[highlight=#FF0000]Party Bulletin:[/highlight]

Happy Friday, Comrades! Here are some Party announcements for your collective benefit:

- Casual Fridays have been discontinued due to those Party members lacking proper casual attire and/or the Party's ruling that Hawaiian shirts represent racist representations of indigenous Hawaiian culture. Henceforth, Casual Fridays will be replaced with Burlap Sack Fridays. So, if you like, please come to work wearing a burlap sack of the Party's choosing. It's fun and we're all about fun here.

- The job report is out today and THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO SAY ABOUT THIS SUBJECT.

- Today is Mark Liponik's birthday! Mark works within the Party's No. 231 Ink Toner and Copy Directorate as an Ink Toner Procurement Specialist Lv. III. There will be cake, songs, and I'm told an accordion. Please be sure to wish Mark a happy birthday if you see him today.

- There will be a Politburo meeting tonight to discuss certain issues that are issues which need to be discussed. Among these issues are issues concerning the unresolved issues that were last discussed. This meeting is closed to the public.

- The following people have been DENOUNCED today and are subject to ARREST:

1.) Mark Liponik.

If your name has been listed, you will need to immediately pack warm clothes and a shovel and/or clean out your workstation. Please patiently await for arresting officer to arrive and please have proper documentation ready. Stealing office supplies is STRONGLY discouraged.

Have a happy day!

Thing are looking up Comrade, new plan is coming.

Meow, I think that you are jumping the gun. Tonight's Politburo meeting is to discuss the issue that there are things to discuss.

It is to set up a schedule for a discussion of the fact that we need to discuss things, and to choose a venue and of course appropriate funds for it.

I personally am shooting for Bali. After the big AWG confab, they have got down the landing of private jets.

So that's where we ought to go. And it's warm, unlike the place where some of the comrades, who will mentioned when we finally discuss the things that we need to discuss, will go to.

And since this is Labor Day, I'm not going to impale a prole on Monday on the North Forty.

I'm so generous; that's why they love me so.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote: And since this is Labor Day, I'm not going to impale a prole on Monday on the North Forty.

I hope it's with the flag he pulled out of the golf hole. The justice would be poetic.

Chairman Meow wrote: There will be a Politburo meeting tonight to discuss certain issues that are issues which need to be discussed. Among these issues are issues concerning the unresolved issues that were last discussed. This meeting is closed to the public.

I'm down with Bali! Comrade Mrs. Blokhayev has been busting my chops to buy her a Bali (whatever that is) and maybe this trip will shut her up meet her requirements!

Theo, is Bruno coming on this trip? PLEASE SAY YES!!! I need someone who can keep Mrs. Blokhayev pre-occupied and away from me!!!

Meow, just this morning I received a fresh barrel of The People's Rum™ from our comrades in Puerto Rico at Rum Distillery #8. Tell you what... I'll mix up a batch of The Official Party Approved Margarita™ to take along with us. One small problem. I hear that the Customs inspector over there in Bali will give us a hard time over 55 gallons of Margarita. Normally I would take one of my Mosin-Nagant 91/30's and negotiate a solution. But I am going to have to leave them with my staff because Boehner is back to his counter-revolutionary Rethuglikan tricks again. If you would be so kind and send one of your jackbooted thugs aides over to Jeff Immelt's for a bag of ca$h "contribution", I'm sure we could smooth the way a bit with that inspector and still have some discretionary funds left for acquiring a few cases of scotch and some Quaaludes.

"Casual Fridays have been discontinued due to those Party members lacking proper casual attire and.."

I am highly offended and insulted. I take great care & humble pride in my attire and adornments. Posting this previously secret photo of myself, busily going about the People's Service of supply foodery to the starving masses is not of conscience...unconscionable. And then sending me a Private Memo stating the above is unmentionable, so I won't mention it further.

You should be ashamed of your own person and will have to bring your own cake and donuts in the future!

Judge Fraulein Pulloskies wrote:I take great care & humble pride in my attire and adornments.

Looks like you've lost some weight Dearest Frau and gotten a few new tats!

I'm so flattered you noticed. Yes, I have... and that new outfit. This is why I can not image getting such a nasty Memo!!

This cube thing is for masses!

Zampolit, of course Bruno will be there. I'll make sure he packs all his wigs and (fake) bling so he won't feel lost. And I would be most happy to make sure that he entertains Mrs. Zampolit.

Did I tell you that he's a homing queen? I once drove him to Billings, Montana, and then started driving to Missoula. Fifteen miles west, I stopped and asked him to fetch my favorite frock of his from the trunk and to put it on. Just for me. As soon as he was outside the car, I gunned it and drove as though our Many Titted Empress were after me after a night of habanero-flavored fajitas and chili-oil-impregnated toilet paper.

(Actually I have knowledge of that. I found that one of my proles is a good chemist and I made him figure out how to treat toilet paper with chili oil. And I wanted some, er, payback for the many times I've replaced the dry wall lost to her tusks.)

You know what happened? I drove back in two days to the Rancho. Do you know how far that is? I thought about asking that crazy woman astronut who put on a diaper to drive to kill someone. I got back in 48 hours!

Guess who was in the living room sipping a mojito?

I like Bali. I proposed Bali.

Bruno can't swim.

Fraulein, do you, and this is between just us comrades now, think it wise to display so much well-fed flesh? It might incite envy.

Although we progs are responsible for the murder of 100,000,000 last century, and counting! praise Stalin, the reich-wing thugs murdered 800,000 people after WWII by forcibly repatriating Soviet soldiers to the old Motherland, the USSR.

While fighting for their country, not enough of them died to keep the vision of a world without the grinding, ruthless, brutality of a starvation existence from the proles in the Motherland. They had a mistaken belief that it was better to be free and rich(er) and to have the ability to have freedom and richness than it was to expend your every effort to find enough food to live. And that must not happen. It would let the lesser people, you know, that sort, which can only be said with a sniff, the unwashed, the unholy, do things like, oh, what they want to do. And a prog cannot have what.

I'm all for populace control by starvation. The Chinese would, under dear Chairman Mao, swap children of equal size and eat them. To save the other children, of course. How perfectly logical. [ This is completely true. ]

So I think it most unwise of you to show your stippled, richly-fed flanks to the proles. Who might think that there is more in the world than grinding under the thumb of dear Senator Reid, Nanski, our MTE, and of course President Oemptysuit. I love them so. They know exactly what they'd doing, what they're ruining, and as long as they're doing it, they get huge People's Stiffies.

So please don't show your richly fed flesh The proles might get uppity and that would spoil the digestion of the truffled foie gras I bought with the forcibly collected union dues.

Ahh....my dear Father Prog,,,

I wondered who ran off with the sizable order of Hudson Valley foie gras I personally ordered for the trip to Bali. You can be so impatient at times. You actually paid for it? You do know, of course,. I will have to know who the five (soon to be 4) fingered bandit is....Can't have the kitchen staff helping themselves to profit; especially if they are trying to sell the purloined items to our Party Members...no....nein...nada....that just won't do! I'm so over-budget with all the extravagant parties (actually they are fund raisers..wink) Dear Leader has been throwing at the White House, lately. Yep....he's blowing my food cost into next Tuesday alright....but it's all for a good cause,....right?

Dear Che, I am so glad that you too love the Hudson Valley foie gras. I have just been looking over the menu for one of the restaurants at Hotel Teatro in Denver and Colorado Peach Cobbler, Pistachio Black Pepper Streusel, Armagnac Crema, Peach Gastrique. I just hope they use Tellicherry black pepper; the normal Malabar just won't do. And I hope that the gastrique is made with a decent vinegar. I won't have just any old bad plonk.

In their sampling course, they pair it with anjou pears. I can see that, as long as it's on toasted challa or brioche. I suppose that I might be convinced that brioche can be replaced by the crust of the cobbler; the fruit would help.

On consideration, I think that the black pepper streusel might be a good balance to the richness of the foie gras.

When you're provisioning for the Bali excursion, please do note that I am fond of Conundrum. I know, I know, it's not Bolly or Dom but it's a nice wine. I find it goes very well with foie gras.

I am somewhat ashamed that you, of all people, do not realize that everything we do for ourselves is for a good cause. That's tautological. We are good; what we want is good. My shit don't stink so what I want is good. I cannot be embarrassed for my social position is that of a Spanish grandee. No matter what I do (see Teddy or Sheets Byrd), I'm not liable because I'm, are you ready for this, a Made Prog.

I'm thirsty. Pack a lot of Conundrum.

I think we should have naked Fridays......so glad you are back, Meow. The collective just wasn't the same without you :)

Bruno! Bruno! Pack up! We're going to Bali. I promise you that the Hildebeest won't be there to ride you like a rented mule. You'll be able to listen to Nanski completely flip her wig and indulge the Goracle as he pretends to be human.

Meow has promised you a vintage Streisand album, and Moochelle will be there. You and she can make girly talk about telling people off.

Lenin 'n' Things wrote:I think we should have naked Fridays......so glad you are back, Meow. The collective just wasn't the same without you :)

I've noticed, Comrade -- I've noticed. A lot more smiling, I see, along with the emptied bottles of my most expensive wines scattered about. Denunciations are being written, evidence fabricated, and the guilty one second closer to the Party's cold, swift hands of ultimate and absolute justice. This is how we do things -- without dignity. It is the Party's way. It is the Washingtonian way (just ask Sally Quinn.)

Other than that, I am glad to see you too, Comrade Lenin 'n' Things.

Theocritus, I couldn't agree more on the Bali decision. I for one am sick and tired of looking at all of the white people in Davos. Everywhere you go there are white people babbling in Austrian or whatever it is they speak. Besides, when you throw dollars on Swiss peasants all they do is derisively laugh and throw Swiss francs at you in return. The nerve of those people.

Yes, Meow, I share your contempt for the Swiss. Why when I was there in 1979, the SFr was about 69c. Now it's the other way around. But that's because the Swiss stole all that money from the Joos and that let them do it. You think I'm crazy? I listened to Nanski tonight and she went on this most delightful riff about why people were given home-equity loans and credit cards. So they COULDN'T pay them and so this would happen.

I don't get it but who cares? From Nanski's mouth to Mao's ass.

LnT, is that reference to "Naked Fridays" a subtle dig at me? You know that I always go in the height of decorum, with button-down collars and sometimes with a cummerbund.

I'm practicing being a suicide bomber. Because if we lose in 2012, the only way that we can get our way is to destroy things.

But the Hummels are safe, Meow, darling....and that's the important thingy.....Erudite, father of love & other stuff....the buttoned-up boiled shirt w/ a cummerbund & absolutely nothing else is always a good look...for you we will have semi-naked Fridays :)

Chairman M. S. Punchenko wrote:
Theocritus, I couldn't agree more on the Bali decision. I for one am sick and tired of looking at all of the white people in Davos. Everywhere you go there are white people babbling in Austrian or whatever it is they speak. Besides, when you throw dollars on Swiss peasants all they do is derisively laugh and throw Swiss francs at you in return. The nerve of those people.

Chairman, I'm surprised you don't know that in Davos they speak Swiss.

Lenin 'n' Things, I humbly support your Friday suggestion; I may have to wear a guitar, but I've found that to be excellent attire in such situations.

And with our delectable Comrade Colonel Judge Fraulein having lost all that weight (mmmmmmmm) - oh my, Fridays are going to be a Cube Delight!

Commissarka Pinkie wrote:

Chairman M. S. Punchenko wrote:
Theocritus, I couldn't agree more on the Bali decision. I for one am sick and tired of looking at all of the white people in Davos. Everywhere you go there are white people babbling in Austrian or whatever it is they speak. Besides, when you throw dollars on Swiss peasants all they do is derisively laugh and throw Swiss francs at you in return. The nerve of those people.

Chairman, I'm surprised you don't know that in Davos they speak Swiss.

I know the Swiss speak Swiss. I am fluent in Swiss, dearest Commissarka Pinkie.

You forget that I was the Ambassador to Canada and am quite familiar with the Swiss since they share a border with Iceland. Of course I do not blame you for these simple mistakes, Comrade Commissarka. If anybody I blame the underfunded and overworked teachers who work tirelessly in the face of Republican dictates, oppression, and rape. Yes, I said rape -- because that's what Republicans do to our educators, they rape them.

Lenin 'n' Things wrote:I think we should have naked Fridays......so glad you are back, Meow. The collective just wasn't the same without you :)

Here! Here! Nude Fridays is most equalising.

And after work? A mandatory Twister competition! Of course.

But, I caution you... DO NOT involve yourselves in any activities that may be construed as sexual harrassment (especially during the Twister tourney)!

Enjoy!

Meow, have you been taking your head meds regularly? Switzerland does NOT share a border with Iceland. They have nothing in common. How could they share a border? Because as we know, simple facts like geography mean nothing.

Switzerland shares a border with the Palestinians, and that's why Yassir Arafat put his money in Swiss banks so his wife in Paris could use it.

LnT, how did you know that I happen to have an old cummerbund and boiled shirt from the times when I played in a high-school stage band? I have always thought it the High Style. But because I'm a Made Prog, I have dyed the cummerbund red and the shirt is now a Mao shirt.

I think that we ought to bring back the elegant dressing of the Coconut Grove. Red cummerbunds for all, as we jet to Bali and dislocated each others' backs by the patting while we solve the world's problems before we jet off to yet another amusement that the proles couldn't possibly understand, and which they are too uncultured to appreciate.

Bill Clinton said that he could spend the proles' tax money better; just so. But he didn't say, as I do, that we can spend it in better taste.

And really, that's what this is all about. One, two, three, sniff.

Arrrrgh! Everytime the snootty nosed high-minded sniff happens I think the coyotes may be looking for chicken, please warn me next time.

Comrades,

I have arranged for some water transportation to view the island of Bali while we discuss what ever it is we are suppose to discuss. As you know I've spent wads of OPM on improving the People's Fleet. The Lido Deck now awaits for our esteemed party elite!

Snookie, let me be the first to reserve a cabin on the Lido deck with a private verandah. I want the one which displays the masthead of Dear Oleader. It would frighten away any shades of incorrect thought which might have been left by people fleeing despots and realizing that it's all complete and total shit.

Chairman Meow!

Humbly I purr before you, all in awe and stuff. Great to see you back sir.

Comrade Father Prog,

If you would leave the confines of the smoke screened state of Texas (yes, Perry's plot to keep the yokel populace ill informed to the real world happenings by obscuring any signals with smoke) you would know that Dear leader, His O'liness, has lowered the oceans (as promised) so much one can walk from New York city to Calais without wetting ones feet. In fact, the Pas De Calais has now been renamed Rue De Calais. And I know all about any thing Reiux.

And since the Swiss finally received their War reparations from France for sending so many refugees during WWII, in the form of land, Switzerland does indeed border Iceland. To help you keep up with the happings of the world, I've sent Nationlized Geophallic a subscription request in your name. I hope they send a copy or two before you get the bill. It has lots of good pics of penisulas, I believe that is what they are called, penisulas.

with all due respect, but not being able to control a very twitchy tail,
your loyal serving feline.
Comrade Rcat

prrt

Why, thank you, Reiuxcat. I have received the new Nationalized Geophallic subscription. In this day and age we no longer have pictures of primitive women displaying the dugs--sometimes around their waists. We have pictures of everyone showing his asshole toward the camera.

But perhaps that was because this issue's theme was, "Wipe me! I exist so you must, and then feed me! I exist so you must, and the wipe me again!"

There is another reason that Texas is obscured by smoke. The millions of acres of fires were all set, deliberately, lest Baby Barry Bama be offended by the sight of a state of 25,000,000 people working, making a profit, and not needing him.

Which is the ultimate blasphemy.

Father Prog Theocritus wrote:Why, thank you, Reiuxcat. I have received the new Nationalized Geophallic subscription. In this day and age we no longer have pictures of primitive women displaying the dugs--sometimes around their waists. We have pictures of everyone showing his asshole toward the camera.

But perhaps that was because this issue's theme was, "Wipe me! I exist so you must, and then feed me! I exist so you must, and the wipe me again!"

There is another reason that Texas is obscured by smoke. The millions of acres of fires were all set, deliberately, lest Baby Barry Bama be offended by the sight of a state of 25,000,000 people working, making a profit, and not needing him.

Which is the ultimate blasphemy.

Calvin and Hobbes have a wise caretaker indeed.

Reiuxcat, things are bad, very bad, here in Hooterville.
Personally I would never shop at WalMart--that's where the Bitterclingers go, and all those people who don't read the NYT or believe CNN.

I do not know who this woman is but I have a hit out on her. I am paging Red Star to get his goons out to take care of this granny. Just who the Stalin does she think that she is? To be this discourteous to our Lord and Savior, Baby Barry Bama.

Or this horrible thing:

Oh Dear Stalin forgive us! It's the attack of the Walmartians! BTW did you see the documentary that our sage Grigori did on these bitterclingers? Horrible stuff....wait...I think my eyes are bleeding!

Walmartians? How awful. Everyone ought to go to a government-sanctioned store.

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