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A Few Words For #OWS

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…from Bill Whittle.

[Update a few minutes later]

The Left’s war on self reliance (not a permalink).

[Update a couple minutes later]

They are the one percent:

Many “Occupy Wall Street” protesters arrested in New York City reside in more luxurious homes than some of their rhetoric might suggest, a Daily Caller investigation has found.

And what did the arrest records of all those Tea Party members reveal? Oh, wait! There aren’t any.

The Tea Party is a political movement. #OWS is a crime wave.

[Update late morning]

Lifestyles of the rich and arrested — a slideshow of homes of the “99%.”

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Hey, remember how Queen Nancy told us that the Tea Party was just astroturf, not a real grass-roots movement? Well, ACORN has been busted:

…an activist named Channing, who has been at the Occupy Wall Street protests from the beginning, volunteers the information that the former ACORN organization–through its new front group, New York Communities for Change–is paying $10 per hour and $100 per day to homeless people to attend the demonstrations.

It’s such a popular protest among the disaffected, they have to be paid to attend. And I wonder where ACORN is getting the money? From the 53%?

7 thoughts on “A Few Words For #OWS”

  1. “Many ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters arrested in New York City reside in more luxurious homes than some of their rhetoric might suggest, a Daily Caller investigation has found. . . .”

    Radical Chic lives!

    Speaking of Radical Chic, I’m old enough to remember that phenomenon first-hand. For the benefit of you young’uns out there, it was an alliance of the guilt-ridden “liberal” upper-class with the lumpenproletariat against middle-class America and its “bourgeois” values. Made famous by Tom Wolfe in an essay (later book) of the same name–in which Wolfe reported on Leonard Bernstein’s Park Avenue party for the Black Panthers–it was a pretty common mind-set among “liberals” of the late Sixties and early Seventies. And you didn’t have to even be a Park Avenue Pinko to support it. I remember a left-wing professor who told us pretty much that the middle-class was hopeless and the worker’s paradise would be brought about by pressure from above by wealthy “progressives” and from above by rioting ghetto thugs and their New Left white-college-student imitators. Wolfe pretty much killed Radical Chic by exposing its loonier incarnations to the light of scrutiny.

    So it’s odd to me–a codger with a long memory–that now all I keep reading from the MSM is “Lo, the Poor Middle Class.” How the middle-class is being squeezed, etc., and how–surprise!–Big Brother must step in to rescue it. The middle-class has gone from despised enemy to another “victim” class that the State must support. When, I wonder, did the Party Line change?

  3. Lifestyles of the rich and arrested — a slideshow of homes of the “99%.”

    That bunker ruins the view of the green! What a dump!

    1. The bunker is a metaphor for the corporations that trap people from transitioning from the massive fairways to the elite greens.

      Titus, you don’t know what it is like to live in that house and watch people get trapped in that bunker every day. Perhaps if you lived in such a home; you could understand what that person has lived daily.

      1. I don’t know where they find the strength to carry on — perhaps inside father’s liquor cabinet and Ferrari.

  4. It’s just that like, you know, the world, is like, so unfair, and stuff, and like, we should be like, uh, giving people opportunities, to like, change the world and stuff, so like, you know, we should change it all AND EVERYTHING, because that will be, well uh, good you know. And besides, those evil bankers, they just stole all that money, from everybody, because like, they didn’t earn it, they stole it. So, we need to take it back and make it fair again. And when I mean “it’, I mean “stuff”, and “things”, like a right to a job with a environmental agency or an animal rights agency, and a 6 bed room house with media room and DLP projector, and a Gov’t back Starbucks gift card that never runs out. Oh, and unlimited Itunes downloads, because the 32gb iPAD is ballz but $1 a song is straight up fascist.

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