Comments on: A Field Guide to Communists

By: OccamsRazor

OccamsRazor — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:09:49 +0000

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:40:24 +0000

where communists seized power were the places where Marx and Engels didn’t think it could take root.

As for me personally, while it satisfies my intellectual curiosity to know the intricate details, for practical purposes I use the Hayek method: if it is tyrannical kill it, and that includes soft tyrannies.

Good post as usual Art.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:22:15 +0000

by Paul Rahe, (it’s sitting there over on the stack on top of Hayward’s new “Age of Reagan”), excellent diary by the way.

By: blooch

blooch — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:09:51 +0000

“Bad Santa ” was his best comedy.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:34:13 +0000

…given the name & all…

By: Alberta

Alberta — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:07:53 +0000

If you want to change the menu at McDonalds, you deal with the owner, not the manager.

Ive badly paraphrased the line.

I think he (Obama) gets all his ideas from his wife anyways. Shes the, uh, um, brains (for lack of a better term) of the team. Pack a lunch for her, too.

By: Lammo

Lammo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:47:54 +0000

that he was a goof off in high school. If so, how the devil did he ever get into Columbia?

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:27:59 +0000

is really only a tribute to affirmative action at every step of his life. In his heart he knows that and that is why he tries to lord over the Country with Greek columns, World Tours, and incessant press “opportunities.” He’s just a wind-up doll that his handlers stick out there; he believes all his good communist stuff because that’s all he’s ever known, not because of any deep thinking, something I don’t think he does much of. Were I considering one of the ones we can see as a chess opponent or an adversary in a hearing or negotiations, Emmanuel is the one I’d pack a lunch for.

By: blooch

blooch — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:56:51 +0000

there would have been no slow, lingering death. If I had a gun rack in my pickup, my kaiser blade would be in it. You can limb a 60′ pine tree in 10 minutes with that thing.

BTW, I hve never seen that movie, just that clip…Billy Bob’s best work. IMO

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:35:51 +0000

if he could find anything good to say about Stalin.

his answer: “Well, he killed a lot of communists.”

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:34:39 +0000

who went to Britain and “discovered” the plight of the urban poor during the industrial revolution. He was a horrid racist and his book about the poor is full of put downs of the Irish.

He describes the plight of the poor in the most sensationalist way but never goes into why so many people voluntarily left the country side to work in the factories.

Like so many who followed him, his critiques were big on emotion, short on tolerance, and bereft of any facts contrary to the foregone conclusion.

By: civil_truth

civil_truth — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:28:40 +0000

Art made a rare slip up here.

Let’s put it this way, have you seen how Sarah field dresses a moose with an ice axe? She’s a pro.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:17:44 +0000

By: CincoSolas_del_Bronx

CincoSolas_del_Bronx — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:09:23 +0000

Depression-in-VT-remembering history teacher–who would never have called an ice pick an ice axe–said it was an ice pick, sounds like somebody has a little more inside knowledge than they should!

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:59:24 +0000

By: CincoSolas_del_Bronx

CincoSolas_del_Bronx — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:34:09 +0000

By: Achance

Achance — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:11:43 +0000

It didn’t kill him immediately; bad way to go.

By: Warrior

Warrior — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:57:23 +0000

was to kill a bunch of commies during the “Night of the Long Knives”.

BTW, Achance, I thought Trotsky got an ice pick in the ear.

By: Warrior

Warrior — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:49:16 +0000

“In addition, the lack of affordable housing has become a major public health problem.”

Let’s see, the last Utopian idea, that everyone has a “right” to “affordable housing”, brought the country (and much of the world) to the brink of financial chaos.

So, why on earth does anyone think it will be any different with a “right” to, not just “affordable healthcare”, but ” a health care system that is comprehensive and free with guaranteed access to quality care whenever needed.”

It really looks as though the NEA and AFT have succeeded in dumbing down many Americans to the point where they buy this putrid snake oil without question.

Americans of my father’s day would have laughed this nonesense out of existence five minutes after it was proposed. Would that he, and they, were here today…

By: Warrior

Warrior — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:37:58 +0000

most of the “physical and mental labor” in this country, I wonder if the CPUSA is also the party of European Americans and if we are oppressed, too?

Frankly, I would like to be a victim for a while. Take a day off from earning a living, being responsible, paying the freight, etc…