October 11, 2006

• Illustrating Absurdity By Being Absurd

  When I look across the fruited plain, I don’t like what I see in the yute (youth for those of you in Juanita) of America. I read a lot of blogs and I found one that I know is an accurate cross section of said yute. Our friend Blurbzy is back in the news, and this time she’s really put on her thinking cap. I responded and the issue’s text is in its entirety is below.

  to be or not to be…..
  so i’ve been thinking …..well i was thinking last night and this morning….that law has been interesting me very much lately. my mother made a comment a few weeks ago when i got a ticket saying that maybe i should look into going back to school for it…and i brushed it off…..but last night as i watched nancy grace on tv….and teh topics being discussed got me so enraveled in the tv conversation that i wanted to jump thru the tv and debate on the topics…and prove that the runaway bride is a complete psycho should not get a penny! so i’ve been thinking if i go back how long will it take??? how long will it be before i can be a lawyer and put slimebags like that behind bars and pay for their bullshit crimes! im tired of them always getting away with it and getting away with lighter sentences or nothing at all or stupid probation….come on now…. i saw a criminal plead guilty to a lesser crime jsut to get out of jail more quickly. that is just bullshit! i am starting to doubt our justice and legal systems i am beginning to think they are corrupt…and are not out to serve the people….but themselves…and prime example….the damn president! ugh i can’t wait for his term to be over!!!!! i am so mad right now i have to walk away…. i will be back shortly i need a breather!

  and i am back~~~
  so back on the topic of law….and things going on right now….and sports players etc…

  i dont’ get how please tell me how is it that an NFL player or an NHL player or NBA player whichever you choose….makes more than a dr. who is trying to find a cure for cancer? and y is it that these NFL plasyers cry oh 2.6 million isnt’ enough i need to support my family they are hungry…..get the fuck out of here who are you kidding????? they should be foreced to give away a portion of their money to feed the needy the REAL needy!or the dr who just saved your ass brought you back to life and did crazy amazing things to kep you alive????can someone please explain how actresses and actors make more money than the man or woman……who is finding medicines for terminally ill people???? i dont’ get how do we let entertainment over rule our health and well being???? i am in serious thought mode today and the world is making me angry…here i am 25 and wise beyond my years….where is everyone else? are we all too ashamed to stand together to speak out about our lives our world our freedom???? or do we think we are the only ones who think this way so we never speak up… i really wanna get something going like a petition or something i am not quite sure yet…but we young americans need to unite for the sake of our children and our childrens children….do we want them growing up with the bullshit we have on the news???? look at korea or china whoever it is with this nuclear crap….that is bullshit…. we shouldn’t even need nuclear crap to keep people of another race under control. let them be let us be….as the land of the free home of the brave…take care of the damn US! stop trying to save all the other nations and their problems and when they dont’ listen we dont’ have to go a bombing and blowing up…..do they not see that is the only reason the ones that hate us only hate us cause we are cocky??? take care of our starving our poor our homeless….our needy children….then if we can help others…HELP not dictate! i swear… someone needs to speak up and my one little voice isnt’ loud enough….any suggestions???

  ok back to work and i’ll be back of course in a few mins or an hour…

  ok back again
  i also am thinking that maybe once you hit a certain $ amount that you should have to hand over the rest….like you max out….who could possibly need 32 billion dollars….???ever in a lifetime???? i thought iwa s about needs??? u need shelter food etc…and then wants….yea u can use 32 billion for a lot of wants….but come on now don’t u think enough is enough?????

  ok be back heading to go grab lunch!

  Posted 10/11/2006 at 11:41 AM by BlurbzOfABlonde

  This is the most insane blog entry I’ve ever read. First of all, if you are in thought mode as you claim, you’d realize that you are just acting on your over-charged emotions and are not thinking clearly or logically.

  If you want to be a lawyer fighting for justice, that’s great! More power to ya! I support and will support you in this decision. But it wouldn’t be right of me to tell you that if you are a defense lawyer, you make more money if you win. Consider someone who is being tried for murder and you know that they will get the death penalty if the verdict comes back “guilty”. If you get your client off the hook, you can charge whatever you want. Why? You just saved his sorry ass, that’s why! All he has now in a sense belongs to you. I say this so that if you do go to law school and succeed in graduating, in order to stay true to your original premise as stated here, you would always have to be on the prosecution. Congratulations!

  As for sports fans and actors making more then doctors, it’s really a crying shame isn’t it? Well, I got bad news for you: people would rather be entertained and inspired rather then be stuck with needles. And they want someone else to pay for it. What am I talking about? I am talking about the fact that people will spend money to go see a movie or watch a sport, but they think that someone else should pay for their heath care “because it’s too expensive”. What a ridiculous notion! Why is it that someone other than you should pay for a service that you and you alone will enjoy? Where does it stop? Should someone else pay for your car? Your house? Escort service? Where does one draw the line?

  What makes medicine so expensive in the first place is greedy people who think they are just losers of life’s lottery and the only way to reach the top is to screw the winners of life’s lottery. How do they go about this? They sue doctors. Let me explain.

  Let’s say you go to the doctor and get treated for something. The treatment is successful in that you are cured of the ailment that initially made you go to the doctor, but now there is something new wrong with you. Your solution? Sue the doctor. It must be the doctor’s fault because you didn’t have this new symptom/problem before you went to see the doctor.

  Grated, there is a time and place for malpractice suits, but did you know that every doctor has to ensure himself from the get go? I bet what you didn’t know is that there is no discount on health insurance for doctors even though they are in the medical field. So–and get this–the doctor has to pay CYA (that’s Cover Your Ass for those of you in Juanita and we’re discussing malpractice insurance here) insurance in order to perform his job, then he has to turn around and buy coverage in the eventuality that some illness befalls him. How incredible! Yet I don’t here anyone screaming how it isn’t fair for the doctor. If anything, they just want to screw the physician more because “he has more money then me. Therefore, he must be a winner of life’s lottery.”

  This charge is bogus. Doctors didn’t become doctors overnight. You don’t go into medicine because it’s lucrative, you go into medicine because you want to help people. It’s the same thing with teachers. Teachers seemingly don’t get paid that much (when one is looking at yearly salaries, this is true, but most get a 2-3 month vacation during the summer, plus sick days and holidays during the school year, so all in all, the salary is on par) and they have to baby sit a bunch of whiny, ungrateful, degenerate kids who think they already know it all. You don’t hear anyone complaining about the bad work environment or the stress that kids put on teachers.

  Let’s take a look a celebrities, shall we? First of all, acting and sports are not an easy profession. What you see as glamour is anything but. You see a lavish, opulent and indulgent lifestyle. What they see is having to wear this piece of jewelry, but not the one they really like, because they are a spokesperson for the company. They have to wear certain clothes or drink certain drinks. Going out in public is always a hassle because no one will leave you alone. You see a big house in Beverly Hills that is worth millions of dollars; they see a house that is overpriced and therefore overtaxed. The only reason that houses in Beverly Hills cost so much is not that the houses or the land have that much value; no, the price tag comes from who your neighbors are and the standard of living you are required to live up to.

  You may think that acting is just showing up on set and getting paid too much money to look pretty all day. That is certainly not the case. I’ve been involved in a few meager productions and, as far as real life goes, probably shouldn’t bring them up. My point is that I’ve been around long enough to know that acting is hard work. Yes, when in finally comes time to do your thing, it can be fun and you’re finally getting to show off for the camera. But it’s 16+ hours a day getting into and out of make up, having your hair styled, interviews, autographs, pictures, pictures, pictures, and more pictures.

  One doesn’t just walk on set and have every line memorized and stand in the right position looking the right way at the right time on demand. No, acting, just like any other skill has to be practiced. The reason that acting looks so easy is that these people are professionals i.e. they are masters of their craft. If you are truly talented (read, experienced) at something, even though it may still be a lot of work to you, you make lit look like it is the easiest thing in the world to do because it is your passion. The same is true of sports stars.

  You suggest capping the amount of money that a person can make, stating that ” i also am thinking that maybe once you hit a certain $ amount that you should have to hand over the rest….like you max out….” There are a number of reasons that we don’t do this. In particular, if you take away one’s incentive to produce, how does the good get produced? In a more plain and concise English, without a motivation, why would a person engage in an activity? If I can only make so much money developing a technology or producing a good or service, the most I will produce of that good or service is equal to the profit at your cap.

  For example, let’s say that you want to cap HD TV companies (and let’s not forget that companies are owned by people) profit at $100 million. Let us say that it cost $1000 to produce a unit and that the sell each unit for $3000, giving the company a $2000 per item profit. This means that they will only produce 50,000 HD TVs. Now then, HD is not yet ready to become mainstream, but will be in a few years. Regardless, there is much more than 50,000 Americans, much less the number who want to own HD TVs. According to your plan, only the first 50,000 in line get TVs. Would you like to take a guess at which end of the spectrum will buy these units? You got it! There will be more people of so-called wealth buy these TVs then there will be poorer people. We have seen that by your own admission, you wish for poorer peoples such as yourself to suffer because it’s not fair that rich people can afford things that poorer people can’t. By capping income, only those currently with money will be able to afford luxuries whereas the poor will do without. Perhaps you would like to adjust your thinking on this issue?

  You claim that we don’t need nuclear weapons to prohibit nations that you can’t name like North Korea. Though you claim “i am 25 and wise beyond my years”, you have missed a very important lesson that has occurred within your lifetime. I am sorry that you were too young to understand what the arms race was all about and that you have not taken the time to become a student of history.

  You see, the whole idea behind the arms race was the application of a little economic gaming theory that kept the world from choosing general nuclear war. The idea is as follows: whoever has the most nuclear weapons not only has first strike capability, but also has a better survival rate. Again, I will explain this for you.

  Let us suppose that there are two countries, A & B. Let us suppose that A has much more nuclear missiles (technically, they don’t have to be nuclear, but that is for another discussion). If A strikes first, it will take out at least some of B’s missiles. Since B will have fewer missiles after the attack, and had less missiles before the attack, A has the advantage in what will inevitable be a nuclear exchange.

  Again, let us assume that A has more missiles. This time, B strikes first. Though B can take out some of A’s missiles, A will have more then, if not the same amount of missiles as B at the end of the initial attack and will be left with a fuller arsenal of retaliatory options. Ergo, A has the advantage.

  Having just explained the above scenario, I will now proceed to explain how this affected you during your lifetime. There were two nations, the United States and the Soviet Union. Each nation wanted to be the biggest superpower in the world. In order to be the biggest superpower, you have to be able to either take out the next biggest superpower or be able to get them to come to a negotiated peace. (Note that negotiated peace treaties have been shown on every occasion to be ineffective, even if said treaties did enjoy a short lifetime.)

  Shortly after World War II (this was the war where Hitler and the Nazis murdered six million Jews in concentration camps), the Soviet Union or Russia, a communist nation, wanted to defeat the United States. The United States had just deployed two nuclear bombs over Japan, beating the Soviet Union to the creation and deployment of the bomb. However, the Russians did produce nuclear weapons and began to stockpile them, per the above scenario. Likewise, so did the United States.

  Now, there came a time when a man, an actor no less named Ronald Regan became President of the United States. Under his administration, he increased the defense budget and began to stockpile nuclear weapons at an asymptotic rate. In turn, the Soviet Union did its best to match the United State’s stockpile. But the United States continued to stockpile weapons. They did so until the economy of the Soviet Union (which was a socialistic economy that would not let the market rule itself) could no longer afford to stockpile weapons.

  At the end of the arms race, the Berlin Wall (a wall that kept people enslaved in East Germany from defecting to West Germany where they could be paid for their labors and live in peace and the pursuit of happiness) was torn down. This marked the defeat of the Soviet Union. In the years that followed, the Soviet Union once again adopted the name of Russia and eventually opened it’s doors to Capitalism and Christianity.

  The moral of the story was that it took the stockpiling of nuclear weapons (which was not the only factor, mind, but a very important one) to end the arms race.

  You claim, “we shouldn’t even need nuclear crap to keep people of another race under control.” Had you been paying attention to the news, this isn’t about the United States being antagonistic, but rather North Korea being antagonistic. The situation basically boils down to a spoiled kid (Kim Jong Il) who wants to be recognized as someone of importance when in the vast configuration of things, he is as irrelevant as is Bin Laden. (Please see this post where I explain how and why Bin Laden is irrelevant). The issue here isn’t racism. The issue is national recognition. Both you and Kim Jong Il would do well to study and learn from the Soviet’s debacle.

  “the damn president! ugh i can’t wait for his term to be over!!!!!” I wonder, is that an original thought? Pray tell, why do you hate “the damn president”?

  For one who claims to be “25 and wise beyond my years”, you lack knowledge and the ability to think for yourself. Furthermore, you show a lack of historical context and an understanding of basic economic principles. I will give you an “A” for effort, but that is all. You need to spend some time researching and cultivating sound, intelligent arguments to support your opinions. And for what it’s worth, it wouldn’t hurt if you took a grammar class and learned how to write the English language. I trow it will propel you eons in your law career.

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