I like the symbols, Comrade S-W. Let us hope that the Politburo will use them.

Rex, and China has warned us against spending so much money. I wonder if they will <i>dare</i> not to fund our socialism. Japan has bailed. If China bails then we can sell our T-bills to Zimbabwe and Chad. That ought to pay for National Health Insurance.

commissar theocritus - I know you got to observe progressive niceties in your country (but onry untir the Inevitabre Triumph of Sociarism(tm)). However, over here in my shithore nation country, I the one who make the raws. We routinery imprison homosexuars for aberrant behavior, hooriganism and viorating The Common Good(tm). I took that resson from my good friend Fider Castro.

[off character]two of my family members are gay. In real life I'm actually a very tolerant & accepting person. Its Communists who are intolerant and their nations routinely imprison and ostracize gays. I was merely staying in character as the real Kim Jong Il.[resume character]

Why you not come over to DPRK as my guest? I take you on a Potemkin Tour Tour of Peace & Prentifurness to see for yourserf how much my peopre revere me as their Dear Reader. Got to go now. I sneaking into Japan incognito to kidnap more Japanese hookers preasure workers for my sex harem secretariar staff.

Onward Sociarist Sordiers!

Kim Jong Irrin'

Dear Reader--is this like Dorothy Parker's Constant Reader? Or like when she was reviewing Milne, Tonstant Reader?

I do understand what you're up to your pleas for sociarist soridarity. Nothing is more important than the triumph of the proletariat.

[ off ]Don't worry in the slightest; I figured that out. And even if I hadn't, Carlos Mencia was right when he said that nowhere in the Declaration of Independence or the Preamble does it say that you have a right not to be offended. And Bruno is a caricature based on real people.

I'm having fun here. I hope that lots of people have fun here. And I'm a hell of a lot tougher than the stereotype is. I only fly off the handle when people engage in sectarian warfare which lets the moonbats have access to power which they do not deserve and which is fatal. [ on ]

Dear Reader, I know that I cannot offer you the preastantries of North Korea. I don't have any private subway cars for you. And here at the Rancho we don't have stores serring rong pig. But I can manage to give you some ke-babs off the imparing spikes.

Won't you join me? Our Many Titted Empress has been too busy rately jetting all over the world pretending that she's not on a fools errand for a fool's president.

I would suggest these versions:

I'll add them to the "clipart" selection under Cone of Silence and see how they appear in the comments. Any subsequent "prog off" variations will be added as well.

Comrade_Tovarich wrote:

Guardian of Pravda wrote:What means Krakatoa?

Comrade Guardian of Pravda,

You are an expert in Truth Studies, so you surely know more than I but Krakatoa was confirmed to have lowered global temperatures naturally. This violates the Party line, so I hope you will find a way to truthify this inconvenient truth.

As I understand it from Party Officials who tell me what the truth is The External Temp of the surrounding terrain was of no consequence. It was the ambient temp on location and emanating from the Subterranean features that bring about a localized temp increase. These features also allow for the Lava lamp displays and provide neat holes for the impaling sticks.
I am told there is a Goreism at work and they do trade off Carbon emissions. I think they trade them for Government Motor Vehicles as sold by 'The One'.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:And Prava, thank you for your service to your--our--country.

Nothing enrages me more than people using liberties paid for by other people's blood to scorn the very people who paid the price.

Once in the middle of the night in a hostelry I woke and HBO was showing <i>Taking Chance</i>. I found it so moving that I could not finish watching it. Unlike the Hollywood propagandistic films. Pace Oscar Wilde: You have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at, well Oliver Stone.

I have watched it three times now. Still well up. It could have been VietNam.

Commissar Theocritus - you rucky I a torerant guy. Arr you American Progressives are just Commie Rite. You not furr-bodied Commies like DPRK or Peopre's Repubrik of China.

But since I a torerant and forgiving tyrant Dear Reader, I not send over one of my New & Improved Big Frash(tm).....for time being. Besides, I seem to be having a rittle troubre with getting my Tampon Dong barristic missires saterrite raunchers to work so maybe I send it over by DHR DHL instead. If your doorberr ring and you see a yerrow truck out front, don't forget to Duck & Cover(tm)!

Colonel 7.62 wrote:Comrade Commissar, I still twitch when I hear people casually talk about Midland... ack. The Permian Basin is not for someone who grew up on the Puget Sound!

I have been through that so many times I know it front to back. Give me a home where the dinosaurs roamed.

Red Square wrote:I think the color cube is the most meaningful "prog off" icon, although some may not gasp its meaning quickly. What does the collective think?

If accepted, it should be smaller, with the words placed on the side, so as to take less vertical scrolling space. It also needs a red cube for the "prog on" switch. I may have time to tend to it tomorrow, but if you want to take a shot, go ahead.

I'm sorry, I have not yet grasped it's meaning. Should I grasp a shovel and shuffle off to the farm?
I of course tow the Party Line so if Comrade Red Cube likes it, I like it.
If you make it smaller can it be enhanced? Will it always be small? Can it ever grow?
If we shoot at it will it shatter?

Comrade Snoogie Woogums wrote:I will leave it to our Glorious Party Leadership if a "PROG OFF" button and "PROG ON" button should be available to the sorry average masses such as meself.

I must admit I was rather happy that Red Square asked me, 'If I wanted to take a shot', at trying for an acceptable design for the Icons. Usually the Party doesn't ask if you want to be shot in the first place, they just go ahead and do it, so THAT courtesy was most welcomed.

My Humble Attempts at a Suitable Icon for Party Consideration, if our Glorious Leadership should feel so inclined to include for the masses.


I

I stand by with Shovel in Hand.

Comrade Snoogie Woogums

I like.

AbecedariusRex wrote:OH HOORAY! If Pravda says its true I always believe it!
<br>America descends into Marxism.

By Che I love Pravda. The headlines alone are worth a pile of beets:

"Russian bakers pose naked to promote bread and buns" - well who wouldn't want to see that?
"Bikini models risk their health wearing G-strings" - there goes the neighborhood
"World's most evil fish invades Britain" - what would be the second most evil fish? Are there other evil animals?
"16 interesting facts you did not know about kissing" - I am with gladness that Pravda tells me these facts I did not know in such well English
"Vegetarianism proves to be perversion of nature" - then again, I knew that.

Vegetarianism interferes with eating Meat. Take a Herbivore to lunch.

Dear Reader, let's talk. I need a Big Frash. I need one in a big way. I have a neighbor who really pisses me off, and he's far enough away that I think that I can survive. There is an arroyo just to the south of the northern impaling stakes. And I can let you have the nano Jimmy Carter rabbits to take back to North Korea to feed your adoring nation. Just watch out for the teeth.

And as far as Midland goes--I love the desert. I spent four years in Houston and it was a miserable swamp. Dallas the same. My favorite states, after Texas, are Utah and Arizona. Although I have to admit that not a lot of people get the desert. I was in Tucson and the weather service on the SatNav kept interrupting me to tell me that there was a wind alert, and it would do it every ten seconds. Wind in Arizona? No shit! I had them turn it off.

But the quality of the air, the visibility, the rocks. And you can get dry after a shower.

So while in whoseton in the land of the Tejas did you like make it to Mickey Gilleyland in Pasadena?
I had cause to be in and around some place called Fort Hood Texas. Occasionally I would sojourn out to the South west and proceed through the Basin. If one has an active imagination there is a perception that T Rex, the Woolly Mammoth and Bronto are just over the next knoll. It is Inhabited now by Gargantuan Rotating Windmills producing oodles and oodles of power for someone, when they're turning.

No, when I was in whoseton (I like that) I went to Rice, which meant that (1) I was a geek; (2) I didn't party; (3) I spent all my time studying, either course work or things I was interested in; (4) all my classmates were the same. I don't have a single friend from there now. Not one. When I got there I was surrounded by...people like me. I didn't party in high school; there were parties but it never occurred to me that I didn't go. I was studying electronics. Or languages. Or something very self-directed.

Such people do not party.

I do know where Fort Hood is.

In the heat of the day the desert is not that ensorceling; at sunrise and sunset it's wonderful. And at night.

Here's coming home from Midland one evening:
I really need to print that; would look great on the eggplant walls of the hall.

That is pretty.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:And I can let you have the nano Jimmy Carter rabbits to take back to North Korea to feed your adoring nation. Just watch out for the teeth.

Genossen Vlad and Dear Reader,

may I humbly offer German wabbits from ze land of ze formerly realexistierende Socialism? Zey are bigger zan ze nano Jimmy Carter wabbits, have no tees (since the Grosse vaterlaendische Krieg) and taste like Thuringian Bratwuerste.

Genosse Vlad,

{prog off}

Here I don't log on all weekend, and I miss all this. I'm glad you were not offended. I visit quoted website every so often, as they sometimes have news you don't find in the MSM. (E.g. that 90% of the Chrysler dealerships they are shutting down belong to Republican donors, including one in the top 2% for sales and one belonging to a Republican Representative.) I take it all with a grain of salt, as I know they are a bit, shall we say, slanted? Again, I just found their wording of that one sentence interesting.

I consider myself more of a conservative Libertarian than a Republican. However, I do have some reservations toward "gay marriage" but not because of the usual arguments, but because, been there (still am there), done that, didn't even get a t-shirt. Marriage is not for everyone, including myself, yet here I find myself in that place. I know that male gay relationships usually do not last long. How? I did a whole lot of reading during my late teen years on the subject, as I had "certain struggles" that did not fit in with the very conservative German Baptist church I attended. This said, though, I must say that the folks I confided in are NOT your typical holier-than-though screaming bible-thumpers, but were very loving and respectful, especially my pastor. Since this was in the early 90's the "ex-gay" ministries were all the rage (at least there), hence I read several books on the subject on trying to be healed. Of course, there were some folks who laid down the law when it came to the subject, and so those just did not need to know. Bottom line: the Christians who really get the message will not treat you inhumanely. I still consider myself one. The others are unfortunately misguided. Yes, I am married to a wonderful woman (13 years now), and we have two daughters, but I do not consider myself "cured" (but not gay either... I cannot identify with what these leftist moobats are portraying.) We will be separating shortly, but moreso because we just do not get along, and it's starting to affect the girls, which I cannot bear. Once it's over, I will not be returning to "blissful married life."

Anyway, I am glad you're here and I can understand why you got angry.

Back to the more recent posts, I have not been to the SW, but the Pacific NW has its own deserts, especially in eastern Oregon, where the northernmost parts of the Great Basin are. It's one of my favorite places on gaia. The solitude is very therapeutic.

{prog on}

Perhaps the only thing that Katha Pollitt ever said that was worth hearing or reading was, "If the gays want to get married, they can have my first one." Everyone gets a flash of wit. Still waiting for one from Michael Moore, though.

I am not married to the word marriage. I asked a (straight) friend Clark why offend people when the documents, at least in Texas, are there? Statutory durable powers of attorney, and you can will anyone your pension, I'm told, as long as your spouse is informed. Which is reasonable. Clark suggested that that might be too high a burden for some people of limited ability and considering some of the people that I knew in the early 80s, I think that he was right.

I have serious issues with the way the anti-Prop 8 campaign was being fought in California. A friend was there and told me it was being couched in the most moralistic of terms--like, "You're a Nazi if you aren't for Prop 8." Which was idiotic. That's highly offensive. Who has not been inflamed by moonbats "uttering platitudes in stained-glass attitudes" (W. S. Gilbert) over some endangered bug or bird? Incrementalism would have done without inflaming people.

I think people are getting the cart before the horse. Make it unexceptional for couples to be gay. Based on Demographics such couples will be rare, but ought not to be the object of bug-eyed staring. In 2007 I saw some commercials with gay couples--do Lesbians prefer Subarus?--but that has tapered off some. But I'm for integration because first it's fair and second it keeps people from feeling deracinated.

Cult leaders traditionally prey on people who don't have a strong sense of connection with their roots. All cult leaders don't have to look like Jim Jones; one could say that San Francisco's oddness started out as a cult-friendly place. And the biggest cult leader in the last 50 years is Barack Hussein Obama. Why have people who are isolated from their roots?

I learned this from my parents who, in the 80s, looked at the demographics of this small town; it was about 75% hispanic but the Mexicans were just starting to move con brio into the business-owning middle class. They made active attempts to recruit them into the Chamber of Commerce and into what was then the power system. Again, a very small town. But the idea was that the power should be shared, and also that there might be some wisdom from the very conservative idea of not always reinventing the wheel.

I'm talking about ordinary people, not people who jettison all the rules; these tend to be very creative people, very strong-minded, and who leave debris all around them.

And I'm conservative/libertarian with a lot of Randite in me too.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:I saw some commercials with gay couples--do Lesbians prefer Subarus?

Oh yes, at least in Portland and Eugene, the most equally progressive cities in all of the Northwest. Portland prides itself in being the city where every teenager can have a Sam Adams. (Sam Adams is the openly gay mayor here - during the election campaign he lied about having a fling with a possibly underage guy named Beau Breedlove (is that an alias??)when he was still just a commissioner.) There will be a recall campaign started as soon as it is legal to do so. Not because of this, but general lack of character. This one evening there was an accident on the news. The anchorman said that the mayor had been involved in a "fender bender" with two other cars in a supermarket parking lot. They showed footage of the cars involved. It was NOT a fender-bender. He has done some other antics with "other people's money." He could be a white copy of The One. Even among his personal "special interest group" he is not much appreciated any more as he is giving them a bad name.

I promise you that I'd cut his nuts off for that. When I see people like that and Bonnie Fwank I know how Clarence Thomas feels about Al Sharpton.

Non sequitur. (Or, Amen!) (Once again checking myself into gulag with shovel in hand for religious expression of throughtcrimes against The People and His Oliness.)

But be careful of recalls--remember that Governor Davis in California was recalled to give them the Governator--who wound up being even more progressive than Governor Davis, increasing state government size I believe 40%.

And I thought that Governor Richards in Texas, who lost to the dreaded Bushitler in 1994 was very progressive in increasing Texas' state government size by 25%.

She was very progressive. My mother commented, "Since that woman became governor I do not believe that every while male became incompetent."

Yah! I remember that clearly! He was supposed to clean up state government and made it worse instead. But I truly believe he has a valid excuse. How many Chetex Marxipads had he had to suffer through with his Kennedy house dragon?

She look painful. I bet she gets lost in a wrinkle in the sheets.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:No, when I was in whoseton (I like that) I went to Rice, which meant that (1) I was a geek; (2) I didn't party; (3) I spent all my time studying, either course work or things I was interested in; (4) all my classmates were the same. I don't have a single friend from there now. Not one. When I got there I was surrounded by...people like me. I didn't party in high school; there were parties but it never occurred to me that I didn't go. I was studying electronics. Or languages. Or something very self-directed.

Such people do not party.

I do know where Fort Hood is.

In the heat of the day the desert is not that ensorceling; at sunrise and sunset it's wonderful. And at night.

Here's coming home from Midland one evening:

I really need to print that; would look great on the eggplant walls of the hall.

Nice. I have seen Midland like that many times. And smelled it.

Guardian of Pravda wrote:As I understand it from Party Officials who tell me what the truth is The External Temp of the surrounding terrain was of no consequence. It was the ambient temp on location and emanating from the Subterranean features that bring about a localized temp increase. These features also allow for the Lava lamp displays and provide neat holes for the impaling sticks.
I am told there is a Goreism at work and they do trade off Carbon emissions. I think they trade them for Government Motor Vehicles as sold by 'The One'.

Comrade Guardian of the Pravda,

I look forward to receiving my fair share of People's Carbon Points (PCP™) just so I'll be prepared, as prepared as James Brown, for the next climate emergency.

When I was a child my family took me fossil hunting. We'd occasionally find bits of coral, "Archimedes' screws," and other things, but mostly we found fossils of capitalism, like empty beer cans, scraps of magazines and "news"papers, or shell casings. After moving north, we had better luck finding geodes, which I came to prefer.

The thought just hit me that the Godfather of Soul was truly prescient: "This is The Man's World" was a great patriotic song.

Comrade_Tovarich wrote:

Guardian of Pravda wrote:As I understand it from Party Officials who tell me what the truth is The External Temp of the surrounding terrain was of no consequence. It was the ambient temp on location and emanating from the Subterranean features that bring about a localized temp increase. These features also allow for the Lava lamp displays and provide neat holes for the impaling sticks.
I am told there is a Goreism at work and they do trade off Carbon emissions. I think they trade them for Government Motor Vehicles as sold by 'The One'.

Comrade Guardian of the Pravda,

I look forward to receiving my fair share of People's Carbon Points (PCP™) just so I'll be prepared, as prepared as James Brown, for the next climate emergency.

When I was a child my family took me fossil hunting. We'd occasionally find bits of coral, "Archimedes' screws," and other things, but mostly we found fossils of capitalism, like empty beer cans, scraps of magazines and "news"papers, or shell casings. After moving north, we had better luck finding geodes, which I came to prefer.

The thought just hit me that the Godfather of Soul was truly prescient: "This is The Man's World" was a great patriotic song.

But of course your FAIR SHARE, as prorated by the Party leadership based on standing within the Party. Includes number of shovels assigned and used as well as quantity of beets picked during hottest part of day. This when added up has a Value Added Tax subtracted leaving a minus and that is then added to your shoe size and your height? (Taller People breathe more) You can get extra credit for driving (GM) Government Motor Vehicle fueled by alternative energy, Beet Juice.
I have also found these same fossils, but in my part of Party Country we reload the casings and use the paper to start bonfires and grills for cookouts. Cans are recycled and sold so we can purchase more beer to drink at Bonfire or Grill while cooking delicious Beets which lure in fauna that we then shoot with the reloaded casings. (We are big into recycling)

Pravda! Are you now fueling vehicles with fermented beet juice? This is treasonous! All fermented beet juice is for the consumption of the party members. And anyway, as a party member in high standing, more equal than others, you are permitted to use normal gasoline. Just don't tell people. Or don't tell people who have to walk.

My body thrills with anticipation, my breath ragged, at the thought of how the UAW will run Government Motors in the future. The UAW has forced GM to move the production of 160,000 cars from China to America to be made by union members. Such a progressive idea--homeopathy. Take as medicine what made you sick.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Pravda! Are you now fueling vehicles with fermented beet juice? This is treasonous! All fermented beet juice is for the consumption of the party members. And anyway, as a party member in high standing, more equal than others, you are permitted to use normal gasoline. Just don't tell people. Or don't tell people who have to walk.

My body thrills with anticipation, my breath ragged, at the thought of how the UAW will run Government Motors in the future. The UAW has forced GM to move the production of 160,000 cars from China to America to be made by union members. Such a progressive idea--homeopathy. Take as medicine what made you sick.

Commissar, I'm sure that20th Century Motor Works GM will do just fine...

Indeed. I have a meeting with Ivy Starnes in a moment. Be back in a jiffy. Jiffi-Lobo.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Pravda! Are you now fueling vehicles with fermented beet juice? This is treasonous! All fermented beet juice is for the consumption of the party members. And anyway, as a party member in high standing, more equal than others, you are permitted to use normal gasoline. Just don't tell people. Or don't tell people who have to walk.

My body thrills with anticipation, my breath ragged, at the thought of how the UAW will run Government Motors in the future. The UAW has forced GM to move the production of 160,000 cars from China to America to be made by union members. Such a progressive idea--homeopathy. Take as medicine what made you sick.

What run? No Tires. I use it for storage....of Beet Juice. Need a loooong Straw though.

Why not come out here to West Texas when you can augment your fermented beet juice with peyote? It really helps when you're rationalizing all those nice Marxist dreams, you know. The proletariat, class struggle, all that, yadayadayada. It all goes down well with peyote and fermented beet juice.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Why not come out here to West Texas when you can augment your fermented beet juice with peyote? It really helps when you're rationalizing all those nice Marxist dreams, you know. The proletariat, class struggle, all that, yadayadayada. It all goes down well with peyote and fermented beet juice.

Hmmm. The Erie never used that stuff. Were not even on the 'Allowed List' for Religious Beliefs.
We got 'high on life and Indian Beer. (We still know how to brew it.)[Family Secret]
Fermented Beet Juice was on the list.
I went to a Akokisa Tribal conference once where that stuff was passed around in one of the Hogans. Talk about crowded conditions. Nothing like whiffing pey and listening to a bunch of Louisiansa Indians talk Cajun while the Sabine River flowed sedately by.
Makes you wanna holler Hidey Ho.

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Pompous Asses (Three Different Ones) part 1

Me Grand Pappy, he took ‘is knocks from the Royal Irish Constabulary an' fed up wit' that he took to the sea and landed in dis cursed place. ‘Fore he passed from the smokes he imparted to me a hatred of all things English. I twas sittin in the Black Harp in Southie and after tossin' a few coins into the basket for the cause I got to discussin' Marxist Dialectic wit' some of the boys from U Mass. ‘Twas then I realized I wasn't doin' a wit to advance the cause of Global Socialism or fight the Anglo-American Imperialist conspiracy. So I packed me bags and headed to Libya. Ah…sun and sand. Now, of course I look like a wrinkled lobster, but oh well. I'm trained in the art of subterfuge! ‘Twas in the heat and blaze of the desert that I came to see how much Islam and me Catechism had in common. ‘Specially when united against our Capitalist foe and principle impediment to Egalitarian Utopia! ‘twas then Comrade Mackeral Snapper be born!

Comrade Mackeral Snapper, welcome aboard, perhaps you know the good Comrade Ted Kennedy?

Guardian of Pravda wrote:I have also found these same fossils, but in my part of Party Country we reload the casings and use the paper to start bonfires and grills for cookouts. Cans are recycled and sold so we can purchase more beer to drink at Bonfire or Grill while cooking delicious Beets which lure in fauna that we then shoot with the reloaded casings. (We are big into recycling)

Comrade Guardian of the Pravda,

From my memory, most of the casings were for shotguns, which we did not own, or .22s, which were not worth it. However, the occasional worthwhile casing cache would get collected. But most people with worthwhile casings seem not to leave them behind.

And good luck finding casings for Arisaka rifles.

I am familiar to an exceptional degree with these other forms of recycling you mention.

Colonel 7.62 wrote:Comrade Mackeral Snapper, welcome aboard, perhaps you know the good Comrade Ted Kennedy?

Ah yes, the esteemed Senyah Senatah. What a wonderful man he is, a stalwart champion of the working man and a fearless advocate for women's rights. Mary, Mothah uh Jeesus, bless him: he's a good man. My Ma, god rest her soul, had a portrait of his brothah Jack up on the wall right next to slightly smaller portrait of the Pope, that was until 1980, the year, alas, the dream died. Of course the esteemed Senator should not be confused with the same named son of a rum-runner, drunken, foul-mouthed harp that left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in the tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island. That man is a scoundrel. The two are NEVER to be confused. Aye, life in the People's Democratik Republik of Massachoosetts under our enlightened one party system—how much like it is here in my adopted People's Republik of Caleeefonia under its enlightened one party system—both near veritable worker's utopias. Human nature—perfectible through legislation and judicial activism, what could go wrong?

Velcome Komrade Mackeral Snapper from ze Soviet of Washington, vhere ve aim to be as ekvally progressive as the PR of Kalifornia. However, you betrayed your progressive heritage by having one Ronald Reagan as Premier! Washington can claim zat it's been on ze path to Communism since 1937 g. To your kredit, you haf surpassed our progress by far, so much zat you are sending your proles north to help your fellow komrades in the klass struggle. Please bring shovels. Ours are made of biodegradable douglas fir and cedar planks and alas we have to resort to digging by hand once zey vear to a nub.

Viss broserly kiss (such as planted by vassal Honecker on Premier Breshnev)

Genosse Pieck

I envy you people living in states which are People's Republics. Here in Texas you have to live in Austin to live in a People's Republic. Amarillo didn't even vote for FDR. I ask you. How unenlightened is <i>that</i>? And Midland? Even the minorities vote Republican. They should of course be shot.

Yes, yes, Texas has alvays been a thorn in the sides of The People. Too much individuality. Zis is not good for progress. First zey srew of ze schackles of Mexiko, zen zey joined ze Konfederacy... vhat next?

I vould like to humbly submit a proposal to turn Texas into a giant beet gulag, just like Stalin vanted to turn Tchermany into giant vheat-field. Zis vill teach zem about individuality. First order of business is to get rid of ze vhite bar in the flag (too racist), ze blue field (too bourgeois), and ze star can eizer be left but turned yellow, or turned into hammer and sickle. Or perhaps shovel and horseshoe.

Comrade_Tovarich wrote:

Guardian of Pravda wrote:I have also found these same fossils, but in my part of Party Country we reload the casings and use the paper to start bonfires and grills for cookouts. Cans are recycled and sold so we can purchase more beer to drink at Bonfire or Grill while cooking delicious Beets which lure in fauna that we then shoot with the reloaded casings. (We are big into recycling)

Comrade Guardian of the Pravda,

From my memory, most of the casings were for shotguns, which we did not own, or .22s, which were not worth it. However, the occasional worthwhile casing cache would get collected. But most people with worthwhile casings seem not to leave them behind.

And good luck finding casings for Arisaka rifles.

I am familiar to an exceptional degree with these other forms of recycling you mention.

Shotgun Shell casings make excellent Cherry bombs and make very loud explosive noises inside a Can turned upside down.

As to recycling 101, when's the pit party?

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Komrades! My indoctrination, thanks to your kind welcome, is advancing smoothly! In celebration of the establishment of a new revolutionary faction, let me present my new and improved Kaleefornia flag. As you can see, the crude, speciesist representation of our beloved, endangered black bear has been replaced by a de-fanged and unthreatening, gender non-specific, anthropomorph thereby unburdening our animal friends of our insistence they share our values. The grotesque upright pentagram (no doubt a reference to some post Mexican American war freemasonic conspiracy) has been politically corrected by skewing it conspicuously to the left. Its color is now a representation of our solidarity with our brethren in the agrarian vanguard. I retained the red bar on the lower portion of the flag to represent the spilled blood of the millions of indigenous Miwoks whose vast and advanced civilization was crushed beneath the boot of the White Male Christian Heterosexual invader, the crimes of whom we may now thankfully look to The One to absolve us of (praise him). My flag now flies free, rippling and dancing with socialist vigor from the base of a windmill in the renewable energy farms of the Altamont! Ignore the dead birds. Sacrifices must be made.

“One death is a tragedy, a million is just statistics.”

Cook the birds, they make a great stew.

Yes, zey vould make a feast after a hard day of digging for beets.

Komrade Mackeral - viz great pleasure I noticed zat you haf finally realized goal of total inklusion, even of North Kalifornians. Ze hemp leaves - are zey for ze eight norzern oblasts?

Vill you be opening gulags in Modoc Oblast? After all, norzern Kalifornians haf a penchant for being of ze reactionary and libertarian kind. May I remind you of ze civil unrest caused by ze kreation of ze State of Jefferson??

But perhaps ample supplies of fermented beets and dried hemp vill appease zem. Ozervise ve vill haf to send in The Che-rminator.

Welcome to the glorious collective, comrade mackeral snapper. Proceed to the people's tool shed to receive your state-approved shovel and sit for the orientation lecture.

Genosse Pieck wrote:Yes, zey vould make a feast after a hard day of digging for beets.

Komrade Mackeral - viz great pleasure I noticed zat you haf finally realized goal of total inklusion, even of North Kalifornians. Ze hemp leaves - are zey for ze eight norzern oblasts?

Vill you be opening gulags in Modoc Oblast? After all, norzern Kalifornians haf a penchant for being of ze reactionary and libertarian kind. May I remind you of ze civil unrest caused by ze kreation of ze State of Jefferson??

But perhaps ample supplies of fermented beets and dried hemp vill appease zem. Ozervise ve vill haf to send in The Che-rminator.

Fortunately, I reside in the Central Valley, Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District, formerly known as Stockton, CA. Of course the name of an Imperialist Mexican American War criminal is not appropriate for this worker's paradise and must be permanently changed. There are many beautiful sights to see here: consider the world class Cesar Chavez Library next to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, then travel up Wilson Way to Cesar Chavez High School and then down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to Cesar Chavez Middle School. Throughout the glorious Cultural Revolution much of Stockton's grotesque Neo-Romantic architecture was razed to make way for more utilitarian structures. Comrade Ceauşescu would be most proud. There are many lies being told about Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District, particularly from Forbes, a propaganda rag of the overclass. Recently this misguided collection of reactionary untruths labeled Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District the most miserable city in Amerika ostensibly for its 13% unemployment, its disproportionately high violent crime and its being at the center of the sub-prime mortgage collapse. Ha! Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District is a classless, multi-cultural, bi-lingual, socialist utopia! There have been lies told of our valley being overrun by illiterate hordes of migrants sapping our world class educational and health care systems! I will have you know nearly 70% of our students graduate high school and at least 60% of these are functionally literate—nearly 60%. Prodigious indeed! Wait times at our emergency rooms are down to nearly 8 hours. They can't say that in up in Humboldt! There have been lies that high taxation is driving Kulaks to flee our borders! Who would be so selfish as to balk at paying one's fair share! Believe me! The contra-revolutionaries, those hiding in our midst and those hiding in Shasta, shall be ferreted out! And borrowing a page from Hassan Ibn Sabbah, yes, prodigious amounts of hemp help keep the masses compliant.
Viva la Revolution

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

comrade mackeral snapper wrote:
We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Comrade Snapper, you are correct. Ideas and guns are bad. Fortunately The Party(TM) has The Solution(TM). Forget thinking, just follow the Party Approved Talking Points(TM) and you'll be fine. A quick Jiffi-Lobo(TM) will cure any remaining thoughts. Who needs frontal lobes anyway? And for the illusion of being armed... I give you The People's Rifle(TM) In it's more improved form it comes with a concrete filled bore, and a squeegee attachement for the bayonet lug. That way you can stand on street corners and wash windows for The Revolution(TM). Most glorious is it not? Now get those lobes removed and start washing windows comrade! Or dig beets. Or dig beets/wash windows. Whatever The Party(TM) has planned for you. In the event of two or more party officials trying to give you different jobs, go with the one who has the most seniority and biggest goons. One can never get in trouble for Following Orders(Pat. Apl'd For) unless of course the people giving orders are fighting on the spot and one of them summarily redistributes your life force as a punishment. But that is ok too. You can still cast a necro vote for Obama.

comrade mackeral snapper wrote:Throughout the glorious Cultural Revolution much of Stockton's grotesque Neo-Romantic architecture was razed to make way for more utilitarian structures. Comrade Ceauşescu would be most proud.

Yes, it vill be a glorious day of victory for Ze People vhen all akkomodations vill be Cubist! Here is a pikture of ze most progressive of all cities, Cesar Chavez City Portland (CCCP) in the Soviet of Oregon. If only ve kould spare enough red beet juice to paint zem red!

comrade mackeral snapper wrote:

Genosse Pieck wrote:Yes, zey vould make a feast after a hard day of digging for beets.

Komrade Mackeral - viz great pleasure I noticed zat you haf finally realized goal of total inklusion, even of North Kalifornians. Ze hemp leaves - are zey for ze eight norzern oblasts?

Vill you be opening gulags in Modoc Oblast? After all, norzern Kalifornians haf a penchant for being of ze reactionary and libertarian kind. May I remind you of ze civil unrest caused by ze kreation of ze State of Jefferson??

But perhaps ample supplies of fermented beets and dried hemp vill appease zem. Ozervise ve vill haf to send in The Che-rminator.

Fortunately, I reside in the Central Valley, Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District, formerly known as Stockton, CA. Of course the name of an Imperialist Mexican American War criminal is not appropriate for this worker's paradise and must be permanently changed. There are many beautiful sights to see here: consider the world class Cesar Chavez Library next to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, then travel up Wilson Way to Cesar Chavez High School and then down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. to Cesar Chavez Middle School. Throughout the glorious Cultural Revolution much of Stockton's grotesque Neo-Romantic architecture was razed to make way for more utilitarian structures. Comrade Ceauşescu would be most proud. There are many lies being told about Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District, particularly from Forbes, a propaganda rag of the overclass. Recently this misguided collection of reactionary untruths labeled Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District the most miserable city in Amerika ostensibly for its 13% unemployment, its disproportionately high violent crime and its being at the center of the sub-prime mortgage collapse. Ha! Oblast Delta, Central Administrative District is a classless, multi-cultural, bi-lingual, socialist utopia! There have been lies told of our valley being overrun by illiterate hordes of migrants sapping our world class educational and health care systems! I will have you know nearly 70% of our students graduate high school and at least 60% of these are functionally literate—nearly 60%. Prodigious indeed! Wait times at our emergency rooms are down to nearly 8 hours. They can't say that in up in Humboldt! There have been lies that high taxation is driving Kulaks to flee our borders! Who would be so selfish as to balk at paying one's fair share! Believe me! The contra-revolutionaries, those hiding in our midst and those hiding in Shasta, shall be ferreted out! And borrowing a page from Hassan Ibn Sabbah, yes, prodigious amounts of hemp help keep the masses compliant.
Viva la Revolution

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

How does this sell in Rio Linda?

Genosse Pieck wrote:

comrade mackeral snapper wrote:Throughout the glorious Cultural Revolution much of Stockton's grotesque Neo-Romantic architecture was razed to make way for more utilitarian structures. Comrade Ceauşescu would be most proud.

Yes, it vill be a glorious day of victory for Ze People vhen all akkomodations vill be Cubist! Here is a pikture of ze most progressive of all cities, Cesar Chavez City Portland (CCCP) in the Soviet of Oregon. If only ve kould spare enough red beet juice to paint zem red!

Multnomah.

How does this sell in Rio Linda?

Oblast Alpha Central Administrative District, formerly known (and sometimes still referred to by the 20th Street reactionary bourgeois) as Sacramento, is only a short march south of Rio Linda. The operative word in your query is ‘sell'. Sell? We shall sell them nothing. I'm concerned by your odd choice of words, comrade. We will mete out as we see fit and they will take what we give them!

Considering it is the home of Left Wing Socially Progressive Radicals members of the Party I am surprised you find fault with the word sell. Surely any member in good standing knows this of the Rio Lindians. All the nutcases Socially Progressive members of the Party reside there behind their 'up on blocks' cars and so forth.They possibly exceed Eugene and Portland Oregon for being ridiculous in their advocacy of Liberalism stead fast in their adherence to Party progress and Good. Are you attempting to infiltrate? All good Party members are aware of this.

Comrade Guardian -

with all due respect, but no city exceeds the adherence to Party progress as Cesar Chavez City (Portland), equally, of course. Otherwise the news of Rio Lindo would have reached here. Or perhaps Pravda was censored to ensure we do not feel inferior to Rio Lindo?

I am truly humbled that you liked my idea and added it to the collective! I must say, your improvements on my original design is awe inspiring, worthy of Da Vinci. The subtle use of shadowing to express Socialist Unity gave me a tingle in my leg. A tingle I only thought was possible when hearing Obama give a speech. I will use my shovel from now on with a renewed and steadfast vigor!


Red Square,

I honestly wanted to thank you for liking my idea and using it on the site. All shameless groveling aside. I really do appreciate being able to contribute to the site. The Cube is for me at least, a true island of Sanity and a place of respite from the real left-wing moonbats who have no real clue that 'Life isn't fair' and never will be and what Service to ones country and Freedom really means.

I am a Navy Veteran who served twenty years and recently retired. My last five years of my career were spent stationed in Japan. After I left active duty I stayed in Japan and have been working and living here ever since.

The Japanese truly like Americans, even those of us who were in the military. There are two distinct Ex-Pat communities over here. Those like myself who were or are affiliated with the American Military presence here and our strategic partnership with the Japanese.

And the 'English Teachers', that consists mainly of young idealistic moonbats fresh from college who come here and teach english to the Japanese. And who actually think when they first get here that the Japanese are some poor trodden victims of America's imperial aggression and wish to 'make up for it' somehow. Typical Liberal moonbat thinking.

I comment regulary on a newsite over here called Japan Times. It consists of all the Japanese news headlines in English. The Ex-pat community then discusses them and the moonbats come out in droves (so do we).

I am grateful for living here and I am grateful to those Conservatives back in the States that are fighting the good fight with the Left-wing moonbats back home. I'll keep the battle up over here in Japan as I know you all do in the States. And after I need a break from their tired stale arguments that Uncle Sugar is the answer not the problem in the first place, I'll visit 'The Cube' for a sanity check.

Thank You Red Square.

You're welcome, Snoogie Woogums. Comrade_Tovarich also lives in Japan. Perhaps you can exchange messages or even get together someday and stage a non-competition of solving the red cube.
So far the People's Cube contains posts made by people living in Japan, Korea, Australia, Canada, Israel, Britain, Germany, France, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Poland, Sweden and perhaps other countries they just don't mention. Some of them are American expats, but mostly they are natives who have a good command of English. Some post more frequently than others. But they all read the Cube. I don't even mention the trolls from Muslim countries who post occasionally on Islam-related threads.

The US-based members live in almost every state from sea to shining sea. Many are US-born Americans, but some are right-thinking immigrants from Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Ukraine. GoP is a Native American Indian.

Most of us are educated and have various degrees. But even those without college education can still run circles around a prog with a degree. We have students and professors, workers and business owners, ex-hippies and ex-military. Some are professional writers, others are simply intelligent and witty people who can write well.

Together, we disprove every stereotype the progs have about the right-wingers. We are a proof that the grass roots of individualism, capitalism, and freedom are alive and well, both in America and around the world.

Komissar Blogunov wrote:Vice President Joseph "Fightin' Joe" Biden spoke next. "Let me at 'em!" the former senator growled. "I know where these people work. After our helicopter was forced down in Afghanistan, I held these thugs off for a week in bitter hand-to-hand fighting. You'd better mark my words: the only language these Neanderthals understand is brute force, and they're messing with the wrong man. Sure everybody thinks we're a bunch of imbeciles up here, and that may be true, but let me tell you, they've got another thing coming.

What?? Has the vice president's teleprompter been snatched as well?? The correct saying is "they've got another THINK coming."

This will not stand I say!


Ah, remember the Clinton years?? How many times did we see the former Felon in Chief get on tv, with his lips quivering in righteous rage, promising that those responsible for one or another "man made disaster" would be brought to justice? Yet for all the many outrages that happened on his watch, all they can point to is the conviction of the blink shiek for the first bombing of the WTC. At least under Bush, while we may not have caught Bin Laden himself, there have sure been a lot of people who were indeed brought in to see justice.

Genosse Pieck wrote:Comrade Guardian -

with all due respect, but no city exceeds the adherence to Party progress as Cesar Chavez City (Portland), equally, of course. Otherwise the news of Rio Lindo would have reached here. Or perhaps Pravda was censored to ensure we do not feel inferior to Rio Lindo?

Pravda is what the Party says it is. Izvestia is what the Party provides for Pravda.
I have been to all three. I was held captive in the Eugene collective for over a year. (Beautiful downtown Lane County with Springfield and Junction City.) Rio Linda wins.

Guardian of Pravda wrote:Pravda is what the Party says it is. Izvestia is what the Party provides for Pravda.

This has been mentioned before, but the temporarily inquiring minds of the new members still need to know.

These were two major Soviet newspapers. Pravda means The Truth and Izvestia means The News. Some right-wing thoughtcriminals used to have a running joke that there was no truth in The News and no news in The Truth. All of these people have been caught and sentenced to various terms of self-criticism and re-education.

How could they say such a thing? The news is truth and the truth is news! Unless, of course, its the detestable Fox news, in which case it is simply LIESLIESLIES!!!! This is precisely why blogs (unless monitored by the party) cannot be trusted for anything! If people have a chance to think for themselves, they will distort the obvious facts. We know these facts are facts because the party tells us, and the party is always right, and we know the party is right because they say that they are. They have evidence, of course, but if anyone were to investigate this evidence, that would suggest that they doubt the party, and that is a no-no. I call this phenomenon squareular reasoning (or, perhaps, cubular).

Guardian of Pravda wrote: Pravda is what the Party says it is. Izvestia is what the Party provides for Pravda.
I have been to all three. I was held captive in the Eugene collective for over a year. (Beautiful downtown Lane County with Springfield and Junction City.) Rio Linda wins.

I am speechless. I will have to make pilgrimage to Rio Linda. What makes it more equal than other cities? Does... not... compute...

Also, did the central committee of Rio Linda check with Che on the spelling of their city name? Rio is male, Linda female. I'm confused!!!

Furthermore, my German accent has disappeared thanks to re-education classes at Portland Collective College. I apologize if I sounded too much like State Council President Schwarzenegger. I understand that this is completely against all progressive principles of equality and inclusion, and reeks of imperialist mantra of "live in America? Speak English!", thus I have taken on self-correcting guilt measures and double shifts in digging for beets and rocks. The latter for our suffering brothers in Palestine to make rocket launchers from. Off to the Jiffi-Lobo now.

Genosse Pieck wrote:

Guardian of Pravda wrote: Pravda is what the Party says it is. Izvestia is what the Party provides for Pravda.
I have been to all three. I was held captive in the Eugene collective for over a year. (Beautiful downtown Lane County with Springfield and Junction City.) Rio Linda wins.

I am speechless. I will have to make pilgrimage to Rio Linda. What makes it more equal than other cities? Does... not... compute...

Also, did the central committee of Rio Linda check with Che on the spelling of their city name? Rio is male, Linda female. I'm confused!!!

Furthermore, my German accent has disappeared thanks to re-education classes at Portland Collective College. I apologize if I sounded too much like State Council President Schwarzenegger. I understand that this is completely against all progressive principles of equality and inclusion, and reeks of imperialist mantra of "live in America? Speak English!", thus I have taken on self-correcting guilt measures and double shifts in digging for beets and rocks. The latter for our suffering brothers in Palestine to make rocket launchers from. Off to the Jiffi-Lobo now.

Also, did the central committee of Rio Linda check with Che on thespelling of their city name? Rio is male, Linda female. I'm confused!!!

So are they. Normal State for them is State of Confusion. (Not to be confused with Confucius)
They called it Rio Linda because they could.
Originally known as Ranch Del Paso. Built on a Land Grant from Mehico. Also called Dry Creek Station. Mostly settled by Scandinavians and Germans.
Good Party members all.
Cherman accents come and go viz ze wind.
Onley the Party is forever.
5.5 square miles of Progressive thinking.
Stop at Red Squareonics for your Beets. (Drive thru however must be party car pulled by mule or horse)
Bring shovel.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:I envy you people living in states which are People's Republics. Here in Texas you have to live in Austin to live in a People's Republic. Amarillo didn't even vote for FDR. I ask you. How unenlightened is <i>that</i>? And Midland? Even the minorities vote Republican. They should of course be shot.

Comrade Commissar, this comrade humbly begs to differ, Austin (and most of the other big cities) is a People's soviet; San Antonio Santa Ana and El Paso are the most equal, having the greatest number of minorities, followed by Houston Little Honduras and Dallas-Fort Worth Papua-New Guinea. This comrade's own small collective is striving toward the day when we shall become a full-sized soviet, full of minorities, but in equal proportions dark, medium, and light roast. (Certainly we already have the union-sponsored voting pattern.) Most of Texas is spread out, much like Siberia, but without the ice-numbing winters (unless you're in Amarillo), and plenty of big mosquitos every sweltering summer, so big you swat them with a shovel! It is only way to make sure they are dead.And with every Rethuglican/Global-Warming-inspired hurricane that comes ashore, our collective is made equal to best of Cuba's sugar cane prison farms with zero-electricity comsumption and water rationing!
Вся власть советам!

Stop at Red Squareonics for your Beets. (Drive thru however must be party car pulled by mule or horse)
Bring shovel.

Awww, I just whipped up a fresh batch of 76 octane V(odka)85 biofuel for my two-cylinder, two stroke Trabant... the two stroke oil is derived from waste vegetable oil, of course. However, in a spirit of equality of all creation, err, evolution, the mules are in the back seat for the ride.

Comrade Meatshield, mosquitoes make great addition to beet slop. It is inexpensive protein! The proletaritate is made of muscle and bone, while the equally poor of muscle and blood. At least either one know from birth to grab shovel and walk to the mine. No need for re-education.

Thank you for doing your part in making Tehas the collective it inevitably needs to be. However, I denounce you the mis-use of shovels for anything but digging for beets and rocks. These are gubment issued shovels! Your comrades are starving because they cannot get their beet rations! I believe you are in need of a jiffy-lobo.

I do like the Collective Restaurant the Tall Texan.

Thank you for the reminder, Comrade Genosse, it has been many years since this comrade's last visit to government offices for tune-up. It was there that this one was assigned to the Worker's Collective General Store #158 of the Red Bulls-Eye, where he has toiled endlessly for the last five years, thru rain and shine and dark, to make sure his fellow comrades have the necessary dry goods for apartment and dacha.This is what this comrade refers when he speaks of our collective growing into a full-sized soviet; when we reach that goal (our next Five-Year Plan), our Worker's General Store will be upgraded to a Worker's General Store and Grocery of the Red Bulls-Eye.

Walmartski has Governement Grant and Guarantee on that. Good till next wave of illegalsImmigration surge.

Don't know if this was already posted, but if it was, here it is again!

TOTUS Blog

comrade mackeral snapper wrote:Sacrifices must be made.

“One death is a tragedy, a million is just statistics.”

For public relations purposes only, the new mantra is "statistics must be made."

Marshal Pupovich wrote: "statistics must be made."

. . .for our media's news, that or the current truth of the day.

Comrades, you are all brilliant! Let The Party no longer be guilty and anguish about the difficulties of a single member, but let it put the miseries into numbers for an easier disconnect and thus blamelessness for any situation!

Case in point: the employment rate in Clark oblast is a healthy 86%!

(After Che takes care of the refuseniks, we end up haveing 100% employment! Socialist Paradise in our times, comrades!)

Do you see how the numbers help us distance ourselves from people like Joe the Panhandler? (Where is his business license, anyway??) Or Meth-Hilda, the single mother of 5 running a pharmaceutical business from her home? (Does she have hazmat permits?)

What would you rather have on monthly report to Central Committee? 100% employment or sob-stories about our proles?

Now, keep in mind though that the use of statistics can only apply to the proletariate! When it comes to kapitalist pigs, numbers do not help. What sounds better? "99% of business are ethical and treat their workers well," or "Nike makes The Children slave away in sweat shops all in the name of Das Kapital!"

What is the problem Comrades with guilt? Why, it is guilt that leads a child to turn in his parents for ThoughtCrime™, that feeling that you haven't done enough that makes one stay over 5 minutes before leaving for a holiday to denounce a comrade and start an investigation into the local collective. Even my Uncle Iosef had feelings of guilt. He fretted whether he had gone far enough in reclaiming the farm lands from the kulaks, he felt bad that he forgot to grant Comrade Ramón Mercader frequent flyer miles or even replace that ice pick he left down in Mexico after...well, no need going there now is there? My uncle Iosef was even known to feel a bit of remorse for that time in Yalta when he played a little practical joke on the War Mongering FDR. You probably never read in the history books how Uncle Iosef spread some congealed goat lard on FDR's wheelchair. What a laugh he got when FDR went to move his wheelchair and stuck his hand into that! Yet I know he felt bad about that, as it just wasn't like Uncle Iosef to wish to see people treated badly you know?

If a Teleprompter Falls in the White House Does It Make a Sound?

ABC News' Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper wrote:Midway through his speech on urban and metropolitan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building this afternoon, one of his two small glass prompters came crashing down, hitting the wood floor and crashing in many pieces. It made quite a ruckus.

“Oh, goodness,” a startled President Obama said. “Sorry about that, guys.”

He then proceeded on with his remarks, “To pull our economy back from the brink, including the largest and most sweeping economic recovery plan in our nation's history…”

For the rest of the speech the president relied on the one remaining teleprompter, to his right, and notes on his podium to finish his speech.

Shards of glass remained near the president's feet for the duration of his speech.

The President's fandom for his nearly omnipresent prompter has become something of a joke, even to him. In May at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner the President poked fun at himself, declaring that he wanted to “speak from the heart” and “off the cuff.”

Two large teleprompters then rose, with a big smile from the President, and laughs from the White House press corps.

Prompter problems also recently plagued Vice President Joe Biden as well. During a commencement address in May to graduates of the Air Force Academy, a gust of wind knocked over his teleprompter.

The VP took the opportunity to crack a joke at his boss's expense.

“What am I going to tell the president when I tell him his teleprompter is broken?” Biden joked, “What will he do then?”

Of course, television reporters and anchors never become over-reliant on teleprompters. Never happens. Nope. Never.

For the rest of the speech the president relied on the one remaining teleprompter, to his right, and notes on his podium to finish his speech.

Don't worry, comrades: remember, his right is our left.

I guess the other teleprompter fell because it was leaning to the left too much.

In fact, if I have time, I'll do a picture of Barack with two small teleprompters on his shoulders, one on each. One will have little white wings, and the other one will have little red horns and a tail.

I have it on very good authority that the TOTUS to the left choked up and fainted after the words started scrolling. Only the one on the right could maintain it' demeanor. Yes I know, grab a shovel.

comrade mackeral snapper wrote: Komrades! My indoctrination, thanks to your kind welcome, is advancing smoothly!

Welcome to the CurrentTruth™ Collective Comrade Mackeral Snapper. I am glad to see that you feel things are going smoothly so far. However, I hesitate to mention this, but there seems to be one snag. I have yet to receive your PeopleForm 69666 which is to be filled out in triplicate using People approved #2 pencil, and red ink pen, and the requisite Filing and Application Fee. This is a requirement you know, well, at least the fee is required. The form itself can be ignored provided you pay an extra 10% late filing fee. Please send this OPM (Other Peoples Money in case you have not learned yet) directly to my office, and I will make sure it is moved to the appropriate department. Please, no large or sequenced number bills.

Well, it happened. Remember, you saw it here first.

There's a ransom demand for the TOTUS?