BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Friday, April 30, 2010

SOCIALITE SOCIALIST BE SOCIAL LIKE


"DON'T DRINK THE PUNCH!"
 "HE'S A SOCIALIST!"




WAY TO GEAUX, PUNCHY!

COULD THIS COMMERCIAL
BE WHY
"PARTY OF GRUMPY OLD WHITE MEN"
BE SO
LILY LIVERED?

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Socialist or not,


OBAMA CARES!

One day at work, got into a conversation with a technician over the HEALTH CARE BILL which had finally been passed. Her only reason for being against OBAMACARE was it potential to increase her insurance premium. I asked her, "You would rather someone else be without insurance just to have lower insurance premium?" She said, "YES."

Same technician/Different day.

I couldn't help but chuckle a little bit when she got angry about Arizona getting tough on illegal migrants. Although having entered the U.S. legally from Argentina, she confessed, had she not married recently, she probably would have ended up being here illegally. 

Of course I agreed with her,  that Arizona's action were wrong; but I did come close to not letting her know, just for being selfish on the health care issue.

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Socialists generally share the view that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through a system of exploitation. This in turn creates an unequal society, that fails to provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximise their potential, and does not utilise technology and resources to their maximum potential nor in the interests of the public.


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