The Communist Party of the USA is getting all ahead of themselves in their enthusiasm for our current financial turmoil:
A rare bird in the political world, the US Communist Party is feeling rather smug in these days of capitalist turmoil.
At the party’s New York headquarters on 23rd Street in Manhattan, regional party chairman Libero Della Piana, 36, laid out why he thinks Marxist-Leninism’s time has finally come.
“We are very excited, we feel that we are at a turning point,” Della Piana, an imposing half-Italian, half-African American with a pony tail, told AFP.
Of course, Communist Party dogma tells us that a society has to move first to socialism before embracing Communism.
So, you know: Patience, fellahs. Hope! is on the way.
Never mind the article… it’s the usual CPUSA balderdash … truth be told I’m having some trouble getting my mind around the image of an ” imposing half- Italian, half- African American with a pony tail”… I need a drink. Best
Snake Eater–I’m right behind you, save some for me!
Make that A LOT for me….
Greetings:
Today’s Question: What’s Black & White and Red all over?
Snake, sounds kinda like the chief Urukhai creature from Lord of the Rings.
I’ll bring the McCallan…
Snake, Virgil, Mongo:
I’m with you on this one and it calls for straight whiskey – not some chick drink.
Chica drinks all around…I can just picture Piana frantically buying on Charlie Schwab.
First read put me in mind of the ‘Sekuu Bobee’ character from ‘Dogs Of War’ movie. Just got it on DVD and rewatched it twice!
Holly crap, the whole socialist/communist thing is working out so well throughout the world, we need to move there. The whole Eastern Europe thing was an aberation. Look at North Korea and Cuba. thats pretty good living there. Heck the chinese are actually cheaters, whats up with that whole capitalism and private businesses. it won’t work….jeez
The only place I’ve seen Communism or Socialism work, come to think of it, are the Amish, Hutterite, and Mennonite communities.
But then, they’re also God-fearing folks who have a moral code against being lazy and living off the sweat of some other guy’s brow.
Wonder how Libero Della Piana thinks he’s going to solve that little practical problem?
– Max
Max, that’s just what I needed to read at the start of my day. Thank you! Good folks they are…
Irony of ironies: The Communist revolution was in 1917…October of 1917; a miserable failure of an experiment that some folks, including a certain Presidential candidate, just can’t seem to get their head around.
To Claudio’s list I would add Venezuela, and let’s not leave out Zimbabwe with all of its surrounding neighbors. 30 years of tyranny, suffering, a dismantled economy, and the finger of blame pointed all around at that ugly C word…umm, dare I say it…Cap…Oh H*ll…Capitalism. There. I said it.
I believe you are all somewhat off with Obama and the label “socialist” you attach to him. For sure, he is a left-winged liberal, probably even an extreme one, but socialism is more – worse – than just taxing the rich and introducing public health care. It at least amounts to massive nationalization and socialization of all core business and suppression of private entrepreneurship. Probably the first Mitterand government in France in the early eighties came close. I did not hear anything alike from Obama.
Oh, and his live story is not particular socialist either, more individualist.
I’ll tell you the live-story of a some socialist. Compare hers to Obama and think how you would be spinning if O picked her for veep.
Well he wouldn’t/couldn’t because she was born in some European town in the fifties. She decided to become a teacher. She jobbed as barmaid at “Barbarina”, some well-known red-light district bar of that town (which happened to belong to her sister). She later denied to have been a stripper or to have been professed with any entrepreneurial sort of things, but the bar was at least known to sell S/M pornos under the desk. She said “I was student and single mom and I needed to make money. I was glad that I could work once a week at my sister’s”.
If you asked elder men how are supposed to know the scene back then, they would just smile, say “of course I knew her”, but refuse to give any details while acknowledging that, well, she was a wild thing and a party animal. She used to hang a around with the sons of the “best” families of the town.
That however did not prevent her from joining the “communist federation of country X” which was maoist, that is more extreme than the Soviet rulers that once were, and running for parliament on their behalf in seventies.
That was not successful and later on she switched to the social-democratic party, now getting elected to parliament. There, she moved to its “right” flank and became one of its central figures.
Then, in the nineties she became Secretary of State for Health and Social Security Systems of that nation, where she presided of a series of health-care reforms that reduced the breadth of health services available but could not reduce costs and fees.
And if her party will not be thrown out of government in the next general election, she will most likely do that for ever after.
Hajo,
Don’t leave us in suspense! Name names!
I hate New York commies even more than Illinois Nazis.
I hate New York commies even more than Illinois Nazis.
Dirigisme.
#s 12 & 13 — Who Is “María Victoria Vigueras García” of Spain? (wild a** guess…)
Dirigisme indeed…Filterman…do the words ” pompous ass” resonate/strike a chord with you in any way? Please advise. Best
SE – Somewhat.
Maybe you mean I am sorta like an (in alphabetical order – abecedarian), apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalia, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte?
Snake, you may be onto something.
(Definitions upon request)
Best
geo6, jpr, no names please. But I can provide an old official campaign photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31477511@N07/
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
hajo-
Madam Secretary is a fine looking woman and very German in her looks. Please pass my sincere regards next time you see her. Makes me wish I had done a little better breaking the cultural code back in my 3rd move back to your fine land, and it mattered. . Unfortunately the only German girl that ever showed any interest in me was our landlord’s daughter in the second lengthy stint. I was 9 and she was 8.
Filterman, Thanks for the response…a modicum of humor, however slim to cling to…hope springs eternal for all of Gods children…even your tight-assed self… Excelsior. Best
Snake Eater – And a kind, thank-you for your response…. I think. Our belief in “hope springs eternal” seems to be our common bound.
Personally, I like your old adjective “peckerwood” admonishments much more than mine. But I have a failing….. I too easily fall into the pit of petty pomposity.
As for my 26-word, alphabetical insult to myself, most all of those words I had not previously known. And contrary to RetRsvMike, they are not Latin words – although they have many Latin roots.
And since nobody asked – but what the hell – here is the alphabetical word insult followed by their word definitions. (As I said, I still like “peckerwood” better, FWIW)
Synonyms, in the same order as above:
A few of those arcane English words my be found in standard dictionaries, but not all. Certainly most software and online dictionaries are limited, and will omit more than half of the terms.
Maybe there is some word of value in there for you, Snake. Who can say?
(BTW, peckerwood still works for me, and I do squeak.)
You ought to send all those words to Bill O’Reilly. Along with y’all he also shares those characteristics like Andy Griffith in that 1960 m0vie with Patricia Neal.
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Flit- You ought to send all those words to Bill O’Reilly for his show.
Along with y’all he also shares those characteristics like Andy Griffith in that 1960 m0vie with Patricia Neal (“Face in the Crowd”? – no time for a google check)..
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Damn Flit, you described me to a “T” – you old peckerhead er wood.
Thanks, Hajo-hi.
I have been trying to tell them all something similar for the past few years but, it seems, to no avail.