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December 08, 2011

"You Can't Evict an Idea"
— Russ from Winterset

...according to one of the Occupy Boston "leaders", quoted in this Boston Herald article.

He's right. Ideas have no physical manifestation, so there's nothing to "evict".

The smelly Marxist hippie-wannabe over-educated "Conflict Resolution" and "Transgendered Samoan Studies" majors who make up the bulk of the Occupy movement? Definitely not "ideas", hence they are "evictable".

How ironic is it that the places where the Occupy Movement is grating the hardest on local governments are all Blue State Hellholes?

New York? Boston? Oakland? Not exactly the prefered habitat of your typical "bitter clinger", eh? Yet these are fast becoming the new cultural Stalingrads. Funny how that works.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at 04:20 AM | Comments (76)
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1 I don't know Russ. We have the SOBs here in Columbia, SC too. Just not too many of them.

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2011 04:22 AM (YdQQY)

2 ^{"You Can't Evict an Idea"}

But you can tune a fish.

Posted by: REO Speedwagon at December 08, 2011 04:23 AM (oif6Y)

3 Yeah, Vic, I hear ya. The good thing is that in places like Columbia the scum aren't going to achieve "critical mass" like they have in more liberal cities.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at December 08, 2011 04:24 AM (NqRFe)

4 "You can't evict an idea." No, but we can blast pepper-spray into your eyes and laugh while you writhe in agony. That's good enough for me.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 08, 2011 04:25 AM (XE2Oo)

5 Yeah, Vic, I hear ya. The good thing is that in places like Columbia the scum aren't going to achieve "critical mass" like they have in more liberal cities.

Yeah, Nikki Haley had them ran out of the State House grounds but they found a judge to let them back in....with tents.

But there is only 19 of them at last count.

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2011 04:26 AM (YdQQY)

"How ironic is it that the places where the Occupy Movement is grating the hardest on local governments are all Blue State Hellholes?"

The Blue States would also have been the places where the 60s hippies eventually settled and spawned. It appears that they don't really like their own children. Funny, neither do we.

Posted by: Decaf at December 08, 2011 04:26 AM (0LHB0)

Nineteen? Hell, that's barely enough to form a audible hippie drum circle....but only if ALL of them get on the drums nonstop 24/7.

You could clean up that encampment with one garden hose and a big bottle of bleach. Not quite the same problem as Oakland or NYC are facing.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at December 08, 2011 04:30 AM (NqRFe)

8 You could clean up that encampment with one garden hose and a big bottle of bleach. Not quite the same problem as Oakland or NYC are facing.

Yeah, they just don't seem to have much support here for some reason or another. I would guess too that most of those 19 are out of State students from USC.

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2011 04:33 AM (YdQQY)

9 Anyone see the work-at-home-Kelly-exposed ad? That one almost got me to click.

Posted by: sTevo Wxyzhala at December 08, 2011 04:34 AM (vXr7p)

10 "You can't evict an idea".

To which the correct response is: "well, as soon as you actually have one, let's conduct an experiment and see".

Posted by: pep at December 08, 2011 04:34 AM (YXmuI)

11 Interesting that OWS is absent/quiescent/unreported in Obama's home state.

Posted by: crypticon at December 08, 2011 04:38 AM (BoE3Z)

12 "You can't evict an idea" 1) No but you can make fun of it 2) I haven't seen an idea yet, only mindless ramblings 3) Hey how's that degree in women's studies working out for you?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 08, 2011 04:39 AM (i6RpT)

The court grasps the nettle and states that occupation, defined as taking possession by settlement or seizure, is not a symbol or expressive conduct that is constitutionally protected.Â”

Theft is not protected as an expression of free speech? Whoduthunkit?

Posted by: Cicerokid at December 08, 2011 04:39 AM (n1wj0)

14 I want to evict Obama and all his crew. In handcuffs and orange jumpsuits.

Posted by: Pecos, Perry in a blaze of Glory at December 08, 2011 04:39 AM (2Gb0y)

15 Jon S. Corzine, the former U.S. senator and New Jersey governor who presided over the collapse of the commodities brokerage MF Global, says he cannot explain what happened to Â“many hundreds of millions of dollarsÂ” that the firm was holding for customers. In testimony prepared for delivery to Congress on Thursday, Corzine says he was Â“stunnedÂ” to learn shortly before the firm sought bankruptcy protection at the end of October that MF Global could not account for the money. Hey now there's a unique idea: plead complete ignorance?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 08, 2011 04:43 AM (i6RpT)

16 11 Interesting that OWS is absent/quiescent/unreported in Obama's home state.

Posted by: crypticon at December 08, 2011 08:38 AM (BoE3Z)

They were denied Grant Park. "Not in my back yard" syndrone? 175 were arrested back in the middle of November after failing to leave Grant Park after curfew.

Posted by: Cicerokid at December 08, 2011 04:43 AM (n1wj0)

17 The punk has watched that retarded V for Vendetta movie too many times.

Posted by: Bob Saget at December 08, 2011 04:44 AM (SDkq3)

18 The commie factories of Cal Berkeley and Cal Davis have been even harsher than the liberal cities.

Posted by: forest at December 08, 2011 04:44 AM (837xu)

19 But can he roller skate in a Buffalo herd?

Posted by: jwb7605 at December 08, 2011 04:46 AM (Qxe/p)

20 You can't pound an idea into a blockhead, either.

Posted by: No Whining at December 08, 2011 04:46 AM (Og1Kk)

21 Who was it that suggested that colleges be co-signer of student loans? I kind of like the idea because it would help the colleges to pare down the angry women studies departments. Occupy movements would be hardest hit.

Posted by: sTevo Wxyzdala at December 08, 2011 04:46 AM (FzVlt)

22 There's still a little nest of these dbags in Des Moines. Apparently they helped themselves to the belongings of a 65 year old man who was evicted from his apartment yesterday. Just walked across the street and helped themselves. The neighbors were having none of it...

http://www.kcci.com/r/29946414/detail.html

Posted by: DebinIowa at December 08, 2011 04:47 AM (XmCN8)

23 If the drummers assembled outside the judge's house, the law would take a different view.

First amendment rights are being taken all of the way to "Ludicrous Speed" unless of course you do something really dangerous, like print "Christmas holiday" on a school calendar.

Posted by: AE at December 08, 2011 04:47 AM (AsVq7)

24 October 23, 2011|By Peter Nickeas and Jim Jaworski | Tribune reporter

Chicago police arrested about 130 Occupy Chicago protesters starting about 1 a.m. today after the group returned to Grant Park for the second weekend Saturday night and tried to maintain a camp in the park after its official closing time.

Police estimated that the crowd that showed up for a rally earlier in the evening peaked at around 3,000 people by the time protesters arrived in Congress Plaza at Michigan Avenue and Congress Parkway after a march from Federal Plaza in the Loop.

Occupiers have never occupied Grant Park in Chicago. Ever. SCOAMF healed this city with his aura of goodness, so these people have nothing to protest!

Posted by: Cicerokid at December 08, 2011 04:48 AM (n1wj0)

25 Because they know if they pulled this crap in a red state they were liable to get shot when they started vandalizing property and terrifying children.

Posted by: Laura Castellano at December 08, 2011 04:48 AM (fuw6p)

26 This erudite philosopher then added that Big Kahuna Burger has some "very tasty burgers".

Posted by: The Mega Independent at December 08, 2011 04:49 AM (ndIo/)

27 "You can't evict an idea" said Tojo.

Posted by: Jean at December 08, 2011 04:50 AM (eLCau)

28 Wrong. As the father of 2 teenage daughters, I have evicted many stupid ideas out of their little heads. It is a simple process: No. Hell No. Over my dead god damn body no. Works everytime. Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 08, 2011 08:48 AM (OWjjx) Yup I have 2 daughters also. I have used that method many times. Also " And I'll take my credit card back" works rather well also.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 08, 2011 04:50 AM (i6RpT)

29 Don't these people ever give up?

Posted by: LTC Kilgore at December 08, 2011 04:51 AM (8sCoq)

30 Yup I have 2 daughters also. I have used that method many times. Also " And I'll take my credit card back" works rather well also.

Don't forget the ever popular "my house, my rules". Ah, the classics.

Posted by: pep at December 08, 2011 04:51 AM (YXmuI)

31 Why is Corzine not in custody?

Posted by: Jean at December 08, 2011 04:52 AM (eLCau)

32 My kids are still young enough to react to the look

Posted by: Jean at December 08, 2011 04:54 AM (eLCau)

33 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) says 'No' to RINO Romney at December 08, 2011 04:54 AM (8y9MW)

34 You can't say your lines and expect to be taken seriously.

Posted by: Anakin Skywalker at December 08, 2011 04:55 AM (oif6Y)

35 KCCI reporter Marcus McIntosh talked to Occupy Protesters about the incident.
"You said the political statement you are trying to make is you are fighting for people who are homeless and have been evicted so isn't it hypocritical to come over here and take stuff from people who have been evicted just because their stuff was put on the street?" asked McIntosh.
"I just don't understand the connection you are trying to make," said protester Bob Allen.
"You don't understand the question or you don't want to understand," said McIntosh.
"I want to understand. I understand completely. I understand there is an issue trying to be made about us somehow stealing property that was put next to the street when in fact this is commonplace and happens everywhere," said Allen.
OWSers: "This is what pillaging looks like."

Posted by: No Whining at December 08, 2011 04:55 AM (Og1Kk)

36 Why is Corzine not in custody? Because he isn't a Republican.

Posted by: runningrn at December 08, 2011 04:56 AM (u/RSM)

37 35, toss in my wooden serving spoon, and I think you have valid hypothesis

Posted by: Jean at December 08, 2011 04:56 AM (eLCau)

38 I managed to get all 3 kids out of the nest when they turned 18.
Well, I'm a softie so it was 19 for one daughter.

They're all grateful now. Not so much, back then.

Posted by: jwb7605 at December 08, 2011 04:57 AM (Qxe/p)

39 Life is like a box of chocolates.

Posted by: Occupy Boston Leader at December 08, 2011 04:58 AM (ndIo/)

40 Sock off. Illinois has enough disgrace and angst without OWS adding to it, I guess. Blago gets 14 years. 2 ex-guvs in the Federal pokey. God what a great place to be held hostage in.
My fear is that the cancer that is us will spread and become the norm in America. The Chicago Way.

Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2011 04:58 AM (BoE3Z)

41 Mom's raised eyebrow is a powerful thing.

Posted by: kqb29 at December 08, 2011 04:58 AM (hW7/O)

42 OWSers: "This is what pillaging looks like." Exactly why Obama told the bankers that he was the only one standing between them and the pitchforks. These losers are stalwart soldiers in Obama's citizen army. Remember when he talked about funding such an entity equal to the U. S Military? It seemed so far-fetched and inconceivable. This is what he meant.

Posted by: runningrn at December 08, 2011 05:00 AM (u/RSM)

43 OT: Google reminds me today is Diego Rivera's 125th birthday. Yesterday, a nation remembered the attacks on Pearl Harbor. Google did nothing. Again.

Posted by: Dang at December 08, 2011 05:00 AM (BbX1b)

44 How ironic is it that the places where the Occupy Movement is grating the hardest on local governments are all Blue State Hellholes?

Well, there is the point that the people of Red States are less likely to react kindly to the kinds of idiocy they had in, say, Oakland and NYC.

My kids are still young enough to react to the look

With a good enough look, they're always young enough to react. My mom could shut my brothers and I up even into our twenties if she was mad enough.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) says 'No' to RINO Romney at December 08, 2011 05:01 AM (8y9MW)

The boy...eh, he is starting to think its an invitation to throw down.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 08, 2011 08:55 AM (OWjjx)

Just as soon as my son grew taller than me, he began trying to Come the Man and Hold Forth.

Didn't work too good. I've been short all my life.

Posted by: Pecos, Perry in a blaze of Glory at December 08, 2011 05:01 AM (2Gb0y)

46 My fear is that the cancer that is us will spread and become the norm in America. The Chicago Way. It already has.

Posted by: runningrn at December 08, 2011 05:02 AM (u/RSM)

47 "You can't evict an idea."

But sometimes you can actually beat sense into someone.

Posted by: Dang at December 08, 2011 05:03 AM (BbX1b)

48 What exactly are these filthy scum protesting again? They have their Uncle Sugar in office, what's the problem? Have we run out of sugar?

Posted by: Fritz at December 08, 2011 05:04 AM (/ZZCn)

"Why is Corzine not in custody?"

Unlike Blagojevich, he was useful to the Sun King.

Posted by: Decaf at December 08, 2011 05:06 AM (0LHB0)

50 Now I remember what this "You can't evict an idea" line reminded me of. Remember in Boogie Nights when Mark Wahlberg and John C, Reilly's characters decided to record their shitty songs in a studio and the studio owner kicked them out of the studio and confiscated the tapes because they hadn't paid their bill? Same ineffectual whining while admitting defeat: "Granted, the tapes themselves are a uh, um, oh, you own them, all right, but the MAGIC that is on those tapes... That fucking heart and soul that we put onto those tapes, that is OURS and you don't own that!" Ok, dipshit. Move along.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 08, 2011 05:06 AM (XE2Oo)

51 52
Yeah I guess it's started. Just makes me a little ashamed that it was spawned from here. It's trying to creep downstate. We just keep withdrawing and pulling back from it. The place is pretty Balkanized. That's one of the things I fear is coming.

Posted by: tubal at December 08, 2011 05:06 AM (BoE3Z)

52 The Occupy Denver protesters are hardcore. Overnight temps went down below zero the other night and they hung in there. I don't know if this is brave or stupid. Probably stupid.

Posted by: Jones at December 08, 2011 05:15 AM (8sCoq)

Our OWS in town (Louisville) hung out for a couple of days, had like a parade or something once or twice, and has moved on or something. I really don't know if they're still organized or whatever or have just faded away.

Essentially what happened is they got a few days of media coverage, down the middel to slightly favorable, but didn't hang around long enough to annoy people in town.

Not that they planned it. They'd probably still be out there if they could, it's just that Kentuckians just don't have a mass volume of leftists to sustain such a thing. (Which is nice.)

Hopefully (and most likely, thankfully) they're not smart enough to learn the lesson that such actions are better in small doses.

Posted by: Lee (in KY) at December 08, 2011 05:16 AM (mxMC0)

"The Occupy Denver protesters are hardcore. Overnight temps went down below zero the other night and they hung in there. I don't know if this is brave or stupid. Probably stupid."

My mother says that eventually it catches up with you, maybe not now but eventually when you crest the rise at 50 years of age.

Posted by: Decaf at December 08, 2011 05:20 AM (0LHB0)

55 The real irony is that the more dyed in the wool, blue liberal a place is - like Boston - the more sympathetic they are to the OWS cause, the longer they allow them to stay, and thus the more difficult it is to evict them. And so, the most sympathetic cities end up antagonizing their Occupy movement the most. The irony of it is DELICIOUS.

Posted by: deadrody at December 08, 2011 05:23 AM (aT8Zk)

56 What's also funny is watching Menino be a complete dick to the media and any kind of Occupy Boston opposition in the beginning, and now watching him transfer into a complete DICK to the occupiers. More deliciousness.

Posted by: deadrody at December 08, 2011 05:25 AM (aT8Zk)

57 The idea being, of course, that owning a home would foster the qualities that one finds in the middle class: frugality, civic-mindedness, responsibility, a strong sense of community and family, and so on.

The same way extending marriage rights to promiscuous homosexuals will make them models of commitment and virtue.

Or so Andrew "Milky Loads" Sullivan would have us believe.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 08, 2011 05:27 AM (AQD6a)

58 When is National Punch a Hippie Day?

Posted by: toby928© at December 08, 2011 05:27 AM (evdj2)

If you need to be reminded to punch a hippie, then I feel sorry for you.

EVERY freakin' day is National Punch a Hippie Day in my world.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at December 08, 2011 05:30 AM (NqRFe)

60 I can't wait for the Iowa Caucuses, to see how well their planned protest goes.

And by "how well it goes" I mean observe the spectacular level of fail they achieve. Then declare victory.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 08, 2011 05:43 AM (UEEex)

Not that Jay and I would EVER plan a counterprotest or anything.

*goes back out to the garage to do some more body work on the wrecked Lincoln with a turret welded on & "EAT ME" painted on the side.*

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at December 08, 2011 05:50 AM (NqRFe)

62 *goes back out to the garage to do some more body work on the wrecked Lincoln with a turret welded on & "EAT ME" painted on the side.*

Don't forget the snowplow front for clearing protesters. And the extra pepper spray tank.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at December 08, 2011 05:58 AM (UEEex)

63 A source of scholarly and contemporary eventful research from a contrasting viewpoint, Webster Tarpley conducted an interview (postmortem) with Eric Dreitser summing up OWS. For those interested in an intellectual argument from counterrevolution to stop imperialism ("Austrian School of Economics is Morally Bankrupt"), it's the first discussion following the show's Dec.3rd program overview.
NYC OWS Assembly Report:
1. Impeach Obama (based on his Libya, economic policies)
2. WPA model Jobs For All forum (Dec.13)
3. Glass-Steagall reinstatement (Tobin Tax would be a more significant demand)
4. Campaign Finance Reform

Disagree with Tarpley as one will, his research is well founded. What we determine from conclusions is determined by our own biases. Regardless, Tarpley reports from his own travels and his own truly scholarly research. Take evidence for what it's worth.

Btw, morons need not erroneously infer that Tarpley's views are my views. Only that imho, knowledge is power and ignorance is not bliss.

Posted by: The Pirates Your Mother Fears at December 08, 2011 06:16 AM (lpWVn)

64 True, you can't evict an idea. Then again, ideas don't crap on police cars. Ideas don't rape women and deaf guys. Ideas don't sell and use drugs. Ideas don't bust up and vandalize private property. Let the ideas stay and let's evict the dirty rotten hippy thugs.

Posted by: azkag at December 08, 2011 06:26 AM (qVjM6)

Well, at least Philly got it somewhat right. The turds were evicted 2 weeks ago from their Obamaville and they haven't been heard from since.

The fact that they were interfering with a union jobsite didn't help. Not much sympathy there.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at December 08, 2011 07:02 AM (YmPwQ)

66 You cannot refute an idea by evicting people, but the corollary is that neither can you establish an idea by occupying space!

Posted by: Daryl Herbert at December 08, 2011 07:20 AM (foQly)

67 Your ass isn't an idea, and your ass is out of here.

Posted by: epobirs at December 08, 2011 07:24 AM (kcfmt)

68 You can telepathically evict an idea, though.

Posted by: Roy at December 08, 2011 07:36 AM (VndSC)

"You can't evict an idea" reminds me of a line from an old routine by The Committee: "You can't sell fire, man. It's one of the four elements!"

Posted by: OCBill at December 08, 2011 08:17 AM (YJvVE)

70 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at December 08, 2011 08:39 AM (7WJOC)

71 26 Because they know if they pulled this crap in a red state they were liable to get shot when they started vandalizing property and terrifying children.

Posted by: Laura Castellano

Can you say "Target rich enviorment"?

I knew you could.

Posted by: Gmac at December 08, 2011 08:47 AM (k2Fyd)

72 "New York? Boston? Oakland? Not exactly the preferred habitat of your typical "bitter clinger", eh? Yet these are fast becoming the new cultural Stalingrads. Funny how that works."

Yeah....funny...or maybe just inevitable.

Posted by: Sgt. York at December 08, 2011 12:08 PM (H3Kr3)

73 >> Anyone see the work-at-home-Kelly-exposed ad?

I take that as a no.

Posted by: sTevo at December 08, 2011 12:50 PM (VMcEw)

74 The guy with this idea? J. Gallant

Seriously, someone misnamed him; that or I never want to meet the Goofus counterpart to this idiot.

Posted by: gekkobear at December 08, 2011 03:32 PM (trIHQ)

75
I am not clear if I totally understand the full thought pattern behind this.

Posted by: Tiny Buddha, Simple Wisdom for Life’s Hard Questions ePub at December 08, 2011 06:13 PM (NnwTo)

76 Test

Posted by: lowandslow at December 11, 2011 09:28 AM (GZitp)

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