HUMOR - America's Fate:

TWO DIFFERENT TALES ABOUT HOW WE GET HERE:

Rumors were that somewhere in a red-planet galaxy thousands of light years away from Earth, a young boy accepted a challenge while everyone else dared not to.

Now becoming an old man, he is fulfilling his promises. Although everyone knew that the old man had made promises, no one knew for sure, whom he had made the promises to.  Yet, others believed that it was a divine person who issued the challenge; therefore, they thought he was a chosen one.

Which story do you believe?

"OOMA," LAWS OF THE JUNGLE
A political satire by Sokha Ou-Uun


The dialogs are in Cambodian language, but the translation or the story goes like this:

Ducks Asking For Help

Once upon a time, there was an animal kingdom  called Thug's Law located some where in Southeast Africa. This kingdom is supposedly ruled by a spiritual rabbit who has been perceived to have been granted by heaven as the supreme leader of the kingdom.  There were also a bunch of small animals who want nothing but to live there freely and equally.  Among these little creatures, there were ducks who often stood up for the rights of all animals living in this Thug's Law kingdom. 

Then, there were a lion and a bear with a bunch of wild dogs roaming and enforcing the laws in  the kingdom. They took whatever they pleased and did whatever thugs do to control everything in the kingdom. They sometimes reached outside the kingdom to recruit new brainless dogs. Small animals often fell victims to the all mighty lion and bear; they were terrorized by them or even terminated by the OOMA** jungle law.

Consultation

In one instance, the lion and the bear decided to ban the ducks from swimming in any lakes, citing an article of the OOMA. For years, the ducks were trying to do everything they could to get back in the lakes. But nothing worked. Then, they thought of the supreme spiritual rabbit and asked him to grant them the permission to swim. For some reason, even though the law of the land had already granted the rabbit the power to decide, the chief went to the lion and the bear to confirm the existence of such law. 

In response, the lion and the bear told the rabbit that the laws of the kingdom, Art. BS.101 does not permit anything with GREEN feathers to swim.  The rabbit accepted the explanation and told the ducks the bad news. 

The ducks had no choice but to accept that explanation because telling the rabbit that their feathers are actually YELLOW and not green could be seen as a challenge to the supreme leader, which is the worst crime anyone could commit in the kingdom.

Bragging About OOMA

The Two Evils

After the rabbit had left, both the lion and the bear started to dance and chant "OOMA ! OOMA ! OOMA !...."

One might ask how did the lion became so powerful, and had more power than the heavenly spiritual rabbit. The answer is, the lion has sold its soul to, and has been supported or controlled by two evils, Mr. Vee and Mr. Chin.   

    

**  OOMA : Out Of  My Ass

MESSAGE TO ALL OEOEU: Stop Whining!
By Sokha Ou-Uun

Not a day goes by that I do not hear moaning and whining from the OEOEU. This is not a scientific sample, but I must say, 60% from the RIGHT and 40% from LEFT. The US election is over. Get over it. Right or wrong, we have to deal with it. Stop the tit-for-tat, stop attacking national problems with finger-pointing, get down and work to find solutions.

For the losers, mostly LOEOEU, whining is not going to change the election result. Work to change things that you feel that is wrong. Look at issues instead of personality. Stop blaming the media for not reporting what you like. Does it matter where you get the news from? You get the info, use your brain,analyze it, and work with it.

For the winners, mostly ROEOEU, there is no need to keep on trying to justify the victory by blowing other people's candles. You have won. Use big stick instead of BIG MOUTH and start working on the promises. It is the end results that will tell whether or not this is for real. Stop blaming the media for not reporting what you like. Does it matter where you get the news from? You get the info, use your brain, analyze it, and work with it.

So stop this childish tantrum just because you did not get what you wanted: not winning or not fully accepted by all. For the sake of this country, please go and prove yourself.

(OEOEU: One Eye One Ear User - R for Right and L for Left)

HEALTH CARE - PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
By Sokha Ou-Uun

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:

I am what I am because of what I have experienced. The debate about our health care brings back one of my sad memory. When I first came to the US, I lived in Florida and got my health care at a county health center. One day while I was waiting for a doctor, a man walked in with blood on his face from what seemed to be a head wound.

He was turned away because the county clinic can only provide well care needs such as vaccinations or something like that. Disappointed, the man walked outside and sat on a bench. It was Winter, cold but bearable. Having seen so many miseries in Cambodia, the country I left behind, I could not just ignore this man. I walked up to him, and asked why he did not go to a hospital. He told me that he did not have any transportation.

Of course, at that time, I had no idea how the health care systems worked in the US; I thought that a person with injury would just go to a hospital and he or she would be taken care of.  So I volunteered to drive him to the hospital in my clunky. We arrived at one hospital, but he was turned away. The next hospital did the same thing. We visited three hospitals, but the results were all the same. The man finally gave up and asked me to drop him off at a bus stop, and that was where I left him with blood already hardened on his face.

At that time, I could not comprehend everything, so I did not know why that man could not get help. I did understand enough such that many years later, I realized that he did not have insurance and his injury was not life threatening.

I thank God for letting me witness it. Otherwise, I would never know the difference. Every day, I am very thankful that I do not have to go through what that man did. 

WHERE IS OUR COMMON SENSE?
By Sokha Ou-Uun

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