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COMMIE FESTIVUS
A gathering of communist party secretary-generals would have been a big deal a few decades back. These days, they hold their little redfest in a university hallway:
Over 50 secretaries-general of communist parties worldwide are to participate in a seminar called “Scientific Socialism: Contributions for its Construction,” that is taking place at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela next July 18th-19th, said the official news agency ABN.
The event was organized by the Venezuelan BolívarMarx Institute. The seminar is to address topics such as socialism, the Bolivarian process, electoral fraud in Mexico and other issues.
Delegates from Puerto Rico, Mexico, United States, Japan, Canada, Colombia, Greece, Australia, Portugal, South Africa, Bolivia, Belgium, England and Spain are to attend the event.
I wonder who the Australian delegate might be, and whether someone that elderly should be travelling. By the way, has this group considered the environmental impact of flying all those fossils to Bolivia? In other pointless get-together news, New Mexico’s $420,000 peace tourism experiment has been delayed:
State officials announced Monday they are postponing a world peace conference scheduled for Santa Fe in September until next year.
The project has been beset by problems, with only one speaker lined up just three months before the scheduled event ...
Money for the peace conference was appropriated by the Legislature over the past two years at the request of state Sen. Shannon Robinson, D-Albuquerque, who said he got the idea while on a trip to India.
Naturally, peaceniks were in conflict over the peace conference:
The peace conference had taken criticism from various quarters—including some peace activists who derided it as commercializing a serious issue. They threatened to picket the event.
Of course.
With any luck, it’ll end in a gun battle between the Venezuelan BolívarMarx Institute and the MarxBolivar Institute of Venezuela.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2006 07 19 at 10:47 AM • permalinkScientific Socialism checklist.
Tables with red tablecloths with the little hammer and sickle designs, spread with Communist literature and souvenir Che berets: check.
Hors d’oeuvres and Metamucil: check.
Room reserved with comfy chairs for afternoon nappies: check.
School nurse and defibrillator standing by: check.
...has this group considered the environmental impact of flying....
Commies have never cared about the environment. One train ride from western to eastern Germany illustrates: Even without a map, you can see where the socialists had jurisdiction. Their flag shouldn’t have been red, but rust.
When Lenin said it would be worthwhile to kill 9/10ths of the population to institute socialism, that was a clue how he regarded the rest of the planet’s life.
Non-commie leftists like environmental regs mainly ‘cause they annoy and hinder capitalists. (Whether they do anything positive is irrelevant.)
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2006 07 19 at 11:40 AM • permalink#2 That made me laugh while drinking my Diet Pepsi. Curse you Jim Geones.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 07 19 at 11:55 AM • permalinkThe project has been beset by problems, with only one speaker lined up just three months before the scheduled event ...
What, Saint Cindy wasn’t available? Michael Moore doughnut requirements outstripped local production capabilities?
The mind boggles. No one wants to discuss peace!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 07 19 at 12:31 PM • permalinkThe Judean People’s Front versus the Peoples Front of Judea jokes are just too easy. But that doesn’t mean I won’t make them.
Posted by EmilyJones on 2006 07 19 at 12:47 PM • permalinkA gathering of communist party secretary-generals . . .
Trying to imagine a group of similar size and relevance. Association of Packard Automobile Dealers (Emeritus)? National Hoola-Hoop Champions? Veterans of the Spanish-American War? Rabbis for Hezbollah?
Belief in the truth of communism is undeniably an act of faith. And what a shabby, blood-spattered little god it is.
At least Veterans of the Span-Am War would have shown proof of courage and dignity.
What’s hilarious is the “Scientific” bit, as though their Marxist fantasy “economics” were anything but bureaucratic layers of central-planning and control-oriented. Using “scientific words” and wearing lab coats (or Greatcoats as in review at the Kremlin) doesn’t make it scientific, and they would be better served analyzing all the millions of reasons (Stalin, Pol Pot) and contributions for its Deconstruction.Posted by -keith in mtn. view on 2006 07 19 at 02:43 PM • permalinkI think the problem with the peace conference was two-fold. The good senator only wanted serious and respected speakers to peace. The Dalai Lama wasn’t available, however, and there are precious few others who can
get away withcommand like respect.The obvious suspects having been
snubbedoverlooked by the senator, they decided the only way to get pictures of their association with a “prestigious” peace conference in the paper was to protest it.I’ve just figured out that the problem with these people must be genetic; there is no evidence whatsoever of an irony gene.
Semi-ontopic to the Judean People’s Front jokes, I was over at another university’s library today, and the outside wall of the lecture hall next door was blanked with flyers for some organization called Linksruck (literally: shift to the left) featuring the amazing slogan “Marx is a Must”. (Then move to North Korea, you idiots.) One of them had been sprayed on: “Trotskism sucks! Fuck off Linksruck!”
Even though it is a lecture hall of the department of chemistry, I half-suspect it was the work of another disgruntled leftist group, not some righty driven to defacement measures by the over-abundant lefty propaganda on campus. No self-respecting righty would bother with an explicit reference to Trotskism.
They should have contacted me about giving a speech at that Peace Conference. For a mere $10,000 (US dollars, small bills, unmarked) plus travel expenses I would give a very good and educational speech, sure to set all the attendees of the conference to thinking deeply. I’d even give them a choice of topics:
“Why the US armed forces have been the greatest force for peace and freedom in the world over the last 100 years.”
“Red, Brown, Green, and Watermelon; The Multicolored Hues of Today’s Fascism and the Evidence for the Reality of Blair’s Law.”
“Why Dubya Is Today’s FDR.”
I expect the Q&A session should be interesting.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 07 20 at 12:18 AM • permalink
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I wonder who the Australian delegate might be
The American delegate, would have to be Hugo’s friend, Cindy.