– Originally posted September 30. UPDATE, October 5:
UPDATE, October 5, 9 PM:
(Obama, meanwhile, posts a Twitter about the sad death of billionaire industrialist Steve Jobs, but can’t be bothered to mention the many thousands of union members and unemployed protesting nationwide in hopes of getting some relief.)
UPDATE, 10/06/2011:
4) U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter, D-New York
UPDATE, 10/08/2011:
5) Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader
And with that — along with Barack Obama’s tepid “I think people are frustrated, and the protestors are giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how our financial system works” and Joe Biden’s weird claim that Occupy Wall Street has “a lot in common with the Tea Party,” the three leading Democrats in national power have verbally addressed the growing nationwide protests, in their various characteristic ways.
Are we done with the “complete list” now? We are done tallying them, as all the “liberal-leaning Democrats” in Congress will slowly start drooling out vaguely supportive comments now that they’ve been given permission. And we don’t include it as support when Charlie Rangel calling the protesters “confused.”
Left unsaid so far in this post is whether there is any benefit at all to the Ocupados if the Washington politicians support it. We’re betting that it’s a bad thing, and that now begins the official tawdry race to turn a populist movement into a “Re-Elect Yer Congressman” scheme.
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Whither, Dennis Kucinich?
He's trying to move to C'Addle.
How's the tooth, Dennis?
Also, what's the frequency, Kenneth?
Ask and ye shall receive, apparently.
If the story doesn't involve his wife, I can't imagine it is remotely interesting…
Bernie Sanders for President!
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How many states do you think we could qualify him in?
I wouldn't mind being one of his electors.
Unfortunately, this is far too logical to actually happen. Sadly we live in a world where Rick Perry is considered a credible candidate, and Bernie Sanders isn't.
Vermont needs to atone for giving us Coolidge.
He's a Socialist!!!!!
Yer god damn right he is!!!
But not a Kenyan Muslin one!
Probably carries the card, proudly.
Well, there is and election coming up. Simply wouldn't do to be seen supporting your former base.
You rock, Bernie.
I say we nominate only hippies from these protests for the next three election cycles. Smarmy douche bags like me have had our chance and clearly we have let it go all pear shaped.
I humbly and dutifully submit myself for said nomination(s) Vegetable rights and peace!!!
This is why I remain Bernie Sanders's bitch.
Again, if you want the politicians to take notice, you need to start showing up at their town meetings, waiving copies of the Constitution at them, demanding birth certificates, and calling them Communist. It is the only way. Oh, and it doesn't hurt to dress like a day player at Jamestown.
Heck, just figure out a way to blame Obama for everything, and you will lead FOX News and have the GOP backing you in seconds.
And be sure to bring a gun, also,
I really thought Nader would be on this very short list, but he's apparently too busy having a bitch fight with climate activist Bill McKinnon over who got to speak at the Keysands protest in front of the White House. http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2311-Ral...
I really want to like Nader because of all the righteous stands he's made over the last 45 years, but he can be such a unrepentant dick.
And a total fucking egomaniac. I'm torn on this, because, as you point out, without Nader, and his "righteous stands," we woud be a lot worse off today. But, see, it takes a monstrous ego to be a lawyer of his ilk, and it woud be surprising if he didn't have one.
I still hate it, though.
God, I just loathe Nader, what a smug cunt he is, to be sure.
But he helped W win!
I just about got thrown out of a San Francisco bar for saying pretty much the same thing in 2000, about a month before the election.
A drunk doofus at the bar said he voted for Sarah Palin, it was a knee-jerk reaction, I slapped him across the face. It was all quiet for a second, and then everyone started cheering.
True story.
Encore!
That is so, so great
Too be fair, Nader's entire life is one long bitch fight so it's par for the course
Ken, this would have been much a much more effective post if you had instead called it:
"You Know Who Else Was a National Politician That Embraced the Occupy Wall Street Protests?"
That's the job of The Commenters, c'mon ….
Yeah, we don't need Ken to be breaking our rice bowl.
Where did you learn that phrase? I haven't heard it since I was a kid.
I'm pretty sure I read it in the book "The Sand Pebbles."
Does this make you a job creator?
Mexicans get paid $50/hr to make "you know who else" cracks. You couldn't do it!
Not in Alabama, that's for sure.
You know who else passed off the dirty work to their commentators?
Marv Alpert?
Wouldn't that be "passed off work to their dirty commentator", viz NBC?
Michelle Malkin?
Richard Nixon?
Not Andrew Sullivan.
Roger Ailes + Rupert Murdoch?
None of them, Katie!
Huey Long?
But there wasn't a "who" to "else," owls.
There is always a "who" to "else". You're just not trying hard enough.
What, your patience?
Ha!
I bet Tom Hayden would have backed the protesters. If he had beat John Tunney and become a US senator, anyway.
I bet George McGovern actually does. But quietly and with dignified reserve.
Right Hayden should have beat Tunney but the ballot count was too long.
Wait, you mean maverick John McCain and loose cannon Rand Paul haven't embraced the people exercising their will over oppressive corporations? I'd call them, but I'm not sure which pocket the banks put them in.
All of them, Katie?
Can't we libtards come together and take over one other state or two, beside Vermont? Because in case anyone hasn't noticed, we are losing.
Too fucking cold.
The white heat of righteous indignation goes a long way.
yea, towards lighting this blunt. I speak German; I can bluff my way to Europe when the Tea Party is through trashing this place
I tried that 15 years ago and moved from PA to AZ. Obviously, it didn't work out so well…and now I'm stuck in this teatard hell!
My sympathies–I spent three years in AZ before I had to bail, unfortunately leaving my boyfriend behind. But it was worth it: http://www.ca.gov/HomeFamily/MovingToCA.html
I think I deleted 6 email requests for money from ObamaAmerica today and recycled 4 reg. mail requests yesterday. When he shows up for the hippies and the cheeseheads (and all other union folks) then maybe I'll consider forking over some dough. One of the highlights of his campaign was when he stood up for the people working at the door/window(?) manufacturing plant in Chicago. I thought that's what we were getting.
I just sent him $25. It's not much, but it's more than I would spend on a dress for President Christie's inaugural ball.
That's IF he decideds to go as Christie's date.
I've done the same.
You know what, I'd rather have him IN the fucking WH, figuring out how to deal with the next load of shit the lunatics on the right are about to fling at us.
I agree completely and I will definately vote for him and probably donate money at a later date. But, speaking as someone who spent a lot of time and effort working on his campaign in 2008, I'm having trouble getting enthusiastic at this time.
I know. I worked so hard for him myself, and have spent most of the last two years feeling distinctly unenthusiastic. It's just that he's the best we've got. I'll try not to be so aggressive about it.
Ditto. And in a state that will NOT be reelecting this President, because they didn't vote for him the First time, thank you very much, it is extra hard to regain any enthusiasm for election work. Sigh.
You need another list Ken. Members of the "Liberal Media" who have reported on this.
NPR itself may suck, but Warren Olney gave a good report on To The Point today (on KCRW here in LA–if you're not a local here's the podcast link: http://feeds.kcrw.com/kcrw/tp
Keith Olberman, but then again he is the liberal media, the rest are corporate shills
Tax each financial transaction.
I see what you did there.
How about Sherrod Brown? He's a Maddow regular after all.
Who's Maddow?
Have the organizers of the Occupy Wall Street protests put anything out yet that specifically or even generally discusses their complaints or demands?
I want to support them, but I'm not sure what they're calling for yet except that they thing Wall Street has done some bad things….which they have. But what is the goal of the protest?
I think it's pretty clear: The people who've been fucked over in this 30-year process of fucking over the poor and the working class and the middle class and the upper middle class and the lower upper class are all tired of getting fucked over, and the Fuckers are based on Wall Street.
What would be the point of a *list of demands*? Who would you even give such a list to? Obama? Boehner?
As people gather and see their numbers and realize their potential power, there's a chance something big could happen. Otherwise, if History can be trusted at all, it will be swept under the rug again, until things get a little bit worse, and this process will repeat until it's too big to sweep under the rug, and then the potholed streets become raging rivers of blood, probably.
"It's a Great Day in Wonkette Land."
Thank you. I'm getting just about fed up with all this "it's so unorganized" complaint. This protest in particular is teaching what truly successful protests are, instead of the sponsored events put together for little else than to cynically build email lists that they then sell to corporate candidates. The beauty of this thing is that truly grassroots nature of it.
You want a central message? Go complain about it to FreedomWorks; they fund plenty of "grassroots" meassages.
My issue is that when they DO get airtime, they tend to talk about the society they're forming. The council(s), the food distribution, the drum circles, etc. TALK ABOUT THE GODDAMN WALL STREET PEOPLE WHOSE GREED HELPED TO DROP US INTO THIS MESS. (Along with some assholes who deregulated and made it possible for the greedy bastards to rob all the rest of us.)
Occupy Wall Street and keep repeating the message that Wall Street sucks, that they love deregulation because it let's them do stupid, stupid things, then they want government back to bail their useless asses out. It's nice that a society is setting up, but keep pounding on the issue(s).
I'm sure part of the problem is that many of the interviews are edited to support the premise that they have no organization/demands/ideas.
Here is a link to their website. http://www.occupytogether.org
shorter protest: 2011 america sucks.
Honestly, I think specific complaints and demands are overrated; don't get me wrong, they have their place, and if we were looking for another Madison, where there's one single enormous glaring thing to protest, that's exactly what you'd want to articulate, but on the other hand, it's not as though being an inchoate mob that was long on noise and emotion and extremely short on details and goals actually hurt the teabaggers when it came to getting noticed, at least for the year or two it took to put a stable of far-right politicians in congress.
The major differences, other than being a pack of liberals, are that it's actually a genuinely grassroots assemblage, and that the underlying driving emotion is "there are no jobs and we're being crushed under loan debt, while congress is trying to figure out how best to dispossess us from the social safety net", as opposed to, "there are liberals and black people running the government, and that makes us angry".
Honestly, I think at least part of the media problem, beyond the media being its usual shitty self, is that too much of the left blogosphere is busying wringing its hands over the aimlessness of the whole thing, instead of shouting from the rooftops that it Means Something Important Clearly That These Everyday People Are Standing Up And Forming A Movement, which is probably a pretty familiar turn of phrase, if you paid any attention to any political reporting from the past 2 1/2 years.
Clearly, it is designed as an exercise for the police, so that they can learn how to operate pepper spray on non-rioting individuals.
"I want to see the birth certificate!" and "The government is taking away my freedom!!" isn't exactly one clear, sensible message.
This is why liberals lose. Your comment isn't stupid or out of line, but our reflexive need for claification, along with the underlying sense that we won't support something we agree with 100% FOREVER is one of the reasons we don't vote/support en masse.
Also, I do think it's pretty damn clear what they are trying to say and do. (And the drum circles, etc. drive me crazy, but whatevs.)
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.
They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one’s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. *
To the people of the world,
We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.
Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.
Join us and make your voices heard!
*These grievances are not all-inclusive.
Gracias.
Man, you need some page breaks or something in that wall of text, it's too hard to read in one sitting!
Huh, I kind of thought Ben Nelson would be on this list.
He and Baucus are huddling with their Goldman Sachs people.
We are ALL Vermonters today!
Add to List:
Kang
Damn! I already voted absentee for Kodos.
Give Bernie some love: https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/cont...
Send him a case of Shweddy Balls.
But I thought it was Barney Frank who liked the Schweddy Balls?
And some Wolaver’s Pale Ale!
I miss Paul Wellstone.
Damn right… exeunt Wellstone, enter Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Norm Coleman, that WI Supreme Court justice who choked the other WI Supreme Court justice, and of course T-Paw for today's brand of northern Midwest politicians. Jeebus.
Speaking of…why no Al Franken on this list?
This I believe: Paul is using his cosmic influence as we speak.
Hey, Alec Baldwin just gave a shout-out on the twitters. Does he count?
I am gay for Bernie Sanders.
I'm lookin at you, Tom Udall. You know you want to.
Ron Paul?
and yet baggers have their own fucking caucus.
Not to nitpick, but it's spelled, "koch-us."
Watchu' got against crocuses, Willis?
Need to get elected to have a caucus. We suck.
So do progressives. The House Progressive Caucus has been around for quite some time, too.
Whereas, with Michele Bachmann's blowout, the teabaggin' Caucus might not be long for this world.
Yeah, we have the Congressional Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus, but what use is it when Democratic presidents only listen to the Blue Dog Coalition? That's the difference between Dems and the GOP; the GOP actually listens to its base.
Not to earn my sobriquet of "nitpicker" yet again, but the Blue Dog Caucus currently lists 53 members, and the Progressive Caucus lists 82.
Also, the President is supposed to be the President of the entire country, not just Progressives, or RWNJs. Problem is, Republican presidents have generally acted like assholes. I don't think that emulating that behaviour is something I would want in a President. My politics are far to the left of most liberals and Democrats, and I know quite well that there are very few people who share my particular politics. I don't necessarily want everyone else to agree with me or think like me. I think majority rule makes a lot of sense, provided sufficient safeguards are implemented for the protection of minorities. I would rather have a President who treated all citizens fairly and carried out the will of the people (or the majority thereof) in compliance with Constitutional provisions.
I'm also not sure I agree with that last sentence. It would appear that the teabaggers constitute around 30% of those identifying as Republicans. And the GOP are definitely listening to that 30%, to the neglect of the remaining 70% of their electorate. Why that electorate nevertheless remains motivated to vote escapes me, but I'm happy to entertain any speculation on that issue.
Did you type this before I edited my post, because it currently doesn't mention anything about numbers. That there are more people in the progressive and black caucuses actually makes it even worse.
BTW, the very central point of my posts is that Obama is tilting at windmills and buying into the lie of "the center" of the spectrum if he thinks what Mark Penn and the faux-centrist punditocracy call "the center" is actually the center. I also take issue with a seeming equivalency you indirectly draw between the tea party caucus and the progressive caucus. One of these is slightly left of center, and one of these is so far too the it's damn-near fallen off the edge of the world.
Obama doesn't need to be an ideologue or march lock-step with this or that caucus, but he can start finding the real center, and it's a helluva lot closer to congressional Democrats than it is to what the faux-center says it is. This man is not being served well by his advisors, though, there are signs he's coming to the realization of what's about to happen if he doesn't start moving. I have a fear in the back of my mind that maybe it's already too late, but it wouldn't hurt to be safe and keep traveling around the diamond back to homeplate.
Remember how the media covered Bernie Sanders inspired, passioned speech on the Senate floor last year?
Ooh, ooh! I know the answer! It's "Not at all." Right? Huh?
p.s. Finally someone has enverbiated the noun, "passion"!
"What'd you do last night, man?"
"I got all fucked up and ended up passioning this chick I met at the bar."
Actually, you're wrong, you quite knowledgable, know-it-all birdbrain. I listened to large swaths of this obscure piece of American history on C-Span Radio. I guess they had to broadcast it, begrudgingly, I'm sure. Mrs. Radio, to this day, has to sit on a towel whenever she refers to this arcane delight.
p.s. I wondered about said action, but there was no red underlying by the Apple monopoly, so I figured it was good. Sue me, sue Apple, sue that chick you passioned (BTW, no red underline there either), sue everybody.
Abrazos y bezos.
How can I get enverbiated?
Slightly OT, but I'm in shock. I just saw the first television coverage of Occupy Wall Street. It wasn't real American television of course, it was the BBC on the socialist PBS. And former NY Governor David Paterson was there – just to check it out, he said, but maybe his name should be added to this list.
He wanted to see for himself what was happening?
You just couldn't help yourself, could you.
You're just jealous that you didn't think of it first.
Well, . . .yeah.
Paterson heard there were hippies there, thought he could score some weed.
I sent that rumpled little fart a check all the way from Georgia to help his Senatorial Campaign. Best money I ever spent in my entire fucking life.
Bernie Sanders: America's rumpled little fart.
Oh, you're such a closet Progressive, ttommy!
Rumpled little fart = the best thing I've read in a while.
That Bernie Sanders is nuts… does he think people will appreciate support of… um… people.
Jesus, this IS just hippie teabaggery. If y'all actually want to get something done, instead of just enjoying some urban camping for a few weeks, you need to focus on, I dunno, some actual demands. The reason the teabaggers went from sideshow to influential is because they were coopted by a bunch of Republican astroturfers, with a very clear agenda (eat the poors). This Occupy whatever is just going to be more G-8 protester idiocy until you sell out to the Democrats. I'd start with backing Obama's tax increases on rich people; that's actually a good idea.
Try this: http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occ...
The way I see it is "protesting the concentration of wealth and power". Works for me.
Disappointed to see that Jim McGovern (D-MA) is not on the list. Not cool, man.
Paul Wellstone was on NPR this morning endorsing it. He was fired up! I can't verify this, it was kinda early.
I'll give money to my boyfriend Bernie twice since my district gives everybody the Dick Shelby. I did read that the hipsters down in Southside are doing their thing by the fountain, so, HUZZAH Occupy Birmingham, AL!
I don't see Bernie Sanders on there…oh wait, nevermind.
Democrats might be merely sticking their wet index fingers into the air – except they can never seem to figure out which way the wind is blowing regardless.
But more likely, Democrats don't support the protests because most of them support Wall Street. It's quite simple. The Republicans, of course, just hate hippies – so they aren't even a factor.
Democrats (Billy I'm talking 'bout you) seem to be much better at getting blown than they are at determining which way the wind is blowing.
Ah, yes. Back when it was kitchen clean.
When the dog bites, when the bee stings,
when I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember that Bernie still sings,
and then I don't feel so bad.
Thither Kucinich!
Russ Feingold too.
The teabaggers are crying all over 'merica. Their grifter shit Queen just quit again. HAHA.
And, oh yeah, now we've got two, count 'em, two members of congress on our side. Woohoo.
FauxNews will likely can her ass before the end of the year also, too…It's gonna be a tought X-mas for the Grifter Klan.
I'm betting third will be Jim McDermott (Seattle). Ol' Baghdad Jim is always good for sticking out like a sore thumb. (And being unashamedly left left true left.)
I'm pretty sure some of my local politicians support Occupy Wall Street- Md State senators and delegates
Ken, this would have been much a much more effective post if you had instead called it:
"You Know Who Else Was a National Politician That Embraced the Occupy Wall Street Protests?"
Signed, Chuck Norris
That's our jerb, Radio!
Again. Ctrl C, Ctrl V.
Well, the assholes are smart enough to know which side of the dick they're sucking is buttered.
I am kind of hoping this doesn't become a popular political metaphor, as much as I'd like you to get rich off the T-shirts.
Huzzah, must be raining in Wasilla and she melted. AMF Lou Sarah.
One senator and one congressman, that’s all you get.
It’s in the Constipation!
According to the Great Orange Satan, "Politicians voicing support for the protests now include Raul Grijalva, Keith Ellison, John Larson, Louise Slaughter, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, Ron Paul, Jeff Merkley, Russ Feingold, and Bernie Sanders."
Ron Paul?!! Well, I suppose it sort of makes sense.
Typical Ron Paul. He makes sense about 1% of the time.
The Paultradz are out on #OWS all over the place. Also, teabaggers. Not sure whether to worry or LOL.
On a semi-related note, a lot of the Paultards actually also don't care much for the Koch brothers and were even condemning them on the Ron Paul forums before the liberal blogosphere was, albeit more for the wrong reasons than the right ones.
I think it's time for many progressives to finally face the fact that the Democratic Party is also a pro-capitalist party.
Of course it is. It was even back in FDR's time.
But it started drifting rightward under Jimmy Carter and has become more and more pro corporate capitalism ever since. Basically everyone buys into Uncle Milty Friedman's meme that since free societies require capitalism in some form the freest societies would only have capitalism as its sole organizing principal. No room there for things like minimum wages and enviro regs. Or democracy. Corporate fascism is still fascism.
And we all know Friedman would have loved to get some shared costs in he acquisition of rent boys. So, he suffered capitalism, too.
As their balls slowly descend…..
Wonkette needs to be faster on the updates. You got scooped by Reason's blog on the police clubbing protesters last night: http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/06/baton-wielding-...
Paging Al Franken. Paging Al Franken.
Fair's fair. Obama made some supportive comments today and Ben Bernake (!) did too just yesterday (Technically not a politician, but still).
Love you, Ms. Wonk. But I'm starting to think you're purposely leaving Gov. Buddy Roemer off the list. His open support has been all over the news this week. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65378.h...
Happy birthday, John Lennon.
Power to the people.
So this afternoon, I will get to the Occupy Dc -McPherson Square-however, I am personally really pissed at the people who tried to storm Air and Space to protest a missile exhibit. Do they think that every exhibit of history is glorifying that moment- maybe they will storm NMAH next? How about those who forget history are doomed to repeat itit?
And as someone who has protested from the time of the Vietnam War through US involvement in Central america, ERA, pro-choice rights, Iraq, Burma, the middle East, Sudan(in DC, there are so many opportunities to show up)-I would personally kick some Occupy DC kiddy butts if they try to storm my museum. I like the guards and officers I work with and I hope if some morons grab one of my guards, they get their asses kicked and go to jail.
Agents provocateurs, dood. Remember, we had them back in the days when WE were marching and protesting everything.
They're bragging about it, openly.
OMG!
These assholes take my breath away!
Reposted from the last thread as my bowser (yea – IE8 is a dog) does not open this blog on the home page and I only found it at the bottom of the previous post.
Don't like BoA, or the attitude of banks in general? Do this.
Go to their ATM machine with a debit card which is from an institution which is part of one of the ATM networks which they belong. Withdraw $100, $200 or so from the ATM. Go inside and ask them to exchange the $20 bills for $50 bills/ Often, as happened to me at BoA and a few other banks, they will ask you if you have an account and when I have said no they refused to exchange the money.
They are, after all, a friggin' Federal Reserve Member Bank, and when instructed that they are, they will make a lame comment about 'We need the large bills for our regular clients.' Mumble something about money laundering and leave quietly.
Now, go to https://www.federalreserveconsumerhelp.gov/compla... and file a complaint. In the past it generated an inquiry which brought a politely worded letter from the President of a smaller bank which assured me that they were apologetic, do wha, do wha, do wha and their tellers would be instructed to exchange my currency and they would advise their tellers of the proper bank policy.
Sounds like a nice, guerilla protest, Mr. Curley. Thank you.
Maybe it's too local, but add the Seattle City Attorney (Whose job it is to prosecute the arrested protesters!) to the list. Also my hippy State Senator, who's always trying to legalize weed, was at the protest yesterday, too.
In other news, Alan Grayson is my new president, and douche bags will now be known as "P.J. O'Rourkes"
P.J. O'Rourke needed to preface his bongo dig with "I do not have the facts to support me… "
But, I cannot blame him for being a jerk. After Jann Wenner came out, the secret circle jerks ended. Now, who is going to Double Dutch Rudder with P.J. and keep it a secret? That would make me angry too.
You know, you could always lend a ha … er, help out. Just sayin'.
Thanks for that.
I love the way Grayson, ( who I heart, BTW), was too dead serious to smile at PJ's condescension. (Even while Maher laughed nervously.)
That 81 year old fart, Rangel, would know about being "confused."
Meanwhile, that asshole Cain is at it again:
Republican presidential contender Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who "play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else’s” Cadillac. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-cain-o...
No, moron, I don't want anyone's Cadillac: I'll settle for a job that pays a living wage and a roof over my head. If that amounts to playing the victim card, then today we are all victims…
I was raised in an era when I was told that the n*****rs in Harlem wanted to " 'play the victim card' and want to 'take somebody else’s' Cadillac" this guy is Uncle Tom's Uncle Tom.
Does that make him a tom-tom?
Also: Barbara Boxer, where are you?
You know, that's a very good question. Which I have just sent her an email to ask, as I assume you have also. Too.
So proud of my representative, Louise Slaughter! She's a tough broad who says it like it is.
When the actual revolution comes, I hope no elected official supports it. Up against the wall, all of them!
Kinda like Schindlers list, eh?
Man, I sure wish I could vote for Bernie over and over again.
Never mind the polits: Suze Orman is on board! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suze-orman/occupy-w...
WOW, the pols actually expressing sympathy for their employers being screwed for decades on end – & to think, it only took them a bit more than three weeks (of hoping like hell there'd be an early cold-snap in NYC/they'd give up & go home before the media boycott broke down)!
Sudden mass outbreak of spinal formation = re-/election campaigns imminent.
Hey, what about Keith Ellison? http://minnesotaindependent.com/89296/ellison-exp...
Bernie is the best! I'd move to Vermont, if I could.
Nancy was the most productive speaker congress ever had!
Russ rocks!
Keith, John & most of the others who support occupy movement get it.
We are the 99% & we aren't going away!
You go to war with the "you know who else…?" joke that you have…
Of course. It's a Chinese phrase, and I haven't heard it since, good god, 40 years ago, or thereabouts.
Everything old is new again.
I guess! The world is shrinking in a strange and wonderful way. Just reading that phrase brought back all these memories, an intense rush of pictures of a different place and time. Like a little journey to a different place, different language, smells, tastes, sights. Sigh.
Just from the time-stamps, it looks like I posted after your edits.
I'm not drawing any equivalency between teabaggers and the progressive caucus. As I pointed out, my politics are much to the left of even the progressive caucus. And I've thought the teabaggers were nutters since they first showed up.
I don't know if he's being misled or aiming for a Penn-esque "center." I do know that he's been put in the intolerable position of having a lying bunch of blowhards use the Mighty Wurlitzer of the Pox Noise Machine to distort everything he says and does, and he has responded by taking their own previously professed positions in what I think is a very clever attempt to outflank and circumvent them. I think this is a matter of strategy. Clearly you and I do not agree on the tactics used, or to be used, but politically, we're closer to each other on the spectrum than to, for example, either Penn or the teabaggage.
I would point to the President's fundraising as evidence that it's not too late, if anything, that he is capitalizing perfectly on the rising crest of rage that has simmered since his election. I think this is brilliant long-term strategy, and he is slowly shifting to the left, having showed up the right as utterly morally and strategically bankrupt.
So far, most of his donations have come from individuals, and the man has raised easily four to six times what the top fundraiser on the Republican side has raised. As a person who has worked in the corporate world for a long time, I know quite well that people are far more cautious about handing out their money than professing support. If the electorate is as disappointed in the President as the media assure us it is, I'd really like them to explain how and why the President manages to pull in more in a single quarter than ALL his Republican opponents COMBINED.
Joe Kein says, "Pistols at dawn, ruffian".
Oh, like *any*body even listens to Joke Line any more.
He's such a dreadful little scab, isn't he?
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