tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post9171399767702048426..comments2023-09-29T06:58:20.125-07:00Comments on Badtux the Snarky Penguin: The United States is not Nazi GermanyBadTuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-32660801327198809812007-07-28T10:56:00.000-07:002007-07-28T10:56:00.000-07:00America today displays a strong Rome-in-decline el...America today displays a strong Rome-in-decline element. Not very Third Reichish.<BR/><BR/>I keep reading how America is compared to George Orwell's <I>1984</I>. Maybe to a certain degree, that's true. But I think it looks more like Aldous Huxley's <I>Brave New World</I>...Jim Yeagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14614500796136679068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-87604042083844816412007-07-26T06:48:00.000-07:002007-07-26T06:48:00.000-07:00Your link on forced labor.... did you read on abcn...Your link on forced labor.... did you read on abcnews.com yesterday about the desire to use prison labor for farm field work due to the lack of employee pool??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-69064848705962864672007-07-26T00:37:00.000-07:002007-07-26T00:37:00.000-07:00Nyet, Comrade Traditionalist! Premier Brezhnev's S...Nyet, Comrade Traditionalist! Premier Brezhnev's Soviet Union was famous for its oppressive corruption that resulted in the collapse of much of the Soviet economy. Reading the news items about the rapidly bursting housing bubble, can any good Kremlinologist really deny that the U.S. economy is similarly collapsing under a similar regime of oppressive corruption?<BR/><BR/>But wait, the United States is *nothing* like Soviet Russia. We speak English. They spoke Russian. Duh.<BR/><BR/>- Badtux the Snarky PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-42128471186434063072007-07-25T20:28:00.000-07:002007-07-25T20:28:00.000-07:00Hello, Mr Penguin.I feel I must protest (quietly, ...Hello, Mr Penguin.<BR/>I feel I must protest (quietly, without permit, of course) the label of this post; as it is an unseemly slight against the intelligence of the Russians to use the label "soviet america" on this or any other post.<BR/>Even the Russian system of corruption was much more efficient.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9612609.post-49124177543800741922007-07-25T16:26:00.000-07:002007-07-25T16:26:00.000-07:00Like I wasn't depressed enough already...However, ...Like I wasn't depressed enough already...<BR/><BR/>However, I did have a good laugh at the "best kept secret in outsourcing" tag on Unicor's web page! Yow.<BR/><BR/>MixterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com