US Military 1 — Occupy Movement 0
The “Occupy” movement claims to represent 99% of the people (hence their motto, “We Are the 99%”).
The US military stands for everything the Occupiers oppose; it is after all the force which imposes the evils of capitalism on the nation and the world.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if, as an experiment, we arranged to have the Occupy movement and the US military each hold events in the same city on the same day — and then see which one drew more visitors? If the Occupiers truly represented the 99%, and if the military really were the musclemen for the corporations, then it’d be no contest — right? And what if we even held the competition in the nation’s most left-leaning city, just to give the Occupiers home field advantage?
Well, we don’t have to imagine any of this, because it happened yesterday, in San Francisco. The “Occupy SF” protest group held yet another shindig in front of the Federal Reserve Bank on Market Street. And as luck would have it, San Francisco was at the same time hosting “Fleet Week,” an annual celebration of all things military and patriotic, including performances by the Blue Angels, the US Navy’s aerobatic team. Since the “Occupy SF” group was having a protest at the exact same moment as the Blue Angels show, this would be a perfect test case: Which is more popular?
It’s 2pm on Saturday, October 8, 2011: Let the showdown begin!
We start our duel at the Occupy SF encampment on Market Street, where the “greeter” stood stark naked with a sign welcoming visitors to the occupation.
Lest we ever forget how significant and popular they are, a row of Occupiers held up signs reminding everybody that they represent the views of 99% of Americans.
Important questions were asked — such as “My Mom has lupus…Why can’t she have an American dream?” Indeed. Powerful stuff.
Love and bloodshed,
Love and bloodshed,
Go together
until corporate greed’s dead.
This I tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Moms of America: If your daughter got sick, would you prefer that she visit a licensed physician, or instead curl up in agony with a shaved head and a sleeping kitten on a urine-soaked sidewalk in the “Occupy SF Infirmary”?
Wait — there’s a good way to be smelly? I’m so behind the times.
Only at a San Francisco protest could there be a freak so freaky that even the naked guy would look at him aghast.
As usual, the deep-seated fundamental schizophrenia of the “Occupy” movement was on full display: Half the protesters were of an anarchist bent who wanted to “decentralize everything”…
…while the other half had a communist bent, declaring “Marx was right” that we should have a state-controlled economy — in other words, the belief that we should “centralize everything.”
Centralize, decentralize — it’s all good!
The usual political remoras came along for the ride: Anonymous wannabes, whom I like to call “Wannanymous”…
…the so-far-right-that-they’re-far-left anti-Fed conspiracy theorists of Alex Jones’ Infowars…
…and, no, it simply couldn’t be — the last Coffee Party member in the country! I thought they went extinct!
Weirder still, standing right behind her was Barack Obama, half-heartedly disguised in an SF Giants cap, trying to see for himself what these Occupiers are all about.
Juxtaposition is powerful. It borders on exhibitionism, which is actually illegal in some contexts (disregarding sexual displays entirely).
but couldn’t at least some of the GI’s get their shirts off too?? after all, this is SF.
Too bad that some Marines couldn’t have gone jogging past in their PT shorts. Guaranteed that any red-blooded American woman wouldn’t look at the wussies quite the same way after.
heck yeah! I’d rather see some patriotic pecs!
Well Zombie, if you need more pics of these various Occupy Events, here’s a link to my gallery for the Denver event:
http://s354.photobucket.com/albums/r405/DodgerTalon/Denver%20Protest%2010-8-11/
With descriptive captions for most of them!
I’ll look into it. Thx.
Jet Noise!
The sound of freedom!
If you’ve never seen the blue angels back when they were flying F4 phantoms then you missed them at their best. The F4 is a way more impressive plane than the F18.
The F-4s were bigger and louder but the F-18s are far more maneuverable. They can do things that no Phantom could ever pull off. Love them both but the F-18 is a better airshow plane IMO.
I worked in San Diego about a mile from Miramar. The Angels would practice right over the office for about a week before SD’s Fleet Week. Swear to god, those guys would fly the F-18 through the arches at the local McDonalds.
Swear to god, those guys would fly the F-18 through the arches at the local McDonalds.
Oh, I bet they didn’t but they could!
Military jets flying through corporate symbols? No doubt flown by banksters to drop bombs on the poor! Oooooh freakin RAH! KILL
Ummm, only one of the people at the “Iraq Veterans Against the War” booth looks like he might be an actual Iraqi War veteran (two look too old, and two don’t appear to be able to meet physical standards). Did you ask about that?
No, sorry, I don’t speak to such people if I can avoid it.
A wise policy. A wise policy.
Englsh Bob:[discussing the assassination of President Garfield] Well there’s a dignity in royalty. A majesty that precludes the likelihood of assassination. If you were to point a pistol at a king or a queen your hands would shake as though palsied.
Barber: Oh I wouldn’t point no pistol at nobody sir.
English Bob: Well that’s a wise policy, as wise policy. But if you did. I can assure you, if you did, that the sight of royalty would cause you to dismiss all thoughts of bloodshed and you would stand… how shall I put it? In awe. Now, a president… well I mean…
[chuckles]
English Bob: why not shoot a president.
Awe didn’t do the Kaiser any good.
You’re thinking of the Austrian Grand Duke Ferdinand.
Little Bill Daggett to English Bob: You been talking about that Queen of yours, again, Bob?
[punches English Bob]
Little Bill Daggett: On Independence Day?
He shoulda armed hisself if he’s gonna decorate his bar with my friend
One thing the Occupy folks got right was to start up north in the Fall. Hang out there a few weeks, then move south for the Winter.
You mean to say they are a bunch of birdbrains?
Zombie, I have long enjoyed your posts highlighting the insanity of various protest groups. You are a true national treasure!
Maybe Nicholas Cage will make a movie about me!
Fantastic photo-essay! Thanks, from someone who misses SF Fleet Week.
In the 2nd fleet week photo, with the military guy with his arm around the civilian posing for a pic, it looks like the guy in the background (left side of pic) is holding a gun in his hand.
He’s not — I just looked at the hi-res original version of the photo, and he’s just holding a cell phone and a plastic bag in the same hand. The way he’s holding each with different fingers sort of makes it look like a gun, but it’s not.
Thanks for checking. It was hard to tell.
Question Authority – They Say You’re Supposed To.
Just for a kick, try asking anyone who idolizes the mantra “Question Authority”
if it ever occurs to them to “Question those who question authority”.
Watch for the brief but telling flash in their eyes at the moment they themselves realize that this thought has never really occured to them before”.
Try it, you’ll see exactly what I mean.
I like to say “Subvert the Dominant Paradigm.” That really gets them puzzled.
if you folks wanna see some more crazy shit check out these videos of pro-Israel advocates squaring off back in June with pro-palestinian leftist nut jobs like these here. plenty of action and drama in these videos:
http://proisraelctu.blogspot.com/2011/09/leftist-morons-pali-thugs-at-israel.html
In defense of the retro-hippies who roam our streets like mindless zombies in search of a free meal (sorry Zombie), I think they merely left off a decimal point. It should, of course, be: We are the 9.9%. As in, we are the 9.9% who should scare the ever-loving crap out of the remaining 90.1%.
I was in my local Lowe’s this afternoon to get furnace filters, but I forgot to check the lawn and garden section. Perhaps it carries some sort of spray that I could use on them.
Talk to Eric Cartman. He sprays hippies for a living. You don’t want a drum circle to get started, or you might end up with the dreaded … College Know-It-All Hippies!!!
I think you give them too much credit. I always put the decimal point where it belongs, making them .99% -ers.
SF has long been occupied by the clueless. The hipperati there are fond of saying that middle America begins east of Berkeley. Would bet a lot of the crowd came in from Walnut Creek, Tracy, Manteca and so on. Places where I remember seeing citizens of all hues mowing their lawns, washing their cars trucks and boats.
Any take on the racial makeup of the crowd? Lots of Hispanic, Black and Asian patriots in the AF.
Um….er….I came in from Walnut Creek. I work in SF but usually get out as fast as I can at the end of the day. Fleet week in SF always amuses me. Watching so many people get so excited for something that wouldn’t even exist if they had their way…..the American Military.
I have to admit, your caption for “Because I Can” guy had me really laughing.
To paraphrase JFK “Let not the so called 99% be asked what they are against let them tell us what they are FOR”. Negativity is easy but what do these incredibly misnamed 99%’ers stand for what do they offer as an ALTERNATIVE. The answer of course is NOTHING thay just want those that HAVE those who have achieved to GIVE to those who CANT BE BOTHERED.But then what hapens you ask them and these LUDDITES have absolutely no answer. The only money they know how to get is OTHER PEOPLES. The fact that Obambo and the Pelosi idiot stand with them tells you all you need to know about this corrupt, Racist, anti American REGIME.
“I didn’t actually go to the event just to see the Blue Angels”
They flew right over my house twice today, and I missed it (out of town). I just heard them over the phone.
Shucks.
It’s too bad that “Zombie” and “Pajamas Media” can’t also present the photographic evidence of the illegality and criminality of the monied elite oligarch banksters, transnational corporatists, and global capitalists in their secluded, privileged dens of iniquity wherever their lairs are located – receiving their “rake & take” in billions from The FED and the corrupt politicos, along with the all the other greedy gin-sters – those 1% who masterfully gin the system for themselves, their families, and their partners in crime, one of which is the American Enterprise Institute headed by Cheney and its members. Shocking is that too many of the 99% are ignorantly siding with the 1% against their own interests and access to their own money…what’s left of it.
Hey, Tommy, I’ve got an idea: Why don’t YOU create a report of your own and present the evidence?
Yes, you can put on your super-secret tinfoil hat and sneak into their privileged dens of iniquity — disguised as a busboy, perhaps? — and come back with the shocking EVIDENCE that some people are super rich and that some politicians are crooked! Gasp!
More interestingly, why don’t explain just exactly what you plan to do about what you perceive as a problem. So far, we haven’t heard a single non-ludicrous solution, and we here are smart enough to know that when people like you get the power to “fix things,” the resultant solution is vastly worse than the original problem.
There’s no such thing as a utopia. Any attempt to construct one creates a hell on earth. Allowing some people to get rich and allowing a natural stratification of society is a small “price” to pay for the freedom of a laissez-faire world.
More interestingly, why don’t explain just exactly what you plan to do about what you perceive as a problem.
Is that on topic when what we’re looking at is documentation of the utterly clueless? I have an interesting solution to all the world’s problems which is a bit too long to fit in this text box, but I’ll get back to you on it later.
Meanwhile I only wish we *could* do as TommyTinga suggests. And of course, with Photoshop and a fifth of scotch, we probably could put something together. Hey Tommy, did you see the Solyndra post by Zombie & Co a couple of weeks ago?
The truth of the matter – might not look so different, really. I like to hope so anyway, that the execs of these big and putrid institutions don’t really know what they’re doing much more than the OWS turkeys do. Meanwhile maybe someone can get BSM at work sampling and shredding some old Scrooge McDuck comics.
Those of us who support the Tea Parties are opposed to corporate bailouts and the like. We have that in common. However, the self-proclaimed “99%” group wants to take ever more of our income to give to themselves. Why would we possibly support a bunch of deadbeats and morons?
Evil corporations using the gubmint to rape the masses.
Solution: More gubmint.
You really can’t make this stuff up!
But if we get rid of gin, I’ll have to drink vodka martinis. No way, Jose!
“Shocking is that too many of the 99% are ignorantly siding with the 1% against their own interests and access to their own money…what’s left of it.”
Wait a second, are you going into an, “if-you’re-not-with-us-you’re-with-the-enemy” routine? That sounds eerily familiar. Just because someone questions the Occupy(TM) movement doesn’t mean they’re for corporate greed. You’d agree that subverting the dominant paradigm of the Occupy(TM) movement can be a good thing. Remember: “only the sith deal in absolutes.”
What really makes me laugh at all these protesters is that Europe, their Holy Grail for weak welfare states with an almost laughable military capacity, is in WORSE financial shape than we are. Think about that. Europe is everything these nutjobs want, and more, in terms of having almost no military and tons and tons of welfare services. Yet not only is Europe bust, but their welfare services are inefficient and filled with useless bureaucrats. And to show you how miserable Europe’s military services are, they could not even take down Gaddafi on their own, a tin-pot dictator that was oppossed by roughly half of his own people! Yes, that is what we should be aiming for, right? To be as broke and to have a military that is just as laughable as Greece.
I wonder if these protesters are just idiots, or are just funded by George Soros? Either way, they stink as bad as they look.
Just as well the attempt to gather a mob in SF resulted in only 100 or so freaks attending. When there’s more, conditions rapidly deteriorate:
Shame on Obama, Soros, Piven, SEIU, Acorn, DNC, Tides, et. al., for fomenting lawless mob activity
Every time I see Fleet Week celebrations, I get a bit jealous. I was on a carrier my entire six years in the navy, as a nuclear machinist mate. We weren’t allowed to pull into any cool places like New York or San Fran for any reason. Even during 9-11, the Roosevelt flew jets over New York, but legally, we had to remain outside of the harbor cause of our reactor. The best we could hope for was fleet week in Norfolk…which frankly, simply because everyone there is in the military in some shape or form…pretty much sucked.
Though here is a bit of a funny story involving annoying protestors….
We had some protestors at the front of the Portsmouth shipyard when my carrier was in there. About two dozen of them were protesting the Navy’s use of sonar and its effect on whales and dolphins and it had gone on for about two weeks. Why they chose the shipyard and not say the actual military base, I don’t know…but it was a poor decision. At the time, a sub was getting a new core put in. Well the shipyard doesn’t babysit the nuclear stuff…heck we (the navy) doesn’t do it. Just like we used to have a detachment of marines on the carrier to babysit the nuke bombs, the Jarheads watch the reactor components until we install them and then take ownership.
Ain’t nothing funnier than watching some annoying a-hole, who has been harassing sailors and shipyard workers all week, attempt to walk up to a marine guarding and walking with a truck as it slowly moves. They gave them one warning…then BOOM, butt of a rifle to the face. Then shipyard security got to pick them up and arrest them as the marines moved on.
Hell…had these idiots knew they were walking up to nuclear components, more of them may have shown up. Funny…never heard any of them complaining later in the press, I think because they were looking at serious time for messing with the shipyard if they didn’t just go away.
I remember while I was stationed at Cecil Field Florida which was a Master Jet base in the Jacksonville Florida area! When the Marines had to transport nuclear weapons from their base across the street to our base! These Marines do not fool around and will definitely shoot you dead if you do not obey their orders, if you want to see a lot of machine guns and other weapons then hang out when Marines are transporting a nuclear weapon!
did nuke security (lance missle/nato site, etc) as mp in army.
lucky they only got a butt. I would have used bullet.
Looking at the pictures of the protesters nationwide, I wonder why anyone would look to those people for answers to anything other than the trivial. The motto, “End Corporate Greed”, is mindless because the the clear implications to the premise would result in a dramatically reduced state of well being for the entire country and a significant portion of the world. How is it possible to ignore the extensive and abysmal 20th century economic track record of socialism/communism?
I live near Pensacola, Florida, the home of the Blue Angles, and so get to see them as many times a year as I wish. Without the crowds too since they hold 40-50 practice shows here a year.
And this just for the coffee lady:
“It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
For it is by the Beans of Java that the thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shakes,
The shakes become a warning.
It is by Caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.”
Naked man has nice pecks. Are they real?
Nah. Probably silicone implants.
They’re “real” because the guy is probably taking steroids.
Steroids abuse is pretty common nowadays among certain groups trying to get a “buff” body, but it also can have unfortunate side-effects, as the paltry number of pixels reveals.
(The post on zomblog about this essay contains the uncensored version of the pic, for the morbidly curious.)
“Military recruits are likely to experience…homelessness…during their enlistment.”
ummm….lol!
Zombie, you never fail to show me how I should be grateful that I left the Bay Area a couple decades ago. Now with passage of the “Dream Act” I don’t know how my brother, still living in Northern CA, will be able to support all the illegals and their demands on the taxpayers..CA’s dwindling resource.
Thanks again Zombie.
Keep ‘em coming.
Set up a paypal or other account if you need help covering expenses.
Zombie – Another great tour d’horizon of those lovable wackos in the Bay City area. I hope that the young woman in the “infirmary” was not too sick although I am sure that various strains of food poisoning must be having a field day with this crowd. (Kittens always make me feel better too.)
Unlike the Tea Party (hissss!) the media has finally found “A Protest Movement That We Can Love” and will be doing everything to put a halo around this movement for the foreseeable future. The message of the “Occupiers” isn’t as important as the fact that these people “look like protestors.” They are telegenic in a way the MSM understands with the “right” messages and wardrobes right our of Cental Costuming. Mark Steyn put his finger on the essential surrealism of this bunch when he pointed out that the occupires are “Anarchists for Big Government.” They want to be totally free yet have government do everything for them, starting with taking away from “the rich” and giving to them. The rest of us should stand back and see how this fundamental contradiction works itself out.
My Mom has lupus… Why can’t she have an American dream?
Because she has lupus. There is ineradicable evil in life. This is one of the many facts of life which are conservative.
It’s (almost) a shame, really. The 1960′s came and went but so many dedicated relics so wish they had time-machines. So much so, I think they’d prefer to re-start the Vietnam war for no other reason than the nostalgia of it.
And, rather than try to track down the kids they had during those heady times, they prefer to continue to tie-dye, smoke pot and rally against the man, man.
And time marches on…
So, what was going on at Haight/Ashbury this weekend?
Peace, man.
Wow, impressive article Zombie. So tell me, are you happy with the current condition that the world is in? Do you think that the way that the world operates is a good thing? How many people do you know that are out a job? or that work multiple shitty jobs they hate just to be able to afford to eat McDonalds and pay the rent? How many people do you know that have lost their homes? Is this your ideal living condition for the people of “the greatest country in the world”? The occupy movement is just asking that people that commit heinous crimes against humanity pay for what they’ve done. They want a better living condition for all people. When did anyone say that the movement opposed the military? You’ve presented a false competition with your article. The soldiers in the military are part of the 99%, you are part of the 99%, all of your readers are part of the 99%.
That’s true — we’re part of the 99% who think you have no idea what you’re talking about.
The high unemployment rate is entirely the fault of those same Marxist theorists who have both influenced government policy and brainwashed sad ignorant people like you.
Let me quote Winston Churchill for the occasion:
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
What “heinous crimes against humanity” did the wealthy commit? And how do you propose to punish them? Line them up against the wall, I presume, like every other disastrous revolution before.
Trust me, you’re better off that we merely mock you, because if we actually took you seriously and wasted five minutes explaining your ignorance, your numbers would drop from the 1% to the .1%.
The problem with this “wealthy committed heinous crimes against humanity” without actually naming names is that it’s fuzzy thinking. In reality, there are the wealthy, and there are the powerful, and while these groups overlap, each envies the other. The powerful want to become wealthy, the source of corruption, and the wealthy want to become powerful, the source of more corruption. The root of the corruption isn’t wealth or power, it’s envy.
I’d be completely happy with thing the way they’re supposed to be: the wealthy enjoy their wealth and leave the power structure alone, and the powerful observe their responsibility, and leave the wealthy alone, and simply govern.
But alas, the two groups envy each other, and want what the other has, while insisting on hanging on to what they have. This is not, btw, a problem unique to the US; it’s a worldwide phenomenon. One of the more notorious members of the wealthy who want power is the European George Soros (I refuse to consider him an American), but others from Immelt to Buffett to Bill Gates Sr. also want to trade money for power.
And these “99″ dweebs don’t seem to see that they’re dancing to Soros’ puppet strings. They’re too f****** stupid.
Of course the other problem with such fuzzy vilification of a vague other is the history of such populist rabblerousing. There’s a distinct stink of Weimar about this movement.
isn’t jealousy a real bitch?
everyone I know makes a hell of lot more money then do. I guess I should get them to subsidize me.
nah….cause pride is more of a bitch then jealousy is to me.
you’re a user and a taker.
CP, you seem to live in a bubble of your own creation. There is no utopia. Although it is an admirable goal to seek it and in so doing, minimize poverty, hunger and the lot, the record stands that there will always be poverty and hunger.
The corporations are not the problem. Over-meddling by the government, intent on making everything “equal” and “fair” is a fool’s errand. By your line of thinking, there should be only one kind of car, one style of house, and all our clothes would be the same. Not only dies this violate a basic tenet of human existence, but it is the wrong way to approach it.
It’s been tried, repeatedly over many centuries and has always been an abject failure. The bad things you cite were all the result of government interference in things that had previously operated just fine. But let me ask you, if you got a mortgage that you knew you couldn’t afford and at some later date your company downsized and/or your pay got lowered and you lost your house, who would you have to blame? The answer is, yourself. Even though the mechanisms were out of control, your parents, your educators and your own volition should’ve provided you with a method on how to avoid the foreclosure or how to accept it should it happen. Blame is a useless intoxicant. For while you’re busy blaming someone or something, the world continues to spin and meanwhile, you’re still homeless.
The banks had criteria, time-proven criteria about who they should and should not loan money to for a home. Minorities, you think, are hardest hit because they were “lied to” and “snookered” into mortgages they shouldn’t have taken. But the reality is that Dodd and Frank and others before them pressured banks to provide home loans to people who had no business having them. No track record of good credit, no significant income, and many variations thereof.
Indeed, there may be plenty of blame to go around but not the kind you’re thinking of. When things like this happen, and usually when it’s government-driven, the victims are numerous and cross all sorts of lines.
Part of the national problem is that the youth have taken over and immature thinking is part of it. In the 60′s, hippies and then later yuppies and now the “crusties” (old hippies who never grew up) have repeatedly rejected that which the elders held dear. Yes, their religion, their manners, their adherence to certain customs and forthrightness. By rejecting it, the people and largely, the nation lost its way and we are witnessing the result of it.
By extension, our system of laws is a Judeo-Christian based system; This is one reason, I believe that those on the left reject laws they don’t like because their parents were probably good followers in their churches and conservatives. But that’s not “cool” and the “cool” kids have that rebellious streak and, to this day, it is showing itself by lawmakers trying to force the fantasy into reality that “it must be fair”.
But I submit they have no idea what fair really means. Because, look at what they’ve done. By your own admission, you see the current employment and financial situation as very unfair. But that’s what happens when national socialists get ahold of the rulebook. Everybody loses.
Wonderfully stated.
And you get bonus points for being able to write several meaningful paragraphs with out resorting to profanity (even censored profanity). That is becoming a lost art.
Life sucks, kid. Get over it.
CP, your post is so riddled with logic errors it is hard to tell where to begin.
So let’s take a very simple one. You think we live in a bad time? In bad society? You haven’t seen bad, then. Talk to someone who’s seen the bad.
Certainly, you must agree that things can be much, much worse than they presently are. In fact, scored over global history, the contemporary western lifestyle is the best. If we limit our analysis to civilizations that have actually existed, then by any metric- life span, leisure time, education, health, whatever, this IS the optimal society.
And given the reality of that, why should we opt for “Door Number Two” when logic tells us, it’s most likely a goat?
What is the logic of changing our system when every society that has made the changes you suggest has suffered for it. Hello, Venezuela? Meanwhile, those societies that have moved in OUR direction have thrived. China has a stock market, and they LIKE it.
Why should we play the role of Charlie Brown, trusting the communist Lucy to hold the football this time, though in every time past she’s yanked it away, leaving those who trusted her lying on their backs, wondering how they were fooled again.
You bring up your criticisms of our society, yet you do not allow for the likelihood, borne out by history, that yours will be worse.
Given the chance (I’m in N.E. Ohio, currently vermin free) and the choice, I know which event I’d attend…even if it *is* Navy and not Army…
Of the “Occupy” photos, I DID like the kitten. =^[.]^=
Me too! I like kittens … they make me happy! And after seeing all those “occupy” photos, well, a kitten was a sight for sore eyes! Thanks Zombie, great photo essay, as always!
Thanks once again for a great report, Zombie! I’d been hoping you’d have something more to say on this particular subject . . . talk about low-hanging fruit, eh?
I especially liked seeing the Blue Angel photographs. I used to see them every other year at the Chicago Air and Water Show (they interchanged with the Thunderbirds), and the scenarios were similar: thousands of people crowding the waterfront for a look at these amazing machines and their pilots, and a handful of crackpots on the edges trying to hand out fliers about how this was all a big corporate conspiracy to dull us to the truth of the eeeeeevil military, etcetera etcetera.
Even if you didn’t go see the Angels, you could hear them as they flew across the city. It used to make me feel safe, even after 9/11. The Occupy protesters can go hug a tree.
Please don’t say the phrase “low-hanging fruit” in reference to any of my reports involving naked San Franciscans. There are some things that are better left unvisualized.
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Thus the hydraulic accessories.
Yes, I just had an involuntary flashback of the “Free Bradley Manning” chest from your last photoessay.
Kindly accept the coveted Xpltivdletd-wishes-he’d-said-that Award for the week, zombie! That was a keeper. RKBA! Best regards.
This movement shows, to me, how this nation is moving inexorably toward adopting a mindset of socialist-style entitlement. Apart from the dubious claim that the “top 1%” have committed “crimes against humanity,” the overarching theme seems to be that these young people are outraged that there isn’t a job waiting from them when they get out of college, and that they actually have to pay for their higher education. This generation is losing the concept that a “job” is “created” only when a business entity becomes successful enough to need someone else to do the extra work. Nobody is entitled to another’s success that you can coast on. Unfortunately it’s all too common to hear that a job should be “given” to at-risk youth in order to keep them off the streets and out of trouble, or that a degree entitles its holder to a job. (The similar rhetoric that healthcare is a “right” is another outgrowth of this entitlement mentality.) Has Obama really wrought this much damage in 3 years? Or is Obama merely a symptom of a generation or two who think “the rich” are there as an ATM machine for any number of social programs to help those who can’t be bothered to help themselves? Now, I firmly believe in government support to those who are truly unable to get by on their own, but to have Columbia graduates whining that they have so much debt and dim job prospects is too sickening for words. At this rate Moldova will be kicking our butts in the world economy, never mind China.
While it’s right to be concerned about the protestors’ lack of grasp of reality, let’s not damn the entire generation based on the actions of at most a few thousand people. Let’s not forget that for each of the past 10 years, some 200,000 members of this generation have joined the military knowing they’ll likely face combat and possible death. Thousands of them have died and many more have been injured in the line of duty. They are also of this generation and, IMO, the best and brightest of the lot.
Which is more representative of this generation, a few thousand smelly hippies and hippy-wannabes or a couple million military veterans?
This would be a great time for Penn and Teller to go into the crowd and pull their dihydrogen monoxide shtick. Show the world exactly what these dweebs got for their $100,000 in student debt.
Maybe the 1% should go on strike and see how the 99% like it.
When you were talking about the military vs. the occupiers I was hoping to read something about Predator drones and target rich environments.
Obama’s controlling the Predator drones. If anything, he’d use them to take out a Tea Party rally, not an “Occupation.”
We’re seeing a comedic reprisal of the 60′s antiwar protests, populated by some of the original hippies and their children who have been dumbed down by a unionized corp of teachers who espouse the glories of Marx but without a shred of proof of said glories, economic nor social. That war was trumped up and was prosecuted in the dumbest of ways but the protests were mostly motivated by vast quantities of personal cowardice. There were numbers of protestors who judged that the government should be punished by bomb deaths and proceeded to attempt that punishment. Some of those people are still around and some of them have infiltrated to the highest levels of our government. Undoubtably they are now fretting over ways to pump up the ganga zombies’ anger levels.
Simply put, Zombie’s articles are brillantly understated. Pictures speak a thousand words, and Zombie interjects humorous commentary only when necessary.
My 24 year old daughter – who is now a mother – and starting to wake up – called me in tears today. She is so afraid that Obama will be re-elected and that the Occupy Movement/Mass Chaos is the way of the future.
After several assurances from me (P.S. I’m scared too), I referred her to your article, Zombie.
She feels a lot better. We must overcome!
Thank you, whomever you are.
Wavy Gravy spawned.
A lot.
Regarding the protesters who claimed they would try and occupy the recruiting tent at Fleet Week:
On the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War, a group of organized protesters in Pennsylvania posted on their web site their plan to “invade” the main military recruiting office in Pittsburgh, “lock up” the recruiters, “empty out” the office and turn it into “something useful to the community” like a day care center. This prompted about two dozen patriots (including myself who drove all the way down from the Boston area) to line up in front of the recruiting office and guard it from any intrusion. This made the anti-war protesters decide it would be in their better interests to hold their march in the opposite direction, pacing around the Carnagie-Mellon campus a couple of times and calling it a day. The lefties seem unsure what to do when faced with determined opposition, they’re so used to having everything they want handed to them.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/11/us-wallstreet-protests-chicago-idUSTRE79946S20111011
What’s wrong with this picture?
I’m sorry they didn’t get to see my bumper sticker.
Them: Question authority!
Me: Authorize Questions!
My question is why the hell didn’t the Blue Angels bomb the hell out of that craphole by the Bay! We used to go there but after some homos kept hitting on me & various whackos wanted to show my wife “something interesting,”we ever went back. Geeze, I’ll take Oakland, East San Jose or Watts & Compton any day over this cesspool!
We had one of these Occupy protests in Cleveland. Our local paper ran an article Headlined “Tea Party supports Occupy Cleveland”. There were some union members at this protest. The media and unions were attempting to cause confusion on a local ballot initiative unions do not want passed. It was pathetic. Yes Tea Partiers, Unions, and Occupy Cleveland all agree this is a bad idea. Haha It was hilarious!
You always hear how right wing media distorts reality. But until you actually read nonsense like this website, its hard to believe how bad the rightwing media is.
Its no wonder rightwingers are so misinformed.
Yes, because as we all know, photographs as evidence whither when confronted by baseless words!
somebody got in the kool aid again.
Dang, one of you folks out there should have done that ‘remote control helicopter with a camera thingy’. oh well
i will admit, the blue angels are impressive. I was lucky enough top see them practice for a couple of days on my way home. Traffic sucked, but well worth it for those brief couple of days.
I heart Zombie.
Their claim to represent 99% is the crux of their philosophy: unelected, self-appointed agitators demanding a world ruled by the unelected and self-appointed.
What a bunch of damn freaks. They belong in SF
Zombie, do you happen to know what the deal was with the “My mom has lupus” guy? You don’t see a lot of the “Occupy” people wearing suits and ties. He looks like he might even have a job with a … corporation?
Nah. That’s his ‘my court appointed lawyer told me to wear this for the jury’ suit.
Black guy in a ballcap? Must be Obama.
Oh but let’s not call out the racism, because then “we’re spending too much time attempting to be politically correct!!”
I don’t know if you’ve ever walked away from your computer screen long enough to partake in the ongoing Imperialist Wars, but many servicemen actually agree with the OWS movement.
No — more like “Guy who looks exactly like Obama in a ballcap? Must be Obama.”
I’m perfectly fine calling out the racism of the far left. Join me.
Wow, that was some convincing statistics you presented there! I’m impress.
Like you, I was outraged when Tea Partiers called for violent revolution and having sex with animals and shitting on unionized policemen.
Oh wait, that was OWS. Sorry. My bad.
Is this really a legitimate news angle? Many from the navy have come by OccupySF seemingly showing solidarity, though not expressly. There exists no rift between the military and the OccupySF occupiers. The military suffers greatly at the hands of the war profiteers and supernational banking cartels. We at OccupySF have consistently asserted that we need the police and military on our side; in fact, we consider the military to be the winning vote. I am exceedingly pleased when I see Americans supporting the military, it’s the corruption that drives us to war that I object to. We, and the military, are the 99%. occupysf.com
Its sad to see how many people are clueless about this movement
Zombie must be one of the banks CEO’s that took a big bonus with our tax dollars. That and the judgmental comments (how dare they protest greed and corruption in America) lol
btw had a great time at Occupy LA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ImQ7Ylvdo
Zombie you can bandwagon the moment in the future I wont hold it against you.
– have to walk by them daily. So in the end, the stupid shits making piles of shit can only walk around nude and vote for Obama and Jerry Brown?
Maybe you should have come back today when a mass march fillled up most of Market and Powell streets and the Civic Center. Seems to have been largely ignored by the media but there had to be at least 10,000 people participating, probably a good deal more.
Really. I have been to a protest with over a 100,000 people that takes place every year and is regularly ignored by the media.
This protest is ridiculous. You want to change society. Stop protesting and start helping you fellow man.
OWS and Wall Street have the same principle: Look out for #1
Cool Wonderbolts show. Somebody has to make an image macro of the licking his balls guy too.
Yep, that’s Barry’s base alright.
d(^_^)b
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Zombie, Love your work! Been a fan for years and glad to see you posting again!
Even down here at the University of South Alabama, the local Aithest Club decided to hold a “Support the Occupation” demonstration. However it flopped pretty bad when only around 20 people showed up in support. Most students just walked by giving the “wtf” expression. One of the things I plan to do when I graduate is to take a trip to ole Berkly and get to see one of these in action. Cant wait!
Lol, what the hell is an “Aithest”? I presume you are trying to smear atheists, right?
What a disgusting display. What gets me is that there are so many in this country who actually support this filth.