The Ocupados celebrated early this morning as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg unceremoniously tweeted that the owners of Zuccotti Park decided for mysterious undisclosed reasons (fear) to postpone for now their plan to “clean up” (billionaire-speak for “evict, using police force”) the space at 7 a.m. Thousands of the uppity peasant-folk flooded the site overnight to lock arms and resist the planned eviction, and although the coppers didn’t get to cold haul everybody off, they still managed to have their fun beating up some of the protesters and running over them with scooters, just to SHOW THEM, TAKE THAT, FILTHY HIPPIES (who are now cleaning the park on their own).
Maaaaybe Bloomberg is still shivering because he realized that the protesters will just keep following him around to his various rich-person places to breathe hippie germs in his direction all day long?
From the Daily Mail:
Protesters last night surrounded Cipriani restaurant in Manhattan as the Mayor was at dinner in an effort to hand him a petition with 310,000 signatures supporting their right to remain in Zuccotti Park.
Their anger was triggered by the Mayor’s endorsement of a planned clean-up of the ‘unsanitary’ Occupy Wall Street encampment which was postponed at the last minute today.
The city’s deputy mayor made the announcement after protesters, who viewed the clean-up as an ‘eviction notice’, streamed into the plaza this morning.
There was a strong police presence, and a showdown between protesters and authorities had been feared.
Hours earlier, the mayor had refused to leave the restaurant, instead making his exit out of a back door.
Ha ha, he had to leave out the back door, like the common help.
Also, a less heartwarming update: peaceful Occupy Denver protesters camping in front of the Colorado Capitol were treated to an overnight raid by cops in riot gear who arrested a number of them and trashed their tents. According to the Denver Post, State Patrol Chief James Wolfinbarger told protesters to go home “so people can come back tomorrow and continue,” which is why the park has now been closed indefinitely by executive order.
And our latest favorite new picture from OWS yesterday, via Twitpic:
Makes sense. We always knew in our hearts that Rush Limbaugh hates decent people and adorable veterans. [Gothamist/Daily Mail/Denver Post]
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Hahaha, Bloomberg, you prick.
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But I'd say he's a bit smarter than that last prick who held that office, ol' whatshisname 9u11iani.
Damning with faint praise, huh? A smart prig is still a prig.
Hours earlier, the mayor had refused to leave the restaurant, instead making his exit out of a back door.
Must. Resist…Ah fuckit.
You know who else used the back door?
That's right…
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Kortneys vegetables?
Ed Koch?
Allegedly.
Rick Perry?
Allegedly.
Willie Dixon? Howlin' Wolf? (I'll leave Jim Morrison for someone else).
you men eat your dinner. eat your
pork andhobo beans. Bloomberg's more chicken than any man ever seen.Lucky husbands on their birthdays?
You have more than one husband?
If that is a rule, would you please send me a copy of the statute?
Maybe you're just not that lucky, Chet.
Rush during his latest "trip" to the Dominican?
Wait, you telling me that Rush tripped and fell into a Dominican?
Sinead O'Connor?
Marcus Bachmann. Duh.
Santorum? He said, dripping with irony.
Santorum and dripping are two words best not being part of the same sentence (or 2 sentences).
Those Dutch gals, occasionally, who stick their fingers in dykes?
Fecal Boy?
Marlon Brando? (In Last Tango in Paris, if not before)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
I just watched 'Inside Job' the other nite. He came off as one of the honest guys. So maybe that whole 'rape-y' thing was just a midlife crisis phase?
Unfortunately not. A friend of mine is a journalist with Le Monde, and another is a highly placed French civil servant with Socialist Party leanings. They both tell me that it has been for decades standard advice to women who might end up working with Strauss-Kahn that they shouldn't let themselves end up in a room alone with him if they can avoid it. Try to meet in rooms with windows opening to larger occupied offices. Etc.
DSK is unfortunately one of those people whose political actions are commendable, but whose personal lives are despicable.
Alpha dogs act like dogs.
Le sigh — pretty much what I expected…
Even if it was consensual, the fact remains that he felt the help was there to get handsy (and anally) with.
Senator Dave 'Diaperman' Vitter?
Ernst Rohm?
Me – when I want some sweet anal!
Since Senor Flagass didn't already mention it, I'll say Jim Morrison.
Ron Jeremy?
It looks like I picked a bad time to invest in pepper spray manufactures.
Truncheons, son, that's the future.
Amalgamated Truncheons & Jackboots Ltd. is gonna let me retire on the Riviera.
These protests have suddenly become THE news story, thanks to RedState, Breitbart, Limbaugh and Malkin.
Sun rises, Rush makes an ass of himself. Consistency is the key.
Tide goes in, tide goes out — you can't explain it.
It's the gravitational pull of Rush's fat ass. Gah!
Friend of mine spent the day at Zucotti yesterday. Some of his observations:
"Yesterday was clearly "hygiene day." It seems that Mayor Bloomberg and the park's owners (A Real Estate holding company) decided that the Park was dirty and had to be professionally cleaned. Total bullshit. The occupiers are cleaning the park continually. I almost died laughing when I saw this dreaded dude polishing a metal trash can with a spray bottle, scrub brush and towel. THIS ONE PARTICULAR CITY BLOCK IS CLEANER THAN ALMOST ANY OTHER CITY BLOCK IN TOWN."
"It would seem that if the mayor is concerned about health and hygiene issues down there he might send down a few port-o-cans. There are ZERO….NADA…ZILCH….anywhere. The protesters (and beer infused visitors like me) have to rely on the generosity of the neighborhood businesses. There is a McDonald's close by that is getting quite a bit of use….me twice!. Other businesses have also opened their doors to the protesters and by first hand account these facilities are also being kept very clean. I've been in a lot worse bathrooms at rock shows."
Thanks to your friend, and you for the relay, Baldar.
I wonder when our media will take note, and stop their 'dirty hippies theme"?
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As soon as they can come up with another tired meme.
Also:
"First of all…the protesters ARE NOT actually occupying Wall Street. It's close but the park is actually adjacent to the World Trade Center….walking distance down to Wall Street. The first thing I noticed when I crossed the street and entered Zucotti Park was the scent of patchouli.
The people are indeed a total mix although the true "occupiers" are the younger crowd. They are intelligent, considerate, well-spoken. I saw no drinking, drug use or wanton sex. (This was probably the most disappointing part for me ) There were veterans, hard hats, guys in suits, tourists, lots of senior citizens down with the young-uns, tons of folks with video cams. Many people had lost jobs, some had lost homes.
Maybe this is the "change" the president referred to in the last campaign?"
(My bud is 58, BTW).
NOOOO patchouli!!
Oh and-
"I saw no drinking, drug use or wanton sex. (This was probably the most disappointing part for me )" rocks!
So there was "regular" sex, just not "wanton" sex? Help me out here…
Clearly a typo. Zucotti Park is too far from Chinatown to get wonton sex.
I see. So it's about as close to Wall Street as that goddamned Ground Zero Mosque is to Ground Zero, then? And we all know how uppity the 'tards get over that one.
Rush said they were dirty hippies and factchecking is icky. Miller Time!
It's pretty clean down there. no rats, as someone mentioned. People have been always sweeping… a note on this Real Estate Holding Company: the City's role is to protect public health and safety, to enforce the law, and guarantee the rights of all New Yorkers. Brookfield believes they can work out an arrangement with the protesters that will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use…
A) They are Canadians. Not New Yorkers. It is a company founded in Canada, run from Canada, for and by the Queen's Royal Subjects- the very same Queen we once Teapartied against.
B) Our Billionaire Stock-breaking Mayor's Billionaire Stock-breaking girlfriend is on the board of directors. Also on the board, some guy named Zuccotti. And some Canadians.
"…clean-up of the ‘unsanitary’ Occupy Wall Street encampment…"
How is it actually any more "unsanitary" than it will be when half of the population is homeless and this country is like The Book of Eli?
closed indefinitely by executive order
We will miss our Democracy…
Hey Rush, (ha ha "Rush"… the guy can barely walk)
FUCK OFF!
Seriously, that old timer could probably still kick his ass or unzip his considerable guts.
Hey! Who wants to start a Google bomb campaign to start calling him Waddle instead?
Waddle Limbaugh does have a good ring to it…
No no, "Waddle" isn't nearly accurate enough. I much prefer "Bloated Poopsack."
Anal Cyst
Perhaps we should try and do wah ditty do with Limbaugh what was done with santorum. Since Rush dodged the draft because of a boil on his ass how about:
Limbaugh n. a painful carbuncle on the buttocks of the body politic usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by oral infection, most commonly by radio transmission to the brains of the intellectually-challenged.
I am up for this. Really. I google him every chance I got if we could get a good new definition for a Limbaugh.
Some crewcut CNBC limey sissy-boy was on "Morning Joe" talking about how the Great Unwashed were threatening to move on Wall Street and were stopped only a few hundred yards away, praise Jeebus. He made it sound like the Battle of Stalingrad. What pussies these Riches are!
I can see where the candyass was going with it after all it is Red October… unless one's a Boston Red Sox fan.
And you know who else was stopped only a few hundred yards from Stalingrad?
Moose and Squirrel?
No snark – that photo of the WWII vet just made me all verklempt. I love this country.
I bet he wonders what country he woke up in.
…and what country he fought for.
Remember that the WW2 vets alive today were the youngest of them. They grew up during the Depression, saw their parents scrimp and save and the family go without. They know exactly WHY Roosevelt implemented the New Deal and why we have a social safety net and why richer people pay more taxes than poor people. They were in school when WW2 started and when the US finally joined the Allies. Many were drafted before they graduated or left school to join. They understand about being poor, doing your part to help people you don't know, and how there are things we shouldn't let happen again.
(My Dad joined the Army at 16, after most of the boys in the class above him died in the Battle of the Bulge months before they would have graduated from high school. The above is what I hear from Dad and his surviving contemporaries.)
A lot of them were also from lefty com-symp families (another product of the depression) and have always been wary of the robber barons.
Yes, their wasn't a lot of the America First offspring rushing down to the local induction office.
Right at this moment, Goldman execs are desperately trying to find a good buy on a Predator Drone on Ebay….
Lloyd Blankfein isn't tall, but I think he'll need a regular man-sized escape plane.
Russell Simmions has offered to pay for the clean up. What nice guy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/occupy-w...
Take that back door mayor.
From The Gothamist:
"The protesters' refusal to vacate doesn't have so much to do with the cleaning as with the new rules that police will implement on behalf of Brookfield after the cleaning—no sleeping bags, tarps, or other large personal possessions will be allowed, and sleeping on the ground and benches will be prohibited."
Well. Gotta hand it to the media: contrary to their implied headlines, the brouha had less to do with cleaning than cleansing. Media trogloditas plus occupation disgraced = mock-upados.
And thank heavens the NYPD is willing to act as security guards for the Wall Street property owners. Otherwise, they'd have to spend some of their own money to hire private security guards.
Apparently up until now you had not been aware of why organized societies have police forces. The more you know!
Hmm, yeah. It's the conflict of interest which is interesting. The police force is being commanded by the husband of one of the property owners. And the occupiers are evidently in one of those public spaces created by developers in exchange for zoning considerations.
Ed Koch?
Let me make a prediction: by this time next week Mitt Romney and the rest of the GOP circus performers will be saying THEY orchastrated OWS to help people vent their frustration with Obama.
First one that does goes to Florida for the Firing Squad.
Pfft. I'll bet the campaigns are fighting each other now to see who can get time on Faux Noise Sunday, especially if this planned world wide protest goes off as planned tomorrow.
Aw, poor billionaire Bloomberg, not being able to eat his ridiculously expensive meal with his friends in the overclass in peace, I just feel so bad for the twisted little pick.
Our olds walk behind push walkers to demonstrations where they protest Wall Street greed. Their olds ride $2300.00 electric scooters paid for by Medicare to demonstrations where they protest socialized medicine.
Our olds fought in WW2, Korea, and the Nam, and are derided with the rest of us as hippie peaceniks.
Their olds love war so much they got medical deferments for scraped knees and ass-cysts during Vietnam.
Ha ha, he had to leave out the back door, like the common help.
Well, as the English say, common is as common does.
Upstairs/downstairs: frontdoor/backdoor?
A guy who could most use a Hoveround… probably can't get one. He has "too much"… due to the house that he built after the war with his own 2 hands.
(He more than likely doesn't want one anyway)
Breitbart is now running a report that has Occupy Wall Street protesters demonstrating outside of a school scaring children.
Well, it is Jesus-ween season.
If there is anyone who knows all there is to know about scaring children, it is Andrew Breitbart.
In response to one Breitbartian who called for "a good Kent State beating," another said: I had just returned from Nam when that happened. I noticed the riots were very few after that. At the time I didn't fell sorry for those people. They had the Guard guys pretty well in peril. It's just too bad some Americans make other Americans shot them in order to stay safe. I can see this happening again, soon.
Also, those kids at Kent State got blood all over the Guard's nice clean bullets.
I volunteer Eric Cantor to clean out the johns. Turn him upside down and he would make a perfect toilet scrubber. Occupados forever!!!!
This morning Glenn Beck (and he's getting crazier since he's no longer restrained by FOX News, if you can imagine that) was praising the restraint of the NYPD — I guess 'cause only a few heads were bashed in instead of the full-on cop riot that could've happened?
The OWSers, on the other hand, were a violent unruly mob throwing bottles and cans at our loyal public servants in response to the "rumored" impending eviction from Zuccotti Park. As though when the owner of the property sends out a notice to everyone it's a rumor.
Anyway, that's how it's playing in the alternate reality — cops showed unusual restraint in the face of a bunch of violent progressive radical Soros-funded hippies freaking out over a rumor. Oh, and they're "a disgrace to the legacy of Martin Luther King," added civil rights pioneer Beck.
It is a testament to the restraint of the lefties that no one has beaten the living shit out of that anal cyst yet. Esp. over the MLK remark.
"I don't have the facts to back this up, but they want to drag you out of your house and kill you."
Well, Beck does channel MLK, or at least the dates of his speeches, you know…
This must becoming the new right wing meme. I saw a couple of Yahoo posters this AM state that it was only a matter of time before the OWS protesters turn to violence. Really?
Since when do bongo playing dirty hippies get all ragey?
The other developing rightwing meme is that OWS is hoping to have a few deaths inflicted by the police, because lefties want martyrs. If the cops don't oblige, the occupiers will probably kill a few of their own as a Reichstag Fire provocation.
I bet if that old vet went on Billo, O'Reilly would tell him to shut up!
"Cut his mike! And his IV drip!"
And the audience would scream "DIE!"
And call him a pinhead
And I'll bet the old vet could kick Billo's ass into next Tuesday with one hand still holding on to his walker.
Saxby Chambliss would question his patriotism.
We shall over eat! R.Limbaugh 2011
Since when do city parks have "owners?"
Since the political class realized it could grift by selling irreplaceable public resources to its friends, for freedom and Jesus.
When a for-profit Real Estate Investment Trust owns what is being called a "park," I suspect what is happening is that a property owner who is just sitting on a piece of land waiting for an opprtunity or just appreciation figured out that by dedicating it as a "park," perhaps even temporarily, would allow the avoidance of property taxes.
The park was one of several created during the Lindsey Administration adjacent to structures under construction or renovation. Lindsey usually gave the owners waivers on various zoning requirements in return for not covering the entire piece of property with building. Of those I remember, one on 42nd street and one at the location of the old Stork Club, the park or open space was to be preserved as long as the owner's adjacent building was there.
AS for property tax avoidance, few are as golden as the deal Rudy 9/11 Giuliani gave Goldman Sachs not to move out of NYC after they started a forty story office tower on the Jersey City Waterfront.
It's New York — everything is more complicated here.
It's private land (adjacent to a building built/owned by brookfield) that brookfield developed as a greenspace (probably as a condition of building the adjacent building). That happens all the time in NY and in many other cities. Lots of "public space" is not really public.
The Mormons bought all the streets and sidewalks around their Tabernacle in SLC so they could kick out the hippies. Everybody knows where the public square today is: at a mall owned by Thomas Friedman's wife. The free market will decide what speech is "free" and what speech you have to pay for.
hey, did anyone catch the last part of that announcement?
-guy in the back of the crowd
Rush's quote sounds like he's described himself. Projection isn't such a good thing if one is oblivious is it?
They don't need to clean it. Just sprinkle some petrulli oil around and everyone will be happy.
So, according to Rush Limpballs, trust funds kids are now useless no body's? Aren't those the ones he and other true conservatives want to give the tax breaks to? FOR THE JERBS!!!!
Aren't trust fund kids future Republiklan voters?
Shorter Rush Rant:
"Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o’clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife."
Luxury!
Even shorter Bloated Poopsack:
"I'm nothing like these patchouli-reeking fags. I pulled myself up by my bootstraps and worked DAMN HARD becoming the no-talent, festering infected butt boil I am today."
Something from Wik-uh-pedia about el Rushbo's humble upbringing:
"His family has many lawyers, including his grandfather, father and brother David. His uncle, Stephen N Limbaugh, Sr. is a Ronald Reagan-appointed federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. His cousin, Stephen N Limbaugh, Jr., is currently a judge in the same court, appointed by George W. Bush. Rush Limbaugh, Sr., Limbaugh's grandfather, was a Missouri prosecutor, judge, special commissioner, member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1930 until 1932, and longtime president of the Missouri Historical Society. The Federal Courthouse in Cape Girardeau is named for Limbaugh's grandfather."
Wow…and Rush became a radio hack. His family must be soooo proud.
Then he'd dance about on our graves, singing halleluia.
YOU were lucky!
After cleaning up the park they will build a few bookcases out of milk crates and a coffee table from an empty cable spool.
Maybe they'll go upscale and use cinder blocks instead of milk crates for the bookcases. Then they can use the crates for chairs.
Only if the cinder blocks can be "liberated" from the nearest construction site. Because, Freedom!
Hmm? Milk crates as chairs – very ‘Casino Royale.’
"Meaningless lives…they want to matter"
You mean like a useless tub of lard that has created nothing, inspired hatred, and lowers the IQ of an entire nation?
Sorry Rush, you are the definition of a meaningless life.
The Austin protest has dwindled to the point that they actually left City Hall last night for the exact same power washing excuse (though I don't doubt people were pissing on the building and there was chalk and trash all over the place) even though as most of you know we are facing catastrophic drought restrictions that specifically say "people may not wash sidewalks, driveways, parking areas, streets or other paved areas except to alleviate an immediate health or safety hazard." I hardly think litter and pee are a immediate helth or saftey hazard since 6th Street is very literally soaked in urine.
Four people were arrested, leaving a "spokesperson" for #occupyaustin to say “These are a bunch of guys who wanted to get arrested for silly things,” said Tom Friedley, who described himself as working as a pro bono multimedia coordinator at Occupy Austin. “They can stay in jail for all I care.” Solidarity, brother.
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen...
I will submit more after Saturday's march when I give this thing a fair shake but I don't think you'll like it much :-S I want to believe but I see a bunch of UT students hanging out and tanning at a makeshift quad at City Hall rather than an actual, legitimate protest like I see pictures of in New York. There's no civil disobedience whatsoever. The cops have been gracious, yes, but telling people the APD is protecting protesters from the Tea Party and arresting juvenile delinquents is supposed to be the job of a coordinated protest. The Paultards are gone from Thursday's official start of the protest, but I fear they'll show up again on saturday's march to the Texas State Capitol/Business HQ.
How's this going to end? Can the cops go in there and bash peoples heads in? Is it going to spark violence? I think this OWS is getting pretty big now. It can't be broken up without international condamnation can it?
(this comment is 100% snark free)
The pessimist in me says this is going to end badly. Very badly.
I am afraid that the government is going to start making noises about "Homeland Security, blah, blah…" and accuse the protesters with trumped-up "terrorist" charges. We're already going after US citizens with drones (no due process, CIA and military are judge, jury, and executioner). It's a very small slip down the slope to domestic anti-terrorist tactics.
The international community may condemn, but we don't seem to give a shit about international opinion, anymore.
Maybe someone showed Bloomie the final scene from "V for Vendetta".
You just know it's gonna happen one of these days.
(The hoards of people showing up, not the blowing up Big Ben part.)
I thought you meant Natalie Portman would shave her head.
Unless it's Ben Rothlesburger
The WWII vet makes me proud to be an American. He knows what he fought for (and against!).
Sam Adams (the patriot, not the beer):
In a state of tranquillity, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny. If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
proud to be an American
While I appreciate the sentiment, I'd argue with the wording. I feel lucky to be an American, with the priviledges and opportunies I'm afforded. But, I did nothing in particular to become American, so I can't take pride in it. It was no accomplishment of mine. If I was a foreign-born and had to work at becoming American, I suppose I could take pride in it. You probably don't mean in that way, but when many say they're "proud to be American" it reflects a smug sense of superiority over the rest of the world, which I find abhorrent.
Just my soap box.
Thanks for sharing, Nos.
I have no problem with what you say. I know that American Exceptionalism is a problem in the world today and I agree that any sense we have of superiority is wrong: I am not proud of what we have done to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the rest of the planet.
Perhaps it would be more correct to say that, seeing this gentleman come out and show solidarity with the OWS movement, he fills me with a sense of pride for him and those like him. He fought in a war where there was no doubt who the enemy was and what the purpose was.
If the opposite of pride is shame, then I am ashamed that we Americans continue to wage an imperialist war on multiple fronts and cannot seem to solve our problems at home.
Love,
proudgrampa
Yeah…you should be so proud. You know who ELSE was a WWII vet?
Hitler. That's who.
Yeah, but he's a fucking DEAD vet!!
There was a strong police presence, and a showdown between protesters and authorities had been
feareddesired by the authorities.Fixed.
I don't think that the Denver police were armed heavily enough; somebody might have poked one of them with a stick.
I thought police existed to protect private property. I guess the Poorz' belongings don't count.
Don't downplay the threat that the coppers faced. I heard that someone might have been running with scissors!
I bet that changes your perspective now, doesn't it?!
State Patrol Chief James Wolfinbarger is no Tony Baloney!
Keep on rockin' in the free park!
You know who ELSE decided unsanitary populations had to go?!
The Tidy Bowl man?
Betty Wright and the Clean-Up Woman?
Kimberly-Clark?
The Mayor of Sunnydale?
A man with a odd mustache?
Terminix?
My mom, when I didn't clean out the gerbil cage for two months?
Shirley Booth?
Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
Arise, you wretched of the earth!
And pick up that burrito wrapper over there!
I'd like to Fuck that Rush,with an umbrella and open it up inside him.
Eww, you'd probably invert him.
NYPD at its finest: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2011/10/14/wa...
That's what you get for being an — um — impartial observer from the Lawyer's Guild.
Oh, that's a good slideshow Foxnews– I like #4 where several officers are lovingly disrobing a young gentleman.
Wall Street protesters, police clash?
I must be missing something. Don't there have to be some pictures of protesters committing some kind of physical violence for it to be a proper "clash"?
Mmmmmm…. chicken and zucotti…..
Rush Limbaugh was awarded the Purple Cyst during the Vietnam era.
Billionaire chicken is tasty roasted over a trash can fire and you can steam the zucotti over the subway grates.
How do I vote this story up?
O/T but sorta related — another peaceful protest that's gone on longer and with less publicity has brought The Man to the table:
California Department of Corrections announced yesterday that a three-week hunger strike by more than 4,250 prison inmates has ended. Recognizing inmates’ anger over the “Security Housing Unit” policies which sometimes included 20 years of solitary confinement, officials agreed to meet with inmate representatives over the policies while noting that “all agreed the changes to policies would take several months to finalize.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/14/3439...
Send this into Wonkette tips. Seriously.
Limbaugh is a fucking turd.
Isn't it time now, for a general strike in solidarity with OWS? Just one day, a one-day general strike?
Did I just commit criminal syndicalism?
I'm taking a half day off in solidarity with coming in early for two days and missing lunch yesterday.
But, I do support OWS too.
I'm taking off early today in solidarity with my liquor cabinet.
Please keep to the stated rules-they generalize about us- we generalize about them
Besides, electric scooters = comedy gold!
I don't often take time to point out foolish consistencies but they *have* been generalizing about us (dirty hippie occupiers, etc.). And I myself have sometimes seized opportunities to pluck that low-hanging fruit and flay it, here. Anticipating this weekends' local Occupy thing could put me in company w/ some naysayers showing up, whom I'd rather not borrow their cheap stratagems in order to actually attempt dialogue w/ them. But yeah, eye for an eye, whatever puts the change in your pocket.
In real life, pull out the facts…on Wonkette, pull out the snark.
"making his exit out of a back door."
Better than coming in the back door, like most Repugnicants.
Rush should read this…but he won't:
The bum on the rods is hunted down
As the enemy of mankind
The other is driven around to his club
Is feted, wined and dined.
And they who curse the bum on the rods
As the essence of all that is bad,
Will greet the other with a winning smile,
And extend the hand so glad.
The bum on the rods is a social flea
Who gets an occasional bite,
The bum on the plush is a social leech,
blood sucking day and night.
The bum on the rod is a load so light
That his weight we scarcely feel,
But it takes the labor of dozen of men
To furnish the other a meal.
As long as you sanction the bum on the plush
The other will always be there,
But rid yourself of the bum on the plush
And the other will disappear.
Then make an intelligent, organized kick
Get rid of the weights that crush.
Don't worry about the bum on the rods,
Get rid of the bum on the plush.
These are not the "Band On The Run" lyrics I remember!!
Lol…sorry. "Bum on the Rods" by Frying Pan Jack
Scooters and Motorcycles for crowd control? Seems the "White Shirts" on NYPD have been sniffing their own Mace a little too much….That's what horses are for, dummies! Let's hope they don't figure that out……ooops!
Unfunny comment: with much love and repsect to Wonkette…..you DO know we New Yorkers and especially the types that are helping bost OWS numbers from bothersome but attention-grabbing to "movement" status actually love (not like, love) Bloomberg? You DO know this, right? Because it seems like Wonkette might actually be under the impression that Bloomberg has some illegitmate hold on NY politics. Ask any of us in these crowds our biggest beef with Bloomberg and it's not going to be about his wealth or Wall St. or how the city is reacting to OWS. We'll bitch about THE SNOW STORM GLITCH. But whatever. You gotta write strories…..
Yes, Limpballs, how dare those uppity protesters aspire to have lives that matter. The audacity of those people, thinking that they should be a part of an economic order that works for their benefit rather than Wall Streets.
Also–update from Cali: Occupy San Diego is feeling the heat: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/occ...
The real fear among the radical rich is that out of this oozing slime of a mob will emerge a few real leaders who will take the protests to a whole new level next spring. For now, it's time to start winding down before the cold and snow moves in to remind us that protesting is a warm-weather sport.
Their fear makes me all warm inside!
Agreed. I've seen more than one truck with a Vietnam Service Ribbon bumper sticker and a Tea Bagger related sticker on them. Usually the driver is sporting that flattop haircut that was fashionable in 70's era gym teachers.
And from http://www.amvalues.org/eod/?p=1072 Gary Bauer sums it all up:
The private company that owns Zuccotti Park backed down from its demand that the Wall Street protestors clear out so the park could be cleaned. And how did the protestors respond? Just as Iran or the jihadists in the Palestinian territories do — at the first sign of weakness they attack!
That's really cool how they're forming natural relay stations to relay information to the back of the crowd. At least that's what it looks to me.
They call it the "People's Mic" – they have to do this because they are not permitted to use bullhorns. Ironically, this method of communication is louder than a single bullhorn would be. And the park is not only not dirty, it's the only time in my 40 years that I've seen a drum circle and have not smelled marijuana. These kids are serious. It is brilliant.
Yeah. You want unsanitary conditions, go to Chinatown. (Awesome deals on watches and handbags, too!)
With designer names on them!
Vegetarian Dim Sum House – here I come!
And wonton sex!
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