Life Conversion

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/1/214659/5097

(The above link is a discussion of the U.S. flag being flown at half-mast for a full month for Ronald Wilson Reagan’s death, and roughly a week for the tsunami victims)

To make this easier to understand for myself and others, I have developed a handy conversion factor for the relative worth of white and brown lives.

First, take the distance in miles between the U.S. border and the tragedy in question, in this case approximately 12000, and divide it by 12, the number of Jesus’ disciples, to get 1000.

You then square this number to get a million and divide the number of actual casualties, which for the recent tsunami is approximately 155000. This gives us .155 months of flag-at-half-staff, or 4.65 days.

This conversion factor is measured in the unit “Reagans” and was based on the 30 days given to Ronald Reagan versus the five days given to the tsunami victims. Thus, the amount in Reagans is inversely proportionate to distance from the U.S. border with adjustments made for the colour of the victims i.e. Australians would rate higher than Japanese or Indonesians despite their greater distance from the U.S. border. For 155000 casualties to rate 1 Reagan, or a full month of lowered flags, it would have to occur within 5000 miles of the border and it would also help if the victims were either caucasian or economically useful.

Note that ordinary white citizens of the U.S. can and do die daily, often during heroic deeds, but even they do not rate 1/30 of a Reagan because they do not meet the criteria of being Republican AND excessively wealthy. Richard Nixon normally would have been afforded this honour, but he got reduced to .25 Reagans for being a member of a terrorist organisation…extra credit to anyone who knows which organisation.

Public Disservice Announcement (Y2K)

Abraham Lincoln was a toymaker, inventor of Lincoln Logs, and aspiring politician whose original surname was Zapruder. He assumed the name “Lincoln” when he entered politics and wanted to name himself after the Lincoln pennies that were popular in his day, and even tried to make himself look like the man on the front of the coin by wearing a tophat and beard so that people would identify him with money and prosperity. The model for the coin was Buddy Ebsen dressed as Jed Clampett at his wedding, and Ebsen once threatened to sue Lincoln for infringement until a settlement was reached out-of court. One of Lincoln’s cronies, George Washington, was originally named George Michael and was the grandfather of the sex-wanting Wham frontman of the same name until he assumed the name and look of the Washington quarter dollar image.

Washington and Lincoln were implicated in the Kennedy assassination attempt when it was discovered that Washington had chopped down a cherry tree on the grassy knoll on Dealey Plaza that would have prevented any shots being fired from the bushes atop it, and enhanced photos reveal the presence of an apparent stovepipe hat from within the foliage. When questioned by a federal grand jury, Washington perjured himself on the stand, stating “I cannot tell a lie” and then proceeding to give testimony which has since been revealed as false. Other members of the “Loose Change Gang” as they called themselves, were Theodore “Teddy Bear” Roosevelt who took his name from the Roosevelt dime but was originally named Kaczynski, John “50 Cent” Kennedy, who took his name from the Kennedy half-dollar and was originally named Gotti (he was saved from the assassination attempt by a skin transplant that allowed him to reinvent himself as a popular rap artist), and the grand matron Susan B. Anthony, who took her name from the dollar coin but was originally named Quentin. Susan Anthony later went on to convert to Islam and assume the name “Suzy Q”, and was made a saint by Pope Ignorant XXV which led to the famous San Quentin prison being named after her. The Church later regretted making her a saint when information surfaced regarding her torrid affair with Lincoln and Washington simultaneously, the details of which are still partially classified.

The Loose Change Gang, or la Cambiamento Allentato Nostra (CAN) carved a bloody swath throughout world politics of their time and were instrumental in establishing the black market as an underground economy rivalling even the legitimate economies under which it conceals itself. They sold drugs with Prescott Bush from their stronghold in Columbus, Ohio which was built on Native American earthworks, and ran guns with Helen Keller and the “See No Evil” gang before eventually absorbing this gang into their own ranks. They had their fingers in many different pies, from Sara Lee to Little Debbie, and at one point almost every penny of profit had to pass through their bloodsoaked hands first, a fact that is commemorated even now with the term “red cent” and with completed business deals being called “in the CAN”.

Never since their heyday has such a melding of politics and crime been seen, although admirable attempts have been made by the likes of Richard “Milhouse” Nixon (a politicriminal who took the sinister nickname of an adorable but dark character from The Simpsons), Hillary “Newt” Gingrich (a hermaphrodite sarcastically named after a Monty Python sketch involving a witch-hunt and married to ex-president Clinton), and Silvio “Il Duce” Berlusconi.

An unexpected side-effect of the activities of these politicriminals was that they consolidated power under a multi-gang collective called “Force, Extortion, Death” or “The FED” for short, and this basic organisation remains to this day although it has ostensibly “gone legit” as the parlance goes and deals primarily in currency controlling these days. This has helped to improve the standard of living of every nation which fell under its sinister shadow, and subsequent attempts at dismantling the power structure have proven to be detrimental to society and thus abandoned.

We, the politicriminal element, are asking for the support of all registered voters this year as we once again continue our fine tradition by electing a junior member of our proud establishment. We are asking for your votes this year to elect George “Dial W for War” Bush, a veteran of our oil racket as well as our institutionalised murder racket in both domestic and foreign executions and a descendent of some of our more distinguished former members. Please vote early and vote often, and remember that we were the first politicriminal gang to give the voters a kickback for their votes.

We did it once, lets do it again… I know we CAN.

HisStory Quiz

There is a nation whose very existence is owed to a foreign population taking land by force, employing tactics ranging from bioterrorism to harmful and false treaties, whose proud and longtime original residents are now crowded into ghettoes in the worst parts of the nation, and that is just the ones that have managed to survive. The Geneva Convention was blatantly ignored for one reason or other, and the invading forces believed that it was their divine right to take the land either because their deity gave it to them, or because the people living on the land originally were followers of the wrong religion, or simply because if they could take the land then they were meant to take the land in a manifestation of political darwinism.

Settlements were established by the occupying forces in order to demographically secure the land for themselves, and enough time has gone by that they now consider themselves rightful owners and native to the land they had stolen, as most or all of them have been born in the occupied territory.

Further, once the land was secured the other nations of the world conspired to help them, by sending people to the new area to further secure it and prevent an uprising that would restore the original order.

No attempt has been made, nor will any attempt ever be made, to restore the birthright of the original owners of the land and resources, partly because of the perceived divine right of the interlopers and partly because of the conspicuous lack of surviving victims.

Now for the quiz:

To which nation am I referring?

A) Israel
B) Britain
C) United States
D) Canada
E) Tibet
F) Cuba
G) Hawaii
H) None of the above, that never happens.
I) All of the above, and more.

The Order of Goth

Goth
Goth is (among other things) an ordinal term.

Ordinal terms
Ordinal terms are words like ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, ‘fourth’, ‘last’, and so on. Notice that often the number with which they are associated is corrupted or missing in favour of a latin root (in the instance of ‘second’, etc) or a corrupted version of the original Old English term (in the instance of ‘first’ and ‘third’, etc). After three they tend to be just the number with an appended -nd -th -st since most uses of ordinal terms are concerned with only the first three positions. Races, pageants, and other competitions where a group is graded and given relative ranking are the primary uses of ordinal terms. Some competitions even have extra terms for these places such as ‘winner’/’runner up’/’second runner up’ or ‘win’/’show’/’place’, since the difference in reward for these places is great.

Distilled
Essentially, ordinal terms are applied to a person or thing by a person or group who is considered to be in authority. They are not applied by the person or thing itself, rather the person or thing is submitting itself to be graded. After all, what individual would say that they are second or third at something if they could control the ordering criteria?

Extrapolation
Following the pattern put forth previously, i suggest that ‘Goth’ is a term not unlike ‘ninth’, a contraction of two other words (such as ‘nine’ + ‘th’) and an ordinal term. In the case of Goth, the terms are ‘God’ and ‘th’.

Conclusion
Goth is thus an interesting term, because it is at the same time an ordinal term and the antithesis of all ordinal terms (a quantum property!). It follows the pattern of ordinal terms but is not derived from a number or relative position. It is a term which is applied by an entity to itself when it refuses to be evaluated according to the rules of another entity (an entity could be anything from a high school science teacher to society as a whole). It is the ‘Go(d)th’ place because it exists in the same time and place as an entity of which it can never be an integral part. People can commune with their Godhead only indirectly, through meditation or other means, since direct communion would mean destruction of one or more involved parties. Those in the ‘Goth’ place can commune only indirectly with the society of those who would be ordered, through an art form or by attempting to enlighten the listed masses, to elevate them to a self-ruling, self-empowered, self-God state…

the Goth state.