Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? The Australian Herald Sun presents it as the Right Brain vs Left Brain test, providing a list of the corresponding right/left brain functions. If you see the movement as clockwise, you allegedly use more of the right side and vice versa, though coming from a place where even water flushes in reverse, this can mean quite the opposite. We, however, see this optical illusion as an unexpectedly simple way to describe the complex mechanism of adding subjective spin to objective reality. It also sheds light on the darker sides of human condition and the roots of human conflicts.

Look at the spinning lady long enough and she will change direction. Ask someone near you to give it a look-see. Chances are your partner will see the Dancer turning clockwise while you - in your head only - will see the exact opposite. A few seconds later one of you will claim she has changed direction while the other will claim otherwise. Start arguing. Accuse your partner of lying. See if he or she will in turn accuse you of mental retardation. This is where you can denounce your partner as an unrepentant Trotskyite and report him or her to authorities for blatant historical revisionism, subsequently moving into your former comrade's cubicle, apartment, or dacha.

The fun part is that both of you will be fighting over something that neither of you can see - each other's individual mental perception amplified by strictly personal compensatory mechanisms that enable you to interpret the objectively linear movement as subjectively circular.

The dancing woman - let's call her Lady Objective Reality - dispassionately continues to do the same moves over and over, while our subjective perceptions assign different versions of spin to her moves at a blink of an eye - causing arguments, fights, divorces, protest marches, revolutions, drive-by shootings, and carpet bombings.

Our path to understanding reality lies through individual subjective impressions - but we also need rational thinking and logic to process the impressions and go beyond the subjective. Despite what the mainstream media would like you to believe, the truth is not the sum of individual or collective opinions, as in "Most Americans Believe The Dancer Is Turning Clockwise."

The truth is not the mathematical average, as in "The Dancer's Clockwise Progress Impeded By Left-Brain Activity." It's not the mean, the median, the mode, or the range.

Those who believe in "the truth is in the middle" theory will have to reach the insane conclusion that the dancer is spinning in all directions simultaneously or that she is standing still.

The truth is not the "scientific consensus" as in "The Dancer is moving clockwise and anyone who disagrees with this statement is a denier who must be eliminated in order to save the planet, stop divisiveness, and establish an everlasting peace."

The truth is not a compromise establishing that the Dancer keeps changing directions at equal intervals, which is a half-assed way of saying that nobody ever can be wrong in anything and that all diverse subjective perceptions are equally valid, including the ones that imply that our Universe is but a blurry illusion inside the Dancer's head caused by her excessive spinning.

The truth cannot established by political pressure, threats, marches, intimidation, boycott, sabotage, conspiracy theories, or statements like "Bush lied about the dancer's counter-clockwise movement."

So what is the truth?

The truth is that the circular movement we think we observe is our own guesswork caused by the need to imagine details we cannot see. Objective reality in this case is a mere two-dimensional image that the power of our imagination turns into a spinning Dancer. In spite of what the Dancer's pleasing curves may suggest, it's absolutely flat, has no depth, and can only move from right to left and back. She might as well be a pendulum, but that would be less entertaining.

To see what it really is - a flat picture - we'd have to turn off our imagination, but that's next to impossible. The power of our imagination gets the better of us. With great power comes great responsibility, claimed another imaginary character. Responsibility, however, has always lagged behind imagination.

The little Dancer dances all by herself inside your head, switching directions at will - and the best part is, it's between you and her only. That makes you the ultimate authority on her moves, and anyone who says she spins the other way is a damn liar.

And how best to use this? Knowing this is very interesting, but torture worked just fine before we understood the physical mechanisms of pain. Ah, for the good old days.

I wonder if this is what psychologists call <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Detection">agent detection</a>--and how very useful it is. Of course agent detection has come to full flower recently. Our distant ancestors thought that bad harvests were owing to witches, or that every rustle in the bushes was a lion. And we know that everything bad is Bush's fault.

That really confused me. It was rotating one way, then it changed while I was reading the first paragraph and I got confused.

Stop Making me thinkkk!!!

This could make a nice Cube video - just the dancer dancing, and a female voice narrating the text matter-of-factly, as on the Science channel. Any female volunteers to send me the audio file?

Must have more or less standard accent and clear speech (not slurred by vodka or tequila), and know how to record voice on computer. If you like the idea shoot me a transmission over the Red Star Radio. We'll have to revise the text a bit for that though.

OT but worthy to take a peek

When cloning goes wrong

I nominate GLaDOS for the narrator. She has a calm and peaceful voice that makes you feel quite relaxed no matter what the situation. Plus she sings well.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XqpfhrlDJR0
<br>http://youtube.com/watch?v=RthZgszykLs

After all that vodka, talk of man panties and an image that will keep me in therapy for years (SMO I'll send you the bills) I really did not need to see a spinning woman. Now I get to spend day cleaning partially digested potato out of carpet. She spins right, she spins left...


Edited because Bush made me mis-spell "really"

Red Jim wrote

Edited because Bush made me mis-spell "really"

How can you possibly say that?

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Ohh...OK!

She looks cold.

The brain is a mysterious thing. I have seen this before, but in the past was able to see it both ways... today, only clockwise no longer how long I look. There is some "hardwiring" involved here as well. You have cells in the brain that interpret only an image that fits a certain pattern. I like the old classic experiment Lorenz's (1939) and Tinbergen's (1948) experiment on the response of ducklings to a goose/hawk silhouette where when pulled in one direction appears to be a goose, but the other a hawk. Now a lot of this left brain right brain crap is just that, but on the other hand, you really do essentially have 2 brains inside your skull as the famous split brain studies show. This of course would explain much of Hillary and non-person K's behavior..... their corpus collusum has been breached.... as will this Commissar's head if he doesn't shut up right now and blame Bush damn him!!

Brilliant insights Red, but Lenin forbid, I must say this... that there is such a thing as truth that lies outside of us.... I don't care what anyone believes etc, but in a give place, a rock in a vacuum will always fall at a certain speed, though the time and therefore the speed observed is subject to the effects of relativity, but that can also be calculated.

Whoa, very deep, or not, depending on your point of view. *snerk!

-off character-
Seriously though, some random ruminations:

I used to have a boss that was fond of saying "perception is reality". I understood that, from a marketing/sales/P.R. point, this observation was somewhat correct. It was an admonishment that your message to the customer must be clear or else what they see might not be what you intend. As a life philosophy, "perception is reality" sucks. It used to grate my nerves whenever she said it. Fair to say that perception can and often does trump reality but to say that it IS reality is not only stupid and patently false but dangerous.

One of my favorite examples of subjective reality gone crazy in recent years was the protest planned to drive the "Bush Regime" from the White House. Apparently, enough angry, disaffected leftists could run the entire executive branch out of town by shouting chants and forming drum circles. Once the Imperial President and his minions departed, representitives of various left-wing groups would then step in to assume control of the executive branch and begin fixing all the problem that had been created. The absolute, multi-level lunacy of this idea would waste too much bandwidth to sort out.
I heard some arguments to the effect that it was just a symbolic effort that the organizers clearly understood would not work. Really? Then why do it? Doesn't it seem awfully cynical to plan an event that is almost certain to fail but to present it as if it might succeed?

Gotta run for now but more on this later.

Perception as reality is a great model for us to foster as the Party, as long as we comrades know the difference, for I agree with you Commissar, perception that does not closely match reality will often lead to death... or worse! LOL

Perception as reality is a great model for us to foster as the Party

I'm perceiving I just stole Commissar M's wallet, and there it is!

comrade dirk wrote:

Perception as reality is a great model for us to foster as the Party

I'm perceiving I just stole Commissar M's wallet, and there it is!

Maaaan, are you going to be disappointed. hahaha!

That is why I have an OPM Platinum card... it' uses the latest in bio security and so secure from misuse or identity theft. Never leave the dacha without it.

Commissar M wrote

Once the Imperial President and his minions departed, representitives of various left-wing groups would then step in to assume control of the executive branch and begin fixing all the problem that had been created. The absolute, multi-level lunacy of this idea would waste too much bandwidth to sort out.
I heard some arguments to the effect that it was just a symbolic effort that the organizers clearly understood would not work. Really? Then why do it? Doesn't it seem awfully cynical to plan an event that is almost certain to fail but to present it as if it might succeed?

Commissar M, does it really matter who is in control of the Executive, Judicial, or Legislative Branch, or have they all become interchangeable?

I'm perceiving I just stole Commissar M's wallet, and there it is!

Maaaan, are you going to be disappointed. hahaha!

what the.... there's nothing but a bunch of gift cards for bed, bath & beyond! (pockets gift cards)

Commissar Pupovich wrote:The brain is a mysterious thing. I have seen this before, but in the past was able to see it both ways... today, only clockwise no longer how long I look.

Yes, agreed. No matter how long or hard I look, it is the same for me. I have been trying to see it the other way, but alas no luck. This is not fair! I feel entitled to be able to see the image go the other way.

I am beginning to think that everyone is lying, yes, everyone is lying about the spin. It only spins clockwise, this is propaganda!

The only thing missing is a soundtrack... how about The Left Banke's "Pretty Ballerina"?

comrade dirk wrote: what the.... there's nothing but a bunch of gift cards for bed, bath & beyond! (pockets gift cards)

Holy crap, so you have seen my wallet! Look damn it, I was going to use those cards to buy a new set of sheets and a duvet cover. I can accept a lot of insults and set backs but THIS... this is just going too damned far!

*Reaches for AK

Comrade Dirk -- I have informed Mr. Reno of all your pilfering of Party member money (which is stolen money, of course). Between you and me, he wasn't pleased. As a matter of fact, I think Mr. Reno mentioned something about a bubble bath with you but without the bubbles. Yes, and something about flood lights and cheesy Yanni music. Therefore, it is in your best interest to just go ahead and denounce yourself, agree to a show trial and maybe - just maybe - you will be able to get out of the dreaded bubble bath death sentence.

Comrad Bubalasky wrote: Commissar M, does it really matter who is in control of the Executive, Judicial, or Legislative Branch, or have they all become interchangeable?

I think it matters. As long as there remains an adversarial push-pull among the three branches, that is. It has the ability to weather a lot of hits and, at least in theory, be self-correcting. I certainly prefer it to parliamentary governments or "top down" governments with a single, strong man leader.

They are over-lapping, sure but not interchangeable, as I see it. In fact, it seems that in more recent years, the American voter has rejected candidates crossing from one branch to the other. Hopefully, that trend will continue next year.

I think the truth is that she's a very nice young lady whose leg is beginning to get tired. You wanna take a break honey? Here, drink some of this. You must be dizzy. I sure like the look of your monochromatic skin; no nuance or alteration and how your flat black hair blends in with your flat black forehead. That's what I like, no variation or differentiation, the incessant panoply of unalterable uniformity. It is a little freaky how your iris, pupil, and albumen are all flat black and blend in with your flat black eyelids, but it's also kind of cool. I suppose that's why you don't need to wear a leotard, right honey? Comrade Boobie suggested you were cold, here take my coat. What made you choose a red background, sugar? That's very party inspired. So, are you a mutant or some beautiful alien practitioner of the terpsichoraic arts or what? And is this your sister or what cause she's pretty cool...

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Comrad Bubalasky wrote:Red Jim wrote

Edited because Bush made me mis-spell "really"

How can you possibly say that?

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Ohh...OK!

The president needs to listen to more "WHO"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp6-wG5LLqE

This picture really shows the people's scout of Soivied Union, comrade Grishenko. Please note, that only comrades who have the proper permisson to work with the classified material issued by the 1st department (dopusk) may distinguish it.

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More (butt) nuggets of Perception Is Reality-style wisdom:

A powerful man soliciting female subordinates for sex is about as low and loathsome as it gets unless that man is a prominent progressive politician. In that case, women should happily offer themselves up in thanks for the guy advancing their agenda. (Clinton, Ted Kennedy, etc.)

Progressives are incapable of being bigoted or hateful. All such behaviour apparently exhibited by Progressives is actually the work right-wing agents prentending to be leftist in order to undermine the movement. I most recently heard that from Sheldon Drobny but it sounds an awful lot like the excuse I used to hear back in the day when some "peaceful" protest turned violent. Oh no, my comrades would insist, WE weren't being violent. It was those damned anarchists/ drunken Marines/ plainclothes cops/ undercover government agents that got in to our march and started all the trouble.

We should support the repressed people of the world and demand action to free them. This is best accomplished by holding marches, rallies, concerts and other big, expensive and noisy events that hopefully attract a lot of media attention. Hey, great job on Tibet folks! Oh, and since military action to free people is out of consideration because it tends to cause lots of death and destruction, tell me again how we're supposed to correct things in Darfur?

If I recall correctly, the group No Draft No Way supported the proposal by Charlie Rangel to reinstate the draft. I'm not sure if that's hypocrisy or twisted perception but it is darkly funny. I'll go with the twisted perception argument just to fit it in to the context of this thread.

Commissar M wrote:More (butt) nuggets of Perception Is Reality-style wisdom:

A powerful man soliciting female subordinates for sex is about as low and loathsome as it gets unless that man is a prominent progressive politician. In that case, women should happily offer themselves up in thanks for the guy advancing their agenda. (Clinton, Ted Kennedy, etc.)

For your reading pleasure:

Nina Burleigh, Journalist & Romance Novel Heroine

Courtesy of my "You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up" file.

Commissar M wrote:I heard some arguments to the effect that it was just a symbolic effort that the organizers clearly understood would not work. Really? Then why do it? Doesn't it seem awfully cynical to plan an event that is almost certain to fail but to present it as if it might succeed?

Commissar, Commissar, when will you ever learn that rage is fun? As is posturing and making big loud noises. Because that way you are covering up the fact that there is really nothing inside you. All that noise on the outside is to mask the yawning void inside.

And hysteria? That's to deny the headlight of an oncoming train. The closer the train, the louder the noise.

Commissar M wrote: Progressives are incapable of being bigoted or hateful. All such behaviour apparently exhibited by Progressives is actually the work right-wing agents prentending to be leftist in order to undermine the movement. I most recently heard that from Sheldon Drobny but it sounds an awful lot like the excuse I used to hear back in the day when some "peaceful" protest turned violent. Oh no, my comrades would insist, WE weren't being violent. It was those damned anarchists/ drunken Marines/ plainclothes cops/ undercover government agents that got in to our march and started all the trouble.

Exactly, and as you can see from this link to Venezuelanalysis.com Hugo Chavez carries on with that proud tradition of the Left. Who caused the recent violence in Venezuela? The Empire.

I know that a lot of people have been worried that Daniel Ortega may have become a weak liberal. No worries. He is still a strict doctrinaire Marxist-Leninist! From the linked article:

Daniel Ortega wrote:"What we can do is express our solidarity with the revolutionary people of Venezuela and with our friend Hugo Chavez, who is being subjected to aggression from a counterrevolution fed by the traitors from inside the country and by the empire."

Pinkie wrote:For your reading pleasure:

Nina Burleigh, Journalist & Romance Novel Heroine

Courtesy of my "You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up" file.

Nina Burleigh wrote:"I'd be happy to give him [oral sex] just to thank him for keeping abortion legal," boasted former Time magazine White House correspondent Nina Burleigh about Bill Clinton.

Thank goodness Bill Clinton managed to keep abortion legal. My God, after 6 years of living under the Bush regime women have been reduced to going to back alley quacks using coat hangers. Everyone is dying from illegal abortions. Oh, if only Bill Clinton were still president he would have been able to keep abortion legal! Those damn Republicans! They're going to kill us all!

Thanks Pinkie.

Nina Burleigh was the person I was thinking of when I wrote that but I couldn't remember her name. I recall that she wrote an article expanding on her comments to Howard Kurz, where she stated that "women should be lining up with their presidential knee pads to thank Bill for keeping the theocracy off their backs". Interestingly enough, a search with The People's Search Engine reveals that her article was titled My Spin Through The Cycle.

I found the Nina story via Newsbusters about a week ago:

Newsbusters

For years I'd heard the tale about the reporter who wanted to give Bill a b.j. for keeping abortion legal, but this was the first time I'd seen such a <ahem> detailed account.

One of the reader comments was absolutely priceless--that forasmuch as abortion is STILL quite legal, why doesn't she kneel down before Bush and--well, you get the idea.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:
Commissar, Commissar, when will you ever learn that rage is fun?

Commissar Theocritus, it is not rage it is passion! They riot in Seattle because they are passionate about protesting against the WTO, NAFTA or the World Bank. Direct action, like spiking trees in the PNW, torching home developments/Hummer dealerships is the result of their passion for the cause. We should all have such passion.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:One of the reader comments was absolutely priceless--that forasmuch as abortion is STILL quite legal, why doesn't she kneel down before Bush and--well, you get the idea.

I suppose if Bush were a pudgy, pasty-white, not to mention married sex maniac with about as much sex appeal as Larry, Curly and Mo combined, and he ogled her legs in a leering and offensive manner she would consider it.

Margaret wrote:

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:One of the reader comments was absolutely priceless--that forasmuch as abortion is STILL quite legal, why doesn't she kneel down before Bush and--well, you get the idea.

I suppose if Bush were a pudgy, pasty-white, not to mention married sex maniac with about as much sex appeal as Larry, Curly and Mo combined, and he ogled her legs in a leering and offensive manner she would consider it.

<character off>
Or perhaps if Bush were a whiney-assed liar who spews bullshit like Global Warming is being caused by humans regardless of tangible facts like... oh ... say ... the Sun is going through one of it's more active cycles ... and if he would organize a concert for Darfur, Rwanda, and Tibet, making sure of course to invite U2, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Madonna, and Sheryl Crow, .... THEN .... THEN ... she might think about a "knob job" for ol' W.

This reporter/columnist is every bit a hypocrite just like the Evangelical Nazi's that she detests.
<character on>

--
ZB

Margaret wrote

I suppose if Bush were a pudgy, pasty-white, not to mention married sex maniac with about as much sex appeal as Larry, Curly and Mo combined, and he ogled her legs in a leering and offensive manner she would consider it.

Like this? Turn the volume up^and scroll!

https://www.tvdance.com/chrisfarley/

Margaret wrote:

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:One of the reader comments was absolutely priceless--that forasmuch as abortion is STILL quite legal, why doesn't she kneel down before Bush and--well, you get the idea.

I suppose if Bush were a pudgy, pasty-white, not to mention married sex maniac with about as much sex appeal as Larry, Curly and Mo combined, and he ogled her legs in a leering and offensive manner she would consider it.

What I find interesting is that she mentioned her legs had been scarred from a recent accident. How does she know Pillsbury Doughboy wasn't staring rudely (perhaps even in revulsion) the way some people do at scars, deformities etc.? I almost envy her high self-esteem.

And what's this nonsense about a woman having to keep her legs covered around powerful men in Washington? Does she also pinch her cheeks, instead of using rouge like "bad women" do? Does she think it's proper to show her "buzzum" 'fore three o'clock?

This reporter/columnist is every bit a hypocrite just like the Evangelical Nazi's that she detests.

Zampolit, hypocrisy is the very foundation of progress. Do you know why we demand that a common prole drive a car as large as a pack of gum with an engine that couldn't power a pocket calculator, while we take a private jet to go to the grocery store? HYPOCRISY THAT'S WHY! Without it we'd be reduced to the same drab, filthy lifestyle as the proles and I for one would rathe die before I gave away one of my six Feraris.

comrade dirk wrote: Zampolit, hypocrisy is the very foundation of progress. Do you know why we demand that a common prole drive a car as large as a pack of gum with an engine that couldn't power a pocket calculator, while we take a private jet to go to the grocery store? HYPOCRISY THAT'S WHY! Without it we'd be reduced to the same drab, filthy lifestyle as the proles and I for one would rathe die before I gave away one of my six Feraris.

Well said, comrade!!!

Here is something else to think about. Look at how many undocumented aliens I have to employ to wash my fleet of Hummer H2s!!! Each one requires a team of 16 people to keep it clean!!!! It's good for the economy and it shows that I Care™.

So what if the proles have to pedal a tricycle to get to work because gasoline is $5.00 a gallon here in the U.S.!!! They are not members of The Party™!!!

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ZB

Commissarka Pinkie wrote: And what's this nonsense about a woman having to keep her legs covered around powerful men in Washington? Does she also pinch her cheeks, instead of using rouge like "bad women" do? Does she think it's proper to show her "buzzum" 'fore three o'clock?

You have to admire those "hard core feminists"! They really liberated their sexuality!!! Didn't they?

Also, you are assuming that she has a "buzzum" to show 'fore three o'clock.

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Here is something else to think about. Look at how many undocumented aliens I have to employ to wash my fleet of Hummer H2s!!! Each one requires a team of 16 people to keep it clean!!!! It's good for the economy and it shows that I Care™.

It takes at least ten each car to clean my Porsche brigade. They have to bring their own sponges and turtle wax, plus I don't pay them.

comrade dirk wrote:

Here is something else to think about. Look at how many undocumented aliens I have to employ to wash my fleet of Hummer H2s!!! Each one requires a team of 16 people to keep it clean!!!! It's good for the economy and it shows that I Care™.

It takes at least ten each car to clean my Porsche brigade. They have to bring their own sponges and turtle wax, plus I don't pay them.

Nor should you pay them, comrade!!!!

That's why The Party™ provides Welfare™ for them. Free money for slave labor makes for happy slaves. All in the name of "compassion", of course. This concept is a pillar of Socialist philosophy. Just ask Comrade Ted Kennedy (S-MA)!!!

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Blokhayev

Just ask Comrade Ted Kennedy (S-MA)!!!

Nobody told you? Ted Kennedy died years ago. We just put a hole in his back and whoever is unlucky enough to be behind him feeds him his liquor.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:What I find interesting is that she mentioned her legs had been scarred from a recent accident. How does she know Pillsbury Doughboy wasn't staring rudely (perhaps even in revulsion) the way some people do at scars, deformities etc.? I almost envy her high self-esteem.

And what's this nonsense about a woman having to keep her legs covered around powerful men in Washington? Does she also pinch her cheeks, instead of using rouge like "bad women" do? Does she think it's proper to show her "buzzum" 'fore three o'clock?

I noticed that too, about the scarred legs. I hear you.

Now who in the ding-dong hell has been taking my name in vain? I'm not dead, no, not at all. I've just been having a little R&R.
And after I finish this bottle, and the entire case, I'm going to find that sleezeball Howie Carr who did this and shove it up his ass.

Or take him in a drive in my Oldsmobile. I have a new Oldsmobile. Does anyone want to come with me? Where are those damned keys?

NOT ME!

<runs away>

Don't worry, Betty; I'll get that fat old drunk to drive someone else. Has anyone seen Nansky? I think that she and Nina Burleigh--that's right, Nina Burleigh--ought to go driving with Teddy. Teddy is just as stalwart a champion of post-coital but pre-natal birth control as Our Many Titted Empress' husband was, and I'd just love to see Nina try to find it under the toyshop over the veranda, as the Aussies say. Maybe then they'd all drive into the water.

I have a new Oldsmobile. Does anyone want to come with me? Where are those damned keys?

Oh sweet merciful Lenin no! Here, just take my $oft ca$h and leave.

comrade dirk, don't let Teddy K upset you. Do you realize that you said <i>your</i> soft cash? And I had such high hopes for your light-fingered ways. Meet me at Rancho del Rio Grande for a master class in wallet lifting.

Awww damn, even a loyal Prog like me can't take the Kennedys. These people could f*** up an f*** up contest.

Hey Ted, how's your worthless, coke addled nephew dealing with Gore being the People's Hero of Global Warming?


Oh sorry, I meant RFK Jr. I guess I should have specified which worthless, coke addled nephew I was referring to.

p.s. Comrade Andropov says to tell you sorry he hasn't gotten back to you about helping undermine the 84 Presidential election. He promises they'll be taking up at the next committee meeting.

Oh and another thing, Ted. Cutty Sark? Flippin' Cutty Sark? Man, I though you were too money for that cheap-ass blended stuff. Cousin $.$. (well actually, Margaret) sends me a couple bottles of 18 year old Macallen every <s>Christmas</s> Genric Winter Holiday and we are dire enemies. In fact, in Clan Halliburton, the 18 year old single malt IS the cheap scotch.

Geez, drinking prole scotch... and you call yourself a Progressive?

Well, he wants <i>something</i> in this life that can float.

Alcohol is lighter than water. He's got that. A lot of it.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:

Commissar M wrote:More (butt) nuggets of Perception Is Reality-style wisdom:

A powerful man soliciting female subordinates for sex is about as low and loathsome as it gets unless that man is a prominent progressive politician. In that case, women should happily offer themselves up in thanks for the guy advancing their agenda. (Clinton, Ted Kennedy, etc.)

For your reading pleasure:

Nina Burleigh, Journalist & Romance Novel Heroine

Courtesy of my "You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up" file.

Thanks, Commisarka. This was my favorite line:
Are you a female with two breasts, two legs and under age 40?
Yes, that just shows Mr. Clinton's incredibly discerning good taste in so many, many, many things.
Well, I suppose if not Nina Burleigh then maybe this guy would come and worship at the altar:

or this dog?

or this scruffity college kid?

or this happy wizard?

or any number of African children who owe so, so much to Western potentates?

or this podium (whose big red asi is just extremely attractive and irresistible)?

All I can say is, Lenin smiles on Clinton:
http://www.democrattshirt.com/god-bless ... -2778.html

What infinite heart's-ease
Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!
And what have kings, that privates have not too,
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

comrade dirk wrote:

Here is something else to think about. Look at how many undocumented aliens I have to employ to wash my fleet of Hummer H2s!!! Each one requires a team of 16 people to keep it clean!!!! It's good for the economy and it shows that I Care™.

It takes at least ten each car to clean my Porsche brigade. They have to bring their own sponges and turtle wax, plus I don't pay them.

I require a baker's dozen of sexy quadraplegic south of the border babes to lick my jaguar clean with their saucy pink tongues! (it's quite a sight)


Rejected (too few for the full crew and they aren't quadraplegic); nice try though.
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Whoa. Let me know the next time you decide to get your car washed. I'll bring my camera.

The one in the upper right-hand corner looks like a transsexual. Lots of work done.

But comrades, are you not wasting all that fish net? It could be used for dragging bales of dope out of the Caribbean to finance the Revolution.

Teddy K. wrote:Now who in the ding-dong hell has been taking my name in vain? I'm not dead, no, not at all. I've just been having a little R&R.
And after I finish this bottle, and the entire case, I'm going to find that sleezeball Howie Carr who did this and shove it up his ass.

Or take him in a drive in my Oldsmobile. I have a new Oldsmobile. Does anyone want to come with me? Where are those damned keys?

Hey Ted maybe you and Billy Joel can take a ride... Might be fun to see who makes it out first....

$.$. Halliburton wrote: Click here for Audio Illusion

I think this is the first Audio Illusion I've ever... seen? heard? come across... (Not counting "Paul is dead," of course). I haven't been following the entertainment for blind people novelties market lately, but it's quite possible this is a comparable substitute for optical illusions with which blind hosts entertain blind guests at birthday parties.

One more thing.

Your Audio Illusion is a blatant challenge to progressivism. You have a history of rubbing in our faces the alleged fact that capitalist investment is the source of all inventions, novelties, and improvements. Such hostile behavior gives us a moral license to steal your invention (as we did with all the others) and use it against you and everything you believe in.

Say, comrades, doesn't this Audio Illusion sound much like Chairman's beloved partner, toaster Helen <3? I think this invention gives voice to all previously silent Appliance-Americans? I think their long march for social justice, equality, and voting rights has just turned the last corner and entered a broad, shining path towards the finishing line. With sexy voices like that, who could deny them their voting rights?

Vox appliancei = vox populi = vox dei.

Comrade Red Square wrote:I think their long march for social justice, equality, and voting rights has just turned the last corner and entered a broad, shining path towards the finishing line.

NEVER! We still have a long, long, long way to go, Comrades. A long way, indeed! I plan on cashing in on this social movement for many years to come just like my predecessors Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Long live the profitable perpetual struggle for social justice! Without it I would actually have to get a real job.

Speaking of cashing in: has anyone seen my hedge fund manager??

The always conniving Chairman Meow wrote: Speaking of cashing in: has anyone seen my hedge fund manager??

Make sure he/she/it is loading up on Exxon/Mobil and BP stocks. When gasoline goes through the roof, so do their profits.

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ZB

Hows this for objective reality....... one of my own .....






Any one up for a caption contest.....

Such hostile behavior gives us a moral license to steal your invention (as we did with all the others) and use it against you and everything you believe in.

I got dibs on his wallet!

LoneRedStar wrote

Hows this for objective reality....... one of my own ..... Any one up for a caption contest.....

What the hell is it? What the hell is this? Looks like one of those Chinese Commie cube things!

What the hell is it? What the hell is this? Looks like one of those Chinese Commie cube things!

*gasp* You did not just..... oh it's on. YOU DARE TO REFER TO THE GLORIUS INCARNADINE TRAPAZOID IN SUCH A MANNER! Someone is going for a week of sleepovers at Janet's.

comrade dirk, don't let Teddy K upset you. Do you realize that you said your soft cash? And I had such high hopes for your light-fingered ways. Meet me at Rancho del Rio Grande for a master class in wallet lifting.

I will Commissar. And this time I'll use the part of my brain that makes me compulsively steal from people for the greater good. Here, how much do you want from Condi Rice's wallet?

Comrade dirk wrote

Someone is going for a week of sleepovers at Janet's.

Awesome!


Thanks BRO!

Commissar Theocritus wrote:The one in the upper right-hand corner looks like a transsexual. Lots of work done.

*SIGH* It's always the tall girls with adam's apples and bulges in their pants that'll break you heart.

LoneRedStar wrote:Hows this for objective reality....... one of my own .....






Any one up for a caption contest.....

People's Cube: penetrating to heart of capitalist pigdog society!

LoneRedStar wrote:

"I always wanted one of these... now I just need the instructions."

M wrote:*SIGH* It's always the tall girls with adam's apples and bulges in their pants that'll break you heart.

I promise you that I do not spend my time researching this but in the space of two days I saw two programs, one of them Anthony Bourdain's travel program yet, on Tahiti, which back up a <i>Spectator</i> article which said that in Tahiti transsexuals are called rere. And they are chosen, or were, by their family to have an extra pair of hands in the house. They dress like women, and there is even a TV bar where they have strip shows and they show it all to brag on their Aussie surgeons. The French military stationed there go there for only the TVs will talk to them--a sign of good taste I must say. But evidently it's social pressure, which I find very odd for no single gay person will say anything other than he or she has known from the earliest time. But the social pressure is such that they actually sometimes change sex.

In American Samoa, which program came the next night, they are something like fafarina, and may not have the actual surgery, but they hang out by the sea wall. It is utterly verboten to have sexual relations with the same sex, but because the man is being a woman--a role chosen for him by his family, the female care-giver who cannot have children of her own to take her time--think on that--he is socially a woman and therefore sex with one of them is not homosexuality. The dress matters.

The (fictional) Guinea Ku tribe in Julian Symonds' novel <i>The Hexagonal Ant's Nest</i> (? 25 years later), a daughter of a missionary, Eve, marries a man in the Ku tribe but so that she will have a voice in the tribe, which women don't have, she is adopted as a man. But she cannot have children because men don't have children.

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Back to the real red world.

Comrad Bubalasky, I hope that you do mend your ways before you find out that Janet is Mr. Reno. Who often has a sleepover with Our Many Titted Empress in a frisky mood:

Imagine the hickey you'll get--and where.

Bring plenty of J-Lube. You'll need it.

Commissar Pupovich wrote:That is why I have an OPM Platinum card... it' uses the latest in bio security and so secure from misuse or identity theft. Never leave the dacha without it.

I prefer Soviet Express: Don't leave home.
(Sorry. I know, but it had to be said.)

At the risk of opening an extra large can of worms, this looks like a picture of a beaver.



Or did Alvin or one of the other Chipmunks undergo a--oh, never mind.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:At the risk of opening an extra large can of worms, this looks like a picture of a beaver.



Or did Alvin or one of the other Chipmunks undergo a--oh, never mind.

huh.....huh....huh she said beaver.....

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:At the risk of opening an extra large can of worms, this looks like a picture of a beaver.



Or did Alvin or one of the other Chipmunks undergo a--oh, never mind.

I was thinking more like a Rat. I like to think of Beavers with more affection.

Commissar Theocritus wrote

Back to the real red world.

Comrad Bubalasky, I hope that you do mend your ways before you find out that Janet is Mr. Reno. Who often has a sleepover with Our Many Titted Empress in a frisky mood:

AARGH!!! <Bubalasky runs to hug white porcelain>

MY EYES!!!! MY EYES!!! DAMN YOU!!! FOR THE LOVE OF LENIN, STOP POSTING PICTURES OF OUR MANY TITTIED EMPRESS AND MR. RENO AT THE SAME TIME!!!!

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ZB

LoneRedStar wrote:

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:At the risk of opening an extra large can of worms, this looks like a picture of a beaver.



Or did Alvin or one of the other Chipmunks undergo a--oh, never mind.

huh.....huh....huh she said beaver.....

Comrade LoneRedStar, get your mind out of gutter, the Commissarka meant the furry kind!

I wonder if her face got like that from munching on too many Red Beavers?

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Blokhayev

Zampolit Blokhayev wrote:I wonder if her face got like that from munching on too many Red Beavers?

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Blokhayev

Do you mean Drinking too many Red Beavers?