Socialist Ten Commandments

The World According to Glenn Beck: NBC HQ At 30 Rock is the Heart of A Communist Conspiracy!

Dude, don't the Americans have like an economy to worry about?

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A Good Economic Example to Follow

Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson - LANDON THOMAS Jr., NY Times Online, May 14, 2009
Instead of spending its oil riches, Norway saved, and it is now growing in the midst of the global recession.

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Bacon Quote of the Day

"Bacon is the key ingredient in the fall of communism." - Andrew D'Ambrosi (via Twitter)

Commie "Winnie the Pooh"

You've Got to Be Kidding Me

As I walked into the university yesterday morning, I noticed a young women affixing a poster that read "theredrevolution.ca". Had the Communist Party of Canada begun recruiting at my school? In small print below the url: "Liberal Party of Canada". Umm, something is wrong here.

Official transcript of a sisterly phone conversation:
QoWP: "Whaaaaa-t? Liberals haven't been revolutionary since 1848."
Janny: "What happened in 1848?"
QoWP: "The Revolution of 1848."
[Rim Shot]

The Liberals referring to themselves as the
Red Revolution* is kind of like call myself Wonder Woman -- doesn't mean I have an invisible plane or a magic lasso.


*Originally Published 1918

Those Wacky Communists

Kristin Dos Santos was covering the WGA union meeting in LA yesterday for E!. She noticed "Communists were distributing literature at the gate under the vague guise of being WGA helpers, but one wag who managed to duck the handout quipped, 'Oh, god, the Scientologists are everywhere!'"

Source: Strikewatch: Live from the Shrine Auditorium, Kristin Dos Santos, Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 12:51 AM



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I need a Putin shirt

The U.S.S.R. Is Back (on Clothing Racks), Natasha Singer, Published: November 27, 2007
Young and trendy Muscovites are in the throes of nostalgia for the staples of Soviet childhoods.

Привет товарищ (Hello Comrade)

A wannabe communist espied me reading Tolstoy at the doctor's office. I think he thinks he found a kindred spirit. Just because it's old and Russian does not make it communist literature. How profound that just today I read "There are no communists." It gave me shivers down my spine.

Strange Connections to Warren Beatty

This past week I came across a quote:
"If I can't dance, I don't want your revolution!" - Emma Goldman (there are many variations of this quote floating around)

I thought this was an interesting quote so I looked up Emma Goldman. I found out that she

was a Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known for her anarchist writings and speeches. Adopted by First-wave feminists, she has been lionized as an iconic 'rebel woman' feminist. Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

(Side note: I always find it funny that anarchists are the kind of people that would never survive in the kind of world they strive for.)

This past week I was reading an article in Vanity Fair about the 1981 movie Reds. It a movie co-written, directed and starring Warren Beatty. It is the story of an American journalist in Russia during the Communist Revolution. This movie is based on a true story and Emma Goldman is one of the characters portrayed. Weird, I had never heard about her before in my life and I read about her twice in one week.

On to the next connection:
In said article, the writer states that no one could ever call Warren Beatty a political dilettante since he has been an active member of the Democrat party since the 60s. I was amused since I love the word dilettante and it is not common (at least in the circles I travel in). Low and behold, guess what Dictionary.com's word of the day is?

dilettante \DIL-uh-tont; dil-uh-TONT; dil-uh-TON-tee; -TANT; -TAN-tee\, noun:
1. An amateur or dabbler; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge sporadically, superficially, or for amusement only.
2. An admirer or lover of the fine arts.

adjective:
1. Of or characteristic of a dilettante; amateurish.

So to sum things up:

Dance quote -> Emma Goldman -> Reds -> Warren Beatty
Word of the Day -> dilettante -> not Warren Beatty

Some day I may have to post my theory about why some men don't marry until alter in life. I call it my "Warren Beatty Theory".

It is so exciting. I finished my work faster tonight than ever before. I finished in under 2 hours (and still get paid for 3). My previous record was 2 hours and 15 minutes. It helped that the store was in such good order already. Yesterday it was a mess so the first order today was for the booksellers to re-organize their sections.

In completely unrelated news, I have a strangely high pain threshold. Either that or I fall asleep easily. I got my legs waxes today and that is what the esthetician said. I was falling asleep while she was waxing my legs and I wasn't even super tired. It doesn't surprise me, I have fallen asleep standing up and another time walking to school. (My friend woke me up before I almost ran into a cyclist). The strangest place I fell asleep was head first into a suitcase while I was packing and slept there for 2 hours. I fell asleep only twice doing homework -- once it was when I had the chicken pox and I was colouring some ladybugs. The other time was when I had to read the Communist Manifesto for a university history class. This is the only time I have ever fallen asleep reading. The former because of pure exhaustion and the latter because of pure boredom.

Politics Test

On viewing where my political views compared to famous people, I was amused that it was right on Mikhail Gorbachev's eye. To sum things up, I have the political ideologies of a communist that brought democracy to the USSR.

You are a Social Moderate (56% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (18% permissive) You are best described as a: Democrat Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test