Women of the World Unite

Life, we all know, is a bazaar; we barter, we exchange. In politics, exchange can be excellent and fair, as when power is passed from one democratically elected government to another in an inaugural ceremony where the victors celebrate and the losers acclaim the just victor. Exchange can be marvellous and exalting, as when men and women freely exchange vows to love, honor and respect. Exchange can be sad and honest, when vows are freely undone and we face sadness alone.

Or exchange can be done Taliban style. The Taliban men exchange women. They are quite smart about how they do it. They have a complex cosmological system they call Shariah that explains all the W's -- who, what, when, where, how and for how much. The only W they don't explain is why. They say God designed the system for our benefit so who the hell are we to so much as ask.

For the most part, male Taliban are tribesmen who, like most human beings, enjoy puffing themselves up over what they own and can exchange. They have pretty much nothing, but they do have women. So they exchange women. It's a one time exchange model, which means the upmost care is required. Fortunately, since God designed the system, there is a wel-defined social system and cultural edifice that spells out the behavior of men and women up until the big day of the exchange and comes with complete instructions on the proper use of the acquired merchandise. It's all great fun for the guys who now will never want for someone they can tell what to do. For the girls, they can be secure knowing that they will never have to take a decision for themselves ever again. For a sociologist, it's a funcionalist's dream; unless you don't like the role you have been given because there is no way out. Funny thing about the arrangement is that the guys almost never complain, but the girls, sometimes the girls get weird ideas...

To be honest, the "developed" world wouldn't give a damn about the Taliban except that Bin Laden hung out with them and now the Taliban now run large parts of Afghanistan and are some 70 miles from Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. The Pakistani Army, nice guys, are not willing to die to stop the Taliban from imposing their version of the happy family. Some of them actually like the idea. 

This has the Obama Administration worried since Pakistani government has nuclear weapons to manage. The rest of the world ought to be worried too, but appparently they don't really believe the Taliban will conquer Islamabad and get the nuclear weapons; or maybe they don't believe the Taliban could read the instructions on how to use them.

For whatever reason, there just aren't enough governments willing to send their boys to die to save the Pakistani girls from the Taliban rules. In any case, they`re just girls. Girls who will become somebody's woman.

Women of the world, you can stop this. Women of the world you can unite and form an all-women armed forces to defeat the Taliban and wipe out Shariah rule. Us men, we cowards, we will fund you. We will write comic books about you. We will convert the Che Guervara t-shirt factories of the world to "Women of the World Unite" t-shirt factories. We will buy millions of coffee mugs with Michelle Obama flexing a bicep. There will be a concert in Central Park by famous women artists, and anonymous male musicians will volunteer to play back up. We will get rich while you die fighting the Taliban, fighting for freedom.

... Women of the world unite!

P.S. Book leave starts tomorrow.

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[JOSE LUIS REVILLA ESCUDERO]

G-20: A summit of "celebrities"

They are all in.
20 million euros of budget only for the event expenses.

And they are decided to solve the world economic downturn. Obama brings 500 people of staff, advisors, cookers, and even 2 people to taste his food. Yeah!, you heard ok !!... 2 people to taste his food before eating it.

I am imagining if he has to eat an ice-cream, is he going to eat the ice cream already tasted by others ???

I remember when we were kids, and we bought 1 ice cream for four people,...It must be a similar experience.

Michelle Obama changed her dresses three times in one day. Someone told her she was not going to the OSCARs ceremony??? Did any of the 500 advisors told her not to give a fancy impression in hard economic times ???

Mr Obama was so worried about the cameras that he decided to shake the hand with one of those british guards at the front door of Downing Street, whose mission is not to move. So he had to break the rules and shake his hand to mr Obama. Of course, ...

Hu Jintao, president of China, the main owner of the world, since we take into account that the US is the main debtor of this country, arrived to London, had dinner with the others, etc... but nobody saw him on television, or even his wife did not shake hands as if she were Miss "OSCAR best actress nominee".

Bets now show that only 10% of people believe firmly that any conclusion is going to be made during this 1 day and a half. But meanwhile, we have fun with our political "celebrities". Carla Bruni did not come,.. Sonsoles Espinosa then becomes the best dressed, but no, she did not come either !!!... Then, ok, Michelle Obama is pushing hard to have that mention...

The show must go on. Even when the world is suffering its hardest times in ages.

Demonstrations in the City financial district were the dark side of this glamorous meeting, but as the journalists always say: " there is always someone that fucks a good photo ..."

I am very happy..., because I think the world will continue the same way, that means that the APOCALYPSIS or the END OF THE WORLD is not coming with this crisis (sorry for those philosophers that only appear and leave their caves when something like this happens, only to reaffirm their theories..).

Rich people will simply continue being rich, and poor people will continue being poor, except from those poor people that begin accepting the game´s rules and begin to change the status they now suffer. Glamorous delinquency is permitted !!,...yeah!! if you steal money, do not do it in a 7 ELEVEN during the night, you have better going, buying a good suit, and start telling people you can give them a 15% return on their investments. But be careful, do not do it for many years, beacuse then, you will confuse yourself and maybe you start believing you are a legal guy.

The rules of CAPITALISM.

Jose Luis Revilla Escudero
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