Thorium

This 10-minute video is worth your time.



This concept is DOA with Obama and the Democrat Party. Guess why:

a) Thorium will burn through the earth's crust and kill rare species of cockroaches that have yet to be discovered.
b) Native American Indians would disapprove as it has nothing to do with the sun, wind, or rivers.
c) Obama didn't think of it first.
d) Thorium would produce unlimited energy for capitalists, who in turn would profit from innovation and the production of new services, products and technologies.
e) All of the above.
f) Another reason (post in comments)

On the bright side, Stalin would just send this internal enemy to a death camp.

We found this video here, through Instapundit.

Thorium Wikipedia page.

Energy from Thorium site.

Easter Cigar

The bold Rocky Patel Edge burned on this Easter Sunday.

Che Quotes

Ushanka.us friend, Dale, linked to this article of 10 Che Guevara Quotes the Left Would Rather Not Talk About.

This one stands out to us, as it demonstrate's a commie's attitude toward justice and a functioning judicial system.

3. “To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary … These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution!”

Elana Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg beware. You're a means to an end. You'll only retain your posts until you are no longer necessary.

Do Not Play The Fool America

Danny, the Commissar of Leninade, sent us this video. It has a favorite song of his that came out shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Song title: Do Not Play the Fool America.



We don't speak the language. Can anyone help translate?

Gulag Books

Andrew Stuttaford offers a review of top books on the Soviet Gulag in today's WSJ: A World Behind Barbed Wire.

Books mentioned in Stuttaford's article:

Gulag Archipelago

Kolyma Tales

Journey Into The Whirlwind

My Testimony

Faithful Rusian

Gulag Voices

Memoir of a Gulag Actress

Children of the Gulag

The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin

There has been no Bolshevik Nuremberg. Total defeat left Nazi horror open for all to see, but many Soviet archives remain closed, their tales of atrocity unpublished. The new books on the gulag cannot begin to redress the crimes they describe, but they can at least help history locate the facts with which it can pass the judgment that the victims and their jailers deserve.

Mr. Stuttaford's NRO Archive.

Ushanka Tip to Mr. Stuttaford for the article, and to Mrs. Karl for finding the article.

Join us tonight!

We'll be talking with Andrea Shea King on her radio show tonight starting at 9:30pm EST.

Check back here afterwards. We'll post any links or other items that are mentioned on the show, as well as the podcast of the show.

Post show update

THANKS to Andrea for having me on her show tonight. That was too much fun!

We had the added honor to speak with IOTW's BigFurHat, Lloyd Marcus, Leninade's Danny, and IOTW's CFM990.

Here is the post at IOTW announcing tonight's interview. BFH will be posting a contest there later tonight.

And last - something I wanted to share tonight but we didn't have time....

The top ten reasons why Obama is NOT a Communist:

10) Stalin wouldn't go golfing with an unemployment rate over 9%.

9) Communism invented the concentration camp, Obama invented 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.

8) Lenin spoke without a teleprompter.

7) Different lines: Kryuschev had bread lines. Obama wants MRI lines.

6) Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, didn't feel compelled to lead the fight against obesity. (Or did she?)

5) KGB checks your papers. TSA x-rays your underwear.

4) Communist regimes prioritize their military spending.

3) Obama's death counseling is conducted indoors. Pol Pot's death counseling was conducted in the fields.

2) If the Soviet Union wanted firearms to cross their border into a neighboring country, they would have carried the weapons themselves.

1) Obama only nationalized 2/3 of the auto industry.

UPDATE 11:16PM

Contest is Posted at IOTW. Good luck!

Tonight's Show is now posted.

Listen to internet radio with Andrea Shea King on Blog Talk Radio

UPDATE 4.22

IOTW's CFM990 called into the show. He wore his Commie Obama hat in the hospital after his open heart surgery! We're happy he has recovered and commend him for his courage to wear that hat amongst union healthcare 'professionals'.

CFM990 is a trend-setter. Someday soon, everyone will wear that hat as they wait for their healthcare.

UPDATE 4.25 Andrea announces the Contest Winner. Dale wins with the russian spy name for Obama - Nyet Birthski.

Contgratulations Dale!

Fun Videos

A couple fun videos we found today:

This one at Weasel Zippers. We forgot how much fun Sesame Street can be!



And another good job from Battlefield315:

Her: "The Constitution is just an excuse for people to tell me I can't implement my good ideas."
Him: "When do I get to hear the good ones?"

Bay of Pigs

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs disaster in Cuba.

Read Decision for Disaster for the full story. Short story: JFK (the last Democrat that hated commies) supported an invasion of freedom-loving Cubans into Cuba to retake the island nation. He helped train them and promised a substantial air support effort. That air support was whittled away by risk-averse losers in the administration in the days/weeks leading up to the assault. By the time of the invasion, there was no air support and all Castro needed was a few planes to crush the invaders.

We've learned from another book that Kruschev knew of the invasion date and place four months prior.

And we've all learned that Kruschev saw the US failure as a sign of weakness. That weakness invited the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This is why we dislike communists so very very much. More death. More suffering.

Atlas

...Opens today! Be there!

Movie website.

UPDATED 4.16 2pm Found at NiceDeb:



UPDATED 4.22 7PM THIS is related! John Fund writes in today's WSJ about how CA officials are visiting Texas to find out why 4.7 CA corporations are leaving the state for Texas EACH DAY. John doesn't say it, but this is called "Going Galt", and those CA officials could have saved the taxpayers some money by just going to see this movie instead.

Andy Puzder, the CEO of Hardee's Restaurants, was one of many witnesses to bemoan California's hostile regulatory climate. He said it takes six months to two years to secure permits to build a new Carl's Jr. restaurant in the Golden State, versus the six weeks it takes in Texas. California is also one of only three states that demands overtime pay after an eight-hour day, rather than after a 40-hour week. Such rules wreak havoc on flexible work schedules based on actual need. If there's a line out the door at a Carl's Jr. while employees are seen resting, it's because they aren't allowed to help: Break time is mandatory.

"You can't build in California, you can't manage in California and you have to pay a big tax," Mr. Puzder told the legislators. "In Texas, it's the opposite—which is why we're building 300 new stores there this year."

UPDATE EASTER

Ann Barnhardt writes at the American Thinker, Reconciling Rand with the Gospel. Rand was an atheist - a problem for many who enjoy her work. Ann suggests a synergy that has been overlooked.

I know that many Christians read Rand and want to stand up and cheer, but at the same time are racked with guilt because of her atheism and decidedly anti-church professions. Can Rand be reconciled to the Gospel? Can Christians read and learn from Rand's writings? I say yes, and emphatically so.

The Gulag Diet

We find it extremely insensitive that Moby and his fellow liberals progressives communists call for fasting when hundreds of thousands of North Korean's are starving.

Is Moby having fun at the expense of gulag prisoners whose only crime was to be the child of a man who was caught eating a piece of bread out of turn 20 years ago?

That man may have had impure thoughts about the compassionate Dear Leader too! Can he prove his thoughts were pure?



Where were these clowns when their ideology killed 100 million - mostly by starving - during the last century?

Maybe they can go to North Korean Economy Watch and tour the North Korean concentration camps with Google Earth as they sip their 180-calorie latte's and brag on how they are fasting for a better, more fair, world.

The daily ration in Soviet Gulags was 800 calories. Punishment rations were 400 calories.

Food is not only the ultimate weapon, it is the weapon of choice for leftists like Moby and his ilk. These are the same people who buy into Marx, then later find their chosen leader standing between them and their food.

We'll say it again: Communism is Capital Punishment for the Innocent.

U/T: BFH @ IOTW
Some pictures from EnglishRussia.