Che Gourmet wrote:Congratulations, Tovarichi! You are, indeed "somebody now", for being noticed (how's the head feelin'?) by our Dear Commissarka. But be advised that she may take offense to your familiarity LOL, and BTW:
People's Comrade....Ron Paul, spits,....is a Congressperson, not a Senatorperson....I believe you have him mixed up with his devil-spawn..Rand Paul, spits again.... who is a Senatorperson.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Tovarichi, first I had to straighten you out about Rick Perry, and now I have to settle your hash about this earthquake. It's like ThePeoplesComrade taped a sign to your back that says, "To Pinkie: I'm Begging You to Please, PLEASE Whack Me Upside the Head With Your Shovel" except I don't think he's smart enough to come up with something like that.

But I am.

WHACK!!!

There. Now, to address your misguided thoughts about the quake. On ABC World News with Diane Sawyer this evening, the observation was made that most if not all buildings along the East Coast are not built to withstand earthquakes the way they are in California or Japan. Also, trains were shut down due to fear of damaged tracks.

Do you see where this is going yet? What's Dear Leader been pushing for lately? What's his favorite kind of bank, the only kind of bank that isn't evil?

He calls it an "Infrastructure Bank."

Think of it, Tovarichi! (And you too, ThePeoplesComrade, though I'm not sure you're smart enough to think, which is why I'm doing it for you.) This quake will give Obama the perfect excuse to call for infrastructure funding! We're going to need trillions more dollars to make all buildings, roads, tracks, etc. on the East Coast earthquake safe!

This, Comrade Sawyer declared, is a wakeup call! An infrastructure bank is now a matter of life and death! Who knows when the next quake will hit, or how much more powerful it will be! We must be prepared! And to accomplish that, we must spend!

You comrades must learn to see the Progressive lining in every cloud. Opportunity out of crisis and all that.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:Commissarka Pinkie talked about an infrastructure bank. And how wise she is, and always has been, as I practice amateur phrenology. Well, that was popular 100 years ago and was considered unreliable and racist and abandoned. After all, what matter the bumps in a head?

I personally see no difference between one useless distinction and another. Use what you may. There are progs who are vegetarians, and prog vegans. There are progs who eat right, talk left. There are progs whose secret desire is bacon. There are progs who wear leather.

So what? The point is oppression and these internecine wars are bootless. The point is oppression, isn't it? After all, a prog's work is not done as long as someone is not deprived of something he earned, and his rights are taken, just so we can rejoice in our moral narcissism.

So it's best to have an infrastructure bank. We can call anything part of the infrastructure. In fact, I am quite certain that the Rancho de Rio Grande is a very important part of the infrastructure and will require extensive maintenance.

And because I'm a Made Prog, like dear Electable White Liberal Odimbo, I expect that the maintenance will extend to an Olympic swimming pool, a sauna, a whirlpool, and indeed at least 40 new impaling stakes on the northeast forty (the prevailing winds will get to the Bushes.)

I swear, Pinkie. This old prog's rheumy eyes will never quit welling over until all happiness is extinguished and the world is encased in a web of mutual recrimination, demand, self-entitlement, and thuggery. It may be a dungheap I'll sit on top of, but it'll be MY dungheap.

That's why I'm Father Prog.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:Raum, you're right. It's all about the power. Why, when I was a proglet, I spent my time crushing piss ants with my thumb. Not in my house, but out in the country. Why? I could. That's why. Why regulate? Because we can, and we do not exist except as a reflection in others' eyes. Otherwise we'd have to have some redeeming quality, such as honesty, integrity, decency or kindness.

Pardon me. I had to lie down for a while while I recounted three, THREE, virtues. These are not prog virtues. Prog virtues are sneering, condescension, inciting hatred, class warfare, theft, and lying.

Oh, and the lying. That's the good one. It enables everything else and no one, not even the esteemed Commissarka, knows when I'm lying.

I'm good at it.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:Tovarichi, just wait until AmeriKKKa has been married to Dear Obozo for 29 years. We're already doing the bad checks and he's eating the fine meals. By that time we'll have Potempkin cities which will be thrown up as he and Moochelle make their royal progress across the land.

Tovarichi wrote:

Raum Emmanual Goldstein wrote:
You know where one's forced compliance with one regulation automatically places one in violation of another regulation... either way the mere act of breathing places one in jeopardy of spending time in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:Raum, as you have discerned, we're headed for true, glorious fascism. Business is privately owned but utterly controlled by government. And with regulations, of course. We can nationalize things--say by screwing over car-company bond holders--but really, the best way is just regulate, regulate, regulate.

First you get down on your knees
Then you invoke Marx's rosaries,
Regulate, regulate, regulate!

pace Tom Lehrer.

You, as a made prog (have I promoted you to a made prog yet? Perhaps in a brevet promotion. Nonetheless, you are promoted to Made Prog henceforth) know full well that the best revolutions are not with guns, although we grab them in case some stupid Texans want to shoot us. It is by grinding people down by regulations which cannot be changed, are completely impenetrable, can be justified only in the minds of those who wrote them and which are completely regardless of the people whom they hurt.

I love Primo Levi. He was the Italian Jew who survived Auschwitz. Now I don't for a second condone imprisoning people because they're Jews. That's much too limited. I want to lock up everyone who doesn't give me very personal lip service. Which is everyone who is not another Made Prod.

Levi told of being in a "reception" room and they hadn't been fed, or watered, and that is the operative verb. There was an icicle hanging from a rafter; the Joo grabbed to slake his thirst.

The guard refused to let him even suck it. "Why?"

"There is no why here."

There. In one word is the essence of the Made Prog. Someone who divides the world into Us and Them, and it doesn't matter what They want; it's the fact that it's They, not Us, who want and so therefore it's racist, homophobic, sexist and so forth.

You get the drill. The first thing to remember is that with us Made Progs, "There is no why here."

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:Eric Hoffer said that someone who lives on a subsistence wage, and he did as a migrant farm worker, doesn't care about politics. He cares about surviving.

Tovarichi wrote:....where Moochele is ingesting anything not moving...