Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for January 21, 2012

At least when you buy ice cream at this time of year, it doesn’t thaw by the time you get home on the bus.

There’s a story that once during WWII, Winston Churchill was in Moscow to consult with Stalin. As he was being driven through the streets to the meeting, he saw a line of people waiting outside a store in a raging snow storm. (Under Communism, there were such shortages of consumer goods that when people heard that a supply of something desirable was suddenly available at a particular shop, every one from miles around would swarm it and stand in line, often for hours, for the chance to get some of it.)

Churchill was aware of this and asked what the people were waiting in line for. “Ice cream,” said his Russian driver. “ICE CREAM!” said Churchill, “These people will never be defeated!”

Only soviets (and their brainwashed) define socialism that way. More likely we will be a military dictatorship like much of the world is rebelling against. We already are under a military/industrial junta. We have an abundance of goods and a shortage of income to buy them. And in suppression of dissent, the NYPD has already shown (but not yet used) one weapon of mass destruction. Mussolini had his blackshirts, Hitler his brownshirts, and Bloomberg his whiteshirts. Corporations have more rights than real people, bribery is legal if done by a corporation, and the Voting Rights Act has just been repealed by Supreme Court legislation.

Well she wouldn’t say ice cream.

Children after my own heart..ice cream…drool ..slurp

John Smith: The left-right spectrum is misleading – coming from the seating arrangements of Second Republic French parliament with the monarchists on the right and the anarchists on the left. Reality is more of a circle with state communism and fascism quite similar and the differences superficial. Fascism has private corporations, but these corporations are de facto the government. Both have at least some religions, but government control over them makes a mockery of the idea of religious freedom. Etc. The opposite in government is democracy and in economics is free enterprise (primarily sole ownership and cooperatives).