Archive for the 'Occupy Wall Street' Category
Bookworm on Nov 03 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
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 [...]
Bookworm on Nov 02 2011 | Filed under: Elections, Occupy Wall Street
Thoughts during a busy day: Idle thought 1: I want to have Mewt Gingney for my candidate. Newt Gingrich is a completely principled conservative with, in his past at least, an unprincipled private life. Mitt Romney is an unprincipled conservative with, from the past to the present, what appears to be a completely principled private [...]
Bookworm on Nov 02 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
With an increasing number of stories about rapes and other sexual assaults at the Occupy encampments, more and more conservatives are saying that it’s time for the mayors of any given city to shut the Occupiers down. Example: It’s time for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pull the plug on the dangerous circus in [...]
Danny Lemieux on Oct 30 2011 | Filed under: Capitalism, Culture, Economics, Education, Freedom, Government, Leftist morality, Liberal Fascism, Occupy Wall Street, Socialism, The Bookworm Turns, Truth, Uncategorized
What the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors don’t realize (yet) is that they have been suckered into becoming the agents of their own enslavement. Orwell had it so right in defining the Left because he was a man of the Left. The term “Orwellian” now refers to the Left’s use of terms to mean the [...]
Bookworm on Oct 28 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
The City of Oakland suffered a black eye when its attempt to rout the Occupy Oakland not only failed to move the protest, it managed to create the first martyr, an antisemitic ex-Marine who hates the Marines with an abiding passion. I’m sorry that Oakland made the effort. If I were in charge, I would [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
I’ve been having a very interesting email exchange with FP, a friend who sent me the Peter Schiff video that’s now making the rounds: As you can see, Schiff makes logical points grounded in reality, and the protesters come back with mere protest tactics, rather than making any attempt whatsoever at argument. Strangely enough, despite [...]
Bookworm on Oct 27 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
This showed up in Chicago (click on image for full sized view):
Bookworm on Oct 26 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
I find the video below both hysterically funny and terribly tragic. We should all be worried when the insane are the vanguard of what promises to be a dangerous protest movement. One can sympathize with people who have been on the receiving end of societal and government lies for decades, and one can feel for [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft paired a quotation from Elizabeth Warren, in which she supports OWS (and lays claim to providing the movement’s intellectual foundation) with an iconic picture of a movement at the movement. After you check out Hoft’s post, you’ll understand why I’ve slightly modified Warren’s boastful remarks (emphasis added): Massachusetts Senate [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
Veruca Salt has been much on my mind lately, probably because I live with a teen and a tween. “I want it now,” is the operative demand in our household. The fact that I routinely turn a deaf ear to that malign howl doesn’t deter the Veruca practitioners with whom I live. The OWS is [...]
Bookworm on Oct 21 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
I have to admit that I don’t understand the “I am the 99%” shtick coming out of OWS. If these people are saying that 99% of the country is poor, with only 1% holding the wealth, perhaps I don’t understand poverty as well as I should. When I think of poverty, I think of this: [...]
Bookworm on Oct 21 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
In 1969, during the height of the 1960s protest era, a bunch of activists seized land that the University of California, Berkeley, owned, and unilaterally declared that it was a “People’s Park,” unfettered by the petty, mundane and bourgeois concerns of property rights. The takeover was entirely successful, as UCB never was able to develop [...]
Bookworm on Oct 20 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street
JKB had a very interesting thought, which I wanted to share with all of you: It appears to me that these OWS protests are a Progressive reaction to Obama jumping into bed with Wall Street. He cheated on them. They feel betrayed but are going after the other woman as they just can’t face that [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Tea Parties
Up until recently, the Tea Party might just as well have been called the DevilNaziEvilRacistUgly Party as far as the Progressives and their ilk were concerned. In retrospect, calling participants “Tea Baggers” was one of the nicer things the Left said. Barack Obama did nothing to stop this concerted attack against a substantial portion of [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
Our society has raised a generation of children who are fixated on unicorns and fairies. The self-esteem movement has told them that their decisions are always perfect. Being perfect, of course, means never having to take responsibility. Our abandonment of discipline means that a generation never had to take responsibility for their actions. Sass mom? [...]
Bookworm on Oct 17 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street, Tea Parties
My kids taught me how to make simple videos, and now I’m going crazy: If the embedded video isn’t showing, you can see it here.
Bookworm on Oct 16 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
*** *** And Bruce Kesler (with a little back-up material from Glenn Reynolds) adds his own two cents to what’s really going on: Potemkin Protests.
Bookworm on Oct 16 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
Barry Rubin is talking about the Middle East, but he could just as well be talking about the world wide protests that our dear President is encouraging: There’s a saying that goes something like this: When things are bad, a Jew cries. When they get even worse, a Jew cries more. And when they even [...]
Bookworm on Oct 16 2011 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street
My liberal friends have been posting today, and two things caught my eye. First, this: So if I understand correctly, Jesus, who was the son of God, and these guys are pretty much one and the same? I know that those who love destruction and chaos (as opposed to one who offered salvation) are very [...]
