Got Milk?

Here's a very simple and amusing explanation of the various societal orientations. All done with cows.

PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

It gets even weirder:

SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

Here's my take:

ARROYO DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government decides that they own both cows. They take from you. You resist. The headline tomorrow would read: Cow Owner Found Dead. Two Men On Bikes Seen.

BUSH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows who despite their sad appearances give plenty of milk. One motherfucker saw the cow's sorry state and decides to liberate it. (But not after cajoling another cow owner to attack the motherfucker)


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Sabi nga ni R.Tolentino,

"Walang tinapay sa mesa kung hindi aalsa ang masa."

Panu yan? 'Di na nga umaalsa, lumiliit pa.

Mukhang marami-rami pang kelangan gawin.

Evo's Should Have Grown A Beard

Here are Bolivian President, Evo Morales' ten commandments to save the planet, life and humanity.

Acabar con el sistema capitalista
Stopping the capitalist system

Renunciar a las guerras
Renouncing wars

Un mundo sin imperialismo ni colonialismo
A world without imperialism or colonialism

Derecho al agua
Right to water

Desarrollo de energías limpias
Development of clean energies

Respeto a la madre tierra
Respect for Mother Earth

Servicios básicos como derechos humanos
Basic services as human rights

Combatir las desigualdades
Fighting inequalities

Promover la diversidad de culturas y economías
Promoting diversity of cultures and economies

Vivir bien, no vivir mejor a costa del otro
Living well, not living better at the expense of others

Just like Albert Einstein said, "simple, but not simpler." Am thinking of migrating too Bolivia. How about you?

For details, click.

* Evo Morales is Bolivia's first fully indigenous head of state. Having denounced the neoliberal policies of his forerunner, Morales' managed to upgrade social spending.

Here, it’s just the social (and not the spending) that gets upgraded. Sigh.

Will Roger asks, if

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?

hmmm...

not porn. i think.

A friend eagerly informed me of this series on YouTube. Consequently, he's bored and unemployed. Not to mention that his back pay is already running slim.
(Unemployment, you gotta love it.)
Behold...

Counter-culture at its finest!

Yahoo v. Hard Gay part 1

Yahoo v. Hard Gay part 2 (:Hard Gay Strikes Back!)


A big, fat *toot* *toot* to Yahoo! for allowing spam!

* acknowledgments to Cocoy for posting an "idiot's guide" on embedding video on blogger.

this post is brought to you by the word 'fokfokation'

Clearly, there's a significant difference between independent and alternative. The former just means you don't have much moolah (then why is Cinema One's Romeo and Juliet considered indie?), the latter is an entirely different thing. Lumbera succeeds in differentiating the two. Try Revaluation.
Familiar with Red Saga? It's a work in progress.
i currently have 200 pesos (give or take) ... could i make one?
For wanna-be-film-makers, Rodriguez' Rebel could probably do wonders for your work. El Mariachi is proof.

I blame my "training" in film (and Romeo and Juliet) production for my indie film trauma. sigh.

Side dish: According to Nash (another Cimatu frequenter), Serbis was reviewed as one of the worst films in this year's Cannes. Sad. To quote Nash, you can't always have fokfokation films as 'art.' And apparently, not all Pareno movies are great. Again, this time sadder.

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The Mahatma* Matching Type Post

Forget the "Seven New Wonders of the World." Here's the Gandhi version.

(And to make it more fun, here's a game. Match the image with the appropriate blunder. Click image to enlarge)

Behold!

The Seven Blunders of the World

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle




* Mahatma means Great Soul, thus, Mahatma Gandhi. Real name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Side note: The way I see it, this seven wonder thingie could hasten the degradation of the said "wonder." Yeah, we could argue about protection and maintenance. But wasn't the same thing promised for the Banawe Rice Terraces ? And do we really need to make this "official?" That's just ego-tripping.

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