The ideological celebrations have begun over Socialism's triumph.

[4est_4est_Gump]

The markets are reacting as we predicted in the doom and gloom thread.




Fore more years!
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/files/2011/04/obama-wide-grin80.jpg
Viva la Socialism!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

All hail the Watian Stimulus.


All others may be bitter.


Still others may resume all Comanchero activities.

 

[Saint Peter]

Everything is going to be alright.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

All hail the Watian Stimulus.


All others may be bitter.


Still others may resume all Comanchero activities.

Hang on to the model A!


Parts are going to be in high demand.

Most likely starting with windshields and head lights...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

What do you hope to find
with your head down in the pig mine?


Almost worth a quick grin . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Everything is going to be alright.

Redneck Translation: As long as we still get light rail!



In California it is underutilized and chronically late, a lot like China's high speed train miracle...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Hang on to the model A!


Parts are going to be in high demand.

Most likely starting with windshields and head lights...

And left front tires.


Wat is looking to upgrade to a DeSoto.


I hear there is something called "hemi" . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What do you hope to find
with your head down in the pig mine?


Almost worth a quick grin . . . .

Manbearpig and the cause of Glow Ball Warning...
















The homeless burning everything they can lay their hands on in 55-gallon drums...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And left front tires.


Wat is looking to upgrade to a DeSoto.


I hear there is something called "hemi" . . . .

Gas will be cheap if you can afford the taxes.


http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/files/2011/04/obama-wide-grin80.jpg
FORE! more years!

 

[Saint Peter]

Redneck Translation: As long as we still get light rail!



In California it is underutilized and chronically late, a lot like China's high speed train miracle...

Instead of light rail we have installed signs that tell you how many minutes it is going to take you to get to the next off ramp.

This just adds insult to injury when looking ahead at the sea of brake lights.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Instead of light rail we have installed signs that tell you how many minutes it is going to take you to get to the next off ramp.

This just adds insult to injury when looking ahead at the sea of brake lights.

It's party time for the guys in the tower of Babel,
Sodom meet Gomorra, Cain meet Able. Have a ball, ya'll
See the leachers crawl, with the call girls under the table...



Don't worry. President-elect Obama has a plan to get all the fat-bottom girls on bicycles...


http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/files/2011/04/obama-wide-grin80.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It is impossible to understand politics in the world today without grasping the fundamental fact that there exist two different lefts. I propose that the two be referred to by everyone as the Stupid Left and the Satanic Left. The two are very different, although they work together. People who are part of the first are simply stupid people. People who are part of the second may in fact be quite shrewd, but are evil and nefarious. There is no third type of leftist.

Over time, the Stupid Left has been losing its numbers, as many Stupid Leftists either become smarter or morph into Satanic Leftists, and so desist from being mere Stupid Leftists. So a process of selection is occurring whereby the strength of the Satanic Left within the overall left grows. The "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations and their kin in Europe are attended by and contain both kinds of leftists, although they are increasingly organized by Satanic Leftists. Almost all the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions vis-à-vis Israel) guttersnipes are Satanic Leftists.

Both the Stupid Left and the Satanic Left demonstrate together against the United States, in favor of Iran and Islamofascism, in favor of destroying Israel, and in favor of Palestinian terrorism. But for different reasons. The Stupid Left really thinks that if the U.S. leaves Iran alone, it will refrain from developing weapons of mass destruction. The Satanic Left supports Iran precisely because it knows that Iran will develop them and use them!

The Stupid Left is anti-American because it thinks people in America are oppressed, poor, and mistreated, and that America is an evil country. The Satanic Left is anti-American precisely because it knows that the opposite is the case.

The Stupid Left hates America because it thinks America promotes evil, oppressive regimes around the world. The Satanic Left hates America because America gets in the way of the evil, oppressive regimes that the Satanic Left promotes.

The Stupid Left denounces capitalism and globalization and supports communism because it really believes that people are poor and oppressed under capitalism but free and happy under socialism. The Satanic Left denounces capitalism and supports communism precisely because it knows that the opposite is the case.

The Stupid Left does not know that communism produces gulags. The Satanic Left supports communism precisely because it produces gulags, and also because members of the Satanic Leftists presume that they will be placed in charge of the gulags.

The Stupid Left wants a Palestinian state because it thinks that such a state will pursue peace alongside Israel. The Satanic Left wants a Palestinian state precisely because it knows that such a state will launch a war of destruction against Israel and endless atrocities against the Jews.

The Stupid Left thinks that Israel mistreats Arabs. It does not know that Arab regimes mistreat Arabs. The Satanic Left knows that Israel does not and the Arab regimes do. The reason it wants Israel destroyed is not because it thinks Israel is unjust, but rather because it hates Jews.

The Stupid Left opposes Israeli armed force being used to suppress terror because it thinks that terror can be resolved through dialogue and negotiations. The Satanic Left opposes Israeli armed forces being used to suppress terror because it supports terror against Jews.

The Stupid Left is convinced that most Arabs seek peace, are moderate and decent people, and have legitimate grievances against the West. The Satanic Left supports Arab aggression and terror precisely because it knows that this is not true.

The Stupid Left thinks that Palestinian leaders and Arab nationalists are progressive and liberal. The Satanic Left supports the same people precisely because it knows they are fascists....

Read more Stupid Leftisms at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/the_two_lefts.html#ixzz1uBL58VZK

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Dear Reader

Our Pete has never worked at a powerhouse when 600 construction workers try to leave the parking lot at the same time, like would happen at lite-rail stations.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Dear Reader

Our Pete has never worked at a powerhouse when 600 construction workers try to leave the parking lot at the same time, like would happen at lite-rail stations.

They shut down inbound traffic by turning both lanes into express lanes out.





Left lane is the iron workers lane, you'd best get outta da way!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Europe's Right in Disarray
By SAMUEL GREGG, The American Spectator
5.7.12 @ 6:08AM

Nicolas Sarkozy's demise is the least of its problems.

Much can change in five years. In 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy, a man who forged his reputation as a dynamic no-nonsense Interior Minister, was viewed by many as France's best chance in a generation to break away from the country's hyper-interventionist economic policies and the left's suffocating monopoly of French cultural life. Now, however, Sarkozy has been discarded by France's electorate in favor of one of the driest socialist career-politician apparatchiks ever to ascend to high office in Europe.

...

Sarkozy's consignment to history and the return of France's left to power reflects, however, a wider European trend: a crisis of identity and purpose that presently afflicts much of Europe's center-right.

Any objective analysis of Europe's "non-left" soon indicates the depth of their problems. In Italy, the center-right is struggling to shake off the legacy of endless scandal associated with Silvio Berlusconi. On 22 April, almost half of France's right-leaning electorate voted for Marine Le Pen's Front National: a movement that rivals the left in its embrace of protectionism and other economically-interventionist policies. Across the Rhine, the junior partner in Angela Merkel's coalition government, the pro-business Free Democrats, are so unpopular that they may fail to meet the 5 percent threshold required for representation in the Bundestag at Germany's next federal election.

It's true that Spain's mildly-conservative Partido Popular recently acquired office. But the PP was primarily elected because it wasn't the thoroughly-discredited Socialists. While the PP's leader Mariano Rajoy has continued his predecessor's austerity measures, his government has yet to implement any substantive economic liberalization (austerity and liberalization being quite different things).

The same might be said of Britain's Conservative government. More than one commentator has suggested David Cameron's Tories seem to be in thrall to their Liberal Democrat coalition partner (often described as a parody of inner-city latte-drinking left-liberalism). Indeed, it's hard to think of anything especially conservative or free market about most of Cameron's policies. The thumping received by the Tories at last week's nation-wide local council elections has been partly attributed to anger by Conservative voters at the distinctly un-conservative positions pursued by Cameron's administration.

The reasons for this widespread disarray on Europe's right are partly structural. Many European electoral systems are designed to prevent any one party from governing in its own right. Many center-right parties consequently find themselves in coalitions with left-leaning groups. This blunts their ability to challenge left-wing social and economic policies.

Tendencies to tepidness are accentuated by the fact that European politics is dominated by career politicians to an extent unimaginable to Americans who don't reside in Chicago. European center-right politicians are consequently even more focused upon acquiring and staying in office than their American counterparts. That means they are extremely risk-averse when it comes to challenging the European status quo -- such as becoming associated with proposals for substantive economic reform or confronting the intolerant leftist hegemony that dominates European educational institutions.
A far deeper problem facing Europe's center-right, however, is its intellectual-ineffectiveness. By this, I don't mean that there aren't any intellectually-convinced European conservatives and free marketers. In fact, there are plenty of such individuals. Their impact upon the public square, however, is minimal.

Such ineffectiveness has several causes. First, most non-left European think-tanks are explicitly associated with existing political parties and usually government-funded. Hence, the willingness of people working in such outfits to criticize their own side for failure to promote conservative principles -- something many American think-tanks often do -- is limited, if not non-existent.

A second crippling factor is the extent to which most European center-right intellectuals and parties (especially those from Christian Democrat backgrounds) are committed to promoting the European Union in its present form. The problem is that many of the assumptions, structures, and policies associated with the EU have long assumed a decidedly center-left character. Many center-right politicians subsequently end up defending positions they might otherwise oppose because such policies are considered "the" pro-European view.

One side-effect of these problems is that many on Europe's right concerned about Brussels or fed up with the lukewarmness and careerism of mainstream center-right parties end up voting for nationalist movements, despite strong reservations about such groups' often-xenophobic tendencies. Not everyone who voted for Le Pen's Front National is instinctively anti-immigrant or a fierce protectionist. It's just that they can see few other ways of registering their dissatisfaction with various EU policies or the status quo-ism they associate with established center-right parties.

The obstacles to revitalizing Europe's right are thus considerable.

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/05/07/europes-right-in-disarray

 

[off2bed]

Occupy Paris! (It worked for Hitler)

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[4est_4est_Gump]

This guy says meet the new boss,
Just the same as the old boss...,


http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon0506gs.html