What left me speechless, Buz old bean, was your use of the term "socialist buddy's business concern." Just to illuminate for you, socialist means government-owned business. So the idea of a socialist business concern is rather oxymoronic, even for you. And that takes some doing.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. -- Thomas Jefferson
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus -- and non-believers. -- Barack Obama
We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat