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Tweet I am reading a delightful book about Fred and Adele Astaire, one that offers a little insight into a long-vanished world.  Along the way, the book mentions Eddie Cantor.  That reference reminded me of a song I always liked:  We Can Build A Little Home, from 1933′s Roman Scandals.  As was the case for [...]

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Tweet We knew Occupy was a turfed up protest.  We knew that Occupy quickly degenerated into drug-fueled, dangerous debauchery.  We knew that Occupy is ugly.  But I don’t think any of us realized in the beginning quite how ugly Occupy would prove to be. It turns out that it’s so ugly that it supports child [...]

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Tweet $10 million huh?  No wonder he looks so happy: I wonder when we’re going to see something like this outside the White House: (Don’t worry. I was just joking. Like that’s going to happen.)

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Tweet Sgt. Gary Stein was discharged from the Marines because he created a web page critical of President Obama.  Despite the fact that I agree with Sgt. Stein’s political views, I think the Marines did the right thing. One of the things that makes our military great is the fact that it is a non-partisan [...]

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Tweet Zombie has a new post about Occupy’s latest stunt:  The movement’s geniuses, inspired by Earth Day, [I]llegally took over an entire farm and transformed it into…a farm! So proud are they of this revolutionary act that they showed off the farm to the media yesterday, so naturally I had to check it out. Go [...]

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Tweet Zombie has another superb photo essay, this one about the OWS protest of Shimon Peres’ San Francisco visit.  If you haven’t already checked it out, please do.  My favorite part is the bit with the San Francisco motorcycle cop.  You go, guy! Please remember when you read Zombie that Zombie is the new media.  [...]

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Tweet When Obama came to San Francisco, two of my favorite photo-essayists attended the street protests, which marked the rare coming together (sort of) of Tea Partiers and OWSers, all of whom are discontented with Obama. Here’s Zombie. And here’s Fund47. I’d add more but anything I say would be redundant, as their posts are [...]

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Tweet Over the years, I’ve written more than 10,000 posts.  (Yeah, that’s a scary thought, isn’t it.)  They do tend to run together in my mind, but there are a few standouts.  These are the posts in which I felt that I offered an insight or analysis that is genuinely helpful to considering a serious [...]

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Tweet We tend to find what we’re looking for.  Since conservatives know that Obama comes from a socialist background, has advanced policies that are antithetical to capitalism, and has defeated opportunities and initiatives that are supportive of capitalism, we’re going to assume that, in any speech he gives, ordinary statements are actually code for a [...]

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Tweet Not only is the Occupy movement ugly, divisive and violent, it’s also expensive: The news spotlight has moved elsewhere, but Oakland continues to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for the Occupy protests. Every week for the past month, more than 100 cops, or roughly one-fifth of the city’s patrol force, [...]

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Tweet Zombie has put up a short post explaining just how debased the Occupy movement really is.  Please disseminate Zombie’s post widely, as this is the type of story that might help otherwise disinterested Americans understand that the Occupiers are not a grass-roots movement made up of people who lost their jobs recently but are, [...]

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Tweet I’ve blogged here before about Madison Rising, an almost-heavy metal rock group that several vets formed.  Despite its hard guitar licks, pulsing beat, and gravel voiced singing, the band’s orientation is definitely conservative.  It’s songs are pro-military, pro-American, pro-capitalism and anti-OWS.  It’s not necessarily my kind of music (I’m a bit old for it), [...]

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Tweet It’s not only conservatives who have noticed that the waning OWS movement was pretty much whiter than white.  Black activist preachers have noticed the same thing and are trying to mobilize their congregants to get out there to camp on sidewalks like homeless people along with the white drug-addicted, violent OWSers: The Rev. Harold [...]

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Tweet As I was up early, I listened to KSFO’s Brian Sussman show.  A man called in, identified himself as someone who works at the Port of Oakland, and described with some amusement the eight or so luxury buses that pulled up, disgorging a bunch of people in their 30s and 40s, completely with mass-produced [...]

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Tweet Okay, this is seriously NSFW, since Carolla is exceeded only by Jon Stewart when it comes to F-bombs (except without the little “beeps” that let people pretend Stewart isn’t really swearing).  If you can, though, ignore Carolla’s language and listen to it when you get the chance.  Adam Carolla applies — gasp! — logic [...]

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Maybe what we see today is a final struggle for America between those that want to be free and those that don’t.

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Tweet From Zombie, who comments on the gaggle of giggling girls who gleefully relive their pepper spray experience, and From Castra Praetoria, who’s been pepper sprayed a few times himself (but all in the line of duty), and also From James Taranto, who notes that a lack of actual aggression doesn’t mean that the protesters [...]

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Tweet I can’t remember if I wrote it here, but I know that, in lunches with Don Quixote, I’ve discussed the parallels between the OWS protests and the Chicago convention in 1968.  Rather than gather my slightly fragmented thoughts, I’ll just pass the baton to Bruce Kesler, who ably discusses the issue. UPDATE:  Charles Martel’s [...]

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Tweet OWS may not have an intelligible platform, but it has a goal.  Zombie makes that point perfectly clear.

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Tweet When my son was very little, he always asked me, “Are lions bad?”  What he really meant to ask is “Are lions evil?”  I always explained to him that lions aren’t bad, because they don’t make moral decisions.  They are animals, acting according to instinct.  Evil means understanding right or wrong. I’m beginning to [...]

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Tweet This is as pithy a summary as any I’ve seen about the antisemitism permeating Occupy Wall Street, and binding together the Left, the Islamists, and the White Supremacists: (If the video isn’t showing up, watch here.) By the way, why is no one commenting on the fact that the so-called 99% are not a [...]

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Tweet It’s a Halloween parable about the Occupy movement (and it’s leader, Barack Obama).  The scary ending fits in well with the Halloween theme: Hat tip: Power Line Blog

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Tweet You and I have long known that the Occupy movement is destructive, not constructive.  The MSM, however, was very excited, largely because they too knew it was destructive.  Their problem was that they assumed it would destroy “Wall Street.” By the way, there’s an amorphous concept if ever I heard one.  While many businesses [...]

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Tweet I’m noticing signs of “Occupy” ennui.  Even those who were enthusiastic about the movement at first seem to be getting bored.  On the “real me” facebook, there’s been (at a guess) a 75% drop-off in posts from limousine liberals applauding the 1%. Was it the endless, self-serving demands that the government write off student [...]

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Tweet By the time I returned from the pool yesterday, I was too tired and cold even to turn on my computer, let alone write anything.  I’m leaving in a couple of minutes for another cold day — although, having learned my lesson, I’ve doubled my supplies.  I should be more comfortable today, even though [...]

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