My girlfriend & I returned to Vancouver late Sunday night, after a long drive west from Banff. I hadn’t heard any news in days and was interested to learn what had transpired at ‘Occupy Vancouver’. It fizzled … big time. Make no mistake, the usual Rent-A-Crowd Leftie Dregs were out in full force, as usual with their non-solutions, but nothing more transpired.
Here’s a curious video from the event:
That video is in serious need of some editing. Most of the signs should be shown in a slide show, rather than waste video time on them.
If the audio is too poor to enable one to make out what a speaker is saying, why not simply edit out all the audio for that segment?
That Green Party (?) candidate for mayor is an inarticulate fool, isn’t he?
That was great! It showed everything about the Occupy X movement and it only took 10 minutes. There was everything, cheesey moustache, weird people everywhere, strange signs, artsy symbolism, doing drugs in front of children (and police) and a pied piper. One thing is for damn sure, they are the fringe and not the majority.
Sheeple.
REPEAT AFTER ME——repeat after me. GET A FRIGGIN JOB ——get a friggin job —-oops, wait a sec you can’t tell me to get a job you are working to support me.
The cheering space cadet mascot was an appropriate touch…
Incoherent
Pretty reasuring, isn’t it?
I mean, if that’s the competition, we’re not up against too much, are we?
Did Haloween come early this year?
Dreamers, drifters, wannabes . . . they’ll all love each other and everyone will just get along.
If you can’t handle reality, join the “protest”.
The entertainment value is at best modest.
Demonstrations in Edmonton? Anyone who doesn’t have a job in Edmonton must have an anvil tied to their a$$. Around here you apply for 3 jobs and get offers for 4. Every time my daughter goes into a restaurant she gets offered a job in small town Alberta.
Robert: Busted! You are just one of those left coast pot smoking hippies like the rest, except you don’t have your own sign.
Seriously dude, I hope you have your Hep C shots. That “vaporizer” didn’t look like it came from the clean shoot up clinic.
Good video Robert.
But I’ll repeat the caution about Hep “C” etc.
Heh. The `sufferer`claiming to have a medical marihuana licence appeared to be clearly in pain….
Looks as though he had about 2 to 3 oz. in the bag he was carrying.
AS that old commercial stated, `Don`t Leave Home Without It`.
Bought the vaporizer on EBay. Yeah, down with corporatism.
Oy.
Robert
Thank you for sacrificing your body for research purposes.
Did you get sudden cravings for pizza?
Interesting. Thanks Robert. Nice touch with dude with the baggy and vaporizer.
I felt creepy being in the midst of that collection of fringe groups.
If that young woman with the ball and chain ever gets her wish, she will know what a real ball and chain feels like.
I was hoping they were going to do the silent wave fingers in the air clapping, because I find that particularly stupid/funny.
At least the grass bagger was married
One of the things I don’t miss about Vancouver is shoving my way through a crowd in front of the art gallery protesting the outrage of the week.
On a medical note, getting HepC from a vaporizer is exceedingly unlikely. HepB – possible so I hope you’ve had your HepB vaccine. HIV – close to zero. BTW, there is no vaccine for HepC – RNA virus and mutates wildly like HIV but fortunately hard to spread unless you do something stupid like share syringes.
As far as medical marijuana goes, most people in Vancouver have a card from the Vancouver Compassion Club which means the cops won’t seize their stash. All it takes is a form from the doctor stating that their medical condition has been helped by cannabis. Signed a lot of those for the condition of insomnia as cannabis seems to work quite well for this in some people.
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Cathy’s Clown rename them
Cathy’s Clown’s
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About that video. 40 seconds and I hit the stop button. I’ve had enough of stupid people wasting oxygen.
Watching this I got a very palpable sense that these people are basically bored.
Ha!
Occasionally I turn the dial to Sask CBC 540 just to keep a handle on what’s in the airwaves.
This morning Sheila Coles was interviewing one of the Einsteins participating in the farcical occupancy.
Hoping for a cogent response as to the reason for being there, the doofus hadn’t the foggiest…some of his friends were there or something. Two or three softball lobs couldn’t even help, so the CBC decided to cut their losses.
Lord help us all!
loki said:
“Signed a lot of those for the condition of insomnia as cannabis seems to work quite well for this in some people”
I have insomnia….my investments are keeping me awake at night. Can I get a Rx for 18 year old single malt Scotch????
And will the medical plans pay fo it???
If so, I’m in….
What a nice bunch of young peaceful activists.
I was waiting for them to run amok and burn Vancouver down again, except it would be a peaceful burn 2.0 this time. They were probably too high to get motivated. Possibly there is some sort or price hike on capitalist beer this fall?
I liked the sign about feeding farm animals while the world is starving. Do they know that the decadent Chinese are eating more beef and milk lately as they get stinking rich? Mao wouldn’t approve, that’s for sure, especially since their importing allot of it from Canada and Canadian farmers are getting capitalist rich from the sales. Sigh, we should all get high and not go to work for a year, that’ll teach everyone to respect us more.
Curious: As I understand it, this whole thing was started by a Vancouver magazine, Adbusters. You’d think they would have more impact in their own city.
(I suppose something else would have triggered it if Adbusters hadn’t.)
Why are they doing the “human microphone” thing when they HAVE an actual microphone??
Darn we need a hippy drum circle to complete the farce
I just finished watching some of the X Factor. I also watch a bit of American Idol when it’s on in the spring … I don’t watch Survivor, the Great Race or other reality shows, but I did connect some dots.
All those shows are intensely competitive. They all have large audiences … young audiences. Those fans love the competition, they love to identify with the winners and feel bad for the losers.
That is the American way. Americans love competition. Have you ever noted the popularity of sport in America? Canada too of course.
My point is the those vermin who are out on the streets stealing each others camera’s, phones and money are the minority of losers who don’t even want to compete. There is something wrong with them. Something missing in their human spirit where they cast out all their pride and wish to be looked after by the state as one would look after pets. Sure that’s slop in my food bowl, but it’s free eh?
Hardly a side of humanity worth even noticing other than to hit them with a water canon and send them all home to mom’s place.
My point is that it will take a hell of lot more than a few grubby misguided fools to destroy the spirit of most young and older Americans. We still love freedom and we love get out there and make a life for ourselves and our families. We like to win.
What kind of person could have any pride or self-esteem when they are completely at the mercy of faceless, mindless, heartless bureaucrats and politicians. Where everyone is a loser because there are no more competitions.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say these people didn’t want to be taken seriously.
Bruce, unfortunately the medical plan doesn’t cover the cost of single malt scotch, even if it’s used for medical purposes. FWIW, people who require “medical” cannabis have to pay for it also – the compassion club won’t sell to anyone without a valid card.
What surprised me was that in order to buy 95% ethanol in BC one needs a doctors prescription that is taken to the liquor store to be filled. Had a few patients who made their own liqueurs that would come in for their prescriptions every winter.
My neighbor, who is a raving left wingnut, always tries to absolve the jobless/homeless of any responsibility by suggesting that a lot of them have a mental problem. After watching this video I’m starting to believe him.
Yeah, they’re really something! could only watch the first 3 minutes, and got bored. Why do these women always have frizzy hair? Is it the dope, or do they only wash it once a week?
See what happens when you empty the nut houses to save money ?? The scary part is that they breed.
Why do these women always have frizzy hair? Is it the dope, or do they only wash it once a week?
Posted by: larben at October 19, 2011 1:46 AM
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Yes.
Leftists getting diseases from their drug use? What’s the problem here? If anything thwey deserve to get sick. Live a life of uselessness and die from it. Sounds like good karma.
I freguent a used clothing store run by Christians, they provide education and jobs for the mentally retarded and those who suffered life altering head injuries and honestly those people are ten times the human beings those lazy useless arseholes are.
All you people saying that these people are somehow the minority in Vancouver have not been there. Open drug use and complete crackpot political views are the norm. Robert can confirm but basically drug use is rampant. For example if the mayor does not smoke pot regularly I would be completely astounded.
Funny how it’s a cesspool, and yet it’s incessant…
@james They’re still by far the minority. But I agree about Mayor Moonbeam.
It’s only pot people! We have a million more serious things to be dealing with!!
Aizlynne said: “It’s only pot people! We have a million more serious things to be dealing with!!”
Never give the enemy an inch.
3-4 times a year I am herding a group of high school students back in the direction of the high school, after I find them smoking up in the trees behind my kids elementary school. At least they have stopped asking me if I want a toke.
I think Gregor Robertson is high most of the time.