Occupy this, occupy that...

[rback33]

Talking to you is like, well... talking to a rock.

I was likening it to talking to a stone....


bah dum pshhhhhhhhh

 

[Stone]

Interesting article at Investor' Business Daily

http://news.investors.com/Article/588402/201110171900/Media-Shill-For-OWS.htm

excerpt>

A cache of new Occupy Wall Street emails shows several press types offering advice to the protesters. We'd be shocked, except the mainstream media have been openly helping the Occupy movement all along.............

In any case, the real crime here isn't a few emails from left-wing journalists, but the fact that the rest of the "unbiased" mainstream press has been overtly helping the protesters as well....

In one of the OWS emails, liberal writer Matt Taibbi encouraged protesters to come up with some demands. "I think there are a lot of people in the press," he wrote, "who are ready to support the movement wholeheartedly, if it could articulate some specifics."

 

[Johnfromokc]

I was likening it to talking to a stone....


bah dum pshhhhhhhhh

Or "is he stoned or stupid"?

 

[Stone]

Or "is he stoned or stupid"?

Another remarkable rebuttal

 

[Stone]

News release from the Portland Police

http://www.portlandonline.com/police/pbnotify.cfm?action=ViewContent&content_id=2534

This stood out:

Central Precinct officers received a request from Occupy Portland to get in touch with Project Respond. The volunteers at Occupy Portland report they are getting overwhelmed with the amount of mental health issues presenting themselves at the camp and want to establish a liaison with Project Respond to help in dealing with these problems as they occur. Officer Miller of the Mobile Crisis Unit is the liaison.

 

[Alien Allen]

THIS is why OWS should be camped out at the Capital in DC

I am no fan of Martha Stewart but she went to jail for this kind of shit. And one wonders why politicians want to spend so much money to get into and keep their office.

This is sickening

Washington, D.C. is a town that runs on inside information - but should our elected officials be able to use that information to pad their own pockets? As Steve Kroft reports, members of Congress and their aides have regular access to powerful political intelligence, and many have made well-timed stock market trades in the very industries they regulate. For now, the practice is perfectly legal, but some say it's time for the law to change.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57323527/congress-trading-stock-on-inside-information

 

[Stone]

Thanks for bringing that to our attention.
Pretty damn outrageous.

 

[Alien Allen]

More like sickening

I missed the CBS report on it but heard it mentioned on one of those awful right wing radio programs

I admit I favor the Tea Party. The original movement anyway and those elected that stuck to their guns. Washington is awash in corruption. Yet those elected as Tea Party got labeled as nuts. Sigh

What is nuts is repeating the same mistakes over and over.

 

[Tim]

See AA, if you were following OWS, you would have heard about this a couple of days ago.

It's been over every site they have, it spread like wild fire.

 

[MoonOwl]

and the 'rules' don't apply to them either. They can profit until the cows come home. It's one of the 'perks' they enjoy. How nice.

 

[Accountable]

and the 'rules' don't apply to them either. They can profit until the cows come home. It's one of the 'perks' they enjoy. How nice.

Don't they still routinely exempt themselves from most legislation?

 

[Alien Allen]

Don't they still routinely exempt themselves from most legislation?

to a certain to degree it sure would appear so.

so I hear thursday they are going to attempt to shut down Wall St.

that should be interesting. I would expect tempers will tested on all sides

 

[Minor Axis]

and the 'rules' don't apply to them either. They can profit until the cows come home. It's one of the 'perks' they enjoy. How nice.

Maybe you've all ready read The Wonk Who Slays Washington about politicians Dem and GOP who are benefiting by being directly involved in the process of shaping laws and making investments bases on said knowledge...