Licia Corbella’s newest column provides an hilarious description of the finger waving, righteous protesters who are more mixed up than a can of ‘Assorted Nuts’ on a supermarket shelf. Charles Adler discusses it with her here. Here’s a snippet from the column:
Brent Talbot, 41, the author of the unpublished book, The Addict’s Guide to Spiritual Therapy, asks Herlein to repeat his proposal as he has been distracted by a bee. Phill Vernon, 29, is ringing his Tibetan singing bowl, something he does anytime he feels tension.
Then Talbot makes a proposal that those “who are actually camping here” in Olympic Plaza in any of the 28 tents on site, “hold a meeting because nothing seems to be getting done because no one is accountable and if you’re not accountable, nothing will get done,” he says. He suggests a 3 p.m. meeting. The assembled flutter their fingers, which means the crowd agrees. One young man disagrees. He’s too busy. He’s camping at St. Patrick’s Island. He has a tight schedule to keep, presumably walking between the two camps. Vernon rings his bowl. Inertia sets in.
So another person stands up to make a proposal: “We need more bodies doing stuff,” he says. “We have a lot of people in a lot of working groups that don’t know where to be and at what time.”
It’s one of the most humorous things I’ve witnessed in months and I still watch Seinfeld.
Finally, James Louden, 38, stands up and says he’s been taking notes for the past 15 minutes and so far all that’s happened is three different people have suggested three different meetings. “We are holding a meeting and all we’ve done is proposed three new meetings,” he points out to flurry of fluttering fingers.
There’s little doubt that these “rocket scientists” will have plum government jobs within the next 5 years!
Update: Here’s a video of the “profound” thinkers of Occupy Calgary.
Update 2: Occupy Calgary . . . 2,000 years ago h/t Paul
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to hand control of our society over to these people.
Sorry, I can’t help it …
“573 committee meetings and you haven’t even discovered FIRE yet!”
-Ford Prefect, Fit the 6th, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy radio show.
I’ve been in community town hall meetings that got LESS done than these guys have.
winter can’t happen soon enough.
Letter to NOW Magazine:
. . . I believe our movement has achieved something truly remarkable.
In St. James Park Sunday night, without spending a dime, hundreds of youth danced, drummed and sang. On Monday morning, volunteers picked up garbage and cleaned toilets, cooked breakfast and washed dishes, checked stocks of supplies and ensured the safety of protesters.
In other words, they acted like adults on Monday morning.
Column from NOW:
. . . The biggest debate Saturday evening was over what the ratio of agreement needed to be when consensus couldn’t be achieved in an emergency situation. The choices were 75 per cent or 90, and the decision was deftly referred to the facilitation committee, which, like all the committees, is open to whoever shows.
Major down twinkles .
I heard this upcoming winter was supposed to be a nice extra-cold one. Heh heh heh heh heh
I don’t think I’ll complain about the weather too much…
If nothing else, this will be a wake-up call to those who believe a university education is a guarantee to a well-paid middle class job.
Right now, there’s an oversupply of geniuses and a shortage of tradespeople in Alberta — only 5% unemployment rate in the whole province.
The curious fact is that the blue collar worker has a brighter future than these geniuses … unless they’re smart enough to figure out how to train themselves for those real jobs.
The world already has enough BSers.
Occupy Lloydminster Sask/Alberta:
http://www.meridianbooster.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=3335408
We should use tidal power or hydro instead
I read this yesterday and I’m still giggling. There’s no way I’d put this guy in charge of taking out my garbage, never mind formulate public policy.
What is that old saying:
Those who do Work, and
Those who can’t Occupy parks and wiggle their fingers and play Simon Says
Or something like that.
Someone alluded to this in the comments section of the article.
You need an emergency baby sitter for your children. You’ll be assigned one person randomly selected from the crowd of your choice — “Occupy” movement or Tea Party. Who ya gonna chose?
I would call them morons, but that would be giving cretins a bad name!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bqQ-C1PSE
Monty Python explains it all!
We need a “B” Ark, folks…
Think about this for a second, would it really be all that bad if these people were running the country?
It would be small ‘c’ conservatives wet dream. Nothing would ever happen, no grand vision. Just a bunch of basement dwelling teenagers with no clue in life.
On first read,I thought this was a parody piece. They really could not be that vacant,but they are,and they have the Tibetan singing bowls to prove it.
This is the first that I’ve heard that they set up camp at Olympic Plaza. I’ll bet that Prince’s Island park did not fulfill their need for attention.
I love this exchange between Corbella and a demonstrator:
“I think we should use electric cars and stop using gasoline,” he says.”
“Does he know that most of Alberta’s electricity comes from coal-fired plants? He doesn’t.”
“We should use tidal power or hydro instead,” he suggests.
“We’re landlocked and have a couple of lazy rivers, I point out. His suggestions are akin to saying we should use stardust and unicorn sweat to run those factories that manufacture his iPad.”
Classic
Organizer from the Occupy Calgary says and I quote, “This is the most important thing the human race has ever gotten together on, hands down bar none…” And we’re supposed to take them serious?
“We’re landlocked and have a couple of lazy rivers, I point out.”
Such big words, Licia.
I doubt he even knows what ‘landlocked’ means and even if the Alberta government wanted to build hydro dams, protests would erupt and attempts to block the dam’s construction would be made by people just like him.
Out in BC the Occupy Vancouver crowd has stampeded over to Surrey to protest Bush. What great timing!!
Lol! The guy in the toque talks like a guy who’s trying to get laid by a female psych grad student.
I had always thought that Lenin’s ‘Useful Idiots’ would be somewhat less – well – less idiotic.
I was wrong.
On-topic – Two hilarious clips from Monty Python’s Life of Brian protesting oppression:
PFJ union meeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUBAx8jbYNs
and PFJ Committee meeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55fqjw2J1vI
wriggling fingers Hilarious…
Manginas to the rescue LOL
Looks like a therapy session, rather than a ‘save the world’ thingy.
The best therapy for them comes at -30c
mrctv has video clip up re protestor in TO getting arrested for ‘trying to smell my girlfriend’s feet!’..just gets better and better!
When these “occupations” end after a brisk wind comes along (and the rest of the world has to clean up literal and figurative crap), what will these posers have accomplished?
Toque man/child in the video is none other than Phill Vernon of Tibetan singing bowl fame….ding..ding…
Phill,with 2 l’s,that shows his devil-may-care individualism.When hairy girls are near,he hearts the i,that shows his tenderness.
Don’t get too close ladies,and ‘others’,esp.if you are prone to swooning.
Hmmm…What would Kent Brockman say?
Kent Brockman: Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been to Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together. A group of school-aged Spartacuses have taken the camp by force. Three counsellors are missing, and presumed scared.
Wallyj, with 2 l’s, I’m laughing my ass off!
The good news is that none of these idiots could organize a chinese fire drill, let alone a serious assault on political power bases. I’m pretty sure we have nothing to worry about.
Isn’t this the kind of crap you blabber on about in a dorm room after drinking 20 beers and emptying the bong 4 times?
Before you hit 19 years old?
While listening to the Bay City Rollers?
I still can’t get the Blazing Saddles searing in ceremony out of my mind when I hear the chanting and repetition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoM-ZC7uNnc
My eighty year old left “wingnut” neighbor, a former teacher, likes to make excuses why the homeless, jobless, etc shouldn’t be responsible for thier action and the consequences of such. One of his favorite excuses is that a lot have mental problems.
I’m starting to think he might have something there. Except where he is wrong is in his numbers.In fact, it appears as though they ALL have mental problems.
The video with the 2 one-world brain trusts in the Calgary park was quite revealing. These two had issues with A) Democracy and B) majority consensus and C) free market capitalist economics.
What ever could it be in the systems of democracy and capitalism that would treat these fine examples of intellect so badly? Hmmmmm gotta have some pretty wacky ideas to be democratically sidelined and you have to be morbidly adverse to your own self intersts to reject the only economic system capable of giving a comfortable life to marginally employable shlubs like these two.
For the education of the confused Communist masses turning out for this anti capitalism loon fest:
1) Communism is a failed economic system, ask a Russian.
2) Capitalism is not evil, it is malfunctioning because it has been attacked by governmets, sold out by corporate welfare culture and raped by greedy socialists
3) Government is not the answer, it is the problem.
4) If there are “slaves” it is the middle class and their endless struggle to pay their tax burden.
5) Full employment would cure 99% of the social problems you cite
6) Democracy is alive and well and gives the most people what they want without having to shed blood to get it.
7)The only way to improve society is to realize that the best thing you can do for the “collective” is take care of yourself, live within your means and not be a burden to it and give what excess time or wealth you have to true charity.
These are things your parents should have told you.
This is too funny. It seems that the creeps and perverts are beginning to prey on the poor indecisive socialist Liberal nitwits. Creeping into their tents and sniffing their feet and who knows what else. http://mrctv.org/videos/occupy-toronto-man-was-my-tent-sniffing-my-girlfriend%E2%80%99s-feet%E2%80%9D
@ kakola, it is easy make fun of these people, but do not underestimate them if the ones who are manipulating them ever take power. Some of these would only be too glad to be an active part of the cleansing of the “enemies of the people”.
There were tens of thousands of these useful idiots who disappeared in the Soviet gulags once their usefulness was over.
There is another common thread here.
Leftist mayors, unwilling to send the unwashed masses on their way. It is the basest form of pandering for votes. By ignoring their own laws, it renders their own bylaw department toothless, law by political leanings.
City of Vancouver has already spent $400,000 on their tent city/mosh pit/drug den after only a week. But Comrade Mayor Gregor has it all under control, he has “disappeared” the money.
If I were a business owner/taxpayer in the City, I would be getting my fellow owners together and marching on city hall and giving Mayor Moonbeam a piece of my mind. For the taxes they pay, they don’t deserve to have it pissed away on the pissers and moaners living in tents.
Occam at October 20, 2011 9:35 PM
Well put
“Dave’s not here, man.”
Occam above.
Well said