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40 Years Since Che Was Murdered By George W. Bush

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An evening of Party-approved discussion and controlled introspection:

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Dedicated to the 40 year anniversary of Che Guevara's death in Bolivia at the hands of the Bush-Cheney criminal junta.

1967-2007

Featured Speaker Laika the Space Dog will present proof that Che could be a direct descendant of Prophet Mohammed.


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This is exciting news indeed! There is so much rich progressive soil to turn over so to speak, at such a symposium. That the Bush-Cheney empire was the cause of Che's untimely demise is beyond refute.

Did you see that we also can claim proof positive that there is no "god?"

"My father never talked about God. He never met God. My father knew there was no absolute truth," Aleida said, responding to Ghasemi's speech."

If Che, upon ceasing to consume oxygen in the ultimate sacrifice to help save the world from the scourge of global warming, did not meet this "god" on the "other side," then that is all the proof we need this "god" does not exist. "Absolute truth..." hard to imagine anyone could believe such rubbish in our enlightened age.

However, what I wish to hear even more about from Laika is how do we bring together our useless idiot Muslim allies with their ridiculous beliefs about some guy called Allah and the non-absolute truth that there is no god as we progressives know to be the case. Of course we share so much middle ground, the killing of citizens to further our cause, our understandable hatred of the West for their exploitation of the working class etc.

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Will comrade Laika also provide the hypothetical drinks to go with the discussion? I'll be there if there is to be some opium for the masses.

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I just heard that a Che movie is in the works!!! What took so long? Benicio Del Toro will be the one playing The Che

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/maindetails

Director:
Steven Soderbergh

Writers:
Peter Buchman
Steven Soderbergh

Release Date:
2008 (USA)

Genre:
Biography / Drama more

Plot Outline:
In 1964, Argentine revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (Benicio del Toro) travels to New York City to address the United Nations.

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Soderbergh? Why he's doing not one but TWO (2; dos):
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0892255/

Both come out in 2008 so I'm not afeard. "The Dark Knight" will kick both their asses!

I think we should stick with this version:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060004/
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I haven't heard about "The Dark Knight". Is it a new Batman movie?

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Yes Premier, I have seen but a brief ad for it the other day. Even more exciting for 2008 though, Get Smart is coming to the theaters! LOL

It's not much of a trailer as you can see...

https://www.movieweb.com/news/74/21474.php

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Is The Dark Knight going to be a sequel to Batman Begins, or a separate movie? I hope it's a sequel. Batman Begins was one of the best superhero movies ever made.

I don't really know about Get Smart. I have seen ads for the DVD collection of the series, and it looks pretty funny, but the movie may not be as good.

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I can't tell you about the time line of the movie as I have not seen Batman Begins yet. But I do know "the Dark Knight" was the old Batman cartoon, it was originally dark and brooding, long before the Adam West Batman was even imagined. I also know the Joker is part of the story, so that tells you something of the timeline.

I doubt the Get Smart movie will compare to the TV show... hey, it's not Don Adams! But that was one of this Pup's favorite shows growing up. How I loved the Cone of Silence, and the agent hidden in the garbage cans etc.

https://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/cone.html

And we had good progressives playing the "enemy" as well.


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Comrades! Lets not forget why we are here! Che is still dead!

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He is? Oh, wait... yes! Of course he is dead, and more importantly, it was Bush's fault!

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Do you think Che would've hated Bush? Would he?

Ohh . . . He sounds as if he's sweet and sensitive, and like, totally understands me!

Pinkie tears down her pin-ups of Ahmadingbat, the Velvet Ahmadingdong over her mantel, the Ahmadojo commemorative plates from Franklin Mint that show him at his hip-swinging Columbia U best and sells them on eBay; then finally tears out the pages in her notebook where she wrote his name, burns them, and writes something else instead . . .

Mrs. Pinkie Guevara
Mrs. Pinkie Guevara
Mrs. Pinkie Guevara

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<looks lovingly across the classroom at Comrade Pinkie like a little love-sick puppy as she scribbles the name of her new crush in her Hello Kitty notebook><sighs> She still doesn't notice me…. Oh! Is that Teresa Heinz Kerry in the hallway!? Teresa! Teresa! Let me help you carry your books! Maybe you can take me out to dinner tonight and foot the bill! Teresa! Wait for me! Don't run! It's just a cold sore! IT'S JUST A COLD SORE!


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Batman would still kick Che's skinny commie ass!

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Commissar Pupovich wrote:How I loved the Cone of Silence, and the agent hidden in the garbage cans etc.

https://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/cone.html


Pupovich what is this homoerotic stuff you're peddling to the people?
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Commissar Pupovich wrote:Comrades! Lets not forget why we are here! Che is still dead!

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That was delightful.
I hope in the new movie(s) they have a nice scene of Che taking a few rounds in the torso so that I can cut and loop the scene and watch it over and over and over. That would give me intense pleasure.
What is the translation at the end/beginning of "la paix"?

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The utter evil of the Bush-Cheney Assassination Machine is truly appaling. All Che ever wanted to do was frolic among the flowers of Communism and the corpses of his enemies, and he was gunned down for engaging in this natural and understandable activity. It has become virtually impossible for a good Communist (and really comrades, is there any other kind?) to redistribute wealth with the barrel of a gun without some horrible neocon deathsquad arriving at their doorstep.

Fortunately, here in Amerika, there is a hope on the horizon, a blazing star in the firmament of Socialism. Our beloved Empress has a plan to sneak the redistribution of wealth past the neocon deathbeasts. Here, on the anniversary of the noble comandante's death, she strikes a blow for justice:

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) - Every citizen could get a 401(k) retirement account and up to $1,000 in annual matching funds from the government under a plan offered Tuesday by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
At a cost of $20 billion-$25 billion a year, the plan is Clinton's largest domestic proposal other than her plan for universal health insurance. The New York senator said it would be paid for by taxing estates worth more than $7 million per couple and would help narrow the gap between the rich and those who don't have enough savings for retirement.

There is beauty here. To finance this program will cost $20 to $25 billion per year, to be paid by soaking the filthy rich who possess estates worth more than $7 million. The IRS maintains a data base of inheritance taxes. According to their statistics, 4,122 people worth between $5 million and $10 million died in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available. To be generous, let us take $7.5 million as the median worth of this group (it would actually be a bit lower) and multiply it by 4,122. The result: $30.915 billion. Our beloved empress will thus allow these filthy parasites to pass on a full 19.2% of their estate to their little capitalist piglets. In her generosity she will only confiscate 80.8% of their estates when they die. Of course these estates are already subject to taxes on the order of 35% to 65%, and those moneys are already going to noble government programs, many of which are for the children. In order to fund her magnanimity we are going to have to reach further down the wealth ladder, but then, that's the plan isn't it?

As for the retirement accounts, Clinton said during a campaign stop in small-town central Iowa, "They will begin to bring down this inequality that is eating away at our social contract." She said, "This is a major commitment to how I believe we can begin to right the balance again."

Right the balance. Che would be proud.

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This is so beautiful, so moving comrades. A tribute to our most noble murderer uh, martyr and the words of our benign and generous Big Sister and so-to-be Premier, all in the same thread.

It's enough to make a comrade briefly cease his tireless work in the name of The People and delurk to honor these two glorious leaders of our endless Revolution.

While I am not entirely convinced that comrade Che is dead (simply undergoing a longer than expected period of rest and recovery under the care of Cuba's superior health care providers), if he was proven to be dead, there would be no doubt that Bush was responsible.

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Ivan Betinov wrote:According to their statistics, 4,122 people worth between $5 million and $10 million died in 2005, the most recent year for which statistics are available..... ....In order to fund her magnanimity we are going to have to reach further down the wealth ladder, but then, that's the plan isn't it?

Comrade Comrade.... you simply have to start to learn how to think out of the box! Why should we limit ourselves to an average of 4,122 people with the needed wealth to die each year? The Empress can keep her promise while at the same time reducing the carbon footprint these capitalists impose on the People's Planet each year.


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The Muslim students at GWU have got the best idea, attack yourself and blame it on Right wing Conservative groups.

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Phony 'Satirical' Anti-Muslim Posters Circulated at GWU

At George Washington University, another outrageous action by the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Student Association, as they circulate flyers purporting to be from a conservative campus group with disgusting anti-Muslim messages: Anti-Muslim Fliers Cause Uproar.

LINK

Im still trying to figure out what is Satirical about the poster.

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Premier Betty wrote:I haven't heard about "The Dark Knight". Is it a new Batman movie?

Thats Osama Bin Vader's return to the US.....

[insert heavy breathing here] Luke come to the dark side....... We have cookies here.

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Sea-Bass wrote: Benicio Del Toro will be the one playing The Che

Comrade Penn must have been crushed by this decision. One hopes that they will use real capitalist pigs and not stunt people when Che starts "redistributing wealth".

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Commissar Pupovich wrote: Get Smart is coming to the theaters! LOL

It's not much of a trailer as you can see...

https://www.movieweb.com/news/74/21474.php

I bet that the movie will miss the series "by that much!"

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Red Jim wrote:
Sea-Bass wrote: Benicio Del Toro will be the one playing The Che

Comrade Penn must have been crushed by this decision. One hopes that they will use real capitalist pigs and not stunt people when Che starts "redistributing wealth".

Doesn't "The Che" sound like a new club dance?

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH. Too many figures, Comrade Ivan. Must escape numbers and facts... getting dizzy... head falling ;asljkllllllllllllllllllllllllllllld

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Che.....Che ....... He's our man if Che cant to it Super Putin can !!

Ok that sounds like excessive greasy discharge ...... Lets go Super Putin y'all with Extra Stregnth colon Blow......

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I was thinking more like this:

In answer to the hot & spicy babe mooning over Che's rotting carcass.



Plotline: Che walks into a bar of tough political hombres just south of the border. He walks over to the jukebox and puts a coin in the slot. Getting up onto the bar he begins a seductive version of "Tequila" ending in a lap dance all over leader of the gang, Harry Reid. Fade to black.

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Sea-Bass wrote:Im still trying to figure out what is Satirical about the poster.

Eggsactly Comrade! That is why this Commissar keeps barking to the moon, we progressives do not need to support these anti-progressives simply because they wish to tear down the imperialist west. They do not need our support to continue this, and we water down our Perfect Progressive Doctrine by stooping to their level to praise the one or two things they have right.

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LoneRedStar,

Love the Hello Kitty BTR!

As for Vader:

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Yes, Bushitler killed beloved Che!!! It was when Bush was an evil imperialist pilot flying the highly dangerous (for the pilot) Delta Dagger interceptor (these were loaded with nuclear missles). Bush was sent on a secret mission by his father and the then congressional aid to Ted Kennedy (Cheney) to kill Che. Documents were created to cover this all up and were found by the newscaster who cannot be nammed.

The fact that this "party truth" is tumped by bothersome "reality" is merely the manifestations of evil conservatives daring to question progressive "truth". But do not worry comrades, soon, all talk radio, conservative print and thought will be outlawed by the "fairness doctrine".[/img]

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Nancy Pelosi already went that route, so why not Che?

Pelosi 'after a while [the hijab] just grows on you, so do the daily beatings.'
Pelosi says female circumcision 'not all that bad.'

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AbecedariusRex wrote:Plotline: Che walks into a bar of tough political hombres just south of the border. He walks over to the jukebox and puts a coin in the slot. Getting up onto the bar he begins a seductive version of "Tequila" ending in a lap dance all over leader of the gang, Harry Reid. Fade to black.

As if real bikers dress like that or would have not punched his lights out long before he had a chance to walk outside. Been there... doesn't happen like that.

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This sounds like a parody story for the Cube, too absurd to write a parody about - echoing the contents of the Karl Marx Treatment Center's seminar above. It was written by Amir Taheri, an Iranian expatriate author for whom I have great respect and always read his highly informative articles. He likes the People's Cube and has read a few of our stories (especially those concerning Iran). He is also a proud owner of the Red Cube which I presented to him last year at a private dinner party when he visited New York.

From today's New York Post...

TEHRAN'S PRICE FOR 'SOLIDARITY'
MULLAHS SEEK USEFUL MARXIST IDIOTS


Amir Taheri wrote:October 12, 2007 -- ANXIOUS to create what they call "a global progressive front," Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela are sponsoring projects to underline "the ideological kinship of the left and revolutionary Islam."

The theme - hammered in by Ahmadinejad during his recent visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia - inspired a four-day seminar organized by his supporters at Tehran University last week (partly financed by Chavez).
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[Che Guevara's daughter] Aleida, a pediatrician who lives in Havana, wore the mandatory Khomeinist hijab, while her brother had grown designer stubble to please the hosts. Also attending were an array of aging European and Latin American "Guevaristas" and Lebanese Hezbollah cadres.

At first, the conference was all clear sailing as participants agreed that the sole source of world evil was America and its "earth-devouring ambitions."

The Khomeinists were pleased to hear their European and Latin American guests denounce "America's criminal plans to attack the Islamic revolution," and insist that Iran had every right to develop its nuclear capabilities. The aging Guevaristas were equally pleased as their hosts praised the dead T-shirt poster boy as "a fighter for universal justice."

Things went pear-shape thanks to one keynote speakers, Hajj Saeed Qassemi, whose title is "coordinator of the Association of Volunteers for Suicide-Martyrdom." Praising the late "Che" as "a true revolutionary who made the American Great Satan tremble," he "revealed" that Guevara had been "a truly religious man who believed in God and hated communism and the Soviet Union."

"Today, communism has been consigned to the garbage can of history as foreseen by Imam Khomeini," Qassemi said. "Thus progressists everywhere must accept the leadership of our religious, pro-justice movement."

Demanding the right to respond, Aleida Guevara told the conference that Qassemi's claim might be based on a bad translation: "My father never mentioned God," she said as the hall sighed in chagrined disbelief. "He never met God."

The remarks caused a commotion amid which Aleida and her brother were whisked away, led into a car and driven to their hotel under escort.
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By the end of the day, the two Guevaras had become nonpersons. The state-controlled media, which had given them VIP billing, suddenly forgot their existence. The anniversary of Guevara's death was mentioned in passing with no reference to his Marxism.

The Islamic Republic bans all non-Khomeinist ideologies, but two are specifically punishable by imprisonment or death: socialism and liberal democracy.

The two Guevaras, who left the Islamic Republic in some haste, managed to anger some Iranian progressists. The siblings refused to mention the mass arrest of workers' leaders throughout Iran in the last few months or condemn the current wave of repression against trade unions, women's organizations, teachers and farm workers.

"These people don't give a damn about the toiling masses," says Parviz Jamshidi, a lawyer for imprisoned trade unionists. "To them workers represent nothing but an abstraction, an excuse for appearing left and chic. They don't see that the Khomeinist regime is at war against the poorest sections of our society."

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Red,
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That article needs to have international reading. The left continually fails to understand that "kill the infidels" means kill the leftists too.

And IF America WAS an imperialist nation, why would we be re-arming and retraining the Iraqis? Empires do not rearm those they take over. Also, Iraq has had 3 elections thus far. The USA has not interferred in any. When Bosnia-Serbia had elections in the 1990s, the Clinton Admin voided any outcome they did not like.

The left will never understand, even when the islamofascists are cutting their necks.

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[quote="Comrade TankoGrad"]LoneRedStar,

Love the Hello Kitty BTR!

Thanks, dont forget that:

Loneredstar's hello kitty world domination collective is available for parties, purges and other collective events. so Call today !!
Just dial BR-549



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Red, has not the loyal, progressive Pup been saying this all along? Warning everyone who can hear his bark, that we must not get close to these muslims even if their anti western attacks are useful?


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I would also note that their plea for peace did not mention Jews, and is there any question that there are many Jews who were at the heart of our Communist Fore Fathers? Of course I must submit to the wise counsel of the Chairman, but this watch dog is keeping his guard up just the same.

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is there any question that there are many Jews who were at the heart of our Communist Fore Fathers?

Of course not! The Bolsheviks were good party Jews. That's why Hitler was so against them in Germany and the rest of the countries that he invaded. And not let us forget our grandmaster Marx who was descended from Jews.

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Comrade TankoGrad wrote: LoneRedStar,
Love the Hello Kitty BTR!

Sadly, it's not a glorious BTR but a US M93 Fox Recon vehicle. They are used for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical detection and are based on the German TPz1 Fuchs APC.

Fuchs/Fox article at Army Guide

(Still a pretty cool looking vehicle, IMO.)

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The Politburo has received this email from a reader who is not registered to post:

A reader who is not registered to post wrote:Dear Friend/Tovarish/Comrade,

Che Day was last week. How come the t-shirts at Che-mart aren't marked down to half price? I was hoping to pick one up real CHEap! (Sorry!)

By the way… on Che Day I listened to Radio Havana 600.0 short wave and the commentator said that we all should strive to be more like Che. My question is… Should I kill myself or just play dead? Radio Havana is of course truth in broadcasting. They said that they were the free territory in the Americas and by “gosh” they're right. It didn't cost me anything to hear them say that!

Love y'all at the Cube

Martha

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Friends! Comrades! Tovarishes!

I apologize for being away from the Cube's redness for so long. Representative work always takes the best of me.
Party-approved beverages and courtesans (along with timely autograph signings for The Children) have been demanding my attention during the many worldwide commemorations of both Putin's death and Guevara's birthday. Or was it the other way around? By Lenin, my head aches.

Two things, to Red Square and the "Reader who is not registered to post" (why isn't she?! we must check her background immediately!):

- First; Of course Radio Havana is pravda, I mean, truth, and one should always strive to be more like our heroic guerrilla. But worry not; just as the inevitable coming of Socialism is a historical necessity, our eventual becoming more like Che is a biological necessity. Thus you can help the Party a lot more before finally being Che. ("being Che"... that's kinda catchy, isn't it?) So for now I would recommend from personal experience to be more like Putin. I have done it myself, and look at my muscles.

- Second; Other circulating facts about Putin are pravda, too. My siberian-cold resistance is due exclusively to his waving at me decades ago. After recently meeting him again and shaking his hand, I can already squint my eyes and read floppy disks. It's a start.


Nastrovya,
Drago.

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Sadly, it's not a glorious BTR but a US M93 Fox Recon vehicle. They are used for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical detection and are based on the German TPz1 Fuchs APC.


Now that I look at it, it is a Fox. I see so very few of those and have fallen behind AFVID. I feel terrible now. Oh well, that is why we told them not to ever get too far ahead of us in battle. Between the Fox and the BRDM looking M1117 ASV, it gets difficult to tell who has what.


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Commissar M wrote:
Comrade TankoGrad wrote: LoneRedStar,
Love the Hello Kitty BTR!

Sadly, it's not a glorious BTR but a US M93 Fox Recon vehicle. They are used for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical detection and are based on the German TPz1 Fuchs APC.

Fuchs/Fox article at Army Guide

(Still a pretty cool looking vehicle, IMO.)

I was wondering why it has a US speed limit sign behind it.... Kinda worrysome

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Yes it is! Down with Imperialist Speed Limits! Power to the People! Pedal to the Metal

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Commissar Pupovich wrote:Yes it is! Down with Imperialist Speed Limits! Power to the People! Pedal to the Metal

Please, Commissar Pup. Have you forgotten that correct application of speed limits is hardly an Imperialist koncept- in fact it is one of the greatest socialist tools of kontrol? Here in the People's State of Viktor-ia Down Under, our proud socialist government has cranked speed limits down so low that it is actually faster to walk than to drive a car. The trick is to create a law which otherwise socially responsible citizens will easily break, then fine them (redistribute their wealth) whilst telling them it's for their own good. So, if the majority (democracy) of safe, law-abiding motorists think 60mph is perfectly safe on any given road, set the speed limit to, say, 40mph, and presto! They are all suddenly driving "too fast" and need to be re-educated.

It does two things: increases State/Party revenue, all big and juicy and ready for that rainy day when they can throw money at a problem resulting from poor progressive governance. More importantly, it kontrols those kapitalist car-driving pigs who desperately need to be reminded how much they need The State to protect them from themselves.

Unless, of course, you were calling the speed limit Imperialist simply because it was an Amerikkkan speed limit. In which case I totally agree.

Yours
Beez

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Wail! Sob! Scream of Anguish!
Yes Comrade Bezelbub.... this Commissar knew what you said is totally correct. Speeding is perhaps my only vice left. I had hoped no one would see this, but you caught my thought crime correctly. May Lenin have mercy on me.

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Beezelbob Brown wrote:
Commissar Pupovich wrote:Yes it is! Down with Imperialist Speed Limits! Power to the People! Pedal to the Metal

Please, Commissar Pup. Have you forgotten that correct application of speed limits is hardly an Imperialist koncept- in fact it is one of the greatest socialist tools of kontrol? Here in the People's State of Viktor-ia Down Under, our proud socialist government has cranked speed limits down so low that it is actually faster to walk than to drive a car. The trick is to create a law which otherwise socially responsible citizens will easily break, then fine them (redistribute their wealth) whilst telling them it's for their own good. So, if the majority (democracy) of safe, law-abiding motorists think 60mph is perfectly safe on any given road, set the speed limit to, say, 40mph, and presto! They are all suddenly driving "too fast" and need to be re-educated.

It does two things: increases State/Party revenue, all big and juicy and ready for that rainy day when they can throw money at a problem resulting from poor progressive governance. More importantly, it kontrols those kapitalist car-driving pigs who desperately need to be reminded how much they need The State to protect them from themselves.

Unless, of course, you were calling the speed limit Imperialist simply because it was an Amerikkkan speed limit. In which case I totally agree.

Yours
Beez



Fear not Comrades, Total speed control is not here now with our partners in the General Motors Company have now introduced tools in their progressive thinking On Star to stop would be thefts of vehicles. This progressive thinking now can be evolved to totally limit your high tech car to a limited speed submitted for your perusal:



By Eric Peters
Published 10/16/2007 12:07:44 AM

Big Brother may be about to get just a bit bigger.

General Motors just announced a new and improved version of its OnStar telematics system that could be used to shut your car's engine off (or at least, cut back the power) remotely.

Touted as a "safety" feature (of course), the upgraded version of OnStar would give external authorities (law enforcement -- and, of course, GM) the ability to send out a signal keyed to the car's on board computer, which in turn would ease off the gas -- no matter how hard you're putting foot down. GPS-equipped cars already can be located in real time at any time, whether moving or stationary. The "enhanced" version of OnStar would, however, be the first use of satellite technology to physically control the vehicle and supersede the driver.

The system goes live in 2009, when GM will begin offering it on more than 1.7 million new cars and trucks. Chevrolet will lead the way -- with up to 60 percent of '09 models fitted with "enhanced" OnStar.

So what's wrong with the idea? Is it cabin-in-the-woods paranoia to be concerned about what, after all, could be a valuable tool for law enforcement?

The answer depends to a great extent on how much you trust the government.

Certainly, the use of "enhanced" OnStar to stop high-speed car chases and retrieve stolen cars is hard to argue with. But will that be all the technology is used for?

Consider this:

The insurance industry is at this very moment lobbying Congress to impose electronic speed governors on heavy trucks -- limiting them to no faster than 68 mph. Surprisingly, the trucking industry isn't completely opposed to the idea -- provided electronic speed limiters are also fitted to ordinary passenger vehicles, too. Fair's fair, right?

Now add a dash of "enhanced" OnStar to the brew.

Come 2009, it will be technically feasible to make speeding impossible. A modern car is controlled by computers; the computers are now tied into GPS systems such as OnStar -- which have the ability to send and receive electronic transmissions, including instructions that tell the computer how to run the car. "Smart" speed limit signs can now be fitted with transmitters; when a car with "enhanced" OnStar comes into range, the transmitter tells the car's computer what the maximum allowable speed shall be -- and ye shall drive no faster.

Welcome to the future.

"Technology should not just entertain us or make us more comfortable," croons NHTSA Administrator Nicole R. Nason. "It should make us safer." Of course. And what could be safer than making speeding an impossibility? If you haven't heard this argument voiced openly, just wait. It's coming as sure as Lindsay Lohan's next DWI. The safety nags have been patiently waiting for years for technology to catch up to their agenda.

Courtesy of GM, that day has arrived.

Our friends in the insurance and safety lobbies will soon be urging that this "optional" technology become a mandatory feature on every new car. Speeding is illegal, right? Who is going to argue in favor of allowing the automakers to continue building and selling cars capable of being driven 30, 40, 50 mph faster than the highest lawfully allowable maximum?

What about the children, after all?

And if that's not alarming enough, consider the likely follow-up. Once all new cars are fitted with in-car speed nannies, the glassy eye of government will very likely turn its gaze upon older cars -- especially older pre-computer cars, which can't be electronically controlled because there is no on-board electronic controller. The old car hobby is already (justly) alarmed by recent changes in antique/classic car licensing and registration laws -- which are making it harder and more expensive to keep an older car on the road.

In Virginia, for example, changes to the laws governing antique vehicle registration now empower police to conduct what amount to "roadside safety checks." If the cop decides your antique vehicle doesn't meet this or that jot or tittle of the law, he can seize your plates on the spot and have your antique vehicle towed to the impound lot -- notwithstanding that most cops don't have any specific knowledge of what is or isn't "right" about decades-old vehicles.

Now the authorities have a new tool in their kit. A cudgel by which they cannot only beat speeders into submission -- but which could very well be used to take older cars off the road forever. Consider yourself warned.

And remember to say "thanks, GM."

And thanks to progressive thinkers everywhere!

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So... rushing to a hospital because grandpa's having a heart attack (or wife's having a baby right now, or some OnStar-scrambling weirdo's tailing your car) and dealing with the consequences like an adult is out of the question... right?

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>off< And thats why Ill never own a Chevy...... Unless its pre 1980, hey but at least California decided that it wasnt legal for a company to require its proles to have rfid chips implanted in them.... Watch out for the black helicopters... but that on star thing has some vast repercussions coming. But of course its all for our safety.... Thank You Nannystates of america.

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LoneRedStar wrote:>off< ... but that on star thing has some vast repercussions coming. But of course its all for our safety.... Thank You Nannystates of america.

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Yes, you can almost hear it coming. However, there is one small reason to be cautiously optimistic. Which will be more important to the nannystates- the kontrol or the revenue? Speaking for my own kin I can't see the Aussie Leftist State Governments having both. Physically stop people "speeding", lose the revenue. Oh, the dilemma!!

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Party Diplomat Ivan Drago wrote:<off>

So... rushing to a hospital because grandpa's having a heart attack (or wife's having a baby right now, or some OnStar-scrambling weirdo's tailing your car) and dealing with the consequences like an adult is out of the question... right?

<offffff> Or attempting to overtake that prole driving at inconsistent speed, leaving you stranded on the wrong side of the road with speed limiter kicking in and truck coming the other way?

Here is the latest in Viktor-ian Government feelgood re-education for motorists who don't like slowing down for so-called "roadworks" sites (i.e. where road workers are digging a hole 500m away from the actual traffic):
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Awww...isn't that sweet? Progressive Roadworker guy has brought his kid to the roadworks site to show us how dangerous we are and how we must be controlled. Well I can see one safety issue right there. Is a roadworks site really an appropriate place For The Children ™?. Or does progressive Roadworker Guy have no choice since his progressive life-partner has a job of his/her/it's own and needs someone to look after their adopted kid? Do they have a creche at the roadworks site? So many questions.

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LoneRedStar wrote:....but at least California decided that it wasnt legal for a company to require its proles to have rfid chips implanted in them....

Well of course not Comrade! The state is all against an evil big company to do such a thing, as they should be. However, that doesn't not preclude the state from doing so da? They have GOOD INTENTIONS after all!

(Sing to the tune of Beatles, "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)

It was 40 years ago today,
That they blew Comrade Che away.
Now he's sleeping down in the dirt.
But you can still buy his T-shirt.
Revolutionary Days are gone; thank God for the CIA
Four decades since they did away with Che!!

(Bridge)
He certainly deserved it, as a revolutionary great
The Democrats still honor him. You know they'd like to vote him in, and run him in 08!

So I thought you might like to know,
Fidel will be the next to go.
Your revolution is long gone
'Cause Socialism is just wrong.
If Hillary's elected, get down on your knees and pray.
Four decades since they blew away Comrade Che!!!

(Bridge segue into next song: "(I Get Corrupt with) A Little Help From My Friends".
"HILLL- ARRRR- EEEEE!!"

- An ORageMan original

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Bravo, ORageMan! Comrade RedSquare, can we get ORageMan's witty Che ditty into the Karaoke section?

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Bu...bu...but.... his verse said "thank God for the CIA" and "Cause Socialism is just wrong." How can we bear this? Oh, I am still reeling in shock. Oh, I suppose he could be on some People's Acid?


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XIUYAN1 wrote:you suppose will come .i think!
you think. yes will suppose



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"I think, therefore I am a threat and must be sent to the gulag."

Che convert to Islam?
I think more importantly we would need him to be a professor, and a member of the Freemasons.
Then he could be a true progressive!

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To All Comrades

My lovely daughter Aleida, said it for me:

My father never talked about God. He never met God. My father knew there was no absolute(with the exception of the Party, of course) truth," Aleida said,

I have nothing else to add, except that religion plays no part in the Revolution of The World of This Tuesday, and I refuse to indulge in such nonsense!

I have spoken my last word on this!

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I do not find this image to be funny, although I do look like a sexy sheik, eh, my hot, passionate, luscious, Commisarka Pinkie O? (Shit, I better go outside. I'm getting strangely aroused!)

Che' Gourmet


 
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