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It is always good to get advice from someone who has been there.

Man, you know things are bad when Vlad the Impaler is telling us to watch out or we might become too socialist. Especially the part where he says, "I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated". You absolutely, positively cannot make this stuff up. Its insanity, writ large, with red paint, in a holding cell. Somebody wake me up when this is all over.

Wouldn't it be ironic if governments of the world decided it would be in their best interests if, rather than let the American Left destroy the world economy, it would be better to ally together and role the dice of war and defeat us militarily in order to bring sanity back to our country and the world economy. The gamble of war might make more sense to them than allowing their counties to be dragged down with us. You can bet a lot of them understand what the Democrats and Obama are all about.

The shoe on the other foot. Woa.

With the increasing electoral successes of (relative) conservatives throughout "Old" Europe, it is us who slink closer into that which ruined their economies. Never ceases to amaze me.

Defeat the US militarily? Risk a nuclear holocaust? Nobody is that crazy. Now if they decided to smuggle in dozens of nukes into US cities and take it out that way, they could do it. But then Im sure the US generals would go ape and nuke everyone that might have done it.

Well, first they would have to figure out how to neutralize thousands of US nuclear missiles on land, on bombers and aboard subs.

This is all getting a little weird! It is like a sheepherder looking out in the pasture and watching a flock of sheep chase a wolf down and kill it and then eat it. "I say, Elroy, there's somethin wrong wit those der sheep."

When Cornwallis's subordinate O'Hara surrendered to Washington's subordinate, Lincoln, at Yorktown the British band played The World Turned Upside Down. I think it might be time to strike up the band again.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/yorktown.htm

Anybody go by where Reagan is buried? Is there a high pitched whirring sound sort of like the rotor in a centrifuge?

Putin for President! /kidding

Putin (Old Iron Teeth) has obviously looked at the American left and accurately determined that where once liberals were useful idiots for facilitating the spread of Communism to the west, they have now become too corrupt, self-serving, primitive and stupid to be of any use for anything but wanton destruction.

I imagine Putin is ever so-slightly shocked looking over at the U.S. and seeing what the liberal left has become: snarling adolescents standing up and peeing in their bed.

Even Stalin would be disgusted.

Wow. Here I had written off Putin as just another communist thug. I just felt that paradigm shift.

He is a communist thug. Its just that even godless, murdering, ruthless communist thugs can only take so much.

you know its bad when an ex kgb man realizes what a usa with no morals and all that power would actually be like if it went the way his country did when adopting socialism. so it’s a self preservation thing… for them its going to be a “be careful what you wish for you may get it kind of thing”. after all, they exist in opposition, what happens to them if we change to the new communist state which wants a one world government lording over all the others? the old moral USA would never invade or attack not caring about the loses, the new one with its euthanasia, eugenics, and lots of other things, including pragmatism, wont have that problem any more than the other socialists had problems exterminating 60 million people. However, the soviets never had the military power and the technology we did, and now, the new soviet west will. if you were Putin, would you be happy and feel safer now?

Man, even ol' Vlad gets it, but not the legions of drones in this country who voted for the doofus in the Oval Office (and who soon, if not already, will begin the painful process of suffering "buyer's remorse," to put it mildly).

We can only hope enough of the drones will wake the hell up and vote Dhimmicrats out of office in the 2010 elections (along with any Republican who votes in any way, shape or manner for any of this crapola), lest we plunge irretrievably over the cliff into the Stalinist HELL that these morons have planned for us.

I like to catch up on what anti-free market totalitarians suggest for our domestic policy. Did I miss the part where he recommends that the state should muzzle dissent and subvert civil liberties? OH THAT'S RIGHT. That was called the Bush-era, and we had that one covered without Vlad's help.

Posted by: SnowSnake at February 18, 2009 9:34 AM

I wonder if there's a recording of The World Turned Upside Down anywhere.

From the horse-skis mouth, as it were.

PUTRID PUTIN FOR STREET CLEANER and hey what ever became of ol GORBECHEV havnt seen him in years

jc14,
notice on cue your point exampled by fat_stanley?

stanley has no idea what he is in for...
he doesnt get that if the person he is still railing about were actually like his viral desease describes, it would look and be very different... more like the guy he supports. the very signs he sees and loves and things are so cool are the signs he should be worried about, but doesnt know better.

he believes in FDRs forgotten man, and never knew the original

"The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

[thanks to american thinker for the quote]

For once let us look him up and consider his case, for the characteristic of all social doctors is that they fix their minds on some man or group of men whose case appeals to the sympathies and the imagination, and they plan remedies addressed to the particular trouble; they do not understand that all the parts of society hold together and that forces which are set in action act and react throughout the whole organism until an equilibrium is produced by a readjustment of all interests and rights.

They therefore ignore entirely the source from which they must draw all the energy which they employ in their remedies, and they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and forgetting that a government produces nothing at all, they leave out of sight the first fact to be remembered in all social discussion - that the state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man."

and

"The friends of humanity start out with certain benevolent feelings towards ‘the poor,' ‘the weak,' ‘the laborers,' and others of whom they make pets. They generalize these classes and render them impersonal, and so constitute the classes into social pets. They turn to other classes and appeal to sympathy and generosity and to all the other noble sentiments of the human heart. Action in the line proposed consists in a transfer of capital from the better off to the worse off....

All schemes for patronizing ‘the working classes' savor of condescension. They are impertinent and out of place in this free democracy. There is not, in fact, any such state of things or any such relation as would make projects of this kind appropriate. Such projects demoralize both parties, flattering the vanity of one and undermining the self-respect of the other."
"On the Case of a Certain Man who Is Never Thought Of" (1884) by William Graham Sumner

oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=345&chapter=166265&layout=html&Itemid=27

Putin implemented a flat tax and reduced corporate tax, he's anything but a socialist. Despite that he's Russia's new tyrant.

Hopey Change has taken us down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass, into a Jabberwocky world

That is pretty much the perfect phrasing to describe this story, Van.

Putin implemented a flat tax and reduced corporate tax, he's anything but a socialist. Despite that he's Russia's new tyrant.

Posted by: Third at February 19, 2009 5:00 PM

His aim is Russian supremacy. The previous tyrants' aims were communist supremacy. It hasn't been too long since the one was thought inseparable from the other, remember.