Red Square wrote:This Independence Day weekend my wife unit and I are going on a guided bus tour to Vermont via the Berkshires, MASS, where I want to see Norman Rockwell's museum. So there will be 3 days of unsupervised activities on the Cube. Please act responsibly, don't leave food in the treehouse, clean up after yourselves, and no pillow fights. And I don't want to see any more pictures of Pinkie's new tattoos made in jest while she's passed out on the floor drunk.

I suggest we (as a collective) all call the Norman Rockwell Museum and let them know a busload of foreign spies and counter-revolutionaries are on the way.

Norman Rockwell Paints Lies!
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.....just google it. I refuse being (and we all know about Being a Beingist) a staunch Stalinist to link it to our Pure website.

SHAME RED SQUARE!
Shame!

EXAMPLE OF ROCKWELL'S LIES:

OMG! Rockwell killed John Lennon

On October 10, 1980, Mark David Chapman sold his beloved lithograph of Norman Rockwell's Triple Self-Portrait to a Hawaiian public relations man for $7500. Chapman, who was strapped for cash, used the proceeds to quit his job, purchase a .38 revolver, buy airfare to New York and book a room at the Waldorf Astoria.

He killed Lennon? And did he discover a crystal scull that belonged to aliens the transported him to another planet where he was greeted by giant aliens who chanted "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" in Egyptian?

Betty, I haven't been to see the new Indiana Jones movie yet. Please don't tell me that's what really happened, or I swear when it comes out on DVD, I will not allow it on my property, let alone in the house.

Do we need more evidence?

Yes!

It was the Anti-Obamessiah himself, Ronald Ray-gun that helped supply the capital for this so-called bourgoisie museum of decadent things, like family values, church, small towns in flyover country, and other RethugliKKKan garbage!

Has Red Square gone over to the Dark Side?

Pinkie Wrote

Betty, I haven't been to see the new Indiana Jones movie yet. Please don't tell me that's what really happened, or I swear when it comes out on DVD, I will not allow it on my property, let alone in the house.

And you never will Comrade, it is forbidden. We'll pretend you didn't make this post because of your loyal service to The Party™

In addition to this pilgrimage to a citadel of wrong thought and image, I believe I noted in the travel itinerary the words "guided bus tour." I did NOT, however see the words "biodiesel powered" or "for which we have purchased the appropriate carbon offset credits to atone for our sins against Gaia." The evidence is mounting. Shall we celebrate the holiday weekend with a purge? (I can't really, as I'm about to walk out the door for an ecologically responsible trip to Alabama on a fuel conserving motorcycle, where we will grill tofu dogs on a solar reflector while mourning the crimes of the White Male Heterosexuals who ripped this nation screaming from the bosom of the culturally appropriate Native Americans in the name of Capitalist Oppression.)

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:Betty, I haven't been to see the new Indiana Jones movie yet. Please don't tell me that's what really happened, or I swear when it comes out on DVD, I will not allow it on my property, let alone in the house.

Ummm........ we wont tell you anything.... just watch for the goauld.

Laika the Space Dog wrote:Do we need more evidence?

Yes!

It was the Anti-Obamessiah himself, Ronald Ray-gun that helped supply the capital for this so-called bourgoisie museum of decadent things, like family values, church, small towns in flyover country, and other RethugliKKKan garbage!

Has Red Square gone over to the Dark Side?

A guided bus tour? At least it isn't a guided missile.

Rockwell's life coincided with the rise and maturity of socialist realism in the USSR. The Soviet artists, who often were on Rockwell's level professionally, portrayed life "as it ought to be" in the Soviet socialist utopia. Rockwell did a similar thing, only he portrayed life "as it ought to be" in the capitalist American utopia.

Although formally they were similar, there was a world of moral difference between the two. Rockwell was the opposite of socialist realists. I guess that makes him a capitalist realist.

The only way to defeat this menace is to instill the idea of Rockwell as a socialist author (as were all the others). It is high time some revisionist art historian wrote a book presenting Rockwell as a staunch supporter of big government, central planning, and thoughtcrime prevention.

Think about my trip to the Rockwell Museum as research.

Ohhhh....undercover agitprop work!

I was worried.

Make sure you have lunch at Alice's Restaurant.

Laika - your comment sent me a-googling, and I discovered a direct link between Alice's Restaurant and Norman Rockwell.

The missing link happens to be officer Obie, who arrested Arlo Guthrie and then played himself in the 1969 movie about this arrest, saying that "making himself look like a fool was preferable to having somebody else make him look like a fool."

Obie (William J. Obanhein) also twice posed for the artist Norman Rockwell. In Rockwell's famous painting The Runaway, Officer Obie sits at a lunch counter while he and a short-order cook smilingly converse with a little boy running away from home.

Obie even has an articleon Wikipedia and also a tribute page.

OK, Betty, that does it. You forced me to go over to IMDB in search of spoiler info on that movie, which I can assure you was like wading through a garbage dumpster looking for a missing sales receipt.

Space aliens? And everything morphs into a giant spaceship that whirls away?!? That's the same plot device that killed TV shows like Dallas and Dynasty back in the 80's.

("Elsa, don't screw that head on. Remember what the knight told us, you're not supposed to screw that head back on!")

Anyway, thank you for saving me about $25.00 and a couple hours of my life I'd never get back otherwise.

Ivan Betinov wrote:...I did NOT, however see the words "biodiesel powered" or "for which we have purchased the appropriate carbon offset credits to atone for our sins against Gaia."

Behold the Party Approved^TM Captain Planet (who will judge our sins against mother gaia)

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Damn, this must have been announced in the Party Members chat. I'm ashamed that I never read that. I don't do it purposefully. Anyway, the point being that I'm up in New Hampshire with my wife unit. I would have love to made a stop over in Vermont to have lunch with Comrade Red. I guess it is too late now for a secret meeting of the counter-counter revolutionaries club. One of these days I need to force myself to return to that place called Manhattan. Hope you had fun, Red.

RIK

I am most relieved to learn of Red Square's true purpose behind his maskirova. While noble in intent, aesthetically speaking, I still prefer the Pravda's Workers Paradise art, seasoned with occasional glimpses of the decadent West.

If Norman Rockwell were alive today, he would realize the purpose of art is to shock and agitate, and would portray youth in a more progressive manner:

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:OK, Betty, that does it. You forced me to go over to IMDB in search of spoiler info on that movie, which I can assure you was like wading through a garbage dumpster looking for a missing sales receipt.

Space aliens? And everything morphs into a giant spaceship that whirls away?!? That's the same plot device that killed TV shows like Dallas and Dynasty back in the 80's.

("Elsa, don't screw that head on. Remember what the knight told us, you're not supposed to screw that head back on!")

Anyway, thank you for saving me about $25.00 and a couple hours of my life I'd never get back otherwise.

Okay, I know it might seem a bit lame and like it might ruin the whole Indiana Jones thing, but it turns out really well, and is a good movie.

And the statement about the crystal skull was a combination of that movie and an episode of Stargate SG1 involving another crystal skull.

As usual, only one comrade saw the lies behind the truth that is behind the lies that is behind that truth which could be considered very confusing vague skepticism about an unknown subject that only a few are granted access to.

And again, I don't know what the hell I just said....

But you said it beautifully,Betty. And we love you for it



Happy Independence Day,everyone!!

Premier Betty wrote:
Okay, I know it might seem a bit lame and like it might ruin the whole Indiana Jones thing, but it turns out really well, and is a good movie.

Yeah, Betty, but . . . space aliens! That's so hokey.

And instead of Communists, the villains should have been Senator McCarthy and his staff. They were the real enemies of freedom and peace and social justice back then!


Also, from Laika's link above:

“Our moviegoers are teenagers who are unaware of what happened in 1957,” said Sergei Malinkovich, the chief of the St Petersburg Communist Party chief. “They will go to the cinema and will be sure that in 1957 we made trouble for the United States and almost started a nuclear war. It's rubbish.”

And I thought America's public school system sucked. This is how they're teaching history to kids over in St. Petersburg?

Oh, wait. Maybe they mean St. Petersburg, Florida.

Red Square wrote:Think about my trip to the Rockwell Museum as research.

Rest assured Glorious Cube that I never for a moment had any doubt about the nature of your visit. After all, the Central Committee must have approved of your itenerary da?

First off, thank you comrades for revealing the Officer Obie info about Norman Rockwell, I had never heard of that before.

Secondly, I for one have never been a big fan of Indiana Jones, and I really thought the last one sucked big time, mainly because of that stupid story line at the end.

Commissarka Pinkie wrote: Yeah, Betty, but . . . space aliens! That's so hokey.

Well, think about it. They did a movie about the Jewish religion, then they did a movie about Indian religion, then they did a movie about the Christian religion, what would the next obvious step be?

Hmm . . . you mean without Spielberg or Lucas or Ford having to worry about getting their heads blown off for insulting and offending a religion that would never hurt anyone?

Aside from that and the Global Warming crowd, I think I'm starting to see your point.

• it will star Riley's new girlfriend whom we met in NT II (well, duh, that was easy)
• it will involve space aliens thoroughly alluded to in NT II
• the treasure this time will be (drum roll, please)... Earth Mother!
• and, of course, there will be the usual environmental nonsense about how we're destroying our greatest treasure because Bush is president or something like that
• and just maybe how big carbon spewing corporations set up Lee Harvey Oswald to stop JFK from saving the planet by eliminating capitalism
• and if I'm right, I've saved Pinkie two hours of her life that could be spent reading some improving book

Oh yes, Blogunov, I noticed that about Independence Day and a great deal more--though I had to see the movie several times before things started clicking.

At first glance, the space aliens who are ruthlessly bent on destroying all of Earth's resources and inhabitants would seem like a refreshing change from the usual E.T.'s who drop in with their various Rodney King "can't we all, like, just get along?" schticks.

Then we realize the protagonist Earthlings (with the exception of the bellicose ex-CIA defense secretary) are all a pack of bleeding-heart Progressive types who care and recycle and whine a lot and think they can talk talk talk, use some diplomacy, talk talk some more, try to understand the aliens, talk talk, blah blah.

And what are the aliens but representations of anyone who's non-Progressive, of people who don't care, who have no compassion or tolerance, who recklessly destroy the only planet we have and all its resources? And their motive? Because it's there.

The president begrudgingly agrees to strike back with a nuke. "May our children forgive us," he mumbles. EXCUSE ME?!!? The aliens just wiped out most of the Earth, and he's worried our children might not forgive US for NUKING these bastards? What, are we supposed to still try talking to them in hopes of understanding why they hate us and want to obliterate us? (More on that in a minute.)

WHY ARE LIBERALS SO #$%^&*ING OBSESSED WITH WHAT PEOPLE MIGHT THINK ABOUT US A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW?!?

Raise your hand if you're pissed off at whatever our ancestors did a century ago. Or two centuries. Or whenever.

Anyway, you'll notice the city they picked for a "test nuke" was Houston, bastion of the Big Oil Industry.

Back to using diplomacy with the aliens. The president sees three of them soaking in these giant jars a la Betinov, and he's told they have no vocal chords and communicate through telepathy. Later, after the fourth one brought in by Will Smith attacks everyone in the OR, the wussy prez still tries to talk and understand and gee, surely we can all live in peace, can't we? Someone finally has the good sense and guest soaps to shoot the alien, who screams like a girl. I guess they did have vocal chords.

Meanwhile, everyone in L.A. was wiped out except for Will Smith's stripper girlfriend and son and dog. They had the good sense to take shelter in a janitor's closet in a tunnel on the interstate. I'll have to remember that when the aliens attack us for real. Also, if she voted for "the other guy" as she very sheepishly confessed to the critically injured First Lady, wouldn't that make her a Republican?

Finally, I'm getting rather weary of presidents, whether real or fictional, who only have daughters. Give me a leader of the free world who can shoot a Y chromosome, dammit!

Thank you for letting me rant.

Premier Betty wrote:

Commissarka Pinkie wrote: Yeah, Betty, but . . . space aliens! That's so hokey.

Well, think about it. They did a movie about the Jewish religion, then they did a movie about Indian religion, then they did a movie about the Christian religion, what would the next obvious step be?

They all detract from the ultimate power of the state, that's why they are banned. Especially Christianity.

Carry on comrades

Premier Betty wrote:Well, think about it. They did a movie about the Jewish religion, then they did a movie about Indian religion, then they did a movie about the Christian religion, what would the next obvious step be?

Cease and desist?

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:WHY ARE LIBERALS SO #$%^&*ING OBSESSED WITH WHAT PEOPLE MIGHT THINK ABOUT US A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW?!?

You hit an excellent point. It is funny, but I have been reading a ton of books these past few months on the jihad, the history of how we got to this point, even a book on the entire Bin Laden family, Outside of the occasional excuse about US support for Israel, not once have I seen them list the reasons for hating the west that the liberals claim they hate us for. More typical is this, the reasons noted by an influential Islamist based on his observations when he was in the US:

We eat rotten food (Premier Betty?)
Our women act and dress like whores, and our culture reflects this
Men go with men
The aged are abandoned to take care of themselves.

OK, of these, perhaps the liberals may be on for 1 and 4. But that is just one list. It is actually rare to see our support of Israel or invasion of Iraq mentioned other than as an afterthought, especially when I can find these previously mentioned complaints from writings from 30 years ago.

For then you have to also add the other most common complaints about us.... such as our democratic government, our refusal to not submit to the Koran completely.

Liberals claim they know why Islamists hate us, and they are completely ignorant of what the Islamists say. Even Israel is an issue that most of the governments in the middle east do not wish to see ended as it keeps attention away from their despotic and ineffective rule. One thing is also clear, the Islamist do respect power that is used. You can be sure that if the US were to use the military power we possess and use it ruthlessly and effectively, they would respect if not love us.

Marshal Pupovich wrote: We eat rotten food (Premier Betty?)

Hey, I told you, that was a science experiment!

I was sort of thrown by the rotten food comment myself Premier. The only thing I could figure he meant was us eating pork, but then again, who knows. That was actually the first on his list.

Raise your hand if you're pissed off at whatever our ancestors did a century ago. Or two centuries. Or whenever.

Well, I'm rather pissed at my ancestors for forcing the issue of state's rights to the level of armed conflict, which allowed the federal government to take primacy over state governments and back it up with bayonets. I'm not saying that it wouldn't have happened anyway, but it may have happened later and with a lesser degree of finality.

This doesn't negate the point you are making, however.

• dinosaurs can be cloned without the need for a male
• the only villains and imbeciles are males
• the little boy becomes scared and throws up, but the little girl rises to the occasion and does the computer work necessary to save everybody
• in an utterly contrived situation, the dotty old man feebly argues that he should face the raptor rather than the young, strong, mentally sharp woman, because he's a... and she's a... but is decisively put down by the feminist
• the great white hunter lends a hand, but little else, in containing the dinosaur threat
• Ms. T Rex saves the day by gobbling up the naughty little raptor
• the leading man finally decides he likes children and wins the approval of the more nurturing female

Merciful Kim Jong-Il wrote: Behold the Party Approved^TM Captain Planet (who will judge our sins against mother gaia)

Forgive me Comrade Merciful Kim Jong, for not seeing it sooner, that was an awesome video!

I remember watching that show sometimes. I had no idea what the hell it was about and didn't give a crap about the "message". I just watched it like I did Looney Toons, Pinkie and the Brain, the Animaniacs, and such. I like those shows.

The Looney Tunes were the best of all time! Dear Lenin how I loved Foghorn Leghorn. I even remember watching the old movies that cartoon was based on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn

Marshal Pupovich wrote:The Looney Tunes were the best of all time! Dear Lenin how I loved Foghorn Leghorn. I even remember watching the old movies that cartoon was based on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn

Premier Betty wrote:And did he discover a crystal scull that belonged to aliens the transported him to another planet where he was greeted by giant aliens who chanted "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" in Egyptian?

That happened to me once. Ruined my whole weekend.

I agree 100% Kommissar Blogunov....When I read this storyt the other day, I got so fed up I could bust. First the commercial was canceled because if offended straights, which then offended the gays for it being pulled, and to top it all off, the commercial was not allowed to be viewed during children's hours because of a ban on mayonaise being prohibited for health political correctness. I told my gay activist boss that I really wish we could go back to the days when men and women slept in separate beds on TV, and commercials would all be cartoon characters. I am not defending the commercial nor for that matter condemning it. But I am so sick of political correctness I really feel like shooting someone....Guess that isn't PC though.