'Occupy' types

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

not to take a sarcastic funny comment and totally take your words literally . . . but im going to.

dont they patent as intellectual property and make a ton of money off genetically modified/altered crops.

like i ever so slightly change the strain of corn so that it can grow in rocky soil. or i modify the genetic make up of a grain . .etc. i then patent it and nobody can use it unless they pay me, the man?

there are a million ways to be a billionaire . .why oh why did i spend my college and law school days drunk and stupid?!?

you sound like a 1 percenter brah...

[mlmpetert]

This video is HALARIOUS:

Occupy DC Organizer | Washington Hispanics | The Daily Caller

[mlmpetert]

Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

“I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad -- they took that, too!”

“I’m not getting paid, but I’m not gonna stand for it. Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff? All it does is make people not wanna come here anymore,” Wyman fumed.

At one point yesterday, Wyman and other volunteers briefly scuffled with a man who was standing near a park entrance with a pail calling out: “Donations! Donations!” -- and pocketing the cash people tossed in the bucket.


Read more: Thieves preying on Wall Street protesters - NYPOST.com

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

“I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad -- they took that, too!”

“I’m not getting paid, but I’m not gonna stand for it. Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff? All it does is make people not wanna come here anymore,” Wyman fumed.

At one point yesterday, Wyman and other volunteers briefly scuffled with a man who was standing near a park entrance with a pail calling out: “Donations! Donations!” -- and pocketing the cash people tossed in the bucket.


Read more: Thieves preying on Wall Street protesters - NYPOST.com

An 18 yr old legal team volunteer. LMAO

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by firstdown

An 18 yr old legal team volunteer. LMAO

Free labor is free labor. Self-interest!!!!!!

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.

“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.

“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”

Crafty cat burglars sneaked into the makeshift kitchen at Zuccotti Park overnight and swiped as much as $2,500 in donated greenbacks from right under the noses of volunteers who’d fallen asleep after a long day whipping up meals for the hundreds of hungry protesters, the volunteers said.

“I had umbrellas stolen, a fold-up bed I brought because my back is bad -- they took that, too!”

“I’m not getting paid, but I’m not gonna stand for it. Why people got to come here and do stupid stuff? All it does is make people not wanna come here anymore,” Wyman fumed.

At one point yesterday, Wyman and other volunteers briefly scuffled with a man who was standing near a park entrance with a pail calling out: “Donations! Donations!” -- and pocketing the cash people tossed in the bucket.


Read more: Thieves preying on Wall Street protesters - NYPOST.com

Maybe she should dump her "American bourgeois" socialism and accept the fact that while people may not TOTALLY act in their "self-interest", they OFTEN WILL. Besides, that laptop was made by an EVIL CORPORATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mlmpetert]

Protester allegedly raped at 'Occupy Cleveland' - Crimesider - CBS News

[mlmpetert]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

Protester allegedly raped at 'Occupy Cleveland' - Crimesider - CBS News

A couple other incidents:

Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault Of Teen At Occupy Dallas « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

UPDATE: Serial Exposer Captured | Ballard News-Tribune

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

A couple other incidents:

Police Investigating Possible Sexual Assault Of Teen At Occupy Dallas « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

UPDATE: Serial Exposer Captured | Ballard News-Tribune

You just have to love this comment from a protester from the link of the under age teen.

“We’ll find out what the truth is and if that’s her story, that she was having sex with older men in the park, I guess we really need to watch the age group that’s coming in here and get control of that,” protestor Rich Coffman said.

LMAO, they want to be taken serious but we are suppose to turn a blind eye to the pot smoking, drinking and having sex in public. The important thing is that they start checking ID's to make sure the sluts are over 18. Any of you single guys here if you want to score head on over to your local protest. You get extra points if you have your own tent and have had a bath in the past 10 days.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

I HEART this:

I'm sure this won't sit well with some but I'd like to hear the counter position to Froggy's post.

How do you counter a uneducated person's rant about people being uneducated? If this fool thinks "Occupy" is about college kids believing false things about economics, then he is truly is one of the very type he's talking about. I love the fact he brings up "unions" in the article. Just like a talking head parrot from the Republidiots. My guess is he still thinks Trickle Down theory works.


Idiots like "Froggy" let corporate media blow smoke up their ass and they sit in their recliners talking smack about the people making a stand. Here is the cold hard reality of it. Corporate America sponsors Corporate Media. They will report to you want they want to report. You think they are going to report the truth? No, they are detracting idiots just like Froggy with the smoke and mirrors that continue to haunt this country. They continue to do this with selective editing. Find one case, and make it out to the the norm. Hell, just outright lie, and we all know media like FOX lies its ass off repeatedly.

Occupy Wall Street bashes Fox News - YouTube

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

I HEART this:

If there is any coherent message that can be gleaned from the Occupy Wall Street “movement”, it is that our system of public and higher education can now be declared a total and complete failure. The fact that there exists no accountability at any level of our Education-Industrial Complex is perfectly clear for all to see. It seems fair to say that responsibility for this can be laid squarely at the feet of the teacher’s unions and their members who have perpetuated an economic structure in education and a curricular agenda that has been allowed to defy gravity for 40 years.

This ****tard needs to wake up and realize that knowing ****ing calculus, chemistry, or physics DOES NOT make you ANY MORE knowledgeable about economics(I know, since I have taken intro classes in all three areas). In fact, I would guess that plenty of guys who passed through those classes with flying colors are also "lefties".

Psychology is not a soft subject, and one obscure branch of it(Industrial-Organization) plays a SIGNIFICANT role in the coporate sector.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

This ****tard needs to wake up and realize that knowing ****ing calculus, chemistry, or physics DOES NOT make you ANY MORE knowledgeable about economics(I know, since I have taken intro classes in all three areas). In fact, I would guess that plenty of guys who passed through those classes with flying colors are also "lefties".

Psychology is not a soft subject, and one obscure branch of it(Industrial-Organization) plays a SIGNIFICANT role in the coporate sector.

yep, the bright-lights happy workers study was the first well known case, but there's a lot of interaction and environmental effects that have been studied in relationship to work/production/effectiveness.

[mlmpetert]

Here is a chance to stick it to a 1 percenter:

Jon Bon Jovi’s ‘pay-what-you-can’ charity restaurant opens in NJ to help the hungry - The Washington Post

[JoeRedskin]

I posted this in one of the other political threads, but I think it belongs here. For those comparing the Tea Party movement to the Occupy movement, I would suggest there is a significant difference between the two. To be clear, I sympathize with elements of both movements - the Tea Party's theme of limited government and restoration of federalism, and the Occupy Movement's theme of corporate America's innate dysfunction and disconnect. I also disgree with both on many other issues. At the same time, from a practical analysis, I think the Tea Party has been (and will continue to be) a far more effective grass roots movement.

Unlike the the Tea Party, the Occupy movement is not actually organizing change it's just pouting about the problem. The Tea Party group - regardless of what you think of their message - organized, worked within the system, and elected numerous people who they believed would effect change. They were effective in that many politicians reflecting the "status quo" were defeated despite being backed by "the machine" (as it were). The Occupy folks have a clear and simple way to effect corporate change - buy in. Buy stocks and organize voting blocks within the corporations. It's hard, it's a lot of work, it would involve many setbacks, but there is a way for them to effectively change the structure. There is also, of course, the Tea Party route - identify an agenda, find individuals who support that agenda to run against machine politicians, and work like hell to elect those individuals -- or you can just sit in your own stench and whine. I am sure that will be effective too.

Just like the Tea Party, the Occupy movement oversimplifies both the problem & the solution and is just blatantly wrong on many things. They are every bit as stupid as those in the Tea Party whom the left likes to pillory. Of course, the dumb Tea Partiers probably don't have degrees from "I Am Smarter Than You & My Sh** Don't Stink" University so they are easier to pick on.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

I posted this in one of the other political threads, but I think it belongs here. For those comparing the Tea Party movement to the Occupy movement, I would suggest there is a significant difference between the two. To be clear, I sympathize with elements of both movements - the Tea Party's theme of limited government and restoration of federalism, and the Occupy Movement's theme of corporate America's innate dysfunction and disconnect. I also disgree with both on many other issues. At the same time, from a practical analysis, I think the Tea Party has been (and will continue to be) a far more effective grass roots movement.

Unlike the the Tea Party, the Occupy movement is not actually organizing change it's just pouting about the problem. The Tea Party group - regardless of what you think of their message - organized, worked within the system, and elected numerous people who they believed would effect change. They were effective in that many politicians reflecting the "status quo" were defeated despite being backed by "the machine" (as it were). The Occupy folks have a clear and simple way to effect corporate change - buy in. Buy stocks and organize voting blocks within the corporations. It's hard, it's a lot of work, it would involve many setbacks, but there is a way for them to effectively change the structure. There is also, of course, the Tea Party route - identify an agenda, find individuals who support that agenda to run against machine politicians, and work like hell to elect those individuals -- or you can just sit in your own stench and whine. I am sure that will be effective too.

Just like the Tea Party, the Occupy movement oversimplifies both the problem & the solution and is just blatantly wrong on many things. They are every bit as stupid as those in the Tea Party whom the left likes to pillory. Of course, the dumb Tea Partiers probably don't have degrees from "I Am Smarter Than You & My Sh** Don't Stink" University so they are easier to pick on.

Excellent post.

Since the OWS movement has vague goals and even vaguer paths for achieving them, I have wondered how it can be brought to an end. When will people stop sitting in? For example, an anti-war movement can be ended by ending a war. But what can be given to the OWS folks to make them feel like, "We've achieved our goals"?

The only proximate endpoint that I can see for the Occupy movement is the onset of cold weather.