March 22, 2012

Unemployed Layabouts Announce General Strike; Sitting-Around-Collecting-Checks Industry Could Be Imperiled
— Ace

Occupy, the people who have no jobs, have announced they're going to take a break from not working and go on strike from not working, which, logically speaking, should mean they'll in fact start working.

But it doesn't, and it won't.

Occupy Wall Street, largely forgotten over the last few months, aims to make a comeback from this winter’s hibernation with an ambitious plan: a crippling May Day “general strike” in the tradition of 1930s radicalism.

The grand promise is what one occupier, Brendan Burke, described to BuzzFeed as “a day without the 99%.” But in the city where the movement was born, it’s already suffering from what has emerged as one of Occupy’s signal weaknesses, the lack of ability or interest to make alliances with liberal institutions. Despite public solidarity, there’s little relationship between the Occupy movement and organized labor. And as a result, even the most progressive New York labor leaders say their members will not participate in the May 1 strike…

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1 Hahahaha!!!!! Fuck these assholes!

Posted by: EC at March 22, 2012 01:34 PM (R15UB)

2

"general strike" means "refuse to use even the hippie deodarant"

Posted by: wooga at March 22, 2012 01:35 PM (vjyZP)

3 They should go into the sanitation department.  I hear they're good at handling sewage.

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 01:35 PM (6TB1Z)

4 I hate commies.

Posted by: mike at March 22, 2012 01:35 PM (kqXHe)

5 Anarchists couldn't successfully plan a bowel movement.

Posted by: Cicero at March 22, 2012 01:35 PM (272s8)

6 To say "epic fail" makes no sense. Their whole miserable existences already fall into that category.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 22, 2012 01:36 PM (Af3Wg)

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

Posted by: steevy at March 22, 2012 01:36 PM (7W3wI)

8

Tell me again why I get up and go to work every day?

Posted by: USS Diversity at March 22, 2012 01:36 PM (vpe0k)

9 2 "general strike" means "refuse to use even the hippie deodarant" Posted by: wooga at March 22, 2012 05:35 PM (vjyZP) Use Tickle! With the big wide ball!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 22, 2012 01:36 PM (Af3Wg)

10 How do you tell when an unemployed "activist" is on strike? He sleeps until 2 pm instead of noon?

Posted by: Cicero at March 22, 2012 01:37 PM (272s8)

11 BWAH,HAHAHAAH!!!

Posted by: Mark formerly in Spokane,now in Sandy Ut at March 22, 2012 01:37 PM (8ac7j)

12 Ahh, logic. I don't think this means the same thing to them as it does to normal people.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 01:38 PM (d0Tfm)

13 I've got to think that the Big City mayors a) are tired of this crap, already; and b) have gotten their orders from Obama that this will not happen in the run up to the election.   Nothing would put an end to his chances, already slim, than these monkeys gibbering in front of the electorate.  No, they won't be on the evening news, but as with Keystone and contraception, that particular filter has now been removed.

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 01:38 PM (6TB1Z)

14 Ace, put up the poster.  "No chores" I kid you not.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 22, 2012 01:38 PM (T0NGe)

15 That's like Michael Moore taking a break from dieting.

Posted by: Dang at March 22, 2012 01:38 PM (BbX1b)

16 I find the absence of the phrase:  Containers of feces, disturbing.

Posted by: toby928© at March 22, 2012 01:38 PM (GTbGH)

17 That's like Sandra Fluke taking a break from abstinence.


Posted by: Dang at March 22, 2012 01:39 PM (BbX1b)

18 slim, than = slim, faster than

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 01:39 PM (6TB1Z)

19 They should go into the sanitation department. I hear they're good at handling sewage.

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 05:35 PM (6TB1Z)



These rat-pukes have a really nasty obsession with feces.  They are some real sick flucks. 

The truly sad part is that the GOP leadership took the OWS dirtbags more seriously than they ever took the Tea Partiers.  Boehner "understood" why they fling feces.  He's a crier after all.  He knows excretions and secretions and the like.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at March 22, 2012 01:39 PM (X3lox)

20 I've got to think that the Big City mayors a) are tired of this crap, already; and b) have gotten their orders from Obama that this will not happen in the run up to the election.

Doesn't matter.  They've created a monster.  A lot of these occupy tools don't realize they were supposed to take orders from the unions.  They didn't get the memo.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 22, 2012 01:39 PM (T0NGe)

21 Maybe they'll take the day off and sit at a computer and learn what the world thinks of them.

Posted by: Roberto at March 22, 2012 01:40 PM (KqwSL)

22 That's like the SCOAMF taking a break from golf.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 01:40 PM (d0Tfm)

23 Hey, I know. Let's dump barrels of feces and urine down the steps of buildings. That'll surely make those CEOs and top management upset as they'll have to clean up a mess rather than play squash at lunch.

Posted by: Progressive Thinker Thinking About Helping 99% of Janitors at March 22, 2012 01:40 PM (eHIJJ)

24 Hey hey, we're the Flunkees. We're the young generation. And we've got something to say.

Posted by: Zombie Davy Jones at March 22, 2012 01:41 PM (272s8)

25 If the choice of May Day doesn't make the doubters wake up and realize we're fighting the same commies we were in Reagan's day, there's no hope of them ever accepting reality.

Posted by: brian at March 22, 2012 01:41 PM (y05cf)

26 @21
Normally I'd agree, but I foresee a replay of Chicago '68 if the Occupy clowns push it.  The Dems have to much at stake to allow the Occutards free rein.

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 01:41 PM (6TB1Z)

27 Will they bathe on strike day?

Posted by: fluffy at March 22, 2012 01:41 PM (vRSeu)

28  "NO JUSTICE - NO PIECE OF SHIT GETTING PUT IN A BUCKET!"

Posted by: Dang at March 22, 2012 01:42 PM (BbX1b)

29 OWS is why the G8 was moved, unexpectedly, to Camp David.  Originally scheduled for Chicago.

Posted by: mama winger at March 22, 2012 01:42 PM (P6QsQ)

30 It's OK.  They have a right to strike.  It's in the Declaration of Independence.  Nancy says so.  Good nuff for me.

Posted by: Not an Artist at March 22, 2012 01:42 PM (Lo/3Q)

31 How about a nice big cup of shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Mr Pink at March 22, 2012 01:42 PM (ZvMnN)

32 Absolutely no one hardest hit.

Posted by: Bosk at March 22, 2012 01:43 PM (n2K+4)

33 "The grand promise is what one occupier, Brendan Burke, described to BuzzFeed as “a day without the 99%.” But in the city where the movement was born, it’s already suffering from what has emerged as one of Occupy’s signal weaknesses, the lack of ability or interest to make alliances with liberal institutions. . Despite public solidarity, there’s little relationship between the Occupy movement and organized labor. " So, these liberoid fucknuts can't even get the union thugs on board, and yet somehow in this unicorn fantasy land the Occutards somehow have "Public Solidarity?" Wow.. the hypocrisy level is off the charts here.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 22, 2012 01:43 PM (R5yLq)

34 #35 !!!

Posted by: Dang at March 22, 2012 01:44 PM (BbX1b)

35 Pfffft.  I am announcing a general strike too.

Every first pitch must be called a strike on Opening Day, generally.

Because.  99%.  or something.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 22, 2012 01:44 PM (SuBE0)

36 Tie OWS to every democrat who initially came out on their side.  Every time a Dem is cited, it should read Nancy Pelosi , OWS supporter.  Etc.

Posted by: mama winger at March 22, 2012 01:44 PM (P6QsQ)

37 And which of the percentages is responsible for cleaning up the filthy fucking bodily effluence left in the park by the 99%?

Posted by: Fritz at March 22, 2012 01:44 PM (KWdVT)

38 Everyone's invited, but no rapists.

Posted by: I Am The 99% at March 22, 2012 01:44 PM (272s8)

39 Reminds me of a somewhat inappropriate joke:  "The national mall today was filled with participants of the "Million Man March,' and not a one of them missed a day of work."

Posted by: angler at March 22, 2012 01:45 PM (SwjAj)

40 "This is like Biden going on strike against MENSA" I doubt Biden could even spell MENSA. Though I have heard they invited him to speak at their next get together. From what I understand it's in "Road Island".

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 22, 2012 01:45 PM (R5yLq)

41

A "crippling May Day strike?"

 

WTF do they plan to do, get between a union goon and his big rig with a full trailer that absolutely has to be somewhere on time? Or block the exit of a shipping center full of goonions with large trucks?

 

Actually, I'd almost pay to see something like that.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 01:46 PM (d0Tfm)

42 You're on your own this time, maggots.

Posted by: Men's Wearhouse at March 22, 2012 01:46 PM (272s8)

43  Why am I picturing Lilly von Schtupp singing,  "I'm Tired"?

Posted by: Dang at March 22, 2012 01:46 PM (BbX1b)

44 Maybe it's time to start painting some sort of symbol on buildings to identify the non-Progressives. A star might be over the top, however. Maybe a dollar sign.

Posted by: Progressive Thinker Thinking About Helping 99% of Assholes and Marxists, But Mostly Marxists at March 22, 2012 01:46 PM (eHIJJ)

45 I now hate Rick Santorum.Great job Rick,Obama might give you a cabinet post!

Posted by: steevy at March 22, 2012 01:46 PM (7W3wI)

46 I'm taking a break from being Mr. Nice Guy.

Posted by: Baraka Obama at March 22, 2012 01:47 PM (/AHDz)

47

 Despite public solidarity, thereÂ’s little relationship between the Occupy movement and organized labor. And as a result, even the most progressive New York labor leaders say their members will not participate in the May 1 strikeÂ…

 

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I thought part of the money these POS  were getting was from the unions.  Am I wrong?

Posted by: Soona at March 22, 2012 01:47 PM (8YUhx)

48 “a day without the 99%.”



Could I get a second serving of that?  And a third......

Posted by: NC Ref at March 22, 2012 01:47 PM (/izg2)

49 The poster (from The Blaze):

http://tinyurl.com/7uyxez4

No Work
No School
No Shopping
No Banking
No Chores

"No Chores," I kid you not.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 22, 2012 01:47 PM (T0NGe)

50 no work, no chores, no school,no shopping, no banking.

i guess they mean a typical day for an ows's

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 01:48 PM (TomZ9)

51 May Day.  Commie Christmas.

Posted by: mama winger at March 22, 2012 01:48 PM (P6QsQ)

52 This strike sounds like a great idea! The 1% will never know what them.

I guarantee it.

Posted by: George Zimmer at March 22, 2012 01:49 PM (/AHDz)

53 Fellow Occupiers of the World:  Stop not not working!

Posted by: angler at March 22, 2012 01:49 PM (SwjAj)

54 I miss Ketchup. http://bit.ly/ketchupishawt

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at March 22, 2012 01:49 PM (4136b)

55 guess they really are rebelling against mom and dad.

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 01:49 PM (TomZ9)

56 No mom, I'm not taking out the garbage! I'm standing with the 99% in protesting your tyrannical matriarchy! No Chores, No Peace! And didn't I tell you yesterday we're all out of Hot Pockets!!!

Posted by: #OccupyMomsBasement! at March 22, 2012 01:49 PM (KI/Ch)

57 ...no thinking, no logic, no undersanding of the real world...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (d0Tfm)

58 or they are trying to get teens and tweens on board.

no Mom! I am not cleaning my room!

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (TomZ9)

59 Everyone's invited, but no rapists.

Posted by: I Am The 99% at March 22, 2012 05:44 PM (272s

Disappointed.  That's the only way I can score.


Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (84pE9)

60 Rape is too much like work.

Sometimes.

Posted by: OWS at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (Qxdfp)

61

If Generation Y were a stock I'd be short selling it.

Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (f8XyF)

62 So I guess we can safely say they aren't protesting the high unemployment rate.

I may have to consider new handle, the dang hippies have chosen my birthday for their hijinks.  Wonder if they remember May 1 will be the anniversary of the killing of OBL and that the media will be in full-out worship of O that day.

Posted by: Mayday at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (orrLR)

63 Speaking of people who's very existence is a waste of oxygen: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will use a waiver provided in US law to allow military aid to Egypt to go ahead, Senator Patrick Leahy's office said on Thursday. Leahy said in a statement that he was disappointed in the decision, which will allow US military aid to Egypt to continue this year regardless of whether the Cairo government is supporting a transition to civilian rule. (Reuters)

Posted by: nevergiveup at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (i6RpT)

64 Work?  Was ist work?

This is the "lumpen proletariat" that you have heard about. They aren't even worth minimum wage.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 22, 2012 01:50 PM (O3R/2)

65 Dad! i will not take out the garbage! Hey dad can i use your car to hang out with my buds?

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 01:51 PM (TomZ9)

66 May 1 will be the anniversary of the killing of OBL

Really?  Oh, that's perfect.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 22, 2012 01:51 PM (T0NGe)

67 63 or they are trying to get teens and tweens on board.
no Mom! I am not cleaning my room!


**Sob**  you don't understand!

Posted by: Multiple father of teen girl drama queens at March 22, 2012 01:52 PM (6TB1Z)

68 No chores?  "Chores" are what is known as doing your fair share to help your own family.  Are they claiming that the family unit is part of the 1% and must be "brought to justice"?


You can't pitch in to help your own mom and you want me to give you free stuff.  Yeah.  That's gonna happen.

Posted by: mama winger at March 22, 2012 01:52 PM (P6QsQ)

69

"They aren't even worth minimum wage."

 

We need taste testers.

Posted by: Frito-Lay Corporation at March 22, 2012 01:53 PM (d0Tfm)

70 teens unite against everyone, You're not the boss of me!"

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 01:53 PM (TomZ9)

71 OT since this thread isn't going anywhere:  Does anyone else find "the wee baby Seamus" inexplicably amusing?

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 01:54 PM (6TB1Z)

72

The occupy scum have created jobs in St. Louis. Just last week, they spray painted the historic Compton Heights Reservoirs walls with slogans and defaced an antique bronze statue in the park by spray painting the words "CLASS WAR" across her breasts. It took thousands of dollars the city doesn't have to clean up their mess.

 

Mayor Slay _still_ sucked up to them.

Posted by: Palandine at March 22, 2012 01:54 PM (g7D8V)

73 May 1 will be the anniversary of the killing of OBL

Really? Oh, that's perfect.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 22, 2012 05:51 PM (T0NGe)

 

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Is there going to be a big military  parade?

Posted by: Soona at March 22, 2012 01:54 PM (8YUhx)

74 >>Work? Was ist work?

Arbeit.  Macht Frei, you know...

>>No Work
>>No School
>>No Shopping
>>No Banking
>>No Chores

But bistros what deliver vegan burritos to the park? They better be working, because otherwise what are we going to eat?

Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 22, 2012 01:55 PM (ZKzrr)

75 Sog off, swampies!

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 22, 2012 01:55 PM (kqqGm)

76 May 1 will be the anniversary of the killing of OBL

Really? Oh, that's perfect.

Yes, it was a nice birthday treat for me last year.  Now I realize that I'm going to have to hear about OBL and the heroic BHO every year on my birthday for a long time, ugh. 

Posted by: Mayday at March 22, 2012 01:56 PM (orrLR)

77 Rebel against adult behavior or everyone over 30 with a job!

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 01:56 PM (TomZ9)

78 >>No Work
>>No School
>>No Shopping
>>No Banking
>>No Chores


The war against entropy is never done.

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 01:56 PM (6TB1Z)

79
So by this  "strike" does this mean depriving the masses of there drumming?

Posted by: YIKES! at March 22, 2012 01:56 PM (M+UUq)

80 [d]Sog[/d] Sod off, swampies!

Fixed it myself.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 22, 2012 01:56 PM (kqqGm)

81 Maybe mom should go on strike from feeding your ugly face, you ingrate.

Posted by: mama winger at March 22, 2012 01:57 PM (P6QsQ)

82 @2 Hippie deodorant = tear gas I thought. The use of it is not generally an affirmative choice of the hippies, though it is often predicated upon other choices they have made--like becoming a hippie,

Posted by: Conservative Crank voted for Perry, dammit at March 22, 2012 01:57 PM (1zwZo)

83 OBL and the heroic BHO

That's "Gutsy Call" and don't you forget it.

Posted by: CUS at March 22, 2012 01:57 PM (84pE9)

84 Too lazy to rape. They want someone else to do the raping for them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 22, 2012 01:57 PM (Af3Wg)

85 Sog Sod off, swampies!

I'll get it right eventually.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 22, 2012 01:57 PM (kqqGm)

86 @14, the Occupiers will definitely riot this summer. I also think Sharpton's going to try to gin up race riots over the shooting in Florida where a Hispanic man shot an African-American youth. This year is 1968. I dread the summer, but I remember which party ended up winning the general election in 1968, too. Deep down, America loathes hippies.

Posted by: Palandine at March 22, 2012 01:57 PM (g7D8V)

87 Drudge has a particularly irritating picture of the JEF up.

Posted by: steevy at March 22, 2012 01:57 PM (7W3wI)

88 Blockbuster clerks think they'll bring us down, huh?

Posted by: nickless at March 22, 2012 01:58 PM (MMC8r)

89 If I find out you are a fringe "99%-er" who attended a May Day event on my dime, you'll be joining the 9%-ers, aka the unemployed, faster than a Fluke can demand a condom. If I find out you're a fringe "99%-er" but didn't attend a May Day event, you'll still be joining the 9%-ers as soon as my very imaginative mind can find cause.

Posted by: The Bossman at March 22, 2012 01:58 PM (eHIJJ)

90 The war against entropy is never done. Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 05:56 PM (6TB1Z) They are all dark matter. Now I denounce myself for using the word "dark."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 22, 2012 01:58 PM (Af3Wg)

91 That's "Gutsy Call" and don't you forget it.

Please don't turn me in to the camps!

Posted by: Mayday at March 22, 2012 01:58 PM (orrLR)

92 "the Occupiers will definitely riot this summer"

And I work right in the middle of Ground Zero.  One reason for the new toy.

Posted by: CUS at March 22, 2012 01:58 PM (84pE9)

93 So by this "strike" does this mean depriving the masses of there drumming?

Posted by: YIKES! at March 22, 2012 05:56 PM (M+UUq)

 

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Mic check!  Mic check!

Posted by: OWSers - suddenly confused at March 22, 2012 01:59 PM (8YUhx)

94 Al Sharpton is the illiterate Howard Beale.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 22, 2012 01:59 PM (Af3Wg)

95 Remember how they got over $500k in donations? Where's the money? Who spent it? Who has control of it?

If they were a TEA party outfit, the IRS would have already audited them.

Posted by: Jimmuy at March 22, 2012 01:59 PM (wfn9e)

96 "a crippling May Day “general strike” in the tradition of 1930s radicalism."

What it likely means is not that the Occutards plan to dick off as usual, it means, in the standard European sense, that the Occutards plan to get in the way of *everybody else* whose trying to work.

Complete paralysis, coming right up!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at March 22, 2012 01:59 PM (PMGbu)

97 Drudge has a particularly irritating picture of the JEF up.

Posted by: steevy at March 22, 2012 05:57 PM (7W3wI)



Dressing up like Whitney Houston?

Posted by: YIKES! at March 22, 2012 02:00 PM (M+UUq)

98 Deep down, America loathes hippies.
Posted by: Palandine at March 22, 2012 05:57 PM (g7D8V)



God. Damn. HIPPIES!

Posted by: Eric Cartman at March 22, 2012 02:00 PM (KI/Ch)

99 Is there going to be a big military parade?

Posted by: Soona at March 22, 2012 05:54 PM (8YUhx)


It'll be a re-enactment, like the Passion Play every year in Oberammergau.  The dramatic climax comes when the Prez Gustycall's cellphone rings right as he's trying to swat the ball out of the rough and back onto the fairway.

Posted by: Cicero at March 22, 2012 02:00 PM (QKKT0)

100 Another OT: reports at the American Thinker of possible unrest in China:
In a one party dictatorship, there is no smooth transfer of power to the next generation of leaders. The aging Central Committee was set to hand off power to a younger group of leaders later this year. That is now up in the air as it appears possible that the old guard is not quite ready to step aside yet.
Man, this is familiar.  Chernenko and Andropov, anyone?  For all my fatigue with our electoral system, it beats this by a mile.

Posted by: pep at March 22, 2012 02:00 PM (6TB1Z)

101 They're so fuckin' violent the Teamsters won't organize them. They're so fuckin' stinky SEIU members are talking hygiene for the first time in their meetings. They're so fuckin' crazy........well..........Nancy Pelosi still loves them but crazy can't tell crazy ya know?

Posted by: Room Temp at March 22, 2012 02:00 PM (qUdXS)

102 NO WARK FOR OIL !!!!!

Posted by: polynikes at March 22, 2012 02:01 PM (MS4Pa)

103 Organized sloth?

Posted by: starboardhelm at March 22, 2012 02:02 PM (hHgxI)

104 “a day without the 99%.”

heh. More like a day without the .00001% that is communist, unemployed, and bad at math.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose finally remembers why he's here at March 22, 2012 02:02 PM (0q2P7)

105 It'll be a re-enactment, like the Passion Play every year in Oberammergau. The dramatic climax comes when the Prez Gustycall's cellphone rings right as he's trying to swat the ball out of the rough and back onto the fairway.

Perhaps someday if we are lucky we'll get to see O's golf shirt in the Smithsonian.

Posted by: Mayday at March 22, 2012 02:02 PM (orrLR)

106 Occupy strike? They're going to stop protesting and go home?

Posted by: Entropy at March 22, 2012 02:02 PM (Ci0JG)

107

Occupy Wall Street, largely forgotten over the last few months, covered up by the MFM for the last few months because they've revealed themselves to be exactly who we thought they were...

 

 

 

FIFT

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:03 PM (I2LwF)

108

"I also think Sharpton's going to try to gin up race riots over the shooting in Florida where a Hispanic man shot an African-American youth."

 

Send in the Racist Clown.

 

Don't worry, he's here already, right up the road from here.

 

Sanford's police chief has temporarily stepped down to placate the gathering mob. I work in Sanford and know a lot of people who live and work there. My ex-home bar is up there.

 

This may not end well. Sanford's not a big place, and I overheard someone at work say today that they're expecting 75K people at a protest downtown tomorrow.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 02:03 PM (d0Tfm)

109 “a day without the 99%.”

So when they realize more than 1 percent of all people are still working, they'll finally admit they aren't really the 99 percent, right?

Posted by: Vermin at March 22, 2012 02:03 PM (FjiUG)

110 darnit, my HTML fu is weak

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:03 PM (I2LwF)

111 Kinda like Ace telling us that he is going to take a break from posting in the morning.

Posted by: Lord Monochromicorn at March 22, 2012 02:04 PM (nBxFQ)

112 So... the non-workers will strike against the work that they weren't doing in the first place?

I... just... as someone once said, "this is a Möbius strip of Un-Logic." I need to go lie down now. :/

Posted by: Where's my pressie? at March 22, 2012 02:04 PM (X5Hwz)

113 Makes about as much sense as this: 

http://youtu.be/MEKxpuKUl1c

Posted by: Dave C at March 22, 2012 02:05 PM (EZztL)

114 And if you haven't seen Breitbart.com today, you have to see the lead story.

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:05 PM (I2LwF)

115 They would make excellent land fill.

Bonus: Biodegradable too.

Posted by: Cast Iron at March 22, 2012 02:06 PM (EL+OC)

116 oops.  they had a story filed under 'vetting Obama' about the geneis of the OWS movement-- from 1995.

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:06 PM (I2LwF)

117 I wish people would push back on the "we are the 99%" BS.  They're more like the fringe 3%.

It'll be interesting to see how local police respond this time around, since they'll know what to expect and when it will occur.  NYC was quick to prevent a retaking of Zucchini Park last week.

Posted by: Mayday at March 22, 2012 02:07 PM (orrLR)

118 You would need to go back 500 years to witness such an audacious protest.

Posted by: Joey B at March 22, 2012 02:08 PM (GZitp)

119 Phase II - Political System X

http://tinyurl.com/7zhqy9s


Posted by: Cast Iron at March 22, 2012 02:08 PM (EL+OC)

120 I think Ayn Rand was on to something... maybe it's the 1% who should strike.

Posted by: weew at March 22, 2012 02:08 PM (bz4MA)

121

Perhaps someday if we are lucky we'll get to see O's golf shirt in the Smithsonian.


 

Posted by: Mayday at March 22, 2012 06:02 PM (orrLR)

 

 

I bet it has a couple chili dog sauce stains on it from when he wolfs down four or five chili dogs at the turn.

Posted by: ErikW at March 22, 2012 02:08 PM (BlMhz)

122 I am so excited about the Poopfest!  I am going to hold off on crapping for the last week of April.

Posted by: OWSer at March 22, 2012 02:09 PM (LQIyD)

123 Will Shit For Food

Posted by: ows sign maker at March 22, 2012 02:09 PM (ccXZP)

124 "I bet it has a couple chili dog sauce stains on it from when he wolfs down four or five chili dogs at the turn."

So THAT'S why he runs from the cameras at the fifth hole.

Posted by: CUS at March 22, 2012 02:10 PM (84pE9)

125 breitbart;

The Senate has given final congressional approval to a scaled-down bill to explicitly ban members of Congress, the president and thousands of other federal workers from profiting from nonpublic information learned on the job.

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 02:10 PM (TomZ9)

126

@113, I wouldn't be anywhere near Sanford this weekend.

 

At my workplace (DoD), they had MSNBC on all day. This shooting was literally their only story for 10 hours. And it was all spewing hatred against white people for this shooting. When something bad happens in Sanford or elsewhere, MSNBC and their host Sharpton will be partly responsible.

Posted by: Palandine at March 22, 2012 02:11 PM (g7D8V)

127 willow:  it will be interesting to see if it's got any teeth whatsoever.  My guess is, no.

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:11 PM (I2LwF)

128 Coffee house baristas and hooka pipe salesman hardest hit.

Posted by: Room Temp at March 22, 2012 02:11 PM (fKLis)

129 >>>"No Chores," I kid you not.

If it were my kid who pulled this I would use it as a life lesson.

"So you have a cause hmmm? Striking for it sounds like you're committed. Well I need to add some realism. For every hour your daddy voluntarily doesn't work, it sets back this family financially by one day. Meaning we have no disposable income for one day for every hour I don't work. Having no disposable income as an adult is like being grounded. So for every hour you strike, you get one day of being grounded."

If he went longer than a week, we'd have to start talking about sleeping in the garage, and eating ramen for a while.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose finally remembers why he's here at March 22, 2012 02:11 PM (0q2P7)

130

Doesn't -- "mayday mayday"-- mean 'emergency' in military jargon? 

 

Wait, what? .....Wasn't there something a few days ago about Barky getting power over...everything...in the event of an 'emergency'? 

Posted by: wheatie at March 22, 2012 02:13 PM (4GgJq)

131 The Vetting: Obama 1995: ‘Scapegoat’ the ‘Top 5%’

 

 

link in my sig

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:13 PM (I2LwF)

132 Has anyone asked Tom Friedman how well that super efficient Chinese one party Partaaay is operating today?

Posted by: ontherocks at March 22, 2012 02:13 PM (ZJCDy)

133

"And it was all spewing hatred against white people for this shooting."

 

Only one teensy, tiny little thing wrong with that: the shooter isn't white.

 

And I'll be staying very close to home and B'Gal this weekend, just in case.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 02:14 PM (d0Tfm)

134 May Day is a traditional Communist day of celebration.

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:14 PM (I2LwF)

135 Hey, Occupiers, I'm in my tent.

Posted by: Sandy Fluck at March 22, 2012 02:14 PM (LQIyD)

136 130# is in relation to insider trading

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 02:14 PM (TomZ9)

137 So they're holding their next big event on the Communist-adored "International Worker's Day" holiday on May 1st?  The holiday when Communist nations forced the workers to take the day off to join in parades, etc. (not a true day off) as the ruling class decided the form of celebration and imposed it on the masses?

And this year they want to force everyone to take the day off, but too then come "protest" with them in a big parade?

Let me guess, this is all a huge coincidence and not at all indicative of their strong communist ties? 

Yeah, how'd I know.

Posted by: gekkobear at March 22, 2012 02:14 PM (X0NX1)

138 MSNBC never lets reality get in the way of The Narrative.

Posted by: Palandine at March 22, 2012 02:15 PM (g7D8V)

139 I recommend to all parents of owsers that when they tell you 'no chores', you take their laptop out back and shoot holes in it.
 
Preferably with a 1911.
 
Don't forget to videotape it.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 22, 2012 02:15 PM (ccXZP)

140

Handbasket.  Nation.  Hell.  Some assembly required.

Posted by: Soona at March 22, 2012 02:15 PM (8YUhx)

141 141 130# is in relation to insider trading
  ...or is meant to seem like that

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:15 PM (I2LwF)

142 gekkobear, of course not, It is just  regular kids acting out.
they haven't been influenced by communist ideas at all.

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 02:17 PM (TomZ9)

143 We don't anticipate any negative effects of this boycott.

Posted by: Dope Dealers and Western Union Outlets at March 22, 2012 02:17 PM (qUdXS)

144 Also, this might be a good weekend to inventory the ammo, again, just in case.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 02:17 PM (d0Tfm)

145 Keep laughing. You'll be sorry when you try to buy a knit hemp cap that day.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at March 22, 2012 02:17 PM (celt+)

146

26If the choice of May Day doesn't make the doubters wake up and realize we're fighting the same commies we were in Reagan's day, there's no hope of them ever accepting reality.

 

 

Yep. Lessee, a "general strike" on May Day ... nope, no communist sympathizers here, nosir.

 

Posted by: Jay Guevara at March 22, 2012 02:17 PM (YKibJ)

147 "A day without the [.1% of Americans who buy into OWS]."

Posted by: WeekendAtBernankes at March 22, 2012 02:18 PM (L5TO4)

148 Off topic, Ann Coulter continues to annoint Mitt Romney as the second coming, at anncolter dot com. Really, Ann? Massachusetts as the PRK? Granted, of any place in the US to become a worker's paradise, it's more likely than most. The only way that it can be fairly compared, though, is that Romney used emergency, dictatoresque powers to do all these wonderful things. If only we had a president with the balls to usurp the legislature's powers, to impart his vision of government spending and power... Wait, this sounds familiar...have we had someone try this in the past three years or so?

Posted by: Conservative Crank voted for Perry, dammit at March 22, 2012 02:18 PM (1zwZo)

149 Occupiddly forever, Occupiddly forever
Occupiddly forever
For the urine makes us strong

Posted by: starboardhelm at March 22, 2012 02:18 PM (hHgxI)

150 Truman, well yes that's true.

President Barack Obama has said he would sign the bill.

In an unusual move, the legislation passed unanimously Thursday without a vote on the measure itself. Passage was automatically triggered by a procedural motion that was approved on a 96-3 vote.

The bill would give the public a more frequent look at financial transactions of government officials. A driving force has been Congress' focus on its own dismal approval ratings.

without a vote on the measure itself.

well it's almost transparent, transparent

Posted by: willow at March 22, 2012 02:18 PM (TomZ9)

151 I bet almost nobody with a job joins them.  I know hard core Liberals who are saying, "Fuck that, I got shit to do! Deadlines aren't going on strike."

Posted by: Fart at March 22, 2012 02:19 PM (Zk68F)

152 Anybody see Santorum's latest? He's now claimed that Obama may be preferable to "Etch-A-Sketch" Romney. Just when he had a little opening he shoots himself in the dick. Bye bye Sanctimonious...

Posted by: packsoldier at March 22, 2012 02:19 PM (9tLNI)

153 Doesn't -- "mayday mayday"-- mean 'emergency' in military jargon?


Nautical jargon.


m'aidez = 'help me' in French. Qu'elle suprise.

Posted by: fluffy at March 22, 2012 02:20 PM (vRSeu)

154 In the two Americas version of reality, this is like John Edwards announcing that he's cheating on his hooker with his baby mama.

Posted by: Fritz at March 22, 2012 02:20 PM (KWdVT)

155 Well, my biopsy on a suspicious place on the side of my nose came back positive for basal cell carcinoma.  Ugh.  Being referred to a plastic surgeon.  Yeah, I know as cancers go it's not a biggie.

And screw the Occutards with a rotten pineapple.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2012 02:21 PM (UOM48)

156 157 Anybody see Santorum's latest? He's now claimed that Obama may be preferable to "Etch-A-Sketch" Romney. Just when he had a little opening he shoots himself in the dick. Bye bye Sanctimonious... Posted by: packsoldier at March 22, 2012 06:19 PM (9tLNI) ------------------------------------- I'm sure you're all tore up about Santorum blowing his "opening", eh fudgepack soldier?

Posted by: Room Temp at March 22, 2012 02:22 PM (qUdXS)

157 All cancer sucks.  I'll hug my pillow extra-tight tonight for you Jane.  And, you know, not dry-hump it.

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:23 PM (I2LwF)

158 much.

Posted by: Truman North at March 22, 2012 02:23 PM (I2LwF)

159 Ack, best wishes Jane!

Posted by: Conservative Crank voted for Perry, dammit at March 22, 2012 02:23 PM (1zwZo)

160  Well, my biopsy on a suspicious place on the side of my nose came back positive for basal cell carcinoma. Ugh. Being referred to a plastic surgeon. Yeah, I know as cancers go it's not a biggie.

And screw the Occutards with a rotten pineapple.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2012 06:21 PM (UOM4

 

-----------------------------------------

 

Tried and true procedure.  You'll be fine.

Posted by: Soona at March 22, 2012 02:23 PM (8YUhx)

161

"CNN was ready to bypass a trial and send the shooter straight to death row."

 

No shit. Florida's very own version of Teh Botox Queen was flatulating today about having a justice system "that every one could believe in" or some such inanity.

 

They truly want something to happen, IMO. The Left wants Mob Rule in this case to trump the law. 

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 02:25 PM (d0Tfm)

162 Regarding the $500k I mentioned earlier: Wonder if there is a connection between that money and the illegal robo-calls being made by the "Women of the 99%?"

Given what little we know about the power structure of the OWS, it seems the self-proclaimed leaders are most likely well-to-do, connected Democrats. Something like that would have been right up their alley--untraceable money spent by an amalgam of nobodies with patronage within the DNC and symbiotic with the DNC as they need the dirty work done. 

Posted by: Jimmuy at March 22, 2012 02:25 PM (wfn9e)

163 Anybody see Santorum's latest? He's now claimed that Obama may be preferable to "Etch-A-Sketch" Romney. Just when he had a little opening he shoots himself in the dick. Bye bye Sanctimonious...

Yeah, he's a whiny douche who's frustrated that his Mission From God isn't being given enough Divine intervention.

When asked why he's not doing better with fellow Catholics, Reverend Rick thinks it's because they don't take their religion seriously, unlike his supporters:

http://tinyurl.com/7fxljnl

“The bottom line is that we do well among people who take their faith seriously, and as you know, just like some Protestants are not churchgoing, they are folks who identify with a particular religion but don’t necessarily practice that from the standpoint of going to church and the like.”

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 22, 2012 02:26 PM (SY2Kh)

164

Jane D'oh, DO NOT screw around with that. Skin cancer is very deadly.

 

Prayers going to you and all the other Morons, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, feeling all extra curmudgeony today at March 22, 2012 02:27 PM (d0Tfm)

165

@161.....Best of wishes for you, Jane. Hope all goes well on that.

 

Ask your doctor about using Retin-A...as an ongoing preventative measure, against carcinomas. ....Retin-A is not just for wrinkles. It works to speed up cell replacement and can stave off pre-cancerous cell formation.

 

Been using it for over a decade now, and it works.

Posted by: wheatie at March 22, 2012 02:30 PM (4GgJq)

166 But in the city where the movement was born, itÂ’s already suffering from what has emerged as one of OccupyÂ’s signal weaknesses, the lack of ability or interest to make alliances with liberal institutions. Despite public solidarity, thereÂ’s little relationship between the Occupy movement and organized labor.

Bullshit. Their donations are kept in union owned Amalgamated Bank, and channeled through the Alliance for Global Justice for tax exemption reasons.

The lefty orgs and unions might be publicly keeping themselves at arms length so they can distance themselves from the worst elements, but this thing is coordinated with the DNC, Obama campaign, and the unions


Posted by: kbdabear at March 22, 2012 02:31 PM (Y+DPZ)

167 Most skin cancers are easily excised and require only careful vigilance afterwards. Spread of non-melanoma cancers is quite rare. Basal and squamous cell cancers do often reoccur, but are not usually fatal.

Posted by: Conservative Crank voted for Perry, dammit at March 22, 2012 02:32 PM (1zwZo)

168 it would appear that the useful lifetime of a brownshirt organization is quite a bit shorter than in the 30s. "No relationship" with Big Labor. Riiiiight...

Posted by: mojo at March 22, 2012 02:33 PM (8Up2B)

169 Jane, my late mother had cancer on her nose twice and survived another 20 years despite having a severely weakened immune system, eventually passing from entirely unrelated issues.

They are really good at handling that these days.
The very best of luck to you none the less.

Posted by: ontherocks at March 22, 2012 02:35 PM (ZJCDy)

170 No Whining No Drumming No Chanting No Mic Checks No Raping

Posted by: '52 Esquire at March 22, 2012 02:40 PM (KZi9D)

171 An Occupy strike? Oh noes! Who will crap on the police vehicles now?

Posted by: Warden at March 22, 2012 02:47 PM (HzhBE)

172

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2012 06:21 PM (UOM4

Best wishes for an uncomplicated outcome.

Basal cell is the "Myron" of cancers.  Such a nothing that for the next 10 years when you are asked if you have had cancer (blood donation, insurance forms, etc.) and you say, "yes, basal cell," you'll get a "ppffffttttt!" in response.  More of a nuisance than a threat.

 

Hats and sunscreen are de rigueur  now.

 

If possible, avoid Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon for your nose, or else stock up on superglue or a good latex adhesive.

 

The bald spot on my crown is actually a divot from where a recurring basal cell got cored out like an apple.  Bonus on the free face lift as they pulled the scalp to close over.

 

You'll be fine, good luck!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 22, 2012 02:51 PM (4q5tP)

173 Best wishes, Jane; I'm confident you'll beat it.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 22, 2012 03:00 PM (D893J)

174 I doubt Biden could even spell MENSA.
MENSA turns me into a real bitch once a month!

Posted by: meeeghan ( . Y . ) mccain at March 22, 2012 03:07 PM (6RnvM)

175 "All cancer sucks. I'll hug my pillow extra-tight tonightfor you Jane. And, you know, not dry-hump it."

Billy!

Posted by: Officer Stubeck at March 22, 2012 03:09 PM (PMGbu)

176 "Send in the Racist Clown." I love that bit where they all get out of that tiny Volkswagen.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 22, 2012 03:13 PM (R5yLq)

177

This will probably work out as well as that Day Without Illegal Aliens did a couple of years back.  Remember when they were not going to show up for work, and bring the economy to its knees?

People liked it, and wanted more days like it.

Posted by: Careful what you wish for at March 22, 2012 03:14 PM (WvS06)

178
   The Occutards CAN"T strike.  Who's gonna shit on the cop cars if they do?

Posted by: irongrampa at March 22, 2012 03:39 PM (SAMxH)

179 Thanks for the well wishes and advice guys.  I'm just hoping for half-way decent drugs.  heh

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 22, 2012 04:01 PM (UOM48)

180 From the article:

“Like everything else OWS, it’s symbolic but it’s also practical,” Burke said.

Bwahahahaha

Also, if they put as much effort into their job search as they did into that May
day general strike poster, they would be millionaires.

Posted by: sweet Lou at March 22, 2012 04:11 PM (Zgm27)

181 May 1st is a Communist holiday. How convenient!

Posted by: hadsil at March 22, 2012 04:32 PM (8mQX5)

182 That's it. Starting tomorrow I am going on strike. What do you mean I can't? What does owning the business have to do with it?

Posted by: Dazed and Amazed at March 22, 2012 04:58 PM (Uh+y6)

183 "Unemployed Layabouts Announce General Strike; Sitting-Around-Collecting-Checks Industry Could Be Imperiled" The average social security payment for a retired couple is $24,000 a year. Their average medicare cost is over $20,000. I bet the checks cashed by the Occupiers don't amount to a hill of beans compared to the government benefits reaped by the Tea Party baby boomers. The only place you could find more people on the government dole is a retirement home.

Posted by: Jordan at March 22, 2012 06:09 PM (RSG1I)

184

"Largely  forgotten?"

 

Hell,  am  I  the  only  one  for  whom  OWS  has  been  added  to  my  day-to-day  lexicon?   For  example,  whenever  I  hear  that  somebody  is  working  toward  an  English  Literature  degree  in  college,  I  can  just  say,  "Oh,  so  they're  getting  one  of  those  OWS  degrees!"  Also,  one  can  make  passing  references  to  "picthing  a  tent"  in Niagara  Square (downtown,  here),  instead  of  the  more to-the-point  "be  a  bum".

 

So I find their existance to have been quite useful.

Posted by: Optimizer at March 22, 2012 06:28 PM (As94z)

185 Does that mean they're going to take a break from stealing, raping and shitting on cop cars?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 22, 2012 06:35 PM (ryuTD)

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