A few thoughts that actually kinda go with Thanksgiving...

I'd have to say, even for the left, I have hit a bottoming out point on this one.  Add to the growing list of Democrat Kim Fatty supporters such as Petula Dvorak of the WaPo, the ever-addled Chelsea Handler, Rosie O'Donnell, which I have discovered is just as easily called Rosie OD, Maxine Waters and her runaway dementia, and "prestigious" news sources the NY Times and BuzzFeed, the name Kate Morgan.  Who is Kate Morgan?  Why, let her tell it:

Kate Morgan — Editor in Chief, Recovering Marketing Blog Editor, and Experimental Scriptwriter

From her blog, Film Will Never Be Dead.  Which at this point, ya gotta kinda question.   Anyway, here's what SHE tweeted a bit ago:


North Korea is terrible, but so is the U.S. actually. Let’s not pretend we are “oh so much better.”


Really?  Hmm.  Why don't we start with the guy who was a NorKo border guard that escaped a week or so ago.  Shot at 40 times, hit 5- is this a western scene, or a Star Wars episode?  Methinks that some people didn't really want to hit him.  And because of the lovely state of agriculture in North Korea (fertilizing fields with human feces), he was filled to a degree unseen by the doctor treating him with hookworms, one of which was ELEVEN INCHES LONG.


How about next we reference the state of women in North Korea?  From a BBC article published a day or two ago, we learn about the women in the NorKo armed forces- you see, women have a mandatory 7-year hitch in the Army (10 for men), and go through such rigorous training that most lose their periods.  A blessing for sure, because "sanitary napkins" are not considered army equipment, and those that do still have theirs have to use the same one over and over, washing it out early in the morning "when out of men's sight."  Throw in rape, no privacy in restroom "accommodations", and how about the beds, Lee So Yeon?


"The mattress we sleep on, it's made of the rice hull. So all the body odour seeps into the mattress. It's not made of cotton. Because it's rice hull, all the odour from sweat and other smells are there. It's not pleasant."


Okay, so as we add things up, Kate, so far we have human field fertilizer (bad, not found in the USA), hookworm growth prodigious in both number and size (yukk), women forced into unsafe, unsanitary conditions (unlike punk-lifers like Beth Ditto, who choose it).  Sounds pretty good, huh?  How about nutrition, besides the worm thing?


On average North Koreans are less nourished than their southern neighbors. The WFP says around one in four children have grown less tall than their South Korean counterparts. A study from 2009 said pre-school children in the North were up to 13 cm (5 inches) shorter and up to 7 kg (15 pounds) lighter than those brought up in the South. (Reuters)

Here's another neat kernel of info from a Korean-Canadian who formerly worked with NGOs acclimating defectors:

But sadly, the defectors I’ve met were in such poor nutritional condition that they could not digest animal protein. Some vomit after eating meat.  Many I’ve worked with could not even digest a boiled egg. They prefer plant-based Korean side dishes and white rice as it was so rare to find in North Korea.  I also have asked these defectors about dog meat as it was and still is a huge social issue in South Korea.

They replied:

“There aren’t many dogs where I’m from. People have already eaten most of them a long while ago.”

"I am NOT happy with what I'm reading here."

That person went on to say that there are 2 kinds of defectors: those from well-placed government-official families who can afford to pay a Chinese broker to settle them once they get out, and those in the far north so driven by starvation it's leave or die.  Between the two, they manage 1,000 successful defections a year.  One source I found suggests that it costs $8,000 to get into China- which would take the average NorKo 4-8 years of spending nothing to save up.


And it's not like it would be the best of places even IF it were free.  It has a population just bigger than Houston, an area roughly equal to Pennsylvania- which only has about as much farmland as say, New Hampshire.  You could circle Pluto three times with the amount of roads- but only get from New York to Cleveland on PAVED roads.  The best job in NorKo pays about $62 a month- roughly what I got today for working till noon.

But I guess, when you consider Kate and her ilk think Sharia Law would be neat (at least until THEY tried to blame Harvey Achmed Weinstein for something).

Yes, I guess when you consider the USA is a place you can always get a decent, parasite-free meal somewhere, you can usually sleep in a clean bed if you choose not to be a pig, you could make $62 dollars a day on the streetcorner at Wal Mart doing nothing but holding a sign, and you can have privacy in restrooms for genders that don't even exist, we ARE pretty scummy.


Thank you, my Lord and God, for allowing me to live in a cesspool like this.  Because I'm here, a North Korean doesn't have to suffer like I do.