Comments on: Welcome To The U.S.S.A.

By: Preston Taylor Holmes

Preston Taylor Holmes — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:16:10 +0000

Knoxville in June is sweet, Scotty. If you’re new to the site, browse the archives. We’ve been at this for almost 5 years. Also, check out the Klassiks at the bottom left of the blogroll. If I’m around in June I’ll buy you a damn beer.

By: ScottyK

ScottyK — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:10:16 +0000

Just stumbled upon this site, and I like it! Going to add it to my daily list of reading. Keep up the good work! I’ll be in Knoxville in June for two weeks, how the weather then?

ScottyK – Oklahoma City. Tornado season started early this year, that can’t be good!

By: average_guy

average_guy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:26:56 +0000

Can’t. Stop. Myself.

By: average_guy

average_guy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:26:34 +0000

The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

By: average_guy

average_guy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:22:49 +0000

I admit to plagarism. Which way to The Gulag?

By: average_guy

average_guy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:22:08 +0000

Winston Smith is a bureaucrat in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, revising historical records to match The Party’s contemporaneous, official version of the past. The revisionism is required so that the past reflect the shifts of the day in the Party’s orthodoxy. Smith’s job is perpetual; he re-writes the official record, re-touches official photographs, deleting people officially rendered as unpersons. The original or older document is dropped into a “memory hole” chute leading to an incinerator. Although he likes his work, especially the intellectual challenge of revising a complete historical record, he also is fascinated by the true past, and eagerly tries to learn more about that forbidden truth.

By: average_guy

average_guy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:21:08 +0000

Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. The Thought Police have two-way telescreens (in the living quarters of every Party member and in every public area), hidden microphones, and anonymous informers to spy potential thought-criminals who might endanger The Party. Children are indoctrinated to informing; to spy and report suspected thought-criminals — especially their parents.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:32:55 +0000

I’m afraid after this afternoon that we can no longer afford all of this color around here.

By: This Goes to 11

This Goes to 11 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:28:40 +0000

The Buffet of Hope and Change…

The guys Comrades over at Six Meat Buffet were among the first to use some of President Barry’s “stimulus” funds to give their site a facelift. Have a look:
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By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:19:10 +0000

Comrades,

Love the new look! I was thinking of changing my site to look exactly like yours, you know…to be in solidarity with the glorious blogger revolution.

And I should have known we would lose Michele to the brave new world. Over at 11, we just could not change quickly enough and we are still stuck in the mire that is freedom, capitalism and war-mongering. I am glad Michele found safe haven here before 11 is raided by by the new thought-police.

I think I hear Comrade Rahmbo knocking at my door now…oh shit.