We are Wall Street
Bookworm on Oct 27 2011 | Filed under: Occupy Wall Street
This showed up in Chicago (click on image for full sized view):
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The lunatics have taken over the asylum
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 [...]
“I support what they do-do”
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 [...]
Irony alert from the Veruca Salt party (aka OWS)
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 [...]
Is it true that the poor ye always have with you?
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: [...]
It’s People’s Park all over again, as the homeless take over New York and Oakland
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 [...]
OWS: Lashing out at Obama’s other woman?
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 [...]
Barack Obama on Tea Parties and Flea Parties: Wrong Again
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 [...]
A complete abdication of responsibility
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? [...]
Tea Party versus Flea Party : a study in contrasts
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.
Steve Crowder on #OWS
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.
When things get too tragic, we laugh
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 [...]
OWS and Barack Obama, as seen on facebook
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 [...]
Is this the weasel way of saying “you smell bad and you scare me?”
Bookworm on Oct 14 2011 | Filed under: Leftist morality
Paul Krugman, who has been cheering the occupying army within a short walk of his own office, somehow hasn’t managed to show up and support them in person. A couple of days ago (and I don’t know how I could have missed this!) he explained why. I’ve offered translations in square brackets, to help you [...]
The #antisemitism of #OWS
Bookworm on Oct 13 2011 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism in connection with OWS was a no-brainer. The Left is antisemitic. It has been since Marx. Hitler institutionalized it to deadly effect. Stalin was less methodical than Hitler, but he made Judaism illegal and instituted various pogroms within his own party to drive out, imprison or kill Jews. No matter how many Jews are [...]
Greed is so good that it might just save America — if Veruca Salt doesn’t kill us first
Bookworm on Oct 12 2011 | Filed under: Capitalism
Maybe it’s Americans’ innate capitalist instinct — the need to commercialize everything — that is our true bulwark against a Russian or French style revolution. Sadly, though, it’s that same acquisitive quality, the one that sees most American young people grow up as Veruca Salt, that encourages the temporary ravages and inconveniences of publicly staged [...]
Obama’s America *UPDATED*
Bookworm on Oct 10 2011 | Filed under: Leftist morality
FDR made hay out of the shanty towns that sprang up under Hoover’s administration as suddenly homeless Americans tried to cope. Obama’s America is a bit different: here, we have the voluntary homeless, people who happily embrace a homeless, and incredibly dirty, lifestyle to advance their savior’s political cause. My question: Is their encouragement of [...]
Acts of charity
Bookworm on Oct 07 2011 | Filed under: Uncategorized
I was thinking about all the kids who are protesting their student loans today, and how so many of them have taken their $200,000+ educations (paid for by taxpayers through the student loan program) and gone into non-profit work, virtually guaranteeing that they will never repay the money. In other words, these students have appointed [...]
Is Sarah Lawrence College busing its students to Wall Street protests?
Bookworm on Oct 06 2011 | Filed under: Education
In a previous post, I opined that spoiled kids who don’t want to deal with their student loans are one of the motivating forces behind the Wall Street protests. Flush with neo-1960s pride, students have been pouring out of classrooms. That’s not news. One expects that from the young, Marxist-informed and excitable. What is news [...]
The genesis of Occupy Wall Street distilled to two words: student loans
Bookworm on Oct 06 2011 | Filed under: Education
I hated UC Berkeley. Loathed it. Despised it. Couldn’t shake the dust off my feet fast enough after I graduated. But graduate I did, and pretty well too, if my Phi Beta Kappa key has anything to say about it. Knowing my feelings about UCB, my daughter asked a good question: “Why didn’t you transfer [...]
