if as you suggest this is the way we are going, and i totally agree with you, but one thing that i think is wrong with your expectation of food shortages such as is pictured. we will not have any foods in our stores once they are depleted of their stock. no one will want to work for the government. in order to survive people will have the need to do for them selves. those who run the major companies that currently supply food products will lose their employees ultimately. this will happen because we do know what it is like to have abundance and the ruskies have never had abundance, the stores are probably the same to day as in 1990. the reason putin wants the ukrain is because of the agriculture but that will be short lived because the summer growing seasons are getting shorter.

Because of my family's affiliation w/the NHL, I had the opportunity while growing up, to meet some players, quite a number of whom were from soviet bloc countries. One was a newly signed player from the Czech Republic. While showing this new player around town, and taking him to a grocery store, he was in utter shock that he could go to a meat department and buy meat, any day of the week. He kept loading the shopping cart with packages and packages of meat, only to be told he didn't have to do that. There would be meat tomorrow, and every day. He went back every single day for a month, just to make sure that was true. This was 1990.

I find that am seeing this socialistic style of control creeping into every aspect of our lives. It's stealthy and insidious. I also would love to find out his perspective on what he thinks of the current Stalin-esque leader.

No, they are not jokes, and neither is Osama's love affair with Chavez. Indoctrination is more likely.

Here is a joke that I believe is from 1970-era Eastern Europe.

There is a rumor that meat is available, and a long line forms outside the meat market. At 8:00 in the morning the market door opens, and man steps out. He announces, "There is not enough meat for everyone. If you are Jewish, you might as well go home." Several people leave.

At 10:00 the door opens and the man steps out and says, "I'm terribly sorry, but there is not enough meat. If you are not a Party member, you might as well go home." Most of the people leave.

At 4:00 PM the man appears again and says, "I'm so terribly sorry. There isn't any meat at all." One Party member turns to another and grumbles, "Isn't that the way it always is? The Jews get the best of everything!"

Obama and their ilk figured out how to make it work for 40 million of their buddies, they just send the rest of us the bill, rather than try to put the whole system into it, so as with any market-based economy, the other 85% 'figure out' how to make ends meet, but 15% do basically nothing.

In 1990 I was a new engineer at Boeing. My manager hosted one of the band members from a Russian marching band. The band had come to America and due to funding/logistics problems got stuck here for a while. My boss took this guy into a grocery store and when the Russian saw the bins full of produce he started crying and ran out of the store. I'll never forget that story...

I had a friend who had a couple from Russia visit some years ago. The woman cried when he took her inside a Walmart. She could not believe there could be so much food in one place.

" How many Che Guevara (communist terrorist who murdered many) shirts and handbags do you see? "
I think the shirts and the school event are jokes. But that's doesn't make it alright. We don't see similar "joking" Hitler shirts or Hitler-themed school events.

Your last sentence says it all! =D

I'm not exactly a Rush expert, however I do believe that I could easily find a Rush song that corresponds to pretty much every single post on the Gulch. What is really weird is I listened to a lot of Rush as a child and then 20+ years later I ended up here. As far as artistic ability and song writing, I really can't think of anyone that compares to them. It's remarkable. After listening to Rush pretty much everything else just sounds like crap.

+10 if I could. And I thought I was the only one here who likes Rush.

"The world weighs on my shoulders, but what am I to do?"

"I need someone to talk to and someone to sweep the floors."

And this one: "I said, "If love is so transcendent I don't understand these boundaries"
She said, "Just don't disappoint me you know how complex women are"

Good times. =) Got Rush?

"Heresy" (Rush)

All around that dull grey world
From Moscow to Berlin
People storm the barricades
Walls go tumbling in

The counter-revolution
People smiling through their tears
Who can give them back their lives
And all those wasted years?
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

All around that dull grey world
Of ideology
People storm the marketplace
And buy up fantasy

The counter-revolution
At the counter of a store
People buy the things they want
And borrow for a little more
All those wasted years
All those precious wasted years
Who will pay?

'nuff said.

and yet here it is in our streets and cities and begin promoted as something beautiful by many in our government and in our universities and colleges. How many Che Guevara (communist terrorist who murdered many) shirts and handbags do you see?

Hell, they celebrate it: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Schoo...

I wonder if this was a better or worse than average. I'm guessing this was their average store.

It's amazing people were worried about the communist system spreading. It clearly did not work.

The utopia that the Rockefellers have in store for us, but not them. How deplorable.

Absolutely.

Obama and his ilk would say, "for thee, but not for me".