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A STATE! A STATE WOULD SORT THIS LOT OUT
Hamas and Fatah can’t even agree on which days end the week:
As if life was not already difficult enough for the 1.4 million people living in the impoverished and war-torn Gaza Strip, they have now been presented with an almost impossible dilemma. They can either take off the Hamas weekend of Thursday and Friday - and risk not being paid by Fatah - or face the wrath of the all-powerful Hamas gunmen by observing the Fatah weekend on Friday and Saturday.
(Via Alan R.M. Jones, who urges the adoption of combined three-day Hamas-Fatah weekends - in Australia.)
“It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear.”
Ayn Rand
If it was up to me, I’d just go ahead and take Thursday through Saturday off, plus Sunday, just to be sure. I already get Saturday and Sunday off, but, what the hell, I’d better take Monday through Wednesday off just to make sure that nobody’s god is offended.
Now, is there any way that I can get paid by the government while I’m taking time off?
Krudd may have made a serious strategic error in stating we can stop terrorism in Oz by getting out of Iraq.
My apolitical wife loudly scoffed when he said this on the evening news.
Clarification: The phrase ‘my apolitical wife’ shouldn’t be taken to mean I also have a political wife, a semi-political wife, and a wife who doesn’t speak enough English to understand wtf is going on.
What would Farfour do?
Pretend to be holding his face in shock, while in reality straightening up his head?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 07 08 at 07:37 AM • permalink#3
A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational;
Salty, I have spent the last 2½ years trying to subdivide my farm into 4 house-blocks for the kids. My dealings with the local government bureaucracy are exactly described by your Ayn Rand quote.
They could all become local council employees. Then the argument simply disappears. Mind you, I’d prefer they had a thorough debate first.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2007 07 08 at 08:24 AM • permalinkI love this part:
The Fatah-aligned government decided not to pay some 25,000 workers who it said were taking instructions from the Hamas government.
Hamas hit back with a statement saying Allah would provide for the Hamas-aligned civil servants. “Be aware that daily bread is in the hands of God and that God-given release from suffering is near.
Translation: When you’re all dead of starvation, we’ll have no more of these silly arguments about weekends. Allahu Akhbar!They can either take off the Hamas weekend of Thursday and Friday - and risk not being paid by Fatah - or face the wrath of the all-powerful Hamas gunmen by observing the Fatah weekend on Friday and Saturday.
For some reason, this reminds me of the old Jack Benny routine:
Robber: “I said: Your money….or your life!”
Benny: “I’m thinking! I’m thinking!”
It’s like a Jonathan Swift satire with big piles of corpses on every page…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 11:34 AM • permalinkEmployees? They have employees? They have to actually PAY people to keep the place that f***ed up?
Posted by SwampWoman on 2007 07 08 at 11:40 AM • permalinkA STATE! A STATE WOULD SORT THIS LOT OUT
Fine. Give them Massachusetts. But they have to keep the Kennedies. Except the hot lezbian one from Buffy.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 08 at 02:35 PM • permalinkWell, they’ve finally achieved their state - a state of unutterable, undeniable and inescapable confusion.
We should thank the Peripatetic Airborne Confusion Osmosis diffuser for this!
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 09 at 04:47 AM • permalink
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