The Story of a Student

Posted on June 11th, 2008 in Culture,Humor by Robert Miller

I don’t often send out jokes, but a friend of mine sent this to me and I couldn’t stop laughing when I read it. It’s one of those jokes that you can’t tell, but only read. Perhaps you will get the same response out of it that I did:

It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade.

The teacher said, ‘Let’s begin by reviewing some American History..

Who said ‘Give me Liberty , or give me Death’?

She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up:

‘Patrick Henry, 1775′ he said.

‘Very good!’

Who said ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?’

Again, no response except from Chandrasekhar.

‘Abraham Lincoln, 1863′ said Chandrasekhar.

The teacher snapped at the class, ‘Class, you should be ashamed.

Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.’

She heard a loud whisper: ‘F**k the Indians,’

‘Who said that?’ she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up.

‘General Custer, 1862.’

At that point, a student in the back said, ‘I’m gonna puke.’

The teacher glares around and asks ‘All right! Now, who said that?’

Again, Chandrasekhar says, ‘Al Gore to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.’

Now furious, another student yells, ‘Oh yeah? Suck this!’

Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher , ‘Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!’

Now with almost mob hysteria someone said ‘You little shit. If you say anything else, I’ll kill you.’

Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice, ‘ Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him- 2004.’

The teacher fainted. And as the class gathered around the teacher on the floor, someone said, ‘Oh sh*t, we’re f**ked!’

……………….

And Chandrasekhar said quietly, ‘I think it was George Bush, Iraq, 2007.’

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Bush as an International Embarrassment

Posted on June 15th, 2007 in Humor,Politics by Robert Miller

One heard very little about the G8 meeting last week in Germany, except, as usual, we heard about the things that George Bush derailed. German Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced her carbon limitation plan which had wide support and, most notably, strong support from Tony Blair, which was to be his last gesture to international progress and continuity. But of course Bush derailed this plan and brushed it aside with his usual flair for pithy comments and, in the process, once again pushed his friend Tony Blair into an elevated tier of insignificance. Blair is surely thinking that with good friends like George W. Bush, does one really need enemies? Angela Merkel must be saying pretty much the same thing and if you want to know what the Europeans really think of our president, our neocons and our silly Secretary of State, then consult the article by Sidney Blumenthal who made a trip to Europe before the G8 meeting and can fill you in on how our transatlantic partners feel about us, or more precisely him.

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Employment for Paul Wolfowitz

Posted on May 29th, 2007 in Humor,Politics by Robert Miller

Having gotten us into a war we cannot win in Iraq, by advocating that our troops would be welcome and that no evidence was available to suggest that resident Iraqis would object to our arrival and then having alienated just about half the planet at the World Bank and most Europeans, Paul Wolfowitz will soon face unemployment. A person who is armed with that much lethality naturally concerns us and most Americans are interested in where his next employment might be, so that they can quickly disinvest in any related stock that might be in their portfolio. The good thing about this of course is that wherever Wolfowitz goes, Americans will become more knowledgeable about their own stock holdings and the extent to which they might errantly veer into a company that would be within the “Wolfowitz Walk Zone,” that swath of influence which might have a spillover effect in ways that at first seem unimaginable. Of course we are exposed to may outrageous theories which can readily be dismissed almost out of hand. For example, I just heard the other day that someone suggested Wolfowitz might be responsible for the decline in bee colonies that provide critical pollination to our crops. If so of course, one would want to immediately disinvest in almond farming which depend critically on bee pollinators in California.

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