Al-Qaeda Kidnaps Obama's Teleprompter


![]() | In an audacious raid Friday, al-Qaeda terrorists managed to slip past White House security and seize President Obama's teleprompter. Their demands were released in a grainy video, which apparently showed the president's teleprompter, bound and blindfolded but unharmed, while heavily armed masked men stood behind it, quoting from the Qur'an. The content of their demands is not being released. President Obama, visibly shaken, attempted to address the White House press corps on his own. "Words, uh, um, I, uh, heh-heh, well..." |
"I uh, know that," quipped the president testily. "And... I'll make sure my staff, uh, gets back with you," he resumed after regaining his composure. Bravely attempting to continue his speech without the teleprompter, Mr. Obama said, "Um, let me be, uh, clear. Um, this barbaric act will not be, you know, tolerated. And... We call on all nations to help us fi-fi-find that, uh, you know, teleprompter. You're either with us or, um, against us. And... I have authorized CIA director, uh, Leon Panetta to use, um, enhanced interrogation techniques to be e-e-employed to help us gain, um, like facts and stuff... that these uh, you know, evildoers may have. And... I have directed that one prisoner be executed every 30 minutes until they-they-they restore that, uh, you know, teleprompter."
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There is a way to retrieve our beloved teleprompter.
You threaten them with the wrath of Comrade Hillary!


Then we'll have it back just in time for me to prepare his next speech.
by the way, Greetings, Dear Leader, it's an honor to appear on the same website with you.
All the best, Saul!



Шовел 4 У
Маы тхе лорд обама граце ёур дача витх хеавы тах бурден тодаы.


It seems to me that he only stammers and falters when he's being forced to speak words that go against his own deeply held beliefs. Words that paint him as a moderate.
Let's hear the real Obama in his own words for a change (we can believe in).


Apparently not: or at least his blog doesn't reflect it yet.









Merciful Kim Jong-Il
mayIt's indeed a great honor, Dear Leader, to reply to you. Only you can be the most merciful, Dear Leader. I will have Obama to pattern our new Gulag labor camps after yours in order that he can be merciful to our [heh! heh!] political
Congratulations, Dear Leader, on your nuclear bomb test! How delightfully exciting! I will send Obama, without his teleprompter, to Pyongyang to grovel to you. I got him to bow down to King Abdullah, so he owes you that. I'll have him bring you some DVDs! How about Dr. Strangelove?





In the meantime, have our Dear Laika the Space Dog beam all of Dear Master's speeches to Al Jazeera for all to hear, including the kidnappers, who will be driven crazy and beg to return TOTUS back to Master.
Although, I like Comrade Saul Alinsky's suggestion, too.



Obama "speachless"? I think not, remember Lincoln created the first "teleprompter" by writing the Gettysburg address on the back of an envelope! Obama just needs to use his imagination.......
Publius






I personally am always delighted when you honor our web site with your scholarly wisdom. Like you and Comrade General Secretary B. Hussain Obama, I too congratulate Comrade Kim Jong-Il on their successful nuclear bomb test and missile tests. This will no doubt strike fear into AmeriKa's already fragile economy. But there are a few things that concern me.
First, counter-revolutionary anti-socialist forces have begun to "out" you and your teachings that His Excellency, General Secretary B. Hussain Obama mastered so thoroughly. See as an example:http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277. Clearly they must be silenced.
Second, what has happened to our
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Zamplolit Blokhayev


Leninka
Just hook the legendary Comrade Castro up to a phone line that reaches an ear piece in our Dear Leader's ear, have our Master B.O. repeat whatever he says, and keep our Dear Leader talking for nine hours at a stretch.In the meantime, have our Dear Laika the Space Dog beam all of Dear Master's speeches to Al Jazeera for all to hear, including the kidnappers, who will be driven crazy and beg to return TOTUS back to Master.
Although, I like Comrade Saul Alinsky's suggestion, too.Why, thank you, Comrade Lenika!
We will soon find that, upon return of the teleprompter, it will be reprogrammed with the teachings of Al Jazzera - ha! ha! - the
All the best, comrade,
Saul




Zampolit Blokhayev
Comrade Alinsky,I personally am always delighted when you honor our web site with your scholarly wisdom. Like you and Comrade General Secretary B. Hussain Obama, I too congratulate Comrade Kim Jong-Il on their successful nuclear bomb test and missile tests. T... Yes, and thank you, Comrade Blokhayev,
we must send Comrade Obama, the annointed one, to The Dear Leader, Kim Jung-IL, to personally congratulate him and the peace loving people of the great PDRK.
Quote:
First, counter-revolutionary anti-socialist forces have begun to "out" you and your teachings that His Excellency, General Secretary B. Hussain Obama mastered so thoroughly. See as an example:http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=318470857908277. Clearly they must be silenced. Yes, we are going to shut down these vile talk show hosts - we'll outsource their re-education to The Dear Leader, Kim Jung-IL.Quote:
Second, what has happened to our

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ZB


Red Square
Comrade Leninka! Thank you for the great submission. Be assured that Comrade Castro isn't the only one sending transmissions to Dear Leader's ear.
Thank you Comrade Red Square,
I never doubted for a moment, Comrade Laika's influence on both TOTUS and our Dear Leader, especially those times when Our Dear Leader has mocked any evil Rethuglicans, tickling the funny bones of millions of Progs.


Don't worry, we have replaced Obama's TOTUS with a new implanted device which recieves signals directly from the Kremlin. We needed to stage the attack to make Obama look strong..
Brezhnev and Putin out....


Premier Brezhnev
For internal Politboro use only.... From the KGBDon't worry, we have replaced Obama's TOTUS with a new implanted device which recieves signals directly from the Kremlin. We needed to stage the attack to make Obama look strong..
Brezhnev and Putin out....
Comrade. The quote is. ''Your words fall on Deaf Ears''. What makes you think he can hear? 'The One is an accomplished Line Reader. Hence the 'Love Affair' with the TOTUS. It must be returned. Elst (I like Elst) he will Pine away to nothing. He has already rejected 'The Female One" and refuses to have anything to do with her until she wears a Sandwhich Board with his message on it.


Red
Why is his his blog calling Janet Napolitano "Bruno"? Can she sing Tico Tico in a baritone voice while wearing a fruit basket on her head?I did not want to reveal it but when Janet Napolitano gets to the Rancho it's worse than that other Janet, the Waco Bomber. She's the only thing to scare the nano Jimmy Carter rabbits.


It is possible however that al Qaeda might kidnap the head of the prog, but since progs feel in their hearts and never think, this will prove only to be disadvantage when a prog goes into the rain with an improperly sewed-up head amputation.




Lead, us, Your Royal Highness, Son of TelePrompTer, to the Progressive World of Next Tuesday, that is Next Tuesday, the first one in November 2012, which will be just another day.


Zampolit Blokhayev
Thank you, Comrade Alinsky!!! Your words are most reassuring!!!ZBThank you again, Comrade Blokhayev, and Greetings, Comrade Commissar Theocritus.
I am pleased to announced that we are going to solve this little misunderstanding with The Dear Leader, Kim Jong-IL, once and for all, just as soon as we have our teleprompter back; or just as soon as we can rig up something for Comrade
My dear comrades, the greatest announcement in the history of Communism!
Comrade President
It's for The Greater Good!
The masses demanded change, they're going to get change. Heh! heh! To start things off

The Dear Leader








Commissar Theocritus
Saul, I'm worried that it might be a triumvirate: Dear Leader, Osama Bin Laden, and George Soros. What about all the egos concerned? It didn't work in Rome. Could it work here?
That triggers a thought: think of how Mark Anthony stirred up the crowd to read Caesar's will without a teleprompter and without some Marxist Feminist to interpret the real meaning of his speech for the masses.




Guardian of Pravda
Let's ask the Teleprompter! Oh we can't. It's still in bondage. Bondage? Hey!!!!!! Is that thing perverted? A S&M Teleprompter? I was always suspicious of it. It seemed to like being hurt. Like in Colorado when it flew off the stand and former comrade Biden asked the million dollar questions, ''How will I tell the President I broke his Teleprompter?'' ''What he going to do now?''
Hmmm a kinky teleprompter? This bears investigation. Right after I get these ropes and things off of my chief investigatress.


Commissar_Elliott
So does this mean our Islamic friends are our enemies until we get the teleprompter back?Comrade Commissar Elliott,
While I would take this as a casus belli, or case our belly, since it is thought crime of a rare sort: stealing prog thought from the Prog in Chief, I fear you are not nuanced enough. I mean, which Islamic friends? And is not the teleprompter in fact redistributed to those who, since they stole it, clearly needed it more?
I must consult my Little Red Book on this one.


Publius Valerius
Citizen'sObama "speachless"? I think not, remember Lincoln created the first "teleprompter" by writing the Gettysburg address on the back of an envelope! Obama just needs to use his imagination.......
Publius

Shouldn't that be '10? Gotta get the masses angry (and if you're not angry, you're not thinking) in advance!
But otherwise, "Huzzah!"


Commissar Theocritus
Yes! He shines with an inner light! It's Globama!{prog status of}
This is good, marketable good: a glo-stick 0bama. You the prog
Feeling in the dark? Lost, dazed, and confused? Forget chicken soup for your soul or sole:
Let Gl0bama guide you!
{prog status on}


Also is there not usually a SPARE TOTUS? Thus we have two and they have none, so the prog thing to do would be give them three.


Just think of the wreckage that would be caused in the world if TOTUS has POTUS say, for example, at a graduation ceremony for a sports-mad college, "Where's the football? Press the goddamned button and kiss your ass good-by, Putin! We will have a true socialist victory. Tell me that there are some problems that government can't solve" instead of "Congratulations on your football victory."


Guardian of Pravda
Let's ask the Teleprompter! Oh we can't. It's still in bondage. Bondage? Hey!!!!!! Is that thing perverted? A S&M Teleprompter? I was always suspicious of it. It seemed to like being hurt. Like in Colorado when it flew off the stand and former comrade Biden asked the million dollar questions, ''How will I tell the President I broke his Teleprompter?'' ''What he going to do now?''
Comrade Guardian! Beware of such speech. The verkhovnyi sovet is working on a bill that makes this a thought crime. For real. However, by Lenin, is it possible that The One may be guilty of such crimes himself if he refuses the GLBT unions? Read this quote from a current article in the reactionary worldnetdaily:
"Obama, supported strongly during his campaign by homosexual advocates, appears ready to respond to their desires."
What 'desires' did the homosexual advocates have in mind?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99486



"WASHINGTON – Barack Obama has promised the mother of Matthew Shepard fast action in the U.S. Senate to approve a 'hate crimes' bill that critics say would establish the first special legal protections for pedophiles and those with an array of other sexual proclivities."
Calling it the pedophile protection bill--this is simply vicious meanness. Most pedophiles are straight. Get it? Straight. the problem with pedophilia is, ready for this? Pedophilia. This is the same sort of slash-and-burn rubbish that the moonbats use when they link "conservative" to "Nazi."
Because in this case they're right.
560,000 letters? Jeez. There are times that I almost become a Democrat.
I do not approve of hate-crime legislation; killing me is no worse than killing my straight brother. Murder is murder. There are legal reasons for civil unions between adults--and don't even go toward "marrying your pet"; I'll rip out your throat and shit in the hole.
There is a very good conservative reason for civil unions. To keep gay children, who do not, and pay attention now, choose to be gay, from leaving their roots and families, becoming deracinated, meaning uprooted (sorry for being condescending), and falling under the suasion of moonbats in San Francisco and New York.
Do you like seeing bearded men dressed as roller-skating nuns? I don't either. If a kid didn't feel forced to leave his family, his friends, then the foot soldiers for the moonbattery would simply decline into blatant absurdity. As it is, gays in small towns and conservative towns have to be brave and empowered--money, abilities, intelligence--to be openly gay. What about gays of lesser ability? They need their family and friends more than the other ones do. And when they hear this wretched meanness--pedophile-protection bill my aching ass--they with perfect reason feel scared. And they go to the Democratic party.
Do you know just how hard it is to get gays not to vote Democrat with vicious monsters like this howling in their insular, squinty-eyed self-righteousness?
As long as this rubbish continues the Republican Party will continue to drive off people, because they may like the economic policies, the policies of self-reliance but would anyone not one of these right-wing moonbats be a Republican after seeing their squinty letter-writing hatred?


in the spirit of moderation, my post and the link was not meant to offend. Deep down inside, I believe the author of the article and you have the same goal in mind. A crime is a crime is a crime. There is no need for special legislation as it makes one group more equal than another.
The article does not say that pedophiles are homosexual. But what makes a homosexual or a pedophile more special than a straight person or someone who is after people of adult age? Gays=pedophiles did not even come to mind. What actually came to mind is what The One would do if one of his daughters were molested and they bit him.
In any case, the reason I quoted the article is for the sentence above in light of the kinky teleprompter...
Mea culpa for disturbing the peace of the World of Next Tuesday.


This is the group that wrote hate letters to Hallmark. Pepsi gave a grant to a gay outreach group in Pepsico. I do not believe in preferential treatment but Pepsi took the stance that they wanted talent, no matter where. This is the stance that WalMart, Apple, IBM, and a hundred other firms took. But this group wrote hate letters and boycotted Pepsi. Swanson Broth had a commercial with a lesbian couple. This is the group boycotting Campbell's products. Why? Meanness.
No, the article does not say that homosexuals are pedophiles. But the implication is there. "The pedophile protection bill" from a hate-crime bill? Rank polemics.
I am personally irritated by these people cutting off their noses to spite their faces. And my face too. Conservatives need all the help that we can get; the affluent have defected to the Demothieves, using them I think as a personal shopper for their conspicuous consumption. I have conservative friends who voted for His O'liness despite severe problems with the Jeremiah Wright connection because they fear the religious right. And they're straight people too.
And what about the great preponderance of decent conservative Christians that I know? Why is it only the kooks that make the noise? Well perhaps kooks make noise.
I wish someone would take these people to the outhouse and 'splain to them that they are a major reason for the decline in the Republican party.




All criminals to gulag with shovel. If leadership works them hard enough they will not have time for criminal behavior.


However old Gulag closing, new one opening. Old one had Stigma attached and had to be closed until stigma dissipates.
They will issue new shovels in same old hands. However everyone will feel good at new surroundings. Comes with heated water and lava lamp. What means Krakatoa?


If I don't get to use my impaling stakes any more I'm going to be one pissed-off commissar.


Fires at the feet are optional.


After impaling, will dissenter's heads be severed posted on stakes by gates of gulag? Next to sign reading "Work will set you free!"




Anyone making colon jokes in this regard will be summarily impaled by Commissar Theocritus who seems to be in the proper mood for it right now.








By all means Genosse Pieck, do call me Vlad. I try not to do more impaling than necessary; one needs proles, of course. How do you think I can man the Jiffi-Lobos? I only impale when the Jiffi-Lobos have been unsuccessful. There are a few people who, and you will not credit it, have been resistant to the Metzenbaum scissors twirled in their prefrontal lobes and no matter how energetic the lobotomist has been, these poor people have refused to see the light, or refused rather to refuse to see the light. Which I find to be an interesting logical conundrum, and that means...
...sorry. Just got back from a tune-up at Jiffi-Lobo. I'm feeling much better now.
And as far as impaling goes, I suspect that we will be treated to the sight of Comradette Peloski becoming increasingly absurd, but our Comrades in the Democratic party will be able to do nothing about it. She cannot have obtained her lofty position without knowing where all the bodies are buried. I would love to have seen the bargaining over her ascension to the speakership. But her amour propre and her love of the limelight will not permit her resignation. We are in for good times, comrades.

I did become very exercised over the right-wing moonbats' ideological purity. Some thinker--Midge Decter?--said that conservatism was the only political philosophy which was not ideological. It was based on experience, and informed by experience. It did not seek to impose its own emotional weather on reality. It much distresses me to see people who ought to be natural allies, for a true greater good, indulging in Freud's narcissism of small differences. Here are people driving away all gays, when gays have time, money, and energy, and brand loyalty. And after gays, what else? When all that is left are the few people who agree with you in every facet, and then there are pograms. This is the sort of mentality that makes people retreat into camps with like-minded people instead of making common cause with people wanting most of their aims, and managing to get power instead of grumbling out of power. But squirming in the pleasure of those put on by a world which does not see their virtue. The glow of the martyr.
This is the realm of ideology, and cults like Jim Jones. Conservatism is the stance of dour and sour people, like me, who realize that people are people and someone has to mind the store. It ought not be relegated to sectarian disagreements with holier-than-thou arguments.
Remember Monty Python's Life of Brian? There was the People's Judaean front, and the People's Front of Judea, and they rang the changes on that and the differences were minor. Nothing pleases the true moonbats more than infighting over trivialities among the right.
I got inflamed about people "critics call it the pedophile protection bill" when our government is spending trillions of dollars to reward socialist placemen. Surely a bigger problem.


Special Laws such as this generally achieve nothing. I for one would not enforce it.
I would leave that to the Judicial types. On both sides there is extremist reactions to extremist proposals. There are those in any camp who hate. Sometimes just to have somewhere to vent their own frustrations and self loathing. None are so pious as is the sinner.


Pravda
None are so pious as is the sinner.Indeed. Inside every mea culpa there is a strong whiff of passive-aggression. Christ said, "Go and sin no more," he did not say, "Beat your breast and denounce yourself."
I am I suppose an extraordinarily lucky man. I walk, completely unfettered, in a small town and have managed to overcome the fears of my youth. My most generous understanding of some of these people is that they are afraid.
But I can only blame some of their leaders. Frighten people; present yourself as having a solution; get power. It's worked forever and it still works. But without exception I've had no problems here in being openly gay. But then I'm lucky; I'm useful. I fix things. I make things happen. I handle other people's property and money and it, cough, cough, always turns out right. This gives me a lot of power and I can follow the dictates of my mind without being ruled by fear.
I got a graphic from a woman I know with the pictures of the presidents. Obama had two white eyes in a black background. This is also the sort of thing which drives people away. I will go to the mat with anyone who suggests that Obama is not the worst president we've ever had--a smug, apologizing socialist--but making jokes like that drives people away.
And, no matter what ACORN does, votes still count. At least some.


He went where we went, Suffered what we suffered and eventually was wounded and Medivaced. How many lives he saved before that I can only guess at but it was up there in the double digits and high on the tree. There was another in A Company he was a Marine. Still is called one and still is treated as such at our re-unions.
Again no 'in your face' approach by him.
It's really for the most part that simple. No parades.


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


Guardian of Pravda
Again no 'in your face' approach by him.{prog off}
That's the key: no "in your face." When I heard 0bama tell his zombies to go out and get in people's faces, I knew the next four years were going to be bad, very bad. That ignorant aggressive divisive statement increased my opposition to 0bama to a whole new level.
I'm a physical wuss, but had I been in the US then, I think I would have bought a stun gun. Talk about "People Power," how about 50K volts of it when you get in my face about voting for 0bama, comrade?
{prog on}


I quite agree about no in-your-face. That's thuggery no matter who does it. And I believe it is appropriate to react to people like that with whatever means necessary. I'd respond like Tovarich were some prog to start screaming in my face. But if I were buttonholed by someone at a mall saying that the world was ending because gays weren't throw into jail, I'd respond too.
Here's Barry O, acting like a thug. Well, are we surprised?


Nothing enrages me more than people using liberties paid for by other people's blood to scorn the very people who paid the price.
Once in the middle of the night in a hostelry I woke and HBO was showing Taking Chance. I found it so moving that I could not finish watching it. Unlike the Hollywood propagandistic films. Pace Oscar Wilde: You have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at, well Oliver Stone.


Prog off for a moment.
I could care less about your sexual orientation. I am also a Veteran who recently retired after 20 years in the U.S Navy. I have had similar experiences that Prava also alluded to in my career as far as people who have a different sexual preference than my own.
I have to agree with you that the Republican party through its use of emotional 'wedge issues' such as gay marriage, has done more harm then good to what a real conservative in my opinion, is really all about. I don't think a piece of paper that acknowledges a loving long term relationship with a single partner is going to somehow ruin our great Republic in some fashion.
I always thought it was silly and most of all the Conservatives that I know feel the same the way.
I do draw the line thought at this though. You may not like my following opinion but I wish to impart to you that this in no way lessens my respect for your posts, now or in the future, it is just the conclusion that I have come to after much deep thought and debate with others on the subject.
I would draw the line at allowing a Gay couple to adopt. Not out of meaness or spite, not out of the fact that I don't believe a gay couple could make good parents, because I have known Gay people all of my life and they would. I would draw that line simply because Nature has already done it for me.
A Gay couple cannot produce a child, that is just the way it is. If we confer the right to adopt to a Gay couple then we are in fact granting a right, that never existed in the first place. We are granting a "Special Right" to them. I cannot agree with that. However I do agree with Civil Unions and the full range of benefits that a Hetro couple are entitled to should also be extended to Gay couples who make the same committed choice to each other (with the exception of adoption, for the reasons I stated above.)
I do not like the left wing Gay moonbat community and I do not like the right wing nutbag fringe that thinks just because a person happens to be gay that he or she is a social deviant in some manner.
My overall take on this is to actually modify a qoute from Martin Luther King, that really expresses what a Conservative is really all about or should be about on moral Issues ( I know I am).
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I'd change that to :
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, or sexual preference but by the content of their character.
I hope you find this post well and read it in the intention and respect I wish to confer to you in writing it to you.
Comrade Snoogie Woogums, United States Navy Retired
Prog On


Thanks, Snoogie Woogums. I only slightly disagree with your stance on gay adoption. Were I, god forfend, a family-court judge and there were two couples wanting a child, one straight and one gay, and if they were equal in stability and resources, I would unhesitatingly award a child to the straight couple. Easier for the child.
Gay adoption is not a hot-button issue for me; I am so delighted at last not to lie in my life that it is not of overmuch concern. Perhaps a bit self-centered, but there it is. But I do wonder about a lesbian couple. With the aid of the old turkey baster and one partner's brother, they can have a child. And there is adoption by single parents.
Still, I have to admit that a lot of gay male relationships just are not that stable. A trick turns into sexual infatuation which turns into love, until it all starts over again. Oddly enough when I was younger I found that I had a lot in common with some frat boys although I was careful not to use pronouns--which they never caught. My main interest is in mainstreaming gay relationships. Not from an ethical view, nor from a laissez-faire view (thank you), but from a pragmatic (read cynical) view: at this juncture the leftist hordes are tearing down the gates and clanking their shields on the aqueducts like the Visigoths, and are shitting on the edifices of our country, out of spite.
They understand at some level that they are nothing compared to the people who came before them and it's easier to wrap themselves in their self-love and braggadocio than have the humility to admit that they do not know everything.
They are the graffiti "artists" of civilization and His O'liness is handing out the spray-paint cans.
I fail to understand why people don't understand that their way of life is being threatened by the barbarians, for they are just that.
And we need all the troops that we can muster, straight, gay, black, brown, male, female, who are not censorious about private matters but who will stand up and be counted.
BTW, you might be amused to meet some of the gays in Midland. Some of them have a knowledge of guns that nearly rivals that of someone who was in the military. And no one votes Democrat.
Thanks for your thoughts.




Your a Conservative heart and soul, your private life is your own business. As a Navy guy, welcome aboard Sir, welcome aboard.
Thank You also for thoughts






Merciful Kim Jong-Il
mayhey, Mercifur! Now that I out of the
By the way, those guys hording Comrade President Soetero's Tereprompter(tm) hostage rook eeriry simirar to the
I raughed and raughed when I read American Sec Defense
Your Dear Reader,
Kim Jong Illin'


You rike to watch wrestring? Quick. What come next: "Crang, crang, crang went de trorrey..."
If you know dat you queerer than Richard Simmons and you got no room to tark about turd burgrars.


I am of the opinion that the very terminology we use in our culture betrays a profound misunderstanding and difficulty with the deep affections between men or between women in our culture. "Gays" are seldom really gay. In fact, what word actually works to describe the relationship? Same-sex? Homosexual? Certainly none of the pejorative terms really work. Consequently I think that we have a culture which
a. cannot fully accept or understand the intense friendships and affections that occur between people
b. puts so much emphasis on sexuality that such friendships always get lampooned or critiqued erroneously
c. has no ability see beyond the orientation to whether the people involved are decent human beings
Whenever I teach Plato - I cannot even bring up the homosexuality issue even to point out that Plato himself makes a distinction between the rampant nut cases that use other people like Alcibiades did and the normal man who has friendships and relationships with men and women
ditto with the Spartans
ditto with Alexander
ditto with authors like Willa Cather or Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene
ditto with trying to explain the camaraderie bordering on romance shared by veterans from The Great War (as though somehow even that sort of love between men is off limits. FAUGH)
Our culture does not use the words amor, philia, eros, storge, or agape. We have one word; love. Thus we love chocolate, we love kittens, we love our children and we love God. Pretty inefficient I think.
And yes, when the barbarians are at the gates what the hell does it matter if the man on the catapult next to me is gay, straight, tall, short, black, brown, rich, or poor. There are somewhat more important things to attend to...


But times, they are a-changing. I suppose at least a quarter of the men in their sixties and older instantly said, "Congratulations." Almost all women did. I keep going on about this because I learned so much about honesty and living a lie.
I learned that if you have to edit one of your most basic qualities for public acceptability that you never know if you are brave for nothing is ever done instinctively. "Is this what a normal man would do?" you ask, and that moment of ratiocination always makes you wonder about your character. And it robs you of authority too--I've noticed a tremendous difference when I walk into businesses, not that I say anything but that I could if I chose. People don't bow and scrape, but they now look to see if I'm getting what I want. What a change.
It might be just some form of xenophobia, which I am given to understand developed as a survival characteristic. But we've learned, I hope, to ignore it as far as color goes.
Frankly I think it was a good idea to elect a black person as president. If there were two candidates whose policies I liked easily I'd have voted for the black, to pay the debt of Jim Crow. That said, this black president is the last person I would have elected. And that includes Saul Alinsky, who is dead.
And as far as all this sectarian and internecine fighting between people--just stop it. I find partial-birth abortions repugnant but would not let that keep me from voting for a pro-choice candidate if the opponent had no chance of winning and the pro-choice candidate were a defense hawk. Because I know that without this country, we would have after-the-fact abortions, like the Chinese, where soldiers step on the babies' heads. The most important thing is the safety of this country because it polices the world and keeps the goblins at bay, as much as possible. If there is no Pax Americana, there will be anarchy. The Prince I'm told was welcome because at the time Italians would do anything to rid themselves of anarchy. This must not happen and it's foolish to get your knickers in a twist over something that's just not important.



First one, well you can't anymore moonbatty than this ( I just want to sing 'Kumabaya' just looking at it).

This one, A picture says a thousand words is all I can say.

I rather like this one in the spirit of "The Cube" itself. Possibilites?
Comrade Snoogie Woogums


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




{prog off}
To those who've served, congrats and thanks. I had a voluntary stint in the military, but those who were in combat--kudos to you.
{prog on}
I feel a multi-coloured square does much to further diversity but why not a Green Cube? It would address the most burning issue of our time, Man-Made Global Warming (Mm, GW!), with the hippest, most progressive, most tolerant religion around, Islam. The hammer-and-sickle wouldn’t take much to become a crescent moon atop a tree: the trifecta!


Don't sweat it Comrade. When THE WORLD OF NEXT TUESDAYTM arrives, I am certain THE PARTYTM will settle all matters. All enemies will be delt with.
Trust the proven methods of the last century. We will gather them up, shoot half of them, and send the rest to the train station. There will always be more.
I am sure THE PARTYTM will approve of impaling the worst of the criminals for your pleasure. You'll have your pick.
Dear Comrade RED SQUARE,
THE PEOPLES CUBETM must be maintained. Only the highest PARTY members should have the PROG OFF option. Any other way would confuse the masses.
In Socialist Solidarity!


Hmm. Only high party officials able to do the PROG OFF? You're saying it is like giving a serf too much freedom? English country houses used to have one day a year when the servants would have a ball, and the gentry would serve them. It kept discipline better. Perhaps something like that? On May 1 lower-ranking party members could do PROG OFF?


I must admit I was rather happy that Red Square asked me, 'If I wanted to take a shot', at trying for an acceptable design for the Icons. Usually the Party doesn't ask if you want to be shot in the first place, they just go ahead and do it, so THAT courtesy was most welcomed.
My Humble Attempts at a Suitable Icon for Party Consideration, if our Glorious Leadership should feel so inclined to include for the masses.


I stand by with Shovel in Hand.
Comrade Snoogie Woogums


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