Due to an increase in spam posts we had to temporarily suspend the constitutional rights of all registered users to start new topics on the People's Blog. From now on (I repeat - temporarily) new topics will only be posted by Moderating Commissars (nomenklatura), while comments will remain open to all registered masses.

There was time when commenting was open to everybody, and both proles and the nomenklatura had a lot of fun with it (or a "pantload of Revolution" in Partyspeak). But after about a year, spamming robots arrived, posting links about insurance quotes, Viagra, Cialis, and Porn Videos all over the site. It may have been a blessing for some comrades, like our esteemed Chairman P., who spent lots of soft campaign ca$h on insurance to make sure his Viagra worked while viewing a hot steamy lube job video, but for the rest of us it was desirable to reject such decadence. It distracted them from the revolution, especially those comrades involved in cleanup and housekeeping (Chairman is known to leave quite a bit of a mess).

In the process of fighting spambots we had to take away some of your precious rights and freedoms, like free-for-all posting. Now comments are limited to registered cadre only.

ANY ANALOGIES TO BUSH'S EROSION OF CIVIL LIBERTIES ARE COINCIDENTAL! ANY ATTEMPT TO DRAW SAID ANALOGIES SHALL BE TREATED AS A THOUGHTCRIME PUNISHABLE BY YEARS OF RE-EDUCATION IN PERMAFROST CONDITIONS!!! YOU'LL BE PRAYING FOR GLOBAL WARMING THEN, BUT IT WILL NEVER COME! (Oops, was that a thoughtcrime to say that about Global Warming?) Ahem, never mind.

This morning the time is upon us, comrades, to increase security with regards to starting new topics. Only moderators will be able to do it, at least until we find out a way to repel spamming saboteurs. Considering that next week I'm going on a secret vacation in an undisclosed location, I'd rather make the site as secure as possible for the masses.

THEREFORE:
All comrades who wish to have access to starting new topics on the People's Blog please email me your user names so that I can create a list of authorized nomenklatura with special privileges.

NO ANALOGIES HERE, COMRADES! MOVE ALONG, MOVE ALONG!

Red Square,
Commissar
Global Security and Interior Decoration

All Hail Red Square, the New Mulva!

Oh, wait....Red is just asking for user names so proles can post new topics and spambots are blocked.
The Chairman will be disappointed. He had his hopes up to be party censor too.
Maybe we can require ABA routing & account numbers too. That would make the Chairman happy.

Laika

I like account numbers... other people's account numbers in particular.

Yes, censorship is all the new rage now on other Progressive blogs and I'm glad the Cube will start following the lead of such hit agitprop sites like DKos and others. Hopefully, someday soon, Matt Cutts (all Newbies scroll through the archives and look for the article about the Cube being purged from Google) will finally win the War on Spam and liberate us all from having to resort to Academic Speech-Codes. <sigh> When will Matt Cutts free us all? WHEN!?WHEEENNNN!?!?

Censorship? Censorship!...Who's there? Stop banging on my door! <crash> Who are you? What do you want? DON'T POINT THOSE GUNS AT ME, AND SHOW YOUR FACES! STOP IT! ST...

...hiss...

Uh oh! Looks like Janet Reno is getting trigger happy again in Texas! Quick, Theocritus! Give them whatever Cuban kids you are sheltering! For the love of Stalin hand em' over!!!

<b>Hillary ate all the Cuban kids!</b> That's why she wants to end the Cuban embargo. She let Bill smoke Cuban cigars, and she smokes Cuban children in my smokehouse.

Janet, Janet! Mr. Reno! Your fly is open.

That did it. She reached for her fly and her Parkinson's caused the hand holding the knife to gut her.

Sorry to interrupt your off-topic chat, but I think it's important enough to listen:

all the Inner-Party comrades already have access to starting new topics, and if I accidentally left anyone out, please let me know.

How do I become one of the trusted party members allowed to post new instructions to the proletariat?

It is important the people recieve their daily instructions in a timely and efficent manner.

Warmonger Wound has been promoted to Moderating Commissar of the People's Blog with all due privileges.

Red Square wrote:(Oops, was that a thoughtcrime to say that about Global Warming?) Ahem, never mind.

This is not possible, by definition you can not commit a thoughtcrime! Any seeming contradiction would clearly be due to the perceiver's misunderstanding.

Warmonger Wound has been promoted to Moderating Commissar of the People's Blog with all due privileges.

Congratulations Warmonger. You filthy not stinking hippie hater.

Premier Betty wrote:

Warmonger Wound has been promoted to Moderating Commissar of the People's Blog with all due privileges.

Congratulations Warmonger. You filthy not stinking hippie hater.

The Pup for many years rode with, though not a member of, one of the largest outlaw biker clubs in the US. The Pup was offended to be called a hippie by some lesser minded people who associated long hair with filthy hippies! (Actually, the Pup used to hang with real hippies in his drug induced college years - true socialists mind you, including some White Panter types from Wisconsin). But in the Pup's saner days, his biker days, we knew true peace came through strength.... Kill em all and let God sort em out. In fact, to this day, the Pup's best friend in the whole world is the National Vice President of this 3rd or 4th largest outlaw club. The Pup has friends in low places.....if you get the Pup's drift. As a matter of fact, it was this 1%er who gave the Pup his 1sickpup name and thus was born, the legend that is the Mighty Pup! God, the Pup still hates hippies! But they are useful to the party so the Pup must keep his tongue firmly implanted in his cheek.

Let us not descry the hippies. There is nothing more elevating than being in Santa Fe, New Mexico, home to many progressive people. Those with money merely display normal Party Manners--pushing and shoving and getting in the way with utter disregard for others, and constantly complaining. True party members.

But those without money live in communes and once a year, or perhaps more more often, come to a car wash, take off their clothes, and spray each other down. A wonderful husbanding of Mother Gaia's resources.

I must ask Nansky up to see them; it would make her feel better about her fallen boobs.

Commissar Theocritus wrote:Let us not descry the hippies. There is nothing more elevating than being in Santa Fe, New Mexico, home to many progressive people.

Ah, the Pup will do his best to keep his tongue... he knows the worth of hippies indeed. Now don't leave out Eureka Springs and the Ozarks in general. You can't seem to test fire a Kalishnakof without hitting or otherwise upsetting some hippie there. I swear to Lenin, I will never forget coming back to Eureka Springs to try and find one of my former hippie acquaintances. Now mind you, this is something like 1985 or so... they still had a picture of Nixon for their dartboard in a bar, and of course there was the obligatory "Love animals don't eat them" signs everywhere. Of course, the Pup, being from south Louisiana, loves animals a great deal.... You know of course what they say about Louisiana zoos? Our zoo plaques includes a recipe. Lenin help me, the Pup is craving some alligator even now!

Of course we need hippies! Hippies are the cornerstone of the New Peoples Red Army. Without them, how would the Nixon clones learn their marksman skills.

I mean... hippies are good... and stuff....

Premier Betty wrote:Of course we need hippies! Hippies are the cornerstone of the New Peoples Red Army. Without them, how would the Nixon clones learn their marksman skills.

I mean... hippies are good... and stuff....

I guess I am just "old school." I don't even think dear grandpa Iosef would have tolerated hippies. Useful idiots back then at least tended to have an outward normal appearance so they could better infiltrate the enemies bastions, and they could even appear to produce rational thought if grilled by the FBI or other imperialist agencies. Modern useful idiots generally can be spotted a mile away, or if they get on the radio or even online, the moment they open their pie hole or before they reach the first line return, all doubt is removed.

When I lived in Austin in the early 80s we had Drag Worms, who were related to the the Earth People. Skinny tanned people in rags. Go to Santa Fe and see more of them, but the problem is that Santa Fe is filled with people who are the intellectual equivalents but with money. They are rude, noisy, inconsiderate, pushy and ought to go to the wall.

I was just googling Drag Worms, never heard that term for the hippies. Apparently that comes from "the Drag" in Austin? I actually have some fond memories from my misguided days when I hitchhiked around the country like a common hippie... and made a quick stop in Austin. My brother used to go there on a very regular basis.... he was in the "import" business dealing in some rather pungent smelling bricks.... He often had anywhere from 40 to 100 of these bricks when he came home. I thought he was using them to decorate his patio, but never seemed to see them out there.