You've got to like the pseudo-oxymoron in "Zionist pigs".
You've got to like the pseudo-oxymoron in "Zionist pigs".
1,2: Not an oxymoron at all.
A. If you're a pig, you're very like to be opposed to eating pigs.
B. Many Zionists aren't observant and don't keep kosher.
Tangentially: 1/6 of Protestant Church in the Netherlands clergy are agnostic or atheist, says the BBC.
Pauly Shore is at the Wall Street protests?
5: ALL FOR FLANDERS, FLANDERS FOR CHRIST OH WHATEVER.
6 was my immediate reaction as well.
STUPID FLANDERS. Donald Swann rules!
-n +y
I did see that the LaRouchies were there, but they seemed to have sold out and gone mainstream compared to their early music days.
Followers of the fringe political candidate Lyndon LaRouche formed a choir near Bowling Green and sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
This reminds me that I've always regretted not saying "This is one of the stupidest fucking protests I've ever seen, and I'm from Berkeley" to the six or so people who had some terribly designed sign saying something about Dick Cheney and STDs - I can't really remember, but the devil might have been involved too, plus they were saying dumb things to passersby - outside the Capitol South metro about four years ago. Instead, I just shook my head in disgust after they said something to me that I also can't remember.
fake accent, that was probably the LaRouchies. They're at Capitol South about once a month or so with new and innovative crazy signs. Lately its been Obama with a Hitler mustache.
Lately its been Obama with a Hitler mustache.
They were at 23rd Street and Lexington Ave. about three days ago! (Targeting the Baruch student population, I guess, because there isn't any other obvious reason why there.) They asked me if I helped to help impeach Obama.
I've always kind of liked Joe Biden, despite his many, many faults.
new and innovative crazy signs. Lately its been Obama with a Hitler mustache.
I submit that this is neither new nor innovative.
All right, maybe not that new. What if it involves a caption involving Glass-Steagall? And the gold standard?
11,12: Yeah, Cheney was a favorite target. Which led to one of my favorite Larouchian chorus numbers (a bit dated, of course):
A final presentation by the LYM's Lewis Whilden, attacking the Facebook culture of today's youth, concluded with the LYM, in four-part polyphony, singing the following lyrics, adapted to Felix Mendelssohn's beautiful, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing":Murdoch wants you in your place
When you're fondling your mouse,
the bank forecloses on your house.
From the crash you cannot flee,
at least you have your HALO 3.
Homeless in the streets you roam,
a cardboard Xbox is your home.
Santa gives the gaming toys,
to 20-year-old little boys.
Games will keep you in your place,
nothing real in your space.
But the real news out of the LaRouchian empire is that Dope Inc. (1978) is back in print!
This book represents a crucial weapon against the British Empire today, which uses its dope money to support its bankrupt financial system, and to stupefy and degrade populations worldwide.Let's see d2 defend that over at CT.
One more. I do the think the old boy may have finally lost it, even by his standards. We Can Only Save Mankind With Higher Energy-Flux Densities.
"So we're now coming into a period, where we're at a collision. The rate of power, of energy-flux-density, in the Solar System and in our particular Earth, that is increasing. It must increase, otherwise, we go down!"Spoiler Alert: The British monarchy is bad.
"So we're now coming into a period, where we're at a collision. The rate of power, of energy-flux-density, in the Solar System and in our particular Earth, that is increasing. It must increase, otherwise, we go down!"
Easy, we just learn to use the Faster-than-light neutrinos from CERN. You want energy?
My wife once got in a long argument with LaRouchies, at the end of which they concluded she was a deranged weirdo. She considers this the finest achievement of her entire life.
19: I'm sure they will be all over it. LaRouche is very adept at grabbing onto events of the day and incorporating them into the decades-long hallucination. So the results will either be some deception practiced by the Roman-Byzantine-Venetian-British axis of historical evil or more likely as you suggest the energy-flux-density increase that we need to survive as long as we have the wisdom to impeach Obama immediately.
Another source of free energy. Which should be used sparingly.
"This cocksucker speaks for himself alone"
More evidence (if any was needed) that Labs' quixotic campaign to turn "cocksucker" into a term of approbation never really took off.
It used to puzzle me that the LaRouchies produced such competent music, & then I found that Papa Bach was probably a reactionary mystic. Now the LaRouchies seem more consistent and I have even less hope for humanity.
22: Didn't Britain try and fail to solve its resource problems by burning Catholics, back in the late 16th century?
The scenario reminds me of this gem from my bright college years.
(The girl is with "Students for Union Compliance," an anti-union student group.)
OP: man have garbled what it is they were doing
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And old friend and I went to a 4th of July gathering to meet with a woman we knew from a Britpop meetup (don't judge me) and her friends. It turned out that one of them had spent a few years working for LaRouche's organization. I found this fascinating--I mean, I'm obviously not one to throw stones when it comes to extremist political views, but still! I kept trying to ask questions along the lines of, "But what the hell were you thinking?" without actually saying that.
28: Lemme guess.. You ended up sleeping with her?
One's goal in a conversation like that (unless, perhaps, the goal is to end up sleeping with her) should be to get the former LaRouchite to say, "what the hell was I thinking?" but still without saying "what the hell were you thinking?"
One's goal in a conversation like that (unless, perhaps, the goal is to end up sleeping with her) should be to get the former LaRouchite to say, "what the hell was I thinking?"
So, regardless of whether sleeping with her is your end goal, sleeping with her might be an effective means to your end goal.
26: Are those people all from the anti-union group? I have a hard time imagining that as a sincere sign, but much more the one to the left of it.
Har har har. No, but one never knows what the future will bring.
HA HA HA HA HA—wait I don't get it.
I don't really get anything, guys.
32: No, the dude on the left is a union activist making fun of the girl.
an anti-union student group
Wait, what?
Those exist? I've honestly never heard of such a thing. Although it's a big world, and I probably shouldn't be so surprised.
Yep, such existed in Cor/nell too, opposing the grad student unionizers. I always assumed they were an auxiliary wing of the campus conservative paper or something.
4: Don't those cancel out? Specifically, B implies not-A.
A merely says "very likely" not "ineluctably" or anything.
Followers of the fringe political candidate Lyndon LaRouche formed a choir near Bowling Green and sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Maybe they should try doing this in Atlanta. (Yes, I am still working my way through Gone With The Wind. Am becoming filled with vengeful anger to a positively macmanus level; albeit harmless anger because directed against a country that hasn't existed since 1865.)
You can be angry at the author and populace (and Pulitzer Prize committee) who thought it was all charming in the 1930s. Some of them are almost certainly alive.
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not their hoar heads go down to the grave in peace?
41: yep, getting pretty angry at the author too. She's just getting started on the horrors of the Forty Acres and A Mule scheme. I am also amazed that at no point does she actually recognise that the reason there aren't enough darkies around to pick the cotton any more is not that they have all been tempted away by promises of free food, but that THEY HAVE ALL BEEN FREED.