To #HEADSUPYOURBUTT otherwise known as #OCCUPYWALLSTREET…
I spit in your faces.
Big bad protestors. Occupying the smallest square in New York, the way I’ve heard it. An organized kitchen and nursery? Yay! And with your quaint call and response chants! Oy! Tell me. When one policeman’s club goes ‘bonk’ against your skulls do 100 people shout ‘Bonk!’?
How are you going to achieve your ends? What are your ends, fergawdsake! What are you threatening to do? Cut up the button tree into buttons? You’re pathetic! You think you can bring down the largest and most powerful malefactors in this country with LGBT theater? The big CEOs can barely conceal their laughter long enough to down their scotch without choking. Why is it, do you think, that their response is to send out their cheapest clowns to deal with you? Don’t you know that they are certain (and they are right) that when the cold comes you’ll all go home. They think it because, since you don’t really stand for anything, you will go home.
If you want to effect change then you have to DEMAND something! These people move billions of dollars every day to various nefarious destinations. Do you think they care because one of you may have belonged to a Union in Wisconsin?
No.
They don’t.
You have to DEMAND something. Just gathering in the street won’t change anything except your arrest status.
But Bobby, you say, we’re just a bunch of out of work doofuses. We don’t know what to ask for (whine, snivvle). It’s not our fault that we’re stupid; it’s because we’re morally superior.
I’ll tell you what to ask for.
You tell the powers that be that you’re not going anywhere until Congress passes and our chicken-shit president signs the following legislation:
“Resolved that (a) any person or organization who offers any inducement, monetary or otherwise to someone for the purpose of conducting a campaign for Federal office shall be guilty of a Class A felony and subject to a fine of 100 times the amount offered and a prison sentence of at least 5 and no more than 15 years to be served in a Federal penitentiary.
(b) any person or organization who solicits any monetary or other good for the purpose of conducting a political campaign for Federal office shall be guilty of a Class A felony and subject to a fine of 100 times the amount solicited and a prison sentence of at least 5 and no more than 15 years to be served in a Federal penitentiary.”
There are a lot more laws like this which should be passed but that will do for a start. The reaction of the Powers that Be will be furious; not just ‘no’ but ‘FUCK NO!’ They’ll try to scare you with fairy tales that only rich men will be able to run for office, that it won’t keep the money out of politics, […]
Why federal prison with a current average cost of $22,000 per year ? I do not feel like paying for this either as the court costs will be enough as it is. Just take their money, make it impossible to work in banking, financial services. or as a politician holding any federal, state, or local office.
The point is well taken and no leader or focal point to rally around has emerged. They are there waiting to be led or directed.
Robert C–Why are you burdening me with this drivel so early in the morning? Jeezuz luweezus, keep it down, man. And, you know, here’s a quarter–call someone who cares. NancyO
Str–I am concerned that the cost of regulations falls differentially on some businesses rather than others. Seems to me that anything involving patient care for incapacitated people esp. those with dementia can cost much more than any practical benefit to the patient would justify. I certainly sympathize with Mrs. R. in her difficulties putting someone’s notion of what is good for the majority of patients into effect. SSA was always like that. A lot of times it was paperwork in lieu of real physical or systems security. Hours of unproductive papershuffling every week. NancyO
A slight change of subject: The comments by a Perry supporter about the Mormons could well have been made by his predecessors about the Roman Catholic church 90 years ago. Recall that Al Smith lost big because he was an RC among other things, and the pope was evil incarnate. I suspect you could find protestant clergy at the time who said that catholics where not really christians as well. Of course if you go back 160 years the mormons were one of the twin relics of barbarism as well (polygomy). The more you know history the more things stay the same. The OWS movement reminds one of the populist movement that started after 1873 and ran thru 1896. The enemy then was the evil railroads who consipired to suck the live out of the farmer.
To #HEADSUPYOURBUTT otherwise known as #OCCUPYWALLSTREET…
I spit in your faces.
Big bad protestors. Occupying the smallest square in New York, the way I’ve heard it. An organized kitchen and nursery? Yay! And with your quaint call and response chants! Oy! Tell me. When one policeman’s club goes ‘bonk’ against your skulls do 100 people shout ‘Bonk!’?
How are you going to achieve your ends? What are your ends, fergawdsake! What are you threatening to do? Cut up the button tree into buttons? You’re pathetic! You think you can bring down the largest and most powerful malefactors in this country with LGBT theater? The big CEOs can barely conceal their laughter long enough to down their scotch without choking. Why is it, do you think, that their response is to send out their cheapest clowns to deal with you? Don’t you know that they are certain (and they are right) that when the cold comes you’ll all go home. They think it because, since you don’t really stand for anything, you will go home.
If you want to effect change then you have to DEMAND something! These people move billions of dollars every day to various nefarious destinations. Do you think they care because one of you may have belonged to a Union in Wisconsin?
No.
They don’t.
You have to DEMAND something. Just gathering in the street won’t change anything except your arrest status.
But Bobby, you say, we’re just a bunch of out of work doofuses. We don’t know what to ask for (whine, snivvle). It’s not our fault that we’re stupid; it’s because we’re morally superior.
I’ll tell you what to ask for.
You tell the powers that be that you’re not going anywhere until Congress passes and our chicken-shit president signs the following legislation:
“Resolved that (a) any person or organization who offers any inducement, monetary or otherwise to someone for the purpose of conducting a campaign for Federal office shall be guilty of a Class A felony and subject to a fine of 100 times the amount offered and a prison sentence of at least 5 and no more than 15 years to be served in a Federal penitentiary.
(b) any person or organization who solicits any monetary or other good for the purpose of conducting a political campaign for Federal office shall be guilty of a Class A felony and subject to a fine of 100 times the amount solicited and a prison sentence of at least 5 and no more than 15 years to be served in a Federal penitentiary.”
There are a lot more laws like this which should be passed but that will do for a start. The reaction of the Powers that Be will be furious; not just ‘no’ but ‘FUCK NO!’ They’ll try to scare you with fairy tales that only rich men will be able to run for office, that it won’t keep the money out of politics, […]
Robert:
Nice rant and thank you for the morning humor.
Why federal prison with a current average cost of $22,000 per year ? I do not feel like paying for this either as the court costs will be enough as it is. Just take their money, make it impossible to work in banking, financial services. or as a politician holding any federal, state, or local office.
The point is well taken and no leader or focal point to rally around has emerged. They are there waiting to be led or directed.
Interesting thoughts on government regulations and why more is not necessarily better.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/10/a-simple-theory-of-regulations-new-and-old.html
Mrs. R. is having a bad week with regulations.
Robert C–Why are you burdening me with this drivel so early in the morning? Jeezuz luweezus, keep it down, man. And, you know, here’s a quarter–call someone who cares. NancyO
Run–FYI–I directed my remarks to Robert Consoli, not you.
Str–I am concerned that the cost of regulations falls differentially on some businesses rather than others. Seems to me that anything involving patient care for incapacitated people esp. those with dementia can cost much more than any practical benefit to the patient would justify. I certainly sympathize with Mrs. R. in her difficulties putting someone’s notion of what is good for the majority of patients into effect. SSA was always like that. A lot of times it was paperwork in lieu of real physical or systems security. Hours of unproductive papershuffling every week. NancyO
A slight change of subject: The comments by a Perry supporter about the Mormons could well have been made by his predecessors about the Roman Catholic church 90 years ago. Recall that Al Smith lost big because he was an RC among other things, and the pope was evil incarnate. I suspect you could find protestant clergy at the time who said that catholics where not really christians as well. Of course if you go back 160 years the mormons were one of the twin relics of barbarism as well (polygomy). The more you know history the more things stay the same. The OWS movement reminds one of the populist movement that started after 1873 and ran thru 1896. The enemy then was the evil railroads who consipired to suck the live out of the farmer.
nancy
you were closer to the action longer than i was, but my observation was that without the regulations the clients would have been left to rot.