On the other hand he may try and behave himself in the hope of running Michelle for President, just like his mentor, Juan Peron. As a matter of fact she is coming to my wife’s town this weekend so I asked my Argentine wife to infiltrate the crowd and start shouting “Evita” when she starts to speak.

New Harmony had a couple of little problems. It attracted needy people who wanted someone to take care of them and people with talent and ability shuned the place. New Harmony collapsed when the founder ran out of money. That’s the problem with socialism, you run out of other people’s money.

The government is always backing the wrong horse like OSI. The government declared ADA was the official government programing language. Anybody out there program in ADA today?

Equality Colony
The Equality Colony, later to be known as the Brotherhood of the Co-operative Commonwealth, was a United States socialist colony founded in Skagit County, Washington, in the year 1897. It was meant to serve as a model which would convert the rest of Washington and later the entire United States to socialism.

The colony’s origins lay in ideas of New England reformers in the mid-1890s.

Henry Demarest Lloyd advocating the plan and suggesting that the socialist colonists would be able to initiate the collective ownership of the means of production in the state by voting in a socialist government. Lermond envisioned an organization of many local unions (“L.U.s”) that would provide the colonists with financial, material, and moral support, coordinated by a national “center or union” controlled by seven trustees. His immediate model was the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which colonized Kansas with abolitionists prior to the U.S. Civil War in order to make the territory a free state. Lloyd gave the plan modest financial backing

ANYONE know this stuff but me?

Brook Farm
Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Educationor the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s. It was founded by former Unitarian minister George Ripley and his wife Sophia Ripley at the Ellis Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841 and was inspired in part by the ideals of Transcendentalism, a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England. Founded as a joint stock company, it promised its participants a portion of the profits from the farm in exchange for performing an equal share of the work. Brook Farmers believed that by sharing the workload, ample time would be available for leisure activities and intellectual pursuits.

Despite the experimental commune’s failure, many Brook Farmers looked back on their experience positively. Critics of the commune included Charles Lane, founder of another utopian community called Fruitlands. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a founding member of Brook Farm, though he was not a strong adherent of the community’s ideals. He later fictionalized his experience in his novel The Blithedale Romance (1852). After its failure, most of the buildings at Brook Farm eventually burned down and today much of the land is a cemetery.

and those who love the moonbattery sight would get the irony that one of the early communes of the progressives… was

Fruitlands
Fruitlands was a Utopian agrarian commune established in Harvard, Massachusetts by Amos Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane in the 1840s, based on Transcendentalist principles. An account of its less-than-successful activities can be found in Alcott’s daughter Louisa May Alcott’s Transcendental Wild Oats.

so so much more… and just this tiny bit is way too big for moderns

As Charles Krauthammer wrote today (or maybe yesterday), you also have to look at the statement not only in the context of the text, but in the context of the man’s life. He meant what he said in the way it’s being interpreted. Own it.

A communist is a communist for the things they believe and the actions that they take first and foremost, secondary in who they associate with. After that, that they never officially “held the card” becomes a forgettable side note. The same applies for a Fabian.

you dont have to carry a card to know what you are, and doing so makes it easier to put a label on you that is hard to amorally lie and deny

Margaret Sanger eugenicist…
had an affair with HG Wells – FABIAN founder
To avoid prison she fled to england as Bertha Watson…

while there, she was introduced to the communist feminists, and Havlock Ellis, who helped her justify eugenics as women’s liberation

which if you pay attention to obama and such, was the justification for complete intrusion of the state into all aspects of private life (health finishes that off)

if you want to respond to recent reports of womens sexualization of children starting as early as six years old, you can thank Havlock, and Meade, and Sanger, and the progressive sex focused free lovers… etc.

[if you think gay soldiers marching in the gay parade in uniform is neat. the “Bronies” are going to really make you laugh. ie. Marines who love my little pony!!!!]

Havelock Ellis would go on to be a regular contributor to Sanger’s “Birth Control Review”
[but don’t forget harmons Lucifer bringer of light later changed to American eugenicist!]

Stuart Chase, the man who coined the term “new deal” was also a Fabian/progressive

Walter Lippmann, was also a Fabian member
[he drafted one of Woodrow Wilsons famous speeches]

John Dewey, the father of modern education, who took kids out of the old school system and forced them to attend this current dumbed down sexualization factory – was also a Fabian.

he was active in New York Teachers Guild, the League for Industrial Democracy

Guild and league being two words at the time indicating communism… replaced when used up, by united, peoples, liberation, etc… so the league of nations working for one world government became the united nations working for one world government.

Aldous Huxley brother was a key player in that creation…

The League for Industrial Democracy(LID) was the forerunner to SDS

Sidney Webb, the author of industrial democracy, was a Fabian

He likened the relationship between the LID and the Fabian Society to that between the ADA and the Harvard Liberal Union. – Harvard Crimson

The forerunner to League for Industrial Democracy which was the forerunner to SDS, was Intercollegiate Socialist Society….

cofounded by Harry W Laidler a Fabian (he bevame the League for Industrial Democracy executive director, and had this to say

The League for Industrial Democracy is the closest equivalent to the British Fabian Society in the history of American socialism.

anyone here care to point out the relationship between SDS and the new party that Obama is a member of?

the idea that he is a Manchurian candidate is a bit off, he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing…
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~Paules : Obama’s Gaffes Explained
by ~Paules
I have ten years experience as a high school teacher. During that time I’ve engaged in thousands of conversations with my students. I got very good at listening to kids trying to explain a concept or idea. Conversational teaching requires a great deal of patience on the part of the instructor because it’s a process. Ideas take time to develop in a mind not previously exposed to the subject matter. In truth, I spent a lot of time listening to students thinking out loud. And that’s fine as a classroom technique when you’re dealing with juveniles. The next step was to assign an essay for reasons I will explain below.

Much has been made of Mr. Obama’s inability to speak without the assistance of a teleprompter. He makes all sorts of gaffes when he attempts to speak extemporaneously. The explanation is rather quite simple. The ability to articulate a position well is dependent on having thought about beforehand. When Mr. Obama blurted out his attitude toward private industry (“You didn’t build that.”), the sentiment was certainly sincere, but the delivery was clumsy because he was thinking out loud. The truth is that Mr. Obama has never been a deep thinker. We shouldn’t be surprised because “liberalism” itself is just an incoherent grab bag of half-baked ideas.

Now, contrast liberal “thinking” with conservative principles. I can define our philosophy in one pithy sentence: Conservatism is a belief in personal liberty based on limited government leavened by personal responsibility. We could expand on this quite a bit, but there’s not a conservative in the country who would disagree with the basic premise. Why is that? Because we’ve read about it at length, thought about in depth, and discussed it in detail. You might remember Rush Limbaugh delivering a speech before CPAC without the benefit of note cards. It’s easy when you know what you think. His program for twenty-five years has been a dialogue about the nature of conservatism.

Let’s get back to the president for a moment. He was president of the Harvard Law Review without ever having published an article. To quote Rob Long: “How do you know what you think until you write it down?” Spot on. I always assigned my students a final essay on every important concept discussed in class. Writing brings clarity to our thoughts. We have nothing in this regard from our president because he has never thought about anything in depth or questioned the basis for his ideas. His is a juvenile mind full of semi-coherent nonsense.

I hope Mitt Romney challenges the theory of liberalism itself (such as it is) during the presidential debates. Mr. Obama is a lightweight with no coherent philosophy to back up his policies. He never was the smartest man in the room. He’s just a salesman with ad hoc solutions for the problems of the moment. Mr. Romney needs to force the president off message. If Mr. Obama starts thinking out loud again, the gaffes will follow. He’s no philosopher king. It’s time he was exposed for the muddled thinker he is.

Paules’ only fanciful idea .. is his suggestion that Mr. Romney challenge the theory of liberalism in the debates. Reasoned philosophy of governing .. is not Mr. Romney’s strong suit, and that is just the way it is. Mr. Romney may get better in this area, but probably not during this election.