When Communism Moved Into The Classroom

[PoliticalChic]

If you aspire to reach a fulfilling retirement, PC, then please find something at which you can be successful. Or step up your writing game. Just being helpful.

"... find something at which you can be successful."


I'm pretty good at it already: sitting around being fantastic.
Practice, practice, practice.

Well, if 'fantastic' means your narcissism and self-delusion. OK.

How you have managed to waste what should of have been a great degree! Amazing.

"narcissism and self-delusion."

Hey...look!
The Jakal is battin' .500!



Darn good for a bench-warmer.

 

[PoliticalChic]

By this time we all know that Senator Joseph McCarthy was a communist spy. Probably the smartest of all the communist spies despite all his little errors like waving a paper with no names on it saying "I have here...." There is a book coming out soon that relates the spy career of McCarthy, of course, the author of the book was also a communist spy as was most of America at that time. In fact, there has been found, in Boise Idaho, a person that is suspected of not being a communist spy. He denies it of course.

I'm certain that, in Liberal circles, this qualifies as humor......

It qualifies as humor in any circle, whether you laughed at it or not.

It was better when you said it this way:


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFlCD5CYAcU]Larry The Cable Guy That's funny - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JakeStarkey]

And PC losers another one.

 

[PoliticalChic]

As I remember Al Capp (Lil Abner) wrote how he almost became a communist. Seems there was a neighborhood block party and Capp didn't have the fifteen cents admission so he didn't go. The Block party was a communist activity and Al Capp didn't become a communist.

You surely misjudge Capp......

All Capp, cartoonist, penned an amazingly accurate view of socialism.
And it wasn't a favorable one.


Some time ago, friend sent me a ‘graphic novel’ of an Al Capp cartoon of yesteryear…"The Schmoo."

"The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo," by Al Capp
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=al+capp&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aal+capp]Amazon.com: al capp: Books[/ame]



It was fascinating…check this out:



1. “The Shmoo first appeared in the strip in August 1948. According to Shmoo legend, the lovable creature laid eggs, gave milk and died of sheer esctasy when looked at with hunger. The Shmoo loved to be eaten and tasted like any food desired. Anything that delighted people delighted a Shmoo.

Fry a Shmoo and it came out chicken. Broil it and it came out steak. Shmoo eyes made terrific suspender buttons. The hide of the Shmoo if cut thin made fine leather and if cut thick made the best lumber. Shmoo whiskers made splendid toothpicks.

The Shmoo satisfied all the world's wants.

You could never run out of Shmoon (plural of Shmoo) because they multiplied at such an incredible rate. The Shmoo believed that the only way to happiness was to bring happiness to others.

Li'l Abner discovered Shmoos when he ventured into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, against the frantic protestations of Ol' Man Mose. "Shmoos," he warned, "is the greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has evah known." "Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?" asked Li'l Abner. "No, stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good!"

Ironically, the lovable and selfless Shmoos ultimately brought misery to humankind because people with a limitless supply of self-sacrificing Shmoos stopped working and society broke down. Seen at first as a boon to humankind, they were ultimately hunted down and exterminated to preserve the status quo.” Shmoo


a. Look closely.....the tale of The Schmoo is the history of socialism in general, and the Obama administration, specifically.

It's what happens when welfare is increased by 41%, as is has been under this Schmoo-incarnation, Barack Hussein Obama.






Now, here is the adult version..

2. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”






3.For many of us, the idea of never having to plan, to consider the ramifications of our actions, is more than inviting. After all, what is the cost or this loving envelope?

a. …a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform, the rule of a technocratic elite armed with authority conferred by a liberal, quasi-democratic regime —through which even the most original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make their way past the crowd and emerge into the light of day. It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting on one’s own; it does not destroy; it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it gets in the way, it curtails, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

b. Here is the warm embrace of the collective, hinting ever so solicitously, so assiduously, how simple it would be to join, to give up what makes one different, unique.





4. Well, after all, what is so terrible about a “social body” that would be intent on exercising foresight with regard to everything; that would act as a “second providence,” nourishing men from birth and protecting them from “perils”; and that would function as a “tutelary power” capable of rendering men “gentle” and “sociable”??

a. Tocqueville foresaw that the human “soul” would enter into a “long repose.” In the process, “individual energy” would be “almost extinguished”; and, when action was required, men would “rely on others,” in a new and unprecedented “species of servitude.” https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/impri...he/default.asp




Aren't you glad you brought up Al Capp?

Aren't you amazed that I know everything???

Tell Jakal.

 

[regent]

As I remember Al Capp (Lil Abner) wrote how he almost became a communist. Seems there was a neighborhood block party and Capp didn't have the fifteen cents admission so he didn't go. The Block party was a communist activity and Al Capp didn't become a communist.

You surely misjudge Capp......

All Capp, cartoonist, penned an amazingly accurate view of socialism.
And it wasn't a favorable one.


Some time ago, friend sent me a ‘graphic novel’ of an Al Capp cartoon of yesteryear…"The Schmoo."

"The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo," by Al Capp
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=al+capp&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aal+capp]Amazon.com: al capp: Books[/ame]



It was fascinating…check this out:



1. “The Shmoo first appeared in the strip in August 1948. According to Shmoo legend, the lovable creature laid eggs, gave milk and died of sheer esctasy when looked at with hunger. The Shmoo loved to be eaten and tasted like any food desired. Anything that delighted people delighted a Shmoo.

Fry a Shmoo and it came out chicken. Broil it and it came out steak. Shmoo eyes made terrific suspender buttons. The hide of the Shmoo if cut thin made fine leather and if cut thick made the best lumber. Shmoo whiskers made splendid toothpicks.

The Shmoo satisfied all the world's wants.

You could never run out of Shmoon (plural of Shmoo) because they multiplied at such an incredible rate. The Shmoo believed that the only way to happiness was to bring happiness to others.

Li'l Abner discovered Shmoos when he ventured into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, against the frantic protestations of Ol' Man Mose. "Shmoos," he warned, "is the greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has evah known." "Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?" asked Li'l Abner. "No, stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good!"

Ironically, the lovable and selfless Shmoos ultimately brought misery to humankind because people with a limitless supply of self-sacrificing Shmoos stopped working and society broke down. Seen at first as a boon to humankind, they were ultimately hunted down and exterminated to preserve the status quo.” Shmoo


a. Look closely.....the tale of The Schmoo is the history of socialism in general, and the Obama administration, specifically.

It's what happens when welfare is increased by 41%, as is has been under this Schmoo-incarnation, Barack Hussein Obama.






Now, here is the adult version..

2. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”






3.For many of us, the idea of never having to plan, to consider the ramifications of our actions, is more than inviting. After all, what is the cost or this loving envelope?

a. …a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform, the rule of a technocratic elite armed with authority conferred by a liberal, quasi-democratic regime —through which even the most original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make their way past the crowd and emerge into the light of day. It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting on one’s own; it does not destroy; it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it gets in the way, it curtails, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

b. Here is the warm embrace of the collective, hinting ever so solicitously, so assiduously, how simple it would be to join, to give up what makes one different, unique.





4. Well, after all, what is so terrible about a “social body” that would be intent on exercising foresight with regard to everything; that would act as a “second providence,” nourishing men from birth and protecting them from “perils”; and that would function as a “tutelary power” capable of rendering men “gentle” and “sociable”??

a. Tocqueville foresaw that the human “soul” would enter into a “long repose.” In the process, “individual energy” would be “almost extinguished”; and, when action was required, men would “rely on others,” in a new and unprecedented “species of servitude.” https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/impri...he/default.asp




Aren't you glad you brought up Al Capp?

Aren't you amazed that I know everything???

Tell Jakal.

I think the point Al Capp was trying to make was how easy it was to become listed on a communist roll at that time, and later one might find a problem at being so listed. Block parties, were perhaps one way of recruiting but Al Capp just wanted to go to a block party with his friends. Had Al Capp had the price, later McCarthy might have had a field day investigating the author of Lil Abner with evidence that he attended communist functions and was listed on their rolls. ''I have here in my hand...." By the way I don't think Tocqueville made the block party either.

 

[PoliticalChic]

And PC losers another one.

Jakal....You are so ugly that when your mama dropped you off at school she got a fine for littering!

 

[PrometheusBound]

All this whining about Commie education, yet the Plutocrats won't hire anyone unless he sucks his thumb in college, working without pay and living like a 15-year-old. If they force another man's son to live like a child, he will end up with the mind of a child and will be susceptible first to his father-figure professors' Leftist brainwashing, then to his CEO's Rightist brainwashing. Communist indoctrination in academentia is only to set up people to later being brainwashed any way the ruling class wants. Paid students would have self-respect and minds of their own. But fat cats prefer mice.

 

[PoliticalChic]

As I remember Al Capp (Lil Abner) wrote how he almost became a communist. Seems there was a neighborhood block party and Capp didn't have the fifteen cents admission so he didn't go. The Block party was a communist activity and Al Capp didn't become a communist.

You surely misjudge Capp......

All Capp, cartoonist, penned an amazingly accurate view of socialism.
And it wasn't a favorable one.


Some time ago, friend sent me a ‘graphic novel’ of an Al Capp cartoon of yesteryear…"The Schmoo."

"The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo," by Al Capp
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=al+capp&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Aal+capp]Amazon.com: al capp: Books[/ame]



It was fascinating…check this out:



1. “The Shmoo first appeared in the strip in August 1948. According to Shmoo legend, the lovable creature laid eggs, gave milk and died of sheer esctasy when looked at with hunger. The Shmoo loved to be eaten and tasted like any food desired. Anything that delighted people delighted a Shmoo.

Fry a Shmoo and it came out chicken. Broil it and it came out steak. Shmoo eyes made terrific suspender buttons. The hide of the Shmoo if cut thin made fine leather and if cut thick made the best lumber. Shmoo whiskers made splendid toothpicks.

The Shmoo satisfied all the world's wants.

You could never run out of Shmoon (plural of Shmoo) because they multiplied at such an incredible rate. The Shmoo believed that the only way to happiness was to bring happiness to others.

Li'l Abner discovered Shmoos when he ventured into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, against the frantic protestations of Ol' Man Mose. "Shmoos," he warned, "is the greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has evah known." "Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?" asked Li'l Abner. "No, stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good!"

Ironically, the lovable and selfless Shmoos ultimately brought misery to humankind because people with a limitless supply of self-sacrificing Shmoos stopped working and society broke down. Seen at first as a boon to humankind, they were ultimately hunted down and exterminated to preserve the status quo.” Shmoo


a. Look closely.....the tale of The Schmoo is the history of socialism in general, and the Obama administration, specifically.

It's what happens when welfare is increased by 41%, as is has been under this Schmoo-incarnation, Barack Hussein Obama.






Now, here is the adult version..

2. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”






3.For many of us, the idea of never having to plan, to consider the ramifications of our actions, is more than inviting. After all, what is the cost or this loving envelope?

a. …a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform, the rule of a technocratic elite armed with authority conferred by a liberal, quasi-democratic regime —through which even the most original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make their way past the crowd and emerge into the light of day. It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting on one’s own; it does not destroy; it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it gets in the way, it curtails, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

b. Here is the warm embrace of the collective, hinting ever so solicitously, so assiduously, how simple it would be to join, to give up what makes one different, unique.





4. Well, after all, what is so terrible about a “social body” that would be intent on exercising foresight with regard to everything; that would act as a “second providence,” nourishing men from birth and protecting them from “perils”; and that would function as a “tutelary power” capable of rendering men “gentle” and “sociable”??

a. Tocqueville foresaw that the human “soul” would enter into a “long repose.” In the process, “individual energy” would be “almost extinguished”; and, when action was required, men would “rely on others,” in a new and unprecedented “species of servitude.” https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/impri...he/default.asp




Aren't you glad you brought up Al Capp?

Aren't you amazed that I know everything???

Tell Jakal.

I think the point Al Capp was trying to make was how easy it was to become listed on a communist roll at that time, and later one might find a problem at being so listed. Block parties, were perhaps one way of recruiting but Al Capp just wanted to go to a block party with his friends. Had Al Capp had the price, later McCarthy might have had a field day investigating the author of Lil Abner with evidence that he attended communist functions and was listed on their rolls. ''I have here in my hand...." By the way I don't think Tocqueville made the block party either.

You numbskull....here's another thing about Capp.

He was a conservative, he hated Libs, made fun of folks like Joan Baez, supported the Viet Nam war, was a pal of Nixon's and Agnew's....


And you: he would have eaten you alive for trying to pass off Alger Hiss, Laurence Duggan, Owen Lattimore, Harry Dexter white, Lauchlin Currie, the Rosenbergs, Harry Hopkins, et al as just some guys who wandered into a block party.

Now that I think of it, I should have called you a blockhead.

 

[regent]

You surely misjudge Capp......

All Capp, cartoonist, penned an amazingly accurate view of socialism.
And it wasn't a favorable one.


Some time ago, friend sent me a ‘graphic novel’ of an Al Capp cartoon of yesteryear…"The Schmoo."

"The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo," by Al Capp
Amazon.com: al capp: Books



It was fascinating…check this out:



1. “The Shmoo first appeared in the strip in August 1948. According to Shmoo legend, the lovable creature laid eggs, gave milk and died of sheer esctasy when looked at with hunger. The Shmoo loved to be eaten and tasted like any food desired. Anything that delighted people delighted a Shmoo.

Fry a Shmoo and it came out chicken. Broil it and it came out steak. Shmoo eyes made terrific suspender buttons. The hide of the Shmoo if cut thin made fine leather and if cut thick made the best lumber. Shmoo whiskers made splendid toothpicks.

The Shmoo satisfied all the world's wants.

You could never run out of Shmoon (plural of Shmoo) because they multiplied at such an incredible rate. The Shmoo believed that the only way to happiness was to bring happiness to others.

Li'l Abner discovered Shmoos when he ventured into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, against the frantic protestations of Ol' Man Mose. "Shmoos," he warned, "is the greatest menace to hoomanity th' world has evah known." "Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?" asked Li'l Abner. "No, stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good!"

Ironically, the lovable and selfless Shmoos ultimately brought misery to humankind because people with a limitless supply of self-sacrificing Shmoos stopped working and society broke down. Seen at first as a boon to humankind, they were ultimately hunted down and exterminated to preserve the status quo.” Shmoo


a. Look closely.....the tale of The Schmoo is the history of socialism in general, and the Obama administration, specifically.

It's what happens when welfare is increased by 41%, as is has been under this Schmoo-incarnation, Barack Hussein Obama.






Now, here is the adult version..

2. Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”






3.For many of us, the idea of never having to plan, to consider the ramifications of our actions, is more than inviting. After all, what is the cost or this loving envelope?

a. …a network of petty regulations—complicated, minute, and uniform, the rule of a technocratic elite armed with authority conferred by a liberal, quasi-democratic regime —through which even the most original minds and the most vigorous souls know not how to make their way past the crowd and emerge into the light of day. It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them; rarely does it force one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting on one’s own; it does not destroy; it prevents things from being born; it does not tyrannize, it gets in the way, it curtails, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupefies, and finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."

b. Here is the warm embrace of the collective, hinting ever so solicitously, so assiduously, how simple it would be to join, to give up what makes one different, unique.





4. Well, after all, what is so terrible about a “social body” that would be intent on exercising foresight with regard to everything; that would act as a “second providence,” nourishing men from birth and protecting them from “perils”; and that would function as a “tutelary power” capable of rendering men “gentle” and “sociable”??

a. Tocqueville foresaw that the human “soul” would enter into a “long repose.” In the process, “individual energy” would be “almost extinguished”; and, when action was required, men would “rely on others,” in a new and unprecedented “species of servitude.” https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/impri...he/default.asp




Aren't you glad you brought up Al Capp?

Aren't you amazed that I know everything???

Tell Jakal.

I think the point Al Capp was trying to make was how easy it was to become listed on a communist roll at that time, and later one might find a problem at being so listed. Block parties, were perhaps one way of recruiting but Al Capp just wanted to go to a block party with his friends. Had Al Capp had the price, later McCarthy might have had a field day investigating the author of Lil Abner with evidence that he attended communist functions and was listed on their rolls. ''I have here in my hand...." By the way I don't think Tocqueville made the block party either.

You numbskull....here's another thing about Capp.

He was a conservative, he hated Libs, made fun of folks like Joan Baez, supported the Viet Nam war, was a pal of Nixon's and Agnew's....


And you: he would have eaten you alive for trying to pass off Alger Hiss, Laurence Duggan, Owen Lattimore, Harry Dexter white, Lauchlin Currie, the Rosenbergs, Harry Hopkins, et al as just some guys who wandered into a block party.

Now that I think of it, I should have called you a blockhead.

Boy good thing Al Capp didn't have that 15 cents admission fee and I never attended a block party so i'm clean. How about you?

 

[PoliticalChic]

I think the point Al Capp was trying to make was how easy it was to become listed on a communist roll at that time, and later one might find a problem at being so listed. Block parties, were perhaps one way of recruiting but Al Capp just wanted to go to a block party with his friends. Had Al Capp had the price, later McCarthy might have had a field day investigating the author of Lil Abner with evidence that he attended communist functions and was listed on their rolls. ''I have here in my hand...." By the way I don't think Tocqueville made the block party either.

You numbskull....here's another thing about Capp.

He was a conservative, he hated Libs, made fun of folks like Joan Baez, supported the Viet Nam war, was a pal of Nixon's and Agnew's....


And you: he would have eaten you alive for trying to pass off Alger Hiss, Laurence Duggan, Owen Lattimore, Harry Dexter white, Lauchlin Currie, the Rosenbergs, Harry Hopkins, et al as just some guys who wandered into a block party.

Now that I think of it, I should have called you a blockhead.

Boy good thing Al Capp didn't have that 15 cents admission fee and I never attended a block party so i'm clean. How about you?

reggie...you can run but you can't hide.

 

[regent]

You numbskull....here's another thing about Capp.

He was a conservative, he hated Libs, made fun of folks like Joan Baez, supported the Viet Nam war, was a pal of Nixon's and Agnew's....


And you: he would have eaten you alive for trying to pass off Alger Hiss, Laurence Duggan, Owen Lattimore, Harry Dexter white, Lauchlin Currie, the Rosenbergs, Harry Hopkins, et al as just some guys who wandered into a block party.

Now that I think of it, I should have called you a blockhead.

Boy good thing Al Capp didn't have that 15 cents admission fee and I never attended a block party so i'm clean. How about you?

reggie...you can run but you can't hide.

It's a simple question have you ever attended a block party, and your refusal to answer is pretty damning. I think with your refusal to answer we can safely assume that you have in the past attended one or more block parties. If so why not admit it? What are you hiding comrade?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Boy good thing Al Capp didn't have that 15 cents admission fee and I never attended a block party so i'm clean. How about you?

reggie...you can run but you can't hide.

It's a simple question have you ever attended a block party, and your refusal to answer is pretty damning. I think with your refusal to answer we can safely assume that you have in the past attended one or more block parties. If so why not admit it? What are you hiding comrade?

If you're anglin' for an invite to my annual block party....well, OK....

But the slip-n-slide is out of the question.

 

[Jimmy_Jam]

Al Capp was a satirist who frequently took hits from both liberals and conservatives. That he may have hung out with Nixon means little since Nixon arguably one of the most liberal Republican presidents we've ever seen. His political barbs certainly took a right slant in the 60's, no doubt about that. But, I wonder how much of that was politics and how much was simply the fact that the hippies gave him so much to make fun of. MAD magazine made a lot of fun of them too. It doesn't make it a conservative magazine, any more than Matt Stone and Trey Parker making fun of liberals makes South Park a conservative show.

Capp did not hate liberals, he hated certain types of liberals, as evidenced in his defense of lampooning student protest groups like SDS:

"The students I blast are not the dissenters, but the destroyers—the less than 4% who lock up deans in washrooms, who burn manuscripts of unpublished books, who make combination pigpens and playpens of their universities. The remaining 96% detest them as heartily as I do."

While the great Mr. Capp certainly took a right turn in the 60's, I would say that before then anybody would have been hard-pressed to place him anywhere in specific.

The man was a genius by any measure.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Destiny is determined by honor. Who we honor or fail to honor determines our destiny. Individually and as a nation.

This nation fails to honor it's military heroes while honoring the likes of Mao, Stalin, Marx and Vladimir Putin both in the classroom and on the cover of Time magazine.

Guess what kind of destiny is in store for America over that wrong decision?

 

[Political Junky]

It was the leftists and their Constitution that did it. I mean all those liberal ideas floating around in that liberal age of enlightenment. Our framers unable to resist all that liberalism, so they end up putting bits and pieces of liberalism into the Constitution. I blame Locke, Madison and a whole bunch of those so called founding fathers, but mostly I blame Jefferson for his super-duper liberal Declaration of Independence.

Sorry....doesn't work.

There's no humor in the destruction wrought by the Left.


Under Wilson, the US became the first fascist nation.

Under FDR, communism was accepted by folks like you.

So sad.

This gets confusing. Is America a fascist or communist country? Is it possible to be both a communist and fascist nation? Do the people get to vote for the one they want? Still if we get to vote then are we a Democratic, fascist, communist nation?

According to some on the right, FDR was a Communist and a Nazi.

 

[Jimmy_Jam]

Destiny is determined by honor. Who we honor or fail to honor determines our destiny. Individually and as a nation.

This nation fails to honor it's military heroes while honoring the likes of Mao, Stalin, Marx and Vladimir Putin both in the classroom and on the cover of Time magazine.

Guess what kind of destiny is in store for America over that wrong decision?

There is no shortage of honoring military heroes, unless you mean they should be paraded and fawned over 365 days a year. I am a veteran, but I've never felt any shortage of being honored. If any of my fellow veterans do I suggest they are being crybabies. I have been honored and celebrated more than I ever asked for or expected for my service, not to mention having a BS and an MBA that was paid for entirely in return for that service. What more honoring do I need?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Al Capp was a satirist who frequently took hits from both liberals and conservatives. That he may have hung out with Nixon means little since Nixon arguably one of the most liberal Republican presidents we've ever seen. His political barbs certainly took a right slant in the 60's, no doubt about that. But, I wonder how much of that was politics and how much was simply the fact that the hippies gave him so much to make fun of. MAD magazine made a lot of fun of them too. It doesn't make it a conservative magazine, any more than Matt Stone and Trey Parker making fun of liberals makes South Park a conservative show.

Capp did not hate liberals, he hated certain types of liberals, as evidenced in his defense of lampooning student protest groups like SDS:

"The students I blast are not the dissenters, but the destroyers—the less than 4% who lock up deans in washrooms, who burn manuscripts of unpublished books, who make combination pigpens and playpens of their universities. The remaining 96% detest them as heartily as I do."

While the great Mr. Capp certainly took a right turn in the 60's, I would say that before then anybody would have been hard-pressed to place him anywhere in specific.

The man was a genius by any measure.

Did you read "The Schmoo"???


Was that the best rip of socialism evah????

 

[PoliticalChic]

Destiny is determined by honor. Who we honor or fail to honor determines our destiny. Individually and as a nation.

This nation fails to honor it's military heroes while honoring the likes of Mao, Stalin, Marx and Vladimir Putin both in the classroom and on the cover of Time magazine.

Guess what kind of destiny is in store for America over that wrong decision?

...they just love the sociopathic killer Che.....

 

[Jimmy_Jam]

Al Capp was a satirist who frequently took hits from both liberals and conservatives. That he may have hung out with Nixon means little since Nixon arguably one of the most liberal Republican presidents we've ever seen. His political barbs certainly took a right slant in the 60's, no doubt about that. But, I wonder how much of that was politics and how much was simply the fact that the hippies gave him so much to make fun of. MAD magazine made a lot of fun of them too. It doesn't make it a conservative magazine, any more than Matt Stone and Trey Parker making fun of liberals makes South Park a conservative show.

Capp did not hate liberals, he hated certain types of liberals, as evidenced in his defense of lampooning student protest groups like SDS:

"The students I blast are not the dissenters, but the destroyers—the less than 4% who lock up deans in washrooms, who burn manuscripts of unpublished books, who make combination pigpens and playpens of their universities. The remaining 96% detest them as heartily as I do."

While the great Mr. Capp certainly took a right turn in the 60's, I would say that before then anybody would have been hard-pressed to place him anywhere in specific.

The man was a genius by any measure.

Did you read "The Schmoo"???


Was that the best rip of socialism evah????

I love The Schmoo. It turns out there were conservatives who gave him a hard time thinking it was making fun of capitalism.

There may be fewer stupid conservative than there are stupid liberals, but they're out there.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Sorry....doesn't work.

There's no humor in the destruction wrought by the Left.


Under Wilson, the US became the first fascist nation.

Under FDR, communism was accepted by folks like you.

So sad.

This gets confusing. Is America a fascist or communist country? Is it possible to be both a communist and fascist nation? Do the people get to vote for the one they want? Still if we get to vote then are we a Democratic, fascist, communist nation?

According to some on the right, FDR was a Communist and a Nazi.

You might be interested in Dunn's explanation, FDR subscribed to 'convergence' theory.

Here:

http://www.usmessageboard.com/politics/307654-where-fdr-went-wrong.html