Penn has always been a bad actor and axxhxxx. I refuse to read about his love affair with evil. He, Sarandon and Tim all should burn in Hell.

(No I will not tell you how I really feel out of politeness.)

Pinochet was a brutal dictator. Castro is a great man who really cared for the people and who’s only regret in life is turning down a chance to teach (with tenure!) at Harvard in 1998.

Just kiddin. I think. Maybe not. Maybe it was Che.

Ugh.  What self-absorbed rambling.  Sean Penn always has thought he’s more of a huge intellect than he actually is and that he’s a better writer than he actually is. 

He fails to see the irony of the multi-millionaire American movie star sitting around sipping red wine and eating dinner with el Presidente and laughing heartily and congratulating each other on their moral superiority while many Cubans live in abject squalor as a direct result of the Castros decades of rule. 

And don’t get me started about his crying over the Dixie Chicks singing a Fleetwood Mac song while his little movie of those eeeee-vil conswervative neo-Nazis played in his head.  Hannity?  Limbaugh?  He really gets that worked up over what those guys say?  They’re talking heads - entertainers; pontificators.  Big deal.

Bill,

He’s suffering from a serious case of not being taken seriously.

He’s more than just some stoner from Ridgemont High! HE F****D MADONNA DAMMIT!

That would make him customer 998. If he’d waited 2 more he could been number 1000 and got a Kabala toaster.

That was the most self indulgent bilge I have ever read. It was a dark and stormy night in Cuba with Raoul Castro twinkling and chuckling all over the place. Hugo Chavez a Venezuelian Santa Claus!
Another useful idiot to pass along prepared propaganda. It would never occur to a egomaniac like him that he was being played. Raoul Castro praying to God for oil and praising the tenets of social democracy.
Another bleeding, weeping liberal who thinks he has the inside track to the dictators to the South.
You know what they say! If you take an infinite number of monkeys and provide them all with typewriters eventually you will get- monkey bilge…..

I have always thought conservatives and communists had a lot in common. I am sure that any conservative would adjust well to life under communism. Here is why :
1. Hatred of liberals and non-communist socialists, social democrats, ect. As nasty as conservatives are to liberals communists are no better. Mao wrote a nice tract called Combat Liberalism. Lenin’s works are filled with vitroilic
hatred of anything non-Communist much the same way American conservatives prattle.
2. Economic rigidity. Communists swear that any deviation from the state planned economy is heresy. Free marketers are the same way.
3. Military Adventurism. Cubans have intervened directly in Angola and Grenada, Che’s adventures to export revolution and many covert ways. Ditto Americans who have about 130 direct interventions plus the Neo-cons who want to export democracy by military might.
4. Hatred of unions and fair labor practices. Cuba’s lack of real unions, use of piece rate system to pay workers, lack of enforceable labor standards are probably the apple of the free market libertarian eyes. I see little difference between free marketers who want to exploit labor and the Communists in actual practice.
5. Hatred of Blacks and gays. Dimmertime and R. Smith would be glad to know that deep prejudices against gays and blacks are alive and well in Cuba.
6. Monopoly Press : Bart could grind out economic trivia about 5 year plans for the state owned paper just as he does for our privately owned monopoly paper.
7. Criminal justice. A good guess of criminal conviction rates in Cuba is about 99%. Here in America, our rate of conviction is 90% and about 90% of convictions are upheld on appeal. Of course Cuba does not have those independent defense counsels or those obnoxious 4,5,6th Amendmament to the Constitution covering search and seizure,
fair trial, legal representation.
8. Neighborhood busy bodies. In Cuba, they have the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) to check on folks.
Here we call them Neighborhood Associations.
, Repression of political opponents. Just like Cuba, we even have a large jail at Gitmo.Perhaps Cubans are spying on it for pointers on torture and waterboarding. Our government has has a collection of laws to stifle the dissenters. Patriot Acts, Espinonge Act of 1918, Cointelpro in the 1960s, varios FBI spy programs , local police spying, friendly reporters to plant news stories on dissidents and a host of other, voter suppression and many ways to stifle dissent.
RADIO : In Cuba, the state has a monoply on propaganda by radio to mirror conservative talk radio here.
PURITANISM : In Cuba, it is called the struggle against Bourgeous decadence. In America, we have patriots like Bill O’Reilly, R. Smith and Bart Hinkle ready to ride hard on dirty dancing, sex outside marriage and anything remotely sensual particuarily if it involves young women
MACHOISMO : Both American conservatives and Cuban are into machoismo.
  I could think of other converging points of conservatism and Communism but what is important is what stands between them : Liberals, moderates and the non-Communist left.

Liberialism and socialism certainly do stand between conservatism and communism as Lenin and Marx intended them to-as a bridge.
By definition socialism is the “transitional” stage between capitalism and communism.
Every ideology is the sum of its parts some parts more egregious than others. But if you had written your intelligent essay in Cuba or Putin’s Moscow you might be examining your parts in the discomfort of some jail in Havana or re-education camp in Siberia.
That is the major difference between conservatism in the US and communism anywhere. Bars on the windows.

Big Brother is not watching me. Big Brother isn’t watching Bart Hinkle or Bill Taggart. Big Brother isn’t worried about any of us on here.

Big Brother is watching terrorists.

2. Simmertime said, “Penn has always been a bad actor…he, Sarandon and Tim all should burn in Hell.”

Ouch! Damn, he must be a TERRIBLE actor. But one thing I know for sure—Sean Penn is an ugly mf.

Bob, an intelligent liberal point-of-view can be enjoyed and skewered at the same time. But yours lack any credibility. The message is one of hate anything American. Why not stop posting until after your graduation in May from high school?

Excellent post bob. So I guess your point is that your idea of a liberal is someone who stands between the communists and the conservatives by hob nobbing with orgs like World Can’t Wait (not World Won’t Wait as you posted on your blog)and “agitating” for those stalwart defenders of gay rights, womens rights, due process and all around good guys over in Palistine…aka the popularly elected Hamas?

That’s the problem with taking reflexive positions dictated by ideological bitterness and pop based arrogance. People with memories, like me, will always point out what a f****n hypocrite you are!

Gotta go. The religion of Peace is celebrating diversity over in India right now and I don’t want to miss any of the fireworks.

LOL Larry.
I thought you might be interested in an item on CNBC this morning.
There is NOT ONE radio stock selling for a more then 95 cents
What odd times we are living in.

Sorry I just found your post now Greta. Interesting about the radio stock. Well, I must be far more of a fool than people give me credit for—I just spent 6 hours straight tuning & listening to my radio. (And am trying to figure out how I can weasel my finances to afford another model I’ve got my eye on).

There was never an invention more ingenious than the long-distance transmission of messages via electromagnetic waves. That started it all. It remains the mother of them all, no matter what CNBC reports. Cell phone towers can go down; computer systems can crash—but radio can never be destroyed.