I’ve never seen The Andromeda Strain, but I gather the plot revolves around a deadly and highly contagious virus from another planet that’s been let loose on earth. Contemplating the hysteria that has greeted the Occupy Wall Street protests, I begin to wonder if a less deadly but no less contagious virus hasn’t been let loose among the left-liberal commentariat. The virus — call it the OWS virus — doesn’t kill, it merely mentally maims its victims. The chief symptom is a certain childish senility fueled by unassailable sensations of grandiosity. I minuted some yesterday in “The 99-Percent Solution.” The pièce de la résistance of that opus was doubtless the comment emitted by Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for The New York Times, that there’s a deep filiation between the spoiled children making a nuisance of themselves in Zuccotti Park and the events in Tahrir Square, Cairo, last winter. And Tahrir Square was only the first droplet in Mr. Kimmelman’s incontinent drivel. “Kent State, Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall,” he gushes:
We clearly use locales, edifices, architecture to house our memories and political energy. Politics troubles our consciences. But places haunt our imaginations.
So we check in on Facebook and Twitter, but make pilgrimages to Antietam, Auschwitz and to the Acropolis, to gaze at rubble from the days of Pericles and Aristotle.
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Embarrassing, isn’t it? But it seems almost tame in comparison to a Talk of the Town item in this week’s New Yorker called “Wall Street Postcard Preoccupied.” It’s by one Lizzie Widdicombe. I rarely see The New Yorker these days, so I do not know if Dizzy Lizzie is a regular staffer or a recruit from a new experiment in surrealism undertaken by the magazine. Or maybe it’s that mentally incapacitating virus I mentioned. I don’t know. But there has to be some extraordinary explanation for statements like this:
Visiting the site of Occupy Wall Stret last week . . . was a bit like visiting a civilization at its peak. Paris in the twenties [!], Rome in the second century [!!], or, at the very least, Timbuktu in the fifteen hundreds [what the hell is she talking about?]. . . . The ongoing search for the movement’s purpose still turned up diverse, though not unrelated, sources of outrage: income inequality, corporate influence in government, student debt [student debt? Whose fault is that?]. People handed out anti-fracking flyers…
From one perspective, this spectacle of febrile mental paralysis is simply sad: The New York Times, The New Yorker: they’ve always listed left, but not always looney left. What a falling off there’s been!
I find your comments concerning the Wall Street protestors to have “a certain childish senility.”
One of the residents of the area in commenting on the protest summed it up better than any I’ve seen:
“The protesters taunt people who are on their way to work,”
If there is a theme, that seems to be it.
Occupy Wall Street is the Left wing Moonbats and Democrats at prayer. They are all there the Green NAZI luddites, the antisemitic moonbats and Mohammedans the Poofs and Lesbians the Moral Equivalence spout Multi Culturalists all of them in one big stinking heap.
These people need to get a shower and a job! Nothing but traitors and commies wallowing in their own filth. Disgusting
I was curious about the person who could write the following with a straight face: “we clearly use locales, edifices, architecture to house our memories and political energy. Politics troubles our consciences. But places haunt our imaginations.”
Aren’t all edifices architecture and vice versa? And why does politics trouble his conscience? What has he done?
Turns out that Mr. Kimmel, according to his page in Wikipedia, “. . . was born and raised in Greenwich Village, the son of a physician and civil rights activist. He attended Friends Seminary in Manhattan, graduated summa cum laude from Yale College and received his graduate degree in art history from Harvard University.”
Can you imagine that? Summa cum laude from Yale.
“Visiting the site of Occupy Wall Street last week . . . was a bit like Visiting Day at the Gomorrah Central Asylum for the Absurdly Insane; like The Gaza Strip on April 20, Tenochtitlan on a Human Sacrifice Holiday, Gnaschgnarrlh the Merciful’s Birthday Celebrations in the Sultanate of Dismailia. . . . The ongoing search for the movement’s purpose still turned up diverse, though not unrelated, sources of outrage…the Rich, the SuperRich, the Filthy Rich, the Obscenely Rich, corporate influences, corporate profits, corporate personhood, corporate capitalism, corporations, student debt, credit card debt, mortgage debt, debt. People handed out anti-fracking flyers, anti-tobacco flyers, anti-french fry flyers, anti-meat flyers, anti-Sarsaparilla flyers, anti-AIDS flyers, anti-negativism flyers, anti-flyer flyers.”
ROFLOL!!! Gnaschgnarllh the Merciful’s Birthday Party!!! Oh happy day. No wonder they are so pre-occupied.
No, Roger; it’s nothing as rational and cunning as encouraging surrogates (the occupiers) to put pressure, unaware of so doing, on Republicans in Congress. No, is smells much more like the unhgappy flatulernce of the middle-aged, remembering Woodstock, flower-power, all that easy dropping-out, tuning-in, turning-on, and screwing, in a good cause (!), and even approved by adults, none of whom over thirty was — by her own admission — to be trusted.
I agree with Roger. Except to suspect that the White House was always behind this, in tandem with their Leninist allies. It is not just the middle-aged, but the lasting power of the counter-culture, that has been a feature of American culture since the early days of the 20th century. I wrote about the populist element here: http://clarespark.com/2011/10/10/populist-catharsis-on-wall-street/. Republicans and their ilk are surely the targets of this anticapitalist carnival.
My latest blog post on these clowns:
Occupy Wall Street – When the 99% Become the 1%:
Hate to disagree with you but what lessons? Hell they have the Prez, VP, minority leader and the whole left in DC on their side; they have money from Soros, Ben&Jerry’s, and other wealthy leftists coming in; they have the media on their side offering praise and sainthood to them all, and now professors in colleges offering higher grades if student participate.
No they are learning just the opposite: communism, thugism, socialism (and whinning) are better than what they currently have in America and are the future for them if they continue the fight.
LORDS OF THE FLIES
That is what these #OWS encampments are turning into. The longer they stay, the more things will deteriorate. It’s like a bizarre inverted “siege.” These folks may think they’re doing the “besieging,” but they’re acting more like the besieged, and will soon start eating each other metaphorically.
Popcorn, anyone?
I like mine with butter…
>>LORDS OF THE FLIES
Mobtards.
A few of the more honest left-wingers have said why Obama is supporting these protesters:
It’s the good cop/bad cop scenario.
FDR had used the specter of the rising power of the Communist Party USA to frighten Americans (especially Republicans) into supporting his political program as the more “moderate” alternative to the Communists. And for years later, that was how liberals foisted their programs on the nation: If you don’t accept our peaceful sensible reforms, then the radicals and the violent will grow in strength.
Obama wants to use these protesters the same way: “I’m the only “moderate” one who is standing between Wall Street and these protesters who would destroy them all.”
But there are a couple of good counters to the good cop bad cop scenario.
One of them is to provoke the bad cop into becoming even worse. In this case, if we could provoke the OWS protesters into actually rioting, that would turn the tables on Obama. He would then either have to side with violence or else he would have to condemn the protest. Either way, he loses.
Sorry,sinz54 but your history is faulty. That is not the way I remember FDR or the fifth column and Richard Nixon vs Alger Hiss. There are enough old magazines available to give a better picture of those days. Too bad but our country has been robbed of her history by these thieves
It’s a stark illustration of the mental gap between the political class (including the over-stuff MSM gasbags you alluded to) and the normal people. While the former wax poetic and appear at times to become orgasmic at the smiley-faced BS their own delusions have pasted over the OWS freakshow, the local residents and working people who have to LIVE with the disruption, unsanitariness, threats, noise, etc, are going absolutely nuts. These two groups are looking at the same thing and seeing something totally different from the other. But then, you can pretty much say the same thing about much of what has occurred since Obama took office. Perhaps the man causes hallucinations in people that are prone to them, like the media.
Actually, the polls I have seen say that the majority of New Yorkers are supportive of OWS. It will be interesting to see if this changes before the weather gets nasty and the kids pack it in. What the Mayor needs is some really cold nighttime temperatures along with freezing rain. Hope it comes before the police are goaded into getting the truncheons out.
“Timbuktu in the fifteen hundreds” was Lizzie’s multi-cultural inclusion for “civilization at its peak” Actually an insult to Timbuktu to be compared to Paris in the 1920′s and OWS, but, never mind. She assumes readers of The New Yorker know that Timbuktu briefly thrived as a center of both trade and learning, fuelled by enormous gold from east Africa until their leader decided to drop off big chunks of gold on two pilgrimages to Mecca, and then the Europeans went to sea to bypass the Sahara altogether.
The New Yorker is a shadow of it’s self under Hertzberg, but still a once-in-a-while weekly slice of stimulation that I have yet to replace since 1978. Far easier to stop reading the NYT.
I enjoyed Lizzie’s view of the silly-to-stupid anarchy at Zucotti Park because she reported on the street scene, which is sometimes what Talk of the Town is supposed to be about, and it prevented Hertzberg from using TotTown as his Israel-bashing opinion page.
and, Ryan Lizza still does great reporting on the political scene…
The whole OWS demonstration affair is a desperate, bottom-of the barrel strategy of the Ayers/ACORN wing of the Social Democrats to generate a pseudo-spontainious swelling of a new grass-roots support for Obama, who has dropped all pretense of compromise and is reverting to his red-diaper ideological platitudes.
It is OWS all right. The same old, same Old Wobbly Socialism of the IWW, the same Old Witless Socialism of the WTO riots, the Same Old World Socialism of the “student” riots in France and Greece. They trade on the truth that there is something the matter with your mind if you aren’t a socialist at 20. They are mosh pits of testerone-charged kids, eager to have themselves photographed suffering “police brutality”, funded by Soros, organized and staged by ACORN community organizers, old communist pros. It is a phony, hopeless, “Hail Marx” last resort that will lose them farmmore votes than it gains. Conservatives should simply ignore them, like the MSM ignored the T Party.
Soros-turf!
When the rabble finally clear out will the Sanitation Department go in with hazmat suits like a meth lab?
Someone should tell these OWS loosers that Greed and Envy are kissing cousins.
Exactamundo!
Roger, how is the occupy2011 virus different from the hopenchange2008 virus? Or is it simply a mutation?
The perfect “Occupy” pledge:
I don’t wanna be a slave, because I want to join a bunch of crust punks, hippies and hipsters and repeat everything that they say. I want to express my individuality through collectivity and liberate myself through regulation. I don’t need to understand everything, because a bunch of radical professors will think for me. I believe in freedom of speech, unless Anonymous wants to hack a person’s computer for holding the wrong opinions. I am not afraid of letting people know who I am, so I will wear a Guy Fawkes mask because I saw it in some movie. I hate racism and xenophobia and anyone who disagrees is a redneck or a Jew. I am an original thinker, since everything I post on Tumblr is reblogged from someone else. My vocabulary is better than yours, even though I use the phrase “Epic Fail” 100 times a day. I am the 99%, because everyone else says so.
You sound like you are a very, very old man bitching about those whippersnappers on your lawn. Are you?
no… but I’m happy that my nick misdirects so well.
Didn’t sound that way to me. Sounded like The Great Unwashed Whippersnappers looking down on the Truly Wicked to me.
These OWS hippies are one bad drunken dope induced night away from burning part of the city. Some one should drop off a truck load of cheap mescal and a case of bic lighters
And the best part is, once this movement explodes into 1968-style riots (or fades away with the first hard freeze, take your pick), all of these clowns pundits will forget they ever supported this riff-raff. And they will get away with it.
Down the memory hole…
Journalism has slid into a sad pass, where scepticism and digging for facts, have been replaced by the lazy, bylined opinion piece and what easier than to pop out for some human interest and cheap nostalgia for the 60s as they never were. Advocacy? Well if you’re green and want the government to “do something” you whip up some outrage, or if you want to stop something wind up offence against some right undreamed of by previous generations. BBC on the Parliament Square happy campers has thrown their news crews to opine. The UK MSM newspapers all have sympathy pieces. The mechanics of survival – production, trade, innovation, investment in the future have somehow become unacceptable to those who trade in ideas. This is a crisis of Western intellectual thought.
Just to be clear, you people obviously despise the OWS protestors, which I take to mean that you are siding with the Wall Street bankers and the super-rich people whose money distorts our political process, tipping the playing field to favor the rich and the powerful while the other 99% of the population slides into poverty.
Given that every single person posting here is in the “bottom 99%” and is being systematically raped by the corporations and special interests that dominate America, it is baffling to me why you harbor such hatred for those who are trying to help you and such love for those who are trying to hurt you. This seems pathological to me. Since it doesn’t make a lick of sense, something else must be going on here.
Why do you all side with your corporate oppressors against yourselves and your families? Do you even know?
“Super-rich people whose money distorts our political process”, you mean like George Soros?
Most of us here don’t feel like we are being systematically raped, Bernard. And I don’t want to be helped. I can take care of myself, thank you very much.
You fellows keep trotting out George Soros and the Ben & Jerry guys.
Is that all you have in your arsenal? Where should we BEGIN the endless list of “malefactors of great wealth” (Theo. Roosevelt) who put their golden thumbs on the scale of liberty and democracy?
do you make an income greater than $53,000?
welcome to the global 1%
Global 1%? GLOBAL?? That includes the billions of humans who have NOTHING on this Earth? The ultra rich with their TRILLIONS of dollars of untaxed wealth must be even more fabulously filthy rich to skew the planet-wide income up to the $50,000 mark.
So what you’re really saying, behind all the make-myself-feel-good verbiage, is that you haven’t a clue about how normal people view the spoiled tantrums of your fellow know-nothing whiners, eh?
“Corporate oppressors?”
Bernard, here’s the thing, bud. There’s a better than 99% chance that corporations manufactured, transported, and sold the clothes you wear and the food you eat. And that computer or iPhone that you hold so dear, the same. So how’s that “systematic rape” working for you? Quit railing against “corporations.” At best, it just makes you look silly.
P.S.: your mother wants you to clean up your room.
“Corporate oppressors?”
Bud, There’s a better than 99% chance that underpaid, uninsured, non-unionized workers manufactured, transported, and sold the clothes you wear and the food you eat. And that computer or iPhone that you hold so dear, the same. Quit railing against the 99%. At best, it just makes you look silly.
Bernard, we do not despise the protesters, we feel sorry for them as they are being used by some very evil people. You use the words “corporate oppressors” like a good little student of your leftist, communist professors. Study some history. Most oppressors are governments. Millions of people have been killed by oppressive regimes all over the world. Our present regime would like to follow in their footsteps, but first they must get you (a dupe) to do their dirty work. By the way, North Korea is thrilled with what you are doing to our country.
Useful idiots. When they grow up they’ll be embarrassed by their behavior.
We do not despise the corporate apologists, we feel sorry for them as they are being used by some very evil people. You use phrases like “whining hippies” like a good little student of your neo-con, Ayn Rand quoting professors. Study some history. Most oppressors are governments, and the Twentieth Century has been the story of the rise of huge International Corporations and Banks that write government policy and pay for the elections of the legislators and presidents who exempt them from taxation and regulation. Millions of people have been killed in the pursuit of larger profits all over the world. The small minority of people who actually own The Republic would like to follow in their footsteps, but first they must get you (a dupe) to do their dirty work, ie: demonize any tiny minority that raises its voice against “things as they are”. By the way, the Koch Brothers are thrilled with what you are doing to their bottom line.
Your argument is interesting. Incorrect and based on incorrect assumptions (the proper response is “mu”), but interesting. Like most progressives you throw up one obvious extreme as a straw man, than accuse the TEA party and the posters of – since they don’t want your extreme – desiring the other extreme. In reality, of course, most conservatives see the balanced middle as the best and most stable way. Just enough government to get the job done, but not so much as to facilitate tyranny. Large businesses are essential to manufacture goods and provide services, but they need to be properly kept in check, both by government and by the competitive market place. Nobody here is applauding the excesses of certain large businesses, and yes some CEO’s probably need to be in prison. But that does not mean that the entire capitalist structure should be torn down and some Utopian socialist structure put in its place.
In reality, we’re not being “raped by the corporations” any more or less that anyone in history. Our government, however, is becoming another story.
I don’t know about anyone else but the reason I do it is cuz I signed a pact with the Devil.
Why be baffled Bernie? Didn’t comrade Marx explain it all? We be confounded by ze false consciousness and besides, like Jane said, we signed on with the devil. You see unlike you, we are haters and doers of evil. Bwa ha ha ha ha. Seriously, get your head out of the place where the sun don’t shine. At the very least, read Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Steyn’s After America and chew on those for a while. Perhaps a few of your straw men can be truly beaten.
Bernard, did you knit the computer or mobile phone you are using to post comments? Pretty awesome! I bet everything you wear and eat was organically grown in your backyard because, you sir, are a moral anti-corporatist. Well done my friend. I however lack the skills and time and money to make my own computer, clothes and food (and tv, soap, anti-depressants, gasoline etc). When enough of us know how to make all the things we currently get from the evil corporations (fairly inexpensively) we can stop giving those nasty corporations all those profits derived from the free choice we make by buying their awesome and useful products. Until then, the evil corporations are providing many of my needs which is more than I can say about the government. If you need a little perspective vacation, I suggest visiting places were people have a reason to complain such as the Sudan, North Korea, or Iran.
One thing is sure! Every infant, no matter how adorable or charming, eventually throws a temper tantrum! These occupiers will eventually get so frustrated, especially, goaded by union thugs, that they will smash windows, turn over and burn random cars and loot local stores.
Remember when Bush was president and there were anti-Bush/anti-war demonstrations on the Mall? These are the same guys!
“Why do you all side with your corporate oppressors against yourselves and your families? Do you even know?”
We DON’T. We just have other means of addressing the issue.
I personally see very little difference between the objectives of the Tea Party and the Objecdtives of the OWS crowd. A huge chasam between the means.
Same destination, different road maps. Both are anti-establishment. The two protests need to get together. The OWS would benefit from the civility of the Tea Party, the Tea Party would benefit from the energy of OWS.
Protest movements are as American as Apple Pie (which is actually German but lets not go there). Most of the time, they are co-opted by the establishment. I suspect that will happen to OWS. Teabaggers in New York need to organize in support of OWS. That would throw a spanner in the works!
Don’t worry about our energy. Our energy will manifest itself on November 5, 2012 like you have never seen before.
It’s clear you’re a lefty trying to turn a losing effort around. The Tea Party movement has no reason to ally with a bunch of loonies pretending to be for something or other (they still can’t tell you exactly what that is). We will continue to grow and prevail, while your OWS will disappear just as the Coffee Party, No Labels, and all your other attempts to pretend that you have real grass-roots support did and always will.
the fact that the ows refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming role of government in the destruction of our country is not a small detail to be ironed out later but the key point that will forever mark the distinction between ows and the tea party
You destroyed your argument with one word: Teabaggers
The whole scenario looks like it was staged out of a bad HAIR musical with elements of every 60′s cliche that was ever uttered between woodstock and the gas shortages of 1973 it seems the end of the Vietnam war and the beginning of carters admin the movement matured and moved on to the making a buck.
Will these foolish OWS people mature and move on to making a buck or will they just stay stuck in the 60′s?
From the looks of it this will just peter out come the first really bad winter snowfall. Notice you don’t hear about an OWS movement much in Hawaii or Alaska.
All Beauticians, all grocery store clerks, all men and women who pump gas, all Dishwashers, all soldiers below E10, all Cashiers, all Bank Clerks, all Janitors, all School Bus drivers, all chain restaurant cooks, waiters and waitresses and bussers, all good enough to work hard, harder than any fat writer or tanned and trim banker, all good enough to spend their money in America, all good enough to raise their children to be good soldiers, firefighters, and policemen; but they don’t make enough money to pay taxes. They can’t, because not everyone can be at 50,000 and above. They then are the true heroes of American, the ones you and your cronies call losers.
America is a free country Roger, you are free to leave. Why don’t you? Because you make a great living knocking Americans, just like the democrats you supposedly despise.
“all soldiers below E10”
Wow…20 years in the military, and I have never met an E-10. What do you call an E-10? Sooper-Dooper-Sergeant-Colonel?
By the way, the rest of your rant makes no sense. Many of the professions you mention are made up of hard-working people not looking for a free handout or for another class to be punished on their behalf.
Stop deigning to speak for the rest of us. I may not be in the despised 1%–but I sure as hell don’t identify with Socialist, anti-capitalist dumbasses like you. You do NOT represent 99% of Americans. Most of us actually have to, you know, pay taxes, live within our means and do without. Try it sometime.
–Proud 53%er.
I am an E-4 and I pay taxes. Soldiers are specifically of the Army, so an E-9 would be a Command Sergeant Major, who makes enough money to pay taxes.
Wait until next year—when OWS marches on Charlotte! Just keep reminding the Occupiers who got the most money from Wall in 2008. Then—”Die Fahne hoch! Die Reihe fest geschlossen!”
I’ve never seen The Andromeda Strain, but I gather the plot revolves around a deadly and highly contagious virus from another planet that’s been let loose on earth
Actually, the virus was contained – and the struggle was to keep it that way, especially after it started eating the seals in the containment facility. In that particular facility, the ultimate safeguard was a nuclear self-destruct device that the heroes had to race against when they finely discovered the virus’ weakness. Hopefully we don’t have to use the same measures against the OWS outbreak!
The virus was NOT contained: it escaped but mutated into a form not immediately lethal which a nuclear burst would’ve made lethal.
Dramatis Personae
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Here are some more choice excerpts from Kimmleman’s NYTimes piece:
“…..a 46-year-old unemployed actor and carpenter”
—-> (can’t find a job in either field?)
“…..A few hundred people with ponchos and sleeping bags have put it on the map.” —–>(Eww, the stench!)
“…..a 33-year-old adjunct professor of theater and speech at City University of New York.”
—->(“adjunct” in academia is equivalent to “defunct”….i.e. can’t get a full-time appointment).
“…..A soft-spoken 21-year-old organic farmer from Vermont.”
—->(wonder if he/she has ever read “A La Recherche du Temps Perdu”)
“…..a 23-year-old sound engineer and composer.”—-> (never heard of him)
“…..The protesters’ diversity, at least during the day, is intrinsic to the protest’s resilience.”
—->(anything with the word “diversity” in it should be viewed with a high degree of suspicion)
“…..And it was obvious to me watching the crowd coalesce over several days that consensus emerges urbanistically, meaning that the demonstrators, who have devised their own form of leaderless governance to keep the peace, find unity in community.”
—->(This musta been taken directly from “The Greening of America).
“…..The protesters’ diversity, at least during the day, is intrinsic to the protest’s resilience.”
—->(anything with the word “diversity” in it should be viewed with a high degree of suspicion)
It’s very diversity is a tribute to it’s not only lacking leaders, but being proud of the fact. If the group ever gets leaders and a platform all the hangers on who show up to pretend to be virtuous preaching about their pet cause will drift away. Worse, such a leadership might expect (gasp!) sacrifices and concerted action, not at all the identity affirmation exercise for which the majority showed up.
Adjunct professors are not equivalent to being defunct. They teach a large percentage of university classes and have all the same credentials as tenure-track professors. They deserve more respect.
Love the comparison to Timbuktu. Theocratic dictatorship running a slave economy without public water or sewage facilities. Main source of income slavery and raiding “the 1%” and their cross Saharan caravans.
Best comment of the thread.
The “falling off” is really nothing more than the aging and death of more reasonable people. The old guard is (mostly) gone. Their children are running the show now…and it shows. They are spoiled and have never been ‘corrected’ in their lives. Reality is about to deliver them their first spanking I think.
Getting sick of the layabouts, try this: Guaranteed to send them running back to their basements… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoAsiefmGjs
I observed a satellite protest in Edmonton last weekend, and much of what I observed confirms the reports of Roger and others. As I watched I pondered how nice it must be to be half-educated (despite attending university); it let’s one have all the fun of camping while imagining oneself to be virtuous.
http://strategyandsurvival.blogspot.com/2011/10/observing-occupy-wall-street-protest.html
“studnet loans”? “a lare slice”? “emanating Zucotti Park”? The typos should be fixed before you publish.
And then Jesus said, “What’s this shit I’m hearing about a human sacrifice!? What are we, a bunch of goddamn Neanderthals!!?”
And his disciples responded, “Umm, Neander what?”
Occupiers having some controversies, capitalist style…
They want $lice of the occu-pie
In my view, high ranking expressions of support for OWS (et al.) come out of desperation and a desire for some kind of force in opposition to the whacking…the shellacking…democrats took in November 2010.
Fake protestors, straw enemies, false praise all in the name of theft. ‘Let’s steal as much as we can and then get out’.
This is the same track as “fast and furious”: create a fake story line and run with it and use it to take away God given rights.
Should it surprise anyone the left is promoting nutbaggery? Does is seem insane and demonic? That’s what it takes nowadays to do the devils bidding.
Soon they will cover their ears and rush in to bite their perceived enemies.
The OWS protesters exist on a flawed premise: the definition of “greed”. They define it as “wanting more than you need”, which is highly subjective, especially when they appoint themselves the arbiters of what constitutes a “need”. By their reasoning, you could be accused of greed for wanting a slice of bread and a dry spot in a cave.
The true definition of greed is “seeking the unearned”, which can just as easily be applied to a dishonest businessman who cheats his customers as it can to a welfare mooch who lays claim to the rightful property of others.
But of course, leftists couldn’t possibly accept the true definition of greed! If they did, they would suddenly become aware of how greedy they are themselves.
I do indeed think this narcissistic viral strain is contageous. Now it’s even been passed on to cars and appliances. http://www.michellesmirror.com/2011/10/pows-cows-dows-and-rows-wow.html
No wonder this group is called the Ow-ies.
Former Soviet citizen in dust up with OWS protesters (must see to appreciate the level of ignorance of some Americans)…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMV0TR3pGzg
The OWS virus can be cured with a initial application of CS gas followed by large quantities (introduced at high pressure) of a surfactant laden water stream.
In the many voices babbling about “The 1%,” I heard “Pigs bellying up to the trough.” How apropos. Especially if you think of the 99% as the chickens chased away from the trough crowing “Kill the pig!”
They never think that the pig is being raised for slaughter, just like they are.
Who owns the trough?
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