Do you think liberals, reading the paper, are beginning to catch on that Occupy is a problem, not a solution?
I present to you, without comment, a collection of headlines from today’s Bay Area news section of the San Francisco Chronicle:
Many Oakland stores close for strike
Jill Tucker,Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writers
Many businesses in downtown Oakland are closed during today’s Occupy Oakland general strike, whether in support of the movement or in preparation for the mass of protesters marching through the streets. The closed…Mercedes hits 2 Occupy Oakland protesters
Matthai Kuruvila, Demian Bulwa,Kevin Fagan, Chronicle Staff Writers
A car struck two Occupy Oakland protesters tonight as they marched with a crowd along Broadway, and an angry mob surrounded the car as emergency workers tended to the injured. The driver, who was not identified, sat in…[snip]
Oakland protest disrupts AC Transit downtown
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Public transit is being rerouted in downtown Oakland because protesters taking part in a general strike today have blocked a busy intersection. AC Transit buses on several lines are taking detours around 14th and…Oakland schools affected by Occupy strike
Will Kane,Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
At least 15 percent of Oakland teachers took today off to participate in the Occupy Oakland general strike, the school district said. A little more than 300 teachers missed work to join the strike, said Troy Flint, a…Occupy strike descends into chaos
Demian Bulwa, Matthai Kuruvila,Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writers
A long day of mostly peaceful protest on Wednesday in Oakland descended into chaos after midnight. Masked vandals shattered windows, set fires and plastered downtown businesses with graffiti before police moved in,…One port entrance closed, longshoremen absent
Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Trucks were stuck outside the Port of Oakland this morning after protesters dragged fencing across a major entrance and a shift of longshore workers didn’t come to work. About a dozen demonstrators followed up on…[snip]
Costs of Occupy Oakland disputed but on the rise
Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer
Oakland’s police union has estimated that last week’s sweep of the Occupy Oakland encampment – which re-established itself within days – cost taxpayers more than $1 million. But Oakland officials say they do not know…
Incidentally, the above stories weren’t the only “muggings by reality” that the SF Chronicle delivered to its online readers today:
The Department of Energy’s inspector general said Wednesday that the 2009 stimulus program for green energy was so at odds with the realities on the ground that it was akin to “attaching a lawn mower to a fire hydrant.”
Inspector General Gregory Friedman, testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s panel on stimulus oversight, outlined a range of problems, from a flood of $35 billion in stimulus money that overwhelmed the department’s $27 billion annual budget to weatherization programs of such shoddy quality that more than half of those audited failed inspection because of substandard workmanship.
