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RABBITS: A MARXIST PERSPECTIVE
They hop, they breed, they keep commies alive:
An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big bunny farm to alleviate food shortages in the communist country …
It all started when Karl Szmolinsky won a prize for breeding Germany’s largest rabbit, a friendly-looking 10.5 kilogram “German Gray Giant” called Robert, in February 2006.
Images of the chubby monster went around the world and reached the reclusive communist state of North Korea, a country of 23 million which according to the United Nations Food Programme suffers widespread food shortages and where many people “struggle to feed themselves on a diet critically deficient in protein, fats and micronutrients.”
Via guardian angel, who asks: “I wonder what the rabbits will eat. Grass is people food in North Korea.”
The Dear Rabbit, and the Glorious Rabbit, will lead us to the workers’ paradise, where we will all take a left at Albuquerque and there will be free health care for all.
Posted by Don't Bogart that Midget, Comrade! on 2007 01 11 at 03:04 AM • permalinkRun, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run
Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run
Bang, bang, bang, bang! goes the farmer’s gun
Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, runRun, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, run
Don’t give the farmer his fun, fun,fun
He’ll get by without his rabbit pie
So run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run, run, runI wonder what the poor rabbits are doing this year ... Bugs Bunny
It has always been my belief that if one eats nothing but rabbit meat, one will die of starvation.
See “Rabbit Starvation” in wikipedia for what probably passes as confirmation of this.
Then again, when one is experiencing acute starvation right now, the possibility of experiencing malnutrition in the future would seem pretty good.
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 01 11 at 04:18 AM • permalinkO/T - but our favourite mufti has just gobbed off again on Egyptian television. Nothing too radical, Australians don’t have any democracy, are the worst liars and unjust people. He also put his lawyers hat on and said the gang rapes didn’t happen - ““They arranged to meet in a public park at 2 or 3 am in the morning, and it (the sex) was agreed on,” he said”.
We are decendants of convicts of course but have little claim to Australia because “We’ve been in Australia longer than them. Islam is deep rooted in the Australian soil. Islam was here before the English fleet.”
I feel so ashamed of myself and my fellow countryfolk. I’ve just given myself a triple uppercut.
Oh, and of course dear old Keyser was on the box saying the mufti has been quoted out of context. Some things never change.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 01 11 at 05:10 AM • permalinkSo the rabbits are going to stave off hunger?
Free market capitalism has always done a much better job.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2007 01 11 at 05:29 AM • permalink#8 Bonmot,
Easy tiger, rabbit pie day aint till friday.Posted by Daniel San on 2007 01 11 at 07:07 AM • permalinkyou raff on the other side of your ugry faces capitarist rackeys when i raunch my new super weapon
no more ronery jokes ever
kim jong il
(mwahahahaha)
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2007 01 11 at 07:55 AM • permalinkKiller rabbits the size of pitbulls on the hunt in packs? Fine. Let ‘em breed. This is just Gaia’s way of fighting back. The rabbits are on the warpath against abominations of nature, like Jimmy Carter, and this time things won’t be so pretty down around Plains, Georgia.
Now that the Berlin wall is out of the way for the formerly kommokraukt kaptive East Germans, this Giant Rabbit Breeding™ thing is just a hobby for old-timers.
Wouldn’t ya think that the North Koreans could get the hint here on how to alleviate poverty in a really big way? Heck no, they wanna buy into more of the old business.
It’s high irony that Karl Szmolinsky from east Germany, presumably a beneficiary of the twentieth century’s harrowing struggles for liberty and prosperity in Europe, now gets a chance to become quite wealthy by selling the product of his own small struggles to the dream of one of today’s most retrograde and oppressive ideologues.
#14
How are you even going to begin to explain that to our American friends?
There’s a great photo essay on North Korea here although most of the photos on the first few pages seem to have vanished very recently. Browse the whole thread, it’s quite an eye opener. I like the part where the hotel rooms are bugged, but a loud complaint about the lack of toilet paper resulted in a maid knocking on the door seconds later. Perhaps oppression has a convenient upside.
It’s just too bad so many of the ‘progressives’ in the democratic countries of the world, are convinced George W. Bush is the root of all evil.
Compare that series of photos and captions to this almost nostalgic Time photo essay (although the last caption is pretty funny).
Attention imperialist dog so-called “Tim” so-called “Blair”. DPRK people are happy to return to scrumptious DPRK cooking.
DPRK people know how to steer their boats. Aha! Take that imperialist!
You jealous so-called “Tim” so-called “Blair”. You try to mock world’s most democratic democracy, DPRK - you go too far, jealous man.
Good world progressives nominate songun blog world’s best blog okay?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 01 11 at 08:10 AM • permalink#17 Whale spinor I read your comment and broke up. Especially the bit about Keysar claiming the mufti was quoted out of context.
Then I realised it was true.
Of course, that makes me laugh harder. These clowns don’t need a script.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 11 at 09:05 AM • permalinkYou gotta be careful around those supposedly “cute” little bunnies. Remember when Arthur’s brave knights disregarded the wizard Tim’s warnings, and many met their doom?
Hell, ol’ Kim won’t need nuclear weapons; he can just lob a few great & glorious missiles with deadly rabbit payloads and overrun the South in a few days. Better start working on a new & improved Holy Hand Grenade.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 01 11 at 09:39 AM • permalink#28 geoff -
Killer rabbits the size of pitbulls on the hunt in packs?
This is actually the kind of thing that Michael Lonie and Stoop Davy Dave used to develop in the Halliburton laboratories. They’ve come up with Italian
terroriststerriers and Russian squirrels. But carnivorous rabbits? I’m not sure about that.Yes, I do like this Pmcode. I call blue font! I call blue font!
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 11 at 09:57 AM • permalinkCould someone please explain the advantage of farming, say, 10 10.8Kg rabbits, as opposed to farming 54 2kg rabbits? In both cases you get 108 kg of rabbit, requiring about the same amount of <strike>human food</strike> grass to feed.
Oh wait a sec, this is North Korea after all. It’s not as if logic and reason were their strongest suits.
I used to have a minilop who had a fondness for human flesh (mine). Still have the scars.
I’ve been trying to train my warren to attack Jimmah Carter on sight, but my rabbits aren’t that crazy.
Elizabeth
Imperial Keeper of Killer LagomorphsPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 01 11 at 10:55 AM • permalinkCould someone please explain the advantage of farming, say, 10 10.8Kg rabbits, as opposed to farming 54 2kg rabbits? In both cases you get 108 kg of rabbit, requiring about the same amount of human food grass to feed.
There’s probably more usable meat on the 10.8kg rabbits. For one thing, they only have one head, while you’d have 5.4 heads for the equivalent weight in regular-sized bunnies.
On the flip side, they almost certainly take longer to raise to maturity. And God only knows what problems are lurking in their genes; they were bred for their size, not health.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 01 11 at 11:24 AM • permalinkI thought Soylent Green™ was people food. (Although even then, the taste varies from person to person.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 11 at 11:37 AM • permalinkKim wants to be a movie producer: “Night of the Repus.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 01 11 at 11:50 AM • permalinkSure, sure, terriers and squirrels are OK, but what about the platoon of glossy black Pit Possums I’ve (still) got loaded in the unmarked 18 wheeler out back? Code “t"was called. Wronright never did find the code book/necronomicron, and we’re still making do with the Book of Revelation for instructions.
I’m running out of owls to feed them. Send rabbits. Big ones.
I got a free sample, Rebecca, with a case of Slurm™.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 01 11 at 05:22 PM • permalink#51. Damn, Richard. If I had a drink I’d need a new keyboard. Again.
Fark that’s funny!
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 01 11 at 09:18 PM • permalink#44
Dammit Wronwright, you’re not supposed to talk about that. The last time you started talking about secret projects, trying to impress that floozie in Las Vegas, we had to close down Area 51 and you got transferrred back to waxing black helicopters for three more years. Remember what Karl said that time: loose neocon lips blast our spaceships. You’re in a conspiracy, act like it!Posted by Michael Lonie on 2007 01 11 at 10:15 PM • permalinkYou’re in a conspiracy, act like it!
Dang, that’s a great motto.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 01 12 at 02:54 AM • permalink
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That is a bit of a poser. I suspect that the big bunny stew will be used to keep the Army fed just enough to stave off a coup…