Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Come On Dell

This will mainly be a rebuttal of Dell's Rethinking Assassination , with maybe a joke at the end, if I can think of one. PLease read the aforementioned piece before moving on or else this wont really makes sense. Well, it will make sense, but you wont know why I would even bother writing this unless you spent the last minute or two reading THIS .

The question of the day was "How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?” The answer simply is that it has nothing to do with your importance to everyone else, per se, but more to do with the importance of the result of your assassination. Let me explain. An Assassination, by definition, is for political gain. A person murders someone out of rage or passion. A person may slay someone out of hatred or lop off their domes even though the glove doesn't fit, out of jealousy. But, and assassination is to have some direct political gain for your death. The act of the assassination is planned out, with the result being that their political aspirations, whatever they may be, will be the better off. They will have a direct gain in political sense, from the fact that you are no longer alive to meddle in their affairs or blockade their goals. So, in retrospect, the person is insignificant really. It is the importance of the gate to which will be opened that is the question.

Therefore, Governor Arnold of a few years ago would have been “murdered”. Today, if he is killed, it can be viewed as an assassination (however unlikely it is that Arnold could even be killed. I mean, HAVE YOU SEEN Commando? The dude dodged like a billion bullets). But to answer the final question, can you ever fall back down to "murder status"? Yes, as soon as there is no more political gain for your murder, as in you are no longer in a position of political stature, then you will fall back into "murder status".
I think this concept is pretty straight forward, my friends. I am even a bit discouraged that I took the last 10 minutes to type this. I might not know what the hell a 'replica' jersey is, but I sure as hell know about Assassinations.

I half promised a joke, so here one is. Stop me (as in stop reading, moron) if you’ve heard (read) it before:

There are only eleven times in history where the "F" word (FUCK) has
been considered acceptable for use.

They are as follows:

11. "What the @#$% do you mean, we are sinking?"
-- Capt. E.J. Smith of RMS Titanic, 1912

10. "What the @#$% was that?"
-- Mayor Of Hiroshima , 1945

9. "Where did all those @#$%ing Indians come from?"
-- Custer, 1877

8. "Any @#$%ing idiot could understand that."
-- Einstein, 1938

7. "It does so @#$%ing look like her!"
-- Picasso, 1926

6. "How the @#$% did you work that out?"
-- Pythagoras, 126 BC

5. "You want WHAT on the @#$%ing ceiling?"
-- Michelangelo, 1566

4. "Where the @#$% are we?"
-- Amelia Earhart, 1937

3. "Scattered @#$%ing showers, My ass!"
-- Noah, 4314 BC

2. "Aw c'mon. Who the @#$% is going to find out?"
-- Bill Clinton, 1998

and a drum roll please............!

1. "Geez, I didn't think they'd get this @%#*^ing mad."
-- Saddam Hussein, 2003



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