Who Knew???

Study: OWS Was Disproportionately Rich, Overwhelmingly White

/sarc

Another Case Of...

...police brutality, with a twist:

Homeless man barefoot again despite officer’s gift of boots

"Hillman, 54, who hails from New Jersey, said he moved to New York almost a decade ago and has been homeless for most of that time.

The experience of being at the centre of an international story that was triggered by a tourist snapping a photo of officer Lawrence DePrimo giving Hillman a new pair of shoes and socks has clearly left Hillman feeling like he deserves more than he has so far received.

“I was put on YouTube, I was put on everything without permission. What do I get?” he said. “This went around the world, and I want a piece of the pie.”"

Oh well. At least he should be able to get the "occupy whatever" crowd onside.

Adam Carolla Tells It Like It Is

This is for you, Saskboy, and other OWS idiots:

This Is Also Cute....And Hilarious....And Embarrassing

I have a book, published by Reader's Digest, entitled Where were you when? It begins in 1939 and ends in 2005 and describes with pictures, timelines and short descriptive articles important and memorable events or themes from each year or from the era in general. Here's part of the entry from 1967, the year I graduated from high school.

"THE SUMMER OF LOVE

In 1967, the year after Time's "swinging" coinage [Ed: referring to the pop culture movement in London, England and the "British Invasion"] popular youth culture became steeped in the Haight-Ashbury hippie outook during what was dubbed "The Summer of Love." The year began with a "Be-In" (Ed: ROTFLMAO!!) in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, in January, billed as the "Gathering of the Tribes," and continued in June with the first major open-air pop festival, at Monterey, California. Some observers described the gatherings as a diluted, commercialized form of hippiedom for America's middle classes, but they set the tone for the Summer of Love, and in August were copied in Britain, with the "Love-In" in Hyde Park, London,and the three-day "Festival of the Flower Children" [Ed: BWHAHAHAHAHA!) on Lord Bedford's estate at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.

The summer's anthems were provided by Scot MCKenzie, with "If You're Going to San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"; Procol Harum, with "Whiter Shade of Pale"; and, of course, the Beatles, with the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the singles "All You Need Is Love" and "Strawberry Fields" - and the hippie theme was then continued into the autumn with the premier in October of the musical Hair off Broadway.

October also saw the year's largest antiwar demonstration: a march on the Pentagon at which organizers and political activists Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman had promised they would levitate the Pentagon building 300 ft./90 m into the air. The march provided some of the 1960s' most iconic images - of young girls placing flowers in the barrels of soldiers'guns - but did not succeed in lifting the Pentagon or in stopping the war in Vietnam. Flower power, it seemed, had its limits."

I want to apologize to all you Occupy Wall Street nutters. There were nuttier people way back then, being just as stupid - or perhaps stupider - they were dieing of drug overdoses then, too. "Go ask Alice, I think she'll know."

Just remember though. There's a five-sided building in Arlington, Virginia that awaits its levitation. Perhaps you can accomplish something. Lord knows. We didn't. At least we didn't until we "sold out", got dressed in normal clothes, abandoned the communes,  got involved in mainstream culture, got real jobs and gave up childish things. Oh, and some of us "found God".

But the music was great! And if you're wondering "Where have all the flowers gone", now you know.

I was going to include The Bed In, but that didn't happen until 1969. It's all such a big blur.
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PS: I was just looking through sitemeter and discovered that someone from the Pentagon had visited my blog earlier this morning. I kid  you not.  They came from SDA where I'd been commenting on this SDA entry.

That's not the first time the Pentagon has visited either. Next time comment, will ya!

Charter Rights And Occupiers: A Judgment From The Bench

The limits to occupation

"On Monday, Justice David Brown of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued a lengthy decision weighing the various rights and interests in play. Ultimately, Justice Brown found that the City of Toronto was entitled to enforce its trespass bylaw and to require the occupiers to vacate St. James Park between midnight and 5 a.m., and to remove the structures they have built there.

His decision likely will figure heavily in other cities confronting this issue."

[---]

"Justice Brown acknowledged that the protesters in Toronto’s St. James Park are engaging in activity protected by the Charter of Rights. Contrary to those who make much of the fact that the Charter nowhere mentions the right to “occupy public parks,” Justice Brown correctly noted that our civil liberties are not defined by specific activities, but the meaning that they hold. Thus, it is not the right to “occupy” that is at issue, but whether by such occupation the protesters are expressing political opinions (freedom of expression), living out sincerely held convictions (freedom of conscience) and attempting to form a common front to influence public discourse (freedom of assembly and association). The Charter guarantees everyone the ability to fashion their expressive and associational activities as they wish. If the protesters believe that their message relies on a particular physical structure (say, a “tent city”) then that structure becomes part and parcel of the Charter-protected activity. If the protesters believe that their message relies on prolonged occupation, then their desire to remain in the park indefinitely (or, at least, longer than the City might wish) is similarly protected.

But that, of course, is not the end of the story. The Charter’s rights and freedoms are protected only to the extent of such “reasonable limits” as are imposed by law. No right or freedom is absolute — that is the price of a civilized society."

[---]

"Justice Brown seemed particularly persuaded by the non-protesters who explained the impact on them of having St. James Park rendered virtually off-limits (although it should be noted that these were anecdotal reports and the protesters disputed that characterization). Strikingly, he spoke of the need to keep urban parks as “oases of tranquility” rather than “battlegrounds of competing interests.”"

[---]

"...the protesters have a difficult argument in the idea that the Charter guarantees them an exclusive right to control the extent and degree of their occupation of a public space designed to be open to and used by all. The decision confirms their right to occupy, but imposes limits on it."

And soooo, sanity prevails:

Canadian Occupy protests on the ropes

"Authorities in Quebec City and Calgary have removed Occupy protesters' tents — all of the tents in Quebec City and the ones that sat empty in Calgary Monday night — but despite the City of Toronto's victory in court Monday, authorities there have yet to make their move.

At 11:30 p.m. Monday, a half hour after Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary had legally closed for the night, bylaw officers began dismantling any tent that didn't have a person inside.

Tickets were issued to the dozen or so people still living in the park space."

[---]

"While police were there to back up bylaw, Bruce said there would be no arrests for those opting to continue to stay at the park.

"We're going to ask them to remove them. If they don't, we'll charge them," he said. "This is exactly what we said we'd be doing.

Loaded to near-capacity was a large Budget moving truck, filled with the unoccupied tents and any materials found inside them.

When the truck left, there was just eight "lived in" tents, a warming tent and an information tent left behind."

[---]

"In Quebec City, officials tore down the remaining tents at the downtown Occupy encampment. The park was cleared by 7:30 a.m. and police say no arrests were made.

City spokesman Jacques Perron said the camp was dismantled in the early morning because many of the protesters were absent.

“It avoided confrontation and it allowed us to clear the entire area,” he said.

Meanwhile in Montreal, Mayor Gerald Tremblay on Monday asked occupiers to leave.

He had originally told protesters they could stay as long as they complied with fire department rules.

However, Tremblay said safety could no longer be guaranteed on the site after a local paper reported on a series of violent altercations at the encampment over the weekend."

[---]

"In Toronto, a judge on Monday upheld the city's eviction order for the protesters camped out at St. James Park.

Some occupiers masked their faces with bandanas, barricaded their ragged, nylon tents with wooden skids, chained themselves to yurts, and bellowed anti-establishment rhetoric as the sun set."

[---]

"Hours after the judge upheld the eviction order, St. James Cathedral, which owns a chunk of the greenspace, ordered them off the church's land. Protesters had considered the property a possible source of sanctuary should police move in.

On Tuesday, the protesters plan to march with labour leaders to Nathan Phillips Square at 4 p.m., where a rally is planned."

Of course, we'd have to have unions involved this way. And hah!! Even the churches are pissed off. Too bad, so sad.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Protesters agree to move to 'secret location' in advance of injunction deadline

Oh, so much could be said. Where shall I start? With the smell?

Here's Another One

Tea Party Versus #Occupy Checklist

Previous.

As They Clean Up The Riff Raff...

 UPDATED AND BUMPED: Occupy Wall Street Blotter
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...here's a list of the highlights:

Occupy Wall Street: The rap sheet so far

248 incidents, ranging from public pooping on a cop car to OD-ing, to the point of death, on hard drugs, to shoplifting and fights - you name it. What a fine bunch!

Occupy Wallstreet...

...meets Photoshop.

(But being retards, they figured no one would recognize it.)

Make The Rich Pay

-- er -- occupy or something

As If We Didn't Know This

Cause of death announced in Occupy Vancouver fatality

"The BC Coroners Service confirmed on Sunday that the recent death of a woman at the Occupy Vancouver protest camp was caused by a drug overdose.

Owen Court, Vancouver-Metro’s regional coroner, said toxicology tests show 23-year-old Ashlie Gough of Victoria died Nov. 5 of a mixed drug overdose of cocaine and heroin."

[---]

"“Indications are she had been deceased for quite some time,” Mr. Court said in an interview.

The investigation shows Ms. Gough was last seen alive when she went into her tent around 4 a.m., before being found by a friend more than 12 hours later."

Caring bunch of people, those occupiers. Of course, this is somebody else's fault, somebody on Wall Street, of course.

Good One!

Occupy death count

Maybe we need to get Gilbert Burnham to publish a false report in Lancet about the Tea Party death count.

How Ironic!

It's global warming that did them in.  Not to mention a whole suite of stupid behaviour.

Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung"

"With wintry weather poised to swoop into the cramped outdoor quarters of Occupy Wall Street protesters, it may not be long before more campers catch what's being called "Zuccotti lung."

That's what demonstrators have dubbed the sickness that seems to be spreading among them at an unpleasantly high rate these days: "It's a real thing," Willie Carey, 28, told the New York Times.

With little sleep in cold conditions, cigarettes and drinks being passed from mouth to mouth, and few opportunities to wash hands, Zuccotti Park may now just be the best place to catch respiratory viruses, norovirus (also known as the winter vomiting virus) and tuberculosis, according to one doctor.

The damp clothing and cardboard signs wet with rain are also breeding grounds for mold. Some protesters are urinating in bottles and leaving food trash discarded throughout the campground, providing further opportunities for nastiness.

“Pretty much everything here is a good way to get sick,” Salvatore Cipolla, 23, from Long Island, told the Times. “It’ll definitely thin the herd.”

Some protesters have refused free flu shots, citing a "government conspiracy," the Times said."

LOL!

Vancouver's Mayor...

...makes a really good point: Occupy Vancouver camp unsafe, must end: mayor

"The mayor of Vancouver wants the Occupy Vancouver camp to end.

Following the death of a woman on Saturday, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson said the protest site on the grounds of the city's art gallery is unsafe and must be shut down as soon as possible.

The mayor said the death of a 20-year-old woman was particularly upsetting for him because he has a daughter the same age.

"There is a serious problem here and we want to address it urgently," Robertson said on Saturday night at the site of the protest.

"I think the protest on the really important issues that many of us are passionate about is being undermined by a tent camp and the issues around the right to camp on public space, which is really unfortunate," Robertson said.


"And now we have a critical incident that demonstrates there's life safety at risk here."

With a civic election looming later this month, the Occupy Vancouver camp has become issue made more contentious by the death and a non-fatal drug overdose two days earlier.


Conditions at the camp have led mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton to call for a legal injunction to remove the tents altogether.


'It's not any one thing, but rats, drug overdose, now there's fire safety," Anton said. "If the site can't be safe, there's cost, huge cost to Vancouver taxpayers.'"

It's over folks. You showed us what you're all about, and, unfortunately for you, what we've seen portrays a very negative image of a bunch of losers who made many stupid mistakes in their lives and want the rest of us to pay for those mistakes. Get help. It's out there if you get off your asses and actually look for it.

Hardy, Har, Har!

The world is truly upside down and crazy:

Iran’s Basij Force Creates Website To Support Occupy Wall Street…

Wow! They smash and shoot their own protests which had far more legitimacy than the OWSers, but they support the nutcases occupying parks and whatnot all over North America. Well, that's as good a sign as any that our OWS fools are out to lunch - or would that be out to toke, or get a hit, or whatever.

Speaking of freak shows (I really am sick of OWS and its clones, but this is too good to pass up.): List of supporters and sponsors of OWS protests

PS: Another goodie.

"Send Me Your Huddled Masses" or something

Homes of some of the Wall Street occupiers arrested in October.

I think we should take up a collection and get the money to them pronto. Of course we know those greedy bastards on Wall Street won't help. Indeed, some of them might well live in the same houses.

Yup!

But, But, But....

...you think they'll understand??!!

Bloomberg to OWS: Congress caused Mortgage crisis, not the banks

Such notions are inadmissible. 

Global Warming....

...strikes again - Or - yes, there is a God: New York gets more than inch of snow in October for the first time EVER as early snow storm cuts power to 1.5million

That'd be close to the Occupiers of Wall Street. (I wonder if the power company is on the 1% list?)

Who Pays These Protesters?

That's what I thought.
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Wall Street Protester Says He's Getting Paid To Protest

DC Organizer Admits to Paying ‘Occupy DC’ Protesters

Protesters are being paid $650 a week in New York

Occupy Wall Street garners $150,000 in donations

FIGHT TO HOLD WALLSTREET ACCOUNTABLE NOW! MAKE A DIFFERNENCE GET PAID!

That's right. You to can made a "differnence" and get paid at the same time.

Not all of them, of course. With names like Gaia Weiss, you just know some of them are doing this for Mother Earth, which is its own reward.