Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.   'I only got a dollar out of the $20,' declared the sixth man.  He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'   'Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I did!' 'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two?  The wealthy get all the breaks!' 'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'   The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!   And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.   David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, University of Georgia   For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Positively Wrong

 From an email~

A linguistics professor was lecturing his class.

"In English," he explained, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative."

"However," the professor continued, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."

A voice from the back of the room piped up. "Yeah, right."