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Sunday, November 1, 2020

Punchlines, Punch Bags (Boxing Bags). Punch Balls, Kick Bags and Kickbacks with Punch and Judy

Punchlines, Punch Bags (Boxing Bags). Punch Balls, Kick Bags and Kickbacks with Punch and Judy

Election is all over and every conceivable lie had being utilized for gains.

It is miracle that I survived without hearing loss since the decibel range was higher than the pitch I was used to.

Sometimes I think it is a blessing to be either deaf or blind or both.

Since I am not either this is to revive Punch and Judy not in his style but in boxing style.

It is strange to note that Punch and Judy characters never used Boxer the kids friendly dog nor the the real boxing characters like Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali), probably fearing American backlash.

I am writing this not expecting any kickbacks from any living soul or any British soul sent to hell by Punch but I have to use English for the strength of the Punch but in boxing style.

I am not even light weight and not even super flyweight to have the physical (I was super bantamweight when I was abroad and having being here for over 5 years gone below the fly weight category without even having a crash course in dieting) presence felt in the ring.

I have to use the English punchlines (send our Buddhist MPs including monks to heaven – not to hell like in UK for them to evoke blessing for the millions of voters who are practically missing a meal-according to health Ministry statistics; they never starve; they actually follow the Buddhist monks principle of eating once a day to go to heaven since Ceylon is not the heaven or paradise that it was known to be) instead for posterity.

The boxing categories including light weight was used by me to address the issue I have with the Microsoft / Open Office Office Package/s which is /are always super heavyweight and tax my computer's limited resources including RAM.

Since I use Linux for my work I do many things (unlike Microsoft Windows) once at the same time (watching Football World Cup-not cricket now- do a distribution download while I do some pep writings like this) and the speed is a factor I rely for efficiency.

I use Abiword Light sometime which is portable too.

I have extended this to my Linux100 writing elsewhere in the Google’s blogspot- just type asoka and paraox- you are instantly there and I want the Linux Developers to produce Light Weight (700 MiB. Middle Weight is 1700 MiB and anything above is Heavy Weight (especially the commercial versions that tax resources even at boot time) and sometimes useless to say the least.

Just to take some respite from somewhat taxing job (100 is a big issue at my age, even though I have already 200 distributions in my USB hard disc) of testing and writing reviews for the wider web users.

I take life at an easy pace now!

To begin with my Punch Code (in computer terminology) we must have a nurse and a doctor appointed to the parliament.

The should weigh all new MPs (do not do that with the old foxes they are too heavy that the spring of the balance will break without any spring of surprises) now and every three months over the next 6 years and send that data to the Central Bank / World Bank and the WHO (Sinhalen whoooo) as real data.

They must be categorized according to the weight class of the boxers and see how they progress from flyweight to super heavyweight both in weight and money in no time.

Real progress of the country.

My argument for this is that our parliament truly represents the wishes of the population in real terms and numbers.

It truly feel the pulse of the people and rule of the law but not the rulers image.

If we have donkeys in this country surely they should be represented there.

Then we must have an annual contest in front of the Diyawana Oya and get Indian actors to come and face them weight by weight.

Our voters can be used as the Punch Bags or Boxing Bag (it is done almost everyday if you look at the government TV Channel).

It is worth while that they must send a random sample of weight from school leavers for comparison.

But I think that is a waste since our Central Bank has the knack of manipulating any real data into abstruse elements for it to be presented at the Budget at any time of the day or night or if necessary for IMF’s consumption.

But my real punch line is not for the new MPs.

It is for the Ministers who were newly appointed.

It looks as if they are used as the Punch Bags especially the Foreign Minister.

I do not wish who uses them as the Punch Bags.

It is a top secret except for one who is always vociferous in Sinhala for the cameras and destroy anything foreign except the oil he wears on his head.

If seems that boxers use kick balls and kick bags.

I like both of them (kick bag and kick ball) and in football style I can kick them in their vestiges!

Asoka

3rd July., 2010

American and Ceylon Politics-No difference

Inter-monsoon and inter-political vacuum in America and in Ceylon.

I refuse to talk about Ceylon under military dictator, lest I be beheaded alive, like in the Kandyan Kingdom where I live currently.

This piece is to highlight how uninspiring, the political debate in America.

They are obsessed with Coronavirus, thanks to Singapore Airline's fast service to Europe and America, the Coronavirus becoming an unintended passenger in flight.

I am interested in two issues.

1. Global Warming

2. Sixth extinction.

3. Third if I may say, wraps both above in one tight loop, that is water security.

I dispense with water first.

We did not have the normal rain that comes in September and goes through to early December.

Inter-monsoon is in limbo and I have to water my rooftop garden almost daily.

My guppy fish die of heatstroke, if not for the total surface cover with floating water plants, I have allowed to grow with utmost care.

Birds and even dragonfly come to quench the thirst with temperature hovering in the outside world about 85 degrees Fahrenheits.

With all these America is eager on shake oil drilling unabated and there is no policy in both Democratic and Republican camps.

America including Middle East are the biggest polluters of this globe now overtaken by China with Mega Mania and India closely following.

Our rulers are hell bent on Coal Power industry while decimating our rain forest.

That is the reality nobody talks in America, Italy and in Vatican and Ceylon.

The Coronavirus is the blessings in disguise, that will decimate over 20 million in the next decade or so and the WHO does not have a population strategy.

When human fails mother nature takes over with a vengeance.

The sixth extinction is in full gear now.

Hold your belt tight in your car or in in flight entertainment in a plane.

Planes are the biggest polluters of our air.

Thanks to American Air Industry.

None of this is discussed by both candidates and CNN and Fox News watching is a waste of time.

I am not surprised if Donald Trump has a victory in electoral colleague count.

So do not take bets like in Arizona dessert's casinos which is again an another American successful industry..

Good Bye and No more blog pieces from me now onwards.

I have gone into hibernation with the election results taking more than two months to declare by the Supreme Court of America.

What an anticlimax?

Thursday, October 29, 2020

There is No TAX on Discontent (NTD)

There is No TAX on Discontent (NTD)

Sri -Lankan are very creative people but that creativity comes only after retirement when one sees that the grave stone or tomb is the final place of conquest!

This ultimate reality is also taxed; the Masters of this creation are British Tax Inspectors of Yesteryear.

British only had Police and Inspectors now we have Private Security in the Universities too.

We have lost everything including freedom but they cannot take our simple humour rather the satire (I thought satire is bit psychopathic) out of context.

Very soon humour will be taxed against the rulers will be taxed.

The academic Freedom in the University is also Taxed and Malabe is the Beginning.

Mr. O.M. Weerasooiya is a Retired Commissioner General of Inland Revenue and a Corporate Member of Sri Lanka Institute of taxation and former Treasurer of Netherlands Alumni Association of Lanka.

A personal note of somebody who is nobody in this Tax World:

Mr. O M Weerasooriya has done a wonderful job by writing this poem but there is something that we would like you to know.

A Developed country will collect 20 to 35% as taxes in this world.

A Developing country will collect 50 to 60% as taxes.

Today Ceylon collects 70% as taxes.

Every 100 rupees you earn 70 rupees will go back to the government as taxes.

This means Ceylon is heading for disaster like Zimbabwe (this is true- my own comment-We are heading that garden pathway rapidly in the name of development Who cares?) who collects a whopping 88% as taxes.

Support somebody who could change this at least to a developing level.

Read My Comment below and please add your comment, too.

Few lines would do.

The Tax Poem

At first I thought this was funny…then I realized the awful truth of it.

Be sure to read all the way to the end as that’s the punch line!

Tax his land, tax his bed,
Tax the table at which he’s fed.
Tax his tractor, tax his mule,
Tax his cow, tax his goat,
Teach him taxes are the rule.

Tax his work, Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts Anyway!
Tax his pants, Tax his coat.
Tax his ties, tax his shirt,
Tax his work, tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars, Tax his beers,
If he cries tax his tears.
Tax his car, Tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his aRss (after the daily purge).
Tax all he has, then let him know
That you won’t be done, till he has no dough
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till he’s good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he’s laid.
Put these words upon his tomb,
‘Taxes drove me to my doom…’

When he’s gone, do not relax,
Its time to apply the inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax,
Airline surcharge tax
Airline Fuel Tax,
Airport Maintenance Tax
Building Permit Tax,
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax,
Death Tax
Dog License Tax,
Driving Permit Tax
Excise Taxes,
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment (UI),
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax,
Petrol Tax (too much per liter)
Gross Receipts Tax,
Health Tax
Hunting License Tax,
Hydro Tax,
Inheritance Tax
Interest Tax,
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes,
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax,
Mortgage Tax
Personal Income Tax,
Property Tax
Poverty Tax,
Prescription Drug Tax
Provincial Income Tax,
Real Estate Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
Retail Sales Tax
Service Charge Tax,
School Tax
Telephone Tax,
Provincial and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Water Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax
Entertainment Tax,
Tourism Promotion Tax
Value Added Tax……..

Finally Nation Building TAX NBT).

We have still not yet built our NATION three years after ending internal war.

G.S.T. (Gona Saha Thanakola TAX-Bull and the Grass TAX)

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our Nation was one of the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had a large middle-class and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the hell happened?

Can you spell ‘Politicians’?

It is all PoliTricks Scientists (my creation for Oxford Dictionary-Coined for American Scientists who make mockery / distort facts and make fiction / out of real facts).

I hope this goes around CEYLON at least 100 times!!!!!

YOU can help it get there!!!!

GO AHEAD – – – be a CEYLONESE !!!!!!!!!!

SEND IT AROUND EVERYWHERE for a change

Help make a difference.

Ayubowan, is Long Life.

If you live long you pay more TAX so kick the bucket early!

May he attain the Final Goal, the Nibbana in this life and not next life.

IF not his next life we believe is NOT spared.

The TAX Inspector will follow him in the Samsara.

Even the PIN in Pin Kate is TAXED now.

I will send a Note / Email to Maha Brahma to TAX the TAX man and requesting him to GRANT HELL for TAX recuperation.

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Thank YOU SPIKE

Thank YOU SPIKE

Spike is an amazingly good utility.

It organizes multiple emails.

I am signing off from the entire Internet, which I have been planning for the last 3 years.

All social media and Tik Tok are social vultures.

Add to that partisan CNN and FOX News political overtures are appalling, to say the least.

I have another problem.

Our Internet charges TAXES at 60% and for alcohol taxes are much more.

I prefer visiting my friends and see them live and Coronavirus put an end to that.

I used SPIKE to cheer them up and get out of the paranoia.

BIG Thank You.

I am now in a long hibernation out of religion, spiritual awakening, politics and above all faked science including medicine.

I enjoy gardening and encouraging all insect visitors to my rooftop garden.

Internet is a waste of on intellectual interlude.

Thanks again.

Keep up the good work.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Knoppix 9 is out

Knoppix 9 is out

Knoppix 9 is out but there are no seers for me to download it.

I had been using Knoppix from its 3.6 edition and I have disc-case full of Knoppix CD and DVDs.

One of the best live DVDs to learn Linux.

I wonder why guys and girls are not using the mandatory block-down for learning Linux.

It is a shame and Facebook, Twitter and WhatsUp are killing learning habits.

I never/ rarely use those three utilities.