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Bald Wombats

May 16th 2012 02:32


Bald Wombats and other tragedies


Apparently wombats are eating something that makes the grow bald and die.


I must be a wombat! The only difference is that I will take much longer to die than the other wombats.


I must say, I don't look forward to the obligatory catatonic state or that whole laying about and eating dirt thing. Sounds like the sad tale of my misspent youth. When I was a child I was bald and ate dirt and did not move around as much or as fast as I do now...


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The Conspiracy To Keep Black People Poor

May 14th 2012 00:26



Some folks think that there is a conspiracy to keep the poor in the oppressed underclass and they are right. They are just looking in the wrong place for the culprits. The perpetrators are not, as the Marxist dialectic tells us, the money grubby capitalists. Rather the poor are victims of bad money habits.

An interesting proof of this came the other day from Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad. Whilst advertising one of his endless series of lectures he made the following assertion: 65% of all professional athletes eventually go broke. And the reason they go broke Mr Kiyosaki asserted was that they still had the money habits they had before they became millionaires. These poor money habits caused them to buy a 5 million dollar house when they only had $1 million. So when they retired and no longer had the big pay checks coming in, they of course went broke.
It has been said that if your outgo exceeds your income your upkeep will be your downfall.
Radio talk show host Dave Ramsey continuously preaches that we should all live below our means for much of our lives so that we may retire early and rich!
If you look at the pure economics of living as Ramsey or Kiyosaki propose, it has to work. Most of us cannot live like the nation of Greece or the state of California because there is no one to bail us out or pay our bills for us.
So who is to blame for spreading ignorance about money amongst the nation’s youth? First and foremost it is the parents of course. This is particularly true of parents on welfare. Welfare is like magic money that requires no effort to acquire. A parent on welfare gives a child an unrealistic idea of what money is and how you get it. Children may think, in essence, that the money fairy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the federal government and that once a month “when the eagle flies” everyone gets paid even though no one did anything to get the money.
Parents further compound the problem by buying everything on credit. Through this they teach the child that the natural state of man is to be in debt. This is potentially a worse lesson than that the money fairy is a government agent. After all, if the poor took the government checks and found a legal way to save or invest or create a businesses that made theme rich, many if not most of us would think our tax dollars were very well spent indeed. But for a poor person to use government money to go into the bondage of lifelong debt is kind of sad.
The biggest purveyors of poverty after the parents are the schools. From kindergarten to university our schools are staffed by socialists, Marxists and communists who have absolutely no interest in teaching kids how money really works. In fact, the teachers actually want to keep the kids poor into order to further their own political aspirations. Imagine how horrified the Marxist professors at university would be if all their students went out and got rich opening and owning their own businesses!
Given that many athletes are black and that many poor black, children seek sports as a way out of poverty; it would be a double win if the sports leagues would get more serious about the financial health of their athletes. This could result in better role models for children. Actually a shot good spiritual health for young athletes wouldn’t hurt either.

There are several prominent, retired athletes who kept out of trouble while they were in the game and retired to a lucrative life of speaking engagements and even coaching. It ought to be mandatory that every young athlete who goes pro gets an intensive year of exposure to these success stories. The mentors need to put a bug into the ear of the morons who borrow money to buy expensive jewelry--only getting hooked on drugs or investing your money with some guy named “Joe” are worse than a millionaire borrowing money to buy jewelry. Gawd! Sooner or later I think the young bloods will listen to a true story that they can see for themselves. The story that it is entirely possible to retire rich or poor, and that how you spend your money and who you hang out with make all the difference. Hanging around with that posse who knew you when you were poor is almost guaranteed to make you poor again. Look at all the millionaire athletes and music legends who went broke or even got sent to jail. Almost all of them have one thing in common—a posse of parasites. You do need to forget where you came from—if you want to live the good life.
There are some other life lessons that being given every day on the street and in the rented mansions of millionaires. One is that you should never have kids until you are married. Most of the people you know that are the poorest are people who had kids while they were not married. Never have kids you cannot afford. Stay away from smoking, drugs and expensive habits of all kinds. Private airplanes and yachts and overly fancy cars are expensive habits. Your toys should make you money they should not take your money.
You should only have children with one woman. This is not to say you have to be monogamous, although monogamy will tend you make you richer and you will catch fewer diseases if your stay with only one woman. What I am saying is: Look around you. Can you find a millionaire athlete who is now broke from paying child support to several women? If he can’t afford the upkeep of that life style even though he made millions, you know you can’t. There are all kinds of sex practices that are safe, legal and never have any possibility of children. Find one and stick with it. If you are sexually active with more than one person then you had better have protection to avoid disease and pregnancy.
Stay in school. You do need that high school degree to get somewhere in life. You don’t necessarily need college but you do need a skill. If you can find a military service that guarantees to give you technical training while you are in uniform AND money for more training or college once you get out, jump on that with both feet and grab it with both hands. Once you have all of that, you are almost guaranteed to never be poor again.


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Striking it Rich

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Obama is the First Gay President

May 13th 2012 23:35





Obama is officially the first Gay President! So reports Mail Online and Newsweek. Both he and Biden came out strongly for gay marriage. Who am I to stand in the way of true love? I hope they will be very happy together.

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Mystery of the Monokini

May 13th 2012 21:27



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Is Everybody in California a Moron?

May 13th 2012 03:11


Governor Jerry Brown has just announced the the deficit for the state of California magically went from $9.2 billion to $16 billion.
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Fire All Jasons!

May 12th 2012 15:16


If Mark Cuban wants to field a winning Mavericks team next year the first thing he needs to do is fire all players named Jason


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You Might Be a Communist If...

May 8th 2012 11:03



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Brushing Your Teeth With Dragon's Blood

May 8th 2012 10:20


There is a tree called a Dragon's Blood tree. It gets this name from the red sap it produces. The tree has a number of uses. According to Wikipedia, it has even been used for toothpaste...
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Castrate the Zombie Ant Fungus

May 8th 2012 00:28


There is a fungus that attacks ants and eats their brains. Before the ant's brains are completely eaten the ants do crazy things that will probably get them devoured


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De-Nuking Japan

May 7th 2012 23:55



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