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Name: Erick
Birthday: 6/13/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: The Simpsons, History, Economics, Latin American Rock, Politics, Fiction, Statistics and Econometrics, Dead Dictators.
Expertise: Statistics & Econometrics, being late for HW, Nodding Politely, Anything relating to One Hundred Years of Solitude, Dead Dictators.
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  erickgoihman
Member Since:
10/18/2004
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| Flood, Fire and all that stuff...
So, I left my room last night around 2:00. I play Halo for a while,
then come back to my place at 4:15. (Yes, I know that it is sad that I
am playing Halo at 2:00 am on a saturday night.... but hey, who am I
kidding?). First thing I notice is this really loud sound... like a
waterfall; of course, I think its a bit odd. But as soon as I open my
door, I see the fucking waterfall, or rather, waterfalls: the entire
roof is leaking, and some of the leaks are pouring more water than a
shower. I put my computer on top of my bed, wake up my roomates and go
up to the 22nd floor to see whats going on. It turns out some guy has
passed out on his shower; his room is flooded, with an inch-deep pool
of warter covering his entire floor and the shower open. I close the
shower, call 911 and go to the lobby. While I am down there, Rich and
Erin manage to wake him up; fortunately the guy (who I know) is in good
health. The ambulance wont be needed. once I get down, bubbles in the
paint of the roof are bursting and splashing water on my floor. I
couldnt help but laugh.
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| Some Pictures
The (Second) Axis of Evil: It could not be more true.
David's Gift: It could not be more apropiate.
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| Hippies
I hate those god damned pot smoking, revolting, self-righteouss,
promiscuous, communistic hippies. I hope they all get aids and die. No
scratch that. Aids is too slow and too painless. I hope they die, in
the most painful way conceivable; that they are rubbed with shards of
glass, impaled, sprayed with urine and left to bleed to death; I hope
that they are postumously beheaded and dismembered, that dogs and
vultures feed on
their corpses. I hate hippies!
Clarification: this
post was motivated by the most obscene and perverse display that I have
ever seen. No matter what you believe, fornication in the presense of
others is NEVER cool. Just to hammer it home: exibitionism and public
intercourse are categorically wrong, inmoral and repugnant (and for
that matter so is any other action carried out in public by two naked or
semi-naked persons). That sort of behavior is for beasts; it is dogs,
not men, that couple in plain sight. It is not a matter of your rights
to self expression or whatever other shit you may have within your
skull, it is a matter of decency, morals and good upbringing, heck it
is a matter of basic, elemental shame! Those without such shame are
barely human as far as I am concerned. They ought to be shot, and not
only for the sake of the eyes whose sensibilities they shock, but also
for their own! (also, such people are wasting valuable resources...
just imagine the quantity of chili that they could provide to starving
Ethiopians). Can they not restrain their urges and wait for solitude
and darkness? Or at worst, can they not move and abuse the privacy of a
restroom's locked door?
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| The Domino Effect
Today Bolivians went to the polls. And in all likelyhood, they have
elected a xenophobic communist. But he is not the only such leader out
there. A new crop of politicians has risen from the Rio Grande to the
Straights of Magellan; a breed of neo-socialist indigenist populists:
every last one of them cast in the likeness of Hugo Chavez. Their
coffers are filled with the contributions of Chavez and of the
international drug trade, their party cadres are trained in Venezuela
and in Cuba, their ranks are bolstered from the endless pools of the
dispossesed, the indians, the disafected. Ollanta Humala, Evo Morales,
and others. They are unstopable, and they will push aside any who stand
against them; they will subvert the democratic institutions, they will
rewrite the constitutions to entrench their rule to perpetuity. A great
red tide will sweep down the Americas and drown any sparks of progress,
of freedom, and of civilization.
The EU has turned its back on it (as it always does, cowardice and
apeasement being so naturally amenable to them), the US does not know
wether to act or to appease. They must know that no apeasement is
posible. The neo-socialists hate everything we embody, everything we
are. No concession will sate them.
It is clear that something must be done, and it is also clear who must
do something. Now, I am not advocating military action or anything like
that. All I am saying is that we must acknowledge the enemy; we must
take action, because if we do not, the Latin American republics will
fall, one after another. The enemy has the resources and the men to
overwhelm the local democrats, the determination to challenge authority
(by arms if necesary), the momentum to carry it to victory, and the
will to supress oposition once it is in government. If we do not rise
to challenge them, if we do not stand up in defense of our allies, what
will keep the entire continent from floundering? If we do nothing, and
Morales is elected, what is to keep Humala from Peru's presidential
chair? If we stay silent, what will prevent the formation of a
continental socialist axis? An axis that will (and does already)
finance and arm the FARC, the ELN and other subversive narco-communist
organizations. How will we protect our allies - Colombia, Mexico, Chile
- then? How will we deal with continent-wide destabilization? We must
attack the
problem at its root. If Chavez and the Drug Lords finance the
communists, we must finance the most viable force for oposition. If
they attempt to subvert the government, we must work in counter
subversion, we must subvert their parties, we must embarrass their
leaders, we must bring every indiscretion, every deficiency, every
perversion of our foes to public light. If the enemy captures a nation,
we must make them pay. We must slap embargoes on them, withdraw aid,
ban companies from doing business with them, curtail the transfer of
military technology, and presure our allies to do the same. We must
fight a battle for hearts and minds, and not only in the Middle East,
but in South America as well (and worldwide). We must fight a war of
finance and information, a war of words. But overall, we must strike
out to contain, isolate, subvert and overthrow the governments behind
this, the architects and movers of this bout of communist agitation:
Cuba and Venezuela. If we do not, what nation will fall after Bolivia?
Which domino will tip next? Peru? Ecuador? Mexico? Brazil? We can not
wait. We must take action (now!) and prune this blight before it
spreads.
Edit/Update I: the Bolivians have in fact elected Evo Morales. They will soon rue this day.
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| Another Lamb to the Slaughter
I write on the eve of the Bolivian presidential elections, and I write
with them in mind. The outcome is all but cast in stone, nothing short
of a miracle will keep Evo Morales from the presidential chair. I
shudder with dread only to think of it, yet another communist enthroned
by the blind stupidity of the mob (communists are not elected, they are
enthroned, for once they have held the reins of power, they are parted
from them by death only, and seat upon the presidential chair as long
as they are able, the popular will be damned. A socialist, elected or
insurgent, is ever and always an enemy of democracy). But most of all,
I pity the Bolivian people. What they are about to bring upon
themselves is an evil that no people (save perhaps arabs) deserve:
trust me, I have tasted of its bitterness first hand.
What happens today in Bolivia reminds me of what I saw once in Caracas:
the crowd, so easily roused to anger and to self-righteous indignation,
so easily inflamed by racist exortations, and by cheap politics of
class warfare, goes willing to the slaughterblock. It even sings
praises of the butcher as it goes.
What when they elect this socialist? How does Mr. Morales pretend to
fix the problems of the Western Hemisphere's second poorest nation? By
nationalizing gas? Does he think that the economy runs by force of
overheated rhetoric? that cheap speeches will take the place of
investment in the creation of jobs? I ask, what will the election of an
Aymara solve? It solves nothing. I assure you, that with or without an
Aymara in the presidency, the poor shall stay poor, and the rich, rich.
However, the mere implication that the election of an Aymara is a
solution to Bolivia's problems, is tremendously dangerous.
Morales has indulged in the worst forms of populism. He is a force for
factionalism, for the splintering of the nation along ethnic lines. He
is a force for an ill-defined socialist movement, a reactionary force
that would (it admits so freely) like to turn back the clock, to erase
the imprints of western civilization; a force that, where it capable of
it, would wish to return Bolivia to the "more just" economics of Incan
times. For those unaquainted with the Incas, this means a return to the
most brutal communism: a state where all owed unquestioning obedience
to authority, where peasants where bound to vales of their birth on
pain of death, where every man, bar the priests and kings, was born to
farm and to farm only. But many Bolivians will never think of this:
their blood is too caught up with the rhetoric of exploitation and of
class and race warfare.
This, is why I fear that Bolivia, which had stood upon the edge of the
precipice, is about to take a bold step foward, and follow my homeland
into the abyss. It is nearly inevitable now. The wrath and the hatred
unleashed by this racist campaign are boundless. The Aymara feel (with
some justification) that they have been opressed; and further, they
feel that this grants them license to take vengeance. This campaign
provides an oportunity, Morales provides a vehicle, and in this lies
much of his apeal. If he is elected, the last restraint on the anger of
the mobs will be lifted, the police that has hitherto restrained them
will instead join them. If he is elected, the last barrier on the road
to a social war will be overcome, and the nation will devour itself
until the mobs are drunk with blood and plunder (and it shall not
matter whose wealth is plundered or whose blood is spilt). I hope
disaster is averted, I sincerely do. I hope that I am wrong. But it is
unlikely that I am. So, if any educated Bolivian, any Bolivian
democrat, should per chance be reading this, act wisely: bet on the
continued devaluation of your currency, liquidate your fixed assests,
relocate your portable ones abroad, and make preparations for exile.
For exile will come. Sooner or later.
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