The Nation Bemoans Plight of OWS Protester $35K in Debt for Puppetry Degree

Change! From “Occupy Wall Street” to occupy church basement.

It’ll be most interesting to see what sort of “real feeling” the fellow gets sleeping in her tent!

@justinpjtrudeau

“I stood with Occupy Wall Street. Until the dudes split with my wallet.”

“I stood with Occupy Wall Street. Until I got the dry cleaning bill.”

“Recovering from amoebic dysentery will be part of your education.”

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The tolerant left;

That’s one side of what people want, right, cause that’s not the only thing people want. they also want to take the bank out of his f****** tower and string him up in the public square.. That’s not that’s not just the crazy left, that’s everyday folks talking about their experiences.
This is America, right? We want to talk about ‘We’re the 99%” as if we’re also not the 99% who also loves Transformers 4, right? As if this is the 99% who also doesn’t feel passionate anger. “All we want is our little appropriate piece of the pie and we just want to be friendly.“
And the capitalists know that’s not the case. If you want to read what the capitalists think about this you can go and look at what Glenn Beck says. He’s got a better analysis than most people on the left have about where this can go and how threaten—

Looks like the “incredible new collectivist world of the Radical Left has started falling apart. Here’s a most interesting video of the arrest of an ‘Occupy Toronto’ comrade because he was “sniffing the feet” of a young woman in a nearby tent:

Some of the comments are priceless:

Your girlfriend needs to share her beautifully smelling feet with the 99%, not keep them selfishly to you and her to enjoy. She needs to do her fair share to ensure that the rest of us get to sniff them too.
She should share her entire body with the crowd. Isn’t that what collectivism is all about. Nobody owns anything, everyone owns all. I thought these people wanted to share? If they want to take my money and redistribute it to others, why can’t I insist that this guy share his girlfriend and allow other protestors to grope her and smell her feet? I can’t imagine how bad her feet must smell at this hippie fest. Yuck!
I guess it’s fine for the protesters to harass others but they can’t handle it themselves. “Help! Police, I’m being harassed!” Deranged, mental leftists.
“All we are saying … is give us a bath!”

h/t Sammy

I have a university degree. When I started my career it opened doors for me. Without it, those doors would have been much more difficult to get through and the career trajectory opportunities in the large companies I initially worked for would have most certainly been a lot flatter. But from the beginning I understood that these were the rules of the game, as set up by these companies. The logic in the construction of these rules was simple: given two equal candidates, albeit one has a university degree in the applicable field and one does not, the former “should” be the better candidate. I never agreed with this logic but I did understand the rules of the game board on which I was playing.
It appears that many in the assorted ‘Occupy’ protests never understood these rules. Nor do they appear to understand the basic principles of Supply & Demand. To these folks, someone with a Master’s degree in social work should be more employable and make more money in Toronto than someone else with a Bachelor’s degree in Geophysics working in Fort McMurray. There are so many fallacies & flaws in the assumptions behind such thinking but logic & basic economics are likely not strong points on the CVs of the Occupy Blank full-timers.

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

Related: Mic Check! Mic Check! h/t Wally J.

Here’s some most interesting insight into the mindset (and hatred) of the twits protesting on Wall Street. Saul Alinsky would be so proud of his disciples!
Related: Here’s an Open Letter to Jon Stewart that provides a good summary of the ‘Occupy’ crowd.

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:

O, Sweet Saint of San Andreas…

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You should have learned in Grade 6 math class.

More at Hot Air.

It’s here, people. Obama’s plan is to marshal this “People’s uprising” into a political attack on the engine of capitalism, using the Wall Street he’s in bed with as an attack on the capitalist system, and the “bankers” and traders as the scapegoats.
The outlines of the plan have long been clear, but sadly, those who bothered to look and to express alarm early on were dismissed as fringe cranks and unhelpful “purists” whose outlandish Visigothery would drive away “moderates” and “independents” (who, incidentally, flocked to the GOP in the wake of the TEA Party movement, giving us a 2010 electoral landslide. But we’re to bracket that. Our betters know what’s best, regardless of how many times they prove themselves astoundingly out of touch with the mood of their own base). And now the next stage is beginning: an assault on the “fat cats” and the money men, launched from different angles, with the Occupy Wall Street crowds providing the civil unrest, the social tension, and the optics, making the more outlandish demands (and including the most repugnant fellow-travelers), while Obama serves as the voice of reason and moderation, fashioning his campaign around a populist soft-socialism in which the banks and bankers and money men are required to pay “their fair share” and the “wealth disparity” is addressed — even as the evil Republicans try to “protect the rich.”

Related: Long live spontaneity!