Florida Dog Lovers Make Socialist Cry

[caroljane]

"It was the right thing to do and it definitely makes the heart feel good."

So said John Monroe who chipped in to provide a free wedding reception to a couple who had spent their wedding savings on vet bills for their puppy.

The joy of giving, puppies, weddings....God, I love the National Enquirer, without which I would never have come across this story.

All this and "Kirstie Pigging out of Control" too.

My cup runneth over.

[9thdoctor]

Aww...

But no link, not even a picture of the pooch?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2199834/Well-wishers-pay-thousands-dollars-couples-wedding-spent-money-saved-big-day-saving-sick-abandoned-dog.html

But what's the socialist connection? This was done by voluntary donations. Not even tax-deductible donations, I bet. In a socialist state he'd have gotten a referral to the doggie death panel, and we wouldn't be reading about it in Pravda.

[caroljane]

The socialist in question was me, reading the story.

Please don't make me admit in public that I still can't do links. Alright full disclosure I cannot even cut and paste.

[caroljane]

If anybody wants to call names, I would prefer idiot savant to lazy bitch.

Woof.

[PDS]

The socialist in question was me, reading the story.

Please don't make me admit in public that I still can't do links. Alright full disclosure I cannot even cut and paste.

Oh, stop it. You're not a socialist.

You're a Canadian, bathed in the warm cocoon of an epoch in history that allows you to experience the best that capitalism has to offer (e.g., the restaurants across the street from you, hockey, and an Army/Navy south of the border that has guaranteed peace for on your soil, well, since forever...) while shielded from he worst that capitalism has to offer (e.g., Donald Trump and his hair, hillbillies and hippies, and every other facet of American society that Europeans and Canadians hate...).

You are a far cry from a socialist.

[caroljane]

Well OK, if you say so. I'm not a socialist. I will just have to go back to calling myself a synaestho-nihilist again.

[PDS]

Well OK, if you say so. I'm not a socialist. I will just have to go back to calling myself a synaestho-nihilist again.

Throw in some Vaseline and that sounds like a group Adam might join.

[caroljane]

Oops, I mean synaestho-fatalist. Silly me, to forget that vital step in the evolution of my political philosophy. Frankly, all that destroying stuff just got too tiring, I am not getting any younger. It was the Stanley Cup riots that marked the breakthrough in my intellectual development.

Hmmm, the Vaseline element has possibilities... it is more effective and cheaper than name brand moisturizer, I do know that....

[caroljane]

PDS, you sound like an apt student of my philosophy, as you intuitively note the divisibility of Donald Trump and his hair. The nature and gradations of this divisibility, its kinds and degree, are a major branch of Synaestho-Fatalism.

[caroljane]

Indeed the very foundation of S-F could be summed up in, "Hairs is Hair."

[Selene]

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[caroljane]

I asked Yvonne and her answer was quite unrepeatable! And I am not easily shocked!

Carol

Respectable Widow

[caroljane]

A slight quibble on post #5

"Since forever" is only in American historical terms, as American history begins only in 1776. Canadian history began before there was a Canada, and our army if not our navy was not exactly defeated in 1812 nor were our freedoms defended by Americans, in fact they were defended by us Canadians against Americans, and rather well if I do say so myself as a descendant of Brock.

The rest of your post is accurate, in context

[caroljane]

You will gather that Isaac Brock is is one of my heroes. Another of those, Stan Rogers, wrote a song about him, "McDonell on the Heights."

Brant take note, the last cannons of the War of 1812 will never be fired while I am yet alive.

[caroljane]

Come to think of it I don't know if there were any cannons employed in that war.

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Ohwell, we won anyway.

[william.scherk]

The socialist in question was me, reading the story.

Oh, stop it. You're not a socialist.

You're a Canadian, bathed in the warm cocoon of an epoch in history that allows you to experience the best that capitalism has to offer (e.g., the restaurants across the street from you, hockey, and an Army/Navy south of the border that has guaranteed peace for on your soil, well, since forever...) while shielded from he worst that capitalism has to offer [ ... ]

You are a far cry from a socialist.

I must interject with some thoughts on Naming Conventions. It all drips back on Adam. He was in the habit of calling Obama a Marxist. I said that if Obama was Marxist, then most Canuckis were too. Some were beyond, of course, into full-on psychotic Maoism (compared to Obama as the baseline of marxism). As the French say, it was de trop ...

So, somewhere when Carole and I took on the ironic Federated Commielover jerseys, and began referring to ourselves as socialists without airquotes or irony, it was in the context of living in the Royal Socialist Hellhole, in our stricken cities like Vancouver and Toronto, in our riot-torn cities like Montreal and Ste-Hyacinthe.

The irony has not evaporated. By any credible measure I might use to make sense of 'left' as a signifier, Obama is a leftish Democrat, no more. Which makes our NDP/NPD and its Monsieur Mulcair a spawn of Fidel Castro only if we insist on Adam's initial accuracy.

That said, agree with your points from the POV of America; we are a lucky lucky bunch of people to have lived during and built on post-war economic development seeded by the American market, front-loaded by plentiful resources and a decent state of law. Like Alaska, we can affort a mixed economy and huge slush funds for 'social programmes.' We can afford to subsidize the poor outliers while we boom. We can pay for our wild socialist experiments in health and welfare.

The great and good alliance made with the USA means we can maintain a border and our own immigration policies. Grateful cousins Canadians maintain the small differences in polity, and pretend to a certain social-libertarian essense that is just as alive in the USA.

It used to irk me to be lumped into a Marxist/Maoist/Progressive mass, but it does not ultimately make much of a difference what sign we slap on each other.

[caroljane]

The socialist in question was me, reading the story.

Oh, stop it. You're not a socialist.

You're a Canadian, bathed in the warm cocoon of an epoch in history that allows you to experience the best that capitalism has to offer (e.g., the restaurants across the street from you, hockey, and an Army/Navy south of the border that has guaranteed peace for on your soil, well, since forever...) while shielded from he worst that capitalism has to offer [ ... ]

You are a far cry from a socialist.

I must interject with some thoughts on Naming Conventions. It all drips back on Adam. He was in the habit of calling Obama a Marxist. I said that if Obama was Marxist, then most Canuckis were too. Some were beyond, of course, into full-on psychotic Maoism (compared to Obama as the baseline of marxism). As the French say, it was de trop ...

So, somewhere when Carole and I took on the ironic Federated Commielover jerseys, and began referring to ourselves as socialists without airquotes or irony, it was in the context of living in the Royal Socialist Hellhole, in our stricken cities like Vancouver and Toronto, in our riot-torn cities like Montreal and Ste-Hyacinthe.

The irony has not evaporated. By any credible measure I might use to make sense of 'left' as a signifier, Obama is a leftish Democrat, no more. Which makes our NDP/NPD and its Monsieur Mulcair a spawn of Fidel Castro only if we insist on Adam's initial accuracy.

That said, agree with your points from the POV of America; we are a lucky lucky bunch of people to have lived during and built on post-war economic development seeded by the American market, front-loaded by plentiful resources and a decent state of law. Like Alaska, we can affort a mixed economy and huge slush funds for 'social programmes.' We can afford to subsidize the poor outliers while we boom. We can pay for our wild socialist experiments in health and welfare.

The great and good alliance made with the USA means we can maintain a border and our own immigration policies. Grateful cousins Canadians maintain the small differences in polity, and pretend to a certain social-libertarian essense that is just as alive in the USA.

It used to irk me to be lumped into a Marxist/Maoist/Progressive mass, but it does not ultimately make much of a difference what sign we slap on each other.

No surprise that I concur with WSS here, and I have never minimized the geographical luck that has given me the life I have had.

Bill have you read Peritarians by Stead, I havent but it was recoed by Salutin in the Star today and sounds interesting.

Everybody else, this is a book about how the traditional world of work being gone forever and that is a good thing, my impression of one description of it.

Personally I do not care what sign anybody slaps me with. I don't know what I am and if anybody can give me a good label I am open to it.

[Selene]

O'bama is a marxist [small "m"] and he is demonstrating it as we move forward with his second term.

[syrakusos]

If you believe what some here might claim, then King George III was a marxist. According to Randian Objectivism, every intellectual error ties to every other. If you are not convinced that every "is" implies an "ought" then you are a New Frontier Fascist and a Buddhist. Milton Friedman was a Kantian rationalist and elements of Kant are found in Hegel from which derives Marx, so it is not surprising that both Marx and Friedman echoed the anti-conceptual blank-outs of the African witch doctor and Amazon headhunter which are taught in universities today.

That is quite a bit different from the Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

President Obama may well have absorbed a lot of marxist ideas, but he also learned his post-modernism, and the two are opposed. (The President has a lot of mishmash in his head, which is evident in his unscripted comments.) In the discussion here and elsewhere about Pres. Obama's Rolling Stone interview, he used the word "project": "... the entire project of developing ourselves..." Project, trajectory, giving voice to. If you know the "Sokal Affair" then you know the snappy patter of po-mo chant. But realize that Alan Sokal is a Marxist (capital M) and stood up for science and rational-empiricism.

Funny how the conservatives here never complained about President Bush's "marxist" agenda.

[Selene]

Is redistribution of wealth a foundation of small "m" marxism?

[caroljane]

I protest against thread drift here, trivialities like wealth distribution are distractions from the crucial topics of weddings and ill puppies and the heartwarming benevolence of Floridians, none of them socialists, it is well known that there are no socialists in Florida.