>>Looks like I won't have to wait 10 years after all....
No. But tomorrow she'll hope we'll forget and she'll be back on with the same old "party line". Any bets on how long it will take to get a response to my answer to this:
Message 4105276
Found here: techstocks.com
Tens years would seem to be optimistic, what do think?
Reminds me of a front page article in the NY Times a month or so back which focused on the zany Stalinists occupying a retirement home in California. Guess what? They're still at it, as if history had not made them not only ridiculous but also reprehensible.
Here's an excerpt and a link from
Oh, Those Heartwarming Communists
By Michael Kelly
....What the writers and editors of the Times assume their readers will find funny or
heartwarming or uplifting or cute is a nearly pure reflection of the values of
what New Yorker writer Richard Rovere called the Establishment.
These values, at least as reflected in the Times, increasingly seem
disconnected not only from those of most other Americans, but even from
reality. On April 6, the Times ran a front-page human interest story of a
standard sort, in the sub-genre of Those Wonderful Wacky Old Folks.
Every paper in America runs this sort of story: Harry and Bob and Joe and
Mabel and Edith may be nearly fossilized, but there's life in the old coots
yet, as witnessed by their passion for baseball/ballroom
dancing/gardening/dabbling in the stock market.
So Times reporter Sara Rimer went out to Los Angeles and found, in a
place called Sunset Hall, a lovable bunch of senior citizens who are kept
young at heart by their passion for . . . communist totalitarianism.
Yes, communist totalitarianism. Yes, Marx and Lenin and Mao. Yes, the
Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Yes, the greatest
experiment in government through mass murder in history: between 45
million and 72 million victims of the state in China, 20 million in the Soviet
Union, 2.3 million in Pol Pot's Cambodia, 2 million in North Korea, 1
million in Eastern Europe, 1 million in Vietnam, 1.7 million in Africa, and so
on. As reckoned by the leftist French scholar Stephane Courtois in his
recently published "Black Book of Communism," the butcher's bill for
Marx and Lenin's big idea adds up to somewhere between 85 million and
100 million dead on four continents. Yes, for every blessed one of those
necessarily broken eggs.
Yes, fascism, the Gulag, the Cultural Revolution, the jailing and the
torturing and the expelling of Jews and Christians and intellectuals and
democrats. Yes, the Moscow spy machine that ran the American
Communist Party as an espionage center, that nearly destroyed the
American labor movement and that corrupted and crippled American
liberalism not once but twice. Yes to all that, say the cute old folks in the
Times. And about all that, the Times speaks nary a word.
At Sunset Hall, writes Ms. Rimer, "the library has an extensive collection of
books on Marxism, Trotsky, Mao and the Rosenberg trial, as well as the
complete works of Shakespeare. There is a framed certificate from the
American Civil Liberties Union honoring Sunset Hall's 'tradition of activism'
on one wall, a picture of Paul Robeson on another and, on a shelf, a bust
of Lenin. At 101, Jacob Darnov, a rabbi's son from Russia, who was a
messenger in the Bolshevik army, is unwavering in his admiration for Lenin.
'He's the greatest politician we ever had in this world,' said Mr. Darnov,
whose other hero is Leo Tolstoy." And then there is Glady Foreman, 90,
who, writes Rimer, "proudly recalls how, at the age of 8, she was
proclaimed 'a little Socialist' by her father" and who predicts "Socialism,
crushed to the earth, will rise again."
If a Times reporter found a brave little band of aging Nazis, who kept a
bust of Hitler in the living room and who declared that fascism would rise
again, and wrote this up cute -- well, this simply could never happen. But a
Times reporter writes Darnov and Foreman and company up cute -- and
the editors say: That is cute. Put it on A-1.
Why did they do this extraordinary thing? They did it because to them it is
not extraordinary. They did it because they think it really is heartwarming
that the Sunset Hall folks are sustained by their old faith, and they assume
that it will be heartwarming to their readers as well. And the awful thing is,
they are probably right.
washingtonpost.com
Nice to know there will be a place in the sun for a "faithful" poster on this thread and others incapable of seeing beyond their ideology, no matter how heinous. |
