An assholeEnjoy the following articles:
1. An amazing article about how Kimodo Dragons and other species can reproduce without males.
2. Cleaning up the red-light district in Amsterdam. Modestly interesting.
3. Americans are avoiding genetic tests for fear of being punished by their insurance companies. The US health care system sucks my ass.
4. Once Immune, Utah is Now Feeling An Economic Dip.
5. Vladimir Putin is an asshole (long article).
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Dude you need to respond to all of the insults we throw at you in the comments, if you choose not to then "Casse-toi alors, pauvre con, va," to you.
My comments on this weeks reading assignment.
1.Yawn.
2.Worth reading, many memorable quotes like the following; “The butcher ran a few brothel rooms on the side; he was selling cold meat and warm flesh at the same time.”
3.Insurance Companies suck, pure evil.
4.Utah does have a very strange economy and business base, if you can call it that. I have lived in Utah as a working adult for almost 10 years now and I still have no idea what most people who live there do for work. I cannot name a single Fortune 500 company with a large presence in the state. I personally have never worked a day in my life in Utah since I graduated from college.
5.Russia is such a cluster F**k. It is like they take the worst policies from failed and dying governments around the globe and try to make them work in Mother Russia. Here are some examples of what I am talking about.
This paragraph stuck out to me. “Over the past eight years, in the name of reviving Russia after the tumult of the 1990s, Mr. Putin has waged an unforgiving campaign to clamp down on democracy and extend control over the government and large swaths of the economy. He has suppressed the independent news media, nationalized important industries, smothered the political opposition and readily deployed the security services to carry out the Kremlin’s wishes.” Who does this sound like? How about China? The only problem is Russia is not China and this approach will not be anywhere near as successful in Russia as it has been in China. I am too tired to go into the reasons why.
How about this little passage, “The ruling elite nowadays has no ideology,” Ms. Chelysheva said. “Their only aim is to obtain as much power as possible, to keep this power, by whatever means, and to profiteer off this power. In this respect, these people, who are so cynical, are much more dangerous than was the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.” This sounds just like most of the despot lead governments of Africa and we all know how well that has turned out.
No one can strong arm like the Ruskies. “ Though Mayor Bulavinov and Mr. Nekrasov, the United Russia leader, said residents were not compelled to support the party, numerous interviews in the city and a review of municipal records indicated otherwise. It was clear that strong-arm tactics were common before the December elections in Nizhny Novgorod, and the opposition said it expected them again before the presidential election on March 2.”
Russia shall soon join with like minded despot super powers Cuba, North Korea, and possibly Venezuela and generate the GNP of California. The next step is world domination.
There was one article that the Dude meant to post and forgot: about Barrack Obama's step-grandmother, who lives in a shack in Kenya. The Dude can't believe there isn't more focus on this story. It was fascinating.
As for your French quote, the Dude understands that this came from the French President over the weekend but he doesn't really get it. In his best estimation, the Dude believes this is roughly translated as "piss off dumbass" (i.e. "poor idiot" - like you would say to an old donkey), but the "va" part makes no sense at all to him. The Dude applauds your witty use of local phrases.
I tried to insult the Dude to insight comments and that did not work. Now I kiss ass by using some French and voila a response.
You can catch more flies with honey I guess.
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