A Greek and a German go into a bar...

Germany, Europe's biggest economy, is widely seen as the most likely candidate to help prevent what would be a disastrous Greek default but there is strong opposition in the country against such a move.

Greek politicians have bristled over insulting headlines in the German press and editorials denouncing the corruption there, although Papandreou himself has acknowledged the problem.

Yeah...corruption. Um...I suppose that's a euphemism for "Socialism." Greece is a socialist country. In fact, while they teeter on the default cliff they are STILL raising taxes in an effort to stave the flow. We are talking about a country that has a public sector holiday allowance where the government can freeze private sector pensions.

Socialism = Corruption.

I just find it amusing that Greece, the most Socialistic of the European Union is in dire straights...and now requires Germany (the most Capitalistic of the European Union) to bail them out. Greece's plan in that regard? Cutting taxes? Limiting spending? Boltering private business?

Nah...Greece wants Germany and the rest of the EU to leverage their own economic ratings to secure better credit for Greece in world markets. In other words, they want to go further in debt, and drag the more solvent members of the EU down with them.

Ahhhhh...Socialism. It's what's for dinner.

The cockroaches are coming out from under the Fridge...

Back on January 13th, I pointed out that Angela Davis was to be the keynote speaker at the University of New Hampshire's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations. She wasn't just an invited guest...or a speaker...she was the KEYNOTE speaker.

Allow me to rehash her illustrious credentials:

1. Owned shotgun used to murder Judge Harold Haley
2. Made the FBI's Ten most wanted list (one of the first three women to do so).
3. Current member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
4. Lobbies for prison abolition.
5. Relocated to Cuba with just like nitwit racists Huey Newton and Stokely Carmichael.
6. Acted as close ally to Jim Jones' People's Temple (Bonus: Flavoraid was grape & cyanide-laced).
7. Davis is currently a graduate studies Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California and Presidential Chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

What a wonderful example and wealth of information she is for those young thirsting minds. And...hundreds of those minds showed up for a healthy dose of..."The Man is keeping me down."

The vestiges of slavery, colonization and exploitation remain rife throughout America, as is evidenced by the over-representation of minorities in prison, Davis said. The prison population, now estimated to be one in 100 adult Americans, only contributes to the oppression of minorities, she said.

Yes...of course. I suppose that committing a crime is not important to the issue. We all know that the police drive around looking for a minority to throw in prison for absolutely no reason. The hearings, trials, and evidence is avoided, because it creates paperwork...and the environment is damaged by all the paper we harvest from defenseless trees.

"That means a black man in this state is 10 times more likely to be discovered behind bars," she said.

Minorities are often over-represented in prison because police surveillance in their communities is higher, Davis said.

Around the world, the same thing is happening as people who were once unashamedly beat down continue to live below others both socially and economically. While blacks and other minorities are over-represented in American prisons, in Australia, it is aborigines, she said.

Define "over-represented."

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Over-represented: a mythical deduction concerning the percentage of minorities being higher pro-ratio than "non-minorities" in any venue by one making a living asking you to take the higher level of melanin in their skin as bona fide knowledge on the issue. (see: daft dolt opportunist)
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I'm not sure I'm grasping this "discovered behind bars" accusation. That implies that the individual suddenly appeared there. However, in order to get behind bars...a crime must be committed, and then documented...and then proven.

But now, with a black President in office, America may finally have the momentum to disassemble what she called the "prison industrial complex," one where incarceration is privatized and profited from.

"This is the moment to think about the different modes of justice," she sai(sic). "Justice that is compassionate, justice that is community building, not community destroying."

Yeah...good thing we have a black President...(eye roll)...so that every cockroach socialist moron now feels it is safe to come out into the light and spew their nonsensical garbage. And, yes...justice is community building...not community destroying. Why not lay into those minorities that are suddenly appearing out of nowhere behind bars about destroying your and my community?

Davis was once a radical and member of the Black Panthers, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Communist party. She gained notoriety for a headline-making 1972 trial in California, where she was acquitted of murder and kidnapping charges.

Since then, she has become a respected university professor and does extensive research on prisons and minorities.

Here's another new word for your collection...say it three times and it's yours...

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Respected: pseudo-intellectual collegiate reference usually used to define self-important dullards who focus on flawed premises backed up by many years activity that can best be described as embarrassing to anyone who possesses a conscience and modicum of brain tissue. (see: Socialism and stupidity in our Schools)

French Socialism...the New Coke...

PARIS: Firebombs and breaking glass, tear gas and burning cars. The images from Greece this month were enough to put the fear of youth into the hearts of European leaders.

That dread was palpable in France when President Nicolas Sarkozy abruptly delayed for one year a plan to overhaul France's high schools, after students from Bordeaux to Brittany took to the streets in protest.

Those demonstrations haven't turned violent yet. But French history, and the example of Greece, suggests they might. At least that is what people like Laurent Fabius, a Socialist Party leader, are saying on French radio.

"What we see in Greece is not out of the realm of possibility in France," Fabius said on Europe "When you have such an economic depression, such social despair, all it takes is a match."

French "demonstrators" don't need an excuse to go on with their usual car burning shennanigans. They just need a Quran and a few bottles filled with petrol. They also need a press that ignores the true basis for their acts...and how they are nearly all associated in a "religious" way.

Of course, Laurent Fabius thinks Socialism is the way to go to avoid "economic depression and "social despair." Let's see how that worked out in the past...

1. Hitler called himself a Socialist, and was by definition a Socialist. And, for a while there...the German economy looked pretty good until the rest of the world flattened it due to some of Hitler's other indiscretions.

2. Stalin, absolutely, was a Socialist. In fact, he exiled nearly 8 Million people to "Northern Camps" due to their "lack of cooperation" in transforming the Soviet Union to an agricultural based economy. Over 1/3 died as a result. The inept application of this new "collectivism" killed many, many more.

3. Mao Zedong was a Socialist. His institution of the "Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution" in China could be responsible for an many as 30 Million deaths due to famine...and other creative...applications. It is estimated that Mao was responsible for as many as 70 Million deaths.

You have to love the French Socialist...they never give up the cause, or let history get in the way of saving the rest of us from...life and its inalienable rights.