Comrades!

It is no coincidence that May Day would fall on a Friday this Glorious Year in The Progressive World of This Tuesday!

We deserve a three-day weekend!

For the great November Victory and the Hard Work of Protesting, Marching, Registering People to vote whose address was a park bench, for the Dallas Cowboys voting in Las Vegas, for taking glancing blows with rubber bullets and accepting Hope and Change, you deserve a three-day weekend!

Imagine that! When was the last time you had a three-day weekend? I bet you can't remember! Not to worry though, soon all the proletarians will achieve the Worker's Paradise of the Permanent Three Day Weekend. You are entitled! Enjoy!

Those who have not achieved the Permanent Three Day Weekend, you have only yourself to Blame for not Blaming Bush Enough!

We shall now take two minutes for Blame-Bush Hate. Scream it at the top of your lungs!

• Because of Bush my gas tank is not full.
  
• Because of Bush my mortgage has not been paid.
  
• Because of Bush I have had Bad Hair Days, worse than Blagojevich, who is an agent of Bush!
  
• Because of Bush we now control the White House, Congress, and the Senate.
  
• Because of Bush we should be happy, but we can't because of Bush!

Good, now take a deep breath, adjust your tinfoil, and let out a big sigh...

We were going to have Obama speak this May Day but due to the Bush Economy there is not enough Evian water to go around for all the proles who "Got Faint".

Oh crap! All I had to do was mention "The One" and Pinky fainted in the front row.... make room for Pinky, let her get some breathing space... that's good... Bruno! You have good hands? I have an extra bottle of Perrier here at the podium, I know it's not Evian but these are tough times and sacrifices have to be made somewhere... catch it and let Pinky sip on it. Good catch Bruno!

I'm sure you all understand now why Obama shouldn't give a May Day speech. It's For The Women who will Faint and Fall and Hurt The Children™

His Excellency did not disappoint us though, for he has sent us none other than Fearless Leader as a substitute guest speaker. Fearless Leader needs no introduction.

Fearless Leader:

Cubists! I salute you!

Because of you, Moose, Squirrel, and Arlen Specter have defected to our side. Unfortunately, the evil Palin killed and gutted Moose shortly after Moose saw the glorious light of International Socialism. Unfortunately though also, we could no longer provide suitable "Republican" cover for Arlen, so we had to make the obvious... well... ummm... let's say "obvious".

Life is much like that. Party lose Moose, Party gain hybrid Weasel/Vulture. Struggle continues.

Yes Cubists! I salute you for helping Party Achieve Power! This is true! We have power but the struggle continues!

• The struggle continues as long as there is one perverted tea bagger!
  
• The struggle continues as long as there is one bitter clinger!
  
• The struggle continues as long as there is one home schooler!
  
• The struggle continues as long as there is one law abiding gun owner!
  
• The struggle continues as long as there is one bourgeois stooge who believes in the "individual".

So you see, Party Comrades,
there is much work ahead of us.

It is now true that 2 + 2 = 5!

It is now true that printing 747 trillion dollars
will reduce the deficit!

Numbers are just that... numbers, and just like what Comrade Stalin once said "It's not who votes, but who counts the votes" numbers are what we say they are.

We are counting the numbers! If printing 747 trillion dollars will reduce the deficit, it will reduce it because we say so and will it so!

With this being said, Happy May Day!

I have to go now. I'm very busy. I have to check the photos I took of the "man-made disaster" faces of the people on the ground while I was buzzing The Statue of Liberty with Air Force One.

Now that is power!

I'm sorry Pinky O.

It's just that my Surgeon General....ummm...what's his name...it's not scrolling dammit!...Sanjay Gupta...What? He turned it down? Steven K. Galson? A Bush appointee is still Surgeon General with the world in crisis with Wine Flu? ...oops...Swine Flu?...There it's scrolling again..
It's just that my Surgeon General, Steven K. Galson, has declared my speeches a threat to public health. People have been hurt smacking their heads off of curbs, asphalt, cement and chairs. Sometimes there's been a mess...a little gray matter splattered here and there, some head trauma, concussions leading to comas, nothing very serious though, nothing that I can't fix, working together with you, the American People.
I have been very proactive on this issue and soon every person attending my speeches will receive a free bicycle helmet. Congress has just approved One Billion Dollars in funding for bicycle helmuts so each and every citizen can safely listen to my speeches. We will be using the latest in Green technology by recycling unused Pogs leftover from the 1990s with electricity generated by gerbil flywheels attached to a dynamo.

So Pinky, you can look forward to a new bicycle helmet retro-fitted to your tinfoil hat soon and so can every other American citizen as we blaze a Green trail into the 21st Century!

I think we have located Pinkie's long-lost mother.

Yahoo News wrote:Yelena Saratova shouts as she and other Communist supporters march to mark May Day in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, May 1, 2009, with a portrait of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin at left. During the Soviet era, May 1 was a major celebration of worker solidarity, Soviet might and the advent of spring. After the Soviet collapse, it provided an opportunity for Communists and others angry over the switch to lopsided capitalism to vent criticism.
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

The original photo was cutting off her shovel, so I added it as a way to restore historical justice.

Red Square....Very nice picture of Babushka Pinkie!

Pinkie, Obama has personally picked out your Faint Helmet and it's on the way!
You must be very special Pinkie! I think Obama has his eyes on you!
Here's a picture....


Now you can practice "Safe Speech" with Obama!
No more troublesome worrying about having a spontaneous Big "O" and fainting when Obama has a rally.
Your noggin will now be protected from harm.
Obama cares!

I have mixed up a fresh 55gal drum of The Party™ Approved Margarita (now with PeopleSpeak™) for celebrating this glorious day!It was a good text of the new 75hp Evinrude outboard motor I bought last week specifically for this purpose!!!

I'll just have Lupe wheel the 55gal drum out here...

uh...

WHERE THE HELL IS LUPE?

Nevermind!!!

Bruno! Kindly give me a hand rolling this 55gal drum of Margaritas. Thanks!

Bruno! That's a lovely red cocktail dress your wearing today, and the matching red shoes too! Let me guess... you wore red for May Day? Yep! I thought so. Did Comrade Herr Doktor Theocritus get all that for you? He did? How sweet! I'll bet you squealled like a school girl when he gave them to you. You know when Mrs. Blokhayev arrives here she will be dying to know where you got those shoes. But don't tell her! She has a collection of shoes that Imelda Marcos would have been envious of.

Tovarischka Pinkie!

I denounce you for such bourgeois luxuries! That is, unless the dress was made out of potato sacks dyed with beet juice...

That's her mom DDR.

Pinkie was wearing a sleeveless dress in the style of trend setter Michelle.
This economy of sleevelessness allows more homeless children to have clothes!
You never saw Laura Bush going sleeveless, did you? That's because George Bush wanted the children to go naked and freeze to death!

Oh, looky, it's Yelling Yelena again. Methinks Red Square may have a new flat cutout to add to his collection.

I do appreciate the helmet, even if it does amount to locking the barn long after the horse has been stolen if you know what I mean (though some might argue the horse was never there to begin with); but how am I supposed to tie my red headscarf over it? I cannot be seen without my red headscarf. That's how people know who I am. (That and the shovel, though they don't usually realize the latter till it's too late.)

But I would like to have shoes just like Michelle's--the ones that cost $540 and have cute sparkly pink toes?



And you just gave me a great idea, Laika! Let's ask all the masses to cut the sleeves off their clothes and go sleeveless like Michelle, to Raise Awareness and show how much We Care about homeless children who don't have clothes, let alone sleeves to cover their boney, chicken-skinny arms!

We can ask everyone to take their cut-off sleeves and mail them to us, and then we'll sew them into a giant Awareness Quilt that will tour the country and Raise Awareness about the need to provide homeless children with clothes and shoes, especially ones with sparkly pink toes. Because you're just not cool if you don't dress like Michelle or Barack.

Pinkie,

You're making me feel guilty, because I have a $200 pair of wing-tips. And there so many poor children in the world that do not have $200 pairs of wing-tips. I feel their inhuman suffering. This is so depressing...

Thank Lenin he sent us Obama and his plan for wealth redistribution!

Yes Pinkie!

Sleevelessness Cures Homelessness especially For the Children™

Zampolit, pass me another Margarita...thanks.
Such a glorious May Day!

Oh look! Bruno is sitting on top of the Maypole again!

Damn....Theocritus keeps greasing it every year and every year Bruno always finds a way to sit on top.
How does Bruno do it?

Check it out! He's even pitched a tent! I think maybe he's protesting or something....ohhhh....how Progressive is that for May Day?
I wonder what he's protesting?

I don't know, but for some reason, that picture has me thinking of the old story of how the angel got on top of the Christmas tree.

Zampolit: Guilt is good. And $200.00 wingtips are okay as long as you care about The Children as much as Michelle does.

And you do care, don't you?

Pinkie wrote:But I would like to have shoes just like Michelle's--the ones that cost $540 and have cute sparkly pink toes?

Damn it, Pinkie, did you have to post that? Now it's whine, whine, whine from Bruno about those shoes. These combine ruby red slippers and street cred, a place he's never been before.

Laika, Bruno is a mouth-breathing, slack-jawed monster of vanity who couldn't find his way through the simplest syllogism. But he's never found a pole yet he couldn't climb. Something innate.

Sweet Jesus! Was this woman reanimated by soviet RED ACORN agents??



quote: Yelena Saratova shouts as she and other Communist supporters march to mark May Day in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, May 1, 2009, with a portrait of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin at left.

Citizen's

I for one, remember the former Bush, fondly! Or is it I that remember fondling the Bush formerly? Anyway, my hands are clean!




Publius

Obama wrote:So Pinky, you can look forward to a new bicycle helmet retro-fitted to your tinfoil hat soon and so can every other American citizen as we blaze a Green trail into the 21st Century!

Comrade Obama,

You are skirting the edge of semantic political crime by using the eco-hostile, if regrettably DWEM-traditional expression "blaze a trail." Consider the unconscious endorsement to burn, rape, and pillage Gaia. Considering you suffer atavistic exploitation, this error can be overlooked. However, please update your expression to something more progressive, such as "nurture an organic sustainable earthway."

Zampolit Blokhayev wrote:You're making me feel guilty, because I have a $200 pair of wing-tips. And there so many poor children in the world that do not have $200 pairs of wing-tips. I feel their inhuman suffering. This is so depressing...

Thank Lenin he sent us Obama and his plan for wealth redistribution!

Comrade Zampolit,

Perhaps you are familiar with Tobias Jones, an ethnic former street pharmaceuticals sales rep who runs a storage business. He'll store anything for $10.99 a month. In the following advertisement for his business, he notes that "You can't feed a kid in Africa for that." I guess that means you can't feed 18 kids in Africa for those wingtips; however, you could store those wingtips at Jones' for a bargain price.

Not that I'm implying anything, but I'd hate to learn those wingtips lead you on a long one-way trek to somewhere far north, Arctic Circle north, of Irkutsk.

Comrade Laika the Space Dog, I found a picture of Michelle wearing more appropriate footwear, although I think they are still too extravagant. Back during Mao's Cultural Revolution we worked in the rice paddies barefoot. Afterward we'd lace up our toes and proudly march back to town.


As for Shouting Yelena, she does resemble Pinkie's avatar....before you add water.

Did the rethuglikkkans steal the People's Pants from the Fearless Leader?

Speaking of shoes, just before the news about Michelle's sneakers broke out, we posted this:

Red Square wrote:An excellent example is this pair of shoes made of prole feet. Comfortable in any weather and have a fun feature of turning blue when walking on snow or ice. Low in maintenance - just spray them with Odor-Eaters when they begin to smell and apply sunblock in the summer.

My dear Comrade Cosmonaut Laika, how nice of you to host the first USSA May Day celebration. Next we're going to honor your birthday if you would be so kind to inform us the date.

Let's see now, hmmm, where's that damn teleprompter?

Comrade Obama, don't screw this up! You are going to announce some more changes! Yes, yes, yes, I know, it's all about change. We're going to transform the USSA to the Workers' Paradise, beginning with takeover of all farms - yes, Collective Farms, complete with peasants! Ah! Communism is so much fun, and we need lots of peasants to celebrate next year's May Day.

The Iron Curtain was glorius we'll need to form a Soviet Bloc, comrades, prepare a list of neighbor countries we can intimidate and subjugate! Go talk to Comrade Chavez and Comrade Castro, get their advice. Bring them back to this website. Let's start with Canada, perhaps? Any Canadians around here? We mustn't deprive them of the Workers' Paradise, and the opportunity to become peasants!


LONG LIVE MARXISM-LENINISM-STALINISM! - the triumphant banner of Great October, the powerful ideologial weapon of the workers of all nations in the struggle against imperialism, for the victory of socialism and communism.

Comrades, we must all be willing to take decisive action for the Progressive World of Next Tuesday™. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Actions do not have consequences. And we have hate-crime, i.e., Thoughtcrime™ legislation.

Nothing should stall our progress toward perfect liberty. Property is Theft. Sensitivity seminars may not be enough; we could have holiday camps where reactionaries are persuaded of their errors.


This is, after all, the logical next step.

Comrades,

I'm sorry, but I must respectfully disagree... I do not think this Yelling Yelena at all resembles our beloved Commissarka Pinkie, who is beautiful and not at all wrinkled... Nor does Pinkie reek of stale sweat or have the obvious oral hygiene issues of this Bellowing Baba, whose breath I can only imagine must equal that of her bodily pungency, making up in the reek of stale cigarette smoke only what it lacks in fermented perspiration... Our Pinkie in no way resembles Yelling Yelena, either after or before adding water, but rather has lovely apple cheeks and a big smile that makes her eyes light up... And just give her a beet...

She is not at all some dessicated Baba with stained teeth... Her visible gold dental work frames blindingly white incisors and canines, which are often on display as she is such a ray of sunshine and spreads her happiness freely. Her lambent smile illumines dim corners of the Cube that would otherwise be obscured, freeing up useful storage space we never even knew we had. Her happiness is infectious, especially when you see her striding purposefully through the halls of the Cube on some mission or other, her shovel slung over one shoulder and a large bouquet of freshly pulled beets swinging in her hand as she grasps them by the greens (beet green salad is lovely with a raspberry vinaigrette), humming Kalinka slightly under her breath. Even the fresh black rich soil she sprays about as she marches vigorously, her free arm and beet bouquet swinging in a wide and energetic, through the passageways, makes us smile, as it is so evocative of the constancy of her good nature and work ethic, and the joy she brings to all she does.

No... Yelling Yelena... The Bellowing Babushka, most reminds me of Flat Fatima,


and by extension, her flat compatriots...

The Flat Islamic Rage Boy....


Flat Bagdad Bob

<br>... and many others which can be found in the Everybody Loves Ahmedinejad thread, as well as the More Media Icons Join Struggle to Reform News thread.

These Characters are much more in line with the aspect which some have so thoughtlessly associated with our beloved and beautiful Peasant (dare I say) Princess - only because she is such a shining example to us all - Pinkie Obama. She is our First Lady of Beets and Shovels and in this regard she never fails to bring honour to the Cube. Were Chavez himself to visit, handing Our Glorious Roseate Hexahedron a copy of Eduardo Galeano's "Open Veins of Latin America", Red would no doubt offer in return a shovel sharpened by Pinkie herself, as well as a basket of her freshly pulled beets. And she would be so happy.

I can only hope that our poor little friend is in no way reliant on or indentured to Yelling Yelena, the Bellowing Babushka...


It would be a sad thing indeed and the pod would have to do everything its power to free this poor poochie from her odiferous clutches so he could come and live among us happily at TPC. He is clearly a hard working little guy who, I'm sure, would happily dig for beets to earn his living, and give thanks for the honour of being in such close proximity to Hero Space Dog Laika, Friend of People (and hard working doggies everywhere). Of course, if Pinkie were opposed to his working in the beet fields, Housekeeping could always find a place for him.

Shovel Ready,
SMO

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Comrades, we must all be willing to take decisive action for the Progressive World of Next Tuesday™. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Actions do not have consequences. And we have hate-crime, i.e., Thoughtcrime™ legislation.

Nothing should stall our progress toward perfect liberty. Property is Theft. Sensitivity seminars may not be enough; we could have holiday camps where reactionaries are persuaded of their errors.


This is, after all, the logical next step.

Comrade Commissar Theocritus,

You are, of course, correct... I had envisioned a more individual logical next step...


... but yours is much more in keeping with the progressive spirit of our collectivism...

Bravo - Your thinking is always so much more global than mine. I envy your aptitude at considering the bigger picture.

Respectfully
Sister Massively Opiated
Kommissar of Housekeeping

Not at all, Sister, not at all. At one time I was a bit of a scientist although a fourth-rate one, and we were taught to divine theories from the real world, test them, and if they broke discard or refine them.

This evil practice still haunts me, in making me think as generally as possible. Politics is local, as Tip O'Neill told us, and so the true spirit of Progressive Politics is not gas ovens but burying people one by one. It also helps the unemployment figures.

But I denounce myself for any thought of scientific method. Notice my Thoughtcrime™ in the idea that I would form a theory, test it against nature, and if the theory was wrong, discard or modify it.

<i>What kind of progressive lets nature get in his way</i>? I ask you. Nature has nothing on me. I will not be snootered by nature. If I can't get what I want then I'll just use a bigger hammer.

That's why we may need the reeducation camps. And the Thought Police. And of course Jiffi-Lobo. To deal with people who insist that reality is real and not a mere construct.

All hail the Golem Life!

Comrade Commissar,

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Nothing should stall our progress toward perfect liberty.

Sssshhhh! You may not use the "L" word, comrade. I have forbidden Comrade Obama to use that word. Ask Comrade Hillary to re-educate you about THE GREATER GOOD.
Otherwise:
You will find your re-education to be a change, comrade.
Ask Comrade Obama about change!
Saul
LONG LIVE THE INDISSOLUTE UNION OF THE WORKING CLASS, THE PEASANTRY, AND THE INTELLIGENTSIA! active builders of Communism

Sister Massively Opiated wrote:Comrades,

I'm sorry, but I must respectfully disagree... I do not think this Yelling Yelena at all resembles our beloved Commissarka Pinkie, who is beautiful and not at all wrinkled... Nor does Pinkie reek of stale sweat or have the obvious oral hygiene issues of this Bellowing Baba, whose breath I can only imagine must equal that of her bodily pungency, making up in the reek of stale cigarette smoke only what it lacks in fermented perspiration... Our Pinkie in no way resembles Yelling Yelena, either after or before adding water, but rather has lovely apple cheeks and a big smile that makes her eyes light up... And just give her a beet...

That is exactly why Yelling Yelena the Braying Babushka would be such a welcome addition to the glorious collective. Just imagine, comrades. Open your minds. Visualize Yelena sitting with us on the ledge...

Sister Massively Opiated wrote:

Commissar Theocritus wrote:
Nothing should stall our progress toward perfect liberty. Property is Theft. Sensitivity seminars may not be enough; we could have holiday camps where reactionaries are persuaded of their errors.

*^* edited scene of horror #1 *^*

This is, after all, the logical next step.

Comrade Commissar Theocritus,

You are, of course, correct... I had envisioned a more individual logical next step...


*^* edited scene of horror #2 *^*

... but yours is much more in keeping with the progressive spirit of our collectivism...

I think these comrades should be docked a days' ration for napping on the job!

Saul Alinsky wrote:Comrade Commissar,

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Nothing should stall our progress toward perfect liberty.

Sssshhhh! You may not use the "L" word, comrade. I have forbidden Comrade Obama to use that word. Ask Comrade Hillary to re-educate you about THE GREATER GOOD.
Otherwise:

Have you been reading your daily Lenin, Comrade? I think not, or else you might have noticed this:

"It is true liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed"
-- Vladimir Lenin

In other words, or course the People can have liberty. They can have however much liberty the Party rations out to them.

Saul, I'm using a Progressive version of Liberty. My liberty has nothing whatsoever to do with volition and agency. In fact, My liberty is utterly and completely consonant with the proles being told to do everything that they do, every breath to take.

If all is for the state and nothing is outside the state, then no one will have any worries whatsoever. The state will care for all: food, shelter, medical care: everything. The people will worry about nothing for all will be provided for them by the best experts, whose advice is not to be questioned.

In that way they will be redeemed from the worries of daily living and will experience perfect liberty.


This is by the way the Islamic definition of perfect freedom in Allah. An eye opening book is <a href=" the Believers: An Islamic Journey</a> by V. S. Naipaul.

Red Square wrote:

Sister Massively Opiated wrote:Comrades,

I'm sorry, but I must respectfully disagree... I do not think this Yelling Yelena at all resembles our beloved Commissarka Pinkie, who is beautiful and not at all wrinkled... Nor does Pinkie reek of stale sweat or have the obvious oral hygiene issues of this Bellowing Baba, whose breath I can only imagine must equal that of her bodily pungency, making up in the reek of stale cigarette smoke only what it lacks in fermented perspiration... Our Pinkie in no way resembles Yelling Yelena, either after or before adding water, but rather has lovely apple cheeks and a big smile that makes her eyes light up... And just give her a beet...

That is exactly why Yelling Yelena the Braying Babushka would be such a welcome addition to the glorious collective. Just imagine, comrades. Open your minds. Visualize Yelena sitting with us on the ledge...

Aawwwwwwwwww!.... I family foto... It is wonderful. I have printed one off and put it in a little frame on my night stand. Perhaps, Red, you might render some other family pictures for the scrapbook, for when I am old and no longer of use to the Cube, and they leave me on an ice flow to float away peacefully, or below a tree in the snow to fall asleep as the cold overtakes my brittle bones, so that by the time the wolves come to feed on me, I will already have 'gone', clutching to me my People's Cube Family scrapbook.

Glorious News!
I was able to celebrate May Day in San Francisco. I am happy to report our progessive movement has truly lifted the spirits of our gay progressive brothers and sisters. The organizational skills of the party has made a permanent impact with them and has assured their party loyality for years to come!!!!!
I was near a little park that overlooked the San Francisico bay and was listening to Cecil and Seymour, two of my gay progressive marching buddies as they marveled at the view. Seymour was pointing out a ship he saw in the bay to Cecil. He said " Hey Cecil, What kind of ship is that?" Seymour replied, " Ohhhh thats a fairy boat". Cecil got all excited then and said "A Fairy boat?.......I knew we were organized but our own navy!!!!!!"

Happy May Day all.

Sister, your days of use to the Party are far from over. After all, where would we be without your constant suggestions as to our housekeeping? Not only the broom-and-mop stuff, but housekeeping with, er, wet work. And I don't mean mopping.

Snoogie Woogums, in this the American navy is greatly behind the Italian one. How do you separate the men from the boys in the Italian navy? With a crow-bar.

Obama wrote:I'm sorry Pinky O.

It's just that my Surgeon General....ummm...what's his name...it's not scrolling dammit!...Sanjay Gupta...What? He turned it down? Steven K. Galson? A Bush appointee is still Surgeon General with the world in crisis with Wine Flu? ...oops...Swine Flu?...There it's scrolling again..

Fear not, tovarish Obama, your glorious namesake learned that the evil Gupta is a tool of the capitalist medical industry. Remember how he dissed loyal comrade Michael Moore?



Clearly, the Obamessiah had to choose the lesser of two evils.

"heaving sigh" Comrades, just to set the record straight, I never implied that Pinkie is dried out and wrinkled. It is Yelena who is in need of hydration IMHO. And I was speaking of Pinkie's avatar, not Pinkie herself.

That's the last time I paraphrase a Dennis Miller joke.

Good enough, Whoopie. Now as long as you're crawling around on all fours, why not crawl over here and pick up your teeth. Lucky for you there don't seem to be too many; you're not talking with a lisp.

And that was just a warning! Next time you do something as stupid as that, it'll be Yelling Yelena coming at you with the shovel.

You think you're scared now? You should see her naked.

Whoopie, I would do some serious shopping about now. I've seen Pinkie in action. You think you have, and are missing a few teeth but that's nothing to her in real action. There is actually a John Deere Pinkie model combine harvester in the works.

I'd suggest at the minimum a very fine 30% PbO cut-glass vodka decanter filled with not Stoly but potato vodka. And a couple of cases of that vodka to go with it.

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Michael Moore has done the impossible--made Larry King look smart.

Michael Moore has done the impossible--made Bruno not seem like a bitch.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote: But I would like to have shoes just like Michelle's--the ones that cost $540 and have cute sparkly pink toes?


Because you're just not cool if you don't dress like Michelle or Barack.

Comrades:

I feel better knowing that Michelle Obama cares about the proletariat. Plus, she is helping support our French socialist brethren (the shoes are made by a French company).

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Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that there is not a single crease or scuff on Lady Macbeth's Michelle Obama's expensive sneakers? It looks like she just took them out of the box before going slumming with the "Little People."

$540 could have bought a lot of food for that food bank she went to. I wonder how much she and His O'liness donated to the food bank.

RDC, bear in mind that this is nothing to Her Resentment. She sneered at the Bu$hitler's $600 tax credit. What's that? A new pair of earrings?

But she's come so far. Her parents went to her brother's basketball games. They grew up in a one-bedroom house, and had four knives, four spoons and four forks.

Shopping around you can buy 60 knives, 60 forks, 60 salad forks, 60 spoons, 60 soup spoons and 25 serving pieces in Gorham or Wallace 18/10 stainless steel for that $600.

Commissar Theocritus:

You are, of course, correct: this is the racist country that forced her to attend Princeton and later take that $300,000/year job at the hospital. (Curiously, the hospital has apparently not seen fit to fill that position since His O'liness left Chicago for the White House People's Executive Mansion and took Lady Macbeth Michelle with him.)

I just noticed that my 8 month old has the same cute little glittery toecaps on her tennies. Does that make her the darling of Time and Newsweek and every other magazine on the face of the damn planet? Oh, wait, I forgot, she's not black. Cancel that order for liftoff... divert all power to forward shields.

RDC, I see that you are not sufficiently familiar with the process of being a Made Progressive.

The reason that the position has not been filled is that she so defined it that no one else can do it. It's like retiring the jersey number of a famous football player.

You see how this works in? Since Michele was the definition of good health care, there is no use in trying for health care any more. So we'll just have affordable health care, which will be play-or-pay scheme, and the hospitals and doctors will be regulated and enslaved made to see the light of social justice.

The money for health care will be used for socialist redistributionism, paying off constituent groups, funding pressure groups because money is fungible improving accessibility to health care. But since Her Resentment is no longer involved in health care, there is no reason to worry all that much about it.

Except for the really good hospitals for the elite party members. Who haven't yet figured out that socialized medicine in America means the death of medical research.

Snoogie Woogums, in this the American navy is greatly behind the Italian one. How do you separate the men from the boys in the Italian navy? With a crow-bar.

I have to respectfully disagree with this Commissar. The New Italian Navy has made great strides in bringing her fleet into the 21st century. Her Navy is modern and state of of the art. Her new navy also has made sure to honor her maritime past by ensuring her newest warships have glass bottom hulls, to ensure her crews can see witness the glory of the old Italian Navy.

There is an old joke about Europe.

In heaven the mechanics are German, the cooks French, the police English [it's an <i>old</i> joke], the lovers Italian, and everything is run by the Swiss.

In hell the mechanics are French, the cooks English, the police German, the lovers Swiss, and everything is run by the Italians.

In 2050 the mechanics and camel breeders are Arabs, the cooks Arab, the religious police Arabs, the lovers Arabs, and everything is run by Sharia.

Comrade Commissar Theocritus:

Thank you for explaining the thought-process of Her Resentment, Lady Macbeth Michelle O, to me. Now I understand that, since the $540 spent on the fancy French sneakers was an insignificant sum of money, giving $540 to the food bank instead of buying the trendy sneakers is a meaningless act. Therefore, the proletariat get to bask in Her Resentment's glow rather than getting extra food. That is vastly more important.

This is like a new gold-brocaded chasuble and miter for the bishop when the peasants' children are dying of malnutrition.

Or like Mao copulating with a thousand virgins, which was supposed to bring immortality, when Chinese families ate their animals, the birds, the fish, the snakes. And they would make a trade. One family would trade one of its children to another family with a child of the same size. It was considered too difficult to eat your own child. I have forgotten the Chinese name

I propose a new definition for the Cube. Whenever someone holds forth about her charity and concern for the poor but buys $540 sneakers, it should be christened a <i>lanvin</i> now. <i>N'est-ce pas</i>?

Boy oh boy!

Look at the Progress Comrade Kim Jong "Chillin'"Il has made with the never too soon to be completed Ryugyong Hotel of Doom! Bloom!

Dear Leader has shown the West that DPRK has the greatest fireworks platform this Grorius May Day!

Rook at the bootiful brossoms of fire!


Don't worry.
With help from Egypt the project that began in 1987 will be completed in 2012, 10 years ahead of the 5 Year Program!

Laika, Hero Space Dog, it is my understanding that they used Mexican concrete engineers. We were at the Hotel Century in 1981 in the Zona Rosa in Mexico DF, so new that even the bar at the top was not open, and that's a new hotel in Mexico. The concrete was already crumbling owing to too much sand.

Comrade_Tovarich :

Here is another group of Community Activists, this time in Mobire, Arabama. They think have spotted a Reprauchan but I'm worried that they have given away the rocation of one of my crack spies interrigence officers, who has a surveirrance post up in a tree. He has been trained to heroicarry use a Raser to paint a homing beacon on the site where on of my Big Frashes(tm) is schedured for derivery as part of my Fireworks For Peace Program Of Sociarist Enrightenment.


Crick on rink here.

Red Square wrote:Speaking of shoes, just before the news about Michelle's sneakers broke out, we posted this:

Red Square wrote:An excellent example is this pair of shoes made of prole feet. Comfortable in any weather and have a fun feature of turning blue when walking on snow or ice. Low in maintenance - just spray them with Odor-Eaters when they begin to smell and apply sunblock in the summer.

WOW! It all makes sense! Just like the Shoe Prophet, Al Bundy, saw in his "vision"!

Laika the Space Dog wrote:Comrades!</p> <p>It is no coincidence that<br> May Day would fall on a<br> Friday this Glorious Year<br> in The Progressive World<br> of This Tuesday!</p> <p>We deserve a three-day weekend!</p>

Congratulations Comrades! Of course, I already enjoy a 3 day weekend, was doing so even when the Bushilter regime was in power, but I was more progressive even then!

Many thanks Zampolit for the "refreshments!"

On this glorious occasion I can only ask one thing.....Given the recent failure of our MSM in covering up the many times Comrade Nancy failed us by knowing of and approving the most vile tortures on our peaceful Islamic comrades, I feel we should teach her the following skill I have trained my undercover agents to employ when faced with embarrassing or potentially threatening situations.....

Marshall Pupovich - we are in possession of a compromising photo of you falling asleep on the job after consuming too many Party Margaritas while celebrating May Day with a juicy piece of juicy beef steak. Or were you playing dead when the owner of the steak showed up to claim his limb back?

Are those ciggies at your left paw, comrade Marshal dogovich?

With such small ears, how <i>do</i> you snoop on people so much?

Dear Lenin in Collective Paradise.....Who took that picture of me? Not that I see anything compromising about said photo....it is only right that the People's Pup enjoyed the fruits of the Peoples Progress on May Day!

Comrade Whoopie wrote:Comrade Space Doggie, I found a picture of Michelle wearing more appropriate footwear, although I think they are still too extravagant. Back during Mao's Cultural Revolution we worked in the rice paddies barefoot. Afterward we'd lace up our toes and proudly march back to town.


As for Shouting Yelena, she does resemble Pinkie's avatar....before you add water.

are those bottles??? chic!!

No doubt this will set a style trend.

Red Square wrote:I think we have located Pinkie's long-lost mother.

Yahoo News wrote:Yelena Saratova shouts as she and other Communist supporters march to mark May Day in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia,....

I think, I found the American incarnation of the same powerful character. Also from Yahoo!

mi wrote:

Red Square wrote:I think we have located Pinkie's long-lost mother.

Logical Contradiction Alert!!!!

Assuming that the people who have to "Get Out of Afghanistan & Iraq NOW!" are soldiers, wouldn't many of those soldiers, now without military deployment, actually lose their jobs? And wouldn't those same demobbed soldiers than need new jobs? And where would those new jobs come from if yelling lady in brown burqa and head scarf also needed a job? Now we are confused - which is the first stage of philosophy.

Perhaps their website offers some answer to this contradiction
http://www.bailoutthepeople.org/

Then again, no.

Just why, Rex, would anyone want a job? That indicates that Progressives don't value OPM enough. Now as for me, I don't want a job. That would mean I'd have to work and do something useful. Whereas as a Made Progressive all I have to do is platitudinize and throw off attitude, and I'm all set to go.

Screw jobs. Attitude's where it's at.

And if you don't agree, I'll strip you of your Made Progressive badge. It would hurt me, but we cannot have insubordination, or industry, in the ranks.

Whatever you say, comrade Rex, I still think, the pictured lady can only look hotter with a shovel instead of the placard.

Given a shovel, she'll also be able to start digging NOW, and no longer need to look for (another) job.

Comrades! I hereby vote this thread A Cube Classic!... ummmmmm... any seconds? thirds?.... ummmm anyone?.... (*gulp*... is Comrade Lenin coming down the hall with hatchet again???)

Excellent work comrades!

Shovel prove mighty good heap comrades... Hail Obama!

I will vote this thread a Cube Classic for the following reasons:

1. Proclaiming it a Cube Classic is to bestow upon it a special status.

2. To have a special status requires special protections.

3. Special protections can only be made possible through continued federal funding.

4. Federal funding can only be granted after the establishment of a government program for the express purpose of protecting (a) threads identified as Cube Classics, and (b) the jobs of Cube Classic Czar and all those employed in the Federal Cube Classic Administration (FCCA).

5. A government program is the very essence of an entitlement.

6. Entitlements are forever.

I can't imagine anyone voting against this.

Hmmmm... "Cube Classic Czar" ... I may have to look into that. Is that listed on the Extra-Curricular Grants and Other Subsidies work sheet? Oh, and I know Obama froze our federally funded pay, but he didn't freeze, freeze our pay.

Although it is mighty cold down here in the 2009 May Day Address thread... brrrrrrrrrrr.......