Wouldn't we all be better off without this person?

[chrisy]

People are just ignorant. Not necessarily mean-spirited (although sometimes they ARE that), just ignorant and they say stupid things.

It's tough with strangers because so often, as in some of the more appalling examples above, they say dumb things and they don't even think about the canser thing...unless someone "calls them" on it. I think once they are, even if we do it in a gentle way or a funny way, most people are mortified and probably punish themselves for much longer than we even would! In my experience, it's even MORE effective to slap them down nicely because then they have the added guilt of having offended such a nice person (who also happens to have cancer!)

I keep these comments, and people, on my imaginary "wall of shame". Some of them I can actually laugh about (later) because they are SO stupid!

[Colleens_Husband]

And now for something completely different.

I know, piling on Kim Jong Il is just too easy and a waste of my unique talents, but this is just beyond the scope of weirdness. As a review, Kim Jong Il, the supreme leader of North Korea, has the world's largest Daffy Duck memorabilia collection and the world's largest pornography collection. I can only hope that they are mutually exclusive. Furthermore, Kim Jong Il believes he is a direct descendant of Darth Vader. Yes, that is Darth Vader from the Star Wars fame. I don't think that is possible, if you look at the light saber scene from Star Wars III, didn't Anakin lose his ......... errrr, naughty bits in the fight with Obi-Wan? Use stop motion on the DVD and I think you will see flying off to the upper right hand side of the screen ........ anyways, I digress. So he is a bit whacked.

If he was only whacked, you could only almost forgive him. Who doesn't have a peculiarity or two? But he is evil as well. He once had someone shot for failing to address him as "The beloved and benevolent father of all the Korean people."

"Geeze Mom, I'll miss you but if I make the exception for you than I'll have to make the exception for everyone.

Yes, this is the guy who is spending billions of dollars on a nuclear weapons program while his people are starving, but that isn't even the strangest thing.

Kim Jong Il said he isn't going to join multilateral talks on nuclear disarmament until the United States stops printing money that is so hard to counterfeit. One of the few things in North Korea which is still economically feasible to pursue is counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is believed to be North Korea's largest source of foreign capital. There are only a few currencies left in the world which are worth counterfeiting and only one currency, United States, which is so widespread that counterfeiting isn't tremendously obvious. So the new currency with security threads, watermarks, microprinting, ultraviolet inks, and laser etched holographs puts a serious bind on North Korea's most profitable industry. I am getting all misty eyed thinking about how American currency is creating such a hardship on the regime of Darth Vader Jr.

I'm thinking that if Kim Jong Il wants to do something special for the people of North Korea, then he could dive off his platform shoes into the deep end of a dry swimming pool and put himself out of the misery of the North Korean people.

[chrisy]

Lee, you've made a pretty strong case. I agree, we could do without him.