NYT: After a brief tirade against the sport by the president on national television last month, pro-Chávez officials have moved in recent weeks to shut down two of the country’s best-known golf courses, in Maracay, a city of military garrisons near here, and in the coastal city of Caraballeda. “Let’s leave this clear,” Mr. Chávez said during a live broadcast of his Sunday television program. “Golf is a bourgeois sport,” he said, repeating the word “bourgeois” as if he were swallowing castor oil.
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He’s just jealous of Dear Leader’s “18 holes in 18 shots” scorecards.
Oooh, so Mr Chavez hate’s golf, but loves playing with people’s favorite past time….. What a hero :S
I thought after the “Revolution” we could all just play golf all day.
No?
I guess he got frustrated on the sand traps like I did last weekend
That’s reminds me of how both of my grandfathers were jailed multiple times in the “People’s Republic” of Poland for playing bridge – a bourgeoisie, imperialistic, and capitalistic card game.
Wasn’t the saxophone once declared a bourgeois?
Government is bourgeois. down with it!
Another reason why socialism is a religion; asceticism. A socialist, like a Puritan, is a person who is afraid that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.
Property Rights Are Human Rights!
This is becoming increasingly obvious!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
No Human Rights In Socialism!
Socialism is a myth as you can see. It is nothing more than a two class system composed of the oppressed and the oppressor. The oppressor class regulates rather than being regulated by the market.
Socialism is a perversion of the economy, it is ego-driven interventionism, and it is immoral!
Anyone who uses the word “bourgeois” to denounce the so-called “bourgeois”, is bourgeois.
“Anyone who uses the word “bourgeois” to denounce the so-called “bourgeois”, is bourgeois.”
Is that sort of like how only hipsters call people hipsters?
Don’t hate the player, hate the game!
maybe teh mises instute should have an “adopt a venezuelan ” program…..is chaos down here!!….and everyone wants to step on the break to stop the natural fall…..the oposition is socialist too…everyone is socialist
How’s about “a socialist is someone who believes that they’re being oppressed and exploited by not being allowed to oppress and exploit others.” My own quote.
Golf is not a sport in which I participate, but I uphold the rights of others to play a game they enjoy. Banning a game is a way of controlling a group of individuals from being individuals. Golf is an individual sport, not a team effort. Socialism is a team evert. Socialists want everyone to be on the same team. A socialist tyrant, since he’s the team captain, will shut down anything he can to bully others to do what he tells them to do. As a bullied child, I remember if I showed interest in anything, the bully would disrupt it so I couldn’t enjoy the experience. Tyrants, bullies, and socialism go well together, as Socialism is a humanist Faith that rejects the rights of others for a “common good” that is defined by the “committee”/leader(s) and enforced by the bully patrol. The committee is mostly bullies that have seized control over polite and respectful people who don’t do violence. Modern Humanist Socialism: it’s control freaks on steriods on parade to elevate their bully status for the dumb, weak masses who are too respectful and overpowered to resist. It’s the latest in bully power-tripping around anymore. Thank God for our second Amendment!
As the saying goes, golf courses are a perfect waste of useful real estate that could be productively used as shooting ranges… ;o)
On the other hand, both can be combined:
http://www.golfandshootingshj.com/home.htm
Christoph Kohring, unarmed -no nukes- at the foot of the Mont-Pèlerin
THIS IS LABOUR GOVERNMENT
REST OF THE WORLD VERSION:
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
THE END
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LABOUR GOVERNMENT THE UK VERSION
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are cold and starving.
The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food.
The British press inform people that they should be ashamed that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so, while others have plenty.
The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and The grasshopper Council of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel’s house. The BBC, interrupting a cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking news, broadcasts a multi-cultural choir singing ‘We shall overcome’.
Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the squirrel got rich off the backs of grasshoppers, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his ‘fair share’ and increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London .
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the Economic Equity and grasshopper anti Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The squirrel’s taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the grasshopper did not want to work. The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be socially mobile. The squirrel’s food is seized and re distributed to the more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start building a new home. The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get to Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On arrival they tried to blow up the airport because of Britain ‘s apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody. Initial moves to return them to their own country were abandoned, because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats devise and start a scam to obtain money from people’s credit cards.
A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the squirrel’s food, though spring is still months away, while the council house he is in, crumbles around him because he hasn’t bothered to maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs. Inadequate government funding is blamed for the grasshoppers’ drug ‘illness’.
The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since arrival in UK .
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is placed in the care of the probation service to monitor and supervise him.. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry, that will eventually cost £10,000,000 and state the obvious, is set up. Additional money is put into funding a drug rehabilitation scheme for
grasshoppers and legal aid for lawyers representing asylum seekers is increased. The government praises the asylum-seeking cats for enriching Britain ‘s multicultural diversity, and dogs are criticised by the government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a government minister.
The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in the United Kingdom .
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing, the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on their credit cards to cover losses. Their taxes are increased to pay for law and order, and they are told that they will have to work beyond 65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
THE END
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