Comrades!! Please help me...I am confused...come the Fairness Doctrine (and the Revolushun), what are we, as progreSSive purveyors of all that is equal, going to do to promote "fairness" here at The People's Cube??

Does this mean that the mime gets a by-line in The People's Column?

Are we to give "equal time" to opposing veiwpoints (Count Pointer Count)...I'm confused oooh my head hurts!

There must be some way we can leverage this Doctrine to the People's advantage, no??

No dimes for mimes! All your dimes are belong to me!

Yes, we'll have to let the mime post in the editorial section - but on condition that when he does his mime show he also gives 50% of the time to us - the entire Cube collective going on stage and performing the "Swimming Home Alone" pantomime as discussed earlier, for the enjoyment of the children. It's all for the children, always. The proceeds shall also be split 50/50.

Sorry, I can't stop laughing at the idea of a video of such a collective miming performance. Perhaps, just like the Mime, we can also qualify for a state grant and, like him, live off the government money.

Bvt. Field Marshal Pravda wrote:Comrades!! Please help me...I am confused...come the Fairness Doctrine (and the Revolushun), what are we, as progreSSive purveyors of all that is equal, going to do to promote "fairness" here at The People's Cube??

Comrade, as revolutionary socialists The People's Cube is a victim of the endless onslaught of the corporate fascist media monopoly. As a normal left-wing human-being comrade Rudolph is on our side and a victim of fascism too. How would giving comrade Rudolph, a fellow Marxist-Leninist selflessly engaged in The Struggle, a space here be balance? I know he appears to be a little to the Right but he is one of us. The purpose of the Fairness Doctrine is to balance the inequities caused by the ruling classes' iron grip on all news and opinion forums. The Fairness Doctrine as applied to us means we would enjoy equal time on such websites as Front Page.mag, Capitalism Magazine, Cox and Forkum, etc, etc, etc. It has nothing to do with The Peoples Cube providing a forum for ruling class right wing nuts. They already dominate all aspects of our culture.

I voted to give the mime time.
We're talking 10-20, hard labor, right? Oh, I'm sorry, that's cruel and unusual. I meant 10-20, three hots and a cot, cable TV, library, the ACLU to appeal for him, and all the sex he could possibly have, ask Charlie Manson.

Restore the thread Red!
Restore the thread Red!
Restore the thread Red!

He'll never work in France again if the Socialist Collective of Unionized Mimes sees all his HATE SPEECH!

I agree with Red... but only because I was born to play the part of Mary Jo... I got top marks in "Dead Man's Float" in swimming and have been practicing holding my breath a lot lately. Oh, oh, please, please, pllleeeaase!!!

COMRADES!!!!

We need a memorial on TPC that will commemorate Mikael! This memorial will be complete with Mikael quotes, pictures, cheesy music and oozing comments of rejoice for the thing that is Mikael Rudolph!


REMEMBER MIKAEL; CELEBRATE HIM WITH A SCATHING MEMORIAL!

Darling Meow,
At the risk of reclycling posts (and having finally figured out how to link to a particular post within a thread... took me long enough!), I respectfully submit prior discussion concerning Mikael Rudolph Memorial Thread... I believe we were on the right track with these ideas for cheese...
<br>I still believe doves are the way to go with respect to one-time wall-paper... and I think this particular 'interpretation' of Elton John classic is about right... I crave your thoughts...

Yes, I agree, SMO - and I'm happy someone feels my sense of urgency in erecting a memorial for such a meager, weak, stupid, totally out of touch and contemptible "thing" that is Mikael. Alas, I feel as if I'm out of steam and money. Yes, I know, a man in my position doesn't run out of money, especially with so many stupid people to take advantage of (my Commonwealth did usher Jim Webb into power). Still.... I feel the project may be too lofty and a shortage of union leaders will just make the whole thing expensive and of the highest quality (which means no graff, wink wink). Ugh, I need a cheap thrill with a hooker now - where on Earth did I put my little black book? Theocritus, where is my blackbook? I KNOW YOU HAVE IT AGAIN, DON'T LIE TO ME!

If it is to be a memorial it needs to be one that shows what we do to traitors!! He claims to be progressive yet he flaunts his hate speech and thought crimes as if it were nothing.
The memorial should be titled "Repercussions of Thought" and it should be comprised of The Mime in a guillotine with Lenin on the switch, I'm thinking on a raised pedestal of about 15' in height and the the statue itself another 20' in height. I can picture it now....Ooo! We could place in the center square of the Museum of Hope when it's completed (we need more thought criminals to do the work).

Alternative title: "When the Mime is No Longer Silent"

We could also have a little plaque on the base of the pedestal with a little history about The Mime daring to think he knows better than The Party and became an enemy of The People by leading them astray from The Party and he was summarily purged on the dawn of the Glorious Workers Election Mandate of 2007.

O'Brien

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Chairman M. S. Punchenko wrote: (my Commonwealth did usher Jim Webb into power

Comrade! I didn't know your family collective was in the People's Commonwealth of Completely Fair Progressive Property Taxes Virginia.

I also reside here at the bidding, and generosity, or the State. Yes, Jim Webb, what a guy. A true people's revolutionary. Having realized his mistakes in Vietnam, he later became an Emmy winning journalist for the People's Broadcasting Service. (PBS).

Here he is holding aloft some solder's boots as a political prop. He really knows how to sell it the proletariat.



RIK

A proposal for the Mime Memorial. A mime demanding his right to speak seemed like a good idea, but then I thought that leaving that placard blank would be more consistent wih the miming paradigm. However, feel free to suggest what else might be written there.


There was a joke in the 1970s USSR about a guy who got arrested on Red Square for distributing unauthorized flyers. The KGB officer grabbed his pack of flyers, but then realized they were all blank.
THE KGB: "Why didn't you write anything on them?"
OUR GUY: "Like what?"
THE KGB: "Like, stuff against our Party and its leadership."
OUR GUY: "Why bother? Everyone already knows it."

OK.
Please don't be angry....

My spouse has suggested two theme songs.

"Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinbad O'Baldy
"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" by Old Man George picking up litter and the Yogurt Club.

It "80's Night" on a local FM radio station here in "da Burgh" and my spouse tortures me by playing it.

Mea Culpa.

Laika

Oh my, Old Man George is a winner.... maybe throwing Karma Chameleon (for the children, of course) is in order as well... I was shooting for Elton John personally - but George beats him in cheesyness.

Comrade RIK - I'm happy that you and your's reside under the Jackboot of my progressive regime, and I most certainly hope you never see a new paved road in your entire life. If you did, well, that would mean someone is actually putting money to use and not lining my pockets WHICH WOULD MERIT A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEMISE! Long live Lord Warner and First Citizen Kaine (and his eyebrow)!

Transporting money into my pocket from the Transportation Bill,

Chairman Meowsevich S. Punchenko

Comrade Otis wrote:...The People's Cube is a victim of the endless onslaught of the corporate fascist media monopoly. As a normal left-wing human-being comrade Rudolph is on our side and a victim of fascism too. How would giving comrade Rudolph, a fellow Marxist-Leninist selflessly engaged in The Struggle, a space here be balance? I know he appears to be a little to the Right but he is one of us. The purpose of the Fairness Doctrine is to balance the inequities caused by the ruling classes' iron grip on all news and opinion forums. The Fairness Doctrine as applied to us means we would enjoy equal time on such websites as Front Page.mag, Capitalism Magazine, Cox and Forkum, etc, etc, etc. It has nothing to do with The Peoples Cube providing a forum for ruling class right wing nuts. They already dominate all aspects of our culture.

As usual, sapient Comrade Otis, I'm in complete agreement with your trenchant analysis.

Could Rudolph provide the red nose that will safely guide the first rocket to Potemkingrad?

Eradicate the coporatist fascist state!

--Dr. Ennui

Rikalonius wrote:

Chairman M. S. Punchenko wrote: (my Commonwealth did usher Jim Webb into power

Comrade! I didn't know your family collective was in the People's Commonwealth of Completely Fair Progressive Property Taxes Virginia.

I also reside here at the bidding, and generosity, or the State. Yes, Jim Webb, what a guy. A true people's revolutionary. Having realized his mistakes in Vietnam, he later became an Emmy winning journalist for the People's Broadcasting Service. (PBS).

Here he is holding aloft some solder's boots as a political prop. He really knows how to sell it the proletariat.



RIK

This guy has "ass" written all over him....

Laika the Space Dog wrote:OK.
Please don't be angry....
My spouse has suggested two theme songs.
"Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinbad O'Baldy

I think you mean Skinhead O'Condor... and you really have to start having a little more faith in us, your Party... we could never be angry with you over a little thing like 80's radio... as long as it's not NPR... It's not NPR IS IT?!?

"Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" by Old Man George picking up litter and the Yogurt Club.
It "80's Night" on a local FM radio station here in "da Burgh" and my spouse tortures me by playing it.
Mea Culpa.
Laika

...And suddenly the Dexys Midnight Runners reference of last week gains context... I knew it would if I only waited... At least now I have an excuse for why you subjected me to, "Go toora loora toora loo rye aye!" so that I've been unable to get it out of my head since last Saturday... Might I request some Simple Minds or Talk Talk next time? A little Psychedelic Furs or Stranglers maybe?

I don't know about Nothing Compares 2 U... It's a great song, no matter what a nutter she is, and it was originally by Prince... as is "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" - a great song... not originally by Prince though...

What about Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning"?... it strikes just the right self-righteously indignant Moonbat tone, as does lead singer Peter Garrett's dancing... just a thought...

There's nothing wrong with '80's retro-radio night. It's a pleasant diversion to reminisce about a time when we were still just a little bit innocent, or at least somewhat unjaded and optimistic... and when I could still mohawk my hair and dress like a vampire and assume people would take me seriously... or at least not assume that I was going to shoot up my high school...

Dr. W. S. Palimpsest wrote:Could Rudolph provide the red nose that will safely guide the first rocket to Potemkingrad?

I insist on it, comrade Doctor. I heartily insist on it. This could become the stuff of song and legend.

Like nachos?

EXACTLY like nachos...

<huh?>

No, HOT-POCKETS! EXACTLY LIKE HOT-POCKETS!

No, NACHO FLAVORED HOT POCKETS!!! The greatest invention since socialism!

Nacho flavored Hot-Pockets? STALIN HELP US ALL, YOU'RE BRILLIANT, BETTY! BRILLIANT!