When I was in 7th grade, my parents took me to see our High School’s performance of “Fiddler on the Roof”. They created a bit of a monster, I’m afraid; I’ve been a huge fan of musicals from that day forward. I’ve seen a lot of them since then – both onstage and onscreen – however, that particular play has remained one of my all-time favorites.
I’m dealing with some family stuff today, so I’ll just share this with you guys – DD#2 just sent it to me, and I thought it was pretty good:
She and I don’t always see eye-to-eye on politics, but we definitely share a similar sense of humor…. 😛
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"Instead of the cross, the albatross / About my neck was hung...."
Over the past couple of weeks there has been a sickening display of liberal politicians, news anchors, pundits, and D-List celebrities jumping in front of the camera and gushing about how wonderful this whole “Occupy” movement is, what brave people they are to be doing this, and what an inspiration these people are to “the rest of the country”.
The same liberal politicians and pundits who have downplayed the size and impact of the Tea Party movement over the past 2 years are now eager – nay, DESPERATE – to at last have their very own version of the Tea Party; so much so, that they have gone overboard in their gushing approval of these groups.
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It was 25 years ago today that our lives changed in the space of an instant. One second we were a couple, and the next we were a family. It still never ceases to amaze me how seamlessly that transition occurred, and how it felt like things had always been that way.
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When this whole “Occupy” movement started back on September 17th, the crew of kids down on Wall Street seemed like a harmless but well-meaning group of people. Yes, a lot of us poked gentle fun at them, but at the time, the original group was so small that nobody was really paying attention to what their core beliefs were.
After a month in the trenches, these kids who started out as wide-eyed idealists down with “the cause” are starting to get gobsmacked with lessons that they would most likely never have learned in classrooms filled with theoretical situations and simple, elegant solutions.
Not my real mother....
My 72-year-old mother just learned how to use the font and color settings on her e-mail – there’s going to be no stopping her now……
Here’s what she sent me today:
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Meet Edward Twitchell Hall III, 25 – he has sort of become the “face” of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement over the past week, thanks to an interview that he gave to the New Yorker magazine and an Internet video [warning: graphic language] that he and his friends made.
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Frankly, Mr. Hall, most of America has been watching in disgust as you and your friends wallow in filth just a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center memorial, insisting that your First Amendment rights take precedence over everyone else’s while demanding that you be allowed to continue acting this way indefinitely.
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Just wanted to put a face on “The 1%” for the kids of OWS to see. I’m sure they will attempt to “reach across the aisle” when they see that the 1% isn’t any different from them!
An industrialist (Click to enlarge):
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A lowly average citizen:
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Even a politician:
[h/t to Exurban League]
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I’m sure there are more – as I find them, I’ll add them!
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I got the following comment for approval on my blog, but I have my doubts that it’s a “real” comment. Judging from the e-mail address, those OccupyWallStreet kids have some really, really smart spam:
The Cover of Adbusters' Nov/Dec 2011 Issue - Umm, guys....doesn't a black crow symbolize "Death"?
I got lambasted in comments on a post that I did a couple of weeks ago for daring to suggest that “Occupy Wall Street” was anything other than a spontaneous grass-roots gathering (OWS wasn’t even the subject of the post). But everything that I had read about OWS said that a group called Adbusters first put out the word way back in July of this year, telling folks all about this little shindig.
I understood where the commenters were coming from – after all, the OWS website insisted that they were a ” leaderless resistance movement”, and all of the major media outlets and progressive blogs were parroting this claim.
The Fat Lady Has Sung
Koch's Tour 