CHAPTER THREE

Pierre Margolle is a man with evil ancestors. He is a descended of Count Dracula. Yes, I am serious. Pierre is a modern day vampire with a grudge against Hairy who, once upon a time, drove a stake through the heart of Pierre’s uncle, Count Sucker of Transylvania. Pierre’s plan was to suck the blood out of beautiful Jasmine Loverly. Then,she would turn into a vampire who could be controlled by Pierre. He would make Jamine murder the world’s most famous tap dancer. Pierre  disguised himself as a wanna be tap dancer and enrolled in Hairy’s School of Tap Dancing And Guide To Finding The Meaning Of Life. He requested Jasmine as his instructer. He figured it would be easy to bite her neck while they were dancing.

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CHAPTER TWO

In order to set up the curriculum for their school of philosophy, Hairy and Jasmine collaborated on defining the meaning of life. It was not an easy task as evidenced by the fact that there was not a common definition of the meaning of life in the entire world. Jasmine liked Pablo Picasso’s, “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”  Hairy thought Pablo’s definition was too simple and not suitable for a uniform definition of ‘The Meaning’ that would be acceptable by everyone. After much thinking and brainstorming, they settled on the following: “There are an infinite number of meanings if you are fortunate enough to have life. The gift of life does not come with a readymade ‘Meaning’. Life is meaningful in a different way for each individual. You must choose your own meaning. The choices are limitless, such as survival, procreation, to love and be loved, search for truth, leave the world a better place, have fun, enjoy the journey, look for the best way to spend your time on earth, etc. etc. etc.

Meanwhile and I do mean mean, Pierre Margolle, the mean and evil rumba dancer, was thinking up ways to destroy Hairy’s dream of doing some good in the world. He had a secret reason for hating Hairy Risk Taker and he would not tell anyone what it was_ not even his dance partner.

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HAIRY IS BACK TO SAVE THE WORLD WITH HIS AMAZING TAP DANCING AND TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, “WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?”

The Hairy Risk Taker School of Tap Dancing And Guide To Finding The Meaning Of Life was located on a secluded Bahamian Out Island called Little Exuma. His lead instructor was a beautiful, unique and hot woman named Jasmine Loverly. She was good at everything, including tap dancing and philosophy.

           

Hairy was ready to open for business but little did he know that there was a rumba dancer on the other side of the island who did not believe there was any meaning to life. His name was Pierre Margolle and he 

planned to sabotage Hairy’s school. He was a terrific dancer but a very evil man!

                                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                   

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A NEW HAIRY RISK TAKER NOVEL

By popular demand, I am writing a new Hairy Risk Taker novel about Hairy coming out of retirement to deal with the continuing existence of evil in the world. After solving the problems of terrorism, bankruptcy in the European Union, Declaration of war against the U. S. by a small Pacific island, California Indians threatening to sink Los Angeles into the ocean with an earthquake, Obama being controlled by Russian communist, and a rash of watered down drinks in American bars, Hairy retired to the Caribbean Islands with two beautiful lady bartenders. The new novel’s title is, Hairy Is Back To Save The World With His Amazing Tap Dancing And To Answer The Question “What Is The Meaning Of Life?

After a bunch of rum swizzles, many intellectual conversations with the lady bartenders, and hours of sunning himself on the beaches, Hairy was bored. He was anxious to get back into action. He decided to work on the questions of, “Why we are here and what is the meaning of life?” He felt that the world would be a better place if everyone on earth knew the answer to these questions. He decided to work on getting the answers. He also thought that everyone would be happier if they knew how to tap dance. So, he started a tap dancing school franchise combined with a school to study the meaning of life. Hairy felt like he was involved in a couple of worthwhile endeavors.

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THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MAN, CHAPTER 10

Thompson needed help to deal with the President’s latest move toward the European socialistic welfare state. He turned to the Freelance Thinker for advice to save America. The Freelance Thinker, known just as “Free” at the Manitou Beach Institute for economics, is considered to be their best research fellow and all around good fellow. After Tom explained what the President was proposing, Free had some free advice for Tom.

He said, “What you should do is beat him at his own game. Form a new political party called The Red Herring Party and state that your platform is ‘A strong and just society that ensures that the wealth generated by all is shared fairly as determined by the state. This will be accomplished by progressive taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth from the winners to the losers. When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody’. You promise everything that is promised by the President’s policy, plus more. With this platform you can get your party elected and then, impeach the President!”

Tom said, “Yeah, but I don’t want to do all that stuff you’re talking about because that would be worse than what the President is proposing.”

Free said, “That’s alright. You will be a politician making promises and everybody knows they never keep their promises. Once you get your party elected in to power, you can renege and go back to the principles that made our country great. Lying and cheating is okay if it is done for a worthy cause. The end justifies the means.”

   

   And the plan succeeded and the U.S.A. continued on into perpetuity, thanks to Free.

                                               

                                                 THE END

A new novel coming soon…

                                   

THE AVERAGE AMERICAN MAN, CHAPTER 9

After losing the debate with Tom Thompson, the President was reluctant to initiate another ridiculous campaign for a liberal idea that could be attacked by conservative Tom. But after a couple of weeks, the President was ready to promote another “way to the left” idea that would buy some more votes from the uneducated and unemployed voters. His plan was to promise equal income to all citizens regardless of their sex, education, or employment status. Not only free health care but free food and free alcoholic beverages for everybody and you don’t have to work for it. Who wouldn’t vote for that?! Oh, and everyone gets a free luxury car with a lifetime supply of premium gasoline.

When Tom asked him, “How the hell are you going to pay for all that?”

 The President said, “Simple, we merely tax all the rich people and give it to the unfortunate people who are not rich. Then we will have a society that is truly fair and equal.”

Tom said, “It’s not going to be easy but I will have to figure out a way to explain to all the stupid people why that cannot work. I’m going to need the help of the Freelance Thinker for this.”

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Obama To Americans: You Don't Deserve To Be Free

                             

CHAPTER EIGHT, THE DEBATE

President Obama accepted Tom’s challenge but stipulated that he only had time to debate one subject and he chose the issue of “Equal Pay for Women”  Tom said that he would accept the President’s terms even though it was a cheap political trick to buy the votes of women. Since Obama chose the subject, Tom offered to go first.

Tom said, “It is a statistical fraud when Barack and other politicians say that women earn only 77% of what men earn and that this is because of discrimination. It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men, for the same number of hours, with the same amount of training and experience, as well as other things being the same. But study after study, over the past several decades, has shown repeatedly that those things are not the same. Constantly repeating the “77 percent” statistic does not make them the same. It simply takes advantage of many people’s ignorance to buy votes; something that Barack Obama has been very good at doing on other issues such as Health Care.

Some women are mothers and some men are fathers. But does the fact that they are both parents make them comparable in the labor market? Actually the biggest disparity in incomes is between fathers and mothers. Nor is there anything mysterious about this. How surprising is it that woman with children do not earn as much as woman who do not have children? If you don’t think children take up a mother’s time, you just haven’t raised any children.

How surprising is it that men with children earn more than men without children? Is it surprising that a man who has more mouths to feed is more likely to work longer hours? Or take on harder or more dangerous jobs, in order to earn more money? 90% of the people who are killed on the job are men.

There is no point pretending that there are no differences between what women do and what men do in the workplace, or that these differences don’t affect income!"

After hearing Tom’s argument, the President decided to not offer a rebuttal. He realized he had lost the debate.

Much of Tom’s argument was taken from Thomas Sowell’s book, “Economic Facts and Fallacies”