Occupy Wall Street – The Democrats’ Electoral Albatross

"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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In the Blink of an Eye

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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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Occupy Wall Street – When the 99% becomes the 1%

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.

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They’ve created a monster…..

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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A Tale of Two Occupations

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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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The 1% – they’re everywhere!

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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The spam is getting waaaaaaayyy too smart….

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:

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The Brains behind “Airhead Autumn”

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.

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Occupy Wall Street – What Happens to the Money that’s being Donated?

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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.

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People Who Live in Intellectual Pup Tents REALLY Shouldn’t Taunt the Bears….

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.

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