posted October 07, 2011 02:56 PM            

fact - the chicago banksters hung their own sign.."we are the 1%"

fact - if 99% = 297 million, a half dozen idiots is insignificant...

fact - the person whose fixed rate has been monkeyed with has a right to be ticked off. the fact that he can't afford a lawyer, or get legal aid on his income, also reason for frustration.

posted October 07, 2011 03:03 PM            

One day katatonic, you might accidentally get something right.

"In a way Obama is standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of GOD. He's going to bring all different sides together."

- Newsweek editor Evan Thomas

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

"... a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama" - Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire.
January 7, 2008.

Farrakhan on Obama: 'The Messiah is absolutely speaking'

Addressing a large crowd behind a podium Feb. 24 with a Nation of Islam Saviours' Day 2008 sign, Farrakhan proclaims,

posted October 07, 2011 07:53 PM            

sarah palin's followers think she is sent by god to save america too. so what? "YOU are the one we are waiting for" they say.

please point out the difference.

and i would expect someone addressing a muslim audience to use those sorts of phrases.

just as michelle bachmann swears that GOD TOLD ME TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT, and how HOT she is for jesus...

posted October 09, 2011 10:02 AM            

What? Duh, they're exactly what I said they are from the beginning; a bunch of leftists..Socialists and Communist geek anarchists who have absolutely no interest in anything other than the destruction of Capitalism, destruction of the Constitution and destruction of the Rule of Law...AND, getting O'Bomber reelected.

Video Exposing How ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Was Organized From Day One by SEIU/ACORN Front – The Working Family Party, and How They All Tie to the Obama Administration, DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides and George Soros
Posted on October 7, 2011

Breakdown of the Connections Between The Working Family Party, SEIU, ACORN, The New Party, The DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides, George Soros and The Obama Administration:

•The Working Families Party was established in the 90s by key members of the the socialist organizations The New Party, ACORN, SEIU, and a coalition of other labor unions and community organizations.

•Patrick Gaspard, the current executive director of the DNC, former director of Obama’s Office of Political Affairs, was an organizer for the New Party, the executive vice president of the SEIU Local 1199, political director for Bertha Lewis (the former president of ACORN) and a co-chair of the Working Families Party.

•The New Party is a socialist political coalition co-founded in 1992 by academic and political activist Joel Rogers.
•The first strategic meetings to plan the New Party were held in Joel Rogers’ Madison, Wisconsin home; Wade Rathke, ACORN and SEIU founder and Gerry Hudson from Democratic Socialists of America and SEIU were in attendance at those meetings.

•The New Party’s influential Chicago chapter began to formed in January 1995. Its members consisted mainly of individuals from ACORN, SEIU and the Democratic Socialists of America. Obama attended a New Party function and received their endorsement in 1995.***Hey, isn't that Barack Hussein O'Bomber cozying up to the Socialist geeks? Yes it is, Yes it is, Yes it is!***

•In 1994, a New Party newspaper listed more than 100 activists “who are building the NP;” some names among the list of 100 were Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, Wade Rathke, Cornel West, Jon Barton of SEIU, Maude Hurd of ACORN and Margaret Shelleda of SEIU.

•Gerry Hudson, SEIU Executive Vice President and original New Party member, serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance organized by Joel Rogers’ group COWS Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Alliance is a project of the Tides Center. Harry Reid credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to write the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
•George Soros’ Open Society Institute is a major source of money behind the Apollo Alliance and the Tides Foundation.
Of course, SEIU laid out the plans for Occupy Wall Street Months ago, as brought to you by the Blaze in this exclusive video:

posted October 09, 2011 02:30 PM            

they are hardly organized, as you yourself have pointed out!

and why should the side YOU like be the only one out there? why is this still about SIDES at all?

check your tires, jwhop, i think you are stuck in a rut.

posted October 09, 2011 05:58 PM            

If the shoes fit these communist, Socialist, Progressive anarchists who are attempting to get O'Bomber reelected...and they do fit perfectly..then, they should be proud to wear them.

posted October 10, 2011 11:39 AM            

i just love it when politicians criticize peaceful protesters for speaking out. it doesn't matter that a lot of them are misguided as to particulars, they are speaking for you too, jwhop, like it or not. small business is being shut out on both sides of the so-called fence.

the truth, of course, lies somewhere in the middle and there is a reason FREEDOM OF SPEECH is in the FIRST amendment. as well as FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY.

posted October 10, 2011 02:59 PM            

I'm with Herman Cain on this...

Cain: 'Why Don't You Move the Demonstrations to the White House?'

“When a reporter asked me the other day, well, what do you think about those demonstrations up on Wall Street, I said, first of all, Wall Street didn't write these failed economic policies -- the White House did,” said Cain.

He then added, “Why don’t you move the demonstrations to the White House?”.....

“Wall Street didn’t write those failed policies, Wall Street didn’t spend a trillion dollars,” said Cain. “Wall Street isn’t asking to spend another $450 billion. It didn’t work with a trillion. It’s not gonna’ work with $450 billion. You can demonstrate all you want on Wall Street. The problem is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue!”
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These leftist idiots must have never heard of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac or know what part they played in kicking off the economic down-slide....or the leftist idiots running Fannie and Freddy....Frankin Raines, Jamie Goerlick and Tim Johnson, demoscats who were instrumental in creating the residential real estate bubble.

I'll bet not one of the leftist protesting idiots could tell anyone what the Community Reinvestment Act is or knows that demoscats in Congress and the Justice Dept threatened banks and other lenders with congressional investigations and Justice Dept investigations if they didn't make real estate loans to people who could not make the monthly mortgage payments.

I'll bet not one of the leftist protesting idiots could tell anyone what "TARP" is an acronym for. Troubled Asset Relief Program....meaning failed sub-prime mortgage loans the banks and other lenders didn't want to make in the first place.

I'll bet not one of the leftist protesting idiots could tell anyone what part O'Bomber played in forcing a bank to make a real estate loan to someone who couldn't make the mortgage payment.

posted October 10, 2011 03:08 PM            

Last night, Mark Levin used a caller as a foil to deconstruct this idiocy.

• Who's the biggest health insurer in the country?
• Who's the biggest bank in the country?
• Who's the biggest land-owner in the country?
• Who runs the biggest retirement plans in the country?
• And who alone has the force of law to force you to comply with their decisions?

That would be the federal government, an extra-constitutional monolith that controls every aspect of our lives, from shower-heads, to automobile bumper design, to thermostats, to building codes, to carbon dioxide emissions, to the size of toilet tanks, to health insurance plans, to...

Well, to everything.

Which is the problem. Remember the old Soviet Union? It tried to control everything. It tried to centrally plan the interactions of millions of individuals with five-year plans. With regulations, bureaucrats, agencies and offices.

posted October 10, 2011 07:06 PM            

no one is saying down with corporations. they ARE saying, down with

calling corporations people, ie giving them the rights of people but not the responsibilities

bailing out the financial sector for making a small fortune in fraudulent casino style investments

(which bailout DID cost about a trillion in all, mr cain, a large portion of which went straight into bonuses)

down with politicians who are afraid the people might "influence policy"..

posted October 11, 2011 01:05 AM            

apparently no one noticed the la crowd either, the news was all in the courthouse across the street where michael jackson's doctor is on trial.

posted October 11, 2011 10:10 AM            

They're a clueless mob, pure and simple! Their supporters are as clueless as they are...and especially those supporters who attempt to compare these mindless leftist "useful idiots" to Tea Party members or the Founding Fathers OR, the original Tea Party.

You're not supposed to read their signs calling for the abolition of Capitalism which produced the greatest wealth for citizens ever seen in the world.

You're not supposed to read the signs of outright Communists as they march and chant their little chants for "revolution".

You're not supposed to read their 10 demands which would effectively turn the United States into a Communist gulag with the Marxist Socialist Progressive O'Bomber as their "Maximum Leader".

Nope, you're not supposed to believe the evidence of your own eyes and ears.

THIS IS WHAT A MOB LOOKS LIKE
October 5, 2011
Ann Coulter

I am not the first to note the vast differences between the Wall Street protesters and the tea partiers. To name three: The tea partiers have jobs, showers and a point.

No one knows what the Wall Street protesters want -- as is typical of mobs. They say they want Obama re-elected, but claim to hate "Wall Street." You know, the same Wall Street that gave its largest campaign donation in history to Obama, who, in turn, bailed out the banks and made Goldman Sachs the fourth branch of government.

This would be like opposing fattening, processed foods, but cheering Michael Moore -- which the protesters also did this week.

But to me, the most striking difference between the tea partiers and the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd -- besides the smell of patchouli -- is how liberal protesters must claim their every gathering is historic and heroic.

They chant: "The world is watching!" "This is how democracy looks!" "We are the ones we've been waiting for!"

At the risk of acknowledging that I am, in fact, "watching," this is most definitely not how democracy looks.

Sally Kohn, a self-identified "community organizer," praised the Wall Street loiterers on CNN's website, comparing the protest to the Boston Tea Party, which she claimed, "helped spark the American Revolution," adding, "and yes, that protest ultimately turned very violent."

First of all, the Boston Tea Party was nothing like tattooed, body–pierced, sunken-chested 19-year-olds getting in fights with the police for fun. Paul Revere's nighttime raid was intended exclusively to protest a new British tea tax. (The Wall Street protesters would be more likely to fight for a new tax than against one.)

Revere made sure to replace a broken lock on one of the ships and severely punished a participant who stole some of the tea for his private use. Samuel Adams defended the raid by saying that all other methods of recourse -- say, voting -- were unavailable.

Our revolution -- the only revolution that led to greater freedom since at least 1688 --was not the act of a mob.

As specific and limited as it was, however, even the Boston Tea Party was too mob-like to spark anything other than retaliatory British measures. Indeed, it set back the cause of American independence by dispiriting both American and British supporters, such as Edmund Burke.

George Washington disapproved of the destruction of the tea. Benjamin Franklin demanded that the India Tea Co. be reimbursed for it. Considered an embarrassment by many of our founding fathers, the Boston Tea Party was not celebrated for another 50 years.

It would be three long years after the Boston Tea Party when our founding fathers engaged in their truly revolutionary act: The signing of the Declaration of Independence.

In that document, our Christian forebears set forth in blindingly clear terms their complaints with British rule, their earlier attempts at resolution, and an appeal to the Supreme Judge of the world for independence from the crown.

The rebel armies defending that declaration were not a disorganized mob, chanting slogans for the press and defacing public property.

Even the Minutemen, whose first scuffle with the British began the war, were a real army with ranks, subordination, coordination, drills and supplies. There is not a single mention in the historical record of Minutemen playing hacky-sack, burning candles assembled in "peace and love," or sitting in drum circles.

A British lieutenant-general who fought the Minutemen observed, "Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob will find himself very much mistaken."

By contrast, the directionless losers protesting "Wall Street" -- Obama's largest donor group -- pose for the cameras while uttering random liberal cliches lacking any reason or coherence.

But since everything liberals do must be heroic, the "Occupy Wall Street" crowd insists on comparing themselves to this nation's heroes.

One told Fox News' Bill Schulz: "I was born to be here, right now, the founding fathers have been passing down the torch to this generation to make our country great again."

The Canadian environmental group behind Occupy Wall Street, Adbusters, has compared the Wall Street "revolutionaries" to America's founding fathers. (Incidentally, those who opposed the American Revolution fled after the war to ... Canada.)

The -- again -- Canadians exulted, "You sense they're drafting a new Declaration of Independence."

I suppose you only "sense" it because they're doing nothing of the sort. They say they want Mao as the president -- as one told Schulz -- and the abolition of "capitalism."

The modern tea partiers never went around narcissistically comparing themselves to Gen. George Washington. And yet they are the ones who have engaged in the kind of political activity Washington fought for.

The Tea Party name is meant in fun, inspired by an amusing rant from CNBC's Rick Santelli in February 2009, when he called for another Tea Party in response to Obama's plan to bail-out irresponsible mortgagers.

The tea partiers didn't arrogantly claim to be drafting a new Declaration of Independence. They're perfectly happy with the original.

Tea partiers didn't block traffic, sleep on sidewalks, wear ski masks, fight with the police or urinate in public. They read the Constitution, made serious policy arguments, and petitioned the government against Obama's unconstitutional big government policies, especially the stimulus bill and Obamacare.

Then they picked up their own trash and quietly went home. Apparently, a lot of them had to be at work in the morning.

In the two years following the movement's inception, the Tea Party played a major role in turning Teddy Kennedy's seat over to a Republican, making the sainted Chris Christie governor of New Jersey, and winning a gargantuan, historic Republican landslide in the 2010 elections. They are probably going to succeed in throwing out a president in next year's election.

posted October 11, 2011 02:34 PM            

My most heartfelt wish for the mindless minions currently "Occupy[ing] Wall Street" is that someday, hopefully soon, they get to live in a world based upon their dim-witted delusions. Actually, though, if these collectivist cretins are indeed serious, that world is already here.

It's called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka communist North Korea). In North Korea, there are no evil corporations or banks to ruin Occupiers' lives, because another pair of collectivist cretins, Kim Il-sung and his creepy son Kim Jung-il, got rid of them long ago. In fact, along with ridding North Korea of everything other than the glorious state, the Kim Klan has either already met most of the Occupier's nattering demands or simply made them superfluous.

For demands one (that is not a typo -- there are a lot of demands in demand one), "the restoration of the living wage," North Korea has followed the Occupiers' proposed playbook and ended "Freetrade [sic]" by creating a trade-free society. Additionally, in North Korea, there is no need to slap "trade tariffs" on imports of "cheap products" to "level the playing field" because the Kims have created an import-free society as well. As for the "twenty dollar an hour minimum wage" demand, life is just too short (literally) in the Kimdom to worry about something so inconsequential when one is privileged to live under the cradle-to-(early-)grave care of the "Dear Leader."

Demand two, "a universal single payer healthcare system," was instituted way back in 1948. For more than sixty years now, all of North Korea's lucky citizens have received the same horrendous level of medical treatment. The Occupiers will be heartened to know that everyone does his or her "fair share" of suffering. And fear not, dear Occupiers -- because the government is in charge, greedy private insurers cannot take money away from doctors, nurses, and hospitals...because there is no money. But the biggest benefit is that there are no big pharmaceutical companies to stick it to the average North Korean by producing life-saving drugs (or any drugs, for that matter) and selfishly expecting payment for them.

There is really good news when it comes to demand three, a "[g]uaranteed living wage income regardless of employment." The cost of living (i.e., barely surviving) is real cheap in North Korea, with the average North Korean living (i.e., barely surviving) on one dollar per month. Additionally, there are almost no jobs, so employment is not a concern.

The good news just keeps coming as the benevolent Kims have already met demand four: "free college education." But there are a few strings attached, such as that you do not get to go to the college of your choice, if you get to go at all; that would be up to the state. Also, sometimes the benevolent North Korean government might decide to send you to a re-education institution instead (maybe for publicly demonstrating, or just because it feels like it). But, on the bright side, there are no student loans to pay off -- only the continued payment of a lifelong servitude to the state.

Demand five is one the Kim Klan has made unnecessary: "begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand." There is no economy in North Korea, so there is no need to fuel it. However, on the bright side, the North Koreans do use an alternative energy -- burning feces -- to heat their homes during the winter.

Demand six is another superfluous petition: "One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now." The Kims have made it so North Korea does not need roads and bridges because no one can afford a car anyway, and an electrical grid is just a wasted expense in a country with barely any electricity. Anyway, the Dear Leader already makes sure everyone gets his "fair share" of electricity, and he has been quite generous and innovative with North Korea's water and sewer systems; both openly run together through the streets.

The Occupier's seventh demand of "[o]ne trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants" maybe one demand too far even for the little miracle worker Kim Jung Il. First off, North Korea is a Democratic People's Republic and, as in all Democratic Peoples' Republics, ecology is always the state's official number one concern so any restoration is simply not needed. Second, there is very little the Dear Leader can do to personally shut down America's nuclear power plants but maybe he can get the Obama Administration to do so as a concession the next time he throws a fit and threatens to blow up the world.

Demand eight for a "[r]acial and gender equal rights amendment" is not necessary because all North Koreans are the same race and regardless of gender all are treated like prisoners. Of course, all the Occupiers are not of the same race (though 99% are white) but, rest assured, the Dear Leader would be more than glad to treat them like prisoners too.

Though not specifically meeting demand nine for "[o]pen borders migration. anyone [sic] can travel anywhere to work and live," at least the Kim Klan does not discriminate (like the evil U.S.) in its border policies. Simply put, no one is allowed in or out of North Korea, and if you do leave, your family will be imprisoned and/or killed. The policy is a bit brutal, but it is equally implemented, so at least it is "fair."

Demand number ten is something about "fair elections," which is moot because there are no elections in North Korea. Thus, everyone fairly and equally has the right not to vote, so there is no chance that Wall Street money will corrupt the political process. And not having elections provides the extra benefit of doing away with the necessity for racist policies like requiring photo ID at the polling places.

Demand eleven, "[i]mmediate across the board debt forgiveness for all," has been met in spades. The North Korean government unilaterally forgives all of its debts by simply refusing to pay (not that it could). And of course there is no consumer debt, because there is nothing to consume.

Demand twelve, to "[o]utlaw all credit reporting agencies," like universal health care, was taken care of in 1948. Regrettably, some shooting was involved.

And finally, demand thirteen is about the right of the worker to easily unionize. Everyone already knows that there is no need for unions in a worker's paradise like North Korea. All citizens voluntarily work for the good of the state because failing to do so will get them shot. Also, there are barely any jobs in North Korea, so that is another reason why unionizing is not an issue.

Maybe in the next "lies for food and oil" swindle Kim Jong-il perpetrates on the morons in the U.S. State Department, we could at least throw in a few thousand Occupiers as part of the deal. Everyone would win: 99.999% of Americans would be rid of these fools, and the Occupiers would get to live in the world they demand.

posted October 11, 2011 02:37 PM            

you're not supposed to notice that tea party supporting bloggers BRAGGED that the american revolution was basically carried out by about 3% of the population while the rest sat on the sidelines or actively supported the british...

you're not supposed to remember that tea party bloggers encouraged people to go out and break democrats' office windows (and this did happen immediately afterwards)

or that wheelchair bound tea partiers were livid that the govt, of all parties, might meddle with THEIR medicare.

NOR are you supposed to remember that it was GW BUSH who signed the bailouts into law and passed out the first round to HIS wall street cronies. ONLY obama is allowed to have done anything like this EVER.

adbusters did not START the demos, but SPARK them ..

i heard a ron paul supporter from among the ORIGINAL TEA PARTIERS who sympathizes with these people, coherent and mature (and showered) or not; who admitted that the tea party had been co-opted; who understood that people, whether geniuses or organized or not, have the RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY and free speech.

because the crux of the matter is a lot of people are very aware that wall street, banksters and govt are looking out for themselves not the "represented"

that includes the tea partiers who unfortunately seem to think ONLY they are allowed to protest for change.

on the day when the police miraculously arrested 700 people (in a crowd of "about 100" according to snarky pundits) on the brooklyn bridge, before they could make these arrests they had to INVITE those protesters ONTO the bridge so they could be arrested.

posted October 11, 2011 04:32 PM            

you're not supposed to remember that tea party bloggers encouraged people to go out and break democrats' office windows (and this did happen immediately afterwards)

or that wheelchair bound tea partiers were livid that the govt, of all parties, might meddle with THEIR medicare."...katatonic