Crowley will be with me...
Just a warning to sleep with one eye open and keep an ear out for turkey calls.

Evidently, Marxist protesting had now become a Capitalist marketing device...

I just laughed and laughed and laughed ...

Oh, I was a reserve deputy sheriff from 1979 - 1988 in Los Angeles and then for five years elsewhere in Calif.

I am still the Top Socialist?? right

I hope I can keep my position.

I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impel. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.

In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind’s goods have failed, through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failure, and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit they have proposed only the lending of more money. Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored confidence. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers. They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing. Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance; without them it cannot live.

Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This Nation asks for action, and action now.

Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.

Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.

Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order; there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people’s money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

There are the lines of attack. I shall presently urge upon a new Congress in special session detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall seek the immediate assistance of the several States...

Do you have any ideas on how to get people off of welfare and unemployment so they can actually achieve it?

The Bum of the Rods and the Bum of the Plush
by Fry Pan Jack

The bum on the rods is hunted down
As the enemy of mankind
The other is driven around to his club
Is feted, wined and dined.
And they who curse the bum on the rods
As the essence of all that is bad,
Will greet the other with a winning smile,
And extend the hand so glad.

The bum on the rods is a social flea
Who gets an occasional bite,
The bum on the plush is a social leech,
blood sucking day and night.
The bum on the rod is a load so light
That his weight we scarcely feel,
But it takes the labor of dozen of men
To furnish the other a meal.

As long as you sanction the bum on the plush
The other will always be there,
But rid yourself of the bum on the plush
And the other will disappear.
Then make an intelligent, organized kick
Get rid of the weights that crush.
Don't worry about the bum on the rods,
Get rid of the bum on the flush.

THIS JUST IN..............

The independent commissioner of voting has ruled that those ST members who attempted to vote prior to 8/15/11 will be ineligible to vote in the 2011 SSOTY race. The reasoning was that they are unable to read and therefore unable to make an educated vote.

The evil one

"The Socialist International (SI) is the main international organization of social democratic and moderate socialist parties. It affirms the following principles: first, freedom—not only individual liberties, but also freedom from discrimination and freedom from dependence on either the owners of the means of production or the holders of abusive political power; second, equality and social justice—not only before the law but also economic and socio-cultural equality as well, and equal opportunities for all including those with physical, mental, or social disabilities; and, third, solidarity—unity and a sense of compassion for the victims of injustice and inequality. These ideals are described in further detail in the SI's Declaration of Principles."

Of course mixed in with this pathetic mass of humanity you have a few actual imperialists, propagandaists, slave owners, sadists, psychoparhs and blood suckers

Skip stated he offered to pay...he is a liar.

Hope you healing and doing well? Worse things could have happened to you and me...like living inside Skip skin.

“ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt. ”

Not even close to a socialist,

The 'Haves' show less empathy than 'Have-nots' There is one interesting piece of evidence showing that many rich people may not be selfish as much as willfully clueless, and therefore unable to make the cognitive link between need and resources. Last year, research at Duke and Harvard universities showed that regardless of political affiliation or income, Americans tended to think wealth distribution ought to be more equal.

The problem? Rich people wrongly believed it already was.

Four European countries are banning the short selling of stocks in their markets to try to halt the precipitous plunge in value of troubled European banks, a step that some experts say could intensify fears and ratchet up risks of another financial crisis.

Belgium, France, Italy and Spain have decided to impose a temporary ban on short selling, beginning on Friday, according to a statement from the European Securities and Markets Authority released Thursday evening, after markets had closed.

It remains to be seen how American markets will react to the news. The past week has seen extreme volatility in the Dow and other benchmark indexes, as investors have greeted even seemingly minor developments with amplified responses.

The Dow Jones industrial average finished Thursday 423 points up, or nearly 4 percent on the previous day, a lift that was widely attributed to a fall in the number of people submitting claims for unemployment benefits for the week.

The ban on short selling carries echoes of the 2008 financial crisis, when the Securities and Exchange Commission temporarily banned short sales in the U.S., a move that resulted in a brief rally but ultimately did little to arrest the market’s free fall.

Thursday’s ban in Europe could be taken as a sign of lack of confidence in the markets, say experts. Investors might interpret it as a harbinger of disaster, and react accordingly.

In short-selling, one investor borrows stocks from another and sells them off, hoping their price will drop before she has to buy them back and return them to their original owner. If the price of the borrowed stocks does drop, the difference in price is the borrower’s profit.

Critics say that short sales can lead to a downward spiral in stock prices, and argue that policing is necessary to check runaway speculation.

Earlier this week, South Korea and Greece both enacted temporary bans on short sales -- effective for three months in the case of South Korea, and two months in the case of Greece. Turkey also took steps to restrain short-selling, though it stopped short of an outright ban.

In France and Spain, the ban on short sales will last for 15 days, and will only apply to stocks in the financial sector, according to the Globe and Mail. Belgium will ban short sales on four financial stocks for an unknown period of time. It was unclear which stocks the Italian ban would affect, or for how long it would be in place.

A spokesman for the U.K. Financial Services Authority told Bloomberg that Britain has no plans to ban short sales.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

I'll be in TM next weekend, climbing....

....life is good

As usual I'm confused. This poll is for the poster who is most So-Cal?

Maybe Largo? He's all jacked up and blond. Doesn't he surf too?

Attention nominees, you might want to begin lobbying for votes, Voting has begun.

Karl,

You'll notice that I'm not one of the official nominees, please select from the approved candidates.

What's the most pinko socialist institutions we have?

What's the most pinko socialist institutions we have?

#1- the military, they get free/cheap/subsidized health care, early retirement ages with money for life, free college programs, subsidized consumer goods, and on and on.

Followed closely by the police and fire dudes. All the most favorite GOP sacred cows are run more socialist than any euro country.

What's the most pinko socialist institutions we have?

#1- the military, they get free/cheap/subsidized health care, early retirement ages with money for life, free college programs, subsidized consumer goods, and on and on.

Followed closely by the police and fire dudes. All the most favorite GOP sacred cows are run more socialist than any euro country.

All the most favorite GOP sacred cows are run more socialist than any euro country.

"If the nuclear missiles had remained, we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The victory of socialism is worth millions of atomic victims."
    Che Guevara to the London Daily Worker,
November, 1962

You are a quality nominee, following in the footsteps of that other Karl, Karl Marx. I hope you pick up a few more votes before tomorrow.

LP,

I think we fed over 50 with the late arrivals, that's what I'll buy for.

The evil one