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Drunkblogging a Few Modest Proposals

October 5th, 2010

Citizens of the world: It is time we make ourselves more equal! And perhaps relocate the UN to Somalia.

The world is so screwed up that even our highly intelligent and resourceful President Obama can’t deal with its myriad complexities. Things need to be simplified and a drunk, a lunatic, or a leftist is needed. I possibly qualify on the first two counts. Therefore, farcically facially radical but really simple change we can believe in offers the only possible answers.

In an earlier article, I suggested that some of the country’s many problems can be ameliorated by simply moving the seat of government (and all of its bursting appendixes) to Haiti. This will not only save lots of taxpayer government money, it will also improve both Washington and Haiti. However, we must not ignore other major problems. Heck, the slaves in the United States still need to be freed. This article offers a few additional modest proposals for true change.

The United Nations must abandon decadent New York City and relocate to some less-expensive place more in keeping with its lofty humanitarian principles. As a side benefit, the UN headquarters will become a really cool mega-mosque-community center where people of every race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and ideology can come together in peace and harmony — as they now do so effectively at the UN. Even though not as close to Ground Zero as some desire, it will be a compromise welcomed by all.

Somalia comes immediately to mind as a new home for the UN, but there are many deserving alternatives. Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are among them. The advantages would be numerous. Since Luputa exists only in fiction, it could well be even better. In his travels there, Gulliver became acquainted with “flappers”:

I observed here and there many in the Habit of Servants, with a blown Bladder fastned like a Flail to the End of a short Stick, which they carried in their Hands. In each Bladder was a small Quantity of dried Pease, or little Pebbles, (as I was afterwards informed.) With these Bladders they now and then flapped the Mouths and Ears of those who stood near them, of which Practice I could not then conceive the Meaning. It seems the Minds of these People are so taken up with intense Speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the Discourses of others, without being rouzed by some external Taction upon the Organs of Speech and Hearing; for which Reason those Persons who are able to afford it always keep a Flapper (the Original is Climenole) in their Family, as one of their Domesticks; nor ever walk abroad or make Visits without him.

In all of the countries suggested above, there will be numerous flapper candidates and most of them will be delighted to work for next to nothing. The remote possibility that flappers might make things even worse should not even be considered. Tense and immobilizing speculation may well seem better than actually doing something, but would merely perpetuate the status quo.

A truly international currency must soon emerge to displace the dollar. Labels are of critical importance, and the “World Unified Stable Standard Bolívar Fuerte” (WUSS-BF) would be good. The individual words even sound good: “Stable” is reassuring, “Unified” bespeaks togetherness, we all need “Standards,” and a bit of Spanish is also appropriate — “Bolívar Fuerte” means strong Bolivar. Fuerte is a very good word! It alone has done wonders for Venezuela, and el Presidente Chávez can be counted upon for support. Using “strong,” or “WUSS-BS,” would not be as cohesive.

We are now all citizens of the world and must be united and therefore equal in every respect. A common currency will go a long way toward eliminating the need for apologies to the rest of the world, at least for future presidents.

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Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: currency, DPRK, drunkblogging, Europe, Haiti, poverty, satire, Somalia, UN
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2 Responses to “Drunkblogging a Few Modest Proposals”

Tom Carter | October 6th, 2010 at 3:47 pm

“Drunkblogging” is a great word! It goes a long way toward explaining a lot of blogs I see, although the authors don’t admit their libational proclivities.

The only problem with moving the UN to a place like Haiti is it can’t happen. The General Assembly would have to vote on it, and the majority are third-world corrupt kleptocrats who like coming to New York so they can patrol Fifth Avenue in their limos and furs. They might go for Paris, though, and that would help the French cling to their delusion that they’re important in the world.

Dan Miller | October 6th, 2010 at 3:55 pm

I’m sorry, Tom, but Paris won’t be acceptable. Many allegedly fine wines (and whines, of course) are available there. Wines (but not whines) offend Islamic sensibilities. Somalia is largely Islamic and has an appropriate level of violence. Should Luputa be rejected, Somalia is the best choice. I agree that Haiti would not be good, but for a different reason: we are already sending the SOG there, and the further the SOG is from the UN the better.