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:
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:
https://twitter.com/#!/IMAO_/status/125230406772604928
https://twitter.com/#!/IMAO_/status/125235175360692224
https://twitter.com/#!/IMAO_/status/125232539815247872
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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:
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.
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The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) “protest” is entering its 4th week, and apparently the occupiers are beginning to really, really stink.

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Aside from the valuable lesson that is hopefully starting to sink in about the truth of the “welfare state” to the post-collegiate idealists who are there (they aren’t really thrilled with the increasing numbers of do-nothings who are showing up with their hands out and no willingness to do any work), I have a feeling they are about to get broad-sided by the reality of the scope of human greed.
Last week, I published a relatively light-hearted little blog post that I sent out to family and friends. It was inspired by a comment made by a friend of a friend of a friend on a Facebook post. I was simply poking fun at the commenter (whose identity I will never know) and those well-meaning souls who want to do “SOMETHING” to help a cause, even though they don’t know what “the cause” really is.
And I included some snarky remarks about a little protest that had inspired the comment. At the time, it really was a nothing little protest; had it not been for the advent of the social media, the protest would have died out by last weekend and that would have been the end of things.
What were event planners thinking? This could be the Great Chicago Fire all over again:
When Chicago is lying in a pile of ashes next May, everyone remember that Rahm ASKED Obama to steer these events Chicago’s way after they lost their Olympics bid:
June 23, 2011 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — World leaders are gathering in Chicago next year for two international summits. Both the NATO and the G8 summits will be held in May.**
Well, it finally happened – I had to set a commenter straight. I’m not happy about having to do it, but apparently some people’s lessons in manners didn’t take the first time. So here is a copy of the e-mail that one lucky reader got in their e-mail inbox this evening:
I have tolerated your remarks up until now on my blog. Despite the fact that you never seem to have learned that you do not go into someone else’s house and pee on their carpet, I was willing to let your lack of manners slide.
I have had enough.
So the New York Times puts up a really cute picture of a sassy little bird:
It’s got that certain je ne sais quoi , no? I don’t know about you, but when I saw it, I laughed and smiled, because That.Bird.Has.Attitude. It’s sweet. It’s funny.
It’s playful and – dare I say it? – sexy.